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To the Pain

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To the Pain	comment	Torture. It can be slow, it can be quick, but it is always painful and, like all dastardly plans, goes so much better with a little gloating. Don't just cut the victim; tell them about it, describe every last detail to make them squirm. You can describe things that you couldn't show on TV, and any villain who would do this you know is either irredeemably evil, totally insane, or both. If the villain has a more clinical approach to his work, however, there is often a meta version of this trope where the audience is treated to a slow camera pan across the torture instruments, which are laid out neatly on a table. He may describe the history of his technique or the specific effects on the body. This tends to underscore how cold-blooded and Wicked Cultured he is. Alternately, the Evil Overlord can describe to the hero just what his Death Trap does: "Every time you drop a bead of sweat on the plate below you, you will be lowered an inch towards the pit. Inside the pit is a ravenous pack of razor-toothed flying lemurs with lasers on their heads who have been trained to kill anyone with your particular blood type. You stand no chance of surviving this grisly fate, as I have just turned up the thermostat." Expect the rule of Unspoken Plan Guarantee to apply, giving the hero an almost 100% chance of escaping the described fate. When he doesn't, though, count on Scars Are Forever. A third variation is to have the clever assassin who has poisoned their mark describe in every small detail exactly how the poison works, while they sit calmly in their chair watching the victim squirm. Sometimes the assassin has not, in fact, poisoned the victim at all, but the description is so vivid that the victim either passes out or dies of fright. Fortunately for the victim, the assassin is often Carrying the Antidote. The fourth and final variation is common in kung fu stories. Hitting someone in a specific way in a specific Pressure Point on his body can have any number of effects on his body, ranging from beneficial to outright fatal (though the latter is usually reserved for villains or particularly vengeful martial artists). Once the martial artist performs the technique, he will then explain, in exacting detail, what the technique does to the character in question before leaving the character to his fate. It's particularly common among Old Masters. Historically this is Truth in Television, part of a three-step process to encourage the prisoner to be more cooperative. 'First degree' torture involved verbal threats of what you're going to do, 'second degree' was showing the prisoner the instruments of torture, while 'third degree' was actually putting said instruments and techniques to use. See also Calling Your Attacks, Diagnosis from Dr. Badass, Just Between You and Me, Too Kinky to Torture, Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon. Very popular among characters who practice Revenge by Proxy, especially those who find Forced to Watch a bit too impractical to pull off.
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To the Pain / int_100d4e39	comment	In one Aladdin: The Series episode, Mozenrath explains a death trap to Aladdin and Jasmine before he leaves to destroy Agrabah. Aladdin had asked for the explanation by saying "How can you destroy us and Agrabah at the same time?"
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To the Pain / int_116054a6	comment	Hivefled: Gamzee tells Equius he will "tear your MOTHERFUCKING HORN out of your MOTHERFUCKING SKULL and SHOVE IT up your MOTHERFUCKING SEEDFLAP". Gamzee was on the receiving end of one in the prequel;
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To the Pain / int_136469af	comment	In Pact, one of the major antagonists is an Anthropomorphic Personification of Conquest. Not of War, which is conflict and may have rules, nor change by victory, which would be the province of an incarnation of Liberty, Conquest, meaning brutal subjugation of the defeated. And he loves to talk about what he does to his victims before he does it.
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To the Pain / int_1367cea0	comment	In Worm, both Bonesaw and Gray Boy like to describe the things they can do with their powers.
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To the Pain / int_1478c226	comment	Mistakes:
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To the Pain / int_15349fd6	comment	During the climactic confrontation with the villain in The Three Hostages, Mary Hannay describes what she's going to do to him if he doesn't release the final hostage, a young child, in detail and with such terrifying conviction that he folds completely.
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To the Pain / int_15a26aad	comment	Jager Tharn in The Elder Scrolls: Arena, when he contacts you telepathically shortly after you receive the first piece of the Staff of Chaos. "Give it to them, and I will make your death painless, and quick. Resist, and I will see you in such suffering that you will grovel for the sweet release of death!''
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To the Pain / int_15bd4cf4	comment	Partially subverted in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents: After Malicia "poisons" two rat catchers by switching their sugar for something else, Keith goes through the standard list of gruesome effects. After the rat catchers have run off for the "antidote", Malicia reveals that what they switched the sugar with was laxative and the antidote was more laxative. The effects Keith lists, however, are apparently what would have actually happened to them had they instead opted to swap the sugar with any of the innumerable poisons around the room.
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To the Pain / int_164eec8f	comment	The Oregon Files: In Skeleton Coast, this is used on a captured ecoterrorist while interrogating her. The interrogator in question, Linda Ross, calmly and coldly describes how she intends to painfully and methodically torture the terrified captive until the woman either dies or gives up the information she wants. Much like the Princess Bride, however, it's intended as a bluff. It works; her prisoner sings like a canary barely five seconds after Linda leaves the room. However, it should be noted that Linda took no pleasure in doing this to the woman, ecoterrorist or not, but the situation was too dire to utilize more humane methods of extracting information.
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To the Pain / int_16aa3232	comment	Desperate Housewives. When Lynette's sons misbehave, she displays the implements she intends to use to spank them, unless they repent. The items are mostly belts and paddles, not things that would draw the ire of Child Services, but it does scare the boys straight. Which is good, because Lynette has never actually spanked them and never would because her mother used to hit her and her sisters. Beating a child with a belt or a paddle would not only draw the ire of Child Services, but it would also cause the children to be removed at once. Even threatening to do so, could have severe repercussions. In later episodes, the boys realize that Lynette's threat is always a bluff. But when Bree babysits them, and they act up, Bree does spank them. Lynette is furious, but the two women eventually resolve their conflict. And the next time the boys misbehave, Lynette threatens to turn them over to Bree. This could also be a bluff, but it works.
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To the Pain / int_16fc4335	comment	In the "Arrows" trilogy (the first Heralds of Valdemar books by publication order) Herald Talia is tortured by someone who loves doing this. Fortunately a kind of Narrative Profanity Filter is employed, so we don't really hear it or see what happens — nor see what kind of shape Talia is in afterward.
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To the Pain / int_186be976	comment	Secret Six villains in general have a tendency to do this. Such as Junior's infamous hammock. Would probably be Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon if not for the fact that she tears someone's head off and puts it back on upside down while saying it. (Hey, she was interrupting Junior's phone call.)
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To the Pain / int_187d570a	comment	Devil May Cry 4 features Nero's battle theme, The Time Has Come, which is a musical To The Pain speech to Nero's enemies.
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To the Pain / int_18c0192b	comment	In Golden Fool, Fitz is in a sword fight with Laudwine, a one-handed man (Fitz had chopped his hand off in a previous encounter). When Laudwine threatens to kill him slowly, Fitz responds by threatening to cut off his remaining hand and leave him alive. The idea horrifies him enough that his guard drops for a moment and he ends up dead.
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To the Pain / int_1aa9d9f4	comment	This was a staple of the live-action Batman (1966) TV series every incarnation of Batman.
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To the Pain / int_1b021fcb	comment	Kaneki does this to Ayato in Tokyo Ghoul once their fight devolves into a Curb-Stomp Battle in the former's favor. He goes through with his "kill by half" threat by breaking half of Ayato's bones, all the while describing exactly which ones he's breaking.
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To the Pain / int_1bfa1b6c	comment	The day after Seth Rollins turned on The Shield, Dean Ambrose went into excruciating detail about how he would rearrange Rollins' face. After twitching the entire time, he smacked the mic out of his own hand, only for Reigns to give him a smile (almost in a friendly, "How the hell am I supposed to follow that?" manner), and Ambrose to gingerly bend over and hand Reigns the mic.
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To the Pain / int_1c334568	comment	Michonne in The Walking Dead. After being captured, imprisoned, tortured, and brutally raped by the "Governor", Michonne escapes with her captured comrades. However, instead of immediately returning to their camp with the rest of the group, Michonne chooses to lag behind and exact revenge from the sociopath by, among other things, cutting his arm off and scooping his eye out with a spoon, complete with a "to the pain" speech.
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To the Pain / int_1c4cbfe6	comment	2011's Journey into Mystery (Gillen): Loki tells a scout from the Serpent that the scout should give Loki and Tyr the information they need because then they'll kill him quickly instead of torturing him. Loki goes into a few vague details mostly involving how "evil and cruel" his pre-reincarnation-as-a-child self was known to be, and the scout caves, gives them the info, and Tyr kills him. Tyr then angrily informs Loki that he would never have tortured the scout, since he "has no love of torture", leading to this little gem of subversion: Helps to remember that Loki isn't evil. Just insane.
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To the Pain / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Mayuri Kurotsuchi explains his super-serum quite clearly to Szayelaporro Granz. Unfortunately for Szayelaporro, the words appear so stretched out and distorted in his eyes once the serum is in full effect that he can't hear half the speech. When the serum is in full effect, one second seems like 100 years from Szayelaporro's perspective. Which is too bad, because that means he missed out on the best part of the speech- that he'll feel the pain of being stabbed through the hand and heart for about 100 years.
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To the Pain / int_1ea03c87	comment	Ironically, a mild-mannered doctor of all people doing this in the fic Mortality to a criminal while torturing him for information on his friend's whereabouts this boast could possibly qualify. It's also cold, passionate, and scary. Basically, if you really piss him off by messing with his friend, this gentle soul will be down-right pissed-and cold. Probably to the point of KILLING you.
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To the Pain / int_22030366	comment	Suicide for Hire: Hunter holds a guy who had been sexually harassing him at gunpoint and explains to him that if he ever sees him again, he will drag him out into the desert with nothing but smelling salts and a blowtorch, burn his limbs down to stumps one by one, then cause Your Head Asplode from heating his head up until his brains boil.
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To the Pain / int_22119589	comment	Alias: In the first episode, a Hong Kong baddie shows Sidney the tools he's going to use to pull her teeth out if she doesn't talk. Her response? "Start with the ones in the back." Done by McKenas Cole (played by Quentin Tarantino) after he & his mooks have invaded SD-6 on behalf of "The Man." He talks to Arvin, trying to get him to open the vault in order to get a MacGuffin. It doesn't work.
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To the Pain / int_2212773a	comment	Faith torturing Wesley in the Angel episode "Five by Five".
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To the Pain / int_23945975	comment	In the Disney film The Sword in the Stone, Merlin wins a wizard's duel by turning into a bacterium and inflicting a debilitating (but, since he's the good guy, not actually fatal) disease on his opponent, and his description of the disease's various colorful symptoms coincides with their appearance. Not present in the book. There, Merlin turns himself into a whole bunch of deadly diseases, doesn't get to talk while doing it, and Madame Mim dies.
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To the Pain / int_25d97c04	comment	James Bond: You Only Live Twice: When SPECTRE Number 11 has James Bond tied to a chair in her cabin, she pulls open a drawer to display a set of cutting utensils, including a dermatologist's dermatome. She takes out the dermatome and threatens to use it on Bond unless he talks. Licence to Kill: When Franz Sanchez realizes that Bond has been manipulating him, he puts him on a conveyor belt leading to a cocaine grinder. Elliot Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies shows off his antique chakra torture tools to Bond and Lin, with the intent of having them used on them. Spectre: Franz Oberhauser aka Ernst Stavro Blofeld tortures Bond by drilling holes into various parts of his brain while explaining what effect this is having on him throughout. It doesn't actually faze Bond himself that much, because he's, well, James Bond, but it greatly disturbs Madeleine Swann, especially when he threatens to take away Bond's ability to recognize faces.
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To the Pain / int_27faf621	comment	In one episode of Cyberchase, The Hacker's plan involves a Ray Gun that disassembles symmetrical objects. The kids get it away from him and point it at his ship, the Grim Wreaker. The Hacker claims that the Grim Wreaker isn't symmetrical, and instead of pulling the trigger and calling his bluff, the kids get out the whiteboard and deliver an Edutainment Show lecture about the different kinds of symmetry as they try to figure out whether the De-Symmetrizer will work or not.
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To the Pain / int_28486597	comment	In Aladdin: The Return of Jafar, Abis Mal, a low-level jobber against Aladdin, finds Genie Jafar. Jafar decides to use this chance to attempt to get his revenge on Aladdin and the rest of Agrabah. Abis Mal points out that he is the owner of the lamp, which makes him the master and in charge. This starts an argument, which ends in Jafar threatening Abis Mal, and Abis Mal correctly pointing out one of the main rules binding a genie: genies can't kill anyone, wish or not. Jafar then demonstrates that while he can't kill anyone, he can be as creative as he wants in fulfilling the terms of a person's wish, and the things that a person can technically live through are horrifying indeed. After enduring this (literal) song and dance, Abis Mal decides to let Jafar run the show for the rest of the movie.
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To the Pain / int_28ff908f	comment	The Bikini Bottom Horror has Patrick going mad and deciding to give SpongeBob a lesson in sea star feeding habits. And that's the first page.
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To the Pain / int_29b50f9c	comment	When you start to acquire magical weapons in Castle of the Winds, the text describing the sorts of killing blows you can inflict on enemy monsters becomes colorful in this manner: Even when the monster in question doesn't necessarily have the mentioned body part to inflict a killing blow on, such as with an Animated (Wooden, Bronze, Iron or Marble) Statue or a Gelatinous Glob.
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To the Pain / int_29efc2f3	comment	In Disney's adaptation of Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent has a beautiful example of this. Having captured Prince Phillip and revealed to him that the "peasant girl" he fell in love with is actually the princess he was already betrothed to marry, she explains to him her plan to lock him in her dungeon for a hundred years while the princess lies trapped in ageless, enchanted sleep, awaiting True Love's Kiss to awaken her. She mockingly describes how, after that time, he will be "free to go his way" - as a ghost, the animation heavily implies. She actually was going to release him in eighty years or so. Being a prince (i.e., of sterner stuff than the regular people) he would still be alive at age ~100. Then, if he chose to awaken Princess Aurora, she would be 16 and he would be 100. If he chose not to awaken her, she and the entire kingdom would remain asleep forever. The real torture would be knowing that she was waiting for him. Fortunately, she didn't have to wait that long.
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To the Pain / int_2a8943c0	comment	Miraculous Ladybug fic So you time travel to the future and your classmate gets punched... has a purely verbal variant in which Future!Chloe takes great pleasure in spelling out to her time-traveling classmates just how thoroughly they've screwed themselves over by trusting Lila over Marinette. None of them are in any position to avert or avoid their impending Laser-Guided Karma, enabling her to let them know precisely what's in store for each of them.
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To the Pain / int_2b70efd4	comment	The Old World of Darkness games loved this trope. In Mage: The Ascension, members of The Syndicate call this "turkey basting." Since the people using it are mages (whether they know it or not), it actually has the effect of causing unspeakable pain to the interrogation suspect simply via power of suggestion. Kindred of the East detailed a discipline called "Black Wind," which was simply a variable application speed/strength boost power that was fueled by the standard installation demon riding in the back of every Kuei-Jin's head, which meant that the discipline could only be used for violence. It didn't apply under this trope. However, since the Kuei-Jin seemed like they weren't making a comeback, one fan-made martial art background skill was created for the New World of Darkness line using the same name. Black Wind, the martial art style, is a series of blocks, strikes, and momentum redirecting counters coupled with psychological warfare designed to enrage and humiliate an opponent, with the eventual goal of reducing the opponent to a state of utter despair. The rules explicitly state that if an opponent dies from the use of the art, then the practitioner has screwed up. Hunter: The Reckoning had a particularly nasty version of it; the torturer used strong local anaesthetic on his victim, broke every bone in his hand, and then explained how much it would hurt once the anaesthetic wore off.
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To the Pain / int_2ba1d958	comment	The meta version occurs in The Matrix. At the start of Morpheus' interrogation, we're given a brief pan across gleaming stainless steel surgical instruments and vials of drugs.
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To the Pain / int_2ce94f43	comment	In Crossed, Emiko does this to her rapist, threatening to castrate him with a sword and then feed him his own penis. She later reveals that she had no intention of actually doing this, instead leaving him to be raped to death by the Crossed.
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To the Pain / int_2e3e7ac2	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	In the final episode of Justice League Unlimited, Darkseid, after trapping Superman in his Agony Matrix, explains the effects to him (while Superman is convulsing in pain)...
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To the Pain / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto has perhaps the shortest version of this trope so far. It is provided by Itachi who simply explains to Kakashi the details of his Tsukuyomi technique, which traps Itachi and his opponent in an illusion world where Itachi controls time, space and matter, essentially making him god, followed by Itachi crucifying Kakashi and telling him that he, and his hundreds of clones, will stab Kakashi with their katanas for the following 72 hours. It is made far worse in the anime adaptation which greatly expands upon the torture scene and culminates with, after what seems like several hours of Cold-Blooded Torture, Itachi divulging to poor Kakashi that 71 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds still remained. That's the deadliest thing about the technique—being under it for a few seconds is equivalent to days worth of torture, so it's hard for the mind to recover from it. And Itachi's never used the technique on anyone he actually wanted to die from it...
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To the Pain / int_30ece126	comment	In Unto the Breach, the captured Russian microbiologist invokes this trope when explaining why he was bracing for an impact and nervously checking his watch, when riding in a car with the victim of some impromptu biological warfare agents (including botulinus, from an infected can of food from earlier). Afterwards, to his rescuer:
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To the Pain / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: Mustang vs. Envy. Mustang starts by incinerating Envy's tongue, and then his eyes.
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To the Pain / int_336a5711	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_336a5711	comment	Luther. Annoyed over something Luther has done, manipulative sociopath Alice Morgan grabs his estranged wife Zoe as she's leaving her office and holds an icepick to her ear.
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To the Pain / int_34d050c6	comment	Darkwing Duck: Negaduck describes doing this to Darkwing's allies, and it all starts as soon as he throws... The Switch!
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To the Pain / int_355f992	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_355f992	comment	The Shawshank Redemption: When Andy first enters Shawshank, Red warns him about "The Sisters", a group of inmates who engages in Prison Rape. And we get a very interesting variation of this trope when Andy threatens to quit working for Warden Norton after Tommy is killed.
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To the Pain / int_366a284d	comment	In just about every version of Fist of the North Star, after landing one of his deadly Hokuto Shinken attacks on an enemy, Kenshiro describes which pressure point he just hit, and what effect it will have on the enemy. He then ends the speech, famously, with his Catchphrase, "Omae wa mou shindeiru." or in English, "You Are Already Dead." A few seconds later, the victim typically explodes in spectacular fashion. Which was then parodied in the 3D Movie Maker movie Enriched Enlightment.
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To the Pain / int_367f632a	comment	An army-sized variation shows up in Dawn of War: Dark Crusade. Governor-Militant Alexander's speech/boast when his stronghold is attacked outlines the myriad ways the Imperial Guard force is going to reduce its enemy to bite-size chunks. (In order mentioned: legions of infantry, tanks, artillery, and the Titan Cannon.)
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To the Pain / int_36857000	comment	Hard Candy. Hayley spends a ton of time leading up to the castration but she really only fakes it as a Mind Screw to make him off himself.
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To the Pain / int_39e3b5ff	comment	Once again, Kill Bill: Bill explains the effects of the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique to Uma Thurman's character during a story about the legend of Pai Mei. Later on, Beatrix kills Bill with that exact same technique, taught to her offscreen by Pai Mei.
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To the Pain / int_3a10cbfe	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_3a10cbfe	comment	In an odd reversal, Commando has Arnold Schwarzenegger's action hero character tell the sadistic Big Bad just how much slower and more satisfying it would be if the Big Bad didn't shoot Arnold where he stood and they settled matters with a knife fight instead...
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To the Pain / int_3a5b3f50	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_3a5b3f50	comment	La Femme Nikita: Section One did this to just about everyone put in the White Room.
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To the Pain / int_3ab621ef	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_3ab621ef	comment	Near the end of Cloak & Dagger (1984), Rice calmly tells Davey (an eleven-year-old boy, mind you), that he plans to use the Uzi submachine gun he's carrying to blow Davey's kneecaps off, then shoot Davey in the stomach, then watch Davey bleed out slowly. And it's pretty obvious that Rice means every word of it. Luckily, Davey finally hits his Rage Breaking Point and puts a bullet through Rice's heart.
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To the Pain / int_3b34143f	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_3b34143f	comment	In The Meaning of Fear, Harry Potter starts his interrogation of a Death Eater (Snape) by showing wordlessly showing off a bunch of used tools and butcher knives. He goes on to state that while there more bones in the feet than the hands, he finds that for someone like Snape, the hands are a greater threat and it's easier to target a single bone at a time.
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To the Pain / int_3bbd2f1c	comment	In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle, Josuke's GHA has him tell that he's healing the victim "The way I see it, if I make you well again, And -" pulverizes the sap with Crazy/Shining Diamond "- then kick your ass, I won't be "bullying the weak" then, will I?"
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To the Pain / int_3dc754a7	comment	DC in the Tamers Forever Series manages to invert this trope. When Daemon threatens to kill him, DC casually calls the monster's bluff, saying that he knows that Daemon won't kill him until he's extracted every last scream of agony, because he knows that deep down, Daemon is a slave to his own hatred. Managing to turn this trope into a Hannibal Lecture.
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To the Pain / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in the second novel of Seekers of the Sky duology. Ilmar admits that he spilled the beans before the monks even started torturing him for information, while they were still showing him their tools.
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To the Pain / int_3e0d6d5e	comment	In Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race, Dr. Wily likes to do this. In episode 1, Wily described the reprogramming process to Rock and Roll in detail, terrifying them even more. In the episode 10 epilogue, Wily describes the torturing program in excruciating detail.
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To the Pain / int_3f3abe9	comment	Rick and Morty: The Council of Ricks is able to judge and sentence criminals against the Citadel, one of their punishments being the Machine of Unspeakable Doom, "which swaps your conscious and unconscious minds, rendering your fantasies pointless while everything you've known becomes impossible to grasp." "Also, every ten seconds it stabs your balls."
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To the Pain / int_3f5f4ea2	comment	Austin Powers: Dr Evil liked describing his Death Traps to Austin.
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To the Pain / int_4141af74	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_4141af74	comment	In the Future Diary fanfic Mirai Nikki: The Reaper's Diary, Ryoji describes what he did to Third in an attempt to discourage the others from attacking him:
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To the Pain / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: One of Harry's biggest vices is his wrath. Strike the right buttons and it results in some of Harry Dresden's darker moments, falling into this category. When he went berserk after some ghouls killed Warden trainees, his torture was so gruesome that the other Wardens talked him down. When Mavra threatens one of Harry's friends, he fetches the item she asks for in return for the evidence impugning said friend. He then tells her that if she ever tries it again, he's going to take up the powers of dark gods and come after her personally. She hasn't been back. To clarify: Harry was going to 1. Make a deal with Queen Mab to be her personal mindslave, 2. Allow himself to be possessed by a True Demon, 3. Perform a ritual that allows him to BECOME a dark god, 4. Make a deal with Crowley the Demon, and 5. Use the knowledge of Necromancy he memorized, against the undead Mavra. All at once. Given how long Wizard and supernatural beings' lifespans are, this is actually a really credible threat when one pisses off a young wizard who comes back years later searching for vengeance. Unable to kill him, Margaret LeFay Dresden mystically neutered the White King with her death curse so he couldn't restock his magical energy. When you're semi-immortal and have made a lot of enemies, that's about as bad as it gets. Quintus Cassius when he captures Harry. He believes Harry has on his body a Coin carrying the soul of a Fallen Angel and wants it back. He muses how others who have these coins have hidden their Coin deep in their bodies to prevent being separated from it, so he best be thorough in his search. The Naagloshi feeds off this. Literally. The semi-divine fallen messengers gain power from those who fear them. Aided by Intellectus, the power to know anything within a certain topic, the naagloshi will know what it can do to torment the person before it. It doesn't know the why the action causes so much pain and honestly doesn't care.
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To the Pain / int_43ce5692	comment	Django Unchained. After being forced to give himself up at the end of the first shootout in Candyland, Django is told in great detail by Stephen about how he'll be sent off to the LeQuint Dickey Mining Company, worked to death "turning big rocks into little rocks", and eventually killed and "thrown down the nigger hole" once his back gives out. Throughout all of this, Stephen is blood-freezingly calm about how, for Candie's death, Django will suffer to his last breath.
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To the Pain / int_442f6a6e	comment	Rhythm of War: Lezian the Pursuer, an Implacable Man with Resurrective Immortality, is infamous for obsessively hunting down anyone who defeats him. In answer, Kaladin publicly describes how he'll keep killing Lezian every time, over and over, until the failure destroys every trace of his legend. Lezian breaks, flees, and becomes known as Defeated One.
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To the Pain / int_457b671e	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_457b671e	comment	24: In season six, Jack tells a man who is about to be injected with poison exactly what the agony will feel like, and how many doses it will take before his heart gives in. In the first season, he also goes to great lengths to explain what's going to happen when he stuffs the towel down his victim's throat.
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To the Pain / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Going Postal: Moist has an internal monologue where he reflects how he's not going to harm Reacher Gilt physically, but will ruin him as only one Con Man can do to another. "I'll kill you in our own special way, the way of the weasel, the cheat and the liar." Unseen Academicals: Mr. Nutt decides he's had enough of Andy Shank tormenting him and Trev Likely and puts him in a headlock, while casually discussing just how much force it would take to break Andy's neck and rip his head off, concluding that an orc like Nutt would indeed be strong enough to do so. Nutt doesn't go through with it, but the ordeal does scare Andy off getting revenge for a while.
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To the Pain / int_474b7b67	comment	At the end of The Ribald Tales of Robin Hood, Robin threatens Lady Sallyforth with the infliction of agony from every device in her Torture Cellar unless she releases Marian.
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To the Pain / int_49a87cb3	comment	Final Fantasy VII featured this during a not-so-subtle threat against a pervert trying to have sex with them. The team promises something like "I'll cut 'em off" "I'll break 'em off" "I'll smash them". He ends up giving them the information they want.
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To the Pain / int_4bc2a434	comment	Red (2010). The Badass Crew are threatening an Arms Dealer.
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To the Pain / int_4da11f30	comment	Jabba's description (via C3PO) of being digested by the Sarlacc in Return of the Jedi.
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To the Pain / int_4e433e78	comment	Played for laughs in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, with the minstrels describing all the things that Sir Robin does not fear. Later in the film, it's given a hilarious inversion when Sir Galahad is told that a sister at a local abbey has wronged him. In order to make her pay, he must spank her. Then spank her sister. Then spank every nun in the entire abbey. Then the oral sex...
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To the Pain / int_4f46b380	comment	The meta version is shown in X-Men: First Class. Young Erik Lehnsherr meets Dr. Klaus Schmidt in his wood-paneled office filled with books and antiques, then a reverse shot reveals the opposite wall is made of glass, leading into a white-painted surgery lined with sinister instruments. Unfortunately, Erik's powers aren't controlled enough to use these as actual weapons; they all get thrown harmlessly against the glass.
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To the Pain / int_5022a2c4	comment	Xena from Xena: Warrior Princess often uses a paralyzing pressure point technique that cuts off the blood flow to the victim's brain. She would quickly explain to the victim that they only have 20 seconds to live and would have to agree to help her in order for her to heal them with yet another pressure point.
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To the Pain / int_50ad687c	comment	In the pilot for Neighbors from Hell, Balthazor is about to inflict a torture procedure on an unfortunate sinner that has newly arrived in Hell, describing it as a "pain of a thousand deaths". What is the procedure? Put headphones on the sinner and make him listen to Britney Spears music.
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To the Pain / int_5144055f	comment	Played for laughs in Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, where LeChuck devises a ridiculously elaborate Death Trap (whose only function is to lower the hero Guybrush into a pit of acid), and then describes it meticulously down to every detail. Then, he asks Guybrush if he has any questions in case he needs clarifications.
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To the Pain / int_5307b01d	comment	Penny Arcade: Tycho's infamous To The Pain speech in this strip.
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To the Pain / int_54cf3909	comment	In 2 Fast 2 Furious, Carter Verone (the drug lord and film's Big Bad) lures Whitworth (a corrupt Miami PD detective) away from his party and tortures him using a rat, a metal pail and a blowtorchnote He puts the rat on the man's stomach, covers it with the pail, and then uses the blowtorch to heat up the pail. The rat starts to chew the man's stomach in an attempt to escape the heat until he agrees to give Brian O'Conner and Roman Pierce a window to deliver Verone's package for him; he then warns Whitworth that if he fails, his rat will visit his entire family as well.
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To the Pain / int_55b00551	comment	In A Mad Glimmer, when Starlight still won't change her mind about wanting to equalize all of Equestria, Discord warns her that if she continues to seek revenge against Twilight and her friends, he'll permanently imprison her in a pocket dimension of his own making where he can have a ton of fun coming up with new ways to torture her for all of eternity (or however long he lives, considering he's either immortal or The Ageless).
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To the Pain / int_56c9ee78	comment	The punishment the principal describes in Max Keeble's Big Move.
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To the Pain / int_5755b96a	comment	Elan from The Order of the Stick had a rather unconventional version, but it worked anyway.
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To the Pain / int_587830b1	comment	In the Corum novels, by Michael Moorcock, Glanydeth-A-Krae describes how he's going to systematically lop off all of Corum's extremities. He does manage to get a hand and an eye before he's stopped.
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Corum	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_587830b1
To the Pain / int_5ada53ed	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_5ada53ed	comment	Pick a Bond villain, any Bond villain. ...Except, of course, for Le Chiffre in Casino Royale (2006), who subverts the trope by saying, "You know, I never understood all these elaborate tortures," before doing something very nasty to Bond with an old chair and a knotted rope (a carpet beater in the original book).
To the Pain / int_5ada53ed	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_5ada53ed	featureConfidence	1.0
James Bond	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_5ada53ed
To the Pain / int_5c541a85	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_5c541a85	comment	Kage: When Miranda corners Jade and questions her motives, Jade (or possibly the Queen in another moment of temporary control), threatens to rip off her limbs, gouge out her eyes, and eat her brain.
To the Pain / int_5c541a85	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_5c541a85	featureConfidence	1.0
Kage (Fanfic)	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_5c541a85
To the Pain / int_5cd1aa89	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_5cd1aa89	comment	In 1984, the villain describes to Winston in excruciating detail what the rats will do to his face. This one is noteworthy since the whole point is to completely break the victim by exposing them to their worst fear, rather than actually harming them. The threat is made credible by the great deal of Cold-Blooded Torture inflicted on Winston earlier, and because "worst fear" is Not Hyperbole; Winston is absolutely terrified of rats.
To the Pain / int_5cd1aa89	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_5cd1aa89	featureConfidence	1.0
Nineteen Eighty-Four	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_5cd1aa89
To the Pain / int_5d21fab8	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_5d21fab8	comment	In Wolf Hall, Thomas Cromwell doesn't physical violence, but he goes into detail on how thoroughly he will ruin Harry Percy if Percy doesn't stop telling people he was pre-contracted to marry Anne Boleyn. Harry Percy has an army, but Cromwell knows his creditors. He will tell them to call in all of Percy's debts at once, leaving Percy unable to pay his soldiers. Without soldiers, he can't secure the northern border, and if he can't do that, Henry will give his earldom to someone who can. That would leave Percy free to marry Anne so they can live in abject poverty, wearing homespun, eating rabbits. Also, Anne hates him now anyway. The threat works.
To the Pain / int_5d21fab8	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_5d21fab8	featureConfidence	1.0
Wolf Hall	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_5d21fab8
To the Pain / int_5e1213a8	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_5e1213a8	comment	Neverwhere: Mr. Vandemar gives an entire lecture (with comparative demonstrations) on why a swift kick to the temple is less painful than a carefully-placed nudge on a pressure point. Also, Lord Rat-speaker says to Richard "I should slit you from gullet to gizzard and tell fortunes with your guts."
To the Pain / int_5e1213a8	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_5e1213a8	featureConfidence	1.0
Neverwhere	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_5e1213a8
To the Pain / int_5e7c69b6	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_5e7c69b6	comment	There are some episodes where the Mads will explicitly attempt to weaponize elements of a specific movie in order to increase the level of pain generated. "Rock Climbing", "DEEP HURTING", and "Hypno-Helio Static Stasis (with X-4!)" are all specific examples of their attempts to weaponize invokedPadding, for example.
To the Pain / int_5e7c69b6	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_5e7c69b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Lost Continent	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_5e7c69b6
To the Pain / int_60156176	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_60156176	comment	Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold: In Mirror Dance, Baron Ryoval goes into rapturous detail about how he intends to destroy Mark Vorkosigan through torture. ("I'd intended to have you starved. But I believe I'll have you force-fed instead.") Things don't turn out quite as he intended. In Shards of Honor, this happens to Cordelia; in an interesting variant, what scares her the most, and what gets described the most, is not what will be done to her, but what will be done to Aral through her.
To the Pain / int_60156176	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_60156176	featureConfidence	1.0
Vorkosigan Saga	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_60156176
To the Pain / int_6057bff5	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_6057bff5	comment	In Kiss of the Dragon, the title is completely unexplained until the end, where we find out it refers to a pressure point at the back of the neck which causes blood to collect in the victim's head until it leaks out of his nose, mouth, ears, and eyes. Liu Jian, Jet Li's character, with a serious look in his eyes and a touch of regret that it had to come to this, describes in exacting detail the villain's impending death after sticking a needle in there, mentioning that the technique in question is "very forbidden."
To the Pain / int_6057bff5	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_6057bff5	featureConfidence	1.0
Kiss of the Dragon	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_6057bff5
To the Pain / int_6059314b	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_6059314b	comment	xkcd has I am rubber, you are glue.
To the Pain / int_6059314b	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_6059314b	featureConfidence	1.0
xkcd (Webcomic)	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_6059314b
To the Pain / int_60f02ddb	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_60f02ddb	comment	In the American Dad! episode "Pulling Double Booty", Hayley graphically describes to Francine what she'll do if she's dumped again. She'll kill her new boyfriend, burn down the neighborhood, and rape Roger. Francine is horrified at the third.
To the Pain / int_60f02ddb	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_60f02ddb	featureConfidence	1.0
American Dad!	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_60f02ddb
To the Pain / int_625f8f3	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_625f8f3	comment	In The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Silver Mask/Hilmes tells Arslan when he corners him alone in episode 13 that he will cut off Arslan's right hand now. Then when they meet next time, he will take the left hand. And after that, if Arslan is still alive, he will take his right foot.
To the Pain / int_625f8f3	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_625f8f3	featureConfidence	1.0
The Heroic Legend of Arslan	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_625f8f3
To the Pain / int_660a8ba0	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_660a8ba0	comment	Unseen Academicals: Mr. Nutt decides he's had enough of Andy Shank tormenting him and Trev Likely and puts him in a headlock, while casually discussing just how much force it would take to break Andy's neck and rip his head off, concluding that an orc like Nutt would indeed be strong enough to do so. Nutt doesn't go through with it, but the ordeal does scare Andy off getting revenge for a while.
To the Pain / int_660a8ba0	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_660a8ba0	featureConfidence	1.0
Unseen Academicals	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_660a8ba0
To the Pain / int_662ae9bf	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_662ae9bf	comment	Atar Gull: Brulart explains to Benoit that he's going to free one of the slaves to find the way back to the Little Namaqua village (and kill him). There he will offer the chief a trade: Benoit and his men (the supposed murderers) in exchange for the Great Namaqua prisoners. This will allow him to bring a double load of slaves on two ships to Jamaica and eliminate the witnesses to his double-crossings. Atar Gull finally confessing in great detail that he was responsible for Tom Will's downfall (murdering Will's daughter, poisoning his crops, setting fire to the slave huts...), once Tom Will is unable to do anything about it.
To the Pain / int_662ae9bf	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_662ae9bf	featureConfidence	1.0
Atar Gull	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_662ae9bf
To the Pain / int_67347399	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_67347399	comment	This infamous example from Kakos Industries when Corin is enraged by his arch-enemy Melantha Murther interrupting his broadcast.
To the Pain / int_67347399	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_67347399	featureConfidence	1.0
Kakos Industries (Podcast)	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_67347399
To the Pain / int_68ed17ca	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_68ed17ca	comment	In The Long Kiss Goodnight, Timothy threatens to blind Charly Baltimore's daughter and shoot out her knees if she doesn't co-operate with his demands. It's made Harsher in Hindsight by the fact that he's her father, which is revealed later to the audience and Timothy at the same time. Not that he cares.
To the Pain / int_68ed17ca	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_68ed17ca	featureConfidence	1.0
The Long Kiss Goodnight	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_68ed17ca
To the Pain / int_69d15cc0	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_69d15cc0	comment	In the Marvel Cinematic Universe fic Still Alive Jen is asked to take on her (somewhat legendary) old alias, Melinda Joyce's persona to exact information from Werner Reinhardt/Daniel Whitehall. Her performance is flawless and it's left ambiguous whether she would be capable of the things she described to him. Going by her behavior towards HYDRA agents, she probably would.
To the Pain / int_69d15cc0	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_69d15cc0	featureConfidence	1.0
Marvel Cinematic Universe (Franchise)	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_69d15cc0
To the Pain / int_6abf16c2	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_6abf16c2	comment	Used in the Big Finish Doctor Who episode "Nevermore". The Doctor is told that part of the Death Trap is about to pierce one of his hearts, so he uses his Bizarre Alien Biology to shut down that half of his body. This also completely cancels the To The Pain sequence... because it was told to him via a speaker in one of his ears.
To the Pain / int_6abf16c2	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_6abf16c2	featureConfidence	1.0
Big Finish Doctor Who (Audio Play)	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_6abf16c2
To the Pain / int_6cd3b44f	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_6cd3b44f	comment	In Black Lagoon, a neo-Nazi general tries to do this to Revy, but while all of this is going on, she just nonchalantly reloads her gun and shoots him point-blank and mid-sentence.
To the Pain / int_6cd3b44f	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_6cd3b44f	featureConfidence	1.0
Black Lagoon (Manga)	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_6cd3b44f
To the Pain / int_6d9a0c36	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_6d9a0c36	comment	A recurring element of The First Law The original trilogy features Inquisitor Glokta as a viewpoint character. Once a handsome dandy,Gurkhish dungeons reduced him to the crippled, toothless wretch he is now. And it makes him very good at his job. Caul Shivers is on the receiving end of this trope in Best Served Cold. A Styrian torturer burns out his eye, covering half his face in burn scars, sending him on his series-long journey through the Heelâ€“Face Revolving Door. Inquisitor Vic dan Toifle takes over Glokta's role in The Age of Madness trilogy.
To the Pain / int_6d9a0c36	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_6d9a0c36	featureConfidence	1.0
The First Law	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_6d9a0c36
To the Pain / int_6ea7c33b	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_6ea7c33b	comment	Altered Carbon. In an inversion, Takeshi Kovacs does this to the people who are torturing him, to convince them he's an undercover CTAC agent.
To the Pain / int_6ea7c33b	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_6ea7c33b	featureConfidence	1.0
Altered Carbon	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_6ea7c33b
To the Pain / int_6f7cfb8d	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_6f7cfb8d	comment	In The Princess Bride, Count Rugen doesn't merely stop at explaining the workings of his agonizing torture device to the hero but tries to draw out some scholarly conversation about its effects. "Remember, this is for posterity, so... be honest." The hero seems to pick this up, for in the "To the Pain" monologue near the end of the movie that gives the trope its name, he describes in excruciating detail how he is going to dismember the villain and make him suffer if he doesn't surrender. Although providing the Trope name, this is a subversion — the Hero was clearly bluffing the villain with this speech, as he was in no condition to actually beat the villain. He was counting on the guy being such a coward that he'd surrender rather than risk the threat he was describing, and as it turned out, he was.
To the Pain / int_6f7cfb8d	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_6f7cfb8d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Princess Bride	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_6f7cfb8d
To the Pain / int_704d43b3	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_704d43b3	comment	In Leviticus 26:14-39 and Deuteronomy 28:15-45, God gives the Israelites a list of curses He will bring if they disobey His commandments. This is paraphrased as "If you stop obeying Me and start worshiping other gods and doing hideous things [like sacrificing children] that their worship demands, I'll make sure you suffer fire, flood, pestilence, famine and war, and there's literally no place you can hide from Me!"
To the Pain / int_704d43b3	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_704d43b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Book of Exodus	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_704d43b3
To the Pain / int_70b26f38	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_70b26f38	comment	Fate/strange Fake: Jester Karture tells Sigma he plans to render him unable to die, then slowly chop him apart and feed him to chickens.
To the Pain / int_70b26f38	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_70b26f38	featureConfidence	1.0
Fate/strange Fake	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_70b26f38
To the Pain / int_727259ac	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_727259ac	comment	One episode of The Ren & Stimpy Show saw Ren's cousin coming to visit, and he ends up being exactly like Stimpy. Unable to deal with the antics of both, Ren snaps, and with barely restrained fury, gleefully describes what he's going to do to them. Oh look! It's Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking! Well, it was until he discovered their "Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence" board game and decided to tempt fate instead. He literally electrocuted them all to hell.
To the Pain / int_727259ac	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_727259ac	featureConfidence	1.0
The Ren & Stimpy Show	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_727259ac
To the Pain / int_74365738	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_74365738	comment	Going Postal: Moist has an internal monologue where he reflects how he's not going to harm Reacher Gilt physically, but will ruin him as only one Con Man can do to another. "I'll kill you in our own special way, the way of the weasel, the cheat and the liar."
To the Pain / int_74365738	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_74365738	featureConfidence	1.0
Going Postal	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_74365738
To the Pain / int_749752a	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_749752a	comment	Law Abiding Citizen: The death of Darby, as Clyde has built himself a complete Torture Technician setup. Perfectly true to the script, he indeed starts with the right ankle.
To the Pain / int_749752a	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_749752a	featureConfidence	1.0
Law Abiding Citizen	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_749752a
To the Pain / int_750abe8f	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_750abe8f	comment	In The Borgias, a doctor has to explain the treatment of Juan Borgia's horrifically averted STD Immunity before he proceeds. The worst part? The "treatment" won't do a damn thing for him.
To the Pain / int_750abe8f	featureApplicability	-1.0
To the Pain / int_750abe8f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Borgias	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_750abe8f
To the Pain / int_7559ae0b	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_7559ae0b	comment	Dune: Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen was reportedly fond of this.
To the Pain / int_7559ae0b	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_7559ae0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Dune (Franchise)	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_7559ae0b
To the Pain / int_7668653a	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_7668653a	comment	Mass Effect 2: Renegade Shepard has a handful of gems: Against a scumbag who has information regarding who he contracted Thane's son Kolyat to kill: Against a racist batarian bartender who tried to poison Shepard to death:
To the Pain / int_7668653a	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_7668653a	featureConfidence	1.0
Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_7668653a
To the Pain / int_76cb191b	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_76cb191b	comment	In The Invisibles, Lord Miles reads to a captured King Mob from Physical Interrogation Techniques by Richard Krousher — a genuine Real Life book — which recommends all kinds of horrible things.
To the Pain / int_76cb191b	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_76cb191b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Invisibles (Comic Book)	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_76cb191b
To the Pain / int_7884e8d1	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_7884e8d1	comment	In Pulp Fiction, Marsellus Wallace intends to do this to Zed for raping him at the pawnshop. That shotgun blast to his nuts is just the beginning.
To the Pain / int_7884e8d1	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_7884e8d1	featureConfidence	1.0
Pulp Fiction	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_7884e8d1
To the Pain / int_7b7568be	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_7b7568be	comment	Meet the Amazing Team: The Amazing Interrogation has the BLU Soldier interrogate the RED Spy by threatening to crack/eat his nuts. Later, he attempts to crap in his mouth.
To the Pain / int_7b7568be	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_7b7568be	featureConfidence	1.0
Meet the Amazing Team (Web Animation)	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_7b7568be
To the Pain / int_7d88ceef	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_7d88ceef	comment	The Evil That Men Do opens with Dr. Clement Molloch lecturing a group of army officers on the science of torture.
To the Pain / int_7d88ceef	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_7d88ceef	featureConfidence	1.0
The Evil That Men Do	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_7d88ceef
To the Pain / int_7de1376e	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_7de1376e	comment	Parodied in Wyrd Sisters, where Nanny Ogg is Too Kinky to Torture.
To the Pain / int_7de1376e	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_7de1376e	featureConfidence	1.0
Wyrd Sisters	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_7de1376e
To the Pain / int_7df9324b	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_7df9324b	comment	Jack from Zebra Girl did this a couple of times, most notably here.
To the Pain / int_7df9324b	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_7df9324b	featureConfidence	1.0
Zebra Girl (Webcomic)	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_7df9324b
To the Pain / int_7e93942d	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_7e93942d	comment	The first season finale of The Legend of Vox Machina sees Percy ready to take his final revenge against Delilah Briarwood; unlike with the previous victims on his List, Percy or rather the demon Orthax that drives his bloodlust intends to savor the experience.
To the Pain / int_7e93942d	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_7e93942d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of Vox Machina	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_7e93942d
To the Pain / int_7ea3d0e1	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_7ea3d0e1	comment	In Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, the villain extracts information from two officers by threatening each with a superheated needle to the eye, casually describing what will happen when he does. His description alone (along with the fact that two are lovers) convinces them to tell him what he wants to know. This doesn't stop the villain from killing them anyway...
To the Pain / int_7ea3d0e1	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_7ea3d0e1	featureConfidence	1.0
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_7ea3d0e1
To the Pain / int_7ec0cdab	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_7ec0cdab	comment	In The Mighty Boosh, a psycho in prison does this to Howard: "I'm gonna cut you up. I'm gonna slice you to shreds... I'm gonna slice your nose off, and throw it at a vicar..." In a possible subversion, Howard teaches him to talk about nice things (e.g. flying a kite on a sunny day), and this terrifies the psycho's next victim even more.
To the Pain / int_7ec0cdab	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_7ec0cdab	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mighty Boosh	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_7ec0cdab
To the Pain / int_7fc78282	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_7fc78282	comment	From The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King: "Come not between the NazgÃ»l and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the Houses of Lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shriveled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye." He gets a Shut Up, Hannibal! response because he's addressing a disguised Ã‰owyn - who, not being a man, can and does kill him.
To the Pain / int_7fc78282	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_7fc78282	featureConfidence	1.0
The Lord of the Rings	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_7fc78282
To the Pain / int_850c9f7d	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_850c9f7d	comment	Goblin Hollow has one when Ben turn the tables on the Upper Class Twits trying to chase him from the neighborhood with nuisance suits (with Ben's expression getting more deranged—and the twits' leader's more terrified—with every panel)
To the Pain / int_850c9f7d	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_850c9f7d	featureConfidence	1.0
Goblin Hollow (Webcomic)	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_850c9f7d
To the Pain / int_8573ffe6	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_8573ffe6	comment	Arkadeil from The Acts of Caine does this to teach apprentices while demonstrating exactly what he's saying. in His matter-of-fact, scholarly manner arguably makes him far creepier than many who take sadistic joy in it.
To the Pain / int_8573ffe6	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_8573ffe6	featureConfidence	1.0
The Acts of Caine	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_8573ffe6
To the Pain / int_883bd0f0	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_883bd0f0	comment	Licence to Kill: When Franz Sanchez realizes that Bond has been manipulating him, he puts him on a conveyor belt leading to a cocaine grinder.
To the Pain / int_883bd0f0	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_883bd0f0	featureConfidence	1.0
Licence to Kill	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_883bd0f0
To the Pain / int_8910e361	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_8910e361	comment	Very Bad Deaths, by Spider Robinson, has some horrific deaths described in this manner. This is a case of the book being 'exactly what it says on the tin'. This is compounded by the rather nice first half of the story.
To the Pain / int_8910e361	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_8910e361	featureConfidence	1.0
VeryBadDeaths	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_8910e361
To the Pain / int_892aa56a	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_892aa56a	comment	Murdoch Mysteries: Mr Pendrick gets tortured in season 6 premiere when an American secret agent wants to find out how to control a prototype of his Aero which they have stolen. His tormentor gleefully talks about how he knows that Mr Pendrick once dislocated his shoulder and how that type of injury never quite recovers.
To the Pain / int_892aa56a	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_892aa56a	featureConfidence	1.0
Murdoch Mysteries	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_892aa56a
To the Pain / int_898a1932	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_898a1932	comment	Journey to Chaos: To convince Gruffle to surrender quietly, Fairtheora describes a scenario where he dismembers the troll and then sticks the rest into his stew "while you are still alive and bleeding".
To the Pain / int_898a1932	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_898a1932	featureConfidence	1.0
Journey to Chaos	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_898a1932
To the Pain / int_8bb9434c	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_8bb9434c	comment	Used by The Miz on John Cena during their "I Quit" Match for the WWE Championship in 2011, with Miz first subduing Cena and then describing to him all the terrible things he's going to do right before he does them, in order to frighten Cena into quitting. It didn't work.
To the Pain / int_8bb9434c	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_8bb9434c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Miz (Wrestling)	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_8bb9434c
To the Pain / int_8c87469c	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_8c87469c	comment	Before the third battle against him in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Demon Lord Ghirahim describes to Link just how he plans to kill him and dispose of his corpse. It's also how you defeat him.
To the Pain / int_8c87469c	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_8c87469c	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_8c87469c
To the Pain / int_8d7f29ec	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_8d7f29ec	comment	Sue Sylvester to Scheuster on Glee.
To the Pain / int_8d7f29ec	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_8d7f29ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Glee	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_8d7f29ec
To the Pain / int_8d817ccb	type	To the Pain
To the Pain / int_8d817ccb	comment	From Lost, in "Whatever The Case May", four episodes after Jack and Sayid have actually tortured Sawyer, Jack uses To The Pain to get Sawyer to give him the briefcase of guns:
To the Pain / int_8d817ccb	featureApplicability	1.0
To the Pain / int_8d817ccb	featureConfidence	1.0
Lost	hasFeature	To the Pain / int_8d817ccb
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To the Pain / int_8deb62ad	comment	In Prison Break, when Alex Mahone finally gets his revenge on Wyatt for killing his son, he describes pretty clearly just what will happen to him. Starting with a needle pierced through his finger causing unimaginable pain to the defibrillator that will give him a wake-up call when his body begins to shut down due to the pain.
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To the Pain / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Naturally, the villains on Kim Possible often describe what the science-project-gone-horribly-wrong-of-the-week is intended to do, immediately before it does it to the wrong person. Or in the wrong way. Or in an escapable manner.
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To the Pain / int_90c73dda	comment	In Animorphs, the majority of The Illusion is spent describing Tobias' mental, emotional, and physical torture.
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To the Pain / int_90f42a9b	comment	In The Wheel of Time: While interrogating some prisoners, the thief-catcher Juilin ghoulishly gloats that We Have Ways of Making You Talk, then calls for rope, gags, cooking oil, and salt with sinister enthusiasm. Subverted when he doesn't tell the prisoners or his squeamish companions what he plans to do with them, because he doesn't know a thing about torture, and his plan is to bluff the prisoners into talking. Perrin pairs this with a Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique to break an Aiel who supposedly can't be tortured. Chopping off a hand for emphasis and describing how the captive will be left, limbless and helpless, in the nearest village for people to gawk at and pity if he doesn't answer every question breaks him faster than any amount of pain could do.
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To the Pain / int_911abba4	comment	1000 Ways to Die thrives on this trope, in general, with each segment featuring a professional (often medical) going into gruesome detail over how the subject of that segment died, complete with a CGI representation of what goes on in the body while dying.
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To the Pain / int_924c78dc	comment	Hunter: The Reckoning had a particularly nasty version of it; the torturer used strong local anaesthetic on his victim, broke every bone in his hand, and then explained how much it would hurt once the anaesthetic wore off.
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To the Pain / int_93939352	comment	Spectre: Franz Oberhauser aka Ernst Stavro Blofeld tortures Bond by drilling holes into various parts of his brain while explaining what effect this is having on him throughout. It doesn't actually faze Bond himself that much, because he's, well, James Bond, but it greatly disturbs Madeleine Swann, especially when he threatens to take away Bond's ability to recognize faces.
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To the Pain / int_976efc02	comment	Basically the premise of Mystery Science Theater 3000: the Mads are attempting to find the Worst Movie Ever Made, one that is so painful to watch that it will completely shatter the will of anyone who watches it, allowing the Mads to use it to Take Over the World. It never works, of course, but there are some films that come close to breaking the crew of the Satellite of Love. There are some episodes where the Mads will explicitly attempt to weaponize elements of a specific movie in order to increase the level of pain generated. "Rock Climbing", "DEEP HURTING", and "Hypno-Helio Static Stasis (with X-4!)" are all specific examples of their attempts to weaponize invokedPadding, for example.
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To the Pain / int_988629da	comment	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Khan traps our heroes in a space station cave inside a dead asteroid and disables their ability to beam out. He then gloats about how he's done far worse than kill him. "I've hurt you, and I intend to go on hurting you." It culminates in infamy. Khan's describing what the Ceti Eel does to Terrel and Chekov.
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To the Pain / int_994a18ad	comment	In Snatch., London Gangster Brick Top gives a detailed, step-by-step set of instructions for how to dispose of a body (it involves a pig farm) to a Yardie and a duo of Stupid Crooks- the latter of which unwittingly robbed one of his businesses. The Yardie- who knows Brick Top- is clearly intimidated; the other two are too stupid to worry up until they're escorted outside and find that Brick Top's thugs are ready to attempt step 1 on the three of them while they're still alive.
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To the Pain / int_99709ae6	comment	Motherland: Fort Salem: In "Petra's Favorite Pen" Raelle threatens the torturer with the witch bomb, explicitly describing how it kills people in a slow, extremely painful manner, enough so he gets intimidated into releasing Scylla.
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To the Pain / int_9ab32c13	comment	In Shining Armor's side story of the Pony POV Series, Makarov goes on a long spiel about what he's going to do to Shining if he catches him alive. He ends up actually giving a summation of what he said, it's that long.
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To the Pain / int_9b8c0c12	comment	Arsenic and Old Lace: Before the insane Serial Killer Jonathan Brewster starts doing the 'Melbourne Method' to his sane brother Mortimer, there is a long lingering shot of him opening a doctor's case full of sharp instruments and pulling one out while describing how much he's going to like doing this.
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To the Pain / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Jaime Lannister tries to convince an enemy lord to surrender without a fight by describing in detail how that lord's armies and civilians will be savaged if he tries to continue The Siege. Jaime desperately wants a peaceful surrender, being oathbound not to raise arms against House Tully, and successfully plays on his family's reputation for ruthlessness to press for it.
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To the Pain / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Played terrifyingly straight by St. Jaygarcia Saturn in Chapter 1095, while he has Bonney and the Straw Hats cornered on Egghead.
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To the Pain / int_a3748187	comment	In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, the villain Formaggio uses his Stand, Little Feet, to shrink down Narancia and trap him in a glass bottle along with a venomous spider (who appears to be a Giant Spider from his perspective). Formaggio then proceeds to describe, in detail, what the experience of being eaten by a spider would be like: first, he'd be injected with a paralyzing venom, then with digestive enzymes that would slowly liquefy his insides while keeping him conscious, until the spider is able to slurp him up. Thankfully, Narancia manages to fight off the spider (using a glass shard as an improvised shiv) and escape before getting bitten.
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To the Pain / int_a4420d22	comment	The Venture Bros.: The Monarch does this regularly. Especially when his death trap contains the DREADED CANDIRU!
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To the Pain / int_a495544e	comment	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: In the episode "The Slayer", NOS-4-A2, the robotic, energy-draining vampire, captures XR and describes what heâ€™s going to do to him as revenge for defeating him in his debut episode.
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To the Pain / int_a9ee3cc1	comment	Goats has the "Grand Extractionatrix" use "urethra weasels" on in several male characters while graphically describing how they were developed.
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To the Pain / int_ab19a7e5	comment	The Immortal Game: It's a subtle example, but Discord's threat to Titan during their confrontation qualifies:
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To the Pain / int_ac8b90f5	comment	In Mage: The Ascension, members of The Syndicate call this "turkey basting." Since the people using it are mages (whether they know it or not), it actually has the effect of causing unspeakable pain to the interrogation suspect simply via power of suggestion.
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To the Pain / int_af42a07f	comment	The Operative in Serenity did a minor variation, hitting a pressure point that only immobilized a victim... while he expounded at length on how he was going to give them an honorable death. When he goes to finish off the hero, he finds out the hard way that he happens to be immune to that attack due to an old war injury and was just playing along until he could get the drop on the villain.
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To the Pain / int_b0ce98f5	comment	Inquisitor Vic dan Toifle takes over Glokta's role in The Age of Madness trilogy.
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To the Pain / int_b30ae4db	comment	The rat method is used in Game of Thrones. The rat is placed in the pail, which is strapped to the interrogatee's chest. Then you hold the torch under the pail, which makes the rat rather ... anxious to get out. The process is carefully explained, just in case there's any misunderstanding on the prisoner's part as to what's going to happen.
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To the Pain / int_b3710362	comment	Troy. Achilles interrupts Hector's attempt to make an honorable pact and assure that the loser of their duel will have their body treated respectfully and all the funeral rituals performed with this:
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To the Pain / int_b376bf4f	comment	In Naruto: the Secret Songs of the Ninja the mad torturer Wabisuke gives Kakashi a brief sample of his Inner Suicide Jutsu before stopping to explain how it works (it's an inverted healing technique which causes the muscles to strain against each other until they rip themselves apart). As part of his Faux Affably Evil schtick he partly seems to think Kakashi will genuinely be interested in how it works, but is more concerned with making sure Kakashi understands what Naruto will be going through in his place as Wabisuke uses it on him instead.
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To the Pain / int_b3a3fa47	comment	In Babylon 5, Londo visits his old enemy after he is captured on Centauri Prime. He tells G'Kar the details of his coming torture-execution, basically vivisection for the entertainment of an audience. When G'Kar basically accuses him of gloating, Londo admits, reluctantly at first, that even at their worst hatred, he would not have wished this on G'Kar. Londo is rather fond of this trope. See the "Poison" section below. This isn't the first time G'Kar has faced something like that. In the first season, an old enemy of his arranged for G'Kar to be assassinated painfully after his own death. The instructions were that G'Kar would "know pain and know fear and, at the appointed hour, would die." Fortunately, G'Kar, with the help of his aide, was able to turn the tables in his favor.
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To the Pain / int_b3bb1058	comment	The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015). When his Electric Torture device shorts out temporarily, Rudi uses the interruption to show Napoleon Solo a photo album of his victims in the Nazi concentration camps, as well as a blank page which is resolved for Solo himself. Except his photos will be in color!
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To the Pain / int_b50b548	comment	Strangely enough, the player party gets to engage in this in Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled in an optional sidequest. After Gavin set off to find Firebeard's tomb after Ravin gathered the map pieces, the party happens upon the Sea Tails' hideout. Kairu asks one of the stragglers for information; naturally, he is refused, so the other group members decide to explain their experience (or lack thereof) in interrogation. I'll cover the methods in order below, but the mere talk of what could have been done is what broke him. Rogurd is a known adventurer, and has dealt with ruffians of the Sea Tails; he chooses to leave the methods in question to the poor pirate's imagination. Aurora goes flat-out and states her intentions to (literally) grill him. Isa explains her training in Genufan interrogation techniques. Nephi brings up his history of torture as the King of the Dragons. Think death will keep your intel safe? Nym (an Ashen Eye) begs to differ.
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To the Pain / int_b53b86fa	comment	The Princess Bride: Along with the novel, the trope namer. When Humperdinck challenges Westley to fight "to the death", Westley instead suggests that they fight "to the pain", and explains in excruciating detail how he intends to maim Humperdinck. In this case it's a bluff as he can barely summon the strength to stand, let alone follow through with the threats.
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To the Pain / int_b5ab36eb	comment	You Only Live Twice: When SPECTRE Number 11 has James Bond tied to a chair in her cabin, she pulls open a drawer to display a set of cutting utensils, including a dermatologist's dermatome. She takes out the dermatome and threatens to use it on Bond unless he talks.
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To the Pain / int_b618b457	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
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To the Pain / int_b9821fa9	comment	The Dark Crystal: Not content to simply drain the life essence from the Podlings, skekTek the Scientist is fond of explaining the process.
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To the Pain / int_ba491b0c	comment	Families: When Twilight confronts the angry mob Rabble Rouser's brought to lynch Spike, she casually comments that she knows about half of all the offensive spells ever made, and lists them. The audience doesn't hear them, but by the time the Sheriff and the Mayor show up, the entire mob willingly turns themselves in rather than fight Twilight.
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To the Pain / int_ba666650	comment	Employed by the Fear in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. After shooting Snake in the leg with an arrow coated with venom from the Brazillian Wandering Spider, the Fear describes in detail how the poison will slowly kill Snake by paralyzing him before shutting down his lungs and heart, one at a time.
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To the Pain / int_baa79d8d	comment	In Taken, Liam Neeson's character stabs a baddie in the legs with a pair of heavy-duty nails and hooks him up to the frayed wires of a light switch. He then explains how in other countries, this method he's about to employ isn't always successful because of the lack of reliable current, but here that's not a problem and he could theoretically leave it on until the electricity is cut by the power station for lack of payment. Should have given the daughter back...
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To the Pain / int_bacb3abc	comment	Not a villain, but in The Rock, Goodspeed tells Mason exactly what the VX gas will do to both of them if they're exposed to it in its highly-concentrated liquid form. Mason, who happens to be holding the toxin in some strings of fragile-looking glass spheres, is suddenly a lot more careful with them.
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To the Pain / int_bcadd7cb	comment	In Warhammer 40,000, the Inquisition has a nine-step interrogation process. Step one is simply the Inquisitor walking up and saying "Hello, I am an Inquisitor." The second stage consists simply of explaining the protocol for the next seven stages. The vast majority of subjects break before stage three, and most who don't aren't even remotely sane in the first place.
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To the Pain / int_bcdcf629	comment	Shows up in Transformers: Animated after Lockdown's first defeat. Ratchet is messily working on removing Optimus's grappling hook launchers from Lockdown's arms, and answers Lockdown's screams of pain with the observation that he could have numbed the pain... too bad he hasn't gotten around to reinstalling his EMP generator after it, too, was stolen by Lockdown.
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To the Pain / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: Straddling the line between this and Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon, but played entirely seriously. Why should Sirleck help Magus?
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To the Pain / int_bedd4fe5	comment	Quicken: Emma kills thug Yan, doing exactly what the ABB thugs were planning to do to her: cutting chunks off her face. And each time she announces what body part sheâ€™ll cut off next.
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To the Pain / int_c19424b6	comment	The over-the-top torture machine devised by the Hawk in the final episode of The Black Adder is explained in great detail. ("And then these feathers will tickle you under what's left of your arms, which is the amusing part.") Notable because Edmund isn't rescued until after it's activated (off-screen, obviously).
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To the Pain / int_c231405b	comment	Subverted inThe Punisher (2004). Frank Castle interrogates low-level mob gofer Mickey Duka by making a show of turning on an oxy-acetylene torch and going behind the mook to burn his back, explaining to him that "You won't feel the pain at first, you'll just feel... Cold." He pretends to start burning off his skin as he asks questions, all the while he's just pointing the torch at a raw steak and touching his victim's skin with a popsicle to simulate being burned. Mickey talks. This scene was taken verbatim from The Punisher War Zone comic storyline where Castle infiltrates the Carbone crime family. Using this Mind Screw is described in the SM-How-to book "Screw the Roses, Send me the Thorns" as a safe way to simulate a branding scene.
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To the Pain / int_c34ab4c	comment	In This Bites!, before carving into Cross, mad scientist Chopper explains exactly what he's going to do. Cross lists off his ideas on how he'll torture Spandam to the man. It's enough to impress the wardens of Impel Down, and leaves Sadi giddily taking notes!
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To the Pain / int_c35714d6	comment	Parodied in Blackadder The Third, in which The Scarlet Pimpernel describes the peculiar symptoms of the poison he's just taken, without noticing they're happening to him.
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To the Pain / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Doctor is generally a wonderful friend and brilliant scientist. When he confronts an enemy, he tends to give them a chance to surrender peacefully. When forced into conflict, he will usually find a brilliant way to end the threat in one swift action. When an enemy comes at him through his friends he is known to display a nasty side...
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To the Pain / int_c75d67d	comment	Person of Interest: Anti-Hero John Reese does this by telling Quinn what he usually doesn't do, but will if Quinn doesn't start talking.
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To the Pain / int_c7dac3be	comment	Missing (2012): Rebecca Winstone does this to Violet to get her to tell where Rebecca's son is. The good news is that the torture will not kill her. The bad news is that the torture will make her wish it did. Rebecca got the information, feels terrible about it, and it's not stated just how far along she got in the torture before she got the information.
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To the Pain / int_c7f59f7d	comment	In Teen Titans, Cheshire is very proud of her homemade poisons and will brag about the horrible effects they have on you.
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To the Pain / int_cb6abef3	comment	The Avengers (2012): As a corrupt Russian general is interrogating Natasha Romanov or so he thinks, he tells her she will have to tell her Mafia contact he won't be needed. Then, he picks up a pair of pliers and says, "You might have to write it down."
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To the Pain / int_cbe3e313	comment	In True Lies, we're given a brief pan across gleaming stainless steel surgical instruments and vials of drugs but this serves as a Chekhov's Gun, notably the Patterson trocar Harry uses to kill the guard while using the torturer as a Human Shield.
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To the Pain / int_cd8905f6	comment	Illness from Baccano! sums up what her prisoners are in for if they don't talk by telling them, "The boss said that I just had to do what people used to do to me!" and lifting up her dress to show them exactly what she means by that. The captives confess instantly.
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To the Pain / int_cef724a1	comment	In Concrete: Killer Smile, our hero's assistant and friend is kidnapped and held at gunpoint by a spree killer. In the final showdown in a junkyard, Concrete reveals himself and lets the jerk know what he's up against:
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To the Pain / int_d0b0076	comment	One of the male mage character voice sets in Icewind Dale quotes this as one of his battle cries.
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To the Pain / int_d10e76a9	comment	In Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, an old man threatens the eponymous duo for the... eponymous pick. "I will cut out your eyes, and I will cut out your balls, and I will put your eyes in your ball sack, and I will put your balls in your eye holes!!" Too bad he can hardly move; when JB and KG realize that they could out-run him, they easily escape.
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To the Pain / int_d1115083	comment	In Sahara, Al Giordino pulls this on the villain's main henchman, after which the henchman is describing as looking "on the verge of a nervous breakdown." We don't get to read the actual exchange though, only the "mention" afterward.
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To the Pain / int_d24b61b8	comment	A Darker Path: Taylor silences Madison by hitting her in the diaphragm (with a plastic fork) in just the right way to inhibit her breathing without entirely stopping it, then chats to her at length about what has just happened to her and what will happen if Madison doesn't step up. Madison, meanwhile, is speechless and struggling for every breath.
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To the Pain / int_d908efc	comment	In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, during the Mount Natagumo arc, Zenitsu gets bitten by a spider. The "Elder Brother" demon then shows him a watch and tells him about when each stage of the poison's effects will take effect, culminating in Zenitsu turning into a spider.
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To the Pain / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: Inverted by Mel Gibson, who goes off on long rants suggesting all the ways you could torture him and hinting strongly at how he'd like you to do it.
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To the Pain / int_db4eda70	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V The Abridged Series Shun does this to Sora in episode 11, though Sora is unimpressed.
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To the Pain / int_dbaabb61	comment	In the first appearance of Mickey Mouse's archnemesis the Phantom Blot, the Blot did this several times, putting Mickey in increasingly crazy death traps before leaving him to his fate. (In a comedic subversion, it turned out the reason the Blot designed all these incredibly complicated mechanisms was that he was too tender-hearted to straight-up shoot someone himself. In later stories, he unfortunately got better in that regard).
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To the Pain / int_dbbd4a28	comment	Alexander in Amnesia: The Dark Descent uses this to prolong his victim's fear. He even sets up a system of pipes to funnel one victim's screams into the cell of another. He also uses the terratio verborum technique, by showing the tortured the implements he would be using, and describing precisely how it would work prior to doing so.
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To the Pain / int_dc4363c5	comment	This is done in True Blood by Violet to Jessica, Addilyn, and Wade. The actual torture doesn't get to happen though.
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To the Pain / int_dcdb5ca9	comment	Tsukihime loves this, as the quote wiki shows. Arc directs the quote at Shiki after he rejects her and slices her almost to death. Again. It Makes Sense in Context.
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To the Pain / int_df64a221	comment	The commercial for Mercenaries 2: World in Flames features a hilarious song that is essentially a musical To The Pain speech. A full version of the song, along with a making-of for the commercial, is featured on EA's YouTube page, here.
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To the Pain / int_e084daa6	comment	A variation occurs in Dune (1984). Reverend Mother Mohiam has the Gom Jabarr at Paul's neck and his hand inside a box that causes excruciating pain. If he pulls his hand out of the box, the Gom Jabarr will kill him. Reverend Mother Mohiam recites the effects of the box on Paul's hand—for Exposition, surely, but also to make the torture a little worse (as Paul has a difficult time maintaining his internal "anti-fear" mantra, and Mohiam knows it):
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To the Pain / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Spoofed in "The Zeppo" when a zombie spells out exactly what he'll do to Xander, only for Xander to indicate a nearby Time Bomb and ask if he's going to do all that in forty-nine seconds.
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To the Pain / int_e2b86487	comment	In the third book of the Empire trilogy, a man is desperately seeking an antidote for his poisoned wife. So he sits down and spends an hour describing to the man who created the poison exactly what will happen if he doesn't hand over the antidote. The man breaks.
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To the Pain / int_e2d4248a	comment	In Perfume, Antoine Richis loses his beloved daughter to Serial Killer Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. When Grenouille is finally brought to justice, Richis delivers a terrifying speech about what awaits him in the way that only Alan Rickman can.
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To the Pain / int_e3a6c9d0	comment	Oddly, it works in Life and Death, considering the circumstances.
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To the Pain / int_e3f0daf4	comment	A Growing Affection: The Nine-tails describes what she would like to do to Naruto.
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To the Pain / int_e4c53c04	comment	Jumpin' Jack Flash. Terry is being held prisoner in a basement full of storefront dummies, on which the villains demonstrate various woodworking tools, with the implication that they'll be used on her next.
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To the Pain / int_e519be4f	comment	In Carrera's Legions, newly captured prisoners that are brought to Fernandez for interrogation aboard the Legion's torture ship are given a guided tour of the various rooms, with explicit descriptions on tortures carried out in each room. Many of those brought in who say they won't talk under any circumstances don't need more than taking the tour to make them change their mind and decide to cooperate. One tour shown to the reader doesn't even finish before the previously defiant prisoner decides to spill what he knows.
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To the Pain / int_e6390874	comment	In X-Ray & Vav, The Mad King proclaims in his first appearance that he's going to tear off the heroes' arms and use them to applaud their demise.
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To the Pain / int_e66220af	comment	Captain Vidal's speech from Pan's Labyrinth oddly combines this trope with Take Our Word for It, as he only shows the torture implements, and gives us almost no clue what he's going to do with them. In accordance with the Unspoken Plan Guarantee, the victim does not escape. At least, the first victim doesn't.
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To the Pain / int_e67a7d6c	comment	In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Haruna eventually finds out about magic during the school fighting tournament. Not only this, she finds out that her friends in the Library Research Club, Yue, Nodoka, and Konoka, have known all along and never told her (due to her incredible rumor-spreading abilities). Haruna decides to explain exactly how she thinks they should be tortured for not telling her, not just by telling them what she'll do, but by sketching said torture into manga.
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To the Pain / int_e75c6d45	comment	In Goblins, Goblinslayer explains to Fumbles what his "tools" do before using one of them on him. An Alternate Universe Min Max also does this to his universe's Goblinslayer as revenge for his Forgath and Kin.
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To the Pain / int_e76f2e85	comment	The Murderbot Diaries: Murderbot does this by implication to break up an incident on a transport ship:
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To the Pain / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly: In "Serenity", Jayne Cobb was preparing to torture Dobson for information, telling him "I'm just gonna cut on ya, till ya tell me what they [the Alliance] know." Dobson told him they knew everything, way too quickly; Jayne determined they didn't know a damn thing and was visibly disappointed at not needing to actually torture him. In "Objects in Space", Kaylee is terrified into submission by the bounty hunter Jubal Early. He simply asks her if she's ever been raped.
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To the Pain / int_eb067d7f	comment	Kindred of the East detailed a discipline called "Black Wind," which was simply a variable application speed/strength boost power that was fueled by the standard installation demon riding in the back of every Kuei-Jin's head, which meant that the discipline could only be used for violence. It didn't apply under this trope. However, since the Kuei-Jin seemed like they weren't making a comeback, one fan-made martial art background skill was created for the New World of Darkness line using the same name. Black Wind, the martial art style, is a series of blocks, strikes, and momentum redirecting counters coupled with psychological warfare designed to enrage and humiliate an opponent, with the eventual goal of reducing the opponent to a state of utter despair. The rules explicitly state that if an opponent dies from the use of the art, then the practitioner has screwed up.
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To the Pain / int_eed89257	comment	In ULTRAKILL, when facing off against Gabriel for the second time, his Pre-Battle Banter consists of nothing but delirious, hate-fueled threats directed towards V1.
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To the Pain / int_ef57d399	comment	The Mountain and the Wolf: After Ramsay Bolton returns as a Slaaneshi champion, he mocks the Wolf, taunting him that there's no torture he could apply that Slaanesh hasn't already done to him. The Wolf agrees, and instead calmly tells Ramsay about the sensory deprivation he'll inflict on him. As Slaaneshi are Sense Freaks, doing that would indeed be a Fate Worse than Death.
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To the Pain / int_ef7b3325	comment	In Fantastic Four: The New Fantastic Four, the Wizard and his cronies manage to subdue the Invisible Woman and put her in a power-deactivating harness, then whoop up on Mister Fantastic, the Thing, the Human Torch, Storm, and the Black Panther when they come to the rescue... for a while, until Storm has the bright idea to find Sue and let her out. She promptly dispatches the crap out of those of his goons who are still standing, then get the Wizard with his back to the wall and make his skin and costume invisible enough to reveal his chest cavity. Using anatomical knowledge she later claims to have gotten from Gray's Anatomy, she points out a few of his critical arteries and has him describe the effects that would result from her blocking them with a forcefield, then talks him into believing she might actually do it... at which point he faints. (Immediate follow-up exchange: "You didn't!" "I didn't.")
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To the Pain / int_f14deb8a	comment	In The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, The Hooded Claw would always describe the over-the-top death trap to Penelope, if she was tied up and ready to be thrown into it, or to his sidekicks the Bully Brothers if it was an actual trap — trap that Penny was to fall into without knowing.
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To the Pain / int_f4e799ee	comment	This is the primary tactic used for interrogation scenes in Burn Notice. Michael explains that actual pain leads the subject to try and give them anything (often false information) just to get them to stop. Mind Screw-type interrogation has a higher chance of getting accurate information because the subject is so flustered they can't think up plausible fake-information. One time Mama Westen got a guy to talk by just acting like herself and offering him his "last cigarette" because of what Sam and Fiona supposedly had in store for him.
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To the Pain / int_f74b5f80	comment	Londo Mollari from Babylon 5 delivers one of these to Lord Refa after he has poisoned him. Notably, it's the first half of a two-component toxin, so Londo's speech is mainly used to coerce the victim into going along with his plan. His speech also serves to point out how completely in control of the situation he is, in contrast to Refa's earlier dismissal of Londo.
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To the Pain / int_f8956ef3	comment	During the Dark Tournament on YuYu Hakusho Ura Urashima uses a Fountain of Youth item on Kurama to regress him to an earlier stage of life. It reverts him to his more bloodthirsty demon self who intricately describes what the Death Tree will do to his foe.
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To the Pain / int_fa84aed1	comment	In The Witches by Roald Dahl, there is a scene where one character describes kicking another, "til his own mother doesn't recognise him."
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To the Pain / int_fb873b86	comment	The Saw films. Such a big point that the antagonist makes a puppet to do the talking, and puts a TV in the room with the trap. However, there is a reason for this; the villain wants the person to know what they did wrong to "warrant" getting in such a bad situation and how they can escape.
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To the Pain / int_fcf34eec	comment	Parodied in Full Metal Panic!, where Sousuke begins delivering a speech to Captain Harris describing how he will slowly skin him alive if any of Kaname's schoolmates are harmed. It might have had the intended effect if Kaname and Tessa weren't loudly snickering behind him and speculating that he's probably just hangry.
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To the Pain / int_fe83990a	comment	Virgo Shaka from Saint Seiya is rather fond of doing this: When he uses the Rikudo Rinne, he explains in great detail what the Six Hells are like before letting them fall to their perdition. When he uses the Tenbu Horin and takes away his victim's senses he describes what exactly he's doing to them, even taking care to explain side effects that apparently come out of nowhere (for example, when his victim loses the sense of taste he explains that they can't talk anymore because he just fried the nerves in their tongue, while the loss of smell also affects their balance because the brain has just lost a source on where everything is). If someone who picked a fight with him and refused his offer to just go away suddenly realizes what they're dealing with and tries to run he'll subject them to illusions that make it appear as if they're actually running through the whole universe before they find themselves on his palm, at which point he'll describe the futility of trying to run from him while comparing them to Sun Wukong's equally futile attempt to run from the Buddha (where he took the imagery from, as he's the reincarnation of a Buddha).
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To the Pain	processingCategory2	A Tortured Index
To the Pain	processingCategory2	Narrative Devices
To the Pain	processingCategory2	Speeches and Monologues
To the Pain	processingCategory2	These Tropes Love to Brag
To the Pain	processingCategory2	This Index is a Real Pain
To the Pain	processingCategory2	Threatening Tropes
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Ninja Kamui / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Crucible (Blog) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Léonard le Génie (Comic Book) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Star Wars: Tag & Bink (Comic Book) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Walking Dead (Comic Book) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Time Runs Out (Comic Book) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Y: The Last Man (Comic Book) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Sleeping Beauty / Disney / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality / Fan Fic / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race / Fan Fic / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
72 Hours / Fan Fic / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Tamers Forever Series / Fan Fic / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Immortal Game / Fan Fic / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Weight of the World / Fan Fic / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
A Mad Glimmer (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
A Minor Miscalculation (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
A Protector's Pride (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
A Study in Regret (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Atonement (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Atonement (Worm) (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Between Three Rogues (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Brave New World (Pokémon) (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
CONSEQUENCES (Miraculous Ladybug) (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Friendship is Failure (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Haigha (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Kingdom Hearts 3: Final Stand (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Love In The Dark (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Mistakes (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Nine Minutes (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Only the Results (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Lost Tracks of Time (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Respawn of the Dead (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Sunshine and Fire (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Supernova (One Piece) (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Adventures Of Kiko Fluffy Pants (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Elements of Friendship (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Mountain's Range (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Wolves in the Woods (Miraculous Ladybug) (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Thy Good Neighbor (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
With Confidence (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Amazing Grace and Chuck / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
American Mary / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Blood & Gold / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Casino Royale (2006) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Cloak & Dagger (1984) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Deadpool 2 / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Django Unchained / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Evil (2003) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Gigli / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Hard Candy / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Hitman / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Home Alone / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
House of Wax (1953) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Jumpin' Jack Flash / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Kiss of Death / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Laid to Rest / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Law Abiding Citizen / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Licence to Kill / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Marathon Man / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Martyrs / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Max Keeble's Big Move / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Pan's Labyrinth / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Polar / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Possibly in Michigan / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Promising Young Woman / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Pulp Fiction / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Ransom / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
RocknRolla / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Rush Hour / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Snatch. / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Spectre / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
T-34 / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Collector (2009) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Dark Crystal / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Final / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Italian Job (2003) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The King / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Last Starfighter / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Long Kiss Goodnight / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Missing / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Missing (2003) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Pacifier / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Princess Bride / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Punisher (2004) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Purge / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Shawshank Redemption / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The World Is Not Enough / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Tomorrow Never Dies / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Troy / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
True Lies / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
2 Fast 2 Furious / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Venom (2018) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Wrath of Man / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
You Only Live Twice / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Dune (Franchise) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Dark Id (Lets Play) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Alexis Carew / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Asian Saga / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Atar Gull / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Belisarius Series / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Book of Exodus / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Carrera's Legions / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Dirk Pitt Adventures / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Dracula / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Eisenhorn / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Equal Rites / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Eragon / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Fire & Blood / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Gentleman Bastard / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Going Postal / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
In Death / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Lincoln Rhyme / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Shattered Continent / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Skulduggery Pleasant / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Skylark Series / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Acts of Caine / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Heroic Legend of Arslan / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Icemark Chronicles / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Murderbot Diaries / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Name of the Rose / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Name of the Wind / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Quintessential Mary-Sue / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Riyria Revelations / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Saint / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Wolf Hall / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
BlackMask	seeAlso	To the Pain
DesertBusForHope	seeAlso	To the Pain
Mario4812LikedTropes3	seeAlso	To the Pain
TouchOfDEath	seeAlso	To the Pain
A Certain Scientific Accelerator (Manga) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Golgo 13 (Manga) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind (Manga) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Ruin Explorers (Manga) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Saint Seiya (Manga) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
JT Music (Music) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Kakos Industries (Podcast) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Malevolent (Podcast) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Wolf 359 (Podcast) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Dans Une Galaxie PrÃ¨s De Chez Vous / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Deadly Class / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Defiance / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Elizabeth R / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Firefly / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Luther / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Madam Secretary / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Murdoch Mysteries / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Prison Break / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Sons of Anarchy / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Borgias / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Following / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Mentalist / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Outsider / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Punisher (2017) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Wolf Hall / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Iron Kingdoms (Tabletop Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Battlefield: Bad Company (Video Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Black & White (Video Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Black Sigil (Video Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Blood Drive (Video Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger (Video Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Castle of the Winds (Video Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Corpse Party (PC-98) (Video Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Darkest Dungeon (Video Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Dreamfall Chapters (Video Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
EVE Online (Video Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Video Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Gauntlet (Video Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Laika: Aged Through Blood (Video Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (Video Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie (Video Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Too Human (Video Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Wolfenstein: The New Order (Video Game) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Diamond in the Rough (Touhou) (Web Animation) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Turnabout Storm (Web Animation) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Door Monster (Web Video) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Evil Craig (Web Video) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Oxventure (Web Video) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The FanFiction Critic (Web Video) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Knight Shift (Web Video) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
UrinatingTree (Web Video) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Far Out (Webcomic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Free Cow (Webcomic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Friendship Is Magic (Webcomic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Goblins (Webcomic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Nuzlocke Comics Fan Works (Webcomic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Something*Positive (Webcomic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Spacetrawler (Webcomic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Spinnerette (Webcomic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Suicide for Hire (Webcomic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Bikini Bottom Horror (Webcomic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Darkwing Duck / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Sleeping Beauty / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Starchaser: The Legend of Orin / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Legend of Vox Machina / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Ren & Stimpy Show / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Jon Moxley (Wrestling) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Aloha (Fanfic) / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Hogwarts Houses Divided / Fan Fic / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
Undocumented Features / Fan Fic / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
tothepain	sameAs	To the Pain

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