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Torture First, Ask Questions Later
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Torture Always Works, of course, but there are some cases when that doesn't happen: Normally, because the torturer got a little excited and started torturing before asking any questions. Note that this isn't about when the torturer has no desire to actually learn any information; that's Cold-Blooded Torture. This is when the torturer wants information, they think the victim has it, and they want to torture the victim first to soften him up or inflict punishment before getting to the questioning. Or maybe they just want to show the victim they're serious about inflicting pain. Compare Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique, which is about interrogating by torture, Torture for Fun and Information, which is about being into interrogating by torture. |
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The subject of a The Far Side cartoon, in which the phrase "shoot first, ask questions later" is taken too literally by a Western gunslinger. | |
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Lampshaded in Hiimdaisy's Metal Gear comics. | |
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In Sluggy Freelance Hereti Corp got a little bit too enthusiastic when trying to get information out of Torg. When they figure this out, Torg and the interrogators share a somewhat hysterical fit of the giggles. Hey, they're infectious. | |
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Parodied in The Simpsons episode "24 Minutes". Upon learning that Nelson knows the identity of The Mole, Bart immediately begins subjecting him to Jack Bauer Interrogation Techniques but doesn't actually ask him who the mole is until Nelson protests, "I'm unclear on what you want!" | |
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In Grand Theft Auto V, both the IAA and the FIB torture Mr. K on the grounds that he knows the whereabouts of a suspected terrorist. However, they just skip straight to the torture before asking him anything, even going so far as to cut him off when he's willing to provide the details they want. In fact, during the last session of torture, he can even give information, but Trevor will still torture him anyway. Worse yet, it's very strongly implied that Mr. K is just a regular civilian and got tangled up in both agencies' incompetence and willing blindness to his innocence; Mr. K ends up just being asked leading questions and tells his torturers what they want to hear. This ends with another random citizen getting murdered, ostensibly as a counterterrorism action. | |
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A variation of this tends to happen in Time Squad, for example where the heroes must help Confucius, who instead of writing short maxims to express his Aesops, writes books thicker than a dictionary to convey them. Officer Buck Tuddrussel tries to fix this the only way he knows how: by beating the Chinese sage repeatedly within an inch of his life until he changes his ways. At the end, it was revealed that the reason Confucius kept writing long anecdotes despite his beatings was because Buck forgot to tell him what he was supposed to do instead, having bothered only with the violence. | |
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Hange Zoë, from Attack on Titan does this when trying to "interrogate" a corrupt Military Police member. Specifically, she starts ripping out the man's fingernails without asking him any questions. The man even lampshades this. However it's actually subverted as, it wasn't that she forgot, but that the fingernails were vengeance since it was the same torture technique the officer had used on one of her friends, she was just showing him how it felt. They still managed to get a few dark laughs out of the scene, because the guy getting tortured became rather... exasperated with Hange's clumsy methods. |
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In the first game, in order to interrogate someone, you must first beat them into submission. Note that you can't just ask them what you want to know before you start attacking them. | |
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This is a common for Kakihara on Ichi the Killer as torturing is his hobby. He makes sport out of starting to torment his victims right off the bat to break them before they can even get to tell the information they're getting tortured for! | |
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Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman: It's not exactly torture given they're robots being beaten to bits but the Shoot First ask Questions Later mentality is lampshaded in "Not Included" | |
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In The Last Days of FOXHOUND, Baker tries to avoid being tortured by Ocelot by immediately giving Ocelot the information he's looking for. Ocelot informs Baker that he doesn't operate like that: | |
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In The Lost Fleet Captain Geary actually questions his senior Intelligence officer to make certain the Alliance hasn't started doing this while he was busy being a Human Popsicle, to which the young lieutenant responds that of course they don't; that sort of thing spoils the lie detector results. Having just caught his subordinates preparing to leave enemy crewmembers tied up on the captured ship he'd ordered them to scuttle, Geary is slightly reassured by this. | |
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Foyle's War: In an episode, the murderer plays Russian Roulette on a guy he wants information from, and kills him on the third try before he hears what he needs. Judging by his Oh, Crap! face, he didn't really consider this as a possibility. In another episode, Foyle is investigating the death of a conscientious objector. From one look at the guy's former cell, he deduces that the poor sod was hosed down until his weak heart gave out. Nobody actually wanted to ask the guy any questions — they just wanted to punish him for not wanting to go and get killed. Foyle's disgust at the torturers is palpable. |
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Bangladesh Dupree does this in Girl Genius when interrogating the circus. | |
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In the original Star Wars, nearly the first thing we see Darth Vader do is lift a rebel officer by the neck and begin choking him. Then he starts asking him questions. And then he keeps squeezing until things break. | |
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Fate/Apocrypha: Jack the Ripper captures a young magus and tortures him with knives. When he cracks and says he'll talk, she gleefully stabs him several more times and only asks her questions on Yggdmillenia's defenses when he's about to die. | |
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Not actual torture (just threats) but the same idea in Men at Arms, when Lance-Constable Cuddy is threatening Gerhardt Sock, the head of the Butchers' Guild, with a dwarfish war-axe: | |
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Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka: Abigail and a squad of Russian terrorists kidnap Nozomi and horrifically torture her without asking any questions. In desperation, she says she will talk, even though she has no idea what is going on, but they mock her and say she is only bait, and they are only torturing her for fun. Kurumi is often called to torture and interrogate prisoners and she is effective at her job, but she is very sadistic and often goes beyond the call of duty during her interrogations. |
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Invoked in Exterminatus Now with Lothar. They just played it for Bad Cop / Worse Cop, though. | |
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In the pilot episode of You Have Been Watching, Charlie Brooker played a clip from 24 where Jack Bauer threatens to shove a towel all the way down a guy's throat, leave it for a few days to work its way into his stomach lining, and then pull it out. David Mitchell asked, "At what point in that scenario is he supposed to talk?" | |
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Since Gladys in Trollhunters hit Toby with a tranquilizer strong enough to keep him from escaping, it also keeps him from being able to talk properly. Since she did this with the intention of interrogating him, it is obvious that she had every intention of torturing him with her dental equipment first. | |
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Stranger Things: Sullivan really doesn't give the poor agent he's captured any time to answer before deciding to continue torturing him. The guy is clearly traumatized from the experience and clammed up in response, and rather than let him recover enough to talk he decides that he needs more torture. | |
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Volgin in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater winds up actually giving critical information to the interrogated during the torture scene. | |
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In Agent Carter, the Jerkass Agent Thompson plays the bad cop in questioning a Leviathan agent. He brings in a carrot and a stick and after the suspect says that he won't talk, Thompson responds to the effect that he doesn't expect him to and then has him bite down on the stick before proceeding to pummel him. | |
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Unsounded: Masek tries to ally himself and his family with Aldish invaders as they have a common enemy in Cresce. He's instead haughtily ordered broken open and his nephews killed, only after this does the commander of the Aldish troops try to question him as he's dying. Masek curses him with his dying breath instead. | |
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In Kick-Ass, the title character gets tortured for information by having a car battery attached to his nuts. He immediately folds, letting them know that he'll tell them anything, but is informed that the questioning won't start for another 20 minutes yet. | |
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Doctor Who. Strax (the Battle Butler of the Paternoster Gang) is fond of this trope. Being a Sontaran Warrior, the subtleties of criminal investigation are often beyond him. | |
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In an Asterix and Obelix book, Obelix starts hitting a suspect upside the head while demanding "Aren't you going to answer? Well, aren't you?" Asterix points out that they haven't asked him anything yet. | |
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In The 10th Kingdom, Blurry, Blabberwort, and Bluebell have Virginia strapped to a chair with the intention of torturing her for information on her "kingdom". She makes it clear that she'll tell them anything they want without torture, but they make it clear they plan on torturing her first because they take pride in their work and it is important to do these things in the proper order. | |
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Star Wars Rebels: When Hera is captured by the Empire, Governor Pryce starts torturing her, without bothering to ask any questions. She just really likes the idea of torturing someone. | |
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Bloodrose from Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth: | |
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In the second one, you usually have to fatally stab them. The conspirators get very generous with their Last Words, apparently. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Angel (under possession of his evil former self Angelus) took a time-out from his impending world domination to blithely torture Giles, who may or may not have the information needed to help him because it had been hundreds of years since Angelus last tortured somebody. He openly admits he hopes Giles is either ignorant or defiant because it'll give him an excuse to torture him longer. | |
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One episode of Yonderland had the Big Bad order his minions to torture Elf. While his intention was this trope, he forgot to inform the minions of that and they weren't sure what information he was after anyway. The intended victim avoided torture by simply chatting about family gossip for hours until he was rescued. | |
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Looking for Group: Richard isn't good at interrogations. Neither is Sooba. | |
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In Pan's Labyrinth, Vidal does this intentionally to one of the captured guerillas. It's because he claims that he won't believe anything the guerilla says unless it's a result of torture. The rebel does talk a little as a result, but it's flat-out implied that Vidal doesn't necessarily believe what he says, he just does it anyway, because he can. There's a good reason why Vidal is considered one of the worst villains to grace 21st-century screens. | |
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In The Hammer and the Cross (an Alternate History trilogy about the conflict between the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings) Cuthred, captain of the Anglo-Saxon king's bodyguard and a brutal torturer himself, remarks (with "a note of professional interest") that Ragnar Lothbrok's go-to interrogation technique is to immediately gouge out one of the prisoner's eyes, without even asking any questions. Then he reaches around and gets the man's head ready for the other eye. At this point, either the prisoner thinks of something Ragnar wants to know, or, well, Ragnar "is good at getting people to talk" but he "wastes a lot of people". Ragnar reportedly "reckons it saves him a lot of time and breath". | |
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One of the many running gags in Groo the Wanderer. He enjoys slaying and sometimes when he greatly needs information from someone he kills them first. Afterwards, he reminds himself that he should ask questions first next time. | |
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Happens with the pair of wrestling sisters in Futaba-kun Change!. They beat people up for information, but forget to ask the question before beginning the beating, so the poor victim has no idea why he's being beaten. | |
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Assassin's Creed: In the first game, in order to interrogate someone, you must first beat them into submission. Note that you can't just ask them what you want to know before you start attacking them. In the second one, you usually have to fatally stab them. The conspirators get very generous with their Last Words, apparently. |
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