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Mutilation Interrogation
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The hero is strapped to a chair. They are told to talk by the villain. If they don't, the henchman standing beside them will start cutting their fingers off. One by one. If they aren't talking by then, he'll move onto other areas. One of the many forms of Cold-Blooded Torture or the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique. See also Fingore and Knee-capping, which this tends to include. Examples: |
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Rorschach takes this trope and runs with it. He goes to a bar where he believes he can get some information, grabs a random person, and then asks the rest of the bar for the answers. Getting no response, he breaks one of his fingers, then asks again. Next shot, he's walking out of the bar, having received no information. We never hear what happened to the guy. | |
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In the film noir/lesbian romance Bound, a mobster steals a couple of million dollars from his employers. Despite a savage beating, he refuses to tell them where he's hidden it. Then one of the mobsters produces pruning shears, holds the guy's hands over a toilet bowl, and says: "I'm going to ask you ten times." | |
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Alias: Happens to Sydney Bristow in the pilot episode "Truth Be Told" — with teeth. She ends up losing her number 5 right molar (not a visible tooth usually, because Beauty Is Never Tarnished). | |
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The Goonies: After the Fratellis get Chunk, Mama Fratelli threatens to put his hand into a blender if he doesn't tell them where his fellow Goonies are. Chunk only escapes it by sharing embarrassing stories, like setting off a Vomit Chain Reaction at a movie theater. | |
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In Man on Fire, John Creasy does this several times in the movie to people involved in the kidnapping ring. He tapes a guy's hands to the steering wheel. He cuts off the man's fingers one by one, slowly, and then cauterizes the wound with the car's cigarette lighter immediately. Then he gives the guy a smoke and pushes the car off a cliff (though at that point the guy was just glad it was over). He blows off a man's fingers with a shotgun. |
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Happens in Battle Beyond the Stars, though it could have just been because the Big Bad wanted a new hand. | |
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In Spacetrawler Yuri is captured by bounty hunters who attempt to torture her, not knowing anything about human anatomy they take her suggestions of feeding her chocolate pudding and massaging almond oil into her feet. Then it turns out her feet weren't attached at the time, and neither were her arms for that matter. | |
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In the Dragaera novels, this turns out to be the reason Vlad Taltos is missing a finger in the later books: he got caught by a Torture Technician in Jhegaala. | |
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In The Punisher MAX story-arc "Up Is Down and Black Is White", Frank and some friends have Smug Snake Rawlins tied up in a motel room and are trying to think of how to get him to talk. Frank is left alone with him and... | |
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Kill Bill: "I'm gonna ask you questions. And every time you don't give me answers...I'm gonna cut something off. And I promise you, they will be things you will miss." No mistake about it, Beatrix Kiddo does not fuck around. And the very first part that she starts with is Sofie's other arm, as she already chopped off the other one... The Japanese cut has her making good on this threat. | |
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In Attack on Titan this is what happens to Grisha Yeager as punishment for being part of La Résistance. He loses all of his fingers before the Marley military officials give up on trying to get any information out of him and send him, along with all the other members of the Eldia Restoration Movement, to Paradis Island. He gets better, as he ends up with the powers of the Attack Titan, which include a healing factor, much like the other Shifters. | |
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In Red vs. Blue, Mad Doctor Dr. Emily Grey does this to a Space Pirate. She gleefully sings opera while doing so. | |
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Another inversion in The High King's Tomb, third book in the Green Rider series. In this one, a female interrogator does this to an evil henchman who had already lost one hand. To top it off, this same henchman had driven the interrogator's brother to suicide by blaming him for an incident that made their sadistic master cut off both hands. | |
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Chevy Chase's character in Spies Like Us was threatened with this one after being captured by Soviets. Only through Obfuscating Stupidity (or actual stupidity) was he able to stall long enough to keep his digits: | |
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Unthinkable: Samuel L. Jackson plays an interrogator specialized in Enhanced Interrogation Techniques who is called in by his CIA handlers to torture the whereabouts of hidden nuclear bombs in the United States out of a muslim American terrorist. The first thing he does is to violently hack off his captive's thumb, prompting a What the Hell, Hero? reaction from his colleagues. He later proceeds to do remove the nails from the rest of his fingers. | |
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In the Stephanie Plum novels, the main character was threatened with this on at least one occasion. There was a slight subversion in the latest novel, where the villain was trying to motivate her to do something for him by mailing her someone else's fingers. She's actually sent dismembered body parts or finds them in her fridge in more than half the books, but that usually isn't an interrogation method as much as it the psycho of the book trying to warn her to back off or get her attention. (Memorable instances include a giant mole and a dismembered penis. The penis made her grandmother nostalgic.) |
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Neverwhere: Mr Vandemar breaks Richard's finger and is about to cut off his ear when Door gives in and agrees to open the door to Heaven. She's lying, though. | |
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In Blue Thunder, Lymangood is kidnapped and threatened with having his fingers broken, one by one, until he reveals the location of the tape exposing the Government Conspiracy. Surprisingly for a character who had, until that point, been the Plucky Comic Relief, he feigns acquiescence and then makes an escape. | |
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Quoth Durant from Darkman after taking out a cigar cutter. "Now, let's consider my points, one by one. One. I try not to let my anger get the better of me. cut "Two. I don't always succeed." cut "Three. I have seven more points." | |
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Inflicting this is the job of Glotka in Joe Abercrombie's The First Law books. | |
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Weiß Kreuz. In one of the drama CDs, Birman is interrogated this way - by the time Weiss manages to rescue her, she only had enough fingers to pick up a gun and shoot herself. | |
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When King Mob is being tortured by Sir Giles in The Invisibles, he has his fingers dropped in his lab after a convenient blackout. Subverted in that he's merely been injected with an experimental drug that allows him to perceive written language as a tangible object — e.g., he's given a slip of paper reading "Your Severed Fingers," and sees his severed fingers. | |
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Armed and Dangerous One of the King's interrogation specialists started with the torture by cutting out the tongue and proceeding from there, and then complains he can't get the guy to talk. Apparently it's his first day. | |
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Batman: Black Mask likes to use this trope, drills, irons (as in clothes irons, with the steam and the hurting and the OH GLAYVEN. His ... interrogation partners end up looking a whole less pretty than they used to be.. | |
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In the TV adaptation of Casino Royale from 1954, in "Climax!" the ball-whacking is substituted out for Bond's toenails being painfully pulled out. | |
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Marathon Man. Two words: Nazi dentist. | |
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This happened to Luca from The Meek, and as a result his fingers still don't work right, years later. As he put it, "It took them seven fingers to figure out that I didn't know anything." | |
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Looper features a particularly chilling use of this trope, where the past version of a character is mutilated to affect his future self. The audience doesn't see the torture itself, just the future!characters's desperate attempts to reach safety as his body parts disappear one by one. He doesn't make it. | |
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Lost: Gender Flipped: Ana-Lucia threatens to cut off Nathan's finger unless he confesses to being an Other. However, this threat causes the real Other to kill Nathan and make it look like he got away. In a later episode, the Others capture Sawyer and Juliet and threaten to cut off her "other hand" if they don't tell them who they are, saying that the first hand is non-negotiable. He thankfully doesn't get the chance to go through with it. |
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Octavian and Pullo use this method on Evander in Rome to get him to fess up about having had an affair with Niobe. | |
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In The Wheel of Time, Perrin Aybara of all people uses it to great effect. The Aiel are trained to resist pain, but the threat of being dropped off at the nearest village as a quadruple amputee for the children to gawk at is a whole other story. Perrin took one hand before the man talked. | |
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Eric Draven does this to a bad guy in The Crow graphic novel to get him to talk: "It took three fingers, but he talked." | |
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Played for laughs in Shrek when the Gingerbread Man gets both of his legs broken of and his head dipped into a glass with milk. Lord Farquaad then crushes one of the legs in his hands, but the other leg is later reattached with frosting, making it necessary for Gingy to walk with a candy cane. | |
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In Dragon's Winter the bard Azil has his hands mutilated and burned so that he can never play the harp again as part of a Past Victim Showcase; his lover was very fond of his music. | |
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In Don Pendleton's The Executioner series of books, the mafia have interrogators that turn people into "Turkeys" by taking several days to slowly carve them up. The first two cuts are to remove the eyelids, so the victim is Forced to Watch their own mutilation in a mirror. | |
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Near the end of Body of Lies, the protagonist is tortured by repeated smashing of his fingers with a hammer. It is later implied that he lost at least parts of one finger in the process. | |
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There's the scene in the film The Punisher (2004) in which Castle chains up a man in his room and proceeds to go into a lengthy explanation about how torture via blowtorch basically has you smelling your own flesh cooking before feeling cold from the nerve endings being fried, before letting the soon-to-be tortured man catch a glimpse of a blowtorch and letting him have it. Subverted ultimately because Castle never did blowtorch the guy. He only cooked a slab of meat (hence the "smell your own flesh cooking" bit) and poked the man in the back with a Popsicle. The result was that the man thought he was being burned to death and spilled his guts only to be released unharmed. | |
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Blake's 7: Blake suspects (correctly) that the surgeon who's repairing Gan's malfunctioning Morality Chip is delaying the surgery long enough for the Federation to catch up with them. Blake tells him that if the operation isn't finished by a certain time, he'll destroy his hands; a very apt threat for a surgeon. | |
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In the final mission of Splinter Cell Blacklist, the Big Bad has one of his men cut off the U.S. Secretary of Defense's finger in order to compel him to give up vital information. By the time the camera pans back to him his whole hand is gone and all that's left is a bloody cut open arm. | |
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Last Res0rt - The first time we see her, Daisy Archanis is missing HER LEFT LEG from mid-thigh on down, and Veled apparently had something to do with it... | |
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In The Tourist, the Big Bad threatens Angelina Jolie's character with this after she is captured. | |
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The Hellblazer arc Son of Man has Mob torturer Gestapo threaten a target with nothing more than a pair of nail clippers. We later find out what they were used on: his eyelids. | |
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In a season 2 episode of Veronica Mars, Veronica unwittingly ends up in the home den of the Fighting Fitzpatricks gang when she's investigating a corrupt plastic surgeon. When they find out who she is, their leader threatens that she better start talking, or she really will need a good plastic surgeon. Then he brings over a tattooing needle, and prepares to start carving up her face before Logan saves her. | |
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In Oldboy, the protagonist Oh Dae-su tracks down the illegal holding facility where he was kept for 15 years after being kidnapped off the streets. Dae-su asks the warden who paid him to hold him, and when the warden doesn't answer he duct tapes him to his chair. He then uses his claw hammer to pry out the man's teeth one at a time, telling him that he owes him one tooth for each year of his life that was stolen from him. After about 7 or so, he gives the warden a chance to talk, with the implication that he'll continue through with all 15 if he doesn't. | |
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This happens to Mel Gibson's character in Payback. He kidnaps the son of the most powerful mob boss in the city, so they politely ask him for the location using his toes and a hammer. | |
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This trope happens in one of the later Anita Blake books, where Anita threatens to cut the fingers off of a henchman when he doesn't tell her where Richard's mother and brother are. He loses one finger before he talks. | |
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Mentioned in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the first time Angel loses his soul and goes evil. Angelus expresses a desire to use chainsaws in his interrogation of Giles, but never actually progresses to that point. | |
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In the Lensman books, when Jill is captured, she is threatened with this. Her brave defiance is Honor Before Reason because she managed to alert the Lensmen who are in telepathic contact with her and urging her to talk because they can ensure that no one who hears will get out alive. | |
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Pan's Labyrinth has Vidal, a Torture Technician who utilizes this trope to chilling effect. | |
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Firefly: Jayne threatens mole Dobson with this in order to find out how much the Alliance knows from the transmission he sent. A spooked Dobson immediately blurts that the Alliance knows everything, leading a disappointed Jayne to deduce that they know nothing. "Was gonna get me an ear, too." In a later episode Niska cuts Mal's ear off and gives it to Zoe when she tries to ransom him and Wash from Niska. It gets reattached at the end of the episode. |
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Played for laughs in Spaceballs when Dark Helmet threatens to have a surgeon give Princess Vespa a hideous nose job if her father doesn't give the access code to Drudia's shields. Even funnier in that this is stated to be the original appearance of her nose before having some work done. Crosses the Line Twice when you remember the line "Funny, she doesn't look Druish." | |
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In ElfQuest, Ekuar reveals that the troll King Guttlekraw would torture his elven prisoners by amputating fingers, then limbs. As proof of this, Ekuar himself has only one arm (with a finger missing), and a wooden leg. | |
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The Punisher: In The Punisher MAX story-arc "Up Is Down and Black Is White", Frank and some friends have Smug Snake Rawlins tied up in a motel room and are trying to think of how to get him to talk. Frank is left alone with him and... In The Slavers, The Punisher is tracking down the leaders of a Human Trafficking ring. When he gets one of the three bosses, he knocks the man out, drags him out to the woods, and cuts him open, pulling out the man's intestines. Then he wakes the man up and starts asking questions... A bunch of mobsters interrogated one of Frank's fellow tenants Dave, a guy with a lot of facial piercings, for his location. By pulling all of his piercings out. Frank saves Dave from bleeding out by hiring a back alley doctor. Nicky Calavella and his hitters, Pittsy and Ink, kidnapped a C.I.A. agent for information. Pittsy threatened to cut off the guy's balls and put them in a paper cup if he didn't cooperate. Though it's implied the agent cooperated, Pittsy followed through anyway. |
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Happens in the Artemis Fowl fanfic "Within Temptation" (not to be confused with the symphonic metal band of the same name). | |
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