Basic Trope: Tickling is used as torture.

• Straight: Alice, one of Emperor Evulz's subordinates, tickles Bob's feet

with feathers as torture.
• Exaggerated: Alice uses all the tools she can to tickle all over Bob's
body to get everything he knows.
• Downplayed: Friendly Tickle Torture
• Justified:
• Alice doesn't want to kill Bob, as he could be useful.
• Alice just doesn't believe in killing.
• Emperor Evulz doesn't believe in killing, and disallows his
minions to kill.
• Inverted: Alice does everything she can to hurt and/or interrogate Bob,
except tickling him.
• Subverted:
• Alice looks like she's reaching for a bundle of feathers, but she
instead picks up a flail.
• Bob likes it.
• Double Subverted:
• Which happens to actually be a cat toy with feathers on a string at
the end.
• So she coerces more information out of him with the promise of
more tickles.
• Parodied: Accidental Tickle Torture
• Zig Zagged: Alice sometimes uses a painful tool, but other times, she
tickles her prisoners.
• Averted: Alice doesn't tickle her prisoner for any reason.
• Enforced: "This is a kid's show, so we can't do anything painful.
Tickling is kid-friendly enough."
• Lampshaded: "What are you gonna do, tickle me to death?"
• Invoked: Alice knows just how ticklish Bob is, so she prepares for
tickle him in the most unbearable way possible.
 • Exploited: As Alice can't do anything more painful than tickling, Bob
doesn't talk. Alice gives up on trying to get information.
• Defied: Alice knows Bob had been through more painful things, so she
doesn't bother with things that seem petty.
• Discussed: "You're gonna tickle me, aren't ya? I can tell by all the
feathers."
• Conversed: "He's already faced a pyrokinetic and has been set alight!
Why is he being reduced to a blubbering baby when his feet are so
much as poked?"
• Deconstructed:
• Alice literally tickles Bob until he has died of laughter.
• Because Alice's methods are so ineffective, Emperor Evulz
disposes of her.
• Played for Laughs: Bob is Too Kinky to Torture, so he actually enjoys
what Alice is inflicting on him. She looks back at Emperor Evulz and
says "Am I being paid?" Emperor Evulz, all the more enjoying Alice's
misery, says "No." Alice haplessly continues.
• Played for Drama: Alice knows Bob is afraid of being tickled because
of childhood experiences, so she uses that to her advantage and
successfully gets Bob to talk.

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