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Sabretooth does this to Wild Child with Aurora after leading the two into a trap. Creed then attacks Aurora. Wild Child goes to attack, but Creed stops him. He forces Wild Child into a corner, and has him watch while he brutalizes Aurora and threatens to kill her if he interferes. Wild Child watches as it happens, with Creed then telling him to cry and beg for her life if he cares about her so much.
Black Mask is fond of this technique as a torture tool; he drove Catwoman 's sister insane by torturing her husband to death and forcing her to watch and eat the bits he cut off. In X-Men , Mojo does this to Professor Xavier at one point, using metal wires that force his eyes open while making him grin in Mojo's image.
In the Elseworlds story JLA: The Nail , The Joker uses his newly bestowed energy powers to capture Robin and Batgirl, and then make Batman watch while he rips them apart. Batman gets free too late and promptly kills the Joker. The most painful moment in the " Avengers Under Siege " storyline: Hyde forces a captive Captain America to watch as he brutally beats the Avengers' elderly butler, Jarvis. In a story set after the end of Superman 's The Death of Clark Kent , Superman finds a death trap surrounded by television screens, which Conduit had presumably set up so Supes would be able to see the captive Jimmy Olsen die in spite of everything he could do.
The Warden kidnaps Billy, Teddy, and Karolina bringing Xavin's dead body along , and preceeds to perform a vivisection on Teddy, while his boyfriend is forced to watch, able to hear everything except his own voice. This leaves said boyfriend brokenly trying to use his powers to kill The Warden. Barracuda in The Punisher MAX attempts to exact the ultimate revenge on The Punisher by torturing Frank's illegitimate baby daughter in front of him before torturing Frank himself to death and even gloats about his intent to a tied-up Punisher.
Typically a key part of the creation of a new revenant in any given episode in The Crow series. It's especially bad when fans of the first movie read the first comic, and realize just how loose an adaptation it was. Done to the audience in Alan Moore opus From Hell. An entire issue is spent on the grisly details of one of the killings and subsequent mutilations. A non-torture version in V for Vendetta when Helen's husband shoots his wife's lover but is mortally wounded, completely upsetting her plans. Seeing him about to die, she turns one of the ubiquitous security cameras towards him so he can watch himself die on his giant screen.
Miracle to watch a porno that his wife and Superman did while brainwashed by Darkseid's rejected underling, Sleez. He made her watch. Towards the end of an Outsiders arc in which Indigo is revealed to be the latest form of Brainiac, she briefly regains her normal personality long enough to beg Shift to kill her, claiming that once the Brainiac programming reasserts control, she'll be forced to watch as she kills all of her friends. In Thorgal , Kriss de Valnor takes advantage of Thorgal's amnesia by claiming that he is Shaigan the Merciless , a fellow pirate and her lover.
Kriss enslaves Thorgal's wife Aaricia using her and Thorgal's daughter as leverage. Kriss then forces Aaricia to be her personal attendant so that Aaricia has a front row seat as her amnesiac husband makes love to Kriss night after night. It's not enough for Kriss that she finally has Thorgal to herself.
No, Kriss has to rub it in Aaricia's face that she's stolen her husband. In Convergence , Telos kept the New 52 Earth 2 heroes as his unwilling audience to watch him forcing the denizens of the domes to fight each other to the death. However, the Earth-2 heroes manages to break free when Telos was too occupied in pitting the heroes of Just Imagine against the cyborgs of the Futures End timeline.
In Superman Rebirth , Manchester Black kidnaps Jon and forces him to watch his parents lose a battle, culminating with Lois losing her leg and Clark having to cauterize the wound with his heat vision, in order to convince him that Superman's no kill rule was harmful, Superman himself was ineffective, and Superboy should join him. It was faked Manchester Black: It's necessary you witness this Ouch, sorry you had to see that, Jon boy Anything less and people are bound to suffer.
Equestria universe, memory orbs - magical devices which allow unicorns to experience the collected memory within - cannot be exited until the memory has been played completely. No matter how horrific - or embarrassing - the memory is, once you've activated the orb, you're forced to watch and feel, and smell, and taste it all. In a much more direct way, Cognitum forces Blackjack to watch her annihilating several peaceful settlements in order to wriggle some crucial information out of her. Despite a heavy death toll, Blackjack holds back, because she knows that with the information Cognitum will do much worse, but she breaks when her friends and loved ones are targeted next.
Initially it's to make her tell him about the White Lotus' plans since she just succeeded Pakku as the Grand Master of Water, but evolves into the Kick the Dog variety once it's clear she no longer has the capacity to divulge any information. Bonus points in that Chiang makes it clear what he intends to do to her once she passes out. He doesn't succeed, as Hakoda and others still loyal to Zuko pull a Big Damn Heroes moment out of the proverbial fire. One Fullmetal Alchemist fanfic involves Envy employing this method on Edward, as he and Sloth engage in some kinky and graphic 'bonding', which proves to be a fairly effective way of squicking out poor Ed, especially since this fic is set in the first anime continuity, where Sloth is actually a resurrected version of Ed's mom Trisha.
They did not survive the consequences. The Stephen King short story "Quitters, Inc. In front of a mirror. More cynically, this is a way for the writers to make sure that the heroes remain absolutely sympathetic — caving under torture would make them "weak," but caving to a loved one's torture makes them heroic. Seras Victoria from Hellsing has a rather dark and disturbing backstory, which seems to have happened when she was very young.
And to add insult to injury, Envy transforms into his and Ed's father , Hohenheim! You Obey by Kalash93 contains a very interesting and somewhat meta spin on this trope. She gladly sends Niko, Doc, and Shane to her torture chambers. But she puts Zachary in a well-appointed prison and trots him out to a balcony overlooking the chambers. You won't pay, Captain, but your subordinates will. In The Incredibles , Syndrome does a variation of this to Mr. Incredible; he's made to listen to a radio transmission from his wife and children as their plane is being targeted by missiles.
Worst of all, Syndrome didn't know it was Bob's family, but thought they were his back-up. The reveal that there were children on board didn't stop Syndrome in the slightest. He imprisons the latter in his Think Tank and ties the former to the self-destruct mechanism's battery. Emmett, being the one forced, is closest to the computer screen where the apocalypse is effectively taking place.
Subverted when Fred doesn't crack and tell the Green Goose what he wants to know, but ignores Barney's suffering. This only prompts Ralph to attempt his big Heroic Sacrifice. A few minutes later, the Turbo side can only watch as he is drawn towards destruction. Loki threatens to have Clint , who's under Loki's control, ambiguously rape , torture, and finally kill Natasha , and then release him from the mind control to allow him to see what he did before killing him.
A bit of variation, however, as it's Natasha who he is threatening. Both Loki and Gamora are forced to watch their siblings being tortured in front of them. Both cave in to Thanos's demands. When Thor is captured by Thanos and the Black Order, he is Bound and Gagged and can only watch helplessly as Loki is murdered by Thanos in front of him. In The Dark Knight: One of the Joker's own multiple choice pasts involves him as a child watching helplessly as his father stabbed his mother, then used the same knife to give the future Joker his Glasgow Grin.
Bruce smashes the screen before escaping. The killer does this to his first victim in Die Watching , setting a TV monitor next to the chair she is tied to so that she can watch him kill her. In The Final , the outcasts chain their victims to the floor and set up a torture chair in the front of the room, torturing and mutilating them one by one as their friends watch. In For a Few Dollars More , El Indio, the Big Bad , in one of his first Kick the Dog moments of the movie, forces a guy who took money to place him behind bars to watch as the family that he started with that money his wife and his little boy are taken outside and shot to death, while also making him listen to the pocket watch that Indio always carries.
Invoked in The Green Hornet. Right in front of me. It's required by law that everyone in the Districts watch the Hunger Games in some capacity. It hammers home the message that the Capitol is sending: Clyde removes the eyelids of the man who killed his wife and daughter and puts a giant mirror above the operating table he's been strapped to, forcing him to watch as he is tortured and dismembered. In A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master , Freddy forces Alice to watch as he sucks the life out of Sheila, his first victim after the death of Kristen Parker.
The Big Bad 's thing in Opera is forcing the main character to watch him brutally kill people. He does this by placing needles under her eyes, making her unable to blink. The Pink Panther Strikes Again. Professor Fassbender refuses to help Dreyfus create a Weapon of Mass Destruction , so Dreyfus "tortures" Fassbender's daughter by dragging his steel-clawed gauntlet on a chalkboard. Pirates of the Caribbean: After Bootstrap Bill betrays him by helping Will escape the Flying Dutchman, Davy Jones makes him watch as he summons the Kraken to destroy the ship that Will is currently on.
Though Bootstrap is initially unaware of it, Will gets out alive.
In Dragon Bones , the villains capture Ward and his younger brother, Tosten. They want information that Ward can give them, and torture Tosten, in the correct assumption that this will get Ward talking much faster than torturing Ward himself.
The Forced to Watch trope as used in popular culture. After capturing the hero, the villain will threaten him with Cold-Blooded Torture unless he reveals . I forced a bot to watch over 1, hours of Shark Tank episodes and then asked it to write a Shark Tank episode of its own. Here is the first.
When he hears his brother cry in pain, he talks. It is not clear whether he is really made to watch as the torture is not described in detail, only the inside of Ward's mind as he remembers several things from the past that are interesting for the villain. Magic may be involved. In a indirect example, Captain Red Wegener from a Coast Guard ship investigating the rape and murder of a family aboard a ship in the Tom Clancy book Clear and Present Danger realizes that the suspects they have for the crime forced the owner of the ship to watch as they raped his wife and daughter before they killed him.
Labyrinths of Echo by Max Frei. In one of sequels, the hero happened to witness things too overwhelmingly weird, even for a Cosmic Plaything like him. He closes his eyes, but oops — he's still forced to see it all. King Jacob of The Tennis Shoes Adventures tries to get Garth to reveal the location of a treasure by forcing him to watch as Garth's niece, Melody, is killed. Too bad he doesn't know.
Dexter 's "yodeling potato," having your limbs removed and your tongue cut out. In front of a mirror. Additionally, the eyelids and lips are removed. The Stephen King short story "Quitters, Inc. Path of Destruction , Bane kills a man's two sons and forces him to watch. Justified in that Bane then used the father's anguish to fuel his dark side powers.
In The Courtship of Princess Leia , Gethzerion, one of the two big bads , wants to convince Han Solo to surrender himself to her so she can exchange him for a way off the planet. She does this by gathering harmless prisoners in a room and ordering them all shot down, while using her Force powers so Han sees the whole scene through her eyes. He makes Ciri watch as he cuts off the heads of her killed friends to collect the bounty on them. In the book of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , things play out differently from the film. The witch does this because she can't physically harm Dorothy thanks to the protective charms of the slippers and the North Witch's protection spell.
Didn't stop the Witch with a Capital B from trying to get Dorothy's cooperation by torturing the Lion, threatening Toto, and leaving Nick the Tin Man and the Scarecrow as ruined heaps at the bottom of a nearby ravine. Baum had his moments In Neverwhere , in order to get information out of Door, the bad guys decide that instead of torturing her, they'll torture Richard instead while she watches. He surrenders to her when she wields the Sword of Faith, but not before ordering the Genowska to kill Harry. The Genowska slowly starts crushing Harry's skull, while Karrin is helpless to stop it.
In a rage, she strikes at Nicodemus with the Sword, breaking her word and unmaking the Sword. Nicodemus is a real bastard. He does it again, later in the same book. He has Charity captured, and intends to burn down her house with her children inside before killing her. Once the Curb-Stomp Battle was over, he rounded up all the prisoners and forced them to watch as he brutally killed a young apprentice, as a "warning" as to what would happen if any of them tried to defy him again.
In the Warrior Cats: Power of Three series, Ashfur tries to burn Jayfeather, Lionblaze, and Hollyleaf alive and force their adoptive mother to watch as " vengeance " for her choosing another mate instead of him two years ago. Her quick thinking gets them out of it, but at the cost of her adopted kits' love.
Zig-Zagged in A Vision of Shadows. Darktail initially forces Violetpaw to watch as her friend Needletail is slowly drowned in the lake, as punishment for the former's attempt to slip poppyseed into his prey. Violetpaw pleads with him, and he relents, allowing Needletail to live, but only if she was willing to kill Violetpaw herself. Needletail feins an attack, before attempting to protect Violetpaw against multiple rogues at once.
She goes out in a Heroic Sacrifice , while Violetpaw watches in horror. Violetpaw flees before Needletail actually dies, but it's made clear what happened. Even worse, it was kind of his fault the bandits attacked them in the first place. Turned sideways in Neil Gaiman 's The Problem of Susan , where Susan is eaten first, but her conscious severed head is left behind so she can watch further horrors unfold regarding her siblings and what Aslan and the White Witch do. In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix , Bellatrix Lestrange, unable to torture Harry because he's carrying a delicate MacGuffin of the Death Eaters, tells her colleagues to torture his best friend's little sister and local Cute Witch Ginny Weasley in front of him instead.
She later tortures Harry's good friend Neville Longbottom in front of Harry as well, but is interrupted a moment before he gives in. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , Ron Weasley listens from his basement prison as Hermione, his soon-to-be girlfriend is tortured by Bellatrix above. Ultimately it's Steve killing Darren's godson and son-of-best-friend Shancus, that is Steve's crossing the Moral Event Horizon and he dares Darren to do it as well. And Darren almost does kill the kid he's holding, Steve's son Darius. What keeps him from doing it?
Steve telling his boy to tell Darren his mom's name. Annie Shan, Darren's sister.
When they find the husband's body tied to a chair propped up in the middle of the bedroom, the cops are horrified to realize that the killer forced the helpless man to watch as he raped and murdered his wife before slashing his throat. He later threatens to make Ahren watch as they torture his friend, Ryer Ord Star as well.
According to Herodotus one Median prince was actually forced to eat his son by his king.
Later he supposedly ended up commanding a large part of the same monarchs army at a critical battle with Cyrus the Great. Figure out what happened next. In The Sword of Truth series it is mentioned that part of the Mord-Sith training involves them being forced to watch their mothers tortured to death. The protagonist is threatened in the first book that if he won't help the Big Bad , he'll be forced to see his love tortured for a very long time not killed - the Big Bad wanted a heir from her.
In another book, knowing that Zedd and Adie won't give in to torture, the Big Bad assures their cooperation by threatening to torture children in front of them instead. A few more examples are present throughout the series. In Mistborn , an Inquisitor mentions casually to Vin that when he tortured her brother , he died before spilling the secret they were after. Thus, this time, he was going to use a different tactic: He doesn't get the chance. In the beginning of Shogun by James Clavell, the Japanese are surprised to learn that the main character John Blackthorne who is the leader of a group of shipwrecked European sailors isn't vulnerable to personal humiliation, and even more surprised to learn that he is vulnerable to this trope.
Abuse and mistreat him all you want, and he won't break; but touch one of his companions instead And then forced to participate himself. When he was thirteen. And the whole thing was orchestrated by his father. With his older brother Jaime also in it. Theon Greyjoy is also forced to watch and participate as Ramsay rapes and abuses Jeyne Poole. It's implied that this doesn't happen just once either. House Harkonnen , a teenaged Guerney Halleck is forced to watch as his sister, who has just spent a year as a Sex Slave for Harkonnen soldiers, is brutally gang-raped before Rabban finally strangles her.
When she's kidnapped while trying to save Jerin , Jerin says he'll do anything they want forever if they don't kill her. Instead they tie them to a bed, Jerin on it, Cira at the foot and gag her so she's there while one of them "rapes his mouth". Wright 's Count to the Eschaton , Larz mentions modifications so illegal that they kill your entire family out to cousins, and first, making you watch.
This is how Marcus secures Regina's cooperation chaining her to a wall so she has to watch him torture Golon. Todd breaks first and gives Prentiss information about the upcoming invasion by the Answer.
In Mockingjay Peeta reveals that he was forced to watch the execution-by-torture of Darius and Lavinia. The Hunger Games themselves are a nation-wide version of this for the districts. Each one is made to watch, on television, as two of their adolescent citizens engage in a weeks-long fight to the death with 22 other kids, and only one survives. Katniss sums up their message herself: On 24 , Jack Bauer orders Qurac soldiers to kill a terrorist's son on a webcam feed in order to break him. Jack threatens to do something similar to the villain of Season 3: When your daughter is infected, I'm going to make you watch her die.
I'll kill [your sister]. I'll kill your mom, I'll kill your friends I couldn't save her, but I kept trying. You can't conceive of my grief because you can't experience it like I do , but it's there. In one instance, he made Jaller see what would have happened if he had frozen in place instead of saving his friend Takua, thus allowing the villain Makuta to win. In this alternate future, the terrorized islanders would have risen up against Makuta's rule, only to be brutally killed one by one by his henchmen.
This also counts as Mind Rape , as it leaves the victim too shaken to try to escape Karzahni's realm. Bad-guy wrestlers forcing their face opponents to watch beatings and other wicked actions has dates back a long time. Two examples come to mind: In , Jake Roberts vs. Earthquake was set up in memorable style: Roberts was scheduled to take on Earthquake, who eventually got the better of "the Snake" and tied him in the ring ropes.
Manager Jimmy Hart threw the snake bag containing Roberts' snake, Damien into the ring as 'Quake told Roberts, "You are going to see me Roberts was disconsolate as he finally broke free of the ropes Commentators McMahon, Roddy Piper and Savage remarked that it reminded some of the cruel childhood memory of being forced to watch a bully kill a beloved pet. Another time, as Austin and The Rock were trading verbal jabs, Austin revealed, via video footage, that he had dropped a steel beam on top of the Rock's brand new Lincoln Continental!
Danger was spared when it was revealed BJ Whitmer was the one who attacked Lucy. In The Bible , a priest named Pash-Hur throws Jeremiah into jail for the night because of his prophesying about Judah's sins and the upcoming invasion by Babylon. The next morning Jeremiah declares that God has changed Pash-Hur's name to Magor-Missaviv, " terror all around ," because he will watch all his friends die in the attack before being dragged off to Babylon for the rest of his life.
It hunts by injecting its victims with a paralyzing poison, then inserting a feeding tendril into its victim's body to consume choice organs. Not only is the Vaath sadistic enough to make sure its victims live just long to watch it consume their intestines, it's also telepathic, so everyone around it - including the person being eaten - gets to experience not just the Vaath's enjoyment of the meal, but the exact flavor and texture of the person's innards.
ANY video game that employs cutscenes especially if they're unskippable often tend to force the player character to watch how the events of the game change, sometimes very rapidly. Knights of the Old Republic: Admiral Saul Karath eventually manages to capture the heroes and starts grilling the Player Character for information. He already expects that his Cold-Blooded Torture isn't going to work very well if he simply uses the painful electrocution on the PC themselves. However, he has both your potential love interests in similar torture chambers Do note that if you do give in fully, he points out that he already knew all everything you've told him.
So he's doing it for shits and giggles. In Evil Genius , you defeat one of the superagents by mangling her teddy bear. THEN it lets go and scares off the villains. And then it cruelly mocks Jackie.
Dm C Devil May Cry: Near the climax of the game, when Kat is arrested by the Feds, Dante, trapped in Limbo and unable to save her, can do nothing but watch helplessly as the SWAT team shoot her in the shoulder and beat the ever-loving shit out of her. While he doesn't get to see how it happened, Cormag from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones is forced by Valter to have a long and good look at his murdered brother Glen's mangled corpse.
What Valter didn't say, though, was that he was the one who killed Glen. Lucia remains calm and keeps reaffirming her Undying Loyalty to Elincia, even as the rope is around her neck. Emmeryn thwarts this via willingly throwing herself off to her own death. This actually ends up working against Gangrel, since seeing a leader willing to give up their own life to try and prevent further bloodshed shocks the Plegian people and soldiers into a revolt against him since he'd been The Caligula up until that point.
If the player has [SpotPass, it doesn't stick.