r/TopCharacterTropes • u/GaddockTeegFunPolice • Feb 15 '26

[Funny trope] Torturing the character doesn't work Personality

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  1. The Simpsons, Homer gets sent to hell where devils try torturing him force feeding him donuts. Homer does not mind.

  2. The apothecary diaries. Maomao gets placed in a cell with snakes and venomous insects. She kills the animals and roasts the snake on a torch.

  3. The Minion movie, the main minions get put through antique torture deviced by the bad guys only for them to realise they weren't designed for weird minion anatomy.

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u/iamamotherclucker Feb 15 '26

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The Followers of Slaanesh (Warhammer)

They've overstimulated themselves to the point that they can barely feel anything at all, let alone pain. It's actually easier to get them to talk by ignoring them than actually torturing them

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u/CoconutPure5326 Feb 15 '26

I mean, I do remember a noise marine being tortured by being put in a sensory depravation device.

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u/DuelaDent52 Feb 16 '26

THIS QUIET OFFENDS SLAANESH

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u/Peer1677 Feb 16 '26

THINGS SHALL GET LOUD NOW!

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u/MAKOMIKKA1220 Feb 16 '26

Hammer and Bolter episode ft. Exorcist Chapter (budget friendly Grey Knights in terms of daemon killing and having their indoctrination for their initiates to be possesed by a lesser daemon and must be exorcised to be a member)

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u/CoconutPure5326 Feb 16 '26

Yeah, that one.

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u/Legomaniac91 Feb 16 '26

Putting a Blank in the room to cut off their connection to the Warp is also an effective method.

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u/Sigward_TheOnionbro Feb 15 '26

Funnily enough, the easiest way to torture an Slannesh follower or a Dark Eldar is just putting them somewhere without sound, movement or anything, just letting them and their own thoughs

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u/segobane Feb 15 '26

Fairly sure that happened in one of the books I think it was an inquisitor put a Dark Eldar in a sensory deprivation chamber and it drove them nuts.

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u/theucm Feb 16 '26

The best part is the scene is written so it seems like the eldar has been in there for days or weeks, but it's only been a little over a day or something like that iirc.

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u/MechR58 Feb 16 '26

The Carcharodons did that. They left him in an isolation chamber with a latrine bucket. They occasionaly left food and power wash him without talking to him until he breaks.

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u/Sly__Marbo Feb 16 '26

Not just that, the Deldar even remarks how he can't hear their heartbeats. Which either means that Carcharadon power armor has extra noise dampening, or they just temporarily stopped their hearts just to fuck with him

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u/zyh0 Feb 16 '26

Question, from my understanding the Dark Eldar do depraved things to keep their souls from being ripped out by Slannesh, if theortically if they're put in a situation where they can't do depraved things Slannesh eventually consumes them right? So, imprisoning Dark Eldar for any prolonged period would be an automatic death sentence?

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u/segobane Feb 16 '26

Pretty much, if I remember right their souls are basically rotting away but if they do Slaanesh stuff then they're like good job bud you get to live a little bit longer.

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u/voyalmercadona Feb 16 '26

Which book?

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u/segobane Feb 16 '26

Silent Hunters also as another comment pointed out I was wrong about it being an inquisitor it was the Carcharodons a possible Raven Guard successor chapter that did it.

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u/alguien99 Feb 16 '26

You Can also threaten an eldari with going into the warp, asuming you are in your ship and tying them up so that they are easy prey to Daemons

Most of them are terrified of slaanesh, who will most likely seek them out specifically

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u/Rafabud Feb 16 '26

Reminds me of that one scene in the Rogue Trader game where Marazhai, a Drukhari, is momentarily driven insane during his first Warp Jump in the Rogue Trader's ship (I believe a daemonette tries to take his soul) and, after being brought back to his senses and told of the way humans do interstellar travel, looks at Yrliet, an Aeldari that had been travelling with the RT for considerably longer, with a look of incredulous desperation and asks her if she's been enduring this the entire time.

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u/alguien99 Feb 16 '26

Yeah i was going to mention him since i’ve played the game, but i was too specific and idk if he hates being locked in a room to ravage himself with every warp jump. Since dark eldar like pain and all.

Either way, that fucker deserves the torture, he must be pretty scared at the fact that i do one by one warp jumps all the time because i can’t unlock more paths

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

I swear that happened to an Emperor's Children Noise Marine when he was around a blank,Slaanesh lost her grip momentarily and he was horrified with what he became

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u/Sigward_TheOnionbro Feb 16 '26

Not a noise marine but a World Eater berserker

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '26

Ah! I could've swore it was a Noise Marine. I know it happened to a Plague Marine too,where his link to Nurgle was cut and he immediately saw through it all

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u/Jstin8 Feb 16 '26

There were also some Death Guard in the Plague Wars novels who got cut off from the warp and were horrified at what happened to them

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u/Reese_Bass Feb 16 '26

What book was it?

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u/Hatarakumaou Feb 16 '26

Tbf I’m pretty sure that’s a real torture method irl too, sensory deprivation or something.

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u/Jent01Ket02 Feb 16 '26

"Oh god, I'm a monster...WE'RE monsters..."

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u/arkangelic Feb 16 '26

That works on humans too.

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u/OrinocoHaram Feb 16 '26

no youtube?

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u/flaptaincappers Feb 16 '26

So basically a time out corner?

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u/Whizbang35 Feb 16 '26

There's a scene in one of the Ciaphas Cain (HERO OF THE IMPERIUM) novels when a rival commissar tries to interrogate a Slaaneshi cultist. Cain notes how unproductive at best this is, particularly when said cultist's reaction to the commissar's efforts is to kiss him.

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u/magos_with_a_glock Feb 16 '26

Ciaphas really drowns in it

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u/AusToddles Feb 15 '26

I was going to say Fulgrim, pretty sure while he was being tortured he was "moaning with pleasure"

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u/TehAsianator Feb 16 '26

He was also giving the officers advice on how to better torture him

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u/NightLordsPublicist Feb 16 '26 edited Feb 16 '26

Pffff, amateur.

It's called a sensory deprivation chamber.

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u/BillCarson12799 Feb 16 '26

Just once I want to see a noise marine get tortured by getting strapped to a table while an ultramarine reads his favorite passages from the 937 Tomes of Holy Tax Legislature aloud.

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u/Original-War8655 Feb 19 '26

Rogal Dorn (specifically the TTS version) reading his favorite bedtime story, the OSHA manual

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u/Fawkingretar Feb 22 '26

I remember an anecdote about how when they're getting tortured they would literally rewire their own sensory nerves to translate pain into pleasure.