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{{trope}}
{{quote|"''I fear you speak upon the rack''
''Where men enforced do speak anything.''"
|'''[[William Shakespeare]]'s''' ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]''}}
Our Hero has been captured. He's being asked questions, and has folded under [[Cold-Blooded Torture]] or [[Truth Serum]]. And then they ask what the plans are for something he doesn't know. Of course, they will believe he is somehow resisting, hiding that vital knowledge. So, the cruelty intensifies.
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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Web Comics ==
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' does this, although actual torture isn't shown (thumbscrews, water torture and the rack are all mentioned). Instead, he's told that innocent people will be thrown off a tower into a horrific snarl in space-time if he doesn't give up the information he doesn't know (and a control group will be thrown off the other side, just off the tower, not into the Snarl. [[For Science!]]!). Notably, the fact that he maintains his claim of ignorance in face of this threat confirms his torturer's suspicions that he's telling the truth, while the actual torture didn't.
== Western Animation ==
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