r/TopCharacterTropes • • 8h ago

Characters Acknowledging that torture is not an efficient form of interrogation

Torture is often shown as an effective way of interrogation, with writers forgetting one key detail: People lie. AAMOF, it's likely that they will lie and give you untrue information to not be tortured

The Last of Us - Joel has an interrogation map where he'd make two different people point to something on a map. If they both pointed the same thing it meant the info was true. Very often this wasn't the case

Mass Effect 2 - Garrus points out that torture is not effective because victims will lie to make the torture stop

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u/Agreeable-Abalone328 7h ago

Usually Batman just scares the shit out of people to get them to talk

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u/Driekan 7h ago

Which is still torture, just of the psychological variety.

And just as ineffective as any other kind.

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u/Significant_Gap1570 7h ago

Still torture though

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u/Xaero_Hour 6h ago

OP is looking for the opposite so this should be the times other DC heroes try to do a Batman. Like Flash dangling a criminal out a window only for him to be completely nonplused the entire time and Superman's several failed attempts at being bad-cop in Justice League. The best being Justice League Action when Batman is actually there trying to be good-cop as well and him being nice freaks the guy out so badly he confesses.

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u/UncommittedBow 6h ago

Or whatever the fuck he whispered to Deadshot that had even CLARK go "You don't wanna know" when asked what Bruce said

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u/BillRage 6h ago

How is Batman abusing Conquest like this?