Examples of the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- In Child of the Storm, it's pretty much stated that Loki, who is Reformed, but Not Tamed, indulges in this when he really needs to get information out of someone fast. Practically speaking, it's far more effective than most examples of this trope because he can tell when people are lying. Morally speaking, it walks a certain line, and most of the other characters find it disconcerting. One indicative example is in the sequel, when urgently requiring information, Loki threatens Sabretooth with removing his nervous system while he's still alive, stringing a harp with it, and playing a tune accompanied by his screams. This leads a rather disturbed Jack O'Neill to ask if they're sure he's not still evil - Jack's mother, former Deputy Director of SHIELD, simply remarks words to the effect that he isn't, but he remembers how to play the part. Subverting the trope, however, Sabretooth isn't remotely fazed by this prospect, until Loki whispers something in his ear and conjures 'an illusion or two', whereupon to general astonishment, he's very free with information.
- A Cloudy Path: Upon finding a severely injured Animos, Manpower promptly knee-caps him, using Panacea's healing abilities for leverage. While none of the heroes present overtly object, with Gallant quite literally looking the other way, Glory Girl observes that crossing the line in this fashion could backfire if they aren't careful.
- An Extraordinary Journey: Zarek subjects Major Thompson to this while attempting to learn where the "real" Earth is located.
- Fate of the Clans: This how Cú Chulainn interrogates someone since he doesn't have the Discernment of the Poor skill or the sword Fragarach: Rip out the crossbow bolt he threw at the person hard enough for it to completely impale the person through the shoulder and tells them he'll heal the injury after the person's questioned but they have to hurry before they bleed out. Anna checks to see if the truth's being told. Then after Cú Chulainn closes the injury, he allows the Red Clan to beat the shit out of the person for attempting to kill Tatara.
- The Havoc Side of the Force: HK-47 asks a crew member of the ship that attacked them a question. When she refuses to answer, he holds her outside the force field keeping the ship's atmosphere in until she almost passes out then asks again. Harry's mildly disturbed by this but doesn't let it show.
- A Hollow in Equestria: In order to convince a captive changeling that he's willing to do whatever it takes to get the information he needs from them, Ulquiorra cuts off his own arm. He then threatens to start amputating the changeling's limbs in order to see whether or not they'll regrow, followed by its wings, then peeling the skin off its body to test if the pain from that process will be enough to kill it.
- In Into the Hedge, Lero is heavily implied to pull this on a pack of soulless clones of the Cutie Mark Crusaders; who are young school-age girls.
- Fairy Leviathan in Manehattan's Lone Guardian delves into this when threatening the Midnight Castle gang's pegasi, threatening to remove their wings if they won't give her the information she needs. While her threat succeeds in its intent, the realization that she was trying this on flesh-and-blood beings (who can't be rebuilt) instead of mechanical ones (which can) rattles her enough that she kneels and apologizes to the thieves in full view of the Royal Police.
- Mischief: This gets Played for Laughs after Izuku makes Aizawa's sleeping bag disappear with one of his pranks. Aizawa forces him to reveal its location by hanging Izuku off the school rooftop.
- In Origins, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands/Halo Massive Multiplayer Crossover, Garrus Vakarian plays this trope straight. He's looking for information on a plot to build superlasers, but one of the criminals he has rounded up doesn't feel like talking. Eventually, said criminal spits out enough information for Garrus to guess what was up.
- Shinobi of the High Seas: Miss Valentine interrogates a man in this fashion by sitting on his back, increasing her own weight whenever he refuses to answer any of her questions.
- Spiderhead: When Spider-Man and the Bats capture a man with important information about a crime ring, Spider-Man says he can make the guy talk. He webs the (unconscious) man up in a massive web, and acts like he's going to eat him since he refuses to talk. He starts going into detail about how spiders eat their prey and scares the criminal so bad that he starts crying. Spider-Man admits to the Bats after the interrogation that he was bluffing about eating people, but becomes one of the only people in history to pull this trope so well that it scared the Bat family.
- to forget is unforgivable offers a Downplayed example in The Curse Is Okay, But The New Guy Is On Thin Ice. Principal Yaga has his dolls attack potential students while he's questioning them; he justifies this by claiming people are more honest when they're under pressure.
- Discussed in Witches Rangers and the 141 when Ghost tells the tale of how he tortured Rojas' right-hand man in order to get information from him. While initially horrified, Gertrud then realizes that she'd done something similar to Mahoney's subordinate, though she hadn't taken it to the same extreme. Ghost states that this is simply how things work in his universe.
- 24: The Musical, a fan-made musical version of the show's second season, parodies and lampshades this by having Jack sing "Torture and killing / They're par for the course / Sometimes there's no other way / You want results / You gotta use force / This is the longest day of my life!"
- In Slipping Between Worlds, British Army officer Lieutenant Philip Holtack attempted to subvert his Escape And Evasion training by asking the rational question "But there's nothing a trained interrogator cannot get out of a prisoner given enough time and effort. So what if I were to say Look, I'll tell you everything I know right now to save time, so we can both clock off early and spare a lot of aggravation?" This earned him a punishment from his tutors, who felt he wasn't taking things sufficiently seriously, and ultimately, a place on an SAS-level "resisting interrogation" course where things were ratcheted up to a level of nastiness he would not normally have experienced. This is Truth in Television: being "captured" and forced to undergo a mock interrogation under realistic conditions is part of training for many British service personnel.
- Powder Keg Of Justice: Sir Peter Fairgrave was deeply discomforted by how the rest of his party subjected a cultist to this, protesting that "We can't preserve freedom while denying it to others." Their efforts didn't work out, so Fairgrave takes over and proceeds to Break Them by Talking, admitting that paladins are The Fettered by nature... and asking the cultist to consider whether or not he wants to be the reason why Fairgrave decides to Fall.
- In Forward, Mal and Zoe start interrogating one of Adelei Niska's men because Niska has kidnapped River and Jayne and is torturing them For the Evulz. The morality of the situation is highly suspect; most of the crew find the apparent necessity horrific, and in the end it proves entirely fruitless, as the thug is more afraid of Niska than he is of Mal. It isn't until Book drugs the man and Wash talks him into revealing information that they get anything useful.
- Played With in Harry Potter and Grief's Wisdom
. An MI5 agent acting as Harry's bodyguard, having captured Draco, implies that this is going to take place and lets a round of Good Cop/Bad Cop do the rest of the job. - In Luna's Cupboard Andromeda uses torture to extract a written confession of his crimes from Snape.
- Averted in The Plague Ship.Harry: You said that Umbridge was questioned a lot. Did you torture her? I know Voldemort is known to torture.
Grishnak: We do not torture to gain information. We have found it is quite useless to do so, because under torture the subject will tell you anything to make it stop. The quality of the information gained in that manner is negligible. However, for discipline, or just for fun... - In Susan Bones and the Prisoner of Azkaban Alastor Moody tortures Walden Macnair using only variations on the levitation charm, ranging from letting a levitated rock drop on Macnair's ankle to letting him drop from a height of seven or eight feet.
- In Striker Strikes Back, Millie shoots Striker's landlord, threatening to kill him if he doesn't give them any useful information about his tenant's current whereabouts.
- Shattered Innocence: In Chapter 4, Ronnie Anne attacks one of Lynn's teammates and demands for them to reveal just what role Lynn played in Lincoln's death.
- A Second Chance: In No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, Lynn attempts to make Kathleen confess her crimes by threatening her in this fashion. Unfortunately, this only serves to make Lynn's parents even angrier at her, with Rita angrily berating Lynn for being impulsive and never thinking things through.
- Stories and Tales from Dimension 63: After overhearing Lincoln confessing that he's not the real Linka, Loki subjects him to this while demanding to know what happened to his sister.
- In Second Chances Loki tortures Balder until he mentions who made the magic dagger Balder stabbed Loki with.
- In Project Delta, when Jane realizes a pirate ship they have captured is working for the Red Wake, she burns the flesh off the captain's hand to make her talk.
- Averted in Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race. Human rights laws mean the police can't use this on Mr. Black.
- Whispered Tribulation: Aizawa is a major believer in this, and wants nothing more to subject Izuku to this in order to "prove" that the Quirkless Gen-Ed student has been secretly working with the League of Villains. His belief in this is so profound — and so closely intertwined with I Reject Your Reality — that he wants to torture a "confession" out of Izuku even after Naomasa has confirmed his innocence.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Navarone sometimes has to resort to this in Diaries of a Madman. This is nothing compared to Kat, however, who possesses skills that would make Jack proud.
- You Obey makes very effective use of this trope. It's actually subverted in that the interrogator really doesn't want to have to resort to it, vastly preferring less disturbing and more reliable methods.
- Son of the Sannin: During the Fourth Ninja War arc, Kakashi starts piecing together what happened behind Rin's death and Obito's Face–Heel Turn, and traps Zetsu in the Kamui dimension to force him to spill the beans about it.Kakashi: Alright. (focuses the Sharingan on Zetsu's eyes) I have a few questions regarding Obito that you're going to answer. And no, that wasn't a request.
- Catalyst Verse: After Root is taken by Control, Shaw subjects one of the men who'd attacked them to Mutilation Interrogation, cutting off one of his hands while demanding to know where his partner is.
- The Evil Queen: Mishima acted as The Informant for Kamoshida during his reign, then transferred his loyalties to Makoto after she took over, becoming known throughout the school as "Makoto's rat". After catching Makoto's cognition of him, Akira threatens him with his pistol, only for Arsene to intervene... and explain that threats only work if you follow through, and shooting Mishima wouldn't provide any information. He approves of Akira switching to cut off one of the cognition's ears, as he'd still be able to talk after being maimed.
- This is also Played With because the Mishima cognition only cracked because he was convinced Akira would get himself killed trying to save the others. The next time he's caught and threatened, he goes completely tight-lipped.
- Deliver Us from Evil Series: In Mortality, Watson does this when Holmes is captured and tortured within an inch of his life. Needless to say, the criminal begs for mercy, and let's just say that Watson murders the criminal.
- A Forging Of Alliances: After capturing one of Euron's men, Dickon tells Bronn to cut off one of his thumbs in order to get him to talk.
- Subverted in The Headhunt. Lieutenant Dul'krah, Clan Korekh, security chief of the USS Bajor, draws a knife while interrogating a Mafia capo ... and then just sits there picking his fingernails with it, all the while just staring at her for over half an hour. Helps that A) he's nearly seven feet tall and "built like a Cardassian main battle tank" in his captain's words, and B) his species has nictitating membranes (i.e. he can make his eyes look lidless) and vertical slit pupils, so all he really needs to do is sit there with the knife and look scary. The fact that the capo can't escape, being shackled to the table, does the rest.
- Revelations: In Chapters 11 and 12, Túrante tortures another vampire to get information about the plans of the Big Bad. She had killed the rest, but left one alive for this purpose.
- Redaction of the Golden Witch: After discovering that Kinzo has named a 'Lion Ushiromiya' as his chosen heir, the adults angrily squabble amongst themselves while trying to figure out just who they've been passed over. Shannon tries to calm everyone down, declaring that Lion doesn't mean any harm; Rosa interprets this as Saying Too Much and rounds on the maid, viciously throwing her around the room until she goes out the window.
- All Alone: After Taylor's abduction, Sophia takes advantage of the fact she has two Merchants to interrogate by focusing on one, alternating between asking questions and beating him with a baseball bat whenever she doesn't like the answers she gets. Once he's unconscious, she turns to the other one, who has grown very pale.
- The Techno Queen: While inside Sophia's body, Paige attacks Emma and Madison, torturing both bullies until they admit to their crimes. She records the whole thing and puts the video on Youtube, where it goes viral. While the PRT and police can't legally act upon this information since it was extracted by force, it still results in the three being transferred to different schools.
