In Sakura Gari, one of the "punishments" Katsuragi applies to Masataka is whipping him. Aside from raping him, subjecting him to an Ass Shove after the rape and burning his hand with boiling tea, that is. Later Masataka removes his shirt to show his fresh scars to his boss Souma aka the person that Katsuragi is yandere for, who gets very angry at the sight. Title Drop: When Roc Brasiliano asks Hawke why he has come to Diego Suarez, Hawke replies that he has come "to sail against all flags". The ancient Romans used a variant known as "scourging", using a whip that had bits of metal or bone at the tips. This punishment was reserved for non-citizens. Despite this, the film is a very watchable piece of fluff that features Errol Flynn as an English naval officer who pretends to go pirate so that he can infiltrate their base. As for Flynn, while he was a serious hard-core drunk when he made the film, he doesn't show the puffiness and effects of alcohol like he did just a few years later. It's one of his last good roles. Flavia the Heretic: When Flavia is caught and returned to the convent, she is whipped for having had the audacity to run away.

In the Sharpe series, Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill had Sharpe flogged while the latter was still a private in India. This was only one of the reasons that Sharpe hated Hakeswill and considered the man his Arch-Nemesis, and why he never has one of his own men flogged once he becomes an officer. The Scavengers: When Jess is explaining to Nancy that there are worse things than rape, she slides her dress off her shoulders to show her the scars she received from being flogged after a slave in the cotton mill stole and the overseers randomly chose her to make an example of.Although, as mentioned above, if flogging one person could keep the hundred people watching in line, that was just the cost of doing business.

In Maiden Rose, Hasebe canes note or whips, in the OVA Klaus while he is tied to a chair during interrogation for treason. In Ace Attorney, Franziska has a habit of whipping Gumshoe to punish him for his (frequent) incompetence. Of course, she also has a habit of whipping foolish fools for spouting foolishly foolish nonsense - meaning, of course, everyone in this game. She whips Phoenix into unconsciousness when she loses her first trial. A Night at the Opera: Near the beginning, Lassparri chases Tomasso and hits him with a cat-o'-nine-tails after catching him in his dressing room trying on his costume. Surprisingly, despite being a Marx Brothers film, it's not Played for Laughs. The Proposition features a realistically stomach-churning sequence where a prisoner is sentenced to a hundred lashes.Imperial Russia had the knout. Technically this is just "whip" in Russian, but the brutality of serf flogging with this whip lends the term infamy. Particularly notable was the "great knout," which was an especially large, heavy, hard whip designed to inflict maximum damage. Where most floggings had to get into triple-digit strokes to threaten the victim's life, the great knout was known to kill with as few as twenty strokes - allegedly by breaking the spine.

Under his contract with Warner Bros., Flynn was allowed to make one film a year for an outside studio. His contract with Universal meant Flynn was entitled to a percentage of the profits. [9] Filming was delayed so Flynn could make Mara Maru at Warners. During this time the script was rewritten by Joseph Hoffman and Anthony Quinn signed early on as the villain. [10] By November Howard Christie was set as producer, George Sherman as director and Maureen O'Hara the co-star. [11] In High Plains Drifter Marshal Duncan was whipped to death in the street. Yes, you can be whipped to death. The Stranger then gets revenge on those who did it and he whips one to death in the flame-lit street and hangs another with a whip.Subverted in Empowered. Emp is defeated by a villain called "The Lash", the sole remaining member of (faux) British trio Rum, Sodomy and The Lash (Rum was in rehab after his fifth drunk driving charge while Sodomy quit after becoming fed up explaining it was strictly heterosexual sodomy, leaving The Lash to do all three parts). He's about to whip her but realises they're standing in front of a fabric store, which brings up traumatic childhood memories of being bored out of his skull while his mom shopped for fabric, so he calls it a draw and leaves. Daguerre attempts to sentence Robert Hode to this in Robin Hood (1991). Hode's refusal to accept this punishment and his subsequent insulting of Daguerre result in his being outlawed. British law actually held a distinction between whipping (to be beaten with a whip) and flogging (to be beaten with a cat-o-nine-tails). Both were abolished in Britain in 1948. In Fire Emblem Fates, the supports between Azura and Arthur reveal that the latter got whipped when young, after Taking the Heat for the first.