sadism theme
Someone enjoys inflicting pain or humiliation without pity.
Examples
Gul Madred subjected Captain Picard to a host of sadistic tortures in tng6x11 "Chain of Command, Part II".
70 total · 3 choice · 24 major · 43 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| bbf4x03 | choice | the emperor was exceedingly sadistic |
| movie: Torment (1944) | choice | The Latin teacher was nicknamed "Caligula" because of his sadism. Caligula also tormented a young girl named Bertha to death. |
| tz1959e3x22 | choice | Fitzgerald humiliated one person after the other with extraordinary spitefulness. |
| ahh1x02 | major | The initial dinner conversation turned to human wickedness and things like torture and the Marquis de Sade were mentioned. This was in the context of the serial murderer that stalked the woods, and foreshadowed later events. A deranged Harold uttered the phrase "pain is only a secret name for pleasure" before attempting to go to work on his fiancée with a strangling cord and a knife. |
| ahh3x06 | major | The deranged drifter Jesse took a strange pleasure in making Stella fear for her life. |
| ahp5x11 | major | Ed delighted in killing a butterfly, chuckled at making a girl cry, and laughed at blocking the way for three desperate farmers. |
| ahp7x13 | major | It quickly becomes apparent that Sir Humphrey is a sadist who revels in cruelty. He is fascinated with torture. He keeps a gruesome painting of a man he caused to be hanged. He had cut out his first wife's tongue and kept her in captivity, tormenting her to the point where she had lost her mind. |
| blackmirror7x01 | major | Mike, out of desperation to pay to keep Amanda's brain running, became a streamer on a livestreaming platform on which people performed sadistically humiliating acts for money. |
| ds94x20 | major | mirror Bashir delighted in torturing mirror Kira; mirror Kira |
| ent4x18 | major | The mirror universe Enterprise crew were ruthless and sadistic. |