It can be knee shots causing screaming, telekinesis to literally play catch with guards, punching out scientists, flat-out torture, or many, many other things. Punishment · Role-Playing Game · Action-Adventure

"Cruelty Squad is what happens when you gut Rainbow Six and Hitman, invert their corpses, and write cryptic, funny messages on the floor with their guts. Characters · YMMV · Max0r · Nightmare Fuel “scary moments”

The Cruelty Is the Only Option trope as used in popular culture. When the player is forced to do something that seems unnecessarily mean in order to ...

The Bad People Abuse Animals trope as used in popular culture. There's something about cruelty towards animals that really gets to a lot of people.

The root of this trope is the act is perceived, and only perceived, as cruel or evil. This is what distinguishes it from related tropes such as Shoot the Dog, ...

These deaths are extremely painful, particularly gruesome, and morbidly embarrassing, so horrific that they leave the deceased absolutely no chance to retain ... Live-Action TV · Live-Action Films · Real Life · Anime & Manga

The video game is a consequence-free world, one where you can do things such as shotgun a crowd of innocent bystanders, torture mooks for information and kill ...

While Violence Is Disturbing, there's something about a character using their feet to hurt someone that makes viewers especially uncomfortable.

This is "Cruel Mercy" — sparing one's enemy (or, in some examples, even actively keeping them alive) as a punishment rather than a reward ... CruelMercy / Video Games · CruelMercy / Anime & Manga

A furry comic book (originally webcomic) by Rukis . Reis is a wolfdog whose closest friend is Marcus, a gay fennec fox. It starts out with Reis bringing ...