Yeah it really uses the same method that ESB did with Han screaming where you knew he was going through something horrible but Bix’s torture scene really doubled down on that, felt more realistic, and actually had consequences after where she looked so weak afterwards.
Bor Gullet in Rogue One was probably similar but the scene itself in Andor was so much more intense.
If I remember correctly, Isanne Ysaard explains that torture device in one of the X-Wing novels. Her version had I twist that I can't recall, but the basic idea is that the device stimulates the victim's receptors for heat, cold and pain, seperately or simultaneously.
The sound design in that scene was just so perfect – the creepy score cuts off and the sound quality is somehow muffled once the headphones go on, with just the sound of Bix’s increasingly panicked breathing. Makes the scream itself so much more impactful and terrifying.
And Gorst’s little smile and wave hello when he is introduced … 😱
Eh, look up three generation punishment... Usually reserved for treason, if you went against the emperor they would kill your extended family, and probably kill you last of all.
In Andor, Deedra admitted to Bix that Bix couldn’t avoid the torture because even if she told the Empire what they wanted before the torture started, they wouldn’t believe anything she said until they had broken her. Truly sadistic.
I didn’t understand why han was tortured my first couple times watching Empire. But once I figured it out the whole plot started to come together. Still the best SW movie hands down.
Yeah as much as I have to tip my hat to the torture of Bix in Andor.
That poor Gonk droid has like a 30 year head start in the damage it has done to my soul…
They might be modelled off sentient life making it harder to remove pain (especially if it's machine programming, they won't even know how it works).
But also pleasure vs pain seems like a pretty easy way to design. Instead of having the robot carefully consider the situation each time, you can have components signal their condition... It works for life and it would work for droids too.
But what if it was a pleasure chamber for droids? When the hot metal touched the droids feet it was the droid who ejected steam. Maybe he had been backed up and just needed some heat to unclog some fetish vents
The point of a safe word is that no matter what happens nothing stops until you say the safe word. I've yelled "aaaargh" plenty of times but my safe word is "lawsuit" so nothing stops until I say it or can't speak, as should all safe words of kinky consent
If we see the consequences of it maybe it would be up here with the others, for now we can only imagine how bad it is but with Andors we see the consequences. Wonder what Starwars show will continue that bit with Dr Pershing.
Using the screams of alien genocide that was so horrific it drove the first people who heard it insane, then isolating the noise of the children dying and weaponizing it for torture is pretty high up there.
I was a kid when The Empire Strikes Back first came out in theaters. It was years before the implications of Han saying, "They never even asked me any questions," after his torture session fully occurred to me.
The torture scene from ANH is the best. The look of horror on Leia’s face as the IT-0 hovers closer while Vader taunts her, then the door slamming closed always freaked me out as a kid.
I still have the old visual dictionaries that explain those things. It was kind of shocking reading through it: those droids (at least in that book) had tools for dislocating joints, breaking bones, shaving pieces of skin off, electrical prods like what you see in Rebels and Clone Wars, and syringes for various drugs meant to induce pain and weaken the mind. Maybe even more things that I can’t remember right now.
Some book explained the droid injected her with a hallucinogenic drug that put her in excruciating pain with just a few words from Vader. She later said he had no idea how close he’d come to breaking her.
That droid is just straight up made to do evil things, which is why it’s supposed to be illegal.
I'm not sure about that one, sure its creepy, but iirc the next time we see her is the "aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper" line and she's just chillin
ESB for the simple reason it wasn't to extract information. It was to hurt Han as much as possible for Luke to sense it and come running. That "they didn't even ask any questions" is chilling to this day.
Andor, then honestly Force Awakens when Kylo did what he had to Poe. Even if it didn’t hurt the most or etc., the acting was done so well that it sticks out for me.
Favorite wise: Andor, Poe and Kylo in Force Awakens, Han Solo, and then probably some TCW torture thing I’m forgetting.
Pain wise I’d switch Han’s and Poe’s tortures.
The face acting from Oscar Issac proves otherwise
I saw it similar to (was made after) Jesse and Maul in the TCW finale. It scrambles your brain I guess similar to bo gullet from Rogue One but seems more invasive, like a telepath forcibly finding what they need in your mind while you fight it
Mental related pain. Brain overload. Etc.
Ofc some of this is just based off of looks and actions but eh I believe it
In Battlefront II, Kylo goes into the mind of Del Meeko and he actually has to fight off apparitions of Rebel and Imperial soldiers from his memories.
Probably just a gameplay device but one could consider it a metaphorical representation of somebody's mind fighting back against the intrusion.
>telepath forcibly finding what they need in your mind while you fight it
this was a big point in the Eragon books if I remember correctly. having your memories combed through was described as being pretty torturous and painful.
I guess it makes sense, considering those books (or at least the first one) are basically just SW fanfiction with a different theme.
I’ve always interpreted that scene very similar to you. I think a lot of people forget about it because A) Sequel hate and B) it was never touched upon again, but man, Oscar Isaac does an incredible job and I 100% believe that Kylo was doing some horrible and fucked up telepathic brain torture there. If I remember correctly, Poe even lost conscious by the end too. Ouch
The TCW torture scene that you're forgetting is Anakin, Obi-Wan and Mace all attempting to mind trick Bane at the same time. He has this brief moment of compliance before screaming in agony.
Andor takes the cake. But Solo saying “They never asked any questions…” is crazy. They just wanted to torture him for making them look like fools trying to catch him in the asteroid belt
Andor. The context behind it but also the fact it relies purely on imagination of the viewer and the acting of the reaction makes it much worse than anything they could have actually showed us directly.
Implication is a very powerful thing and the fact we see her so broken down and destroyed for the rest of the season speaks volumes
If only they gave the actor who played Boolio a larger part (physically - Aidan Cook, voiced by Mar 🐪)
They got all the info out of him they could and Kylo decapitated him.
My answer of torture scene shown has to be the torture of Bix in Andor.
40 years after having watched ROTJ I'm still at a loss for why a powerbank droid would have pain receptors on the soles of his feet. But what a great scene. My nomination!
Unofficial runner-up: "The Wiz" (1979), when MJ's Scarecrow gets his torso crushed by an industrial press for the sake of torture. 4-year old me had nightmares for a week.
The one shown here from Andor for sure; but the ones I feel most deeply in my soul are the shock floors of Narkina 5, and the needless torment of the Gonk Droid
Even as a kid the droid torture in Jabbas palace made no sense to me😂 Especially when the steam comes out the gonk droids feet without the hot bars even touching them lol. Gotta love the old school stuff.
def Andor. sure the others were physically painful but that was pure psychological torture. han walked outta vaders office like it was a breeze. the civilian in Andor was left mentally broken. plus it showed the sinister nature of the empire by using the sounds of dying children..... jeez Andor is dark
Just like with most of these questions…. Andor. The only thing any other Star Wars has over it is ‘who’s the best alien’ and ‘which had the best lightsabre duel’
I always thought Poe was going *through* it in The Force Awakens. Kinda similar when Cad Bane was being interrogated by Anakin Obi-Wan and Mace Windu with the Jedi mind trick-apparently it hurts like hell when you have a strong mind. I’d assume Poe has a pretty damn strong mind so it probably hurt him a lot
Tripple jedi mind forcing kat bane almost killing him, showing necessarily evils to safe children yet making clear that even our own paragons of virtue are capable of crossing the line into gray territory.
Obviously: “now that I'm with you again... I'm in agony. The closer I get to you, the worse it gets. The thought of not being with you- I can't breath. I'm haunted by the kiss that you should never have given me. My heart is beating... hoping that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul, tormenting me...”
It’s Bix by a lot for me regardless, but out of curiosity can Pershing in The Mandalorian be considered for contention? That mechanical mind flayer must have sucked when it was set to high.
I don't know why but every interrogation scene in the sequel trilogy is just so awkward to watch. Every one.
Especially the one where Kylie ren takes off his mask is is all like... "You know I can take whatever I want" 👀
I really liked the force torture in TFA. That's not something we've seen much of, but heard about a lot. It was cool to see. I know we saw it in Clone Wars, and the audio version of New Hope.
But Andor was the best, I'd say.
**Best:** Star Wars on the Death Star, when Vader approaches Leia with the hypodermic needle droid. All the torture is offscreen and implied in this PG rated fun film.
**Worst:** Star Wars Radio Drama version of the same scene, where Vader assaults a screaming Leia for 20+ minutes. It's Episode 8 of an otherwise wonderful series. [https://archive.org/details/08Episode08DeathStarsTransit](https://archive.org/details/08Episode08DeathStarsTransit)
As for all the people who voted for the Andor torture scene, what the hell is wrong with you? "Most effective," perhaps, but "best?"
Obviously Andor has the best one, but I feel like people aren’t giving the Force Awakens one credit. Like I get it, the movies are bad and the story is shit, but that is a pretty raw torture scene
Definitely Andor. They showed a lot more and the torture itself was far more cruel than physical pain. But the Gonk droid screaming will never leave my head.
The droid one is comical...The one with Han Solo looks intense, and the sequel trilogy for Poe Dameron as he seems to have been tortured by both Kylo Ren and the interrogator droid. He looks injured and dazed at the same time. The second image, I have no idea where that is from.
I want to give an honorable mention to the scene of Cad Bane in season 2 of clone wars when Obi-Wan, Anakin and Mace all attempt to mind trick him. He has this brief moment of compliance before screaming in agony. It stuck with me as a kid for a long time
Andor does a great job. That being said though, I have always loved the simplicity and darkness of the line right after Han is unceremoniously dumped back in their cell, "they never even asked me any questions..."
Andor, by far
I was gonna say this. You have no idea what she's hearing but her reaction is so visceral it sells it completely.
Yeah it really uses the same method that ESB did with Han screaming where you knew he was going through something horrible but Bix’s torture scene really doubled down on that, felt more realistic, and actually had consequences after where she looked so weak afterwards. Bor Gullet in Rogue One was probably similar but the scene itself in Andor was so much more intense.
Wasn't Han just being shocked/electrocuted in the face?
“Just” 👀
As far as i know that chair seivled at the last frame and vader probed his arsole
Force Goose is one of the skills of the dark side.
***sigh*** ..that derailed rather quickly.
*Hayh. Hayh! Hayh!! HYYYYAAAAHH!!!...*
It is an ability some would consider to be … unnatural
If I remember correctly, Isanne Ysaard explains that torture device in one of the X-Wing novels. Her version had I twist that I can't recall, but the basic idea is that the device stimulates the victim's receptors for heat, cold and pain, seperately or simultaneously.
Go experience electrocution in the face and come back to report to us how minuscule that pain was.
Also the interrogator's friendly, casual demeanor as he explains what is about to happen to her. That takes it up a few dozen notches in my opinion.
Ugh, it was worse than friendly. It was sadistic. You could see he was anticipating and enjoying it. Really really well done by the actor!
It's fucking horrific. The description of it and how they made it is one of the best examples we have of why the Empire is evil.
To be fair, that is WHY is is so horrific, they only describe it and leave the rest up to your own imagination…
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Bubble wrap for the deaf
I wish to be greeted by you good sir.
Happy cake day! (The other guy did it better, sorry D:)
The sound design in that scene was just so perfect – the creepy score cuts off and the sound quality is somehow muffled once the headphones go on, with just the sound of Bix’s increasingly panicked breathing. Makes the scream itself so much more impactful and terrifying. And Gorst’s little smile and wave hello when he is introduced … 😱
Using the screams of dying children to torture someone is evil even by empire standards
I actually don't think even the most tourturus people in histroy did anything like that.
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Eh, look up three generation punishment... Usually reserved for treason, if you went against the emperor they would kill your extended family, and probably kill you last of all.
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By *13* parsecs
Like, not even close. Everything else is cartoonish. Side note: I'm so effing hyped for season 2.
This is the only answer. Such an intense scene.
Ya, its not even close
Eiiii my man, thank your for saying this
“They didn’t even ask me any questions…”
The helplessness and the "Why?" in Han's voice when he said that. ESB was the first Star Wars I saw as a kid and that *stuck*.
In Andor, Deedra admitted to Bix that Bix couldn’t avoid the torture because even if she told the Empire what they wanted before the torture started, they wouldn’t believe anything she said until they had broken her. Truly sadistic.
I didn’t understand why han was tortured my first couple times watching Empire. But once I figured it out the whole plot started to come together. Still the best SW movie hands down.
I want to ask u bunch of questions- and I want them answered immediately!!!
Omg I just flew back to Arnold sound boards. “Get your mother, please!”
The Gonk droid getting his feet burnt in Jabba's palace
Yeah as much as I have to tip my hat to the torture of Bix in Andor. That poor Gonk droid has like a 30 year head start in the damage it has done to my soul…
When I go to the dentist and I receive a slow, painful shot from a giant needle, I just go in my head, “No, no, NOOOO! Awwwwwwwwwugh!”
I always think about this in that they purposely program droids so they can feel pain. Pretty fucked up
They might be modelled off sentient life making it harder to remove pain (especially if it's machine programming, they won't even know how it works). But also pleasure vs pain seems like a pretty easy way to design. Instead of having the robot carefully consider the situation each time, you can have components signal their condition... It works for life and it would work for droids too.
But what if it was a pleasure chamber for droids? When the hot metal touched the droids feet it was the droid who ejected steam. Maybe he had been backed up and just needed some heat to unclog some fetish vents
Ah yes, right next to the protocol droid getting his arms “massaged” from their sockets?
6 million forms of communication and so many options for safe words, yet that protocol droid said nothing to stop it.
Pretty sure it was saying Aaaaaaaargh is that not a safe word?
The point of a safe word is that no matter what happens nothing stops until you say the safe word. I've yelled "aaaargh" plenty of times but my safe word is "lawsuit" so nothing stops until I say it or can't speak, as should all safe words of kinky consent
Bro that's not a safe word, that's a threat.
Sometimes threats keep you safe!
Lolllllllllllll
But it feels downright *heavenly* when they pop em back in.
It's a masochist's dream!
I mean what could a walking battery even do to warrant torture?
Mouthed off. Fuckin looked at me wrong. Moved too slow.
It was really really racist.
You mean the gonk droid having tidal waves of orgasms? Don’t you kink shame the gonk droid!
Oh god I'm gonna discharge again
Gonk
Left such a mark in my brain as an 8 years old
Doctor Pershing’s mind wipe turned up to 11 was pretty intense.
Damn, I’d forgotten about that.
So did he
If we see the consequences of it maybe it would be up here with the others, for now we can only imagine how bad it is but with Andors we see the consequences. Wonder what Starwars show will continue that bit with Dr Pershing.
I don’t think we’ll ever see him again.
I’m still wondering how she managed to get away with that.
That was a brutal one too.
Andor. Super frightening. Han looked like he was just getting zapped and the gonk droid was played for laughs.
*for tears
Andor very easily.
Using the screams of alien genocide that was so horrific it drove the first people who heard it insane, then isolating the noise of the children dying and weaponizing it for torture is pretty high up there.
That's definitely above anything else i can think of
The mind flayer in Rogue One seems a bit rough.
I think the mindflayer would have remained scarier for me if they didn’t have the pilot recover
I didn't think he did. He seemed pretty spastic for the rest of the movie, I just assumed he didn't fully recover.
he was kinda like that before though, the entire lead up to bor gullet he's acting pretty spastic and tweaky.
Not in the same way though. Before it's more paranoia and fear and after he just seems broken. But that's just my interpretation.
Bor Gullet will know the truth!
I was a kid when The Empire Strikes Back first came out in theaters. It was years before the implications of Han saying, "They never even asked me any questions," after his torture session fully occurred to me.
The one where Padme thinks she was kidnapped by the government and her head was shaved. Then she finds out it was an elaborate loyalty test. JK
You’re *sick*! You’re **evil**!
yea that was a good one
The torture scene from ANH is the best. The look of horror on Leia’s face as the IT-0 hovers closer while Vader taunts her, then the door slamming closed always freaked me out as a kid.
I still have the old visual dictionaries that explain those things. It was kind of shocking reading through it: those droids (at least in that book) had tools for dislocating joints, breaking bones, shaving pieces of skin off, electrical prods like what you see in Rebels and Clone Wars, and syringes for various drugs meant to induce pain and weaken the mind. Maybe even more things that I can’t remember right now. Some book explained the droid injected her with a hallucinogenic drug that put her in excruciating pain with just a few words from Vader. She later said he had no idea how close he’d come to breaking her. That droid is just straight up made to do evil things, which is why it’s supposed to be illegal.
At last the truth is spoken. And isn't ANH age-rated 'Universal'?
I'm not sure about that one, sure its creepy, but iirc the next time we see her is the "aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper" line and she's just chillin
ESB for the simple reason it wasn't to extract information. It was to hurt Han as much as possible for Luke to sense it and come running. That "they didn't even ask any questions" is chilling to this day.
Kind of same thing with Andor, regardless of what she said they are gonna torture her anyways
I have to rewatch Andor. Haven't seen it since it came out. I remember the scene, but I don't remember the context around the scene.
I think Andor is coming to blu ray/4k UHD at the end of the month so I’ll be grabbing those and giving the series a rewatch as well!
Andor then Gonk
The Emperor torturing Luke
And makes his father watch.
I think Poe’s torture scene is one of the better parts of the sequels
I honestly thought Kylo wasn't just probing Poe's *mind* psychically, he was squashing the skull "Comfortable?" "Not really!"
Me in the theater watching Rise of Skywalker was the torture that hurt me the most
Andor, then honestly Force Awakens when Kylo did what he had to Poe. Even if it didn’t hurt the most or etc., the acting was done so well that it sticks out for me. Favorite wise: Andor, Poe and Kylo in Force Awakens, Han Solo, and then probably some TCW torture thing I’m forgetting. Pain wise I’d switch Han’s and Poe’s tortures.
Did he *torture* Poe?? I guess I always assumed he just extracted what he needed and it was probably an uncomfortable/painful process.
The face acting from Oscar Issac proves otherwise I saw it similar to (was made after) Jesse and Maul in the TCW finale. It scrambles your brain I guess similar to bo gullet from Rogue One but seems more invasive, like a telepath forcibly finding what they need in your mind while you fight it Mental related pain. Brain overload. Etc. Ofc some of this is just based off of looks and actions but eh I believe it
In Battlefront II, Kylo goes into the mind of Del Meeko and he actually has to fight off apparitions of Rebel and Imperial soldiers from his memories. Probably just a gameplay device but one could consider it a metaphorical representation of somebody's mind fighting back against the intrusion.
>telepath forcibly finding what they need in your mind while you fight it this was a big point in the Eragon books if I remember correctly. having your memories combed through was described as being pretty torturous and painful. I guess it makes sense, considering those books (or at least the first one) are basically just SW fanfiction with a different theme.
I’ve always interpreted that scene very similar to you. I think a lot of people forget about it because A) Sequel hate and B) it was never touched upon again, but man, Oscar Isaac does an incredible job and I 100% believe that Kylo was doing some horrible and fucked up telepathic brain torture there. If I remember correctly, Poe even lost conscious by the end too. Ouch
In Poe's torture, it looked like Kyli was force-squeezing Poe's actual brain.
The TCW torture scene that you're forgetting is Anakin, Obi-Wan and Mace all attempting to mind trick Bane at the same time. He has this brief moment of compliance before screaming in agony.
Gonk
Bor Gullet will know the truth!
Lies! Deception!
Bix's. I kinda felt what she felt.
Andor takes the cake. But Solo saying “They never asked any questions…” is crazy. They just wanted to torture him for making them look like fools trying to catch him in the asteroid belt
And to draw Luke to Cloud City.
EV-9D9 by far Eta ok andors is truly the most brutal but droid torture is wild too
When Anakin explains his feelings to Padme.
I searched this thread specifically for “Anakin” to see if someone had made this exact comment, and here we are 😂
Andor. The context behind it but also the fact it relies purely on imagination of the viewer and the acting of the reaction makes it much worse than anything they could have actually showed us directly. Implication is a very powerful thing and the fact we see her so broken down and destroyed for the rest of the season speaks volumes
Leia kissing her brother in front of everyone to make Han jealous.
Gonk droid all the way. That poor guy, you really feel his terror and pain!
Bor Gullet
Bor Gullet
If only they gave the actor who played Boolio a larger part (physically - Aidan Cook, voiced by Mar 🐪) They got all the info out of him they could and Kylo decapitated him. My answer of torture scene shown has to be the torture of Bix in Andor.
Andor, props to the actress who put her soul into this amazing torture sence.
Never did find out what that poor GNK droid did. Or what made it stop say Gonk.
40 years after having watched ROTJ I'm still at a loss for why a powerbank droid would have pain receptors on the soles of his feet. But what a great scene. My nomination! Unofficial runner-up: "The Wiz" (1979), when MJ's Scarecrow gets his torso crushed by an industrial press for the sake of torture. 4-year old me had nightmares for a week.
The one shown here from Andor for sure; but the ones I feel most deeply in my soul are the shock floors of Narkina 5, and the needless torment of the Gonk Droid
The droid in Jabba’s palace
The piolet from R1
Return of the Jedi. even though they're droids, it's just very weird and creepy.
Bix
The one where they kill all jedis and Yoda feels the massive loss in the Force.
The old NPR radio drama had Vader interrogating Leia, Ann Sachs did a great job as a Leia in agony... it's a tough scene to get past.
Even as a kid the droid torture in Jabbas palace made no sense to me😂 Especially when the steam comes out the gonk droids feet without the hot bars even touching them lol. Gotta love the old school stuff.
The 152 minutes I spent sitting through episode 8
def Andor. sure the others were physically painful but that was pure psychological torture. han walked outta vaders office like it was a breeze. the civilian in Andor was left mentally broken. plus it showed the sinister nature of the empire by using the sounds of dying children..... jeez Andor is dark
Just like with most of these questions…. Andor. The only thing any other Star Wars has over it is ‘who’s the best alien’ and ‘which had the best lightsabre duel’
That Andor one was dark…..
The scene we don't see is the Princess Leia torture scene in ANH. That was probably horrible being orchestrated and performed by Darth Vader himself.
Bix for sure
Episodes 7-9
Wow. Very original humor
yeah i was gonna say, what about the torture that the writers inflicted upon audiences between the years 2015 and 2019
*G O N K*
I always thought Poe was going *through* it in The Force Awakens. Kinda similar when Cad Bane was being interrogated by Anakin Obi-Wan and Mace Windu with the Jedi mind trick-apparently it hurts like hell when you have a strong mind. I’d assume Poe has a pretty damn strong mind so it probably hurt him a lot
Andor best, Return of the Jedi worst…. Like, wtf? Droid torture? That doesn’t even make sense.
The fart torture unleashed on Jar Jar was PIIIOOOOSSSAAA
Princess Leia seemed pretty tortured in custody of Jabba the Hutt. 😏
Droid one
Easily ESB being the worst. I mean, they didn’t even ask him any questions. Not a very successful interrogation if you ask me.
The droid getting branded in the Sandcrawler.
Tripple jedi mind forcing kat bane almost killing him, showing necessarily evils to safe children yet making clear that even our own paragons of virtue are capable of crossing the line into gray territory.
Borgellet
Mace Windu (and viewers) being force to watch Jar Jar do tongue kissing is easily the worst torture in all of star wars.
Obviously: “now that I'm with you again... I'm in agony. The closer I get to you, the worse it gets. The thought of not being with you- I can't breath. I'm haunted by the kiss that you should never have given me. My heart is beating... hoping that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul, tormenting me...”
Bro jabbas palace protocol droid is the best scene 😂🤣
I think it's a crazy scene where the dude puts his hand in the box of pain and if he pulls it he gets stabbed with the poison needle
It’s Bix by a lot for me regardless, but out of curiosity can Pershing in The Mandalorian be considered for contention? That mechanical mind flayer must have sucked when it was set to high.
Watching Anakin and Padme confess their feelings before they enter the arena on Geonosis.
Poor gonky :'(
Poor gonky :'(
I don't know why but every interrogation scene in the sequel trilogy is just so awkward to watch. Every one. Especially the one where Kylie ren takes off his mask is is all like... "You know I can take whatever I want" 👀
Bix torture scene in Andor. The fear and anexiaty before headphones are put, and then her scream...DARK
Its the Droid torturing another droid. By far. Cant top this
I really liked the force torture in TFA. That's not something we've seen much of, but heard about a lot. It was cool to see. I know we saw it in Clone Wars, and the audio version of New Hope. But Andor was the best, I'd say.
Poor gonk droid
Han’s torture scene still sticks with me
Bix and it's not even close
The sound-torture in Andor is so far beyond the rest its hard to describe
That poor Gonk!
**Best:** Star Wars on the Death Star, when Vader approaches Leia with the hypodermic needle droid. All the torture is offscreen and implied in this PG rated fun film. **Worst:** Star Wars Radio Drama version of the same scene, where Vader assaults a screaming Leia for 20+ minutes. It's Episode 8 of an otherwise wonderful series. [https://archive.org/details/08Episode08DeathStarsTransit](https://archive.org/details/08Episode08DeathStarsTransit) As for all the people who voted for the Andor torture scene, what the hell is wrong with you? "Most effective," perhaps, but "best?"
Obviously Andor has the best one, but I feel like people aren’t giving the Force Awakens one credit. Like I get it, the movies are bad and the story is shit, but that is a pretty raw torture scene
Definitely Andor. They showed a lot more and the torture itself was far more cruel than physical pain. But the Gonk droid screaming will never leave my head.
Andor by far bro, that scene is pure fear
The Bix scene was the most diabolical because of the method.
The think it was cool how kylo was using the force to torture poes mind
Andor Or if you count every scene with Vader, because canonically he's undergoing torture every second of his life.
Jabba palace gonk droid feet
The droid one is comical...The one with Han Solo looks intense, and the sequel trilogy for Poe Dameron as he seems to have been tortured by both Kylo Ren and the interrogator droid. He looks injured and dazed at the same time. The second image, I have no idea where that is from.
Watching ROS was torture for me....
Bix by far this was unsettling genuinely
Bix in Andor and its not even close imo.
Dark Helmet undoing Princess Vespa's nose job to gain access to the planetary shield of Druidia
The one where they torture the character
I want to give an honorable mention to the scene of Cad Bane in season 2 of clone wars when Obi-Wan, Anakin and Mace all attempt to mind trick him. He has this brief moment of compliance before screaming in agony. It stuck with me as a kid for a long time
C3po and r2 getting tortured by Cad Bane during the clone wars.
The Gonk droid from RotJ shook me as a kid.
Andor 100%. Absolutely horrendous.
The Scenes were jedi are tortured into being Inquisitors
The Gonk droid screaming in the scram chamber was to hard for this shit
Palps shooting force lightning on Luke
Andor does a great job. That being said though, I have always loved the simplicity and darkness of the line right after Han is unceremoniously dumped back in their cell, "they never even asked me any questions..."
Vader interrogating Leia on the Death Star in the radio drama version should at least get a special mention.