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| - The Exalted Torturer is someone who uses the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique as if it's just fine and great, Perp Sweating to the degree of outright Police Brutality, war crimes and similar atrocities, and/or other forms of behavior that qualify him or her as a torturer and sadistic person. The Exalted Torturer is above and/or outside the law he claims to uphold. He is almost Always Male (because a woman torturing people in such a way would always be a villain or at best portrayed as Ax Crazy or a Tsundere or Yandere), and possibly out for nothing but the gratification that torture and inflicting pain brings him or the viewers, as he takes all Acceptable Targets to the pain and he should, by almost any standard, be considered a Complete Monster....
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| - The Exalted Torturer is someone who uses the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique as if it's just fine and great, Perp Sweating to the degree of outright Police Brutality, war crimes and similar atrocities, and/or other forms of behavior that qualify him or her as a torturer and sadistic person. The Exalted Torturer is above and/or outside the law he claims to uphold. He is almost Always Male (because a woman torturing people in such a way would always be a villain or at best portrayed as Ax Crazy or a Tsundere or Yandere), and possibly out for nothing but the gratification that torture and inflicting pain brings him or the viewers, as he takes all Acceptable Targets to the pain and he should, by almost any standard, be considered a Complete Monster.... Except he's not. He's the Designated Hero either by the author, or even if the author doesn't originally intend to somehow make him heroic and a Real Man (tm), Misaimed Fandom causes the writer to play up his torture and abuse as "good" or heroic. He's on the "side of good" not just in his fictional world, but he can also possibly become a cause celebre for Real Life defenders of torture and/or police brutality or whatever form of atrocity he's inflicting upon his victims, either because they are Acceptable Targets or because he's the Designated Hero, or both. An Exalted Torturer is:
* Viewed as heroic and admirable (not an Anti-Hero or Villain Protagonist) when his actions are more in line with being a Complete Monster acting For the Evulz, doing things that would make "villains" or "antagonists" flinch at the idea.
* Using Cold-Blooded Torture, rape, the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique, the Maximum Fun Chamber, Police Brutality, extreme Perp Sweating, and/or some combination thereof to achieve his goals.
* As such, the combination of the Designated Hero with elements of the Torture Technician, wrapped up in a The Hero Knight in Shining Armor package, and stuck on the "white" side of Black and White Morality. Compare Path of Inspiration for an institutional example: something that is made to look "good" and "heroic" and has a ton of good publicity, but is, in reality, nothing of the sort. Compare and contrast Cowboy Cop, Moral Dissonance, Values Dissonance, and especially the Torture Technician (when the torturer isn't specifically defined within his story as a heroic or "good" character and is only glorified as a result of Misaimed Fandom or Fan Dumb, he is a Torture Technician and not this trope). Fridge Horror may exist when Writer on Board is in effect from the beginning (as in at least one of the examples below). Examples of Exalted Torturer include:
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