But the Lord of the Lash says, "Nay, nay, nay"!
We're gonna march all day, all day, all day!
For where there's a whip, there's a way!
Whips have historically been used as an instrument of control, dominance, oppression, and submission. Flogging or striking someone with a whip is a famous form of Corporal Punishment in many cultures. The sound of a whip cracking can strike fear in those listening and the very act of tugging or tightening a whip can look menacing or intimidating. The physical pain or discomfort inflicted by the whip reinforces the dominance of the wielder over the recipient.
As such, whips in fiction are often associated with control and domination. This can manifest in many different ways and they can often mix.
One of the most common whip-wielding archetypes is for authoritarian, oppressive, and often sadistic character archetypes who are meant to emanate fear such as a Torture Technician, The Jailer, Repulsive Ringmaster, a slaver, a Mook Lieutenant or a high ranking commander. Such a character usually Loves the Sound of Screaming and is a Sadist and Hope Crusher. An organization or group as a whole can be similarly characterized by its usage of whips, especially if it's a Signature Device, Fantastic Race Weapon Affinity, or National Weapon of the culture. If the officers or commanders of The Empire or the People's Republic of Tyranny carry a whip, it's a sign the top brass keeps their men in line via fear of punishment. If the Mooks are the ones carrying the whips, it's a sign that the top brass is oppressive of its very own citizens. In general, a whip can be a symbol of an oppressive hierarchy within an organization.
Because whips are a symbol of power and dominance, they're also often associated with BDSM, sensuality, and Dominatrix-type characters and a common attribute of Power Dynamics Kink. Female whip wielders will often be portrayed as sensual, haughty, cold, sadistic, and domineering. They're often dressed in outfits that are Stripperiffic, Hell-Bent for Leather, or resembling a dominatrix. It's not unusual for their whips to also be used to tie up or strangle their victims for the bondage factor. Due to the belief that Bondage Is Bad and Fetishes Are Weird this association tends to be more popular with villainesses, especially in archetypes like The Baroness, Dragon Lady, Hot Witch, or The Vamp. Heroic examples do exist, though you can still expect the character to fit sexualized archetypes like a Heroic Seductress, a Femme Fatale, or an Ice Queen.
Due to the whip's historical use as a tool of ranching and equestrianism, characters who exert control of animals, monsters, Beast of Battle, Mons, and other creatures also commonly wield whips, to symbolize their dominance and mastery over the creatures they control. Common archetypes are The Beastmaster, a Dragon Tamer, The Minion Master, or someone with Summon Magic. While the usage of whips on beasts is often a sign of Bad People Abuse Animals, not all whip-wielding tamers have this association and they can be portrayed sympathetically, even being a Fluffy Tamer or Animal Lover. Showing the tamer use the whip not as a punishment tool, but by using the sound of the whip cracking as a way to give the beast commands is a common way to portray this in a sympathetic light. Often this control is exaggerated with the tamer being able to give complex commands via the whip that would be impossible for any actual tamer to do, and occasionally the whip will have actual supernatural abilities to explain this level of control.
More exaggerated and comical examples are when teachers, trainers, or mentors are shown to wield whips to symbolize their harshness in their disciplinary duties, making the saying "whip something/someone into shape" quite literal. Unusually occurs with strict archetypes like a Drill Sergeant Nasty, a Sadistic Teacher, a Scary Librarian, or a Stern Teacher.
On account of its heavy symbology, the very act of carrying a whip can be used for characterization, as it is commonly used as just a tool or ceremonial item. The meaning may also change depending on the type of whip, a riding crop tends to be more symbolic or used just as a ceremonial prop while something like a Cat o' nine tails has more sinister implications. However in fiction whip-wielders are often actually extremely skilled at using them in actual combat, sometimes even being a weapon they specialize in using, often for purposes of Weapon-Based Characterization. Some popular unrealistic tricks are having the whip do Instant Knots or perform Building Swing with them. The whips may even be customized to be more effective, such as adding thorns, hooks, spikes, or even elements. For weaponized versions of whips with their own tropes see Whip Sword, Lightning Lash, Snake Whip, and Vine Tentacles.
Sometimes the whip can also have actual powers that reflect its symbology, such as being struck by a whip causing a Damage-Increasing Debuff, the weapon having a Charm Person or Supernatural Fear Inducer effect, or making the domination aspect of whips literal by having the whip be an actual Mind-Control Device.
See Improbable Weapon User for a normal whip being used in combat. See A Taste of the Lash for a character enduring a flogging. See Staff of Authority for when staffs at a symbol of office and rank. See Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off! for when a belt is used like a whip for disciplinary purposes. See Multipurpose Tongue and Prehensile Hair for when tongue or hair are used as whips. Has some crossover with Stock Wushu Weapons, thanks to whips being used in ancient China both as weapons of war and (more commonly) as badges of office for battlefield commanders that they would use to signal orders to their troops. In wuxia, a colourful horsehair whip indicates The Strategist, while a segmented metal whip indicates a particularly talented Frontline General.
Examples:
- 18if: Misaki's Witch form becomes a Dominatrix-coded head of the "Nightmare Idol School" where she acts like a Drill Sergeant Nasty and starts carrying a whip, mercilessly using it on the others or cracking it in order to "discipline" them.
- Ah! My Goddess: When Sayoko and Aoshima are trying to uncover Belldandy's secret, they capture Keiichi and leave him at the mercy of S&M Club, who are all dressed in dominatrix style clothing, including whips. Ironically, the domineering Urd is the one who shows up to rescue him, and she quickly defeats the S&M Club members by stealing their whips and using them to whip them into obedient submission to her, to the point that when Aoshima finds them she's now using them as furniture, showing they were vastly outmatched by her in the domination department.
- Akazukin Chacha: Rascal takes the "whip the students into shape" idea very literally and actually carries a whip with him to school and often brandishes it around, scaring the hell out of the kids who all see him as a Sadistic Teacher.
- Aldnoah.Zero: Cruhteo's Classy Cane has a whip hidden in it, fitting his strict but seemingly civilized appearance that hides his vile supremacist views and ruthless personality.
- Battle Spirits Sword Eyes: Amarello Berge's weapon of choice is a whip, fitting with her smug, stern, and domineering attitude. She likes to tighten it just to look extra intimidating.
- The Big O: Agent 12 (Vera Ronstadt) is the sadistic and ruthless commander of the Union who carries a whip with her, which she effectively uses as a weapon during her confrontation with Angel in episode 25, which ends with her winning and mercilessly whipping Angel while demanding her to submit to her wishes.
- Black Butler:
- Anime-only villainess Angela tortures Sebastian by giving A Taste of the Lash all while wearing a Dominatrix outfit and clearly taking sadistic pleasure in whipping him. During the scene, she constantly switches from cruelly whipping him to being flirtatious and trying to convince him to submit and betray his master.
- Beast, the star of Noah's Ark Circus, is a whip-wielding Beastmaster who's Dressed Like a Dominatrix and has a domineering and aggressive personality. Notably, she's not shown to be a very good beast tamer, during her introduction Sebastian handles her pet Tiger Betty better than her and he actually criticizes her for her wielding a whip against Betty, claiming she'll never get a beast's true loyalty by whipping them. It's implied she keeps the role because of her good looks which also explains the Dominatrix attire.
- Bleach: The Zanpakutō of Arrancar Cirucci Sanderwicci takes the form of a whip named Golondrina, befitting her Dominatrix motif with her cocky and haughty personality, sadistic streak, constant Trash Talk, and aggressively flirtatious demeanor.
- Buso Renkin: Noisy Hamelin, the buso renkin of the humanoid homunculus Jinnai, take the form of a whip that uses soundwaves to control all humans in the area. The design of the whip is based on those used by circus lion tamers and to fit with Jinnai's pet breeding hobby.
- Code:Breaker: Masaomi Heike can create whips made of light and shows great proficiency fighting with them, which fits with him being a pervert with an interest in S&M and bondage. He even likes to use the whip to leave his targets Bound and Gagged.
- Cutey Honey
- Sister Jill is a Dominatrix-themed villainess with a sadistic streak and most of her incarnations have her wielding a whip as her primary weapon.
- Most incarnations of Miharu Tsunen have her be a Sadistic Teacher who is so strict and obsessed with discipline that she literally uses a whip on students.
- In the second episode of New Cutey Honey, Honey uses her powers to turn into a Dominatrix themed character, complete with a red leather outfit and a whip, which she effectively uses to defeat the Jewel Princess. Ironically, the Jewel Princess actually becomes attracted to Honey upon getting whipped and tied up by her.
- Cyborg 009: The anime episode "Operation Auroras" features an unnamed Black Ghost Commander as the villain of the week. He always carries a whip with him and enjoys cracking it to intimidate others, including sadistically threatening to personally give Cynthia A Taste of the Lash if her father doesn't cooperate with him.
- Daimos: Lieutenant Raiza of the Balm Invasion Force uses a whip to punish those of her underlings that she thinks aren't working hard enough. She also uses it to intimidate people who oppose her.
- Dance with Devils: Urie Sogami is a manipulative and domineering Pretty Boy who specializes in hypnosis and uses a rose whip as his weapon to complement his controlling persona. His controlling behavior actually makes him more obsessed with Ritsuka when she proves immune to his charms, to the point he refers to her as his "pet".
- Deadman Wonderland: Minatsuki Takami/Hummingbird pretends to be a cute and innocent girl but deep down is a Cute and Psycho sadist who gets a sexual thrill out of the suffering of others. Fittingly, her Branch of Sin is the "Whip Wing", two long strands of blood that resemble whips that extend from her hair, and she naturally has Combat Sadomasochist tendencies when using them in battle.
- D.Gray-Man: General Klaud Nine is The Beastmaster who carries a whip into battle with her and she uses it to give commands to Lau Shimin, her monkey partner. The anime adds a conversation where she threatens to use her whip on Cross Marian when he's being a slouch, and he jokes that he wouldn't mind it.
Cloud Nine: Maybe I should whip you].
Cross Marian: Doesn't sound too bad. - Digimon:
- Digimon Adventure: One of Myotismon's signature attacks is the Bloody Stream/Crimson Lightning, where he conjures a whip made of blood to strike or grab enemies, fitting with his character being a sadistic Vampire Monarch who's very oppressive and cruel towards his own minions.
- In Digimon Adventure 02, the Digital Kaiser/Emperor always carried a whip with him and frequently used it on his Digimon minions to establish his dominance over them, including his loyal partner Wormmon.
- In Digimon Tamers, Rio uses an energy whip from his Digivice to rein in his berserk Cyberdramon. No one else's Digivice has this ability, and it doesn't appear to be triggered by any of his cards. It's also used more to characterize Cyberdramon's sheer ferocity than Rio being particularly strict or cruel as a tamer.
- Doki Doki! PreCure: Mamo fights with a purple whip, fitting her domineering, bossy, and overbearing demeanor, and she'd often use the whip to chain and bind her enemies.
- Domina no Do!:
- Female protagonist Hikari is both a Tsundere with domineering tendencies who constantly whips her Love Interest Takeshi with a riding crop, which is played for laughs. This is because her mother is a full whip-wielding Dominatrix who has a loving BDSM relationship with her husband, which has given Hikari the impression that all romantic male-female relationships are like that.
- Liru, the school's Rich Bitch Alpha Bitch, does actually wield a whip, which she uses exclusively on men because she thinks they're all weak and should be oppressed. She specifically enjoys whipping her butler whenever she gets upset.
- Doraemon: Nobita and The Space Heroes: The villainess Meba is a Blob Monster with a sadistic personality that can shapeshift her arm in whips which she uses to lash at her enemies with vicious glee.
- Dragon Ball Z: A filler episode in the Trunks Saga featured Sadist Teacher Mr. Shu who uses a whip to "discipline" his students, including Gohan, though he keeps that fact hidden from parents. When Chi-Chi catches him whipping Gohan across the face with enough force to draw blood, she promptly gets rid of him via Destination Defenestration.
- Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai: When Maam calls Queen Flora "one tough queen" after seeing her handle a whip expertly in combat, Leona takes this as an Innocent Innuendo and has an Imagine Spot of Flora Dressed Like a Dominatrix and holding a whip in a domineering manner. She promptly chastises Maam, who has no idea what she means.
- EDENS ZERO: Despite being a White Mage and The Medic, Sister Ivry's primary weapon is a bladed whip called "Paradise Whip". This is part of the whole Power Stereotype Flip gimmick of her character being a Nun Too Holy healer who's openly a Sadist and a Dominatrix with an authoritative and perverted demeanor.
- Fairy Tail:
- Lucy is a wizard who specializes in summoning Celestial Spirits to fight alongside her, and has a whip as her personal physical weapon, to reinforce her theme as a spirit tamer. At first she only has a normal whip, but later she gains a unique magical whip called Fleuve d'Étoiles.note which has many more magical abilities which she often uses in conjunction with the abilities of her spirits.
- Lucy Ashley, Lucy's Edolas counterpart also has a whip as her primary weapon, though she switches up the tamer theme for a Dominatrix theme, acting more sexually confident and being Dressed Like a Dominatrix with thigh-high boots accompanied by her black leather Leotard of Power with a large erect collar and Navel-Deep Neckline.
- The anime-only Eclipse Virgo (the Brainwashed and Crazy form of Lucy's Celestial Spirit Virgo) is a whip-wielder with an explicit Dominatrix theme, wearing a militaristic black leather uniform and having a sadistic and domineering personality that is obsessed with using her whip to punish Lucy.
- Kyôka the leader of the Nine Demon Gates is a sadistic and domineering woman who greatly enjoys torturing and humiliating others, especially if they're strong. While her primary weapon is her Wolverine Claws, she can magically alter them to become whiplike appendages, which she often does in combat or when she wants to give someone A Taste of the Lash.
- The Familiar of Zero:
- Played with. Louise frequently carries a riding crop with her in order to "discipline" her Familiar Saito to establish her supposed ownership over him, but she mostly uses it when she gets jealous of him getting close to other women so it actually ends up denoting her as being an Insecure Love Interest instead of being dominant. And while the whipping is often Played for Laughs it also comes across as Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male, especially later when she switches out her riding crop for a huge-ass spiked whip. She eventually gave up on the whip, as a sign of her overcoming her insecurity with regard to her relationship with Saito, although it was brought back one more time when she tried to 'train' Saito to act and look presentable as a nobleman.
- Louise's sister Eleanore is a strict and bossy woman and just her younger sister, she carries a whip for "disciplinary" reasons. She ends up whipping Saito when he does things like (accidentally) going into her room or staring at her chest.
- Fist of the North Star: Uighur is the sadistic warden of the slave city of Cassandra and he wields a whip not only as a symbol of his position but as his preferred weapon. His martial art is the Taizan-ryu Soujou Ben ("Taishan Style Twin Streak Whip"), where he utilizes a pair of whips that he swings blindingly fast, enough to catch Kenshiro off-guard for a moment. He also has a pair of special whips hidden in his helmet which he uses as a powerful snare, usually followed up by his signature shoulder tackle.
- Flint the Time Detective: T.P. Lady/Petra Fina Dagmar is the whip-wielding villainess with a domineering theme thanks to her overbearing personality and being Dressed Like a Dominatrix. Her whip is mostly used to turn a stamped Time Shifter into their Con form.
- Galaxy Angel: Forte Stollen is often carrying a riding crop on her hand. It's only for giving her the aesthetics of a strict and authoritative officer with a seductive demeanor, as she never actually uses it. Lampshaded when Noah points out that Forte cannot be the one person she's looking for by the bad way she swings her riding crop.
- Ghost Sweeper Mikami: After Mikami is able to use her shintsukon as a whip, the story has a few gags about how it makes her look more like a Dominatrix, such as the time she defeated a golem by striking in in the crotch with the whip until it became subservient to her.
- High-Rise Invasion: Yayoi Kusakabe is Aikawa's authoritative right hand who uses a whip as her primary weapon, which complements her sadistic and sensual personality.
- Hybrid × Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia: Zelshione is the sadistic, domineering and haughty captain of the Atlantis Imperial Guard and her primary weapon is a Whip Sword that can morph between whip and sword mode. She delights in personally pushing her own men and other prisoners, often with her own whip. And when she really wants to break someone she uses her Hypnotic Eyes on the prisoners that force their bodies to register pain as pleasure, then she'll mercilessly whip them until they become her submissive "pets".
- Hyperdimension Neptunia the Animation: Plutia's HDD form Iris Heart was always a cold-hearted Sadist with a Dominatrix-motif since her debut game, but the animated adaptation reinforces this by turning her sword into a Whip Sword. She also can summon a riding crop when she wants to give someone a slower and kinkier form of punishment, which Linda learned about the hard way.
- Jackals: Python Lady Arshela is a stern Femme Fatale gangster who fights with a Snake Whip. Appropriately she's in charge of "The Cell', which is the division of Gabriella in charge of disciplining and punishing the other gang members.
- Jewelpet Sunshine: Jill Konia is an attractive and stern homeroom teacher in Sunshine Academy, and frequently carries a riding crop with her to make her look more imposing, though it also gives her a domineering vibe, something that's acknowledged In-Universe as Iruka actually has fantasies about her whipping him. The episode where she becomes Brainwashed and Crazy also has her exchange the riding crop for a bullwhip and she both dresses and acts like a sadistic Dominatrix.
- Kill la Kill: Ira Gamagoori is the Disciplinary Committee Chair of the Absurdly Powerful Student Council and his Goku Uniform generates red, thorn-covered whips that he uses as his primary weapon. They turn brown and he gets even more of them when transformed. This plays into his "discipline" and Macho Masochism theme.
- Lady!!: Sonoko Ichijuuin is a cold hearted Alpha Bitch who flogs her horses to discipline them, and when Lynn tells her she is cruel she uses her riding crop to Bitch Slap her too.
- Last Period:
- Android Sonya is a haughty, domineering, and authoritative villainess who wields a whip in combat and is clear Dominatrix. She often cracks her whips to intimidate her subordinates, talks to them in a demeaning matter, saying she'll make them work "like pigs" and forces them to serve as furniture for her. Soon enough she even takes over Wisemen from Campanella, because she refuses to have anyone lording over her.
- Subverted with Erika, The Leader of Arc End who always carries a whip with her and wields it expertly in combat. but she's a Reasonable Authority Figure who doesn't fall for the stereotypes of whip users. When she fights Sonya, she actually expresses disappointment that they both fight with whips, claiming types like Sonya give whip users a bad rep.
- Legend of the Blue Wolves: Captain Continental is a vile Depraved Homosexual and Unsexy Sadist who often carries a whip with him, and often uses it on his subordinates when they so much as anger him or refuse to sexually submit to him. And he obviously takes sadistic pleasure in the act, to the point he gets so turned on his floggings often end with sexual assault.
- Love Hina: It's a Running Gag of the series to hint that Haruka Urashima is a Covert Pervert, due to the fact she owns several fetish costumes and has unexplained skills. One of those is the fact she owns a whip and frequently carries it, and is shown to be incredibly skilled a wielding it, once answering the phone with the whip, from across the room.
- Lupin III: In Lupin III: The Secret of Twilight Gemini, Sadachiyo is a Sissy Villain with a haughty and domineering personality who regularly uses his whip for both interrogation and assassination purposes and takes sadistic joy in using his whip on women. He is so proficient with the whip that, when Lupin took cover behind a boulder, Sadachio shredded it with his whip in a matter of seconds!
- Macross Frontier: Sheryl's stage mic is shaped like the handle of a whip, and can even be cracked like one, fitting her self-assured and domineering persona. This is even invoked further one time when she calls Alto her "slave" and Luca has an Imagine Spot of her Dressed Like a Dominatrix whipping a Bound and Gagged Alto.
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Precia Testarossa is a cold Evil Matriarch in a skimpy Hell-Bent for Leather outfit whose Intelligent Device often takes the form of a whip (its default form is a staff) which she can use both in combat and as a tool of torture and dominance. The first time we see her use it, it's to brutally whips her daughter Fate.
- Magi: Labyrinth of Magic: Professor Myers is known as "Thunder Whip Magician" due to the fact her Magic Wand takes the form of a thunder whip. She's known for her strict and brutal teacher who puts her students through Training from Hell, and she often disciplines her students by giving them a taste of her whip. She also just so happens to be a Hot Teacher whose Stripperiffic outfit resembles that of a dominatrix, being a corset-like breastplate, a metal thong and thigh-high boots.
- MegaMan NT Warrior: In the aptly named two-parter episode "Evil Empress Roll", Roll got Brainwashed and Crazy by a devil chip and became the villainess Rmpress, and she started using a spiked whip both as a weapon and to denote her control of the minor viruses who started to act like her minions to the moment the change occured. Her appearance also changed to a Dominatrix-themed character (gaining fangs, heels, large nails and eyeliner) and she also gained a domineering and sadistic nature, complete with doing a Noblewoman's Laugh as she used her whip to strike Megaman.
- Megami Paradise: Maharaja is a skilled bullwhip fighter, which befits her status as Dominatrix-themed villainess with her haughty and domineering personality who wears a Stripperiffic leather outfit.
- Miyuki-chan in Wonderland: The Queen of Hearts is a Dominatrix styled evil queen who wields a long black whip for both combat purposes and to "punish" others. She even has a cadre of submissive servants who are eager to be whipped by her. She takes sadist joy when using her whip in her attempt to make Miyuki "submit" to her.
- Mokku of the Oak Tree: Puppet Master Sneeroff carries a whip with him and his preferred method of intimidating his victims is to crack it.
- Monster Rancher: In "Eternal Worm", Allan uses a whip to attack and berate his Worm, as a sign of his harshness and cruelty as a trainer.
- Moyashimon: Hasegawa carries around a whip and doesn't hesitate to use it on people who annoy her (particularly Misato and Kawahama), which complements her image as a harsh and haughty woman with domineering and sadistic tendencies, not to mention her being Dressed Like a Dominatrix under her Labcoat of Science and Medicine.
- My Hero Academia: Midnight, an S&M-themed heroine that's Dressed Like a Dominatrix and has a sadistic and domineering personality, uses whips alongside her Knockout Gas Quirk. And she's shown to own several different types of whips, such as a flogger-style whip that can actually be used to spread her Knockout Gas scent in various directions or a bullwhip-style whip for more straight combat purposes.
- The Mystical Laws: Tathagata Killer, the tyrannical ruler of the Godom Empire and the film's main villain, always carries an electrified whip which he uses to intimidate or personally execute his subordinates when they disagree with either him or his right-hand woman, Leika Chan.
- Nanbaka Yozakura Kenshirou is an arrogant, stern, and cold man who's one of the strongest and most feared guards in the prison. Fittingly he wields a whip in combat, which helps to make him look even more imposing and authoritative.
- Naruto: In Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Inheritors of the Will of Fire, one of the antagonists Ni is a whip-wielding ninja with the ability to control dog-like creatures, wears a Stripperiffic skintight leather bodysuit that's reminiscent of Dominatrix and has a confident and domineering personality.
- Noragami: Kinuha, one of Bishamon's shinki, takes the form of a powerful whip, which helps to complement Bishamon's dominatrix design and fits her image as a stern and ruthless War Goddess.
- Negima! Magister Negi Magi: One incident had Haruna traumatize her friends by drawing a doujin of herself whipping them for not letting her in on the Masquerade sooner. Naturally, she's Dressed Like a Dominatrix in it.
- Negima!? (second season): The attire by Ayaka Yukihiro, provided by her Armor card, leaves her Dressed Like a Dominatrix (a black Minidress of Power with a corset, high-heeled thigh-high boots, opera gloves, and a fluffy choker) and it also just happens to come equipped with a whip, to complete the dominatrix theming.
- Nerima Daikon Brothers: Yukika is a sexy, domineering policewoman with over-the-top Dominatrix tendencies, such as the fact she dual wields cat-o-nine-tails whips and has a fondness for handcuffs.
- Nightwalker: Vampires can control their blood to transform it into weapons, but notably the only armament that Cain makes is a whip, which is apropos given he's a domineering and possessive Agent Peacock who wants to take Shido back by force.
- One Piece:
- Kalifa of CP-9 fights with a spiked whip, which is pertinent to her character with her imposing, cold, and domineering personality and her pseudo-dominatrix attire. She was so skilled with her whip that she could use it to restrain prisoners and even catch hold of the third car of the Puffing Tom after Sanji detaches the car. Notably after eating her Devil Fruit, she stops using it entirely.
- In the "Impel Down arc", Sadi is the sadistic security chief of the titular prison and to go with her demon/dominatrix theme, her main weapon is a Devil's Pitchfork which can turn into a lash and she delights in using it on unruly prisoners and the jailer beasts as she Loves the Sound of Screaming. Downplayed with Head Jailer Domino, who is also shown to carry a whip and has an authoritative and stern appearance, but she's never shown to use it as she's taken out by Hancock before she can do much.
- Kiba, the former captain of the Fanged Toad pirates, favors the use of a whip as his weapon, which speaks to his cruel and bullying personality. The sting of its blows actually annoys Luffy for a few moments before the Straw Hat captain powers through and rips it out of his hand.
- Kujaku of the SWORD Marine unit has a Devil Fruit ability based around whips. Namely, she has the powers of the Whip-Whip Fruit, which allows her to impart obedience to anything she whips... yes, anything including buildings, which she can order to move aside.
- One-Punch Man: Do-S is a sadistic Dominatrix-themed villainess dressed in Stripperiffic bondage gear who specializes in fighting with a whip that is embedded with spikes. Her whip also functions as a Mind-Control Device, meaning that whoever gets whipped by her falls under her thrall and becomes one of her "love slaves" who obeys her every command. Only very strong-willed people are able to resist its effects, which ironically only makes Do-S more obsessed with breaking them due to her domineering personality.
- My-Otome: Miss Maria is quite the Stern Teacher, as illustrated by the fact she carries a riding crop around with her at school.
- Penguin Musume: The Black Rose is a domineering Psycho Lesbian who wields a whip that she uses on her beloved Sakura to "discipline" her. The whip even causes Clothing Damage when it makes contact.
- Pokémon:
- Pokémon Adventures: This adaptation has Clair wielding a whip, making her look even more like a strict and unapproachable Ice Queen than in the games. She actually uses it for Poké Ball launching and is later shown to also be able to use it as a weapon when fighting rocket grunts.
- Pokémon: The Series:
- "The Path to the Pokémon League" features One-Shot Pokémon Trainer A.J., who wields a whip to illustrate how he's a Drill Sergeant Nasty who puts his Pókemon through borderline abusive training, which Ash finds unacceptable.
- In "Holy Matrimony", James' arranged bride Jessiebelle uses a whip while trying to forcibly (and violently) make him act like a proper gentleman, further illustrating her ridiculously controlling nature.
- Prison School: Meiko Shiraki is the aggressive, sadistic and domineering Vice-President of the Underground Student Council and is the one in charge of guard duty during the boys' two months incarceration. She often carries a riding crop with her, not only as a symbol of her status but to complement her dominatrix-like elements. She often makes use of it when she wants to "discipline" or "punish" the prisoners.
- Project A-Ko: When B-ko dons a Dominatrix styled Leotard of Power to fight A-ko, she also summons a whip that she cornily names "Black Jacovini Shooting Star Lash!" and she later uses a whip again when she and A-ko are bickering in The VS. It's a weapon fitting for her domineering Rich Bitch personality.
- Puni Puni☆Poemi: Itsue Aasu wields a whip as her weapon, due to the fact she actually works as a dominatrix, and she has expected the bossy and domineering attitude.
- Ragnarok the Animation: Jiltus' main weapon is a whip, fitting with her being a Dominatrix-themed antagonist with a sadistic streak and donning a black leather Stripperiffic outfit.
- Reborn! (2004):
- Subverted in regards to Dino. While he's the head of a mafia family and poses with his whip in a way to give him a ruthless image, he's actually a major Benevolent Boss and comically, while he's proficient with the whip in the presence of his subordinates, he's a total klutz with it when they're not around and constantly flukes his swings, making him look very non-threatening.
- Iris Hepburn is the domineering member of the Millefiore Family who uses her custom Cat-o-nine-tails called Cloud Whip to be the slave driver of her own personal Battle Harem called the Deadly Stem Force, a quartet of Dumb Muscle fanboys utterly dedicated to her. If they get hit by her Cloud Whip they get so excited that they experience extreme muscle growth.
- Rokudou's Bad Girls: Yui Yashiya is a delinquent with a dominatrix motif, specializing in fighting with a whip, and is a major Combat Sadomasochist who gets a clear sexual thrill at repeatedly lashing "strong men".
- Rosario + Vampire: Ririko Kagome is a sexy lamia who's a Stern Teacher with heavy Dominatrix motif. And to complement that motif, she's often Dressed Like a Dominatrix and literally whips her students to give them "motivation". She can also do this with her lamia tail when she's in her real form.
- Sailor Moon:
- Monster of the Week Dogbar has the power to take control of any kind of animal and is appropriately armed with a whip to either control the animals or to deliver electric shocks.
- Sailor Lead Crow wields a whip in battle and is a bossy and domineering villainess whose outfit resembles that of a dominatrix. She doesn't actually use the whip very often, but she's often shown prominently with it in promotional material.
- VesVes is themed after a circus animal tamer, and uses a whip as her weapon. Notably, all of the Lemures that she summons has an animal-themed, and she seems to direct them with her whip.
- Tiger's Eye is an effeminate and domineering seducer who wields a whip in combat.
- Saint Seiya:
- Subverted with Chameleon June. While she fights with a whip and her skimpy armor has dominatrix-style spikes and heels, she actually has a kind and sweet nature.
- Snake Plasma Dione is a cruel, snobbish, and cowardly Smug Snake knight who fights with a plasma whip, and only wishes to fight opponents he considers to be an "easy kill", such as fighting Kiki under the belief he spent all his power repairing the saint cloths.
- Balron Lune is a strict, inflexible, and duty-obsessed Hades Spectre who serves as the personal assistant of the Judge of the Underworld, acting as his enforcer as well as a Judge, Jury, and Executioner. He wields a deadly Fire Whip when conducting his "Executioner" duties.
- Silent Möbius: Rosa's a haughty and sadistic villainess whose main weapon in combat is a magic whip she can manifest from thin air. She often uses it to constrain others.
- Slayers: In episode 11, Lina Inverse uses the spell Balus Rod to summon a whip and attacks a monster while shouting "Call me queen!". This is an Actor Allusion and Shout-Out to the Sorcerer Hunters anime as "Call me queen!" was the Character Catchphrase the Dominatrix Tira Misu (who like Lina is voiced by Megumi Hayashibara) yelled when using her whip on the monster forms of her Love Interest.
- Samurai Pizza Cats: Dee Dee/Madonna of the New York Pizza Cats is a domineering Heroic Seductress with a Dominatrix theme, complete with a Domino Mask and a whip wield she wields as her primary weapon, which is dubbed the "Kitty Whip". At least one of the crow mooks was into being whipped by her, heart-eyes and all.
Madonna [after whipping all of the Ninja Crows]: Call me, "Your Majesty"!
Ninja Crows: Oh, Your Majesty! - The Seven Deadly Sins: Galla is a domineering Minion Master who uses a whip that makes anything it strikes gigantic or to go berserk.
- The Severing Crime Edge: Ruka is a domineering girl who desperately desires power to stand above others and possesses a "pet whip" (it's like a riding crop but it's still called a whip) that magically dominates the will of those it hits.
- Sorcerer Hunters: Protagonist Carrot can transform into several giant beasts, but has little control over his form and has to be commanded by his two Love Interests, the sisters Tira and Chocola, both whip-wielding fighters note with Dominatrix tendencies and attire. They (usually Tira) usually have to literally whip him back into human form once the fighting is done, and the process often has heavy S&M overtones. They also tend to use their whips on him as punishment for when he's being a pervert or hitting on other women.
- Space Pirate Mito: The domineering space queen Hikari can use her powers to create energy whips which she uses in battle and when she wants to punish her subordinates.
- Spider Riders: Beerain is a high-ranking officer with a domineering demeanor and supremacist views who fights with a whip.
- SPYX Family: When Anya reads Fiona's mind when she's thinking about how she'd discipline Anya if she were her mother, both the audience and Anya are treated to an Imagine Spot of Fiona dressed like a Drill Sergeant Nasty and forcing Anya to study while cracking a whip around her in an impossibly high speed. This naturally terrifies Anya, who starts plotting against Fiona from that point forward.
- Sukeban Deka: Remi Mizuchi is a psychotic and sadistic Alpha Bitch who wields a whip as her weapon. When she actually uses the whip, she becomes so vicious her eyes actually change into Hellish Pupils.
- Tenchi Muyo!: Princess Ayeka may look like a Proper Lady but has a hidden perverted side as shown by her Image Song "Oujosama to Oyobi" (Oft translated as "Call Me Princess") which reveals her repressed domineering desires, with the lyrics mentioning whips several times: Prepare yourself! Here's the whip of love! I'll correct that slackened heart of yours with force. as well as C'mon, c'mon, no. Endure this pain. Scream at each whip. Kneel and beg forgiveness. Notably a whip is also her primary weapon in Tenchi Muyo! Game Hen.
- They Are My Noble Masters: Annoying Miyu often results in a whipping. However, she’s both pretty weak and the whip is designed not to really hurt, so the physical pain is pretty minor... unless the more enthusiastic Shinra uses it, at which point it really hurts and then starts to turn into BDSM play, much to Beni's annoyance.
- Time Stop Hero: The darkling commander Zaraza wields a whip for both combat and as a sign of her authority over the lesser darklings that she commands. She also has a sadistic and domineering persona and is always Dressed Like a Dominatrix.
- To Love Ru: Azenda the Tyrant is an arrogant and domineering assassin with Mind Control and Mind over Matter powers. To complement her "domineering" motif, she's given a whip as a weapon in her second appearance, though the whip itself doesn't seem to have any special powers.
- Toradora!: During the culture festival Ami gets Dressed Like a Dominatrix, complete with a long bullwhip that she teases she'll use to "punish" misbehaving students with, and she even cracks it when she wants the audience to quiet down. Amusingly, while most students think this is an act, it's only because she puts on a 'nice girl' facade at school and her "dominatrix" persona is more like her true personality, implying she picked it just so she could act like herself.
- Vandread: The Nirvana's deputy commander, Buzam is a woman with a firm, stern and authoritative demeanor. In episode 17 when she has to fight The Queenpin Liz, she surprises the crew when she reveals she's actually always carrying a bullwhip with her, with Pyoro even commenting that such a weapon suits her scary and domineering persona. In the ensuing fight, Buzam shows incredible skill with it, managing to outfight her opponent despite Liz having a more modern weapon, but Buzam also makes sure to keep a mocking smug smile on her face during the fight, just to make the experience more humiliating for Liz and establish dominance over her.
- Variable Geo: Anime-exclusive Mad Scientist Siritahi is a sadistic and domineering woman that personally tortures any intruders caught in her facility with her own personal whip, and in combination with mind-altering drugs, it causes the person to become Brainwashed and Crazy and under her thrall. It's made obvious she has a lecherous pleasure in the whipping, and she's even seen licking the wounds caused by her lashes. In addition, under her Labcoat of Science and Medicine she's Dressed Like a Dominatrix.
- The World God Only Knows: During the school's Mai-High Festival, resident Hot and Stern Teacher Yuri Nikaidō get Dressed Like a Dominatrix (it's supposed to be a demonic Cat Girl henchwoman) complete with a whip, which very much fits with her authoritative and domineering behavior. She herself is annoyed by it as this leads to some of the male students to openly ogle her, causing her to snap and use her whip on them and Keima notes that she seems like she's secretly enjoying it.
- In Astro City, Spice is a Dark Action Girl from the Unholy Alliance that fights with a large bullwhip, which gives her a Dominatrix air when combined with her black Hellbent For Leather outfit.
- Danger Girl: Played with. Sydney Savage is Femme Fatale Spy who's extremely skilled with a bullwhip and she has a visual dominatrix motif, with her black skintight leather Spy Catsuit with a Navel-Deep Neckline and high-heeled boots. But while she's a Heroic Seductress she prefers to pretend to be submissive to trick her opponents rather than act domineering, although according to Johnny, she makes good use of her whip prowess in the bedroom. Kamizake also shows her using her whip to tame a wild crocodile (and it seems to literally fall in love with her).
- The DCU:
- Batman:
- Many incarnations of Catwoman have her wielding a whip in combat, to denote her character being a seductive Femme Fatale with a domineering attitude that has most of her costumes designs have a skintight black leotard that clearly invokes a Dominatrix motif, and it's to be expected that when she fights Batman with a whip, she will make flirtatious banter with allusions to bondage and S&M. One of her (many) backstories even had her being a sex worker who worked as a dominatrix and was very skilled with the whip. It's worth noting that the movies and cartoons always show her with a bullwhip, when in the comics, she normally uses a cat o' nine tails (a whip with multiple ends tied to metal balls), to fit with her Animal Motif.
- Whip, the lone female member of the Seven Men of Death uses a whip as a weapon and the only piece of characterization given to her is that she's something of a cold Jerkass who's not above whipping a teammate to death because he's no longer of use to the league.
- After Stiletta from Hex got captured, she was Reforged into a Minion and became a whip-wielding Dominatrix-themed gladiatrix called "Blonde Spitfire".
- New Gods: Lashina of the Female Furies has electrically charged steel whips that can extend, retract, and wrap around targets. Her costume is purposedly designed to resemble a dominatrix and Depending on the Writer, she can have a sadistic and domineering personality.
- Wonder Woman:
- In Wonder Woman (1942), the authoritative and domineering Nazi spymistress Paula von Gunther used both whips and guns as her weapons.
- In Wonder Woman (1987), whips are commonly used by Sangtee Empire slave drivers, and the Emperor used one to non-lethally put down slave revolts prior to their ascension. Emperor Sangtee's skill with it made it their signature weapon though they're good with a gun too.
- Eviless, the founder and leader of Villainy Incorporated introduced in Wonder Woman (1942), is a cruel and domineering Saturnian galactic slaver who uses a whip as her primary weapon and often threatens to give A Taste of the Lash to both her subordinates and her slaves. Her character was rebooted in Wonder Woman (Rebirth), now called "Saturna", she is now a ruthless whip-wielding militia commander, whose black leather outfit is akin to a dominatrix.
- Savage Fire introduced in Wonder Woman (Rebirth) is a sadistic and domineering war goddess who fights with a flaming whip and is Dressed Like a Dominatrix.
- Shelly Gaynor is the grandaughther of a Golden Age hero called The Whip. During Seven Soldiers she resurrected the name and became a whip-wielding heroine, but unlike her grandpa, she had a Dominatrix theme thanks to her Stripperiffic leather costume.
- Batman:
- Empowered:
- Divangelic is a Conjoined Twins superhero with a angel/devil motif, each half representing one. Vanity, the "devil" side is Dressed Like a Dominatrix and wields a bullwhip as her weapon.
- A gag one-shot BDSM-themed villain called "Rum Sodomy and Lash" fights with a whip. He used to just be "The Lash" and part of a villain trio, but the other two quit so he took the full name, as well as all their fetish gimmicks.
- Femforce:
- Lady Luger fights with a whip as one of her primary weapons, fitting with her being a domineering Nazi villainess with a Stripperiffic uniform that has a Navel-Deep Neckline.
- No-Nose Nanette is a whip-wielding Dominatrix gangster that is appropriately Dressed Like a Dominatrix and has the nasty sadistic personality to match.
- In the G.I. Joe: Movie Prequel comic, The Baroness, as domineering and sadistic as ever, displays a previously unsuspected facility with a bullwhip while taming a white tiger trying to devour her. She's so good with it that she manages to tame it into being her Attack Animal for the rest of her mission, and she also uses the whip as a weapon a few times.
- The titular character of Lady Rawhide is Dressed Like a Dominatrix with her Stripperiffic outfit that screams dominance and authority reinforced by her use of whips as her primary weapon; one which she wields with consummate skill.
- Marvel Universe:
- Hussar is a stoic, stern, and authoritative Imperial Guard of the Shi'ar Empire who wields a Lightning Lash in battle, and often talks about using her whip to make her enemies subjugate to her authority.
- Ophelia Sarkkissia/Madame Hydra is a authoritative, domineering and sadistic villainess who's famous for her deadly skill with a bullwhip. She often has other more technologically advanced weapons, but the whip is iconic to her character if only because it gives her a sadistic/dominative aesthetic.
- Earth-1720 has the Empress Hydra, which is a Composite Character of Susan Storm and Madame Hydra, and she's a sadistic and domineering villainess who's Dressed Like a Dominatrix and wields a whip in combat.
- Heidi P. Franklin/Pretty Persuasions of New Warriors is a former stripper turned villainess that has a blatant Dominatrix motif, not only due to her flirtatious personality and suggestive attire but because her powers have her manifest her own libido as a psionic weapons, but the most common was a whip. She could then use it to overload the pleasure centers of anyone that got entangled in it.
- Shang-Chi: The villainess Pavane fights with a whip, complementing her Dominatrix motif and animal-tamer abilities, as she uses the whip to issue orders to her panthers. In her first appearance, it's cat o' nine tails, but it varies a bit later. At one point Leiko directly calls her "the kinky lady".
- X-Men:
- Madelyne Pryor briefly became a sadomasochist sedusctress who went by Red Queen in Uncanny X-Men and was seen wielding a psychic energy whip when "punishing" her lovers.
- Suvik Senyaka is the most hateful and sadistic of Magneto's Acolytes, and his mutant power gives him psionic energy whips that can sap the life of those struck by him, something he delights in doing, especially when his victims are humans.
- Verre is a minor mutant villainess under the employ of the Sublime Corporation in Uncanny X-Men. She was a seductive Femme Fatale that was Dressed Like a Dominatrix and fought with an urumi whip.
- Leash is one of the Savage Land Mutates, and has a Dominatrix motif and not only carries a bullwhip as her personal weapon but also uses a psychic leash to bind the psyches and souls of other people to her will, allowing her to control them like People Puppets. She's also mentioned to be the overseer of Brainchild's slaves.
- Julia Koenig/Warrior Woman from The Invaders (Marvel Comics) is a corrupted Wonder Woman Wannabe, and as such wields a whip instead of a lasso. She is also a sadistic Nazi officer and an Amazonian Beauty dressed in a skimpy leather outfit which gives her a heavy Dominatrix motif.
- Many of the incarnations of Whiplash/Blacklash fit this trope:
- Iron Man rogue Mark Scarlotti (better known as Whiplash/Blacklash) always wielded a Lightning Lash as his gimmick, but never fit any other criteria for this trope, until an attempt to revamp his character in Iron Man volume 3 had him take a BDSM-theme and he started dressing up in bondage gear, including a mask with a zipper for the mouth hole. He also shifted into a much more sadistic personality, with his dialogue focusing on hurting Iron Man. He actually remained that way until his death in the same volume.
- A few years after, Leeanne Foreman was introduced and took up the name Whiplash, being a villainess that could dual wield whips. Since she was part of a C-List Fodder group of villainesses her first few appearances didn't characterize her. In Hunt for Wolverine she changed her villain name to "Snake Whip" and was given a more sexualized appearance and icy demeanor. She also had an aggressive and sadistic personality when fighting the heroes with her whips but is shown to have an submissive dynamic with her boss Madame Viper, always being on her side performing trivial tasks and referring to her as "mistress".
- In Thunderbolts there was another attempt to make a Whiplash successor with an unnamed Outlaw Couple that took the villain names Whiplash/Blacklash, and both were Lightning Lash-wielding villains with a shared kink for BDSM were dressed the part. But they were just C-List Fodder that only appeared twice before being forgotten.
- Rulah, Jungle Goddess: In "Frenzy of the Dishonored Idol!" (Zoot Comics #10), the main villain is a Rich Bitch white woman named Borden who is an Identical Stranger to Rulah, and decides to take advantage of this by making herself an exact double of Rulah, including the giraffe skin FurBikini and pretending to be her. She also carries a whip with which she is an expert at using, and she uses it on the natives to force them to do what she wants. It is this whip usage that enables the more observant characters to identify her as the fake Rulah, as Rulah would never use a whip to make others submit to her.
- Sachs & Violens: J.J. Sachs' is a Dominatrix-themed heroine whose primary weapon is bullwhip that she wields with a surprising degree of accuracy thanks to her previous career in softcore porn.
- The Shadow: In the Fires Of Creation storyline, The Shadow's recurring foe is The Black Sparrow; a Femme Fatale that's Dressed Like a Dominatrix and the head of the gun-smuggling outfit The Shadow is trying to put down. Her primary weapon is the whip, which she tries strangling The Shadow with multiple times.
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Lien-da was seen with a whip during the 'Return To Angel Island' arc. Though she mostly used it for flirting, the entire outfit she'd been given for that arc was designed to resemble a dominatrix.
- Modesty Blaise: In "The Young Mistress", Bruce Lacey is a major Sadist who always carries a riding crop with him and has the habit of lashing at people who displease him. He even frequently does this to his girlfriend and partner Marion, who eventually seeks the help of Modesty to deal with him.
- The Phantom: The second-ever story arc of the newspaper strip ("The Sky Band") featured a female Sky Pirate captain known only as "The Baroness" and she had a ruthless and domineering demeanor and often carried a whip with her, and would use to it discipline her disobedient subordinates.
- Frozen Hearts (Sakume): When the older brothers of Prince Hans are discussing how to punish him for the attempted regicide of Queen Elsa, Prince Harken, who is known for being a major Sadist and Torture Technician, has his Establishing Character Moment when he not only proposes giving Hans A Taste of the Lash but also eagerly volunteers to do it himself with his new custom cat-of-nine-tails whip that has glass shards stuck in the leather, "guaranteed to cleave flesh with each stroke." The other princes flat-out reject this proposal, for good reason:
Horatio: The last man Father placed you in charge of whipping died the next day.
Harken: Exactly. That should tell you how much I need the practice. - For her appearance in the Diva Delight costume battle royal in the pro wrestling story Hello Again, Molly Holly came to the ring Dressed Like a Dominatrix, complete with a whip that she playfully cracked at the announcer's table.
- An ISOT in Grimdark: Areta Bane liberally applies the whip to unruly Dark Elves under her command. She ends up having to do it more often once the Black Company's growing fame results in higher-echelon Dark Elves signing up for it, ones with more privileges than the original group which leads to mindsets she needs to (literally) beat out of them.
- Top of the Line (Editor-Bug): Purple happily whips the construction drones building the tournament arena's challenge areas, more for fun than to encourage their work.
- Umbra from Vow of Nudity is a cruel slaver, and correspondingly wields a whip that can sprout spikes with the press of a button.
- Prince Achmed in Aladdin is a self-centered, classist man whose Establishing Character Moment is pulling out a whip and trying to attack two poor children with it just for running in front of his horse.
- Animal Farm (1954): Farmer Jones uses a chain whip to stop his livestock from eating, showing he has control over the animals. The livestock had quite enough of his abuse and scare him away.
- Batman: Gotham by Gaslight: Although she isn't Catwoman here, Selina Kyle is still highly skilled with a whip and is shown to carry it with her as a weapon of self-defense. Bruce deduces that she used to be a lion tamer at a circus and is simply taking advantage of her skill with the tool to use as a weapon, and she confirms it. This is also used to explain her acrobatics and fondness for cats.
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: The Grinch forces his dog Max to drive the sleigh to Whoville by hitting him with the whip, illustrating his cruelty, as a non-Jerkass dog sledder only uses the whip crack for commands, not to actually hit the dogs.
- Pinocchio: The Coachman always carries a whip with him, and while he obviously makes use of it in his titular job as a coachman, he makes far more use of it when his true nature as a child slaver and starts to prominently to cracking the whip in an intimidating fashion to both donkey-turned-boys and also the order his around his minions.
- The Prince of Egypt: As expected from a movie about slavery, whip-wielding overseers are often present in the scenes featuring the Hebrew slaves, and their usage of the whip is constantly emphasized throughout the movie as symbolic of Egypt's oppression over their slaves. Notable examples include the very opening song "Deliver Us", which is sung by the Hebrew slaves as they toil in the desert sun, and the lyrics are purposedly punctuated by the crack of the overseers' whips, the camera often lingering on the welts of the whips marking on the backs of slaves and Moses breaking point as being witness to a particularly cruel taskmaster mercilessly whipping an elderly slave as punishment for not being able to work.
- Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure: Babette seems like a Damsel in Distress in the earlier parts of the story but when she takes over the pirate ship in the climax, she also gets a whip to illustrate her Xenafication and newfound dominance over the crew as their new captain.
- The Return of the King: As Frodo and Sam make their way across Mordor, they encounter an army of Slave Mooks Orcs singing a marching song "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way" note . The lyrics have the orcs lamenting that they don't want to march off to battle but their commander's whip, which cracks at the end of each line, compels them forward. At one point they even refer to themselves as the slaves of the Dark Lord. While the song is very goofy, it serves to illustrate the oppressive hierarchy of orc society.
We don't want to go to war today,
But the Lord of the Lash says, "Nay, nay, nay"!
We're gonna march all day, all day, all day!
For where there's a whip, there's a way! - Tom and Jerry: The Movie: The villainous Dr. Applecheek intimidates the kidnapped pets in his basement by cracking his horsewhip around the cages multiple times while doing a maniacal Evil Laugh.
- 8½: During Guido's harem fantasy, he uses a whip against the girls to "keep them in line" when they start rebelling, although one of them is just Too Kinky to Torture.
- Austin Powers: The Baroness Frau Farbissina is a domineering female officer who's always carrying a riding crop with her, and her hobby is being a Dominatrix.
- Baby Doll Silva is always carrying a riding crop with him, which gives him a commanding aura. He uses to intimidate Baby Doll when he interrogates her about the arson, swatting her with it a few times, though he claims he's "swatting flies".
- Bad Girls: To highlight Kid's sadistic and cruel nature, he uses a whip at several points, such as to capture Lily after the Gatling gun heist or when he ruthlessly whips Cody after being reunited with her, as revenge for running from him. It's implied he has a habit of doing this with women, often before raping them, as a way to establish his dominance over them.
- Batman Film Series:
- Batman Forever: Two-Face's female henchwoman Spice fights with a whip to complement her Dominatrix theme alongside her cold and domineering behavior as well as being Dressed Like a Dominatrix with her skimpy leather corset, spiked choker, and fishnets.
- Batman Returns: Catwoman's weapon of choice is a whip, and she is shown to be quite proficient in its use a few times, often in a kinky manner. Not only does she have a sensual and domineering attitude but her outfit in the film is a skintight bodysuit held together with white stitching that is meant to make her look like a Dominatrix.
- Ben-Hur (1959):
- The scene on the Roman Slave Galley has considerable whipping of the rowing slaves. When Quintus Arrius comes aboard, he notices Judah for his defiant air. After speaking with him, Arrius suddenly turns and whips him to see his reaction. Then he begins ordering the ship to faster and faster speeds, the taskmasters going about "motivating" other slaves in the background.
- During the chariot race, Messala rides with a whip which he uses frequently on his team. This actually leads to his downfall as he rides up next to Judah and begins beating him with the whip, not noticing that their wheels have gotten interlocked so when Judah finally pulls away, he rips Messala's wheel right off, leaving him dangling from the reins as another team comes up behind him and tramples him underfoot.
- The Bold Caballero: Sebastian Golle is a sadistic and ruthless Commandante of the local army who tyrannically oppresses the local native population, including personally whipping them for tax evasion, something that horrifies Isabella. Many of his men also wield whips, implying whipping the natives is a common method to keep them in line. Zorro seems to make a point of stealing the whips and using them on the soldiers whenever he can.
- Brotherhood of the Wolf: Jean-François wields a Whip Sword made from an animal spine that can break apart into a scourge-like whip, which is a fitting weapon for a sadistic psychopathic Beastmaster like him.
- Cartouche: Malichot's favorite weapon is a whip, which he uses to subdue Venus when she resists him, and on his own men to assert his authority.
- Catwoman (2004): After Patience Phillips adopts the Catwoman identity, she starts wielding a whip as her primary weapon, which combined with her Stripperiffic black leather costume gives her heavy dominatrix vibes, supposedly to illustrate how she embraced her new bold and sexually confident personality.
- Charlie's Angels (2000): In order to get access to a security room in the Red Star firm, the Angels infiltrate the building while Alex pretends to be an efficiency expert there to train the software engineers. But for an extra distraction (and for Fanservice) Alex plays a Dominatrix type of instructor, complete with a domineering attitude, a skintight black ensemble and a large riding crop that she constantly whips around to make a point, complete with a loud whipcrack sound effect whenever she does. Naturally, all of the horny tech nerds get completely enraptured by her and she causes enough of a commotion that Natalie and Dylan can sneak around undetected.
- Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle: When the Angels are going undercover as strip dancers in a bar, Alex once again plays the role of a Dominatrix, this time with an actual whip that she cracks around, and even uses it to spank Dylan and Natalie.
- Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.: The Robomen are the main enforcers to the Dalek invaders, and carry whips to both control the enslaved population and as weapons when dealing with the rebels during the assault on the saucer. Ironically the Robomen themselves are Slave Mooks who went through Unwilling Roboticisation.
- In Deep in the Valley, Suzi Diablo carries a riding crop as part of her Dressed Like a Dominatrix look, and uses it to inflict multiple Groin Attacks on Lester.
- Disco Godfather: One of the assassins sent after Tucker is a sadistic whip-toting cowboy who openly admits he has a fetish for whipping people.
- Django Unchained: Big John Brittle, the slave overseer of the Carrucan plantation where Django and Broomhilda once were, is a major sadist and racist who seems to take special joy in wielding his whip and enjoys personally giving A Taste of the Lash to slaves that make even trivial mistakes, such as whipping a young woman for breaking eggs. When Django gets hold of his whip after gunning him down, he wastes no time in using it in retributive fashion on Little Roger Brittle before gunning him down too.
- Double Dragon (1994): Just like the games, Linda Lash is a leather clad Dark Action Girl who fights with a whip to give her a domineering aura and a BDSM motif.
- Drive 1997: One of the villains uses a whip to nasty effect on the hero's black sidekick Malik Brody during one of the final showdowns, even calling him "boy" as an old-style slave-driver would. When Malik turns the tables on him, he tells him off as he delivers a savage beating of his own with the butt of a gun:
Malik Brody: You pulled a whip on me? Are you out of your fucking mind? Let me tell you something — DON'T YOU EVER PULL A WHIP ON A BLACK MAN AGAIN!
- The Forbidden Kingdom: The White-Haired Witch Ni Chang is Dark Action Girl who wields a whip as her primary weapon and is even able to use her own Prehensile Hair as a whip if disarmed, complementing her cold, domineering, and ruthless personality that seems to take joy in beating down her opponents, often having a taunting and smug expression in her face whenever she has the upper hand.
- Frankenstein (1931): Fritz is a Psychopathic Manchild who takes sadistic joy in tormenting the Monster by mercilessly whipping it, symbolic of him finally having someone "below" him to bully as he pleases. Until the Monster has enough.
- Forty Guns: Jessica Drummond is an authoritative, ruthless, and domineering Cattle Baron who often has a riding crop in her hand, and is even shown hitting her brother with it when he's being a dumbass.
- Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire: The Skar King is a tyrannical despot who rules over the other great ape Titans with an iron fist and keeps his enslaved subjects in line through fear. Fittingly, his badge of office and weapon of choice is a lengthy spinal cord which he wields like a whip.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: In the first part of the finale, Bellatrix Lestrange starts violently attacking a bunch of Snatchers with a whip conjured from her wand, just to punish them for not giving them the Golden Trio's wands as she ordered. For bonus points, Bellatrix is Dressed Like a Dominatrix with her tight black leather dress. Notably in the books, she simply punished them via a stunning spell, making it clear this adaptation gave her a whip just for the dominatrix/sadism aesthetic.
- If Looks Could Kill: Steranko personal assistant and assassin Ilsa Grunt is a ruthless, sadistic, and cold woman whose weapon of choice is a whip that she usually wears like an unassuming necklace, but can unfurl into a razor-sharp metallic bullwhip.
- James Bond:
- From Russia with Love: The film adaptation gives Colonel Rosa Klebb a riding crop during the scene where she interrogates Tatiana, to make her look even more authoritarian and imposing. Klebb uses it to great effect, lashing it on the table or in the chair when she wants to make a point.
- Licence to Kill: Franz Sanchez is a Sadistic criminal who has a personal whip made from a stingray's tail and seems to frequently use it on his mistress to "discipline" her and keep her "in line". One scene has Bond seeing her Toplessness from the Back and being horrified by the whip marks that cover her back.
- A Kid from Tibet: The Sorcerer's Sister is a stern and domineering Dark Action Girl clad in a dark Hell-Bent for Leather outfit and uses a whip as her primary weapon. She is also prone to use it to lash or strangle anyone who disrespects her brother and seems to enjoy playing with her opponents.
- The Man Who Came Back: Even though slavery has officially ended, Billy Duke still carries a whip as he did when he was a slave owner and is not afraid to use it on his freed workers to keep them in line.
- Matilda: Expanded from its role in the book, Miss Trunchbull carries her riding crop almost everywhere as a symbol of authority, often smacking it on surfaces to get the children's attention or to drive home a point.
- Miracle: In preparation for taking on the Soviet hockey team, at the time the undisputedly best team on the planet eight years running, Herb Brooks puts his players through a grueling regiment to get their skill level and their ability to work together to a point that they can actually challenge the Russians. At Christmas time the guys get him and his assistant coach, Craig Patrick, gifts to "thank" them for their efforts. For Craig, they get a toy whistle (he's the one who sends them on their "herbie" exercises with a whistle blast), and for Herb, they get a whip.
Herb: Oh, yes. The gift that keeps on giving.
- Pirates of the Caribbean:
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: Jimmy Legs, the Bosun of the Flying Dutchman is a violent stonefish man who carries a whip that he's all too happy to use on Will Turner for (he thinks) dropping a cannon onto the deck. When Will's father Bootstrap tries defending him, Davy Jones merely decides to punish them both, and upon learning their relationship, he happily forces Bootstrap into a Sadistic Choice of either whipping his son himself or letting Jimmy Legs do it. Bootstrap tells a naturally angry Will afterwards why he had to do the whipping instead:
Bootstrap: The Bosun prides himself on cleaving flesh from bone, with every swing!
Will: So I am to understand that what you did was an act of compassion?!
Bootstrap: Yes!- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Blackbeard's Gunner is a Scary Black Man whose primary duty is to intimidate, discipline, and force the human crewmates on the ship to work, which is why he's often seen with a cat o' nine tails whip, which he ruthlessly makes use of. The process that turned him into Voodoo Zombie (to keep him loyal and compliant to Blackbeard's willpower) also apparently made him permanently foul-tempered, because his first scene consists of him walking around the deck of the Queen Anne's Revenge, violently whipping any deckhands who aren't scrubbing to his satisfaction. Just goes to show, Blackbeard's officers are as much bad bosses as he is.
- In Prehistoric Women, both Queen Kari and her guard captain use whips as weapons to assert their dominance over the slaves.
- A Princesa Xuxa e os Trapalhões: Ratan, the main villain of the film and the Evil Overlord of planet Antar, wields an energy whip in the final fight against Princess Xaron and the Nameless Knight.
- The Princess (2022): The Baroness Moira is a skilled whip-wielder with a sadistic and domineering personality who has a black leather attire. She even uses the whip to strangle people.
- Real Men: Nick Pirandello meets a meek-looking young woman at a bar and accepts an invite to her place, where he finds her in dominatrix gear and cracking a whip saying, "On your knees, worm!" The ensuing scene is a montage of her subjecting him to various other forms of S&M, but whipping is the most prominent. Later, after the session is over, he asks her when it's his turn, and she replies, "This is your turn!"
- Revenge of the Pink Panther: After returning to his apartment following a long evening out, Inspector Clouseau finds that in his absence, his manservant Kato has turned the place into a Chinese-themed brothel. The Madam, mistaking Clouseau for a customer, summons Tanya the Lotus Eater, a Caucasian Dominatrix carrying a whip, who immediately starts beating and snaring Clouseau repeatedly, right after he foolishly tries telling her that he's opposed to women's liberation. Needless to say, Tanya is definitely a take-charge lady.
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Dr. Frank is a domineering Agent Peacock villain who owns a whip, and uses it mercilessly on Riff Raff after he lets Rocky escape. He's even Dressed Like a Dominatrix when he does it.
- The Rundown: Hatcher's three toughest goons all use whips as their weapons. Given they're effectively slavers, it's not only effective symbolism but also a practical choice.
- The Super Inframan: Princess Dragon Mom is a domineering and supremacist monarch of a monster army who wields a whip as her favored weapon, often brandishing it for emphasis when giving out orders.
- Tom-Yum-Goong: Big Bad Madame Rose carries a whip. fitting with her being a ruthless and domineering Dragon Lady. She uses it to intrude in Kham's fight against the Giant Mook at the Final Battle.
- The Warrior's Way: The Colonel is a vile Soft-Spoken Sadist who uses a whip as one of his weapons. Notably, he tortures and humiliates Ron by wrapping the whip's lash around him and then dragging him through the town behind his horse.
- Ziegfeld Follies (1945): The Here's to the Beautiful Girls musical number features model Lucille Ball cracking a whip to coordinate a chorus of girls dressed in sexy panthers outfits.
- Angels of Music: One of Kate Reed's bizarre findings in her investigation of the Montmartre neighborhood is some attractive nuns wielding riding crops while giving their sermons, while also wearing fishnets under their habits.
- Animal Farm has the pigs start to carry whips to show their overt abandonment of animal equality, immediately before we see the Seven Commandments replaced with the single law, "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
- Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest: Played for Laughs. Minor character Taeko Sugawara was an Ordinary High-School Student but after she was Trapped in Another World and she took the job of "Whip Master", she notably began to develop Sadist and Dominatrix tendencies the better she got with the whip. It's unknown if this is a side effect or if handling a whip just awoke that hidden side of her personality.
- A Certain Magical Index: Silvia is a whip-wielding domineering woman with a sadistic streak. She has a habit of whipping Ollerus when he annoys her.
- The Dark Elf Trilogy: The domineering Drow priestesses of Lolth all use whips, as it is the favored weapon of their goddess. Six-thonged, living, snake-headed whips that deliver poison when they bite. As a tyrannical Matriarchy society, drow priestesses often whip young male drow to hammer in their status as second-class citizens. Drizzt was raised and mentored by his older sister Vierna Do'Urden (a priestess of Lolth) and while she was a stern and authoritative teacher, she was considered "soft" on him by their elder sister Briza (a high priestess of Lolth who was far more sadistic) who pressured Vierna into starting to using the lash when he made mistakes to "motivate" him and teach him how to have been submissive to the supremacy of female drow. Vierna reluctantly complied and started to whip him when he made grave mistakes, which wielded results, but also damaged their relationship.
- The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time: Ervine wields a whip made from an antennae of the Demon King to highlight his sadistic tendencies and superiority complex against everyone else. In contrast, Van is not above using the whip in combat but finds more utility in using the antennae to communicate better with insects.
- The Demon Princes: Darsh males are famed for their prowess with the whip and their culture has several sadomasochist and domineering tendencies. A traditional art form on their planet, Dar Sai, is a dance where nude young men are whipped into performing acrobatic maneuvers by an older male. Very young men - the Darsh culture is essentially one of institutionalized paederasty, bordering on (if not crossing over into) pedophilia. The Fourth demon prince, Lens Larque is supposedly an "artist" with his whip but we never get to see him use it.
- Deverry: Played for Laughs. At one point Raena attacks Rhodry with a whip, for no apparent reason other than to continue her theme of trying and failing to be a stereotypical sexy villainess. Turns out, a whip isn't a particularly practical weapon, especially when you've no particular training with one, and Raena keeps getting it tangled up.
- An Ember in the Ashes: Keris Veturia, the Commandant of Blackcliff Academy, has a whip as her favorite weapon, fitting for her cold, authoritative, and merciless nature. She's said to be quite ruthless to her students, but is particularly cruel to her slaves, forcing them to refer to themselves only as their role and personally punishes them with her whip if they use their own names.
- The Eminence in Shadow: Lambda is a strict, no-nonsense training instructor, and wields a whip in combat to reflect how disciplined-minded she is.
- The Faerie Queene: What weapon could Scorn itself use to torture its captives other than a whip?
- For Your Eyes Only: Krest keeps a stingray tail as a whip, which he personally dubbed as "The Corrector", which he uses to punish his wife for perceived slights on her place in his household.
- The Four Gospels: In John's account of the cleansing of the temple as he starts his ministry, Jesus does it wielding a whip of cordsnote . After this, the Jews ask for a sign from him, while after the other instance, the elders ask what authority he does this by. He refuses to answer directly, but it's made clear, he is the authority here.
- In Helliconia Winter, Uuundaamp uses a whip to direct the asokins (horned dogs) that pull his sled. He also wields it in self-defense, and to haul open the gate of a kennel to turn several other sledge-drivers' ravenous asokins loose on his pursuers.
- The Kingdom and the Crown: The cleansing of the temple is portrayed from the point of view of some of the people there that day. They watch Jesus overturn the money tables, order the merchandise taken out of the temple, and how anyone who works up the nerve to challenge him quickly capitulates after a crack from the whip.
- Kushiel's Legacy: The Mandrake House adepts are sadomasochists who are skilled with using whips to extract both pain and pleasure.
- Ōkami-san: Momoko Kibitsu wields a pair of whips, is the head of the school's discipline committee (despite being in violation of at least seven rules and two of the Ten Commandments, herself) and, in reference to the story of Momotaro, has three followers who would willingly and gladly give their lives for her "dumplings".
- Overlord (2012): Aura is a Fluffy Tamer, and quite proficient with a whip, being able to use to it train and control beasts as well as being capable of using it in combat to personally slice up enemies. Ironically her appearance and personality are the opposite of what one expects from a whip wielder, being a tomboyish Genki Girl, although she's surprisingly dominant in her dynamic with her older brother Mare.
- In the novelization of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, one of the ways "Robbin' Big" Jack Horner's status as a Bad Boss is cemented is the fact he carries a whip with him, which he uses to sadistically whip his men and unicorns as they're navigating through a murky swamp.
- Rebel Planet: Some Arcadian soldiers use whips as their main weapons, mostly for torture and intimidation purposes, to keep the Earth population "docile".
- Redwall (1986): The Big Bad of the novel is a brutal rat warlord and slaver known as Cluny the Scourge, so named for his long whip-like tail - and his tendency to use it as an actual whip against captives and combatants alike. For good measure, he also equips it with a venom-tipped barb in battle.
- The Saint: The Dragon of The Million Pound Day is a sadistic man who uses a whip as his favorite instrument of torture. At the orders of the Big Bad, he tries to use it on a (for once) tightly and efficiently bound Saint. Unfortunately for both underling and mastermind, the first stroke of the whip sets off a rage rising to temporary insanity that allows Simon to break his bonds. Simon then goes on to beat him with the whip.
- The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System: Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong: Fitting with her being a temperamental Spoiled Brat the weapon of choice of the Little Palace Mistress is a whip. In the original canon, she would use it to assert her dominance over Luo Binghe's other wives if they had his attention for too long.
- The Shadowhunter Chronicles: Isabelle Lightwood is a haughty, bossy, alluring, and somewhat snobbish Shadowhunter whose primary weapon is an enchanted whip made of electrum (an alloy of gold and silver) that is able to cut through flesh and bone. And despite her girly personality, she actually really enjoys using it while Demon Slaying, and the fact she tends to fight with utter confidence while wearing dresses and Combat Stilettos also gives her a domineering air.
- A Song of Ice and Fire:
- Due to The Social Darwinist culture of the Dothraki, whips play a big part in their society. Whips are wielded by khalasar in order to control and punish their slaves, as well as their horses, and whips can also serve as weapons for high-ranking bloodriders. A silver-handled whip is a traditional gift at a Khal's wedding, given to his new bride, though she is expected to refuse and offer them to her new husband, as a sign of her being submissive to his authority. In the narrative, Jhogo, one of Drogo's bloodriders, is particularly skilled with the whip, and inherits Drogo's silver-handled whip when Dany asks him to become her bloodrider after Drogo dies.
- In A Storm of Swords, when Daenerys buys a Badass Army of slaves, it's represented by the transfer of an ornate whip. As soon as she has it in hand, she lashes the slave master across the face and orders the army to kill its former owners.
- Star Wars Legends:
- Admiral Leonia Tavira is a character that appears in both X-Wing Rogue Squadron and I, Jedi, being an ex-Imperial commander turned space pirate queen with a confident, domineering and dangerously seductive personality. Her Iconic Item is a quirt whip she's always carrying with her, and despite her petite appearance, her confident persona and the way she wields the whip are often intimidating enough to make her the scariest thing even in a room full of imperial soldiers who tower over her. She's fond of using the quirt as a prod to invade the personal space of the people she's talking down to, using it to poke them or make them turn their heads. If someone ends up displeasing her, she will use it to lash them right in the face.
- Lady Lumiya of Star Wars (Marvel 1977) and Legacy of the Force is a Dark Side assassin with a cold, domineering, and merciless personality. Fittingly, she wields a lightwhip instead of a lightsaber, which has multiple tendrils that are made of both materials such as beskar and lightsaber energy. While extremely rare, lightwhips have been used across the timeline by various other Dark Action Girls, most commonly with the savage, matriarchal Dathomiri Nightsisters.
- Strike the Blood: Gigliora Ghirardi is a vampire with domineering vibes and a Stripperiffic attire who wields a custom magic whip called "Rosa Zombiemaker", which can enslave everyone remotely close to its impact. It even works on Familiars like Vatler's Sagara.
- Sweet Ermengarde: Morally Bankrupt Banker Squire Hardman carries a riding crop with him as a symbol of his high status and villainy. He's described to be often twisting it or swishing it around.
- The Talisman: Osmond, Morgan of Orris's right-hand man, carries a very nasty whip similar to a cat o' nine tails, and demonstrates his sadistic side by whipping a wagon driver to death for the crime of spilling a load of ale.
- Tolkien's Legendarium: The hierarchy of the Orc's Always Chaotic Evil society prominently features a sadistic whip-wielding superior, be it a Drill Sergeant Nasty captain who's ruthlessly disciplining his men or forcing them into combat, to a taskmaster who's overseeing the slaves and dealing out punishments and torture. This is particularly emphasized in an incident Return of the King (in the book as well as the film) where Sam and Frodo are disguised as Orcs in order to approach Mount Doom, but end up being found by an Orc patrol while they were lying down in the side of the road resting. The Orc captain stays behind and starts whipping the Hobbits until they get up and join the forced marching, giving the quote "Where there's a whip there's a will", which is apparently the orc motto about hard work and perseverance. The quote actually inspired the catchy Villain Song in the The Return of the King animated film called "Where There's a Whip, There's a Way".
- Tortall Universe: In Beka Cooper, Achoo is famous for being the best guard scent hound in the city but is treated very cruelly by his handler Ercole Hempstead, who constantly whips her. When Pounce and Beka witnessed this one day, they were both horrified and promptly strongarmed Escole into giving Achoo to them instead.
- Unique: Invoked by Ophelia. Her clubbing outfit resembles so much what a dominatrix would wear that she points out that all that is missing to complete the look is a whip.
- Venus in Furs: Played with. The core of Severin and Wanda's S&M is her whipping him. But he is the one that's being dominant and pushed Wanda to do it, and she's not very comfortable with it... at first. Eventually, she does turn into a Dominatrix of the very Sadist kind, and her whipping sessions actually start really hurting Severin, and he starts having second thoughts.
- War of the Spider Queen: As expected from a priestess of Lolth, Quenthel Baenre is a domineering, haughty, and sadistic drow who wields the famed Snake Whip that is a status symbol among the clergy. Hers is a bit more special, as it has the essence of five imps attached to each of the snake heads, making it an Empathic Weapon that she can communicate with.
- The Wheel of Time: Liandrin Guirale carries a whip to illustrate her nature as a Sadist who is obsessed with power and dominance, taking great joy in forcing people to grovel before her.
- The Wingfeather Saga: The Overseer of the Fork Factory uses a whip to keep his "tools" in line, and for punishment.
- Alias: "Phase One" opens with Sydney playing the part of a call girl to appease her target, with her being Dressed Like a Dominatrix, complete with a riding crop that she brandishes suggestively. But the target isn't into it and tells her to change into something else, as he apparently doesn't like being submissive to women. She comically gets peeved about this and brings it up later as she's garroting him.
- Andro Melos Gina is a domineering Dark Action Girl whose custom weapon is a Bat Whip. She used it to whip her henchmen for their failures and as a weapon against the Andro Defense Force.
- Babylon 5: "The Summoning": After being captured by the sadistic Emperor Cartagia, G'Kar is subjected to days of torture and humiliation for the amusement of the emperor and his court. Despite this, G'Kar refuses to scream or make any noise of pain, which frustrates Cartagia. Eventually he has G'Kar chained to a pole where a guard beats him with an electro-whip, which will kill him at forty strokes. Throughout the whipping, he still refuses to scream, literally to the last stroke, when he finally does, satisfying Cartagia's sadism. Notably there's a Call-Back to this scene when G'Kar returns there as a guest in "In the Kingdom of the Blind", when Vole attempts to taunt him by offering him the chance to whip the guard who whipped him, with the very same whip. G'Kar turns it down, saying the whipping was a show of Cartagia's sadism and need to establish dominance over him and not the guard's, comparing the guard to a hand that does as the heart commands it.
G'Kar: The hand has no choice but to do as it is told. It is the heart that carries the burden, and that heart is dead in both of us, Minister. It died with Cartagia and it died in me soon after. Besides, everyone knows that the true source of pain is neither the hand nor the heart. It is the mouth, is it not, Minister?
- Batman (1966): Fitting her domineering personality, this version of Catwoman occasionally had a Cat O' Nine Tails whip with her, though she mostly used it as a prop. One episode did show she had Knock Out Gas inside the whip which she could spray from the handle.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Downplayed with Faith. While she has obvious Dominatrix and domineering tendencies she's never actually shown with a whip, but she does tell a story about using a whip on an ex-boyfriend (and/or him on her?) and Cordelia once refers to Connor's attraction as "She cracked her whip, and you liked it".
- CSI: Recurring character Lady Heather is a professional Dominatrix who runs an S&M club. In "Pirates of the Third Reich" she's shown to be quite skilled with the whip when she apparently captured her daughter's murderer using the whip she uses for her work and by the time Grissom finds her she has him tied to the grill of a car and is planning to whip him to death. Grissom even convinces her to stop by using to safeword, to further drive home the S&M theming.
- Danger 5: In "Kill-Men of the Rising Sun", Jackson is forced to fight a whip-wielding mind-controlled Ilsa in a gladiator battle. Fittingly Dr. Mengele also specifically got her dressed in a dominatrix-themed gladiator attire.
- Dollhouse: At the start of "A Spy in the House of Love", Echo wields a whip while acting the part of a Dominatrix to a client. She later uses it on Victor's handler just for the hell of it.
- The Electric Company (1971): Otto the Director is a major Prima Donna Director who is obsessed with perfectionism, and she often has a riding crop with her to make her look even more like an over-the-top authoritarian.
- Gotham: Tabitha Galavan is a Dominatrix themed leather-clad criminal enforcer who fights with a bullwhip, for the extra symbology. She's the series version of a prototype Catwoman, to the point she becomes the Evil Mentor to Selina Kyle and even passes down her bullwhip to her.
- Hogan's Heroes: Both Kommandant Klink and the recurring character Colonel Crittendon often carry a riding crop. They don't use them on their men, but it makes them look pompous and authoritarian military officers, especially when combined with their other overbearing regalia like Klink's High-Class Glass or Crittendon's Commissar Cap. (Crittenden outranks Hogan, and will therefore insist on being in charge when he's in Stalag 13, even though he messes things up).
- Kamen Rider Double: Kyosui's main weapon is a whip, fitting with his domineering and sadomasochist personality. His taunts involve him talking about "punishing", often while brandishing or tugging his whip in a threatening manner. Even in his Luna Dopant form he gains two Combat Tentacles arms.
- Mendol Ikemen: Sakeo is a eccentric idol manager who is so strict and domineering that she uses a whip to intimidate the girls, hitting them with it whenever they're out partying, or doing something wrong. She also has a Dominatrix side and uses the whip for fetish purposes, often hitting her Cloudcuckoolander's Minder assistant with it (who groans in pleasure).
- Preacher (2016): The Angel of Death is Satan's personal assistant, and she takes the form of a cold and domineering woman known as "Sydney" who uses a whip for combat, for subduing people, and for torture.
- Super Sentai
- Choujin Sentai Jetman: Maria is a cold, sadistic Dark Action Girl who wields a whip in combat.
- Gekisou Sentai Carranger has CC Patchoone, a Monster of the Week with an animal tamer gimmick and appropriately wields a Lightning Lash as their weapon. It was tasked with retrieving and taming the Beager beast that was under the protection of the rangers. Its counterpart in Power Rangers Turbo, Voltmeister still wielded a Lightning Lash but did not share the animal tamer gimmick.
- In Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger and its adaptation Power Rangers Wild Force, the aptly-named Lion Tamer Org is styled after a circus tamer and wields a whip, which he uses to literally control the Power Animals/Wild Zords by just cracking the whip on the floor and giving them commands that they're forced to obey. But he's unable to control the Predazord because it still has an actual pilot, leading to the fight being a mind-controlled Megazord vs the Predazord.
- Mashin Sentai Kiramager: General Yodonna is a cold, authoritative, and sadistic villainess who wielded a magical riding crop named Akanben as her weapon of choice. Lashing any Yodonheim member with it would enhance their powers, though it can also overwhelm their bodies to the point of being deathly.
- Power Rangers Dino Charge had the Monster of the Week Memorella, a manipulative The Vamp who fought the rangers with a whip. Her Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger counterpart Debo Kyawaeen also wielded a whip but had a different personality and gimmick.
- Power Rangers: Dino Thunder has the Egyptian-themed Monster of the Week Tutenhawken who was armed with a whip, and has a ruthless and domineering personality, to make him reminiscent of a cruel enslaving pharaoh. Notably his Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger counterpart Trinoid 19: Hagetakaraichi, also wielded a whip but had a much more generic personality.
- Samurai Sentai Shinkenger and its adaptation Power Rangers Samurai feature whip-wielding Monster of the Week Hitomidama/Madimot who have Mind Control powers and use the whip to deliver their commands to their Brainwashed thralls.
- Tensou Sentai Goseiger and its adaptation Power Rangers Megaforce have the Monster of the Week Irian of the Queen Bee/Beezara, who in both adaptations are Queen Bee-themed villainesses with a haughty, sadistic and domineering personality that have a penchant for enslaving men and who attacks the rangers with energy whips.
- Red Dwarf: "Demons and Angels" see a degenerate version of Rimmer called Low Rimmer wield a "holo-whip" and threaten to lash Lister to an inch of his life. Fittingly, he's a Creepy Crossdresser wearing a Dominatrix-type get-up who wants to "have" Lister.
- Sherlock: Irene Adler is a ruthless Femme Fatale Spy that is introduced holding a riding crop, which features extensively in her website's photos, and uses it for reasons very different from Sherlock's.
- Star Trek: The Original Series:
- In "Patterns of Force", the SS Major is a cruel and sadistic Nazi officer who carries a cat o' nine tails and personally uses it on Kirk and Spock when interrogating them. He clearly wants to whip them more, but Chairman Eneg puts a stop to it while criticizing the Major for his sadistic inefficiency and saying that Torture Is Ineffective after a certain point.
- In "Bread and Circuses", anyone who tries to get out of the gladiatorial combat gets whipped by the cruel overseers and forced back into the action.
- Ultraman X: Gina Spectre's weapon of choice is a whip, fitting her status as a domineering and ruthless villainess. She also likes to use it to beat her minions when they fail her, as Aliens Shaplay and Magma found out after their first battle.
- In Season 3 of Warehouse 13, one of the artifacts introduced is Cecil B. DeMille's riding crop. Thanks to his infamous reputation as a tyrannical director, its power is that of a Mind-Control Device that literally dominates its victim by controlling their body. Naturally it is possessed by the season's Big Bad and is used to memorable and distressing effect, particularly in the lead-up to the season finale.
- My Wife Is a Demon Queen: Played with with Tols Penny. She's an arrogant and cold woman who is an expert with a whip, which also complements her hidden sadomasochist and Ax-Crazy side, but the time she reveals that aspect of her character is when her whip has been destroyed and she has to morph it into a rapier instead.
- Judas Priest: "Love You to Death", from Ram It Down is a song about BDSM that kicks off with a whipcrack. The outro has Halford screaming in ecstasy as he's supposedly being whipped.
- Bonnie Tyler: In the song "Holding Out For a Hero", the demonic outlaw cowboys use glowing neon whips to frighten and intimidate Bonnie during the music video.
- NS Yoon-G: In the music video of "The Reason I Became a Witch", the ending has her taking her revenge on the man who has mistreated her, which involves her chaining him up and getting Dressed Like a Dominatrix as she whips him note , as symbolic of her newly gained dominance over him.
- Rihanna: "S&M", being an Obligatory Bondage Song, naturally has her singing about whips, with the lyrics talking about how they "excite her". The music video also has Rihanna wielding riding crops while acting domineering.
- Classical Mythology: The three Erinyes/Furies are ancient goddesses born from the spilled blood of Ouranus who serve as the strict and merciless wardens and jailers of the Underworld, being in charge of keeping the sinner's souls subjugated, as well as overseeing their eternal punishments. They're frequently described as carrying whips with which to beat their victims (though, uniquely, the whips are for torturing their minds, instead of their bodies) and their whips are coated with brass studs to make the whipping hurt more. As Anthropomorphic Personification of vengeance, they take sadistic joy in performing these whippings.
- Mande Mythology: Maghan the Handsome used a magic whip to make Sogolon Konde submit to him.
- The White Witch of Rose Hall: Annie, the eponymous witch, was a sadistic slave-owner aristocrat who is widely portrayed as using a bullwhip to intimidate and punish her slaves.
- The Rider of Bally's Centaur carries a large leather bullwhip which gives her a Dominatrix overtone when combined with her Hell-Bent for Leather outfit.
- Wooden Overcoats: Marlene Magdelana is a domineering ringmaster who carries a whip with her everywhere and uses it to intimidate her subordinates (i.e., everyone). Georgie finds this impossibly sexy and turns into a babbling, smitten mess every time they're in the same room together, yet Marlene hardly takes notice.
- During the time Kimona Wanalaya was the Jung Dragons manager, she had a Dominatrix gimmick and always carried a riding crop with her which she occasionally used as a weapon.
- Sgt. Slaughter frequently carries a riding crop (when not a swagger stick) with him as a prop to denote his gimmick as an authoritative and strict Drill Sergeant Nasty and he'd often talk about his "whipping people into shape" training method involved quite literal whipping.
- WWE Tough Enough: When Linda Miles resurfaced as 'Shaniqua', she gained a Dominatrix gimmick and started wielding a riding crop whip (she later traded it with cat o' nine tails) and started wearing a black leather corset. She also now had a domineering attitude toward the Basham brother (to whom she was the manager), putting them in dog collars, having them Bound and Gagged, and often whipping them in the rear.
- Cardfight!! Vanguard: Befitting their profession, most of the beast tamers and Dragon Tamer of the circus-themed clan Pale Moon wield whips to command their beasts. Of note is their leader "Mystic Luquier" who wields a variety of whips and has various powers about hypnosis and control. To really hammer in her "dominance" theme, she's also Dressed Like a Dominatrix and has a domineering personality.
- Deadlands:
- Mina Devlin is the ruthless and sadistic rail baron of Black River who subjugates her region with a mixture of seduction, violence, and intimidation. As such, while she's proficient with many weapons, her Iconic Item is her trademark bullwhip, which she's noted to be carrying at all times, and not only for its symbology, as she's also a Lady of Black Magic which means her whip is actually magical and a deadly weapon on par with a firearm.
- The most elite of Mina Devlin's rail gangs are the Witchita Witches, an all-female gang of whip-wielding Hot Witches who are often Dressed Like a Dominatrix, with their black leather gear and Domino Masks. In particular, their leader Violet Esperanza always carries a bullwhip as her primary weapon and is often accompanied by her two Hellhounds which she keeps in check with the whip. She's infamous for her sadistic streak and domineering personality, to the point that her bullwhip eventually became a Relic that is capable of doing more damage than most rifles... but only when Violet wants it to.
- Dungeons & Dragons:
- Balors, the greatest demons of the Abyss aside from outright Demon Lords, Dual Wield a sword and flaming whip in combat. It's a nod to both their command over lesser demons and the balrogs that inspired them.
- The favored weapon of the drow goddess Lolth is a Snake Whip and most of her priestesses wield them, fitting with the image of Lolth being a diabolical Control Freak who constantly seeks total domination of the dark elf society. The priestesses themselves often wear Stripperiffic outfits and have haughty and domineering attitudes.
- Khurgorbaeyag is the goblin god of slavery and oppression and his symbol is a yellow-and-red striped leather whip. He himself specializes in fighting with his whip. A blow from his whip acts as a symbol of hopelessness, compelling those struck to promptly surrender to the wielder. If the victim can't resist, they can stay in a depressed state anywhere between a week and several months, depending on their willpower.
- Starting from 5e, the Amnizu devils wield whips in combat, to symbolize their status as sadistic taskmasters who enjoy humiliating their lessers.
- In the Forgotten Realms, Loviatar is the wife and consort of Bane, god of tyranny, oppression, and hatred, and is a goddess of pain, torture, and sadism in her own right. Whips are the favored weapon of her clergy, and a cat-o'-nine-tails with a bone handle, barbed strands, and bladed ends is both her holy symbol and signature weapon.
- In Ravenloft the sacred weapon of the Lawgiver, a strict and inflexible deity of law, order, and obedience, is the whip.
- Inquisitor: The Electro' Nine Tails, introduced at the same time as the Bosun Aberic Brawden model, is an electrified, multi-tailed whip intended to represent the harsh discipline common in Imperial Navy.
- Iron Kingdoms:
- Whips play a big part in Skorne Empire, with its warmogenring and enslaving culture.
- The Paingiver Beast Handlers wield whips to symbolize the cruelty in how they subjugate, enslave, and tame their warbeasts. They also wield them in actual battle not only to command and direct the warbeasts but also as their own personal weapon, as the barbed whips can actually pierce heavy armor. One of the Skorne Empire's named characters who fit this archetype is Beast Master Xekaar, who is notable for Dual Wielding the barded whips.
- The Paingiver Bloodrunner Master Tormentor is the highest ranking of the Paingiver units as well as their most sadist and cruel. Their signature weapon is a whip made of serrated blades, which are said to deal extreme agony to those struck by it.
- Satyxis Raiders of Cryx wield enchanted bladed whips and are a fierce and sadistic Amazon Brigade unit. They often serve as officers in the Cryx navy, as their whips are an efficient tool to intimidate and discipline the crew.
- Whips play a big part in Skorne Empire, with its warmogenring and enslaving culture.
- Legend of the Five Rings: Whips in general are an exotic weapon and are mostly seen as a tool to exert control over beasts or other people (often enslaved), through pain compliance or fear of pain. Some notable whip users in the lore are:
- The Taskmasters of the Yasuki family are cruel and ruthless whip-wielding sub-commanders who keep the rank-and-file in check with their whips. They also can control and "discipline" Mujina laborers. All of their techniques involve intimidation.
- Matsu Beastmasters are a unit that specializes in taming and training Rokugan's natural predators for combat. Many of the best masters also used them in battle, not only as a weapon but also to direct their orders to their beasts.
- Utaku Stablemasters are whip-wielding horse trainers who use their whips in their taming duties but can also use them effectively in combat, even being able to wield the whip while on horseback.
- Magic: The Gathering:
- Erebos is the ruthless ruler and strict warden of the Underworld and he fittingly has a custom whip as his weapon of choice, symbolic of his tyrannical authority. While his whip can be used as a weapon or a tool of punishment, its more frequent function is as a snare to pull the reluctant dead into his realm.
- Tasigur is a sadistic Royal Brat ruler whose weapon is a long, sharp-tipped whip with multiple tails. He enjoys asserting his authority over those who can't fight back, which often manifests in him whipping people simply to sate his sadism and boredom. He's also known to lash his own subjects if they displease him, which is easy to do.
- In the Old World of Darkness game Midnight Circus, Devyn Cavendish naturally wields a whip as part of his stereotypical ringmaster getup. However, unlike most ringmasters, his whip isn't ceremonial: on top of being a Nephandi Barrabus, Cavendish is essentially a slavemaster and has been populating the ranks of the Circus with unwilling recruits gathered through brainwashing, ruinous debt, or flat-out kidnapping... and he's more than prepared to use his whip in recapturing runaways, as he does in the game book's introduction.
- Pathfinder:
- Calistria is the goddess of lust and revenge, and although she's more of a hedonist she also has Dominatrix overtones thanks to her representing the "kinkier" parts of love and her association with pain and domination. Unsurprisingly, her favorite weapon is the whip, and she herself is often seen wielding one in the artwork. Her clergy is also known to wield it, and it's implied that, given the standard occupation of much of her clergy, it sees lots of out of combat use.
- Extinction Curse has Big Bad Mistress Dusklight, who is the Repulsive Ringmaster of the Celestial Menagerie who not only is a major Bad Boss who mistreats all of her performers but also has a domineering personality that delights in having living beings submit to her. Appropriately, her main weapon is the Whip of Compliance, a magical whip that allows her to exert some control over any beast that is struck by it.
- Rocketmen: The Legion of Terra commander, Ivana wields an energy whip as her main weapon. It's capable of long-reaching melee strikes, firing ranged attacks, and allows her to swing across a battlefield, which she demonstrates as the final boss of the video game.
- Warhammer:
- The Forces of Chaos present in Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer: Age of Sigmar have a variety of whip users:
- Whips are particularly associated with Slaanesh due to their theme of hedonism, sadism, and pleasure. Many Slaaneshi units, both mortal and demonic are armed with them in combat.
- The Lash of Submission is a Slaaneshi spell that temporarily brings an enemy squad under the caster's domination.
- The Steeds of Slaanesh are designed to resemble whips, with one of their names actually being Whips of Slaanesh. Their tails and tongue are also whip-like.
- Many Daemonettes wield whips in their non-mutated arms.
- The Alluresses who ride atop Seeker Chariots are armed with a pair of lashes of torment rather than the crab-like claws that most Daemonettes sport. They use these long, multi-tailed barbed whips to drive the Steeds of Slaanesh pulling the Chariot to extra speed or as actual weapons.
- As the greatest creations of the deity of sadists, some Keepers of Secrets go into battle with living demonic whip. They are able to unleash flurries of powerful blows with these weapons with pinpoint accuracy, both at range and in the close confines of melee combat.
- Slaaneshi Daemon Princes are known to wield demonic whips, both as weapons and to command and "punish" their own troops.
- Chaos Lords, Heralds, and Chosen of Slaanesh wield demonic empowered wields and are actually able to fight with them effectively in battle despite being mortals.
- Some of Khorne's Bloodthirster generals are known to wield giant barded whips in their off-hand, which they mainly use to drive lesser daemons into a frenzy or to hit enemies trying to stay out of their melee range (in close combat they rather use enormous demonic-axes). Many of those whips are made out of the cured hides of Slaaneshi worshippers, and each snap makes the sound of moans and screams. One of their hosts, the Bloodthirsters of Unfettered Fury, is said to specialize in wielding these.
- Warhammer 40,000:
- The Mistresses of Repentance of the Sisters Repentia wield a pair of neural whips that deliver a psycho-shock to the target, damaging their nervous system. How these weapons work in the game varies depending on the edition with most versions making neural whip more powerful the lower the target's Leadership characteristic. They have a heavy BDSM theme, being called "Mistresses" and having outfits that resemble that of a dominatrix, though in personality they act more like flagellant fanatics. Notably, before the battle each Mistress gives a Sister of Repentia a lash to "motivate" them.
- The Dark Eldar/Drukhari faction of Aeldari have several different whip-like weapons, fitting with the vicious slaver and S&M themes of the faction. The most common one is the Agoniser, which causes the victim's nervous system to go haywire, burning out their nerves and inflicting horrible pain. Then there's the Electrocorrosive Whip, an electrified whip designed to cause debilitating pain and sap the victim's strength. Drukhari Wytches sometimes use Razorflails which are Whip Swords that can switch between sword- and whip-forms at the user's will. Besides these exotic weapons, Drukhari Beastmasters often use regular bullwhips to goad their Beast of Battle into combat.
- Warhammer Fantasy
- The Dark Elves, or the Druchii as a whole are commonly associated with whips, due to their sadistic and hedonist culture that is obsessed with domination in all its forms:
- Dark Elf slave overseers and taskmasters carry whips in order to control and punish slaves. They're so sadistic with their whips that they often go overboard, which is partly why dark elf slaves are known to meet a premature end.
- Dark Elf beastmasters are known to be extremely cruel in handling and taming their animals, from horses to War Hydras and other Beast of Battle. This is symbolized by their weapon of choice being long barbed whips, which they don't only use to just tame and goad their beasts, since these whips are designed to inflict pain on large thick-skinned monsters, making them quite deadly against conventional enemies.
- Sisters of Slaughter are a female unit of gladiatrixes armed with barded whips designed to mutilate their enemies. They are infamous for their fanatical devotion to Khaine (The elven god of murder) and they fight with sadistic glee.
- In life, The Tomb King's Necrotects were ruthless and stern taskmasters who oversaw thousands of Nehekharans slaves as they toiled under the blazing sun, and if the workers even so much as faltered, it was the Necrotect's duty to whip them to motivate and force them to keep working. As Tomb Kings, the Necrotect now work as army overseers and wield those whips as their personal weapon. They still whip some of their troops to discipline them, and despite the fact these soldiers are now skeletons, it still seems to work.
- Khazrak One-Eye is one of the most ruthless Beastlords among the Beastman and one who has complete dominance of his tribe, and appropriately his personal weapon is a scourge whip. It is said that the mere sight of his whip has stayed the hands of Beastmen and prevented infighting amongst his horde.
- Throt the Unclean is a Skaven Master Mutator whose unique weapon is the Whip of Domination, a special whip made from Minotaur-hide and cured in Troll digestive juices. He uses it both as a weapon and to control his mutated beasts.
- In Mordheim, the Sisters of Sigmar have steel whips as a unique weapon available to members of the warband. Made from lengths of barbed chain, these whips are impossible to parry and tie into the Warband's fanatically religious visual theme with images of chastisement and flagellation.
- The Forces of Chaos present in Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer: Age of Sigmar have a variety of whip users:
- The Yellow King The hard resin whip known as the cambuk was used by riot police to command obedience. Police no longer use them, and anyone openly carrying one risks being spat on in the street, or worse.
- Legally Blonde: Brooke's solo song "Whipped into Shape" has her wielding an actual whip (called Cardio Whip 5000) to illustrate how comically strict she is as a fitness instructor. In the lyrics, she also mentions how the whip can serve as a self-defense weapon against guys.
You'll have him whipped into shape
When you get grief from a guy
Just work him over with this
Til he starts to cry
- 7th Dragon: Princesses wield a whip as their weapon, which also doubles as useful in controlling enemies, as whips can cause Fear in enemies, and other Whip skills can force Fear struck enemies to obey their orders.
- AFK Arena: Mehira, the Mind Cager, is a dominatrix-like succubus who wields a whip, summons minions in combat, and can charm enemies into fighting each other.
- AI: The Somnium Files - nirvanA Initiative: Ryuki's AI-ball partner Tama is very stern, overbearing, and severe, and her Sonium/holographic form plays with this by giving her a military BDSM-inspired outfit to make her look both like a Drill Sergeant Nasty and a Dominatrix, and the look is completed by the fact she also wields a riding crop so she can "whip his ass him into shape". She frequently teases or bosses Ryuki around, and is made very clear she knows a lot about bondage and S&M.
- Anarchy Reigns: Mathilda's personal weapon, the Iron Maiden is a collapsible whip that transforms into a giant spiked bat, fitting with her ultra-violent Dominatrix motif.
- Arc the Lad 2: Lieza who can tame enemy monsters, wields a whip as her weapon and is featured prominently with it in official artwork to denote her command over them. Despite the whip, she's actually a Fluffy Tamer who doesn't have the cruel or strict nature usually associated with whips, actually getting along with beasts more easily than with other humans. The whip also doesn't enhance her taming abilities in any way, and she can equip other weapons.
- Arknights: Many of the Instructor Guards (such as Dobermann, Pallas, and Whislash) use whips in combat, reflecting their role as a incredibly strict and authoritative instructors. This is even invoked with the "Instructor's Beloved Whip" collectible that raises EXP earned in battle.
- Art of Fighting: Lenny Creston fights with a whip and is a bossy, stern Intrepid Journalist and a strict perfectionist. She also has a domineering side that shows in her relationship with her partner, Rody, such as being fond of using her whip to literally drag him around.
- Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland: Rufus Falken is a Battle Butler who fights with a riding crop, fitting his status as a cold, callous, and duty-driven man who acts like a Stern Teacher to Princess Meruru. His weapons are even called "Teacher's Whip" and "Punishment Lash".
- Aveyond: Rhen's Quest: Elinidana'ter'Lithir de Armaiti, a summoner with a Dominatrix-like persona, uses whips as her preferred weapon.
- Aviary Attorney: Stern and pompous prosecutor, Séverin Cocorico always carries a riding crop with him, which he uses both as a prop and as a self-defense weapon, since he Doesn't Like Guns.
- Azure Striker Gunvolt: The aptly named "Creepy Electro Whip Guy" note is a evil effeminate officer who seems to have a sadistic streak due to his eagerness to torture Gunvolt with a Lightning Lash, purely for his own vile enjoyment rather than as part of an interrogation. But Gunvolt gets powered up by electricity, so he ends up freeing him instead.
- Barony: The Punisher class, styled after BDSM dominators and associated with Incubi, has a whip that can be used as a weapon.
- Batman: Arkham Series: Catwoman's whip is a big part of her moveset and is the tool she uses to move around Gotham and her Dominatrix overtones are played up in this adaptation, with her sultry and domineering attitude and her skintight black latex costume. In City you can even overhear Mooks talking about how they wouldn't mind getting whipped by her.
- Battalion Wars: Countess Ingrid is a Blue Blood Commanding Officer of Xylvania and is frequently seen with a riding crop in her hands, not only as a symbol of her rank but also to further illustrate her domineering and playful sadistic nature, as she enjoys mocking and ridiculing her enemies.
- Battle Arena Toshinden: Sofia is a skilled whip-wielding private detective with a Dominatrix motif, often wearing skimpy leotards and having an over-the-top flirtatious and domineering persona who enjoys taunting her opponents and doing a Noblewoman's Laugh. Her Desperation Attack is even called "Call me Queen".
- Battle Realms:
- The Serpent Zen Master Budo not only wields a whip into battle but can use it to whip Peasants into working faster as he's infamous for being a cruel taskmaster who overworks his people.
- The Lotus Clan Overseers, primarily modeled on Dominatrices, masterfully wield a whip in combat. In the story, they were used in part to intimidate Wolf clan members into submission.
- Bayonetta: Bayonetta (and Jeanne) and both heavily sexualized women with domineering attitudes, so giving them a whip as one of their weapons is an easy way to reinforce that image. Bayonetta has the demonic whip Kulshedra (Jeanne's is called Vritra and is basically a Palette Swap), a Snake Whip. Its 'punish attack' even has the Umbra Witch deliver a humiliating Kinky Spanking to angel enemies. Bayonetta 2 and Bayonetta 3 have the Kulshedra be replaced by the demonic Vine Whip Alruna, which Rodin made from the Dominatrix demon Alraune.
- Big Fight: The first boss Mevella is a Dark Action Girl that's Dressed Like a Dominatrix and is armed with a whip to further illustrate her dominatrix theme.
- Black Sigil: Aurora is a bossy and flirtatious Fiery Red Head who uses a whip as her weapon. One of her whips is even called "Love Whip" Its description? "Kinky!"
- Bomberman Hero: The villainess Natia fights with a whip while also commanding her spider-bot pet Cronus. She also has dominatrix overtones thanks to her skimpy black leather getup.
- Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!: Nisha has a big Combat Sadomasochist theme and is openly a fan of S&M, which is further denoted by the fact her melee weapon is a bullwhip.
- Brütal Legend: The Punishing Party's Dominatrices are seen using their tails to whip up their slave (referred to as "Pin Boy") during their introduction in the main game.
- Cel Damage: Dominique Trix, as her Punny Name implies, is a Dominatrix who is shown holding a whip in her character select art and selecting her causes a whipcrack sound to play. However, she doesn't use it much in gameplay since it's a Vehicular Combat game.
- Crime Fighters: The brunette dominatrixes mooks all wield whips, with their only attack being to quickly lash with it at the player.
- Brigandine: Ginger Gustav is a cold and ruthless officer who often brings out a whip to intimidate others and keep them in line, especially her wacky uncle and aunt. It also complements her Dominatrix motif. Notably, she doesn't actually use the whip in actual battle.
- Bungo to Alchemist: Played with. Ozaki Kouyou seems like a good-natured guy, but he has something of a nasty domineering side when he fights with his whip, and often refers to fighting enemies as "disciplining" them.
- City of Heroes:
- Praetor Duncan began her villain career as a taskmaster in charge of training meta-humans, but she ended up enjoying dealing out the whipping so much that she ended up turning into a Dominatrix, which literally became her villain name and motif. She uses her whip both to control her S&M thralls and as her weapon of choice.
- In City of Villains, a hellfire whip is the weapon wielded by Demon Summoning Masterminds, which is a powerset that involves summoning Demonlings. Desdemona, the demon summoner NPC, happens to have a seductive and domineering personality and be Dressed Like a Dominatrix.
- Cookie Run Centipede Cookie is a proud, domineering, and overbearing Centipede Rider who uses a whip as her weapon, most likely to imitate the long body of a centipede and compliment her Animal Motif.
- Corruption of Laetitia: Gaia is a strict and authoritative succubi commander who wields a whip in battle. The kinky implications of the whip don't help with people seeing her as the kinky type of succubus, despite her not being one.
- Counter Side: Harab Cronenworth is the sadistic whip-wielding ringleader of a puppet troupe, using her whip not only as her primary weapon but also as the tool for turning people into puppets and controlling them. Her outfit is a mix BDSM gear with a little bit of Putting on the Reich to hammer in her authoritarian and subjugation motif. Her dialogue often has her talking about having others submit to her and become her playthings, and she shows a lot of sadistic excitement about getting to use her whip, to point the animation of her Limit Break has her licking her whip before attacking.
- Criminal Girls: Miu Manase a whip-wielding veteran Instructor of Hell who is Dressed Like a Dominatrix and acts like a strict and domineering Drill Sergeant Nasty.
- Darkest Dungeon:
- The Baron, one of the bosses of the "Crimson Court" DLC, was a famous Sadist obsessed with torture, often doing it just for entertainment. The curse fittingly turned him into a monster that gave him arms that can shift into whips. The attack is even called "Necessary Discipline" and deals heavy stress damage.
- The Foreman enemies of the "Color of Madness" were the Ancestor's enforcers who "supervises" the farmhand, and wielded whips to "persuade" the workers. In-game they function as a Mook Lieutenant that orders around the other husks with their whips, providing the husks with buffs or attacking the party with the whip, which leaves them with the "Marked" debuff.
- Darksiders: Fury, the only female member of the Four Horsemen, carries a bladed whip called Scorn, which she's shown to be very skilled with in Darksiders III using it to kill demons in their hundreds, in addition to wearing dark, tight armour and high heels that make her look like a dominatrix. Fury also has a domineering and power-hungry personality (though those aspects of her get downplayed as she goes through her Character Development) and displays dominatrix-like behavior in her combat interactions, saying things like, "I'll try not to enjoy this too much!" And she definitely enjoys fighting as much as her brothers.
- Dark Souls III: The Desert Pyromancer Zoey is a whip-wielding Unique Enemy that has a heavy Dominatrix vibe not only due to her weapon of choice but also due to her Stripperiffic attire and the fact she has two hollow mooks seemingly under her thrall, making her basically a Flunky Boss in Mook Clothing.
- Deltarune: Tasque Manager sports a Lightning Lash during the battle against her, using it to electrify the labeled windows in her Simon Says Minigame. The whip ties in with her her job as the Tasques' trainer and her overarching desire for order.
- Demon's Souls: The Fat Officials are cruel Mook Lieutenants who order around the Mooks and Elite Mooks, and one of their rarer variations has them armed with a riding crop. It doesn't do much damage, but has good range and it greatly saps stamina if it hits your shield.
- Diablo: The Overlords demons found in Diablo II and Diablo Immortal are armed with barded whips in combat, and are Mook Lieutenants who are often leading lesser demons into battle, and can whip their own troops to give them buffs, which is translated in-game by their custom ability "Minion Frenzy".
- Digimon: The mega Digimon Rosemon has a vine whip in combat, which complements the Dominatrix motif of her design, with her wearing a Stripperiffic red leather suit, thigh-high heels and High-Class Gloves. Often the Thorn Whip attack has a Charm Person that leaves the Digimon struck by it become submissive to her.
- Dofus: The Osamodas are a beast master race/class who fight, tame, and buff their beasts with a whip. Reading their name backward also gives "Sado Maso", which means sadistic masochist, and Osamodas do seem to have a liking in pain for pleasure.
- Donkey Kong Junior: Mario wields a whip, which he uses to command various animals to attack Junior while he guards Donkey Kong.
- Dota 2:
- The Queen of Pain, a sadistic demonic dominatrix, normally favors throwing knives as a weapon, but when equipped with the Eminence of Ristul, she gains a whip which she uses to attack at a short range.
- The Kobold Foreman neutral creep attacks with a whip. Combined with his name and speed-boosting ability, this gives the image of a harsh taskmaster who uses his whip to motivate his subjects to work faster.
- Double Dragon: Linda Lash is the sole female member of the Black Warriors street gang and makes good to her name by being a skilled whip fighter. In her first few appearances, she had a mannish punk design, but she got Progressively Prettier and more sexualized over time. By Double Dragon Neon she became a full-on Dominatrix-themed character in both personality and appearance and it became a consistent part of her character from that point forward.
- Dragon Quest:
- Dragon Quest III: In the remake, a female Gadabout is clad a a bunnysuit but if they're equipped with a bikini armor they will become Dressed Like a Dominatrix instead, including a leather whip. This doesn't translate to their gameplay.
- Dragon Quest VIII: Played with. Jessica's iconic weapon is her whip but while she's known to use her sex appeal in combat her whip isn't related to those abilities and her personality is more of a tomboyish Fiery Redhead than domineering or sadist. But some of the names of her whip skills lampshade the fetish appeal of the weapon (like "Lashings of Love" and "Queen's Thong") and one of her outfits, the "Dangerous Bustier" is a skimpy lacy corset that resembles something a dominatrix might wear.
- Dragon Quest X: Mystical Juliante is a whip-wielding Hot as Hell demoness that has the overall look of a dominatrix, complete with black leather outfit and high-heeled boots that are studded with spikes.
- Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project: The Fem-Mechs are Dominatrix themed female androids that are dressed the part, including using a whip as their primary weapon. Downplayed with their stronger variants and the boss version, who don't have their human skin and are simply robotic skeletons, but still keep their domineering dialogue and wield electric whips.
- Dungeon Fighter Online:
- Summoners carry magic whips to denote their status as The Minion Master. Their Lasher ability allows them to whip their allies and minions to buff them. The skill "Reinforce Control" increases the whip's range.
- Nyarly fights with a whip and is a Hot as Hell demon in a Stripperiffic outfit with dominatrix design. And despite the fact she's Dimension Walker's summon, the quotes clearly show she's the dominant in their "relationship".
"Watching her whip with a smile on her face, I remind myself that I can never skip planning a weekend with her, no matter how busy I am." - Dungeon Keeper: The leather-clad Dark Mistresses practically embody Bondage Is Bad as minions of your Villain Protagonist, with their openly sadistic personalities and being vocally enthusiastic about fighting and torturing. In artwork and cinematic they're often seen wielding whips, but in the game itself they fight with magic or hand-to-hand combat, although they do have a lighting whip spell. Their torture animation in the torture chamber also has them being whipped, though they're shown to enjoy it.
- Dungeons: All of the Lust Demons can use their whips to "motivate" and command the workers. The Mistress, whose design is coded after a Dominatrix, uses her whip for actual combat.
- Dynasty Warriors: Chain Whips (whips made of steel) became available as a weapon in Dynasty Warriors 6, notably for the two Ms. Fanservice Femme Fatale of the series: Diaochan and Zhenji and the whip moveset gives the user a very domineering body language, complete with the fighter keeping a hand on their hip for extra cockiness. It's a fitting weapon for Zhenji given she's often characterized as an Ice Queen and a domineering Dragon Lady. However, it's much less fitting for Diaochan who has a demure personality and is a Reluctant Warrior. Cai Wenji is also able to wield the chain whip in Dynasty Warriors 9, seemingly as part of her new Hotter and Sexier design, but her personality still remains that of a kind and compassionate woman, making the domineering whip moveset look unfitting for her. Zhang Chunhua was also given a Urumi in 9, which does fit her bossy and domineering demeanor and her Tough Love dynamic with her family, especially her husband.
- Eiyuu Senki: The World Conquest: War Wonder introduces Amerigo Vespucci who fights with a whip, fitting for her bee-Dominatrix image.
- Epic Seven:
- Mui is a whip-wielding monster tamer who uses her whip both as a weapon and as a tool to control and direct her monsters. Despite this, she's not shown to be cruel towards her beasts, but she does have a domineering side and will use her whip on those she deems her "servants". During the story, she even captures Basan and tries to "train" him into becoming a clown in her circus by repeatedly whipping him.
- Faithless Lidica wields a Whip Sword just like her original counterpart, but she does so with much more sadism and has some Dominatrix overtones, with one side-story having her discovering how much fun she has in whipping men.
- Etrian Odyssey:
- Since Etrian Odyssey, the Dark Hunter class has the option to use whips, and the class has a heavy BDSM theme. The females in particular like to dress in scant leather outfits, and all their whip skills have very suggestive names, such as Cuffs, Gag, Ecstasy, and Climax. They even specialize in tying up enemies and their Dominate skill lets them completely bind and gag an enemy without fail. This was even acknowledged by the developer in the Etrian Odyssey comic◊.
- In Etrian Mystery Dungeon 2, Lizley uses her trusty riding crop to keep her lions in check.
- Fear & Hunger: Termina: The Sylvian Trooper is a Dominatrix-themed Bremen officer dressed in a BDSM body-hugging black latex who wields a whip as her personal weapon, and uses it to issue commands to the Platoon that she fights alongside with. Cutting off her arm prevents her from lashing at the player, but stops the Platoon's most devastating attacks.
- Fate Series:
- Queen Medb's iconic armament is her riding crop whip, fitting with her overall image as an uninhibited Dominatrix and Lovable Sex Maniac with an insatiable appetite and legendary "riding" skills. Her "Alluring Chief Warden" costume even has her donning a Stripperiffic militaristic uniform to hammer in the domineering theme.
- As Christopher Columbus is closely tied to the concept of slavery, he uses a whip in one of his attack animations.
- Final Fantasy:
- Final Fantasy IV: The adult Rydia wields a whip as her weapon of choice, to reinforce her role as a summoner who has command over magical beasts. And while she can wield whips to deal physical blows, her usual low physical stats mean it's generally the worst offensive option for her in any fight and it's almost always better to just focus on her summon magic instead.
- In Final Fantasy IV: The After Years most of the female characters can wield whips with no particular meaning attached, with the exception of one specific whip, the "Queen's Whip", which is implied to be bondage gear and has the chance of transforming those struck by it into a pig, in a obvious allusion to S&M. And if all of the female characters wield a Queen's Whip, they can use a Band aptly named "Call Me Queen", which turns all the enemy into pigs.
- Final Fantasy V: The Beastmaster job is the only job that is able to equip whips note as a nod to the whip's connection to taming. And while the whip is mostly symbolic as it doesn't play a part in the beastmaster's control or catch abilities, the fact whips have a high chance of causing Paralysis is a deliberate design choice to help with the process of controlling or catching a monster.
- Final Fantasy VII Remake: Chocobo Sam has a training whip coiled at his waist, which he never uses, being solely meant to reinforce his status as a Chocobo rancher. An optional sidequest also shows he's not a cruel rancher and he actually does care about his birds as he hires the party to track down a few that got lost.
- Final Fantasy VIII: Subverted. Quistiss' specializes in wielding whips in combat, but while she's an instructor who values discipline and is famous for her sex appeal, she's known for not being that strict as an instructor and she does not have a domineering appearance or personality, being popular merely due to her good looks and talent.
- Final Fantasy Brave Exvius: Dark Fina is a seductive Lady of Black Magic with a domineering demeanor and she wields a Snake Whip as her weapon. The dominatrix aspect is better illustrated in her Limit Burst where she stomps on the group while stretching and toying with her snake whip in a suggestive fashion.
- Final Fantasy Explorers: While The Beastmaster job equips axe weapons, the animation of their "Tame" ability has them wielding a magical whip.
- Final Fantasy Tactics Advance: Downplayed. The Beastmaster job wields a whip in their artwork, but in the game itself whips are not available in any form, although a whip icon is what appears above their heads when they're controlling a monster.
- One of the bosses in Fuga: Melodies of Steel is Lieutenant Colonel Flam Kish, who has a whip holstered on her side. While she is never seen using it in any capacity, she is also one of the most sadistic and hot-blooded members of the Berman Army. Her introduction even has her implied to take pleasure in torturing the slave workers she's in charge of overseeing.
- Forte Stollen in the Galaxy Angel gameverse is often carrying a riding crop in her hand. It's only for giving her the aesthetics of a strict and authoritative officer with a seductive demeanor, as she never actually uses it. It's even lampshaded when Noah points out that Forte cannot be the one person she's looking for by the bad way she swings her riding crop.
- Genshin Impact:
- La Signora is a haughty, arrogant, and domineering villainess and her One-Winged Angel form wields a fire whip as a weapon. She notably becomes more openly sadistic and violent while wielding it.
- Downplayed with Yelan as she's a bow user, but befitting of her dominatrix theme, her lifeline acts like a whip.
- Ghost Trick: Beauty carries a riding crop, and though she never uses it, she does often abuse Dandy and the whip serves to give her a domineering and authoritative aura.
- God Hand: Conchita is a Dominatrix enemy who carries a whip as her personal weapon and is fittingly a very bossy and domineering leader of "The Three Evil Stooges".
- Golden Sun: The Lost Age: The Trainer's Whip is an equipable item that allows a character to change to the Tamer class, which can use summoned monster to attack, as a nod to whips being used as a tool to control beasts.
- Granblue Fantasy: Cute Ghost Girl Ferry has a magically enhanced whip as her primary weapon and true to the trope, she is also The Beastmaster and wears a pretty revealing outfit with dominatrix overtones. Gameplay and Story Segregation is in effect, however, since whips are not a weapon class in the game, she's considered a dagger specialist. In Granblue Fantasy Versus she does finally get to actually fight with her whip, allowing her to deal damage from afar, pull opponents closer, swing from the stage ceiling for extra mobility and do other cool and impossible stuff.
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: Catalina is a misandrist and Psychopathic Womanchild who enjoys demeaning and bossing around men and has a bizarre sexual relationship with CJ. In the "Gone Courting" mission, she captures him, ties him up, and forces him into an S&M session that involves her sadistically whipping him while he screams. The scene is played as Black Comedy Rape, although afterward, he shrugs it off and just says it was "different".
- Hades: The three Furies, as per Classical mythology, all carry whips as their signature weapons, and each one of them works as a Torture Technician to punish mortal sinners in the Underworld as well as an enforcer who also serves as the border guard between the regions of Tartarus and Asphodel. Each sister has a different personality, though:
- Megaera is a Consummate Professional who is the most level-headed and least emotive of her sisters, seeing as she only treats being a warden of Tartarus as her job, though she's also a Tsundere for Zagreus. Megaera also has shades of being a Dominatrix, as her whip comes into play in the intimate scene between her and Zagreus, should he complete her Romance Sidequest (not to mention all the BDSM subtext accompanying their actual fights whenever he fights her to escape Tartarus).
- Alecto is a Sadist who likes making Zagreus bleed, and likes being killed as much as she likes killing.
- Tisiphone is a strict Workaholic to the extreme ("work", in her case, meaning "punishing murderers"), to the point that "Murder" and "Murderer" are the only words she can say.
- Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft: Overseer Mogark is a cruel trogg taskmaster who wields a flaming whip, which he primarily uses on his minions, dealing damage, but boosting their attack.
- Heavenly Sword: As her name implies the General, Whiptail, uses a whip in tandem with her tail.
- HellTaker: In Azazel's secret ending, you come face-to-face with an angry-looking angel commander wielding a riding crop.
- Heroes of Might and Magic:
- The first iteration of pit fiends and pit lords in III were themed after taskmasters and wielded whips in combat, even able to use it to turn dead allied troops into demons. This was dropped in future games where they're armed with other weapons.
- Shadow Matriarchs in V are Dominatrix-coded spellcasters that attack enemies with a whip. The Flavor Text for one of their upgraded forms, the Shadow Mistress, notes that their whips aren't just for combat.
- The succubi and lilim are sadistic and seductive demons that are Dressed Like a Dominatrix and whose abilities are often related to pain and pleasure. Starting with VI they began wielding whips in combat, to complement their S&M theme.
- Hyrule Warriors: Cia's scepter has a built-in whip for melee attacks, which goes hand in hand with Cia's sultry Dominatrix theme.
- THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls: Tokiko Zaizen is a Dominatrix themed idol who has a thing for whips, from riding crops to full-length bullwhips. She usually refers to them as her "love whips". Several of her Card pictures have her holding one.
- Iratus: Lord of the Dead: Overseers carry whips. While these deal little damage (and will often outright fail to get through your minions' armor), they have no qualms about using them to enforce discipline among their underlings, thus buffing their accuracy and damage while pushing them to the front lines. Ironically, groups containing multiple Overseers may even see them whip each other. Iratus can learn a magic spell portrayed with a whip, which also pushes a minion forward and buffs their accuracynote .
- Jeanne d'Arc: Rose attacks with whips, fitting with her flirtatious personality and domineering aura. In her tutorial, she even comments about how she enjoys "punishing" enemies in a coquettish manner.
- The King of Fighters:
- The aptly named Whip from uses a whip as a weapon, and her String Shot TypeC Code: Victory move indicates she has a sadistic side as it involves her stomping on her opponent's head repeatedly while doing a Noblewoman's Laugh.
- Elisabeth Blanctorche is a stern and haughty French noblewoman who fought with a riding crop in XI and had some sexually charged overtones in her moves. This was toned down ss her character got Tamer and Chaster, in XII and XIII she still carries the riding crop but doesn't use it, and by XV it's completely gone.
- Lost Smile and Strange Circus: Rebecca's weapon is a whip, as a nod to her profession as a tiger tamer. Despite her Hair-Trigger Temper, she seems to be a Fluffy Tamer and has a good relationship with her tiger, Sugar.
- Luminous Arc 2: Played with. Hot Witch Fatima uses a ice whip as her weapon of choice, which initially seems to fit her as a villainous Ice Queen with a dark, Stripperiffic outfit. But when she joins the party and defrosts she's revealed to actually be quite shy and socially awkward.
- Luminous Arc 3: Inaluna is a spoiled and bossy princess who enjoys ordering people around and demeaning them. Fittingly, she has a whip for a weapon. Heine in particular is often bossed around by her, and is often whipped when he displeases her.
- Magical Drop: Empress wields a whip as her weapon, which is to be expected from her depiction as a sadistic Dominatrix. One of her attack animations even has her flailing her whip wildly.
- Marvel Heroes: Emma Frost has the Astral Whip skill, where she lashes enemies with a psionically manifested whip. Combined with her ability to make an enemy her slave and her signature skill which mind controls enemies around her to get on their knees, she invokes a heavy Dominatrix theme.
- Marvel vs. Capcom: One of Morrigan's more memorable Victory Pose has Lilith descending from the sky while bound at the wrists while Morrigan changes to a dominatrix outfit, whip at the ready.
- Mega Man:
- Mega Man Battle Network 6: Cybeast Gregar and Cybeast Falzar: The villain Captain Kurohige (who goes by Blackbeard) is dressed like a pirate and carries a black bullwhip with him, as a nod to his past as a cruel animal trainer for an aquarium that got fired for abusive taming methods, which involved excessive whipping.
- Mega Man X: Command Mission: Ferham is one of the officers of the Rebellion Army who specializes in wielding a whip in combat and demonstrates a sadistic streak and Combat Sadomasochist tendencies when fighting. It also complements her Dominatrix and authoritative overtones, being a harpy-themed Fembot with stiletto high heels, and red Color Motif. In one scene, she even coos for Zero to come 'play with her' while she's whipping him.
- The Messenger (2018): The Queen of Quills is a domineering villainess who uses a whip as a weapon. Her pre-battle quote even has her demanding Ninja to "kneel before your queen". She continues to use a whip after you break the curse on her and she turns back into the Monk, but she loses the domineering attitude.
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance: Mistral's Dwarf Gekko arms can take the form of a whip, which pairs especially well with her Combat Sadomasochist tendencies.
- Melty Blood: Sion Eltnam Atlasia has a Magi Babble Mind-Control Device called the Ethelite, which she wields as a whip in combat, and it allows her to read minds, download memories and experiences, and even "spirit hack" into people's bodies and assume control over them. Unlike most examples of Mind Control whips, the Ethelite doesn't actually have to be struck as a whip to perform its fantastical functions, merely touching a person's skin is enough.
- Metal Slug: Metal Slug Attack introduces Izabella, the sadistic, ruthless and domineering evil prison warden of the rebel army. She's in charge of handling discipline and punishment to her prisoners and makes heavy use of her whip to do so. Her whip is actually customized to deal as much pain as possible, being embedded with thorns and being imbued with electricity.
- Mind Zero: Reika is a domineering and sadistic villainess whose weapon is a thorn-covered whip. She likes to crack the whip to intimidate others and her special attack has her commanding the party to "kneel before her" while she lashes at them several times.
- Minion Masters has Herald Ah'mun. Can also be summoned via the spell "Lash of Ah'mun"
- Mitsumete Knight: The whip is Linda's signature weapon, which fits her as a Blue Blood rich heiress who looks down on "commoners" and has a haughty and domineering personality. One of her alternate outfits even has her Dressed Like a Dominatrix and it gives her stat boosts.
- NeoGeo Battle Coliseum: Goodman is a cold and authoritative Corrupt Corporate Executive who wants to Take Over the World, and fittingly wields a flaming whip in combat. But more importantly than lashing at you, his whip is actually what he uses to command his Familiar Saru-Oh in battle, tugging or cracking the whip in different ways to have Saru-Oh perform different moves.
- Neverwinter Nights: The "Hordes of the Underdark" expansion has The Valsharess, a tyrannical drow empress and priestess of Lolth who wields a whip in combat that is called "Will of Lolth". As expected, she's a domineering and skilled seducer clad in a dominatrix-styled Chainmail Bikini and has the arrogance and inflated ego expected from a powerful female drow.
- NieR: Automata: The YoRHa Commander is a stern woman who carries a riding crop on her person as a sign of her station and authority, and brandishes it around issuing orders.
- Ninja Gaiden:
- One of the Ancient Greater Fiends, Ishtaros is an evil demoness with a Dominatrix-motif and a sadistic and domineering personality. One of her arms is a tentacle that she uses as a whip, to strengthen the motif.
- Rachel's black leather outfit was always reminiscent of a dominatrix and she ended up getting a whip in Ninja Gaiden Sigma to complement that image. But she mostly uses it as a tool for Building Swing. It was planned to be used as a full melee weapon but that ended up being cut content. There's actually promotional material showing her wielding it.
- Nioh 2: The Kasha boss can create whips of fire to attack you, which is an appropriate weapon for a yokai who's supposed to be in charge of torturing souls. Her smug smile and the way she laughs during the entire fight also suggest she has a sadistic streak.
- Octopath Traveler II: Mother, one of the antagonists of Throné's route, wields a whip that she uses to punish Snakes who either disobey her or fail in their missions. She also uses it in her Orphanage of Fear to keep the children she raises there in line. She also imbues the whip with darkness in her boss fight to inflict status debuffs on the party. In the first chapter of her story, Throné explains that she had been whipped so many times by Mother that she no longer feels pain.
- Ogre Battle: Beastmasters class use whips as their primary weapon, although the whips don't actually come into play with their ability to control beasts.
- Pathfinder: Kingmaker: Bartholomew Delgado is an evil Mad Scientist wizard. At first, it looks like he's only doing unethical experiments on trolls For Science!, but his personal quest has you to retrieve for him a "valuable item", which just so happens to be a black whip that is ensorcelled to amplify pain and pleasure when using it, making it clear he's something of a covert sadist. The player can break the whip in disgust, return it to him... or give it to your bondage-enthusiast wizard companion Octavia who's very happy about having a new toy to "play with". If given the whip is made very clear it's not the first time she used one.
- Pokémon: Originally in Pokémon Red and Blue the developers intended for the gym badges to be belts that could also serve as training whips, but the idea was scrapped because the devs thought the idea of whipping the Pokémon sounded too cruel. But although the belt idea didn't make the cut, a few trainer sprites still wield whips in Gen 1. These were Bowdlerised in later games, including Red and Blue's remakes, with the only exception being the Tamer class, who still wields a whip in one hand and a hypnosis wheel in the other, to signify how they train their Pokémon.
- The Team Rocket grunts wield whips, which in addition to signifying Bad People Abuse Animals, signified that their relationship to their Pokémon was one based on dominance or fear, as opposed to the mutual partnerships that the player characters are supposed to have. Notably the psychic gym leader Sabrina is also one of the few trainer sprites to wield a whip, and she was originally one of the gym leaders who had connections to Team Rocket.
- Ace Trainers also carry whips, which is meant to symbolize their masterful discipline in Pokémon training. Also like Team Rocket, they stopped carrying them in future games, including the remakes.
- Fan Game Pokémon Xenoverse has Vega City gym leader Henna, who is a strict ringmaster who wields a whip like a typical circus beast tamer. They seem to be the kind who use the whip as a form of signaling instead of as a way of punishing their Pokémon.
- Project × Zone: Ayame is a former ally of Ichiro and Sakura in Sakura Wars and is transformed in this game into a Kouma. Her new corrupted form is much more sexualized, wielding now a whip in combat and wearing a skimpy leather corset to give her a Dominatrix motif.
- Puyo Puyo: Succubus fittingly uses a whip as her main weapon in Saturn Madou where she's also Dressed Like a Dominatrix, with a red Sensual Spandex, thigh-high boots, and a spiked choker. Downplayed in her re-design in Quest where she carries a whip but no longer uses it as a weapon, and also lost the Dominatrix clothing.
- Quest for Glory IV: Near the end of the game, the seductive dark sorceress/vampire Katrina captures the protagonist when they break into her home, and she decides to interrogate him in her dungeon by giving him A Taste of the Lash, and she specifically dresses in a skintight dominatrix outfit just to give the scene an S&M tone. Downplayed in that her attitude in the scene is not seductive and she's legitimately angry, though if the protagonist confesses his love for her, she does lampshade the situation by joking that he must tell this to every woman that ties him up and whips him.
- Radiata Stories: Iris is a Professional Killer who has a whip as her primary weapon, and not only does she wear a fur-trimmed dark leather outfit but she has a haughty and domineering attitude. Her profile picture is even doing a Noblewoman's Laugh.
- Red Dead Revolver: Dark Action Girl Bad Bessie is a domineering gang leader whose gimmick is her impressive skill with a horsewhip, being as deadly with it as most men are with guns. Her backstory was that she used to be a Dominatrix showgirl who specialized in whips until one day she got tired and used her whip to steal from her boss.
Sheriff Bartlett: There's something wrong about a woman who carries around a horse whip, but owns no horse.
- Rumble Roses: One of the weapons is a riding crop which in addition to doing damage, it can humiliate an opponent. While any character can pick it up outside the ring and use it, Mistress Spencer, whose gimmick is being a Dominatrix, actually starts the game holding it.
- Rusty: Rusty's weapon of choice is a whip, which complements her BDSM visual motif. She also uses her whip to direct her Attack Animal Chappy.
- Sakura Dungeon: The Whip Wielder is a a whip wielder with a BDSM motif, taking great pleasure from both S&M and battle, as well as indulging in suffering, servitude, and torture.
- Senran Kagura: New Wave introduces Kochō, the authoritative president of the public morals committee at her university who strictly enforces the rules and has an authoritative and uncompromising demeanor and anyone who doesn't follow the rules will be met with her "Love whip", a cat o' nine tails type whip she uses for both disciplinarian and combat duties. She's implied to be something of a Dominatrix due to her eagerness to deal out "punishments" and her domineering attitude, including her penchant for Noblewoman's Laugh.
- Shadow Hearts: Veronica Vera is a BDSM-themed villainess with a seductive, sadistic, and domineering personality who wields a Leather Whip called "Rude Spanking" as her weapon of choice. She's also openly a Dominatrix who enjoys whipping people, refers to her lessers as "slaves" and demands they call her "Queen". She even has her own Torture Cellar for when she wants to give someone A Taste Of The L Ash. The very description of her whip lampshades this: "A favorite of those with a taste for domination, humiliation and the turning of pain into pleasure."
- Shining Nikki: Zoey is shown holding a whip in nearly every CG she is in, complementing her image as a Dominatrix warlord.
- Shin Megami Tensei:
- Devil Survivor 2: Miyako Hotsuin always carries a whip under her cloak not only to illustrate her cold and domineering personality but also her harsh and commanding behavior toward her subordinates in JP. She has a habit of snapping the whip at the people she gets mad at, especially Daichi.
- Digital Devil Saga: Argilla's Atma Avatar Prithivi has a BDSM-esque motif with its skintight spike-covered outfit and high-heeled feet, and further complemented by the fact it has extendable arms that are used as whips during combat.
- Persona:
- Persona 3: When Ice Queen Mitsuru Kirijo evolves her Persona, it turns into the queenly Artemisia, who wields a Whip Sword.
- Persona 4: Shadow Chie resembles a yellow-clad Dominatrix, wielding a whip and being carried by two subordinates. Shadow Chie is the embodiment of Chie's repressed desire for control over her friend Yukiko.
- Persona 5: Ann Takamaki, after awakening her Persona, turns into the Heroic Seductress Panther, who dresses in a bright red latex Spy Catsuit, acts like a Dominatrix, and wields a whip. This represents her desire to take back control of her life after having been abused and groomed by the school's Creepy Gym Coach Kamoshida.
- Shin Megami Tensei II: Hiroko is a Dominatrix themed character with her Stripperiffic templar outfit with heeled thigh-high boots, a Lascivious Beauty Mark, and a sensuous, domineering personality. But most unique is that she has a long red whip wrapped around her body, which is supposed to be reminiscent of Lilith's snake. She also comes equipped with a whip weapon, though she can equip others.
- Silent Dragon: Henchwomen are all armed with whips for roughing your players up and are all Dressed Like a Dominatrix, as is tradition for female Beat 'em Up mooks.
- Skullgirls: Deep Violet, Mrs. Victoria's alter-ego, wields a whip called the Pazuzu Whip and she's a demonic dominatrix and has a thing for dominance.
- Skylanders: Smolderdash has a whip that's made out of fire, and she's noted in her bio to be a stubborn, strong battler who "whips enemies into shape" and is not the type to take "no" for an answer.
- Slay the Spire: The Taskmaster is a whip-wielding Flunky Boss, always accompanied by other lesser slavers. His Scouring Whip can inflict wounds that can fill the player's deck, as a gameplay translation of the torturing aspect of a whip.
- Smite: Bastet an aggressive and domineering Hot Goddess and Beastmaster who wields a whip, both as a weapon and as a tool to control her summons. One of her alternate skins also has her Dressed Like a Dominatrix.
- Soul Series: Ivy is a British Blue Blood who is introduced in the series as a cold, haughty, domineering Evil Brit, dressed in a Stripperiffic and dominatrix take on old British aristocratic garb, wielding a Whip Sword in combat. Her taunts and movesets all emphasize the dominatrix inspiration, which includes a grapple that forces the opponent on all fours, at which point she sits on them and says "Learn. Your. Place."
- StarCraft: The emblem of the Sons of Korhal is an arm wielding a whip. They style themselves as La Résistance fighting the corrupt and oppressive Confederacy, but no sooner does victory over the Confederacy become certain than their leader, Arcturus Mengsk, reveals himself to be a megalomaniacal dictator no better than the Confederates he just overthrew. Come StarCraft II, he's rebuilt his rebels into the Terran Dominion, which has an emblem that is clearly inspired by the earlier whip emblem, but more stylized so it looks more like an abstract shape, though still utilizing Red and Black Totalitarianism.
- Stella Deus: The Gate of Eternity: Big Bad Nebula is a whip-wielding villainess who wears a Stripperiffic leather outfit and is a Misanthrope Supreme with a cruel and imposing personality, often demeaning and insulting everyone around her. She tells others to submit to her when she lashes at them with her whip, and her special attacks animation has her tightening the whip in an intimidating fashion.
- Street Fighter: Poison started out as a mook in Final Fight and always had a sexualized Dominatrix motif, with her Stripperiffic attire and Commissar Cap. To really hammer in that motif, she gained a whip for one move in Final Fight Revenge ever since then, wielding a whip became a iconic part of her character. When she made her Street Fighter debut in Street Fighter X Tekken and Street Fighter IV, her full-length whip was changed into a riding crop, and it was heavily incorporated into her fighting style, including her ultra combo having her deliver a Kinky Spanking to her opponent with the riding crop. In Street Fighter V, she traded the riding crop for a full-length bullwhip yet again, but mostly used in the same manner as the riding crop.
- Streets of Rage: Every game has a Dominatrix villainess that fights with a whip. 1 and 4 have Nora while 2 and 3 have Electra, and they each have many Palette Swaps. Nora has a more military-inspired design thanks to her Commissar Cap while Electra has a more stereotypical dominatrix outfit and wields a Lightning Lash. 4 actually gives Nora whip a mechanic overhaul to make her more of a Flunky Boss & Mook Lieutenant, as she can actually buff and heal other Mooks by hitting on them with her whip.
- Suikoden II: Badeaux is an expert animal tamer who wields a whip in combat to denote his control of beasts. It's not treated as his being cruel to animals, and he actually gets along with them better than with people, which is why he's a Hermit Guru.
- Super Robot Wars: Saphine from Masou Kishin has a Dominatrix/Sadomasochist motif, which is complemented by her Ace Custom Wizoll/Wizoll having a custom whip attack called "Rose Cutter". It's heavily implied she gets turned on while using it.
- Tactics Ogre:
- The Beast Tamers & Dragon Tamer classes are the only generic class that can have whips as the preferred weapon. The whips themselves are merely symbolic of the tamer status and have no particular ability that helps them control their beasts, nor are they characterized as cruel for wielding the whips.
- Whips are her iconic weapon of Knight Commander Ozma, a Blue Blood Lady of War with a arrogant and domineering attitude. Notably her custom whip can inflict charm on those struck and her unique finishing move is a flurry of whip lashes that will always inflict charm on targets (as long as they're not immune to it, such as most bosses), making her whip a weapon that can literally dominate others.
- Tales Series:
- Tales of Legendia: Melanie is a whip-toting villainess with a domineering attitude, a dominatrix design, and a taste for causing pain in others.
- Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World: Alice is a Vanguard officer who always has a riding crop in her hand, and while she maintains a cutesy and innocent appearance, she is actually a Cute and Psycho girl who is a major Sadist that speaks with Sugary Malice and has an arrogant and domineering personality. Her Establishing Character Moment features her mercilessly whipping her subordinate Hawk just for talking back to her.
- Team Fortress 2: The Soldier can unlock a riding crop, the Disciplinary Action, as a melee weapon. It does less damage than most other melee weapons, but if a Soldier whips his teammate with it (which deals no damage), both he and the teammate will receive a temporary speed boost. Another quirk is that the weapon's hitbox is coded to have a longer reach than a melee sword, but only against enemies directly behind the Soldier, potentially leading to the Soldier slapping down a Spy's Back Stab with an Offhand Backhand.
- In Terraria, whips are associated with the Summoner playstyle, allowing the player to better control their summoned creatures. Whipped enemies are afflicted with a debuff that makes them take extra damage from summons, and the summons will focus their attacks on the last enemy you whipped.
- Tokyo Afterschool Summoners:
- Bael wields a stylized riding crop, which illustrates his true authoritarian nature and his sadism.
- Hakumen is an aggressive whip-toting Asian Fox Spirit with a dominant personality who wants to form a harem of people who worship her. She frequently uses her whip on her servants, particularly her bodyguard Xolotl, when she is displeased. Further emphasizing this is her Valentine's variant, which puts her in a leather jail warden outfit.
- Trails Series:
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky trilogy has Hot Gypsy Woman Scherazard, whose non-magical attacks all use her whip, and while she's usually an easygoing person, she also has a bossy and strict side, and her flirtatious side has some heavy domineering overtone, especially if her skill with the whip is brought up. Olivier even lampshades this when he comments that some masochist somewhere is dying to meet her, to which she offers to let him meet her whip. Even some of her whip abilities play into this, such as her Limit Break is "Sadist's Whip", (which she precedes by saying "Someone's been naughty") where she whips a target rapidly while doing a Noblewoman's Laugh and her Heaven's Kiss ability where she whips her allies saying that it will "perk them up" resulting in a floating Heart Symbol and them taking their next turn immediately.
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak: Judith Lanster's primary weapon is a whip referred to as "Stellabute", fitting with the dominatrix design of her Grimcats costume.
- Under Night In-Birth: Phonon's weapon of choice is a whip, which transforms from her pet snake, fitting with her domineering personality and tendency to look down on others. During Hollow Night she plays it up even more when she explicitly styles herself as a sadistic Dominatrix.
- Valkyria Chronicles III: Leila Peron always has a riding crop on her and is a strict and domineering woman who calls herself "Queen". She wants to discipline and educate the Gallian soldiers, which got her in trouble because she has this attitude even towards her superiors. Many of the men in her unit end up being lashed by her, though Alfons Auclair is her most common whipping boy, and he doesn't seem to mind it.
- Vendetta (1991): The female enemy mooks have a Dominatrix motif and use whips as their weapon. Beat them down and you can take their weapon of choice for your own use.
- Warframe: Khora, a dominatrix-like beastmaster Warframe, can command living metal like a whip, which serves to symbolically reinforce her command over her Kavat companion Venari and her own Dominatrix motif as she uses her living whips to both to attack enemies with her Whipclaw ability and restrain them with Ensnare.
- We Happy Few: Victoria Byng is the duty-obsessed Director of the Department of Archives at City Hall and is something of a Control Freak. She is frequently carrying a whip with her, as a visual symbol of her 'duty' motif, and as her DLC "We All Fall Down" shows, she's very adept at actually using it in combat.
- Wizardry: You acquire the first bullwhip in Wizardry 6: Bane of the Cosmic Forge by looting it from the Queen's secret compartment, along with the Studded Leather Bra +2 (yes, it's exactly what it sounds like, and the narrator sputters as he describes it).
- The Wonderful 101: Wonder-Pink is the team's whip-wielder, a spiked whip she calls "Beautiful Whip", which forms the basis of the Unite Whip power, which is a fitting weapon for her as she's a Sensual Slavs with strong Dominatrix undertones thanks to her aggressive and overbearing personality, constantly talks about wanting to deal out "punishments" and having Combat Sadomasochist tendencies. Green in particular tends to be her whipping boy when he sets her off and one failed QTE even has her stomping the camera in anger. She's even nicknamed "The Queen of Rage".
- World of Warcraft:
- The Succubi and Incubi demons are frequently shown carrying whips to illustrate their nature as aggressive seducers with a Dominatrix nature and are appropriately dressed in bondage-themed gear. They even have an animation where they use their whips to smack their thigh in a flirtatious manner.
- The Flunky Boss Hakkar the Houndmaster is a Fel Demon who wields a magical whip that he uses both as a weapon and to summon and command his felhounds in battle.
- Ys SEVEN Altago's official executioner Ursa is a sadistic and domineering woman who prefers a whip as her personal weapon. She is also in charge of capturing and taming monsters, which she does with her whip. The coliseum, where she resides, is even described as a place of gratuitous whipping.
- Ace Attorney: Amoral Attorney Franziska von Karma constantly carries a whip with her, which she uses on anyone who provokes her wrath and matches her tough, abrasive, and icy personality. She uses her whip even inside the courtroom and when the judge protests, she even whips him into compliance and she gets away with it only due to Rule of Funny. The absurdity of this behavior becomes a Running Gag, to the point that when she's seen as a teenager it reveals that she wielded a riding crop in the same manner. Her favorite victims are Phoenix and Gumshoe — she seems to consider it almost affectionate, by the end, never mind that that thing hurts — only eight-year-old Pearl Fey (which probably would have killed any possible sympathy for her), paralyzed-from-the-waist-down Acro, middle-aged (and not the picture of health) Sister Bikini, Godot (who simply shamed her into compliance), and Detective Badd (who swayed out of the way) manage to escape unscathed. Shi-Long Lang caught the whip when Frannie first tried to use it on him but fell victim to it later in the case.
- Dancing Blade: Katte ni Momotenshi!: Kijime is a master of the whip, using it flawlessly in battle and her idea of showing her affection to the protagonist is to willy-nilly whip him (to the point it's lampshaded by Momohime in Tears of Eden); as it's one of the Running Gags of the series, it's always Played for Laughs.
- Koihime†Musou: As expected of Kashin's dominant and abrasive personality, she uses a whip in battle. Her overall design invokes the image of a dominatrix, although ironically she's actually rather submissive when it comes to romance.
- Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!: Umeko Kajoma is Class 2F's homeroom teacher and is a major Stern Teacher who uses an actual whip in class for disciplinary purposes, cracking her whip whenever she wants to get the attention or intimidate someone in particular. Comically, many of the male students find her incredibly attractive in large thanks to this, as her treatment has "awakened" their dormant masochist tendencies.
- Dingo Doodles: Quinn-Ora's primary weapon is nine severed hands with a whip tied to each finger, complementing her "domination time" with her being an overbearing and domineering Witch Doctor with People Puppet powers.
- Helluva Boss: In "Exes and Oohs", after Millie's Roaring Rampage of Rescue in Moxxie's "wedding", she stands before Crimson and Chaz and cracks her imp tail like a whip, creating the iconic sound in tune to the country music playing throughout, as symbolic of her asserting her dominance over Crimson, who decides to hand over Moxxie without a fuss.
- PONY.MOV: In "DRESS.MOV", Rarity is revealed to have many Mexican slaves who sew dresses for her. She claims that she pretends to whip them as a "silly pretend game" before cracking a whip behind one of the workers.
- RWBY: Glynda Goodwitch carries a riding crop that acts as both a Magic Wand and a means to intimidate her listeners when she needs to punctuate her words for emphasis. Coupled with her messy bun, glasses, stern demeanour, cleavage-exposing pencil-thin dress, and knee-high boots, her appearance carries a Dominatrix overtone.
- Black Label: Meg, a dominatrix, discusses this trope in one strip. While she keeps a whip on her, it is only for the sake of atmosphere. And being the good domme that she is, she refuses to actually use it as she finds it too dangerous outside of it just being a prop.
- Chitra: Played with. In Chapter 12, Chitra pulls the 3-star item "Holy Priestess Leather Whip", a magical item that once belonged to the Goddess of Domination. It grants her the ability to buff an ally's stats or decrease an enemy's stats whenever she lands a hit. Despite her initial reluctance to use the item (not wanting to look like a Dominatrix and all), Radelk insisted that she learn how to use it if only for self-defense. Several dozen chapters later, her training leads to Chitra becoming proficient at using the whip in limited combat. She also uses its stat-boosting effects in training/ socializing the feral elvish twins Green and Gray — gently tapping them with the lash at the end of the whip is enough to impart the ally-buffing effects.
- Collar 6:
- Mistress Sixx wields a riding cop as her primary weapon and is the Dominatrix protagonist of the story, as one of the heads of the "Global Dominance Association". She even refers to her employers as her "slaves".
- Mistress Sardonyx is also armed with a riding crop and is a Dominatrix with an equestrian motif, being able to use her whip to tame other doms, literally turning them into ponies.
- Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures: Head combat instructor Quill has a domineering persona and is skilled with a whip, and she's shown to like using on her lover Jacob for kinky reasons while Dressed Like a Dominatrix.
- Erfworld: At first, the reader is led to believe Wanda's "hobbies" is simply playing the role of a Torture Technician when she visits the captured Jillian in the dungeon, and Stanley seems to believe the same. But it's soon made clear that Wanda and Jillian just have an odd BDSM-fueled relationship, which just happens to involve Wanda dressing in a bondage-themed outfit and whipping the submissive and captive Jillian with a cat-o-nine-tails while faux interrogating her and their dialogue implies these whipping sessions are a regular thing. The mook guarding the door outside even notes that the screams he heard were not pleas for mercy. It's later revealed that Wanda is using these whipping sessions to secretly manipulate and control Jillian via More than Mind Control methods.
- Girl Genius: Tarvek's grandma Terebithia is a stern Evil Matriarch who has quite the reputation for using a whip. When she talks to Tarvek about whipping her servants into shape, she makes it clear it's not just an expression when she says she can't do it as well anymore because "her shoulders aren't what they used to be". She also implies she used her whip on her husband for kinky reasons, much to Tarvek's distress.
- Homestuck: The signature weapon of Snowman, one of the leaders of the Felt criminal gang and the deposed Black Queen of Derse, is a long bullwhip. She's a cold and domineering figure, and in her confrontations with the rival gang leader Spades Slick, she typically seeks to maim or humiliate him, such as by casually putting out his eye or by tearing off his arm with her whip, instead of trying to kill him for good, as she's ultimately more interested in keeping up her dominance games.
- Metacarpolis: Cecily Crane is the haughty and domineering CEO of Doomcorps and she's often seen carrying a riding crop or an actual whip, as a visual illustration of her personality. Her ex-boyfriend Max also heavily implies she was a Dominatrix to him when they were together.
- Noblesse:
- Dr. Aris is a Cute and Psycho scientist with a very demanding and overbearing personality who doesn't admit anyone disobeying or criticizing her orders. Apropprietly, she's skilled at fighting with whips, with her nano-suit even coming equipped with two Lightning Lash and she becomes even more sadistic and domineering when she wields them in battle.
- Ignes Kravei's soul weapon is a whip, fitting her haughty, egocentric, and domineering personality and her supremacist goals.
- Pastamonsters: Zalgo's forces wield whips which they use to control and order around slaves, and they take sadistic joy in doing it.
- Spinnerette: Evil Spinnerette is a whip-totting domineering supervillainess, as fitting since In-Universe she's based on a Lolth priestess from Dungeons & Dragons.
- Critical Role: "Campaign Three" has Mona, who utilizes a whip to complement her air of power and her balls-out, intense personality. She even uses it to punctuate an HDYWTDT, cracking it like a Dominatrix.
- Danganronpa Re:Birth: Ultimate Animal Trainer Aruma Todoroki always carries a whip and isn't afraid to use it, complementing her image as a Dominatrix and an animal trainer.
- Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged: It's revealed that Shera is secretly a dominatrix by the fact she owns a whip and has frequent S&M sessions where she uses it on Cid.
- Jreg: When Homonationalist goes up against Radical Centrist, he wields a whip, fitting for an extremist Sissy Villain with a domineering personality and a Campy Combat style.
- Pop Cross Studios: In What if Disney Princesses Were Demons?, Aladdin (a significantly more evil version than in Disney canon) decided to murder Jasmine after marrying her by starving and whipping her pet tiger Rajah from behind a cage, before releasing Rajah into a room with Jasmine, where the tiger's anger and hunger drove him into killing and eating his former friend and owner. Aladdin presumably got the whip from his benefactor, a human crime-lord known as The Djinn, who loaned Aladdin all manner of luxurious items to trick Jasmine's father into thinking he was rich, and therefore suitable to marry his daughter. Ironically, this version of Aladdin's sociopathy and willingness to directly hurt those who did not deserve it (with or without his whip) gives him more in common with Prince Achmed- and therefore made it all the more appropriate when Jasmine's body was given new life as the demon Jasmargrine, who then tracked the deceptive murderer down, tormented and killed him.
- Aladdin: The Series: In "Forget Me Lots", Princess Jasmine is turned against the heroes by Abis Mal. She gets a new domineering attitude, starts calling herself "Scourge of the Desert" and gets an Evil Costume Switch which includes a whip and a black as-close-to-dominatrix-gear-as-Disney-will-allow outfit. That incident apparently made her realize the benefits of carrying around a whip even while on the side of good — she uses one in a later episode to disarm one of Mozenrath's undead servants.
- American Dragon: Jake Long: Fury is a bossy and domineering gorgon whose belt doubles as a Snake Whip weapon. Ironically, she's actually rather protective of it.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender: While The Bounty Hunter June carries a whip with her to keep her ferocious Shishu partner, Nyla, under control and she also has a domineering theme, with her tough and aggressive personality and her Hell-Bent for Leather outfit. She also never actually uses the whip as a weapon, using martial arts for combat instead. Notably, her usage of the whip with Nyla is used to denote her Character Development. During her first appearance in "Bato of The Water Tribe", she doesn't hesitate to ruthlessly whip Nyla for the duration of the episode yet by "Sozin's Comet, Part 2 - The Old Masters" she's now a Fluffy Tamer who hugs, pets and give treats to Nyla and even and calls him "Snuffly-Wuffly", with the whip nowhere to be seen.
- DuckTales (1987): In "Duckworth's Revolt", the slaver Plant Aliens use their Vine Tentacles to whip several of their slaves as "encouragement" to work harder, including the nephews.
- Futurama: In "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela", when Amy gets Dressed Like a Dominatrix for her supposed end-of-the-world orgy, she's also wielding a whip.
- Jackie Chan Adventures: While Vanessa Barone can use other weapons, the whip is her primary weapon, fitting her being a villainess with a smug and condescending demeanor, who enjoys to gloat whenever she gets the upper hand.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Magic Duel", Trixie (who has become even crueler than before due to the Alicorn Amulet) forces Snips and Snails to drag her chariot (which doesn't even have wheels!) for her. When they get tired out, she whips them.
- Madeline: In "Madeline and the Bad Hat", Pepito carries a whip when he discusses the ways he mistreats his pets in song form. Though he ditches the whip (as well as his hat) when he becomes nicer.
- M.A.S.K.: VENOM operative Vanessa Warfield can generate energy whips with her Mask, fitting her as a The Baroness type villainess with a cold, domineering, and malicious personality who's often demeaning her colleagues.
- Masters of the Universe: Beast Man is able to control most animals through taming or sheer telepathy, and he wields a whip to punctuate his commands.
- Miraculous Ladybug: Clara Nightingale's Akumatized form Frightningale is a bossy and overbearing Evil Diva who wields a long glowing pink whip with which she turns people into statues if they don't follow her demands.
- Nexo Knights: Whiparella is a fear-based lava monster whose main weapon is a whip (unsurprising as it's even in her name) and it can strike fear on anyone it hits.
- Rick and Morty: In "The ABCs of Beth", the various gadgets that Beth had Rick build for her during her youth included a whip that could force the victim to like the wielder.
- Robot Chicken: A skit paroding Castlevania has two werewolf Mooks wondering if the Belmonts specialize in fighting with whips because of a fetish.
Werewolf 1: What kind of a sadist uses a whip?!
Werewolf 2: [shrugs] Could be a fetish. - Rocky and Bullwinkle: During the Upsidasium story, Boris Badinov manages to convince a military base that he's their general. Now that he's in a position where he can give orders instead of just taking them, he goes a little crazy, ordering soldiers around just because he can, at one point even standing above a marching column cracking a whip.
- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Tung Lashor is an arrogant and domineering gang league who wields a whip as his primary weapon, and even cracks it to try to intimidate Catra (it doesn't work, mostly because she's distracted by his Atrocious Alias). Thematically, Catra not only defeating him but taking his whip is also illustrative of her utter dominance over him. She takes such a liking to the whip she ends up using it for a while (basically until it gets destroyed in "Pulse") which also happens to fit her own ruthless and domineering personality.
- Steven Universe: Holly Blue Agate is a physically and verbally abusive overseer at Pink Diamond's zoo who wields an electrified whip.
- Superjail!: The Mistress is always seen with a riding crop in her hand, as fitting for an evil Warden with an strict, cold, and domineering personality.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003): Gruell is a sadistic Triceraton jailer who watches over condemned gladiators and delights whipping them, all while mocking them relentlessly.
- Total Drama: In "Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better", Heather takes great pleasure in whipping Courtney during the sledding challenge, and is the only contestant to do so. She claims is to make Courtney run faster, but it's clear she's just enjoying humiliating and degrading her.