Antique Torture Chair

Antique Torture Chair
Equipment information
Model	Antique Torture Chair
Created by	Unknown
Production	Unknown, likely unique
Type	Torture equipment
Behind the scenes
First seen	The World Is Not Enough (film)
Last seen	The World Is Not Enough (novelisation)

"I think we ignore the old ways at our peril, don’t you?"

― Elektra King

The Antique Torture Chair was a fictional piece of torture equipment recovered during archaeological excavations of the Maiden's Tower, Istanbul. The device appeared during the 1999 James Bond film, The World Is Not Enough, and its accompanying novelization and video games.

History

Torturing James Bond

"They were digging near here and found some very pretty vases. They also found this chair."

― Elektra King to James Bond

During an archaeological excavation of the Maiden's Tower in Istanbul, an ornately carved, wooden straight-back torture chair was unearthed alongside several vases. The victim was shackled to the chair by a pair of metal cuffs attached to the sides of the seat and a further reinforced restraint that bound the neck. The torturer turned a wheel on the rear of the unit, extending a bolt which crushed the individual's neck, gradually strangling the victim with each turn of the screw. Having been captured by Elektra King and her men, James Bond was tortured on the chair and narrowly escaped strangulation by the timely intervention of his ally Valentin Zukovsky; who used his Walking Stick Rifle to shoot, and damaged an arm restraint, permitting 007 to break free. The ultimate fate of the equipment is unknown.

Alternate Continuities

The chair appeared with minor differences in both the film's novelisation and video-game adaptations. In the former, the victim's neck is bound to the chair using a leather garrotte strap, whereas the game's low-poly model had a shorter chair and eshewed the metal arm restraints.

Capabilities

"Five more turns, and your neck will break."

― Elektra King to James Bond

To be added

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