Later, Hanji and Levi do the same to the people who tortured him, partly for information, and partly as revenge.
In Attack on Titan, Minister Nick is tortured to try to get him to reveal Eren's location (he doesn't break).They go shockingly and graphically overboard with this to the point that by the time they finally get something out of him, one of his forearms is gangrenous and infested with maggots. Angel Cop has the anti-terrorist police group doing this to Tachihara, the leader of the Red May terrorist group, for information.
