Compilation of Tickle Endurance Scenes in TV and Comics

In this article, we present a curated list of memorable scenes from comics, cartoons, TV shows, and movies featuring characters engaging in the ultimate test of endurance: resisting tickling.
These moments often showcase the hilarity and vulnerability that arise when characters strive to hold back laughter or maintain composure in the face of relentless tickles. Whether it’s a challenge of physical restraint or a humorous contest of wills, these scenes capture the playful struggle to withstand one of the most universally recognized forms of amusement.
Join us as we explore these entertaining moments that blend laughter, tension, and the timeless joy of tickling.

Dark Star (1974)

A mas is tickled by a evil, ball shaped alien to make him lose his grip and fall.

Drunken Master (1978)

The protagonist is tickled by a friend who wants to disturb his exercises.

Eyecatch Junction (1991)

In “Eyecatch Junction”, two policewomen, Makoto and Atsuko, are having a like-wrestling much. Makoto almost loses but discovers that Atsuko is ticklish and starts to tickle her armpits.

Atsuko try to resist but starts to laugh. Makoto asks her if she’s ticklish, then grabs her and starts to tickle vigorously her armpits. Atsuko laughs loudly until the end of the match.

Sirens (1994)

Estrella tries to free herself, but Sheela asks, “Are you ticklish?” and tickles her belly. The woman snaps back ceasing resistance, and the others move away.

Sliding Doors (1998)

Gwyneth Paltrow is briefly tickled under her armpits by his female friend while she’s painting.

The Jungle Book (1967)

Baloo tickles Louie’s armpits and chest too, he laughs like crazy and begins to lose balance.

Todos por unos, golpes para todos (1973)

A man is tickle dunder his armpits to make him fall.

TV Series

Glee

A girl is tickled under her armpits to make her lower her arms.

Glow

Liberty Bell (Elizabeth Folan Gilpin) is tickled under her armpit to fall out of the ring.

Hope & Faith

Faith is tickled on her armpits as she grabs at the doorway in an attempt not to be taken away.

Wings

Helen Chappel-Hackett played by Crystal Bernard gets briefly ticked under her armpits as she grabs at the doorway in an attempt not to be taken away.

TV Shows

Below Deck

Maria Deckard is tickled under her armpits by a man while performing a handstand.

UK Gladiators

In “UK Gladiators” “hang out” competition, competitors sometimes use underarm tickling to force their opponent to let go and fall into the water, or for strictly comedic purposes.

Cartoons

Ace Ventura

A man climbing onto a balcony is tickled under his arms to make him lose his grip.

Alvin and the Chipmunks

Alvin tickles Bettany under her armpit to make her lower her arms.

Daitarn 3

A woman tickles a man under the arms to make a stone slab fall on him.

Dragon Ball

Ep. 45: Goku tickles Husky to make her arms twitch and the dragon balls in her hand fall.

Farhat – Il principe del deserto

Farhat is tickled under his arms by his own shadow as he hangs on a rope. He starts laughing and squirming and eventually falls.

Lupin the Third

Ep S1X17

Lupin plans to steal a large shipment of gold using a machine shaped like a volleyball. It expands by releasing mechanical arms that place all the gold bars inside.

Zenigata follows the machine out of the vault with the gold inside, and takes flight. The inspector with a leap manages to cling to it, thus planning to reach his opponent.

But Lupin has the solution. He pulls one arm out of the car and it begins to tickle him lightly under the armpits. As soon as the inspector starts laughing Lupie understands that he can take advantage of it. Type the instructions into the computer that skyrockets the pace of the arms. The inspector is forced by the terrible tickle to laugh and finally loses his grip, falling on the roof of a building.

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Zenigata, in order not to spring a trap inside a chamber, is forced to cling to a large balloon that he has inflated with his own breath.

Sadistically, Lupin begins tickling his armpits. The poor inspector finds himself forced to laugh and thus loses his grip on his support.

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Zenigata chases Lupin over the train tracks. As one’s own track recedes, Zenigata clings with his arms to the edge of the other to keep from falling off.

Lupin then tickles him under his armpits, briefly making him lose his grip.

S1X16

Lupin set up a big heist at a jewelry store. For a change, Fujiko betrays her partners and runs away with the truck full of jewelry.

Lupin tracks the woman down and damages her air vehicle, forcing her to parachute out. Fujiko thus ends up stranded on a branch, with her suitcases still in her hand.

Because she refuses to let them fall, Lupin intervenes with a kind of mechanical telescopic arm.

Turning a crank, the arm moves a clamp on its end. The girl, frightened, begins to fidget but can do nothing. Gripping the device, he reaches into her armpits and moving around gives her a terrible tickle.

Fujiko is forced to laugh and struggle and ends up dropping first one case and then the other.

OAV. Lupin tickles a soldier to make him falls by the bike.

Pollon

Sone giants are tickled under their armpits.

Pokemon Indigo League (ep. 76)

Meowth tickles Ash’s side to make him let go of the torch.

Darkwing Duck

Darkwing Duck is tickled by his daughter who wants him to free her

Ducktales

Launchpad McQuack tickles Glugzilla to make him to lose his grip.

Fairy Tales

Lucy Heartflia is tickled under her armpits, neck and nelly by Virgo, to prevent her from holding two stone walls apart with her arms.

Garfield

Heatcliff

Sora No Otoshimono / Heaven’s Lost Property

Ikaros is tickled by a girl under her armpits, but she not smiles, and has a strange reaction.

Comics

Captain america #342

Diamondback is training in wrestling with Demolition Man. Suddenly she starts tickling his armpits. D-Man starts laughing and states that tickling is not an allowed move in wrestling.

Later, Black Racer, a member of the Serpent Society, enters the ambulance that is carrying Jarvis and attempts to kidnap him. Diamondback clings to Black Racer who is moving the stretcher at super speed.

Suddenly, she tickles her underarms forcing her to let go of Jarvis. Black Racer falls to the ground, and Diamondback thinks tickling is a useful move, after all.