Every Disney villain has a 'peak moment' of being unpleasant, but Madame Medusa went a little further than most in 'The Rescuers.' Poor Penny, clutching her teddy bear defensively, was given quite the strange ultimatum.
Like a game of 'would you rather' gone wrong, Penny was presented with two options by Medusa. She could either pluck a diamond from inside the skull of a corpse, or she'd be drowned. That probably qualifies as torture, and it came across as more than a little extreme.