Tropescilloscope: Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil

Rape is considered inherently worse than other major crimes, even murder. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Narrator It Will Never Catch On Vampire Fiction Didn't Think This Through Getting Crap Past the Radar Non-Indicative Name One Steve Limit Only One Name Even Evil Has Loved Ones Cloudcuckoolander Ambiguous Disorder Storming the Castle Romantic Comedy The Lancer Sequel Escalation Cluster F-Bomb Despair Event Horizon Costume Porn Badass Boast Animal Title Index Affectionate Parody Animal Motifs Batman Gambit Every Car Is a Pinto Not Quite Dead Auto Erotica Police Brutality Disguised in Drag Names to Run Away from Really Fast Chekhov's Gunman I'm a Humanitarian Funny Foreigner Serious Business I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Deliberately Monochrome Spell My Name with an "S" Super Strength Pre-Mortem One-Liner Drowning My Sorrows The '90s Historical Hero Upgrade Blood from the Mouth As You Know Defrosting Ice Queen Instant Death Bullet Put on a Bus The Stoic The '50s Took a Level in Badass Only Sane Man Death Seeker No Ending Dying Moment of Awesome May–December Romance Bullying a Dragon Bait-and-Switch The Cavalry Real Life Writes the Plot Ship Tease Poor Communication Kills Be Careful What You Wish For Leitmotif Pretty Little Headshots Bottomless Magazines Dark and Troubled Past Foreshadowing Stuff Blowing Up Translation Convention "Shaggy Dog" Story Show Within a Show Anachronism Stew Black Dude Dies First Combat Pragmatist The Dragon 20 Minutes into the Future Martial Arts Movie Insult Backfire Catch-Phrase Redshirt Army Crapsack World Villain Ball Knife Nut The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Fake Shemp One-Man Army All There in the Manual Spared by the Adaptation Scare Chord No OSHA Compliance Overprotective Dad Covers Always Lie Bowdlerise Darker and Edgier Arch-Enemy Dropped a Bridge on Him Frame-Up Curse Cut Short The Ditz Love at First Sight Wham Line Adorkable Reckless Gun Usage Anti-Hero Slap-Slap-Kiss Really Gets Around The Casanova Kick the Dog Rewatch Bonus Does This Remind You of Anything? Line-of-Sight Name Corrupt Corporate Executive Light Is Not Good Abhorrent Admirer Off with His Head! Suspiciously Similar Substitute Big Eater Kill 'em All Captain Ersatz Documentary And the Adventure Continues Bavarian Fire Drill Loophole Abuse Recycled IN SPACE! Bound and Gagged Contrived Coincidence Fanservice Extra Fingore Vitriolic Best Buds Not Even Bothering with the Accent Action Survivor Artistic License – History Sci-Fi Horror Pet the Dog Retired Badass Naïve Newcomer Stealth Hi/Bye Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Berserk Button Unspoken Plan Guarantee Film Series Gender Flip Distracted by the Sexy Reality Is Unrealistic The Musical Sole Survivor Fatal Flaw Downer Ending folderlabel Hair-Trigger Temper Happily Married Music Stories A Date with Rosie Palms Taking the Bullet Heterosexual Life-Partners Gorn Monumental Damage Re-Cut Never My Fault Whole Plot Reference Action Girl She Cleans Up Nicely Extremely Short Timespan Undying Loyalty As the Good Book Says... The Dreaded World of Ham "Awesome McCool" Name Dwindling Party Male Gaze Hope Spot Precision F-Strike Large Ham Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Anyone Can Die The Smurfette Principle Does Not Like Shoes Foil Properly Paranoid Mooks The Un-Reveal Improbable Weapon User Accidental Misnaming She's Got Legs Gold Digger Hollywood Law Straight Gay Famous Last Words Butt-Monkey Nice Hat Video Credits Damsel in Distress Creepy Child Ambiguous Ending Brother–Sister Incest Badass Normal Dramatic Irony Science Fiction Films Chiaroscuro Breaking the Fourth Wall Mugging the Monster Well-Intentioned Extremist Kill It with Fire Break the Cutie Fun with Acronyms Eye Scream Hidden Depths Villainous Breakdown Red Eyes, Take Warning Sequel Hook Dies Wide Open Neck Lift Intergenerational Friendship Laughing Mad Pragmatic Villainy What Happened to the Mouse? Everyone Has Standards Make It Look Like an Accident Unresolved Sexual Tension Artistic License – Gun Safety Not So Stoic Country Matters Exact Words All for Nothing Morality Pet The Vamp Would Hurt a Child Face Death with Dignity Offscreen Moment of Awesome Token Minority Rule of Three Cool Old Guy Adaptational Badass Deus ex Machina No Name Given Domestic Abuse Villain with Good Publicity Adaptational Villainy Author Avatar Ambiguously Gay Asshole Victim Papa Wolf You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Unusually Uninteresting Sight Peek-a-Boo Corpse Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Twist Ending Cat Fight Cool Guns "The Reason You Suck" Speech Rated M for Manly The Reveal Jerk with a Heart of Gold Early-Bird Cameo Together in Death Empathic Environment Christmas Movies Index Moment Killer Black Best Friend Heroes Want Redheads '80s Hair Actor Allusion Annoying Younger Sibling The Chick Taking You with Me Heel–Face Turn Reasonable Authority Figure Manic Pixie Dream Girl Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Flipping the Bird Sacrificial Lion Title Drop Alliterative Name Scary Black Man Room Full of Crazy Parental Abandonment Playing Gertrude For Want of a Nail Earn Your Happy Ending Foregone Conclusion Deconstruction A Father to His Men Never Found the Body Dark Action Girl Random Events Plot Anachronic Order Wrong Genre Savvy Dark Is Not Evil Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Psycho for Hire Major Injury Underreaction Villain Protagonist As Himself Death by Adaptation BFG Film Noir Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Darkest Hour Fish out of Water Double-Meaning Title Tagline Big Bad I Did What I Had to Do No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Evil Laugh Improbable Aiming Skills Evil Plan My Greatest Failure Roger Ebert: Great Movies List My God, What Have I Done? 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They Really Do Love Each Other Woman in White Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Expy Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Married to the Job Rasputinian Death Manly Tears Red Shirt Japanese Films Driven to Suicide Karma Houdini Humans Are Bastards Revenge Red Oni, Blue Oni Implacable Man Only a Flesh Wound Framing Device War Is Hell Ghost Fiction Eldritch Abomination No Celebrities Were Harmed Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Epic Fail Sexy Discretion Shot Last-Name Basis Laser-Guided Karma Psychopathic Manchild Your Head A-Splode Amusing Injuries Slashed Throat Award-Bait Song The Dog Bites Back Death Glare Vacation Films Evil vs. Evil Riddle for the Ages Cool Car Adults Are Useless Ominous Latin Chanting Adaptation Name Change Cowboy Cop Air-Vent Passageway Determinator Obfuscating Stupidity Bare Your Midriff Bilingual Bonus And Starring Accidental Murder Gilligan Cut Spiritual Successor Beauty Is Never Tarnished Plot Hole O.O.C. Is Serious Business Once More, with Clarity! 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Epilogue Chekhov's Skill Historical Villain Upgrade Eiffel Tower Effect Retirony Stepford Smiler Punch-Clock Villain Race Against the Clock Death by Irony Destination Defenestration Badass Grandpa Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Fantasy Films Genre Throwback Creative Closing Credits Time Skip A Minor Kidroduction Lighter and Softer Crazy Jealous Guy Thriller Shirtless Scene Nice Guy Big Bad Duumvirate Face–Heel Turn Crucified Hero Shot Stealth Pun Eyepatch of Power Reality Has No Subtitles Only Known by Their Nickname Children Are Innocent Bond One-Liner Daylight Horror Card-Carrying Villain Demoted to Extra Conspicuous CG Jitter Cam Brainless Beauty All There in the Script Establishing Character Moment Becoming the Mask Toplessness from the Back In Name Only Homage Henpecked Husband Break the Haughty After the End Failed a Spot Check Jerk Jock Disproportionate Retribution Off-into-the-Distance Ending Index of Film Westerns Defiant to the End Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Unusual Euphemism Missing Mom German Films Faking the Dead Badass in a Nice Suit B-Movie Race Lift Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Handicapped Badass Depraved Bisexual Fainting Based on a True Story Central Theme Call-Forward No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Let's Get Dangerous! Psychological Thriller Scenery Porn The Faceless Betty and Veronica Friend to All Children Wounded Gazelle Gambit He Who Fights Monsters Protagonist Title Rape as Drama MacGuffin Diabolus ex Machina Badass Bookworm Spanner in the Works Meaningful Background Event Camera Abuse Not So Different Worthy Opponent Hate Sink Bittersweet Ending Good Is Not Nice Killed Mid-Sentence Action Genre Very Loosely Based on a True Story Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Heroic Sacrifice In the Back The Alleged Car The Mole Madness Mantra Shoot the Shaggy Dog Anti-Villain British Films Apocalypse How Continuity Nod Oh, Crap! Abusive Parents French Films Evil Counterpart Beware the Nice Ones Police are Useless Cold-Blooded Torture One-Word Title A.I. Is a Crapshoot Evil Is Petty Only in It for the Money Military and Warfare Films Greater-Scope Villain An Aesop The Starscream All Just a Dream Car Fu Australian Movies Expository Hairstyle Change No-Sell Stock Footage The Big Guy Self-Deprecation Romantic False Lead I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Cruel and Unusual Death Sassy Black Woman Small Name, Big Ego I Have Your Wife Vomit Indiscretion Shot Motor Mouth Heel Realization Big Applesauce The Sociopath Product Placement Disney Villain Death Rule of Cool Death by Sex Freudian Excuse The Mafia N-Word Privileges Adapted Out Disappeared Dad Canadian Movies Author Appeal Armor-Piercing Question The Stinger A God Am I Retcon Historical In-Joke Sealed Evil in a Can Authority Equals Asskicking Extreme Doormat Offscreen Teleportation Hypocrite Hero Antagonist Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Hong Kong Films Coming-of-Age Story Training Montage Pretty in Mink The Hero Dramatic Gun Cock Broken Pedestal Babies Ever After Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Book-Ends Adaptational Heroism As Long as It Sounds Foreign Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Smoking Is Cool All Girls Want Bad Boys Same Language Dub Bring My Brown Pants Bloodier and Gorier Humiliation Conga Our Vampires Are Different Due to the Dead Silent Movie Those Two Guys An Axe to Grind Awesome, but Impractical Slasher Movie Meaningful Echo Italian Films Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Woman Scorned True Companions Evil Is Hammy Immune to Bullets Did Not Get the Girl Sports Stories Freeze-Frame Bonus Rule of Symbolism Bland-Name Product Stylistic Suck From Bad to Worse Loads and Loads of Characters Bunny-Ears Lawyer Black Comedy Rape Parental Neglect Soundtrack Dissonance Tempting Fate Belligerent Sexual Tension From Nobody to Nightmare Our Zombies Are Different Artistic License – Geography Easily Forgiven Took a Level in Jerkass Market-Based Title Curb-Stomp Battle Red Herring Bury Your Gays The '80s Jerkass The Power of Love Grey and Gray Morality Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Kick the Son of a Bitch Dressing as the Enemy Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Captain Obvious Not What It Looks Like Adaptation Expansion Historical-Domain Character Gory Discretion Shot Fate Worse than Death Ass Shove Match Cut Gratuitous English Evil Sounds Deep Superhero Made of Iron Cat Scare Black and Gray Morality Needs Wiki Magic Love Too Dumb to Live Intrepid Reporter Trailers Always Spoil Composite Character Dirty Coward Calling the Old Man Out Tap on the Head Mundane Made Awesome Ax-Crazy Silence Is Golden Beard of Evil Truth in Television Back from the Dead Shout-Out Cool Old Lady Male Frontal Nudity Serial Killer "Well Done, Son!" Guy Villain Song Bald of Evil Shell-Shocked Veteran Biopic Fire-Forged Friends Mercy Kill Plucky Comic Relief And I Must Scream Not So Above It All Slasher Smile The Oner La Résistance For the Evulz The X of Y Agony of the Feet Mythology Gag Politically Incorrect Villain Scenery Gorn Idiot Ball Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Suddenly SHOUTING! Redemption Equals Death Facial Horror Made of Explodium Early Installment Weirdness Exactly What It Says on the Tin Unreliable Narrator Overly Long Gag Film Noir Index Bi the Way Epic Movie Public Domain Feature Films Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Kubrick Stare Arc Words Pragmatic Adaptation Insane Troll Logic Manchild Pyrrhic Victory Cool Shades Roaring Rampage of Revenge Creator Cameo Boom, Headshot! Action Prologue Drugs Are Bad Shipper on Deck The Lost Lenore Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Four-Temperament Ensemble Adaptational Attractiveness Irony Adaptation Distillation The Chessmaster Here We Go Again! Word of God Guile Hero The End... Or Is It? Honor Before Reason The Brute Stalker with a Crush Chase Scene Mexican Standoff Wretched Hive Knight Templar You Killed My Father You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Spiteful Spit The '70s Anguished Declaration of Love Credits Gag Fatal Family Photo Paper-Thin Disguise What You Are in the Dark Insistent Terminology Big Brother Instinct This Is Gonna Suck Your Cheating Heart Dirty Old Man Bar Brawl Vomit Discretion Shot Dual Wielding Almost Kiss Take That! Mighty Whitey Affably Evil Final Girl Closed Circle The Bully Call-Back The Atoner The Stoner Those Wacky Nazis Eureka Moment Faux Affably Evil Developing Doomed Characters Karmic Death No Antagonist Television Movie Index Department of Redundancy Department Beta Couple Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Ascended Extra Malevolent Masked Men Never Trust a Trailer Animated Credits Opening Flashback Fantastic Racism Big Damn Heroes Hoist by His Own Petard It Can Think Dumb Blonde Artistic License – Physics Soft Glass Dull Surprise Logo Joke Red Right Hand Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Better to Die than Be Killed Maybe Ever After Jump Scare Crazy-Prepared An Arm and a Leg Daddy's Girl Decoy Protagonist Not Using the "Z" Word Corpsing Double Entendre Throwing Your Sword Always Works Chekhov's Gun Bond Villain Stupidity Hypocritical Humor Novelization Important Haircut