Tropescilloscope: Rape as Drama

Nonconsensual sex used as a serious and dramatic plot element. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Eagleland Retcon Vomit Indiscretion Shot Dies Wide Open Spiritual Successor An Aesop Slasher Movie The Stoic Narrator Ghost Fiction Cruel and Unusual Death Cain and Abel The Big Guy Super Strength Foreshadowing Big Brother Instinct Apocalypse How Better to Die than Be Killed Those Two Guys Dumb Blonde Fate Worse than Death Determinator Bond Villain Stupidity Show Within a Show The Brute Henpecked Husband Badass Boast Intergenerational Friendship Back from the Dead folderlabel Room Full of Crazy Stealth Hi/Bye The Ditz Expository Hairstyle Change Author Avatar Pretty Little Headshots Dark Is Not Evil Mexican Standoff Tempting Fate Kill 'em All Be Careful What You Wish For Bi the Way Humiliation Conga The Quiet One Shut Up, Hannibal! Affectionate Parody All for Nothing Unusual Euphemism Adaptation Distillation Not So Stoic Television Movie Index Captain Ersatz Evil vs. Evil Wham Shot Almost Kiss Ms. Fanservice Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Artistic License – Biology Funny Foreigner The Chessmaster Catch-Phrase Body Horror As Himself Tranquil Fury Award-Bait Song Monumental Damage Defiant to the End You Killed My Father Your Head A-Splode Cat Fight Mr. Fanservice Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Groin Attack Drugs Are Bad Hypocrite Wretched Hive Slap-Slap-Kiss Well-Intentioned Extremist MacGuffin Dramatic Irony Psychopathic Manchild Coming-of-Age Story For Want of a Nail Outrun the Fireball Gilligan Cut Central Theme Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Destination Defenestration Authority Equals Asskicking He Who Fights Monsters Evil-Detecting Dog Suddenly SHOUTING! 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A Father to His Men Not Even Bothering with the Accent Drives Like Crazy Half the Man He Used to Be Made of Explodium Canon Foreigner The '80s La Résistance Stock Footage Bloody Hilarious Earn Your Happy Ending You Have Failed Me Biopic Determinator aka: The Determinator Mr. Exposition Alliterative Name Sexy Discretion Shot Anachronic Order Sole Survivor Papa Wolf Animal Motifs Auto Erotica Grievous Bottley Harm Comically Missing the Point Chekhov's Gun Brick Joke Overprotective Dad Here We Go Again! Race Lift Historical-Domain Character Big Eater Instant Death Bullet Happily Married Line-of-Sight Name Dirty Old Man Historical In-Joke Beard of Evil Mugging the Monster Fiery Redhead Big-Bad Ensemble Animated Credits Opening Missing Mom Broken Bird Only Sane Man Four-Temperament Ensemble The Cavalry Interrupted Suicide Amusing Injuries Double Entendre Villain Opening Scene Awesome, but Impractical "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Extreme Doormat Knight Templar Face–Heel Turn Closed Circle Woman in White Film Noir Index Fat Bastard Title Drop Affably Evil Ambiguously Gay Accidental Murder Fantastic Racism Expy Villain Protagonist Faking the Dead Adaptational Villainy Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Scary Black Man Hypocritical Humor No OSHA Compliance Cat Scare Very Loosely Based on a True Story O.O.C. Is Serious Business No-Sell Obviously Evil Bad "Bad Acting" Humans Are Bastards She Cleans Up Nicely Improbable Aiming Skills Foil Final Girl The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The Lost Lenore Dirty Cop Meaningful Echo World of Ham I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Slashed Throat Manchild No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Mole Japanese Films Cluster F-Bomb Knife Nut Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Good Is Not Nice Index of Film Westerns Exact Words Star-Crossed Lovers Public Domain Feature Films Becoming the Mask Laughing Mad Daddy's Girl Bound and Gagged The Stinger An Arm and a Leg Obstructive Bureaucrat The Cameo Babies Ever After Re-Cut Let's Get Dangerous! Important Haircut Rule of Funny Adaptation Dye-Job I Did What I Had to Do timeperiod Belligerent Sexual Tension Hell Is That Noise Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Creator Cameo Once More, with Clarity! Call-Forward Call-Back Bittersweet Ending In the Back Truth in Television Mad Scientist Meaningful Background Event More Dakka Mundane Made Awesome Evil Counterpart Disney Death Due to the Dead Take That! Fake Shemp Drowning My Sorrows Fourth Date Marriage Cool Guns Scenery Porn Deconstruction The Smurfette Principle French Films Stalker with a Crush Contrived Coincidence One-Word Title Leaning on the Fourth Wall Nice Hat Gainax Ending '80s Hair Playing Gertrude Bloodier and Gorier Russian Films Blackmail Ominous Latin Chanting Adaptational Attractiveness Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Guns Akimbo Light Is Not Good Vitriolic Best Buds Unreliable Narrator Frame-Up Fan Disservice Video Credits Mythology Gag Rule of Cool Spell My Name with an "S" Not So Above It All Funny Background Event The '70s I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Make It Look Like an Accident Crazy-Prepared Film Noir Freeze-Frame Bonus Anti-Villain Shout-Out You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Annoying Younger Sibling Kubrick Stare Protagonist Title Big Fancy House Twist Ending Suspiciously Similar Substitute The Load Sinister Minister Roger Ebert: Great Movies List From Nobody to Nightmare The '50s Adorkable Catapult Nightmare Pay Evil unto Evil Bullying a Dragon Hero of Another Story No Ending Chiaroscuro Redemption Equals Death Casting Gag Married to the Job Sequel Escalation Death by Adaptation He Knows Too Much Australian Movies Psycho for Hire Insane Troll Logic Spiteful Spit Bilingual Bonus Last-Name Basis Red Herring Ax-Crazy Creative Closing Credits Visual Pun Epic Movie It's All About Me What Happened to the Mouse? 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The Faceless Bar Brawl Character Development Spared by the Adaptation Only in It for the Money Improbable Weapon User The Reveal Works Set in World War II BFG Race Against the Clock Does This Remind You of Anything? Genre Throwback I'm a Humanitarian Psychological Thriller Thriller Villainous Breakdown Madness Mantra Reasonable Authority Figure Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Dark and Troubled Past It Will Never Catch On All Just a Dream Five-Man Band Armor-Piercing Question Accidental Misnaming Beware the Nice Ones Jerk Jock Abhorrent Admirer Hero Antagonist The Ghost Deus ex Machina Calling the Old Man Out Small Name, Big Ego Artistic License – Physics Rousing Speech Big "NO!" Composite Character Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Chase Scene Villain Ball Antagonist Title The Hero Whole Plot Reference Kids Are Cruel Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Badass in a Nice Suit Disguised in Drag War Is Hell Parental Abandonment How We Got Here Major Injury Underreaction Hollywood Darkness Actor Allusion Too Dumb to Live Celebrity Paradox Implacable Man Would Hit a Girl Covers Always Lie And Starring Adults Are Useless "Well Done, Son!" Guy Chekhov's Skill Villain with Good Publicity Totally Radical The Power of Love Easily Forgiven Shell-Shocked Veteran Genre Shift Unspoken Plan Guarantee Lock and Load Montage Artistic License – Law Big Damn Heroes Man on Fire Credits Gag Throwing Your Sword Always Works Drill Sergeant Nasty Heel–Face Turn Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Hero Dies Red Right Hand Gorn Male Gaze Noodle Incident Dramatic Gun Cock Offscreen Moment of Awesome Improvised Weapon The Casanova Match Cut Facial Horror Reality Has No Subtitles Hoist by His Own Petard Cool Shades Jerkass Has a Point Pet the Dog Cassandra Truth Informed Ability The Bad Guy Wins Mooks 20 Minutes into the Future The Alleged Car Downer Ending Stuff Blowing Up Heroic Sacrifice German Films Karmic Death After the End Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Distracted by the Sexy Attempted Rape And the Adventure Continues Evil Sounds Deep Cool Car Camp Gay Unresolved Sexual Tension Soundtrack Dissonance Faux Affably Evil My Beloved Smother Ripped from the Headlines Crazy Jealous Guy Batman Gambit Establishing Character Moment In Name Only Immune to Bullets Hooker with a Heart of Gold Setting Update Real Life Real Life Writes the Plot Bowdlerise Bolivian Army Ending Anguished Declaration of Love Heroic BSoD Mood Whiplash Aluminum Christmas Trees The X of Y I Have Your Wife Fanservice Parental Substitute Action Genre Alas, Poor Villain Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The Film of the Book Badass Longcoat Sassy Black Woman Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Unwitting Instigator of Doom Extremely Short Timespan Off with His Head! Stepford Smiler Put on a Bus Department of Redundancy Department Every Car Is a Pinto The Ace Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Evil Is Hammy Romantic Comedy Men Are the Expendable Gender Rule of Symbolism Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Adaptational Heroism Those Wacky Nazis Laser-Guided Karma Ironic Echo Running Gag Sealed Evil in a Can Would Hurt a Child Shower Scene Wrong Genre Savvy Martial Arts Movie Reckless Gun Usage Same Language Dub Fantasy Films Early-Bird Cameo Deadpan Snarker Word of God Not Using the "Z" Word Based on a True Story Children Are Innocent Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Get Out! Bad Boss No Name Given Kill It with Fire Motor Mouth Cool Old Guy Politically Incorrect Villain Off-into-the-Distance Ending Ambiguous Ending Up to Eleven Smoking Is Cool Superhero Storming the Castle Irony The Voiceless Slasher Smile Training Montage Horror Comedy Love Triangle Mama Bear Fatal Family Photo Male Frontal Nudity Card-Carrying Villain Neck Lift Eldritch Abomination Skewed Priorities Car Fu Yandere Dying Moment of Awesome One-Man Army Artistic License – Geography Reality Ensues Eyepatch of Power Market-Based Title Leitmotif Plot Hole Vacation Films Serious Business Black Comedy Rape Never My Fault Paper-Thin Disguise All Girls Want Bad Boys Framing Device The Mafia Getting Crap Past the Radar Crapsack World Insult Backfire Straight Gay Bury Your Gays Pragmatic Adaptation Fire-Forged Friends Blonde, Brunette, Redhead What the Hell, Hero? Failed a Spot Check Bring My Brown Pants A Date with Rosie Palms Parental Neglect Rated M for Manly Evil Plan Action Prologue Heterosexual Life-Partners Lampshade Hanging Woman Scorned B-Movie Demoted to Extra Rich Bitch Demonic Possession Gender Flip Despair Event Horizon Film Series Guile Hero "The Reason You Suck" Speech Bland-Name Product The Stoner Documentary Butt-Monkey Abusive Parents Nice Guy Curb-Stomp Battle Music Stories Karma Houdini Darker and Edgier Greater-Scope Villain Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Continuity Nod Recycled IN SPACE! Toplessness from the Back From Bad to Worse Foregone Conclusion All There in the Script Blood from the Mouth Boom, Headshot! Heel Realization Manly Tears Time Skip Morality Pet Only Known by Their Nickname Properly Paranoid Older Than They Look No Antagonist Italian Films Berserk Button Ascended Extra Made of Iron Pragmatic Villainy Badass Bookworm Hate Sink Double-Meaning Title Fainting Punny Name This Is Gonna Suck The Alcoholic Vomit Discretion Shot Spanner in the Works Killed Mid-Sentence Product Placement Naked People Are Funny Plucky Comic Relief Break the Cutie Bait-and-Switch N-Word Privileges Asshole Victim Badass Normal Translation Convention Red Oni, Blue Oni The Un-Reveal Hope Spot Adaptational Badass Not Quite Dead Brother–Sister Incest Arc Words Animal Title Index Punch-Clock Villain Darkest Hour No-Holds-Barred Beatdown An Axe to Grind Gory Discretion Shot Adaptation Name Change Tap on the Head Manipulative Bastard Wounded Gazelle Gambit Freudian Excuse In Medias Res Jerkass Evil Laugh Mind Screw Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Broken Pedestal Jump Scare For the Evulz Refuge in Audacity NO INDOOR VOICE The Atoner As You Know Maybe Ever After Kick the Son of a Bitch Defrosting Ice Queen It Can Think Alpha Bitch All Men Are Perverts Historical Hero Upgrade Famous Last Words Corpsing Reality Is Unrealistic The Sociopath Not So Different You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Shipper on Deck Ass Shove Sports Stories Zombie Stories Heroes Want Redheads Country Matters Fun with Acronyms Christmas Movies Index Silence Is Golden Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Bully Anachronism Stew Military and Warfare Films Historical Villain Upgrade Epic Fail Loads and Loads of Characters Camera Abuse