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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More Tropes Downer Ending Rousing Speech Trailers Always Spoil Hate Sink Interrupted Suicide Meaningful Echo The Vamp Sequel Hook Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Same Language Dub Rich Bitch Cassandra Truth Despair Event Horizon Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Works Set in World War II Real Life Double Entendre Empathic Environment The Great Depression Improvised Weapon Throwing Your Sword Always Works Dissonant Serenity "Shaggy Dog" Story Twist Ending Your Head A-Splode Jump Scare Rule of Three BFG Sole Survivor Break the Haughty Historical-Domain Character Not So Stoic The Chessmaster Italian Films Bavarian Fire Drill Alpha Bitch Darkest Hour Translation Convention Sports Stories Adaptational Badass Creepy Child Defrosting Ice Queen Brick Joke Breaking the Fourth Wall For Want of a Nail Hollywood Darkness Deliberate Values Dissonance Five-Man Band Leave the Camera Running Establishing Character Moment Covers Always Lie Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Artistic License – Physics The Brute Authority Equals Asskicking Blackmail Half the Man He Used to Be Whole Plot Reference Villain Ball Eureka Moment Amoral Attorney Cat Scare No Celebrities Were Harmed Does This Remind You of Anything? Corrupt Corporate Executive Police are Useless The X of Y Driven to Suicide Laughing Mad Anyone Can Die Chekhov's Skill Card-Carrying Villain Dirty Coward The Alleged Car Funny Background Event Biopic Instant Death Bullet Eye Scream Maybe Ever After Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Death of a Child The '50s Dark Action Girl folderlabel Camp Gay Getting Crap Past the Radar Grievous Bottley Harm Silent Movie Wicked Cultured Wham Line No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Aluminum Christmas Trees The Ace It Can Think Pre-Mortem One-Liner Training Montage Fainting Villainous Breakdown Disney Death Television Movie Index Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie '80s Hair The Atoner Accidental Misnaming Fake Shemp Gratuitous English Ominous Latin Chanting Historical Villain Upgrade Reality Has No Subtitles Manipulative Bastard Up to Eleven Obfuscating Stupidity Badass Longcoat Line-of-Sight Name Sanity Slippage Revenge Cruel and Unusual Death Retirony Politically Incorrect Villain Loads and Loads of Characters Dropped a Bridge on Him Mood Whiplash Love Triangle For the Evulz Honor Before Reason Peek-a-Boo Corpse Credits Gag Pretty Little Headshots Bad Boss Slap-Slap-Kiss Crazy-Prepared Gorn Spell My Name with an "S" Adults Are Useless Shoot the Shaggy Dog Drives Like Crazy Smug Snake Sinister Minister Crapsack World Didn't Think This Through Car Fu Break the Cutie Heroic BSoD Retired Badass Dark Is Not Evil Back from the Dead Artistic License – Gun Safety Ripped from the Headlines Batman Gambit Handicapped Badass Your Cheating Heart Protagonist Title An Aesop Bi the Way Attempted Rape The Cameo Rule of Cool Shown Their Work Evil vs. Evil As the Good Book Says... Karma Houdini Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Adaptational Attractiveness Dirty Cop Shirtless Scene The Dog Bites Back Badass Bookworm Brainless Beauty One Steve Limit Chiaroscuro Jerk with a Heart of Gold Room Full of Crazy More Dakka Small Name, Big Ego Tap on the Head Those Two Guys Mr. Exposition Precision F-Strike Epic Fail Spiteful Spit Almost Kiss Show Within a Show As Long as It Sounds Foreign Deconstruction Shout-Out Defiant to the End Based on a True Story I Did What I Had to Do Captain Ersatz Implacable Man Gainax Ending Evil Laugh Coming-of-Age Story My God, What Have I Done? Bond Villain Stupidity Obviously Evil Super Strength Motor Mouth Nothing Is Scarier Department of Redundancy Department Bilingual Bonus Arc Words Say My Name Extreme Doormat The Film of the Book Dying Moment of Awesome Evil Brit Smoking Is Cool Pimped-Out Dress Scenery Porn Villain with Good Publicity Adapted Out Zombie Stories Fat Bastard Very Loosely Based on a True Story Jitter Cam Running Gag Kill It with Fire Roaring Rampage of Revenge Gory Discretion Shot Alliterative Name Improbable Weapon User Shell-Shocked Veteran Alas, Poor Villain Depraved Bisexual Eldritch Abomination Big Applesauce Agony of the Feet Unspoken Plan Guarantee Chase Scene Stock Footage Armor-Piercing Question Not So Different Adaptation Dye-Job Artistic License – Geography Suspiciously Similar Substitute Together in Death Horror Films Sci-Fi Horror Wrong Genre Savvy "The Reason You Suck" Speech Bring My Brown Pants Foregone Conclusion Rule of Symbolism Race Against the Clock Took a Level in Badass Character Development Broken Pedestal Animal Motifs Awesome, but Impractical Science Fiction Films Exactly What It Says on the Tin Fish out of Water The Reveal Straight Gay Facial Horror Crazy Jealous Guy Video Credits Martial Arts Movie Those Wacky Nazis Chekhov's Gun As Himself Big Eater Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Bond One-Liner Soft Glass Determinator aka: The Determinator Superhero From Bad to Worse Slashed Throat Wounded Gazelle Gambit Anachronic Order Refuge in Audacity Ax-Crazy And I Must Scream Taking You with Me Intrepid Reporter Artistic License – History Action Genre Brother–Sister Incest Drowning My Sorrows Last-Name Basis Bland-Name Product Berserk Button Immune to Bullets Stepford Smiler Badass Boast Vomit Indiscretion Shot Impaled with Extreme Prejudice In Medias Res Faking the Dead Greater-Scope Villain Bare Your Midriff Psychopathic Manchild All There in the Manual Overprotective Dad Not Quite Dead Enemy Mine The Stinger Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Off with His Head! Insistent Terminology Playing Gertrude Horror Comedy Humans Are Bastards Catch-Phrase Ironic Echo Naked People Are Funny Beware the Nice Ones Evil Plan The Remake Flashback Developing Doomed Characters Cluster F-Bomb Vomit Discretion Shot Deadpan Snarker Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Naïve Newcomer Animal Title Index Mundane Made Awesome Shut Up, Hannibal! Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Advertised Extra Darker and Edgier Rasputinian Death Skewed Priorities The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Intergenerational Friendship Composite Character Big Brother Instinct Our Zombies Are Different Slasher Smile Happily Married N-Word Privileges MacGuffin Madness Mantra Star-Crossed Lovers Due to the Dead Hell Is That Noise Catapult Nightmare Logo Joke Serious Business The End... Or Is It? The Place Adaptational Villainy And Starring Meaningful Background Event It Will Never Catch On Broken Aesop Casting Gag Red Right Hand Unwitting Instigator of Doom Cold-Blooded Torture Epic Movie A Minor Kidroduction Here We Go Again! Ms. Fanservice Knife Nut Have a Gay Old Time No Antagonist Woman Scorned Neck Snap Annoying Younger Sibling Double-Meaning Title Ship Tease Victoria's Secret Compartment Major Injury Underreaction Creative Closing Credits Badass Normal Red Herring Fan Disservice Final Girl Villain Song Black Best Friend Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking There Is No Kill Like Overkill Fourth Date Marriage Overly Long Gag Disguised in Drag Badass in a Nice Suit Anguished Declaration of Love Left the Background Music On Bait-and-Switch Dirty Old Man Would Hit a Girl Cloudcuckoolander No-Sell Big "NO!" Public Domain Feature Films Knight Templar Police Brutality La Résistance Gilligan Cut Captain Obvious You Have Failed Me Offscreen Teleportation Amusing Injuries Lock and Load Montage Insane Troll Logic Nice Hat 20 Minutes into the Future Action Girl Dark and Troubled Past Dressing as the Enemy Fatal Family Photo Mythology Gag All Girls Want Bad Boys Villain Protagonist Evil Is Hammy Celebrity Paradox Domestic Abuse Expository Hairstyle Change Flipping the Bird Well-Intentioned Extremist Faux Affably Evil Time Skip Beauty Is Never Tarnished Real Life Writes the Plot Broken Bird In the Back Fun with Acronyms Documentary In Name Only Spanner in the Works Slasher Movie Recycled IN SPACE! Death by Sex Diabolus ex Machina Evil Is Petty Names to Run Away from Really Fast Historical In-Joke The Lancer Male Gaze Every Car Is a Pinto Sealed Evil in a Can Bound and Gagged Only One Name Light Is Not Good Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Asshole Victim Chekhov's Gunman She Cleans Up Nicely Random Events Plot Author Appeal Danny Peary Cult Movies List Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Abusive Parents Fantasy Films O.O.C. Is Serious Business Kick the Son of a Bitch Guns Akimbo The Oner Race Lift Made of Explodium World of Ham A Date with Rosie Palms Adaptational Heroism What You Are in the Dark The Dreaded Cool Car And the Adventure Continues Chewing the Scenery Romantic False Lead Dutch Angle Once More, with Clarity! It's All About Me Blatant Lies Re-Cut Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Pay Evil unto Evil Early-Bird Cameo Hypocritical Humor Belligerent Sexual Tension Only Sane Man The Smurfette Principle Kubrick Stare Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Evil Counterpart Cool Shades Gender Flip Took a Level in Jerkass The Big Guy Bloody Hilarious Big Damn Heroes Kick the Dog Get Out! Dual Wielding The Chick Rape as Drama Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Humiliation Conga Dwindling Party Death by Irony Improbable Aiming Skills Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Demonic Possession Arranged Marriage Take a Third Option Call-Back Storming the Castle Beta Couple Unusually Uninteresting Sight Dull Surprise Central Theme The Starscream German Films The Bad Guy Wins Fingore Non-Indicative Name The Stoner Laser-Guided Karma Stuff Blowing Up Film Noir Bloodless Carnage Worthy Opponent Screw the Money, I Have Rules! No Ending Groin Attack Paper-Thin Disguise Visual Pun Stylistic Suck Auto Erotica Hair-Trigger Temper Determinator Word of God Rewatch Bonus Moment Killer Mugging the Monster Toplessness from the Back "Awesome McCool" Name Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Beard of Evil Properly Paranoid Costume Porn Match Cut Sir Swears-a-Lot Frame-Up Bloodier and Gorier Damsel in Distress The Cavalry Actor Allusion He Knows Too Much Hope Spot Action Prologue Romantic Comedy Spiritual Successor She's Got Legs Red Oni, Blue Oni What Happened to the Mouse? Blood from the Mouth Historical Hero Upgrade Even Evil Has Loved Ones Dramatic Irony No Name Given Cool Old Lady Not Even Bothering with the Accent Mexican Standoff Death Seeker Bolivian Army Ending Jerk Jock Rule of Funny The Mole Truth in Television Silence Is Golden The Hero Thriller Author Avatar A God Am I Mercy Kill An Arm and a Leg Cowboy Cop Let's Get Dangerous! Music Stories Funny Foreigner The Faceless The Ditz Genre Savvy Bald of Evil Not So Above It All Black and Gray Morality Foreshadowing Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass May–December Romance Rated M for Manly Four-Temperament Ensemble Conspicuous CG Badass Grandpa Australian Movies Oh, Crap! Good Is Not Nice Serial Killer Better to Die than Be Killed Heroes Want Redheads Man on Fire Grey and Gray Morality Scenery Gorn The Lost Lenore From Nobody to Nightmare Irony The Musical Punny Name Babies Ever After My Beloved Smother Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Extremely Short Timespan Outrun the Fireball Call-Forward Genre Shift Punch-Clock Villain Posthumous Character Stealth Hi/Bye Vitriolic Best Buds Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Camera Abuse Aside Glance Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Scary Black Man Freudian Excuse Only Known by Their Nickname Neck Lift Kill 'em All Stealth Pun True Companions Meet Cute Film Series Papa Wolf Russian Films Creator Cameo Affectionate Parody Large Ham Love at First Sight Betty and Veronica Adorkable Black Dude Dies First Fanservice Extra Novelization Not Using the "Z" Word Bowdlerise Villain Opening Scene Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Distracted by the Sexy Parental Substitute Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Wretched Hive Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Be Careful What You Wish For Children Are Innocent The '80s Calling the Old Man Out A.I. Is a Crapshoot Mighty Whitey Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Wham Shot You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Shipper on Deck You Killed My Father Artistic License – Military Combat Pragmatist Dramedy Product Placement Does Not Like Shoes Jerkass Bury Your Gays Lampshade Hanging Monumental Damage Married to the Job Obstructive Bureaucrat Big Fancy House Reality Ensues Friend to All Children Even Evil Has Standards Ghost Fiction Country Matters Hollywood Law Genre Throwback Adaptation Distillation Male Frontal Nudity It's Personal My Greatest Failure Not What It Looks Like "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Mistaken for Gay Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Sequel Escalation Pet the Dog Only in It for the Money Age Lift Never Found the Body Mystery and Detective Films The Power of Love Never Trust a Trailer Anti-Villain Femme Fatale Comically Missing the Point Gold Digger Continuity Nod Dark Reprise Bottomless Magazines Freeze-Frame Bonus Only a Flesh Wound Daylight Horror Ambiguous Ending Antagonist Title Henpecked Husband Shower Scene Big Bad Ambiguous Disorder Heroic Sacrifice Death by Adaptation What the Hell, Hero? Fiery Redhead Important Haircut Expy War Is Hell Adaptation Expansion The Voiceless Bullying a Dragon Book-Ends Hypocrite Sacrificial Lion Animated Credits Opening Nice Guy Fate Worse than Death Disappeared Dad Soundtrack Dissonance Unresolved Sexual Tension Would Hurt a Child Totally Radical Everyone Has Standards Plucky Comic Relief Poor Communication Kills Boom, Headshot! Mind Screw I Have Your Wife Cain and Abel Manic Pixie Dream Girl Brutal Honesty Early Installment Weirdness Self-Deprecation Meaningful Name One-Man Army Evil-Detecting Dog Dumb Blonde Big Bad Duumvirate Loophole Abuse Destination Defenestration Scare Chord Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Eyepatch of Power British Films Put on a Bus Malevolent Masked Men Those Two Bad Guys Taking the Bullet Dramatic Gun Cock The Smart Guy Hero Antagonist Canadian Movies Contrived Coincidence The Sociopath Bad "Bad Acting" The Quiet One I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Make It Look Like an Accident Tempting Fate He Who Fights Monsters Idiot Ball Older Than They Look Red Shirt You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Alcoholic Ascended Extra All Men Are Perverts Decoy Protagonist Hong Kong Films Deliberately Monochrome Redshirt Army Face–Heel Turn Sadistic Choice Japanese Films Plot Hole Manly Tears Body Horror Big-Bad Ensemble Heel Realization Morality Pet Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Crucified Hero Shot Deus ex Machina Film Noir Index Tranquil Fury Earn Your Happy Ending Killed Mid-Sentence Leitmotif Stalker with a Crush Drill Sergeant Nasty Actually Pretty Funny Accidental Murder Bittersweet Ending Token Minority The Ghost Tagline This Is Gonna Suck Exact Words Sexy Discretion Shot Fantastic Racism Leaning on the Fourth Wall Demoted to Extra The Bully Apocalypse How Men Are the Expendable Gender Hoist by His Own Petard Vacation Films An Axe to Grind The '70s The Stoic Easily Forgiven Adaptation Name Change Drugs Are Bad Really Gets Around Spared by the Adaptation Mama Bear Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Cat Fight Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold All Just a Dream Unusual Euphemism Yandere Missing Mom One-Word Title After the End Fanservice Curb-Stomp Battle No OSHA Compliance Made of Iron The Hero Dies Too Dumb to Live Sassy Black Woman Curse Cut Short Unreliable Narrator Manchild Cool Old Guy Riddle for the Ages Closed Circle Woman in White Pragmatic Villainy Reality Is Unrealistic Suspiciously Specific Denial Psychological Thriller Black Comedy Rape I Need a Freaking Drink Gone Horribly Right Off-into-the-Distance Ending Parental Neglect All for Nothing Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Kids Are Cruel Air-Vent Passageway Foil Market-Based Title The Dragon Needs Wiki Magic Love A Father to His Men Disproportionate Retribution No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Lighter and Softer Suddenly SHOUTING! B-Movie Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Butt-Monkey Mr. Fanservice Never My Fault Face Death with Dignity Canon Foreigner Military and Warfare Films Christmas Movies Index All There in the Script Famous Last Words Eagleland Heterosexual Life-Partners Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Pyrrhic Victory Ambiguously Gay Blood Knight Ungrateful Bastard Noodle Incident Adult Fear Insult Backfire Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy timeperiod Reasonable Authority Figure Redemption Equals Death As You Know Red Eyes, Take Warning Our Vampires Are Different Mad Scientist Did Not Get the Girl Psycho for Hire Pretty in Mink Affably Evil Deal with the Devil Mooks Imagine Spot The '60s Corpsing Black Comedy Title Drop Vampire Fiction Framing Device Undying Loyalty Artistic License – Law Dogged Nice Guy Take That! Informed Ability Narrator Anachronism Stew "Well Done, Son!" Guy Karmic Death Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Mafia Bar Brawl Guile Hero Evil Sounds Deep Setting Update Disney Villain Death Action Survivor Failed a Spot Check I'm a Humanitarian Fatal Flaw Fire-Forged Friends Offscreen Moment of Awesome Death Glare Eiffel Tower Effect Hero of Another Story Green-Eyed Monster NO INDOOR VOICE I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Ass Shove Parental Incest The '90s Artistic License – Biology Dies Wide Open Heel–Face Turn Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! French Films Arch-Enemy Becoming the Mask Retcon Abhorrent Admirer Cool Guns Jerkass Has a Point Bunny-Ears Lawyer The Load Index of Film Westerns Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Casanova Anti-Hero Daddy's Girl Hidden Depths Parental Abandonment Award-Bait Song Homage Reckless Gun Usage Pragmatic Adaptation How We Got Here The Un-Reveal