Tropescilloscope: Rape as Drama

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

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