Tropescilloscope: Rape as Drama

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

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Gender Flip Retirony Deus ex Machina Crazy-Prepared Film Noir Index As Himself Loads and Loads of Characters Creative Closing Credits Creator Cameo Wham Shot Lock and Load Montage Canon Foreigner Expository Hairstyle Change Vacation Films Refuge in Audacity Country Matters Dark Reprise Mugging the Monster Ax-Crazy Take a Third Option Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Take That! Stealth Pun Closed Circle Kill 'em All You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! German Films Humans Are Bastards Deliberate Values Dissonance Made of Iron Cowboy Cop No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Pragmatic Adaptation Big Brother Instinct Italian Films Bad "Bad Acting" Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Scenery Porn Informed Ability Belligerent Sexual Tension Serious Business The Smart Guy Unresolved Sexual Tension Moment Killer Tagline Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Big "NO!" Not So Above It All Chewing the Scenery Curb-Stomp Battle Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil In the Back Logo Joke Failed a Spot Check Rousing Speech Broken Pedestal Friend to All Children Jerkass Has a Point Improbable Aiming Skills Nothing Is Scarier Artistic License – History Mood Whiplash Revenge Unusually Uninteresting Sight Documentary Well-Intentioned Extremist Parental Incest Evil Is Hammy Ghost Fiction Arc Words I Want My Beloved to Be Happy From Bad to Worse Smug Snake Reality Has No Subtitles Age Lift Adapted Out Disappeared Dad Does Not Like Shoes Damsel in Distress Defrosting Ice Queen Only One Name Australian Movies Suddenly SHOUTING! Beta Couple Narrator Hollywood Law Horror Comedy Shown Their Work An Aesop Sci-Fi Horror Mystery and Detective Films Kill It with Fire Badass Grandpa The Brute Destination Defenestration Never My Fault The End... Or Is It? Unspoken Plan Guarantee Action Girl Retired Badass Real Life Writes the Plot Slashed Throat Large Ham Big-Bad Ensemble Fun with Acronyms Brother–Sister Incest Beware the Nice Ones He Knows Too Much Psychopathic Manchild Black Comedy Enemy Mine Improbable Weapon User Meaningful Background Event Foregone Conclusion Male Frontal Nudity Shower Scene B-Movie Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Works Set in World War II Wicked Cultured You Killed My Father Red Oni, Blue Oni Men Are the Expendable Gender Cain and Abel Evil Counterpart Fire-Forged Friends The Ditz The Dog Bites Back Dirty Coward Disguised in Drag Extremely Short Timespan Undying Loyalty Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? I Have Your Wife Broken Bird Crazy Jealous Guy Demonic Possession Heroic Sacrifice Love Triangle Tranquil Fury Ship Tease The Musical Manipulative Bastard Pragmatic Villainy Even Evil Has Loved Ones Decoy Protagonist Peek-a-Boo Corpse Be Careful What You Wish For Race Lift Word of God Toplessness from the Back Hoist by His Own Petard Slasher Movie Abusive Parents Bittersweet Ending Honor Before Reason No OSHA Compliance Gone Horribly Right Death by Adaptation Continuity Nod Parental Neglect Not So Stoic Hypocrite Deliberately Monochrome 20 Minutes into the Future Taking the Bullet Aluminum Christmas Trees Evil vs. Evil Dark Action Girl Black Best Friend Betty and Veronica Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Chekhov's Skill Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Stock Footage Silence Is Golden Unwitting Instigator of Doom Crucified Hero Shot Drill Sergeant Nasty Red Shirt Animated Credits Opening What Happened to the Mouse? Creepy Child Black Comedy Rape Took a Level in Badass Face Death with Dignity Only in It for the Money Obviously Evil She Cleans Up Nicely Heterosexual Life-Partners BFG Cluster F-Bomb Dirty Cop Deconstruction Punny Name Red Herring Pyrrhic Victory Police are Useless The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Evil Laugh Genre Throwback Taking You with Me Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Adults Are Useless Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Stinger Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Jerkass Bad Boss Left the Background Music On Becoming the Mask Older Than They Look Dark and Troubled Past Irony Needs Wiki Magic Love Wham Line Fan Disservice Better to Die than Be Killed Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Didn't Think This Through Twist Ending Covers Always Lie An Axe to Grind The Bad Guy Wins Love at First Sight Exactly What It Says on the Tin Woman in White Product Placement Ominous Latin Chanting Rule of Three "Well Done, Son!" Guy Anti-Hero Accidental Misnaming Cool Old Lady Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Male Gaze Translation Convention Straight Gay Improvised Weapon Card-Carrying Villain Those Wacky Nazis Sole Survivor Evil Is Petty timeperiod Suspiciously Specific Denial Precision F-Strike Bland-Name Product Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Children Are Innocent Redemption Equals Death The Dreaded Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Mad Scientist Ungrateful Bastard Intergenerational Friendship Motor Mouth Protagonist Title Mundane Made Awesome Karmic Death Diabolus ex Machina Leaning on the Fourth Wall Aside Glance Maybe Ever After The '80s Bond One-Liner Jerk Jock Action Genre Calling the Old Man Out Hell Is That Noise The Oner Book-Ends Character Development "Awesome McCool" Name Cool Shades One-Word Title Mr. Exposition Mind Screw The Place Rape as Drama No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Not Using the "Z" Word Your Head A-Splode Yandere Bilingual Bonus A.I. Is a Crapshoot Laser-Guided Karma Dropped a Bridge on Him N-Word Privileges Random Events Plot French Films Mythology Gag All Girls Want Bad Boys Kubrick Stare Killed Mid-Sentence You Have Outlived Your Usefulness I Need a Freaking Drink Villainous Breakdown Dutch Angle The Chessmaster Re-Cut Kick the Dog Fake Shemp Affably Evil Fate Worse than Death Mexican Standoff The Mafia Even Evil Has Standards He Who Fights Monsters Sealed Evil in a Can Central Theme Historical In-Joke Attempted Rape Abhorrent Admirer Hidden Depths Wrong Genre Savvy Amusing Injuries Posthumous Character Spared by the Adaptation Anyone Can Die Death by Irony Mooks Annoying Younger Sibling Homage Easily Forgiven Leave the Camera Running An Arm and a Leg British Films Let's Get Dangerous! 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Villain Protagonist Affectionate Parody Guns Akimbo Pretty Little Headshots Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Hooker with a Heart of Gold Dramatic Gun Cock Mighty Whitey Bring My Brown Pants Genre Shift The Ghost Dumb Blonde True Companions The Hero Dies Worthy Opponent Actually Pretty Funny Dirty Old Man Super Strength Race Against the Clock Sports Stories The Load Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Double Entendre Humiliation Conga Arch-Enemy Gainax Ending Heel–Face Turn Sequel Hook Establishing Character Moment Dies Wide Open Have a Gay Old Time Vomit Indiscretion Shot Freeze-Frame Bonus Biopic How We Got Here Deadpan Snarker Genre Savvy Funny Foreigner Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Not Even Bothering with the Accent MacGuffin Arranged Marriage Slasher Smile Bait-and-Switch Stealth Hi/Bye Rewatch Bonus The '70s As You Know Sinister Minister Bowdlerise Here We Go Again! What You Are in the Dark The Lost Lenore Domestic Abuse Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Together in Death Outrun the Fireball Nice Hat The Vamp Off-into-the-Distance Ending Fantasy Films Flipping the Bird Neck Lift Bunny-Ears Lawyer Eagleland Adaptational Villainy Badass Normal The Cavalry Spiritual Successor Mistaken for Gay The Chick Meet Cute Jump Scare Eye Scream Fingore Artistic License – Geography Shipper on Deck Big Applesauce Body Horror The Casanova Big Bad Good Is Not Nice Adaptational Badass Imagine Spot Scary Black Man Bullying a Dragon Drugs Are Bad Zombie Stories Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Major Injury Underreaction Darker and Edgier Villain Opening Scene Psycho for Hire I Just Shot Marvin in the Face My God, What Have I Done? 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Four-Temperament Ensemble Thriller The Stoner A Date with Rosie Palms Brainless Beauty Half the Man He Used to Be Superhero Insistent Terminology Silent Movie Unusual Euphemism The X of Y Gold Digger Chase Scene The '50s Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Composite Character Death Glare Captain Obvious The '90s Historical Hero Upgrade Retcon Death by Sex Reality Is Unrealistic Overly Long Gag Visual Pun Anti-Villain Sequel Escalation Hair-Trigger Temper Broken Aesop Cool Old Guy Only a Flesh Wound Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Offscreen Teleportation Russian Films Gratuitous English Cat Fight Beauty Is Never Tarnished After the End Too Dumb to Live Bottomless Magazines Shirtless Scene Wounded Gazelle Gambit '80s Hair Reality Ensues Amoral Attorney Fanservice Extra The Alcoholic Rasputinian Death Brick Joke Insane Troll Logic The Un-Reveal Video Credits Romantic False Lead Loophole Abuse Frame-Up Index of Film Westerns Soundtrack Dissonance Happily Married Pet the Dog The Power of Love Foil Properly Paranoid The Film of the Book Meaningful Echo Empathic Environment Canadian Movies Tempting Fate Actor Allusion Ass Shove Would Hurt a Child Credits Gag Corrupt Corporate Executive Naked People Are Funny Smoking Is Cool One-Man Army Stepford Smiler Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Atoner Flashback Television Movie Index Fanservice Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Scare Chord Danny Peary Cult Movies List All There in the Manual The Great Depression Breaking the Fourth Wall In Name Only Advertised Extra Author Avatar No-Sell Determinator All There in the Script Defiant to the End Darkest Hour Guile Hero Exact Words Ambiguous Disorder Christmas Movies Index Artistic License – Military Reckless Gun Usage Victoria's Secret Compartment The Faceless Blood Knight Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Anguished Declaration of Love Vampire Fiction Chekhov's Gunman Sir Swears-a-Lot Rich Bitch Bond Villain Stupidity Manic Pixie Dream Girl What the Hell, Hero? Mr. Fanservice Black Dude Dies First You Have Failed Me The Sociopath Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Badass Boast Manly Tears Paper-Thin Disguise Auto Erotica No Ending Truth in Television Malevolent Masked Men Artistic License – Law Martial Arts Movie Rule of Funny Handicapped Badass Names to Run Away from Really Fast And the Adventure Continues For Want of a Nail Crapsack World Villain with Good Publicity Chekhov's Gun Totally Radical Butt-Monkey Match Cut Drives Like Crazy Cool Car Anachronic Order Cassandra Truth Pay Evil unto Evil Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Dual Wielding "The Reason You Suck" Speech Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun More Dakka Brutal Honesty Red Eyes, Take Warning Alliterative Name For the Evulz Animal Motifs Camera Abuse May–December Romance Big Damn Heroes Foreshadowing Public Domain Feature Films Facial Horror The Reveal NO INDOOR VOICE Jitter Cam Slap-Slap-Kiss Say My Name Early-Bird Cameo Kick the Son of a Bitch Due to the Dead Heroic BSoD Reasonable Authority Figure Man on Fire Dying Moment of Awesome Adaptation Distillation Noodle Incident Rated M for Manly I'm a Humanitarian Instant Death Bullet Skewed Priorities Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Token Minority Serial Killer Ironic Echo Apocalypse How A Father to His Men From Nobody to Nightmare Bald of Evil Back from the Dead Hope Spot Adaptation Name Change Faux Affably Evil Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Final Girl Red Right Hand Evil-Detecting Dog In Medias Res Hollywood Darkness Rule of Symbolism Sexy Discretion Shot Bar Brawl Deal with the Devil Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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