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