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