Tropescilloscope: Rape as Drama

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

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Imagine Spot Obstructive Bureaucrat Fan Disservice Throwing Your Sword Always Works One-Man Army Henpecked Husband Mercy Kill Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas A Date with Rosie Palms Dark and Troubled Past Belligerent Sexual Tension Dull Surprise French Films Maybe Ever After Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Determinator aka: The Determinator For the Evulz Only Known by Their Nickname Psychological Thriller Zombie Stories Conspicuous CG Break the Haughty Creative Closing Credits Protagonist Title Casting Gag Sports Stories Wham Shot Exactly What It Says on the Tin Bare Your Midriff Villain Ball Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Offscreen Moment of Awesome Stuff Blowing Up Victoria's Secret Compartment Unspoken Plan Guarantee Evil Counterpart Lock and Load Montage Disappeared Dad Stepford Smiler Death by Sex War Is Hell The Alleged Car Redshirt Army Genre Savvy Abhorrent Admirer Eyepatch of Power Pyrrhic Victory Japanese Films Stealth Hi/Bye The Ditz Badass Longcoat Laser-Guided Karma Slasher Movie Taking the Bullet A God Am I Based on a True Story No Antagonist Police are Useless Parental Abandonment Continuity Nod In Medias Res Silent Movie Beauty Is Never Tarnished Wretched Hive Ms. Fanservice Make It Look Like an Accident Important Haircut Fantastic Racism Historical In-Joke Unreliable Narrator Plot Hole Small Name, Big Ego O.O.C. Is Serious Business Sinister Minister Hell Is That Noise The Oner Dramatic Gun Cock Fire-Forged Friends Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Age Lift Morality Pet Amusing Injuries My God, What Have I Done? Alliterative Name Better to Die than Be Killed Actually Pretty Funny The '90s Dies Wide Open Dark Action Girl Foreshadowing Off with His Head! Instant Death Bullet Closed Circle I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Car Fu Undying Loyalty Creepy Child Informed Ability Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Insane Troll Logic Bland-Name Product Your Head A-Splode Early Installment Weirdness The X of Y The Vamp Dumb Blonde Double Entendre Dogged Nice Guy Badass Normal Mighty Whitey Fourth Date Marriage Vitriolic Best Buds Double-Meaning Title Mr. Fanservice Took a Level in Badass Meet Cute Get Out! Suddenly SHOUTING! Abusive Parents Spiritual Successor Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Foregone Conclusion Mind Screw Ironic Echo This Is Gonna Suck Bowdlerise Slap-Slap-Kiss Kill 'em All Chase Scene Bolivian Army Ending Evil Is Hammy Empathic Environment Adaptational Attractiveness It's All About Me Sole Survivor Major Injury Underreaction Fatal Family Photo Precision F-Strike Love Triangle Lampshade Hanging He Knows Too Much Celebrity Paradox Not What It Looks Like Chiaroscuro Roaring Rampage of Revenge Sexy Discretion Shot Paper-Thin Disguise The Casanova No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Shower Scene Parental Substitute Mundane Made Awesome All Girls Want Bad Boys Alas, Poor Villain Line-of-Sight Name Have a Gay Old Time Sci-Fi Horror Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass The Faceless Hollywood Darkness Annoying Younger Sibling The '60s Thriller Alpha Bitch Bloodless Carnage Biopic Extreme Doormat Super Strength Determinator Australian Movies Exact Words Funny Background Event After the End Ass Shove From Bad to Worse Black Best Friend I Did What I Had to Do Not Even Bothering with the Accent Not Quite Dead Rewatch Bonus Black Dude Dies First Stalker with a Crush Sadistic Choice Mr. Exposition Even Evil Has Standards The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite British Films Only Sane Man Cluster F-Bomb Five-Man Band Disney Villain Death Straight Gay Composite Character Driven to Suicide Rousing Speech Fish out of Water Tranquil Fury Developing Doomed Characters Non-Indicative Name Dirty Old Man Once More, with Clarity! Hoist by His Own Petard Attempted Rape Romantic Comedy Adults Are Useless She Cleans Up Nicely Kick the Son of a Bitch Word of God Did Not Get the Girl Papa Wolf The Voiceless Crazy-Prepared Insistent Terminology The Mole Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Stoic Improbable Aiming Skills Market-Based Title Gainax Ending Big-Bad Ensemble Rule of Cool Fatal Flaw Slasher Smile Big Damn Heroes Captain Obvious Crazy Jealous Guy Fake Shemp All There in the Manual Aluminum Christmas Trees Adaptational Heroism Ship Tease Pretty in Mink Leave the Camera Running Improvised Weapon Framing Device Made of Explodium The Chessmaster Kids Are Cruel Chekhov's Skill Hypocritical Humor The Place The Smart Guy Bi the Way Brutal Honesty Mama Bear Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Made of Iron Spell My Name with an "S" Deliberate Values Dissonance Groin Attack Department of Redundancy Department Handicapped Badass Adaptation Name Change Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Hero Dies Heel–Face Turn The Mafia Big Fancy House It's Personal Heroic Sacrifice Calling the Old Man Out Demonic Possession Refuge in Audacity No Celebrities Were Harmed Rich Bitch Killed Mid-Sentence Villain Opening Scene Light Is Not Good Getting Crap Past the Radar Eye Scream Death by Irony Anti-Villain Artistic License – Military Historical Hero Upgrade Pragmatic Adaptation Unusually Uninteresting Sight Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Daddy's Girl Anachronic Order Comically Missing the Point Works Set in World War II Femme Fatale BFG Disguised in Drag What the Hell, Hero? Show Within a Show Your Cheating Heart Suspiciously Specific Denial Corpsing Facial Horror Adaptational Villainy Music Stories Blackmail Hidden Depths Retired Badass Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Cool Old Guy Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Due to the Dead Broken Pedestal Woman Scorned Brother–Sister Incest Heroes Want Redheads Smug Snake Truth in Television Parental Incest Knight Templar Honor Before Reason Taking You with Me Animated Credits Opening I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Bloody Hilarious Eiffel Tower Effect Red Herring All Men Are Perverts Motor Mouth Pimped-Out Dress As Long as It Sounds Foreign Armor-Piercing Question Plucky Comic Relief Documentary Red Right Hand Canon Foreigner Action Prologue Gold Digger Gorn A Father to His Men May–December Romance Yandere Genre Throwback Chekhov's Gun Advertised Extra Badass in a Nice Suit Awesome, but Impractical Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Broken Bird The Cavalry Dirty Cop Beware the Nice Ones Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene I'm a Humanitarian Diabolus ex Machina Fainting The Chick Blood from the Mouth Title Drop And I Must Scream Romantic False Lead Shell-Shocked Veteran Almost Kiss Training Montage Karmic Death Rule of Three Eagleland Not So Above It All Narrator Historical-Domain Character Skewed Priorities Distracted by the Sexy The Great Depression The Dragon Only One Name Totally Radical Curb-Stomp Battle Playing Gertrude Stealth Pun Unresolved Sexual Tension Reality Has No Subtitles Half the Man He Used to Be N-Word Privileges Toplessness from the Back Asshole Victim Brick Joke Rule of Symbolism Self-Deprecation Antagonist Title Hooker with a Heart of Gold Eureka Moment Mythology Gag Hero of Another Story Four-Temperament Ensemble Sir Swears-a-Lot The Musical Scenery Porn Costume Porn Aside Glance Decoy Protagonist Let's Get Dangerous! 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Overprotective Dad Re-Cut You Killed My Father Happily Married Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Didn't Think This Through Evil Brit Bullying a Dragon Animal Motifs Cold-Blooded Torture Contrived Coincidence Camp Gay Punny Name Soundtrack Dissonance Neck Lift The Smurfette Principle Bond One-Liner Defrosting Ice Queen How We Got Here Crapsack World La Résistance Pretty Little Headshots Creator Cameo Manly Tears Ghost Fiction Male Gaze Martial Arts Movie Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Vacation Films Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Anyone Can Die Darker and Edgier Kubrick Stare Corrupt Corporate Executive Mexican Standoff Faux Affably Evil Reasonable Authority Figure Loads and Loads of Characters Death of a Child Cool Old Lady Cool Car Greater-Scope Villain Beard of Evil Ungrateful Bastard The Cameo Mad Scientist My Beloved Smother Cain and Abel Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Does Not Like Shoes More Dakka One-Word Title Manipulative Bastard Heterosexual Life-Partners Guns Akimbo Freeze-Frame Bonus Bottomless Magazines Villain Protagonist Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Red Oni, Blue Oni Shut Up, Hannibal! Naked People Are Funny timeperiod Stylistic Suck Black and Gray Morality "Shaggy Dog" Story Humiliation Conga Arc Words Shout-Out Posthumous Character Mooks Dressing as the Enemy Catch-Phrase Failed a Spot Check Immune to Bullets Madness Mantra Evil Laugh Actor Allusion Black Comedy Scenery Gorn Credits Gag Butt-Monkey Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Hero Antagonist Nothing Is Scarier Domestic Abuse Coming-of-Age Story As You Know Really Gets Around Dropped a Bridge on Him Horror Comedy There Is No Kill Like Overkill Big Eater Body Horror Cowboy Cop Parental Neglect The Lancer Fat Bastard Adaptation Dye-Job Destination Defenestration Sassy Black Woman Adaptation Distillation Revenge Peek-a-Boo Corpse Take That! Villainous Breakdown No Name Given Call-Forward Not Using the "Z" Word Flashback Big Bad Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Reveal Outrun the Fireball True Companions What Happened to the Mouse? Not So Stoic Wham Line Book-Ends Dissonant Serenity Homage Children Are Innocent Brainless Beauty The Alcoholic Karma Houdini Faking the Dead Establishing Character Moment Green-Eyed Monster Jerk Jock Improbable Weapon User Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Fingore Does This Remind You of Anything? Same Language Dub The Remake Public Domain Feature Films Only in It for the Money Italian Films An Aesop Earn Your Happy Ending Accidental Murder Tagline Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Cruel and Unusual Death Novelization Whole Plot Reference Race Lift Offscreen Teleportation Mood Whiplash The Big Guy Black Comedy Rape The End... Or Is It? 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For! Emphasis! She's Got Legs Ominous Latin Chanting Running Gag Reality Ensues Kill It with Fire NO INDOOR VOICE Cool Shades Be Careful What You Wish For Villain Song Badass Grandpa Science Fiction Films Pet the Dog Action Genre Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Face–Heel Turn Call-Back Smoking Is Cool Boom, Headshot! And the Adventure Continues Fanservice Extra The Atoner Bar Brawl The Un-Reveal Despair Event Horizon The Ace "Well Done, Son!" Guy Break the Cutie Danny Peary Cult Movies List Interrupted Suicide The '70s Bury Your Gays Bad Boss Downer Ending Sequel Escalation Accidental Misnaming Easily Forgiven Visual Pun Artistic License – History Meaningful Name Those Two Guys Tap on the Head Drugs Are Bad Punch-Clock Villain No OSHA Compliance Shoot the Shaggy Dog Mugging the Monster Take a Third Option Logo Joke The '80s The Stinger Arranged Marriage Epic Fail Blatant Lies Big Applesauce Curse Cut Short Badass Bookworm Eldritch Abomination Last-Name Basis Serial Killer Even Evil Has Loved Ones Names to Run Away from Really Fast Mistaken for Gay Affably Evil Ambiguously Gay An Axe to Grind Drives Like Crazy Hypocrite Reality Is Unrealistic Male Frontal Nudity Riddle for the Ages Meaningful Background Event Drowning My Sorrows The Film of the Book Disproportionate Retribution Spiteful Spit Leitmotif Sequel Hook Dying Moment of Awesome Vampire Fiction No-Sell Rape as Drama Ambiguous Ending Left the Background Music On Dramatic Irony Well-Intentioned Extremist Russian Films All Just a Dream Kick the Dog Manic Pixie Dream Girl Deal with the Devil Anti-Hero Famous Last Words "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Slashed Throat Cassandra Truth Shipper on Deck Deconstruction Redemption Equals Death The Lost Lenore Rule of Funny The '50s Humans Are Bastards Neck Snap Pay Evil unto Evil Hope Spot Demoted to Extra Daylight Horror Military and Warfare Films Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Overly Long Gag "The Reason You Suck" Speech Anachronism Stew Fanservice Too Dumb to Live Final Girl Arch-Enemy Up to Eleven Vomit Discretion Shot Stock Footage Catapult Nightmare Rated M for Manly Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Silence Is Golden Leaning on the Fourth Wall Cloudcuckoolander Missing Mom Bait-and-Switch The Power of Love Babies Ever After You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Flipping the Bird Affectionate Parody Never My Fault Soft Glass The Hero Adaptation Expansion Evil Sounds Deep Retirony Noodle Incident Wrong Genre Savvy Tempting Fate Apocalypse How Jitter Cam Mystery and Detective Films Captain Ersatz Deus ex Machina Gory Discretion Shot 20 Minutes into the Future Ascended Extra Epic Movie