Tropescilloscope: Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil

Rape is considered inherently worse than other major crimes, even murder. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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