Tropescilloscope: Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil

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

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