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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It Will Never Catch On Nice Hat Missing Mom Important Haircut Reality Has No Subtitles Logo Joke Badass Normal Adults Are Useless Translation Convention The Dog Bites Back Cold-Blooded Torture Actor Allusion Beauty Is Never Tarnished Blackmail Adaptation Dye-Job One-Man Army Dark Action Girl Frame-Up '80s Hair Title Drop Cat Fight Mighty Whitey Kill It with Fire Damsel in Distress Five-Man Band Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Large Ham Police are Useless Get Out! Deus ex Machina All Men Are Perverts Empathic Environment Ass Shove Those Two Bad Guys Final Girl Jump Scare Crucified Hero Shot The Power of Love Paper-Thin Disguise Jitter Cam 20 Minutes into the Future The Mole Eagleland Honor Before Reason No OSHA Compliance Zombie Stories Refuge in Audacity Shoot the Shaggy Dog Reality Is Unrealistic Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Fake Shemp Horror Films Sports Stories Storming the Castle Not So Stoic How We Got Here Faking the Dead The Un-Reveal Every Car Is a Pinto Only One Name Call-Forward Catch-Phrase Beware the Nice Ones Only a Flesh Wound Not Quite Dead Offscreen Teleportation Italian Films All for Nothing Black Best Friend Television Movie Index Bar Brawl Film Series Bloodier and Gorier Science Fiction Films MacGuffin Needs Wiki Magic Love Annoying Younger Sibling Gold Digger Male Gaze Covers Always Lie "Well Done, Son!" 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Retired Badass Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Not Using the "Z" Word Cloudcuckoolander The Chick Adaptational Heroism Let's Get Dangerous! Vomit Indiscretion Shot Deadpan Snarker The Starscream Downer Ending Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Big Eater Back from the Dead Australian Movies Spiritual Successor Music Stories Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Riddle for the Ages Artistic License – Law Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Naked People Are Funny Bond One-Liner Revenge Overly Long Gag Hollywood Darkness Face–Heel Turn Demonic Possession Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Car Fu Destination Defenestration Rasputinian Death Adapted Out Rule of Three Arc Words The Smurfette Principle Green-Eyed Monster Contrived Coincidence Crazy Jealous Guy Unwitting Instigator of Doom Shipper on Deck Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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He Knows Too Much Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Immune to Bullets Public Domain Feature Films Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Adaptational Villainy Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Villain Opening Scene Conspicuous CG Four-Temperament Ensemble Kick the Son of a Bitch Film Noir Index Blood Knight Babies Ever After Psychological Thriller Evil Counterpart Cool Old Guy Ambiguous Disorder War Is Hell Wounded Gazelle Gambit Pyrrhic Victory Match Cut Improvised Weapon Canadian Movies Posthumous Character Major Injury Underreaction Eiffel Tower Effect Only in It for the Money What Happened to the Mouse? Punch-Clock Villain Humiliation Conga Intrepid Reporter Big-Bad Ensemble Anti-Villain Credits Gag Beta Couple Ms. Fanservice Race Lift Jerk with a Heart of Gold No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Enemy Mine Camp Gay Stylistic Suck Department of Redundancy Department The Sociopath Victoria's Secret Compartment Bowdlerise O.O.C. 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Would Hit a Girl Room Full of Crazy The Dreaded Ship Tease The Ace Sequel Hook Dwindling Party Heterosexual Life-Partners Composite Character Bloodless Carnage You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! BFG Bullying a Dragon Betty and Veronica Butt-Monkey Mercy Kill No Ending Historical Hero Upgrade Evil-Detecting Dog Stalker with a Crush Sir Swears-a-Lot Stock Footage Good Is Not Nice Brick Joke Video Credits Author Avatar Fire-Forged Friends