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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Men Are the Expendable Gender Earn Your Happy Ending Annoying Younger Sibling I Need a Freaking Drink Deliberately Monochrome Line-of-Sight Name Butt-Monkey Spanner in the Works Running Gag Overprotective Dad A Father to His Men Heroes Want Redheads Shipper on Deck Rule of Symbolism Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil My Greatest Failure She's Got Legs Flashback I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Cool Car Those Two Guys Idiot Ball Big Brother Instinct Slasher Movie Empathic Environment Kill It with Fire Extreme Doormat Stock Footage Animal Motifs Double Entendre Unusual Euphemism Visual Pun Dumb Blonde Pet the Dog Throwing Your Sword Always Works Brutal Honesty Laughing Mad Cruel and Unusual Death Mystery and Detective Films Take a Third Option Improbable Aiming Skills Combat Pragmatist All Men Are Perverts Getting Crap Past the Radar Trailers Always Spoil Homage Humans Are Bastards Training Montage The Quiet One The Sociopath More Dakka Dirty Coward Parental Neglect Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Hero Antagonist Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Ambiguous Disorder Setting Update Dull Surprise Mr. Exposition Badass Grandpa Bavarian Fire Drill Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Guy Anti-Hero Dying Moment of Awesome Berserk Button Better to Die than Be Killed Curb-Stomp Battle Shower Scene Papa Wolf Big Fancy House Fate Worse than Death A Date with Rosie Palms '80s Hair Greater-Scope Villain Romantic False Lead Face Death with Dignity Biopic Not So Stoic Big Eater Guns Akimbo Not So Different This Is Gonna Suck Captain Obvious Only in It for the Money