The Women Are Safe with Us/Playing With

Basic Trope: The protagonist characters do not tolerate rape from their own soldiers
 * Straight: Lord Commander Bob declares that rape is forbidden for those serving under him.
 * Exaggerated: Any soldier caught committing rape will be tortured to death in front of Bob's entire regiment.
 * Justified: The laws of war for his time and place already prohibit war rape, Bob is simply enforcing the rules.
 * Bob wants to cultivate a good relationship with the civilians.
 * Inverted: All soldiers are required to rape captive women in enemy settlements.
 * Subverted: Bob prohibits war rape because he wants all the captive women to himself.
 * Double Subverted: It turns out all he wanted was the pleasure of their company; any sex will be consensual on their part.
 * Parodied: New recruits are shown a video educating them about the problem of sexual harassment on the battlefield.
 * Deconstructed: Despite his admirable intentions, Bob is unable to stop his men from raping enemy women. In fact, he is unpopular with the troops for trying to ruin their 'fun.'
 * Reconstructed: Although unable to stop it entirely, soldiers serving under Bob are among the most well-behaved in this conflict, and even foes regard him as a Worthy Opponent.
 * Zig Zagged: Bob forbids his soldiers to rape the women of Town A, but only because it's a town in his own territory; he has no issue with his soldiers raping the women of Town B across the border.
 * Averted: Bob doesn't care much one way or the other about the conduct of his soldiers.
 * Enforced: Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil, and whatever else he does, we can't have our hero crossing the Moral Event Horizon.
 * Lampshaded: "Bob's a real Knight in Shining Armor type, so I don't expect he'll tolerate rape in his regiment."
 * Invoked: The suits know modern audiences won't hold with this Rape, Pillage and Burn stuff, so they have Bob set rules against it as a reason to avoid showing it.
 * Exploited: ???
 * Defied: Bob is perfectly willing to resort to whatever dirty tactics the enemy uses, including war rape.
 * Discussed: ???
 * Conversed: ???

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