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When [[Played for Laughs]], the mistake is almost always Type A, and quickly corrected. When [[Played for Drama]], however, a real victim might be denied help (Type B), a innocent person might get his life ruined with unfair accusations of abuse (Type A), or the designated "victim" (again Type A) gets stalked or outright oppressed by [[Unwanted Rescue|unwanted "rescuers"]]. These helpers might even go to great lengths [[Manufacturing Victims|trying to force her to "realize" that she's a victim of abuse]]. And no, not the actual abuse that ''they'' are subjecting her to.
See also [[Friendly War]], [[Casual Kink]], and [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]] for non-abusive stuff that can be mistaken for abuse. Compare [[You Just Ruined the Shot]], for cases where the "victim" was an actor in a movie rather then a participant in a sexual game. Contrast [[Romanticized Abuse]] (with the subtropes [[Bastard Boyfriend]] and [[Bastard Girlfriend]]) as well as [[
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* There was a cleaning ad that played with this trope. A woman is grocery shopping with her arm in a sling. She gives sympathetic shoppers a whole bunch of different stories about how it happened, leading the audience to mistake her injury for domestic abuse. At the end of the commercial, it's revealed she hurt her shoulder trying to scrub soap scum out of the bathtub. The product being sold solves her problem.
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* Abiru of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' has her injuries mistaken for the result of domestic abuse. She actually gets them after tugging on the tails of animals she cares for at the zoo.
* ''[[Love Hina]]''. The girls of the house will think that Keitaro, being [[Accidental Pervert|extremely unlucky and clumsy]], is trying to molest/abuse them, so type A. However, some of their punishments of him will slip the show into type B.
* ''[[Ranma ½]]''. Ranma is constantly the victim of abuse from Akane, but in-universe it's okay because [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)|Abuse Is Okay When
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Jeffery Dahmer (who killed [[I'm a Humanitarian|and ate]] several people) had one of his victims returned to him by a pair of cops, who thought it was a simple gay domestic quarrel when they found a naked 14 year old boy running away from Dahmer.
* The "Something actually abusive is mistaken for something that doesn't need worrying about" factor is often the reason why [[
* Bullying is often treated as Type B, with a variety of excuses being used ("boys will be boys", "it's just part of growing up", etc).
* Female participants in full-contact martial arts (eg. [[Society for Creative Anachronism]] heavy combat) are often advised to tell their doctors about what they're doing as soon as they step in the door, to prevent a Type A incident.
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