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{{quote|(Touches Quorra's hair and smells her.)

 

Want a quick and easy way to show what a vile, evil scumbag your villain is? Well, you could have him/her [[Kick the Dog|abuse a cute little animal]]—or have him/her sexually molest the helpless [[Damsel in Distress|Damsel In Distress]] or [[Badass in Distress|momentarily disabled]] [[Action Girl]] or [[Dude in Distress]] when she/he is at his/her mercy. This can include [[Terms of Endangerment]], [[Forceful Kiss|unwanted kisses]], [[Lecherous Licking|licking]], [[Perverted Sniffing|sniffing]], groping, [[Traumatic Haircut]], [[Go-Go Enslavement|dressing him/her in skimpy clothing]], or even [[Attempted Rape|out-and-out trying to rape her/him]]—though this last one is usually stopped before it gets too far, as the hero generally [[Big Damn Heroes|shows up in time to rescue her/him]] or she/he finally gets the chance to regain advantage. In shows with a historical/fantasy setting, it can also include attempts to [[And Now You Must Marry Me|force the heroine/hero into marriage]].

This trope is used for two purposes: to emphasize how utterly depraved the villain is, and/or to add a sense of urgency to the hero's efforts to rescue his true love. In the meantime, expect her/him to react with either angry defiance (possibily involving brandishing a [[Chastity Dagger]]) or silent, shuddering disgust (no one ever seems to play along in the hope of avoiding more serious harm). Bonus points if the villain is grotesquely ugly/deformed and has a habit of snarling things like "Aha! I have you now, my pretty!" Another stock phrase, which seems to be more popular with [[Mooks]], is "[[You Got Spunk|I like a girl with spirit!]]"

 

 

An [[Subverted Trope|alternative to this trope]] involves a villain ''not'' performing this action even when the opportunity obviously presents itself. This can prove an obvious follow-up to showing a villain as being either a [[Worthy Opponent]] or prepping them for a [[Heel Face Turn]]. In either case, the heroine might not [[Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?|be relieved at his disinterest]]. Heck, she may even be ''offended''.

See also: [[Villain Ball]], [[And Your Little Dog, Too]].

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Black Bird]]'': Misao Harada is tied up and encased behind a magic barrier while an evil Tengu gloats about being able to ravish her.

* ''[[Hellsing]]'': The vampire preacher planned on raping Seras Victoria before killing her, since she was a virgin and he didn't want an "equal" vampire. Fortunately Alucard steps in before it gets to that, although the preacher gets a few good gropes in for effect.

* At the end of ''[[Berserk]]'', {{spoiler|Griffith, as his very first act after his transformation into the fifth member of the Godhand, Femto, does this to Casca in the second act during the Eclipse that qualifies as crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]] (the first being the sacrifice of his men that made the above transformation possible), escalating into out-and-out rape as Guts tries to get free of the jaws of the monster that's got hold of his arm and eventually has to ''chisel it off'' with a broken sword}}.

** Several more men have tried [[Attempted Rape]] on Casca as well, before and after the Eclipse. And then there's when the Great Goathead tried to make her his "bride".

* Parodied in an early episode of ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' when Pilaf threatens to "do something perverted" to Bulma if she doesn't tell him where the last Dragon Ball was. It turns out that his idea of something terribly perverted was ''blowing a kiss at her'' (kissing is considered rather big in Japanese culture). Bulma is unimpressed and proceeds - to Pilaf's utter horror - to go into detail about what she ''expected'' him to do.

* ''[[One Piece]]''

* Yunoki to Hino of ''[[Kiniro no Corda]]''.

* ''[[Peach Girl]]'': Momo fights off Kairi's older brother Ryo when he makes advances on her. Sae gets a taste of her own medicine in the form of an obese rapist whom Momo saves her from before he can rape her. Also, Momo rescues Sae again when she is being forced to participate in a porno film. And on the beach in one episode Touji saves Momo from a guy who wanted to date her.

* [[Code Geass]] has a moment when {{spoiler|Kallen}} has been captured, and one of her captors comments on how beautiful she is, and then says (in the dub) that while she clings to life he can "do anything he has a whim for, to [her] body". (In the sub he says that her life is all that matters, and that "As long as you live, what happens to your body...").

** Note that another of her captors gave her the gentle version during her whole captivity. This guy had a crush on her (even before her captivity), and he wanted to help her negotiate her freedom if she switched side (keep in mind both side see themselves as the good ones, except maybe the one who wanted to rape her).

** Mau's first meeting with {{spoiler|Shirley}} has definite vibes of this, though in fact his interest in her is not sexual. [[Mind Rape|Raping her mind,]] [[Break the Cutie|on the other hand...]]

* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'': Saionji's behavior towards Anthy. Also, Akio's towards lots of people most notably towards [[Brother-Sister Incest|Anthy]] and Utena.

* Sugou's behavior towards Asuna in episode 24 of ''Sword Art Online''.

 

 

* Back in the Golden Age, it used to be very common for the supervillain to have designs on the token superheroine. In the old ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'' comics, Susan almost got forcibly married to Namor, Kang the Conqueror, or Mole Man every other issue.

** In ''[[Ultimate Fantastic Four]]'', Namor refused to return to the ocean and stop destroying New York until Sue kissed him and meant it—in front of Reed. Since Namor clearly had the upper hand and wasn't going to be removed by force, Sue is forced to go along with it. Interesting in that it's hinted at Sue and Namor have been rather... snuggly at times in other continuities.

{{quote|'''Empowered:''' ''(thinking)'' Image... scarred onto forebrain... ''[[Brain Bleach|scarred]]''....}}

* The cheek-licking variety shows up in a late ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Avengers]]'' issue, between Whirlwind and the Wasp. Bonus points for the fact that not only had he [[Stalker with a Crush|been after her for years]], he'd just ''[[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma|knocked her unconscious]]'' seconds before, and was stroking her leg as well.

 

 

* Frollo in ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', and even sniffs Esmerelda's hair while he has her captive. And then he gets [[Crowning Music of Awesome|one of Disney's most epic]] [[Villain Song|villain songs]] of all time. Different from most in that he's [[Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny|ashamed of his lust for Esmerelda]] and wants her dead so she'll stop tempting him, and his rampant lust is explicit, unlike other Disney films.

* Rothbart from ''[[The Swan Princess]]'' does this: in his [[One-Winged Angel]] form he kidnaps Odette (and leaves her father and presumably others in the caravan to die) and places a curse on her that turns her into a swan during daylight hours and moonless nights. The only way she can get him to lift the curse is by marrying him.

* Occurs in ''[[Kung Fu Panda 2]]'' where Shen does this briefly to Tigress after {{spoiler|she and rest of the Furious Five were captured and Po was believed to be dead.}}

{{quote|'''Shen''': ''(leans in close to her face and strokes it)'' You are going to be part of something beautiful.

* In ''[[Van Helsing]]'' Dracula has absolutely no problem molesting Anna while the audience waits for Van Helsing to make his [[Big Damn Heroes|big damn entrance]].

* In ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'', Freddy Kreuger invokes this trope repeatedly. There's his murder of Tina in the first film, his antics with Nancy in the first and third films, his killing of an asthmatic girl by sucking her life out with a kiss in the third film, and him kissing and trying to rape Lori in Freddy VS Jason.

** Also seen in ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me]]''. After Stromberg has taken Anya to Atlantis (his headquarters), he has her dressed in a revealing outfit and tied up in his study to wait for him. In fact this has been seen in a LOT of Bond movies, like ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'' (Blofeld makes advances to Tracy after taking her prisoner), ''[[Dr. No]]'' (Honey is led away by the guards and Dr. No taunts Bond about what they will do to her), etc.

** In ''[[You Only Live Twice]]'' baddie Helga Brandt has Bond tied up in her cabin and, in fact, says "I've got you now." Bond quips "Well, enjoy yourself!"

* Played with in ''[[Street Fighter (film)|Street Fighter]]'': while Bison has Chun Li as his prisoner, he does not outright molest her, but tries to seduce her the old-fashioned way: a pretty dress, a nice and comfy lounge (if you forget the bone chandeliers), and ambient music. This could be almost touching if Chun Li didn't take this opportunity to properly beat the crap out of him.

** What's really hilarious is [[Mythology Gag|he forces her to wear a replica of the costume she wears in the game]].

* In ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'', Clu acts this way towards Quorra when he captures her, touching her hair and saying that he has "something special" in mind for her.

* ''[[Sucker Punch]]'': Blue, the [[Big Bad]], acts in a sexually threatening way towards the women in his brothel in order to control them, and considers them his property. His obession with the main heroine, Baby Doll, ultimately leads him to try to rape her—twice.

* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] novels of [[Terrance Dicks]] began to display a slightly alarming tendency in almost every novel to place the Doctor's companions in a position where they were threatened with rape by one of the bad guys, to the point where it really became more than a little disturbing. Not just for the obvious reasons or because it was ''every single time'', but because his writing style hadn't really changed from his popular ''[[Doctor Who]]'' adaptations for children, meaning that it was almost like [[Mood Dissonance|reading a children's book where the heroine was pretty openly threatened with rape at every opportunity]].

* In ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', when Beren and [[Action Girl|Luthien]] {{spoiler|reach Morgoth's throneroom in the bowels of Angband, Morgoth's captivation by Luthien's beauty helps buy her enough time to [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|sing him to sleep]] and steal back one of the titular [[MacGuffin|Silmarils.]]}}

* In ''[[Outlander (novel)|Outlander]]'', this is Black Jack Randall's freaking m.o., when he's not being a remorseless sadistic bastard elsewhere. He treats the heroine like this at every opportunity—and this is also how he treats her husband. His other prisoners [[Prison Rape|don't get this courtesy.]]

* The protagonist of ''[[Typewriter in the Sky]]'', having [[Trapped in TV Land|fallen into a swashbuckler novel]] and found himself cast as a villain, originally attempts merely to seduce the heroine of the story-within-a-story. When {{spoiler|the editor complains that he's not evil enough, an abrupt rewriting has him fulfilling this trope instead -- [[Rage Against the Author|much to his distaste]]}}.

* In one of the sequels of ''[[The Princess Diaries]]'', Mia writes a paper on the history of Genovia, explaining that the creation of the principality came about through the actions of her direct ancestor. This first Princess of Genovia had been the daughter of the local lord; said lord was murdered during an invasion and his daughter forcibly wed to the leader of the invading forces, whom she in turn murdered in his sleep on their wedding night. Mia notes that her ancestress may have been spurred to act by "having been forced to drink wine out of her father's skull during the wedding feast." Subverted in that in truth she copied this from a 1961 movie staring Jack Palance.

* [[Smug Snake|Prince Xizor]], in ''[[Shadows of the Empire]]'', tries to seduce Leia while keeping her in his palace. He'd been tempting her with talk about supporting the Rebellion, but he was never even considering that, and tried to keep her from leaving. [[Groin Attack|She gets back at him.]]

* This trope is the mainstay of all early gothic novels, i.e. the damsel in the villain's spooky castle. Earliest examples were ''[[The Mysteries of Udolpho]]'' and ''[[The Castle of Otranto]]''. Gothic novels were all basically the same until Mary Shelley wrote ''[[Frankenstein (novel)|Frankenstein]]'', increasing their intellectual depth about a hundred fold.

* Used in the climax of the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' story ''The Solitary Cyclist''.

* An unusual example, as both characters are male and the intent is clearly psychological torture rather than pleasure on the part of the villain: In the [[Deryni]] books, {{spoiler|Wencit of Torenth }} forcefully kisses {{spoiler|Derry}} while he's got him chained up in a dungeon, in order to drive home his complete powerlessness. The scene is written like a rape, and things get worse from there. Not sexually, but there are a lot of ways to [[Break the Cutie|break someone's spirit...]]

* In [[Mary Gentle]]'s ''[[Grunts!]]'', Ashnak does this with Magda; at least in appearance. He's pretending he's interrogating her and uses the phrase "Now, my prisoner" at one point; but he's really concealing their consensual sexual [[Interspecies Romance|relationship]] from the rest of his orcs (during the Siege at Nin-Edin, anyway).

 

== Live-Action TV ==

** There is a moment in "The Stolen Earth" when {{spoiler|Davros}} says of the captured {{spoiler|Rose Tyler}} "She is mine, Doctor, to do with as I please."

* ''[[Buck Rogers]]'': The villian Princess Ardala has the goal of making Buck Rogers her consort, most definitely including sex. It's often implied that Buck would take the sex if it didn't include marriage.

* In ''[[Rizzoli and Isles]]'' [[Ax Crazy|Hoyt's]] preying on his victims, most notably to Jane, is uncomfortably reminiscent of rape. Hell, he even threatens to rape Maura at one point.

 

== Music ==

* "Margaret in Captivity" has a line like this from the heroine's captor: "Don't hold out for rescue / None can hear your call / 'Till I have wrest and wrecked you / Behind these fortress walls."

 

* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: The [[Shotgun Wedding]] variety is very common in Hindu mythology, occurring in both ''[[Ramayana]]'' and ''[[Mahabharata]]'' (though averted in the former as Sita resists and thus remains pure). The [[Go-Go Enslavement]] type is also narrowly averted in the ''Mahabharata'' when Draupadi is lost by her husband in a bet (you read that correctly) and the winner, his cousin, tries to have her stripped. He fails, however, due to the gods' protection.

 

* ''[[The Mikado]]'': The [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] comic operetta has hero, Nanki-Poo pursued by the [[Stalker with a Crush|obsessively amorous]] Lady Katisha, who is determined to make him marry her... or have him executed if he won't.

* Subverted in ''[[Ruddigore]]'', when Robin, now [[Designated Villain]] Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, is ordered by his ghostly ancestors, under pain of death, to "carry off a lady," and finds himself facing a [[Girl with Psycho Weapon]].

* In ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'', the [[Damsel in Distress]] asks her kidnapper/stalker "Am I now to be prey to your lust for flesh?" He doesn't really answer this, and fan opinion is divided as to whether the Phantom would have raped her if Raoul hadn't found them (though he ''is'' planning to force her into marriage).

* ''[[The Lion King]]'': Although it is nowhere to be seen in the film, Scar attempts this on Nala in the musical, motivating her to run away to the jungle.<ref>This actually was an intended plot point for the movie, but the directors eventually decided that sexual harassment was just a little too mature for young audiences. This concept evaded the Disney execs years later, however, when it came time to produce ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]].''</ref>

* ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (theatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'': [[Dirty Old Man|Judge Turpin]] means to marry his adopted daughter [[Damsel in Distress|Johanna]] (who happens to be the child of the man [[Kick the Dog|he had sent to prison]] and [[Rape as Drama|the woman he not only raped,]] but also [[Driven to Suicide|drove to suicide.]] {{spoiler|Well, not exactly.}})

{{quote|'''Judge Turpin:''' How sweet you look in that light muslin gown...}}

 

== Video Games ==

* Admiral Vigoro attempts to pull this on Aika during your imprisonment in the Grand Fortress in ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]''. Being violently rebuffed and subsequently beaten by her only [[Love At First Punch|makes things worse]]. And when Vyse, Aika's best friend and [[The Hero]] of the game, rescues her, his reaction is more of amusement than pissed off. Luckily the only thing Vigoro actually managed to do was [[Mugging the Monster|annoy]] [[Magic Knight|Aika]].

* [[Haunting Ground]]: Riccardo intends on taking Fiona for himself and impregnating her so that he can be 'reborn'. He practically namedrops this trope to her later in the game when he has her captive in the water tower. "You are mine. I OWN YOU." Lorenzo also acts this way when Fiona encounters him for the first time.

** Also in the Dwarf Commoner Origin, the previous crime lord makes lewd comments about your character's sister and gives permission to some of the gang members to rape her.

** This is featured in the City Elf Origin, especially if you're a female elf. {{spoiler|Poor Shianni...}}

 

== Web Comics ==

** Extra squick points in that Ariel is ''a little girl'' and the physical equivalent of seven years old when this happens. The re-done chapter 4 also has him attempt to lure her into his bed (the original version was [[Corruption by a Minor|completely different]] and made later events look out-of-character for Rik).

* Subverted ''hard'' in ''[[Van Von Hunter]]''. When the Flaming Prince announces his intentions to Sidekick about making her his bride, she gets all excited because it means [[Everything's Better with Princesses|she gets to be a princess]].

 

== Web Original ==

** The crowd beating on Critic for not liking ''[[Howl's Moving Castle]]'' holding him down and biting/strangling him constantly.

* You shall make an excellent queen for [http://www.theonion.com/articles/you-shall-make-an-excellent-queen,16398/ Gorzo The Mighty.]

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'' has the one-shot character Little Acorn in the episode "Puppet Bride" do something of the sort to Jenny, trying to force her to marry him. Thankfully her mother manages to save her and stands up against Little Acorn once and for all, after being antagonized by him for so long in the past.

** Also Queen Vexus tends to fall into this slightly once she succeeds to capturing Jenny.

 

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[[Category:Rape Tropes]]

[[Category:I Have Your Index]]

[[Category:Tropes About Perverts]]

[[Category:Evil Gloating]]