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

''"I've got something very special in mind for you."''

 

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]].

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

 

 

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* 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''.

* 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 ==

* ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'': When [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|The Huntsman]] refuses to carry out the Evil Queen's dirty work in assassinating Snow White, she [[You Have Failed Me...|invokes a magic spell]] to [[Heart Trauma|remove his heart]] [[...And Show It to You|and put it in her collection]]. She then orders her mooks to take him to her bedchamber. Even in the "real" world, the Huntsman was forced to be her [[Sex Slave]]. And after he figured out who he was and what had been done to him {{spoiler|Regina [[If I Can't Have You|kills him]] by destroying the heart she kept in her secret vault}}.

* 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]].

* ''[[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.

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

* This trope is the first reason Makoto's bad ending in ''[[BlazBlue: Continuum Shift|BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend]]'' is [[Nightmare Fuel|legendary for its badness]]. It ''quickly'' [[It Got Worse|gets much worse]] from there, so be sure to [[Brain Bleach|grab a gallon]] before viewing the [[BlazBlue/Tear Jerker|BlazBlue Tear Jerker page]] for more details.

 

== Web Comics ==

* 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]].

* ''[[Starfighter]]'': Cain's interactions with Abel have this vibe. Except he's the [[Love Interest]]. Then again, he might actually be doing it deliberately...

 

== 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 ==

 

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[[Category:Rape Tropes]]

[[Category:I Have Your Index]]

[[Category:Tropes About Perverts]]

[[Category:Evil Gloating]]

[[Category:Hentai Tropes]]