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There are myriad possible reasons for the existence of this trope. In fan work, it may be a bizarre and [[Unfortunate Implications|rather unfortunate]] combination of [[Draco in Leather Pants]] and [[Rape Is Love]]. On the other hand, it could be just the opposite; [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|rape is an easy way to]][[Ron the Death Eater|push a character over the]] [[Moral Event Horizon]] in a setting where murder is a [[Crapsack World|frequent occurence]], and/or [[Villain Protagonist|not exclusively performed by the antagonist of the story.]] Within published fiction, it may be explained by the fact that murderers who double as sex offenders tend to get much more media coverage than your average bread n' butter killer. It probably helps that the writer may want to create a [[Complete Monster]], and rape is frequently viewed as a [[Fate Worse Than Death]].
Compare [[Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?]], when a character in-story makes this sort of assumption, and [[Memetic Molester]], which is somewhat like the fandom-based variant of this trope, but [[Played for Laughs]] and not necessarily applied only to murderers. Contrast [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]] for when a villain [[Even Evil Has Standards|has standards]] and specifically averts this trope. Compare/Contrast [[Insane Equals Violent]], which by the associative property could lead to this trope.
{{noreallife|First, this is a [[:Category:Rape Tropes|rape trope]] -- tell the police, not us. Second, this is a trope about how characters are depicted in media. Please don't use this page to smear the reputations of real people; even real murders deserve to not be falsely accused of other crimes.}}
=== Canon examples ===▼
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== Anime & Manga ==▼
▲=== Anime & Manga ===
* Muraki of ''[[Yami no Matsuei]]'', given that he raped and killed {{spoiler|Hisoka}} in the backstory.
* In the first episode of ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', [[Heir to the Dojo|Kaoru]] is being attacked by a man who was kicked out of the dojo over a decade ago and wants revenge. He picks her up, and [[Smug Snake|makes a remark]] to his Mooks along the lines of "Whose [[Double Entendre|sword wants to get a taste of her flesh]] first?" (The response is, of course, his mooks all saying "Me first!" accompanied by pervy leers.) Of course, Kenshin saves the day.
** It's interesting to note the series in itself averts this trope, as this was the only canonical instance that rape was threatened along with violence (and it doesn't even show up in the manga). Kenshin-styled mooks [[Punch Clock Villain|just seem to want to get with the killing that their bosses order them to do.]]
* In ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'', there's Gauron. Initially, it looks like he just simply gets off on violently killing people. And ''then'', it has to be revealed that all along he didn't only want to violently kill Sousuke. [[Depraved Homosexual|Oh no, all along he wanted to rape]] [[Unfortunate Implications|the hell out of Sousuke too.]]
* {{spoiler|Diva's}} rape and murder of {{spoiler|Riku}} in ''[[Blood
** In this case, the murder was more of a side effect.
* In ''[[Berserk]]'', when Guts and Casca are cornered by General Adon and his mercenaries and Guts allows for an opening for Casca to escape, Adon sends some of his men after her, ordering them to kill her. When they catch up to her, they oddly want to ''thank'' Casca for killing some of their comrades... [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|by raping her of course, THEN killing her.]]
=== Comic Books ===▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* In case the page quote wasn't, um, clear enough on the subject, ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'', which is about an extremely introvert misanthrope serial killer, defies this trope. Johnny himself has issues about sexuality in general and finds it repellent: When he finds out he's inspired a copycat killer who is ''also'' an unrepentant rapist, he gets... upset.
=== Film ===▼
▲== Film ==
* Parodied in ''[[Joe Dirt]]''. After being rescued from a serial killer who [[Silence of the Lambs|kept him in a hole and intended to skin him]], Joe has to dispel increasingly explicit stories of what was done to him.
=== Literature ===▼
▲== Literature ==
* [[Dean Koontz]] seems to be in love with this trope; many, if not most of his stories involve a villain who at least seriously considers raping the attractive female protagonist, if it isn't a major driving force of the story.
** The late Richard Laymon, something of a protégé of Koontz's, did this as well.
* The ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series, full stop. Every villain introduced, save for a rare handful, are [[Complete Monster
* ''Native Son'' [[Zig-Zagging Trope|zig-zags]] on this trope. The black [[Tragic Hero]], Bigger Thomas, knows when he's killed a white woman in her bed (by accidentally suffocating her) he predicts, correctly, that he will be accused of raping her as well, even though he didn't. Before Bigger is arrested, however, he rapes and murders his black girlfriend. {{spoiler|Worse, the justice system accuses him of having raped the white woman and uses the black woman's corpse as proof.}}
* The bandits in [[Catherine Anderson]]'s
=== Live-Action TV ===▼
* In [[Police Procedural]] shows like ''[[CSI]]'' or ''[[Law & Order]]'', these tend to occur nearly every time the victim is female.▼
▲== Live-Action TV ==
** One episode of ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' has the crew decide immediately that the killer must be impotent because none of the victims were raped, and goes on to state that his children must be adopted. This is stated more than once, despite it having no bearing on the plot. Apparently, a person who is ''murdering women because they remind him of the person he hates most'' not making sex part of his MO is so unthinkable that an explanation was needed and it bore repeating.▼
▲* In [[Police Procedural]] shows like CSI or Law & Order, these tend to occur nearly every time the victim is female.
▲** One episode of [[Criminal Minds]] has the crew decide immediately that the killer must be impotent because none of the victims were raped, and goes on to state that his children must be adopted. This is stated more than once, despite it having no bearing on the plot. Apparently, a person who is ''murdering women because they remind him of the person he hates most'' not making sex part of his MO is so unthinkable that an explanation was needed and it bore repeating.
*** That was more about him being specifically a *serial* killer, which tends to get all tied up in sex more than just being a regular killer would.
* Averted, surprisingly, by the relatively obscure Canadian TV series
* [[Dexter]] had one of his [[Victim of the Week]] ask him if he is going to rape her.
** More than that, she was ''obsessed'' with it. "Are you going to rape me? I'll tell them you tried to rape me." Etc. Dexter even called her out on it. And then he killed her. Dexter does strip all his victims naked before killing them, so it's somewhat understandable why some might draw that conclusion. He only does it for the sake of neater body-disposal, however.
=== Webcomics ===▼
▲== Webcomics ==
* Many, many villains from the comic ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]'' have at least ''attempted'' rape. Somewhat [[Justified Trope|justified]], as the aforementioned villains usually have some kind of connection with Drip, who is basically the embodiment of the deadly sin Lust.
=== [[Web Original]] ===▼
▲== [[Web Original]] ==
* This trope, unfortunately, tends to show up in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'', disturbingly enough. Some prominent killers have either [[Attempted Rape|attempted to rape]] or [[Rape as Drama|succeeded at doing so]], a lot more often than many handlers wish. The most infamous examples would be Cody Jenson {{spoiler|raping and biting Madelaine Shirohara's throat out}} in version one, and the "vase rape" incident in v3. This has decreased majorly as of Version 4, however.
== Fan Work/Fanon examples ==
===
* For Chobin, a villanous lacky from the
▲* For Chobin, a villanous lacky from the Pokemon Fanfic [[Brave New World (fanfic)|Brave New World]], is so screwed up it's probably easier to list what he ''isn't''. The fact that that he's a Sunflora makes things that much more disturbing.
* [[Axis Powers Hetalia|Russia The Rapetruck]]. Enough said.
* Occasionally, [[Naruto|Gaara]] gets this treatment in particularly dark fics. Never mind that he's [[Just a Kid]], and never mind that {{spoiler|he has a [[Heel Face Turn]]...}}
=== Film ===▼
▲== Film ==
* [[The Dark Knight Saga|Heath Ledger's interpretation]] of [[The Joker]] gets this a lot with [[OCs]], partially because he's [[Draco in Leather Pants|commonly considered to be good-looking]] and partially because he's [[Moral Event Horizon|already an evil,]] [[Complete Monster|murdering son of a bitch]]. Because this is frequently done in order to [["It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It"|seem]] [[Rape Is Love|"romantic"]], [[Unfortunate Implications]] [[Fridge Horror|ensue]].
=== Literature ===▼
▲== Literature ==
* [[Harry Potter|Voldemort and the Death Eaters]] get this to a frankly disturbing extent. Not to mention [[Ron the Death Eater|Ron]].
=== Live-Action TV ===▼
▲== Live-Action TV ==
* This happens to [[Degrassi the Next Generation|Jay Hogart]] a lot. And it's always [[Foe Yay|Emma]], which leads to Sean doing an abrupt [[Heel Face Turn]] and dumping [[Fan Nickname|the Candy Bandits]] to go back to Emma. A general expression of [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]].
* Averted in ''[[Warhammer
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▲* Averted in [[Warhammer 40000]] fanon (with some basis in canon): the followers of Khorne are the kill-crazy [[Blood Knight]]s, followers of Slaanesh are depraved hedonist rapists, and hate each other as per their gods' commandments. So berserkers trying to rape someone are likely to get killed by their own side ([[Omnicidal Maniac|which is likely anyway]]) for heresy.
▲== Video Games ==
* Subverted and played straight in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7189428/1/Prison_Island_Break Prison Island Break] with the same character. In it [[Shadow the Hedgehog]] is a murderer-rapist, but the author points out that not every person he raped was murdered, and not every person he murdered was raped.
* Early in ''[[Domain Tnemrot]]'' many fans assumed Angel had been raped by her former master. While [[Word of God]] has [[Jossed]] this, many are either unaware or ignore it.
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* Fliqpy of ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' fame tends to get this treatment a lot in fanfic, especially when Flaky is involved. Never mind the fact that Fliqpy was born from Flippy's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; in this context, [[You Fail Logic Forever|rape makes absolutely no sense.]] Not to mention the Happy Tree Friends [[Nonhumans Lack Attributes|don't appear to actually have any reproductive organs]] ...▼
▲* Early in [[Domain Tnemrot]] many fans assumed Angel had been raped by her former master. While [[Word of God]] has [[Jossed]] this, many are either unaware or ignore it.
▲== Web Original ==
▲* Fliqpy of [[Happy Tree Friends]] fame tends to get this treatment a lot in fanfic, especially when Flaky is involved. Never mind the fact that Fliqpy was born from Flippy's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; in this context, [[You Fail Logic Forever|rape makes absolutely no sense.]] Not to mention the Happy Tree Friends [[Nonhumans Lack Attributes|don't appear to actually have any reproductive organs]] ...
** But if they are drawn into their human forms, Flippy almost always rapes Flaky in fanart. This concept seems to appeal to a lot of fans. [http://www.zerochan.net/435831 Some] [http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/313/a/7/flippy_and_flaky_by_abigor_glace-d4foth5.jpg examples] [http://www.zerochan.net/857455 are] [http://www.zerochan.net/844376 here].
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