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'''Hedley Lamarr:''' You spare the women?
'''Taggart:''' Naw, we ''rape the shit out of them'' at the Number Six Dance later on.
'''Hedley Lamarr:''' Marvelous!
|''[[Blazing Saddles]]''}}
One of the many ways your hometown can become a [[Doomed Hometown]]. A group of bandits, pirates, or even mooks working for a [[Big Bad]] cause trouble primarily by sacking the town - that is, [[Plunder|looting]], damaging property, and sometimes even murdering and kidnapping innocent townsfolk. Raping is optional([[Rape Discretion Shot|-ly shown]]), but the town is almost always [[Burn, Baby, Burn|burned down]] afterward. This gives an excellent opportunity for the bad guys to [[Kick the Dog]]. '''Rape, Pillage and Burn''' is guaranteed to appear in any work involving [[Pirates]] or [[Horny Vikings]]. Sometimes appears, though not as frequently, in the [[Wild West]] or [[Medieval European Fantasy]]. This activity is a common pastime of [[The Horde]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Inevitable in ''[[Vinland Saga]]'', a manga about [[Horny Vikings|Vikings]].
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** To elaborate: this trope is often what is being inflicted upon the people Kenshiro must save, and is an excellent way to encourage him to [[Your Head Asplode|pop some heads]]. [[Berserk Button|Especially if you even think about doing this to children.]]
* ''[[Hellsing]]'': Invoked by [[Blood Knight|The Major]] before the burning of London. [[The Remnant|The Last Battalion]] is only too happy to fulfill this in both letter and spirit.
* Not surprisingly, this occurs in many [[Hentai]] series, [[Captain Obvious|with heavy emphasis on the raping part]].
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* In the ''[[Strontium Dog]]'' story "Traitor to his Kind", Cuthbert asks Wulf is he ever raped and pillaged England. Wulf responds that he did a lot of pillage back in the day, but there was no raping - the girls were only too willing.
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** It wasn't always done ''to'' the Israelites either. See, e.g. [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+31%3A7-18 Numbers 31:7-18], [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+20%3A10-14 Deuteronomy 20:10-14], and [http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges+21%3A10-24 Judges 21:10-24].
* In two Thackeray novels, ''Henry Esmond'' and ''Barry Lyndon'', the main characters are part of armies during European wars of the 18th century and their side is depicted as doing this. Barry is a [[Villain Protagonist]], so he joins in. Esmond is a more honorable guy, so he doesn't really take part, but does assent when his faithful servant wants to join in the raping and pillaging.
* In ''[[
{{quote|'''Rincewind''': Rape? That's not very--
'''Cohen''': He's eighty-seven. Don't go and spoil an old man's dreams.
* Happens in ''[[Chronicles of Magravandias|The Crown of Silence]]'' by Storm Constantine. Invaders decimate a village, then rape any survivors, regardless of gender.
* The Mongols in the ''[[Conqueror]]'' books do this quite a lot, generally as punishment for not surrendering immediately.
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* A good portion of Manowar's lyrics
* Procol Harum, "Whaling Stories".
{{quote|''Sack the town and rob the tower
''And steal the alphabet }}
* [http://www.punkwalrus.com/cybertusk/viking_birthday_dirge.html The Viking Birthday Dirge], [[Horny Vikings|unsurprisingly]], features several references
{{quote|''May the candles on your cake
''Burn like cities in your wake
''Burn the castle and storm the keep
''[[But You Screw One Goat!|Kill the women, but save the sheep]]
''Burn, then rape by firelight
''Add ''romance'' to life tonight
''This one lesson you must learn
''First you pillage, then you burn }}
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[The Far Side]]'' spoofed this a lot, often with [[Horny Vikings]]:
** In one cartoon, as most of a Viking crew are looting and burning a village and carrying off the women, two are in the foreground, casually having lunch, one of them complaining (as he looks in a lunchbox), "Well, she did it to me again. Tuna fish!"
** In one strip, a mob of Vikings are storming a castle, and one looks down into the moat and exclaims, [[Attention Deficit Oh Shiny|"Ooh, goldfish, everyone! Goldfish!"]] Gary Larson claims that guy was an [[Author Avatar]], seeing as he'd likely do the same thing in that situation.
** In another cartoon, Vikings are depicted running about tossing eggs at huts, with the caption reading, "for many years, until they became truly nasty, Vikings would plunder, loot, and then egg the houses of coastal villagers".
** Yet another, a party of Viking raiders are waiting outside a "Small Defenseless Village" that has designated plundering hours, patiently waiting for the time to arrive.
* [[Hagar the Horrible]] and his crew pillages a lot, and occasionally burn, but they usually spare the women. (A few jokes center on Hagar kidnapping one or more, but no complaints from the victims.) There are a lot of jokes about this; for example, in a strip, Hagar is leading an army with siege engines and a battering ram against a castle, but it has a sign that says, "No looting and pillaging allowed!" Hagar says, "Gee, I kinda hate to turn back now..."
== Recorded and Stand Up Comedy ==
* Comedian/Impressionist [[Rich Little]] once impersonated John Wayne as Ghenghis Khan: "We're gonna go in and we're gonna rape the women and steal the sheep. And for God's sake, get it right this time!"
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* In GW's sister setting, ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'', the [[Evil Counterpart|Dark]] [[Our Elves Are Better|Elves]] prowl the seas making slave raids or murderous surprise attacks, the Orcs like pillaging and burning as a prelude to a good scrap, and Chaos (notice a pattern?) Marauders are a constant menace in the [[Grim Up North|northern lands]], particularly the [[Horny Vikings|Norscans and their longships]]
* If you have a big enough ship in Blackbeard, you might be able to sack ports. If you have enough weaponry and information from hostages, you might even be able to sack New York or Boston.
* In ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', this is often the reason given why half-orcs are practically a race onto themselves. ''However'', some modern editions also claim that when half-orcs are [[Child by Rape|born this way]] it is [[War Is Hell|not always a case of the father being the orc half...]]
== Theatre ==
* The [[Cut Song]] "There's Something About A War" from ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]'' has [[Miles Gloriosus]] and the soldiers sing in praise of this:
{{quote|''There's always a town to pillage,
''A city to be laid waste.
''There's always a little village
''Entirely to be erased.
''And citadels to sack, of course,
''And temples to attack, of course,
''Children to annihilate,
''Priestesses to violate,
''Houses to destroy -- hey!
''Women to enjoy -- hey!
''Statues to deface -- hey!
''Mothers to debase -- hey! }}
* While Shakespeare's [[Henry V]] doesn't actually do this to Harfleur, he does have an absolutely hair-raising speech about it:
{{quote|Therefore, you men of Harfleur,
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== Video Games ==
* The bandits [[Doomed Hometown|dooming your hometown]] in ''[[Fable]]''. The town recovers, though, and when you return there later in the game, you are greeted by a now-grown-up girl who was looking for her teddy bear Rosie, who recognizes you.
* You'll run into one of these in ''[[Fire Emblem]]''.
* You can sack towns in ''[[Sid Meier's Pirates!|Pirates!]]''
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* Sacking towns is the best way to maintain a steady income in the ''[[Total War]]'' series.
* In the background options for Shepard in ''[[Mass Effect]]'', Shepard can potentially have faced this twice; first, if the Colonist background is taken, Shepard survived a slaver attack on his/her home colony on Mindoir, but also lost his/her entire family at [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday|16]]. If the War Hero background is taken, Shepard [[One-Man Army|singlehandedly]] ''prevents'' this from happening to the colony of Elysium.
* An army of mooks get this [[Comically Missing the Point|slightly wrong]] in ''[[Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist]]''.
{{quote|"Let's stampede the women and rape the cattle!"}}
* ''[[Mount & Blade]]
* The school and village where the player begins in ''[[Jade Empire]]'' is burned to the ground and all but a handful of its inhabitants slaughtered. What news of this reaches other villages paints it as purely pirates attacking, when it's actually mooks of the Emperor working alongside the pirates.
* This is the modus operandi of Caesar's Legion in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]''. In the endgame, if [[Player Character|the Courier]] has a maxed out Barter skill (which in this game means a very good understanding of economics and trade), s/he can deconstruct this by telling [[The Dragon|Legate Lanius]] that raiding is a very poor long term way to properly sustain a nation, especially considering that NCR towns make very poor raiding targets since they depend on trade and that even if the Legion wins the battle for Hoover Dam, they'll ultimately be defeated via attrition. This will be enough for Lanius to agree to retreat.
* Happens off-screen in the prologue of ''[[The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings]]'', as King Foltest's army attacks the Castle La Valette. Unusually, the player is on the attacking side as well, although you have the option to [[Video Game Caring Potential|stem the worst brutalities that you come across]].
* In all ''[[Civilization]]'' games, most land units can pillage the infrastructure (roads, farms, mines etc.) outside enemy towns. Marauding barbarians are especially fond of this.
* In the first stage of ''[[Castle Crashers]]'', you fight barbarian-mooks in a town that has already been pillaged and burned, while chasing a group of them who have kidnapped four of the women. Get to the end of the stage and said kidnap victims are tied to posts, so it's time to pull a [[Big Damn Heroes]] against [[Evil Is Bigger| the ''really'' big Boss.]]
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', the first maxim in [[Big Book of War|The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries]] is "Pillage, ''[[In That Order|then]]'' burn."
* [[Furmentation]] notes that you must do it [[In That Order|in that order]].
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* [[David Mitchell]] is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJqEKYbh-LU none too fond of this idea]
{{quote|Add "pillage" to "rape" and suddenly it has an air of knockabout fun. But "pillage" is bad enough by itself. It's theft looting and arson. Being pillaged would be an awful thing to happen to anyone. What it definitely isn't is a spoonfull of sugar to help the rape go down. Nonetheless put them together and these two awful crimes apparently cancel each other out. You can almost imagine a jolly uncle saying something like: "Where are you boys off to tonight? Out raping and pillaging I'll be bound!" But you wouldn't want one of them to reply: "Well, [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|not pillaging anyway]]."}}
* In ''[[Greek Ninja]]'', that's what happens to the main character's hometown.
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''But save the sheep!''
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