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{{trope}}
[[File:ice114-propervillains.jpg|frame|link=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026175233/http://www.faitherinhicks.com/ice/page113.html|[[Even Evil Has Standards|Munsch and Saul do not approve]].]]
{{quote|"''In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous.''"
|[[Opening Narration]]
In many works of fiction, especially situations of [[Rape as Drama]], rape is not merely bad; it's a qualitatively different level of evil. As such, a rape scene can be used as a [[Kick the Dog]] moment for a particularly evil character, or as the point where a character who previously was merely unlikeable crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]] into [[Complete Monster]] territory.
Note that not only is rape considered a game changer for almost all characters, but it is also so ''for the writer''. Many stories and [[Crapsack World]]s have [[Complete Monster]]s who don't commit rape, even though everything about their character indicates they could, would, or should. There are also times when rape is kept "off camera" or otherwise [[Rape as Backstory|something in the past]], or hinted at once and never brought up again. Having rape in a story will immediately plunge it into the darkest and edgiest abyss of all that is [[Darker and Edgier]]. If they don't portray the rape as dark enough, then [[Values Dissonance]] (and thus the most scathing criticism from the audience) will happen.
This is largely because civilised societies consider rape as even more heinous and sinister than say murder or theft. One may get away with murdering or stealing as there are certain contexts with which these crimes are permissible, e.g. out of self defense or due to a desperate need to feed oneself or their family, but rape and other forms of sexual crimes are seen as too evil for even most criminals to stomach, especially when children or physically or mentally handicapped persons are involved, as it leaves lasting mental trauma and anguish to victims, and in the case of children, deprives them of the innocence most people associate with them. The stigma with rapists and pedophiles also leads to people formerly associated with the perpetrator to distance themselves from the perp, case in point the members of [[Lostprophets]] who disbanded out of disgust for ex-lead singer Ian Watkins's crimes when he was sentenced for pedophilia-related offences.
A sub-trope of [[Even Evil Has Standards]] when rape disgusts a villain, and the opposite of [[Rape Is Love]]. Compare [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]], [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]. Contrast [[Black Comedy Rape]]. Related to the idea of rape as a [[Fate Worse Than Death]]. When refusal to engage in this is a sign of the good guys superiority it is [[The Women Are Safe with Us]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Death Note]]'': Light Yagami was made more sympathetic in the anime adaptation of the manga by changing his second murder from the killing of man who was sexually harassing a woman to the killing of a man who was attempting to rape a woman.
* In ''[[Blood
* ''[[Bleach]]'':
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** Also, when Aizen and his lackeys {{spoiler|stole a piece of Matsumoto's soul to help awaken the Hougyoku}}, the imagery used to underline the especially evil nature of this act heavily suggested gang-rape.
* What tends to push Muraki, the villain in ''[[Yami no Matsuei]]'', firmly into [[Complete Monster]] territory for most is that he raped and murdered {{spoiler|Hisoka}}.
* In ''[[Rideback]]'', it's the threat of rape, to obtain a false confession, that pushes the military government into [[Complete Monster]] territory. And they'd already killed someone surrendering to them. [[La Résistance|The rebel forces]] [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized|aren't]] [[Black and Grey Morality|much]] [[Byronic Hero|better]], so its inclusion was what told us that ''these'' were the [[Designated Villain|designated villains]].
* ''[[Ichi the Killer]]''. [[Villain Protagonist|Kakihara]] is messed up in all sorts of ways, but only the twins, who pretty much rape their way through the series, get [[Complete Monster]] treatment.
* Averted in ''[[Basilisk]]''. While he has no problem committing rape several times,
* In ''[[Blade of the Immortal]]'', the only guys present who
* In volume 9 of the ''[[Durarara!!]]'' novel, after [[The Chessmaster|Izaya]] outsmarts [[Smug Snake|Earthworm]] and basically orders [[Jerkass|Ran]] to do what he wanted with her, Ran proceeds to subject her to a painful and torturous [[Humiliation Conga
** To add to this, there is a theory that Ran
* Raoh from ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'', series most famous [[Big Bad]], at one points walks in to see one of his mooks killing-and-raping women [[For the Evulz]] and immediately decapitates him with one slap, and flattens the surviving accomplices by riding his elephant-sized stallion Koku-Oh over the bastards. It's one of his most prominent [[Pet the Dog]] moments.
* In ''[[Legend of the Blue Wolves]]'' [[Depraved Homosexual|Captain Continental's]] rape and torture of Jonathan cinches him as a [[Complete Monster]].
** Same deal with Katsuragi's rape and torture of Masataka in ''[[Sakura Gari]]''.
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* In ''[[How Not To Summon a Demon Lord]]'', this is a major reason (along with being a [[Dirty Coward|coward]] and [[The Caligula|an idiot]]) why Shera’s depraved brother Prince Keera is such a monster. First, he brainwashes Shera using magic to “convince” her to come with him, intending rape right from the start and turns the brainwashing off right before attempting the act so she can be as terrified as possible. He then uses some sort of magically controlled [[Blob Monster|slime monster]] to disrobe her, laughing like the madman he is and describing this as "foreplay" to the hero when he breaks in to save her. All this is portrayed with the appropriate [[Fan Disservice]], in stark contrast to the many scenes of Fanservice elsewhere in this series. Worst of all, [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|the concept of basic decency is foreign to Keera]] - when he learns that Rem and Shera had accidentally put on [[Slave Collar]]s and that Diablo could have forced himself upon them at any time, but never acted on it, he genuinely can't understand why. He instead rationalizes that Diablo must have manipulated Shera into giving consent, and that she was too stupid to realize it, when Diablo hadn't been intimate with her at all.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Identity Crisis]]'': Dr. Light was evil, but he wasn't '''[[Complete Monster|evil]]''' until it was [[Ret Conned]] that he had raped {{spoiler|Sue Dibny}} in the JLA watchtower. Following the retcon, it's become standard practice to write Light as a serial rapist. Quoth Plastic Man: "It's like that's his power now."
* To quote [[Fantastic Four|Doctor Doom]] in a 2010 issue of ''[[X-Factor (comics)|X-Factor]]'':
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'''Sue Storm:''' Gratitude, Doom? For imprisoning me?
'''Doom:''' For saving you, foolish woman, from the attentions of an impostor. A Doom from another world, at the risk of sounding melodramatic. The fool. He thought to combine resources with me. As if I was unaware he would eventually seek to betray me. I decided I would allow his game to run its course... but insisted that you be removed from the board. His plans for you were... distasteful. Life is a cheap commodity, but we should have some respect for the intimacies of man and wife, should we not? }}
* Averted in ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]''. When accused of committing rape, or in the process of torturing/vivisecting rapists or pedophiles, Johnny goes on a rant about his general hatred of sexual desire and physical contact, not the morality of rape itself, and lampshades the fact that he has no moral high ground and is a hypocrite. Case in point, he actually rapes some of his own victims with foreign objects, exemplified by time where ''he put live rats in a man's anus
* In ''Gearhead'', when a quartet of exiled villains easily knock the eponymous protagonist unconscious and they're debating what to do with her, the leader smacks one of them just for a remark that vaguely implies the possibility of raping her,<ref>"Way I see it, we do whatever we like with [her]"</ref> reminding him that there's a difference "between criminal and fuckin' evil".
* In ''[[League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'', we're first introduced to the Invisible Man while he's in the process of raping boarding school girls. Because it's done in the style of Victorian literature, it's mostly treated as a distasteful perversion by the other characters. Note that this is [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]], and the Invisible Man is very clearly meant to be a [[Complete Monster]].
** From the same series, {{spoiler|Hyde later rapes him to death, and the other characters -- particularly Nemo -- turn on him.}}
** And earlier in the series, we first meet Quatermain when he rescues Mina, who has come looking for him, from a pair of would-be rapists.
* For as often as the title character of ''[[Empowered]]'' ends up bound, gagged, and nude in a room full of villains, they rarely attempt to assault her, because this would violate the "Unwritten rules" between heroes and villains. Those few villains willing to break the rules are, well, [[Complete Monster|you know...]]
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* Speaking of The Joker, it was widely believed that he had his way with Barbara Gordon (aka [[Batgirl]]) in ''[[The Killing Joke]]'': after infamously shooting Barbara in the spine and paralyzing her, he then took several pictures of her bleeding and in various states of undress, as discovered when he uses them to try and break the resolve of her father Jim Gordon. The scene's ambiguity led people to believe that Joker had sexually assaulted Barbara while doing so - [[Alan Moore]] has gone on record saying that wasn't the case, likely because of this trope.
* Surprisingly averted by ''[[Watchmen]]''. The Comedian, who seems set up to be a [[Complete Monster]], expressly states
* [[The Punisher|Frank Castle]] hates most criminals with a cold, brutal passion, but rapists he harbors an ''extra'' bit of hatred for—especially human traffickers who sell sex slaves.
* In ''[[Final Crisis]]'', [[Lex Luthor]] joins Libra in his plans to aid [[Darkseid]] in his conquest of the Earth and seems to have no problem with Libra brainwashing people and killing superheroes. But when Libra vaguely implies that after victory he plans organizing a rape-train on Supergirl and Lex is going to be first in the line, Luthor teams up with Doctor Shivana to bring him down.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In the ''[[Ranma ½]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/220198/1/Lost_Innocence Lost Innocence]'', Kuno rapes a female Ranma, while "she" is under the influence of a love potion administered by Shampoo, which prompts Ukyo to use a Jusenkyo spring water to turn him into a mouse and let him out in the forest... Where he is bitten in half by an owl.
* In ''[[Tiberium Wars]]'', even the Brotherhood of Nod is disgusted by rape, and it is implied that Kane personally considers it reprehensible. (Sexual assault is listed as a "Class One Offense against the Messiah.") Soldiers caught in the act can be summarily executed, which happens when {{spoiler|a Nod soldier tries to rape Sandra Telfair}}. He almost manages to pull it off, when {{spoiler|a Black Hand busts in, beats the attacker senseless against a wall while repeatedly telling the Nod soldier what his offense was, and then chucks him out a window,}} once again proving that [[Even Evil Has Standards|even evil has standards.]]
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* Semi-example in ''[[Mistakes]]''; the [[Axis Powers Hetalia|nation-tans]] don't mind being killed at all because it [[Good Thing You Can Heal|doesn't stick]], but being raped still traumatises them.
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* ''[[M]]'' is about a bunch of criminal gangs that work together to capture a child-rapist/murderer. Although many of the gang members are themselves guilty of murder and such, they still see themselves as morally superior to the pedophile. This combines Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil with [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] and even [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]] by one character, who suggests that Hans may actually be ''less'' blameworthy, because for him killing is a compulsion, whereas the others all have a choice.
** Hell, ''the serial killer himself'' deconstructs their adherence to this trope with a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] directed towards them all; he knows and hates that he's a monster, but he does what he does because he's mentally ill and can't control his compulsions, whereas they do what they do because they're too lazy or greedy to seek honest employment.
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* ''[[Sucker Punch]]'': The way all the orderlies and viewers of the girls dancing in the brothel are depicted as entirely gross, creepy and evil. (After Baby Doll's sister dies and her mother dies)
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* [[Infocom]]'s ''Plundered Hearts'', which features a set female protagonist in a historical setting, has a scene where the heroine runs the risk of being raped by the evil nobleman Jean Lafond. Should the player do nothing, the game will abruptly end with one sentence telling that he took her to bed followed by 'You have suffered a [[Fate Worse Than Death]]' and an abrupt game over. Thwarting this attempt and escaping with her virtue still intact is the goal of that scene—and when the heroine's love interest hears about the attempt, he's more determined to kill Lafond than ever. (Lafond had previously killed Captain Jamison's brother—but ''this'' clearly pushes Lafond over into [[Complete Monster]] territory).▼
* The first half of ''[[Anchorhead]]'' is largely devoted to digging up the unsavory backstory of the Verlacs, the family behind the titular [[Town with a Dark Secret]]. You pretty much know that the [[Big Bad]] is a [[Complete Monster]] when you find out he's been raping {{spoiler|his own daughters to sire grandsons}} (clearly, his trying to summon an [[Eldritch Abomination]] just isn't quite evil enough).▼
* This trope crops up often in Adam Cadre's ''Varicella'', featuring a [[Villain Protagonist]] in a [[Sick Sad World]] where just about everyone who has any real power is a [[Complete Monster]]. The King has just died, and Palace Minister Primo Varicella intends to claim the Regency. Varicella is clearly a vain, egotistical [[Jerkass]] who routinely fires his staff for leaving specks of dirt on the floor, and is not above murdering his rivals to get himself closer to obtaining Regency. But all that's not so bad compared to his rivals, four of which have raped people on several occasions (two of them bribe an asylum guard to rape a mentally ill woman, another gasses a woman to rape her, and the other is a [[Pedophile Priest]] whose main target is the young prince). So of course, the player is most likely to sympathize with Varicella and go along with his plans because the player wants to see those [[Complete Monster]]s punished.▼
== Law ==▼
* A woman sued the city{{where}} after a police officer forced her to have sex or be arrested for a traffic infraction. Justice Arabian of the California Supreme Court had this to say: "By its very nature, rape displays a 'total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy' of the victim; '[s]hort of homicide, [it is] the "ultimate violation of self."' ( ''Coker v. Georgia'' (1977) 433 U.S. 584). Along with other forms of sexual assault, it belongs to that class of indignities against the person that cannot ever be fully righted, and that diminishes all humanity." - ''Mary M. v. City of Los Angeles'', 54 Cal. 3d 202; 814 P.2d 1341; 285 Cal. Rptr. 99 (1991).▼
* The [[wikipedia:Pirate code#Captain John Phillips.27s articles|Pirate Codes]] of the 17th and 18th centuries called for the death penalty with no alternatives for whomever committed ''[[Disproportionate Retribution|or just attempted]]'' to rape a woman. [[Even Evil Has Standards|Even for hardened criminals]], rape was a crime too heinous to stomach.▼
{{quote|''IX. If at any time you meet with a prudent Woman, that Man that offers to meddle with her, without her Consent, shall suffer present Death.''}}▼
* In [[Belisarius Series]] the Malwa seem to be fond of rape as no one else is, presumably to show how evil they are. At least one of them even makes a point of physically ravishing [[Sex Slave]] s rather then just ordering them to have sex with him. It is even specially noted that in other societies "concubine" means "pampered semi-official junior wife of aristocrats in societies that practice limited polygamy" whereas among the Malwa it means "today's rape victim of an important person". Good guys, [[The Woman Are Safe With Us|of course]] do not stoop to this sort of thing and in Belisarius' army someone caught raping will have to [[Off with His Head|talk to Valentinian]].
* In ''[[Chung Kuo]]'', a world with a [[Grey and Gray Morality]], rebel leader deVore is established as particularly evil through a gruesome rape scene.
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* Young Adult novel ''I Hunt Killers'' by Barry Lyga is about the son of America's most notorious [[Serial Killer]], who at one point muses on whether it really matters whether or not a woman (always a woman) was raped before she is horribly tortured, mutilated and killed.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* The entire premise behind ''[[Law
** ''SVU'' [[Lampshade Hanging|hung an episode-long lampshade]] on the fact that they treat rapists more harshly than any other kind of criminal. During this episode, a man was accused of raping a minor, and was basically treated like crap by the cops despite his pleas of innocence. When he complained of being attacked by other prisoners, the cops responded with "You deserve it". Turns out, {{spoiler|he really was innocent (and being railroaded by the woman he supposedly raped
* ''[[Firefly]]'': Keep in mind the woman in question says she's been accidentally ''married'' to Mal, and has been asking him to consummate all episode. Just as she's starting to wear him down:
{{quote|'''Shepherd Book''': If you take sexual advantage of her, you're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|people who talk at the theater]].}}
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* There are not many things Richard [[Sharpe]] will not do. Most of them involve harming civilians, and rape is top of the list. And if he catches someone ''else'' doing it, he will kill them and damn the consequences.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* This is the reason why servants of Slaanesh in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' are considered [[Complete Monster|nightmarish]] even by [[Exclusively Evil|Chaos]] standards. Khorne followers [[Axe Crazy|maim burn kill]], Tzeentch followers [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulate]], and Nurgle followers are [[Affably Evil|genuinely friendly]], but Slaanesh followers will inflict unimaginable tortures for their own pleasure, death being a gift. Granted, rape is ''far'' from the only tool in their considerable arsenal, but it is certainly used.
** Somewhat subverted (possibly) with the Dark Eldar, for whom it is implied several times that they can be considered even more gruesome and, well, evil, than Chaos. When their new release was announced, the title of the White Dwarf article was "Pray they don't take you alive." They aren't known specifically for rape (although it is possibly included), but some of the things they do can be pure nightmare fuel
*** Of course, Dark Eldar savagery is itself an effort to delay their inevitable consumption by Slaanesh, so...
* This is the reason why ''[[FATAL]]'' is notorious as the worst game ever created. It averts this trope most gruesomely. In the FATAL universe, women are more heavily punished for keeping an untidy house than men are for being rapists.
** The fact that the writers seem almost gleeful during the discussions of rape certainly contributes. Rather famously, when one reviewer called FATAL "the date rape RPG", one of the co-authors responded "[[I Take Offense to That Last One|Where does it say anything about dating?]]"
* Averted in ''[[New World of Darkness]]''. While rape is considered an act of depravity, it's placed at the same level as torture, serial murder, and using magic to murder someone (as opposed to murdering them the old-fashioned way), which are lumped under the umbrella "casual/callous crimes." Acts that are considered ''worse'' than rape are "utter perversion" and "heinous acts" (e.g., combined rape, torture, and murder; mass murder; stealing a soul).
* Averted in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' 3.X, to some criticism. Specifically, the "Adults Only" supplements, ''Book of Exalted Deeds'' and ''Book of Vile Darkness'' never bring the subject of rape up at all—even though ''Vile Darkness'' is supposed to cover the depths of moral depravity. YMMV on whether this was a bad decision.
** It is actually mentioned very briefly (in a sidebar) in the Book of Vile Darkness, warning DMs of repercussions from players if the crime is truly enacted in-game. Rapists are simply described as a sub-section of sadists and control-freaks and left at that.
** Strange as it may seem, Asmodeus, Overlord of Hell, can be quite forgiving of underlings who double-cross or betray him. Moloch was banished and is no longer allowed in the Nine Hells, but his life was spared, Beelzebul was turned into a giant slug-monster, but was eventually restored to his true form and continues to rule the seventh Layer, while Dispater, Mammon, and Mephistopheles seemed to get off with only reprimands and warnings. Levistus, however? All versions of his background say he tried to turn Asmodeus' consort Benzonia against him and then murdered her when she refused, but the Splat book ''Tyrants of the Nine Hells'' claims he also raped her, and for this crime against the Overlord of Hell, [[And I Must Scream| he was frozen solid in a giant block of ice]], both a prisoner and ruler of his Layer to this very day. In many ways, he acts as a deterrent to any devil who dares defy Asmodeus.
** ''[[The Book of Erotic Fantasy]]'' includes a Wizard spell that will turn a victim into a willing [[Sex Slave]]; the description specifically notes that using the spell is an Evil act.
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* In ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' {{spoiler|Stanley's rape of Blanche}} cements his status as a complete [[Jerkass]].
* [[Spring Awakening]]'s [[Abusive Parents]] are bad enough, but "The Dark I Know Well" puts Martha and Ilse's fathers firmly in this category.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Open-ended role-playing games or [[Karma Meter]] games as a whole. Plenty of games exist where you can go around slaughtering innocents if you want, but how many allow you to rape someone at will? (In retrospect, not that allowing this would at all make for better games ...)
* [[Nippon Ichi]] are pretty big on this trope:
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* ''[[Rance]]'' has an... interesting relationship with this trope. On the one hand, the main character, Rance, is a serial rapist out to have sex with as many women as possible. On the other hand, he thinks he's God's gift to womankind, and doesn't seem to understand that what he's doing is wrong. Every good character is at least slightly distressed at his actions (not that they really do much to stop him), and anyone who agrees with him is treated as scum and killed off sooner or later.
* In ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]''. the [[Big Bad]] is {{spoiler|a psychiatrist who deals with a human traffickers selling ''children'' to a prostitution ring after hypnotizing them; possibly he is a pedophile himself. He is depicted as the more vile than even the darkest residents of Wonderland.}} The game also uses the Trope as a way to show [[Even Evil Has Standards]] at the start of chapter 2. Alice winds up in a bad part of town full of unsavory crooks, but while many of them make indecent and perverted advanced towards her, they back off when she tells them to.
* ''[[Elden Ring]]'' makes use of this trope every now and then. Whether or not [[George R. R. Martin]]'s presence in the writer's room has anything to do with it is up in the air.
** While first coming off as a punchable, annoying little douchebag, Preceptor Seluvis turns out to be one of the game's most evil characters. While he doesn't have a massive body count to rival the likes of [[The Caligula|Godrick]] or [[Omnicidal Maniac|Rykard]], he makes up for it by being a creepy serial rapist who feeds women [[Depraved Bisexual|(and the occasional man)]] potions that rob them of their free will, turning them into helpless "puppets" he can defile to his heart's content. He's such a creep that he genuinely disgusts [[The Sociopath|the otherwise ruthless and uncompromising Gideon Ofnir]], and {{spoiler|he's the one member of Ranni's inner circle whose death you'll be celebrating instead of mourning, since he's doomed to die even if you help him}}.
*** This trope is also invoked with Ranni's Albinauric servant Pidia, who {{spoiler|dies after Seluvis does, with you walking in on him being butchered by several "puppets" that he's had his way with while pitifully begging them for mercy. Interestingly, context clues strongly suggest that ''he'' might be guilty of Seluvis' crimes and that he's the man's puppet master, but there's no hard confirmation either way.}}
** The Loathsome Dung Eater's guilty of a lot more than just eating shit. He's a [[Serial Killer]] who tortures and rapes his victims, of which he has ''tons'', and defiles their bodies in such a way that it permanently corrupts their souls and keeps them from returning to the Erdtree and reincarnating. The game makes no bones about how fucked up he is, with the Dung Eater proudly reveling in being a disgusting piece of work, [[The Dreaded|while the few characters that are aware of his existence are terrified of the guy.]] {{spoiler|Funnily enough, you can dish out some well-deserved karma on him by turning him into one of Seluvis'/Pidia's "puppets", which is the one thing that scares the shit out of him.}}
** While he's the head of a cult of serial killers that worship a sadomasochistic Outer God and has murdered enough people to create a literal ''lake of blood'' outside of his palace, the thing that truly makes Mohg stand out as a vile piece of work is his {{spoiler|abduction and rape of Miquella, his younger half-brother.}} And it's not just the act of rape itself that's awful: {{spoiler|Mohg's obsessive lust for Miquella in general and his subsequent kidnapping had awful consequences for the Lands Between. By kidnapping Miquella, he could no longer provide any blood to nurture his Haligtree, nor could he help his beloved sister Malenia stave off the Scarlet Rot gestating within her body. Thanks to Mohg, what was meant to be a sanctuary for those oppressed and ostracized by the Golden Order is now a withering husk that has been tainted and twisted by the infection eating away at Malenia, while the woman herself is dangerously close to "blooming" into the all-powerful Goddess of Rot.}}
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▲* [[Infocom]]'s ''Plundered Hearts'', which features a set female protagonist in a historical setting, has a scene where the heroine runs the risk of being raped by the evil nobleman Jean Lafond. Should the player do nothing, the game will abruptly end with one sentence telling that he took her to bed followed by 'You have suffered a [[Fate Worse Than Death]]' and an abrupt game over. Thwarting this attempt and escaping with her virtue still intact is the goal of that scene—and when the heroine's love interest hears about the attempt, he's more determined to kill Lafond than ever. (Lafond had previously killed Captain Jamison's brother—but ''this'' clearly pushes Lafond over into [[Complete Monster]] territory).
* In ''[[Drowtales]]'', murder, slavery, gladiatorial combat, etc., are commonplace, but when {{spoiler|Rikshakar}} kidnaps and attempts to rape {{spoiler|1=Ariel Val'Sarghress ([http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=1085 here])}}, it's [[Moral Event Horizon]] crossing time! He had tried this once before and failed due to interference, but this made her realize how truly fucked in the head he was. It also makes [[Fridge Horror|more sense]] that she didn't at first recognize what he was trying to do when you remember that drow have [[Ethical Slut|a very open view of sexuality]], so the idea of forcing someone into sex would seem odd to them.▼
▲* The first half of ''[[Anchorhead]]'' is largely devoted to digging up the unsavory backstory of the Verlacs, the family behind the titular [[Town with a Dark Secret]]. You pretty much know that the [[Big Bad]] is a [[Complete Monster]] when you find out he's been raping {{spoiler|his own daughters to sire grandsons}} (clearly, his trying to summon an [[Eldritch Abomination]] just isn't quite evil enough).
▲* This trope crops up often in Adam Cadre's ''[[Varicella]]'', featuring a [[Villain Protagonist]] in a [[Sick Sad World]] where just about everyone who has any real power is a [[Complete Monster]]. The King has just died, and Palace Minister Primo Varicella intends to claim the Regency. Varicella is clearly a vain, egotistical [[Jerkass]] who routinely fires his staff for leaving specks of dirt on the floor, and is not above murdering his rivals to get himself closer to obtaining Regency. But all that's not so bad compared to his rivals, four of which have raped people on several occasions (two of them bribe an asylum guard to rape a mentally ill woman, another gasses a woman to rape her, and the other is a [[Pedophile Priest]] whose main target is the young prince). So of course, the player is most likely to sympathize with Varicella and go along with his plans because the player wants to see those [[Complete Monster]]s punished.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲* In ''[[Drowtales]]'', murder, slavery, gladiatorial combat, etc., are commonplace, but when {{spoiler|Rikshakar}}
** There's also an interesting variation in the fandom's eyes, mainly how {{spoiler|Quain'tana}} was seen by many to have crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] with the reveal that she'd ordered {{spoiler|her daughter Mel'arnach}} raped to try to conceive an heir. It had been well established that she was a horribly abusive parent, but to many fans this seemed especially callous and cruel. This is a case where {{spoiler|Quain'tana}} herself (apparently) didn't commit the actual act, but everyone agrees that the onus fell on her for ordering it, resulting in an interesting aversion of [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Female)]] (sort of).
* In ''[[Goblins]]'', Dellyn Goblinslayer crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] ''long'' before we found out he raped {{spoiler|Kin}} on a nightly basis. Nevertheless, the trope fits, as {{spoiler|Minmax}}, who himself had just suggested killing {{spoiler|Kin}} not five minutes before, turns on Goblinslayer the moment he learns about the rape.
* ''[[Chopping Block]]'':
** Butch
** [http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20110215.html Played with in this Feb 2011 strip.] Butch was happy to discover the website that showed where registered sex offenders lived nearby. Or as he called it, his "[[Pay Evil Unto Evil|Automatic Next Murder Victim Locator]]"
* Played straight with Stunt from ''[[Dominic Deegan]]''. He has
* From ''[[Last Res0rt]]'', only two of the [[Condemned Contestant]]s in the [[Deadly Game]] reality show, Geisha and Arikos, are considered [[Complete Monster|beyond redemption]] by the rest of the cast - both have rape-related crimes on their rap sheets.
== [[Web
* Since murder is a common element of ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'', frequently being committed by even heroic characters, the truly awful villains are often characterised by rape or torture. Rapists include Adam Reeves, Cody Jenson and Walter Smith, and the act is considered the [[Moral Event Horizon]] for each.
* ''[[SCP Foundation]]'':
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** While Ms. Sweetie denies what [[Token Evil Teammate|Mr. Redd]] did to her was truly rape, she claims he did something to her with "adoration in his eyes". Whatever it was, Mr. Redd is hated by the other Little Misters.
* Lots of flashbacks in the ''[[Hazbin Hotel]]'' music video ''Addict'' show Angel Dust's boss, Valentino, sexually abusing him, with a very quick flashback during the post-credits scene implying that Valentino even raped him, leaving Angel traumatized by it.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Rick and Morty]]'', most of the evil things Rick does are played for [[Black Comedy]] potential. Rape, however, is always portrayed as a vile act that ''none'' of the regular cast condones.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'': Interestingly averted with Quagmire. He customarily [[Slipping a Mickey|drugs the various women he dates]] [[Date Rape|and then rapes them]] [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma|while they are unconscious]]. Yet when he finds out that his sister is [[Domestic Abuse|being subjected to physical abuse by her boyfriend]], ''this'' tips him over the edge into [[Knight Templar Big Brother]] territory by leading him [[Wife-Basher Basher|to murder the boyfriend]].
* From ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Rednecks and Broomsticks": While not exactly evil (well, no more than anyone else in Springfield) Cletus and his slack-jawed yokel friends are offended when Moe thinks they’re going to gang-rape him, telling him, “Oh for gosh sakes, ''one'' hillbilly has his way with ''one'' fat guy in ''[[Deliverance]]'', an’ all of a sudden people think that’s all us hillbillies do.”
* ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)|Harley Quinn]]'':
** In the first episode of Season 2, Harley is frozen by Mr. Freeze, who gives her to the Penguin to display like a trophy in the Iceberg Lounge. Poor Harley is like this for two months before she is rescued, and is just conscious to remember being mocked by the villains when finally freed. Ironically, however, when she finally seeks revenge on Mr. Freeze, he tells her that he did it to ''protect'' her, knowing they'd have gang-raped and murdered her if he hadn't.
** After the Mad Hatter expresses a desire to [[Double Entendre| "fool around"]] with the captured Harley and Batgirl:
{{quote|'''Harley:''' Oh just what we need, another perv in Gotham.
'''Mad Hatter:''' I'm not a "perv", I torture and murder, nothing ''gross''.}}
== Other Media ==
▲=== Law ===
▲* A woman sued the city
▲* The [[wikipedia:Pirate code#Captain John Phillips.27s articles|Pirate Codes]] of the 17th and 18th centuries called for the death penalty with no alternatives for whomever committed ''[[Disproportionate Retribution|or just attempted]]'' to rape a woman. [[Even Evil Has Standards|Even for hardened criminals]], rape was a crime too heinous to stomach.
▲{{quote|''IX. If at any time you meet with a prudent Woman, that Man that offers to meddle with her, without her Consent, shall suffer present Death.''}}
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