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Line 2: In fiction, abuse can be fun. Even sexy. The victims are fictional anyway, and only real people have real rights. People who would never enjoy horrors committed against ''real'' people can often enjoy the suffering of ''fictional'' individuals, and many authors fully take this into account. '''Romanticized Abuse''' is abuse [[Playing to The Fetishes]]. This can happen on four levels: # Civilization: A [[Planet of Hats]] or particularly grim [[Fetish Fuel Future]]. Line 11: The husband and wife of a Romanticized Abuse couple should normally only be mentioned here in the supertrope - it's redundant to also mention them in the gendered subtropes, ''unless'' they also have individual adventures where they are effectively single or in another relationship with a different dynamic. For individuals who represent a civilization or an organization, it's a matter of whether they act as individuals, as representatives, or both. When combined with [[Evil Is Sexy]], or any other of the [[Evil Tropes]], Romanticized Abuse is likely to lead to [[Draco in Leather Pants]]. However, the group or person whose abusive behavior is romanticized is [["It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It"\|not necessarily]] [[Death Byby Woman Scorned\|portrayed as evil at all]]. A subtrope of [[Playing to The Fetishes]]: Sexual abuse ''not'' designed to be sexy & appealing is ''not'' this trope. Compare ''and'' contrast [[Casual Kink]] as well as [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]], for characters who live out BDSM fantasies ''and'' show the kind of ethical restraint needed in [[Real Life]]. Note that abuse played for [[Fetish Fuel]] is rarely played ''only'' for [[Fetish Fuel]]. It is often a mix of [[Fetish Fuel]], [[Nightmare Fuel]], [[Fetish Retardant]], [[Nausea Fuel]] and so on, and the [[Fetish Fuel]] component is sometimes calculated to maximize the horror value. A stock trait of [[Horny Devils]]. Compare [[Friendly Tickle Torture]] for the PG version. Contrast [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]]. Contrast [[Hollywood Masochism]], since the Romanticized Abuse is clearly ~~abusive -- however~~abusive—however, as the stories progress, Romanticized Abuse has a tendency to shift over into becoming [[Hollywood Masochism]] instead. There can also be some overlap regarding physical safety and such. Contrast [[Sex Is Evil and I Am Horny]]. {{noreallife\|First, this is a [[:Category:Rape Tropes\|rape trope]], and All The Tropes does not care to [[squick]] its readers. Second, this is a trope about ''how characters are depicted in media''.}} ~~[[No Real Life Examples, Please]]!~~ {{examples}} Line 24 ⟶ 25: == [[Film]] == * This concept is key to ''[[~~Hellraiser (Film)\|~~Hellraiser]]'' movies. Consider some of the following lines: {{quote\| '''Pinhead:''' Oh, I will enjoy making you bleed. And I will ''enjoy'' making you enjoy it.~~<br />~~ '''Pinhead:''' Human dreams...such fertile ground for the seeds of torment. You're so ripe, Joey. And it's harvest time. Save your tears. We'll reap your soul slowly. We have centuries to discover the things that make you whimper. You think your nighttime world is closed to me? Your mind is so naked. A book that yearns to be read. A door that begs to be opened. }} == [[Literature]] == * ''[[Slave World]]'' covers all four levels. On the civilization level, the entire slaveworld is this kind of grim [[Fetish Fuel Future]]. On the organization level, the army of England is designed to maintain social order by turning uppity serfs into [[Sex Slave]] [[~~Cyborg\|cyborgs~~cyborg]]s. On the couple level, Prince Samuel and Lady Isobel have this as their mutual hobby. On the individual level, most aristocrats qualify for the appropriately gendered trope. * Most civilizations on ''[[Gor]]'' seem to be built with this as one of their basic premises. * Most novels by the [[Marquis Dede Sade]] (the guy "sadism" is named after) stays strictly in Romanticized Abuse territory, being about unrestrained sadism rather than [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual\|mutual]] sadomasochism. It's all played for [[Fetish Fuel]] and political satire about how hypocritical, oppressive and unjust the socioeconomic system really was. == [[Live Action TV]] == Line 39 ⟶ 40: == [[Music]] == * Several [[~~Blutengel (Music)\|~~Blutengel]] songs go along these lines - often on a gender-neutral and structural level, talking about the lifestyles of vampires in general rather than about the actions of individual vampires. * "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)" by The Crystals * [[Katy Perry]] spends the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Sd5c4o9UM E.T.] portraying the concept of [[Alien Abduction]] as this trope. Line 45 ⟶ 46: == [[Tabletop Games]] == * In the ''[[~~Vampire: The Masquerade (Tabletop Game)\|~~Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' supplement ''Ghouls: Fatal Addiction'', the Camarilla was played straight as this kind of organization. The theme of playing the social structure between Vampires and Ghouls as Romanticized Abuse is hinted in the core rulebook as well as many other supplements, but it's much more blatant in "Ghouls". (In this setting, a "ghoul" is a human who drinks vampire blood. The blood makes her superhumanly strong, makes her stop aging, lets her heal faster and increases her sexual urges, but it also enslaves her under the Vampire's will.) ** The ''[[Vampire: The Requiem]]'' supplement ''Ghouls'' continues the tradition. * The [[New World of Darkness]] book ''Inferno'', covering demons, is based on the seven deadly sins, and the "lust" part is designed for creating characters (of either gender) who fit this trope. * ''[[~~Geist: The Sin Eaters (Tabletop Game)\|~~Geist: The Sin Eaters]]'' supplement ''Book Of The Dead'' is about realms of the dead. One of them is a very friendly place called Oppia, which offers an abundance of food and [[Sex Slave~~\|Sex Slaves~~]]s. Of course, it's very easy to break a rule and get enslaved yourself. Some of the slaves chose to remain slaves after they have served the term of their punishment. == [[Video Games]] == * Bernkastel and Lambdadelta in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ~~Ni (Visual Novel)\|Umineko no Naku Koro Ni~~ni]]'' take this trope [[Up to Eleven]]. Being all-powerful witches who will do anything to avoid boredom, a regular "punishment game" for them will involve things like locking each other up at the bottom of a hollow tower, turning all the stars in the sky into diamonds and dropping them, one by one, onto the other one until they are crushed into a pulp. ** Considering the end of Episode 6, {{spoiler\|Battler and Beatrice}} seem to be heading in this direction. {{spoiler\|Back when Beatrice was pretending to be a [[Card-Carrying Villain]], they ''definitely'' were.}} * In ''[[Slave Maker]]'', the entire setting is built on this trope. 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