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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 [[
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, 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]].
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* ''[[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]]. 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 De 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]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Bernkastel and Lambdadelta in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Umineko no Naku Koro 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
* In ''[[Slave Maker]]'', the entire setting is built on this trope.
* Basically everyone in ''[[Metal Gear]]'' has weird sexual issues about war and violence. Of course, this is played for horror/drama as well as for fanservice, but at the end of the day sexualising violence is mostly about making all the people really attractive, putting them in ridiculously tight suits, [[Male Gaze|having lots of close-ups on the crotches and butts]], inserting gratuitous [[Ho Yay]], and playing enemyship as if it was heart-shatteringly romantic melodrama.
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