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{{trope}}
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Failing to see the difference between playfulness (or similar) and abuse can be annoying at best and disastrous at worst.
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When [[Played for Laughs]], the mistake is almost always Type A, and quickly corrected. When [[Played for Drama]], however, a real victim might be denied help (Type B), a innocent person might get his life ruined with unfair accusations of abuse (Type A), or the designated "victim" (again Type A) gets stalked or outright oppressed by [[Unwanted Rescue|unwanted "rescuers"]]. These helpers might even go to great lengths [[Manufacturing Victims|trying to force her to "realize" that she's a victim of abuse]]. And no, not the actual abuse that ''they'' are subjecting her to.
See also [[Friendly War]], [[Casual Kink]], and [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]] for non-abusive stuff that can be mistaken for abuse. Compare [[You Just Ruined the Shot]], for cases where the "victim" was an actor in a movie rather then a participant in a sexual game. Contrast [[Romanticized Abuse]] (with the subtropes [[Bastard Boyfriend]] and [[Bastard Girlfriend]]) as well as [[
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* There was a cleaning ad that played with this trope. A woman is grocery shopping with her arm in a sling. She gives sympathetic shoppers a whole bunch of different stories about how it happened, leading the audience to mistake her injury for domestic abuse. At the end of the commercial, it's revealed she hurt her shoulder trying to scrub soap scum out of the bathtub. The product being sold solves her problem.▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Abiru of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
* ''[[Love Hina]]''. The girls of the house will think that Keitaro, being [[Accidental Pervert|extremely unlucky and clumsy]], is trying to molest/abuse them, so type A. However, some of their punishments of him will slip the show into type B.
* ''[[Ranma
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* Type A is a Stock plot in [[Donald Duck]]: Donald gets a new job of responsibility, and starts to see abuse and attempted crimes everywhere he looks. Chaos ensues.
== [[Fan
* ''[[Harry Potter and
== [[Film]] ==
* In [[The SM Judge]], the ADA mistake the couple's BDSM sex-life for abuse. It's never made clear if he believed his own accusations, or if he merely used her bruises as an excuse to attack the judge.
* In ''[[Tucker and Dale vs. Evil]]'', the college kids {{spoiler|and the police}} take for granted that Dale is doing terrible things to Allison.
* In ''[[
* ''[[God Bless America]]'': In several scenes, the audience is led to believe that someone is about to accuse Frank of mistreating Roxy. Disturbingly, nobody ever get this wrong idea, not even when this little girl is covered in blood and alone in a car at night with an old man who shares no family resemblance with her. When someone ''finally'' gets the idea that the girl might be abused, it's a creep who asks because he wants to join in.
* ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
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* In ''[[Tortall Universe|Protector Of The Small]]'', Keladry goes to the public baths one day to enjoy soaking in the warm water. Concerned women rush over to assure her that whoever he is, even if he's a noble, he'll be caught and tried and made to pay. Keladry is a squire, and her day-to-day injuries from combat training are apparently rather alarming out of context.
== [[Live
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' has several of these. In one episode a patient gets attacked by a woman, who tries to murder him by strangulation. Or rather, that's what the audience and the doctors believe at first. It turns out that it was just erotic asphyxiation. Safe or not is debatable, but at least it was consensual. In another episode, a man rapes a woman, but everyone except the audience knows that it's just a game.
* In one episode of ''[[Law
* ''[[Jam]]'' plays this for [[Black Comedy]] in a sketch wherein a wife is upset about her husband's apparent affair and he's making stereotypical excuses i.e. it was purely physical, the other woman didn't mean anything to him, it was an isolated incident. His wife is finally reassured of his fidelity after he reveals that he and the other woman weren't having an affair; he was just raping her.
* Used as something of an [[Establishing Character Moment]] in the pilot episode of ''[[
* An early episode of ''[[Flashpoint (TV series)|Flashpoint]]'', has a cop beating his wife until her sister takes matters into her own and holds up the husband at gunpoint. While investigating the situation, SRU officers quickly discover that the cop's partners and friends on the force knew, or at least strongly suspected, that the cop was beating his wife, but looked the other way out of misguided respect, writing it off as something else.
* Type A in an episode of ''[[
* In the episode "Driven" of ''[[
▲* There was a cleaning ad that played with this trope. A woman is grocery shopping with her arm in a sling. She gives sympathetic shoppers a whole bunch of different stories about how it happened, leading the audience to mistake her injury for domestic abuse. At the end of the commercial, it's revealed she hurt her shoulder trying to scrub soap scum out of the bathtub. The product being sold solves her problem.
== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' supplement ''Dreamlands''. When the investigators go to the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Briggs, they find a man tied to a chair with a bathrobe thrown over him. If they rescue him they discover that he's playing bondage games with his wife.
* ''[[GURPS]] Goblins'', adventure "The Horse Swapping". The ladies are playing Blind Man's Buff inside a house with some male customers while the [[PC
== [[Web Original]] ==
* This is essentially the premise behind [https://web.archive.org/web/20130828225930/http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/COMIX/Family/PAGE1.html Clarissa's public life.] It doesn't really help that the only way she shows it is through risque pictures.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The very first episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'' had a misguided social worker suspect Hank of beating Bobby. His "evidence" included a black eye on Bobby (actually caused by a Little League accident) and an overheard conversation where Bobby and Joseph imitated Hank's tendency to deliver blustering, exaggerated threats when angry.
* An episode of ''[[
** For bonus points, in those scenes Stan is wearing a sleeveless shirt. AKA [[Visual Pun|a "wifebeater"]].
* An early episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' ("Home Sweet Home-Dum-Diddly-Doodily") features Bart and Lisa getting placed into foster care when Lisa has no shoes (because bullies took them to play [[Keep
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Jeffery Dahmer (who killed [[I'm a Humanitarian|and ate]] several people) had one of his victims returned to him by a pair of cops, who thought it was a simple gay domestic quarrel when they found a naked 14 year old boy running away from Dahmer.
* The "Something actually abusive is mistaken for something that doesn't need worrying about" factor is often the reason why [[
* Bullying is often treated as Type B, with a variety of excuses being used ("boys will be boys", "it's just part of growing up", etc).
* Female participants in full-contact martial arts (eg. [[Society for Creative Anachronism]] heavy combat) are often advised to tell their doctors about what they're doing as soon as they step in the door, to prevent a Type A incident.
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