History Main / RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil

* In order to illustrate the roughness of the frontier and to cement the heroic status of the title character in the ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD'' books, it seems like every male character who isn't named D is a serial rapist.

* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'' [[PlayedWithATrope plays with this trope]].

''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'' [[PlayedWith plays with this trope]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2013'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2863867/1/ Trauma]]'', Killer Moth reforms from villainy after his daughter Kitten is raped by a SerialRapist. Killer Moth states that he had always thought ''he'' was evil, but after what happened to his daughter he now knows what true evil is like.

* To quote Doctor Doom in a 2010 issue of ''ComicBook/XFactor'':

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* ''Literature/TheMillenniumTrilogy'' and its counterpart movies show very clearly that although killing hundreds of people in horrible and torturous ways is horrific, raping and violating them beforehand will cement the serial killer in monster territory like nothing else on the face of the earth. A good yard stick is asking the question "do you think Lisbeth was doing the right thing when she killed those men?" Hands up everyone who answered "yes"?

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* In the ''Teen Titans'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2863867/1/ Trauma]]'', Killer Moth reforms from villainy after his daughter Kitten is raped by a SerialRapist. Killer Moth states that he had always thought ''he'' was evil, but after what happened to his daughter he now knows what true evil is like.[[/folder]]

* In ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'', ComicBook/LexLuthor joins Libra in his plans to aid ComicBook/{{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 to organize a rape-train on Supergirl and Lex is going to be first in the line, Luthor teams up with Doctor Sivana to bring him down.

** ''Literature/TheBookOfGenesis'': Abraham makes a BargainWithHeaven on behalf of his nephew Lot that if they were to find at least ten good men in the WretchedHive of Sodom & Gomorrah, God would spare the cities. God agreed, and [[AngelUnaware sent two angels]] to visit Lot in Sodom that night. [[TorchesAndPitchforks An angry mob then starts pounding on Lot's door]], demanding he let them in so they could [[SacredHospitality violate the newcomers]]. Lot, still believing they could be redeemed, tries to distract them with [[ValuesDissonance his own daughters]] only for them to shove him aside and go after the angels. [[RageBreakingPoint This was the final straw in God's eyes.]]

* Semi-example in ''Fanfic/{{Mistakes}}''; the [[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia nation-tans]] don't mind being killed at all because it [[GoodThingYouCanHeal doesn't stick]], but being raped still traumatises them.

* The page picture is a scene from ''Webcomic/{{ICE}}'' where two assassins shoot a contact who has demonstrated he enjoys watching security footage of rape.

* The ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' novels made out that several of the villains were rapists to add more evil points. Pretty accurate for [[DirtyCop Bryan Irons]], but for Nicholi and [[BigBad Wesker]], not so much (until ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'').

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* In ''Anime/BloodPlus'' most viewers sympathized with Diva until she raped Riku, at which point she crossed the MoralEventHorizon.

* In ''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'', rape is basically the only thing [[{{Yandere}} the White Queen]] ''hasn't'' done to subjugate Kyousuke. She will brainwash, torture, and threaten innocents on a whim, but his chastity is [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace (relatively)]] safe even when his body isn't.

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* An episode of ''SaturdayNightLive'' featuring [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]] had him playing a MadScientist at a contest to see who could create the most evil machine in the world. While fellow mad scientists build the likes of a ShrinkRay and a FreezeRay, Dwayne's character builds a child-molesting robot (which he made by building a normal robot, and then molesting it until it learned to pass on this action onto children). The other 'evil' scientists are completely mortified at the concept and try and have Dwyane's character banned from the contest ... [[GainaxEnding before the sketch turns into a commercial for White Castle]].

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 monsters 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 [[RapeAsBackstory 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 DarkerAndEdgier. If they don't portray the rape as dark enough, then ValuesDissonance (and thus the most scathing criticism from the audience) will happen.