History PlayingWith / CombatSadomasochist

* '''Defied''': Nicole has hired Paige and knows her S&M tendencies make her both feared and sloppy, so she puts a RestrainingBolt on her in the form of a collar that releases painkillers and tranquilizers into her bloodstream. If she ever seems to be enjoying herself too much or torturing someone for too long, the cocktail kicks in.

** Paige has a supernatural ability to turn any pain she recieves into physical power

* '''Justified''': Paige suffered a serious case of PTSD that she "dealt" with by becoming a sadomasochist.

'''Basic Trope''': Pain is ''[[TooKinkyToTorture pleasure]]''. Their own, and others. Alternativety they got stronger due pain pleasure from a combat fight.

* '''Defied''': Nicole has hired Paige and knows her S&M tendencies make her both feared and sloppy, so she puts a RestrainingBolt on her in the form of a collar that releases painkillers into her bloodstream. If she ever seems to be enjoying herself too much or torturing someone for too long, the painkillers kick in.

'''Basic Trope''': Pain is ''[[TooKinkyToTorture pleasure]]''. Their own, and others.Alternativety they got stronger due pain pleasure from a combat fight.

'''Basic Trope''': Pain is ''[[TooKinkyToTorture pleasure]]''. Their own, and others.

* '''Justified''': Paige suffered a serious case of PTSD that she “dealt” with by becoming a sadomasochist.

* '''Subverted''': Paige gives off creepy sociopathic and S&M vibes along with a reputation for combat. When she starts fighting, it turns out she prefers a fighting style that favors fast and painless kills while completely avoiding harm herself. Turns out she’s an assassination artist that gets off on being undetectable and untouchable.
* '''Double Subverted''': … which is how she handles stealth missions, if she’s hired to make a lot of noise and cause a lot of pain, she gleefully causes painful non-lethal wounds and allows herself to get smacked around.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Paige is into S&M via combat, only it turns out she’s unable to feel pain and actually hates harming others… which is what she told the good guys before betraying them and cackling manically as they kill her for the betrayal.

* '''Implied''': Paige uses a series of {{Eye Take}}s during fights when she hurts or is hurt by others to suggest she’s enjoys it.
* '''Lampshaded''': “Dude, avoid dating the hot girl on the bad guy’s team. Anyone that hot and on the bad guy’s side is probably massively insane.”
* '''Invoked''': Paige knows she may get captured and tortured, so she pretends to be a Combat Sadomasochist so they think she’s also TooKinkyToTorture.
* '''Exploited''': Owen knows Paige is a Combat Sadomasochist, so he floods the area where they’ll both fight with painkiller gas, which puts Paige off balance and gives him an edge.

* '''Discussed''': “Sure, everyone’s afraid of that psycho Paige. But you know what? Anyone that fixated on pain is also going to be really sloppy and easy to take down; they’re a glutton, and that can be exploited.”
* '''Conversed''': “Wow, that Paige character is ‘’sick!’’ Any sane boss would put her in a psych ward regardless of how evil they are.”
* '''Deconstructed''': After an abusive childhood and combat related PTSD, Paige becomes a Combat Sadomasochist. But while this does initially make her terrifying and lethal, this kind of combat style is both unsustainable and unwise, leading her to be either picked off or go into an emotional collapse.”

** Her evil employer has installed electrodes in Paige’s brain and used brainwashing to rewire her pleasure/pain/empathy/shadenfreud impulses in such a way that she’s far more dangerous in a fight.

* '''Straight''': Paige is a brawler who enjoys causing and receiving as much pain and possible, even getting turned on by it.

* '''Inverted''': Instead of sadomasochism, Paige is [[ThatsGottaHurt highly sensitive to the pain of others]] and is [[HatesBeingTouched herself almost phobic]] [[MinorInjuryOverreaction of being physically harmed]]. As soon [[AfraidOfBlood as she sees blood]] -- hers or someone else's -- cue her uttering [[ThisIsGonnaSuck "Oh damn..."]] and falling over.

** Paige isn't a brutal combatant because she likes the pain of herself and others, but because she ''can't'' feel pain.
* '''Enforced''': The actress playing Paige in an action is famous for a series of raunchy TV shows, which the producer wants to capitalize on by having her character be an S&M brawler.
* '''Implied''': Paige instead uses a series of {{Eye Take}}s during fights when she hurts or is hurt by others to suggest she’s enjoys it.

* '''Reconstructed''': Her evil employer has installed electrodes in Paige’s brain and used brainwashing to rewire her pleasure/pain/empathy/shadenfreud impulses in such a way that she’s far more dangerous in a fight.

* '''Implied''': The movie is PG-13, not enough to allow the kind of torture, violence or sex that a Combat Sadomasochist usually revels in. So Paige instead uses a series of {{Eye Take}}s during fights when she hurts or is hurt by others to suggest she’s this trope.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': The (normally unintentional) trope is used quite intentionally.

* '''Inverted''': Instead of sadomasochism, Paige is highly sensitive to the pain of others and is herself almost phobic of being physically harmed.

* '''Exaggerated''': Paige can only be sexually satisfied if intercourse involves serious war crimes and breaking at least three of her own bones or suffering first degree burns.

** Paige likes to feel and inflict pain during a fight. Unless things starts getting deadly, in which case, she's more likely to wince in sympathy or run away in fear than to actually enjoy it.

* '''Downplayed''': Paige is a bit sadistic and has a slightly unhealthy fascination with suffering battle wounds.

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** All the sadists, masochists, and sadomasochists only act in sexual encounters; outside the bed room, they actually react to pain quite normally.

** All the sadists, masochists, and sadomasochists only act in sexual encounters, outside the bed room, they actually react to pain quite normally.

** All the sadists, masochists, and sadomasochists only act in sexual encounters, outside of sex, they react to pain normally.

** All of the enemies in a war movie are professional soldiers, none of whom have PTSD which results in Combat Sadomasochism.

* '''Implied''': The movie is PG13, not enough to allow the kind of torture, violence or sex that a Combat Sadomasochist usually revels in. So Paige instead uses a series of EyeTakes during fights when she hurts or is hurt by others to suggest she’s this trope.