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* DesignatedHero: The Libertines are egregious examples. They kidnap several people, including their own daughters, and subject them to 120 days of violent, nightmarish psychological, physical, and sexual torture just ForTheEvulz. Given that this book was written by Creator/MarquisDeSade, this trope was bound to happen.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: This is a story about four unrepentant torturers and rapists causing mayhem for 120 days. Not exactly something to casually read.
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** The murder of Augustine, one of the kidnapped girls, is described in excruciating detail.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: This is a story about four unrepentant torturers and rapists causing mayhem for 120 days. Not exactly something to casually read.
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Up To Eleven is a defunct trope
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* NightmareRetardant: Some of Sade's descriptions (such as the girl tied to a firework) unintentionally evoke ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''. This may have been somewhat intentional on De Sade's part, given how [[UpToEleven over-the-top]] and [[BloodyHilarious deliberately]], [[BlackComedyRape cartoonishly]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice extreme]] the depicted behavior is. De Sade was almost certainly adding in as much ultraviolence and vulgarity as possible in order to get a rise out of people.
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* NightmareRetardant: Some of Sade's descriptions (such as the girl tied to a firework) unintentionally evoke ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''. This may have been somewhat intentional on De Sade's part, given how [[UpToEleven over-the-top]] over-the-top and [[BloodyHilarious deliberately]], [[BlackComedyRape cartoonishly]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice extreme]] the depicted behavior is. De Sade was almost certainly adding in as much ultraviolence and vulgarity as possible in order to get a rise out of people.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: This is a story about four unrepentant torturers and rapists causing mayhem for 120 days.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The premise of wealthy elites using their power and social status to sexually abuse women and children comes to this in the wake of TheNewTens under the #Metoo movement revealing Hollywood and celebrities' abuses and scandals such as Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein.
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* NightmareRetardant: Some of Sade's descriptions (such as the girl tied to a firework) unintentionally evoke ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''.
** This may have been somewhat intentional on De Sade's part, given how [[UpToEleven over-the-top]] and [[BloodyHilarious deliberately]], [[BlackComedyRape cartoonishly]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice extreme]] the depicted behavior is. De Sade was almost certainly adding in as much ultraviolence and vulgarity as possible in order to get a rise out of people.
** This may have been somewhat intentional on De Sade's part, given how [[UpToEleven over-the-top]] and [[BloodyHilarious deliberately]], [[BlackComedyRape cartoonishly]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice extreme]] the depicted behavior is. De Sade was almost certainly adding in as much ultraviolence and vulgarity as possible in order to get a rise out of people.
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**''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''. This may have been somewhat intentional on De Sade's part, given how [[UpToEleven over-the-top]] and [[BloodyHilarious deliberately]], [[BlackComedyRape cartoonishly]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice extreme]] the depicted behavior is. De Sade was almost certainly adding in as much ultraviolence and vulgarity as possible in order to get a rise out of people.
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* NightmareRetardant: Some of Sade's descriptions (such as the girl tied to a firework) unintentionally evoke ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''.''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''.
** This may have been somewhat intentional on De Sade's part, given how [[UpToEleven over-the-top]] and [[BloodyHilarious deliberately]], [[BlackComedyRape cartoonishly]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice extreme]] the depicted behavior is. De Sade was almost certainly adding in as much ultraviolence and vulgarity as possible in order to get a rise out of people.
** This may have been somewhat intentional on De Sade's part, given how [[UpToEleven over-the-top]] and [[BloodyHilarious deliberately]], [[BlackComedyRape cartoonishly]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice extreme]] the depicted behavior is. De Sade was almost certainly adding in as much ultraviolence and vulgarity as possible in order to get a rise out of people.
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* NightmareRetardant: Some of Sade's descriptions (such as the girl tied to a firework) unintentionally evoke ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''.
* VillainSue: It could be argued that Sade, from the very beginning, only intended to write a book to deliberately offend nearly everyone in some way. He wrote in the story itself that it is "the most impure tale to be told since the world began", and while the victims waste no time in showing the [[VillainProtagonist villain protagonists]] for what they really are, keep in mind that the villains are the ones who win through and through. From the beginning, [[ForegoneConclusion the victims have no chance.]] That's the entire point of the book. The victims are complainers who don't understand the villains' logic, and just like in any MarySue story, are portrayed as wrong for it. Thus, Sade wrote to offend while deviating from the traditional plot progression and without much care to make the story any good, only caring that it was offensive. Remember also that his ultimate philosophy was to enjoy yourself at no matter whose expense; he devoted an entire work - ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'' - to arguing that any crime undertaken for pleasure, including murder, should be legal, so if he found anyone actually ''living'' as a villain from this story, he would probably applaud them for it and ask to join in. He had no problem with raping and torturing women in his spare time; one such instance was in fact how he was discovered by French authorities. His works were mainly dedicated to advocating such a lifestyle, making no apology for it nor any attempt to exonerate himself of the charges laid against him whatsoever.
* VillainSue: It could be argued that Sade, from the very beginning, only intended to write a book to deliberately offend nearly everyone in some way. He wrote in the story itself that it is "the most impure tale to be told since the world began", and while the victims waste no time in showing the [[VillainProtagonist villain protagonists]] for what they really are, keep in mind that the villains are the ones who win through and through. From the beginning, [[ForegoneConclusion the victims have no chance.]] That's the entire point of the book. The victims are complainers who don't understand the villains' logic, and just like in any MarySue story, are portrayed as wrong for it. Thus, Sade wrote to offend while deviating from the traditional plot progression and without much care to make the story any good, only caring that it was offensive. Remember also that his ultimate philosophy was to enjoy yourself at no matter whose expense; he devoted an entire work - ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'' - to arguing that any crime undertaken for pleasure, including murder, should be legal, so if he found anyone actually ''living'' as a villain from this story, he would probably applaud them for it and ask to join in. He had no problem with raping and torturing women in his spare time; one such instance was in fact how he was discovered by French authorities. His works were mainly dedicated to advocating such a lifestyle, making no apology for it nor any attempt to exonerate himself of the charges laid against him whatsoever.
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* NightmareRetardant: Some of Sade's descriptions (such as the girl tied to a firework) unintentionally evoke ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''.
* VillainSue: It could be argued that Sade, from the very beginning, only intended to write a book to deliberately offend nearly everyone in some way. He wrote in the story itself that it is "the most impure tale to be told since the world began", and while the victims waste no time in showing the [[VillainProtagonist villain protagonists]] for what they really are, keep in mind that the villains are the ones who win through and through. From the beginning, [[ForegoneConclusion the victims have no chance.]] That's the entire point of the book. The victims are complainers who don't understand the villains' logic, and just like in any MarySue story, are portrayed as wrong for it. Thus, Sade wrote to offend while deviating from the traditional plot progression and without much care to make the story any good, only caring that it was offensive. Remember also that his ultimate philosophy was to enjoy yourself at no matter whose expense; he devoted an entire work - ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'' - to arguing that any crime undertaken for pleasure, including murder, should be legal, so if he found anyone actually ''living'' as a villain from this story, he would probably applaud them for it and ask to join in. He had no problem with raping and torturing women in his spare time; one such instance was in fact how he was discovered by French authorities. His works were mainly dedicated to advocating such a lifestyle, making no apology for it nor any attempt to exonerate himself of the charges laid against him whatsoever.''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''.
* VillainSue: It could be argued that Sade, from the very beginning, only intended to write a book to deliberately offend nearly everyone in some way. He wrote in the story itself that it is "the most impure tale to be told since the world began", and while the victims waste no time in showing the [[VillainProtagonist villain protagonists]] for what they really are, keep in mind that the villains are the ones who win through and through. From the beginning, [[ForegoneConclusion the victims have no chance.]] That's the entire point of the book. The victims are complainers who don't understand the villains' logic, and just like in any MarySue story, are portrayed as wrong for it. Thus, Sade wrote to offend while deviating from the traditional plot progression and without much care to make the story any good, only caring that it was offensive. Remember also that his ultimate philosophy was to enjoy yourself at no matter whose expense; he devoted an entire work - ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'' - to arguing that any crime undertaken for pleasure, including murder, should be legal, so if he found anyone actually ''living'' as a villain from this story, he would probably applaud them for it and ask to join in. He had no problem with raping and torturing women in his spare time; one such instance was in fact how he was discovered by French authorities. His works were mainly dedicated to advocating such a lifestyle, making no apology for it nor any attempt to exonerate himself of the charges laid against him whatsoever.
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* NightmareFuel: The "Hell Libertine" anecdote from the incomplete section on "Murderous Passions," which is the only one told in-depth. This was a man whom each of the four prostitutes had encountered at some point, but the story that Desgranges tells about him is that he masturbated while watching fifteen girls being tortured to death.
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* NightmareFuel: The "Hell Libertine" anecdote from the incomplete section on "Murderous Passions," which is the only one told in-depth. This was a man whom each of the four prostitutes had encountered at some point, but the story that Desgranges tells about him is that he masturbated while watching to the display of fifteen adolescent girls being tortured to death.
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* VillainSue: It could be argued that Sade, from the very beginning, only intended to write a book to deliberately offend nearly everyone in some way. He wrote in the story itself that it is "the most impure tale to be told since the world began", and while the victims waste no time in showing the [[VillainProtagonist villain protagonists]] for what they really are, keep in mind that the villains are the ones who win through and through. From the beginning, [[ForegoneConclusion the victims have no chance.]] That's the entire point of the book. The victims are complainers who don't understand the villains' logic, and just like in any MarySue story, are portrayed as wrong for it. Thus, Sade wrote to offend while deviating from the traditional plot progression and without much care to make the story any good, only caring that it was offensive. Remember also that his ultimate philosophy was to enjoy yourself at no matter whose expense; he devoted an entire work - ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'' - to arguing that any crime undertaken for pleasure, including murder, should be legal, so if he found anyone actually ''living'' this story, he would probably applaud them for it and ask to join in. He had no problem with raping and torturing women in his spare time; one such instance was in fact how he was discovered by French authorities. His works were mainly dedicated to advocating such a lifestyle, making no apology for it or any attempt to exonerate himself of the charges laid against him whatsoever.
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* VillainSue: It could be argued that Sade, from the very beginning, only intended to write a book to deliberately offend nearly everyone in some way. He wrote in the story itself that it is "the most impure tale to be told since the world began", and while the victims waste no time in showing the [[VillainProtagonist villain protagonists]] for what they really are, keep in mind that the villains are the ones who win through and through. From the beginning, [[ForegoneConclusion the victims have no chance.]] That's the entire point of the book. The victims are complainers who don't understand the villains' logic, and just like in any MarySue story, are portrayed as wrong for it. Thus, Sade wrote to offend while deviating from the traditional plot progression and without much care to make the story any good, only caring that it was offensive. Remember also that his ultimate philosophy was to enjoy yourself at no matter whose expense; he devoted an entire work - ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'' - to arguing that any crime undertaken for pleasure, including murder, should be legal, so if he found anyone actually ''living'' as a villain from this story, he would probably applaud them for it and ask to join in. He had no problem with raping and torturing women in his spare time; one such instance was in fact how he was discovered by French authorities. His works were mainly dedicated to advocating such a lifestyle, making no apology for it or nor any attempt to exonerate himself of the charges laid against him whatsoever.
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* NightmareRetardant: Some of Sade's descriptions (such as the girl tied to a firework) unintentionally evoke WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes.
* VillainSue: It could be argued that Sade, from the very beginning, only intended to write a book to deliberately offend nearly everyone in some way. He wrote in the story itself that it is "the most impure tale to be told since the world began", and while the victims waste no time in showing the [[VillainProtagonist villain protagonists]] for what they really are, keep in mind that the villains are the ones who win through and through. From the beginning, [[ForegoneConclusion the victims have no chance.]] That's the entire point of the book. The victims are complainers who don't understand the villains' logic, and just like in any MarySue story, are portrayed as wrong for it. Thus, Sade wrote to offend while deviating from the traditional plot progression and without much care to make the story any good, only caring that it was offensive. Remember also that his ultimate philosophy was to enjoy yourself at no matter whose expense; he devoted an entire work - ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'' - to arguing that any crime undertaken for pleasure, including murder, should be legal, so if he found anyone actually ''living'' this story, he would probably applaud them for it and ask to join in.
* VillainSue: It could be argued that Sade, from the very beginning, only intended to write a book to deliberately offend nearly everyone in some way. He wrote in the story itself that it is "the most impure tale to be told since the world began", and while the victims waste no time in showing the [[VillainProtagonist villain protagonists]] for what they really are, keep in mind that the villains are the ones who win through and through. From the beginning, [[ForegoneConclusion the victims have no chance.]] That's the entire point of the book. The victims are complainers who don't understand the villains' logic, and just like in any MarySue story, are portrayed as wrong for it. Thus, Sade wrote to offend while deviating from the traditional plot progression and without much care to make the story any good, only caring that it was offensive. Remember also that his ultimate philosophy was to enjoy yourself at no matter whose expense; he devoted an entire work - ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'' - to arguing that any crime undertaken for pleasure, including murder, should be legal, so if he found anyone actually ''living'' this story, he would probably applaud them for it and ask to join in.
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* VillainSue: It could be argued that Sade, from the very beginning, only intended to write a book to deliberately offend nearly everyone in some way. He wrote in the story itself that it is "the most impure tale to be told since the world began", and while the victims waste no time in showing the [[VillainProtagonist villain protagonists]] for what they really are, keep in mind that the villains are the ones who win through and through. From the beginning, [[ForegoneConclusion the victims have no chance.]] That's the entire point of the book. The victims are complainers who don't understand the villains' logic, and just like in any MarySue story, are portrayed as wrong for it. Thus, Sade wrote to offend while deviating from the traditional plot progression and without much care to make the story any good, only caring that it was offensive. Remember also that his ultimate philosophy was to enjoy yourself at no matter whose expense; he devoted an entire work - ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'' - to arguing that any crime undertaken for pleasure, including murder, should be legal, so if he found anyone actually ''living'' this story, he would probably applaud them for it and ask to join in. He had no problem with raping and torturing women in his spare time; one such instance was in fact how he was discovered by French authorities. His works were mainly dedicated to advocating such a lifestyle, making no apology for it or any attempt to exonerate himself of the charges laid against him whatsoever.
* VillainSue: It could be argued that Sade, from the very beginning, only intended to write a book to deliberately offend nearly everyone in some way. He wrote in the story itself that it is "the most impure tale to be told since the world began", and while the victims waste no time in showing the [[VillainProtagonist villain protagonists]] for what they really are, keep in mind that the villains are the ones who win through and through. From the beginning, [[ForegoneConclusion the victims have no chance.]] That's the entire point of the book. The victims are complainers who don't understand the villains' logic, and just like in any MarySue story, are portrayed as wrong for it. Thus, Sade wrote to offend while deviating from the traditional plot progression and without much care to make the story any good, only caring that it was offensive. Remember also that his ultimate philosophy was to enjoy yourself at no matter whose expense; he devoted an entire work - ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'' - to arguing that any crime undertaken for pleasure, including murder, should be legal, so if he found anyone actually ''living'' this story, he would probably applaud them for it and ask to join in. He had no problem with raping and torturing women in his spare time; one such instance was in fact how he was discovered by French authorities. His works were mainly dedicated to advocating such a lifestyle, making no apology for it or any attempt to exonerate himself of the charges laid against him whatsoever.
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* VillainSue: It could be argued that Sade, from the very beginning, only intended to write a book to deliberately offend nearly everyone in some way. He wrote in the story itself that it is "the most impure tale to be told since the world began", and while the victims waste no time in showing the [[VillainProtagonist villain protagonists]] for what they really are, keep in mind that the villains are the ones who win through and through. From the beginning, [[ForegoneConclusion the victims have no chance.]] That's the entire point of the book. Thus, Sade wrote to offend while deviating from the traditional plot progression and without much care to make the story any good, only caring that it was offensive. Remember also that his ultimate philosophy was to enjoy yourself at no matter whose expense; he devoted an entire work - ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'' - to arguing that any crime undertaken for pleasure, including murder, should be legal, so if he found anyone actually ''living'' this story, he would probably applaud them for it and ask to join in.
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* VillainSue: It could be argued that Sade, from the very beginning, only intended to write a book to deliberately offend nearly everyone in some way. He wrote in the story itself that it is "the most impure tale to be told since the world began", and while the victims waste no time in showing the [[VillainProtagonist villain protagonists]] for what they really are, keep in mind that the villains are the ones who win through and through. From the beginning, [[ForegoneConclusion the victims have no chance.]] That's the entire point of the book. The victims are complainers who don't understand the villains' logic, and just like in any MarySue story, are portrayed as wrong for it. Thus, Sade wrote to offend while deviating from the traditional plot progression and without much care to make the story any good, only caring that it was offensive. Remember also that his ultimate philosophy was to enjoy yourself at no matter whose expense; he devoted an entire work - ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'' - to arguing that any crime undertaken for pleasure, including murder, should be legal, so if he found anyone actually ''living'' this story, he would probably applaud them for it and ask to join in.
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* VillainSue: It could be argued that Sade, from the very beginning, only intended to write a book to deliberately offend nearly everyone in some way. He wrote in the story itself that it is "the most impure tale to be told since the world began", and while the victims waste no time in showing the [[VillainProtagonist villain protagonists]] for what they really are, keep in mind that the villains are the ones who win through and through. From the beginning, [[ForegoneConclusion the victims have no chance.]] That's the entire point of the book. Thus, Sade wrote to offend while deviating from the traditional plot progression and without much care to make the story any good, only caring that it was offensive. Remember also that his ultimate philosophy was to enjoy yourself at no matter whose expense; he devoted an entire work - ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'' - to arguing that any crime undertaken for pleasure, including murder, should be legal, so if he found anyone actually ''living'' this story, he would probably applaud them for it and ask to join in.
* VillainSue: It could be argued that Sade, from the very beginning, only intended to write a book to deliberately offend nearly everyone in some way. He wrote in the story itself that it is "the most impure tale to be told since the world began", and while the victims waste no time in showing the [[VillainProtagonist villain protagonists]] for what they really are, keep in mind that the villains are the ones who win through and through. From the beginning, [[ForegoneConclusion the victims have no chance.]] That's the entire point of the book. Thus, Sade wrote to offend while deviating from the traditional plot progression and without much care to make the story any good, only caring that it was offensive. Remember also that his ultimate philosophy was to enjoy yourself at no matter whose expense; he devoted an entire work - ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'' - to arguing that any crime undertaken for pleasure, including murder, should be legal, so if he found anyone actually ''living'' this story, he would probably applaud them for it and ask to join in.
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* NightmareFuel: The "Hell Libertine" anecdote from the incomplete section on "Murderous Passions," which is the only one told in-depth. This was a man whom each of the four prostitutes had encountered at some point, but the story that Desgranges tells about him is that he masturbated while watching fifteen girls being tortured to death.
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* CompleteMonster: All four of the libertines qualify big-time, such that one would do irreparable damage to one's liver if a drink was taken every time they commit one of their horrible acts.
