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* ''Series/{{House}}'' dealt with bondage was in the episode "Clueless", which featured a HappilyMarried couple who engaged in consensual rape roleplay. The husband collapses halfway through, with it later being revealed that the wife was [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisoning him]]. They never discover her motive before turning her in to the police, with Foreman suspecting that the husband was an abuser, Chase just believing her to be a sociopath, and House being undecided between her either being a sadist who wanted to see him suffer, or that she got cold feet after her husband suggested starting a family.

* The only time ''Series/{{House}}'' ever dealt with bondage was in the episode "Clueless", which featured a HappilyMarried couple who engaged in consensual rape roleplay. The husband collapses halfway through, with it later being revealed that the wife was [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisoning him]]. They never discover her motive before turning her in to the police, with Foreman suspecting that the husband was an abuser, Chase just believing her to be a sociopath, and House being undecided between her either being a sadist who wanted to see him suffer, or that she got cold feet after her husband suggested starting a family.

* The only time ''Series/{{House}}'' ever dealt with bondage was in the episode "Clueless", which featured a HappilyMarried couple who engaged in consensual rape roleplay. The husband collapses halfway through, with it later being revealed that the wife was [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink poisoning him]]. They never discover her motive, with Foreman wondering if the husband was an abuser, Chase just believing her to be a sociopath, and House suspecting that she got cold feet after her husband suggested starting a family.

* Subverted in ''Film/{{Tightrope}}'' (1984). Creator/ClintEastwood plays a cop implied to be NotSoDifferent from the sex killer he's trying to catch, because he visits prostitutes and has sex with them while they're handcuffed. But his issues are based on fear of intimacy, which is far different from those of the psychotic rapist.

-->-- '''Elaine''' from ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'': 12 years old and [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead unhappily telepathic]].

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Comicbook/AvengersAcademy'', where Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}} claims that Comicbook/EmmaFrost's S&M-inspired outfit is proof that her HeelFaceTurn was just a ruse.

* ComicBook/HarleyQuinn seems to be a fan of this in the ComicBook/{{New 52}}, both as the dominant and the submissive. To give an obvious example, one issue starts with her waking up in her rather messy apartment with last night's date behind her, duct-taped to the wall; two pages later, she sees a patient dressed in a gimp outfit (her treatment consists of "integral psychotherapy" through "introspection and dissection", a fancy way of saying she hogties him). Unfortunately, this leads to a horrific nightmare where she's in bed with Mason, who turns into "Mistuh Jay" mid-embrace.
* In the first album of ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'', CasualKink and this trope are both expressed as attitudes held by characters: Jill has a speech about how she's not into BDSM herself but doesn't mind it as long as it's [[{{SSC}} consensual]] -- while Elaine writes a [[ShowWithinAShow story within the story]] where her way of establishing the bad guy as bad is to state that he fantasizes about three creepy things, one of them being tied up women. (The other two are money and selling drugs. It should be noted that since this is in the first issue, Elaine is still an immature and inexperienced 12-year-old psychic.) See page quote.

* Anyone in ''Comicbook/{{Preacher}}'' who has a fetish of some type is going to be a villain.
* The Comicbook/RedSkull's daughter, Sin and her boyfriend Crossbones are really into the extreme kind. To the point of getting off on torture.

* Blue Eyes from ''Comicbook/SinCity'' is apparently into bondage (or at least thinks it's a common enough kink amongst men) and is an evil assassin. On the other hand, Gail is a HookerWithAHeartOfGold that has a pair of handcuffs.

* Kristoph in ''FanFic/CupOfTea'' into BDSM, knifeplay and waxplay and is [[spoiler: [[FauxAffablyEvil not a]] [[TheResenter good]] [[AmoralAttorney person]]]].

* Subverted in ''FanFic/YourServantMistress'', a ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'' fanfic. Diaval gets interested in BDSM and the first person he talks to is a man who uses BDSM as an excuse for abusive behaviour. When this man tries to convince Diaval that a ''real'' submissive would just obey every random dude and not ''want'' boundaries, Maleficent appears and "saves" Diaval, who, in a ShoutOut to the original, offers to be her servant. She accepts and they start a BDSM relationship wherein Maleficent treats Diaval like [[SickeninglySweethearts a beloved pet]] while he does everything in his power to protect her from this story's version of King Stefan.

* ''{{Series/Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}''. The episode "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E13DeadThings}} Dead Things]]", which shows the Buffy/Spike relationship at its most disturbing, starts with Spike offering handcuffs to Buffy (and it's [[CuffsOffRubWrists strongly implied that she used them]]). However Buffy is also shown to be unusually cheerful the next day, implying that our heroine (who was in the midst of a year-long struggle with depression) found the experience rather cathartic.

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' played this quite straight in the first season episode "Stocks and Bondage". The VictimOfTheWeek had it coming for being into BDSM. Her own mother just keeps spitting on her grave (with the protagonists comforting her for the burden of having such a perverted daughter). And each individual who accepted her kinky side without moralizing over it turns out to be a horrible person. It seems they got some quite harsh feedback for that episode: In later episodes, that have nothing to do with BDSM, the Captain just keep reminding the protagonists that [[SafeSaneAndConsensual SSC]] BDSM isn't a bad thing, so they should be careful to not do an AbuseMistake.

* In ''Series/UhOh'', a [[{{What do you mean its for kids}} children's game show]], the character who dumps slime on incorrect contestants is known as The Punisher, and is released from a cage every episode. He however wears something similar to a gimp mask and other non-dominant apparel.

* Dark Eldar in ''{{TabletopGame/Warhammer 40000}}'' personify this with the Wracks and [[MadDoctor Haemonculi]]. Then again, they're evil for lots and lots of different reasons -- BDSM simply comes with their general gig as sadomasochisic hedonists who literally feed on pain and suffering.

* Chie's Shadow from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' is a hooded dominatrix armed with a whip. Contrast that with her heroic Persona form, which is basically a badass BruceLeeClone.

** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4 Arena Ultimax}}'' portrays Shadow Mitsuru as this.
* In ''{{VideoGame/Phantasmagoria 2}}'', Therese coerces Curtis into coming to a BDSM club with her and then repeatedly has kinky sex with him. While Curtis enjoys it (albeit with a small FreudianExcuse), Therese herself is a totally psycho stalker.
* ''VideoGame/{{Postal}} 2'' features regular [=NPCs=] in gimp suits, along with their own club. [[spoiler:After being kidnapped by rednecks]], you also get to wear one.

* ''[[Comicbook/{{Watchmen}} Watchmen: The End Is Nigh Part 2]]'' has the entire last level take place in Twilight Lady's mansion turned S&M dungeon.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Collar 6}}'' more or less averts this as a whole due to [[ConvenientlyCommonKink the nature of]] [[PlanetOfHats the entire planet]]; however, an example still exists with Mistress Butterfly. She's not called the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast sadist from hell]] for nothing. Funnily enough, the only people seen to have "vanilla" sex, [[spoiler: Evita and Michael Kappel]], are the ''villains''.

* ''Literature/{{Outlander}}'': In this series, Captain John Randall ''definitely'' fits this trope to a "T." A DepravedBisexual (who leans more towards the DepravedHomosexual side), he apparently can't get excited unless he's beating up or torturing the person he's trying to rape. Or unless he's having FoeYay with Jamie. According to Dougal, he appears to be in sheer bliss and acts like a guy who's crushing on a girl when he finds the possibility of being able to whip Jamie.

* In the miniseries ''Series/{{Scarlett}}'', an already villainous character has his sleaziness cranked UpToEleven when we see that he's tied his SexSlave to the bed, strongly implying that whatever he did to her on this particular night was especially horrific.

* ''Webcomic/{{Collar 6}}'' more or less averts this as a whole due to [[ConvenientlyCommonKink the nature of]] [[PlanetOfHats the entire planet]]; however, an example still exists with Mistress Butterfly, who takes the kink and rams it UpToEleven. She's not called the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast sadist from hell]] for nothing. Funnily enough, the only people seen to have "vanilla" sex, [[spoiler: Evita and Michael Kappel]], are the ''villains''.

* ''Film/TedBundy'': One of Lee's first clues that something is wrong with her boyfriend [[SerialKiller Ted Bundy]] is when he ties her up so he can have very forceful sex with her. She indulges this fantasy but doesn't enjoy it, which turns him off as well.

* ''Film/WarlockIIITheEndOfInnocence'': Played with. Lisa and Scott are shown engaging in some light, consensual BDSM that neither party is villified over. However, to fuck with them the Warlock twists their fantasies into hellish torment.

Depending on context, Bondage Is Bad is often a subtrope of SexIsEvil, EvilIsSexy, or both. Compare TooKinkyToTorture, where someone is so tough that torture gets them off, and CombatSadomasochist. Contrast SafeSaneAndConsensual, CasualKink and the ObligatoryBondageSong. See also BrainsAndBondage, where highly intelligent characters have a taste for BDSM.

* ''Film/TedBundy'': One of Lee's first clues that something is wrong with her boyfriend [[SerialKiller Ted Bundy]] is when he ties her up so he can have very forceful sex with her. She indulges this fantasy but doesn't enjoy it, which in turn turns him off.

* [[AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame The rapist pawn shop owner and police officer]] in ''Film/PulpFiction'' have a "gimp" in their basement.

* In ''Series/UhOh'', a [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar children's game show]], the character who dumps slime on incorrect contestants is known as The Punisher, and is released from a cage every episode. He however wears something similar to a gimp mask and other non-dominant apparel.

* ''Manga/BokuraNoHentai'' has one of the protagonists, Osamu/Parou, develop an unhealthy taste for S&M. Osamu himself is a toxic and broken person for a good chunk of the manga, and in the epilogue he starts passing himself arund any doms that would take him as a way of punishing himself.

Some media dress their villains up in "S&M gear" ([[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No, not that]] [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon S&M]]) in order to make them {{stripperiffic}} (because they're [[EvilIsSexy villains]], after all), and don't actually have them engage in BDSM. If played straight, it's often reinforced with hints of PuttingOnTheReich or whatever. A woman who's DressedLikeADominatrix will often be portrayed as a villain in fiction -- or at least a violent type -- for this reason.

* Kristoph in ''Film/CupOfTea'' into BDSM, knifeplay and waxplay and is [[spoiler: [[FauxAffablyEvil not a]] [[TheResenter good]] [[AmoralAttorney person]]]].

* Subverted in [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2038305/chapters/4425591 this]] ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'' fanfic. Diaval gets interested in BDSM and the first person he talks to is a man who uses BDSM as an excuse for abusive behaviour. When this man tries to convince Diaval that a ''real'' submissive would just obey every random dude and not ''want'' boundaries, Maleficent appears and "saves" Diaval, who, in a ShoutOut to the original, offers to be her servant. She accepts and they start a BDSM relationship wherein Maleficent treats Diaval like [[SickeninglySweethearts a beloved pet]] while he does everything in his power to protect her from this story's version of King Stefan.