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* Many villains in ''Manga/ViolenceJack'' wear S&M gear as regular clothes and like to capture, tie up, and sexually torture any female character they can get their hands on. This is especially prevalent in the Harlem Bomber arc, where the villains have their own S&M dungeon to make captured girls into sex slaves. Plus, the woman who runs it, Rose, is a WhipItGood PsychoLesbian dominatrix who rapes a girl's friend in front of her as a way to desensitize her to sex. The BigBad of the series, Slum King, also has two quadruple amputee sex slaves that he keeps on leashes and treats like dogs.

* ''VideoGame/DukeNukemManhattanProject'' has killer robot dominatrices as enemies with regular or [[ShockAndAwe electric]] {{whip|ItGood}}s. Also averted by the fact that Duke Nukem himself is into [=BDSM=].

** Catalina is [[SociopathicHero technically on the protagonist's side]], but she's also one of the craziest characters in the game. When she drags him into her cabin for a good time (involving a whip and a rack -- [[SexyDiscretionShot we don't see what goes on inside the cabin]]), he winds up screaming for her to stop (with no success.) (This is PlayedForLaughs, and [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential he probably had it coming after all the stuff you've been having him do]].)

!!Examples:

* In ''LightNovel/CheatMagicianLifeThatStartedFromBeingJudgedUseless'' is Olivia, one of the three bosses of the Volzard entertainment district, and is the most vile of all three. Her clash with protagonist Kent Kokubu came about when he chanced upon a child slave, in collar, as he was walking down the street, in Volzard, where slavery is illegal, and the child was being chased by her enforcers. He learns that an entire ''warehouse'' of children who were illegally enslaved in neighboring Rosenburg, as a direct result of the attacks of a corrupt noble going by the name of Margrave Havre Calvine, who was trying to frame him. Olivia not only has a long, long history of murder in her background, and hiding it by feeding the corpses to monsters, but planned to sell these poor children to perverted nobles as sex toys. She first makes an appearance in the story proper having her own son Dozzio in chains and smacking him with a paddle with clear sexual intent and later does similar with a riding whip, even hitting him ''in the crotch'' all while he's calling her "Mama" and clearly enjoying it. It's considered {{Fandisservice}} in universe.

* Gauron from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' is into BDSM. He's shown in the novels to have a thing for erotic asphyxiation (as he strangles the female scientist in Khanka, and they [[TooKinkyToTorture both enjoy it]]). And numerous times, he's described to get off when he makes others "submit" to him and "break their will." The author even jokingly {{lampshade|Hanging}}s how Gauron is into S&M -- in an episode of ''Manga/LuckyStar'' (that the author had a hand in), there's a doujinshi for ''Full Metal Panic'' shown, with Gauron molesting a [[ChainsOfLove chained up]] and {{bound|AndGagged}} Sousuke. To further follow this trope, seeing how he's the domineering aggressive one, he's a [[AxCrazy dangerous serial killer lunatic]] that should be feared.

Note that this is rapidly becoming a DiscreditedTrope -- with the rising mainstream acceptance of alternative sexualities, using this trope straight will often raise the ire of many real life practitioners.

* ''Series/TheVow2020'': As DOS grew, plans were discussed to establish a dungeon furnished with BDSM toys, including restraints and cages. [[BlatantLies For those most dedicated to self-improvement and self-empowerment, obviously]]. In the series' defense, the emphasis is less on the 'bondage' and more on the 'lack of consent' (consent under coercion isn't consent at all). The lead prosecutor specifically points out that in the BDSM community, [[SafeSaneConsensual consent is key and can be withdrawn at any time]], but with DOS and "[[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord Collateral]]," the ability to withdraw consent had been removed.

* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Fetishism rather than bondage, but the trope still applies in Episode 9. The show makes Larys, its most ObviouslyEvil character, a foot fetishist who has been helping Alicent in exchange for her letting him jack off to her feet, and she takes no enjoyment out of this arrangement. Of course, the LieBackAndThinkOfEngland tone of the scene implies that the main issue isn't Larys having a foot fetish, but extorting Alicent with valuable information so that he can use her body as a prop when she clearly doesn't like it. But unfortunately, the stereotype that only weird slimy creeps are foot fetishists is still played straight. This even extends out-of-universe, as many viewers were more shocked and disgusted by this scene than the multiple incest scenes in the series.

The use of a character's interest in BDSM (or similar) to reinforce the idea that they're evil, probably because of the ColdBloodedTorture symbolism. [[RuleOfCreepy Portraying]] them as [[UnsexySadist creepy and hideously unsexy]] can also ramp up the "ick" factor.

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. Note that a work can include a villain in S&M gear and/or who happens to also enjoy doing BDSM without being this trope (as long as this is true of one of the non-villainous characters). This is for when either S&M gear or an interest in BDSM are used to make someone seem evil. PinkIsErotic can be invoked with pink [[PhallicWeapon weapons and equipment]].

* ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' has the Godhand, which are clearly inspired by Clive Barker's Cenobites, and several of which have a pretty marked sexual sadist streak -- Slan, the {{Horny Devil|s}} of the group and who at one point in the manga has Guts restrained as she draws pain from his Brand and basically molests the guy; and [[spoiler:Femto, who has Casca restrained by demonic tentacles as he's raping her during the Eclipse]].

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

* In ''ComicBook/MarshalLaw'', many superheroes (well, "heroes") became extreme sadists or masochists after having their ability to feel pain removed, and took to violent crime as a result. Law himself wears full bondage gear as his costume and is not a nice person.

* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Fetishism rather than bondage, but the trope still applies in Episode 9. The show makes Larys, its most ObviouslyEvil character, a foot fetishist who has been helping Alicent in exchange for her letting him jack off to her feet, and she takes no enjoyment out of this arrangement. Of course, the LieBackAndThinkOfEngland tone of the scene implies that the main issue isn't Larys having a foot fetish, but extorting Alicent with valuable information so that he can use her body as a prop when she clearly doesn't like it. But unfortunately, the stereotype that only weird slimy creeps are foot fetishists is still played straight. This even extends out-of-universe, as many viewers were more shocked and disgusted by this scene than the multiple incest scenes in the series, [[Understatement which are quite a few.]]

* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': Fetishism rather than bondage, but the trope still applies in Episode 9. The show makes Larys, its most ObviouslyEvil character, a foot fetishist who has been helping Alicent in exchange for her letting him jack off to her feet, and she takes no enjoyment out of this arrangement. Of course, the LieBackAndThinkOfEngland tone of the scene implies that the main issue isn't Larys having a foot fetish, but extorting Alicent with valuable information so that he can use her body as a prop when she clearly doesn't like it. But unfortunately, the stereotype that only weird slimy creeps are foot fetishists is still played straight.

* One of the many reasons ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes''' Travis considers [[DarkActionGirl Bad Girl]] a "perverted killer" is her extensive use of gimps. For batting practice.
** In the sequel Travis meets up with [[OurBansheesAreLouder Cloe Walsh]], an assassin bound inside a container. She is possibly the most utterly ''evil'' assassin in the game (considering that she seems to have more control over herself than Matt Helms while still being just as sadistic), and one of the first things Travis says to her is "You're lucky I don't have a bondage kink."

** Somewhat justified in Chie's Shadow being a representation of Chie's unhealthily domineering relationship with Yukiko.
** ''VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax'' portrays Shadow Mitsuru as this.

* In ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', this is played straight with BigBad Corset, who [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin has a corset]] he tightens up and is a CombatSadomasochist. Subverted with [[BadassPreacher Garterbelt]], who explicitly practices self-flagellation and is Corset's rival of sorts. Likely played straight with Stocking, who throughout the series [[TooKinkyToTorture likes it kinky]] and at the ass-end of the series [[spoiler:becomes a villain.]]

* {{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/New52, 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.

* The ComicBook/RedSkull's daughter, Sin and her boyfriend Crossbones are really into the extreme kind. To the point of getting off on torture.

* DC attempted to introduce a new Franchise/{{Superman}} villain named "the Masochist," [[http://www.comicvine.com/images/1300-2199150 a young woman clad in a leather outfit with the phrase "Hurt Me!" written on the chest]]. Backlash led to DC changing the character's name to "Anguish" and removing all of the bondage and S&M imagery from her costume.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'': The ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'' version of Eviless talks to ComicBook/SteveTrevor in a very suggestive way and wields a long whip and dresses in a skintight black leather [[DressedLikeADominatrix dominatrix outfit]]. This in an interesting interpretation of the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 original character]] who certainly had a twisted dominatrix like relationship with Steve but wore sweats and a loose sweatshirt and was of course fighting the Golden Age versions of Wondy and Steve who were very overt in their interest in BDSM.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': The fetishistic BDSM-type outfits worn by the Queens of the [[Characters/XMenHellfireClub Hellfire Club]], beyond the EvilIsSexy fanservice, are pretty much a [[SensibleHeroesSkimpyVillains visual shorthand for their low moral character]]. Pictured at the top is Madelyne Pryor (a clone of ComicBook/JeanGrey) when she decides to torture one of her underlings in an issue of ''Uncanny X-Men''. Other Bondage-loving Hellfire queens include ComicBook/EmmaFrost and Selene Gallio.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'' where an S&M club is shown to be frequented by demons, supernatural serial killers, and psychotic mob boss who trades in human souls. However Creator/PaulDini, the writer, included a bondage club in an issue of ''Detective Comics'' that was portrayed in a much more positive and tolerant light and {{Franchise/Batman}} was even shown to be a friend (as much as Batman is ANYONE'S friend) of the owner, having helped her out during a riot at the club weeks before. So the club in Zatanna is probably more AuthorAppeal and possibly a homage to the kinky Cenobites of ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}''.

* In ''{{Series/Smallville}}'', Comicbook/{{Darkseid}}, while possessing the body of [[Characters/SmallvilleApokiliptians Gordon Godfrey]], feeds on the dark energy in the souls of dominatrix club goers.

* In the original [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance Championship Wrestling From Florida]] and FCW, Wrestling/KevinSullivan often kept "The Fallen Angel", a woman who had pledged her soul to his [[{{cult}} Army Of Darkness]], bound to him by a chain and she seemed to enjoy this, as well as being smacked around by him.

* ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'' averts this completely. WordOfGod has stated that the comic exists to show healthy BDSM relationships accurately and educate people on the falsehood of this trope.
** Also deconstructed, as the comic [[http://shiniez.deviantart.com/gallery/38157378#/d4ndfcl acknowledges this popular view of BDSM,]], and also looks at how BDSM can realistically go wrong when people let it go to their heads or don't give it the needed prior planning.

* ''VideoGame/ChampionsOnline'' has three enemy types (two entire factions, even) dressing up in what looks like bondage gear: The AxCrazy [[KnifeNut Knife Nuts]] known as Maniac Slashers, the [[ReligionOfEvil demon-worshipping]] Trey Kings gang and the [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] from the [[EldritchLocation anti-existence realm of Qliphoth]].

* ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'': The first three issues deal with the case of Rachel Santiago. Her sister Gloria has observed some strange behavior from her ever since she started seeing movie star Jack Vaughn and suspects that Rachel is under mind control by a mutant. X-Factor investigates and sees that while Jack and Rachel enjoy participating in rape fantasies as part of their sex life, Rachel is most certainly not under any mind control. Where the Bondage is Bad trope comes in is when Jack [[spoiler: accidentally kills Rachel with a loaded gun he was using as a prop in one of their fantasies and frames Gloria for it.]]

* ''Film/FalsePositive:'' Or, well, S&M. Adrian is into watching choking porn to jerk off, and he is a controlling narcissist who betrays his wife Lucy to his old college friend, a fertility doctor.

* ''Series/{{House}}'' dealt with bondage 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. Cameron, who was the most supportive of their lifestyle, was just disappointed.

* Silver Mantis from ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' turned to villainy to support her piercing habit.

* ''Literature/NightHuntress'': InvertedTrope in this series. The hero Bones blindfolds the heroine Cat and ties her wrists to the headboard. She has multiple [[ImmodestOrgasm Immodest Orgasms]] and makes him promise to do everything again next time before she falls asleep.

* The main character of ''Manga/LookingUpToMagicalGirls'' is a BDSM-themed magical girl, and she's fighting for the bad guys. Not that [[PressGanged she has a choice...]]

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. Note that a work can include a villain in S&M gear and/or who happens to also enjoy doing BDSM without being this trope (as long as this is true of one of the non-villainous characters). This is for when either S&M gear or an interest in BDSM are used to make someone seem evil. PinkIsErotic can be invoked with pink [[PhallicWeapon weapons and equipment]]

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. Note that a work can include a villain in S&M gear and/or who happens to also enjoy doing BDSM without being this trope (as long as this is true of one of the non-villainous characters). This is for when either S&M gear or an interest in BDSM are used to make someone seem evil.

* Bondage Queen is one of the possible Evil endings in the RaisingSim game, ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker 2''. Achieving this one is heavily frowned upon, although it doesn't stop people from doing it, of course. It is in the same vein as [[BigBad Crime Boss]], [[HighClassCallGirl High Class Prostitute]], and [[HotAsHell Princess of Darkness]].

* ''Series/{{House}}'' dealt with bondage 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.