History Main / PredatoryProstitute

* ''Film/MacheteKills'': Madame Desdemona ([[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast whose name means "misery" in Greek]]), is a vicious brothel madam. She has a violent [[DoesNotLikeMen hatred of men]] thanks to her abusive father and claims to have eaten his testicles when he tried to rape her. She leads a team of prostitute assassins to kill Machete whom she mistakenly believes killed her daughter.

* ''Film/RoboCop2'': A mugger robs an elderly lady to establish what a lawless hellhole Detroit has become. He's ''immediately'' ambushed by two female hookers who beat the shit out of him, [[EyeScream gouging his eye out]] in the process.

* ''Literature/AmericanGods'': Bilquis is an ancient love goddess working as a prostitute in Los Angeles. While she doesn't have any enmity towards her customers, it doesn't make her way of sustaining herself any more palatable: she feeds on their worship before devouring them with her vagina.

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* ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'': [[AgentPeacock Angel Dust]] is a male prostitute and porn star along with being a violent gangster. In the pilot episode, he's shown fighting an insanely brutal turf war that Vaggie says led to "territorial genocide". However, the "ADDICT" music video shows that he's [[SadClown deeply unhappy beneath his jokey exterior]], which is partly due to being abused by his pimp Valentino.
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* ''VideoGame/PoliceQuestIVOpenSeason'': Downplayed. John Carey meets a CampGay male prostitute on Hollywood and Vine who seems merely annoying and gossipy. However, when the detective leaves the Bitty Kitty, he catches the prostitute when he's trying to meddle with his car and managed to break its side mirror.

If you want a REALLY good example, look no further than Ronnie from The Players Club. She gives off creepy vibes from how she eyeballs Diana aka Diamond the moment she's introduced. She even goes so far as to sexually assault Diamond during a private party while the latter is intoxicated and passed out. She tries it again later on in the film.

* Phryne from ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', who is the captain of the [[BandOfBrothels Ishtar Familia]] as well as the number two of the eponymous deity. She is [[IRejectYourReality deluded into believing]] she's the most beautiful woman, even more so than both goddesses of beauty Ishtar and Freya. She takes any and all men she finds "tasty" and drags them off against their will into her "love nest" dungeon, hidden in the basement of the Ishtar estate. She terrorizes them, pumps them full of aphrodisiacs, and then [[SerialRapist rapes]] and tortures them until she gets bored, by which time they are completely broken, bloody, and permanently impotent.[[note]]Due to associating sex with terror.[[/note]] She happily tells herself, and anyone she thinks will listen, that they're so love-struck that they will never be satisfied, sexually, by anyone else.

* ''Literature/MagpieMurders'': In ''Moonflower Murders'', [[spoiler:Frank was sadistically killed by "Leo", a male prostitute who he paid to have [[BondageIsBad violent S&M sex]] with him, after he realized "Leo" was Aiden Macneil, Cecily Treherne's gold-digging new husband, and then tried to blackmail Aiden into having sex with him on his wedding night. Aiden admits to never regretting what he did and actually enjoying it. When Cecily realized the truth, he cold-bloodedly murdered her, too.]]

Therefore, these characters are usually not pure evil, but it's pretty strongly suggested that they fall on the "wrong" side of the MadonnaWhoreComplex. Contrast EthicalSlut, which is usually this trope's opposite in several ways: not only is the sex worker specifically unethical, but sex, in this context, will usually be portrayed as violent, demeaning, and oppressive, rather than empowering. They will probably undergo DownfallBySex, if not outright DeathBySex, so this trope may also co-exist with other "anti-sex" tropes, such as BondageIsBad and SexIsEvil.

->'''Antipholus''': It is the devil.\\
'''Dromio''': Nay, she is worse; she is the devil’s dam, and here she comes in the habit of a light wench.

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* Phryne from ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', who is the captain of the [[BandOfBrothels Ishtar Familia]] as well as the number two of the eponymous deity. She is [[IRejectYourReality deluded into believing]] she's the most beautiful woman, even more so than both goddesses of beauty Ishtar and Freya. She takes any and all men she finds "tasty" and drags them off against their will into her "love nest" dungeon, hidden in the basement of the Ishtar estate. She terrorizes them, pumps them full of aphrodisiacs, and then [[SerialRapist rapes]] and tortures them until she gets bored, by which time they are completely broken, bloody, and permanently impotent.[[note]]Due to associating sex with terror.[[/note]] She happily tells herself, and anyone she thinks will listen, that they're so love-struck that they will never be satisfied, sexually, by anyone else.
* ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'': Nureha is a 25-year-old unemployed, socially-awkward {{NEET}} who was forced into CompensatedDating at a young age, as well as bullied and physically abused by everyone around her. Or maybe not, as she claims [[IHaveThisFriend this happened to "someone she knew"]]. Her only escape was the online game "Elder Tale", where [[UnreliableExpositor she claims]] to have met the protagonist Shiroe and felt kindness for the first time, developing a [[StalkerWithACrush twisted infatuation]] with him. When the players [[TrappedInTVLand become trapped in Elder Tale]], she sets herself as the [[EvilCounterpart Moriarty to his Sherlock]], being [[TheChessmaster the orchestrator]] of several crises that Shiroe has to avert. When they finally meet face-to-face, she directly tells him that she is [[VillainousCrush madly in love]] with him and has planned all this [[VillainessesWantHeroes to make him hers]], even trying to entice him with sex by claiming that although she is [[DefiledForever "tainted"]] due to her former profession, she has given a lot of thought and practice into ways to specifically cater to ''his'' desires and pleasure. He turns her down, but she promises to continue acting against him until [[WeCanRuleTogether he agrees to be hers]].
* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': Carol is a nuanced case. She’s introduced as a FemmeFatale who undresses to try to seduce the protagonist Akira. Carol, whose main job is as a PrivateMilitaryContractor ("Hunter"), has the side job as TheOldestProfession, specifically seducing strong hunters and doubling her fee after each time in order to force them to risk their lives to pay for her, often accepting information as payment. Carol’s OriginsEpisode reveals that she has two reasons for this behavior: The first reason, is that since she has a dark secret that would ruin her life if it got out, she puts other hunters on the edge of ruin as a HopeCrusher to feel like she’s not alone in her misery. The second reason, is that Carol was LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces, trying to find someone who wouldn’t spill a secret like hers, to be TheConfidant. After Akira acts as that, Carol considers quitting her side job.
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* Phryne from ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', who is the captain of the [[BandOfBrothels Ishtar Familia]] as well as the number two of the eponymous deity. She is [[IRejectYourReality deluded into believing]] she's the most beautiful woman, even more so than both goddesses of beauty Ishtar and Freya. She takes any and all men she finds "tasty" and drags them off against their will into her "love nest" dungeon, hidden in the basement of the Ishtar estate. She terrorizes them, pumps them full of aphrodisiacs, and then [[SerialRapist rapes]] and tortures them until she gets bored, by which time they are completely broken, bloody, and permanently impotent[[note]]Due to associating sex with terror[[/note]]. She happily tells herself, and anyone she thinks will listen, that they're so love-struck that they will never be satisfied, sexually, by anyone else.

** In [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS23E8NightmaresInDrillCity "Nightmares In Drill City"]], Finn mentions how an ex-partner of his was stabbed by a call girl he was trying to help.

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* ''Literature/TonyHillAndCarolJordan'': In "The Mermaids Singing", SerialKiller Angelica Bain is also a CreepyCrossdresser who prostituted herself in order to pay for her transition operations, and then worked as a phone sex operator where she met her victims - and then brutally tortured them to death using medieval devices.

-->'''Pimp''': [[ThisIsReality This is not]] ''Film/PRettyWoman'' and you're not Richard Gere.

* ''ComicBook/SinCity'': The prostitutes of Old Town are the law in their territory. If you play by the rules, they'll more than make your night. But messing with them or otherwise crossing them is one of the fastest ways to wind up dead, and they've been known to lure bad men into ambushes where they won't be leaving alive, much less in one piece. They only have one rule in regards to the latter, and that involves [[spoiler:cops]], who they will always let leave alive, though they're not above humiliating them if they piss them off. When this rule gets broken by mistake in ''The Big Fat Kill'' with [[spoiler:Jackie-Boy]], all hell breaks loose.

* ''Film/BordelloOfBlood'': The titular whorehouse is teeming with vampire hookers, led by Myth/Lilith, who often end up tearing their customers to shreds.

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