Line #28 PlayingWith/BrainsAndBondage


1	'''Basic Trope''': People into bondage are portrayed as philosophical/intellectual.
2	* '''Straight''': Mistress Alice, a {{Dominatrix}}, is brilliant and philosophical. Bob is a CuteBookworm and is submissive.
3	** Love-Slave Alice is highly intelligent.
4	* '''Exaggerated''': Mistress Alice isn't an ordinary dominatrix, but also an OmnidisciplinaryScientist with an ImprobablyHighIQ (possibly the highest among human race). And she uses [[ReedRichardsIsUseless her technological expertise (almost exclusively)]] [[MisappliedPhlebotinum to create mind-boggling BDSM machines]]!
5	* '''Downplayed''': Alice's sex life is suggested to involve a bit of light bondage, and she's college-educated and fairly bookish. She's neither a dungeon mistress nor a [=PhD=], though.
6	* '''Justified''':
7	** She became a dominatrix to put herself through law school.
8	** Mistress Alice likes the psychology behind it all.
9	** Mistress Alice went to a highly liberal StrawmanU that exposed her to both deep philosophical concepts and kinky sex.
10	** After a long day at the office, Alice finds relief in taking her frustrations out on Bob, or in him ordering her around.
11	* '''Inverted''':
12	** Mistress Alice is TheDitz.
13	** Alice is intelligent and entirely vanilla.
14	* '''Subverted''': Alice becomes a {{Dominatrix}} to put herself through law school, but discovers that she isn't into it, and quits the job.
15	* '''Double Subverted''': …because she wants to Dom for love, not money.
16	* '''Parodied''': All the high IQ society talks about is bondage.
17	* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice likes BSDM. She is noted as an amazing computer tech. But she then fumbles with a computer. Actually, the personal settings were odd. Not that it helped when they got changed. But that's because the data she needs is in a random place, so it just looked like Alice was stumbling around.
18	* '''Averted''':
19	** CasualKink or BondageIsBad
20	** Alice is not into bondage.
21	** Alice is into bondage and isn't particularly intelligent.
22	* '''Enforced''':
23	** "Our EvilGenius isn't quite scary enough." "Make her into bondage. That'll freak people out!"
24	** "Alice is a great MsFanservice, but doesn't have enough personality outside of liking bondage. People might complain." "Well, maybe she's the smart one?"
25	* '''Lampshaded''': "Do you keep the bullwhip behind the [=PhD=]?"
26	* '''Invoked''': "We need somebody who is smart but also has a sexual notability."
27	* '''Exploited''': The villain uses BSDM in order to get the smart one to work for them by displaying an apparent comfort to them.
28	* '''Defied''': Alice is smart, but the only reason she has the mask is to scare people, she really dislikes unnecessary pain.
29	* '''Discussed''': "So you're into some pretty kinky stuff, then? Why is it always the smart ones?"\
30	"That's actually the subject of my thesis!"
31	* '''Conversed''': "How come kinky characters are always either evil or these total ivory-tower intellectual types?"
32	* '''Deconstructed''': Because of her intelligence and bondage fetish, Mistress Alice has trouble finding friends or romantic partners, and feels doubly isolated.
33	* '''Reconstructed''': In her desperation, she puts aside her not-dating-coworkers rule. She finds that several of her coworkers at the lab are also into BDSM, ''because'' they're as smart as her.
34	* '''Implied''':
35	** Alice is shown to be very smart. At one point, someone finds handcuffs in her closet.
36	** Alice is a dominatrix, and little attention is paid to her intelligence. However, when one of her lovers quotes Nietzsche, she gets the reference.
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38	''whip crack'' Back to BrainsAndBondage.
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43	%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
44	%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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