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alt title(s): I Have You Now My Proud Beauty; Now I Have You My Proud Beauty
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"Oooh, You're my wife now!"
Want a quick and easy way to show what a vile, evil scumbag your villain is? Well, you could have him abuse a cute little animal... or have him sexually molest the helpless Damsel In Distress when she's at his mercy. This can include Terms Of Endangerment, unwanted kisses, licking her cheek, groping, Traumatic Haircut, dressing her in skimpy clothing, or even out-and-out trying to rape her — though this last one is usually stopped before it gets too far, as the hero generally shows up in time to rescue her. In shows with a historical/fantasy setting, it can also include attempts to force the heroine into marriage.
This trope is used for two purposes: to emphasize how utterly depraved the villain is, and/or to add a sense of urgency to the hero's efforts to rescue his true love. In the meantime, expect her to react with either angry defiance or silent, shuddering disgust (no one ever seems to play along in the hope of avoiding more serious harm). Bonus points if the villain is grotesquely ugly/deformed and has a habit of snarling things like "Aha! I have you now, my pretty!" Another stock phrase, which seems to be more popular with Mooks, is " I like a girl with spirit!"
This trope has been a staple of movies ever since the early days of cinema, but it's a lot older than that. There are several examples in Shakespeare's works — most notably, of course, The Rape Of Lucrece. Almost always involves a male villain and female victim; the few gender-reversed or same-sex examples tend to play it for comic effect, with some exceptions in Boys Love series and Slash Fics where it's treated as a fodder for easy wangst and hurt comfort. (Or Fetish Fuel, in some cases.)
An alternative to this trope involves a villain not performing this action even when the opportunity obviously presents itself. This can prove an obvious follow-up to showing a villain as being either a Worthy Opponent or prepping them for a Heel Face Turn. In either case, expect the heroine to ask " Aren't you going to ravish me?"
Compare the Scarpia Ultimatum. May involve use of a Gilded Cage to "butter up" the captive, or Hypnotize The Princess to get her to cooperate quickly, especially if the villain orders his Evil Minions to Bathe Her And Bring Her To Me.
See also: Villain Ball, And Your Little Dog Too.
Examples
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- Black Bird: Misao is tied up and encased behind a magic barrier while an evil Tengu gloats about being able to ravish her.
- In Hellsing the vampire preacher was planning on raping Seras Victoria before killing her since she was a virgin and he didn't want an "equal" vampire. Fortunately Alucard steps in before it gets to that, although the preacher gets a few good gropes for effect.
- That's only in the OVA. In the manga, the priest just grabs her with much indifference and anger about the prospect of raping her (which it seems like a chore), although in the Gonzo series the interest of the vampire was to make her a vampire like he was more into this troupe. There's also Jan Valentine wanting to rape, kill and rape Integra again (in that order) but it was averted. Plus there are Incognito and that female vampire in episode 9 of the Gonzo series who are more successful in it, all timely stopped by the arrival of Alucard. A possible subversion is the Major who, while he wants to have his dear Fräulein at his side as he defeats Alucard forever, by no means Integra's helpless considering his poor fighting skills vs her Badass Normal ones. If wasn't for the shield protecting him, Integra would have killed him sooner.
- Harry's hacking attempts on Melfina in Outlaw Star.
- In The Prince of Tennis, Keigo Atobe attempted to force An Tachibana to go into a date with him, despite her trying to slap him away. Momoshiro and Kamio had to play against Atobe's companion Kabaji to bail her out.
- Ask Dr Rin has Tokiwa who kidnaps Meirin, though he's possessed, freezes her in place and attempts to kiss her on more than one occasion.
- Gender Flipped on, to no surprise, Sailor Moon, with Queen Beryl and Mamoru. Also a straight example in the next season with Prince Diamond and Sailor Moon.
- Dr. Muraki from Yami No Matsuei did the Yaoi Guys version of this to a disturbing extent. He was fond of stalking Tsuzuki, touching his pretty hair and committing Mind Rape on him. He once actually raped Tsuzuki's partner Hisoka, as revealed in flashbacks.
- Mukotsu from Inu Yasha paralyzes and abducts Kagome and is about to "make her his wife" before being interrupted by someone unexpected.
- In X1999, Fuuma reveals himself as Kamui's fate bound enemy, binds and tortures Kamui, murders his own sister and Kamui's childhood sweetheart; and since it was obviously not enough, he then licks Kamui's neck. It was hot, too.
- Kisshu in Tokyo Mew Mew, Ichigo's Stalker With A Crush, finally kidnaps her near the end. It doesn't go well for him, as her boyfriend and Mysterious Protector chases after, awakens to his true power and beats him into letting her go.
- In Märchen Awakens Romance, the villain Phantom attempts to kiss a bishounen named Alviss not just once, but twice, and molests him in another episode (Ho Yay anyone?)
- Mai-Otome has a Schoolgirl Lesbians variant, with Tomoe doing this to Shizuru. She wasn't the one who did the kidnapping, but she pins down and forces herself onto her captive with intentions of forcing her into an Otome contract.
- In Shaman King, when Big Bad Hao confronts Anna Kyouyama and her group as they cross the USA to reach for Yoh and his Five Man Band, at some point Anna tries to slap him. He catchers her hand and comments on how spunky and worthy of marrying the Shaman King she is. Anna's response? * SLAP* (with her other hand). Hao is pleased, anyway.
- Another Les Yay variant happened in Mahou Sensei Negima! with Tsukuyomi and Setsuna. Of course, Setsuna managed to save herself... after taking massive and highly intentional Clothing Damage from Tsukuyomi's blade. The scene was popular enough that it's going to be put on the cover of vol 25 (in both a censored and uncensored version).
- Haruhi does this to Mikuru on a regular basis. This is often played for laughs. Kyon usually prevents it from going too far, though.
- Oddly the future version of Mikuru seems to remember these times with nostalgia and affection. Makes you wonder....
- Genkaku from Deadman Wonderland, to lure the Scar Chain members over, takes Karako and Shiro hostage and makes it very clear that he'll have his soldiers rape them if they don't come to save them. Yes, his soldiers, not him. He's too busy getting a hard-on thinking about Nagi.
- Shoei Jinnai of Desire Climax is a textbook example of this and Rape Is Love at the start of Desire Climax, especially at the first party scene.
- At the end of Berserk, Griffith, as his very first act after his transformation into the fifth member of the Godhand, Femto, does this to Casca in the second act during the Eclipse that qualifies as crossing the Moral Event Horizon (the first being the sacrifice of his men that made the above transformation possible), escalating into out-and-out rape as Guts tries to get free of the jaws of the monster that's got hold of his arm and eventually has to chisel it off with a broken sword.
- Played straight then subverted in Hayate Cross Blade, when Meiko traps Yukari in an armlock and pins her to the ground, forcing her to watch as their respective partners duke it out. Later, Yukari breaks free and manages to help her partner land the decisive blow.
- Parodied in an early episode of Dragon Ball when Pilaf threatens to "do something perverted" to Bulma if she doesn't tell him where the last Dragon Ball was. It turns out that his idea of something terribly perverted was blowing a kiss at her (kissing is considered rather big in Japanese culture). Bulma is unimpressed and proceeds — to Pilaf's utter horror — to go into detail about what she expected him to do.
- Absalom in One Piece kidnaps and attemps to marry Nami (after spying on her in the shower no less). This promtly causes Sanji to go into an Unstoppable Rage, while Luffy merely comments on how brave the guy must be to want to marry her.
- The Big Bad of movie 2 tries something similar, though he lacks the foresight to sedate her.
- Blackbeard recently did this to Jewelry Bonney. He said that she was too weak to join his crew, but she could stay if she became his woman. Her response was a kick to the face.
- Strawberry Panic: Hikari has fallen in love with her older classmate Amane. However, as a result, she is stalked, harassed, and almost raped twice by a Psycho Lesbian duo who want to get Amane to join the Etoile Election by threatening to harm her.
- Gauron's "interactions" with Sōsuke from Full Metal Panic! were full of the same-sex version of this. One such instance was Season 1's showdown between Gauron and Sōsuke. Gauron's sudden grappling of Sōsuke's mecha starts looking suspiciously like he's raping him. Not to mention thick white liquid that starts dripping down on his face while he's grinning and calling Sōsuke "Honey". If one were to look deeper into it, in the novels, a very probable explanation is that Gauron was subliminally (or maybe not so subliminally) enacting out exactly what he wanted to do — raping Sōsuke. In the novels, there was an instance where he very graphically described to Sousuke how much he had wanted to kill him, drag his corpse out of the AS and then fuck it.
- Gauron's the king of this trope. Pretty much every single interaction he has with anyone has rapist vibes to it. In the novels, Kaname finds out that "that creepy, disgusting man" stripped her naked for the experiments, which made her writhe in disgust (coupled with how, later, he calls her "Kana-chan", something only her best friend Kyoko calls her). And then there's his manhandling of Tessa, where he makes it clear that he'll do "X-Rated things unsuitable for minors to see to this cute little captain" if they don't obey. And after she heads off one of his attempts at attacking a submarine, he handcuffs her, pulls her by her hair, gets close to her face, and tells her with a rapeface that he's "really mad", but that he'll "punish her" instead of killing her. When she acts defiant towards him, it "pleased him from the bottom of his heart," exclaims, "Ohhh, she's cute!" and proceeds to jokingly ask the Mithril traitors if they're sure they want to leave, since this place seems like a nice place to work. And last but not least, there's how it's canon that he's obsessively in love with Sōsuke (ever since the latter was 12 years old) when he literally did a double take the first time he saw Sōsuke and parked his jeep. He then told the younger Sōsuke, "Why don't you come to my camp? There's food, ammunition, and AS parts there." (Which sounds suspiciously like a "There's candy over in my van, little boy" scenario.) Knowing Gauron, it's highly doubtful that his plans were anything pure and kindhearted. Of course, Sōsuke refuses, and Gauron spends the next five years unable to forget the "beautiful" boy.
- Katekyo Hitman Reborn: Tsuna's battle with Mukuro came across as this when Mukuro started mentioning how much he "wanted Tsuna's body" (so he could possess it and cause a conflict within the mafia but still), how through his ultimate technique Tsuna would "become his", suddenly grabbing Tsuna from behind and resting his chin on Tsuna's shoulder while whispering into his ear.
- Also, consider how during Glo Xinia's fight with Chrome he grabbed her hard enough to cause her pain, kept getting in her face, and told her things like: "You seem to like being touched by men. Your blushing cannot betray your desires." "Give me MORE!" (after hearing her screams of pain) and "It's time to eat... that ring and you!" It's hinted he might've done something to her had Mukuro not shown up, allowing her time to escape. Also, when fighting Mukuro he comes out with this line: "Is that girl so precious to you? Then I'm going to take my share of such a precious girl right before your eyes! This could just be the best situation, don't you think? My appetite for that girl just keeps getting better!" and "Don't worry Chrome, I will take good care of you for MUKURO TO SEE!"
- Julie Katou expressed interest in Chrome, commented on her cuteness and in chapter 298 he kidnaps her, telling her they have "date plans". And later on he outright tells Tsuna that Chrome's "sleeping in my bed, looking like a little angel."
- Bleach: Aizen to Orihime "You should smile
 ."
- There seems to be undertones of this kind between Loly and Orihime. When not beating the crap out of Orihime, Loly is stroking her hair, calling her "Orihime-chan", invading her personal space, pinning her against walls, tearing her clothes...it's surprisingly easy to do a Alternate Character Interpretation of Loly as a Depraved Bisexual targeting Orihime.
- In another scene Nnoitra grabbed Orihime, and stuck two of his fingers in her mouth to prevent her from screaming, when forcing her to watch as his subordinate Tesla beat up Ichigo. He also referred to her as "pet-sama" and was hinted to have intentions of wanting to rape her.
- In one scene Osanai holds Paprika captive. Some brief fondling occurs and then the man pushes his hand under her skin and withdraws the naked secret-identity of Paprika ( Dr. Atsuko Chiba), but before further molesting can take place his boss tries to kill Paprika/ Chiba.
- Played painfully straight in Souten Kouro with Zhang Rang and Shui Jing.
- Zatch Bell has a scene where Eido grabs Suzume (who struggles to pull away) and decides that she will be his new girlfriend, but he is easily defeated when Kiyomaro figures out how to use the spellbook to protect her.
- Played with in Naruto when Filler Villain Fuka cornered Naruto a few times and tried to administer the Kiss Of Death to him so as to steal some of his chakra. She also made some rather suggestive comments such as "let's have a hot kiss", "we're going to have a lot of fun together", and the like.
- Nearly happens to Hatsumi in Hot Gimmick when Azusa lures her to a secluded place and tries to have his friends gang-rape her. Fortunately, Ryoki saves her, though he forces a kiss on her immediately after the act.
- Ryoki himself basically tries to rape and/or assault Hatsumi several times, but is always thwarted by a third person walking in on them.
- Quite frequently happens to Ayase in Okane Ga Nai.
- Kuroshitsuji II does this with Alois towards Ciel.
Comics
- Back in the Golden Age, it used to be very common for the supervillain to have designs on the token superheroine. In the old Fantastic Four comics, Susan almost got forcibly married to Namor, Kang the Conqueror, or Mole Man every other issue.
- In Ultimate Fantastic Four, Namor refused to return to the ocean and stop destroying New York until Sue kissed him and meant it — in front of Reed. Since Namor clearly had the upper hand and wasn't going to be removed by force, Sue is forced to go along with it.
- Considering they've hinted at Sue and Namor being rather... snuggly at times... I'm sure it wasn't nearly as bad as everyone else thought.
- B-list supervillain Graviton primarily uses his incredible, Magneto-level powers to chase after the ladies. In one memorable storyline, he leads a group of supervillains and masterminds the capture of the West Coast Avengers... so he can mack on Tigra.
- In the controversial Identity Crisis comic miniseries, Doctor Light (no, not him) was revealed to be a serial rapist, having done this to Sue Dibny, wife of Elongated Man.
- Dr. Light was revealed to be a rapist, not a serial rapist. He merely said that he would do it again... prompting the League members to take drastic action.
- Empowered
occasionally frequently skirts this. The most explicit example involved half a page of the titular character being stripped by someone rambling about his desire... only for the next page to show the (less-than-attractive) fellow in Emp's SpyBattlesuit.
Empowered: (thinking) Image... scarred onto forebrain... scarred....
- The cheek-licking variety shows up in a late Avengers issue, between Whirlwind and the Wasp. Bonus points for the fact that not only had he been after her for years, he'd just knocked her unconscious seconds before, and was stroking her leg as well.
Films — Animation
- Beauty And The Beast: Pretty much anytime Gaston is around Belle he makes aggressive advances on her and tries to blackmail her into marrying him.
- Aladdin: After taking over Agrabah, Jafar dresses Jasmine in a red harem outfit, forces her to wait on him, and tries to wish for her "to fall desperately in love with me." Unfortunately for Jafar, that's one of the three things a Genie will not do, but Jasmine plays along in order to distract him.
- Don't forget about Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. And that part even got an impromptu musical number.
- That's complicated, though, since he's actually ashamed of his lust for Esmerelda and wants her dead so she'll stop tempting him.
- Rothgar from The Swan Princess does this: in his One Winged Angel form he kidnaps Odette (and leaves her father and presumably others in the caravan to die) and places a curse on her that turns her into a swan during daylight hours and moonless nights. The only way she can get him to lift the curse is by marrying him.
Films — Live Action
Literature
- Taken to its most brutal extreme in Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Avatar. The Markagir of Darsanga, a deranged psychopath, systematically rapes and murders a harem of slaves. The heroine, a natural masochist who also happens to be the most successful prostitute and spy in her kingdom, is chosen to infiltrate the harem expressly because she is the only person who can endure this mistreatment long enough to rescue a captive child prince. Ultimately, she kills the Markagir by stabbing him in the heart with a hatpin while he is trying to strangle her to death.
- Played almost straight in Bujold's Shards of Honor. While in the process of being taken prisoner, the heroine Cordelia winds up in the clutches of the severely unbalanced Count Vorrutyer, who has restraints built into his bed, an abiding interest in the Marquis De Sade, and a tendency to monologue — and who, yes, admires her spirit — but who doesn't take more than a bored, clinical interest in her until he realizes she's his ex-boyfriend's fiancee.
- Jarlaxle, a charming but self-absorbed and mercenary dark elf from Salvatore's Drizzt Do'Urden novels, has Catti-brie Battlehammer captive. He caresses her hair, but goes no further, being the kind of person who much prefers to seduce rather than force. Then he arranges things for her to escape and save Drizzt, who's been captured by his employer. He's funny like that.
- Played straight in the last book in the Prydain Chronicles, The High King. The outlaw Dorath threatens to rape Princess Eilonwy and have her raped by his fellows "until she is a match for a swineherd."
- Subverted slightly, however, in that Dorath never states precisely what it is he intends to do to her; he says he intends to "remove her charms." The dialogue is written just vaguely enough that the book's younger readers only know that Eilonwy is in danger, without knowing the specifics that might traumatize them. Older readers can ferret out Dorath's meaning for themselves, as Eilonwy did.
- The Doctor Who Expanded Universe novels of Terrance Dicks began to display a slightly alarming tendency in almost every novel to place the Doctor's companions in a position where they were threatened with rape by one of the bad guys, to the point where it really became more than a little disturbing. As well as being disturbing partly because he seemed to write such a scene in every novel he was writing at the time and because of the obvious issues surrounding rape, it was also a little alarming because his writing style hadn't really changed from the style he used when writing his popular Doctor Who adaptations for children, meaning that it was almost like reading a children's novel where the heroine was pretty openly threatened with rape at every opportunity.
- In Wyrd Sisters, Magrat is accosted and held by a palace guard, who tells her "I like a girl with spirit." The author lampshades this mercilessly, and goes on to say that the guard was incorrect, as it turned out.
- In Carpe Jugulum, Agnes asks a
vampire vampyre guard if they can skip all the "I like a girl with spirit" stuff and just go to the bit where she knees him in the groin. The answer is no.
- In Outlander, this is Black Jack Randall's freaking m.o., when he's not being a remorseless sadistic bastard elsewhere. He treats the heroine like this at every opportunity — and this is also how he treats her husband. His other prisoners don't get this courtesy.
- The protagonist of Typewriter in the Sky, having fallen into a swashbuckler novel and found himself cast as a villain, originally attempts merely to seduce the heroine of the story-within-a-story. When the editor complains that he's not evil enough, an abrupt rewriting has him fulfilling this trope instead — much to his distaste.
- Used in the story-within-a-story of What Writers Go Through (also known as The Author's Ordeal) by Isaac Asimov. The second-person individual writing said story-within-a-story makes certain to rush through it, so the reader won't have time to remember that the aliens threatening this are reptilians and would presumably have no interest in sex with a human.
- The Rigante series by David Gemmell features a rather nasty version of this in which the hero's rather feisty love interest is imprisoned and repeatedly raped. By the time the hero finally manages to rescue her, she's suicidally depressed, is furious at the hero for not rescuing her earlier and at herself for needing to be rescued at all, and swears herself to a life of grim celibacy to overcome her shame. She seems to improve — a bit — as the series continues, with indications that although she'll never fully recover, she might at least be able put it behind her and get on with her life.
- Flashman's Lady has a rare gender-reversed example not played comically at all: but then, the woman involved, Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar, is a completely genocidal tyrant.
- In one of the sequels of The Princess Diaries, Mia writes a paper on the history of Genovia, explaining that the creation of the principality came about through the actions of her direct ancestor. This first Princess of Genovia had been the daughter of the local lord; said lord was murdered during an invasion and his daughter forcibly wed to the leader of the invading forces, whom she in turn murdered in his sleep on their wedding night. Mia notes that her ancestress may have been spurred to act by "having been forced to drink wine out of her father's skull during the wedding feast."
- Prince Xizor, in Shadows of the Empire, tries to seduce Leia while keeping her in his palace. He'd been tempting her with talk about supporting the Rebellion, but he was never even considering that, and tried to keep her from leaving. She gets back at him.
- In the Harry Potter books, Fenrir Greyback is just an altogether creepy character with horrific subtext, but in Deathly Hallows he begs Bellatrix to let him have Hermione after making some creepy comments to her. Later on, he has to be pulled off of Lavender Brown.
- This trope is the mainstay of all early gothic novels, i.e. the damsel in the villain's spooky castle. Earliest examples were The Mysteries of Udolfo and The Castle of Otranto. Gothic novels were all basically the same until Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, increasing their intellectual depth about a hundred fold.
- Used in the climax of the Sherlock Holmes story The Solitary Cyclist. This troper first saw it in the very faithful BBC adaptation with Jeremy Brett and nearly busted his gut laughing when they got to that scene.
- Played straight in The Reckoning, when Liam corners Chloe in the woods. To distract him from Derek, who is in the middle of Changing from werewolf to human - and thus vulnerable - not far away from them, Chloe tells him that Derek is off dealing with Ramon, who has actually already been defeated. Liam proceeds to be a grade-A creeper and tell her that they should have some fun while Derek and Ramon are busy tearing each other to shreds. Lucky for her, Derek ruins this by finishing his Change and accidentally killing Liam after a long and difficult tussle.
- In Conn Iggulden's Emperor books, Cornelius Sulla keeps summoning Cornelia to his presence after being declared dictator of Rome, primarily because she's the wife of Julius Caesar. He starts off just groping her in The Gates of Rome, but proceeds to eventually rape her while her baby daughter cries beside her in The Death of Kings.
Live Action TV
- A disturbing inversion of this occurs in American Gothic, however. Not only is there no hero in sight to show up and save Gail from sexual ravishment by Magnificent Bastard Sheriff Buck — since Dr. Crower a) is absolutely clueless about what is developing between them b) has his own problems and c) is never even implied to have any interest in Gail other than as a friend — but Gail actually wants it. (Because, of course, Evil Is Sexy and Evil Feels Good.) The fact she is willing, overcome by her desires, and unable to resist Buck, however, does not stop the scene in question from being depraved: it takes place in a garden replete with unsettling statuary, and the Discretion Shot used throughout is downright surreal, with imagery that switched from symbolism to Mind Screw territory.
- In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Doppelgangland", vampire Willow (from an Alternate Universe) briefly does this to ordinary Willow (who ends up getting out of it by shooting her with a tranq gun). It's played more for comedy than horror, though.
- In one episode this happens to Dawn when she is kidnapped by a demon. The demon planned on taking her to his dimension and marrying her under the belief that she was the one who summoned him.
- Warren tries to pull this on his ex-girlfriend by brainwashing her but she manages to break free from it causing him to kill her.
- Sharaz Jek's advances towards a very uncomfortable Peri in the Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani are incredibly creepy.
- The Borad has designs on the nubile Peri a few stories later, in Timelash.
- Happened to Barbara Wright, too, in the sixties, no less.
- In Firefly, what made Jubal Early different from the many people who simply want the bounty on Simon and River was him capturing Kaylee and threatening to rape her.
- It was also implied by his dialogue that, if he'd been successful at capturing River, he might have raped her.
- Subverted in the Star Trek The Next Generation episode "Qpid". Q drops Picard in the middle of a Robin Hood fantasy-world, and tells the captain that if he doesn't rescue Maid Marion (actually his Love Interest Vash) she's going to be executed by Sir Guy of Gisbourne. Both Q and Picard are quite surprised when the eminently practical Vash agrees to marry Sir Guy, as it makes more sense than some stupidly-heroic rescue plan.
- On The League of Gentlemen, demonic blackface minstrel Papa Lazarou is known for this, to the point where he collects wives and his Catch Phrase is:
"You're my wife now."
- In the Heroes season three finale, Sylar, of all people, pulled one of these on Claire.
- He wasn't going to, y'know, do anything; he just used his telekinesis to make her body pour up wine and have a drink with him as he did his Evil Gloating. Toying with a victim is very Sylar... he just gets down the killing more quickly than this with his other victims (it's different with Claire since she can't die — he'd already taken her power, in fact.)
- When The Monkees did a Pirate episode, at one point a door is opened and Peter Tork is shown struggling with an attractive young woman. He actually uses the "I like a wench with spirit" line, just before she slaps him and the door closes again.
- Hinted at during the Eleventh Doctor's run of Doctor Who, when the Dream Lord traps Amy, the Doctor, and Rory between dream and reality. At one point, Amy is alone with the Dream Lord on the Tardis as the Doctor and Rory try to survive on their own in the other dream. The Dream Lord uses this opportunity to royally creep out both Amy and the audience.
Dream Lord: Poor Amy. He always leaves you, doesn't he? Alone in the dark. Never apologizes.
Amy: He doesn't have to.
Dream Lord: That's good. Because he never will. And now he's left you with me. Spooky old not-to-be-trusted me. (vanishes and reappears in an open-shirted, red-sashed outfit) Anything could happen.
Music
- This is the entire main theme of "Skullcrusher Mountain", by Jonathan Coulton. The villain/protagonist's henchman Scarface has brought him a "pretty thing" and he's trying to impress her, with really bad results. Technically she's free to go, but, well, this mountain is covered with wolves...
Mythology
- The Shotgun Wedding variety is very common in Hindu mythology, occurring in both The Ramayana and Mahabharata (though averted in the former as Sita resists and thus remains pure), making the trope Older Than Dirt. The Go Go Enslavement type is also narrowly averted in the Mahabharata when Draupadi is lost by her husband in a bet (you read that correctly) and the winner, his cousin, tries to have her stripped. He fails, however, due to the gods' protection.
Theater
Video Games
- Umineko No Naku Koro Ni: A rare Gender Flipped version of this occurs in episode six when Erika forces Battler into marrying her after she has effectively locked his mind inside his own closed room.
- Complete with spit-lubed, too-small, internally spiked wedding ring that she forces upon the victim, while all the while, he's crying about how much it hurts. While doing so, she also tells him to his face that she plans to actually rape him regularly and even put a mirror on the ceiling so that he has to watch her do it.
- Admiral Vigoro attempts to pull this on Aika during your imprisonment in the Grand Fortress in Skies of Arcadia. Being violently rebuffed and subsequently beaten by her only makes things worse.
- And when Vyse, Aika's best friend and The Hero of the game, rescues her, his reaction is more of amusement than pissed off.
- Seymour's marriage to Yuna in Final Fantasy X, while also working on a political and evil-plot-furthering level, most definitely had some squicky elements of this in it, not the least of which the fact that he's technically dead at the time — showcased in the kiss scene.
- In the Monkey Island series, forcing Governess Elaine into marriage is LeChuck's primary motivation for everything. The trope is averted in that Elaine is perfectly well capable of taking care of herself and outsmarts LeChuck on several occasions during his attempts, often with Guybrush's blunderings dealing the zombie pirate the deathblow (or ruining Elaine's plan. Or, frequently, one first and then the other).
- It's implied in Super Mario Bros that Bowser attempts to get Peach to marry him during his kidnapping attempts. However, in games where we actually see the Princess in captivity, Bowser does very little in the way of wooing.
- When Peach, however, found his diary, it was written like that of a 14-year-old schoolboy who is jealous of the school's most popular boy for having the most popular girl for a girlfriend — Mario's the popular boy and Peach's the popular girl.
- In Super Paper Mario, they do in fact get married, though Peach is under an enchantment at the time and the ceremony is against her will. Throughout the remainder of the game, Bowser insists on referring to her as his wife and behaves in a relatively chivalrous fashion (for Bowser), even sacrificing himself at one point to save her and the brothers.
- In Paper Mario he does keep her in her own room (as opposed to being locked in a dungeon like the other party guests) and offers to grant any wishes she wants (that he approves of) with the Star Rod. Not exactly great, but then he did steal an entire castle so yeah...
- In Heavenly Sword, the main character, Nariko, is captured by the main villain, King Bohan. Confronting her in her cell, he slowly taps his crotch armour in front of her face, before outright asking her for sex, describing her as "pretty" and stating that he believes life is "all about having fun." However, it goes no further after she responds with a threat to kill him.
- Volgin in Metal Gear Solid 3, being a shameless Complete Monster with his single redeeming trait being that he tortures and kills people who hurt his boyfriend, does this to EVA - and to Big Boss, after tying him up. His comment about Big Boss's appearance changes depending on how many injuries Snake has suffered - high numbers of injuries get an impressed comment about how a lesser man would be dead, but low numbers causes him to gush about Snake's 'beautiful' body.
- Attempted by some of the sicker villains in the Fire Emblem games, but it never goes all the way.
- Sword of Seals: Narshen intends to do this with Clarine. Rutger rescues her.
- Blazing Sword: Marquess Laus wants to do this with Priscilla. The player sends a unit to rescue her from a village and recruit her.
- The Sacred Stones: Gheb plans to do this with Tana. Ephraim rescues her.
- Valter really wanted to do this with Erika. He never got the chance, but it was his wish.
- Path of Radiance: Oliver has "plans" for Reyson, whatever that may be. Ike rescues him.
- However, in Genealogy of Holy War, it's implied that it did went all the way in Bramsel's case with Lynn / Leilia:
- (after Ares left Darna to fight Celice and his army)
Jabarro: Aless, why would you of all people get wrapped up in a girl like that? Well, it's all behind us now, so I suppose we can let it rest.
Ares: What's that supposed to mean?
Jabarro: Heheh... Well, right about now I'd imagine Bramsel is...
Ares: How could... How could you know that and not tell me, Jabarro!?
- (after Ares comes back to Darna and fights Bramsel)
Ares: Bramsel! Return Lynn / Leilia!!
Bramsel: You're too late! Right about now, she's already... heheheh...
Ares: Y—you! I won't forgive this!!
- (after Ares frees Lynn / Leilia)
Ares: Lynn / Leilia, are you alright?
Lynn / Leilia: ... I wish I could say so. Fortunately someone from the liberation army rescued me.
- The final battle of Project Origin involves Alma doing this to Beckett while he is strapped down to the chair in the telesthetic amplifier. The scene in question is less about showing that Alma is monstrous but rather played up for horror and tragedy, as being an emotionally and mentally stunted child whose whole life was pretty much one long nightmare, Alma doesn't know of any other way to express her attraction to Beckett.
- World of Warcraft: After Keristrasza kills Saragosa, Malygos forces her to become his new consort.
- Blaze Union opens with a morbidly obese fifty-year-old nobleman and his soldiers attempting to kidnap an eleven-year-old little girl to sell her as a sex slave. They get as far as hauling her out the door before the party arrives to beat the living crap out of them.
- Caster to Saber, Fate Stay Night, while trying to make Saber her Servant - she puts Saber in a hanging position in a white dress. Thankfully Shirou and Rin arrive in time.
Web Comics
- Damien threatens to do this to Grace in this El Goonish Shive strip. It's also later revealed that Damien wanted to produce offspring with Grace... and while not necessarily his own, it's very probable.
- Gender-inverted in The Order of the Stick, with Vain Sorceress Samantha ordering her troup of bandits to kidnap men she finds attractive. When Elan learns of this as he's about to escape, he turns back with flowers and chocolate. After all, it's the Bard's duty to
let himself be seduced by seduce female villains.
- Rikshakar crosses the Moral Event Horizon the second time he tries this in Drowtales and kidnaps Ariel to make her his wife and makes it very clear that he intends to continue the family line, as it would. Unfortunately for him, Karma is a bitch and he gets killed by Discordia soon after Ariel makes her escape and badly wounds him (note that said retaliation also left him with a large amount of blood near his groin, just for extra humiliation).
- Extra squick points in that Ariel is a little girl. The re-done chapter 4 also have him attempt to lure her into his bed (the original version was completely different and made later events look out-of-character for Rik).
- Subverted hard in Van Von Hunter. When the Flaming Prince announces his intentions to Sidekick about making her his bride, she gets all excited because it means she gets to be a princess.
Web Original
- Agent Laburnum of Protectors of the Plot Continuum got captured by vermin when in a Darker And Edgier Redwall fic. One of them started getting touchy-feely, but he stopped instantly and nearly threw up when she suddenly changed back into a human, as he'd never seen one before and found her new appearance too disturbing to continue. Sadly, she still needed to be rescued, as the change didn't stop them from wanting to kill and eat her.
Western Animation
- Totally Spies! Happened once to Alex and at least twice to Clover.
- My Life as a Teenage Robot has the one-shot character Little Acorn in the episode "Puppet Bride" do something of the sort to Jenny, trying to force her to marry him. Thankfully her mother manages to save her and stands up against Little Acorn once and for all, after being antagonized by him for so long in the past.
- Teen Titans uses Slade, Raven, and a symbolic rape in "Birthmark". Drawing on the comic books, some fans assume the real thing happened off-screen between Slade and Terra in "Aftershock".
- Gog-Ma-Gog in Korgoth of Barbaria is seen menacing a scantily-clad blonde in a hanging cage in his hideout when Korgoth comes to meet with him. Though with Go-Ma-Gog being as flabby, wimpy, and flamboyant as he is, it's played for laughs.
- Parodied in Adventure Time. Pen asks the Ice King why he's always kidnapping girls — the Ice King answers that he's going to make one marry him. Pen's reponse:
"That's — STUPID!"
- This is continued in the television series.
- Parodied in Venture Brothers episode "Love Bheits": sadistic overlord Ünderbheit captures the Ventures and Brock and falls in love with Dean (who is dressed in Princess Leia's slavegirl outfit for a costume contest), believing him to be a girl. He invites him to dinner and pressures him into marriage. The wedding is carried through, but is rendered void when Dean is revealed to be male.
- In another episode Brock stumbles upon Dr. Girlfriend in her bedroom while rampaging around The Monarch's flying cocoon-base, and she expects him to ravish her.
- Gargoyles: Thailog's first appearance has him tenderly stroking Elisa's face while calling her "my dear" after chaining her to the wall. Considering he included her DNA in the genetic makeup of his perfect mate Delilah... no comment.
- Angela gets this from everyone — no exaggeration. Sevarius runs his fingers creepily through her hair when she's unconscious, Thailog gives her a look when he meets her that clearly says "I want to hit that like a ton of bricks," and even Xanatos strokes her chin while complimenting Goliath on his lovely daughter... wait, what?!
- Knowing Xanatos, he was probably doing it just to screw with Goliath's head. He is a happily married man after all.
- Codename Kids Next Door: King Sandy tries to force Numbuh 3 to marry him twice.
- In the last season of Superfriends (when it was called The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians), Darkseid is derailed from Bad Ass Omnicidal Maniac to Stalker with a Crush, positively obsessed with getting Wonder Woman to marry him. As Seanbaby points out, "That's why we hated his creepy ass so much. Lex Luthor tried to kill us and make us his slaves, but at least he wasn't a date rapist."
- Galaxy Rangers: The Queen is beside herself with delight when she finally captures Zachary in "Psychocrypt". The most innocent interpretation ends with a hell of a case of Mind Rape. Fanon speculated that the Queen wasn't past the other kind. Some of Chris Rowley's comments on the matter did not help.
- Vampyro from Wakfu chooses to kidnap Evangelyne for her beauty after spying on her through mirrors — though if he's interested in her body, it's to allow the Demoness sealed in his ring (whom he's in love with) to take it over. But before even doing that, he puts Eva in a revealing dress.
- Evangelyne seems to attract the type, since she later catches the eye of a pirate captain, who also tries to abduct her.
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