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...and from that day forward, Erstin Ho never looked at swim class the same away again.
Knowing that tentacles have a preference for True Loves, I will keep an eye out for any and all creatures that might have them.
— The True Love List: things I will do if I am ever a love interest.
Some demons have nothing on their minds but sex. They want it, they want it in quantity, and they want it from nubile young women (especially Japanese schoolgirls). To this end they almost always manifest in forms that have many, many tentacles, tentacles that are used to catch, hold, undress and violate said young women, usually in every way possible simultaneously. Naughty Tentacles are a staple of Hentai anime.
Naughty Tentacles evolved after prohibition against the explicit depiction of genitalia and pubic hair was written into the Japanese constitution following WWII. Since animators couldn't legally depict male genitalia, they created a surrogate. The Urotsukidoji ( Legend of the Overfiend) OAV series introduced monsters with one or more phallic tentacles. Although these tentacles were "weaponized" for a very pragmatic purpose (inasmuch as porn can be considered pragmatic), they quickly became a powerful visual icon that's now internationally associated with erotic anime... and sometimes, anime in general.
According to one essay on the subject, "Countless monstrous tentacles assaulting a woman is a powerful visual image for both male and female observers. The idea of a single male completely overwhelming a woman and driving her to an impossible height of stimulation can be an empowering image for male viewers, and a fulfilling fantasy for females." Broadcast anime typically only makes sly allusions to it, although some series have become much bolder in "tame" depictions.
This is Older Than Radio; the woodcut Dream of the Fisherman's Wife by ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, dating back to 1820, features a lady in intercourse with octopi. The popularity of this trope has spawned numerous jokes regarding the danger of tentacles that schoolgirls, particularly Japanese schoolgirls, apparently face.
Interestingly, being subdued or tied up by said feelies is still done straight as one of the nonviolent situations that gets past even the strictest censors for cartoons, and it seems just an unfortunate side-effect some fans can't watch that any more without thinking of the Power Perversion Potential.
Compare Mind Rape and Face Full Of Alien Wing Wong. Contrast with Combat Tentacles (which are used to impale people in the normal sense), and Tentacle Rope (when the tentacles grab without being naughty).
Also, needless to say, due to the nature of this trope, many (if not all) of the examples are NSFW. 10 years ago, perhaps the trope namer, there was a website Naughty Tentacles.com. It was Exactly What It Says On The Tin.
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- The infamous "tree rape" scene in Evil Dead. The tree returns in a non-rapey form in Evil Dead 2.
- Parodied in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. After Davy Jones uses his nasty, slimy, tentacle-y hand to remove Jack Sparrow's black spot, Sparrow dazedly remarks that he feels "sullied and unusual."
- Happens to Mercer in the third movie... with his face. The look of joy on Davy Jones's face....
- He might have been happy about getting back the Dutchman instead. But then again, what better way to say "screw you"...?
- Alien. The Alien kills Lambert with its sinuous tail around her ankle and back and disappears up between her legs. Cut to Ripley running to try to save her, and Lambert's death cries are similar to a violent orgasm.
- Of course we never see Lambert's body, implying that the alien took her away and "did things" to her.
- Yes, we see part of Lambert's body in the original cut, but only her leg. Her leg is naked and has blood flowing down it, and Ripley is horrified by what she sees. Since Aliens take on genetic information from their hosts, this Alien would have displayed a human male's darkest sides. Ridley Scott even said that the Alien is "the ultimate boogeyman".
- I think that was meant to be Parker, having been literally dismembered.
- Christabella's death in Silent Hill was supposedly inspired by Legend of the Overfiend, but replace Naughty Tentacles with Naughty Barbwire (or Les Yay / Foe Yay, if you're so inclined).
- Subverted in Galaxy Quest, wherein the Thermians are all nice tentacle aliens, and only one (a female) actually has sex with one of the humans (a male). He didn't mind but Guy was utterly squicked out.
- In the 1983 comedy Bullshot (a parody of Bulldog Drummond) Hugh Crummond and Rosemary Fenton are attacked by a giant octopus whose tentacles greatly distress the damsel by reaching into some interesting places as she cries "Oh it's so... big!" Crummond replies: "Well beat it off then!"
- Starship Troopers 3: Marauder has this happening to cute Holly Little. Sprawled awkwardly after getting a faceload of alien goo, a suddenly-appearing crack in the earth points directly up her skirt, then a penile like claw bursts from the ground between her legs, whereupon she and Jolene Blalock are seized by a gigantic man-eating vagina with delusions of grandeur.
- In Jacob's Ladder, Jacob hallucinates his girlfriend suggestively dancing with a tentacled monster, which gropes and suddenly impales her.
- In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Soundwave of all robots gets a tentacle scene, violating and hijacking a defense satellite.
- The Specials has a mention of a former member who had a length of stretchy flesh he could use like a tentacle. Turns out it was his scrotum.
Power Chick: He once tickled me with that thing!
- Then there's this exchange in Better Off Dead:
Monique Junot: He keeps putting his testicles all over me.
Lane Myer: Excuse me?
Monique Junot: You know, like octopus? Testicles?
Lane Myer: Ohhhh. Tentacles. N-T. Big Difference.
Literature
- In Douglas Adams's novel Mostly Harmless, the offices of the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy are home to a "valuable and extremely rude statue of Leda and the Octopus". This is a variation on the myth of Leda and the Swan, in which the god Zeus "took the form of a swan and raped or seduced Leda on the same night she slept with her husband, King Tyndareus".
- Played absolutely straight—and in a surprisingly un-squicky manner in this troper's opinion, although Your Mileage May Vary—in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis/Lilith's Brood trilogy.
- Given how much the Oankali's inhumanity is stressed in the first book (Lilith's first reaction on seeing the one who was bred specifically to look human was utter horror), it was probably intended to be squicky on some level, at least at first.
- Except by the time anything happened, the squick factor had long since passed.
- It helps that even though it is sex that happens between humans and Oankali, the tentacles are primarily used (by the ooloi, a third gender within the Oankali besides males and females) to touch the human's neck in order to connect into their nervous system. On the other hand, their optimal "situation" so to speak is 1 male Oankali, 1 female Oankali, 1 male human, 1 female human, and 1 ooloi Oankali. All together. At once.
- Robert Herrick's poem "The Vine" is about the poet's erotic dream that "This part of mine" took on the structure of that plant and investigated every inch of his beloved's body. (You can read it here.)
Live Action TV
- Inverted with the male Centauri of Babylon 5. They appear to have six three-meters-long tentacles, but they are actually all prehensile penises.
- One character, when he hears this, states that he will take a "vow of silence" about the entire conversation.
- Londo is later infuriated by the fact that a doll of him being sold at the B5 gift shop doesn't "accurately represent his attributes."
- They have six of them, and the women have six slits on their back. Also, they can be used to cheat at Poker. Word Of God.
- And Londo got caught on this once, when a pitcher was placed on top of it. Ouch.
- Great, this Troper saw the Poker episode, but missed the penis-relation. So the fact basically his wang was slipping cards and got grabbed? Oh ugh.
- One of them, anyway.
Susan: WOW six!
- Smallville has an escaped Phantom Zone alien that just happens to resemble a pretty human female, yet can grow thorny(!) vines that she uses to rape men and plant her seeds inside them. Yup, turns out Freud was a friggin' genius.
- Stargate Atlantis has an infection in the episode "The Seed" [5.03] which exhibits naughty tentacle behaviour rather intimately to Dr Keller, Ronon Dex and Zelenka.
- The first thing the Daleks do upon invading Earth is not hunt down the Doctor. Oh no. They take over Japan. Cue the Doctor looking traumatized as he either realizes the severity of the situation or comes to this conclusion. It's hard to tell with David Tennant.
- Shows up indirectly in (of all things) Mad Men, as Bert Cooper (an ardent Japanophile) has a copy of Hokusai's The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife hanging in his office. It weirds out a fair number of visitors.
- In an Indonesia Game Show, Penting Banget! (means: "Really Important!"), there are four challenges. In each challenge, the team who loses must have one of their members being tickled by an octopus (which are actually a bunch of hands popping out of the board).
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- Carmilla (Sara Waite) in the Whateley Universe. Not too surprising given that her father is Gothmog, demon of lust, while his mother is Shub-Niggurath — and Carmilla is related to Cthulhu on her mother's side. She can launch tentacles out of any part of her body, and those tentacles may then have mouths or eyes or worse if she wants. She has used them as Naughty Tentacles: at least one side character is now pregnant from this, and several others have had tentacle sex with her (or gotten really, really close). She has also killed several people (and a LOT of animals) by thrusting her tentacles into them and eating their souls, so they're Combat Tentacles too. Oh, by the way, she's one of the good guys in this universe.
- This trope is one of many aspects of the failed forum RPG Hot Wet Planet to which RPGnet members took offense. It raised quite a brouhaha, as you can see.
- This troper came across fiction on an NSFW Imageboard somewhere, wherein a girl was depicted sneaking onto a spacecraft piloted by some aliens with tentacles. She frightens the relatively peaceful aliens with some knowledge of Earth's most terrifying weapons, and threatens to get people to sic those weapons on them unless they use their tentacles on her in that way. Role-reversed Tentacle Rape?
- Innocent Key recently released a humorous new music video for one of their latest albums of Touhou remixes/arranges. In it, the Three Mischievous Fairies (Sunny Milk, Luna Child, and Star Sapphire) not only steal part of the swimsuits of Reimu and Tenshi, but also make use of Sunny's power to manipulate light to attract some non-stinging jellyfish and set them upon the poor girls. Given the ecchi humor of a lot of the lyrics they use, Innocent Key's group name is very ironic.
- Web novella Three Worlds Collide has these come in in a most unusual way.
- In the same vein as the "Banhammer" used by mods on various fora out there, Open Blue features Kukulu, a mod parody of Cthulhu, who threatens "Bantacle Rape" on anybody who violates the rules one too many times.
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Real Life
- Cephalopods do this frequently, but mainly with each other. Seriously, it's how they reproduce.
- Attempts to imitate this trope either in pornography or for personal use have... well, let's just say they haven't ended well.
- Lemme give you a clue as to why; octopi have no bones, therefore they can fit through any hole smaller than their beak, the only hard part of their body. Their beak's about the size of a quarter. You do the math.
- Actually, those female groupies of Led Zeppelin were said to have had a lot of fun.
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