History PlayingWith / MurderersAreRapists

** Bob is both a SerialKiller and serial rapist.

** A news report or a show similar to AmericasMostWanted InUniverse or in RealLife mentions the manhunt for a SerialKiller and serial rapist.

* '''Justified''': Unfortunately TruthInTelevision: there are {{Serial Killer}}s who are also serial rapists, and sex crimes are crimes of violence even if no one is killed - so the TruthInTelevision is actually the subversion below: that someone who is open to committing a sex crime ''is'' more likely to be open to committing murder.

** The writer wants to make the CompleteMonster seen as such quickly, possibly constrained by time limits or such.

** Bob kills his victims, [[ILoveTheDead then rapes them]].

* '''Parodied''': Bob is introduced in the credits as "Killer [=McRapington=]."

* '''Parodied''': Bob is introduced in the credits as "Killer McRapington."

** The writer is being StrictlyFormula, after ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'' and ''Series/CriminalMinds'' and similar made this such a common trope.

** "Having the killer be a rapist is so overdone. It's like someone threw ''LawAndOrderSVU'' and ''CriminalMinds'' into a blender with ''CSICrimeSceneInvestigation''. I'm going for a complicated mystery, not sweeps ratings."

Someone call the SVU and BAU, [[MurderersAreRapists we've got a killer rapist on the loose]].

** Meta case: the trope must be invoked to justify the law enforcement response or the revenge or the BloodFeud or whatever else the response to the crime is: as in, the FBI generally doesn't investigate serial rapists, but does serial killers, and/or the world is such a CrapsackWorld that no one really cares if someone else "just" gets killed, but if someone gets raped, that brings out everyone from enraged family to bounty hunters to take down the rapist.

** Some uses of the GoryDiscretionShot and RapeDiscretionShot

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** "Let's depict Bob as a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist and active member of the Westboro Baptist Church]], show him in the act of killing multiple people ForTheEvulz, and imply he's [[ILoveTheDead raping the corpses.]] There is ''no way'' anyone can have sympathy for him after that..." ''months later'' ''on the author reading all of the DracoInLeatherPants FanFic about the character'' [[DespairEventHorizon "I give the]] [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] [[DespairEventHorizon up."]]

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** "Let's depict Bob as a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist and active member of the Westboro Baptist Church]], show him in the act of killing multiple people ForTheEvulz, and imply he's [[ILoveTheDead raping the corpses.]] There is ''no way'' anyone can have sympathy for him after that..." ''months later'' ''reads all of the DracoInLeatherPants FanFic'' [[DespairEventHorizon "I give the]] [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] [[DespairEventHorizon up."]]

** "Having the killer be a rapist is so overdone. It's like someone threw LawAndOrderSVU and CriminalMinds into a blender with CSICrimeSceneInvestigation. I'm going for a complicated mystery, not sweeps ratings."
** "Let's depict Bob as a [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain white supremacist and active member of the Westboro Baptist Church]], show him in the act of killing multiple people ForTheEvulz, and imply he's [[ILoveTheDead raping the corpses.]] There is ''no way'' anyone can have sympathy for him after that... ''months later'' ''reads all of the DracoInLeatherPants FanFic'' [[DespairEventHorizon "I give the]] [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] [[DespairEventHorizon up."]]

** Bob is a SerialKiller - ''[[RapeAndRevenge of rapists]]'' on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

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** Bob is a SerialKiller - [[RapeAndRevenge of ''rapists,'']] on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

** Bob is a SerialKiller - of ''rapists,'' on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

** TruthInTelevision as well: there have been murders where the [[AssholeVictim ''victim'']] was believed to be a rapist by the killer or killers, going all the way back to being OlderThanDirt to not being a DeadHorseTrope even now. Rape (though it was usually defined by force alone) wasn't a smart decision for men who wished to stay alive in many societies, and in some contexts (child victims, the victim being connected to a gang or organized crime) is ''still'' a fast way to end up dead.

** TruthInTelevision as well: there have been murders where the ''victim'' was believed to be a rapist by the killer or killers, going all the way back to being OlderThanDirt to not being a DeadHorseTrope even now. Rape (though it was usually defined by force alone) wasn't a smart decision for men who wished to stay alive in many societies, and in some contexts (child victims, the victim being connected to a gang or organized crime) is ''still'' a fast way to end up dead.

* '''Subverted''': The subversion is actually TruthInTelevision more often than being played straight. While rapists are likely to be open to committing murder (since they're already committing violent assaults against other people with at the very least no regard for their lives), those whose first/only crime is murder aren't necessarily as open to being rapists. The reason being that murder, as a crime, has motives so diverse as to write a library worth of books on, and sex/sexual gratification is only ''one'' reason (and power/domination, which is the most common rape motive, only ''one'' other one) why one human being would choose to kill another or would negligently kill another (other common motives being anger, greed, lack of concern, revenge, war...)

* '''Subverted''': The subversion is actually TruthInTelevision more often than being played straight. While rapists are likely to be open to committing murder (since they're already committing violent assaults against other people with at the very least no regard for their lives), those whose first/only crime is murder aren't necessarily as open to being rapists. The reason being that murder, as a crime, has motives so diverse as to write a library worth of books on, and sex/sexual gratification is only ''one'' reason why one human being would choose to kill another or would negligently kill another (other common motives being anger, greed, lack of concern, revenge, war...)

* '''Subverted''':
** The subversion is actually TruthInTelevision more often than being played straight. While rapists are likely to be open to committing murder (since they're already committing violent assaults against other people with at the very least no regard for their lives), those whose first/only crime is murder aren't necessarily as open to being rapists. The reason being that murder, as a crime, has motives so diverse as to write a library worth of books on, and sex/sexual gratification is only ''one'' reason why one human being would choose to kill another or would negligently kill another (other common motives being anger, greed, lack of concern, revenge, war...)

'''Basic Trope''': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin - anyone who commits or is open to committing murder has also committed (or at least is open to committing) rape.
* '''Straight''': Bob rapes and kills the same victim.

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob is both a SerialKiller and serial rapist.

* '''Downplayed''': Bob is a murderer, and if he has the chance to become a rapist he may or may not become one, but rape is not a major part of his MO or his life.
** Bob is a rapist, but relies on questionable consent as opposed to weapons and threats, and while being, therefore, a CompleteMonster, [[TechnicalPacifist has so far not killed anyone]] - unless you count the victims who were DrivenToSuicide.
* '''Justified''':
** The writer wants to develop an instant CompleteMonster, someone that ''no one'' can feel sympathetic toward and ''everyone'' sane wants to see dead at anyone's hand or in prison ''now.''
** Unfortunately TruthInTelevision: there are SerialKillers who are also serial rapists, and sex crimes are crimes of violence even if no one is killed - so the TruthInTelevision is actually the subversion below: that someone who is open to committing a sex crime ''is'' more likely to be open to committing murder.
* '''Inverted''': Bob is a SerialKiller - of ''rapists,'' on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.

* '''Subverted''': The subversion is actually TruthInTelevision more often than being played straight. While rapists are likely to be open to committing murder (since they're already committing violent assaults against other people with at the very least no regard for their lives), those whose first/only crime is murder aren't necessarily as open to being rapists. The reason being that murder, as a crime, has motives so diverse as to write a library worth of books on, and sex/sexual gratification is only ''one'' reason why one human being would choose to kill another or would negligently kill another (other common motives being anger, greed, lack of concern, revenge, war...)

** Again TruthInTelevision: Some killers derive sexual gratification from killing.

* '''Averted''': None of the killers in the story are rapists, and their motives are shown to be nonsexual
* '''Enforced''': The story is TruthInTelevision about a sexually violent predator or SerialKiller and serial rapist.

** The writer is being StrictlyFormula, after LawAndOrderSVU and CriminalMinds and similar made this such a common trope.
* '''Lampshaded''': Homicide detectives are assigned to rape cases, never mind that most real police departments separate the divisions.

* '''Exploited''':
** To create a CompleteMonster fast.
** To make a story DarkerAndEdgier than a "simple" murder mystery.
* '''Defied''': Bob refuses to commit rape because EvenEvilHasStandards.
** The writer of the story loathes the trope and would far rather create a more complex setup than "Bob kills and rapes, someone calls the FBI, Bob goes to jail/gets in shootout, roll credits!"
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