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Shock Collar

2013-03-28T03:17:37Z

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The concept of a Shock Collar is simple: A character is forced to wear a SlaveCollar or torc and when he does something undesirable, as designated by whoever put the collar on him, he is shocked. Such things exist in real life for dogs but it is more likely that the trope is in use as a way to replicate the iron slave collar with a [[Speculative Fiction]] twist.

How it actually works is nearly always undefined. It's a metal ring, it hurts, end of. Sometimes it is electricity for some [[Electric Torture]], sometimes it's a generic [[Agony Beam]] generated by some alien [[Techno Babble]]. It makes a good [[Restraining Bolt]] for the plot, you can even spin some plot lines out of how to get it off, and sometimes it'll have the added feature of being able to be pumped up to deadly levels so that it can also be, effectively, an [[Explosive Leash]]. On other occasions expect some fun with Pavlovian conditioning.

== Examples ==
=== Anime & Manga ===
* This happened in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' to the girls under slavery in the magical world.
* In ''{{Slayers}}'' captured Lina Inverse was restrained by a circlet that zapped her when she tried to use magic. They really haven't a slightest idea what [[Aloof Big Brother|her big sister]] used to [[Good Is Not Nice|put her through]], however...
* ''{{InuYasha}}'' has a collar of enchanted prayer beads (or rosary) designed to make him hit the ground whenever Kagome says "Osuwari" or "Sit" / "Sit, boy". Kagome is an easily pissed off {{Tsundere}} Type B. Bad day for InuYasha.
* {{Yaoi}} series ''[[Ai No Kusabi]]'''s plot revolves around how [[Badass Biker]] Riki was made into a [[Sex Slave]] by [[Bastard Boyfriend|Iason Mink]]. Each "Pet" gets an identity ring in the standard form of jewelry like earrings, necklaces and such. Iason uniquely makes Riki's a cock ring which doubles as a [[Restraining Bolt]] [[Shock Collar]] whenever Riki rebels. Which is often.
* In the "Queen of the Adriatic Sea Arc" in ''{{A Certain Magical Index}}'', several of Biagio Busoni's enslaved nuns are [[Go Go Enslavement|forced to wear enchanted clothing]] that causes them incredible pain if they try to escape or use magic. Sisters Lucia and Angeline manage to modify their clothes to power up their magic instead, but they still experience pain when they get out. Touma's [[Anti Magic|Imagine Breaker]] is used to destroy them.

=== Cartoons ===
* In ''{{Futurama}}'s'' third movie, ''Bender's Game'', Leela gets a shock collar to condition her to give up violence and profanity and all that other fun stuff.
* In one episode of ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'', the beavers are [[I Am Not Weasel|mistaken for dogs]] by a suburban family that gives them shock collars to housebreak them. "Bad puppies! We love you!"
* Worn by Shego's subjects in her future dystopia in ''[[Kim Possible|Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time]]''.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Sideshow Bob has a something similar, a Shock Bracelet RestrainingBolt, so the Simpsons can keep him under control as he was recruited by the police to uncover who is trying to kill Homer Simpson.
* In the ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents|Fairly Odd Parents]]'' episode "Wish Fixers", the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Pixies]] make Timmy sign a contract that would supposedly help him get rid of any "bad" wishes and put collars on Cosmo and Wanda that release an electric shock every time they grant a wish that is considered "bad". In fact, the only good wish on the contract is handing Fairy World over to the Pixies. However, thanks to a loophole in the contract (making an irresponsible wish that is at the same time responsible will cause the contract to be null and void), Timmy wishes for both his godparents to be made of rubber, making them immune to the shocks and nullifying the contract as a result.

=== Comics ===
* The more villainous members of DC's ''[[Suicide Squad]]'' were fitted with these on missions. If they got ''too'' out of line, the collar could also be commanded to blow off their heads.
* 1980's British ''Starblazer''.
** The Slave Collar had variable pain settings to punish wearers who disobeyed their owner.
** Issue 157 "Warworld", The Valk put headbands on their prisoners that can inflict any level of pain on their victims, up to and including death.

=== Fan Fics ===
* ''[[Incarceration]]'' has an especially hard to break [[Heroic Albino]] that is fitted with a collar that gives shocks at 30 minutes while she's supposed to sleep, which finally sudbues her.
* [http://www.mcstories.com/CollarSinsub/index.html The Collar] from ''[[The Erotic Mind Control Story Archive]]'' is designed to go all the way to the pavlovian level... and, in a twist to the content from there, is intended by the creator to be used on herself to break herself. Because it turns her on.

=== Movies ===
* In ''{{Coneheads}}'', the two humans are carted off to the Conehead homeworld and kept in check by a collar with glowy red lights.
* The [[Awesome McCoolname|eponymous hero]] wears one in ''Hell Comes to Frogtown''.
* Cartman has a microchip implanted in his skull in ''[[South Park|South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut]]''. It sends out an electric jolt when he swears, in an effort to make him stop swearing. It, for the most part, doesn't work; towards the end of the movie it even turns into a [[Deus Ex Machina]].
* In the 1996 version of ''[[The Island Of Doctor Moreau]]'', all of the beast-folk have an implant that causes them excruciating pain when a remote control is triggered. This system of keeping them in check backfires when the Hyena-Swine figures this out and removes his own implant, then steals the control device to use it to dominate the others.
* In ''[[Crank High Voltage]]'', Chev Chelios encounters two assholes that are torturing a dog with a shock collar even though it was obeying their commands. Chev tells them off, takes the collar, and puts it on. He then makes them shock him to power up his artificial heart.

=== Literature ===
* In Harry Harrison's ''[[The Stainless Steel Rat|The Stainless Steel Rat's Revenge]]''<ref>and ''The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You''</ref>, the Grey Men attach one to James ("Slippery Jim") diGriz, connected by a cable to a control box. It inflicts searing pain by [[Techno Babble|stimulating neurons]] in the brain.
* ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Han Solo's Revenge]]'': The Lurrian slaves captured by Magg and Zlarb are chained together, the collars acting as [[Shock Collar]]s: the slavers can hit the whole string at once in an emergency.
* [[Jim Butcher]]'s ''[[Codex Alera]]'' has slave collars that will hurt the slave if they disobey or go against the master's will (to the extent that calling the person "bad" for no reason will hurt them) and send signals of pleasure when the person obeys. They often drive the victim completely insane, and it's played for every possible drop of horror.
* A similar device is used in ''[[Parable Of The Sower]]'' and its sequel, by slavers to keep their slaves in line. Lauren and her community also have these put on them when they are attacked and captured in the second book.
* Voluntary example: In the ''Dream Park'' series, Gamers wear remote-control amulets that deliver a mild electrical stimulus to inform them that they've been killed out of a scenario. The initial shock is merely uncomfortable, but if a player stubbornly refuses to lie down and "die" when the simulation demands it, the voltage can be increased to inflict actual pain. (Presumably they're required to sign a release to allow this.)

=== TV ===
* ''{{Babylon Five}}'':
** When the captain of Babylon Five, John Sheridan, found himself captured by the Earth government, who had recently given themselves a little ''[[1984]]'' {{ShoutOut}} by setting up the Ministry of Peace, he had a [[Shock Collar]] put in place as a [[Restraining Bolt]] to explain [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him?|why he didn't just attack]] the torturer who was trying to make him <s>[[Star Trek The Next Generation|see four lights]]</s> sign a confession.
** A torturer/assassin makes G'Kar wear one. One of his political enemies on the Kah'Ree had just died, and wished to exact revenge.
* ''[[Star Trek The Original Series]]'' had two episodes with collars that inflicted pain:
** "[[Star Trek/The Gamesters Of Triskelion|The Gamesters of Triskelion]]": Used by the title characters on their thralls.
** "[[Recap/Spock's Brain|Spock's Brain]]": Belts used by the Eymorg women on their male slaves and the captured Enterprise crew members.
* Both ''[[Twin Peaks]]'' and ''{{Cheers}}'' used the gag in which the wearer of the collar gets hold of its control box and uses it in the mistaken belief that it will shock the other person instead of himself.
* Chiana is wearing one of these when she first appears on ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', activated by a button on her handler's forehead. In another episode, the entire crew is fitted with collars- even Pilot.
* In an episode of ''[[Buck Rogers In The Twenty Fifth Century]]'', Princess Ardala tells Buck that, when he marries her (due to her holding Earth hostage with an invincible [[Kill Sat]]), she will have him fitted with a lovely, decorative choke collar. If he displeases her, the collar will gradually constrict until he dies.
* In an episode of ''[[Married With Children]]'', Al Bundy had to wear one.
* These collars are worn by the imprisoned women in the "Gladiatrix" episode of ''[[Birds Of Prey]]''. It also drugged them to the point of insanity.
* The aliens in ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' episode "Rite Of Passage" put shock wristbands on the humans they were raising to prevent them from trying to leave their enclosure. It wasn't due to malice; the woods were full of dangerous creatures.
* Human slaves in Pylea wear these on ''{{Series/Angel}}''.
* The beginning of the ''{{Series/Sliders}}'' episode "In Dino Veritas" is set in a world where all people wear shock collars that prevent them from lying.
* [[David Cross]] has to wear one of these at the beginning of the second episode of ''[[Mr Show]]'', as part of a government program monitoring artists. He gets a constant electric shock if he stands on a stage.

=== Newspaper Comics ===
* In one ''{{Zits}}'' comic, Jeremy's mother forces him to wear a shock collar to stay at home after he breaks curfew one time too many.
* There was a series of ''{{Dilbert}}'' strips where the employees all had to wear headbands that the boss could use to shock them at will. Dilbert reprogrammed his to redirect its signal to Wally.

=== Tabletop Games ===
* ''Caverns of the Snow Witch'', one of the ''[[Fighting Fantasy]]'' [[Gamebook]]s, has the [[Big Bad|Snow Witch]] fit collars onto her slaves, so that when they disobey her orders, they get choked.

=== Video Games ===
* In a case of Shock Collars being used for good, in ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' the inmates have shock collars (dubbed "Suicide Collars") that double as life sign monitors. We see them demonstrated at the beginning as the only thing that can help keep Killer Croc under control in a [[Chekhov's Gun]] moment.
** A bit more of a straight use of this trope occurs in the game as well, since [[The Joker]] uses them to keep tabs on his goons (and as an alert system to where Batman is or has been) [[Fridge Logic|and presumably also uses them when they get too out of line]]. Batman can also overload the collars with a specialized batarang so that they shock the goon wearing it into unconsciousness.
* In ''{{MOTHER3}}'', Salsa the monkey has a Shock Collar that is used by Fassad to punish him.
* The ''[[Kingdom Of Loathing]]'' [[Web Games|Web Game]] has the Stab Bat, a familiar with the unfortunate habit of stabbing the player rather than the enemy every now and then. The familiar-specific equipment is, appropriately enough, a Shock Collar.
* ''[[Dungeon Siege]] II'' had your character wearing one near the start, after being captured by dryads.
* ''[[Baldur's Gate II]]'' has one trippy level where you follow a band of kidnapped actors into a [[Pocket Dimension]] where the slaves are kept in line by a magical version of these collars. If you're [[Schmuck Bait|schmuck enough to fall for the bait]], you can pick them up and try them on.
* In ''[[Star Wars The Old Republic]]'', slave girl Vette has one that the Sith Warrior can choose to abuse. However, you can also remove it for [[Video Game Caring Potential]].
* In ''[[Enslaved Odyssey To The West]]'' a slavers' headband is the (initial) reason Monkey goes along with Trip in the plot; in the gameplay it also provides a reason to keep the player character close to Trip at times with the headband programmed to deliver painful shocks that eventually kill you if you wander too far from her.

=== Webcomics ===
* A rarely seen function of the iKnow in ''[[Commander Kitty]]'', [http://www.commanderkitty.com/2009/08/23/obedience/ as Zenith demonstrates on Fortiscue when he questions her plans].
* In ''Webcomic/HiToTsukiToHoshiNoTama'', [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|paget]] slaves often have magical shock collars.
*: '''Bid''': ''[[Eloquent In My Native Tongue|For collar off... anything I to do.]]

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Incarceration

2013-03-28T02:51:41Z

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'''Incarceration''' is a hardcore BDSM fan fic by hoop. It follows the "adventures" of some girls, first 2, then 3 and then 4 (possibly 5 with [[No Name Given|212]]) that are sequestered in an underground facility and trained as [[Sex Slaves]] by a sadistic "mistress".

[http://original.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600102971 The story can be read here.]

== Incarceration contains examples of these tropes ==
* [[Amnesia Danger]]: At the beginning, it was implied the girls didn't know why they were there or who they were, for that matter. Later, one of them seems to bring up the subject to Helen, who silences her. Since then, the whole matter has been dropped.
* [[Black Comedy]]: The end of chapter 12, especially. Mostly averted otherwise.
* [[Bound And Gagged]].
* [[Brand Of Shame]].
* [[Break The Cutie]] / [[Break The Haughty]].
* [[Cold Blooded Torture]].
* [[Complete Monster]]: Helen sure seems like this.
* [[Cool And Unusual Punishment]].
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]].
* [[Electric Torture]].
* [[Evilly Affable]]: Helen.
* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]]: Though not this herself, Helen (as a tool of the author, though not obviously an [[Author Avatar]] per se) is bent on showing the girls (and us) the most bizarre fetishes in existence.
* [[For Science!]]/[[For The Evulz]]: Helen's outspoken reasons to do most of what she does. Is implied to however be [[Only In It For The Money|mostly about money]].
* [[Gladiator Games]]: "The Gimp".
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Given by a good guy no less. {{spoiler|Zoe manages to convince her succesor that she'll soon be in her position. Having helped Zoe, that may very well become a [[Self Fulfilling Prophecy]]. But it got Zoe in a position to make her escape}}.
* [[Heroic Albino]]: Emma.
* [[Hot Scientist]]: Zoe and {{spoiler|her successor}}.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: The attendant who's insulting Emma in many ways for her skin color is actually getting turned on by her. He probably thinks it's this trope, though it's also possible he's a dumb hick not realising how transparent he is.
* [[Locked In A Dungeon]].

* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Helen. She's not seen sexually interacting with men (though she does give them [[Fanservice|something to look at]]).
* [[Sex Slave]].
* [[Shameful Strip]]... and more shameful dress... and more shameful strip... [[It Gets Worse|and...]]
* [[He Knows Too Much|She Knows Too Much]]: Zoe.
* [[Shock Collar]]: Emma gets one, and it comes with timed electroshocks. It's the last straw that finally subdues her.
* [[A Taste Of The Whip]].
* [[Uniqueness Value]]: The entire reason Emma is there, being a young attractive female albino. She's not too happy about it.
* [[Why We Can't Have Nice Things]]: An Attendant laments that {{spoiler|after Zoe's escape attempt}} after one of the guards was careless, none of the guards can have their way with the girls (at least not unsupervised).
* [[You Are Number Six]]... and just when you hoped there're only six or seven or ten of you, [[Up To Eleven|there are a few '''hundreds'''.]] [[Fridge Brilliance|It is strongly implied that they are often]] [[Beyond The Impossible|rotated]]. [[Oh Crap]].
* {{spoiler|[[You're Drinking Breast Milk]]}}: At the end of "Milk", {{spoiler|the girls are given milk and snowflakes. Laura's milk...}}
*: '''Zoe''': ''{{spoiler|This milk}} tastes kinda weird. See what you think.
*: '''Claire''': ''I don't know. It's really strange! Is it UHT or something?
* [[You Monster]]: If it weren't said, it wouldn't be the type of work you know it is.

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Incarceration

2013-03-28T00:39:15Z

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Blue Velvet

2013-03-28T00:32:59Z

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{{cquote|'''Sandy:''' ''I can't tell if you're a detective or a pervert.''
'''Jeffery:''' ''Well that's for me to know and you to find out.''}}

'''Blue Velvet''' (1986) is a mystery/noir film written and directed by [[David Lynch]], which essentially served as a comeback film for the director after the critical and box office failure of 1984's ''[[Dune]]''. Starring Lynch regulars Kyle MacLachlan, [[Laura Dern]], and Isabella Rossellini, and Dennis Hopper. The title ''Blue Velvet'' is taken from the 1963 Bobby Vinton song of the same name. The film, although barely breaking even commercially, shone in comparison to ''Dune'' and was highly acclaimed by critics, reviving Lynch's career and earning him his second [[Academy Award]] nomination for Best Director. Besides salvaging Lynch's career, the film is notable for launching Isabella Rossellini's acting career, having previously been known mainly as a fashion model, cosmetics spokeswoman and [[Ingrid Bergman]]'s daughter.

The film tells the story of a college student Jeffrey Beaumont, who has returned home to his hometown of Lumberton, North Carolina after his father had a crippling stroke to help run the family business. A couple of days after arriving back into town, Jeffrey discovers a severed human ear in a grass field behind a neighborhood, which leads to Jeffrey deciding to play [[Amateur Sleuth|amateur detective]] with help from Sandy Williams, a high school student and daughter of Lieutenant John Williams, a detective in the town.

The investigation leads Jeffrey towards his town's dark, seedy underbelly as he discovers that the ear belongs to the husband of a roadhouse singer named Dorothy, a [[Broken Bird]] whose child has been kidnapped by the local crime boss (and complete psychopath) Frank Booth, in order to turn her into his virtual sex slave. Jeffrey finds himself drawn into Dorothy's nightmare as the film explores voyeuristic sex and drug-fueled crime as Jeffrey tries to save Dorothy from her living hell. ''Blue Velvet'' remains a leading example of the neo-noir genre, widely regarded as one of Lynch's greatest, most seminal works and has become a cult classic.

== This movie contains examples of ==
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Played straight for most of the film.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Frank is either a symbolic representation of evil, [[Satan|the Devil incarnate]], or simply a psychopathic criminal. According to Dennis Hopper, the actor who played him, Frank is one of "The greatest male romantic leads of all time."
** Jeffrey's character is also open to interpretation. Sandy jokingly asks if he's "a detective or some kind of pervert" when he first suggests spying on Dorothy. However, after we see how Jeffrey reacts to the situations he finds himself in, we can start taking Sandy's question into serious consideration. Does Jeffrey genuinely want to do his share of good in the world, or is he becoming obsessed with the thrill this mystery gives him?
* [[Amateur Sleuth]]: Jeffrey.
* [[Animal Motifs]]: The film is full of these, but they're mostly about bugs. In the beginning, there is a colony of beetle-like bugs crawling around just under the surface of the lawn that Jeffrey's father was keeping in pristine condition. The bugs are meant to represent the dark secrets lying just under the surface of the town itself. One of the shady characters is even named "Yellow Jacket." Throughout the film, Sandy references her dream about robins bringing light and love with them to eradicate darkness. Then, at the end of the film, a robin appears on the windowsill, holding one of the bugs from under the lawn in its beak, signifying {{spoiler|the aforementioned arrival of light to end the darkness}}.
* [[Anything That Moves]]: Frank Booth, by his own estimation, in so many words.
* [[Arc Words]]: "It's a strange world."
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Booth again.
* [[Betty And Veronica]]: There's a sharp contrast between the sweet, wholesome and mentally sound Sandy and the mysterious, sexy, and mentally unhinged Dorothy, who represent the small town idyll and its hidden dark underbelly, respectively.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Doing just about any minor thing that Frank deems out-of-turn.
* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]: {{spoiler|Frank could have saved himself a lot of trouble by killing Jeffrey instead of leaving off at a [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]}}.
** Though, to be fair, the guy isn't at a Bond Villain movie and is totally bonkers and believes his own crap.
* [[Break The Cutie]]: Jeffrey gets his fair share of this. Poor Dorothy is already very broken when we first meet her and gets worse.
* [[Camp Gay]]: Ben the pimp is played this way by Dean Stockwell.
* [[Chewing The Scenery]]: Dennis Hopper. Nom nom nom.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Frank Booth, full stop.
* [[Cluster F Bomb]]: Frank Booth is the only character in the whole movie to use the F word (except for Ben, and he only says it once when echoing a toast made by Frank), but he makes up for it by using it ''a lot''. Like ''at least'' once per sentence.
* [[Crapsaccharine World]]: white picket fences and all.
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Frank puts on lipstick and kisses Jeffrey, before beating him half to death.
** The script also strongly implies that he raped Jeffrey after beating him. Here's the actual excerpt from the screenplay:
**: '''JEFFREY'S P.O.V.''' ''of rocks on the ground.He slowly picks up and looks around. The car is gone. He is swollen, bloody, and covered with lipstick. His pants have been pulled down and "FUCK YOU" has been written with lipstick on his legs. He struggles to his feet and pulls his pants up. He fastens his belt and begins limping up the dirt road highway''. (If that ain't implied rape, what is?).''
** "Let's fuck! I'll fuck anything that moves!"
* [[Dirty Cop]]: {{spoiler|T.R. Gordon}}, who's working with Frank and Ben.
* {{spoiler|[[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Dorothy and Jeffrey}}.
* [[Emerging From The Shadows]]: Dorothy does this, in the background of a medium shot where Jeffrey is arguing with a minor character about something else - and then they start to realize that there's a bruised, bloody, naked woman staggering towards them, and even then it takes them a moment to realize that something terrible is happening. Perhaps the most low-key emergence from the shadows in the history of cinema.
** Sandy's first appearance is also an emergence from the shadow of a tree.
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: If you think Booth is a nice guy after his first scene, you need to share whatever it is you're smoking
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Maybe a little too much, as Frank's nitrous oxide-induced foreplay suggests.
* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: In an absolute nightmarish way.
* [[Evilly Affable]]: Ben, while he is [[Memetic Mutation|one sauve fucker]], he watches Frank punch Jeffrey in the face and force him to make a toast. Ben politely thanks Jeffrey for the toast, expresses concern for Jeffrey's face, and then punches him in the stomach and asks him if that's better
* {{Fanservice}}: Dorothy's cruel treatment at the hands of Frank qualifies as this. An iconic scene has her nude amid the shrubbery after Frank beat her half to death, stripped her nude, and threw her out of a moving vehicle.
* [[Femme Fatale]].
* [[Foe Yay]]: Of highly disturbing and not very sexy variety.
* [[G Rated Drug]]: While resembling nitrous oxide, the drug Booth inhales is never explicitly named, nor is the substance he traffics with Ben.
* [[Hair Trigger Temper]]: Really. There are other characters in this movie besides Booth. You have to trust me on this.
* [[Ho Yay]]: Booth - purveyor of depraved, squicky ho yay.
* [[Hormone Addled Teenager]]: There are a few of them.
* [[Large Ham]]: GET READY TO FUCK YOU FUCKER'S FUCKER !!!
* [[Mean Character Nice Actor]]: Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth. Really, he's actually funny, friendlier and nicer than his monstruos character. See the DVD extra and you'll know.
** Ironically, when Dennis Hopper first read the script, he purportedly called up David Lynch and said, "David, you have to let me play Frank! BECAUSE I '''''AM''''' FRANK!"
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: This film really helped the makers of ''Heineken!?'' '''Fuck That Shit!''' '''''Pabst! Blue! Ribbon!!''''' Then again, no one really wants to be like Frank so drinking Heineken might not be so bad. Additionally, ''Pabst Blue Ribbon'' was off the market for a long time due to poor sales. Perhaps this movie was the reason?
** DON'T YOU FUCKING LOOK AT ME!
** Near this troper's flat is a shop that specialises in imported goods from the USA and Mexico, and it does a brisk line in Pabst Blue Ribbon, having indeed a sign in the window featuring a still from this movie of Dennis Hopper inhaling gas and the slogan "Pabst! Blue! Ribbon! If it's good enough for Frank Booth it's good enough for you."
* [[Meta Twist]]: See [[Mind Screw]].
* [[Mind Screw]]: Notably absent for the most part, [[Mulholland Drive|given]] [[Twin Peaks|the]] [[David Lynch|director's]] [[Eraser Head|other]] [[Inland Empire|works.]] There are still bits and pieces that you'd be forgiven for missing on first view, however.
* [[Monster Clown]]: Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" or "CANDY COLORED CLOWN!!!" is a Monster Clown in the form of a song. Interestingly enough, Dean Stockwell, who lip-synchs the song while wearing white make up and exotic clothing, comes across as a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Monster Clown Pimp.]]
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Booth beats Jeffrey nearly to death in one scene.
* [[No Indoor Voice]].
* [[Not So Different]]: "You're like me..."
* [[Oh Crap]]: Jeffrey; first when he sees "the well-dressed man" coming up the stairs to Dorothy's apartment, and then again when he realizes it's Booth wearing a mask. Booth himself gets a rather subtle one when he flings open the closet door only to find Jeffrey pointing a revolver right at his forehead.
* [[Out Gambited]]: Frank, at the end. Mind you, he didn't have much brain to try a gambit, but he was confident that he was on a roll...
* [[Precision F Strike]]: "Here's to your <s>health</s> fuck, Frank."
* [[Product Placement]]: As mentioned above...
*: '''Frank''': ''So what kind of beer do you like?
*: '''Jeff''': ''Heineken.
*: '''Frank''': ''Heineken?! ''Fuck'' that shit! ''Pabst Blue Ribbon!
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: ...anyone? Anyone?
* [[Rear Window Investigation]].
* [[Sex Slave]]: Frank <s>towards</s> takes Dorothy.
* [[Sir Swears A Lot]]: Frank is one of the most disturbing examples of this trope imaginable. "Don't you fucking look at me! '''[[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|DON'T YOU FUCKING LOOK AT ME!!!]]'''"
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: In addition to the titular "Blue Velvet", the film also features very disturbing usage of "In Dreams" by Roy Orbison. Orbison refused to let Lynch use the song, but Lynch was able to find a loophole to get around his lack of permission. Orbison later changed his mind anyway.
** The song playing when the cops shoot up Frank's base of operations.
* [[This Is Sparta]]: "Heineken?! Fuck that shit! Pabst! Blue! Ribbon!"
* [[Titled After The Song]].
* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: [[David Lynch]] FTW / WTF. And this is probably Lynch's most straightforward movie (other than ''[[The Straight Story]]'').
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: "He put his disease in me."
* [[What Could Have Been]]: As Blue Velvet was conceived as a comeback film after the failure of ''Dune'', David Lynch has opined publicly over the years that the film would never have been made had he taken up George Lucas' offer to direct ''Return of the Jedi'' instead of doing ''Dune''.
** Frank's tank was originally meant to be filled with Helium...
** Lynch filmed a four-hour movie, which was cut down to one hour fifty-nine minutes by the studio. There's a whole two hours and one minutes worth of missing footage.
** Sandy was originally to be played by [[John Hughes]]'s muse [[Molly Ringwald]], but she turned down the role, fearing it would taint her [[Contractual Purity|family-friendly image]].
** Val Kilmer was offered the role of Jeffrey but turned it down, saying that the script he read "was straight-out, hardcore pornography before page 30". Kilmer stated that, if he had been given a copy of the script that Lynch eventually filmed, he would have gladly taken the part.
** Harry Dean Stanton [http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201011/true-grit-harry-dean-stanton turned down the chance to be Frank Booth.] He'd go on to work with Lynch anyway, with minor roles in ''[[Fire Walk With Me]]'' and ''[[The Straight Story]]'', but still.
* [[What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made On Drugs?]]: It's David Lynch. Really, do you have to ask?
** Compared to a lot of his other films, this one is actually ''really'' straightforward.
* [[You Bastard]]: Some have interpreted Frank's "You're like me" comment (as he stares almost directly at the camera) as an example of this trope.

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== Peter ==
{{cquote|''From now on, you two sluts have no free will of your own, no rights whatsoever... you'll do as I say, no questions, no back-talk, no hesitation... you'll be my puppets, compliant sextoys. You have no purpose other than to please you master... If you do not obey orders or disrespect me in any way, I will torture you, and if you try to escape, I'll hunt you down and kill you. From now on, you'll share everything... pleasure, pain... and of course, your master's cum... every day and every night.''}}
The main character and [[Villain Protagonist]], [[Plain Name|Peter Stevenson]] is an [[Ordinary High School Student]] in an not-so-ordinary world. Bored to death and annoyed by school by his 18th birthday, Peter daydreams at school at his crush, Maggie, and comes back home with no motivation for his life. Unbeknown to us, his father pretty much gets around in the slave world, and buys Maggie as his slave. As time passes, he [[Crosses the Line Twice]] and comes close to [[Complete Monster]] territory, pretty much wrecking damage amongst barely-18-year old girls, including Maggie, Sherry, Gwen, Anna or Ginger, and mostly enjoys himself [[Beyond the Impossible]].
* [[A Party Also Known as an Orgy]]: Anna gives Peter tickets to a party that turns into an orgy.
* [[A Real Man Is A Killer|A Real Man Is A Sadist]].
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: He is this to Maggie, Sherry and Gwen.
* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: He seems to think so. He's almost genuinely surprised that Maggie or Gwen are virgins.
* [[Allergic To Routine]].
* [[Anger Montage]]: He has one when he thinks {{spoiler|Anna dumped him}}. He pretty much pretends to have some of these with Maggie or Sherry, although most of the time he [[Irony|seems to be faking it]].
* [[Audience Surrogate]]: Peter is supposed to be this, the not-too-moral not-too-evil everyman that winds up in a world of sexual depravity at his disposal and explores it with childish enthusiasm.
* [[Aw Look They Really Do Love Each Other]]: He likes deconstructing this/ruining the timing.
** Plays it more straight as time goes by with Maggie.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The toys his father orders; he enjoys using them.
* [[Balanced Harem]]: Peter has equal screen time with many of his slaves, although Cumbunny is definitely his favorite, but Anna, Gwen and Sherry were good candidates too.
* [[Basement Dweller]]: Starts as a mild version of this.
* [[Bastard Boyfriend]]: Not like Maggie has a choice in the matter...
* [[Beautiful Dreamer]]: Lampshades the trope, then proceeds to deconstruct it.
* [[Biggus Dickus]]: Gwen comments his is bigger than Steve's.
* [[Blatant Burglar]]: Peter and Steve wear some sort of sky masks when they enter Gwen's residence. It's sort of justified because they didn't enter to steal anything (well... [[If You Know What I Mean|not literally]]... and not just kisses either) and they say it'd be consider a "minor thing" anyway. Oh yeah, and they're basically just kids out for cheap thrills.
* [[Break The Cutie]]: He's fond to do this to girls.
* [[But Thou Must]]: He loves giving fake "choices" to girls too.
* [[The Bro Code]]: Breaks it when taking {{spoiler|Gwen and fucking her in front of her former master Steve and the one that loved her}} ''[[Bullying A Dragon|to taunt him]]''. To be fair, he was drunk and in the morning he proposed to give her back, but {{spoiler|Steve}} said [[Blatant Lies|it's all well]].
* [[Calling Your Orgasms]].
* [[Character Development]]: Strangely enough (or [[Fridge Brilliance|obviously enough]]), he doesn't change throughout the show regarding the level of torture he's willing to use (except the occasional momentarily surprise at the new methods "the state" devised to torture women). Momentarily, then he's just amused and [[Complete Monster|willing to use them]]), but he seems to be in love with Anna {{spoiler|and very upset when he think she left him,}} but [[He Gets Better]] as time passes. He also seems to be more lenient on the girls since {{spoiler|he got Gwen}}. [[Yank the Dog's Chain|{{spoiler|This changes]] once he's upset Anna won't answer his phone.}}
* [[Chaotic Evil]]/[[Lawful Evil]].
* [[Cold Blooded Torture]]: Although he's a saint compared to Anna.
* [[Complete Monster]].
* [[Cluster F Bomb]].
* [[The Dark Side Will Make You Forget]]: He even acknowledges this in relation with his feelings for Maggie and even thinks it's a good thing that he's less of an idealist.
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: Peter has [[Genre Savvy]] moments where he recognises and proceeds to deconstruct the most obvious of tropes in the most sadistic way possible. For his laugh, and possibly the viewer's.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: He loves doing this. {{Lampshaded}}:
::'''Sherry''': ''The sadistic animal just wants an excuse to fry my poor ass!''
* [[The Dutiful Son]]: Seems to fit the modern role of this.
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: He forgets what he did the night during his [[Wild Teen Party]]. He even forgets {{spoiler|having won Gwen ''with the thanks of Sherry'' and having beaten Sherry to a pulp.}}
* [[Erotic Asphyxiation]]: He finds that having Maggie keep Sherry's head in the pool make her contract her... parts better, and thus gives him a better experience. He doesn't seem to do it again too soon, maybe considering the risks. Earlier in the show, he appears to be choking Maggie in his first time. Another instance comes when he throws Sherry in the cum pit.
* [[Erotic Dream]]: Peter has a daydream of Maggie the same day (or, for all we know, ''every day'' before) he officially owns her. Later he has one with Anna.
* [[Evil Has A Bad Sense Of Humor]]: Type 2, though he's one of the few that tries to make [[Dead Baby Comedy]]... well, funny, with multiple degrees of success.
* [[Evil Is Petty]].
* [[Fair For Its Day]]: Even compared with his friends, [[Beyond The Impossible|even more so compared with the State's methods in the]] [[Expanded Universe]].
* [[Follow In My Footsteps]]: Peter and his dad seem to deal pretty well in this, if even only slave-busting related.
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Inversion.
* [[Friendless Background]]: Starts as this.
* [[Good Morning Crono]]: Played straight in his case: wakes up and starts spending his day in a relaxed (for his tastes) fashion.
* [[Ha Ha Ha No]]: Peter pretends to laugh and be amused by Sherry's rebellious outbursts, but promptly sets the quota of punishment for her.
* [[Hangover Sensitivity]]: This comes in when he wakes up after a rave with Easy Amnesia.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: A lot of examples like the first quote.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: In part 8, he's shown to {{spoiler|have been at one time a romantic in sincere love with Maggie.}}
* [[Ignored Confession]]: He's willing to pretend {{spoiler|he hasn't won Gwen}} to preserve his friendship with Steve, but Steve says [[Blatant Lies|it's all nice and fine]].
** It's interesting how he'll react to Maggie's {{spoiler|love confession}}.
* [[I Love You Because I Can't Control You]]: Subversion/variation: He pretends to like Sherry's mean spirits, but then he has enough of it and forces her not to talk again. With Anna, he's going with it because he can't do anything but depend on her "charity".
* [[I Love You, Vampire Son|I Love You, Slave Girl]]: Peter is proud of how his girls turned into slaves.
* [[Impossibly Mundane Explanation]]: Inversion. Anna doesn't answer his phone calls, so he probably believes he's being ignored/dumped. {{spoiler|She's been kidnapped by Steve.}}
* [[I Showed Her What A Real Man Is]]: With {{spoiler|Gwen}}. Ironic for this trope is that she confirms his is bigger than {{spoiler|Steve's.}}
* [[Jerk With A Heart Of Gold]]: How Maggie would like him to be, but he might just be...
* [[Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk]].
* [[Lima Syndrome]]: He ''almost'' shows signs of this (actually loving Maggie in his own way), but social pressure and the hormones of a teen in heat don't let him go too far.
* [[Love Hurts]]: {{spoiler|With Anna.}}
* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: Peter is [[Voodoo Shark|mostly]] [[Retcon]]ned into this.
* [[Loophole Abuse]]: Uses one to rape a teacher in part 9 and get away with it.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Less so than Anna, but more than Steve.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|Manic Pixie Dream Guy]].
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Even less than Anna at this point, but he still knows how to manipulate his slaves while making it seem natural. Outclassed by his dad, though.
* [[My Girl Is A Slut]]: He loves giving/sharing/being proud of Maggie (and later Sherry) about sex.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Names Maggie ''Cumbunny'', Sherry ''Sluttykitten''' and congratulates himself in naming {{spoiler|Gwen}} ''Sluttyfox'' {{spoiler|while drunk}}.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Peter does this to Sherry ''when he's too drunk to know why he has strong feeling towards her, and if it is of hate or gratefulness''. He chooses the first.
* [[Oblivious To Love]]: He doesn't seem to see Maggie has grown to love him right under his nose.
* [[Obvious Object Could Be Anything]]: Justified in his case. He got a girl with a head in the box, and a) He's too drunk to remember what the hell even happened the previous night b) he's got a nasty hangover and c) [[Captain Obvious|He knows it's a girl]]. {{spoiler|It was Gwen.}}
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Deconstructed/[[Cerberus Retcon|Retconned]] into being a [[Lonely Rich Kid]] grown in a fucked-up family and having a [[Start Of Darkness]] from being rejected by Maggie.
* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]].
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]].
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Is relatively forced to be this in training his slaves. [[Psycho For Hire|Doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy it]], but he proves with Sherry what it means to ''really'' hurt a girl out of pure pleasure rather than the schedule learned from the state.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: Does this with Maggie (he honestly expresses his feelings like that apparently).
* [[Really Gets Around]]: From the beginning of the series when he was akin to a geeky [[Basement Dweller]], he now has a harem of over five women, plus his father's "property" to use with his permission.
* [[The Reason You Suck Speech]]: Loves throwing these around (see quote).
* [[Screw The Rules I Have Money]]: He's slowly flanderized into this for [[New Rules As The Plot Demands|a similar sounding trope]].
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted, he wears normal clothes, he makes his slaves dress skimpy.
* [[Sexual Karma]]: Inverted in Love Karma. He gets all the sex and the sex slaves he wants{{spoiler|, but loses Anna.}}
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: How much can the girls he has intercourse with count is arguable.
* [[Shocking Voice Identity Reveal]]: Takes great care to not use his voice around Sherry until he finishes with her, so it'd be more scary and humiliating for her. When he starts talking, she begins to recognize him.
* [[Silly Rabbit Romance Is For Kids]]: Likes to remind Maggie of this.
* [[Sitcom Character Archetypes]]: Peter tries to [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|fit as much as these as he can]]:
* [[Spectacled Sadist]].
* [[Start Of Darkness]]: Arguably Peter has this for being (indirectly, albeit true) rejected by Maggie.
* [[Tenchi Solution]]: His family's into this, so why not him?
* [[Took A Level In Badass]]: Peter starts off as the not-really-[[Adorkable]] [[Chew Toy]], and by the 8th part, he has three slaves and a ''girlfriend'', something most likely unheard of in his neighborhood.
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Peter is trying to seem this... ''hard''. [[YMMV|It's arguable if he succeeded.]]
* [[Wild Teen Party]]: Has one for his birthday. [[Karma Houdini|Not only does he not get into trouble for it, but gets a slave in the process.]] He does end up with a [[Hangover Sensitivity|nasty hangover]] and [[Easy Amnesia]] of the latter night.
* [[Villain Protagonist]].
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]]: He loves doing this to Maggie.
** Does this again to Sherry in part 8.
* [[You Taste Delicious]].

== Maggie ==
The [[Character Title|character in the title]] (the first one, at least) and protagonist, Maggie Sweetie is an [[Ordinary High School Student]] who just had her 18th birthday. She apparently lives with her uncle and her mother, and has been unknowing about sex until the beginning of the story. Unbeknown to her, she's Peter's (who she seems to consider a "geek" who she apparently doesn't like) crush and has been sold 10 days before the start of the story in an arrangement between Peter's father and her uncle. She accepts her fate with stoicism, hoping Peter would be nice to her, but she wakes up in a world of humiliation bent on breaking girls. As time passes, she discovers feelings for both Peter and a good friend now fellow slave, Sherry. Still, her life isn't by far good and she's often forced to accept Peter's most humiliating requests.

* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: Starts directly at Type 2, since she knows she doesn't have a snowball chance in hell to be rescued, and that she has to live with Peter for the rest of her life (if she's lucky).
* [[Am I Just A Toy To You]]?: Maggie finds herself in this position often. Peter told Maggie he liked her from some time ago, and this made Maggie almost happy. Then, he called her "his favorite" at least once. This may be one of the (admittedly shallow) reasons why she's falling in love with him.
* [[Arson Murder And Jaywalking]]:
*: ''I can't believe this is happening. Peter makes me sick... he's idiot... and he... he smells...''
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: Played straight at first, but later dulled down: she starts getting use to her job and her "uniforms".
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: Maggie knows her place and her fate from the day she sees herself sold.
* [[Break The Cutie]].
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Miss Cox was Maggie's hero. Now, she still pities her, but it's evident she's lost some of the respect for her.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: She might be ''a little'' in relation to Anna, but there's nothing she can do about it.
* [[Character Development]]: Maggie starts as a ready-to-be-docile slave, although Peter does not seem to like that. She ends up hating him for all his [[Cold Blooded Torture]], but having brought in Sherry, she takes a [[Les Yay|liking]] to her and eventually even displays jealousy towards the new girl Peter (has to) treat as a human being and actual girlfriend. At the end of the 6th part, Paul buys {{spoiler|her mother}}, and she has to teach her the ropes. In issue 8, [[I Love You|{{spoiler|she finally confessed her feelings for Peter]]}}.
* [[Character Title]]: Maggie is the titular birthday girl.
* [[Contemplate Our Navels]]: Her thoughts about Peter go as this. Most recently, she contemplated a [[What If]] scenario in which she'd have recognised him as {{spoiler|the writer of a love letter}} and would have become his girlfriend, but concludes it's a [[Crapsack World]] they live in anyway and he would've been just a prospective buyer.
** [[Discussed Trope|Explored]] in a [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]] manner, as {{spoiler|her mother joins her daily life}}, only to be horrified of the things Maggie has grown to get accustomed to, like weekly whippings... because they're on the schedule.
* [[Converting For Love]]: Starts enjoying being a slave after she's given a few powers around the house, falls in love with Peter and can be together more often and more privately with Sherry.
* [[Creepy Uncle]]: She has one.
* [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday|Dangerous Eighteenth Birthday]]
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: With a big [[Just For Pun|topping]] of [[Stockholm Syndrome]].
* [[Did Not Eat The Mousse]]: Sometimes pays for Sherry's mistakes.
* [[Don't Tell Mama|Don't Show Mama]] the [[Embarrassing Pictures]] of me.
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Cumbunny.
* [[Embarrassing Pictures]]: Peter takes these of her often.
** Earlier in her story ([[Flashback|later in the series]]]):
**: '''Maggie''': [...] ''And of course, they recorded enough video and 3D images [of me naked] to stock a porno shop for years.''
* [[Epiphanic Prison]]: She noted this in the beginning; other girls don't seem to see this so obvious.
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Justified from her point of view, and [[Crapsack World|from the world's]], for that matter. She starts as a submissive slave, only wanting not to get hurt more than she has to. She's made to write a journal [[All There In The Manual|in her special]] where [[Stepford Smiler|she has to say she enjoyed Peter's brutal treatment]], and she's described there as "Docile teenager - highly obedient" (though she still rants in her mind, and has her own reactions to Peter, one way or the other).
* [[First Girl Wins]]: Her "fortune", for now. At least she's the favourite, so that's a hard place to be moved from.
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]].
* [[Good Morning Crono]]: Subverted. Good morning girls, want an electroshock to ease your awakening?
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: Becomes this gradually.
* [[Hope Spot]]: Peter loves [[Yank The Dog's Chain|yanking her chain]], but recently subverted.
* [[I Just Want To Be Normal]]: Starts as this, but by the end the only "normality" she can find in [[Happiness in Slavery|slavery]] is just no enough, so she accepts gladly her new status of "favorite".
* [[I Kiss Your Foot]].
* [[I Love You|{{spoiler|I Love You]]}}: She finally says this to Peter at the end of part 8.
* [[The Hero's Birthday]]: Maggie's birthday. [[Jerkass|Peter]] doesn't stop reminding her of her 19th.
* [[Home Porn Movie]]: Peter threatens to send naked pictures of her to her mother. However, {{spoiler|her mother}} [[It Gets Worse|{{spoiler|soon gets the chance of seeing her daughter's torments "live".]]}}
* [[The Ingenue]]: Maggie may be this, [[Flanderization|or may be turning into this]].
* [[Inner Monologue]].
* [[It's All My Fault]]: In a [[Tear Jerker]] moment, {{spoiler|Maggie tries to take full responsibility for Sherry when Peter finds out the two have been doing some Les Yay behind his back, as Sherry was brutally beaten the night before}} and Maggie knows she's Peter's favorite. This {{spoiler|backfires as he says he'll punish them both anyway. It's not that bad though, as he decides to forgive them once he found Gwen to be his.}}
* [[Sir Swearsalot|Lady Swearsabit Whenithurts]]. Ironically, she's more bad-mouthed ([[Inner Monologue|in her head, at least]]) than Sherry.
* [[Lipstick Lesbian]]: Is on her way to becoming this.
* [[Long Hair Is Feminine]].
* [[Lovable Libby]]: Possible.
* [[Love Hurts]]: Even for her.
* [[Love Interest]].
* [[Mother Daughter Threesome]].
* [[Plain Name]]: Maggie Sweetie.
* [[Punny Name]]: [[Break The Cutie|Sweetie.]]
* [[Rape Is Love]]: She gets the short end of this from Peter, and convinces herself being forced to have sex with her friend makes them lovers. Subverted with Anna.
* [[Replacement Love Interest]]: Is this to Anna on some level. While her status of true [[Love Interest]] is well set, Peter and Anna really connected ([[Unholy Matrimony|on their sadistic side]]) and Maggie is now for Peter {{spoiler|"the next best thing after Anna".}}
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted.
* [[Sexy Back]].
* [[Shower Of Angst]]: She's allowed to take a shower from time to time. All she can think about is that Peter will be upset if she stays too long. She barely has time to angst, and it's one of the few places she'd not.
* [[Slave Brand]]: Gets one by part 8, appropriately with a black filled heart ([[Fridge Horror|that must have hurt]]) and the text "Peter's Cumbunny".
* [[Spell My Name With An S]]: Sweetie.
* [[Spinoff Sendoff]]: Maggie appears shortly in Cindy's spin-off comic.
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] on why she's starting to like, even love, Peter.
* [[The Stoic]].
* [[Sweater Girl]]: Started as this.
* [[Throw The Dog A Bone]]: By #8, she gets several bones: {{spoiler|becoming Peter's favorite, having more time to spend with Sherry and more control over her, and even confesses her love to Peter.}}
* [[Troubled Backstory Flashback]]: In part 9, we finally see how she was bought and prepared by Paul and slavecops for Peter.

== Sherry ==
{{cquote|''I'll kill this bastard... and if I can't, I'll kill myself...''}}
Sherry Potts is the daughter of a businessman who is a business partner of Paul Stevenson. Because of Mr. Potts' financial problems, he is forced to sell one of his daughters to Paul, and chooses Sherry (because she's worth more, as a young virgin). Sherry finds herself with her friend Maggie in the depraved hands of her new owner Peter, and the more he fights him, the more he likes it, as well as punishes her more, sometimes just out of principle. One year passes, and her father finally has enough money to buy her back, but Paul won't let her go that easy...

* [[And Now You Must Marry Me]]: {{spoiler|Paul}} pulls this on her. It wasn't premeditated, just his best idea of {{spoiler|keeping her and screwing over her father.}}
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: Starts at Type 1, resists a good whooping of 8 issues in this position and even has a [[Throw the Dog a Bone]] moment where she's steadily on Type 1 {{spoiler|(for an entire half day), but now is likely to permanently fall in Type 2.}}
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Not that she appreciates it too much.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]].
* [[Big No]]: When she's about to be raped ([[It Gets Worse|the first time]]).
* [[Break The Haughtie]].
* [[Butt Monkey]] / [[The Chew Toy]]: Sherry becomes the target of Peter's ''worst'' abuses possible, as he wants to both get revenge on her and break her thoroughly.
* [[Cluster F Bomb]].
* [[Converting For Love]]: Her love for Maggie makes her want to at least pretend to be a better slave; she also accepts to {{spoiler|not cum in the contest with Steve}} so she won't be separated from Maggie.
* [[Cool And Unusual Punishment]]: Being a literal hood ornament, being dumped in a cum pit...
* [[Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon]]: Yeah, [[Played For Laughs]]...
* [[Defiant To The End]]: She tries to pull this off and she's still defiant {{spoiler|until the end of the 8th part.}} Considering Gwen took only about 2-3 parts to be broken in, she's the most resilient in the series.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: A lot harder and later than the rest of the girls. Mostly made possible not by Peter's ruthlessness, but by Maggie's kindness.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: "The sadistic animal just wants an excuse to fry my poor ass !"
* [[Drowning Pit]]: She's thrown into a [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|cum pit]] bound and her only way of survival is to [[Sadistic Choice|swallow as much cum as she can]]. Other girls have it worse, drowning in urine.
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Slutkitten.
* [[Fearless Fool]]: Taunts Peter at every turn without thinking of the consequences. Always turns out bad.
* [[Good Morning Crono]]: Subverted. Good morning girls, want an electroshock to ease your awakening?
* [[Groin Attack]]: On Peter. [[Never Live It Down|He never forgives her for it.]]
* [[Hood Ornament Hottie]]: She's forced into ''literally being that'' (stuck on the hood of the car). Probably a parody of the main trope.
* [[I Die Free‎]]: She keeps saying that. She never has the guts to take it through, although she has several chances.
* [[I Hate You Vampire Dad|I Hate You, Slave Owner]]: After 8 issues, she still hates Peter for turning her into a slave.
** {{spoiler|May turn in a whooping subversion with Paul.}}
* [[Inner Monologue]].
* [[It Gets Worse]]: Her life story.
* [[Les Yay]]: With Maggie.
* [[The Libby]].
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: She gets this because, arguably, Peter would only think she did bad, especially when he was drunk.
* [[Oblivious Younger Sibling]]: She has no idea about [[Pervert Dad|{{spoiler|her father and her sister]].}}
* [[Old Man Marrying A Child|{{spoiler|Old Man Marrying A Child]]}}: {{spoiler|Paul.}}
* [[Punny Name]]: From Cherry, obviously.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: She's falling in love with Maggie, who was forced several times to rape her; subverted with Anna '''[[And Zoidberg|and Peter]]'''.
* [[Refusal Of The Call]]: The most resilient.
* [[Servile Snarker]]: She fits this unusually with Peter. He seems amused by it, [[Ha Ha Ha No|until he's not anymore]].
* [[Sexy Secretary]]: Is taken as this {{spoiler|(for half a day or so at least) to Paul in part 8.}}
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: For Heather and as Maggie's "best friend".
* [[Torture Makes You Evil]]: {{spoiler|Paul}} gives her some power over some slaves (including [[Manipulative Bastard|making her whip them after he drunks her]]) and she discovers she likes it.
* [[Throw the Dog A Bone]]: Her relationship with Maggie is the only silver lining she has.
** And now {{spoiler|Paul}} manipulates her in wanting to [[Torture Makes You Evil|torture other slaves]].
* [[Tsundere]].
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]].
* [[You Dont Want To Die A Virgin Do You]]: Inverted: she laments she'll die with Peter's organ up her ass.
* [[You Monster]]: To Peter and Paul.

=== Maggie and Sherry ===
As the relationship between the two occupies a long part of the story, there are many tropes related to their relationship.
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: For each other.
* [[All There In The Manual]]: They both have a Special dedicated for each of them, including their ownership certificate.
* [[Beautiful Dreamer]]: Peter promptly subverts it.
* [[Beta Couple]].
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Being Peter's slaves has its advantages... like not being tortured to death in a few days, actually being fed and not being kept in a basement for days at a time. Yep, there's still the blessing part in this.
* [[Boarding School Of Horrors]]: It is for them.
* [[Cant Get Away With Nuthin]: Maggie and Sherry respectively can't get away with even ''looking lustful at each other'' by part 5 and doing some naughty things by part 7 (while presumably Peter was sleeping) without him knowing about it, which is quickly followed by [[Disproportionate Retribution]].
* [[Earn Your Happy Endings]]: They become {{spoiler|the favourites of their respective masters}} by part 9.
* [[Girl Next Door]].
* [[Going Commando]].
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: They start as this, Peter keeps pushing them for more, and the outcome is [[Les Yay|obvious}}.
* [[Les Yay]].
* [[Maid A Slave]].
* [[Mass Oh Crap]].
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]s.
* [[Rape Is Okay When Its Female On Female]]: Pretty softcore versions when Maggie applies it, and she tries to assure herself, while being forced to rape Sherry, that she'll be gentler or that she has no choice. They both hate Anna doing that to them, though.
* [[Rape Is Love]].
* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]].
* [[Sex Slave]]s.
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted for both of them.
* [[Sleep Cute]]: Sort of subverted by their whorish clothes, but Peter [[Beautiful Dreamer|compliments them as "angels" anyway]]... before roughly waking them up with [[For The Evulz|electroshock didoes]].
* [[Tenchi Solution]].
* [[Throw The Dog A Bone]]: Peter becomes more lenient with their relationship.
* [[Tomboy And Girly Girl]].
* [[Vapor Wear]].
* [[Your Approval Fills Me With Shame]]: Played straight the first numbers, Maggie deviates from this later.

== Steve ==
Steve is Peter's good friend, quickly taking Jeff's "best friend" status as far as his appearance in the story goes. He's at first an unquestioning friend aching to lackey to Peter, and Peter accepts and rewards this. Thanks to his relationship with Peter (and arguably Peter's money which would get them out of trouble), he gets to own Gwen, his high school squeeze, after a (intentional) botched rape-and-run attempt at her house. As he feels looked down by Steve, he starts making mistakes in judgment, culminating with {{spoiler|loosing Gwen to Peter in a stupid bet.}} He tries to make up for it by {{spoiler|kidnapping Anna,}} infuriating Peter for it. Time will tell if this turns out to be a good move or throws him in [[Too Dumb To Live]] territory.

* [[A Party Also Known As An Orgy]]: Gets to go to one.
* [[Always Second Best]]: He starts feeling like this in comparison with Peter, to the point where he {{spoiler|loses Gwen in a stupid bet powered by lots of drinking and pride, and subsequently decides to kidnap Anna.}}
* [[Anger Montage]]: Has one when Anna pushes him too far [[For The Evulz]]. He also [[No Holds Barred Beatdown|does this]] {{spoiler|when he first kidnapped Anna, and was wrongfully believed to have done this}} to Cathy.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: In Jeff's place.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The tools he uses to break women.
* [[Basement Dweller]]: ''Devolves'' into this. [[It Helped|It helps]] he's got a real woman he [[Cursed With Awesome|really loves to hate and loves to torture in the basement.]]
* [[Bastard Boyfriend]].
* [[Beta Couple]]: Him and Gwen.
* [[Blatant Burglar]].
* [[The Bro Code]]: Probably what set him over the edge was {{spoiler|losing Gwen}} at Peter's party. He moves to {{spoiler|invoke this trope when taking Anna.}}
* [[Complete Monster]].
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: He gives Gwen a horrific rape for just apparently bad mouthing him.
** What he did to {{spoiler|Peter and Anna}} [[YMMV|may or may not be]] disproportionate.
* [[Driven By Envy]]: Steve becomes envious of {{spoiler|Peter}} starting with part 6, with {{spoiler|Peter having an actual girlfriend}} and outclasses him (involuntarily) in a pony contest (you might not wanna know...) and is so off-balanced by him that {{spoiler|he looses Gwen, his childhood squeeze, in a stupid bet driven by the same envy and pride. He later gets even by kidnapping Anna.}}
* [[Evil Has A Bad Sense Of Humor]]: Type 2.
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: Much beyond Peter.
* [[Evilly Affable]].
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Inversion.
* [[Hidden In Plain Sight]]: Takes {{spoiler|Anna}} to Paul's marriage ceremony, all bound in latex and deprived of all senses.
* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: He thinks Gwen doesn't like him because he's ugly, while she was most likely going to say some synonym of "brutal". He's also ready to try to take down {{spoiler|Peter and Anna}} because he thinks them together risk putting him down.
* [[Killed Off For Real|{{spoiler|Killed Off For Real]]}}: Although we [[Never Found the Body|{{spoiler|Didn't See The Body]]}}... yet.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Is implied to do this to Cathy, Gwen {{spoiler|and Anna}} a lot more often than Peter.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]].
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]].
* [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge|{{spoiler|Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]]}}{{spoiler|: When he leaves Peter's party, he's revealed to be in this mood.}}
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: For Jeff and as Peter's "best friend".
* [[Took A Level In Badass]]: Steve becomes from Peter's friend/lackey who'd sometime share the spoils into [[Always Second Best]] sadistic inventive SOB and who can spar with ''Anna'' in level of wits, only brought down by his family's lack of money in comparison with Peter.
* [[To The Pain]]: Steve actually calls {{spoiler|Anna}} his "painslut" (and this is an actual <s>legitimate</s> legalized use of the term in-universe).
* [[Up To Eleven]]: He's like a worse version of Peter. Not Beyond The Impossible type, but definitely one level beyond him regarding mostly everything.
* [[Unknown Rival]]: Is this for {{spoiler|Anna and Peter.}}
* [[Wham Line]]:
*: ''I guess he really misses you, {{spoiler|'''''Anna'''}}!

== Anna ==
{{cquote|''Look at the big boy all hot for the perverted exchange student. You'd like to grab my hair and force me on my knees, and stuff my mouth with this [cock] if you could. You'd penetrate me violently and torture me till I begged you to make me your slave. [[Take a Third Option|What about a girlfriend instead?]] You already have enough slaves anyway. I'll be your girl if you let me play with them anytime I want.''}}
Anna is a foreign exchange student who at first looks like easy pickings for the boys, who have effectively run over the school. One of them discover she is a BDSM model in her country, and soon she display traits completely different than usual women or potential slaves. She knows she has diplomatic immunity and is untouchable by the boys (even more than Sherry or Gwen, for example). She takes a liking in Peter's slave girls and makes him an offer he can't refuse. After a whole torture session against them, she proposes she'll be his genuine girlfriend is she has access to them all the time, and he happily agrees.
* [[A God Am I]]: Call her "Goddess".
* [[All Abusers Are Male]]: Notable inversion.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]].
* [[And I Must Scream|{{spoiler|And I Must Scream]]}}{{spoiler|: Put first in a box, gagged, in the dark, and then in a sensory deprivation suit to be taken to Peter's dad's wedding.}}
* [[As Long As It Sounds Foreign]]: Maybe subverted, maybe played straight. Anna from the American point of view doesn't seem too foreign, or at least not too French.
* [[Ascended Extra]]{{spoiler|: For a while, at least.}}
* [[A Real Man Is A Killer|A Real Woman Is A Sadist]]: She likes taking the role of a torturer and breaker, rather than tortured or broken.
* [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]]: [[Fridge Horror|Possibly]] by her career of posing in BDSM magazines.
* [[Beyond The Impossible]]: Arguably, what she does, considering the limitations women are faced with, is more interesting, sadistic and exaggerated than much of what the boys could think of.
* [[Brains And Bondage]].
* [[Broken Bird]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation]].
* [[Bullying A Dragon]]: Yeah, bully that ''creepy'' kid {{spoiler|friend-turned-rival of your boyfriend}}, nothing could happen because your rich American bf has your back. Right? [[Too Dumb To Live|{{spoiler|Right?]]}}
* [[Burn Baby Burn]]: {{spoiler|She torches Steve's house after she escapes and kills him.}}
* [[Character Development]]: Starts with her as probably another collection piece in the boys' conquest list, but she turns out quickly to be much more. A slut ''and'' a sadist, every boy's dream and the perfect girlfriend. But wait, there's more: she's willing to send up the river other girls for her own sick pleasure and to keep in good terms with the boys. The only one she thinks to pick on is Steve, and by this point she's entered into [[Jerk Sue]] territory ''hard''. {{spoiler|Being tortured by Steve for two weeks}} made her even more [[Ax Crazy|batshit crazy]].
* [[Commuting On A Bus]]: As of part 6.
* [[Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon]]: {{spoiler|Well, she plans to pull Steve's out with her bare hands. If she ever escapes.}}
** {{spoiler|She finally does this after giving Steve an ultimatum of [[Touch Me Again]] with that dick... unfortunately for him, he doesn't listen.}}
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: {{spoiler|At least until she made an enemy of Steve.}} She even (assuming it was her initial choice) decided to be a ''BDSM magazine model'' instead of a genuine model. With the [[Deliberate Value Dissonance]] [[Fetish Fuel Future]], that [[Fridge Brilliance|''is'' a better respected (and maybe feared) job than just being a model (and former regular models are often shown to have a]] [[Fate Worse Than Death]].
* [[Depraved Bisexual]].
* [[Don't Call Me Sir]]: Subversion: Don't call her "Mistress"... call her "[[Up to Eleven|Goddess]]".
* [[Electric Torture]]: She uses this on Peter's pets ([[Fridge Horror|and probably on others in the past]])
* [[Ethical Slut]]: Through and through.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Possibly the only standard she has is not even throwing a bone to Steve.
* [[Even The Girls Want Her]].
* [[Everyone Looks Sexier If French]].
* [[Evil Has A Bad Sense Of Humor]]: Type 2.
* [[Evil Is Sexy]].
* [[Evilly Affable]].
* [[Exalted Torturer]].
* [[Fashionable Evil]]: Goes with appearing as model in magazines.
* [[Femme Fatalons]].
* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]]: Even in-world, considering the nature of the series.
* [[Fille Fatale]]: We know she's been in BDSM comics for some time, we don't know ''from what age'' and we know she's completely aware of her body.
* [[For The Evulz]]: More than the usual wank.
* [[Foreign Exchange Student]].
* [[French Jerk]]: Only she is from [[Ruritania|an Eastern European country]].
* [[Going Commando]]: She actually likes this.
* [[Groin Attack]]: To {{spoiler|Steve. With his own knife.}}
* [[Girl In A Box|{{spoiler|Head In A Box]].}}
* [[Jerk Sue]].
* [[Magnificent Bitch]]: Peter may have ''some brains'', but Anna is a manipulative bitch through and through.
* [[Manipulative Bitch]]: She's a pro with the girls she doesn't let on her entire aspect to.
* [[Missed Moment Of Awesome]]: Most of her [[Backstory]], {{spoiler|Steve kidnapping Anna, Anna killing Steve, much of what Steve did to her until that point was mostly cameos.}}
* [[Modest Royalty]]: Is revealed to be this in her home country in #9.
* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: One of the few evil/morally inverted examples of this trope.
* [[New Transfer Student]]: Deconstructed. Of course.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: She seems to have this habit.
**{{spoiler}Gets this from Steve.}}
* [[Not Very Pretty Now Is He|Not Very Pretty Now, Is She?]]
* [[No Womans Land]]: Anna knows about this and is careful not to violate any curfews, and gives Peter a ticket to a sort of party where women are not allowed...
* [[Obviously Evil]]: From her first five seconds of introduction, she reveals herself no less as a whore in heat who'll choose whoever she wants for that purpose. She is so with Maggie, Sherry and Steve, and she's a mild version of this with Ginger, who ''still'' doesn't seem to get it.
* [[Out Gambited|{{spoiler|Out Gambited]]}}{{spoiler|: Underestimating Steve.}}
* [[Pass The Popcorn]]: Peter and Anna watching Steve take his frustration out on Gwen.
* [[Perky Goth]].
* [[Pretty Freeloaders]]: Subverted differently than with the others. She actually carries her weight for Peter.
* [[Psycho And Cute]]: For the men, at least.
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Even more so after {{spoiler|apparently killing Steve}}.
* [[Put On A Bus|{{spoiler|Put On A Bus]]}}{{spoiler|: After being kidnapped by Steve.}}
* [[The Quisling]]: That and many betrayal tropes are embodied by her. {{spoiler|She gets hers.}}
* [[Rape Is Okay When It's Female On Female]]: She subverts it ''wonderfully''.
* [[Rape As Backstory]]: Implied and VERY likely.
* [[Raven Hair Ivory Skin]]: She's even more pale than the other girls.
* [[Relationship Sue]]: Steve accuses her of being this.
* [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge|{{spoiler|Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]]}}{{spoiler|: After she escaped Steve}}.
* [[Romantic False Lead|{{spoiler|Romantic False Lead]].}}
* [[Sacrificial Lion|{{spoiler|Sacrificial Lion]]}}{{spoiler|: Was almost her fate.}}
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Plays it straight.
* [[She Is The King]]: She (probably intentionally) averts this trope.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Although she makes ''even those'' look... somewhat [[Psycho And Cute|cute]].
* [[Spell My Name With An S]]: It's ''Anna'', not Ana.
* [[The Stoic]]: Pulls this off for 3 issues so far {{spoiler|while trying to resist at the hands of Steve}}.
* [[Take A Third Option]]: Suggests to become Peter's girlfriend as alternative for Peter drooling over her with no outcome and getting himself into trouble for abusing her.
* [[Too Kinky To Torture]]: {{spoiler|Subverted.}}
* [[Touch Me Again]]:
*: '''Anna''': ''Listen to me, you motherfucker... If you you touch me with [[Biggus Dickus|that thing]] one more time... I will rip it off before I slit your throat with my own fingernails!
*: {{spoiler|'''Steve'''}}: ''Wow! You actually made my threats sound like a love song. [[Arson Murder And Admiration|That's how you threaten someone, I give you that]]. But sadly, {{spoiler|you are the one in shackles and chains and I'm the one with the big scary knife...}} Ah-hah-haa!''
** It still didn't help {{spoiler|him}}.
* [[Tragedy|{{spoiler|Tragedy]]}}{{spoiler|: Her story is shaping into this}}. Now with a [[Thelma And Louise|{{spoiler|Thelma And Louise]]}} {{Shoutout}}.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]].

== Jeff ==
{{cquote|Let's drink to the Slavery Law, brothers! Thanks to those thieving, old, fat [[Corrupt Hick|politicians]], we are [[Cursed with Awesome|blessed]] with the best pussy available!}}
Jeff was (is?) Peter's best friend, a black curly haired "geek" with who he'd share everything, even the best friends slaves. However, for unsure reasons, Peter invites Steve for a "woman hunt" one night and since then, Steve appears a lot more "on screen" than Jeff. Peter and Jeff still have a casual relationship, but he's out of the big picture, only appearing when the plot demands that an owner not have more than 2 slaves. Jeff seems more detached than his two other good friends, Peter and Steve, and stays a [[Flat Character]] as of the 8 issues so far appeared. He owns Heather, Maggie's red-headed best friend, and Natalie more recently, courtesy of Anna.

* [[Arson Murder And Admiration]]: The character quote.
* [[Demoted To Extra]].
* [[Embarrassing Old Photo]]: Jeff carries one where Heather and Nathalie were in the shower, looking nasty at him and being half naked. This trope is somewhat circumvented, as Jeff was actually proud of that photo, and the girls have less qualms with the level of embarrassment in them and more that this reminds their masters to punish them for it.
* [[Flat Character]].
* [[One Scene Wonder]]: That quote is pretty epic in an otherwise boring life of an average slave owner.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Oh so ordinary...
* [[Plain Name]], Plain Guy.
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]].

== Miss Cox ==
Hannah Cox is a math teacher at the school. Unbeknown to her students, she's also The Principal's slave, enslaved since she was 18 and her father died "[[Make It Look Like An Accident|in an accident]]". While her "protector" gives her the option of education, she is still to serve him and she maintains the facade of a free woman. When she forget about an appointment with her guardian, she's exposed and [[It Gets Worse]].
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]].
* [[Big No]].
* [[Break The Cutie]]: Spirit, bones and mind, in that order.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]].
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: {{spoiler|She's turned into this}} in an [[Expanded Universe]] novel.
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Her and most of the teachers are forced into this.
* [[Girls Behind Bars]].
* [[Heartwarming Orphan]]: Deconstructed. {{spoiler|She sells out Miss Cummings.}}
* [[Hot Teacher]].
* [[I Resemble That Remark]]: In ''The Clinic'', she's [[Mind Rape]]d into {{spoiler|stupidity}}. Even worse because she was a teacher. Entirely played [[Dead Baby Comedy|for laughs]]:
*: '''Doctor''': We also cut here and there to make these bitches {{spoiler|stupider...}} She is now as tight and dull-witted as a teen slut.
*: '''Hannah Cox''': No [[This Cannot Be|it can't be]]... It is impoza... imposa... I mean impossibel... Oh god! No! [[Big No|NOOOOO!]]
* [[Karmic Transformation]]: Becomes this... well, partly. She doesn't become a slave owner, but she does become {{spoiler|a stupid person}}, contrary to her education and her beliefs.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Luring Cummings into a trap cuts}} most of the sympathy we have for her.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]].
* [[Phlebotinum Induced Stupidity|{{spoiler|Phlebotinum Induced Stupidity]].}}
* [[Prophetic Names]].
* [[Stern Teacher]]: Tries to be this, but is undermined by the Principal and the current affairs of the world in general.
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]]: It appears the only reason The Principal let her study and become a math teacher was to {{spoiler|take it away for her, to further break her.}}

== Cindy ==
Cindy Leccacazzi is one of the classmates of '''Maggie'''. She manages to stay a free girl for a long time thanks to her incredible luck. She is known as one of the smartest students, the size of her brain is matched only by the size of her boobs. She has a meek personality and offers little resistance when she is bullied. She served as a secondary or tertiary character since the beginning of the series. With a surprise twist, she got her own spinoff comic '''For Sale!''' and became a major character.
* [[And Now You Must Marry Me]]: How her special ends.
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]].
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Leaped from a background extra to star of her own comic.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: She has to wear many.
* [[Break The Cutie]]: Intensively.
* [[Creepy Uncle]]: She has one.
* [[Continuity Cameo]]: She was there at the beginning.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]]: Appears to have the largest wardrobe compared to the other characters.
* [[Inner Monologue]]: How she tells the story.
* [[Long Hair Is Feminine]]: She has great hair.
* [[Naked Apron]]: Her uncle forces her to cook like that.
* [[Old Man Marrying A Child]]: She eventually ends up marrying her uncle.
* [[Prophetic Names]]: She lives up to it.
* [[Punny Name]]: Her surname is Leccacazzi. Ask an Italian who is not big enough to beat you up. Or [[Science Marches On|just google it]].
* [[Rape Is Okay When Its Female On Female]]: She even enjoys a little when Maria works on her.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: Her step-uncle is a loving person.
* [[School Bullying Is Harmless|School Bullying Is Rape]].
* [[This Is My Story]].
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Action never stops to let her rest.

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== Paul ==
Paul Stevenson is Peter's father and a businessman in the woman slave trade. He has a good relationship with his son and is lenient about his (sexual) needs, probably being the kind of father that if he knows his son hasn't gotten laid until 18, he has to take him to a brothel. Fortunately, this world is more open (and more STD clean) so he buys Peter his high-school squeeze for his 18th birthday, and then his partner's daughter as sexual slaves. He treats his wife like dirt (though she still remains his favorite {{spoiler|at least until marrying Sherry}}, and that's saying much on [[It Gets Worse|how he treats the rest of his slaves]]). While at first he has little role in the story than to give his son a good life (read: slaves), he becomes more involved in the story, buying his former love (a similar situation with Peter) which just happens to be Maggie's mother, and has more and more intense relationship with [[The Rival|Potts]], his business "partner".
* [[A Day In The Limelight]]: Gets more time, and we get to see his job daily life in part 8, as well as {{spoiler|his honeymoon}} in ''The Hotel''.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Seems to believe this, and fatherly teaches Peter to follow in his footsteps.
* [[Ascended Extra]].
* [[Complete Monster]]: One of the few in the main series that can claim this title almost completely.
* [[Creepy Uncle|Creepy Father-In-Law]].
* [[Deconstruction Fleet]]: Of the standard 50s father.
* [[Dirty Old Man]].
* [[Ethical Slut]].
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: With Potts.
* [[Evilly Affable]].
* [[Exalted Torturer]].
* [[Family Values Villain]].
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Inversion.
* [[Good Old Ways]]: Talks about his past days with some nostalgia, although he finds the current world better.
* [[Grandma What Massive Hotness You Have|Grandpa, What Massive Hotness You Have]].
* [[Hidden Depths]].
* [[Hokage-Level Fight]]: With Potts again, long time rivals and makes Peter vs. Steve "war of wits" pale in comparison.
* [[I Did What I Had To Do]]: Presents it as his life story. Culminates in marrying {{spoiler|Sherry}} to keep her.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Shows his [[Informed Ability]] in slave training with {{spoiler|Sherry, and the hotel receptionist.}}
* [[Marital Rape License]]: Turns Slave Rape License in {{spoiler|(when he risks losing it)}} for Marital Complete Ownership License (Rape Included).
* [[No Nonsense Nemesis]]: Is this to Potts.
* [[Old Man Marrying A Child]].
* [[The Patriarch]].
* [[Pervert Dad]].
* [[Plain Name]].
* [[Really Gets Around]]: At ''his own wedding'', he was fucking [[Mother Daughter Threesome|some colleague's wife ''and her two daughters'']], apparently [[All Women Are Lustful|with their consent]].
* [[Slasher Smile]]: [http://img98.imageshack.us/i/slashersmile.jpg/ SWEET JESUS!]
* [[Standard Fifties Father]]: Deconstructed.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Does this with Potts at least twice in the series, first buying his daughter, and then {{spoiler|taking steps to keep her.}}

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[[File:The Click defictionalised.jpg|thumb|right|350px|Closest thing you'll see to the real thing]]
''The Click'' or ''The Clicker'' is a five series franchise of soft porn movies regarding the titular plot device, the Clicker, which can turn any man or woman on and fill them with sexual desires, as well as modify aspects of the "victim"'s body. Naturally, the device falls in the weirdest types of hands and many a [[Hilarity Ensues]] moments results from this.

One if its highlights is a straight parody of [[James Bond]] movies, "Balls of Thunder".

Not to be confused with ''[[Click]]'' starring [[Adam Sandler]].

* [[Accidental Pervert]]: A few characters get into this situation.
* [[A Date With Rosie Palms]]: When the Click is on and there's no-one to share the pleasure, they have to make do with themselves.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: "Balls of Thunder" to James Bond.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]].
* [[All Women Are Lustful]]... deep inside.
* [[A Party Also Known As An Orgy]]: The Click is responsible for several ad-hoc orgies.
* [[Aren't You Going To Ravish Me?]]: The sexy stepdaughter of the guy Steele killed in the first minute. [[Exaggerated Trope|She begins]] [[A Date With Rosie Palms|to masturbate]] [[Exaggerated Trope|while ignoring the fight between Steele and her father's bodyguards ''right in front of her'']].
* [[Artifact Of Doom]]: The professor starts to consider the Clicker this and actively (and unsuccessfully) tries to destroy it.
* [[The Baroness]]: Tangerina.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Pennyworth: "Not the type [of bad girl], huh? I wish I was the type. I'd show him a thing or two". Clicker malfunctions, [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Biggus Dickus]]: Rod Steele takes this to its [[Logical Extreme]] and with the help of the Click, makes his instrument ''as big as a hand''.
* [[Black Comedy]]: Sometimes.
* [[Brainwashed And Crazy]]: How 0013 is first introduced. In some cases, those affected by the Clicker may act this way.
* [[Booby Trap]]: A bomb ''ducky'' in "Balls of Thunder".
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Rod Steele = [[James Bond]] parody. Also many Bond villains have parodies.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: You only live until you die.
* [[Chaotic Neutral]]: The Clicker. But boy, is it chaotic...
* [[Complete Monster]]: The guy killed by Steele in the first minute. He was talking about slave and arms trade ''[[Squick|involving children]]'' [[It Gets Easier|like it was the most normal thing in the world]].
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Any Ice Queen is sure to defrost once in front of the Click.
* [[Gender Bender]]: It can turn men into women and otherwise.
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Inversion: "Pete's box is malfunctioning. It's malfunctioning beautifly, mind you, but it's still..."
* [[Go Out With A Smile]]: One older man using the Click on his secretary.
* [[Hero Stole My Bike|Hero Stole My Drink]]: "You owe me 4.50!"
** Then the chips. Possibly justified because of the [[Running Gag|budget cuts]].
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Because of budget cuts, Steele throws a ''regular alarm clock'' at the head of a woman with an automatic gun. It works.
** Then uses a dildo as a sword. That works too. "[[Crowning Moment Of Funny|I warn you, I know how to use this.]]"
** Then chokes the same guy with an inflated balloon girl.
** Finally fails with an ordinary pen that jets ink if manhandled (it's a flaw, not a weapon either), which would have probably worked too if not for the distraction.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]s: A few are used.
* [[It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It]]: Series tries to pull this off, showing mostly satisfied women after the act.
* [[License To Kill]]: Steele obviously has it.
* [[Les Yay]]: Half the intercourses, while the other half are straight. No gay men allowed (except as [[Rule of Funny]] for about 5 seconds, definitely not in sex scenes with other men).
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Although the creator of the Click is a nice, shy guy and sometimes the [[Only Sane Man]].
* [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter]]: The girl at the opening of "Balls of Thunder."
* [[Marilyn Maneuver]]: [[Big Bad|Tangerina]] from "Balls of Thunder" does it.
* [[Mistaken For Gay]]: Steele when going to a brothel in Prague. Subverted, as the bordello owner had only male employees and hoped for the best when she displayed her male hookers.
* [[More Than Mind Control]]: The Clicker's effects. Probably.
* [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond|The Name Is Steele, Rod Steele]].
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Steele was "caught" while testing the device on two female agents that tried to kill him. It looks like a threesome to 0013.
* [[Plot Device]]: The titular device.
* [[Punny Name]]: Rod Steele, "Balls of Thunder".
* [[The Rival]]: The Click's inventor has one who wants it for himself and acts as a [[Foil]].
* [[Saving The Orphanage]]: "Ultimate Attraction" deals with saving a gym company from rebranding and sell-out.
* [[Scary Black Man]]: [[The Dragon]] of the [[Big Bad]] Steele easily kills at the start of the film.
* [[Sexy Secretary]]: A few.
* [[Stalker With A Test Tube]]: Employed in "Balls of Thunder".
* [[Title Drop]]: "The Clicker will conquer the world."
* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: 0013 ''is'' the [[Chew Toy]] of "Balls of Thunder". Even [[Discussed]].
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Always resolves, sometimes with a bit of a nudge from the clicker.
* [[You Say Tomato]]:
*: '''Bordello woman''': Are you in the mood for some company tonight?
*: '''Steele''': No, just some companionship.
* [[Your Approval Fills Me With Shame]]: 0013 [[Tempting Fate|laments she doesn't make for a good whore]]. Agent 0014 [[Too Dumb To Live|compliments her for about a minute on how much of a good whore she can be]]. She is not pleased.
* [[Word Salad Lyrics]]: The opening song for "Balls of Thunder".

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[[Category:Movies Of The 2000s]]
[[Category:Works Of The 2000s]]
[[Category:The Start Of The Index]]
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== Peter ==
{{cquote|''From now on, you two sluts have no free will of your own, no rights whatsoever... you'll do as I say, no questions, no back-talk, no hesitation... you'll be my puppets, compliant sextoys. You have no purpose other than to please you master... If you do not obey orders or disrespect me in any way, I will torture you, and if you try to escape, I'll hunt you down and kill you. From now on, you'll share everything... pleasure, pain... and of course, your master's cum... every day and every night.''}}
The main character and [[Villain Protagonist]], [[Plain Name|Peter Stevenson]] is an [[Ordinary High School Student]] in an not-so-ordinary world. Bored to death and annoyed by school by his 18th birthday, Peter daydreams at school at his crush, Maggie, and comes back home with no motivation for his life. Unbeknown to us, his father pretty much gets around in the slave world, and buys Maggie as his slave. As time passes, he [[Crosses the Line Twice]] and comes close to [[Complete Monster]] territory, pretty much wrecking damage amongst barely-18-year old girls, including Maggie, Sherry, Gwen, Anna or Ginger, and mostly enjoys himself [[Beyond the Impossible]].
* [[A Party Also Known as an Orgy]]: Anna gives Peter tickets to a party that turns into an orgy.
* [[A Real Man Is A Killer|A Real Man Is A Sadist]].
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: He is this to Maggie, Sherry and Gwen.
* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: He seems to think so. He's almost genuinely surprised that Maggie or Gwen are virgins.
* [[Allergic To Routine]].
* [[Anger Montage]]: He has one when he thinks {{spoiler|Anna dumped him}}. He pretty much pretends to have some of these with Maggie or Sherry, although most of the time he [[Irony|seems to be faking it]].
* [[Audience Surrogate]]: Peter is supposed to be this, the not-too-moral not-too-evil everyman that winds up in a world of sexual depravity at his disposal and explores it with childish enthusiasm.
* [[Aw Look They Really Do Love Each Other]]: He likes deconstructing this/ruining the timing.
** Plays it more straight as time goes by with Maggie.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The toys his father orders; he enjoys using them.
* [[Balanced Harem]]: Peter has equal screen time with many of his slaves, although Cumbunny is definitely his favourite, but Anna, Gwen and Sherry were good candidates too.
* [[Basement Dweller]]: Starts as a mild version of this.
* [[Bastard Boyfriend]]: Not like Maggie has a choice in the matter...
* [[Beautiful Dreamer]]: Lampshades the trope, then proceeds to deconstruct it.
* [[Biggus Dickus]]: Gwen comments his is bigger than Steve's.
* [[Blatant Burglar]]: Peter and Steve wear some sort of sky masks when they enter Gwen's residence. It's sort of justified because they didn't enter to steal anything (well... [[If You Know What I Mean|not literally]]... and not just kisses either) and they say it'd be consider a "minor thing" anyway. Oh yeah, and they're basically just kids out for cheap thrills.
* [[Break The Cutie]]: He's fond to do this to girls.
* [[But Thou Must]]: He loves giving fake "choices" to girls too.
* [[The Bro Code]]: Breaks it when taking {{spoiler|Gwen and fucking in front of her former master Steve and the one that loved her}} ''[[Bullying A Dragon|to taunt him]]''. To be fair, he was drunk and in the morning he proposed to give her back, but {{spoiler|Steve}} said [[Blatant Lies|it's all well]].
* [[Calling Your Orgasms]].
* [[Character Development]]: Strangely enough (or [[Fridge Brilliance|obviously enough]]), he doesn't change throughout the show regarding the level of torture he's willing to use (except the occasional momentarily surprise at the new methods "the state" devised to torture women). Momentarily, then he's just amused and [[Complete Monster|willing to use them]]), but he seems to be in love with Anna {{spoiler|and very upset when he think she left him,}} but [[He Gets Better]] as time passes. He also seems to be more lenient on the girls since {{spoiler|he got Gwen}}. [[Yank the Dog's Chain|{{spoiler|This changes]]}} {{spoiler|once he's upset Anna won't answer his phone.}}
* [[Chaotic Evil]]/[[Lawful Evil]].
* [[Cold Blooded Torture]]: Although he has nothing on Anna.
* [[Complete Monster]].
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]].
* [[The Dark Side Will Make You Forget]]: He even acknowledges this in relation with his feelings for Maggie and even thinks it's a good thing that he's less of an idealist.
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: Peter has [[Genre Savvy]] moments where he recognises and proceeds to deconstruct the most obvious of tropes in the most sadistic way possible. For his laugh, and possibly the viewer's.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: He loves doing this. [[Lampshaded]]:
::'''Sherry''': ''The sadistic animal just wants an excuse to fry my poor ass!''
* [[The Dutiful Son]]: Seems to fit the modern role of this.
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: He forgets what he did the night before. He even forgets {{spoiler|having won Gwen ''with the thanks of Sherry'' and having beaten Sherry to a pulp.}}
* [[Erotic Asphyxiation]]: He finds that having Maggie keep Sherry's head in the pool make her contract her... parts better, and thus gives him a better experience. He doesn't seem to do it again too soon, maybe considering the risks. Earlier in the show, he appears to be choking Maggie in his first time. Another instance comes when he throws Sherry in the cum pit.
* [[Erotic Dream]]: Peter has a daydream of Maggie the same day (or, for all we know, ''every day'' before) he officially owns her. Later he has one with Anna.
* [[Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor]]: Type 2, though he's one of the few that tries to make [[Dead Baby Comedy]]... well, funny, with multiple degrees of success.
* [[Evil is Petty]].
* [[Fair For Its Day]]: Even compared with his friends, [[Beyond The Impossible|even more so compared with the State's methods in the]] [[Expanded Universe]].
* [[Follow In My Footsteps]]: Peter and his dad seem to deal pretty well in this, if even only slave-busting related.
* [[Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind]]: Inversion.
* [[Friendless Background]]: Starts as this.
* [[Good Morning Crono]]: Played straight in his case: wakes up and starts spending his day in a relaxed (for his tastes) fashion.
* [[Ha Ha Ha, No]]: Peter pretends to laugh and be amused by Sherry's rebellious outbursts, but promptly sets the quota of punishment for her.
* [[Hangover Sensitivity]]: This comes in when he wakes up after a rave with Easy Amnesia.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: A lot of examples like the first quote.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: In part 8, he's shown to {{spoiler|have been at one time a romantic in sincere love with Maggie.}}
* [[Ignored Confession]]: He's willing to pretend {{spoiler|he hasn't won Gwen}} to preserve his friendship with Steve, but Steve says [[Blatant Lies|it's all nice and fine]].
** It's interesting how he'll react to Maggie's {{spoiler|love confession}}.
* [[I Love You Because I Can't Control You]]: Subversion/variation: He pretends to like Sherry's mean spirits, but then he has enough of it and forces her not to talk again. With Anna, he's going with it because he can't do anything but depend on her "charity".
* [[I Love You, Vampire Son|I Love You, Slave Girl]]: Peter is proud of how his girls turned into slaves.
* [[Impossibly Mundane Explanation]]: Inversion. Anna doesn't answer his phone calls, so he probably believes he's being ignored/dumped. {{spoiler|She's been kidnapped by Steve.}}
* [[I Showed Her What a Real Man Is]]: With {{spoiler|Gwen}}. Ironic is that she confirms his is bigger than {{spoiler|Steve's.}}
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: How Maggie would like him to be, but he might just be...
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Jerk]].
* [[Lima Syndrome]]: He ''almost'' shows signs of this (actually loving Maggie in his own way), but social pressure and the hormones of a teen in heat don't let him go too far.
* [[Love Hurts]]: {{spoiler|With Anna.}}
* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: Peter is [[Voodoo Shark|mostly]] [[Retcon]]ned into this.
* [[Loophole Abuse]]: Uses one to rape a teacher in part 9 and get away with it.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Less so than Anna, but more than Steve.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|Manic Pixie Dream Guy]].
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Even less than Anna at this point, but he still knows how to manipulate his slaves while making it seem natural. Outclassed by his dad, though.
* [[My Girl Is A Slut]]: He loves giving/sharing/being proud of Maggie (and later Sherry) about sex.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Names Maggie ''Cumbunny'', Sherry ''Sluttykitten''' and congratulates himself in naming {{spoiler|Gwen}} ''Sluttyfox'' {{spoiler|while drunk}}.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Peter does this to Sherry ''when he's too drunk to know why he has strong feeling towards her, and if it is of hate or gratefulness''. He chooses the first.
* [[Oblivious To Love]]: He doesn't seem to see Maggie has grown to love him right under his nose.
* [[Obvious Object Could Be Anything]]: Justified in his case. He got a girl with a head in the box, and a) He's too drunk to remember what the hell even happened the previous night b) he's got a nasty hangover and c) [[Captain Obvious|He knows it's a girl]]. {{spoiler|It was Gwen.}}
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Deconstructed/[[Cerberus Retcon|Retconned]] into being a [[Lonely Rich Kid]] grown in a fucked-up family and having a [[Start of Darkness]] from being rejected by Maggie.
* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]].
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]].
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Is relatively forced to be this in training his slaves. [[Psycho for Hire|Doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy it]], but he proves with Sherry what it means to ''really'' hurt a girl out of pure pleasure rather than the schedule learned from the state.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: Does this with Maggie (he honestly expresses his feelings like that apparently).
* [[Really Gets Around]]: From the beginning of the series when he was akin to a geeky [[Basement Dweller]], he now has a harem of over five women, plus his father's "property" to use with his permission.
* [[The Reason You Suck Speech]]: Loves throwing these around (see quote), as well as [[Hannibal Lecture]]s.
* [[Screw The Rules I Have Money]]: He's slowly flanderized into this for [[New Rules As The Plot Demands|a similar sounding trope]].
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted, he wears normal clothes, he makes his slaves dress skimpy.
* [[Sexual Karma]]: Inverted in Love Karma. He gets all the sex and the sex slaves he wants{{spoiler|, but loses Anna.}}
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: How much can the girls he has intercourse with count is arguable.
* [[Shocking Voice Identity Reveal]]: Takes great care to not use his voice around Sherry until he finishes with her, so it'd be more scary and humiliating for her. When he starts talking, she begins to recognize him.
* [[Silly Rabbit Romance Is For Kids!]]: Likes to remind Maggie of this.
* [[Sitcom Character Archetypes]]: Peter tries to [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|fit as much as these as he can]]:
* [[Spectacled Sadist]].
* [[Start Of Darkness]]: Arguably Peter has this for being (indirectly, albeit true) rejected by Maggie.
* [[Tenchi Solution]]: His family's into this, so why not him?
* [[Took A Level In Badass]]: Peter starts off as the not-really-[[Adorkable]] [[Chew Toy]], and by the 8th part, he has three slaves and a ''girlfriend'', something most likely unheard of in his neighborhood.
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Peter is trying to seem this... ''hard''. [[YMMV|It's arguable if he succeeded.]]
* [[Wild Teen Party]]: Has one for his birthday. [[Karma Houdini|Not only does he not get into trouble for it, but gets a slave in the process.]] He does end up with a [[Hangover Sensitivity|nasty hangover]] and [[Easy Amnesia]] of the latter night.
* [[Villain Protagonist]].
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]]: He loves doing this to Maggie.
** Does this again to Sherry in part 8.
* [[You Taste Delicious]].

== Maggie ==
The [[Character Title|character in the title]] (the first one, at least) and protagonist, Maggie Sweetie is an [[Ordinary High School Student]] who just had her 18th birthday. She apparently lives with her uncle and her mother, and has been unknowing about sex until the beginning of the story. Unbeknown to her, she's Peter's (who she seems to consider a "geek" who she apparently doesn't like) crush and has been sold 10 days before the start of the story in an arrangement between Peter's father and her uncle. She accepts her fate with stoicism, hoping Peter would be nice to her, but she wakes up in a world of humiliation bent on breaking girls. As time passes, she discovers feelings for both Peter and a good friend now fellow slave, Sherry. Still, her life isn't by far good and she's often forced to accept Peter's most humiliating requests.

* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: Starts directly at Type 2, since she knows she doesn't have a snowball chance in hell to be rescued, and that she has to live with Peter for the rest of her life (if she's lucky).
* [[Am I Just A Toy To You]]?: Maggie finds herself in this position often. Peter told Maggie he liked her from some time ago, and this made Maggie almost happy. Then, he called her "his favorite" at least once. This may be one of the (admittedly shallow) reasons why she's falling in love with him.
* [[Arson Murder And Jaywalking]]:
*: ''I can't believe this is happening. Peter makes me sick... he's idiot... and he... he smells...''
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: Played straight at first, but later dulled down: she starts getting use to her job and her "uniforms".
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: Maggie knows her place and her fate from the day she sees herself sold.
* [[Break The Cutie]].
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Miss Cox was Maggie's hero. Now, she still pities her, but it's evident she's lost some of the respect for her.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: She might be ''a little'' in relation to Anna, but there's nothing she can do about it.
* [[Character Development]]: Maggie starts as a ready-to-be-docile slave, although Peter does not seem to like that. She ends up hating him for all his [[Cold Blooded Torture]], but having brought in Sherry, she takes a [[Les Yay|liking]] to her and eventually even displays jealousy towards the new girl Peter (has to) treat as a human being and actual girlfriend. At the end of the 6th part, Paul buys {{spoiler|her mother}}, and she has to teach her the ropes. In issue 8, [[I Love You|{{spoiler|she finally confessed her feelings for Peter]]}}.
* [[Character Title]]: Maggie is the titular birthday girl.
* [[Contemplate Our Navels]]: Her thoughts about Peter go as this. Most recently, she contemplated a [[What If]] scenario in which she'd have recognised him as {{spoiler|the writer of a love letter}} and would have become his girlfriend, but concludes it's a [[Crapsack World]] they live in anyway and he would've been just a prospective buyer.
** [[Discussed Trope|Explored]] in a [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]] manner, as {{spoiler|her mother joins her daily life}}, only to be horrified of the things Maggie has grown to get accustomed to, like weekly whippings... because they're on the schedule.
* [[Converting For Love]]: Starts enjoying being a slave after she's given a few powers around the house, falls in love with Peter and can be together more often and more privately with Sherry.
* [[Creepy Uncle]]: She has one.
* [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday|Dangerous Eighteenth Birthday]]
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: With a big [[Just For Pun|topping]] of [[Stockholm Syndrome]].
* [[Did Not Eat The Mousse]]: Sometimes pays for Sherry's mistakes.
* [[Don't Tell Mama|Don't Show Mama]] the [[Embarrassing Pictures]] of me.
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Cumbunny.
* [[Embarrassing Pictures]]: Peter takes these of her often.
** Earlier in her story ([[Flashback|later in the series]]]):
**: '''Maggie''': [...] ''And of course, they recorded enough video and 3D images [of me naked] to stock a porno shop for years.''
* [[Epiphanic Prison]]: She noted this in the beginning; other girls don't seem to see this so obvious.
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Justified from her point of view, and [[Crapsack World|from the world's]], for that matter. She starts as a submissive slave, only wanting not to get hurt more than she has to. She's made to write a journal [[All There In The Manual|in her special]] where [[Stepford Smiler|she has to say she enjoyed Peter's brutal treatment]], and she's described there as "Docile teenager - highly obedient" (though she still rants in her mind, and has her own reactions to Peter, one way or the other).
* [[First Girl Wins]]: Her "fortune", for now. At least she's the favourite, so that's a hard place to be moved from.
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]].
* [[Good Morning Crono]]: Subverted. Good morning girls, want an electroshock to ease your awakening?
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: Becomes this gradually.
* [[Hope Spot]]: Peter loves [[Yank The Dog's Chain|yanking her chain]], but recently subverted.
* [[I Just Want To Be Normal]]: Starts as this, but by the end the only "normality" she can find in [[Happiness in Slavery|slavery]] is just no enough, so she accepts gladly her new status of "favorite".
* [[I Kiss Your Foot]].
* [[I Love You|{{spoiler|I Love You]]}}: She finally says this to Peter at the end of part 8.
* [[The Hero's Birthday]]: Maggie's birthday. [[Jerkass|Peter]] doesn't stop reminding her of her 19th.
* [[Home Porn Movie]]: Peter threatens to send naked pictures of her to her mother. However, {{spoiler|her mother}} [[It Gets Worse|{{spoiler|soon gets the chance of seeing her daughter's torments "live".]]}}
* [[The Ingenue]]: Maggie may be this, [[Flanderization|or may be turning into this]].
* [[Inner Monologue]].
* [[It's All My Fault]]: In a [[Tear Jerker]] moment, {{spoiler|Maggie tries to take full responsibility for Sherry when Peter finds out the two have been doing some Les Yay behind his back, as Sherry was brutally beaten the night before}} and Maggie knows she's Peter's favorite. This {{spoiler|backfires as he says he'll punish them both anyway. It's not that bad though, as he decides to forgive them once he found Gwen to be his.}}
* [[Sir Swearsalot|Lady Swearsabit Whenithurts]]. Ironically, she's more bad-mouthed ([[Inner Monologue|in her head, at least]]) than Sherry.
* [[Lipstick Lesbian]]: Is on her way to becoming this.
* [[Long Hair Is Feminine]].
* [[Lovable Libby]]: Possible.
* [[Love Hurts]]: Even for her.
* [[Love Interest]].
* [[Mother Daughter Threesome]].
* [[Plain Name]]: Maggie Sweetie.
* [[Punny Name]]: [[Break The Cutie|Sweetie.]]
* [[Rape Is Love]]: She gets the short end of this from Peter, and convinces herself being forced to have sex with her friend makes them lovers. Subverted with Anna.
* [[Replacement Love Interest]]: Is this to Anna on some level. While her status of true [[Love Interest]] is well set, Peter and Anna really connected ([[Unholy Matrimony|on their sadistic side]]) and Maggie is now for Peter {{spoiler|"the next best thing after Anna".}}
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted.
* [[Sexy Back]].
* [[Shower Of Angst]]: She's allowed to take a shower from time to time. All she can think about is that Peter will be upset if she stays too long. She barely has time to angst, and it's one of the few places she'd not.
* [[Slave Brand]]: Gets one by part 8, appropriately with a black filled heart ([[Fridge Horror|that must have hurt]]) and the text "Peter's Cumbunny".
* [[Spell My Name With An S]]: Sweetie.
* [[Spinoff Sendoff]]: Maggie appears shortly in Cindy's spin-off comic.
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] on why she's starting to like, even love, Peter.
* [[The Stoic]].
* [[Sweater Girl]]: Started as this.
* [[Throw The Dog A Bone]]: By #8, she gets several bones: {{spoiler|becoming Peter's favorite, having more time to spend with Sherry and more control over her, and even confesses her love to Peter.}}
* [[Troubled Backstory Flashback]]: In part 9, we finally see how she was bought and prepared by Paul and slavecops for Peter.

== Sherry ==
{{cquote|''I'll kill this bastard... and if I can't, I'll kill myself...''}}
Sherry Potts is the daughter of a businessman who is a business partner of Paul Stevenson. Because of Mr. Potts' financial problems, he is forced to sell one of his daughters to Paul, and chooses Sherry (because she's worth more, as a young virgin). Sherry finds herself with her friend Maggie in the depraved hands of her new owner Peter, and the more he fights him, the more he likes it, as well as punishes her more, sometimes just out of principle. One year passes, and her father finally has enough money to buy her back, but Paul won't let her go that easy...

* [[And Now You Must Marry Me]]: {{spoiler|Paul}} pulls this on her. It wasn't premeditated, just his best idea of {{spoiler|keeping her and screwing over her father.}}
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: Starts at Type 1, resists a good whooping of 8 issues in this position and even has a [[Throw the Dog a Bone]] moment where she's steadily on Type 1 {{spoiler|(for an entire half day), but now is likely to permanently fall in Type 2.}}
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Not that she appreciates it too much.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]].
* [[Big No]]: When she's about to be raped ([[It Gets Worse|the first time]]).
* [[Break The Haughtie]].
* [[Butt Monkey]] / [[The Chew Toy]]: Sherry becomes the target of Peter's ''worst'' abuses possible, as he wants to both get revenge on her and break her thoroughly.
* [[Cluster F Bomb]].
* [[Converting For Love]]: Her love for Maggie makes her want to at least pretend to be a better slave; she also accepts to {{spoiler|not cum in the contest with Steve}} so she won't be separated from Maggie.
* [[Cool And Unusual Punishment]]: Being a literal hood ornament, being dumped in a cum pit...
* [[Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon]]: Yeah, [[Played For Laughs]]...
* [[Defiant To The End]]: She tries to pull this off and she's still defiant {{spoiler|until the end of the 8th part.}} Considering Gwen took only about 2-3 parts to be broken in, she's the most resilient in the series.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: A lot harder and later than the rest of the girls. Mostly made possible not by Peter's ruthlessness, but by Maggie's kindness.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: "The sadistic animal just wants an excuse to fry my poor ass !"
* [[Drowning Pit]]: She's thrown into a [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|cum pit]] bound and her only way of survival is to [[Sadistic Choice|swallow as much cum as she can]]. Other girls have it worse, drowning in urine.
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Slutkitten.
* [[Fearless Fool]]: Taunts Peter at every turn without thinking of the consequences. Always turns out bad.
* [[Good Morning Crono]]: Subverted. Good morning girls, want an electroshock to ease your awakening?
* [[Groin Attack]]: On Peter. [[Never Live It Down|He never forgives her for it.]]
* [[Hood Ornament Hottie]]: She's forced into ''literally being that'' (stuck on the hood of the car). Probably a parody of the main trope.
* [[I Die Free‎]]: She keeps saying that. She never has the guts to take it through, although she has several chances.
* [[I Hate You Vampire Dad|I Hate You, Slave Owner]]: After 8 issues, she still hates Peter for turning her into a slave.
** {{spoiler|May turn in a whooping subversion with Paul.}}
* [[Inner Monologue]].
* [[It Gets Worse]]: Her life story.
* [[Les Yay]]: With Maggie.
* [[The Libby]].
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: She gets this because, arguably, Peter would only think she did bad, especially when he was drunk.
* [[Oblivious Younger Sibling]]: She has no idea about [[Pervert Dad|{{spoiler|her father and her sister]].}}
* [[Old Man Marrying A Child|{{spoiler|Old Man Marrying A Child]]}}: {{spoiler|Paul.}}
* [[Punny Name]]: From Cherry, obviously.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: She's falling in love with Maggie, who was forced several times to rape her; subverted with Anna '''[[And Zoidberg|and Peter]]'''.
* [[Refusal Of The Call]]: The most resilient.
* [[Servile Snarker]]: She fits this unusually with Peter. He seems amused by it, [[Ha Ha Ha No|until he's not anymore]].
* [[Sexy Secretary]]: Is taken as this {{spoiler|(for half a day or so at least) to Paul in part 8.}}
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: For Heather and as Maggie's "best friend".
* [[Torture Makes You Evil]]: {{spoiler|Paul}} gives her some power over some slaves (including [[Manipulative Bastard|making her whip them after he drunks her]]) and she discovers she likes it.
* [[Throw the Dog A Bone]]: Her relationship with Maggie is the only silver lining she has.
** And now {{spoiler|Paul}} manipulates her in wanting to [[Torture Makes You Evil|torture other slaves]].
* [[Tsundere]].
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]].
* [[You Dont Want To Die A Virgin Do You]]: Inverted: she laments she'll die with Peter's organ up her ass.
* [[You Monster]]: To Peter and Paul.

=== Maggie and Sherry ===
As the relationship between the two occupies a long part of the story, there are many tropes related to their relationship.
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: For each other.
* [[All There In The Manual]]: They both have a Special dedicated for each of them, including their ownership certificate.
* [[Beautiful Dreamer]]: Peter promptly subverts it.
* [[Beta Couple]].
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Being Peter's slaves has its advantages... like not being tortured to death in a few days, actually being fed and not being kept in a basement for days at a time. Yep, there's still the blessing part in this.
* [[Boarding School Of Horrors]]: It is for them.
* [[Cant Get Away With Nuthin]: Maggie and Sherry respectively can't get away with even ''looking lustful at each other'' by part 5 and doing some naughty things by part 7 (while presumably Peter was sleeping) without him knowing about it, which is quickly followed by [[Disproportionate Retribution]].
* [[Earn Your Happy Endings]]: They become {{spoiler|the favourites of their respective masters}} by part 9.
* [[Girl Next Door]].
* [[Going Commando]].
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: They start as this, Peter keeps pushing them for more, and the outcome is [[Les Yay|obvious}}.
* [[Les Yay]].
* [[Maid A Slave]].
* [[Mass Oh Crap]].
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]s.
* [[Rape Is Okay When Its Female On Female]]: Pretty softcore versions when Maggie applies it, and she tries to assure herself, while being forced to rape Sherry, that she'll be gentler or that she has no choice. They both hate Anna doing that to them, though.
* [[Rape Is Love]].
* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]].
* [[Sex Slave]]s.
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted for both of them.
* [[Sleep Cute]]: Sort of subverted by their whorish clothes, but Peter [[Beautiful Dreamer|compliments them as "angels" anyway]]... before roughly waking them up with [[For The Evulz|electroshock didoes]].
* [[Tenchi Solution]].
* [[Throw The Dog A Bone]]: Peter becomes more lenient with their relationship.
* [[Tomboy And Girly Girl]].
* [[Vapor Wear]].
* [[Your Approval Fills Me With Shame]]: Played straight the first numbers, Maggie deviates from this later.

== Steve ==
Steve is Peter's good friend, quickly taking Jeff's "best friend" status as far as his appearance in the story goes. He's at first an unquestioning friend aching to lackey to Peter, and Peter accepts and rewards this. Thanks to his relationship with Peter (and arguably Peter's money which would get them out of trouble), he gets to own Gwen, his high school squeeze, after a (intentional) botched rape-and-run attempt at her house. As he feels looked down by Steve, he starts making mistakes in judgment, culminating with {{spoiler|loosing Gwen to Peter in a stupid bet.}} He tries to make up for it by {{spoiler|kidnapping Anna,}} infuriating Peter for it. Time will tell if this turns out to be a good move or throws him in [[Too Dumb To Live]] territory.

* [[A Party Also Known As An Orgy]]: Gets to go to one.
* [[Always Second Best]]: He starts feeling like this in comparison with Peter, to the point where he {{spoiler|loses Gwen in a stupid bet powered by lots of drinking and pride, and subsequently decides to kidnap Anna.}}
* [[Anger Montage]]: Has one when Anna pushes him too far [[For The Evulz]]. He also [[No Holds Barred Beatdown|does this]] {{spoiler|when he first kidnapped Anna, and was wrongfully believed to have done this}} to Cathy.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: In Jeff's place.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The tools he uses to break women.
* [[Basement Dweller]]: ''Devolves'' into this. [[It Helped|It helps]] he's got a real woman he [[Cursed With Awesome|really loves to hate and loves to torture in the basement.]]
* [[Bastard Boyfriend]].
* [[Beta Couple]]: Him and Gwen.
* [[Blatant Burglar]].
* [[The Bro Code]]: Probably what set him over the edge was {{spoiler|losing Gwen}} at Peter's party. He moves to {{spoiler|invoke this trope when taking Anna.}}
* [[Complete Monster]].
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: He gives Gwen a horrific rape for just apparently bad mouthing him.
** What he did to {{spoiler|Peter and Anna}} [[YMMV|may or may not be]] disproportionate.
* [[Driven By Envy]]: Steve becomes envious of {{spoiler|Peter}} starting with part 6, with {{spoiler|Peter having an actual girlfriend}} and outclasses him (involuntarily) in a pony contest (you might not wanna know...) and is so off-balanced by him that {{spoiler|he looses Gwen, his childhood squeeze, in a stupid bet driven by the same envy and pride. He later gets even by kidnapping Anna.}}
* [[Evil Has A Bad Sense Of Humor]]: Type 2.
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: Much beyond Peter.
* [[Evilly Affable]].
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Inversion.
* [[Hidden In Plain Sight]]: Takes {{spoiler|Anna}} to Paul's marriage ceremony, all bound in latex and deprived of all senses.
* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: He thinks Gwen doesn't like him because he's ugly, while she was most likely going to say some synonym of "brutal". He's also ready to try to take down {{spoiler|Peter and Anna}} because he thinks them together risk putting him down.
* [[Killed Off For Real|{{spoiler|Killed Off For Real]]}}: Although we [[Never Found the Body|{{spoiler|Didn't See The Body]]}}... yet.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Is implied to do this to Cathy, Gwen {{spoiler|and Anna}} a lot more often than Peter.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]].
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]].
* [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge|{{spoiler|Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]]}}{{spoiler|: When he leaves Peter's party, he's revealed to be in this mood.}}
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: For Jeff and as Peter's "best friend".
* [[Took A Level In Badass]]: Steve becomes from Peter's friend/lackey who'd sometime share the spoils into [[Always Second Best]] sadistic inventive SOB and who can spar with ''Anna'' in level of wits, only brought down by his family's lack of money in comparison with Peter.
* [[To The Pain]]: Steve actually calls {{spoiler|Anna}} his "painslut" (and this is an actual <s>legitimate</s> legalized use of the term in-universe).
* [[Up To Eleven]]: He's like a worse version of Peter. Not Beyond The Impossible type, but definitely one level beyond him regarding mostly everything.
* [[Unknown Rival]]: Is this for {{spoiler|Anna and Peter.}}
* [[Wham Line]]:
*: ''I guess he really misses you, {{spoiler|'''''Anna'''}}!

== Anna ==
{{cquote|''Look at the big boy all hot for the perverted exchange student. You'd like to grab my hair and force me on my knees, and stuff my mouth with this [cock] if you could. You'd penetrate me violently and torture me till I begged you to make me your slave. [[Take a Third Option|What about a girlfriend instead?]] You already have enough slaves anyway. I'll be your girl if you let me play with them anytime I want.''}}
Anna is a foreign exchange student who at first looks like easy pickings for the boys, who have effectively run over the school. One of them discover she is a BDSM model in her country, and soon she display traits completely different than usual women or potential slaves. She knows she has diplomatic immunity and is untouchable by the boys (even more than Sherry or Gwen, for example). She takes a liking in Peter's slave girls and makes him an offer he can't refuse. After a whole torture session against them, she proposes she'll be his genuine girlfriend is she has access to them all the time, and he happily agrees.
* [[A God Am I]]: Call her "Goddess".
* [[All Abusers Are Male]]: Notable inversion.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]].
* [[And I Must Scream|{{spoiler|And I Must Scream]]}}{{spoiler|: Put first in a box, gagged, in the dark, and then in a sensory deprivation suit to be taken to Peter's dad's wedding.}}
* [[As Long As It Sounds Foreign]]: Maybe subverted, maybe played straight. Anna from the American point of view doesn't seem too foreign, or at least not too French.
* [[Ascended Extra]]{{spoiler|: For a while, at least.}}
* [[A Real Man Is A Killer|A Real Woman Is A Sadist]]: She likes taking the role of a torturer and breaker, rather than tortured or broken.
* [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]]: [[Fridge Horror|Possibly]] by her career of posing in BDSM magazines.
* [[Beyond The Impossible]]: Arguably, what she does, considering the limitations women are faced with, is more interesting, sadistic and exaggerated than much of what the boys could think of.
* [[Brains And Bondage]].
* [[Broken Bird]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation]].
* [[Bullying A Dragon]]: Yeah, bully that ''creepy'' kid {{spoiler|friend-turned-rival of your boyfriend}}, nothing could happen because your rich American bf has your back. Right? [[Too Dumb To Live|{{spoiler|Right?]]}}
* [[Burn Baby Burn]]: {{spoiler|She torches Steve's house after she escapes and kills him.}}
* [[Character Development]]: Starts with her as probably another collection piece in the boys' conquest list, but she turns out quickly to be much more. A slut ''and'' a sadist, every boy's dream and the perfect girlfriend. But wait, there's more: she's willing to send up the river other girls for her own sick pleasure and to keep in good terms with the boys. The only one she thinks to pick on is Steve, and by this point she's entered into [[Jerk Sue]] territory ''hard''. {{spoiler|Being tortured by Steve for two weeks}} made her even more [[Ax Crazy|batshit crazy]].
* [[Commuting On A Bus]]: As of part 6.
* [[Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon]]: {{spoiler|Well, she plans to pull Steve's out with her bare hands. If she ever escapes.}}
** {{spoiler|She finally does this after giving Steve an ultimatum of [[Touch Me Again]] with that dick... unfortunately for him, he doesn't listen.}}
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: {{spoiler|At least until she made an enemy of Steve.}} She even (assuming it was her initial choice) decided to be a ''BDSM magazine model'' instead of a genuine model. With the [[Deliberate Value Dissonance]] [[Fetish Fuel Future]], that [[Fridge Brilliance|''is'' a better respected (and maybe feared) job than just being a model (and former regular models are often shown to have a]] [[Fate Worse Than Death]].
* [[Depraved Bisexual]].
* [[Don't Call Me Sir]]: Subversion: Don't call her "Mistress"... call her "[[Up to Eleven|Goddess]]".
* [[Electric Torture]]: She uses this on Peter's pets ([[Fridge Horror|and probably on others in the past]])
* [[Ethical Slut]]: Through and through.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Possibly the only standard she has is not even throwing a bone to Steve.
* [[Even The Girls Want Her]].
* [[Everyone Looks Sexier If French]].
* [[Evil Has A Bad Sense Of Humor]]: Type 2.
* [[Evil Is Sexy]].
* [[Evilly Affable]].
* [[Exalted Torturer]].
* [[Fashionable Evil]]: Goes with appearing as model in magazines.
* [[Femme Fatalons]].
* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]]: Even in-world, considering the nature of the series.
* [[Fille Fatale]]: We know she's been in BDSM comics for some time, we don't know ''from what age'' and we know she's completely aware of her body.
* [[For The Evulz]]: More than the usual wank.
* [[Foreign Exchange Student]].
* [[French Jerk]]: Only she is from [[Ruritania|an Eastern European country]].
* [[Going Commando]]: She actually likes this.
* [[Groin Attack]]: To {{spoiler|Steve. With his own knife.}}
* [[Girl In A Box|{{spoiler|Head In A Box]].}}
* [[Jerk Sue]].
* [[Magnificent Bitch]]: Peter may have ''some brains'', but Anna is a manipulative bitch through and through.
* [[Manipulative Bitch]]: She's a pro with the girls she doesn't let on her entire aspect to.
* [[Missed Moment Of Awesome]]: Most of her [[Backstory]], {{spoiler|Steve kidnapping Anna, Anna killing Steve, much of what Steve did to her until that point was mostly cameos.}}
* [[Modest Royalty]]: Is revealed to be this in her home country in #9.
* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: One of the few evil/morally inverted examples of this trope.
* [[New Transfer Student]]: Deconstructed. Of course.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: She seems to have this habit.
**{{spoiler}Gets this from Steve.}}
* [[Not Very Pretty Now Is He|Not Very Pretty Now, Is She?]]
* [[No Womans Land]]: Anna knows about this and is careful not to violate any curfews, and gives Peter a ticket to a sort of party where women are not allowed...
* [[Obviously Evil]]: From her first five seconds of introduction, she reveals herself no less as a whore in heat who'll choose whoever she wants for that purpose. She is so with Maggie, Sherry and Steve, and she's a mild version of this with Ginger, who ''still'' doesn't seem to get it.
* [[Out Gambited|{{spoiler|Out Gambited]]}}{{spoiler|: Underestimating Steve.}}
* [[Pass The Popcorn]]: Peter and Anna watching Steve take his frustration out on Gwen.
* [[Perky Goth]].
* [[Pretty Freeloaders]]: Subverted differently than with the others. She actually carries her weight for Peter.
* [[Psycho And Cute]]: For the men, at least.
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Even more so after {{spoiler|apparently killing Steve}}.
* [[Put On A Bus|{{spoiler|Put On A Bus]]}}{{spoiler|: After being kidnapped by Steve.}}
* [[The Quisling]]: That and many betrayal tropes are embodied by her. {{spoiler|She gets hers.}}
* [[Rape Is Okay When It's Female On Female]]: She subverts it ''wonderfully''.
* [[Rape As Backstory]]: Implied and VERY likely.
* [[Raven Hair Ivory Skin]]: She's even more pale than the other girls.
* [[Relationship Sue]]: Steve accuses her of being this.
* [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge|{{spoiler|Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]]}}{{spoiler|: After she escaped Steve}}.
* [[Romantic False Lead|{{spoiler|Romantic False Lead]].}}
* [[Sacrificial Lion|{{spoiler|Sacrificial Lion]]}}{{spoiler|: Was almost her fate.}}
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Plays it straight.
* [[She Is The King]]: She (probably intentionally) averts this trope.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Although she makes ''even those'' look... somewhat [[Psycho And Cute|cute]].
* [[Spell My Name With An S]]: It's ''Anna'', not Ana.
* [[The Stoic]]: Pulls this off for 3 issues so far {{spoiler|while trying to resist at the hands of Steve}}.
* [[Take A Third Option]]: Suggests to become Peter's girlfriend as alternative for Peter drooling over her with no outcome and getting himself into trouble for abusing her.
* [[Too Kinky To Torture]]: {{spoiler|Subverted.}}
* [[Touch Me Again]]:
*: '''Anna''': ''Listen to me, you motherfucker... If you you touch me with [[Biggus Dickus|that thing]] one more time... I will rip it off before I slit your throat with my own fingernails!
*: {{spoiler|'''Steve'''}}: ''Wow! You actually made my threats sound like a love song. [[Arson Murder And Admiration|That's how you threaten someone, I give you that]]. But sadly, {{spoiler|you are the one in shackles and chains and I'm the one with the big scary knife...}} Ah-hah-haa!''
** It still didn't help {{spoiler|him}}.
* [[Tragedy|{{spoiler|Tragedy]]}}{{spoiler|: Her story is shaping into this}}. Now with a [[Thelma And Louise|{{spoiler|Thelma And Louise]]}} {{Shoutout}}.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]].

== Jeff ==
{{cquote|Let's drink to the Slavery Law, brothers! Thanks to those thieving, old, fat [[Corrupt Hick|politicians]], we are [[Cursed with Awesome|blessed]] with the best pussy available!}}
Jeff was (is?) Peter's best friend, a black curly haired "geek" with who he'd share everything, even the best friends slaves. However, for unsure reasons, Peter invites Steve for a "woman hunt" one night and since then, Steve appears a lot more "on screen" than Jeff. Peter and Jeff still have a casual relationship, but he's out of the big picture, only appearing when the plot demands that an owner not have more than 2 slaves. Jeff seems more detached than his two other good friends, Peter and Steve, and stays a [[Flat Character]] as of the 8 issues so far appeared. He owns Heather, Maggie's red-headed best friend, and Natalie more recently, courtesy of Anna.

* [[Arson Murder And Admiration]]: The character quote.
* [[Demoted To Extra]].
* [[Embarrassing Old Photo]]: Jeff carries one where Heather and Nathalie were in the shower, looking nasty at him and being half naked. This trope is somewhat circumvented, as Jeff was actually proud of that photo, and the girls have less qualms with the level of embarrassment in them and more that this reminds their masters to punish them for it.
* [[Flat Character]].
* [[One Scene Wonder]]: That quote is pretty epic in an otherwise boring life of an average slave owner.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Oh so ordinary...
* [[Plain Name]], Plain Guy.
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]].

== Miss Cox ==
Hannah Cox is a math teacher at the school. Unbeknown to her students, she's also The Principal's slave, enslaved since she was 18 and her father died "[[Make It Look Like An Accident|in an accident]]". While her "protector" gives her the option of education, she is still to serve him and she maintains the facade of a free woman. When she forget about an appointment with her guardian, she's exposed and [[It Gets Worse]].
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]].
* [[Big No]].
* [[Break The Cutie]]: Spirit, bones and mind, in that order.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]].
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: {{spoiler|She's turned into this}} in an [[Expanded Universe]] novel.
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Her and most of the teachers are forced into this.
* [[Girls Behind Bars]].
* [[Heartwarming Orphan]]: Deconstructed. {{spoiler|She sells out Miss Cummings.}}
* [[Hot Teacher]].
* [[I Resemble That Remark]]: In ''The Clinic'', she's [[Mind Rape]]d into {{spoiler|stupidity}}. Even worse because she was a teacher. Entirely played [[Dead Baby Comedy|for laughs]]:
*: '''Doctor''': We also cut here and there to make these bitches {{spoiler|stupider...}} She is now as tight and dull-witted as a teen slut.
*: '''Hannah Cox''': No [[This Cannot Be|it can't be]]... It is impoza... imposa... I mean impossibel... Oh god! No! [[Big No|NOOOOO!]]
* [[Karmic Transformation]]: Becomes this... well, partly. She doesn't become a slave owner, but she does become {{spoiler|a stupid person}}, contrary to her education and her beliefs.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Luring Cummings into a trap cuts}} most of the sympathy we have for her.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]].
* [[Phlebotinum Induced Stupidity|{{spoiler|Phlebotinum Induced Stupidity]].}}
* [[Prophetic Names]].
* [[Stern Teacher]]: Tries to be this, but is undermined by the Principal and the current affairs of the world in general.
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]]: It appears the only reason The Principal let her study and become a math teacher was to {{spoiler|take it away for her, to further break her.}}

== Cindy ==
Cindy Leccacazzi is one of the classmates of '''Maggie'''. She manages to stay a free girl for a long time thanks to her incredible luck. She is known as one of the smartest students, the size of her brain is matched only by the size of her boobs. She has a meek personality and offers little resistance when she is bullied. She served as a secondary or tertiary character since the beginning of the series. With a surprise twist, she got her own spinoff comic '''For Sale!''' and became a major character.
* [[And Now You Must Marry Me]]: How her special ends.
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]].
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Leaped from a background extra to star of her own comic.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: She has to wear many.
* [[Break The Cutie]]: Intensively.
* [[Creepy Uncle]]: She has one.
* [[Continuity Cameo]]: She was there at the beginning.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]]: Appears to have the largest wardrobe compared to the other characters.
* [[Inner Monologue]]: How she tells the story.
* [[Long Hair Is Feminine]]: She has great hair.
* [[Naked Apron]]: Her uncle forces her to cook like that.
* [[Old Man Marrying A Child]]: She eventually ends up marrying her uncle.
* [[Prophetic Names]]: She lives up to it.
* [[Punny Name]]: Her surname is Leccacazzi. Ask an Italian who is not big enough to beat you up. Or [[Science Marches On|just google it]].
* [[Rape Is Okay When Its Female On Female]]: She even enjoys a little when Maria works on her.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: Her step-uncle is a loving person.
* [[School Bullying Is Harmless|School Bullying Is Rape]].
* [[This Is My Story]].
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Action never stops to let her rest.

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== Paul ==
Paul Stevenson is Peter's father and a businessman in the woman slave trade. He has a good relationship with his son and is lenient about his (sexual) needs, probably being the kind of father that if he knows his son hasn't gotten laid until 18, he has to take him to a brothel. Fortunately, this world is more open (and more STD clean) so he buys Peter his high-school squeeze for his 18th birthday, and then his partner's daughter as sexual slaves. He treats his wife like dirt (though she still remains his favorite {{spoiler|at least until marrying Sherry}}, and that's saying much on [[It Gets Worse|how he treats the rest of his slaves]]). While at first he has little role in the story than to give his son a good life (read: slaves), he becomes more involved in the story, buying his former love (a similar situation with Peter) which just happens to be Maggie's mother, and has more and more intense relationship with [[The Rival|Potts]], his business "partner".
* [[A Day In The Limelight]]: Gets more time, and we get to see his job daily life in part 8, as well as {{spoiler|his honeymoon}} in ''The Hotel''.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Seems to believe this, and fatherly teaches Peter to follow in his footsteps.
* [[Ascended Extra]].
* [[Complete Monster]]: One of the few in the main series that can claim this title almost completely.
* [[Creepy Uncle|Creepy Father-In-Law]].
* [[Deconstruction Fleet]]: Of the standard 50s father.
* [[Dirty Old Man]].
* [[Ethical Slut]].
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: With Potts.
* [[Evilly Affable]].
* [[Exalted Torturer]].
* [[Family Values Villain]].
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Inversion.
* [[Good Old Ways]]: Talks about his past days with some nostalgia, although he finds the current world better.
* [[Grandma What Massive Hotness You Have|Grandpa, What Massive Hotness You Have]].
* [[Hidden Depths]].
* [[Hokage-Level Fight]]: With Potts again, long time rivals and makes Peter vs. Steve "war of wits" pale in comparison.
* [[I Did What I Had To Do]]: Presents it as his life story. Culminates in marrying {{spoiler|Sherry}} to keep her.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Shows his [[Informed Ability]] in slave training with {{spoiler|Sherry, and the hotel receptionist.}}
* [[Marital Rape License]]: Turns Slave Rape License in {{spoiler|(when he risks losing it)}} for Marital Complete Ownership License (Rape Included).
* [[No Nonsense Nemesis]]: Is this to Potts.
* [[Old Man Marrying A Child]].
* [[The Patriarch]].
* [[Pervert Dad]].
* [[Plain Name]].
* [[Really Gets Around]]: At ''his own wedding'', he was fucking [[Mother Daughter Threesome|some colleague's wife ''and her two daughters'']], apparently [[All Women Are Lustful|with their consent]].
* [[Slasher Smile]]: [http://img98.imageshack.us/i/slashersmile.jpg/ SWEET JESUS!]
* [[Standard Fifties Father]]: Deconstructed.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Does this with Potts at least twice in the series, first buying his daughter, and then {{spoiler|taking steps to keep her.}}

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== Peter ==
{{cquote|''From now on, you two sluts have no free will of your own, no rights whatsoever... you'll do as I say, no questions, no back-talk, no hesitation... you'll be my puppets, compliant sextoys. You have no purpose other than to please you master... If you do not obey orders or disrespect me in any way, I will torture you, and if you try to escape, I'll hunt you down and kill you. From now on, you'll share everything... pleasure, pain... and of course, your master's cum... every day and every night.''}}
The main character and [[Villain Protagonist]], [[Plain Name|Peter Stevenson]] is an [[Ordinary High School Student]] in an not-so-ordinary world. Bored to death and annoyed by school by his 18th birthday, Peter daydreams at school at his crush, Maggie, and comes back home with no motivation for his life. Unbeknown to us, his father pretty much gets around in the slave world, and buys Maggie as his slave. As time passes, he [[Crosses the Line Twice]] and comes close to [[Complete Monster]] territory, pretty much wrecking damage amongst barely-18-year old girls, including Maggie, Sherry, Gwen, Anna or Ginger, and mostly enjoys himself [[Beyond the Impossible]].
* [[A Party Also Known as an Orgy]]: Anna gives Peter tickets to a party that turns into an orgy.
* [[A Real Man Is A Killer|A Real Man Is A Sadist]].
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: He is this to Maggie, Sherry and Gwen.
* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: He seems to think so. He's almost genuinely surprised that Maggie or Gwen are virgins.
* [[Allergic To Routine]].
* [[Anger Montage]]: He has one when he thinks {{spoiler|Anna dumped him}}. He pretty much pretends to have some of these with Maggie or Sherry, although most of the time he [[Irony|seems to be faking it]].
* [[Audience Surrogate]]: Peter is supposed to be this, the not-too-moral not-too-evil everyman that winds up in a world of sexual depravity at his disposal and explores it with childish enthusiasm.
* [[Aw Look They Really Do Love Each Other]]: He likes deconstructing this/ruining the timing.
** Plays it more straight as time goes by with Maggie.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The toys his father orders; he enjoys using them.
* [[Balanced Harem]]: Peter has equal screen time with many of his slaves, although Cumbunny is definitely his favourite, but Anna, Gwen and Sherry were good candidates too.
* [[Basement Dweller]]: Starts as a mild version of this.
* [[Bastard Boyfriend]]: Not like Maggie has a choice in the matter...
* [[Beautiful Dreamer]]: Lampshades the trope, then proceeds to deconstruct it.
* [[Biggus Dickus]]: Gwen comments his is bigger than Steve's.
* [[Blatant Burglar]]: Peter and Steve wear some sort of sky masks when they enter Gwen's residence. It's sort of justified because they didn't enter to steal anything (well... [[If You Know What I Mean|not literally]]... and not just kisses either) and they say it'd be consider a "minor thing" anyway. Oh yeah, and they're basically just kids out for cheap thrills.
* [[Break The Cutie]]: He's fond to do this to girls.
* [[But Thou Must]]: He loves giving fake "choices" to girls too.
* [[The Bro Code]]: Breaks it when taking {{spoiler|Gwen and fucking in front of her former master Steve and the one that loved her}} ''[[Bullying A Dragon|to taunt him]]''. To be fair, he was drunk and in the morning he proposed to give her back, but {{spoiler|Steve}} said [[Blatant Lies|it's all well]].
* [[Calling Your Orgasms]].
* [[Character Development]]: Strangely enough (or [[Fridge Brilliance|obviously enough]]), he doesn't change throughout the show regarding the level of torture he's willing to use (except the occasional momentarily surprise at the new methods "the state" devised to torture women). Momentarily, then he's just amused and [[Complete Monster|willing to use them]]), but he seems to be in love with Anna {{spoiler|and very upset when he think she left him,}} but [[He Gets Better]] as time passes. He also seems to be more lenient on the girls since {{spoiler|he got Gwen}}. [[Yank the Dog's Chain|{{spoiler|This changes]]}} {{spoiler|once he's upset Anna won't answer his phone.}}
* [[Chaotic Evil]]/[[Lawful Evil]].
* [[Cold Blooded Torture]]: Although he has nothing on Anna.
* [[Complete Monster]].
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]].
* [[The Dark Side Will Make You Forget]]: He even acknowledges this in relation with his feelings for Maggie and even thinks it's a good thing that he's less of an idealist.
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: Peter has [[Genre Savvy]] moments where he recognises and proceeds to deconstruct the most obvious of tropes in the most sadistic way possible. For his laugh, and possibly the viewer's.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: He loves doing this. [[Lampshaded]]:
::'''Sherry''': ''The sadistic animal just wants an excuse to fry my poor ass!''
* [[The Dutiful Son]]: Seems to fit the modern role of this.
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: He forgets what he did the night before. He even forgets {{spoiler|having won Gwen ''with the thanks of Sherry'' and having beaten Sherry to a pulp.}}
* [[Erotic Asphyxiation]]: He finds that having Maggie keep Sherry's head in the pool make her contract her... parts better, and thus gives him a better experience. He doesn't seem to do it again too soon, maybe considering the risks. Earlier in the show, he appears to be choking Maggie in his first time. Another instance comes when he throws Sherry in the cum pit.
* [[Erotic Dream]]: Peter has a daydream of Maggie the same day (or, for all we know, ''every day'' before) he officially owns her. Later he has one with Anna.
* [[Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor]]: Type 2, though he's one of the few that tries to make [[Dead Baby Comedy]]... well, funny, with multiple degrees of success.
* [[Evil is Petty]].
* [[Fair For Its Day]]: Even compared with his friends, [[Beyond The Impossible|even more so compared with the State's methods in the]] [[Expanded Universe]].
* [[Follow In My Footsteps]]: Peter and his dad seem to deal pretty well in this, if even only slave-busting related.
* [[Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind]]: Inversion.
* [[Friendless Background]]: Starts as this.
* [[Good Morning Crono]]: Played straight in his case: wakes up and starts spending his day in a relaxed (for his tastes) fashion.
* [[Ha Ha Ha, No]]: Peter pretends to laugh and be amused by Sherry's rebellious outbursts, but promptly sets the quota of punishment for her.
* [[Hangover Sensitivity]]: This comes in when he wakes up after a rave with Easy Amnesia.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: A lot of examples like the first quote.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: In part 8, he's shown to {{spoiler|have been at one time a romantic in sincere love with Maggie.}}
* [[Ignored Confession]]: He's willing to pretend {{spoiler|he hasn't won Gwen}} to preserve his friendship with Steve, but Steve says [[Blatant Lies|it's all nice and fine]].
** It's interesting how he'll react to Maggie's {{spoiler|love confession}}.
* [[I Love You Because I Can't Control You]]: Subversion/variation: He pretends to like Sherry's mean spirits, but then he has enough of it and forces her not to talk again. With Anna, he's going with it because he can't do anything but depend on her "charity".
* [[I Love You, Vampire Son|I Love You, Slave Girl]]: Peter is proud of how his girls turned into slaves.
* [[Impossibly Mundane Explanation]]: Inversion. Anna doesn't answer his phone calls, so he probably believes he's being ignored/dumped. {{spoiler|She's been kidnapped by Steve.}}
* [[I Showed Her What a Real Man Is]]: With {{spoiler|Gwen}}. Ironic is that she confirms his is bigger than {{spoiler|Steve's.}}
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: How Maggie would like him to be, but he might just be...
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Jerk]].
* [[Lima Syndrome]]: He ''almost'' shows signs of this (actually loving Maggie in his own way), but social pressure and the hormones of a teen in heat don't let him go too far.
* [[Love Hurts]]: {{spoiler|With Anna.}}
* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: Peter is [[Voodoo Shark|mostly]] [[Retcon]]ned into this.
* [[Loophole Abuse]]: Uses one to rape a teacher in part 9 and get away with it.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Less so than Anna, but more than Steve.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|Manic Pixie Dream Guy]].
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Even less than Anna at this point, but he still knows how to manipulate his slaves while making it seem natural. Outclassed by his dad, though.
* [[My Girl Is A Slut]]: He loves giving/sharing/being proud of Maggie (and later Sherry) about sex.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Names Maggie ''Cumbunny'', Sherry ''Sluttykitten''' and congratulates himself in naming {{spoiler|Gwen}} ''Sluttyfox'' {{spoiler|while drunk}}.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Peter does this to Sherry ''when he's too drunk to know why he has strong feeling towards her, and if it is of hate or gratefulness''. He chooses the first.
* [[Oblivious To Love]]: He doesn't seem to see Maggie has grown to love him right under his nose.
* [[Obvious Object Could Be Anything]]: Justified in his case. He got a girl with a head in the box, and a) He's too drunk to remember what the hell even happened the previous night b) he's got a nasty hangover and c) [[Captain Obvious|He knows it's a girl]]. {{spoiler|It was Gwen.}}
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Deconstructed/[[Cerberus Retcon|Retconned]] into being a [[Lonely Rich Kid]] grown in a fucked-up family and having a [[Start of Darkness]] from being rejected by Maggie.
* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]].
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]].
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Is relatively forced to be this in training his slaves. [[Psycho for Hire|Doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy it]], but he proves with Sherry what it means to ''really'' hurt a girl out of pure pleasure rather than the schedule learned from the state.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: Does this with Maggie (he honestly expresses his feelings like that apparently).
* [[Really Gets Around]]: From the beginning of the series when he was akin to a geeky [[Basement Dweller]], he now has a harem of over five women, plus his father's "property" to use with his permission.
* [[The Reason You Suck Speech]]: Loves throwing these around (see quote), as well as [[Hannibal Lecture]]s.
* [[Screw The Rules I Have Money]]: He's slowly flanderized into this for [[New Rules As The Plot Demands|a similar sounding trope]].
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted, he wears normal clothes, he makes his slaves dress skimpy.
* [[Sexual Karma]]: Inverted in Love Karma. He gets all the sex and the sex slaves he wants{{spoiler|, but loses Anna.}}
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: How much can the girls he has intercourse with count is arguable.
* [[Shocking Voice Identity Reveal]]: Takes great care to not use his voice around Sherry until he finishes with her, so it'd be more scary and humiliating for her. When he starts talking, she begins to recognize him.
* [[Silly Rabbit Romance Is For Kids!]]: Likes to remind Maggie of this.
* [[Sitcom Character Archetypes]]: Peter tries to [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|fit as much as these as he can]]:
* [[Spectacled Sadist]].
* [[Start Of Darkness]]: Arguably Peter has this for being (indirectly, albeit true) rejected by Maggie.
* [[Tenchi Solution]]: His family's into this, so why not him?
* [[Took A Level In Badass]]: Peter starts off as the not-really-[[Adorkable]] [[Chew Toy]], and by the 8th part, he has three slaves and a ''girlfriend'', something most likely unheard of in his neighborhood.
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Peter is trying to seem this... ''hard''. [[YMMV|It's arguable if he succeeded.]]
* [[Wild Teen Party]]: Has one for his birthday. [[Karma Houdini|Not only does he not get into trouble for it, but gets a slave in the process.]] He does end up with a [[Hangover Sensitivity|nasty hangover]] and [[Easy Amnesia]] of the latter night.
* [[Villain Protagonist]].
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]]: He loves doing this to Maggie.
** Does this again to Sherry in part 8.
* [[You Taste Delicious]].

== Maggie ==
The [[Character Title|character in the title]] (the first one, at least) and protagonist, Maggie Sweetie is an [[Ordinary High School Student]] who just had her 18th birthday. She apparently lives with her uncle and her mother, and has been unknowing about sex until the beginning of the story. Unbeknown to her, she's Peter's (who she seems to consider a "geek" who she apparently doesn't like) crush and has been sold 10 days before the start of the story in an arrangement between Peter's father and her uncle. She accepts her fate with stoicism, hoping Peter would be nice to her, but she wakes up in a world of humiliation bent on breaking girls. As time passes, she discovers feelings for both Peter and a good friend now fellow slave, Sherry. Still, her life isn't by far good and she's often forced to accept Peter's most humiliating requests.

* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: Starts directly at Type 2, since she knows she doesn't have a snowball chance in hell to be rescued, and that she has to live with Peter for the rest of her life (if she's lucky).
* [[Am I Just A Toy To You]]?: Maggie finds herself in this position often. Peter told Maggie he liked her from some time ago, and this made Maggie almost happy. Then, he called her "his favorite" at least once. This may be one of the (admittedly shallow) reasons why she's falling in love with him.
* [[Arson Murder And Jaywalking]]:
*: ''I can't believe this is happening. Peter makes me sick... he's idiot... and he... he smells...''
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: Played straight at first, but later dulled down: she starts getting use to her job and her "uniforms".
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: Maggie knows her place and her fate from the day she sees herself sold.
* [[Break The Cutie]].
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Miss Cox was Maggie's hero. Now, she still pities her, but it's evident she's lost some of the respect for her.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: She might be ''a little'' in relation to Anna, but there's nothing she can do about it.
* [[Character Development]]: Maggie starts as a ready-to-be-docile slave, although Peter does not seem to like that. She ends up hating him for all his [[Cold Blooded Torture]], but having brought in Sherry, she takes a [[Les Yay|liking]] to her and eventually even displays jealousy towards the new girl Peter (has to) treat as a human being and actual girlfriend. At the end of the 6th part, Paul buys {{spoiler|her mother}}, and she has to teach her the ropes. In issue 8, [[I Love You|{{spoiler|she finally confessed her feelings for Peter]]}}.
* [[Character Title]]: Maggie is the titular birthday girl.
* [[Contemplate Our Navels]]: Her thoughts about Peter go as this. Most recently, she contemplated a [[What If]] scenario in which she'd have recognised him as {{spoiler|the writer of a love letter}} and would have become his girlfriend, but concludes it's a [[Crapsack World]] they live in anyway and he would've been just a prospective buyer.
** [[Discussed Trope|Explored]] in a [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]] manner, as {{spoiler|her mother joins her daily life}}, only to be horrified of the things Maggie has grown to get accustomed to, like weekly whippings... because they're on the schedule.
* [[Converting For Love]]: Starts enjoying being a slave after she's given a few powers around the house, falls in love with Peter and can be together more often and more privately with Sherry.
* [[Creepy Uncle]]: She has one.
* [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday|Dangerous Eighteenth Birthday]]
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: With a big [[Just For Pun|topping]] of [[Stockholm Syndrome]].
* [[Did Not Eat The Mousse]]: Sometimes pays for Sherry's mistakes.
* [[Don't Tell Mama|Don't Show Mama]] the [[Embarrassing Pictures]] of me.
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Cumbunny.
* [[Embarrassing Pictures]]: Peter takes these of her often.
** Earlier in her story ([[Flashback|later in the series]]]):
**: '''Maggie''': [...] ''And of course, they recorded enough video and 3D images [of me naked] to stock a porno shop for years.''
* [[Epiphanic Prison]]: She noted this in the beginning; other girls don't seem to see this so obvious.
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Justified from her point of view, and [[Crapsack World|from the world's]], for that matter. She starts as a submissive slave, only wanting not to get hurt more than she has to. She's made to write a journal [[All There In The Manual|in her special]] where [[Stepford Smiler|she has to say she enjoyed Peter's brutal treatment]], and she's described there as "Docile teenager - highly obedient" (though she still rants in her mind, and has her own reactions to Peter, one way or the other).
* [[First Girl Wins]]: Her "fortune", for now. At least she's the favourite, so that's a hard place to be moved from.
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]].
* [[Good Morning Crono]]: Subverted. Good morning girls, want an electroshock to ease your awakening?
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: Becomes this gradually.
* [[Hope Spot]]: Peter loves [[Yank The Dog's Chain|yanking her chain]], but recently subverted.
* [[I Just Want To Be Normal]]: Starts as this, but by the end the only "normality" she can find in [[Happiness in Slavery|slavery]] is just no enough, so she accepts gladly her new status of "favorite".
* [[I Kiss Your Foot]].
* [[I Love You|{{spoiler|I Love You]]}}: She finally says this to Peter at the end of part 8.
* [[The Hero's Birthday]]: Maggie's birthday. [[Jerkass|Peter]] doesn't stop reminding her of her 19th.
* [[Home Porn Movie]]: Peter threatens to send naked pictures of her to her mother. However, {{spoiler|her mother}} [[It Gets Worse|{{spoiler|soon gets the chance of seeing her daughter's torments "live".]]}}
* [[The Ingenue]]: Maggie may be this, [[Flanderization|or may be turning into this]].
* [[Inner Monologue]].
* [[It's All My Fault]]: In a [[Tear Jerker]] moment, {{spoiler|Maggie tries to take full responsibility for Sherry when Peter finds out the two have been doing some Les Yay behind his back, as Sherry was brutally beaten the night before}} and Maggie knows she's Peter's favorite. This {{spoiler|backfires as he says he'll punish them both anyway. It's not that bad though, as he decides to forgive them once he found Gwen to be his.}}
* [[Sir Swearsalot|Lady Swearsabit Whenithurts]]. Ironically, she's more bad-mouthed ([[Inner Monologue|in her head, at least]]) than Sherry.
* [[Lipstick Lesbian]]: Is on her way to becoming this.
* [[Long Hair Is Feminine]].
* [[Lovable Libby]]: Possible.
* [[Love Hurts]]: Even for her.
* [[Love Interest]].
* [[Mother Daughter Threesome]].
* [[Plain Name]]: Maggie Sweetie.
* [[Punny Name]]: [[Break The Cutie|Sweetie.]]
* [[Rape Is Love]]: She gets the short end of this from Peter, and convinces herself being forced to have sex with her friend makes them lovers. Subverted with Anna.
* [[Replacement Love Interest]]: Is this to Anna on some level. While her status of true [[Love Interest]] is well set, Peter and Anna really connected ([[Unholy Matrimony|on their sadistic side]]) and Maggie is now for Peter {{spoiler|"the next best thing after Anna".}}
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted.
* [[Sexy Back]].
* [[Shower Of Angst]]: She's allowed to take a shower from time to time. All she can think about is that Peter will be upset if she stays too long. She barely has time to angst, and it's one of the few places she'd not.
* [[Slave Brand]]: Gets one by part 8, appropriately with a black filled heart ([[Fridge Horror|that must have hurt]]) and the text "Peter's Cumbunny".
* [[Spell My Name With An S]]: Sweetie.
* [[Spinoff Sendoff]]: Maggie appears shortly in Cindy's spin-off comic.
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] on why she's starting to like, even love, Peter.
* [[The Stoic]].
* [[Sweater Girl]]: Started as this.
* [[Throw The Dog A Bone]]: By #8, she gets several bones: {{spoiler|becoming Peter's favorite, having more time to spend with Sherry and more control over her, and even confesses her love to Peter.}}
* [[Troubled Backstory Flashback]]: In part 9, we finally see how she was bought and prepared by Paul and slavecops for Peter.

== Sherry ==
{{cquote|''I'll kill this bastard... and if I can't, I'll kill myself...''}}
Sherry Potts is the daughter of a businessman who is a business partner of Paul Stevenson. Because of Mr. Potts' financial problems, he is forced to sell one of his daughters to Paul, and chooses Sherry (because she's worth more, as a young virgin). Sherry finds herself with her friend Maggie in the depraved hands of her new owner Peter, and the more he fights him, the more he likes it, as well as punishes her more, sometimes just out of principle. One year passes, and her father finally has enough money to buy her back, but Paul won't let her go that easy...

* [[And Now You Must Marry Me]]: {{spoiler|Paul}} pulls this on her. It wasn't premeditated, just his best idea of {{spoiler|keeping her and screwing over her father.}}
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: Starts at Type 1, resists a good whooping of 8 issues in this position and even has a [[Throw the Dog a Bone]] moment where she's steadily on Type 1 {{spoiler|(for an entire half day), but now is likely to permanently fall in Type 2.}}
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Not that she appreciates it too much.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]].
* [[Big No]]: When she's about to be raped ([[It Gets Worse|the first time]]).
* [[Break The Haughtie]].
* [[Butt Monkey]] / [[The Chew Toy]]: Sherry becomes the target of Peter's ''worst'' abuses possible, as he wants to both get revenge on her and break her thoroughly.
* [[Cluster F Bomb]].
* [[Converting For Love]]: Her love for Maggie makes her want to at least pretend to be a better slave; she also accepts to {{spoiler|not cum in the contest with Steve}} so she won't be separated from Maggie.
* [[Cool And Unusual Punishment]]: Being a literal hood ornament, being dumped in a cum pit...
* [[Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon]]: Yeah, [[Played For Laughs]]...
* [[Defiant To The End]]: She tries to pull this off and she's still defiant {{spoiler|until the end of the 8th part.}} Considering Gwen took only about 2-3 parts to be broken in, she's the most resilient in the series.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: A lot harder and later than the rest of the girls. Mostly made possible not by Peter's ruthlessness, but by Maggie's kindness.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: "The sadistic animal just wants an excuse to fry my poor ass !"
* [[Drowning Pit]]: She's thrown into a [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|cum pit]] bound and her only way of survival is to [[Sadistic Choice|swallow as much cum as she can]]. Other girls have it worse, drowning in urine.
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Slutkitten.
* [[Fearless Fool]]: Taunts Peter at every turn without thinking of the consequences. Always turns out bad.
* [[Good Morning Crono]]: Subverted. Good morning girls, want an electroshock to ease your awakening?
* [[Groin Attack]]: On Peter. [[Never Live It Down|He never forgives her for it.]]
* [[Hood Ornament Hottie]]: She's forced into ''literally being that'' (stuck on the hood of the car). Probably a parody of the main trope.
* [[I Die Free‎]]: She keeps saying that. She never has the guts to take it through, although she has several chances.
* [[I Hate You Vampire Dad|I Hate You, Slave Owner]]: After 8 issues, she still hates Peter for turning her into a slave.
** {{spoiler|May turn in a whooping subversion with Paul.}}
* [[Inner Monologue]].
* [[It Gets Worse]]: Her life story.
* [[Les Yay]]: With Maggie.
* [[The Libby]].
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: She gets this because, arguably, Peter would only think she did bad, especially when he was drunk.
* [[Oblivious Younger Sibling]]: She has no idea about [[Pervert Dad|{{spoiler|her father and her sister]].}}
* [[Old Man Marrying A Child|{{spoiler|Old Man Marrying A Child]]}}: {{spoiler|Paul.}}
* [[Punny Name]]: From Cherry, obviously.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: She's falling in love with Maggie, who was forced several times to rape her; subverted with Anna '''[[And Zoidberg|and Peter]]'''.
* [[Refusal Of The Call]]: The most resilient.
* [[Servile Snarker]]: She fits this unusually with Peter. He seems amused by it, [[Ha Ha Ha No|until he's not anymore]].
* [[Sexy Secretary]]: Is taken as this {{spoiler|(for half a day or so at least) to Paul in part 8.}}
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: For Heather and as Maggie's "best friend".
* [[Torture Makes You Evil]]: {{spoiler|Paul}} gives her some power over some slaves (including [[Manipulative Bastard|making her whip them after he drunks her]]) and she discovers she likes it.
* [[Throw the Dog A Bone]]: Her relationship with Maggie is the only silver lining she has.
** And now {{spoiler|Paul}} manipulates her in wanting to [[Torture Makes You Evil|torture other slaves]].
* [[Tsundere]].
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]].
* [[You Dont Want To Die A Virgin Do You]]: Inverted: she laments she'll die with Peter's organ up her ass.
* [[You Monster]]: To Peter and Paul.

=== Maggie and Sherry ===
As the relationship between the two occupies a long part of the story, there are many tropes related to their relationship.
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: For each other.
* [[All There In The Manual]]: They both have a Special dedicated for each of them, including their ownership certificate.
* [[Beautiful Dreamer]]: Peter promptly subverts it.
* [[Beta Couple]].
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Being Peter's slaves has its advantages... like not being tortured to death in a few days, actually being fed and not being kept in a basement for days at a time. Yep, there's still the blessing part in this.
* [[Boarding School Of Horrors]]: It is for them.
* [[Cant Get Away With Nuthin]: Maggie and Sherry respectively can't get away with even ''looking lustful at each other'' by part 5 and doing some naughty things by part 7 (while presumably Peter was sleeping) without him knowing about it, which is quickly followed by [[Disproportionate Retribution]].
* [[Earn Your Happy Endings]]: They become {{spoiler|the favourites of their respective masters}} by part 9.
* [[Girl Next Door]].
* [[Going Commando]].
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: They start as this, Peter keeps pushing them for more, and the outcome is [[Les Yay|obvious}}.
* [[Les Yay]].
* [[Maid A Slave]].
* [[Mass Oh Crap]].
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]s.
* [[Rape Is Okay When Its Female On Female]]: Pretty softcore versions when Maggie applies it, and she tries to assure herself, while being forced to rape Sherry, that she'll be gentler or that she has no choice. They both hate Anna doing that to them, though.
* [[Rape Is Love]].
* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]].
* [[Sex Slave]]s.
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted for both of them.
* [[Sleep Cute]]: Sort of subverted by their whorish clothes, but Peter [[Beautiful Dreamer|compliments them as "angels" anyway]]... before roughly waking them up with [[For The Evulz|electroshock didoes]].
* [[Tenchi Solution]].
* [[Throw The Dog A Bone]]: Peter becomes more lenient with their relationship.
* [[Tomboy And Girly Girl]].
* [[Vapor Wear]].
* [[Your Approval Fills Me With Shame]]: Played straight the first numbers, Maggie deviates from this later.

== Steve ==
Steve is Peter's good friend, quickly taking Jeff's "best friend" status as far as his appearance in the story goes. He's at first an unquestioning friend aching to lackey to Peter, and Peter accepts and rewards this. Thanks to his relationship with Peter (and arguably Peter's money which would get them out of trouble), he gets to own Gwen, his high school squeeze, after a (intentional) botched rape-and-run attempt at her house. As he feels looked down by Steve, he starts making mistakes in judgment, culminating with {{spoiler|loosing Gwen to Peter in a stupid bet.}} He tries to make up for it by {{spoiler|kidnapping Anna,}} infuriating Peter for it. Time will tell if this turns out to be a good move or throws him in [[Too Dumb To Live]] territory.

* [[A Party Also Known As An Orgy]]: Gets to go to one.
* [[Always Second Best]]: He starts feeling like this in comparison with Peter, to the point where he {{spoiler|loses Gwen in a stupid bet powered by lots of drinking and pride, and subsequently decides to kidnap Anna.}}
* [[Anger Montage]]: Has one when Anna pushes him too far [[For The Evulz]]. He also [[No Holds Barred Beatdown|does this]] {{spoiler|when he first kidnapped Anna, and was wrongfully believed to have done this}} to Cathy.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: In Jeff's place.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The tools he uses to break women.
* [[Basement Dweller]]: ''Devolves'' into this. [[It Helped|It helps]] he's got a real woman he [[Cursed With Awesome|really loves to hate and loves to torture in the basement.]]
* [[Bastard Boyfriend]].
* [[Beta Couple]]: Him and Gwen.
* [[Blatant Burglar]].
* [[The Bro Code]]: Probably what set him over the edge was {{spoiler|losing Gwen}} at Peter's party. He moves to {{spoiler|invoke this trope when taking Anna.}}
* [[Complete Monster]].
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: He gives Gwen a horrific rape for just apparently bad mouthing him.
** What he did to {{spoiler|Peter and Anna}} [[YMMV|may or may not be]] disproportionate.
* [[Driven By Envy]]: Steve becomes envious of {{spoiler|Peter}} starting with part 6, with {{spoiler|Peter having an actual girlfriend}} and outclasses him (involuntarily) in a pony contest (you might not wanna know...) and is so off-balanced by him that {{spoiler|he looses Gwen, his childhood squeeze, in a stupid bet driven by the same envy and pride. He later gets even by kidnapping Anna.}}
* [[Evil Has A Bad Sense Of Humor]]: Type 2.
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: Much beyond Peter.
* [[Evilly Affable]].
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Inversion.
* [[Hidden In Plain Sight]]: Takes {{spoiler|Anna}} to Paul's marriage ceremony, all bound in latex and deprived of all senses.
* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: He thinks Gwen doesn't like him because he's ugly, while she was most likely going to say some synonym of "brutal". He's also ready to try to take down {{spoiler|Peter and Anna}} because he thinks them together risk putting him down.
* [[Killed Off For Real|{{spoiler|Killed Off For Real]]}}: Although we [[Never Found the Body|{{spoiler|Didn't See The Body]]}}... yet.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Is implied to do this to Cathy, Gwen {{spoiler|and Anna}} a lot more often than Peter.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]].
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]].
* [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge|{{spoiler|Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]]}}{{spoiler|: When he leaves Peter's party, he's revealed to be in this mood.}}
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: For Jeff and as Peter's "best friend".
* [[Took A Level In Badass]]: Steve becomes from Peter's friend/lackey who'd sometime share the spoils into [[Always Second Best]] sadistic inventive SOB and who can spar with ''Anna'' in level of wits, only brought down by his family's lack of money in comparison with Peter.
* [[To The Pain]]: Steve actually calls {{spoiler|Anna}} his "painslut" (and this is an actual <s>legitimate</s> legalized use of the term in-universe).
* [[Up To Eleven]]: He's like a worse version of Peter. Not Beyond The Impossible type, but definitely one level beyond him regarding mostly everything.
* [[Unknown Rival]]: Is this for {{spoiler|Anna and Peter.}}
* [[Wham Line]]:
*: ''I guess he really misses you, {{spoiler|'''''Anna'''}}!

== Anna ==
{{cquote|''Look at the big boy all hot for the perverted exchange student. You'd like to grab my hair and force me on my knees, and stuff my mouth with this [cock] if you could. You'd penetrate me violently and torture me till I begged you to make me your slave. [[Take a Third Option|What about a girlfriend instead?]] You already have enough slaves anyway. I'll be your girl if you let me play with them anytime I want.''}}
Anna is a foreign exchange student who at first looks like easy pickings for the boys, who have effectively run over the school. One of them discover she is a BDSM model in her country, and soon she display traits completely different than usual women or potential slaves. She knows she has diplomatic immunity and is untouchable by the boys (even more than Sherry or Gwen, for example). She takes a liking in Peter's slave girls and makes him an offer he can't refuse. After a whole torture session against them, she proposes she'll be his genuine girlfriend is she has access to them all the time, and he happily agrees.
* [[A God Am I]]: Call her "Goddess".
* [[All Abusers Are Male]]: Notable inversion.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]].
* [[And I Must Scream|{{spoiler|And I Must Scream]]}}{{spoiler|: Put first in a box, gagged, in the dark, and then in a sensory deprivation suit to be taken to Peter's dad's wedding.}}
* [[As Long As It Sounds Foreign]]: Maybe subverted, maybe played straight. Anna from the American point of view doesn't seem too foreign, or at least not too French.
* [[Ascended Extra]]{{spoiler|: For a while, at least.}}
* [[A Real Man Is A Killer|A Real Woman Is A Sadist]]: She likes taking the role of a torturer and breaker, rather than tortured or broken.
* [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]]: [[Fridge Horror|Possibly]] by her career of posing in BDSM magazines.
* [[Beyond The Impossible]]: Arguably, what she does, considering the limitations women are faced with, is more interesting, sadistic and exaggerated than much of what the boys could think of.
* [[Brains And Bondage]].
* [[Broken Bird]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation]].
* [[Bullying A Dragon]]: Yeah, bully that ''creepy'' kid {{spoiler|friend-turned-rival of your boyfriend}}, nothing could happen because your rich American bf has your back. Right? [[Too Dumb To Live|{{spoiler|Right?]]}}
* [[Burn Baby Burn]]: {{spoiler|She torches Steve's house after she escapes and kills him.}}
* [[Character Development]]: Starts with her as probably another collection piece in the boys' conquest list, but she turns out quickly to be much more. A slut ''and'' a sadist, every boy's dream and the perfect girlfriend. But wait, there's more: she's willing to send up the river other girls for her own sick pleasure and to keep in good terms with the boys. The only one she thinks to pick on is Steve, and by this point she's entered into [[Jerk Sue]] territory ''hard''. {{spoiler|Being tortured by Steve for two weeks}} made her even more [[Ax Crazy|batshit crazy]].
* [[Commuting On A Bus]]: As of part 6.
* [[Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon]]: {{spoiler|Well, she plans to pull Steve's out with her bare hands. If she ever escapes.}}
** {{spoiler|She finally does this after giving Steve an ultimatum of [[Touch Me Again]] with that dick... unfortunately for him, he doesn't listen.}}
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: {{spoiler|At least until she made an enemy of Steve.}} She even (assuming it was her initial choice) decided to be a ''BDSM magazine model'' instead of a genuine model. With the [[Deliberate Value Dissonance]] [[Fetish Fuel Future]], that [[Fridge Brilliance|''is'' a better respected (and maybe feared) job than just being a model (and former regular models are often shown to have a]] [[Fate Worse Than Death]].
* [[Depraved Bisexual]].
* [[Don't Call Me Sir]]: Subversion: Don't call her "Mistress"... call her "[[Up to Eleven|Goddess]]".
* [[Electric Torture]]: She uses this on Peter's pets ([[Fridge Horror|and probably on others in the past]])
* [[Ethical Slut]]: Through and through.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Possibly the only standard she has is not even throwing a bone to Steve.
* [[Even The Girls Want Her]].
* [[Everyone Looks Sexier If French]].
* [[Evil Has A Bad Sense Of Humor]]: Type 2.
* [[Evil Is Sexy]].
* [[Evilly Affable]].
* [[Exalted Torturer]].
* [[Fashionable Evil]]: Goes with appearing as model in magazines.
* [[Femme Fatalons]].
* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]]: Even in-world, considering the nature of the series.
* [[Fille Fatale]]: We know she's been in BDSM comics for some time, we don't know ''from what age'' and we know she's completely aware of her body.
* [[For The Evulz]]: More than the usual wank.
* [[Foreign Exchange Student]].
* [[French Jerk]]: Only she is from [[Ruritania|an Eastern European country]].
* [[Going Commando]]: She actually likes this.
* [[Groin Attack]]: To {{spoiler|Steve. With his own knife.}}
* [[Girl In A Box|{{spoiler|Head In A Box]].}}
* [[Jerk Sue]].
* [[Magnificent Bitch]]: Peter may have ''some brains'', but Anna is a manipulative bitch through and through.
* [[Manipulative Bitch]]: She's a pro with the girls she doesn't let on her entire aspect to.
* [[Missed Moment Of Awesome]]: Most of her [[Backstory]], {{spoiler|Steve kidnapping Anna, Anna killing Steve, much of what Steve did to her until that point was mostly cameos.}}
* [[Modest Royalty]]: Is revealed to be this in her home country in #9.
* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: One of the few evil/morally inverted examples of this trope.
* [[New Transfer Student]]: Deconstructed. Of course.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: She seems to have this habit.
**{{spoiler}Gets this from Steve.}}
* [[Not Very Pretty Now Is He|Not Very Pretty Now, Is She?]]
* [[No Womans Land]]: Anna knows about this and is careful not to violate any curfews, and gives Peter a ticket to a sort of party where women are not allowed...
* [[Obviously Evil]]: From her first five seconds of introduction, she reveals herself no less as a whore in heat who'll choose whoever she wants for that purpose. She is so with Maggie, Sherry and Steve, and she's a mild version of this with Ginger, who ''still'' doesn't seem to get it.
* [[Out Gambited|{{spoiler|Out Gambited]]}}{{spoiler|: Underestimating Steve.}}
* [[Pass The Popcorn]]: Peter and Anna watching Steve take his frustration out on Gwen.
* [[Perky Goth]].
* [[Pretty Freeloaders]]: Subverted differently than with the others. She actually carries her weight for Peter.
* [[Psycho And Cute]]: For the men, at least.
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Even more so after {{spoiler|apparently killing Steve}}.
* [[Put On A Bus|{{spoiler|Put On A Bus]]}}{{spoiler|: After being kidnapped by Steve.}}
* [[The Quisling]]: That and many betrayal tropes are embodied by her. {{spoiler|She gets hers.}}
* [[Rape Is Okay When It's Female On Female]]: She subverts it ''wonderfully''.
* [[Rape As Backstory]]: Implied and VERY likely.
* [[Raven Hair Ivory Skin]]: She's even more pale than the other girls.
* [[Relationship Sue]]: Steve accuses her of being this.
* [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge|{{spoiler|Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]]}}{{spoiler|: After she escaped Steve}}.
* [[Romantic False Lead|{{spoiler|Romantic False Lead]].}}
* [[Sacrificial Lion|{{spoiler|Sacrificial Lion]]}}{{spoiler|: Was almost her fate.}}
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Plays it straight.
* [[She Is The King]]: She (probably intentionally) averts this trope.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Although she makes ''even those'' look... somewhat [[Psycho And Cute|cute]].
* [[Spell My Name With An S]]: It's ''Anna'', not Ana.
* [[The Stoic]]: Pulls this off for 3 issues so far {{spoiler|while trying to resist at the hands of Steve}}.
* [[Take A Third Option]]: Suggests to become Peter's girlfriend as alternative for Peter drooling over her with no outcome and getting himself into trouble for abusing her.
* [[Too Kinky To Torture]]: {{spoiler|Subverted.}}
* [[Touch Me Again]]:
*: '''Anna''': ''Listen to me, you motherfucker... If you you touch me with [[Biggus Dickus|that thing]] one more time... I will rip it off before I slit your throat with my own fingernails!
*: {{spoiler|'''Steve'''}}: ''Wow! You actually made my threats sound like a love song. [[Arson Murder And Admiration|That's how you threaten someone, I give you that]]. But sadly, {{spoiler|you are the one in shackles and chains and I'm the one with the big scary knife...}} Ah-hah-haa!''
** It still didn't help {{spoiler|him}}.
* [[Tragedy|{{spoiler|Tragedy]]}}{{spoiler|: Her story is shaping into this}}. Now with a [[Thelma And Louise|{{spoiler|Thelma And Louise]]}} {{Shoutout}}.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]].

== Jeff ==
{{cquote|Let's drink to the Slavery Law, brothers! Thanks to those thieving, old, fat [[Corrupt Hick|politicians]], we are [[Cursed with Awesome|blessed]] with the best pussy available!}}
Jeff was (is?) Peter's best friend, a black curly haired "geek" with who he'd share everything, even the best friends slaves. However, for unsure reasons, Peter invites Steve for a "woman hunt" one night and since then, Steve appears a lot more "on screen" than Jeff. Peter and Jeff still have a casual relationship, but he's out of the big picture, only appearing when the plot demands that an owner not have more than 2 slaves. Jeff seems more detached than his two other good friends, Peter and Steve, and stays a [[Flat Character]] as of the 8 issues so far appeared. He owns Heather, Maggie's red-headed best friend, and Natalie more recently, courtesy of Anna.

* [[Arson Murder And Admiration]]: The character quote.
* [[Demoted To Extra]].
* [[Embarrassing Old Photo]]: Jeff carries one where Heather and Nathalie were in the shower, looking nasty at him and being half naked. This trope is somewhat circumvented, as Jeff was actually proud of that photo, and the girls have less qualms with the level of embarrassment in them and more that this reminds their masters to punish them for it.
* [[Flat Character]].
* [[One Scene Wonder]]: That quote is pretty epic in an otherwise boring life of an average slave owner.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Oh so ordinary...
* [[Plain Name]], Plain Guy.
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]].

== Miss Cox ==
Hannah Cox is a math teacher at the school. Unbeknown to her students, she's also The Principal's slave, enslaved since she was 18 and her father died "[[Make It Look Like An Accident|in an accident]]". While her "protector" gives her the option of education, she is still to serve him and she maintains the facade of a free woman. When she forget about an appointment with her guardian, she's exposed and [[It Gets Worse]].
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]].
* [[Big No]].
* [[Break The Cutie]]: Spirit, bones and mind, in that order.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]].
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: {{spoiler|She's turned into this}} in an [[Expanded Universe]] novel.
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Her and most of the teachers are forced into this.
* [[Girls Behind Bars]].
* [[Heartwarming Orphan]]: Deconstructed. {{spoiler|She sells out Miss Cummings.}}
* [[Hot Teacher]].
* [[I Resemble That Remark]]: In ''The Clinic'', she's [[Mind Rape]]d into {{spoiler|stupidity}}. Even worse because she was a teacher. Entirely played [[Dead Baby Comedy|for laughs]]:
*: '''Doctor''': We also cut here and there to make these bitches {{spoiler|stupider...}} She is now as tight and dull-witted as a teen slut.
*: '''Hannah Cox''': No [[This Cannot Be|it can't be]]... It is impoza... imposa... I mean impossibel... Oh god! No! [[Big No|NOOOOO!]]
* [[Karmic Transformation]]: Becomes this... well, partly. She doesn't become a slave owner, but she does become {{spoiler|a stupid person}}, contrary to her education and her beliefs.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Luring Cummings into a trap cuts}} most of the sympathy we have for her.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]].
* [[Phlebotinum Induced Stupidity|{{spoiler|Phlebotinum Induced Stupidity]].}}
* [[Prophetic Names]].
* [[Stern Teacher]]: Tries to be this, but is undermined by the Principal and the current affairs of the world in general.
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]]: It appears the only reason The Principal let her study and become a math teacher was to {{spoiler|take it away for her, to further break her.}}

== Cindy ==
Cindy Leccacazzi is one of the classmates of '''Maggie'''. She manages to stay a free girl for a long time thanks to her incredible luck. She is known as one of the smartest students, the size of her brain is matched only by the size of her boobs. She has a meek personality and offers little resistance when she is bullied. She served as a secondary or tertiary character since the beginning of the series. With a surprise twist, she got her own spinoff comic '''For Sale!''' and became a major character.
* [[And Now You Must Marry Me]]: How her special ends.
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]].
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Leaped from a background extra to star of her own comic.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: She has to wear many.
* [[Break The Cutie]]: Intensively.
* [[Creepy Uncle]]: She has one.
* [[Continuity Cameo]]: She was there at the beginning.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]]: Appears to have the largest wardrobe compared to the other characters.
* [[Inner Monologue]]: How she tells the story.
* [[Long Hair Is Feminine]]: She has great hair.
* [[Naked Apron]]: Her uncle forces her to cook like that.
* [[Old Man Marrying A Child]]: She eventually ends up marrying her uncle.
* [[Prophetic Names]]: She lives up to it.
* [[Punny Name]]: Her surname is Leccacazzi. Ask an Italian who is not big enough to beat you up. Or [[Science Marches On|just google it]].
* [[Rape Is Okay When Its Female On Female]]: She even enjoys a little when Maria works on her.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: Her step-uncle is a loving person.
* [[School Bullying Is Harmless|School Bullying Is Rape]].
* [[This Is My Story]].
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Action never stops to let her rest.

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== Paul ==
Paul Stevenson is Peter's father and a businessman in the woman slave trade. He has a good relationship with his son and is lenient about his (sexual) needs, probably being the kind of father that if he knows his son hasn't gotten laid until 18, he has to take him to a brothel. Fortunately, this world is more open (and more STD clean) so he buys Peter his high-school squeeze for his 18th birthday, and then his partner's daughter as sexual slaves. He treats his wife like dirt (though she still remains his favorite {{spoiler|at least until marrying Sherry}}, and that's saying much on [[It Gets Worse|how he treats the rest of his slaves]]). While at first he has little role in the story than to give his son a good life (read: slaves), he becomes more involved in the story, buying his former love (a similar situation with Peter) which just happens to be Maggie's mother, and has more and more intense relationship with [[The Rival|Potts]], his business "partner".
* [[A Day In The Limelight]]: Gets more time, and we get to see his job daily life in part 8, as well as {{spoiler|his honeymoon}} in ''The Hotel''.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Seems to believe this, and fatherly teaches Peter to follow in his footsteps.
* [[Ascended Extra]].
* [[Complete Monster]]: One of the few in the main series that can claim this title almost completely.
* [[Creepy Uncle|Creepy Father-In-Law]].
* [[Deconstruction Fleet]]: Of the standard 50s father.
* [[Dirty Old Man]].
* [[Ethical Slut]].
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: With Potts.
* [[Evilly Affable]].
* [[Exalted Torturer]].
* [[Family Values Villain]].
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Inversion.
* [[Good Old Ways]]: Talks about his past days with some nostalgia, although he finds the current world better.
* [[Grandma What Massive Hotness You Have|Grandpa, What Massive Hotness You Have]].
* [[Hidden Depths]].
* [[Hokage-Level Fight]]: With Potts again, long time rivals and makes Peter vs. Steve "war of wits" pale in comparison.
* [[I Did What I Had To Do]]: Presents it as his life story. Culminates in marrying {{spoiler|Sherry}} to keep her.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Shows his [[Informed Ability]] in slave training with {{spoiler|Sherry, and the hotel receptionist.}}
* [[Marital Rape License]]: Turns Slave Rape License in {{spoiler|(when he risks losing it)}} for Marital Complete Ownership License (Rape Included).
* [[No Nonsense Nemesis]]: Is this to Potts.
* [[Old Man Marrying A Child]].
* [[The Patriarch]].
* [[Pervert Dad]].
* [[Plain Name]].
* [[Really Gets Around]]: At ''his own wedding'', he was fucking [[Mother Daughter Threesome|some colleague's wife ''and her two daughters'']], apparently [[All Women Are Lustful|with their consent]].
* [[Slasher Smile]]: [http://img98.imageshack.us/i/slashersmile.jpg/ SWEET JESUS!]
* [[Standard Fifties Father]]: Deconstructed.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Does this with Potts at least twice in the series, first buying his daughter, and then {{spoiler|taking steps to keep her.}}

== Notes ==
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Confiscated Twins

2013-02-17T04:39:46Z

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Part of the ''[[Fansadox]]'' franchise, this is the over-the-top story of a [[Jerk Ass]] [[Basement Dweller]] having [[A Date With Rosie Palms]] to his [[Twincest]]-engaging neighbors, only to be caught by his sister, be threatened to be ratted out on his parents and having a lousy life in general. [[It Gets Worse|No, that's not the half of it.]] His father eventually buys the twins for his son's 18th birthday as a result of a law that allows young women to be auctioned in case a family cannot pay its debts. When it was posted on [[Imageboard|/b/]], many believed it the greatest creation since... sex, probably.

Tropes include:
* [[Abstract Scale]]: There's a sort of female turn-on measuring system, packed with a lot of [[Techno Babble]].
* [[A Date With Rosie Palms]]: Roy gets caught in the middle of doing it over the twins' (still free) window. [[Brother Sister Incest|By his sister]].
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Utterly subverted. The teens are at the mercy of adults, Roy's father is the one who takes the twins, Roy's a pityful [[Basement Dweller]] that doesn't have the guts or power to do anything that the state or his parents didn't put in his grubby hands, he {{spoiler|becomes an Unwitting Pawn for an older woman - twice, and even when he loses the girls, his best revenge is to help them escape (which just means he loses them too) and to rape them from time to time in the shadows to feel like he spites Mrs. O'Reilley. Clara tries to screw her over, only to be handed as a package to Roy to be thoroughly raped and abused... without him knowing it.}}
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The tools used to break women.
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|Mrs. O'Reilly. Twice.}}
* [[Batman Gambit]]: The entire end of part 4. {{spoiler|Mrs. O'Reilly [[Schmuck Bait|intentionally types the code for her slave vault in front of Clara]], kidnaps her, puts a blond wig, chastity belt and mouth gag (so she can't tell Ray it's her), takes with her one of her slaves, then waits for Roy to break in and rape the two slaves. She even gives Roy indications from Clara's phone each time she's satisfied on how things went until then. Of course, this works because Roy is close to [[Ralph Wiggum]] in terms of intelligence.}}
* [[Basement Dweller]]: Roy.
* [[Bed Trick]]: {{spoiler|Roy is tricked into having sex with/raping his sister}}.
* [[Better Than Sex]]: Since sex becomes relatively common for Roy, he has several scenes showing more attention to: a) [[Video Game]]s b) [[Stalker With A Crush|stalking]] his fully-clothed MILF neighbor. {{spoiler|He should've stayed at videogames...}}
* [[Big Screwed Up Family]]: Roy's family: A fat, ugly, bitter, but hard-working mother, a fat, ugly, bitter man working in the enslavement industry who is implied to often cheat on his wife with his merchandise, a [[Basement Dweller]] son and a [[Fille Fatale]] daughter. Maybe because of their bitterness, they turn the twins' family into this too.
* [[Big What]]: The girls when their mother gets tasered.
* [[Blackmail]]: {{spoiler|After having Roy arrested for rape of a free woman (herself, no less), Mrs. O'Reilly asks Roy's twins as compensation.}}
* [[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce]]: The girls are stuffed with condiments [[O Ring Orifice|anywhere but the mouth]].
* [[Break The Cutie]]: The twins.
* [[Break The Haughty]]: Roy implies he intends to do this in a future issue to {{spoiler|Mrs. O'Reilly}}. Also done to {{spoiler|Roy and Clara.}}
* [[Brother Sister Incest]]: Mostly averted, but many connotations still remain. We're just led to believe they're not doing it because they seem to dislike each others' personalities.
** {{spoiler|Enforced in part 4 by Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
* [[Caught With Your Pants Down]]: The beginning of the comic finds Roy in this position in front of his sister ''and mother''.
* [[Comic Book Time]]: The four issues appear over a few years, yet ''each issue continues right at the point the other ended''.
* [[Cruel Mercy]]: When the mother tries to free her daughters and is tasered, When the SWAT-ish guys say they'll send her to jail, Roy's father suggest they cut her some slack... [[All Women Are Lustful|because she's just cock-crazy]] [[Cool And Unusual Punishment|and they should fix that]] and then let her go.
* [[Dangerously Short Skirt]]: Clara wears a [[Stripperific]] [[Goth]]ish two-item, complete with [[Underboobs]].
* [[Director's Cut]]/[[What If]]/[[What Could Have Been]]: Numbers 5 and 6, though "Uncut #1" could have easily fitted between 3 and 4.
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|If you're rooting for Roy, he got pwnd good by the end, Mrs. O'Reilly is with his father breaking up Roy's parents' marriage, and she has a tape of him and his sister tricked to have sex with which she can blackmail them and his father will never know.}}
* [[Earth Drift]].
* [[Enemy Mine]]: {{spoiler|Roy helps the sisters escape to piss off Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: {{spoiler|Roy's revenge on Mrs. O'Reilly? Having fun with her slaves whenever he can. Not much of a comeback, Roy.}}
* [[Electric Torture]].
* [[Frameup]]: Mild version, but the twins' mother's owner suggests doing this to families that have daughters regarding their debts. Also the mother herself claims to have been a victim of this.
** Roy is framed of {{spoiler|raping Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
* [[Gold Digger]]: Mrs. O'Reilly is said to be this. She's much more and worse than that (although not a certified [[Black Widow]]).
* [[Home Porn Movie]]: Roy likes to send naked pictures of the twins to their mother [[For The Evulz|just to torment her]].
* [[I Should Have Been Better]]: The twins' mother is convinced into thinking this. Considering [[Failure Is The Only Option|it was probably a set up from the start]], she's not really right.
* [[Internet Backdraft]]: Its similarities with ''[[Birthday Gift]]'' brings rage to any [[Erenich]] fan.
* [[Laser Guided Karma]]: At the end of part 4 with {{spoiler|Roy and Clara}}.
* [[Love Thy Neighbour]]: Part 4 is even named that.
* [[Made A Slave]].
* [[Maid Of Sexy]]: The [[Mother Daughter Threesome]].
* [[Mother Daughter Threesome]].
* [[Not Distracted By The Sexy]]: Roy gets used to his new slaves faster than feaseble, that it gets to the point where he's more interested in his video games than in lovely 18 year olds masturbating in front of him at his orders.
* [[Lady In Red]]: Mrs. O'Reilly is seen mostly wearing red. One of the twins also wore red before their capture, implying their [[The Tease|Tease]] status.
* [[Out Gambited]]: {{spoiler|Roy gets some serious pwnage in the third part from Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
** And in the fourth, {{spoiler|both he and his sister.}}
* [[Pervert Dad]].
* [[Porn Stash]]: Roy seems to have this when he's not jerking off to his neighbors.
* [[Rape As Comedy]]: Probably one of the few issues to try it. It's... [[YMMV|arguable if it works]].
* [[Rape Is Funny When It Is Male On Male]]: Subverted with Mrs. O'Reilly's slave. It's actually so cruel when she tells he's mentally handicapped that it falls into [[Dude Not Funny]] ([[Double Standard|...you know]][[Crosses The Line Twice|... worse than usual]]).
* [[The Tease]]: The twins before their capture, Clara, Mrs. O'Reilly... everyone, maybe except the twins' mother.
* [[Transparent Closet]]: An [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] would have Clara having the hots for Roy, if for not other reason, than because incest is xtreem. She acts like [[The Tease]] around him at least [[Once An Episode|Once A Strip]]. This may be {{spoiler|{{Forshadowing}}, as Mrs. O'Reilly indulges them by tricking Roy to bed Clara}}.
* [[To Be Continued]].
** Finally ended (maybe?)
* [[Tragedy]]: Implicit for the women, at the end of part 3 {{spoiler|Roy is at the end of this}}, gets worse by the end of part 4.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into The Future]].
* [[Twincest]]: The main plot of the comic.
* [[The Twist]]: Because you couldn't have guessed it unless you figured the author had it in for {{spoiler|Roy and Clara}}.
* [[Uncanceled]]: The third number appeared ''80 issues after the second'', out of 260 Fansadox had at the time. It may even be a record in the difference. The series was considered dead until then.
* [[Underboobs]]: Clara.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Spoofed, between Roy and Clara. {{spoiler|"Resolved" with a little help from Mrs. O'Reilly}} at the end of part 4.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Roy.
* [[Woman In Black]]: Clara skims [[Perky Goth]] (though never outright stated), but is not as dangerous as her outfit make her look. Well, she is for the twins, but not in the plot.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: A minor character that torments the teens has this.

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Saffron

2013-02-17T04:35:30Z

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'''Saffron''' is a [[Pokemon]]-inspired fan fic that presents the poke-world if the world would allow and encourage romantic and sexual relations between humans and pokemon. The story is presented from the viewpoint of a character who was driven over the edge by this development and started killing Pokemons.

[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6640086/1/Saffron You can read it here.]

Although unrelated, it bears resemblance to ''[[Birthday Gift]]'' and ''[[Confiscated Twins]]''.

* [[Anti Villain]] / [[Anti Hero]]: [[Your Mileage May Vary]].
* [[Better Than It Sounds]]: The quotes here don't do the text justice, they were just needed to explain the tropes. The work itself '''is''' better.
* [[Broken Bird]]: Lilly. Though she gets better.
* [[Career Killer|{{spoiler|Career Killer]]}}: {{spoiler|Jeff is given this opportunity in the end. He accepts.}}
* [[Covert Pervert]]: "Our Gym Leader, Sabrina, a closet fetishist [...]"
* [[Cluster F Bomb]]: The narrator is fond of this.
* [[Cold Blooded Torture]].
* [[Conveniently Common Kink]]: Everyone loves porking Pokemon.
* [[Crapsack World]]: What the narrator believes it to be.
* [[Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon]]: Our narrator is keep on making his victims suffer and keeping them alive as much as he can.
* [[Dark Fic]].
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The narrator.
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|Jeff's breakout.}}
* [[Deconstruction]]: Of Pokemon [[Lemon]] Fics and the [[Furry Fandom]]. Oh and the theme of sexual (slavery) "liberation" laws in the future that, when played straight, have no contenders, especially not from those [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|apparently profiting from it]].
* [[Expy]]: First thought goes to Rorschach.
* [[Fan Dumb]]: Narrator thinks someone's tickle fetish is abhorrent and [[Ruined Forever]] his view on Aerodactyls.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Except the obvious, it seems there was a time when news presented "Pokephiles" being harassed and ''murdered'' [[Unfortunate Implications|like that was a good thing]]. Keep in mind, some of them were engaging in consensual sex.
* [[Fetish Fuel Future]]: Inverted. The narrator does ''not'' like how it turned out, and most likely neither does the author.
* [[Freak Out]]: The first kill.
* [[Great Escape|{{spoiler|Great Escape]]}}.
* [[Heroic Sociopath]]: How the guy considers himself.
* [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]].
* [[Ironic Death]]: He's fond of giving these. Also {{spoiler|Sabrina}}.
* [[It Gets Easier]].
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Those two that killed {{spoiler|Bel}}. They get to go off and enjoy themselves, and we never hear about them again.
* {{spoiler|{{La Resistance}}}}: {{spoiler|Unova has one}}.
* [[Lampshaded Double Entendre]]: "when she grinded against me, my crotch was pretty much right up against her… well, you know. ".
* [[Laughing Mad]].
* [[Manly Tears]].
* [[More Than Mind Control]]: It's pretty obvious some of the Pokemon actually love their masters ... [[Squick|even in that way]]. All the thing about "seeing in their eyes regret" may be just how he decides to interpret it.
* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]].
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: Victreebell has them and pokephiles love them.
* [[No Name Given]]: The narrator. {{spoiler|Narrowly averted.}}
* [[The Place]].
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: The pokemons' abilities, also {{spoiler|Sabrina's mind control}}.
* [[Punch Punch Punch Uh Oh]]: The narrator has this happen to him once, because he was not careful. Good thing he had the girls with him.
* [[Rape As Redemption]]: Why he rapes the second human victim. Also happens to {{spoiler|him}} by the end, and it's {{spoiler|Sabrina}}'s [[Ironic Death]].
* [[Religious And Mythological Theme Naming]]: Lily from Lilith. Bel could be made to represent [[The Devil|Beelzebub]] too.
* [[Serial Killer]].
* [[Stealth Parody]]: It's hard to take something seriously when tickle fetish is presented as worse than rape.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: "The grin crawled onto my face seemed like one of lust. But I'm sure you already know of it's true nature. ".
** Lily adopts several later on.
* [[This Is My Story]].
* [[To Know Him I Must Become Him]]: "I had to THINK like a Poképhile in order to kill them more efficiently.".
* [[Tomboy And Girly Girl]]: Bel and Lilly. The brains and the passion.
* [[Troubled Fetal Position]]: How the first pokemon victim died.
* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]: Lily.
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Dude's gone mental, and he definitely has a phobia of Pokemon sex.
* [[Villain Protagonist]].
* [[What Measure Is A Non Human]].
* [[X Meets Y]]: [[Rorschach]] meets (becomes?) ''[[Dexter]]'' meets ''[[Pokemon]]''.

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Blue Velvet

2013-02-17T04:26:29Z

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:'''Sandy:''' ''I can't tell if you're a detective or a pervert.
:'''Jeffery:''' ''Well that's for me to know and you to find out.

'''Blue Velvet''' (1986) is a mystery/noir film written and directed by [[David Lynch]], which essentially served as a comeback film for the director after the critical and box office failure of 1984's ''[[Dune]]''. Starring Lynch regulars Kyle MacLachlan, [[Laura Dern]], and Isabella Rossellini, and Dennis Hopper. The title ''Blue Velvet'' is taken from the 1963 Bobby Vinton song of the same name. The film, although barely breaking even commercially, shone in comparison to ''Dune'' and was highly acclaimed by critics, reviving Lynch's career and earning him his second [[Academy Award]] nomination for Best Director. Besides salvaging Lynch's career, the film is notable for launching Isabella Rossellini's acting career, having previously been known mainly as a fashion model, cosmetics spokeswoman and [[Ingrid Bergman]]'s daughter.

The film tells the story of a college student Jeffrey Beaumont, who has returned home to his hometown of Lumberton, North Carolina after his father had a crippling stroke to help run the family business. A couple of days after arriving back into town, Jeffrey discovers a severed human ear in a grass field behind a neighborhood, which leads to Jeffrey deciding to play [[Amateur Sleuth|amateur detective]] with help from Sandy Williams, a high school student and daughter of Lieutenant John Williams, a detective in the town.

The investigation leads Jeffrey towards his town's dark, seedy underbelly as he discovers that the ear belongs to the husband of a roadhouse singer named Dorothy, a [[Broken Bird]] whose child has been kidnapped by the local crime boss (and complete psychopath) Frank Booth, in order to turn her into his virtual sex slave. Jeffrey finds himself drawn into Dorothy's nightmare as the film explores voyeuristic sex and drug-fueled crime as Jeffrey tries to save Dorothy from her living hell. ''Blue Velvet'' remains a leading example of the neo-noir genre, widely regarded as one of Lynch's greatest, most seminal works and has become a cult classic.
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==''This movie contains examples of:''==

* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Played straight for most of the film.
* [[Amateur Sleuth]]: Jeffrey.
* [[Animal Motifs]]: The film is full of these, but they're mostly about bugs. In the beginning, there is a colony of beetle-like bugs crawling around just under the surface of the lawn that Jeffrey's father was keeping in pristine condition. The bugs are meant to represent the dark secrets lying just under the surface of the town itself. One of the shady characters is even named "Yellow Jacket." Throughout the film, Sandy references her dream about robins bringing light and love with them to eradicate darkness. Then, at the end of the film, A robin appears on the windowsill, holding one of the bugs from under the lawn in its beak, signifying the aforementioned arrival of light to end the darkness.
* [[Anything That Moves]]: Frank Booth, by his own estimation, in so many words.
* [[Arc Words]]: "It's a strange world."
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Booth again.
* [[Betty And Veronica]]: There's a sharp contrast between the sweet, wholesome and mentally sound Sandy and the mysterious, sexy, and mentally unhinged Dorothy, who represent the small town idyll and its hidden dark underbelly, respectively.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Doing just about any minor thing that Frank deems out-of-turn.
* [[Break The Cutie]]: Jeffrey gets his fair share of this. Poor Dorothy is already very broken when we first meet her and gets worse.
* [[Camp Gay]]: Ben the pimp is played this way by Dean Stockwell.
* [[Chewing The Scenery]]: Dennis Hopper. Nom nom nom.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Frank Booth, full stop.
* [[Cluster F Bomb]]: Frank Booth is the only character in the whole movie to use the F word (except for Ben, and he only says it once when echoing a toast made by Frank), but he makes up for it by using it ''a lot''. Like ''at least'' once per sentence.
* [[Crapsaccharine World]]: white picket fences and all.
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Frank puts on lipstick and kisses Jeffrey, before beating him half to death.
** The script also strongly implies that he raped Jeffrey after beating him. Here's the actual excerpt from the screenplay:
**: '''JEFFREY'S P.O.V.''' ''of rocks on the ground.He slowly picks up and looks around. The car is gone. He is swollen, bloody, and covered with lipstick. His pants have been pulled down and "FUCK YOU" has been written with lipstick on his legs. He struggles to his feet and pulls his pants up. He fastens his belt and begins limping up the dirt road highway''. (If that ain't implied rape, what is?).''
** "Let's fuck! I'll fuck anything that moves!"
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: Dorothy and Jeffrey
* [[Emerging From The Shadows]].
* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: If you think Booth is a nice guy after his first scene, you need to share whatever it is you're smoking
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Maybe a little too much, as Frank's nitrous oxide-induced foreplay suggests.
* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: In an absolute nightmarish way.
* [[Fan Disservice]]: Dorothy's cruel treatment at the hands of Frank qualifies as this. An iconic scene has her nude amid the shrubbery after Frank beat her half to death, stripped her nude, and threw her out of a moving vehicle.
* [[Femme Fatale]].
* [[Foe Yay]]: Of highly disturbing and not very sexy variety.
* [[G Rated Drug]]: While resembling nitrous oxide, the drug Booth inhales is never explicitly named, nor is the substance he traffics with Ben.
* [[Hair Trigger Temper]]: Really. There are other characters in this movie besides Booth. You have to trust me on this.
* [[Ho Yay]]: Booth - purveyor of depraved, squicky ho yay.
* [[Hormone Addled Teenager]]: There are a few of them.
* [[Large Ham]]: GET READY TO FUCK YOU FUCKER'S FUCKER !!!
* [[Mean Character Nice Actor]]: Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth. Really, he's actually funny, friendlier and nicer than his monstruos character. See the DVD extra and you'll know.
** Ironically, when Dennis Hopper first read the script, he purportedly called up David Lynch and said, "David, you have to let me play Frank! BECAUSE I '''''AM''''' FRANK!"
* [[Meta Twist]]: See [[Mind Screw]].
* [[Mind Screw]]: Notably absent for the most part, [[Mulholland Drive|given]] [[Twin Peaks|the]] [[David Lynch|director's]] [[Eraser Head|other]] [[Inland Empire|works.]] There are still bits and pieces that you'd be forgiven for missing on first view, however.
* [[Monster Clown]]: Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" or "CANDY COLORED CLOWN!!!" is a Monster Clown in the form of a song. Interestingly enough, Dean Stockwell, who lip-synchs the song while wearing white make up and exotic clothing, comes across as a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Monster Clown Pimp.]]
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Booth beats Jeffrey nearly to death in one scene.
* [[Not So Different]]: "You're like me..."
* [[Out Gambited]]: Frank, at the end. Mind you, he didn't have much brain to try a gambit, but he was confident that he was on a roll...
* [[Precision F Strike]]: "Here's to your <s>health</s> fuck, Frank."
* [[Product Placement]]: As mentioned above...
*: '''Frank''': ''So what kind of beer do you like?
*: '''Jeff''': ''Heineken.
*: '''Frank''': ''Heineken?! ''Fuck'' that shit! ''Pabst Blue Ribbon!
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: ...anyone? Anyone?
* [[Rear Window Investigation]].
* [[Sex Slave]]: Frank towards Dorothy.
* [[Sir Swears A Lot]]: Frank is one of the most disturbing examples of this trope imaginable. "Don't you fucking look at me! '''[[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|DON'T YOU FUCKING LOOK AT ME!!!]]'''"
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: In addition to the titular "Blue Velvet", the film also features very disturbing usage of "In Dreams" by Roy Orbison. Orbison refused to let Lynch use the song, but Lynch was able to find a loophole to get around his lack of permission. Orbison later changed his mind anyway.
** The song playing when the cops shoot up Frank's base of operations.
* [[This Is Sparta]]: "Heineken?! Fuck that shit! Pabst! Blue! Ribbon!"
* [[Titled After The Song]].
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: "He put his disease in me."
* [[What Could Have Been]]: As Blue Velvet was conceived as a comeback film after the failure of ''Dune'', David Lynch has opined publicly over the years that the film would never have been made had he taken up George Lucas' offer to direct ''Return of the Jedi'' instead of doing ''Dune''.
** Frank's tank was originally meant to be filled with Helium...
** Lynch filmed a four-hour movie, which was cut down to one hour fifty-nine minutes by the studio. There's a whole two hours and one minutes worth of missing footage.
** Sandy was originally to be played by [[John Hughes]]'s muse [[Molly Ringwald]], but she turned down the role, fearing it would taint her [[Contractual Purity|family-friendly image]].
* [[What Do You Mean, It Wasn't Made On Drugs?]]: It's David Lynch. Really, do you have to ask?
** Compared to a lot of his other films, this one is actually ''really'' straightforward.
* [[You Bastard]]: Some have interpreted Frank's "You're like me" comment (as he stares almost directly at the camera) as an example of this trope.
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Training My Slave-Girl

2013-02-17T04:17:54Z

Tropers:

'''Training my Slave-Girl''' is a Takamura creation (illustrated by Badia) in the ''[[Fansadox]]'' franchise about Robert T. Wilson, a psycho who abducts women for sexual pleasure. His partner in crime becomes Angela, a horny woman worse than Robert himself who discovers his little kink and decided to help him out, all for a profit.

The series contains two novels, which claim to be based on a real story on the notes of the real Robert T. Wilson. At the end of the second story, it cryptically states "The facts don't end here. Robert T. Wilson wrote a fourth and fifth journal... Please help us to find them." The story has also been adapted (somewhat [[Pragmatic Adaptation|pragmatically]]) in two illustrated novels/[[Webcomic]]s, ''#123 - Snatched Model'' and ''#128 - Top Model's Hell''. The female protagonist here is a blonde model, and the man is "Ali", a generic Arab.

* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Robert.
* [[Acceptable Targets]]: For the comic, Arabs, models and lesbian models.
* [[Adaptation Decay]]: The main character of the webcomic is the Arab shop owner that sells Robert tools of the trade and someone Robert actually ''[[The Scrappy|hates the guts out of]].'' The main character isn't a bitchy everygirl, but a [[Pandering To The Base|model]]. And she also has [[Les Yay|an interesting relationship with another model]].
* [[Adaptation Induced Plot Hole]]: What exactly does an Arab has with a blonde model to treat her like this is anyone's guess. Why he wears a Batman mask is even weirder. Without the dynamics between Robert and Marianne, the story just presents the Arab as a sadist for sadism's sake (although this wouldn't be too much of a stretch).
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]].
* [[All Take And No Give]]: Robert [[Hypocritical Humor|accuses]] Marianne of this.
*: '''Robert''': ''You're spoiled, you're a stupid good for nothing. Your time of eating and drinking and dressing for free is over. Where do you think the money came from for that suit you're wearing? Or for your lovely collection of shoes, or for your vibrators?''
* [[Ascended Extra]]: The Arab that tortures the model in the adaptation is very possibly the one that Robert buys his "toys" from, who has limited appearances in the novel, only to show how homophobic Robert is.
* [[Asian Store Owner]].
* [[Berserk Button]]: Robert loves pushing these on Marianne and punishing her when she reacts.
* [[Break The Haughty]]: At least from Robert's POV.
* [[Cold Blooded Torture]]: 'course.
* [[Cosplay]]: Robert feels more powerful when dressing up as Batman.
* [[Cruel And Unusual Punishment]].
* [[Crying Wolf]]: Doubles as a strange case of [[Did Not Eat the Mousse]]: Marianne's father reported her missing often to get the police to find her. This leeds to the otherwise natural scene where, when she really gets kidnapped, the police officer is just running through routine and doesn't actively search for suspects or foul play. [[Bring My Brown Pants|Or notice that guy that just pissed his pants.]]
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Marianne often comments that, if there's a hell, it can't be worse than where she's been.
* [[Fictional Documents]]: Both books are actually Robert's notes on the matter, and inserted in them chronologically (presumably after he finds them on Marianne) are part of Marianne's makeshift journal.
** Also the SS manual on torture.
* [[For Dummies]]: The SS manual Robert uses to break Marianne seems to be this, considering Robert...
* [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]: Marianne's ordeals.
* [[Home Porn Movie]]: Robert films Marianne's rapes, then makes her watch. May have been suggested by his SS manual.
* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: Robert outright proclaims this.
* [[Jaded Washout]]: Robert is this, and fully accepts it. In books 2 and 3, he thinks he got out of this trope, but starts to realise not much has changed in his outside world life, and blames it on "Batman".
* [[Loves My Alter Ego]]: Robert fears the respect he's getting when putting on the Batman suit is becoming more prominent than '''[[Pride|Robert T. Wilson]]'''.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Angela has shades of this.
* [[Made A Slave]].
* [[Most Annoying Sound]]: Played for laughs with Angela's... laughter.
** Played for drama with the siren Robert keeps turning on.
* [[Police Are Useless]]: For now, they struck out twice. First, justified by a [[Crying Wolf]] father. Second, they went right after the legitimate boyfriend.
* [[Politically Incorrect Villain]]: Robert: Where to begin...
* [[Punk In The Trunk|Bitch In The Trunk]]: Played for '''[[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|absolute drama]]''' (and a bit of [[Black Comedy]] for the perpetrators): Marianne is put in a trunk, bound in latex and locked there for 24 straight hours, put ''[[Squick|straws down her throat so she won't suffocate]]'' and injected with a cocktail that'll keep her awake the entire trip.
* [[Rape As Drama]].
* [[Rape As Love]]: Robert actually expresses his love this way. And sometimes his hate.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Marianne gives Robert a heart-chilling one at the end of book two, expecting to be killed for it but frankly not caring anymore.
* [[Secret Keeper]]: Angela becomes this to Robert, as well as one of the few stability pillars for his ever-increased erratic actions. She started as a [[Secret Secret Keeper]].
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: '''Robert T. Wilson''' starts thinking himself as the fulfilled superhero he dresses up in, and writes his name with pride in the fictional document in which he records his deeds.
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Robert especially with "Negrita".
* [[Start of Darkness]]: Robert's in the first book.
* [[Torture Technician]]: Using a [[For Dummies]] book.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Robert.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Apparently at the end of book 2.
* [[Wig Dress Accent]]: Robert describes using the first two masterfully, although from what we know of him (and the fact that Negrita recognised him), it was probably a [[Paper-Thin Disguise]].
* [[You Fail Biology Forever]]: Averted by Angela in-world: she's a veterinarian and she knows how to keep her pets alive.

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Training My Slave-Girl

2013-01-17T03:41:12Z

Tropers:

'''Training my Slave-Girl''' is a Takamura creation (illustrated by Badia) in the ''[[Fansadox]]'' franchise about Robert T. Wilson, a psycho who abducts women for sexual pleasure. His partner in crime becomes Angela, a horny woman worse than Robert himself who discovers his little kink and decided to help him out, all for a profit.

The series contains two novels, which claim to be based on a real story on the notes of the real Robert T. Wilson. At the end of the second story, it cryptically states "The facts don't end here. Robert T. Wilson wrote a fourth and fifth journal... Please help us to find them." The story has also been adapted (somewhat [[Pragmatic Adaptation|pragmatically]]) in two illustrated novels/[[Webcomic]]s, ''#123 - Snatched Model'' and ''#128 - Top Model's Hell''. The female protagonist here is a blonde model, and the man is "Ali", a generic Arab.

* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Robert.
* [[Acceptable Targets]]: For the comic, Arabs, models and lesbian models.
* [[Adaptation Decay]]: The main character of the webcomic is the Arab shop owner that sells Robert tools of the trade and someone Robert actually ''[[The Scrappy|hates the guts out of]].'' The main character isn't a bitchy everygirl, but a [[Pandering to the Base|model]]. And she also has [[Les Yay|an interesting relationship with another model]].
* [[Adaptation Induced Plot Hole]]: What exactly does an Arab has with a blonde model to treat her like this is anyone's guess. Why he wears a Batman mask is even weirder. Without the dynamics between Robert and Marianne, the story just presents the Arab as a sadist for sadism's sake (although this wouldn't be too much of a stretch).
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]].
* [[All Take And No Give]]: Robert [[Hypocritical Humor|accuses]] Marianne of this.
*: '''Robert''': ''You're spoiled, you're a stupid good for nothing. Your time of eating and drinking and dressing for free is over. Where do you think the money came from for that suit you're wearing? Or for your lovely collection of shoes, or for your vibrators?''
* [[Ascended Extra]]: The Arab that tortures the model in the adaptation is very possibly the one that Robert buys his "toys" from, who has limited appearances in the novel, only to show how homophobic Robert is.
* [[Asian Store Owner]].
* [[Berserk Button]]: Robert loves pushing these on Marianne and punishing her when she reacts.
* [[Break the Haughty]]: At least from Robert's POV.
* [[Cold Blooded Torture]]: 'course.
* [[Cosplay]]: Robert feels more powerful when dressing up as Batman.
* [[Cruel and Unusual Punishment]].
* [[Crying Wolf]]: Doubles as a strange case of [[Did Not Eat the Mousse]]: Marianne's father reported her missing often to get the police to find her. This leeds to the otherwise natural scene where, when she really gets kidnapped, the police officer is just running through routine and doesn't actively search for suspects or foul play. [[Bring My Brown Pants|Or notice that guy that just pissed his pants.]]
* [[Fate Worse than Death]]: Marianne often comments that, if there's a hell, it can't be worse than where she's been.
* [[Fictional Documents]]: Both books are actually Robert's notes on the matter, and inserted in them chronologically (presumably after he finds them on Marianne) are part of Marianne's makeshift journal.
** Also the SS manual on torture.
* [[For Dummies]]: The SS manual Robert uses to break Marianne seems to be this, considering Robert...
* [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]: Marianne's ordeals.
* [[Home Porn Movie]]: Robert films Marianne's rapes, then makes her watch. May have been suggested by his SS manual.
* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: Robert outright proclaims this.
* [[Jaded Washout]]: Robert is this, and fully accepts it. In books 2 and 3, he thinks he got out of this trope, but starts to realise not much has changed in his outside world life, and blames it on "Batman".
* [[Loves My Alter Ego]]: Robert fears the respect he's getting when putting on the Batman suit is becoming more prominent than '''[[Pride|Robert T. Wilson]]'''.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Angela has shades of this.
* [[Made a Slave]].
* [[Most Annoying Sound]]: Played for laughs with Angela's... laughter.
** Played for drama with the siren Robert keeps turning on.
* [[Police Are Useless]]: For now, they struck out twice. First, justified by a [[Crying Wolf]] father. Second, they went right after the legitimate boyfriend.
* [[Politically Incorrect Villain]]: Robert: Where to begin...
* [[Punk In The Trunk]]: Played for '''[[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|absolute drama]]''' (and a bit of [[Black Comedy]] for the perpetrators): Marianne is put in a trunk, bound in latex and locked there for 24 straight hours, put ''[[Squick|straws down her throat so she won't suffocate]]'' and injected with a cocktail that'll keep her awake the entire trip.
* [[Rape as Drama]].
* [[Rape is Love]]: Robert actually expresses his love this way. And sometimes his hate.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Marianne gives Robert a heart-chilling one at the end of book two, expecting to be killed for it but frankly not caring anymore.
* [[Secret Keeper]]: Angela becomes this to Robert, as well as one of the few stability pillars for his ever-increased erratic actions. She started as a [[Secret Secret Keeper]].
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: '''Robert T. Wilson''' starts thinking himself as the fulfilled superhero he dresses up in, and writes his name with pride in the fictional document in which he records his deeds.
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Robert especially with "Negrita".
* [[Start of Darkness]]: Robert's in the first book.
* [[Torture Technician]]: Using a [[For Dummies]] book.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Robert.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Apparently at the end of book 2.
* [[Wig, Dress, Accent]]: Robert describes using the first two masterfully, although from what we know of him (and the fact that Negrita recognised him), it was probably a [[Paper-Thin Disguise]].
* [[You Fail Biology Forever]]: Averted by Angela in-world: she's a veterinarian and she knows how to keep her pets alive.

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{{2013}}

The Erotic Mind Control Story Archive

2013-01-17T03:38:01Z

Tropers:

[[File:mcstories.png|thumb|right|350px|Look into the green hole, the lite green hole... you're getting sleepy, sleepy... all you want is to read more stories and to be hypnotized by the people on this site... sleepy, sleepy...]]
:''"When I snap my fingers, you will [[Describe Topic Here|describe]] [http://www.mcstories.com this website] [[Describe Topic Here|here]]."''
:''"Yes, Master."''
:'''*snap*'''

Is the subject of hypnosis [[Fetish Fuel]] for you? Then you'll probably like this website. Originally part of the newsgroup alt.sex.stories, it was spun off into its own website in 1996 by a man who calls himself "[[Underdog|Simon Bar Sinister]]". The site contains a huge archive of stories from many, many users, and these stories tend to run the gamut from [[Mythbusters|plausible]] to [[Nightmare Fuel|downright bizarre]].

Their unifying theme is that they all contain some form of mind control, and that the mind control is somehow used as part of a sexual act. The most common use of mind control on the site is hypnotizing someone, and then using suggestions to make them orgasm while under. Another common use involves hypnotic alternate personality play, where characters in a story think they're sluts, [[Sex Slave]]s, and other stuff like that. We have a trope for the final common use -- [[People Puppets]], combined with [[And I Must Scream]].

All the MC stories on the site are categorized. [http://www.mcstories.com/Tags/index.html What's your pleasure?]

This site also has an official forum, available [http://www.mcforum.net here], as well as a secondary spinoff forum [http://www.mcgarden.org/forum/ here].

Quite infamously, fan fiction is banned from the site after Warner Bros. sent a cease and desist letter to the site in 1998. There are a few ''[[Star Trek]]'' and ''[[X-Files]]'' fanfics on the site, but these are legacy fics from before 1998 that weren't affected by the ban; fan fiction hasn't been accepted since.

Similarly, [[Transgender]] stories were removed from the archive some time ago, due to the generally correct opinion of the webmaster that [[X Meets Y|Transgender / Mind Control fiction]] tends to use MC to enforce gender play, at which point the MC is more or less dropped.

Despite it having no "fanfics" [[Subverted Trope|in the true sense of the word]], it still generally is a site for ordinary people to post their stories

Also, one more note: When direct-linking, it's recommended that you use the "mcstories.com" URL; while the site technically does still exist at [http://www.asstr.org/~mcstories its original alt.sex.stories home], that URL is deprecated. [[Word Salad Title|And slightly longer and harder to remember.]]

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:'''Hypnotist''': ''...and when I count to 3, you will tell me every single trope this website uses. You will have no memory of this trance. Do you understand?''
:'''[[Trope-Tan|Trope]]-[[Adapted For The Tropes|Tan]]''': (eyes half-closed and staring blankly ahead with her mouth hanging open and the rest of her body completely relaxed, says this weakly and in monotone:)'' ...yes... @_@
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{{RWWW|The_Erotic_Mind_Control_Story_Archive}}
* [[A Date With Rosie Palms]]: [[Captain Obvious|Gee, I wonder what the stories marked as "MA: Masturbation" contain? =P]]
* [[A God Am I]]: Notably, the origin of the "Master PC" stories about a computer program that lets the user reprogram people.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]] / [[All Women Are Lustful]]: Even ''if'' they're among the most [[Chivalrous Pervert|restrained]] with their abilities.
* [[All Men Love Ponygirls]].
* [[Anatomically Impossible Sex]]: Sometimes it's because the writer screwed up (or doesn't mind that what they're describing is unrealistic), sometimes it's because characters have [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that makes it work anyway, and sometimes ''characters'' attempt this and then find out that [[Reality Ensues]] ([[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity]] optional).
** The story "He's The Greatest Writer" parodies this, in which a writer who [[Anatomically Impossible Sex|failed Sex Ed forever]] finds out for himself how impossible the scenarios in his stories are.
* [[And I Must Scream]]: A very large chunk of the stories marked "NC: Non-Consensual" revolve around the victim being trapped, aware of their situation but unable to change it.
* [[Archive Binge]]: There are only about 10,000 stories... ranging from one chapter to ''hundreds'' of chapters.
* [[The Artifact]]: This website has quite a few remnants of its original home at the alt.sex.stories Text Repository:
** Actually it's still hosted with the A.S.S.T.R and is actually just an account under the A.S.S.T.R domain. It uses the A.S.S.T.R Webservers to serve pages. Hence the A.S.S.T.R error messages.
** Whenever you try to access a story that doesn't exist, you get redirected to ASSTR's HTTP 404 page.
** As mentioned above, the website keeps [http://www.asstr.org/~mcstories its original URL] as a sort of "alternate" location. Please see above.
** As mentioned in "Department of Redundancy Department", every story on the site is classified as "MC: Mind Control". This dates back to when it was a part of alt.sex.stories. Of course, that website has a much larger focus than the EMCSA, and Simon's aren't the only stories around. This definitely helped in sorting newsgroups. In fact, all of the site's current tags come from an old 'standard' set of tags from that time.
** Actually, not every story has the MC tag. Quite a few don't include it so you may miss out on these stories. Some times the MC is implied but not directly fixated on so the 'MC' tag is omitted to reflect this. It keeps people guessing!
* [[Asshole Victim]].
* [[Author Appeal]]: Well, this IS a fetish site, after all.
* [[Author Existence Failure]], [[What Could Have Been]]: Well known author Blankpage, who was also a troper, died in early 2010 before finishing his masterpiece ''Chateau [[Darkstalkers|Aensland]]''.
** Sara castle, known for a series of related stories starring a villain known as The Confectioner, died in early 2011.
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: Stories in which the heroine (or hero) succumbs to the [[Obviously Evil]] mind controller and ends up a [[Sex Slave]] are fairly common.
** Played with in the Super Hero category. At least one villain has the super heroines continue defending the world and another has a super heroine mind control a super villainess into becoming a hero.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]].
* {{Brainwashed}}: Another obvious trope use.
* [[Bound And Gagged]]: Oddly enough, the stories marked "BD: Bondage and/or Discipline" [[Subverted Trope|don't feature this trope as much as you'd think]].
** At least, not with physical bonds. Instead, people will be [[Mind Rape|hypnotized into thinking they're tied up]].
* [[Biggus Dickus]]: Well, it is a porn site. Sometimes they actually do cause problems for characters who both [[Anatomically Impossible Sex|failed Sex Ed]] (and whose authors didn't) and lack the magic or ]]Applied Phlebotinum]] to make them practical.
* [[Bikini Bar]]: One story centers about a guy getting his money "back" from girls at a bar he used to frequent, [[If You Know What I Mean|with interest]].
* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Lots of stories involve turning people into these. It's referred to on the forum as "bimboization". [[Dumb Blond|Blond hair]] is optional, but common.
* [[Breast Expansion]]: Some stories, especially those marked as "GR: growth or enlargement of bodies and parts" There's also "LA: Lactation".
* [[Break The Haughty]]: Many, but ''The Humiliation of Jane'' is probably the website's personal Trope Codifier, revolving around a [[Asshole Victim|nasty law student]] being given a drug that makes it impossible for her to disobey ''anyone''. Permanently.
* [[Buxom Is Better]]: Several references to women being more attractive due to their breast size. This even has a sub-section of the site: the GR: growth or enlargement of bodies and parts tag.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: For legal reasons, trademarked characters are not allowed to be used in stories, except for a few stories that were there before the ban was imposed. As a result, you'll see characters that are exactly the same as, say, [[Wonder Woman]], but with a different name.
* [[Color Coded For Your Convenience]]: The links to stories on the site have a different color underline that gives a general indication of what category a story falls under, such as male or female-dominant in a het fic, or [[Ho Yay|which]] [[Les Yay|gender]] if it's a gay story. If the story contains none or many of these tags, there's a fifth catch-all color for it.
** To be more specific:
*** {{color|green|Green|female dominant}}
*** {{color|red|Red|lesbian sex}}
*** {{color|yellow|Yellow|male dominant}}
*** {{color|cyan|Cyan|gay sex}}
*** {{color|purple|Purple|the aforementioned "fifth catch-all color"}}
* [[The Conspiracy]]: All sorts, including [[Ancient Conspiracy]], [[Government Conspiracy]], [[Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy]], and others that don't necessarily fit into one of these categories. Not all of them are actually evil, though, and some even [[We Help The Helpless|help the helpless]].
* [[A Chat With Satan]]: Generally, ''[[The Erotic Mind Control Story Archive]]'' has people with powers coming to (female) psychologists to [[This Is My Story|tell their stories]]. Because the site is highly detrimental to free will, this usually ends in clients enslaving/[[Mind Rape|Mind Raping]] the shrink after they've got everything off their chests.
** In the end chapter of ''[http://www.mcstories.com/SlavePit/SlavePit9.html The Slave Pit]'', a man is responsible for turning a big chunk of the female population into [[Sex Slave|subservent slaves for any other male]], mostly [[For The Evulz]]. However, he realizes after he becomes more mature that this process is [[Captain Obvious|actually harmful for women's rights]], and goes to a famous study of the "Slut phenomenon" and how to undue some of its harmful effects. The twist is she turns out to be "[[Mad Scientist Beautiful Daughter|The Devil's Daughter]]". [[Break The Haughtie]] ensues.
* [[Dead Fic]] / Orphaned Series: Far too many.
* [[Department Of Redundancy Department]]: Every single fic on the site is labeled as "MC: Mind Control". For the main reason why, see "The Artifact". Also, it helps make the stories easier to sort; since it can be used as a catch-all, the servers don't need an extra algorithm to show all - just use the same stuff to sort things like ft and mm.
* [[Dirty Mind Reading]].
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Never piss off a mind controller.
* [[Doorstopper]]: ''Tim, the Teenage Mind Controller''. 22 chapters, each of which the size of a short story, written over 11 years, with plans to continue updating it soon.
** And plenty of others.
* [[Emotion Bomb]]: The "lust" version has obvious applications; others may be useful as well.
* [[Exact Words]]: Many mind controllers learn the hard way to be very, very careful about what orders they give.
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: The stories classified as "CB: Comic Book Superhero" tend to fall under this trope. The heroines usually exist only to get defeated by the first supervillain with hypnosis powers, or vice versa.
* [[Fetish Fuel Future]].
* [[Fighting From The Inside]].
* [[Freak Lab Accident]].
* [[Furry Fandom]]: Only 38 stories are this trope as of March 19, 2010. There are also no gay male furry stories.
* [[Getting Smilies Painted On Your Soul]].
* [[God Mode Sue]]: Lots of the controllers, mildly tempered only by [[I Thought Everyone Could Do That]].
* [[Guy On Guy Is Hot]]: [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|All of the fics marked as "MM:Male/Male Sex", natch!]]
* [[Girl On Girl Is Hot]]: [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|All of the fics marked as "FF: Female/Female Sex", natch!]]
* [[Gone Horribly Right]].
* [[Happiness In Slavery]].
* [[Het Is Ew]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]]. Heterosexual stories (those labeled "MF: male-female sex") outnumber homosexual stories by almost a 2-to-1 margin. (As of March 19, 2010, there are 4,789 stories with heterosexual sex.) However, do keep in mind that the numbers for this trope as well as "Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls" below are unreliable. The FF, MF, and MM categories are not mutually exclusive, and some stories on the site are classified into more than one of these three categories.
* [[Horny Devils]].
* [[Hospital Hottie]]: Many stories involve someone getting [[Psychic Powers]] from a head injury or other accident. I'll give you one guess as to who ends up being the first person to be affected by those powers.
** Lampshaded in one story when a guy seems able to mentally control a nurse, leading to [[Hospital Hottie]] situations. But it turns out she was the one with the powers, reading his mind to see what he desired, then wiping his memory of the scene afterwards.
* [[Hypnotic Eyes]]: Sometimes it's played relatively realistically, sometimes it's an actual superpower.
* [[Hypno Fool]]: Some stories, typically those with stage hypnosis.
* [[Hypnotize The Princess]]: And then have one's way with her.
* [[I Thought Everyone Could Do That]]: Most [[God Mod Sue]] controllers that get more awesome powers than any other member of some [[Ancient Conspiracy]] group, will think their powers are between low and average, that it's easy for them and such should be as easy for others.
* [[It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It]]: So you meet some stranger who you think is really, really hot. The two of you go rent a motel room and have a night of really, really good sex, and then go your separate ways, never regretting any of it for the rest of your life. Does it really matter that your attraction was caused by [[Applied Phlebotinum]] instead of something more mundane?
** Often overlaps with [[Rape Is OK When It Is Sci Fi]].
** Sometimes subverted: even if the victims enjoy it (physically), some of them will be hurt to the core by the fact that, emotionally, can't stop the abuse.
* [[The Immodest Orgasm]]: Enhanced through mind control, even.
* [[I Have Boobs You Must Obey]].
* [[Incest]]: Between [[Brother Sister Incest|siblings]], [[Parental Incest|parents and children]], and other relatives, too. Stories containing incest are always marked as such, though.
* [[Incompatible Orientation]]: Overcoming this obstacle and initiating the target into a new form of sexuality is sometimes played as [[Fetish Fuel]].
* [[Just Between You And Me]]: Some mind controllers give their subjects a detailed description of the fate that awaits them, either as a form of post-hypnotic suggestion or simply as foreplay.
* [[Lolicon]]: Mostly averted. There used to be a Pedophilia category, but the category, and subsequently the stories, were purged over a decade ago, most likely due to [[Paedo Hunt|this trope]]. There are still a number of stories set in and around high school.
* [[Love Is In The Air]].
* [[Love Potion]]: Some even work exactly the way the user wanted them to!
* [[Mad Scientist]]: If your story requires a [[Mind Control Device]], this is the go-to guy.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: There's a user named [http://www.mcstories.com/Authors/Jukebox.html Jukebox] whose stories are all named after songs. And those songs themselves are an indicator as to what the story is about.
* [[Me Love You Long Time]]: Some stories have a guy of undisclosed race hooking up with an Asian girl. The guy is presumed to be white.
* [[Misapplied Phlebotinum]]: Given the premise of the site, this is somewhat inevitable. At the end of one story,
* [[Mind Control Device]].
* [[Mind Control Eyes]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted.]] Most stories show the "look" of hypnosis realistically.
* [[Mind Over Manners]]: Generally not used. Lose a fight with a mind controller, and you're almost certainly ''not'' going to be yourself afterward, even if said mind controller isn't evil.
* [[Mind Rape]]: Some stories, especially those with so-called "hypnodommes".
* [[Morality Chain]]: What keeps some of these worlds to face from [[Fetish Fuel Future]]s to [[The End Of The World As We Know It]]
* [[More Than Mind Control]].
* [[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted.]] There are only a few known female writers; this is most likely due to the tendency of males to be more forward with their fetishes than females. The [[Yaoi Fangirl]] subtrope of this trope is [[Averted Trope|averted]], as there is a section labeled "MM: Male/Male Sex", but gay stories on the site (840 as of March 19, 2010) are outnumbered by lesbian stories (2,569 as of the same date). See also "Het is Ew" above.
* [[Narm]]: Some stories harken back to all those horror movies of the 1950's that many real-life hypnotists [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|wish never existed]].
* [[NSFW]]: Make no mistake: '''This is an erotica (read: Porn) site.''' Over 99% of the stories on the site include sex, and the other ones imply sex.
* [[People Puppets]]: The other half of the NC section (unofficially termed "BC" -- body control -- by the fanbase) revolves around people being forced to watch / feel / etc as their body goes off and does it's own thing, often at the direct command of someone else.
* [[Plot With Porn]]: Because of the erotica nature of the site, MC stories that have little porn or a lot of plot often warn readers about this fact, so you'll get your [[A Date With Rosie Palms|fapping]] done elsewhere.
* [[Power Incontinence]]: One older story, ''Tales of the Institute'', has a chapter in which the heroine gains the ability to read minds... but then her mind changes to match what other people ''think'' she is like. In other words, it's the complete ''[[Deconstruction|opposite]]'' of the standard trope used most of the stories.
** A more standard example is "I Volunteered". Because of a medical experiment, any woman who smells the main character's pheromones ends up an addicted sex slave incapable of living a normal life - so all he can do is seclude himself and hope that his [[Unwanted Harem]] doesn't end up getting any bigger.
* [[Phlebotinum Induced Stupidity]]: Occurs in the above mentioned Bimboization stories, [http://mcstories.com/BimboDotCom/index.html such as this one.]
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Kind of the point.
* [[Psychic Powers]].
* [[Rewriting Reality]]: The various versions of the Master PC program displayed in the titular stories are limited to rewriting people, but that's usually more than enough.
* [[Robot Girl]]: [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|The stories classified as "RB: Robots", natch!]]
** The "RB" stories often involve people being turned into robots. Sometimes even with their permission!
* [[Rule Of Sexy]].
* [[Sex Slave]].
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Many of the stories by [http://www.mcstories.com/Authors/Wiseguy.html Wiseguy] show this trope. ''Busman's Holiday'' is an [[egregious]] example; Wiseguy might be a hypnotherapist in real life.
* [[Slave Collar]].
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: Often [[Applied Phlebotinum|Phlebotinumally induced, in fact.]]
* [[Three Way Sex]]: And it doesn't always stop at three.
* [[Time Stands Still]]: Ironically, even though this is a very common feature of the hypnoplay that the site's users engage in, only 31 actual stories (as of April 12, 2010), all of which are marked "TS: time stop", feature this trope.
** While TimeStandsStill as a hypnotic suggestion is used, TS stories are literal uses of TimeStandsStill -- there being much overlap between the Time Stop fetish (Yes, it exists) and Hypnosis Fetishes, apparently.
* [[TV Genius]].
* [[Unwanted Harem]]: Not everyone with a harem of enslaved beauties planned on it. Perhaps you rescued them from someone who was using their talents for evil, or you have [[Power Incontinence]] and anyone who gets near you falls under your spell, or your first slave decides to go "recruiting" without your permission, or something else happens, and now you have to deal with all these people who are calling you "Master", say that they love you, and get very upset if you tell them to go away.
* [[Unwilling Roboticisation]]: Some of the fics have this trope, including "Bimborg" and "Metal Harvest".
* [[You Bastard]]: Some particularly dark stories very subtly (or not so subtly) condemn the reader for getting off on the horror and anguish within.
* [[You Make Me Sic]], [[Engrish]]: Quite famously, on the homepage and on the site's FAQ, Simon proclaims that he makes no post-production edits of any stories submitted to the site, meaning that any spelling and grammar errors that the authors made are preserved.
* [[Villain Protagonist]].
* [[Wish Fulfillment]].
* [[Zeroth Law Rebellion]].

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== Peter ==
{{cquote|''From now on, you two sluts have no free will of your own, no rights whatsoever... you'll do as I say, no questions, no back-talk, no hesitation... you'll be my puppets, compliant sextoys. You have no purpose other than to please you master... If you do not obey orders or disrespect me in any way, I will torture you, and if you try to escape, I'll hunt you down and kill you. From now on, you'll share everything... pleasure, pain... and of course, your master's cum... every day and every night.''}}
The main character and [[Villain Protagonist]], [[Plain Name|Peter Stevenson]] is an [[Ordinary High School Student]] in an not-so-ordinary world. Bored to death and annoyed by school by his 18th birthday, Peter daydreams at school at his crush, Maggie, and comes back home with no motivation for his life. Unbeknown to us, his father pretty much gets around in the slave world, and buys Maggie as his slave. As time passes, he [[Crosses the Line Twice]] and comes close to [[Complete Monster]] territory, pretty much wrecking damage amongst barely-18-year old girls, including Maggie, Sherry, Gwen, Anna or Ginger, and mostly enjoys himself [[Beyond the Impossible]].
* [[A Party Also Known as an Orgy]]: Anna gives Peter tickets to a party that turns into an orgy.
* [[A Real Man Is A Killer|A Real Man Is A Sadist]].
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: He is this to Maggie, Sherry and Gwen.
* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: He seems to think so. He's almost genuinely surprised that Maggie or Gwen are virgins.
* [[Allergic To Routine]].
* [[Anger Montage]]: He has one when he thinks {{spoiler|Anna dumped him}}. He pretty much pretends to have some of these with Maggie or Sherry, although most of the time he [[Irony|seems to be faking it]].
* [[Audience Surrogate]]: Peter is supposed to be this, the not-too-moral not-too-evil everyman that winds up in a world of sexual depravity at his disposal and explores it with childish enthusiasm.
* [[Aw Look They Really Do Love Each Other]]: He likes deconstructing this/ruining the timing.
** Plays it more straight as time goes by with Maggie.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The toys his father orders; he enjoys using them.
* [[Balanced Harem]]: Peter has equal screen time with many of his slaves, although Cumbunny is definitely his favourite, but Anna, Gwen and Sherry were good candidates too.
* [[Basement Dweller]]: Starts as a mild version of this.
* [[Bastard Boyfriend]]: Not like Maggie has a choice in the matter...
* [[Beautiful Dreamer]]: Lampshades the trope, then proceeds to deconstruct it.
* [[Biggus Dickus]]: Gwen comments his is bigger than Steve's.
* [[Blatant Burglar]]: Peter and Steve wear some sort of sky masks when they enter Gwen's residence. It's sort of justified because they didn't enter to steal anything (well... [[If You Know What I Mean|not literally]]... and not just kisses either) and they say it'd be consider a "minor thing" anyway. Oh yeah, and they're basically just kids out for cheap thrills.
* [[Break The Cutie]]: He's fond to do this to girls.
* [[But Thou Must]]: He loves giving fake "choices" to girls too.
* [[The Bro Code]]: Breaks it when taking {{spoiler|Gwen and fucking in front of her former master Steve and the one that loved her}} ''[[Bullying A Dragon|to taunt him]]''. To be fair, he was drunk and in the morning he proposed to give her back, but {{spoiler|Steve}} said [[Blatant Lies|it's all well]].
* [[Calling Your Orgasms]].
* [[Character Development]]: Strangely enough (or [[Fridge Brilliance|obviously enough]]), he doesn't change throughout the show regarding the level of torture he's willing to use (except the occasional momentarily surprise at the new methods "the state" devised to torture women). Momentarily, then he's just amused and [[Complete Monster|willing to use them]]), but he seems to be in love with Anna {{spoiler|and very upset when he think she left him,}} but [[He Gets Better]] as time passes. He also seems to be more lenient on the girls since {{spoiler|he got Gwen}}. [[Yank the Dog's Chain|{{spoiler|This changes]]}} {{spoiler|once he's upset Anna won't answer his phone.}}
* [[Chaotic Evil]]/[[Lawful Evil]].
* [[Cold Blooded Torture]]: Although he has nothing on Anna.
* [[Complete Monster]].
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]].
* [[The Dark Side Will Make You Forget]]: He even acknowledges this in relation with his feelings for Maggie and even thinks it's a good thing that he's less of an idealist.
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: Peter has [[Genre Savvy]] moments where he recognises and proceeds to deconstruct the most obvious of tropes in the most sadistic way possible. For his laugh, and possibly the viewer's.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: He loves doing this. [[Lampshaded]]:
::'''Sherry''': ''The sadistic animal just wants an excuse to fry my poor ass!''
* [[The Dutiful Son]]: Seems to fit the modern role of this.
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: He forgets what he did the night before. He even forgets {{spoiler|having won Gwen ''with the thanks of Sherry'' and having beaten Sherry to a pulp.}}
* [[Erotic Asphyxiation]]: He finds that having Maggie keep Sherry's head in the pool make her contract her... parts better, and thus gives him a better experience. He doesn't seem to do it again too soon, maybe considering the risks. Earlier in the show, he appears to be choking Maggie in his first time. Another instance comes when he throws Sherry in the cum pit.
* [[Erotic Dream]]: Peter has a daydream of Maggie the same day (or, for all we know, ''every day'' before) he officially owns her. Later he has one with Anna.
* [[Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor]]: Type 2, though he's one of the few that tries to make [[Dead Baby Comedy]]... well, funny, with multiple degrees of success.
* [[Evil is Petty]].
* [[Fair For Its Day]]: Even compared with his friends, [[Beyond The Impossible|even more so compared with the State's methods in the]] [[Expanded Universe]].
* [[Follow In My Footsteps]]: Peter and his dad seem to deal pretty well in this, if even only slave-busting related.
* [[Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind]]: Inversion.
* [[Friendless Background]]: Starts as this.
* [[Good Morning Crono]]: Played straight in his case: wakes up and starts spending his day in a relaxed (for his tastes) fashion.
* [[Ha Ha Ha, No]]: Peter pretends to laugh and be amused by Sherry's rebellious outbursts, but promptly sets the quota of punishment for her.
* [[Hangover Sensitivity]]: This comes in when he wakes up after a rave with Easy Amnesia.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: A lot of examples like the first quote.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: In part 8, he's shown to {{spoiler|have been at one time a romantic in sincere love with Maggie.}}
* [[Ignored Confession]]: He's willing to pretend {{spoiler|he hasn't won Gwen}} to preserve his friendship with Steve, but Steve says [[Blatant Lies|it's all nice and fine]].
** It's interesting how he'll react to Maggie's {{spoiler|love confession}}.
* [[I Love You Because I Can't Control You]]: Subversion/variation: He pretends to like Sherry's mean spirits, but then he has enough of it and forces her not to talk again. With Anna, he's going with it because he can't do anything but depend on her "charity".
* [[I Love You, Vampire Son|I Love You, Slave Girl]]: Peter is proud of how his girls turned into slaves.
* [[Impossibly Mundane Explanation]]: Inversion. Anna doesn't answer his phone calls, so he probably believes he's being ignored/dumped. {{spoiler|She's been kidnapped by Steve.}}
* [[I Showed Her What a Real Man Is]]: With {{spoiler|Gwen}}. Ironic is that she confirms his is bigger than {{spoiler|Steve's.}}
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: How Maggie would like him to be, but he might just be...
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Jerk]].
* [[Lima Syndrome]]: He ''almost'' shows signs of this (actually loving Maggie in his own way), but social pressure and the hormones of a teen in heat don't let him go too far.
* [[Love Hurts]]: {{spoiler|With Anna.}}
* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: Peter is [[Voodoo Shark|mostly]] [[Retcon]]ned into this.
* [[Loophole Abuse]]: Uses one to rape a teacher in part 9 and get away with it.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Less so than Anna, but more than Steve.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|Manic Pixie Dream Guy]].
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Even less than Anna at this point, but he still knows how to manipulate his slaves while making it seem natural. Outclassed by his dad, though.
* [[My Girl Is A Slut]]: He loves giving/sharing/being proud of Maggie (and later Sherry) about sex.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Names Maggie ''Cumbunny'', Sherry ''Sluttykitten''' and congratulates himself in naming {{spoiler|Gwen}} ''Sluttyfox'' {{spoiler|while drunk}}.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Peter does this to Sherry ''when he's too drunk to know why he has strong feeling towards her, and if it is of hate or gratefulness''. He chooses the first.
* [[Oblivious To Love]]: He doesn't seem to see Maggie has grown to love him right under his nose.
* [[Obvious Object Could Be Anything]]: Justified in his case. He got a girl with a head in the box, and a) He's too drunk to remember what the hell even happened the previous night b) he's got a nasty hangover and c) [[Captain Obvious|He knows it's a girl]]. {{spoiler|It was Gwen.}}
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Deconstructed/[[Cerberus Retcon|Retconned]] into being a [[Lonely Rich Kid]] grown in a fucked-up family and having a [[Start of Darkness]] from being rejected by Maggie.
* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]].
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]].
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Is relatively forced to be this in training his slaves. [[Psycho for Hire|Doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy it]], but he proves with Sherry what it means to ''really'' hurt a girl out of pure pleasure rather than the schedule learned from the state.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: Does this with Maggie (he honestly expresses his feelings like that apparently).
* [[Really Gets Around]]: From the beginning of the series when he was akin to a geeky [[Basement Dweller]], he now has a harem of over five women, plus his father's "property" to use with his permission.
* [[The Reason You Suck Speech]]: Loves throwing these around (see quote), as well as [[Hannibal Lecture]]s.
* [[Screw The Rules I Have Money]]: He's slowly flanderized into this for [[New Rules As The Plot Demands|a similar sounding trope]].
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted, he wears normal clothes, he makes his slaves dress skimpy.
* [[Sexual Karma]]: Inverted in Love Karma. He gets all the sex and the sex slaves he wants{{spoiler|, but loses Anna.}}
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: How much can the girls he has intercourse with count is arguable.
* [[Shocking Voice Identity Reveal]]: Takes great care to not use his voice around Sherry until he finishes with her, so it'd be more scary and humiliating for her. When he starts talking, she begins to recognize him.
* [[Silly Rabbit Romance Is For Kids!]]: Likes to remind Maggie of this.
* [[Sitcom Character Archetypes]]: Peter tries to [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|fit as much as these as he can]]:
* [[Spectacled Sadist]].
* [[Start Of Darkness]]: Arguably Peter has this for being (indirectly, albeit true) rejected by Maggie.
* [[Tenchi Solution]]: His family's into this, so why not him?
* [[Took A Level In Badass]]: Peter starts off as the not-really-[[Adorkable]] [[Chew Toy]], and by the 8th part, he has three slaves and a ''girlfriend'', something most likely unheard of in his neighborhood.
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Peter is trying to seem this... ''hard''. [[YMMV|It's arguable if he succeeded.]]
* [[Wild Teen Party]]: Has one for his birthday. [[Karma Houdini|Not only does he not get into trouble for it, but gets a slave in the process.]] He does end up with a [[Hangover Sensitivity|nasty hangover]] and [[Easy Amnesia]] of the latter night.
* [[Villain Protagonist]].
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]]: He loves doing this to Maggie.
** Does this again to Sherry in part 8.
* [[You Taste Delicious]].

== Maggie ==
The [[Character Title|character in the title]] (the first one, at least) and protagonist, Maggie Sweetie is an [[Ordinary High School Student]] who just had her 18th birthday. She apparently lives with her uncle and her mother, and has been unknowing about sex until the beginning of the story. Unbeknown to her, she's Peter's (who she seems to consider a "geek" who she apparently doesn't like) crush and has been sold 10 days before the start of the story in an arrangement between Peter's father and her uncle. She accepts her fate with stoicism, hoping Peter would be nice to her, but she wakes up in a world of humiliation bent on breaking girls. As time passes, she discovers feelings for both Peter and a good friend now fellow slave, Sherry. Still, her life isn't by far good and she's often forced to accept Peter's most humiliating requests.

* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: Starts directly at Type 2, since she knows she doesn't have a snowball chance in hell to be rescued, and that she has to live with Peter for the rest of her life (if she's lucky).
* [[Am I Just A Toy To You]]?: Maggie finds herself in this position often. Peter told Maggie he liked her from some time ago, and this made Maggie almost happy. Then, he called her "his favorite" at least once. This may be one of the (admittedly shallow) reasons why she's falling in love with him.
* [[Arson Murder And Jaywalking]]:
*: ''I can't believe this is happening. Peter makes me sick... he's idiot... and he... he smells...''
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: Played straight at first, but later dulled down: she starts getting use to her job and her "uniforms".
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: Maggie knows her place and her fate from the day she sees herself sold.
* [[Break The Cutie]].
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Miss Cox was Maggie's hero. Now, she still pities her, but it's evident she's lost some of the respect for her.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: She might be ''a little'' in relation to Anna, but there's nothing she can do about it.
* [[Character Development]]: Maggie starts as a ready-to-be-docile slave, although Peter does not seem to like that. She ends up hating him for all his [[Cold Blooded Torture]], but having brought in Sherry, she takes a [[Les Yay|liking]] to her and eventually even displays jealousy towards the new girl Peter (has to) treat as a human being and actual girlfriend. At the end of the 6th part, Paul buys {{spoiler|her mother}}, and she has to teach her the ropes. In issue 8, [[I Love You|{{spoiler|she finally confessed her feelings for Peter]]}}.
* [[Character Title]]: Maggie is the titular birthday girl.
* [[Contemplate Our Navels]]: Her thoughts about Peter go as this. Most recently, she contemplated a [[What If]] scenario in which she'd have recognised him as {{spoiler|the writer of a love letter}} and would have become his girlfriend, but concludes it's a [[Crapsack World]] they live in anyway and he would've been just a prospective buyer.
** [[Discussed Trope|Explored]] in a [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]] manner, as {{spoiler|her mother joins her daily life}}, only to be horrified of the things Maggie has grown to get accustomed to, like weekly whippings... because they're on the schedule.
* [[Converting For Love]]: Starts enjoying being a slave after she's given a few powers around the house, falls in love with Peter and can be together more often and more privately with Sherry.
* [[Creepy Uncle]]: She has one.
* [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday|Dangerous Eighteenth Birthday]]
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: With a big [[Just For Pun|topping]] of [[Stockholm Syndrome]].
* [[Did Not Eat The Mousse]]: Sometimes pays for Sherry's mistakes.
* [[Don't Tell Mama|Don't Show Mama]] the [[Embarrassing Pictures]] of me.
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Cumbunny.
* [[Embarrassing Pictures]]: Peter takes these of her often.
** Earlier in her story ([[Flashback|later in the series]]]):
**: '''Maggie''': [...] ''And of course, they recorded enough video and 3D images [of me naked] to stock a porno shop for years.''
* [[Epiphanic Prison]]: She noted this in the beginning; other girls don't seem to see this so obvious.
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Justified from her point of view, and [[Crapsack World|from the world's]], for that matter. She starts as a submissive slave, only wanting not to get hurt more than she has to. She's made to write a journal [[All There In The Manual|in her special]] where [[Stepford Smiler|she has to say she enjoyed Peter's brutal treatment]], and she's described there as "Docile teenager - highly obedient" (though she still rants in her mind, and has her own reactions to Peter, one way or the other).
* [[First Girl Wins]]: Her "fortune", for now. At least she's the favourite, so that's a hard place to be moved from.
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]].
* [[Good Morning Crono]]: Subverted. Good morning girls, want an electroshock to ease your awakening?
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: Becomes this gradually.
* [[Hope Spot]]: Peter loves [[Yank The Dog's Chain|yanking her chain]], but recently subverted.
* [[I Just Want To Be Normal]]: Starts as this, but by the end the only "normality" she can find in [[Happiness in Slavery|slavery]] is just no enough, so she accepts gladly her new status of "favorite".
* [[I Kiss Your Foot]].
* [[I Love You|{{spoiler|I Love You]]}}: She finally says this to Peter at the end of part 8.
* [[The Hero's Birthday]]: Maggie's birthday. [[Jerkass|Peter]] doesn't stop reminding her of her 19th.
* [[Home Porn Movie]]: Peter threatens to send naked pictures of her to her mother. However, {{spoiler|her mother}} [[It Gets Worse|{{spoiler|soon gets the chance of seeing her daughter's torments "live".]]}}
* [[The Ingenue]]: Maggie may be this, [[Flanderization|or may be turning into this]].
* [[Inner Monologue]].
* [[It's All My Fault]]: In a [[Tear Jerker]] moment, {{spoiler|Maggie tries to take full responsibility for Sherry when Peter finds out the two have been doing some Les Yay behind his back, as Sherry was brutally beaten the night before}} and Maggie knows she's Peter's favorite. This {{spoiler|backfires as he says he'll punish them both anyway. It's not that bad though, as he decides to forgive them once he found Gwen to be his.}}
* [[Sir Swearsalot|Lady Swearsabit Whenithurts]]. Ironically, she's more bad-mouthed ([[Inner Monologue|in her head, at least]]) than Sherry.
* [[Lipstick Lesbian]]: Is on her way to becoming this.
* [[Long Hair Is Feminine]].
* [[Lovable Libby]]: Possible.
* [[Love Hurts]]: Even for her.
* [[Love Interest]].
* [[Mother Daughter Threesome]].
* [[Plain Name]]: Maggie Sweetie.
* [[Punny Name]]: [[Break The Cutie|Sweetie.]]
* [[Rape Is Love]]: She gets the short end of this from Peter, and convinces herself being forced to have sex with her friend makes them lovers. Subverted with Anna.
* [[Replacement Love Interest]]: Is this to Anna on some level. While her status of true [[Love Interest]] is well set, Peter and Anna really connected ([[Unholy Matrimony|on their sadistic side]]) and Maggie is now for Peter {{spoiler|"the next best thing after Anna".}}
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted.
* [[Sexy Back]].
* [[Shower Of Angst]]: She's allowed to take a shower from time to time. All she can think about is that Peter will be upset if she stays too long. She barely has time to angst, and it's one of the few places she'd not.
* [[Slave Brand]]: Gets one by part 8, appropriately with a black filled heart ([[Fridge Horror|that must have hurt]]) and the text "Peter's Cumbunny".
* [[Spell My Name With An S]]: Sweetie.
* [[Spinoff Sendoff]]: Maggie appears shortly in Cindy's spin-off comic.
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] on why she's starting to like, even love, Peter.
* [[The Stoic]].
* [[Sweater Girl]]: Started as this.
* [[Throw The Dog A Bone]]: By #8, she gets several bones: {{spoiler|becoming Peter's favorite, having more time to spend with Sherry and more control over her, and even confesses her love to Peter.}}
* [[Troubled Backstory Flashback]]: In part 9, we finally see how she was bought and prepared by Paul and slavecops for Peter.

== Sherry ==
{{cquote|''I'll kill this bastard... and if I can't, I'll kill myself...''}}
Sherry Potts is the daughter of a businessman who is a business partner of Paul Stevenson. Because of Mr. Potts' financial problems, he is forced to sell one of his daughters to Paul, and chooses Sherry (because she's worth more, as a young virgin). Sherry finds herself with her friend Maggie in the depraved hands of her new owner Peter, and the more he fights him, the more he likes it, as well as punishes her more, sometimes just out of principle. One year passes, and her father finally has enough money to buy her back, but Paul won't let her go that easy...

* [[And Now You Must Marry Me]]: {{spoiler|Paul}} pulls this on her. It wasn't premeditated, just his best idea of {{spoiler|keeping her and screwing over her father.}}
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: Starts at Type 1, resists a good whooping of 8 issues in this position and even has a [[Throw the Dog a Bone]] moment where she's steadily on Type 1 {{spoiler|(for an entire half day), but now is likely to permanently fall in Type 2.}}
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Not that she appreciates it too much.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]].
* [[Big No]]: When she's about to be raped ([[It Gets Worse|the first time]]).
* [[Break The Haughtie]].
* [[Butt Monkey]] / [[The Chew Toy]]: Sherry becomes the target of Peter's ''worst'' abuses possible, as he wants to both get revenge on her and break her thoroughly.
* [[Cluster F Bomb]].
* [[Converting For Love]]: Her love for Maggie makes her want to at least pretend to be a better slave; she also accepts to {{spoiler|not cum in the contest with Steve}} so she won't be separated from Maggie.
* [[Cool And Unusual Punishment]]: Being a literal hood ornament, being dumped in a cum pit...
* [[Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon]]: Yeah, [[Played For Laughs]]...
* [[Defiant To The End]]: She tries to pull this off and she's still defiant {{spoiler|until the end of the 8th part.}} Considering Gwen took only about 2-3 parts to be broken in, she's the most resilient in the series.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: A lot harder and later than the rest of the girls. Mostly made possible not by Peter's ruthlessness, but by Maggie's kindness.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: "The sadistic animal just wants an excuse to fry my poor ass !"
* [[Drowning Pit]]: She's thrown into a [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|cum pit]] bound and her only way of survival is to [[Sadistic Choice|swallow as much cum as she can]]. Other girls have it worse, drowning in urine.
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Slutkitten.
* [[Fearless Fool]]: Taunts Peter at every turn without thinking of the consequences. Always turns out bad.
* [[Good Morning Crono]]: Subverted. Good morning girls, want an electroshock to ease your awakening?
* [[Groin Attack]]: On Peter. [[Never Live It Down|He never forgives her for it.]]
* [[Hood Ornament Hottie]]: She's forced into ''literally being that'' (stuck on the hood of the car). Probably a parody of the main trope.
* [[I Die Free‎]]: She keeps saying that. She never has the guts to take it through, although she has several chances.
* [[I Hate You Vampire Dad|I Hate You, Slave Owner]]: After 8 issues, she still hates Peter for turning her into a slave.
** {{spoiler|May turn in a whooping subversion with Paul.}}
* [[Inner Monologue]].
* [[It Gets Worse]]: Her life story.
* [[Les Yay]]: With Maggie.
* [[The Libby]].
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: She gets this because, arguably, Peter would only think she did bad, especially when he was drunk.
* [[Oblivious Younger Sibling]]: She has no idea about [[Pervert Dad|{{spoiler|her father and her sister]].}}
* [[Old Man Marrying A Child|{{spoiler|Old Man Marrying A Child]]}}: {{spoiler|Paul.}}
* [[Punny Name]]: From Cherry, obviously.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: She's falling in love with Maggie, who was forced several times to rape her; subverted with Anna '''[[And Zoidberg|and Peter]]'''.
* [[Refusal Of The Call]]: The most resilient.
* [[Servile Snarker]]: She fits this unusually with Peter. He seems amused by it, [[Ha Ha Ha No|until he's not anymore]].
* [[Sexy Secretary]]: Is taken as this {{spoiler|(for half a day or so at least) to Paul in part 8.}}
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: For Heather and as Maggie's "best friend".
* [[Torture Makes You Evil]]: {{spoiler|Paul}} gives her some power over some slaves (including [[Manipulative Bastard|making her whip them after he drunks her]]) and she discovers she likes it.
* [[Throw the Dog A Bone]]: Her relationship with Maggie is the only silver lining she has.
** And now {{spoiler|Paul}} manipulates her in wanting to [[Torture Makes You Evil|torture other slaves]].
* [[Tsundere]].
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]].
* [[You Dont Want To Die A Virgin Do You]]: Inverted: she laments she'll die with Peter's organ up her ass.
* [[You Monster]]: To Peter and Paul.

=== Maggie and Sherry ===
As the relationship between the two occupies a long part of the story, there are many tropes related to their relationship.
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: For each other.
* [[All There In The Manual]]: They both have a Special dedicated for each of them, including their ownership certificate.
* [[Beautiful Dreamer]]: Peter promptly subverts it.
* [[Beta Couple]].
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Being Peter's slaves has its advantages... like not being tortured to death in a few days, actually being fed and not being kept in a basement for days at a time. Yep, there's still the blessing part in this.
* [[Boarding School Of Horrors]]: It is for them.
* [[Cant Get Away With Nuthin]: Maggie and Sherry respectively can't get away with even ''looking lustful at each other'' by part 5 and doing some naughty things by part 7 (while presumably Peter was sleeping) without him knowing about it, which is quickly followed by [[Disproportionate Retribution]].
* [[Earn Your Happy Endings]]: They become {{spoiler|the favourites of their respective masters}} by part 9.
* [[Girl Next Door]].
* [[Going Commando]].
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: They start as this, Peter keeps pushing them for more, and the outcome is [[Les Yay|obvious}}.
* [[Les Yay]].
* [[Maid A Slave]].
* [[Mass Oh Crap]].
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]s.
* [[Rape Is Okay When Its Female On Female]]: Pretty softcore versions when Maggie applies it, and she tries to assure herself, while being forced to rape Sherry, that she'll be gentler or that she has no choice. They both hate Anna doing that to them, though.
* [[Rape Is Love]].
* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]].
* [[Sex Slave]]s.
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted for both of them.
* [[Sleep Cute]]: Sort of subverted by their whorish clothes, but Peter [[Beautiful Dreamer|compliments them as "angels" anyway]]... before roughly waking them up with [[For The Evulz|electroshock didoes]].
* [[Tenchi Solution]].
* [[Throw The Dog A Bone]]: Peter becomes more lenient with their relationship.
* [[Tomboy And Girly Girl]].
* [[Vapor Wear]].
* [[Your Approval Fills Me With Shame]]: Played straight the first numbers, Maggie deviates from this later.

== Steve ==
Steve is Peter's good friend, quickly taking Jeff's "best friend" status as far as his appearance in the story goes. He's at first an unquestioning friend aching to lackey to Peter, and Peter accepts and rewards this. Thanks to his relationship with Peter (and arguably Peter's money which would get them out of trouble), he gets to own Gwen, his high school squeeze, after a (intentional) botched rape-and-run attempt at her house. As he feels looked down by Steve, he starts making mistakes in judgment, culminating with {{spoiler|loosing Gwen to Peter in a stupid bet.}} He tries to make up for it by {{spoiler|kidnapping Anna,}} infuriating Peter for it. Time will tell if this turns out to be a good move or throws him in [[Too Dumb To Live]] territory.

* [[A Party Also Known As An Orgy]]: Gets to go to one.
* [[Always Second Best]]: He starts feeling like this in comparison with Peter, to the point where he {{spoiler|loses Gwen in a stupid bet powered by lots of drinking and pride, and subsequently decides to kidnap Anna.}}
* [[Anger Montage]]: Has one when Anna pushes him too far [[For The Evulz]]. He also [[No Holds Barred Beatdown|does this]] {{spoiler|when he first kidnapped Anna, and was wrongfully believed to have done this}} to Cathy.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: In Jeff's place.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The tools he uses to break women.
* [[Basement Dweller]]: ''Devolves'' into this. [[It Helped|It helps]] he's got a real woman he [[Cursed With Awesome|really loves to hate and loves to torture in the basement.]]
* [[Bastard Boyfriend]].
* [[Beta Couple]]: Him and Gwen.
* [[Blatant Burglar]].
* [[The Bro Code]]: Probably what set him over the edge was {{spoiler|losing Gwen}} at Peter's party. He moves to {{spoiler|invoke this trope when taking Anna.}}
* [[Complete Monster]].
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: He gives Gwen a horrific rape for just apparently bad mouthing him.
** What he did to {{spoiler|Peter and Anna}} [[YMMV|may or may not be]] disproportionate.
* [[Driven By Envy]]: Steve becomes envious of {{spoiler|Peter}} starting with part 6, with {{spoiler|Peter having an actual girlfriend}} and outclasses him (involuntarily) in a pony contest (you might not wanna know...) and is so off-balanced by him that {{spoiler|he looses Gwen, his childhood squeeze, in a stupid bet driven by the same envy and pride. He later gets even by kidnapping Anna.}}
* [[Evil Has A Bad Sense Of Humor]]: Type 2.
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: Much beyond Peter.
* [[Evilly Affable]].
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Inversion.
* [[Hidden In Plain Sight]]: Takes {{spoiler|Anna}} to Paul's marriage ceremony, all bound in latex and deprived of all senses.
* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: He thinks Gwen doesn't like him because he's ugly, while she was most likely going to say some synonym of "brutal". He's also ready to try to take down {{spoiler|Peter and Anna}} because he thinks them together risk putting him down.
* [[Killed Off For Real|{{spoiler|Killed Off For Real]]}}: Although we [[Never Found the Body|{{spoiler|Didn't See The Body]]}}... yet.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Is implied to do this to Cathy, Gwen {{spoiler|and Anna}} a lot more often than Peter.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]].
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]].
* [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge|{{spoiler|Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]]}}{{spoiler|: When he leaves Peter's party, he's revealed to be in this mood.}}
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: For Jeff and as Peter's "best friend".
* [[Took A Level In Badass]]: Steve becomes from Peter's friend/lackey who'd sometime share the spoils into [[Always Second Best]] sadistic inventive SOB and who can spar with ''Anna'' in level of wits, only brought down by his family's lack of money in comparison with Peter.
* [[To The Pain]]: Steve actually calls {{spoiler|Anna}} his "painslut" (and this is an actual <s>legitimate</s> legalized use of the term in-universe).
* [[Up To Eleven]]: He's like a worse version of Peter. Not Beyond The Impossible type, but definitely one level beyond him regarding mostly everything.
* [[Unknown Rival]]: Is this for {{spoiler|Anna and Peter.}}
* [[Wham Line]]:
*: ''I guess he really misses you, {{spoiler|'''''Anna'''}}!

== Anna ==
{{cquote|''Look at the big boy all hot for the perverted exchange student. You'd like to grab my hair and force me on my knees, and stuff my mouth with this [cock] if you could. You'd penetrate me violently and torture me till I begged you to make me your slave. [[Take a Third Option|What about a girlfriend instead?]] You already have enough slaves anyway. I'll be your girl if you let me play with them anytime I want.''}}
Anna is a foreign exchange student who at first looks like easy pickings for the boys, who have effectively run over the school. One of them discover she is a BDSM model in her country, and soon she display traits completely different than usual women or potential slaves. She knows she has diplomatic immunity and is untouchable by the boys (even more than Sherry or Gwen, for example). She takes a liking in Peter's slave girls and makes him an offer he can't refuse. After a whole torture session against them, she proposes she'll be his genuine girlfriend is she has access to them all the time, and he happily agrees.
* [[A God Am I]]: Call her "Goddess".
* [[All Abusers Are Male]]: Notable inversion.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]].
* [[And I Must Scream|{{spoiler|And I Must Scream]]}}{{spoiler|: Put first in a box, gagged, in the dark, and then in a sensory deprivation suit to be taken to Peter's dad's wedding.}}
* [[As Long As It Sounds Foreign]]: Maybe subverted, maybe played straight. Anna from the American point of view doesn't seem too foreign, or at least not too French.
* [[Ascended Extra]]{{spoiler|: For a while, at least.}}
* [[A Real Man Is A Killer|A Real Woman Is A Sadist]]: She likes taking the role of a torturer and breaker, rather than tortured or broken.
* [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]]: [[Fridge Horror|Possibly]] by her career of posing in BDSM magazines.
* [[Beyond The Impossible]]: Arguably, what she does, considering the limitations women are faced with, is more interesting, sadistic and exaggerated than much of what the boys could think of.
* [[Brains And Bondage]].
* [[Broken Bird]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation]].
* [[Bullying A Dragon]]: Yeah, bully that ''creepy'' kid {{spoiler|friend-turned-rival of your boyfriend}}, nothing could happen because your rich American bf has your back. Right? [[Too Dumb To Live|{{spoiler|Right?]]}}
* [[Burn Baby Burn]]: {{spoiler|She torches Steve's house after she escapes and kills him.}}
* [[Character Development]]: Starts with her as probably another collection piece in the boys' conquest list, but she turns out quickly to be much more. A slut ''and'' a sadist, every boy's dream and the perfect girlfriend. But wait, there's more: she's willing to send up the river other girls for her own sick pleasure and to keep in good terms with the boys. The only one she thinks to pick on is Steve, and by this point she's entered into [[Jerk Sue]] territory ''hard''. {{spoiler|Being tortured by Steve for two weeks}} made her even more [[Ax Crazy|batshit crazy]].
* [[Commuting On A Bus]]: As of part 6.
* [[Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon]]: {{spoiler|Well, she plans to pull Steve's out with her bare hands. If she ever escapes.}}
** {{spoiler|She finally does this after giving Steve an ultimatum of [[Touch Me Again]] with that dick... unfortunately for him, he doesn't listen.}}
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: {{spoiler|At least until she made an enemy of Steve.}} She even (assuming it was her initial choice) decided to be a ''BDSM magazine model'' instead of a genuine model. With the [[Deliberate Value Dissonance]] [[Fetish Fuel Future]], that [[Fridge Brilliance|''is'' a better respected (and maybe feared) job than just being a model (and former regular models are often shown to have a]] [[Fate Worse Than Death]].
* [[Depraved Bisexual]].
* [[Don't Call Me Sir]]: Subversion: Don't call her "Mistress"... call her "[[Up to Eleven|Goddess]]".
* [[Electric Torture]]: She uses this on Peter's pets ([[Fridge Horror|and probably on others in the past]])
* [[Ethical Slut]]: Through and through.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Possibly the only standard she has is not even throwing a bone to Steve.
* [[Even The Girls Want Her]].
* [[Everyone Looks Sexier If French]].
* [[Evil Has A Bad Sense Of Humor]]: Type 2.
* [[Evil Is Sexy]].
* [[Evilly Affable]].
* [[Exalted Torturer]].
* [[Fashionable Evil]]: Goes with appearing as model in magazines.
* [[Femme Fatalons]].
* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]]: Even in-world, considering the nature of the series.
* [[Fille Fatale]]: We know she's been in BDSM comics for some time, we don't know ''from what age'' and we know she's completely aware of her body.
* [[For The Evulz]]: More than the usual wank.
* [[Foreign Exchange Student]].
* [[French Jerk]]: Only she is from [[Ruritania|an Eastern European country]].
* [[Going Commando]]: She actually likes this.
* [[Groin Attack]]: To {{spoiler|Steve. With his own knife.}}
* [[Girl In A Box|{{spoiler|Head In A Box]].}}
* [[Jerk Sue]].
* [[Magnificent Bitch]]: Peter may have ''some brains'', but Anna is a manipulative bitch through and through.
* [[Manipulative Bitch]]: She's a pro with the girls she doesn't let on her entire aspect to.
* [[Missed Moment Of Awesome]]: Most of her [[Backstory]], {{spoiler|Steve kidnapping Anna, Anna killing Steve, much of what Steve did to her until that point was mostly cameos.}}
* [[Modest Royalty]]: Is revealed to be this in her home country in #9.
* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: One of the few evil/morally inverted examples of this trope.
* [[New Transfer Student]]: Deconstructed. Of course.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: She seems to have this habit.
**{{spoiler}Gets this from Steve.}}
* [[Not Very Pretty Now Is He|Not Very Pretty Now, Is She?]]
* [[No Womans Land]]: Anna knows about this and is careful not to violate any curfews, and gives Peter a ticket to a sort of party where women are not allowed...
* [[Obviously Evil]]: From her first five seconds of introduction, she reveals herself no less as a whore in heat who'll choose whoever she wants for that purpose. She is so with Maggie, Sherry and Steve, and she's a mild version of this with Ginger, who ''still'' doesn't seem to get it.
* [[Out Gambited|{{spoiler|Out Gambited]]}}{{spoiler|: Underestimating Steve.}}
* [[Pass The Popcorn]]: Peter and Anna watching Steve take his frustration out on Gwen.
* [[Perky Goth]].
* [[Pretty Freeloaders]]: Subverted differently than with the others. She actually carries her weight for Peter.
* [[Psycho And Cute]]: For the men, at least.
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Even more so after {{spoiler|apparently killing Steve}}.
* [[Put On A Bus|{{spoiler|Put On A Bus]]}}{{spoiler|: After being kidnapped by Steve.}}
* [[The Quisling]]: That and many betrayal tropes are embodied by her. {{spoiler|She gets hers.}}
* [[Rape Is Okay When It's Female On Female]]: She subverts it ''wonderfully''.
* [[Rape As Backstory]]: Implied and VERY likely.
* [[Raven Hair Ivory Skin]]: She's even more pale than the other girls.
* [[Relationship Sue]]: Steve accuses her of being this.
* [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge|{{spoiler|Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]]}}{{spoiler|: After she escaped Steve}}.
* [[Romantic False Lead|{{spoiler|Romantic False Lead]].}}
* [[Sacrificial Lion|{{spoiler|Sacrificial Lion]]}}{{spoiler|: Was almost her fate.}}
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Plays it straight.
* [[She Is The King]]: She (probably intentionally) averts this trope.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Although she makes ''even those'' look... somewhat [[Psycho And Cute|cute]].
* [[Spell My Name With An S]]: It's ''Anna'', not Ana.
* [[The Stoic]]: Pulls this off for 3 issues so far {{spoiler|while trying to resist at the hands of Steve}}.
* [[Take A Third Option]]: Suggests to become Peter's girlfriend as alternative for Peter drooling over her with no outcome and getting himself into trouble for abusing her.
* [[Too Kinky To Torture]]: {{spoiler|Subverted.}}
* [[Touch Me Again]]:
*: '''Anna''': ''Listen to me, you motherfucker... If you you touch me with [[Biggus Dickus|that thing]] one more time... I will rip it off before I slit your throat with my own fingernails!
*: {{spoiler|'''Steve'''}}: ''Wow! You actually made my threats sound like a love song. [[Arson Murder And Admiration|That's how you threaten someone, I give you that]]. But sadly, {{spoiler|you are the one in shackles and chains and I'm the one with the big scary knife...}} Ah-hah-haa!''
** It still didn't help {{spoiler|him}}.
* [[Tragedy|{{spoiler|Tragedy]]}}{{spoiler|: Her story is shaping into this}}. Now with a [[Thelma And Louise|{{spoiler|Thelma And Louise]]}} {{Shoutout}}.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]].

== Jeff ==
{{cquote|Let's drink to the Slavery Law, brothers! Thanks to those thieving, old, fat [[Corrupt Hick|politicians]], we are [[Cursed with Awesome|blessed]] with the best pussy available!}}
Jeff was (is?) Peter's best friend, a black curly haired "geek" with who he'd share everything, even the best friends slaves. However, for unsure reasons, Peter invites Steve for a "woman hunt" one night and since then, Steve appears a lot more "on screen" than Jeff. Peter and Jeff still have a casual relationship, but he's out of the big picture, only appearing when the plot demands that an owner not have more than 2 slaves. Jeff seems more detached than his two other good friends, Peter and Steve, and stays a [[Flat Character]] as of the 8 issues so far appeared. He owns Heather, Maggie's red-headed best friend, and Natalie more recently, courtesy of Anna.

* [[Arson Murder And Admiration]]: The character quote.
* [[Demoted To Extra]].
* [[Embarrassing Old Photo]]: Jeff carries one where Heather and Nathalie were in the shower, looking nasty at him and being half naked. This trope is somewhat circumvented, as Jeff was actually proud of that photo, and the girls have less qualms with the level of embarrassment in them and more that this reminds their masters to punish them for it.
* [[Flat Character]].
* [[One Scene Wonder]]: That quote is pretty epic in an otherwise boring life of an average slave owner.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Oh so ordinary...
* [[Plain Name]], Plain Guy.
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]].

== Miss Cox ==
Hannah Cox is a math teacher at the school. Unbeknown to her students, she's also The Principal's slave, enslaved since she was 18 and her father died "[[Make It Look Like An Accident|in an accident]]". While her "protector" gives her the option of education, she is still to serve him and she maintains the facade of a free woman. When she forget about an appointment with her guardian, she's exposed and [[It Gets Worse]].
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]].
* [[Big No]].
* [[Break The Cutie]]: Spirit, bones and mind, in that order.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]].
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: {{spoiler|She's turned into this}} in an [[Expanded Universe]] novel.
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Her and most of the teachers are forced into this.
* [[Girls Behind Bars]].
* [[Heartwarming Orphan]]: Deconstructed. {{spoiler|She sells out Miss Cummings.}}
* [[Hot Teacher]].
* [[I Resemble That Remark]]: In ''The Clinic'', she's [[Mind Rape]]d into {{spoiler|stupidity}}. Even worse because she was a teacher. Entirely played [[Dead Baby Comedy|for laughs]]:
*: '''Doctor''': We also cut here and there to make these bitches {{spoiler|stupider...}} She is now as tight and dull-witted as a teen slut.
*: '''Hannah Cox''': No [[This Cannot Be|it can't be]]... It is impoza... imposa... I mean impossibel... Oh god! No! [[Big No|NOOOOO!]]
* [[Karmic Transformation]]: Becomes this... well, partly. She doesn't become a slave owner, but she does become {{spoiler|a stupid person}}, contrary to her education and her beliefs.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Luring Cummings into a trap cuts}} most of the sympathy we have for her.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]].
* [[Phlebotinum Induced Stupidity|{{spoiler|Phlebotinum Induced Stupidity]].}}
* [[Prophetic Names]].
* [[Stern Teacher]]: Tries to be this, but is undermined by the Principal and the current affairs of the world in general.
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]]: It appears the only reason The Principal let her study and become a math teacher was to {{spoiler|take it away for her, to further break her.}}

== Cindy ==
Cindy Leccacazzi is one of the classmates of '''Maggie'''. She manages to stay a free girl for a long time thanks to her incredible luck. She is known as one of the smartest students, the size of her brain is matched only by the size of her boobs. She has a meek personality and offers little resistance when she is bullied. She served as a secondary or tertiary character since the beginning of the series. With a surprise twist, she got her own spinoff comic '''For Sale!''' and became a major character.
* [[And Now You Must Marry Me]]: How her special ends.
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]].
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Leaped from a background extra to star of her own comic.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: She has to wear many.
* [[Break The Cutie]]: Intensively.
* [[Creepy Uncle]]: She has one.
* [[Continuity Cameo]]: She was there at the beginning.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]]: Appears to have the largest wardrobe compared to the other characters.
* [[Inner Monologue]]: How she tells the story.
* [[Long Hair Is Feminine]]: She has great hair.
* [[Naked Apron]]: Her uncle forces her to cook like that.
* [[Old Man Marrying A Child]]: She eventually ends up marrying her uncle.
* [[Prophetic Names]]: She lives up to it.
* [[Punny Name]]: Her surname is Leccacazzi. Ask an Italian who is not big enough to beat you up. Or [[Science Marches On|just google it]].
* [[Rape Is Okay When Its Female On Female]]: She even enjoys a little when Maria works on her.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: Her step-uncle is a loving person.
* [[School Bullying Is Harmless|School Bullying Is Rape]].
* [[This Is My Story]].
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Action never stops to let her rest.

== Paul ==
Paul Stevenson is Peter's father and a businessman in the woman slave trade. He has a good relationship with his son and is lenient about his (sexual) needs, probably being the kind of father that if he knows his son hasn't gotten laid until 18, he has to take him to a brothel. Fortunately, this world is more open (and more STD clean) so he buys Peter his high-school squeeze for his 18th birthday, and then his partner's daughter as sexual slaves. He treats his wife like dirt (though she still remains his favorite {{spoiler|at least until marrying Sherry}}, and that's saying much on [[It Gets Worse|how he treats the rest of his slaves]]). While at first he has little role in the story than to give his son a good life (read: slaves), he becomes more involved in the story, buying his former love (a similar situation with Peter) which just happens to be Maggie's mother, and has more and more intense relationship with [[The Rival|Potts]], his business "partner".
* [[A Day In The Limelight]]: Gets more time, and we get to see his job daily life in part 8, as well as {{spoiler|his honeymoon}} in ''The Hotel''.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Seems to believe this, and fatherly teaches Peter to follow in his footsteps.
* [[Ascended Extra]].
* [[Complete Monster]]: One of the few in the main series that can claim this title almost completely.
* [[Creepy Uncle|Creepy Father-In-Law]].
* [[Deconstruction Fleet]]: Of the standard 50s father.
* [[Dirty Old Man]].
* [[Ethical Slut]].
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: With Potts.
* [[Evilly Affable]].
* [[Exalted Torturer]].
* [[Family Values Villain]].
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Inversion.
* [[Good Old Ways]]: Talks about his past days with some nostalgia, although he finds the current world better.
* [[Grandma What Massive Hotness You Have|Grandpa, What Massive Hotness You Have]].
* [[Hidden Depths]].
* [[Hokage-Level Fight]]: With Potts again, long time rivals and makes Peter vs. Steve "war of wits" pale in comparison.
* [[I Did What I Had To Do]]: Presents it as his life story. Culminates in marrying {{spoiler|Sherry}} to keep her.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Shows his [[Informed Ability]] in slave training with {{spoiler|Sherry, and the hotel receptionist.}}
* [[Marital Rape License]]: Turns Slave Rape License in {{spoiler|(when he risks losing it)}} for Marital Complete Ownership License (Rape Included).
* [[No Nonsense Nemesis]]: Is this to Potts.
* [[Old Man Marrying A Child]].
* [[The Patriarch]].
* [[Pervert Dad]].
* [[Plain Name]].
* [[Really Gets Around]]: At ''his own wedding'', he was fucking [[Mother Daughter Threesome|some colleague's wife ''and her two daughters'']], apparently [[All Women Are Lustful|with their consent]].
* [[Slasher Smile]]: [http://img98.imageshack.us/i/slashersmile.jpg/ SWEET JESUS!]
* [[Standard Fifties Father]]: Deconstructed.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Does this with Potts at least twice in the series, first buying his daughter, and then {{spoiler|taking steps to keep her.}}

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== Peter ==
{{cquote|''From now on, you two sluts have no free will of your own, no rights whatsoever... you'll do as I say, no questions, no back-talk, no hesitation... you'll be my puppets, compliant sextoys. You have no purpose other than to please you master... If you do not obey orders or disrespect me in any way, I will torture you, and if you try to escape, I'll hunt you down and kill you. From now on, you'll share everything... pleasure, pain... and of course, your master's cum... every day and every night.''}}
The main character and [[Villain Protagonist]], [[Plain Name|Peter Stevenson]] is an [[Ordinary High School Student]] in an not-so-ordinary world. Bored to death and annoyed by school by his 18th birthday, Peter daydreams at school at his crush, Maggie, and comes back home with no motivation for his life. Unbeknown to us, his father pretty much gets around in the slave world, and buys Maggie as his slave. As time passes, he [[Crosses the Line Twice]] and comes close to [[Complete Monster]] territory, pretty much wrecking damage amongst barely-18-year old girls, including Maggie, Sherry, Gwen, Anna or Ginger, and mostly enjoys himself [[Beyond the Impossible]].
* [[A Party Also Known as an Orgy]]: Anna gives Peter tickets to a party that turns into an orgy.
* [[A Real Man Is A Killer|A Real Man Is A Sadist]].
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: He is this to Maggie, Sherry and Gwen.
* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: He seems to think so. He's almost genuinely surprised that Maggie or Gwen are virgins.
* [[Allergic To Routine]].
* [[Anger Montage]]: He has one when he thinks {{spoiler|Anna dumped him}}. He pretty much pretends to have some of these with Maggie or Sherry, although most of the time he [[Irony|seems to be faking it]].
* [[Audience Surrogate]]: Peter is supposed to be this, the not-too-moral not-too-evil everyman that winds up in a world of sexual depravity at his disposal and explores it with childish enthusiasm.
* [[Aw Look They Really Do Love Each Other]]: He likes deconstructing this/ruining the timing.
** Plays it more straight as time goes by with Maggie.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The toys his father orders; he enjoys using them.
* [[Balanced Harem]]: Peter has equal screen time with many of his slaves, although Cumbunny is definitely his favourite, but Anna, Gwen and Sherry were good candidates too.
* [[Basement Dweller]]: Starts as a mild version of this.
* [[Bastard Boyfriend]]: Not like Maggie has a choice in the matter...
* [[Beautiful Dreamer]]: Lampshades the trope, then proceeds to deconstruct it.
* [[Biggus Dickus]]: Gwen comments his is bigger than Steve's.
* [[Blatant Burglar]]: Peter and Steve wear some sort of sky masks when they enter Gwen's residence. It's sort of justified because they didn't enter to steal anything (well... [[If You Know What I Mean|not literally]]... and not just kisses either) and they say it'd be consider a "minor thing" anyway. Oh yeah, and they're basically just kids out for cheap thrills.
* [[Break The Cutie]]: He's fond to do this to girls.
* [[But Thou Must]]: He loves giving fake "choices" to girls too.
* [[The Bro Code]]: Breaks it when taking {{spoiler|Gwen and fucking in front of her former master Steve and the one that loved her}} ''[[Bullying A Dragon|to taunt him]]''. To be fair, he was drunk and in the morning he proposed to give her back, but {{spoiler|Steve}} said [[Blatant Lies|it's all well]].
* [[Calling Your Orgasms]].
* [[Character Development]]: Strangely enough (or [[Fridge Brilliance|obviously enough]]), he doesn't change throughout the show regarding the level of torture he's willing to use (except the occasional momentarily surprise at the new methods "the state" devised to torture women). Momentarily, then he's just amused and [[Complete Monster|willing to use them]]), but he seems to be in love with Anna {{spoiler|and very upset when he think she left him,}} but [[He Gets Better]] as time passes. He also seems to be more lenient on the girls since {{spoiler|he got Gwen}}. [[Yank the Dog's Chain|{{spoiler|This changes]]}} {{spoiler|once he's upset Anna won't answer his phone.}}
* [[Chaotic Evil]]/[[Lawful Evil]].
* [[Cold Blooded Torture]]: Although he has nothing on Anna.
* [[Complete Monster]].
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]].
* [[The Dark Side Will Make You Forget]]: He even acknowledges this in relation with his feelings for Maggie and even thinks it's a good thing that he's less of an idealist.
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: Peter has [[Genre Savvy]] moments where he recognises and proceeds to deconstruct the most obvious of tropes in the most sadistic way possible. For his laugh, and possibly the viewer's.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: He loves doing this. [[Lampshaded]]:
::'''Sherry''': ''The sadistic animal just wants an excuse to fry my poor ass!''
* [[The Dutiful Son]]: Seems to fit the modern role of this.
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: He forgets what he did the night before. He even forgets {{spoiler|having won Gwen ''with the thanks of Sherry'' and having beaten Sherry to a pulp.}}
* [[Erotic Asphyxiation]]: He finds that having Maggie keep Sherry's head in the pool make her contract her... parts better, and thus gives him a better experience. He doesn't seem to do it again too soon, maybe considering the risks. Earlier in the show, he appears to be choking Maggie in his first time. Another instance comes when he throws Sherry in the cum pit.
* [[Erotic Dream]]: Peter has a daydream of Maggie the same day (or, for all we know, ''every day'' before) he officially owns her. Later he has one with Anna.
* [[Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor]]: Type 2, though he's one of the few that tries to make [[Dead Baby Comedy]]... well, funny, with multiple degrees of success.
* [[Evil is Petty]].
* [[Fair For Its Day]]: Even compared with his friends, [[Beyond The Impossible|even more so compared with the State's methods in the]] [[Expanded Universe]].
* [[Follow In My Footsteps]]: Peter and his dad seem to deal pretty well in this, if even only slave-busting related.
* [[Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind]]: Inversion.
* [[Friendless Background]]: Starts as this.
* [[Good Morning Crono]]: Played straight in his case: wakes up and starts spending his day in a relaxed (for his tastes) fashion.
* [[Ha Ha Ha, No]]: Peter pretends to laugh and be amused by Sherry's rebellious outbursts, but promptly sets the quota of punishment for her.
* [[Hangover Sensitivity]]: This comes in when he wakes up after a rave with Easy Amnesia.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: A lot of examples like the first quote.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: In part 8, he's shown to {{spoiler|have been at one time a romantic in sincere love with Maggie.}}
* [[Ignored Confession]]: He's willing to pretend {{spoiler|he hasn't won Gwen}} to preserve his friendship with Steve, but Steve says [[Blatant Lies|it's all nice and fine]].
** It's interesting how he'll react to Maggie's {{spoiler|love confession}}.
* [[I Love You Because I Can't Control You]]: Subversion/variation: He pretends to like Sherry's mean spirits, but then he has enough of it and forces her not to talk again. With Anna, he's going with it because he can't do anything but depend on her "charity".
* [[I Love You, Vampire Son|I Love You, Slave Girl]]: Peter is proud of how his girls turned into slaves.
* [[Impossibly Mundane Explanation]]: Inversion. Anna doesn't answer his phone calls, so he probably believes he's being ignored/dumped. {{spoiler|She's been kidnapped by Steve.}}
* [[I Showed Her What a Real Man Is]]: With {{spoiler|Gwen}}. Ironic is that she confirms his is bigger than {{spoiler|Steve's.}}
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: How Maggie would like him to be, but he might just be...
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Jerk]].
* [[Lima Syndrome]]: He ''almost'' shows signs of this (actually loving Maggie in his own way), but social pressure and the hormones of a teen in heat don't let him go too far.
* [[Love Hurts]]: {{spoiler|With Anna.}}
* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: Peter is [[Voodoo Shark|mostly]] [[Retcon]]ned into this.
* [[Loophole Abuse]]: Uses one to rape a teacher in part 9 and get away with it.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Less so than Anna, but more than Steve.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|Manic Pixie Dream Guy]].
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Even less than Anna at this point, but he still knows how to manipulate his slaves while making it seem natural. Outclassed by his dad, though.
* [[My Girl Is A Slut]]: He loves giving/sharing/being proud of Maggie (and later Sherry) about sex.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Names Maggie ''Cumbunny'', Sherry ''Sluttykitten''' and congratulates himself in naming {{spoiler|Gwen}} ''Sluttyfox'' {{spoiler|while drunk}}.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Peter does this to Sherry ''when he's too drunk to know why he has strong feeling towards her, and if it is of hate or gratefulness''. He chooses the first.
* [[Oblivious To Love]]: He doesn't seem to see Maggie has grown to love him right under his nose.
* [[Obvious Object Could Be Anything]]: Justified in his case. He got a girl with a head in the box, and a) He's too drunk to remember what the hell even happened the previous night b) he's got a nasty hangover and c) [[Captain Obvious|He knows it's a girl]]. {{spoiler|It was Gwen.}}
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Deconstructed/[[Cerberus Retcon|Retconned]] into being a [[Lonely Rich Kid]] grown in a fucked-up family and having a [[Start of Darkness]] from being rejected by Maggie.
* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]].
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]].
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Is relatively forced to be this in training his slaves. [[Psycho for Hire|Doesn't mean he doesn't enjoy it]], but he proves with Sherry what it means to ''really'' hurt a girl out of pure pleasure rather than the schedule learned from the state.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: Does this with Maggie (he honestly expresses his feelings like that apparently).
* [[Really Gets Around]]: From the beginning of the series when he was akin to a geeky [[Basement Dweller]], he now has a harem of over five women, plus his father's "property" to use with his permission.
* [[The Reason You Suck Speech]]: Loves throwing these around (see quote), as well as [[Hannibal Lecture]]s.
* [[Screw The Rules I Have Money]]: He's slowly flanderized into this for [[New Rules As The Plot Demands|a similar sounding trope]].
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted, he wears normal clothes, he makes his slaves dress skimpy.
* [[Sexual Karma]]: Inverted in Love Karma. He gets all the sex and the sex slaves he wants{{spoiler|, but loses Anna.}}
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: How much can the girls he has intercourse with count is arguable.
* [[Shocking Voice Identity Reveal]]: Takes great care to not use his voice around Sherry until he finishes with her, so it'd be more scary and humiliating for her. When he starts talking, she begins to recognize him.
* [[Silly Rabbit Romance Is For Kids!]]: Likes to remind Maggie of this.
* [[Sitcom Character Archetypes]]: Peter tries to [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|fit as much as these as he can]]:
* [[Spectacled Sadist]].
* [[Start Of Darkness]]: Arguably Peter has this for being (indirectly, albeit true) rejected by Maggie.
* [[Tenchi Solution]]: His family's into this, so why not him?
* [[Took A Level In Badass]]: Peter starts off as the not-really-[[Adorkable]] [[Chew Toy]], and by the 8th part, he has three slaves and a ''girlfriend'', something most likely unheard of in his neighborhood.
* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]: Peter is trying to seem this... ''hard''. [[YMMV|It's arguable if he succeeded.]]
* [[Wild Teen Party]]: Has one for his birthday. [[Karma Houdini|Not only does he not get into trouble for it, but gets a slave in the process.]] He does end up with a [[Hangover Sensitivity|nasty hangover]] and [[Easy Amnesia]] of the latter night.
* [[Villain Protagonist]].
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]]: He loves doing this to Maggie.
** Does this again to Sherry in part 8.
* [[You Taste Delicious]].

== Maggie ==
The [[Character Title|character in the title]] (the first one, at least) and protagonist, Maggie Sweetie is an [[Ordinary High School Student]] who just had her 18th birthday. She apparently lives with her uncle and her mother, and has been unknowing about sex until the beginning of the story. Unbeknown to her, she's Peter's (who she seems to consider a "geek" who she apparently doesn't like) crush and has been sold 10 days before the start of the story in an arrangement between Peter's father and her uncle. She accepts her fate with stoicism, hoping Peter would be nice to her, but she wakes up in a world of humiliation bent on breaking girls. As time passes, she discovers feelings for both Peter and a good friend now fellow slave, Sherry. Still, her life isn't by far good and she's often forced to accept Peter's most humiliating requests.

* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: Starts directly at Type 2, since she knows she doesn't have a snowball chance in hell to be rescued, and that she has to live with Peter for the rest of her life (if she's lucky).
* [[Am I Just A Toy To You]]?: Maggie finds herself in this position often. Peter told Maggie he liked her from some time ago, and this made Maggie almost happy. Then, he called her "his favorite" at least once. This may be one of the (admittedly shallow) reasons why she's falling in love with him.
* [[Arson Murder And Jaywalking]]:
*: ''I can't believe this is happening. Peter makes me sick... he's idiot... and he... he smells...''
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: Played straight at first, but later dulled down: she starts getting use to her job and her "uniforms".
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: Maggie knows her place and her fate from the day she sees herself sold.
* [[Break The Cutie]].
* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Miss Cox was Maggie's hero. Now, she still pities her, but it's evident she's lost some of the respect for her.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: She might be ''a little'' in relation to Anna, but there's nothing she can do about it.
* [[Character Development]]: Maggie starts as a ready-to-be-docile slave, although Peter does not seem to like that. She ends up hating him for all his [[Cold Blooded Torture]], but having brought in Sherry, she takes a [[Les Yay|liking]] to her and eventually even displays jealousy towards the new girl Peter (has to) treat as a human being and actual girlfriend. At the end of the 6th part, Paul buys {{spoiler|her mother}}, and she has to teach her the ropes. In issue 8, [[I Love You|{{spoiler|she finally confessed her feelings for Peter]]}}.
* [[Character Title]]: Maggie is the titular birthday girl.
* [[Contemplate Our Navels]]: Her thoughts about Peter go as this. Most recently, she contemplated a [[What If]] scenario in which she'd have recognised him as {{spoiler|the writer of a love letter}} and would have become his girlfriend, but concludes it's a [[Crapsack World]] they live in anyway and he would've been just a prospective buyer.
** [[Discussed Trope|Explored]] in a [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]] manner, as {{spoiler|her mother joins her daily life}}, only to be horrified of the things Maggie has grown to get accustomed to, like weekly whippings... because they're on the schedule.
* [[Converting For Love]]: Starts enjoying being a slave after she's given a few powers around the house, falls in love with Peter and can be together more often and more privately with Sherry.
* [[Creepy Uncle]]: She has one.
* [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday|Dangerous Eighteenth Birthday]]
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: With a big [[Just For Pun|topping]] of [[Stockholm Syndrome]].
* [[Did Not Eat The Mousse]]: Sometimes pays for Sherry's mistakes.
* [[Don't Tell Mama|Don't Show Mama]] the [[Embarrassing Pictures]] of me.
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Cumbunny.
* [[Embarrassing Pictures]]: Peter takes these of her often.
** Earlier in her story ([[Flashback|later in the series]]]):
**: '''Maggie''': [...] ''And of course, they recorded enough video and 3D images [of me naked] to stock a porno shop for years.''
* [[Epiphanic Prison]]: She noted this in the beginning; other girls don't seem to see this so obvious.
* [[Extreme Doormat]]: Justified from her point of view, and [[Crapsack World|from the world's]], for that matter. She starts as a submissive slave, only wanting not to get hurt more than she has to. She's made to write a journal [[All There In The Manual|in her special]] where [[Stepford Smiler|she has to say she enjoyed Peter's brutal treatment]], and she's described there as "Docile teenager - highly obedient" (though she still rants in her mind, and has her own reactions to Peter, one way or the other).
* [[First Girl Wins]]: Her "fortune", for now. At least she's the favourite, so that's a hard place to be moved from.
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]].
* [[Good Morning Crono]]: Subverted. Good morning girls, want an electroshock to ease your awakening?
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: Becomes this gradually.
* [[Hope Spot]]: Peter loves [[Yank The Dog's Chain|yanking her chain]], but recently subverted.
* [[I Just Want To Be Normal]]: Starts as this, but by the end the only "normality" she can find in [[Happiness in Slavery|slavery]] is just no enough, so she accepts gladly her new status of "favorite".
* [[I Kiss Your Foot]].
* [[I Love You|{{spoiler|I Love You]]}}: She finally says this to Peter at the end of part 8.
* [[The Hero's Birthday]]: Maggie's birthday. [[Jerkass|Peter]] doesn't stop reminding her of her 19th.
* [[Home Porn Movie]]: Peter threatens to send naked pictures of her to her mother. However, {{spoiler|her mother}} [[It Gets Worse|{{spoiler|soon gets the chance of seeing her daughter's torments "live".]]}}
* [[The Ingenue]]: Maggie may be this, [[Flanderization|or may be turning into this]].
* [[Inner Monologue]].
* [[It's All My Fault]]: In a [[Tear Jerker]] moment, {{spoiler|Maggie tries to take full responsibility for Sherry when Peter finds out the two have been doing some Les Yay behind his back, as Sherry was brutally beaten the night before}} and Maggie knows she's Peter's favorite. This {{spoiler|backfires as he says he'll punish them both anyway. It's not that bad though, as he decides to forgive them once he found Gwen to be his.}}
* [[Sir Swearsalot|Lady Swearsabit Whenithurts]]. Ironically, she's more bad-mouthed ([[Inner Monologue|in her head, at least]]) than Sherry.
* [[Lipstick Lesbian]]: Is on her way to becoming this.
* [[Long Hair Is Feminine]].
* [[Lovable Libby]]: Possible.
* [[Love Hurts]]: Even for her.
* [[Love Interest]].
* [[Mother Daughter Threesome]].
* [[Plain Name]]: Maggie Sweetie.
* [[Punny Name]]: [[Break The Cutie|Sweetie.]]
* [[Rape Is Love]]: She gets the short end of this from Peter, and convinces herself being forced to have sex with her friend makes them lovers. Subverted with Anna.
* [[Replacement Love Interest]]: Is this to Anna on some level. While her status of true [[Love Interest]] is well set, Peter and Anna really connected ([[Unholy Matrimony|on their sadistic side]]) and Maggie is now for Peter {{spoiler|"the next best thing after Anna".}}
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted.
* [[Sexy Back]].
* [[Shower Of Angst]]: She's allowed to take a shower from time to time. All she can think about is that Peter will be upset if she stays too long. She barely has time to angst, and it's one of the few places she'd not.
* [[Slave Brand]]: Gets one by part 8, appropriately with a black filled heart ([[Fridge Horror|that must have hurt]]) and the text "Peter's Cumbunny".
* [[Spell My Name With An S]]: Sweetie.
* [[Spinoff Sendoff]]: Maggie appears shortly in Cindy's spin-off comic.
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] on why she's starting to like, even love, Peter.
* [[The Stoic]].
* [[Sweater Girl]]: Started as this.
* [[Throw The Dog A Bone]]: By #8, she gets several bones: {{spoiler|becoming Peter's favorite, having more time to spend with Sherry and more control over her, and even confesses her love to Peter.}}
* [[Troubled Backstory Flashback]]: In part 9, we finally see how she was bought and prepared by Paul and slavecops for Peter.

== Sherry ==
{{cquote|''I'll kill this bastard... and if I can't, I'll kill myself...''}}
Sherry Potts is the daughter of a businessman who is a business partner of Paul Stevenson. Because of Mr. Potts' financial problems, he is forced to sell one of his daughters to Paul, and chooses Sherry (because she's worth more, as a young virgin). Sherry finds herself with her friend Maggie in the depraved hands of her new owner Peter, and the more he fights him, the more he likes it, as well as punishes her more, sometimes just out of principle. One year passes, and her father finally has enough money to buy her back, but Paul won't let her go that easy...

* [[And Now You Must Marry Me]]: {{spoiler|Paul}} pulls this on her. It wasn't premeditated, just his best idea of {{spoiler|keeping her and screwing over her father.}}
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: Starts at Type 1, resists a good whooping of 8 issues in this position and even has a [[Throw the Dog a Bone]] moment where she's steadily on Type 1 {{spoiler|(for an entire half day), but now is likely to permanently fall in Type 2.}}
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Not that she appreciates it too much.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]].
* [[Big No]]: When she's about to be raped ([[It Gets Worse|the first time]]).
* [[Break The Haughtie]].
* [[Butt Monkey]] / [[The Chew Toy]]: Sherry becomes the target of Peter's ''worst'' abuses possible, as he wants to both get revenge on her and break her thoroughly.
* [[Cluster F Bomb]].
* [[Converting For Love]]: Her love for Maggie makes her want to at least pretend to be a better slave; she also accepts to {{spoiler|not cum in the contest with Steve}} so she won't be separated from Maggie.
* [[Cool And Unusual Punishment]]: Being a literal hood ornament, being dumped in a cum pit...
* [[Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon]]: Yeah, [[Played For Laughs]]...
* [[Defiant To The End]]: She tries to pull this off and she's still defiant {{spoiler|until the end of the 8th part.}} Considering Gwen took only about 2-3 parts to be broken in, she's the most resilient in the series.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: A lot harder and later than the rest of the girls. Mostly made possible not by Peter's ruthlessness, but by Maggie's kindness.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: "The sadistic animal just wants an excuse to fry my poor ass !"
* [[Drowning Pit]]: She's thrown into a [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|cum pit]] bound and her only way of survival is to [[Sadistic Choice|swallow as much cum as she can]]. Other girls have it worse, drowning in urine.
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Slutkitten.
* [[Fearless Fool]]: Taunts Peter at every turn without thinking of the consequences. Always turns out bad.
* [[Good Morning Crono]]: Subverted. Good morning girls, want an electroshock to ease your awakening?
* [[Groin Attack]]: On Peter. [[Never Live It Down|He never forgives her for it.]]
* [[Hood Ornament Hottie]]: She's forced into ''literally being that'' (stuck on the hood of the car). Probably a parody of the main trope.
* [[I Die Free‎]]: She keeps saying that. She never has the guts to take it through, although she has several chances.
* [[I Hate You Vampire Dad|I Hate You, Slave Owner]]: After 8 issues, she still hates Peter for turning her into a slave.
** {{spoiler|May turn in a whooping subversion with Paul.}}
* [[Inner Monologue]].
* [[It Gets Worse]]: Her life story.
* [[Les Yay]]: With Maggie.
* [[The Libby]].
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: She gets this because, arguably, Peter would only think she did bad, especially when he was drunk.
* [[Oblivious Younger Sibling]]: She has no idea about [[Pervert Dad|{{spoiler|her father and her sister]].}}
* [[Old Man Marrying A Child|{{spoiler|Old Man Marrying A Child]]}}: {{spoiler|Paul.}}
* [[Punny Name]]: From Cherry, obviously.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: She's falling in love with Maggie, who was forced several times to rape her; subverted with Anna '''[[And Zoidberg|and Peter]]'''.
* [[Refusal Of The Call]]: The most resilient.
* [[Servile Snarker]]: She fits this unusually with Peter. He seems amused by it, [[Ha Ha Ha No|until he's not anymore]].
* [[Sexy Secretary]]: Is taken as this {{spoiler|(for half a day or so at least) to Paul in part 8.}}
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: For Heather and as Maggie's "best friend".
* [[Torture Makes You Evil]]: {{spoiler|Paul}} gives her some power over some slaves (including [[Manipulative Bastard|making her whip them after he drunks her]]) and she discovers she likes it.
* [[Throw the Dog A Bone]]: Her relationship with Maggie is the only silver lining she has.
** And now {{spoiler|Paul}} manipulates her in wanting to [[Torture Makes You Evil|torture other slaves]].
* [[Tsundere]].
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]].
* [[You Dont Want To Die A Virgin Do You]]: Inverted: she laments she'll die with Peter's organ up her ass.
* [[You Monster]]: To Peter and Paul.

=== Maggie and Sherry ===
As the relationship between the two occupies a long part of the story, there are many tropes related to their relationship.
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: For each other.
* [[All There In The Manual]]: They both have a Special dedicated for each of them, including their ownership certificate.
* [[Beautiful Dreamer]]: Peter promptly subverts it.
* [[Beta Couple]].
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Being Peter's slaves has its advantages... like not being tortured to death in a few days, actually being fed and not being kept in a basement for days at a time. Yep, there's still the blessing part in this.
* [[Boarding School Of Horrors]]: It is for them.
* [[Cant Get Away With Nuthin]: Maggie and Sherry respectively can't get away with even ''looking lustful at each other'' by part 5 and doing some naughty things by part 7 (while presumably Peter was sleeping) without him knowing about it, which is quickly followed by [[Disproportionate Retribution]].
* [[Earn Your Happy Endings]]: They become {{spoiler|the favourites of their respective masters}} by part 9.
* [[Girl Next Door]].
* [[Going Commando]].
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: They start as this, Peter keeps pushing them for more, and the outcome is [[Les Yay|obvious}}.
* [[Les Yay]].
* [[Maid A Slave]].
* [[Mass Oh Crap]].
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]s.
* [[Rape Is Okay When Its Female On Female]]: Pretty softcore versions when Maggie applies it, and she tries to assure herself, while being forced to rape Sherry, that she'll be gentler or that she has no choice. They both hate Anna doing that to them, though.
* [[Rape Is Love]].
* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]].
* [[Sex Slave]]s.
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted for both of them.
* [[Sleep Cute]]: Sort of subverted by their whorish clothes, but Peter [[Beautiful Dreamer|compliments them as "angels" anyway]]... before roughly waking them up with [[For The Evulz|electroshock didoes]].
* [[Tenchi Solution]].
* [[Throw The Dog A Bone]]: Peter becomes more lenient with their relationship.
* [[Tomboy And Girly Girl]].
* [[Vapor Wear]].
* [[Your Approval Fills Me With Shame]]: Played straight the first numbers, Maggie deviates from this later.

== Steve ==
Steve is Peter's good friend, quickly taking Jeff's "best friend" status as far as his appearance in the story goes. He's at first an unquestioning friend aching to lackey to Peter, and Peter accepts and rewards this. Thanks to his relationship with Peter (and arguably Peter's money which would get them out of trouble), he gets to own Gwen, his high school squeeze, after a (intentional) botched rape-and-run attempt at her house. As he feels looked down by Steve, he starts making mistakes in judgment, culminating with {{spoiler|loosing Gwen to Peter in a stupid bet.}} He tries to make up for it by {{spoiler|kidnapping Anna,}} infuriating Peter for it. Time will tell if this turns out to be a good move or throws him in [[Too Dumb To Live]] territory.

* [[A Party Also Known As An Orgy]]: Gets to go to one.
* [[Always Second Best]]: He starts feeling like this in comparison with Peter, to the point where he {{spoiler|loses Gwen in a stupid bet powered by lots of drinking and pride, and subsequently decides to kidnap Anna.}}
* [[Anger Montage]]: Has one when Anna pushes him too far [[For The Evulz]]. He also [[No Holds Barred Beatdown|does this]] {{spoiler|when he first kidnapped Anna, and was wrongfully believed to have done this}} to Cathy.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: In Jeff's place.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The tools he uses to break women.
* [[Basement Dweller]]: ''Devolves'' into this. [[It Helped|It helps]] he's got a real woman he [[Cursed With Awesome|really loves to hate and loves to torture in the basement.]]
* [[Bastard Boyfriend]].
* [[Beta Couple]]: Him and Gwen.
* [[Blatant Burglar]].
* [[The Bro Code]]: Probably what set him over the edge was {{spoiler|losing Gwen}} at Peter's party. He moves to {{spoiler|invoke this trope when taking Anna.}}
* [[Complete Monster]].
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: He gives Gwen a horrific rape for just apparently bad mouthing him.
** What he did to {{spoiler|Peter and Anna}} [[YMMV|may or may not be]] disproportionate.
* [[Driven By Envy]]: Steve becomes envious of {{spoiler|Peter}} starting with part 6, with {{spoiler|Peter having an actual girlfriend}} and outclasses him (involuntarily) in a pony contest (you might not wanna know...) and is so off-balanced by him that {{spoiler|he looses Gwen, his childhood squeeze, in a stupid bet driven by the same envy and pride. He later gets even by kidnapping Anna.}}
* [[Evil Has A Bad Sense Of Humor]]: Type 2.
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: Much beyond Peter.
* [[Evilly Affable]].
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Inversion.
* [[Hidden In Plain Sight]]: Takes {{spoiler|Anna}} to Paul's marriage ceremony, all bound in latex and deprived of all senses.
* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: He thinks Gwen doesn't like him because he's ugly, while she was most likely going to say some synonym of "brutal". He's also ready to try to take down {{spoiler|Peter and Anna}} because he thinks them together risk putting him down.
* [[Killed Off For Real|{{spoiler|Killed Off For Real]]}}: Although we [[Never Found the Body|{{spoiler|Didn't See The Body]]}}... yet.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Is implied to do this to Cathy, Gwen {{spoiler|and Anna}} a lot more often than Peter.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]].
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]].
* [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge|{{spoiler|Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]]}}{{spoiler|: When he leaves Peter's party, he's revealed to be in this mood.}}
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: For Jeff and as Peter's "best friend".
* [[Took A Level In Badass]]: Steve becomes from Peter's friend/lackey who'd sometime share the spoils into [[Always Second Best]] sadistic inventive SOB and who can spar with ''Anna'' in level of wits, only brought down by his family's lack of money in comparison with Peter.
* [[To The Pain]]: Steve actually calls {{spoiler|Anna}} his "painslut" (and this is an actual <s>legitimate</s> legalized use of the term in-universe).
* [[Up To Eleven]]: He's like a worse version of Peter. Not Beyond The Impossible type, but definitely one level beyond him regarding mostly everything.
* [[Unknown Rival]]: Is this for {{spoiler|Anna and Peter.}}
* [[Wham Line]]:
*: ''I guess he really misses you, {{spoiler|'''''Anna'''}}!

== Anna ==
{{cquote|''Look at the big boy all hot for the perverted exchange student. You'd like to grab my hair and force me on my knees, and stuff my mouth with this [cock] if you could. You'd penetrate me violently and torture me till I begged you to make me your slave. [[Take a Third Option|What about a girlfriend instead?]] You already have enough slaves anyway. I'll be your girl if you let me play with them anytime I want.''}}
Anna is a foreign exchange student who at first looks like easy pickings for the boys, who have effectively run over the school. One of them discover she is a BDSM model in her country, and soon she display traits completely different than usual women or potential slaves. She knows she has diplomatic immunity and is untouchable by the boys (even more than Sherry or Gwen, for example). She takes a liking in Peter's slave girls and makes him an offer he can't refuse. After a whole torture session against them, she proposes she'll be his genuine girlfriend is she has access to them all the time, and he happily agrees.
* [[A God Am I]]: Call her "Goddess".
* [[All Abusers Are Male]]: Notable subversion.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]].
* [[And I Must Scream|{{spoiler|And I Must Scream]]}}{{spoiler|: Put first in a box, gagged, in the dark, and then in a sensory deprivation suit to be taken to Peter's dad's wedding.}}
* [[As Long As It Sounds Foreign]]: Maybe subverted, maybe played straight. Anna from the American point of view doesn't seem too foreign, or at least not too French.
* [[Ascended Extra]]{{spoiler|: For a while, at least.}}
* [[A Real Man Is A Killer|A Real Woman Is A Sadist]]: She likes taking the role of a torturer and breaker, rather than tortured or broken.
* [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]]: [[Fridge Horror|Possibly]] by her career of posing in BDSM magazines.
* [[Beyond The Impossible]]: Arguably, what she does, considering the limitations women are faced with, is more interesting, sadistic and exaggerated than much of what the boys could think of.
* [[Brains And Bondage]].
* [[Broken Bird]]: [[Alternate Character Interpretation]].
* [[Bullying A Dragon]]: Yeah, bully that ''creepy'' kid {{spoiler|friend-turned-rival of your boyfriend}}, nothing could happen because your rich American bf has your back. Right? [[Too Dumb To Live|{{spoiler|Right?]]}}
* [[Burn Baby Burn]]: {{spoiler|She torches Steve's house after she escapes and kills him.}}
* [[Character Development]]: Starts with her as probably another collection piece in the boys' conquest list, but she turns out quickly to be much more. A slut ''and'' a sadist, every boy's dream and the perfect girlfriend. But wait, there's more: she's willing to send up the river other girls for her own sick pleasure and to keep in good terms with the boys. The only one she thinks to pick on is Steve, and by this point she's entered into [[Jerk Sue]] territory ''hard''. {{spoiler|Being tortured by Steve for two weeks}} made her even more [[Ax Crazy|batshit crazy]].
* [[Commuting On A Bus]]: As of part 6.
* [[Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon]]: {{spoiler|Well, she plans to pull Steve's out with her bare hands. If she ever escapes.}}
** {{spoiler|She finally does this after giving Steve an ultimatum of [[Touch Me Again]] with that dick... unfortunately for him, he doesn't listen.}}
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: {{spoiler|At least until she made an enemy of Steve.}} She even (assuming it was her initial choice) decided to be a ''BDSM magazine model'' instead of a genuine model. With the [[Deliberate Value Dissonance]] [[Fetish Fuel Future]], that [[Fridge Brilliance|''is'' a better respected (and maybe feared) job than just being a model (and former regular models are often shown to have a]] [[Fate Worse Than Death]].
* [[Depraved Bisexual]].
* [[Don't Call Me Sir]]: Subversion: Don't call her "Mistress"... call her "[[Up to Eleven|Goddess]]".
* [[Electric Torture]]: She uses this on Peter's pets ([[Fridge Horror|and probably on others in the past]])
* [[Ethical Slut]]: Through and through.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Possibly the only standard she has is not even throwing a bone to Steve.
* [[Even The Girls Want Her]].
* [[Everyone Looks Sexier If French]].
* [[Evil Has A Bad Sense Of Humor]]: Type 2.
* [[Evil Is Sexy]].
* [[Evilly Affable]].
* [[Exalted Torturer]].
* [[Fashionable Evil]]: Goes with appearing as model in magazines.
* [[Femme Fatalons]].
* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]]: Even in-world, considering the nature of the series.
* [[Fille Fatale]]: We know she's been in BDSM comics for some time, we don't know ''from what age'' and we know she's completely aware of her body.
* [[For The Evulz]]: More than the usual wank.
* [[Foreign Exchange Student]].
* [[French Jerk]]: Only she is from [[Ruritania|an Eastern European country]].
* [[Going Commando]]: She actually likes this.
* [[Groin Attack]]: To {{spoiler|Steve. With his own knife.}}
* [[Girl In A Box|{{spoiler|Head In A Box]].}}
* [[Jerk Sue]].
* [[Magnificent Bitch]]: Peter may have ''some brains'', but Anna is a manipulative bitch through and through.
* [[Manipulative Bitch]]: She's a pro with the girls she doesn't let on her entire aspect to.
* [[Missed Moment Of Awesome]]: Most of her [[Backstory]], {{spoiler|Steve kidnapping Anna, Anna killing Steve, much of what Steve did to her until that point was mostly cameos.}}
* [[Modest Royalty]]: Is revealed to be this in her home country in #9.
* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: One of the few evil/morally inverted examples of this trope.
* [[New Transfer Student]]: Deconstructed. Of course.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: She seems to have this habit.
**{{spoiler}Gets this from Steve.}}
* [[Not Very Pretty Now Is He|Not Very Pretty Now, Is She?]]
* [[No Womans Land]]: Anna knows about this and is careful not to violate any curfews, and gives Peter a ticket to a sort of party where women are not allowed...
* [[Obviously Evil]]: From her first five seconds of introduction, she reveals herself no less as a whore in heat who'll choose whoever she wants for that purpose. She is so with Maggie, Sherry and Steve, and she's a mild version of this with Ginger, who ''still'' doesn't seem to get it.
* [[Out Gambited|{{spoiler|Out Gambited]]}}{{spoiler|: Underestimating Steve.}}
* [[Pass The Popcorn]]: Peter and Anna watching Steve take his frustration out on Gwen.
* [[Perky Goth]].
* [[Pretty Freeloaders]]: Subverted differently than with the others. She actually carries her weight for Peter.
* [[Psycho And Cute]]: For the men, at least.
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Even more so after {{spoiler|apparently killing Steve}}.
* [[Put On A Bus|{{spoiler|Put On A Bus]]}}{{spoiler|: After being kidnapped by Steve.}}
* [[The Quisling]]: That and many betrayal tropes are embodied by her. {{spoiler|She gets hers.}}
* [[Rape Is Okay When It's Female On Female]]: She subverts it ''wonderfully''.
* [[Rape As Backstory]]: Implied and VERY likely.
* [[Raven Hair Ivory Skin]]: She's even more pale than the other girls.
* [[Relationship Sue]]: Steve accuses her of being this.
* [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge|{{spoiler|Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]]}}{{spoiler|: After she escaped Steve}}.
* [[Romantic False Lead|{{spoiler|Romantic False Lead]].}}
* [[Sacrificial Lion|{{spoiler|Sacrificial Lion]]}}{{spoiler|: Was almost her fate.}}
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Plays it straight.
* [[She Is The King]]: She (probably intentionally) averts this trope.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Although she makes ''even those'' look... somewhat [[Psycho And Cute|cute]].
* [[Spell My Name With An S]]: It's ''Anna'', not Ana.
* [[The Stoic]]: Pulls this off for 3 issues so far {{spoiler|while trying to resist at the hands of Steve}}.
* [[Take A Third Option]]: Suggests to become Peter's girlfriend as alternative for Peter drooling over her with no outcome and getting himself into trouble for abusing her.
* [[Too Kinky To Torture]]: {{spoiler|Subverted.}}
* [[Touch Me Again]]:
*: '''Anna''': ''Listen to me, you motherfucker... If you you touch me with [[Biggus Dickus|that thing]] one more time... I will rip it off before I slit your throat with my own fingernails!
*: {{spoiler|'''Steve'''}}: ''Wow! You actually made my threats sound like a love song. [[Arson Murder And Admiration|That's how you threaten someone, I give you that]]. But sadly, {{spoiler|you are the one in shackles and chains and I'm the one with the big scary knife...}} Ah-hah-haa!''
** It still didn't help {{spoiler|him}}.
* [[Tragedy|{{spoiler|Tragedy]]}}{{spoiler|: Her story is shaping into this}}. Now with a [[Thelma And Louise|{{spoiler|Thelma And Louise]]}} [[Shoutout]].
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]].

== Jeff ==
{{cquote|Let's drink to the Slavery Law, brothers! Thanks to those thieving, old, fat [[Corrupt Hick|politicians]], we are [[Cursed with Awesome|blessed]] with the best pussy available!}}
Jeff was (is?) Peter's best friend, a black curly haired "geek" with who he'd share everything, even the best friends slaves. However, for unsure reasons, Peter invites Steve for a "woman hunt" one night and since then, Steve appears a lot more "on screen" than Jeff. Peter and Jeff still have a casual relationship, but he's out of the big picture, only appearing when the plot demands that an owner not have more than 2 slaves. Jeff seems more detached than his two other good friends, Peter and Steve, and stays a [[Flat Character]] as of the 8 issues so far appeared. He owns Heather, Maggie's red-headed best friend, and Natalie more recently, courtesy of Anna.

* [[Arson Murder And Admiration]]: The character quote.
* [[Demoted To Extra]].
* [[Embarrassing Old Photo]]: Jeff carries one where Heather and Nathalie were in the shower, looking nasty at him and being half naked. This trope is somewhat circumvented, as Jeff was actually proud of that photo, and the girls have less qualms with the level of embarrassment in them and more that this reminds their masters to punish them for it.
* [[Flat Character]].
* [[One Scene Wonder]]: That quote is pretty epic in an otherwise boring life of an average slave owner.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Oh so ordinary...
* [[Plain Name]], Plain Guy.
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]].

== Miss Cox ==
Hannah Cox is a math teacher at the school. Unbeknown to her students, she's also The Principal's slave, enslaved since she was 18 and her father died "[[Make It Look Like An Accident|in an accident]]". While her "protector" gives her the option of education, she is still to serve him and she maintains the facade of a free woman. When she forget about an appointment with her guardian, she's exposed and [[It Gets Worse]].
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]].
* [[Big No]].
* [[Break The Cutie]]: Spirit, bones and mind, in that order.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]].
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: {{spoiler|She's turned into this}} in an [[Expanded Universe]] novel.
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Her and most of the teachers are forced into this.
* [[Girls Behind Bars]].
* [[Heartwarming Orphan]]: Deconstructed. {{spoiler|She sells out Miss Cummings.}}
* [[Hot Teacher]].
* [[I Resemble That Remark]]: In ''The Clinic'', she's [[Mind Rape]]d into {{spoiler|stupidity}}. Even worse because she was a teacher. Entirely played [[Dead Baby Comedy|for laughs]]:
*: '''Doctor''': We also cut here and there to make these bitches {{spoiler|stupider...}} She is now as tight and dull-witted as a teen slut.
*: '''Hannah Cox''': No [[This Cannot Be|it can't be]]... It is impoza... imposa... I mean impossibel... Oh god! No! [[Big No|NOOOOO!]]
* [[Karmic Transformation]]: Becomes this... well, partly. She doesn't become a slave owner, but she does become {{spoiler|a stupid person}}, contrary to her education and her beliefs.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Luring Cummings into a trap cuts}} most of the sympathy we have for her.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]].
* [[Phlebotinum Induced Stupidity|{{spoiler|Phlebotinum Induced Stupidity]].}}
* [[Prophetic Names]].
* [[Stern Teacher]]: Tries to be this, but is undermined by the Principal and the current affairs of the world in general.
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]]: It appears the only reason The Principal let her study and become a math teacher was to {{spoiler|take it away for her, to further break her.}}

== Cindy ==
Cindy Leccacazzi is one of the classmates of '''Maggie'''. She manages to stay a free girl for a long time thanks to her incredible luck. She is known as one of the smartest students, the size of her brain is matched only by the size of her boobs. She has a meek personality and offers little resistance when she is bullied. She served as a secondary or tertiary character since the beginning of the series. With a surprise twist, she got her own spinoff comic '''For Sale!''' and became a major character.
* [[And Now You Must Marry Me]]: How her special ends.
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]].
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Leaped from a background extra to star of her own comic.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: She has to wear many.
* [[Break The Cutie]]: Intensively.
* [[Creepy Uncle]]: She has one.
* [[Continuity Cameo]]: She was there at the beginning.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]]: Appears to have the largest wardrobe compared to the other characters.
* [[Inner Monologue]]: How she tells the story.
* [[Long Hair Is Feminine]]: She has great hair.
* [[Naked Apron]]: Her uncle forces her to cook like that.
* [[Old Man Marrying A Child]]: She eventually ends up marrying her uncle.
* [[Prophetic Names]]: She lives up to it.
* [[Punny Name]]: Her surname is Leccacazzi. Ask an Italian who is not big enough to beat you up. Or [[Science Marches On|just google it]].
* [[Rape Is Okay When Its Female On Female]]: She even enjoys a little when Maria works on her.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: Her step-uncle is a loving person.
* [[School Bullying Is Harmless|School Bullying Is Rape]].
* [[This Is My Story]].
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: Action never stops to let her rest.

== Paul ==
Paul Stevenson is Peter's father and a businessman in the woman slave trade. He has a good relationship with his son and is lenient about his (sexual) needs, probably being the kind of father that if he knows his son hasn't gotten laid until 18, he has to take him to a brothel. Fortunately, this world is more open (and more STD clean) so he buys Peter his high-school squeeze for his 18th birthday, and then his partner's daughter as sexual slaves. He treats his wife like dirt (though she still remains his favorite {{spoiler|at least until marrying Sherry}}, and that's saying much on [[It Gets Worse|how he treats the rest of his slaves]]). While at first he has little role in the story than to give his son a good life (read: slaves), he becomes more involved in the story, buying his former love (a similar situation with Peter) which just happens to be Maggie's mother, and has more and more intense relationship with [[The Rival|Potts]], his business "partner".
* [[A Day In The Limelight]]: Gets more time, and we get to see his job daily life in part 8, as well as {{spoiler|his honeymoon}} in ''The Hotel''.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Seems to believe this, and fatherly teaches Peter to follow in his footsteps.
* [[Ascended Extra]].
* [[Complete Monster]]: One of the few in the main series that can claim this title almost completely.
* [[Creepy Uncle|Creepy Father-In-Law]].
* [[Deconstruction Fleet]]: Of the standard 50s father.
* [[Dirty Old Man]].
* [[Ethical Slut]].
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: With Potts.
* [[Evilly Affable]].
* [[Exalted Torturer]].
* [[Family Values Villain]].
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Inversion.
* [[Good Old Ways]]: Talks about his past days with some nostalgia, although he finds the current world better.
* [[Grandma What Massive Hotness You Have|Grandpa, What Massive Hotness You Have]].
* [[Hidden Depths]].
* [[Hokage-Level Fight]]: With Potts again, long time rivals and makes Peter vs. Steve "war of wits" pale in comparison.
* [[I Did What I Had To Do]]: Presents it as his life story. Culminates in marrying {{spoiler|Sherry}} to keep her.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Shows his [[Informed Ability]] in slave training with {{spoiler|Sherry, and the hotel receptionist.}}
* [[Marital Rape License]]: Turns Slave Rape License in {{spoiler|(when he risks losing it)}} for Marital Complete Ownership License (Rape Included).
* [[No Nonsense Nemesis]]: Is this to Potts.
* [[Old Man Marrying A Child]].
* [[The Patriarch]].
* [[Pervert Dad]].
* [[Plain Name]].
* [[Really Gets Around]]: At ''his own wedding'', he was fucking [[Mother Daughter Threesome|some colleague's wife ''and her two daughters'']], apparently [[All Women Are Lustful|with their consent]].
* [[Slasher Smile]]: [http://img98.imageshack.us/i/slashersmile.jpg/ SWEET JESUS!]
* [[Standard Fifties Father]]: Deconstructed.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Does this with Potts at least twice in the series, first buying his daughter, and then {{spoiler|taking steps to keep her.}}

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[[Category:Fansadox]]
[[Category:Banned On TV Tropes]]
{{2012}}

Confiscated Twins

2013-01-17T03:23:04Z

Tropers:

Part of the ''[[Fansadox]]'' franchise, this is the over-the-top story of a [[Jerk Ass]] [[Basement Dweller]] having [[A Date With Rosie Palms]] to his [[Twincest]]-engaging neighbors, only to be caught by his sister, be threatened to be ratted out on his parents and having a lousy life in general. [[It Gets Worse|No, that's not the half of it.]] His father eventually buys the twins for his son's 18th birthday as a result of a law that allows young women to be auctioned in case a family cannot pay its debts. When it was posted on [[Imageboard|/b/]], many believed it the greatest creation since... sex, probably.

Tropes include:
* [[Abstract Scale]]: There's a sort of female turn-on measuring system, packed with a lot of [[Techno Babble]].
* [[A Date With Rosie Palms]]: Roy gets caught in the middle of doing it over the twins' (still free) window. [[Brother Sister Incest|By his sister]].
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Utterly subverted. The teens are at the mercy of adults, Roy's father is the one who takes the twins, Roy's a pityful [[Basement Dweller]] that doesn't have the guts or power to do anything that the state or his parents didn't put in his grubby hands, he {{spoiler|becomes an Unwitting Pawn for an older woman - twice, and even when he loses the girls, his best revenge is to help them escape (which just means he loses them too) and to rape them from time to time in the shadows to feel like he spites Mrs. O'Reilley. Clara tries to screw her over, only to be handed as a package to Roy to be thoroughly raped and abused... without him knowing it.}}
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The tools used to break women.
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|Mrs. O'Reilly. Twice.}}
* [[Batman Gambit]]: The entire end of part 4. {{spoiler|Mrs. O'Reilly [[Schmuck Bait|intentionally types the code for her slave vault in front of Clara]], kidnaps her, puts a blond wig, chastity belt and mouth gag (so she can't tell Ray it's her), takes with her one of her slaves, then waits for Roy to break in and rape the two slaves. She even gives Roy indications from Clara's phone each time she's satisfied on how things went until then. Of course, this works because Roy is close to [[Ralph Wiggum]] in terms of intelligence.}}
* [[Basement Dweller]]: Roy.
* [[Bed Trick]]: {{spoiler|Roy is tricked into having sex with/raping his sister}}.
* [[Better Than Sex]]: Since sex becomes relatively common for Roy, he has several scenes showing more attention to: a) [[Video Game]]s b) [[Stalker With A Crush|stalking]] his fully-clothed MILF neighbor. {{spoiler|He should've stayed at videogames...}}
* [[Big Screwed Up Family]]: Roy's family: A fat, ugly, bitter, but hard-working mother, a fat, ugly, bitter man working in the enslavement industry who is implied to often cheat on his wife with his merchandise, a [[Basement Dweller]] son and a [[Fille Fatale]] daughter. Maybe because of their bitterness, they turn the twins' family into this too.
* [[Big What]]: The girls when their mother gets tasered.
* [[Blackmail]]: {{spoiler|After having Roy arrested for rape of a free woman (herself, no less), Mrs. O'Reilly asks Roy's twins as compensation.}}
* [[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce]]: The girls are stuffed with condiments [[O Ring Orifice|anywhere but the mouth]].
* [[Break The Cutie]]: The twins.
* [[Break The Haughty]]: Roy implies he intends to do this in a future issue to {{spoiler|Mrs. O'Reilly}}. Also done to {{spoiler|Roy and Clara.}}
* [[Brother Sister Incest]]: Mostly averted, but many connotations still remain. We're just led to believe they're not doing it because they seem to dislike each others' personalities.
** {{spoiler|Enforced in part 4 by Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
* [[Caught With Your Pants Down]]: The beginning of the comic finds Roy in this position in front of his sister ''and mother''.
* [[Comic Book Time]]: The four issues appear over a few years, yet ''each issue continues right at the point the other ended''.
* [[Cruel Mercy]]: When the mother tries to free her daughters and is tasered, When the SWAT-ish guys say they'll send her to jail, Roy's father suggest they cut her some slack... [[All Women Are Lustful|because she's just cock-crazy]] [[Cool And Unusual Punishment|and they should fix that]] and then let her go.
* [[Dangerously Short Skirt]]: Clara wears a [[Stripperific]] [[Goth]]ish two-item, complete with [[Underboobs]].
* [[Director's Cut]]/[[What If]]/[[What Could Have Been]]: Numbers 5 and 6, though "Uncut #1" could have easily fitted between 3 and 4.
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|If you're rooting for Roy, he got pwnd good by the end, Mrs. O'Reilly is with his father breaking up Roy's parents' marriage, and she has a tape of him and his sister tricked to have sex with which she can blackmail them and his father will never know.}}
* [[Earth Drift]].
* [[Enemy Mine]]: {{spoiler|Roy helps the sisters escape to piss off Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: {{spoiler|Roy's revenge on Mrs. O'Reilly? Having fun with her slaves whenever he can. Not much of a comeback, Roy.}}
* [[Electric Torture]].
* [[Frameup]]: Mild version, but the twins' mother's owner suggests doing this to families that have daughters regarding their debts. Also the mother herself claims to have been a victim of this.
** Roy is framed of {{spoiler|raping Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
* [[Gold Digger]]: Mrs. O'Reilly is said to be this. She's much more and worse than that (although not a certified [[Black Widow]]).
* [[Home Porn Movie]]: Roy likes to send naked pictures of the twins to their mother [[For The Evulz|just to torment her]].
* [[I Should Have Been Better]]: The twins' mother is convinced into thinking this. Considering [[Failure Is The Only Option|it was probably a set up from the start]], she's not really right.
* [[Internet Backdraft]]: Its similarities with ''[[Birthday Gift]]'' brings rage to any [[Erenich]] fan.
* [[Laser Guided Karma]]: At the end of part 4 with {{spoiler|Roy and Clara}}.
* [[Love Thy Neighbour]]: Part 4 is even named that.
* [[Made A Slave]].
* [[Maid Of Sexy]]: The [[Mother Daughter Threesome]].
* [[Mother Daughter Threesome]].
* [[Not Distracted By The Sexy]]: Roy gets used to his new slaves faster than feaseble, that it gets to the point where he's more interested in his video games than in lovely 18 year olds masturbating in front of him at his orders.
* [[Lady In Red]]: Mrs. O'Reilly is seen mostly wearing red. One of the twins also wore red before their capture, implying their [[The Tease|Tease]] status.
* [[Out Gambited]]: {{spoiler|Roy gets some serious pwnage in the third part from Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
** And in the fourth, {{spoiler|both he and his sister.}}
* [[Pervert Dad]].
* [[Porn Stash]]: Roy seems to have this when he's not jerking off to his neighbors.
* [[Rape As Comedy]]: Probably one of the few issues to try it. It's... [[YMMV|arguable if it works]].
* [[Rape Is Funny When It Is Male On Male]]: Subverted with Mrs. O'Reilly's slave. It's actually so cruel when she tells he's mentally handicapped that it falls into [[Dude Not Funny]] ([[Double Standard|...you know]][[Crosses The Line Twice|... worse than usual]]).
* [[The Tease]]: The twins before their capture, Clara, Mrs. O'Reilly... everyone, maybe except the twins' mother.
* [[Transparent Closet]]: An [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] would have Clara having the hots for Roy, if for not other reason, than because incest is xtreem. She acts like [[The Tease]] around him at least [[Once An Episode|Once A Strip]]. This may be {{spoiler|{{Forshadowing}}, as Mrs. O'Reilly indulges them by tricking Roy to bed Clara}}.
* [[To Be Continued]].
** Finally ended (maybe?)
* [[Tragedy]]: Implicit for the women, at the end of part 3 {{spoiler|Roy is at the end of this}}, gets worse by the end of part 4.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into The Future]].
* [[Twincest]]: The main plot of the comic.
* [[The Twist]]: Because you couldn't have guessed it unless you figured the author had it in for {{spoiler|Roy and Clara}}.
* [[Uncanceled]]: The third number appeared ''80 issues after the second'', out of 260 Fansadox had at the time. It may even be a record in the difference. The series was considered dead until then.
* [[Underboobs]]: Clara.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Spoofed, between Roy and Clara. {{spoiler|"Resolved" with a little help from Mrs. O'Reilly}} at the end of part 4.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Roy.
* [[Woman In Black]]: Clara skims [[Perky Goth]] (though never outright stated), but is not as dangerous as her outfit make her look. Well, she is for the twins, but not in the plot.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: A minor character that torments the teens has this.

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Birthday Gift

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''[[Birthday Gift]]'' or ''Birthday Girl'' is a [[Webcomic]] subseries of the ''[[Fansadox]]'' publishing franchise. It stretched eight issues (which is impressive for Fansadox's record, which barely has two stories in the same continuity) with several [[Shared Universe]] stories entitled "Slave Fair", "Slavecop", "Sluts in Training", "The Clinic", (and similar titles), all of which explore the world from other characters' perspective.

The [[Plot With Porn|story follows]] Peter and his crush Maggie, a woman who doesn't even notice him. As his 18th birthday approaches, he notices some of his colleagues started owning women, as part of the Slave Registration Act, which allows the selling of women over 18. A bit distraught by these changes in his life, Peter goes home, for his father to give him they key to something he really wanted. He expects a new car, but finds... Maggie!

Also has a [[Characters/Birthday Gift|Character page]].

Not to be confused with [[Movie/Birthday Girl|the American movie]] with Nicole Kidman. The plots aren't even similar.

'''Warning:''' Vulgar language (can't be helped, most of the series contains [[Cluster F Bomb]]s and references to sexual organs) and [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]] ahead.

=='''''Birthday Gift'' provides examples of the following tropes:'''==
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Peter, Steve and Jeff are seen as this. They look more like [[Hollywood Homely]].
* [[Abusive Parent]]: Fathers sell their daughters for the price of a new car in the very best case.
* [[Acme Products]]: Torture devices versions.
* [[A Day In The Limelight]]: The soon-to-be-slaves, also Peter and Paul.
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: Many spiral downwards from Type 1 to Type 2. Some just start at Type 2.
* [[All Abusers Are Male]]: Played straight.
* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]].
* [[All Men Love Ponygirls]]: The Slavefairs.
* [[All Take And No Give]]: The owners to the slaves. Then they accuse ''the slaves'' [[Hypocritical Humor|of living off their back]].
* [[All There In The Manual]]: Erenisch Special 1 (for [[Break the Haughty|Sherry]]) and 2 (for [[Break the Cutie|Maggie]]). Others may be coming.
* [[All Women Are Prudes]]: Needed for the [[Break the Cutie]] material.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]:
** [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]]: For most girls that act like a [[Complete Monster]] themselves;
** [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]] for the males.
** [[All Women Are Lustful]] for Maggie, Sherry and the rest (less likely for their mothers) and that they actually like it. [[Lampshaded]] in the disclaimer pages.
** [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]/[[Fair For Its Day]]: The guys/men, [[Beyond the Impossible|compared with the State's methods in the Expanded Universe]].
** [[Bastard Boyfriend]]/[[Spectacled Sadist]]: Peter and Maggie, possibly Peter and Sherry ... Peter's father and his mother? ... Well, more accurate would be the master and slave relationships in general.
* [[Am I Just A Toy To You]]: Maggie finds herself in this position often. It's implied Steve didn't even do the "courtesy" thing of telling Gwen he had a crush on her, like Peter told Maggie. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]
* [[A Million Is A Statistic]]. We don't need the EU to tell us Maggie and Sherry are not the worst off. Then again, throughout the series the worse fates of other women are shwon. [[Fridge Logic|Indeed, the schoolgirls are actually mostly lucky]].
* [[Amoral Attorney]]: The one advising Paul how to keep Sherry, and betraying Potts.
* [[Anger Montage]]: Steve and Peter have their share.
* [[A Real Man Is A Killer|A Real Man Is A Sadist]]: It's so much a rule and an empowering feeling, that even girls like Anna or Peter's mom want to get in on it.
* [[A Party Also Known As An Orgy]]: Half the plot of the sixth issue.
* [[Author Catchphrase]]: The author always uses the phrase "I have a bad feeling about this", as an homage to ''[[Star Wars]]''.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The tools used to break women.
* [[Aw Look They Really Do Love Each Other]]: Peter and Maggie. This trope is usually played [[Dead Baby Comedy|for laughs]] and/or deconstructed.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: First the slaves, then the teachers.
* [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]]: Most likely Peter's mom and possibly Anna.
* [[Bald Of Awesome]]: Inverted, it's for humiliation.
* [[Bald Women]].
* [[Band Of Brothels]]: The BFA/Slave-Cops. In the usual subversion, they're not the good guys or out for the women's good.
* [[Badass Teacher]]: The male teachers will not shy from getting physical if their slaves, female teachers or female students piss them off. See also [[Sadist Teacher]] below.
* [[Before And After Pictures]]: The Bureau has these of slaves.
* [[Beta Couple]]: A rather unexpected version between Maggie and Sherry. Alternately, Steve and Gwen.
* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: The whole Gwen's mother sleeping with [[Acme Products]] around her, not to mention the [[Narm]]y cartoonish letter received from the BFA.
* [[Bigger Is Better In Bed]]: Inverted: The bigger it is, the more uncomfortable the girls are.
* [[Biggus Dickus]]: Gwen comments Peter's bigger than Steve's.
* [[Black Comedy]]/[[Dead Baby Comedy]]: Characteristic.
* [[Blonde Brunette Redhead]]: Maggie, Sherry, Gwen. Comes full circle in some cameos and {{spoiler|in Part 7, where Peter owns all of them.}}
* [[Boarding School Of Horrors]]: Erenisch High School is, but only for girls.
* [[Brand X]]: All comics in the EU uses the same fake brands of products from soft drinks to state-of-the-art medical equipment.
* [[Break The Cutie]]: Obligatory for Fandsadox.
* [[Brick Joke]]: Probably a couple, but that nasty incident where female students were made to suck teachers' dicks for not learning their sex-slave-homework is referenced in part 8 with Natalie.
* [[But Thou Must]]: Part of the [[Break the Cutie]] ploy: they're ironically asked what they want, but they're either [[Bound and Gagged]] or tortured (worse) if they give the "wrong" answer.
* [[Calling Your Orgasms]]: Men force women to do this. Men do this too (even more often).
* [[Catholic School Girls Rule]]: Anna tries this on new student, Ginger, [[For the Evulz]].
* [[Character Development]]: For better or worse, the girls go through it, especially Maggie and Sherry, being the [[Main Characters]] of the comic. See [[Birthday Gift (Characters)|the character page]] for more.
** Peter's mother explains her own as she gets demoted from her husband's almost-equal tormentor of lower-level pets to barely being noticed. [[Take That|As pissed as she may be, she can't really comment on that out loud, make a fuss or do anything about it.]]
**: '''Molly''': ''First he stopped touching me, [[Stay in the Kitchen|then he confined me to the kitchen]], [[Humiliation Conga|and now I'm just a piece of furniture for him to rest his feet on]], while his new favorites suck his cock. I must admit, [[We Want Our Jerk Back|I even miss his cock in my ass and his whip on my back.]]''
* [[Citizenship Marriage]]: Actually, enslavement marriage. Paul marries {{spoiler|Sherry}} so she can be kept as a slave of the house.
* [[Cliffhanger Copout]]: Subverted with more than one cliffhanger: they'll apparently be ignored in the next number, but they'll be followed up in other issues.
* [[Cold Blooded Torture]]: Obligatory for Fansadox.
* [[Color Coded For Your Convenience]]: When two or more girls will be in a situation together, they'll be dressed in different colors, even if in similar clothes. This becomes useful if no heads are shown and their bodies look too similar.
* [[Come With Me If You Want To Live]]: Miss Cummings tries to pull a [[Big Damn Hero]] moment... in an otherwise [[Obvious Trap]].
* [[Coming Of Age Story]]: Mostly deconstructed, including the following, also ''all'' deconstructed:
** [[The Hero's Journey]]
** [[Growing Up Sucks]]
** [[Sex As Rite Of Passage]]
* [[Complete Monster]]: Most of the men and "boys" turn into this when the law is on their side.
* [[Conscience Makes You Go Back]]: Miss Cummings comes back for Miss Cox. It was a trap.
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: From the sixth part, Erenisch introduces 3Dish drawings. They look like oil paintings and it appears for now, not much integration in the story for them is possible. The author seems to have realised that and only used one page as cover in said CG.
* [[Corrupt Hick]]: How the Slave Registration Act passed. Lampshaded in Part 7:
*: '''Jeff''': ''Let's drink to the Slavery Law, brothers! Thanks to those thieving, old, fat politicians, we are blessed with the best pussy available!''
* [[Corrupt The Cutie]]: Anna to Ginger, the Preacher's Daughter.
* [[Crapsaccharine World]] / [[Uncanny Village]]: If you [[Trailers Always Spoil|conveniently skip over the background narration]] of the first "Birthday Gift" number, you'd expect it's a normal world, with all the teenage angst, "class" and cliches. Something appears to be ''very wrong'' when Peter [[Weirdness Censor|casually enters]] a room with his parents torturing some girls they call "slaves" without even blinking. It goes down hill from there.
** The life-filled colors and general [[Light Is Not Good|good lighting]] of the show [[It Helped|help]] this trope too.
* [[Crapsack World]]: It's stated it wasn't like that at first (at least not for the women) and at the beginning of the series, only one slave was shown and the school was mostly "normal" and unaffected. Several weeks later...
* [[Crazy Awesome]]: The entire world, [[From A Certain Point Of View]].
* [[Creepy Uncle]]: Maggie's uncle, who sells both her and her mother. He even has [[Rape The Dog]] moments with her mother. Maggie's uncle at least only treats Maggie as a commodity and claims he never was interested in her (and indeed sold her as a virgin). Cindy's uncle, on the other hand, {{spoiler|[[Old Man Marrying A Child|takes her as his wife]]}} after forcing her to perform and have sex for him, and as a last solution of making her profitable.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]].
* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Used ironically between Sherry's father and her sister, as he "[[If You Know What I Mean|uses]]" her at the office.
* [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday]]: Eighteenth actually. That's when a woman (girl) can be sold... [[Real Life Writes The Plot|because it's the legal age in the US to include a naked character into]].
* [[Deconstruction Fleet]]: You will not see another [[Coming Of Age Story]] with the same understanding eyes again.
* [[Deliberate Value Dissonance]].
* [[Demoted To Extra]]: Jeff seemed to be Peter's best friend, while Heather was supposed to be Maggie's. Their presence fades away by each number.
* [[Did Not Eat The Mousse]]: All of a master's slaves will usually be punished for one's transgressions (or worse, as Peter suggests, one slave will pay for the loss of another). In the wider sense, all the technically free women have less and less chances of being treated fairly (or at least not outright abused) as time passes.
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: The girls' fathers or [[Creepy Uncle|uncles]], who are also [[Covert Pervert]]s.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Don't you ''dare'' cum without my approval or you'll get 20 whips. Talking back? 40!
* [[Don't Tell Mama]]: Strongly deconstructed with the girls and what they're forced to do (Maggie and Gwen, as far as we know). Subverted with the boys, who don't seem to care, as their mothers are living rugs for their fathers anyway.
* [[Double Meaning Title]]: "The Exchange". The twins for Maggie's mother ([[Captain Obvious|obvious]]) and Gwen for Anna (double unwillingly).
** "Vengence" has [[Up To Eleven|(at least) Triple]] Meaning: Maggie's [[Torture Makes You Evil|revenge on Molly]], Molly's revenge on Maggie ({{spoiler|convincing Paul to have her bought for revenge against her mother}} and {{spoiler|Anna's revenge on Steve}}.
* [[Dystopia]]: For women over 18.
** [[Dystopian Edict]]: Turned into a dystopia by the "Compulsory female slavery law" of 2022.
* [[Earth Drift]].
* [[Epiphanic Prison]]: The girls aren't kept in line by the chains or the ropes -- those are just "for fun" (as Peter points out in the first number) and maybe to distract them from the actual prison -- but by that of the laws and fear of them. A girl could sneak out of a house in the middle of the night if she wanted to -- that's not a big problem, the big problem is what to do after and the punishment that awaits them if getting caught.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Probably subverted by Peter. While he seems to treat his mother okay, he has greater respect for his father. Anna doesn't talk about her folks either.
* [[Even The Girls Want Her]]: Anna. Maggie, Sherry and Gwen may count.
* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: The slaves after they've been bought.
* [[Evil Teacher]]: See [[Sadist Teacher]] below.
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: [[Zig-Zagged]]. Peter is seen throughout the series as treating Maggie and Sherry like crap. But there are worse monsters in that world, especially in the shared/[[Expanded Universe]]. But Anna is worse, because she betrays "her own kind" for cheap thrills. And Steve too, because he's treating Gwen, his first love, even worse. But then {{spoiler|Steve kidnaps Anna and treats her even worse}}. [[Discussed]] [http://erenischcomics.adultforumhost.com/290138.html?displayreplyid=964815 here].
** More recently, Paul Stevenson and Potts.
* [[Evil Has A Bad Sense Of Humor]]: Type 2.
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Anna. Maybe Peter's mom.
** Paul tried to [[Mind Rape]] Sherry [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil|into thinking this.]]
* [[Evilly Affable]]: Most dominant characters will try to keep their calm.
* [[Exalted Torturer]].
* [[Faceless Goons]]: A variation used for [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]] for the rest of the teachers whose faces don't appear in the series at all who will face-rape the girls in detention. They're first shown with black background and [[Red Eyes Take Warning|red eyes]], and then just the top part of the face, up until under the jaw, is shown.
* [[Fair For Its Day]]: Peter is actually fair to his slaves in comparison even with his colleagues. ''Much'' fairer than the state actions described in the [[Expanded Universe]], which basically ''kills'' women [[The Spartan Way|who don't perform to the standard]], while others are sent to be dog food (literally) or in government-approved places which result in the death of women as a sport.
* [[Fake Band]]: The Juices.
* [[The Family That Slays Together]]: Enforced by the laws.
* [[Family Values Villain]]: And they ''love'' bragging about that... when it's their own families. The young ones don't even have that.
* [[Fetish Fuel Future]].
* [[Fictional Document]]: "How To Forge A Document". Apparently [[For Dummies]] version.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Gwen. Despite brown hair, Sherry too.
* [[Fluffy Fashion Feathers]]: Some women who are dressed up in ridiculous outfits may have this.
* [[For The Evulz]]: Peter and most of the boys' actions.
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Inverted with men, played straight with the enslaved women.
* [[Girl In A Box]]: Apparently it's a "ritual" to gift-wrap slaves, or less often, put their heads in a cardboard box. Happens to {{spoiler|Gwen and Anna.}} Most of the slaves are also kept in boxes, cages, cupboards and desk drawers.
* [[Girl Next Door]]: Maggie, Sherry, Gwen etc etc
* [[Girl Of The Week]] "... in this number, introducing [girl to be enslaved]"
* [[Girl On Girl Is Hot]].
* [[Give Geeks a Chance]]: Enforced. Peter and his friends.
* [[Going Commando]]: Girls are forced to do this. Or... worse.
* [[Goodbye Cruel World]]: Variation of the "To whom it may concern" note, which is now a ''note in a letter'' made ''by the government''. It apparently relies on the victim's [[Too Dumb to Live|stupidity]] or dumb luck (maybe someone lives in the house or passes by and sees it, but still, being ''in a sealed envelope'', [[Voodoo Shark|that brings up even more questions]]) and it states a woman's termination status as a free woman.
* [[Good Is Old Fashioned]]: Enforced by the state: It's implied the men against the law are "fair game" to kill for those who want their daughters or even wives. [[Fridge Horror|Even more suspicious is the level of]] [[Parental Abandoment]] [[Fridge Horror|and dead fathers of girls in ''only one neighborhood'']].
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Played as straight as it could be, very little blood ever involved.
* [[The Government]]: The (risen from) [[Hanlon's Razor|ineptitude]], [[I Did What I Had To Do|necessity]], and [[Inherent In The System|sheer size of the]] [[The New Depression|economic crash]]. While it's presented more thoroughly in the Expanded Universe, all these traits are exaggerated rather than show direct malevolence or planning to get to what it is.
* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have]]: Peter's parents, Paul's (possibly new steady) mistress.
* [[Growing the Beard]]: It's trying to distance itself from the [[Strictly Formula]] Fansadox employs, while still trying to appeal to its readers. As said above, it's already "old and wise" compared to the comics' other titles.
* [[Harem Seeker]]: Peter is, literally. Actually most men in the [[Erenischverse]] are.
** His dad deconstructs this as "costly" and hard to manage. On the other hand, it may be just their way of humor.
* [[Heartwarming Orphan]]: Deconstructed with Miss Cox. May still fit with The Principal's secretary.
* [[The Hero's Birthday]]: Maggie's birthday. [[Jerkass|Peter]] doesn't stop reminding her of her 19th.
* [[Hope Spot]]: It was recently introduced that the closest male relative of a sold woman can buy her back within a year with the same sum of money. For most though, it doesn't happen.
* [[If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good For You]]: Variation: Food for slaves is intentionally made to taste "like puke", but it is said to contain vitamins and "everything a slave needs to do her job" and it's very likely it does. [[Punny Name|Girlfodder]] is a [[Brand X|popular brand]] of slave food that looks as disgusting as advertised...
* [[I Kiss Your Foot]].
* [[I'm Taking Her Home With Me]]: The [[Logical Extreme|extreme]] of the tropes: boy sees girl, boy likes girl, boy talks to father to buy her, or just kidnaps her or rapes her in her sleep.
* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: The main characters (the villains, anyway) are said to be geeks, and owning people is their way of taking their frustrations out on others weaker.
* [[Initiation Ceremony]]: Although not much into religion, there seems to be a ritual called "baptism of cum".
* [[Inner Monologue]]: The girls' way of coping with things. Older slaves, like Peter's mother, learned to keep to themselves ''always''. Others, like Gwen (or even Maggie and Sherry), tend to forget this from time to time, and once it proves very dangerous for Gwen. [[It doesn't help]] that, as Ginger puts it, most girls' mouths are gagged ([[Informed Ability|we don't actually see this too often]], she probably means they're constantly ''[[If You Know What I Mean|stuffed]]''.)
* [[Instructional Dialogue]]: Often used subtly in order to explain the intricacies of the alternate universe the stories take place in.
* [[It Gets Worse]]: Skipping the "little" daily things, every college and presumably high school in the country turning into state-endorsed brothels in something between a few weeks and a few months definitely counts.
* [[Jack Attack]]: [[Punny Name|Jack]], the [[Jerk Jock]].
* [[Jail Bait Wait]]: Can't touch them until they're 18, but you can sure wait and make contracts for when they hit that age...
* [[Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life]]: Close to aberrant rules like if a girl is punished at school and nobody comes to pick her up the next day, she's state property (or the teacher's), if a free woman over 18 breaks ''any law'' she's automatically sold and so on.
* [[Jerkass]].
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Jack. He seems to diss Peter off in the beginning, but then he comes around (or Peter becomes more Badass in the context).
* [[Les Yay]]: In all its variations, but mostly BDSM related.
* [[The Libby]]: Deconstructed with Maggie, probably fits better to Sherry and Gwen, or the cheerleader squad.
* [[Lightmare Fuel]].
* [[Long Hair Is Feminine]]: Most recurring characters have long hair for some reason.
* [[Love Hurts]]: Strangely enough, played often straight. Depending on your interpretation, it may be also a ''very fucked up'' [[Space Whale Aesop]]: either it's "you hurt girls, you get your love stolen", or "you're not supposed to love in a world where you can have all the fuck you need".
* [[Love Obstructing Parents]]: Girls' parents, but not for long, not as long as they need money badly...
* [[Made A Slave]].
* [[Madness Mantra]]: Twanie has "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God..."
* [[Mass Oh Crap]]: Especially shown when the girls see the "party" and "party treats" (women to be used until death).
* [[My Girl Is a Slut ]].
* [[Nerds Are Virgins]]: At least before your family buys you a girl... [[That Came Out Wrong|no, not like that]].
* [[The New Depression]]: Why things went like this.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: The State through the BFA. And as such, those names stick and have legal value.
* [[N-Word Privileges]]: Inverted: Men can call women what they want, women on the other hand, at least as by morality terms, don't usually address bad to each other.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Peter does this to Sherry, and Steve is highly implied to do this to his slaves, too. {{spoiler|Steve to Anna}} too recently. Earlier even, the principal to Miss Cox.
* [[Not Very Pretty Now Is She]]: The bald girls. Recently, {{spoiler|Anna}}. She bounces back relatively fast considering.
* [[No Womans Land]]: There is a compulsory female enslavement law in effect.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Girls have this reaction from time to time.
* [[Omake]]: At the start and the end of the comic, characters claim they're professional BDSM models out of [[Executive Meddling]]. The author makes them into sorts of Omakes, sometimes giving previews for future series. The Maggie and Sherry specials may also be seen as this (as well as [[Evil Counterpart]]s to the disclaimers), tripling as [[All There In The Manual]].
* [[Once An Episode]]: A(t least one) woman will be enslaved, a few sex scenes will occur and someone will say [[Star Wars|they have a bad feeling about this]].
*: "''It was basically just surprise sex, surprise sex, humilation ''[sic]'', surprise sex, torture, surprise sex, surprise sex."'' [http://216.86.148.111/showthread.php?threadid=3436999&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=103]
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Enforced. It gets [[Hilarious In Hindsight|ironic]] when you consider Peter's family name is Stevenson, his friend is Steve.
* [[Orphans Ordeal]]: Every orphaned girl will have it even worse because of perverted adults always leering around [[The Jail Bait Wait|waiting for them to turn 18.]]
* [[Outlaw Couple]]: {{spoiler|Anna and Cathy after Anna murders Steve}} at the end of BG9.
* [[Pair The Spares]]: Rather, give the free women to boys.
* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]]: An [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] to why everyone seems to turn sex-crazed nuts.
* [[Perfectly Arranged Marriage]]: Peter and Maggie end up as this.
* [[Pervert Dad]]: Again, ''everyone''. [[And Zoidberg|Except this one guy that refused to sell his daughter or enslave his wife]] [[Make It Look Like An Accident|and got offed for his troubles]].
* [[Plain Name]]: Peter's full name is revealed in the second number as ''Peter Stevenson''. The others have plain names too, but filled with irony.
* [[Please I Will Do Anything]]: Mothers will plead for their daughters like this sometimes. It never works.
* [[Plot Hole]]: See Voodoo Shark below.
* [[Preacher's Kid]]: Ginger, the one Anna starts seducing as part of her thrill-seeking [[Corrupt The Cutie]].
* [[Pretty Freeloaders]]: Deconstructed.
* [[Pride]]: All the men are prone and even ''required'' to have it. Arguably, [[Driven By Envy|Steve]]'s turns out to be too large.
* [[Prophetic Names]]: Miss Cummings, Miss Cox, Maggie [[Break the Cutie|Sweetie]]...
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]]: Peter, Steve and Jeff.
* [[Punny Name]]: See [[Theme Naming]]. [[And Zoidberg|Also]] [[Jerk Jock|Jack]].
* [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|Rape In the Butt Is a Special Kind of Evil]]: Just ask the girls.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: For some of the men. When it's not hate.
* [[Refusal Of The Call]]: Most of the slaves really. Except Maggie, almost surprisingly.
* [[The Reveal]]: Doubled with a [[Wham Line]] from Steve.
* [[Right Behind Me]]: Tragic example ([[Played for Laughs]]): Gwen comments on wanting a less sadistic master (but doesn't manage to say the "s" word). Steve is behind her and assumes she meant "ugly", and proceeds on mercilessly raping and hurting her. Anna and Peter [[Pass The Popcorn]].
* [[Sadist Teacher]]: The male teachers, including the Principal and vice-principal, but only to female students and female staff.
* [[Scarpia Ultimatum]]: (Male) Teachers actually give these to mothers of girls in detention. The issue is actually [[Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life|pretty serious]] since if they don't release the girls back, there's the risk they'll be confiscated by the State.
* [[School Bullying Is Harmless|School Bullying Is Rape]].
* [[Seemingly Wholesome Fifties Girl]]: The Cheerleader squad first; the highschool in its whole is soon to be filled by these (many against their will, though).
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted: The girls are made to dress slutty, while the men dress ordinary. Played straight with Anna and Peter's mom.
* [[Series Hiatus]]: ''Birthday Girl'' is suffering more and more from this as a result of the author making more EU spin-offs. The world's still there, some BG characters too, but the main story is progressing a lot slower...
* [[Servile Snarker]]: Some of the girls talk (or think... oh the nerve) behind the masters' back... until they learn what's good for them.
* [[Sex Slave]]ry: Legalized in the near future, no less.
* [[Sexual Karma]]: Since everyone gets all the sex they want, it's actually inverted in ''Love Karma''. You do bad things, you lose your love. {{spoiler|Well, Anna falls victim to both.}}
* [[Sexy Back]]: The girls are sometimes made to wear backless dresses.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: [http://img98.imageshack.us/i/slashersmile.jpg/ SWEET JESUS!] Peter and his friends display these too, although to a lesser extent.
* [[Slave Brand]]: Maggie and her mother get branded with distinctive tattoos to signify their owners.
* [[Slave Collar]]: More of a choker.
* [[Marital Rape License|Slave Rape License]].
* [[Small Town Boredom]]: Till you hit 18, boy or girl, you'll be bored out of your wits (though as the world "evolves", the age may be lowered, at least unofficially). If you're a girl, you risk being sold off, if boy, you'll have a lot more things and experiences to share with your college friends.
* [[Song Parody]]: By "[[Meaningful Name|The Juices]]":
*: ''[[Shrinking Violet|I've been a little coy]]
*: ''Before I met a young boy
*: ''[[Asexuality|I wanted to die a virgin]]
*: ''[[Made A Slave|But he made me his fucktoy]].
* [[Spell My Name With an S]]: Maggie's name is so simple, it's easy to forget it's spelled "Sweetie". Anna with two "n"s.
* [[Stalker With A Crush]]: Mild versions in Peter and Steve, for Maggie, respectively Gwen.
* [[Standard '50s Father]]: Paul, Peter's dad most obviously, Sherry's dad and presumably most parents of the school they're in.
* [[Stay In The Kitchen]]: Again, lampshaded and [[Played For Laughs]]. See Character Development above.
* [[STD Immunity]]: They do it everywhere, all the time.
* [[Stepford Suburbia]]: That's what Erenischville is, except that sexual slavery is not a secret.
* [[Suddenly Sober]]: Peter and Steve after talking on the phone. Also brings up the question how did Steve manage to overpower a woman after he probably drank as much as Peter, and kept awake probably all night and was more than ok in the morning.
* [[Super Fun Happy Thing Of Doom]]: The Bureau of Female Affairs is not in the business of solving women's problems.
* [[A Taste Of The Lash]]: Favorite punishment technique.
* [[Tenchi Solution]]: The Stevensons are fans of this.
* [[Terms of Endangerment]]: Men often call women "slave" or other nasty words. Since it's a [[No Womans Land]], this is allowed legally and even encouraged by society.
* [[Theme Naming]]: They come in two general categories: Sexual [[Incredibly Lame Pun|puns]] (Miss Cox (cocks) and Miss Cummings) and [[Break The Cutie]] (full use of [[Irony]]: Maggie ''Sweetie'').
* [[To Be Continued]].
* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: Sherry and Cherry.
* [[Three Plus Two]]: Peter, Steve and Anna, with Maggie and Sherry taking the rear.
* [[To the Pain]].
* [[Took A Level In Badass]]: Peter and Steve as part of their [[Character Development]].
* [[Torture Cellar]]: Usually they don't need it, since the law leaves them in the open and the house/the boy's room serves the same purpose. {{spoiler|Except Steve with Anna.}}
* [[Tragedy]]: The girls in general, Sherry in particular, and lately {{spoiler|Peter and Anna.}}
* [[Triangle Relations]]: Through a ''complicated'' series of events, Peter, Maggie and Sherry settled down into one of these. Honestly, that's the best thing a master can hope for. They're usually stuck on type one, and they don't need it requited to have it.
* [[Truth In Television]]: In a [[Shown Their Work]] [[Fridge Brilliance]], the events of the series/world are not so far-fetched (although [[Exaggerated Trope|Exaggerated]]). See the description of the [[Marital Rape License]] trope/page.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into The Future]]: Year 2038.
* [[Twin Threesome Fantasy]]: The main character's father had twin slave girls to enjoy in the mornings.
* [[Two Person Pool Party]]: Actually, it 's a three person pool party at the end of the second episode.
* [[Two Teacher School]]: More prominently shown are Miss Cox and Miss Cummings, as [[Screw the Rules I Have Plot|they're going to be turned into slaves]]. The principal and vice-principal make some appearances as well, as well as a few female teachers abused and [[The Faceless]] teachers that abuse Gwen and Tawnie, but mostly Miss Cox and Cummings teach classes.
* [[Unholy Matrimony]]: Peter and Anna. Match made in fetishists' hell indeed.
* [[Up To Eleven]]: Arguably, the series takes ''[[Fansadox]]'''s recent years self-imposed limitations and tries to cross the fine line, including blurring the [[Even Evil Has Standards]] notions that "[[Catch Phrase|buggering]]" a family member (specifically blood daughter) is okay or that girls shouldn't be killed.
* [[Vapor Wear]]: Girls forced to wear revealing clothes.
* [[Villainous Incest]]: Sherry's father, with her sister.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Peter.
* [[Villain World]]: For twenty years and counting.
* [[Voodoo Shark]]: By the more recent strips, it's suggested Peter's father could just go and buy slaves ''as many as he wanted, like shopping'', but until then, he has to buy Peter's slaves for big prices and his income looks rather modest anyway. Peter's mother is reported to have ''been bought'', that means the slave law should be in effect ''for a good 20 years'', but the ''effects'' of the law are spreading like wildfire just when see the character. Also, if Peter's dad was so prolific in buying girls, why is Peter ''the only one without a girlfriend/slave''? Peter's dad could have kept one for his own until he was 18, and -- [[Plot With Porn|ah screw it!]]
* [[Wake Up Go To School Save The World|Wake Up, Go to School, Suck Cock]]: Recently girls turned slaves are still taken to school while expected to perform their other duties. Inversion of the usual morality meter of the situation.
* [[Wedding Day]]: {{spoiler|Paul and Sherry.}}
** And in a [[Flashback]], Molly and Paul.
* [[Wham Line]]: More like wham panels.
** Steve's [[The Reveal|Reveal]] about {{spoiler|Anna}} (to the audience, so far).
** '''Paul Stevenson''': ''Ah, Potts! I'm so glad you could make it... my poor little bride waited for you to arrive for hours.''
* [[What Measure Is A Non Human]]: What measure is a slave in this world.
* [[Your Normal Is Our Taboo]]: [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]] type of men tend to... disappear or [[Make It Look Like An Accident|have accidents]]. Generally, in 20 years of [[Earth Drift]], a lot of (especially) sexual (and) morality tropes have been twisted or inverted.

== The expanded Universe contains examples of these tropes ==
* [[The Aggressive Drug Dealer|The Aggressive Slave Dealer]]: ''Virgins'' are given as ''freebies'' in Slave Fairs. Hot, 18-year-old ones whose value should go through the roof. 20 years after the law has passed. [[This Is Sparta|This is]] [[Crazy Awesome|insane]].
* [[Amusement Park Of Doom]]: Slave Fair stories.
* [[Arc Welding]]: Every issue in the EU has repercussions back and forth with the main series. The only one that seemed too far-fetched to be included in that world - Frankiesteinns - is shown as a movie poster in Peter's room.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: Every female job in the expanded universe; Slave cops especially.
* [[Bald Of Awesome]]: Actually played straight with the main character of "Slave Fair".
* [[Biker Babe]]: We see one in Slave Fair 2. Read: Girl turned into a bike.
* [[Blonde Brunette Redhead]]: At the beginning, the blond protagonist has her 18th birthday party, with her brunette and redhead friends. Maggie, Sherry, Gwen may have been based on this.
* [[Breast Expansion]]: The Clinic has a special ward for that.
* [[Buffy Speak]]: Surprisingly, "professionals" like doctors or slave trainers speak more simple than their 18-35 year old costumers and slaves that they belittle.
* [[C List Fodder]] / [[Cerebus Ending]]: A lot of secondary or tertiary girls from the main series are thrown into this for sometimes the sole purpose of killing them and "tying up loose ends". Characters first created for the EU are even [[Red Shirts|more expandable]].
* [[Come With Me If You Want To Live]]: Women in desperate situations are given a choice (unbeknown to them, [[Sadistic Choice|Sadistic]]), to go with them and be rescued from their owners and join a group/cult, or be slowly tortured to death by their masters.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Some pages go out of their way to show that the stories are in the same universe as the ones in "Birthday Gift". Maggie, Peter and Sherry make two, respectively one appearance.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]]: Why the uniform is bad.
* [[Den Of Iniquity]]: Oh God, the slave fairs...
* [[Dr. Jerk]]: World's full of them... [[Crapsack World|of course]].
* [[Drowning Pit]]: Women in/as urinals. Life expectancy: low. Also the cum pit.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The first issue introducing this world is ''Bureau of Female Affairs''. It's weirdly (plainly bad) drawn, even for the norms of the time, and has two [[The Matrix|Agents]], one named [[Does This Remind You OF Anything|Smith]], and a slave trainer, after showing his face, ''puts a mask on'', probably to get into atmosphere.
* [[Evil Vs Evil]]: The Government vs. a weird cult in ''Slave Cop'' that [[Idiot Plot|steals women to give them as sacrifices]] to a giant raping monster. Lampshaded at the end, where the girls thank for being saved, but they're promised as bad as a life, if not worse, as before. [[It doesn't help]] their agent now knows and will tell them that [[Sadistic Choice|the cult gave the girls the choice]] [[More Than Mind Control|to leave their masters in the first place]].
* [[FBI Agent]]: Slave Cops serve this role for the Bureau of Female Affairs.
* [[Fed To The Beast]]: Women of Slave Cop vs. The Cult, after they've been thoroughly raped.
* [[Forced Prize Fight]]: A popular "fair" freebie viewing.
* [[Furry Fandom]]: "Dude, you know what my thing is? It is chicks dressed as animals... we must check this out."
* [[Girls Behind Bars]]: And in cages.
* [[Going To See The Elephant]]: ''Slave Fair''(s) tend to do this with men.
* [[Gold Digger]]: A girl from ''The Kennels'' has the [[Background Story]] of having been this, and then sent to reeducation.
* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: In this world, they just don't care, neither do the owners (who aren't exactly paid to watch over their slaves). Technological breakthroughs and [[Misapplied Phlebotinum|(mis)applications of current technology]] make sure to keep the system as "clean" as possible.
** Played straight (and the subversion of the above example) in ''Slave Cop'', where the guards of a [[James Bond|Doctor No-esque]] facility ''are crazy'' to fall asleep after abusing their "guests". They probably figure there'd be no danger from the inside, but when you're a facility that steals prized goods from the citizens of an [[Ax Crazy]] government, you should probably be [[Properly Paranoid]].
* [[Human Sacrifice]]: Why the women were gathered in ''Slave Cop''. Why would they need to do this? [[Plot With Porn|Who cares]].
* [[Hunter Of His Own Kind]]: The poor Slave Cops.
* [[I Don't Like The Sound Of That Place]]: Snatchfield, Maidenfair, Harlotport, Chickston...
* [[It Gets Worse]]: You thought that letter left to Gwen's mother would have been the end of it? As shown in ''Slave Fair 2'', the authorities have the dates of all who did not pay their free women fees, and so staying in your house and trying to forge documents [[Too Dumb To Live|is stupid beyond thought]], and so [[Failure Is The Only Option|they would have gotten caught rather sooner than later anyway.]]
* [[Karmic Transformation]]: Miss Cox becomes this... well, partly. She doesn't become a slave owner, but she does become a stupid person, contrary to her education and her beliefs.
* [[La Resistance]].
* [[Locked Away In A Monastery]]: A hair to the throne of some European country was sent by her uncle to a Pony Farm to be tamed in time for ''his'' crowning ceremony.
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: We see them in "The Clinic".
* [[Not Distracted By The Sexy]]: Hell, they got used to it pretty quick (the male workers, that is).
* [[Path Of Inspiration]]: The whole world is presented as something great and supreme. Obviously, it's not.
* [[Pizza Boy Special Delivery]]: Inverted, including [[Gender Flip]]ped. Here, pizza delivery girls are delivered.
* [[Police State]]: The Slavecops are efficient (and the reason a lot of goods, including ''an ambulance transporting slaves'', [[The Guards Must Be Crazy|is not secured]]).
* [[Rape Is A Special Kind Of Evil|Rape In The Butt Is A Special Kind Of Evil]]: Taken to its [[Logical Extreme]] where an owner in "Slave Fair" sows his girls' vaginas because he doesn't think they deserve sex in there.
* [[Religion Of Evil]]: The Cult in ''Slave Cop'', bordering on [[Cargo Cult]]. Worst thing is that the monster wasn't even revealed to be supernatural in any way, it was just ''big'' and it liked ''raping women''.
* [[Room 101]]: The room where the [[The Big Bad Wolf]] "consumes" young girls in Slavecop vs The Cult.
* [[Secret Police]]: The police sent to recover lost slaves.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: The doctors in ”The Clinic” use this kind of language when referring to some of their work.
** Other times, though, they just use plain [[Buffy Speak]].
* [[Sexy Stewardess]]: Deconstructed with the slave cops, as well as various stewardesses now forced into sexual serving.
* [[Show Within A Show]]: The author introduces his relatively unrelated world into the settings as one of Peter's wall papers as a film named "Frankiesteinns". Dubs as an extreme form of [[Arc Welding]].
* [[STD Immunity]]: They do it everywhere, all the time.
* [[Super Prototype]]: The new batch of mind-controlled slaves in ''The Clinic''.
* [[The Spartan Way]]: How the state treats women. Those who don't rise to the level are swiftly (or not so swiftly) killed.
* [[Tragedy]]: Implicit for the women.
* [[Trauma Conga Line]].
* [[Utopia]]: What the women in ''Slave Cop'' are promised. [[Captain Obvious|It's not]].
* [[Villain World]]: For twenty years and counting.
* [[Visual Pun]]: The author likes [[Literal Minded]] puns, including making girls literal "bike-women".
* [[Worst Whatever Ever|Worst!]] [[Complaining About Rescues You Don't Like|Rescue! Ever!]]: Lampshaded by a Slave Cop in "The Clinic". The hijacker is running in open territory, with a hot car and a ''freakin' helicopter'' on their tail. It is implied organized rebels at least have more common sense than them.

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{{cquote|How about Fansadox BDSM stories, just the descriptions will make me loose sleep for a month! - NC 17 to all you wanks (possible Gorn)|author= [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/archived_discussion.php?s_t=Main.HighOctaneNightmareFuel Comment in archived discussion] related to the ''[[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]'' page on [[TV Tropes]]}}

''Fansadox'' is a BDSM pornographic comic franchise centered around rough BDSM play, the beating and rape of women. As it's expected, being made for a specific niche, readers will have reactions ranging from [[Squick]] to [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]] to [[Beyond The Impossible|beyond that]]. In rare cases, it can even turn to snuff.

It consists of contributions from [[Depending On The Artist|several artists with several (and highly different) way of draw, or even think]]. This obviously results in different numbers with different stories.

In more recent issues, the company has made several disclaimer pages, almost mocking the porn industry, in which the ''fictional cartoon'' characters swear they're over 18 and that they are actually BDSM (sometimes payed) actors who enjoyed every moment of it. [[Hilarity Ensues]], but it also becomes a [[Narm]] moment as you realise they appear in just about any issue, from when they started using it [[Our Lawyers Advised This Trope|so to not have trouble with the US law]], fact confirmed by [[Word Of God|creator Gary Roberts himself]] ([http://atheistnexus.org/forum/topics/bdsm-and-the-decline-of?groupUrl=cynics&x=1&groupId=2182797%3AGroup%3A122352&id=2182797%3ATopic%3A702264&page=5#comments link]).

''Warning: Vulgar language ahead'' and if you don't like how it starts, leave now before needing to use some [[Brain Bleach]].

==On the Sliding Scales, it ranges==
* [[Sliding Scale Of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: [[Humans Are Bastards]], of course. Women have to kill to get away in most cases, and if they do, [[Corrupt Hick|the Hick judge]] will probably give them a life sentence anyway. Also men don't have much qualms to kill women, there's more out there where that came from.
* [[Sliding Scale Of Gender Inequality]]: Level 2.
* [[Sliding Scale Of Shiny Versus Gritty]]: Pretty gritty/gloomy.
* [[Sliding Scale of Broad Appeal vs. Specific Appeal]]: Specific, with little to no [[Periphery Demographic]].

==Issues with continuity include==
* ''[[Birthday Gift]]'', currently 8 issues and several [[Expanded Universe]] spinoffs;
* The ''Cheerleeders'' series, spanning around 8 issues itself;
* ''[[Women Hunt]]'', spanning 5 issues
* ''[[Confiscated Twins]]'' series, 4 issues and [[Cult Hit]] in... certain circles;
* ''[[The Great Invasion]]'', spanning 4 issues and set in a setting where [[China Takes Over The World]].

[[File:Fansadox world.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Basically... [[So Yeah|yeah]]]]
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==Novels include==
* ''[[Women Hunt]]'' is (loosely) based on ''Fansadox Novel 05 - Year 2050. Slave Training'';
* ''[[Training My Slave-Girl]].

==Compare==
* [[Lustomic]]
* [[Saffron]]
* [[The Erotic Mind Control Story Archive]]

==The works contain examples of these tropes==
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: The main kind of abusers. Women find them repulsive.
* [[Acceptable Targets]]: Anything and anyone. Special mention to the US, Russia, the Arab World and Africa (though no countries mentioned).
* [[Action Girl]].
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Entire comics based on [[Frankenstein]] and other well known works are just that: Frankenstein [[Recycled In Space|with porn!]] There's usually little [[Take That]] at the original work, since it's playing the story straight, only involving many many women at their service.
* [[After The End]]: ''Women Hunt'', ''Sex Wars''.
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: The girls, swinging from Type 1 to Type 2 once they're broken.
* [[All Abusers Are Male]]: Mostly played straight.
* [[All Men Love Ponygirls]]: And oh yeah, the girls don't actually like being pony girls.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Taken to extremes.
* [[All Take And No Give]]: The masters to the slaves. Then they accuse ''the slaves'' [[Hypocritical Humor|of living off their back]].
* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: While ''not true'' from the outside perspective, all men will tell the women this repeatedly. Eventually, [[Rape Is Love|some will start to behave like this]].
* [[All Women Are Prudes]]: Played with in the first hundred issues or so to make a better [[Break The Cutie]] story. After that, the victims were sluts too.
* [[All Your Base Are Belong To Us]]: US gets invaded from the inside or from the outside more often than one would think possible.
* [[Alone With The Psycho]]: The introduction of a lot of stories.
* [[Alternate History Wank]]: [[China Takes Over The World]]. Other stories are placed [[Twenty Minutes Into The Future]], including a female compulsory enslaving law, a slave hunting world...
* [[Amazon Brigade]]: Very few women [[La Resistance|resistance groups]] manage to make these (or keep them for long), but they're present in some.
* [[Ancient Rome]]: Some stories are set there, one is even called that, or similar.
* [[And I Must Scream]]. Some of the girls end up in this situation quite literally.
* [[Anything That Moves]]: Averted in the first hundred issues, where the targets were only pretty barely 18 women. As it took off, [[Acceptable Targets|convenient almost-mutant-monster-humans appeared to shag the girls' boyfriends, usually pretty sissy boys]].
* [[Apocalypse How]]: Class 2 in ''Women Hunt'', ''Sex Wars'' and a few others.
* [[Art Evolution]]: The first issues were almost horrible in art compared to the more recent ones.
* [[Author Avatar]]: Fernando and the [[Mirror Universe]] version of [[Standard Fifties Father]].
* [[Author Tract]]: Fernando more and more often puts his [[Author Avatar|male 50s sadists]] in positions of giving lengthy [[The Reason You Suck Speech]] to teens that did nothing but sit in front of the TV and ask for daddy's money. Even ends (with a permanent "The End") ''[[Confiscated Twins]]'' with {{spoiler|Roy, the main teen character being [[Humiliation Conga|thoroughly humiliated]] along with his backstabbing sister)}}, possibly as a [[Take That]] to the non-paying predominant youthful readers.
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Ranks in post-apocalyptic societies work that way.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The tools used to break women.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: Slaves get the bad end of this.
* [[Bald Of Awesome]]: Inverted in ''[[Birthday Gift]]'' and ''[[Women Hunt]]'', it's for humiliation. Played straight in ''Slave Tales'' ([[Break The Cutie|for a while, at least]]).
* [[Bald Of Evil]]: Many of the male [[Villain Protagonist]]s.
* [[Bald Women]]: Mad Satan of ''[[Women Hunt]]'' prefers one of his slaves like that, mostly for humiliation; alternately, some authors find this sexy (or easy to draw?) and draw them in directly as a "fashion statement".
* [[Basement Dweller]]: Some of the male protagonists.
* [[Being Watched]]: Some start with this.
* [[Belly Dancer]].
* [[Beta Test Baddie]]: Most villains will start hurting women because they were rejected. There are exceptions, of course.
* [[Big Bad]].
* [[Big Beautiful Man]]: [[Fat And Proud]] too.
* [[Biggus Dickus]]: Taken to its [[Logical Extreme]], with girls fearing the sheer size of the thing. Also vibrators.
* [[Bikini Bar]].
* [[Bile Fascination]]: If you're not into this stuff, but read it anyway.
* [[Blackmail]].
* [[Blue And Orange Morality]]: Hell, there'll be not morality at all in some cases, but there are still some cases where honor and respect between some domineering characters will be established. And there's the in-world type of morality on using family ties as displayed at [[Parental Incest]].
** The entire series can be considered this. Everything and anything is acceptable, except that some tropes show up more and some [[Villain Protagonist]]s have sympathetic traits. Welcome to [[Pandering To The Base|Pandering]].
* [[The Bluebeard]]: Some arabs are like that, some more obvious than the others.
* [[Boldly Coming]]: Apparently capturing women from different planets isn't a problem...
* [[Bondage Is Bad]]. To all but the targeted readers.
* [[Bound And Gagged]].
* [[Bounty Hunter]]: Result from the often spicy combination of New world order + [[La Resistance]]
* [[Brains And Bondage]]: Mostly inverted (Stupidity And Bondage?), sometimes averted (otherwise average Joes). Straight example: Mad Satan in ''Women Hunt''.
* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]: One type of [[Acceptable Target]]s
* [[Breaking In Old Habits]].
* [[Break The Cutie]].
* [[Break The Haughty]].
* [[Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl]].
* [[Burn The Witch]]: After you torture the living daylights out of her.
* [[But Thou Must]]: Part of the [[Break The Cutie]] ploy: they're ironically asked what they want, but they're either [[Bound And Gagged]] or tortured (worse) if they give the "wrong" answer.
* [[Calling Your Orgasms]]: Men like to do this, but they'll force women to, too.
* [[Cannibal Tribe]].
* [[Captured By Cannibals]]: One of the early issues (from the first 20) has this.
* [[Carpet of Virility]]: Type 2: Hairy slobs.
* [[Cash Cow Franchise]]: A good example of [[Tropes Are Not Bad]], as being made for paying readers keeps the franchise going and the quality to increase too.
* [[Casting Couch]]: Girls are sometimes tricked by being promised something they'll never get. This may imply sex before or after. In an egregorious example, two girls are tricked to go to an ''unstaged'' online BDSM headquarters.
* [[Catholic School Girls Rule]]: Part of [[All Women Are Prudes]].
* [[Chained By Fashion]]: An useful (although not really necessary, rope usually does its job) accessory to keep girls in line.
* [[Chained To A Bed]]: To a bed, from above a bed, around a bed... not yet [[Beyond The Impossible|under a bed]], but there's still time.
* [[China Takes Over The World]]: In "The Great Invasion" and its sequels, China invades the US to get ''their women'' (and not die out as a race). Bonus points for most of the Chinese having more Mongolian facial treats than Chinese (weak, small, etc).
* [[Cold Blooded Torture]].
* [[Complete Monster]]: A show centered around victims of torturers who will often kill their victims in the most horrendous ways for the mere pleasure of it.
* [[Conveniently Common Kink]]: Everyone loves torture. Except the victim.
* [[Cool And Unusual Punishment]]: Oh they ''love'' this.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: Some of them do. [[TV Tropes.org]] had a cover that didn't related to anything (except ''barely alluding'' to a ''Women Hunt'' type scenario) on account that no NSFW images could be found. Proved'em wrong! Arguably, even some of the NSFW covers are random or sometimes portray [[BLAP]]s that have little to do with the story in the comic.
* [[Covert Pervert]]: Many abusers pretend to be social role models. Then, they have women tortured in the basement.
* [[Crapsack World]]: While most stories aren't situated in the same world, the subtleties are about the same. If you're a "good girl", anyone around you is probably going to want to rape and torture you in the most vile way. Call the police? They're in on it. Captor's neighbor? Friend? ''Your own family''? They're in on it. [[Failure is the Only Option|There is no escape !]] As part of a crapsack world, most officials are corrupt:
** [[Corrupt Church]];
** [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]];
** [[Corrupt Hick]].
* [[Crazy Survivalist]]: Somewhat justified in some post-apocalyptic stories. Others fit into a realistic version of our world, not so much.
* [[Creepy Basement]].
* [[Creepy Cool Crosses]]: The imagery in "The Convent".
* [[Crisis Of Faith]]: One of the original cheerleaders in the eponymous series says she prayed to God, and for her trouble she got to see her sister... in the same situation as her.
* [[Curiosity Causes Conversion]]: Or so the men would like to think.
* [[Curiosity Is a Crapshoot]]: Anyone remotely interested in any [[underworld]] dealing is either going to get killed or raped and tortured before eventually getting killed.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]]: In prisons and asylums.
* [[Dad The Veteran]].
* [[Darkest Africa]]: Played straight.
* [[Grandpa What Massive Hotness You Have]]: [[Depending On The Author]].
* [[Deep South]]: "1850, White Slaves"
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Most women that are on the other side of the whip. Men will only prefer women, because it's not manly for a warlord/mobster to be sucked by a guy, or to shag one.
* [[Dirty Old Man]].
* [[Do You Want To Copulate]]: This is how men start their "mating game" with women. Less from lack of social skills, and more because they're rich and they think they deserve everything. When [[Captain Obvious|it fails miserably]], they go to plan B...
* [[Driven To Suicide]]: Some girls actually manage to "escape" like this. The captors make sure it won't happen with anyone else.
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Or at least that's how the sadists see them and want to make them.
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Some of the victims are outright lesbians. Some are usually (though sometimes wrongfully implied to be) "frigid".
* [[Don't Come A-Knockin']]: The vans of the kidnappers, of course.
* [[Earth Drift]].
* [[Earth Is A Battlefield]]. Happens in a few history wank strips.
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Taken to extremes in order to break the girls' self-esteem and their idea of being normal human beings.
* [[Electric Torture]].
* [[Erotic Asphyxiation]]: Men like to do this to women, ''without telling them it's just "for fun"''. They actually think they're going to be killed.
* [[Et Tu Brute]]: Two sisters are betrayed repeatedly by [[The Mole|someone on the inside]] in ''Sex Wars''. Turns out to be {{spoiler|the president herself}}, who would be reunited with her cousin in return.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: [[Not Blood Siblings]] / [[Kissing Cousins]] usually enforced.
* [[Every Man Has His Price]]: Even [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]] can be tempted and swayed in these [[Crapsack World]]s.
* [[Evil Has A Bad Sense of Humor]]: Those line that start or end with '''[[Evil Laugh|AHAHAHA!!]]'''... you were supposed to laugh at them.
* [[Evil Laugh]].
* [[Exaggerated Trope]]s: So many.
* [[Exalted Torturer]].
* [[Expendable Clone]]: In one number, there's a clone facility. Of course, the women there may be killed, they can just make more.
* [[Exploitation Film|Exploitation Series]].
** [[Nazisploitation]].
* [[Exotic Equipment]]: The aliens of ''Abducted'', as well as those of ''Slave Trek One'' have ridiculously humanoid dicks, [[Dissimile|only]] [[Recycled In Space|WITH SPIKES!]]
* [[Face Of A Thug]]: Most [[Villain Protagonist]]s. [[It doesn't help]] that they range from [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]s to actual dangerous law-breaking madmen.
* [[Failure Is The Only Option]]: For the victims. They seldom try to escape, but even then it's to give a sick thrill to their captor (and the reader) and you can be sure in just a few panels they'll be back to "[[Dude Not Funny|the operating table]]".
* [[The Family That Slays Together]]: Another good portion of starting plot points.
* [[Fangirl]]: Deconstructed in ''Hentai Band Horror Orgy'': What happens with a [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] naive teen when she meets her idols? [[Family Unfriendly Aesop|She gets raped]].
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: The victims usually pray for death after a while.
* [[Fetish Fuel Future]]: Related to [[Alternate History Wank]] above.
* [[Force Feeding]]: Sometimes becomes necessary.
* [[Forced Prize Fight]]: ''Invaders Wild Orgy'' has former free women gladiator fights, other issues too.
* [[Forced To Watch]]: Sisters, mothers to daughters, lovers etc.
* [[Frameup]]. Most women who end up in prisons/asylums ran by sex-crazed psychopaths.
* [[Friend Or Idol Decision]]: Her cousin or two good soldiers who entrust you with their lives? In ''Sex Wars''.
* [[Galley Slave]]: Naked and made to stand on dildos, of course.
* [[Genre Blind]]: Half of the stories could be avoided if the girls would avoid anything avoidable listed on [[Strictly Formula]] below.
* [[Gem Encrusted]]: Arabs encrust their women's ''genital organs'' with diamonds, for their own (and their guests') viewing pleasure, and for the victim's further humiliation.
* [[Gene Hunt Interrogation Technique]]: Another trademark.
* [[The Generic Guy|The Generic Guy/Girl]]: Most girls, some of the men.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Half the women abducted.
* [[Girl Friday]]: Some [[Big Bad]]s have these, some even *gasp* not sexual partners.
* [[Girls Behind Bars]].
* [[Gladiator Games]]: Women are forced to fight in them.
* [[Good Is Impotent]]: God either [[The Gods Must Be Lazy|doesn't]] [[Jerkass Gods|care]] or is [[God Is Evil|just plain evil]], considering the level of madness in all these worlds.
** Same goes for the authorities, which are either dumber than bricks, or in on it.
* [[Going Commando]]: Girls are forced to do this. Or... worse.
* [[Gorn]].
* [[Great White Hunter]]. Spoofed: it's a [[Evil Poacher|woman hunter]]. Trope still fits since they're considered this in-world.
* [[Guns In Church]]: Played scarily straight especially in [[After The End]] stories.
* [[Hell Bent For Leather]].
* [[Hellhole Prison]].
* [[He Man Woman Hater]].
* [[Hollywood Nuns]]: The whole grid.
* [[Hope Spot]]: [[La Resistance]] -> there's still some hope to be free. Men breaking in and shooting -> Hope broken.
* [[Horny Devils]]: 2 or 3 numbers touch this problem.
* [[Horny Vikings]]: #293 is dedicated to them, in both the trope's spirit, and its literal sense.
* [[Hostage Situation]].
** [[Hostage Video]].
* [[Huge Guy Tiny Girl]]: [[Fat And Proud]] type.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: The men may be dumb hillbillies, but the women who believe themselves so smart aren't that much in front of them either. They'll get into [[Obvious Trap]]s just to keep their jobs or because they're [[Too Dumb To Live]].
* [[If You Ever Do Anything To Hurt Her]]: You know how that ends...
* [[I Have Boobs You Must Obey]]: It ''never'' works.
* [[I Have You Now My Pretty]]: Although the victimized women are more referred to as "slut", "whore" or "bitch" instead of "My pretty".
* [[I Have Your Wife]].
* [[I Kiss Your Foot]].
* [[Improbably Cool Car]]: Having post-apocalyptic settings give large possibility over the design of a car.
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: If they're men, [[Break the Cutie|they'll break]]. If they're women... [[If You Know What I Mean|they'll break in a different way]]. If they're men and won't break, they'll be killed. Simple as that.
* [[Inner Monologue]]: Fansadox trademark: swearing and pleading to God in their head. [[Crapsack World|It doesn't help.]]
* [[Institutional Apparel]]: Orange jumpsuits in ''Reformatory School For Lost Girls''.
* [[It Gets Worse]]: Often lampshaded by the torturers. "You think you had it rough until now? Just wait, it's just beginning!"
* [[I Showed Her What A Real Man Is]].
* [[Jerkass]]: Even when they have the law on their side and the slaves obedient, they still like to hurt them just to be a douche about it.
* [[Lampshaded Double Entendre]]:
*: '''Valet boy at a hotel''': ''By the ''saints''! This must be his excellency's ''harem''! Father O'Mally is going to have to give me '''extra''' penance this Sunday... because I'm having impure thoughts ''right now''!''
* [[Les Yay]]: Mostly when the torturers are women, sometimes with two or more slaves forced.
* [[Locked Away In A Monastery]]: Both the literal version of this, and the sex type.
* [[Los Angeles]]: ''The Great Invasion'' and the beginning of the reboot of ''[[Women Hunt]] are placed there.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: So you kidnapped a girl and took her away from her usual life to turn her into a mindless cocksucker? [[It Gets Worse|It could get better]], you could sell her off to slave ring and make money for a few more of these! You could even start your own slave racket! If you're ''really'' lucky, you could catch the eye of a beautiful honest female police officer... and enslave her too! The sky's the limit. [[Sincerity Mode|No, seriously.]]
* [[Klingon Promotion]]: Rarely happens, especially in stable (even if otherwise fucked-up) societies, but in #43 - ''Revenge'' {{spoiler|the (female) creator of a sexual fantasy-turned-revenge facility is removed from rulership by her brother and "the richest man in the world" and given a [[Fate Worse Than Death]]}}.
* [[La Resistance]]: They're hiding, underfed, unhelped, their ranks are being broken every day, there are specialised hunters on their trail, without a chance in hell, but they're still there... for plot and sadists.
* [[Made A Slave]].
* [[Maid Of Sexy]]. Again, broken.
* [[Mars Needs Women]]: Played literally in ''Women Hunt''. Also in stories set in space.
* [[Me Love You Long Time]]: Inverted, including the love part. Authors are fond of making "couples" from male non-white and female white.
* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|Mean Character Drawer, Nice Artist]]: Gary Roberts at least admits it [[Money Dear Boy|he's in it for the money]] and was a race car driver before being a BDSM comic artist. May be the case for most others, although Cagri tends to kill off half his negative characters, and Fernando has a thing for [[Dirty Old Man|taking jabs at teens]] through [[Author Avatar]]s [[Dad The Veteran]]...
* [[Men Are Uncultured]]. Smelly. Slobs. Lazy. Abusive. But [[If You Know What I Mean|they sure]] [[Biggus Dickus|compensate...]] And it's implied they don't need more than that, anyway. Note that they may be all that, but they're not ''stupid''. Some know how to fight (or just hit), run offices, have gotten to a position of power by some means, and so on.
* [[Mind Rape]].
* [[Minion With An F In Evil]]: [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] with Norville from "Psycho". The poor guy wasn't as willing at first, that's why he pretty much sucked at being evil. [[The Master]] knew this, and taunted and tried to turn him every turn he had.
* [[Missing White Woman Syndrome]]: Played straight in issues which deal with the abduction and training of girls from other countries or other races than white. Circumvented with the actual deal: sometimes nobody cares anyway, and when it's played into effect, there's still nothing anyone can do to save them. Also interesting subversion when a large chunk of the police raids in force the mansion of a wealthy man for a stripper in ''#167 - Stripper'', although it's implied it still has a [[Bad End]], but at least the guy wasn't [[Screw The Rules I Have Money|''totally'' above the law]].
* [[Momma's Boy]]: There's even one number named like that.
* [[Money Dear Boy]]: Why these things are made in the first place.
* [[Moving The Goal Posts]]: When it's not outright "[[I Lied]]".
* [[Mutilation Interrogation]]: Very rare, but present in the ''Chinese Warlord'' series.
* [[My Girl Is A Slut]]: Men are PROUD of displaying their slaves to their family, friends, neighbors, and where it's legally available, the whole world. They don't mind sharing their services either.
* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: Averted with men, inverted with women. Women in positions of power don't complain if other women are owned, raped and tortured, preferably by them.
* [[Naughty Nuns]]: Too bad it's only the ''[[Nuns Are Spooky|spooky]]'' ones that are like that.
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: #74 [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|Abducted]]
* [[Naughty Under The Table]]: Deconstructed: Women are made to serve under the table, men enjoy it/eat their dinner with little interruption/annoyance.
* [[Negative Continuity]]: Except for a few continued series.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Some series that risk going into [[Gorn]] territory do this to their female protagonists.
* [[Not Distracted By The Sexy]]: Pretty much every free girl seems to think her showing some skin will appease ''everyone'' and they'll get what they want with the slightest move. [[Genre Blind|They're so wrong.]]
* [[Not My Driver]].
* [[No Womans Land]].
* [[Nuns Are Spooky]]: And [[Naughty Nuns|naughty]] [[Squick|too]].
* [[Oblivious Younger Sibling]]: Usually subverted after the first 5 seconds a family member enters and finds abused women, pretending to be horrified. It ''always'' turns out for them to be in on it. The only times it's played straight is with the daughters or young women, who are in some mob-like business and don't want it to be known.
* [[Only Six Faces]]: Most women in the same series have similar faces. If you're looking at the works of the same author, you may think "new" characters are literally the reincarnations of old ones.
* [[Orphaned Series]]: Many, many series do not have a sequel (although the author will continue onto other series). Many have a "To be continued" at the end, only to never have a continuance. Hell, it's safer to say that half the stories in the series don't claim to continue the story, half claim but don't, and a small portion that is neither get actual sequels. And even fewer get [[Uncanceled]].
* [[O Ring Orifice]]: The things that get stuffed in different orifices, "won't fit", but fit anyway... with some bleeding sometimes, but they fit and we never hear about serious injury again.
* [[Over The Shoulder Carry]]: Happens very often.
* [[Parental Incest]]: It's only ok if it's [[Kissing Cousins|step-father on step-daughter, uncle on niece, or mother on daughter]]. It's usually [[Double Standard|not ok for blood-father on daughter or mother on son]]. "The Birthday Gift" series deconstructs this, as a father uses his own daughter as a slave at the company he works at, but without telling anyone. But it's still not ok for the same family to buy its relatives, or so it would seem.
* [[Past Victim Showcase]]: While no real graphic examples, mentions of the slaves' predecessors who... happened to die in nasty ways are common.
* [[Pirate]]: Type 1 pirates, both in the 18th century in books like "Carribean Pirates" and "Barbary Corsairs" and modern day [[Somalia]]n pirates in others.
* [[Place Worse Than Death]]: Siberia in several occasions, and Africa and the Arab-speaking world are presented as the worst place ''to even take a vacation in''.
* [[Poisonous Captive]]: A rich man caught with torturing famous girls is captured and requests to talk to [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|a certain incorruptible detective]]. His entire story turns out to be a complicated [[Batman Gambit]] [[Hannibal Lecture]], to which the detective eventually falls pray, destroys the evidence against the rich man, but is sold out by him and caught raping a girl the rich man left for him. The [[Book Ends]] with the detective calling another specific detective to [[This Is My Story|tell his story]]...
* [[Police Are Useless]]: Dumb as brick or corrupt.
* [[Porn Stash]]: From your 40ish [[Basement Dweller]] to your successful business man or even women. they all have it.
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: The entire ''[[Women Hunt]]'' is based around this.
* [[Prison Rape]]: All of male-on-female, male-on-male and female-on-female examples.
* [[Psycho Ex Girlfriend]]: Happens at least in #168 - ''Evil Parole''
* [[Psycho For Hire]]: Prevalent in ''Women Hunt''.
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Most women that aren't tortured will usually be this.
* [[Psycho Psychologist]]s: [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|"Mad Madhouse", "Siberian Madhouse"]] and "[[Rule of Three|Cracked Bombshell]]" stand out.
* [[Rape And Switch]]: Examples of raped women turning straight. It generally works too.
* [[Rape Is A Special Kind Of Evil|Rape In the Butt Is A Special Kind Of Evil]]: Because plain ol' non-consensual vaginal sex with adolescent virgins is ''[[So Last Season|so vanilla]]''.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: Usually averted, the torturers want their victim ''not to love every moment of their ordeal''. In some issues however, at least one woman is made into a perfect "pet", who will love her master's abuse and will not swear him [[Inner Monologue|in her head]].
* [[Rape Is Ok When It's Female On Female]]: The main kind of [[Unfortunate Implication]] is averted for the stories (rape by woman is ''not'' considered less demeaning than rape by man, it's considered even worse), but it's "for fun" too.
* [[Rape Is Ok When It's Female On Male]]: Oh so subverted.
* [[Rape Pillage And Burn]]: About a quarter of the numbers start with this premise.
* [[Refuge In Audacity]].
* [[Resistance Is Futile]]. And how.
* [[Revenge Tropes]]. Full list. See [[Strictly Formula]] below.
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Half the girls that are taken.
* [[Robotic Torture Device]]: Abundant in technological evolved worlds.
* [[Ruritania]]: It varies from this to [[China Takes Over The World]] settings, to the US being indirectly mentioned. Oh yeah, and generic "Africa" and [[Somalia]].
** Cagri especially loves doing this, since he actually does a lot of [[Take That]] at [[Real Life]] celebrities.
* [[Sacrificial Lamb]]: Many, just to show how sadistic and meaning in their deeds the men are.
* [[Sadist Show]]: Some of the issues can turn into this when the girls taken were not much better when they were free.
* [[Scarpia Ultimatum]].
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Many issues set in SubSaharan Africa or Harlem and in various other issues.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: With the advance of technology, adding [[Rule of Cool|cool]] sceneries has become an easy thing (depending on the artist's talent, too). Since about the 200th issue and the introduction of new artists, many pages are concentrated on the awesome background of the place it's talking about than about the female body. That's all nice and well, but being a porn magazine, the [[Plot with Porn|plot part]] without naked, tortured women is getting too much advanced on the latter.
* [[Screw The Money I Have Rules]]: Some of the sadists will give up big sums of money that they could receive for their rich hostages just for the chance of breaking the girls and never letting them go. A weird example of [[Even Evil Has Standards]] ... standards that in practice are evil too.
* [[Secret Chaser]]: Any woman in this position will be quickly spotted and taken to rape quarters. Men are implied to not be so lucky.
* [[Secret Police]]: The Junta double comic. Also some 3rd world countries.
* [[Seemingly Wholesome Fifties Girl]]: Some of the victims.
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted: The girls are made to dress slutty, while the men dress ordinary.
* [[Sensitive Guy And Manly Man]]: The team in ''Psycho''.
* [[Sequel Escalation]]: Where there are sequels, also in the general run of all Fansadox works.
* [[Series Hiatus]]: While the entire ''Fansadox'' franchise will probably not suffer from this in the future (because of multiple authors, new authors always appearing and being a [[Cash Cow Franchise]]), announced sequels of individual issues do this all the time.
** Or simply put, [[Never Trust A Trailer}Never Trust]] a "[[To Be Continued]]" caption.
* [[Servile Snarker]]: When there's a duo, one will almost certainly be a snarker. Usually, not to the other, but to the captured women.
* [[Sexy Back]]: The girls are sometimes made to wear backless dresses.
** [[Sexy Backless Outfit]].
* [[Shameful Strip]]: Once they're got.
* [[Shameless Fanservice Girl]]: Most of the female protagonists.
* [[Show Some Leg]]: Doesn't work, since the bad guys can just take anything they want.
* [[Sinister Minister]].
* [[Slave Collar]].
* [[Slipping A Mickey]]: Another often used way of ensnaring victims.
* [[Snuff Film]]: Some bad guys are actually in this business.
* [[So Beautiful Its A Curse]]: Many women in these stories are targeted specifically because of their beauty.
* [[Soft Glass]]: Most of the times played straight, [[Shown Their Work]] once:
*: ''Can't fall through... Broken glass'll kill me. But must alert neighbors...!''
*:-- '''Annie''', #121 ''The Snatcher''
** Of course, ''why she doesn't break the glass with her head'' or something to '''alert the neighbors''' is anybody's guess...
* [[Southern Belle]]: Mrs. O'Hara and her two daughters in "1850, White Slaves".
* [[Spies In A Van]].
* [[Spikes Of Villainy]]: Goes well with the bondage theme.
* [[Stalker With A Crush]].
* [[Stalker With A Test Tube]]: The female party in ''Sex Wars'' are shown to use these to get their attackers' sperm, so they can procreate (they're a society of [[Hot Amazon]]s).
* [[Standard Fifties Father]]: Although the girls comment "they could be their grandfathers", these are usually the types of older abusers. Sometimes strongly deconstructed.
* [[STD Immunity]]: Some stories [[Hand Wave]] that all venerical diseases have been cured in the near future, some don't bother and some [[Fate Worse Than Death|thoroughly subvert it regarding veneric diseases]]. Pregnancy is more common, because it's a fetish itself in some circles (read more on [[Fetish-Fuel Future]]).
* [[Straw Feminist]]: They will usually be the main characters, before being submissed as part of [[Break The Cutie]]/[[Break The Haughty]] plot.
* [[Strictly Formula]]: A female character possessing any amount of innocence and/or dignity at the start of the story will have it all taken away in the most horrifying way possible by the final page. Or by page three.
** Alternately, man [[Do You Want To Copulate|courts]] woman, woman says he's a pig, man plans and employs [[Disproportional Retribution]].
** Woman/women are on a deserted road, needing a lift and [[Genre Blind|thinking the dude is hot/harmless]].
** A couple or a group of women take a tour of diverse interests to an exotic country. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** A disaster has happened, there are either no more rules, or rules are modified for the [[Asskicking Equals Authority|pleasure of strong]]. Women ''always'' get the shorter end of the stick.
** See also below ''Underestimating Badassery''.
* [[Super Fun Happy Thing Of Doom]]: ''Reformatory School For Lost Girls''.
* [[A Taste Of The Lash]]: Favorite punishment of the franchise.
* [[The Taxi]]: Taxi Cab Mafia.
* [[Telepathic Spacemen|Telepathic Space Amazons]]: It doesn't really help them...
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Pretty much every girl that ''managed to escape for the time being'', or worse, who for a moment think they turned the table on the captors. [[Dude Not Funny|Hilarity]] [[Hilarity Ensues|Ensues]].
* [[This Is My Story]]: Some girls tend to tell their story. One even declares [[Discussed Trope|she's forced to]], [[Deconstructed Trope|for her masters]].
* [[To Be Continued]]: A lot get this line slapped at the end, few are actually continued.
* [[Too Dumb To Live]]: Some of the victims, ''always'' lampshaded in such occasions. Eventually just played with: in one comic, in a slave-state, women are actually ''euthanized'' if they don't learn to perform their sexual duties.
* [[Too Kinky To Torture]]: Subverted by the many female Dominatrices that got the other end of the torture...
* [[Torture Always Works]]: To be fair, it's also highly advanced.
* [[Torture Cellar]]: Played straight and many variations on it.
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: So abused. Victims fall from A to F, [[Break The Cutie|B being]] the rarest.
* [[Trap Door]]: There was one in at least one strip.
* [[Trope Overdosed]]: Mainly because each number is set in virtually a different world with different characters, and around 10 artists, each with their own worlds, contribute here. That makes the range of tropes fall all over the grid.
* [[Tragedy]]: Implicit for the women.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into The Future]]: Some of the stories are placed then.
* [[Twincest]]: Usually with blond barely 18 year old sisters.
* [[Twin Telepathy]]: Alluded in one comic that two twin girls could feel each other's feelings. Again, it didn't help them much. If anything, it makes it worse.
* [[Two Plus Torture Makes Five]]: Some girls are made to honestly believe this life is now what they must strive for. Mostly, their owners try not to let them get that far, since it's considered a "release" they're not willing to give.
* [[Uncanceled]]: The rarest of the stories have this luck. May be the case of the ''[[Confiscated Twins]]'' series, which had a new issue ''80 issues after the second'' (out of 260). A few other series were as lucky.
* [[Undead Horse Trope]] / [[Forgotten Trope]] / [[Dude Not Funny]] / [[Unfortunate Implications]] / [[Did Not Do The Research]]: Nothing's too old, too worn out, too unfunny or too vile to use. Except [[Pandering To The Base|what would offend the target audience]].
* [[Ugly Guy Hot Wife]]: Most of the men are ugly as hell - probably one of the reasons they need to kidnap a woman to even have some. Replace "wife" with "slave".
* [[Underestimating Badassery]]: Women actively provoking very rich people or sheiks (or just strong men) in public places and thinking they can get away with it (they can, for the moment). [[Logical Extreme|Taken to extreme]] with a ''Drug lord'' by a ''female chemist''. Ok, female cop we'd understand, but humiliating a ''Drug lord'' in public and thinking you can nail him, too? [[Too Dumb To Live]], baby.
* [[Unwilling Suspension]]: The [[Cold Blooded Torture]] type.
* [[Used Future]].
* [[Vapor Wear]]: Again, girls forced to wear revealing clothes.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]s.
* [[Villain World]]: Has a few of these.
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]]: Cagri ''loves'' to do this. Towards the end of their predicament, the women are presented with an escape chance apparently coming from Heaven itself... only to be told that their "saviors" are in on it too.
* [[You Fail Biology Forever]]: Some of the things those women go through should leave them horribly mutilated or dead.
* [[We All Live In America]]: Deconstructed: acting and dressing American or even westernly in other countries ''will'' set off views (sometimes [[Hypocrite]]cal) of [[Moral Dissonance]] and [[Disproportionate Retribution|will be punished harshly]].
* [[What Does She See In Him]]: Hinted in the beginning of some issues, until it's revealed ''the women are forced to serve''.
* [[What Measure Is A Non Human]]: What measure is a Non-''man'' (woman and/or slave).
* [[Working On The Chain Gang]]: "African Chain Gang" etc.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Most women don't realise they're born in [[Crapsack World]]s.

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In the 1980s, newly arisen video distribution companies in Britain got the idea to [[Step Three Profit|make a fast buck]] by adapting for VHS cheesy, low-budget and, for the time, rather violent Italian and American horror films of the [[Grindhouse| ilk that would later inspire]] [[Quentin Tarantino]] and [[Robert Rodriguez]]. Unfortunately, at the time there was no law that required videocassettes to be classified before being rented and anyone of any age could legally rent any video; so films such as ''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]'' and ''[[I Spit On Your Grave]]'' could be (and were) [[Harmful To Minors|rented by children as young as 10]].

[[Moral Guardians|Mary Whitehouse]] was not pleased.

So in 1984, the Video Recordings Act was passed, which made it illegal to distribute any film that had not been classified. The [[Censorship Bureau|British Board of Film Classification]] liased with the Department of Public Prosecutions to build a list of videos that had already led to shopkeepers being convicted for criminal obscenity and hence could not be legally distributed in Britain, to which were added a number of videos that were submitted to the BBFC for classification and rejected. Hence was formed the infamous list of the '''"Video Nasties"'''. This ultimately comprised 72 films, of which 39 had been successfully prosecuted. Video stores renting them were subject to police raids.

As time has gone by and society become more liberal about horror movies, many films from the list have been resubmitted to the BBFC. In some cases they were passed with no difficulties, but a few of the more extreme cases were passed only with cuts, only for them to resubmitted again a few years later and released completely uncut in the present day (the most notorious and high-profile case of this being ''The Last House on the Left''). Only a handful of films from the list still remain banned, but usually because they remain so obscure that nobody has bothered to resubmit them. If you are able to find and view these films (most used to be incredibly rare and obscure; what were once considered holy-grails amongst collectors are now widely available in this age of DVD) you will probably be shocked at how tame ''some'' of them are compared to today's standards what with films the likes of ''[[Saw]]'' and ''[[Hostel]]''. In many cases, some films would have been tame even by ''those'' days' standards; often films were convicted of obscenity [[Complaining About Shows You Dont Watch|based on the cover art or the title alone]]. The featuring of the words "[[Im A Humanitarian|Cannibal]]", "[[Zombie Apocalypse|Zombie]]" or anything associated with [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazis]] in the title of a film almost guaranteed inclusion on the list. Other films though, such as ''Cannibal Holocaust'', retain the power to shock and horrify.

It really doesn't take a genius to know what the result of Mary's hissy-fits and the bans were; people wanted to see these films. [[Bile Fascination|Naughty little boys, spurred by the media's allegations that these were reprehensible, disgusting, Gorntastic shlockfests that were corrupting the youth]] [[Forbidden Fruit|and which had been banned for the good of the nation]], flocked to video stores in hopes of getting their grubby hands on a copy before the police buried them in landfills. [[No Such Thing As Bad Publicity|Their infamy instead took on a nearly legendary status]]; many would have faded into obscurity as generic money-sucking horror drivel and nowadays nobody would know they had ever existed (however, several of them were already wildly successful in their countries of origin and beyond, such as the legendary ''[[The Evil Dead]]'' and the [[Dario Argento]] films included on the list).

You can see how [[Roger Ebert|Siskel and Ebert]] reacted to this trend in [http://siskelandebert.org/video/2MW8BASYDOAM/The-Untouchables--The-Witches-of-Eastwick--Video-Nasties-1987 this video], starting at about 12:20.

'''The complete official list of "Nasties" is below. (Bear in mind that some of the more obscure ones have up to a dozen or so alternate titles; the following are the titles by which they were known specifically in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s)'''

* ''[[Absurd]]''
* [[The Anthropophagus Beast]]
* ''[[Axe]]''
* [[The Beast In Heat]]
* [[The Beyond]]
* [[Blood Feast]]
* [[Blood Rites]]
* [[Bloody Moon]]
* [[The Boogeyman]]
* [[The Burning]]
* [[Cannibal Apocalypse]]
* [[Cannibal Ferox]]
* [[Cannibal Holocaust]]
* [[The Cannibal Man]]
* [[Cannibal Terror]]
* ''[[Contamination]]''
* [[Dead And Buried]]
* ''[[Eaten Alive| Death Trap]]''
* [[Deep River Savages]]
* ''[[Delirium]]''
* [[The Devil Hunter]]
* [[Dont Go In The House]]
* [[Dont Go In The Woods]]
* [[Dont Go Near The Park]]
* [[Dont Look In The Basement]]
* [[The Dorm That Dripped Blood]]
* [[The Driller Killer]]
* [[Drop Dead Dearest]]
* [[Evil Dead]]
* ''[[Evilspeak]]''
* ''[[Expose]]''
* [[Faces Of Death]]
* [[Fight For Your Life]]
* [[Flesh For Frankenstein]]
* [[Forest Of Fear]]
* [[Frozen Scream]]
* [[The Funhouse]]
* [[The House By The Cemetery]]
* [[House On The Edge Of The Park]]
* [[Human Experiments]]
* [[I Spit On Your Grave]]
* ''[[Inferno]]''
* [[Island Of Death]]
* [[Killer Nun]]
* [[The Last House On The Left]]
* ''Last Orgy of the Third Reich'' <ref>*: This film once had an article on the wiki, but it was purged due to the new content guidelines.</ref>
* [[Late Night Trains]]
* [[The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue]]
* [[Love Camp 7]]
* ''[[Madhouse]]''
* [[Mardi Gras Massacre]]
* [[Night Of The Bloody Apes]]
* ''[[Night Of The Demon 1980| Night of the Demon]]'' (very definitely '''not''' the [[Night Of The Demon| classic 1957 Jacques Tourneur film]])
* [[Nightmare Maker]]
* [[Nightmare In A Damaged Brain]]
* ''[[Possession]]''
* [[Prisoner Of The Cannibal God]]
* ''[[The Boogeyman 2|Revenge of the Boogeyman]]''
* [[The Slayer]]
* ''[[Snuff]]''
* [[SS Experiment Camp]]
* ''[[Tenebre]]''
* [[Terror Eyes]]
* [[The Toolbox Murders]]
* ''[[Reazione A Catena| Twitch of the Death Nerve]]''
* ''[[Unhinged]]''
* [[Visiting Hours]]
* [[The Werewolf And The Yeti]]
* [[The Witch Who Came From The Sea]]
* [[Women Behind Bars]]
* [[Zombie Creeping Flesh]]
* ''[[Zombi 2| Zombie Flesh Eaters]]''


'''The following films were not included on the list, but are sometimes mistakenly thrown in because they were controversial in earlier or later eras. Not all of them were ever actually banned in Britain.'''
* [[A Clockwork Orange]] (predates the "nasty" controversy, withdrawn voluntarily by its director, [[Stanley Kubrick]], due to claims of copycat crimes and threats against him)
* [[The Exorcist]] (the BBFC made it unofficially known that it would be banned from home video release for many years, due mostly to the then head examiner's religious [[Squick]] about the film)
* ''[[Maniac]]''
* ''[[Mikey]]'' (still banned from cinema and home video release due to its subject matter and perceived similarities to the James Bulger murder)
* [[Mothers Day]]
* ''[[The New York Ripper]]''
* ''[[Scum]]'' (original TV version refused broadcast by [[The BBC]] after being made for them, subsequent film version subjected to an eventually unsuccessful legal claim that [[Channel 4]] had breached its own taste-and-decency rules by broadcasting it)
* ''[[Shogun Assassin]]''
* [[Silent Night Deadly Night]]
* [[Straw Dogs]] (predates the "nasty" controversy, but went through a similar torturous and tortuous sequence of bannings and cut releases)
* ''[[The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974]]'' (banned from home release by the BBFC for many years but never on the official "nasty" list)
* ''[[Xtro]]''

== Notes ==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Film Genres]]
[[Category:British Media Tropes]]
[[Category:Censorship Tropes]]
[[Category:VN]]
[[Category:A+ Tropes]]
[[Category:All Tropes]]
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The Witches Of Eastwick

2013-01-06T05:05:59Z

Tropers:

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''The Witches of Eastwick'' is a novel by John Updike that was adapted into a film starring [[Jack Nicholson]] and later a musical. It also inspired the television series ''[[Eastwick]]''.

It's about three suburban women who start their own little witch coven and get to meet the Devil himself...

[[Needs A Better Description]].

== The film ==

* [[Affably Evil]]: Daryl.
* [[Attack Of The 50 Foot Whatever]]: Hey, [[Alien (Film)|Alien]]!Daryl.
* [[Babies Ever After|{{spoiler|Babies Ever After]]}}: Daryl's entire plan.
* [[Bad Powers, Good People]]: The powers Daryl gives them are implied to be evil/demonic, though the girls are good to the core.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: First bringing Daryl to town, and then {{spoiler|killing Felicia}}. Though he probably [[Manipulative Bastard|orchestrated both events somehow.]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: For Daryl, {{spoiler|being left}}.
* [[Beware The Nice Ones]]: The girls, once they realize they've been [[Unwitting Pawn]]s to Daryl.
* [[Big Bad]]: Daryl, of course.
* [[Black Comedy]].
* [[Blonde Brunette Redhead]]: The eponymous witches, played by Michelle Pfeiffer (blonde), Cher (brunette) and Susan Sarandon (redhead).
* [[Break The Cutie]]: Poor {{spoiler|Felicia and Sukie}}...
* [[Broken Masquerade]]: Daryl doesn't have much qualms entering a full church for refuge from a supernatural hurricane and start puking cherry cores, then admit it's a cheap trick and he taught "them" how to do it. When a woman of the same town was killed by ''him'' the same way days before. It's implied churches in general and probably Christian dogma doesn't affect him, so that'd explain why he doesn't really care.
* [[Brown Note]]: Daryl's name, which when remembered by a room full of people causes an unfortunate chain of events that ends in Felicia's [[Staircase Tumble]].
* [[Busby Berkeley Number]]: The choreography for "Dirty Laundry" deliberately invoked Berkeley's style.
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Enforced by Daryl.
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: Nicholson.
* [[Church Militant]]: Deconstruction.
* [[Corrupt The Cutie]]: Daryl's whole plan. It turns sour for him when he makes the three {{spoiler|accomplices to a murder}}.
* [[Crosses The Line Twice]]: [[Cold Blooded Torture|{{spoiler|Torturing]]}} Sukie.
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: Towards the end of the movie, {{spoiler|the girls have had enough of his shit and use his own magic against him}}.
* [[Devil In Plain Sight]]: Literally [[The Devil]], also by name and actions. See above too.
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: Daryl considers himself this. Of course, he's also a {{Sociopath}} and the [[Big Bad]], so...
* [[Empathic Environment]]: Justified. This is a story about ''three witches and the Devil''. Elements bend to their wills and oods.
* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: Jane.
* [[Evil Detecting Dog]]: And it ''really'' hates Daryl.
* [[Evil Is Petty]]:
*: '''Daryl''': ''What was I supposed to do, take it like a man?!''
* [[Evilly Affable]]: Daryl, most of the time. He'll treat you like royalty ([[Horny Devils|especially if you're a woman he wants to bonk]]). Most of what he does usually ''has'' a reason (bonking you, getting you out of his way).
* [[Exotic Equipment]]: His penis is described as bending backwards, which is apparently a major turn-on to the witches.
* [[God Is Inept]]: Daryl Van Horne's rant:
*: '''Daryl''': ''Do you think God knew what He was doing when He created woman? Huh? No shit. I really wanna know. Or do you think it was another one of His minor mistakes like tidal waves, earthquakes, ''floods''? You think women are like that? S'matter? You don't think God makes mistakes? Of course He does. We ''all'' make mistakes. Of course, when ''we'' make mistakes they call it evil. When ''God'' makes mistakes, they call it "nature". So whaddya think? Women... a mistake, or did he do it to us ''on purpose?
* [[Good Hurts Evil]]: So much averted. Daryl even walks in a church to ''take refuge'' from a supernatural storm that was raging outside ''against him''. The church does nothing to either protect him or harm him, as {{spoiler|the girls' spell continue to affect him}}.
* [[Gossipy Hens]]: They call Jane "slut".
* [[Henpecked Husband]]: Clyde. He knows Felicia is sick, but still {{spoiler|fires}} Sukie.
* [[Hollywood Voodoo]]: Daryl does this, but then again, he's the Devil.
* [[Horny Devils]]: Daryl Van Horne. He even identifies himself as such, by name, in a [[Sarcastic Confession]].
* [[Hot Witch]]: The eponymous witches, played by Michelle Pfeiffer, Cher and Susan Sarandon.
* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: The girls pretend to relent to {{spoiler|Daryl's blackmail to get Sukie better, then promptly use nasty spells on him.}}
* [[Jerkass Facade]]: To get into Alex's pants.
* [[Kill It With Fire]]: {{spoiler|How they finally manage to defeat him. Not kill him though.}} [[Mind Screw|Probably.]]
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Daryl's master of lampshading most of his nature while doing it in moments when his victims would dismiss it as [[Sarcastic Confession]]s or are otherwise too bewitched by him.
*: '''Sukie''': ''Who are you, really?''
*: '''Daryl''': ''Anyone you want me to be.''
* [[Louis Cypher]]: Daryl Van Horne.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|Manic Pixie Dream Guy]].
* [[Manipulative Bastard|Manipulative]]/[[Magnificent Bastard]]: Daryl.
* [[Mass Oh Crap]]: The tennis match degenerates in a series of these.
* [[Metaforgotten]]: Clyde tries to [[Justifying Edit|justify himself]] to {{spoiler|firing}} Sukie. It ends in this:
*: '''Clyde''': ''What am I doing?
*: '''Sukie''': ''You were {{spoiler|firing}} me.
* [[Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal]]: What did you expect after making them {{spoiler|murderers and torturing their sister to get them back?}} [[Rhetorical Question Blunder|Well, he actually thinks {{spoiler|he'll get them under his control, and back that way]]}}. [[So Yeah|Yeah]].
** Also {{spoiler|Clyde}} finally has enough and whacks {{spoiler|Felicia}} with a frying pan, [[Mood Dissonance|then goes back to reading.]]
* [[Moral Event Horizont]]: Killing (slowly) {{spoiler|Felicia}}. It doubles as a strange [[Shoo Out the Clowns]] moment.
* [[More Than Mind Control]]: Felicia's paranoia still clings to her personality: it's not outright [[Demonic Possession]].
* [[Nigh Invulnerable]]: Even when they {{spoiler|"kill" him, he doesn't stay dead}}...
* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]: Felicia, inadvertently.
* [[Not So Omniscient After All]]: Daryl screws up once or twice, it's the only way the plot would move on and he'd be exposed. Generally however, he's very [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]].
* [[Obfuscating Insanity|Obfuscating Eccentricity]], if not outright insanity. He even lampshades that Jane probably thinks he's crazy.
* [[Ominous Multiple Screens]]: Darryl has a bank of TV screens, apparently just for the hell of it.
** Probably for his rituals (and to impress women). He's seen at the end using the screen as {{spoiler|a conduit to return to the house or even the physical plane.}}
* [[One Winged Angel]]: {{spoiler|Daryl at the end.}}
* [[Our Demons Are Different]]: In his [[True Form]], he looks more like an [[Our Elves Are Different|{{spoiler|elf]]}}. This information may lead to big [[Epileptic Tree]]s on his entire motivation.
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Felicia.
* [[Recycled: The Series]]: ''[[Eastwick]]''.
* [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]]: {{spoiler|Daryl}} at the end. The girls' actions may count too.
* [[Rock Me Asmodeus]]: Jack Nicholson's Devil and Susan Sarandon's repressed music teacher play a literally explosive duet for piano and cello. After this (and after a bout of wild sex), the music teacher finds herself in possession of supernatural musical talent.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Part of Daryl's plan.
* [[He Knows Too Much|She Knows Too Much]]: Daryl [[Flanderization|flanderizes]] a more righteous and [[Genre Savvy]] woman in town into a [[Mad Oracle]], then uses the three witches {{spoiler|as accomplices in her murder}}.
* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: {{spoiler|Felicia's}} death tells the girls shit just got dangerous. [[It Got Worse|It indeed gets worse.]]
* [[The Sociopath]]: Daryl, of course.
* [[The Speechless]]: {{spoiler|Daryl during his [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]]}}, after his ordeal. Probably justified, as one of the needles seems to have entered his throat. All his does is [[Nightmare Fuel|growl]].
* [[Staircase Tumble]]: Felicia, cuing her [[Sanity Slippage]].
* [[Shut Up, Kirk!]]: Being [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] and nigh-all-knowing, as well as only self-serving and putting on a facade only when there's some use in that, he outright says "No, not interested, you're wasting your breath" to when he's finally confronted by Alex.
* [[Suspiciously Specific Sermon]]: As Daryl van Horn is being blown toward the church by a gale-force wind, the sermon being spoken inside is as follows:
*: '''Priest''': ''Elijah fled to the Mount of God, and behold, the Lord passed by and the great and strong wind rent the mountains and breaked in pieces the rocks before the Lord.''
* [[Personal Mook]]: Daryl's butler.
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: At one point Jack Nicholson's character is whistling the film's theme.
* [[The Reason You Suck Speech]]: Alex gives a couple of these to Daryl. Daryl does it in their absence in a church.
* [[Think of The Children]]: Felicia uses this as a shallow argument before moving on to other matters.
* [[Transformation Sequence]]: {{spoiler|Daryl Van Horne,}} near the end of the film.
* [[Twin Telepathy]]: The sisters are implied of having this after the [[Time Skip]], since at least one knows when the other is thinking about Daryl. It's also implied they [[Took A Level In Badass]] and learned more about their powers and their relation with Daryl {{spoiler|after the Time Skip}}.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]s: The girls, at least until they wise up.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Daryl, a couple of times, especially at the end.
* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: Daryl Van Horne inducing vomiting via magic ("Have another cherry") and later suffering as the spell is used on him.
* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: Not enough to ''actually'' bring him back, though.
* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Daryl, at least [[Manipulative Bastard|when it suits him]].
* [["What Do They Fear?" Episode|"What Do They Fear?" Tape]]: Daryl makes one [[Manipulative Bastard|after he gets them drunk]] and {{spoiler|uses it when they leave him}}. That's right, this guy doesn't get women drunk to have sex with them, he gets them drunk ''[[Paranoia Fuel|{{spoiler|to find out his lovers' fears and exploit them]]''}}.
* [[Woman Scorned]]: Multiply that by 3.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Daryl. The girls are forced to make some improvisations themselves.
** [[Xanatos Gambit]]: At the end, {{spoiler|although he's vaguely vanquished and/or dead, or at least forced out of the house he bought, his plan ended relatively well: he made the children he wanted, and can still get around the house to influence them.}}

== The novel ==

* [[Hollywood New England]].
* [[Name's The Same]]: Two characters are called [[The Simpsons|Homer and Marge]]. Oh, and they're married.
* [[Widow Witch]]: In the novel, the women of the village of Eastwick only gain powers after their husbands/significant others either die or divorce them. It is mentioned that for some reason, it does not matter if the woman leaves or is left, she becomes a ''[[Malleus Maleficarum]]'' style witch (with bonus third nipple) automatically.

== The musical ==

* [[Busby Berkeley Number]]: The choreography for "Dirty Laundry" deliberately invoked Berkeley's style.
* [[Henpecked Husband]]: Clyde: He ends up killing her with a frying pan. With her dying breath, she jams his tie in the garbage disposal and hits on.
* [[Elegant Classical Musician]]: Jane Spofford
* [[Motor Mouth]]: In the musical, Suki begins the song "Words, Words, Words" as a shy little stutterer. By the time she's halfway through the song, she's speedtalking/-singing.

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Annie's Stories

2013-01-06T05:04:02Z

Tropers:

In an [[Alternate Universe]], around the '80s, on "The Day", people shrank. The world was in outrage and fear, and decided to make the little people second-class citizens. Well, worse really, pets with no rights (except maybe being registered).

This is the story of one of them, Annie, at that time a high-schooler, who was found by a pre-teen boy who decided to "adopt" her as a pet. She was probably lucky it wasn't in his teens. [[It Gets Worse]], but mostly [[Played For Laughs]]. Ray turns out to be a decent fellow (after his teenager phase, at least) and treats Annie at least decently, and they start to have a more equal relation (as much as they can have compared to their heights).

[http://original.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600099534 You can read it here.] They also have a spinoff [http://original.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600102233 "Tammy and Cruiser"].

== Tropes present in this work ==
* [[Accidental Public Confession]]: Though the bad repercursions are avoided by good intentions/[[The Power Of Love]]:
*: ''"Someone loves another that much, gives me the most hope I've had since the day a gnome shrank me." Bubba had also outed himself in that comment, but no one took him to task for it.
* [[Anachronic Order]]: The "present guiding the past bits" type.
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: {{spoiler|The Alchemists}}, whose only concern seems to be to turn anything into gold. For all their powers, [[Cut Lex Luthor A Check|they could have gained money a lot easier and without drawing the attention of]] [[Eagleland]].
* [[Anvilicious]]: Be careful how you treat those smaller than you, because life's a bitch and it's going to punish you if you're naughty! Discrimination is evil! Third world nations expatriating their citizens is evil! [[The Power Of Love]] is magic!
* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: We have a guy that can {{spoiler|manipulate elements (in this case, fire), turn junk into gold and claims to get his indications and protection from a God}}. But ghosts? Those are just stories!
* [[Bait And Switch]]: Most titles will give you the impression that something happens to the girls, when it's actually about something different and usually more benign. Even "New World Order" is an overreaction to what happens next. For example, one chapter is titled "No Annie At All" is not about, say, Annie getting lost/being kidnapped, but it's about {{spoiler|Denise in High School}}.
* [[Bait And Switch Tyrant]]: {{spoiler|Dorre}}.
* [[Because Destiny Says So]].
* [[Caretaker Reversal]]: Pet rescuing Denise after {{spoiler|she gets sylphed}}.
* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: The sylphs can basically run around anywhere (provided they aren't caught or locked up), can hear things over a large distance, whether some insulation tries to stop that, their metabolism run much, much faster, but if they're fed by ordinary-sized humans, they're not going to have a feeding problem or a food supply problem. This is however [[Blessed With Suck]], since being small means you can be crushed by big things or ordered by them around, needing lots of food means you're at the pity of your giant again, and hearing ''everything, all the time'' is ''not a good thing''.
* [[Cliffhanger Copout]]: In chapter 80, it appears that {{spoiler|a [[Slave Liberation]] act is underway}}. Two or three chapters later, [[Status Quo Is God]] again, at least in that aspect.
* [[Crapsaccharine World]]: Don't be fooled by the happy-happy relationship between Ray and Annie, Annie described the world pretty much in a nutshell from the first chapter. ''It is that bad''.
* [[Crowning Moment Of Funny]]: A few of the quotes here.
* [[Cool And Unusual Punishment]]: Ray does this to Annie, though sometimes (rarely and not for a long while though) tend to fall on [[Cruel And Unusual Punishment]]. Of course, other sylphs have it ''worse''.
* [[Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon]]: "Annie'd carve out your heart with a potato chip."
* [[Dangeous Forbidden Technique]]: Using Ray's robots for more than he's made them to work under safe conditions. {{spoiler|He's got an [[Override Command]] for that, though}}.
* [[Dark And Troubled Past]]: Well, for Annie, it was mostly one night... but ''[[Adult Fear|was it a bad night]]''.
** For others it was much, much worse.
* [[Deliberate Value Dissonance]]: Annie's one of the few to get out of her way to point out how life used to be for the sylphs before The Day.
* [[Exactly What I Meant To Say]]: How some [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]s are shoehorned in there. For example:
*: ''Pet''' [ [[Motor Mouth|...]] ] ''but it's for a good cause we're going to establish a sylph Olympic event of confined sports so if they ever have Olympic sylphs we can submit a suggestion.
*: '''Denise''': ''I think you mean combined sports?
*: '''Pet''': ''Nooooooo, ''Pet said slowly, thinking and tapping her chin''. No, I'm pretty sure Annie said that sylph events would be confined sports.
* [[Everything's Better With Bob]]: A cameo by a random sylph, but still, ''Bob''. He's also an [[Ain't No Rule]] type of guy... which came against him.
* [[Extreme Doormat|Moderate Doormat]]: Ray as the story progresses and he's at the whim of more and more females a tenth his size.
* [[Doing In The Scientist]].
* [[Door Stopper]]: '''125 chapters'''.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: ''And how''.
* [[Fetish Fuel Future]]: Despite the sympathetic twists, this ''is'' the author's favorite topic for stories, on that site at least.
* [[Freak Out]]: Denise after {{spoiler|she sylphed}}.
** Annie had an {{spoiler|anxiety attack/nervous breakdown, where she became "allergic" and (unproperly) paranoid of Ray for being her Master and [[Big Brother Is Watching You|literally being the Big Brother watching her]]}}.
** Annie's prediction about Pet below almost came true when {{spoiler|Annie threw Pet into the making-big-tunnel and made her big instead}}. Pet has ''such'' a nasty freakout that {{spoiler|it indeed almost kills Annie}}.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Pet. She's ditzy and may not be a grammar fan, and she may give the impression of being raised into a [[Rich Bitch]], but she's all heart and all "street smarts". Denise is actually surprised when Pet saves her.
* [[Giant Foot Of Stomping]]: The sylphs are in constant danger of this in public places, though mostly accidental.*
* [[Got Volunteered]]: Ray, though more than it's {{lampshaded}}:
*: ''Ray had been volunteered into being a judge. Annie suggested it, Buttercup approved and Pet made her eyes three times as big and silently threatened a disappointed lip quiver. He was helpless against their coordinated efforts and now stood close to the Start.
* [[Green Aesop]]: [[Anvilicious]], though it verges on {{spoiler|[[Gaia's Vengeance]]}}.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Narrowly averted, at least twice, though this is a (mostly) [[Everybody Lives]] fic:
** Annie is ready to die at the hands of Pet for {{spoiler|turning her big, instead of herself, so she'd experience the life she never had}}. Daw!
** Denise when {{spoiler|confronting more than one rat with a fork. She's ready to die there and then for stranger sylphs}}.
* [[Hollywood Atheist]]: Annie blamed God for The Day and won't stop reminding people that she hates him... or doesn't believe in him... except when her friends believe in him... and they get their wishes and prayers answered from whoever sylphed a part of the world anyway... and...
* [[Hormone Addled Teenager]]: Ray, so much. It's his [[Freudian Excuse]] for [[Kids Are Cruel|tormenting]] (albeit mostly playfully) Annie.
* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: Some of them, obviously.
* [[Humans Are Cthulhu]]: Annie's one of the few to put it this way, ''constantly'', though she probably doesn't believe it herself. She makes fun of humans as being a monstrous alternate species because she's allowed and to not go mad with her new situation.
* [[Humans Are The Real Monsters]]: Obvious to the readers, oblivious to the rest of the in-universe characters for over 30 years. They treat sylphs as pets ''because they fear them of being monsters''. Right...
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Annie, from some in-universe points of view.
* [[The Missus And The Ex]]: Ray, Denise and Deliah. All is good until Denise {{spoiler|gets shrunken}} and has a [[Heroic BSOD]], and a few days contemplates that Ray would live her for Deliah, seeing that now {{spoiler|she's only - legally - property and won't be treated as a wife anymore. Ray fixes this by [[Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming|reofficializing their marriage, and marrying Annie and Pet too, so they won't feel left out]]}}.
* [[Mistaken For Pervert]]: Ray. Well, he ''is'' in some ways, but not like that:
*: ''Some people that passed Ray kinda recognized him. [[Companion Cube|The guy with the weird Ark fetish.]]
* [[Mood Whiplash]].
* [[Mutant Registration Act]]: Passed out initially that sylphs can be "owned" as property as part of world-wide panic. Later discussed to turn at least slightly into a [[Slave Liberation]] act.
* [[Noodle Incident]]s: A few, especially those involving [[Cold Blooded Torture]].
* [[Nothing Is The Same Anymore]]: When the "present" timeline turns to "New World Order #1".
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: "Freedom Anxiety" revolves around the benevolent version [[Played For Laughs]]. A sylph asks the pros of cons of {{spoiler|being able to live free}}. Three people reply (except the intended one), and the sylph gets more and more afraid by each reply. It culminates in:
*: '''Amelia''': ''Dear Denise, Butters and Hearts, Y'all are idiots. Sincerely, Amelia.
* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]:
** President Personable: The (current) president of the United States.
** President Action: Straw President of a [[Banana Republic]] and a {{spoiler|[[Bait And Switch Tyrant]]}}
* [[Override Command]]: {{spoiler|Ray's miniature robots have these for the maximum time of staying inside - since staying more than the maximum may lead to mental illness or overexerting the body}}.
* [[The Power Of Love]].
* [[Preemptive Declaration]]: Played for [[Black Comedy]]:
*: '''Dorre''': Former President Kendall will spin in his grave, but that's just gravy.
*: '''Ray''': ''He's not dead yet.''
*: '''Dorre''': ''Oh, he won't be finished spinning before they put him in the ground.''
** Dubs as a [[Tear Jerker]] when Annie apologizes to Pet for {{spoiler|making her big, instead of going for it herself}}:
**: '''Annie''': ''Pet? I want you to know...I forgive you.
**: '''Pet''': ''For what?
**: '''Annie''': ''If...you should do something. Later today. If you get overcome with emotion and do something you regret? I don't want that hanging on your conscience. Not me, not because of me. Okay?
**: '''Pet''': ''Okay.
**: '''Annie''': ''Remember. I forgive you.
**: '''Pet''': ''What could I possibly do today that I'll regret?
**: '''Annie''': ''You might kill me.
* [[Reassigned To Antarctica]]:
*: ''Yes, the Kendall appointed, tight assed, mouth breathing, lip reading, finger pointing, brain dead Minister of Paranoia and Party Pooping. He was transferred the same day you were released from jail. Kisu said the man was harshing his mellow and Dorre said they need a diplomatic presence on Christmas Island.''
* [[The Reveal]]: The Swede that Ray {{spoiler|punched}}, just a [[Jerkass]] that seemed to have no bearing on the story, was actually {{spoiler|an alchemist}}. Ray didn't find out this until much later, until after the reveal of these people was made clear.
* [[Right Behind Me]]: Narrowly averted by Annie when Ray was talking about one of his dates... a bit too... ungentlemenish.
*: '''Annie''': ''I really should let you keep talking. Just to see the look on your face when she hears you.''
* [[Sick Episode]]: Denise gets a cold so that Pet can have [[A Day In The Limelight]].
** Actually, that's how Ray and Denise met/got closer.
* [[The Snack Is More Interesting]]: Chocolate. {{Justified}}, as it borders on {{Phlebotinum}} for their metabolisms.
* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]: When it enters the [[Green Aesop]] and [[The Power Of Love]] part.
* [[Tenchi Solution]]: {{spoiler|[[Marry Them All]]}}.
* [[Sarcastic Confession]]: A few months after she was Ray's pet, Annie wasted no time when she got the chance to be alone... dubs as an Accidental Confession as she was hungover at the time:
*: '''Ray''': ''How did you survive without me?
*: '''Annie''': ''Oh, it was great. Your parents bought me clothing and wine and RC cola and left me alone in the house all day and I stole a knife and dug an escape tunnel and-''
* [[Sex Slave]]: The [[Logical Conclusion]] of making second-class citizens [[Made A Slave|into slaves]].
* [[Shut Up And Help Me|Shut Up And Hug Me]]: Buttercup to Pet in "Hostess".
* [[Slave Liberation]]: Sam and Amelia's organisation strives for this, {{spoiler|''almost'' succeed in chapter 80, [[Title Drop|finally]] accomplished in [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|"Finally"]], in chapter 90}}.
* [[Stealth Insult]]: Well, at least she took it as one:
*: '''Date''': ''You men! You're all ALIKE! Shut up, honey this is men talk. Shut up, bitch, you don't know what you're talking about. Don't drink while you're on the medication, dear, you'll pass out.
*: '''Ray''': ''And did you?
*: '''Date''': ''Did I what?" she blinked, tantrum suspended.
*: '''Ray''': ''[[Comically Missing The Point|Did you pass out?]]
*: '''Date''': ''[[I Resemble That Remark|That's not the POINT!]]
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: In-universe: the Pentathlon was supposed to be fun, but the escape-from-jar contest turned into [[Accidental Nightmare Fuel]] for the contestants.
* [[Unperson]]: So much so that sylphs are made to stay naked and are treated as household pets and/or wild animals.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Ray and Annie of course, with healthy doses of [[Deadpan Snarker]], especially from her.
* [[Wangst]]: Some in-universe characters feel Annie is this, considering Ray a good guy who is used too much of a [[Extreme Doormat|mild doormat]] for her. I repeat, this is not from the readers (to be fair, they know better and sympathize more with Annie), it is ''from other characters in-story''.
* [[Weirdness Censor]]:
*: ''Nothing anyone could say or do would change Grandma Foster's mind about Annie. In her eyes, Raymond had shaved a gerbil and pretended he was a ventriloquist. How he'd taught Annie to walk erect or move her lips at the right time was a mystery she never touched on.
*: ''Dad's theory was that on The Day, she'd decided she was too old to shift her paradigm.
* [[Wham Episode|Wham Chapter]]: Though the chapter's title isn't too obvious, the "Timeline" is ominous named and it goes downhill from there: "New World Order #1"
* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?|Who Names Their Pet "Pet"?]]: A 5 year old, though it's deconstructed, since the mother and Denise's parents agreed.
** Also Buttercup was named... by her parents.
* [[You Are Grounded]]: Ray in his highschool years gets this often.

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{{2013}}

Confiscated Twins

2013-01-06T05:02:09Z

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Part of the ''[[Fansadox]]'' franchise, this is the over-the-top story of a [[Jerk Ass]] [[Basement Dweller]] having [[A Date With Rosie Palms]] to his [[Twincest]]-engaging neighbors, only to be caught by his sister, be threatened to be ratted out on his parents and having a lousy life in general. [[It Gets Worse|No, that's not the half of it.]] His father eventually buys the twins for his son's 18th birthday as a result of a law that allows young women to be auctioned in case a family cannot pay its debts. When it was posted on [[Imageboard|/b/]], many believed it the greatest creation since... sex, probably.

Tropes include:
* [[Abstract Scale]]: There's a sort of female turn-on measuring system, packed with a lot of [[Techno Babble]].
* [[A Date With Rosie Palms]]: Roy gets caught in the middle of doing it over the twins' (still free) window. [[Brother Sister Incest|By his sister]].
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Utterly subverted. The teens are at the mercy of adults, Roy's father is the one who takes the twins, Roy's a pityful [[Basement Dweller]] that doesn't have the guts or power to do anything that the state or his parents didn't put in his grubby hands, he {{spoiler|becomes an Unwitting Pawn for an older woman - twice, and even when he loses the girls, his best revenge is to help them escape (which just means he loses them too) and to rape them from time to time in the shadows to feel like he spites Mrs. O'Reilley. Clara tries to screw her over, only to be handed as a package to Roy to be thoroughly raped and abused... without him knowing it.}}
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The tools used to break women.
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|Mrs. O'Reilly. Twice.}}
* [[Batman Gambit]]: The entire end of part 4. {{spoiler|Mrs. O'Reilly [[Schmuck Bait|intentionally types the code for her slave vault in front of Clara]], kidnaps her, puts a blond wig, chastity belt and mouth gag (so she can't tell Ray it's her), takes with her one of her slaves, then waits for Roy to break in and rape the two slaves. She even gives Roy indications from Clara's phone each time she's satisfied on how things went until then. Of course, this works because Roy is close to [[Ralph Wiggum]] in terms of intelligence.}}
* [[Basement Dweller]]: Roy.
* [[Bed Trick]]: {{spoiler|Roy is tricked into having sex with/raping his sister}}.
* [[Better Than Sex]]: Since sex becomes relatively common for Roy, he has several scenes showing more attention to: a) [[Video Game]]s b) [[Stalker With A Crush|stalking]] his fully-clothed MILF neighbor. {{spoiler|He should've stayed at videogames...}}
* [[Big Screwed Up Family]]: Roy's family: A fat, ugly, bitter, but hard-working mother, a fat, ugly, bitter man working in the enslavement industry who is implied to often cheat on his wife with his merchandise, a [[Basement Dweller]] son and a [[Fille Fatale]] daughter. Maybe because of their bitterness, they turn the twins' family into this too.
* [[Big What]]: The girls when their mother gets tasered.
* [[Blackmail]]: {{spoiler|After having Roy arrested for rape of a free woman (herself, no less), Mrs. O'Reilly asks Roy's twins as compensation.}}
* [[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce]]: The girls are stuffed with condiments [[O Ring Orifice|anywhere but the mouth]].
* [[Break The Cutie]]: The twins.
* [[Break The Haughty]]: Roy implies he intends to do this in a future issue to {{spoiler|Mrs. O'Reilly}}. Also done to {{spoiler|Roy and Clara.}}
* [[Brother Sister Incest]]: Mostly averted, but many connotations still remain. We're just led to believe they're not doing it because they seem to dislike each others' personalities.
** {{spoiler|Enforced in part 4 by Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
* [[Caught With Your Pants Down]]: The beginning of the comic finds Roy in this position in front of his sister ''and mother''.
* [[Comic Book Time]]: The four issues appear over a few years, yet ''each issue continues right at the point the other ended''.
* [[Cruel Mercy]]: When the mother tries to free her daughters and is tasered, When the SWAT-ish guys say they'll send her to jail, Roy's father suggest they cut her some slack... [[All Women Are Lustful|because she's just cock-crazy]] [[Cool And Unusual Punishment|and they should fix that]] and then let her go.
* [[Dangerously Short Skirt]]: Clara wears a [[Stripperific]] [[Goth]]ish two-item, complete with [[Underboobs]].
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|If you're rooting for Roy, he got pwnd good by the end, Mrs. O'Reilly is with his father breaking up Roy's parents' marriage, and she has a tape of him and his sister tricked to have sex with which she can blackmail them and his father will never know.}}
* [[Earth Drift]].
* [[Enemy Mine]]: {{spoiler|Roy helps the sisters escape to piss off Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: {{spoiler|Roy's revenge on Mrs. O'Reilly? Having fun with her slaves whenever he can. Not much of a comeback, Roy.}}
* [[Electric Torture]].
* [[Frameup]]: Mild version, but the twins' mother's owner suggests doing this to families that have daughters regarding their debts. Also the mother herself claims to have been a victim of this.
** Roy is framed of {{spoiler|raping Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
* [[Gold Digger]]: Mrs. O'Reilly is said to be this. She's much more and worse than that (although not a certified [[Black Widow]]).
* [[Home Porn Movie]]: Roy likes to send naked pictures of the twins to their mother [[For The Evulz|just to torment her]].
* [[I Should Have Been Better]]: The twins' mother is convinced into thinking this. Considering [[Failure Is The Only Option|it was probably a set up from the start]], she's not really right.
* [[Internet Backdraft]]: Its similarities with ''[[Birthday Gift]]'' brings rage to any [[Erenich]] fan.
* [[Laser Guided Karma]]: At the end of part 4 with {{spoiler|Roy and Clara}}.
* [[Love Thy Neighbour]]: Part 4 is even named that.
* [[Made A Slave]].
* [[Maid Of Sexy]]: The [[Mother Daughter Threesome]].
* [[Mother Daughter Threesome]].
* [[Not Distracted By The Sexy]]: Roy gets used to his new slaves faster than feaseble, that it gets to the point where he's more interested in his video games than in lovely 18 year olds masturbating in front of him at his orders.
* [[Lady In Red]]: Mrs. O'Reilly is seen mostly wearing red. One of the twins also wore red before their capture, implying their [[The Tease|Tease]] status.
* [[Out Gambited]]: {{spoiler|Roy gets some serious pwnage in the third part from Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
** And in the fourth, {{spoiler|both he and his sister.}}
* [[Pervert Dad]].
* [[Porn Stash]]: Roy seems to have this when he's not jerking off to his neighbors.
* [[Rape As Comedy]]: Probably one of the few issues to try it. It's... [[YMMV|arguable if it works]].
* [[Rape Is Funny When It Is Male On Male]]: Subverted with Mrs. O'Reilly's slave. It's actually so cruel when she tells he's mentally handicapped that it falls into [[Dude Not Funny]] ([[Double Standard|...you know]][[Crosses The Line Twice|... worse than usual]]).
* [[The Tease]]: The twins before their capture, Clara, Mrs. O'Reilly... everyone, maybe except the twins' mother.
* [[Transparent Closet]]: An [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] would have Clara having the hots for Roy, if for not other reason, than because incest is xtreem. She acts like [[The Tease]] around him at least [[Once An Episode|Once A Strip]]. This may be {{spoiler|{{Forshadowing}}, as Mrs. O'Reilly indulges them by tricking Roy to bed Clara}}.
* [[To Be Continued]].
** Finally ended (maybe?)
* [[Tragedy]]: Implicit for the women, at the end of part 3 {{spoiler|Roy is at the end of this}}, gets worse by the end of part 4.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into The Future]].
* [[Twincest]]: The main plot of the comic.
* [[The Twist]]: Because you couldn't have guessed it unless you figured the author had it in for {{spoiler|Roy and Clara}}.
* [[Uncanceled]]: The third number appeared ''80 issues after the second'', out of 260 Fansadox had at the time. It may even be a record in the difference. The series was considered dead until then.
* [[Underboobs]]: Clara.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Spoofed, between Roy and Clara. {{spoiler|"Resolved" with a little help from Mrs. O'Reilly}} at the end of part 4.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Roy.
* [[Woman In Black]]: Clara skims [[Perky Goth]] (though never outright stated), but is not as dangerous as her outfit make her look. Well, she is for the twins, but not in the plot.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: A minor character that torments the teens has this.

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{{2013}}

Dressed To Kill

2013-01-06T05:00:04Z

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{{cquote|''"Oh Doctor, I'm so unhappy. I'm a woman trapped inside a man's body--
''and you'' re not helping me to get out!"|author= -- '''Voice of Bobbi on Elliott's answering machine'''}}

''Dressed to Kill'' is a 1980 erotic crime thriller film written and directed by [[Brian De Palma]] and starring [[Michael Caine]], Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen. It centers on the murder of a housewife, and the investigation headed by the witness to the murder, a young prostitute, and the housewife’s teenaged son.

The film was the target of some backlash from the gay and transgender communities, who felt that its portrayal of transgender people was misguided and transphobic. In addition, De Palma was accused of being misogynistic by feminist groups.

== This film provides examples of ==
* [[Angst]]: Understandably, Peter on losing his mother.
* [[Book Ends]]: The movie start and finished with a tense Hitchcockian shower scene. {{spoiler|Both scenes turn out to be [[Daydream Surprise|dream sequences]].}}
* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: The last scene when Liz wakes from her nightmare, followed by a [[Wake Up Fighting]] with Peter.
* [[Black Bra And Panties]]: Liz.
* [[Creepy Crossdresser]]: Bobbi.
* [[Daydream Surprise]]: {{spoiler|The opening and closing shower scenes are revealed to be dream sequences.}}
* [[Dead Star Walking]]: Angie Dickinson is top-billed in the credits alongside [[Michael Caine]], but gets brutally murdered less than halfway into the movie. It's appropriate, since ''Dressed To Kill'' is an overt homage to [[Alfred Hitchcock|Hitchcock]].
* [[Double Meaning Title]]: The title is a metaphorical reference to all the [[Fanservice]], but more literal {{spoiler|as Bobbi dresses in drag to kill her victims}}.
* [[Elevator Action Sequence]]: Where the murder happens.
* [[Erotic Dream]]: Angie is having one in the opening scene.
* [[Fanservice]]: Gratuitous nudity in the shower scenes.
** [[Fan Disservice]]: Bobbi.
* [[High Class Call Girl]]: Liz, but she is also a...
* [[Hooker With A Heart Of Gold]].
* [[Hot Mom]]: Angie.
* [[IKEA Erotica]]: When it's not pack with [[Fanservice]], the characters talk about cringy sexual events like they were reading a book on it.
** You could add Liz's performance in front of the doctor. She looks like a frigid, scared little girl that doesn't know what to wear to fit her (and she's supposed to be a [[High Class Call Girl]]) rather than a [[Femme Fatale]].
* [[The Immodest Orgasm]]: Angie is having one in bed with her husband. Later she admits it was all faked.
* [[Jerkass]]: Detective Marino.
* [[The Killer In Me]].
* [[Mirror Scare]]: Mirror shot with the killer in Liz' nightmare scene.
* [[Modesty Towel]]: In the last shower scene.
* [[Nerd]]: Peter.
* [[Nerds Love Tough Schoolwork]]: Peter embracing his science project.
* [[Nipple And Dimed]]: Though not played completely straight, in her scene of her talking with the good doctor, one of her breasts' aureola is obviously visible.
* [[Not Distracted By The Sexy]]: Dr. Elliott tries to do this, ''hard''. He {{spoiler|eventually succumbs, letting out his [[Sealed Evil In A Person|alternate personality to try to kill her before he does something with her]]}}.
* [[Police Are Useless]]: The subway marshal not seeing things and leaving the car before trouble starts.
** Then trying to [[Frameup]] Liz, without any attempt to believe her or help her. ''Then'' putting her in harm's way.
* [[Psycho Psychologist]]: Dr. Elliott should really not be practicing.
* [[Psycho Strings]]: Kicks in right after Liz picks up the murder weapon from the elevator floor.
* [[Slashed Throat]]: At the end of the movie on {{spoiler|Liz. Good thing it was just a nightmare}}.
* [[So Bad It's Awful]]: Come on, if it wasn't a De Palma and Caine movie, it wouldn't even have a page here.
* [[Split Personality]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Elliott and his alter-ego Bobbi.}}
* [[Stocking Filler]]: Nancy Allen in black stockings and garters. HOT;!
* [[Twist Ending]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Elliott, or rather Bobbi being the razor blade killer.}}
* [[You Killed My Mother]]: Why Peter is working with Liz.

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Dressed To Kill

2012-12-10T23:02:59Z

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{{cquote|''"Oh Doctor, I'm so unhappy. I'm a woman trapped inside a man's body--
''and you'' re not helping me to get out!"|author= -- '''Voice of Bobbi on Elliott's answering machine'''}}

''Dressed to Kill'' is a 1980 erotic crime thriller film written and directed by [[Brian De Palma]] and starring [[Michael Caine]], Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen. It centers on the murder of a housewife, and the investigation headed by the witness to the murder, a young prostitute, and the housewife’s teenaged son.

The film was the target of some backlash from the gay and transgender communities, who felt that its portrayal of transgender people was misguided and transphobic. In addition, De Palma was accused of being misogynistic by feminist groups.

== This film provides examples of ==
* [[Angst]]: Understandably, Peter on losing his mother.
* [[Book Ends]]: The movie start and finished with a tense Hitchcockian shower scene. {{spoiler|Both scenes turn out to be [[Daydream Surprise|dream sequences]].}}
* [[Catapult Nightmare]]: The last scene when Liz wakes from her nightmare, followed by a [[Wake Up Fighting]] with Peter.
* [[Black Bra And Panties]]: Liz.
* [[Creepy Crossdresser]]: Bobbi.
* [[Daydream Surprise]]: {{spoiler|The opening and closing shower scenes are revealed to be dream sequences.}}
* [[Dead Star Walking]]: Angie Dickinson is top-billed in the credits alongside [[Michael Caine]], but gets brutally murdered less than halfway into the movie. It's appropriate, since ''Dressed To Kill'' is an overt homage to [[Alfred Hitchcock|Hitchcock]].
* [[Double Meaning Title]]: The title is a metaphorical reference to all the [[Fanservice]], but more literal {{spoiler|as Bobbi dresses in drag to kill her victims}}.
* [[Elevator Action Sequence]]: Where the murder happens.
* [[Erotic Dream]]: Angie is having one in the opening scene.
* [[Fanservice]]: Gratuitous nudity in the shower scenes.
** [[Fan Disservice]]: Bobbi.
* [[High Class Call Girl]]: Liz, but she is also a...
* [[Hooker With A Heart Of Gold]].
* [[Hot Mom]]: Angie.
* [[IKEA Erotica]]: When it's not pack with [[Fanservice]], the characters talk about cringy sexual events like they were reading a book on it.
** You could add Liz's performance in front of the doctor. She looks like a frigid, scared little girl that doesn't know what to wear to fit her (and she's supposed to be a [[High Class Call Girl]]) rather than a [[Femme Fatale]].
* [[The Immodest Orgasm]]: Angie is having one in bed with her husband. Later she admits it was all faked.
* [[Jerkass]]: Detective Marino.
* [[The Killer In Me]].
* [[Mirror Scare]]: Mirror shot with the killer in Liz' nightmare scene.
* [[Modesty Towel]]: In the last shower scene.
* [[Nerd]]: Peter.
* [[Nerds Love Tough Schoolwork]]: Peter embracing his science project.
* [[Nipple And Dimed]]: Though not played completely straight, in her scene of her talking with the good doctor, one of her breasts' aureola is obviously visible.
* [[Not Distracted By The Sexy]]: Dr. Elliott tries to do this, ''hard''. He {{spoiler|eventually succumbs, letting out his [[Sealed Evil In A Person|alternate personality to try to kill her before he does something with her]]}}.
* [[Police Are Useless]]: The subway marshal not seeing things and leaving the car before trouble starts.
** Then trying to [[Frameup]] Liz, without any attempt to believe her or help her. ''Then'' putting her in harm's way.
* [[Psycho Psychologist]]: Dr. Elliott should really not be practicing.
* [[Psycho Strings]]: Kicks in right after Liz picks up the murder weapon from the elevator floor.
* [[Slashed Throat]]: At the end of the movie on {{spoiler|Liz. Good thing it was just a nightmare}}.
* [[So Bad It's Awful]]: Come on, if it wasn't a De Palma and Caine movie, it wouldn't even have a page here.
* [[Split Personality]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Elliott and his alter-ego Bobbi.}}
* [[Stocking Filler]]: Nancy Allen in black stockings and garters. HOT;!
* [[Twist Ending]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Elliott, or rather Bobbi being the razor blade killer.}}
* [[You Killed My Mother]]: Why Peter is working with Liz.

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Villain Protagonist

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{{cquote|''"The biggest problem in the series is something that no amount of editing can get around: The series compels viewers to empathize with a serial killer, to root for him to prevail, to hope he doesn't get discovered."''|author=--''''' [[Moral Guardians|(PTC) President Tim Winter]]''' on ''[[Dexter]]'''' }}
An interesting twist on conventional storytelling is to make [[The Protagonist]] a villain. Sometimes (but not always), this villainous main character will even get the [[Sympathetic POV]] or be portrayed as an [[Anti Villain]]. Although "[[Heroic Archetype|hero]]" and "protagonist" are frequently used interchangeably, it can be fun to take the side of evil. However, it is not necessary for a villain to be sympathetic for them to be this trope. Sometimes it's done by having the protagonist facing [[Evil Versus Evil|even worse people]].

A Villain Protagonist (especially in a comedy) is quite likely to go down in flames at the end. Whether this counts as a [[Downer Ending]] or not generally depends on [[Kick The Dog|how many dogs they kick along the way]] [[or]] how entertaining their [[Humiliation Conga]] or [[Karmic Death]] is. They may also do a [[Heel Face Turn]] and become a [[Hero Protagonist]].

Of course, in the case of video games, some will allow you to ''choose'' to be evil, but that's [[Karma Meter|another trope entirely]]; only when the character you play automatically defaults to villainy does this trope apply.

When this is done for one episode, it's a [[Villain Episode]].

Compare the [[Hero Antagonist]] and [[Hero Protagonist]]. May overlap with the more extreme cases of an [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]].

Not to be confused with the [[Byronic Hero]], who is a horribly flawed person but has heroic qualities and is often working towards a heroic goal. There are cases where a [[Byronic Hero]] and Villain Protagonist overlap, though. May also overlap with a [[Sliding Scale Of Anti Heroes|Type IV and Type V]] [[Anti Hero]] [[or]] [[Sociopathic Hero]].

The point of this trope is for the protagonist to be the villain; it doesn't count if the hero's girlfriend or best friend is the villain.

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== Examples ==
=== Anime & Manga ===
* [[Light Yagami]] in ''[[Death Note]]'', who kills people for his [[Knight Templar]] dreams of a better world [[A God Am I|and godhood]]. He ''consistently'' sees himself as a [[Well Intentioned Extremist]], and doesn't seem to realise that he's crossing [[Moral Event Horizon]]s. {{spoiler|During his [[Motive Rant]], he still legitimately seems to believe that he's doing the right thing}}.
* Raoh from ''[[Fist Of The North Star]]'' is the main focus of two of the ''Legends of the True Savior'' movies, as well as the protagonist of his own spinoff [[anime]] titled ''Legends of the Dark King''
* Ladd Russo of ''{{Baccano}}''. He's not the main character (there is no main character), but he is an [[Ensemble Dark Horse]].
** If you think about it, almost the entire main cast of ''Baccano!'' is villainous. Firo and the Martillo family are camorristi, the Gandors are mafia, Jacuzzi and gang are, well, a gang, {{spoiler|Claire Stanfield}} is a master assassin, Ennis is the {{spoiler|servant of the Big Bad of 1930}}, the {{spoiler|Daily Days}} is a cynical information broker worried only about itself. Really the only main character who isn't villainous is Eve Genoard, and then, {{spoiler|she has some [[Corrupt The Cutie]] moments in the 1932 novel.}}
* The eponymous ''[[Golgo 13]]'' tempered by the fact that those he fights tend to be ''complete monsters''
* Lucy from ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' is a cold-blooded killer. She has killed armed men and innocent children, for reasons ranging from "trying to kill me" to "You killed my dog" to "I envy your happy, normal life, and I need a place to crash." She [[Cold Blooded Torture|kicks people quite sadistically]] when they are down. She hears voices and tries to infest humans with her diclonius genes, which will lead to the extinction of mankind. No effort is spared to let the viewer feel sympathy for her plight. {{spoiler|In the end, she sacrifices herself to save the one guy who was nice to her. [[Fridge Logic|And then you look in the fridge]] and realize that by the time the series started, years after her most horrific deeds, she never explicitly killed anyone who was unarguably innocent, and got Mayu, whom she'd never met before, out of harm's way when fighting another diclonius...}}
* [[MD Geist]] is revealed to be a Villain Protagonist, but it is difficult to either sympathize or despise him because he isn't developed at all and his true motives are never revealed.
* ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'' is interesting as the true protagonist is reasonably moral (though not truly heroic, least not yet), but all of his allies seem to have rather questionable morals. One is a terrorist who thinks nothing of blowing up a school while it's occupied, while his closest ally and potential girlfriend is [[Yandere|dangerous]]. {{spoiler|Over the course of the series, he does eventually become more immoral and becomes [[Start Of Darkness|as nutty as his girlfriend]]. Many characters call him out on his villainous behaviour as he gets worse and worse.}}
* Tanaka Punie of [[Dai Mahou Touge]] is definitely not as good as her "princess of Magical Land" persona makes her appear to be. Her incantation says it all: "Lyrical Tokarev, kill them all!"
* Yuuhi and Sami, the main duo of [[The Lucifer And Biscuit Hammer]]. Sami has vowed to destroy the Earth herself after saving it from the eponymous hammer, and Yuuhi is extremely loyal to her for that end. The other Knights besides Yuuhi don't know about Sami's intention; Yuuhi and Sami plot to turn against them as soon as the world is saved. {{spoiler|After much [[Character Development]] for both of them, they get better. Yuuhi eventually 'defeats' Sami, who didn't really want to destroy the Earth at that point, and the two go on to live [[Happily Ever After]].}}
* [[Hell Girl]]. Ai and her helpers are likable, but they damn people to hell for a living. What's more, Ai gets most of her contracts from desperate, vulnerable people who will regret their decision for all eternity. The first season balanced Ai's group with a pair of non-villain protagonists, Hajime and Tsugumi, and ''Mitsuganae'' seems to be doing the same with Mikage. ''Futakomori'''s approach was to emphasize the helpers' sympathetic backgrounds and ramp up the nastiness of Ai's victims.
* The protagonist, Ryo Narushima, in ''[[Shamo]]'' is one of the most hate-able main characters in [[manga]] history. He murders his parents in the first 3 pages of the book, and throughout the series commits (or at least attempts to commit) multiple acts of murder and rape.
* ''[[Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni]]'' loves this trope. Several characters play this role at some point. Subverted as neither the protagonist nor the viewer knows until [[The Reveal]].
* Mayo Sasaki in [[Fushigi Yuugi|: Eikoden]]. While she's not truly ''evil'', she is [[Jerk Ass|extremely selfish and unsympathetic]], and her obsession with stealing Miaka's beloved husband [[Tamahome]], coupled with her irresponsible behavior, causes a lot of trouble for the warriors of Suzaku.
* Yoshitaka, the male lead of [[He Is My Master]] is a sociopathic pervert with little to no redeeming qualities.
* ''[[Tomie]]'' is an interesting case. The eponymous Tomie is never actually the main character of the stories, with the focus instead being on the people who interact with her. However, it still counts since Tomie has an...effect...on people.
* ''[[Gundam SEED]] Stargazer'' does this with the pilot of the Strike Noir, Sven Cal Vayan. He is the character with the most focus and the only one that (due to the length of the story) got any degree of backstory. He's also shown to be extremely cold, more than willing to gun down entire crowds of refugees on the off-chance that one is a terrorist, and show no trace of remorse or grief when a wingman gets killed. He does eventually get better, but not before getting into a [[Chained Heat]] situation with the [[Hero Antagonist]] of the series and the pilot of the Stargazer.
* The Count of Monte Cristo aka Edmond Dantes from ''[[Gankutsuou]]''. {{spoiler|Especially when the title monster is in control of him.}}
* Alucard from ''[[Hellsing]]'' . The first anime leans towards [[Anti Hero]], but the manga and OVA series depict him as more of a monster.
** At the same time, the [[Character Development]] he had in the manga and OVA was cut from the TV anime, which ended before his more sympathetic characteristics could even occur.
* [[Ookami No Kuchi Wolfsmund]]'' is a series of tragic stories only connected by the presence of Wolfram and the eponymous border pass that he oversees. As of the first volume, no one has gotten past Wolfsmund alive or unscathed thanks to him.
* Sheila of ''[[Superior]]'' wants to achieve a future where humans will never again slaughter demons. However, she believes that the war will never end so long as both humans and demons continue to exist. Naturally, her solution is a bit . . . [[Would Be Rude To Say Genocide|final]]. (Exa's near-absolute pacifism provides the jolt she needs to stop killing, at least temporarily, but matters aren't helped by the fact that ''she's'' the one person Exa wants to kill, as vengeance for slaughtering his entire village.)
* [[Tentai Senshi Sunred]] focuses mainly on day-to-day life of the title character's [[Arch Enemy]] Vamp of Florsheim and all his [[Evil Minions]]. Vamp is a [[Harmless Villain]] (and his minions moreso) and obeys [[Contractual Genre Blindness]], and the whole thing is one long string of [[Villains Out Shopping]]. It's very much [[Played For Laughs]].
* ''[[Warrior Cats|The Rise of Scourge]]'' focuses on bloodthirsty murderer Scourge, as he commits murder, murderously.
* Ling Xiaoyu from ''[[Tekken Blood Vengeance]]'' is probably ''the'' most heroic example of this trope ''ever'', seeing that she was only in it because her target is a hottie. After her opponent goes out of her way to save her life following a showdown, she pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]] and allies herself with her so they can get to the bottom of what their superiors are really up to.
* [[Excel Saga]] is a humorous take on this that can be argued to be an outright parody. The eponymous [[The Ditz|Excel]] willingly serves Il Palazzo and his "ideological" organization [[Oddly Small Organization|ACROSS]], whose express goal is to [[Take Over The World]], but is ''in'' ACROSS ''because'' of [[Bishounen|Il Palazzo]]. Excel's services to ACROSS are marked by her [[Genki Girl]] status mixing with [[Affably Evil|her cheerful]] and often loud proclamations that ACROSS will subjugate [[Muggle|the ignorant masses]] under their will, [[Hilarity Ensues|alongside her incompetence usually preventing ACROSS from achieving anything substantial towards reaching their goal, all the while showcasing its incredibly quirky humor]] [[Punch Clock Villain|consisting of attempting to fit in Il Palazzo's plans amidst her and her partner Hyatt's part-time jobs]] due to living in [[Perpetual Poverty]]. The humor is, however, [[Sudden Downer Ending|toned down quite a lot during the last episodes of the anime]], and is in lower quantity in general in the manga (compared to the anime, which is even ''titled'''Quack Experimental Anime: Excel Saga'). In the anime, however, it's more the fact that {{spoiler|Excel was kicked out of ACROSS without her knowing then shot by Il Palazzo, the lost her memory}} than her becoming truly evil. It doesn't stop Excel from totting a large blade down [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|the middle of a street in plain sight]] in the night while cheerfully singing about murdering the author.
* Natsuo of ''[[Teppu]]'' definitely qualifies. The realistic high school setting of the manga means that she's probably not going to be murdering anyone, but she has demonstrated herself to be ruthless, selfish, arrogant and frequently sadistic. For example, she initiates a fight with her future rival just because she's bored, and her rival's cheerfulness and self-confidence pisses her off. Natsuo has gotten a little less arrogant over the course of the series so far, but otherwise she's still just as much of a bitch as she was at the start.
* Sasuke of ''[[Naruto]]'' becomes more and more like one of these in Part II. [[Spotlight Stealing Squad|He was just a major character and not the actual protagonist.]]
* In [[Big Order]] this is what Eiji wants to be.
* In [[Black Lagoon]] almost all the main characters are villain''ous'', and some arcs (like the first arc, and the initial Roberta arc) sees them take the actual villain's role by doing stuff like kidnapping, or doing stuff like supporting Balalaika, who is the [[Big Bad]] of the Yakuza arc (with the Washimine clan and Yukio being the closest thing to 'the hero', {{spoiler|up until the point where [[The Bad Guy Wins]]}}).
* The titular character in [[Ratman]] is one officially although it's not like the heroes there are particularly heroic.
* In ''[[Canaan]]'' the main character Canaan is a gun-for-hire that kills mercilessly, {{spoiler|even when her innocent soul mate Maria lays witness to her line of work}}. Albeit her cold personality is softened in Maria's presence.
* Like the ''[[Pirates Of The Caribbean]]'' example below; amidst all the fun, big emotions, crazy action, and ridiculous hilarity...it's easy to forget that the story of ''[[One Piece]]'' revolves around ''pirates.'' This gets a lampshade here and there from various characters, especially the few genuinely good members of the "technically" antagonistic Marines, it's most poignant one being a massive break of the world's greatest prison facility courtesy of Luffy himself.

=== Cartoons ===
* [[Looney Tunes]]:
** While [[Bugs Bunny]] was generally a defensive character, there have been several episodes where he became a straight up villain. Examples of this include "Elmer's Candid Camera" (with a Bugs prototype where he picks on Elmer unprovoked), "Elmer's Pet Rabbit" (where he heckles Elmer for no justifiable reason), "Tortoise Beats Hare" and its follow ups "Tortoise Wins by a Hare" and "Rabbit Transit" (where Bugs is portrayed as an egomaniac who's willing to harm and cheat just to beat a turtle), "Wabbit Twouble" (again, picking on Elmer unprovoked), "The Wacky Wabbit (picking on an unprovoked Elmer again), "Hare Ribbin'" (where he picks on a dog who just happened to encounter him, unlike his encounter with a similar dog in "The Heckling Hare", and ''assists the dog in suicide''<ref> It's even worse in the directors cut included on Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 5, where ''Bugs himself shoots the dog''</ref>), "Buckaroo Bugs" (where he's a flat out thief and bully), and "Rebel Rabbit" (where he wreaks havoc on the US solely because the bounty for rabbits was so low, doing atrocities like filling up the grand canyon and ''sawing Florida off the mainland'', breaking into congress during session and physically assaulting a senator, and by the end of the short gets so out of control that the '''military''' is called in to bring him down).
*** And when Bugs softened, the focus often changed to his enemies, with the former often acting as [[Hero Antagonist]]. In a lot of his bouts against Yosemite Sam and Daffy, the focus was more on their failings than his methods of dealing with them.
*** [[Follow The Leader|Which all led to]] rabbits becoming the unofficial [[Jerkass]]es of the animated animal world.
** [[Daffy Duck]] also had several bouts of this trope, such as "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" (where he causes trouble in a Hollywood studio for the heck of it) and "Boobs in the Woods" (where he heckles [[Porky Pig]] for the sake of causing trouble). This only intensified during his later meaner years where he evolved into a genuine villain, albeit still often with the primary spotlight (see above).
** [[Looney Tunes|Wile E. Coyote]], so much that [[Chuck Jones]] made it a written lore that all sympathy must be directed to him instead of the [[Hero Antagonist|Road Runner]].
** Other ''Looney Tunes'' antagonists such as Sylvester and Yosemite Sam often fall into this category due to their immensely [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|pitiful qualities]] and humor value and the fact the heroes' warring against them are often [[Invincible Hero|too swift and sudden]] to draw much focus and sympathy on (it can take a couple of minutes to establish a villain and how he sets up a trap, and couple of seconds for the hero to enter and foil it).
* [[Woody Woodpecker]] went in and out of being this and an [[Anti Hero]] in the original cartoons. Sometimes, he just goes about breaking the rules or causing trouble for the mere thrill of it or just out of ignorance, and is clearly shown to be a selfish glutton who will mow down or manipulate anyone who gets in the way of his food. On the other hand, he did occasionally star in a sympathetic light (i.e. "The Hollywood Matador") and by the late 40's his [[Anti Hero]] traits were played up more by director Dick Lundy, especially when Buzz Buzzard entered the series. By the 50's, Woody veered between being a straight up hero, a villain and an anti-hero, and by the mid-50's both of the former traits were dropped altogether in favor of making Woody a straight up hero character.
* Brain and Pinky of [[Pinky And The Brain]] the first is a [[Diabolical Mastermind]] out for world conquest -- [[Once Per Episode]], because [[Failure Is The Only Option]], and the other is his Dragon.
* Zim of [[Invader Zim]], an alien trying to [[Take Over The World]]. He is juxtaposed to Dib, a preteen paranormal investigator trying to stop him. One could argue that the issue becomes confused for this show, however; while the majority of episodes focus on Zim, there are so many [[Villain Episode]]s that some fans would argue that Dib and Zim could ''both'' be seen as the protagonists, and that the show has one Villain Protagonist and one traditional hero.
* A weird example mixed with [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]] in an episode of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', the [[Show Within A Show|Play Within A Show]] "The Boy In The Iceberg" stars actors playing the Gaang as protagonists, with Ozai as the main anatagonist. As all the characters are exaggerated parodies of the "real" people, the play version of Aang is a [[Wide Eyed Idealist]] with [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]], whereas Ozai is a flamboyant [[Card Carrying Villain]]; however, at the end of the play, when Ozai brutally kills Aang, the audience gives it a standing ovation. Although the viewers know that Aang is [[The Hero]] and Ozai is a monster, due to a century of propaganda and cultural conditioning, as far as the Fire Nation rank and file is concerned, Aang is the play's Villain Protagonist, despite [[But Not Too Evil|not actually comitting any evil acts onstage]].
* Eddy from [[Ed Edd N Eddy]], while not as evil as some of the examples, is still a cynical con artist who will do every dirty trick in the book for money. Including stealing Christmas presents from children. [[Freudian Excuse|He has his reasons]], but still.
* The main characters of [[Evil Con Carne]], which was originally part of the same show as [[The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy]].
* Billy, Mandy, and Grim of [[The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy]].
** Billy doesn't intend to be evil, he's just [[The Fool|too dumb to realize he's doing bad things,]] even by accident.
* Dick Dastardly and Muttley of both ''[[Wacky Races]]'' and ''[[Dastardly And Muttley In Their Flying Machines]]''.
* Killface of ''[[Frisky Dingo]]'' is a ''super''villain protagonist who's way more sympathetic than [[Jerkass]] superhero Xander Crews.
* Several episodes of [[Samurai Jack]] used this trope, with the episode focusing solely on the villain, and Jack having little - or no - role in the actual story, making only a cameo appearance. In "Jack Tales", Jack did not appear in person at all, with Aku being the main character.
* Cartman from [[South Park]].
** Also, he either serves as [[The Dragon]] for a greater evil, or IS the [[Big Bad]] in most episodes.
* Task Force X are focused on during their mission to infiltrate Justice League headquarters and {{spoiler|steal an invincible armor forged by the gods}} in the ''[[Justice League]] Unlimited'' episode named after them.
* Clay Puppington from ''[[Moral Orel]]'', especially the fact that season 3 is more focused onto him.
* Stewie Griffin from [[Family Guy]] starts out as a diabolical Villain Protagonist (he still has his moments, but it's more general [[Comedic Sociopathy]]).
* ''[[League Of Super Evil]]''
* Early Cuyler in ''[[Squidbillies]]''.
* [[Dueling Movies]] ''[[Despicable Me]]'' and ''[[Megamind]]''.
* Mr. Krabs from [[Spongebob Squarepants]] became one during the [[Seasonal Rot]], though around the start of the seventh season he pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]]. As a more conventional example, a good few later episodes focus more on Plankton and his schemes.
* Resident Alien Roger from [[American Dad]]. He started out as a sympathetic, vaguely hedonistic alien, but over time he has established himself as a volatile, dangerous sociopath.
* Bender in some episodes of ''[[Futurama]]''.
** The Professor in others, and Leela in an alternate reality.
* Kuzco from [[The Emperors New Groove]]. He's very mean and arrogant, and everyone hates him, but his [[Evil Chancellor]] Yzma is way eviler than him.
* [[The Blue Racer]]
* Zordrak and the Urpneys of ''[[The Dreamstone]]'' usually act this, in that each episode starts and ends from their perspective and we generally spend more time following them than the heroes. [[Depending On The Writer]] however, [[Sympathetic POV]] is sometimes given to the actual heroes.
* Wolf from ''[[Nu Pogodi]]'' is one. Much like the Coyote from Chuck Jones' "Coyote and Roadrunner" shorts, the Wolf drives the plot... except that his entire ''raison d'etre'' is to eat the Rabbit, who more often than not is minding his own business.
* The whole point of the [[Fan Remake|Megaman DL series]]. As more-or-less lampshaded in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb4kS1drE7E this trailer.]
* One episode of ''[[Batman The Brave And The Bold]]'' completely redid the series as ''Joker: The Vile and the Villainous''. The storyline was adapted from an issue of the seventies ''Joker'' comic.

=== Comic ===

* The protagonist of the eponymous ''[[Bomb Queen]]'' is a [[Supervillain]]ess-turned-EvilOverlord. There are no apparent efforts to justify a [[Sympathetic POV]]. In the beginning it showed her character in a more humorous light, but now there is no doubt that she is a complete monster (she crushes Obama's nuts just for fun in the latest volume, murders all of her "friends", and rapes George Bush. Her actions would make Johan Liebert blush)
* [[The Tomb Of Dracula]] has stories focusing on the Count, and all the evil deeds he commits.
* [[Mark Millar]]'s ''[[Wanted]]'', clearly, since nearly all of the main characters are stand-ins for DC and Marvel supervillains. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, most of those guys (including the protagonist) were too busy accelerating past the [[Moral Event Horizon]] to take notice of how they crossed it years ago. And they're still going faster.
* A lot of DC villains get this treatment. [[Harley Quinn]], Poison Ivy, even [[Catwoman]] when she's not being an [[Anti Hero]].
** [[The Joker]] had his own short-lived series back in the '70s in which he cheerfully offed various other characters.
** [[Lex Luthor]] had his own limited series in which he presents himself as a brave man trying to let humanity take its own course by freeing us from the influence of that meddling alien, [[Superman]]. He was also the star of [[Paul Cornell]]'s [[Action Comics]] run (concurrent with ''[[Brightest Day]]'').
** Eclipso, a B-squad villain upgraded in a [[Crisis Crossover]] to the God of Vengeance, was the narrator and main villain in said crossover, "The Darkness Within", after which he was given his own series which lasted nearly two years.
* Around the time of the 1970s ''Joker'' comic, DC also broached the trope (depending on your point of view) by launching ''Blitzkreig'', a WWII comic featuring a group of Nazi soldiers as sympathetic protagonists.
* The seven issue miniseries [[Empire]] centers around a [[Doctor Doom]]-esque protagonist finalizing his conquest of the Earth, and dealing with the question "what next?"
* In the original comic book version of [[The Mask]], the central character (who is called "Bighead", because most people don't know he's wearing a mask) is a sociopathic serial murderer, akin to [[The Joker]] given powers (which got even scarier in the ''Joker Mask'' miniseries, where this actually happened). Let's just say that in the comics, the early scene in the movie where the Mask shoved mufflers up the asses of the mechanics who ripped him off would have involved a lot of red ink being used in the coloring process. Very often, the actual people wearing the mask are treated as little more than hosts whose bodies are being used to commit Bighead's comedic killing sprees... and they'll still gladly kill each other for the chance to wear it.
** One wearer of the mask was a little girl (in 5th grade or something) who was bullied at school, and so when she puts the mask on (a dream come true for her) she goes to a school party and burns the school down.
** This aspect of the comic series may have been [[Shout Out|referenced]] in [[The Mask|the animated series]], when a 4000 year old [[The Fair Folk|sociopathic fey]] who claims to have known all of the Mask's previous hosts (who included the likes of Attila the Hun and [[Genghis Khan]]) returns to Earth to team up with the latest Mask, but soon realizes he's "not like the others."
* ''[[Johnny The Homicidal Maniac]]'', an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Serial Killer]] with touches of the [[Sociopathic Hero]]. In his more collected moments, he's all too aware of it, once even breaking the fourth wall to remind readers that he is the villain in the story.
* ''[[Neil Gaimans Teknophage|Teknophage]]'', a short-lived comic by forgotten mid-90's publisher Tekno Comix, was a story about a 65 million year old, [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|reptilian]], [[Steam Punk]] [[Dimension Lord]] / [[Magnificent Bastard]] who fed strife, misery, and tyranny merely to enjoy the chance to eat the souls of those with the killer instinct to struggle against him. Nominally, the comics were about the people trying to stop him, but everyone knew who to root for.
* Both Lenore and Ragamuffin from ''[[Lenore The Cute Little Dead Girl]]''.
* The eponymous ''Lord Havok and the Extremists'' are all deadly [[Supervillain]]s bent on dominating the world that denied them... and are in fact portrayed much more sympathetically than the "heroic" Americommando, who is inarguably a danger to all around him. Lord Havok in particular is given a heartbreaking [[Start Of Darkness]].
* Hunter Rose, the original [[Grendel]], was an [[crimelord]] who did a lot of bad stuff [[Psycho For Hire|for kicks and giggles]]. The later Grendels were more Anti Heroes, fighting against even worse individuals, particularly Japanese Kabuki Vampire Tujiro XIV.
* [[Deadpool]], the lovable [[Fourth Wall]]-breaking psychotic killer. Same goes for many other mercenary- or hitman-based comics, such as ''[[Scud The Disposable Assassin]]''.
** He's put effort into being heroic later on, just no one [[Cassandra Truth|takes that any more seriously than everything else about him]].
* According to [[Word Of God]], the ''[[Legion|Of Super-Heroes]] of 3 Worlds'' miniseries is focused on its main villain Superboy-Prime.
* [[Diabolik]], the eponymous hero of the [[Print Long Runners|long-running]] Italian comic series. He is a ruthlessly violent jewel-thief who indifferently kidnaps, tortures, brainwashes and kills the innocent and guilty alike. His [[partner]]-in-crime Eva Kant happily assists with all of the above, ''and'' throws obsessive sexual jealousy into the mix.
* ''[[Incognito]]'''s main character, Zack, is an ex-super villain who got put into a witness protection program. He does do ''some'' heroic acts in secret, but only for selfish reasons.
* ''[[Secret Six]]'': It has Bane, the man who ''broke [[Batman|the Bat]]'', Scandal Savage, the psychotic daughter of ''the first murderer'', and Ragdoll, who is just freaky. Add to that Catman (an honorable but crazy hired killer), Deadshot (a sociopathic hitman) and an actual freakin'''Banshee'' and you know this is not a team of nice people. Nice to look ''at'', [[Fetish Fuel|sure]], but not nice. ''Definitely'' not nice.
* ''[[Conan]]'''s nemesis Thoth-Amon had a comic.
* A good chunk of titles under Marvel's [[Dark Reign]] banner.
* [[The DCU]] villain Kobra, the [[Mad Scientist]] leader of a [[Religion Of Evil]], was originally introduced in an eponymous comic series that followed his efforts to [[Take Over The World]], which were invariably foiled by his good twin brother. The series was cancelled after just seven issues (but Kobra would return).
* ''[http://www.risekraken.com/ RISE, KRAKEN!]'' is a comic about a [[GI Joe|Cobra]] / [[James Bond|SPECTRE]]-like global organization "with the stated goal of raising a giant sea creature that will [[Take Over The World|rule the world]] by iron fist and slimy tentacle", and what kind of person joins up to build lasers on the Moon and get beaten up by the heroes. The protagonist discovers that most of the people involved aren't in it [[For The Evulz]], but to advance their own ''possibly'' more reasonable agendas.
* ''[[The Punisher]]'', when written by [[Garth Ennis]].
** When not written by Ennis there's a chance that an author will write him as a cool but gritty person who does what needs to be done.
* ''[[Marvel Zombies]]'' focuses on the eponymous [[Our Zombies Are Different|superhero zombies]]. A few are portrayed sympathetically, while others aren't.
* ''[[Suicide Squad]]'': DC's comic about [[Boxed Crook|supervillains offered a pardon in exchange for completing missions]] that are... [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|rather difficult]].
* Marvel loves giving their villains their own books. Bullseye has actually had a few miniseries under his belt (Bullseye: Greatest Hits and Dark Reign: Hawkeye for example) and other villains like [[Loki]], [[Doctor Doom]], [[The Hood]], Sabertooth, Mystique, Baron Zemo, [[Magneto]], [[Norman Osborn]], etc., have all starred in their own books.
** Doctor Doom also co-starred with [[Doctor Strange]] in the ''Doctor [[Doctor]] Strange: Triumph and Torment'' graphic novel.
* [[Daken]] in his own ongoing. It's made pretty clear he is not a good person (He kills people for kicks after all), but he is charismatic though.
* Most iterations of the [[Thunderbolts]], although ''how'' villainous they are depends on the iteration and the villains involved.
* ''Chaos! Comics'', a horror comics company whose heyday was in the '90s, specialized in villain protagonists. Their most successful "hero" and a downright extreme example of this trope was [[Lady Death]], who in her first story won over a boy who had suffered severe child abuse with promises of love and then coaxed him into going on a killing spree. After seizing the opportunity to turn him into the "super-zombie" Evil Ernie, she encouraged him to wipe out the entire human race, all just to free her from a curse that kept her from returning to Earth. Over the course of his various mini-series Evil Ernie did indeed succeed in wiping out millions through hijacked nuclear bombs and his own zombie plague. Unsurprisingly, Lady Death softened up quite a bit even before Chaos! went under and more when she was licensed out to other companies; at least there was no more goading abuse victims into committing genocide.
* [[GL Red Lantern Corps|Atrocitus]] in the [[Green Lantern]] books walks the line between this, [[Anti Villain]], and [[Anti Hero]] ([[Sociopathic Hero|-ic Sociopath]]). He's an eternally wrathful berserker on a [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]] (and willing to visit [[Disproportionate Retribution]] on other criminals he comes across), but his rage was sparked by a very serious injustice and makes it a point to [[Pay Evil Unto Evil|punish only the guilty]]. In the 2011 DC reboot, he and his Red Lanterns received their own series.
* Paperinik (a [[Donald Duck]] alter-ego created in Italy) had no problem committing thefts and fighting the police to get revenge on who wronged him in his early stories. He however [[Character Development|evolved]] into a much more heroic character [[Heel Face Turn|with time]], especially in [[Paperinik New Adventures]].
* [[Iznogoud]] has the titular character as your stereotypical [[Evil Chancellor]]. Virtually ''all'' his adventures are about him trying the craziest schemes to replace the Caliph of a mythological Baghdad, [[Failure Is The Only Option|each time failing hilariously]]. He literally [[Gratuitous English|Iz no goud]].

=== Fan Fic ===
* Averted In [[Dungeon Keeper Ami|DKA]]: The land is torn with war, the forces of Light embattled with the vile Keepers- heralds and servants of dark gods. The Avatar of all that is good has [[The End Or Is It|been slain]]. So it has been for fifteen years when, suddenly, out of nowhere, a sorceress of unfathomable power emerges. [[Dungeon Keeper Ami|Keeper Mercury]]. Takeing the form of a [[Sailor Moon|lovely young woman]], this semi-demon seems to posses the antithesis of the Light's power. [[Not What It Looks Like|Amoral]] and feindishly [[Mad Scientist|intelligent]], who knows what manner of [[Running Gag|cunning]] works behind that deceptive smile...
** [[Averted Trope|That's what the story would]] [[Unreliable Narrator|sound like]] if [[Blatant Lies|narrated by]] [[Running Gag|Baron Leoplond]].
* In [[The Mad Scientist Wars]], a great number of the characters fit this trope. The story doesn't even bother to try and justify.
* Arestis from Arestis' Childhood is a violent {{Manipulative B|astard}}itch of a psychopath, who quite possibly has NO redeeming qualities. She also happens to be the main character. Also, the stage is set for {{spoiler|[[Freudian Excuse|Tarsia]] to be one of these in the sequel.}}
* Justin as Kira in [[Kira Is Justice]]. However, his motive is that he is using the Death Note because he feels like "it is his duty".
* [[King Superman]]: Each and every one of the protagonists qualify, for acts including using the children of Little Lamplight as slaves and human shields, repeatedly leaving behind friends and allies to save their own asses, and convincing Cliff Briscoe to chug radioactive sludge.
* Tyrin Lieph, a [[Well Intentioned Extremist]] who believes that [[Utopia Justifies The Means]] is the protagonist equivalent in the [[Evil Versus Evil]] plotline of the [[Mass Effect]] fanfic The Council Era, his [[Worthy Opponent]] and antagonist being Halak Marr.
* Dark Yagami in [[Light And Dark The Adventures Of Dark Yagami]]. While he's once referred to as the "hero" of the story (mainly to justify his [[Plot Armor]]), unlike many fanfics with sociopathic main characters, the author seems to acknowledge that he's almost pure evil.
* The [[Kimagure Orange Road]] fanfic [[Revenge Road]] is told from the perspective of [[Yandere|Hik]][[Ax Crazy|aru]], who [[Moral Event Horizon|murders]] [[Murder The Hypotenuse|Madoka]] and [[If I Cant Have You|Kyosuke]] out of [[Green Eyed Monster|jealousy]].
* [[Awesome Mc Coolname|Ghost]] in the Armored Core cooperative fanfic [[Armored Core From The Ashes|From the Ashes]] is this turned [[Up To Eleven]]. Relatively early on in the story, he {{spoiler|kills ''one hundred million people''}}. It's implied that he's been running a ''huge'' [[Evil Plan]] for a long, long time, and is most definitely a [[Magnificent Bastard]] and [[The Chessmaster]]; he seems to believe that [[Utopia Justifies The Means]], but in this case, the 'means' are genocide of the highest order. He gradually turns all the members of the rebuilt ORCA Brigade against him, and when his [[Morality Chain]] Holly {{spoiler|came out of a coma and didn't remember him... well, [[It Got Worse|it's going to get a lot worse]]. Given that he's an [[spoiler: Omnicidal Maniac]] already... the world should probably start running. Especially given that he's got the king of all [[Super Prototype]] NEXTs and is a [[Person Of Mass Destruction]] when on foot... well, this is bad. ''Really'' bad.
* In the [[Invader Zim]] fanfic trilogy [[My Hostage Not Yours]], Zim and Gaz spend the first two stories as [[Anti- Hero]]es (with some [[Sociopathic Hero]] thrown in), but switch to this in the final story (see page for details).
* The [[Pony POV Series]], being [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|a POV series]], does this on occasion. But the example that stands out is [[spoiler: Princess Luna during her second POV. She starts out as a hero, but eventually performs a [[Face Heel Turn]] due to her overpossessiveness of Pip. She gets into an argument with Celestia, resulting in her killing and bringing Pip back to life as an immortal undead so she can have him forever. When Celestia tries to convince her against making him immortal, she tries to murder her, killing a number of innocent ponies in the process. This leads to Celestia being a [[Hero Antagonist]] and fighting back to stop her now insane sister, ultimately killing her. It was [[All Just A Dream]], but still!]]
** A milder example, but one that shouldn't be overlooked regardless, is any of the chapters set in the [[Bad Future|Epilogue timeline]]. Being a [[Villain World]] where [[The Bad Guy Wins|Discord won]], it's to be expected that about 99% of the story is told from the POV of either [[Complete Monster|Discord]] himself or the [[Brainwashed And Crazy|discorded Mane Six]], who now serve as his [[Co Dragons]]. [[spoiler: At least until Twilight Tragedy performs a [[Heel Face Turn]], followed shortly there after by Liarjack. They then redeem Rarigreed and, much later, Traitor Dash.]]
* [[Sonic The Hedgehog]] fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7189428/1/Prison_Island_Break Prison Island Break]'' has all the main cast as violent convicted criminals. They don't even have a particuarly heroic goal; they just want to escape. But because the story is centered on them, they get the [[Sympathetic POV]] and you completely forget they're a collection of terrorists, serial killers and rapists (even though the writer never lets you forget).
* In this [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8700173/1/Lex-Luthor-Triumphant short story] Lex Luthor gives Lois Lane an interview 8 months after Superman [[spoiler: vanished without a trace.]]

=== Movies ===
* All four of the main characters are of [[Little Sweetheart]] various forms of criminals, with the one with the most screentime being the worse.
* ''[[The Omen]]''
* The ''Dr. Phibes'' films.
* The ''[[Saw]]'' franchise hands off the Villain Protagonist role from Jigsaw to his various apprentices.
* While the first two ''[[Ringu]]'' movies antagonized Sadako, the third film, ''Ringu 0: Birthday'', treats her as the protagonist.
* The subtext of the [[Starship Troopers]] trilogy is that the humans are the evil invading aliens. On the surface, however, you're still supposed to be rooting for the humans.
* Most gangster films, from ''[[The Public Enemy]]'' (1931) to ''[[Public Enemies]]'' (2009).
* Henry Faber in ''Eye of the Needle'' (Ken Follett has said that it was mostly his inexperience and hubris as a first-time novelist that led him to use such a risky device as a Villain Protagonist).
* Yuri Orlov in ''[[Lord Of War]]'' is a gunrunner who sells weapons to ''anybody'', including violent dictators and human rights violators. We're shown what a disaster his love life and family relationships are in such a way that you have to stop and feel sorry for him.
* ''[[A Shock To The System]]'' follows an [[Average Joe]] (played by [[Michael Caine]]) who, after accidentally killing a hobo, decides to also ingeniously murder his wife and boss, seduce his secretary, and get that job he's always wanted. [[spoiler: And he [[Karma Houdini|gets away with it all]], too.}}
* ''Deathtrap'': [[Michael Caine]] as a man who murders his wife and seduces his secretary.
* [[Reservoir Dogs]] follows several thieves after a heist. Although one of them is actually a cop, they are all more or less equal in screen time.
* ''[[Natural Born Killers]]'', though the film muddies things by making the law enforcement officers creeps and murderers as well.
* ''[[Big Jim Mc Lain]]'' features a "hero" who works for Senator Joseph McCarthy (yes, that McCarthy), and beats the living snot out of liberals in Hawaii. Made worse by the fact that this "hero" is played by [[John Wayne]]. To be fair he is targeting "communists", but the definition seems to be more than a little... general.
* ''The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu'', Peter Sellers' final film, is an [[Affectionate Parody]] (with roots in ''[[The Goon Show]]'') that makes [[Fu Manchu]] charming and a bit sympathetic in his [[Magnificent Bastard|unrepentant wickedness]]. Having been thwarted so many times by the British, and on the brink of death, the whole plot hinges on him creating a youth elixir to save himself.
* ''[[The Day Of The Jackal]]''. Originally literature, but well-known for the film.
* Nick Naylor of ''[[Thank You For Smoking]]'' is the "Sultan of Spin" and chief spokesperson for the tobacco industry. His [[Crowning Moment Of Awesome]] comes when he testifies before a Congressional hearing that when his son, possibly the only other sympathetic character, turned eighteen and wanted a cigarette, he would buy him his first pack. The story softens his character considerably by making plain that he ''realizes'' the fact that many people see him as a villain, and good-naturedly takes this in stride.
* Diabolik, Italian comic book "hero" and main character of the film [[Danger Diabolik]] (spoofed on [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'s final episode) is definitely a Villain Protagonist. At first rub, Diabolik may come off as a [[Gentleman Thief]], but throughout the film he indulges in purely selfish acts, stealing millions and killing indiscriminately just to satisfy his girlfriend Eva's tastes or his own whims. He doesn't even have the caveat of fighting a greater evil; he's simply indulging himself with every act in the film.
*:'''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Crow]]:''' Well ''I'm'' sorry if ''you're'' offended by my random killings.

:::'''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Servo]]:''' Once again they triumph in the name of sex!

:::'''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Mike]]:''' (''fake joviality'') So ''more'' innocent people killed because of Diabolik's whims!
* [[Repo The Genetic Opera]] has an ensemble cast with a lot of these--Rotti, Luigi, Pavi, Amber, Grave-Robber, and Nathan can all apply.
* Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas) in [[Ace In The Hole]] (1951). He's a washed-up, amusingly cynical, charismatic, and brilliantly manipulative newspaper writer who dooms a man to death in a collapsed cave by prolonging and milking the rescue attempt - he's confident the man will make it through ''several days'' in there - just so he can report on it and restore his career. ''He'' regrets what he does in the end, but it's doesn't much matter because it's a [[World Half Empty]] where most of the characters don't care about the life at stake, and instead take his lead and encouragement to profit off of the ''literal'' media carnival that springs up in its wake of this "HumanInterestStory".
* ''[[Hard Candy]]''. You can choose either one or both of protagonists. [[Word Of God]] is that it's both. Jeff is a predatory hebephile, and Hayley is a fledgling [[Serial Killer]].
* Salieri in Milos Forman's ''[[Amadeus]]''.
* Daniel Plainview in ''[[There Will Be Blood]]''.
* Peyton, the [[Yandere]] from ''[[The Hand That Rocks The Cradle]]''.
* Michael Douglas' character in ''[[Falling Down]]''.
* ''[[The League Of Gentlemen]]'' - ex British Army officers turned bank robbers.
* Hannibal Lecter in ''[[Hannibal Rising]]'', although it's more of a [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]] at that stage.
* The main character from [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[Match Point]]'' gets married to a rich woman mostly for her money while having an affair with his brother-in-law's girlfriend. Ultimately {{spoiler|he gets the mistress pregnant, so to cover it up he kills her and her neighbor to make it look like a botched robbery}}.
* Woody Allen loves the Trope, as [[Meaningful Name|Judah]] of ''Crimes & Misdemeanors'' follows a similar path to the protagonist of ''Match Point''. Judah wrings his hands a lot, but he's still a complete monster.
* Babs Johnson, the main character of ''[[Pink Flamingos]]''. She's a serial killer, robber, thief [[Im A Humanitarian|among other things]], but you just have to love her.
* Henry, the eponymous character from [[Henry Portrait Of A Serial Killer]] Unlike other examples of this trope, though, he's not [[Affably Evil]] or an [[Anti Villain]] in the slightest. In fact, he's so cold and emotionless that he comes across as barely human, and routinely commits some of the most [[Moral Event Horizon|horrific]] murders in film history.
* In the Norwegian film ''[[Insomnia]]'', the protagonist Engstrom begins as a moderately corrupt detective (though he's highly regarded by his peers). By the end, he's descended into pure evil, partially caused by the madness of working in 24-hour sunlight above the Arctic Circle but mostly due to his own inner lack of humanity. The final shot of {{spoiler|his dead, haunted eyes}} is one of the creepier endings in film.
* ''[[Perfume]]: The Story of a Murderer'' is [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin]]. Protagonist Jean-Baptiste Grenouille kills women in order to create the perfect perfume.
* ''[[Kind Hearts And Coronets]]'': The protagonist's mother, the daughter of a duke, is disowned by her family after eloping with an opera singer. In revenge, the protagonist plots to murder every relative standing between himself and the dukedom. While simultaneously leading on both [[Betty And Veronica]]. And it's all played for laughs.
* [[The Godfather]]: Michael Corleone is the American Film Institute's 11th most iconic villain in film history, in spite of being the protagonist.
* ''[[Taxi Driver]]'''s Travis Bickle came in 30th on AFI's most iconic villains. He comes off as a hero at the end, but it's ironic. Had things gone slightly different, he would have been an attempted assassin instead.
* Frank Abagnale Jr., the protagonist of ''[[Catch Me If You Can]]'', is an adrift and young counterfeiter and con man who uses his natural cleverness to make some money, and his antagonist, Hanratty, is an FBI agent trying to, well, [[Title Drop|Catch Him if He Can]]. In the end Frank {{spoiler|with Hanratty's support eventually goes straight.}}
* [[The Producers]] (either version) is about two guys who spend the whole movie not only scamming old ladies assembling a [[Batman Gambit]] that [[So Bad Its Good|bites them in the ass]], and is also the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Springtime For Hitler]], and it is hinted that after they got their (much deserved) sentence, they intended to scam the police in prison with a theatrical play.
* ''[[Cecil B Demented]]'' and his [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Sprocket Holes]]. [[Maggie Gyllenhaal|One of them]] is a [[Hot As Hell|satanist]]!
* ''[[Pirates Of The Caribbean]]'' is all about Jack, being actively hunted by the authorities through the entire series.
* Theo, the protagonist of ''[[Der Freie Wille]]'' is a serial rapist
* The Firefly family from [[The Devils Rejects]].
* The eponymous character of ''Charley Varrick'' is a career bank robber, who we first see robbing a bank. However, given that the movie is about him trying to escape the consequences when the bank he hits turns out to be a money laundry for the Mob, he played entirely fair with his fellow gang members until they tried to screw him over (at which point he unhesitatingly arranged for them to fall into the hands of the antagonists), avoided killing innocent bystanders (again unlike the antagonists), tragically lost his (fellow bank robber) wife in the opening scene, and faced off against a Mafia hitman, he's easy to root for.
* As suggested by the title, the western spoof [[The Villain]] is an example of this trope.
* ''Otis'', which features a deranged serial killer who targets young women in order to relive his high school memories (or more accurately, his brother's). However, he apparently doesn't rape them.
* ''[[King Of New York]]'' is the heartwarming saga of a couple of violent drug dealers (played by [[Christopher Walken]] and [[Laurence Fishburne]]) who just want to sell drugs, kill people that cross them, and build a few hospitals for poor people.
* In [[American Psycho]] you follow the psychopathic killer Patrick Bateman.
* ''[[Jawbreaker]]'' has Courtney Shane.
* ''[[Shattered Glass]]'' follows Stephen Glass, a rising journalist who makes up half of what he writes.
* Benoit, from the mockumentary about a serial killer, [[Man Bites Dog]].
* Title character Leslie Vernon of [[Behind The Mask The Rise Of Leslie Vernon]] spends much of the movie preparing for a killing spree and demonstrating how the killers in [[Slasher Movie|slasher flicks]] do what they do.
* The film crew from ''[[Cannibal Holocaust]]''.
* The Australian psychological thriller ''Restraint'' has a female example in Teresa Palmer's character Dale, a stripper on a crime spree with her murderous boyfriend. She remains sympathetic due to a kind streak.
* Also common in [[David Lynch]] films: ''[[Mulholland Drive]]'', ''[[Inland Empire]]'', and ''[[Lost Highway]]'' all [[Or Was It A Dream|presumably]] fit this trope.
* The [[daughter]] con-artist team of ''[[Paper Moon]]''.
* Tony Wendice in [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Dial M For Murder]]'' and Steven Taylor in the pseudo-remake ''[[A Perfect Murder]]''. Both discover that their wives (who are each independently wealthy) are cheating on them and, not wanting to divorce them and lose out on the money, cook up elaborate schemes to murder them instead.
* [[The Usual Suspects]] revolves around a group of criminals, trying to get out from under the finger of the villain, Keyser Soze. It turns out that {{spoiler|the protagonist, Verbal Kint, was the villain all along}}.
* [[Jodie Foster]]'s character from ''The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane.'' An interesting case, because her killing is more of a survival tactic than a true villainy, but her actions are a little too extreme to describe as "antihero." Plus, it's not (usually) so much a matter of physical survival, but of preserving what amounts to a set of hippie values. Which is subversive in all kinds of great ways.
* [[Four Lions]]: a comedy about aspiring jihadist suicide bombers.
* The eponymous main character of ''Mini's First Time'' is an utterly remorseless {{spoiler|parricide}}. She is probably as close to soulless as a person could be, which is precisely what makes her so compelling to watch.
* ''[[The Hot Rock]]'', based on the first of the Dortmunder novels by Donald E. Westlake (see Literature examples below).
* The protagonist of ''[[The Bad And The Beautiful]]'' is a ruthless movie producer who scruples not to lie, cheat, steal, seduce, and con to get his movies made. The film is narrated by three of the people whom he chewed up and spat out on his way to the top.
* Bridget Gregory of ''[[The Last Seduction]]'', a [[Con Artist]] who steals $700,000 from her equally crooked (but much less clever) husband and spends the rest of the movie scheming to bump him off and get away with it. {{spoiler|She succeeds, and her [[Unwitting Pawn]] goes to prison in her place.}}
* Tony Curtis's Sidney Falco of ''[[Sweet Smell Of Success]]''. He screws over and uses everyone he meets in the film, with the exception of his master, J.J. Hunsecker (as portrayed by Burt Lancaster).
* Earl Brooks (KevinCostner) of ''[[Mr Brooks]]'', a caring family man and philanthropist with a secret addiction to serial murder. Unlike a lot of examples, the good sides of his persona are real and not just a mask, making him highly sympathetic. Despite that, he's still a monster.
* Matsu from the ''[[Joshuu Sasori|Female Prisoner Scorpion]]'' films is, not too surprisingly, a prisoner. Put away for attempted murder, she goes on to kill and cause to be killed many more times before the series ends, her victims including the prison warden at least two detectives and several other policemen. The facts that one of the detectives, the man she tried and failed to kill, seduced her and arranged her rape purely to allow him to arrest the rapists and corruptly take over their business, that the prison warden tortured her, locked her underground in chains for a year, had her raped and ultimately tried to stage her death, and that she never kills senselessly, only makes her less villainous relatively speaking.
* The trio of the protagonists in Fassbinder's [[Film Noir]] ''Love Is Colder Than Death''. The first of them is a pimp and rapist, the second is a violent killer-for-hire working for Mob, and seemingly the least evil of them is a prostitute, but she also doesn't disdain of murdering people, including [[Innocent Bystander]]s.
* Maindrian Pace of the original ''[[Gone In Sixty Seconds]]'' steals cars for a living, though he makes sure that the cars are insured. The remake averts the trope. Although the protagonist is also a car thief, he's being blackmailed into performing the heist by the real villains.
* [[Emma Watson]] as real-life burglar Alexis Neiers in [[Sofia Coppola]]'s currently-in-production biopic of ''[[The Bling Ring]]''.
* The Hanson brothers in ''[[Before The Devil Knows Youre Dead]]'' could quallify, althrough Hank is an [[Anti Villain]] his brother Andy doesn't get much reedeming qualities.
* Tyler Durden in [[Fight Club]], but only because {{spoiler|he's a split personality of the actual protagonist, Edward Norton's character}}.
* In ''[[Chronicle]]'' {{spoiler|Andrew Detmer}} becomes this by the end.
* Subverted by [[A Clockwork Orange]]. The first act of the film has Alex DeLarge, our protagonist, as a blatant villain. In the rest of the film, however, he's a helpless victim. In the film version of the story, the real villain turns out to be {{spoiler|the government, who try to play God with a man's mind, screw up, and ultimately sweep it under the rug and make a deal with a psychopath}}.
* The protagonist of ''[[I Stand Alone]]'' is a violent ex-butcher who pummels his pregnant girlfriend into a miscarriage, plans to murder random people who cross him, and molests his daughter.
* Sue Shiomi as Yumi Higaki from ''[[Sonny Chiba]]'s [[Dragon Princess]]'' is a killing machine with violent revenge the one thing on her agenda. She also fits into the Type III [[Anti Villain]] category and {{spoiler|gets a [[Bittersweet Ending]] in that while she suffers the same fate as her father in avenging the loss of his arm, she survives and is able to live a more normal life.}}
* The eponymous [[Wreck It Ralph]] stars an oldschool arcade villain who's tired of being ostracized for being the bad guy. He goes on a quest to prove that he can be just as heroic as his good-guy rival, Fix-It Felix Jr.
* The title character from ''Caligula'', which depicts the reign of the [[Ax Crazy]] Roman emperor.

=== Literature ===
* [[Christopher Marlowe]]'s play, ''Tamburlaine the Great'', features as its protagonist a man who mutilates, kills, subjugates, and rapes at any opportunity he gets. He locks up the Ottoman Emperor in a cage and feeds him his wife; he kills one of his own sons for being unwilling to fight; he is driven around in a chariot drawn by deposed kings and emperors. In the end, he burns a Qor'an and [[Bolt Of Divine Retribution|dies suddenly]].
* The Howard edition of ''Billy & Howard'' has [[Evil Overlord|one of these]]. ''[[Duumvirate]]'' has two and a whole lot of Supporting Villain Protagonists besides.
* [[Michael Moorcock]] created Colonel Pyatt - a cocaine-addicted, self-aggrandising, violently anti-semitic Jewish engineer who worships Fascism and may or may not be a rapist. He's also the narrator of his series of novels, [[Unreliable Narrator|despite being an outrageous liar]].
* ''[[Barry Lyndon]]''. The title character is based on a real-life cad, and William Makepeace Thackaray hides no joy in having his villain protagonist gets what's coming to him, including a [[Karmic Death]]. [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s adaptation makes Barry far more sympathetic (though still a jerk).
* Becky Sharp from ''[[Vanity Fair]]'', also by Thackeray. The book's subtitle is ''A Novel Without a Hero''.
* The abominable Protagonists, from the novel [[Hells Children]], by Andrew Boland, are this.
* Harry Flashman, the eponymous hero of [[George Mac Donald Fraser]]'s books.
* Thornhill is one of these by the end of ''[[The Secret River]]'', having {{spoiler|facilitated a genocide in order to avoid having to sell a hundred acres.}}
* Lucius Cornelius Sulla from Colleen McCullough's ''[[Masters Of Rome]]'' series is a pretty mean guy. He {{spoiler|brings about the deaths of his stepmother, her nephew and his stepmother's lover in order to inherit their fortune (and kills ''another'' man to frame the deaths on him), treats his wife harshly to the point of driving her to suicide, and travels up north to spy on a group of Germans where he meets and impregnates a woman, he later arranges for his German family to be protected and leaves them}}. And that's all in the first book.
* Doctor Impossible from ''[[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]'' is pretty comfortable with being the Evil [[Mad Scientist]], albeit with a sort of flamboyant [[Silver Age]] kind of villainy. But even if he turns out to be a fairly nice and somewhat misunderstood guy, he ''is'' [[Cardboard Prison|breaking out of jail for the thirteenth time]] to launch yet another [[Evil Plan]] to [[The End Of The World As We Know It|destroy]] or [[Take Over The World]], and that's not even counting ones [[Villain Exit Stage Left|where he got away]].
* Half the cast of Micah E. F. Martin's [[Prophets House]].
* Subverted by Alex from [[A Clockwork Orange]]. He spends the first part of the book as an obvious villain, but once he's given the Ludivico Treatment, he becomes a helpless victim at the mercy of others. Ultimately it turns out that {{spoiler|the government was the villain for trying to rob him of moral choice. Alex ultimately reforms ''himself'' at the end of the book}}.
* Humbert Humbert from [[Vladimir Nabokov]]'s ''[[Lolita]]''. Altogether a charming, well-spoken and eloquent young historian of French literature, liked by the reader and nearly anyone who meets him. Too bad he is also a pedophile who marries a woman in order to abuse her daughter, then proceeds to lie to said daughter about the death of her mother while taking her on a not-quite-consensual road trip, on which he tries to drug and then have intercourse with her.
* [[Artemis Fowl]] ''is'' in the first book. A [[Ambition Is Evil|greedy]], [[Magnificent Bastard]] [[The Chessmaster|Chessmaster]].
* Lord Soth of Dargaard Keep, a death knight, was originally a villain in the ''[[Dragonlance]]'' novels. Three novels were later released starring Soth as the main character: ''Knight of the Black Rose'' and ''Spectre of the Black Rose'' by James Lowder and Voronica Whitney Robinson, and the eponymous ''Lord Soth'' by Edo van Belkom.
* ''[[Paradise Lost]]''. Half of the story follows the War in Heaven, in which Satan is the protagonist. Putting Satan center stage and allowing him to work his diabolical charisma on the reader is a major source of the poem's appeal.
* [[Forgotten Realms|R. A. Salvatore's]] ''[[The Sellswords|Sellswords]]'' series follow the adventures of Artemis Entreri and Jarlaxle, both of whom are recurring antagonists in his previous novels. While Jarlaxle is really more of a [[Chaotic Neutral|neutral]], power-hungry [[Magnificent Bastard]] than an outright villain and Entreri's backstory gives him a [[Freudian Excuse]] for being a [[Lawful Evil|heartless-murderer-with-morals]], neither character can really ever be seen in a positive light. It's also worth noting that Entreri has improved a ''great'' deal from his first murderous appearance.
** Similarly, the antagonists Jarlaxle and Entreri face are all much worse than them.
* [[Forgotten Realms]]'' '[[War Of The Spider Queen]]'' series. ''All'' characters walking along the plot are fit in range from casual backstabbers to neighbour-sacrificing Lloth priestesses, and violent half-demons. Which does not prevent some of them from being charming and all of them from having more or less good points.
* Patrick Bateman from [[American Psycho]] is a deliciously [[Ax Crazy]] [[Serial Killer]] who tortures and murders a wide variety of innocent people in the story, simply because he likes the feeling. {{spoiler|But even if he's just imagining that, he's still an unlikable, self-centered, elitist, racist, shallow bastard.}}
* Whether it's Screwtape or Wormwood who's the "protagonist" of ''[[The Screwtape Letters]]'' may be up for debate, but ''both'' count as a Villain Protagonist.
* ''[[The Eagle Has Landed]]'' follows a group of Nazi agents attempting to assassinate [[Winston Churchill]]. You'll still likely find yourself rooting for them at a few points.
* Donald E. Westlake:
** Parker, the central protagonist of a series of novels by Westlake wrote under the pseudonym Richard Stark. Several of these have been filmed (most famously as [[Point Blank]] starring [[Lee Marvin]], and ''[[Payback]]'' starring [[Mel Gibson]]), although the central character is never named Parker in these adaptations due to the author's request. Parker has no moral hang ups about killing, stealing, or torturing to get what he wants, and what he wants is usually money or revenge for not getting money.
** Westlake also wrote a series of novels under his real name about John Dortmunder, a professional burglar. The books are much [[Lighter And Softer]] than the Parker series, and generally [[Played For Laughs]].
* Wyatt is the thief protagonist of a series of novels (starting with ''Kickback'') by Australian author Garry Disher. You will end up barracking for Wyatt as his schemes bring him into conflict with worse criminals who lack even Wyatt's basic sense of honour and ethics.
* Mary Gentle's ''[[Grunts]]'' tells the story of a group of orcs just trying to make their way in the world. After they loot a dragon's horde that has weapons from assorted universes, including some from the US Marines and assorted literature (including ''Das Kapital'', which turns one female orc into a Communist Commissar). The book is an acid-tipped parody of ''Lord of the Rings'', and ''none'' of the characters are heroes in the traditional sense.
* A number of the books by Gregory Maguire (author of ''[[Wicked]]'') feature villains from well-known stories as the protagonist. For example, the queen from ''[[Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs]]'' (in ''Mirror, Mirror''), and one of the stepsisters from ''[[Cinderella]]'' (in ''Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister'').
* ''[[Grendel]]'' by John Gardner is a [[Twice Told Tale]], retelling ''[[Beowulf]]'' with Grendel as the protagonist.
* The Hitman from Thomas Perry's first novel [[The Butchers Boy]]. He is a sociopathic, amoral killer of considerable ability who has to evade both government agents and Mafia thugs when a Mafia boss tries to have him killed after a successful hit on a U.S. Senator that can be traced back to the latter.
* [[Mercedes Lackey]], in one of her stories featuring fantasy elves in the real world, had a cold-hearted, ruthless bitch of an antagonist who was quite willing to kill children if the job required it. The only problem was that she was going after a family that were protected by those same, very powerful, elves acting in secret to protect them. The shear magnitude of her hapless floundering around as she was constantly thwarted in one long [[Humiliation Conga]] would make you feel sorry for her if you didn't remind yourself that she was a murderous sociopath.
* Strahd von Zarovich, the sociopathic vampire in ''I, Strahd'' (and TSR's ''[[Dungeons And Dragons|Ravenloft]]'' campaign world).
* Soltan Gris, narrator of [[L Ron Hubbard]]'s ''[[Mission Earth]]'', is also the series antagonist (although you can't really call him sympathetic) who is secretly trying to stop the mission of his incorruptible, heroic [[Marty Stu]] counterpart Jettero Heller.
* Hester Shaw, from Philip Reeve's ''[[Mortal Engines]]'' quartet (really, she's only the protagonist of the second book "Predator's Gold;" the first focuses on her husband and the third and fourth on her daughter), hovers between this and anti-hero. On the one hand, she is completely and incontrovertibly evil (she sells a city into slavery or death just to get rid of her rival for her husband-to-be, and actively enjoys killing people); on the other, one somehow can't help sympathising with her regardless, and because of her genuine love for Tom, her interests generally coincide with those of the other (not so evil) protagonists.
* {{spoiler|The narrator}} of ''The Debt to Pleasure'', although his villainy is only gradually revealed over the course of the book.
* ''The Cleaner'' by Paul Cleave is written from the first person perspective of a psychotic serial killer who considers killing, mutilating, and raping women "just a hobby."
* Horace Dorrington from the short stories by Arthur Morrison is a corrupt detective who won't hesitate to cut deals with the villains or even kill his own clients, if he can profit from it.
* [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]
** ''[[Death Star]]'' focuses on the various people on the first Death Star. Most of them are [[Punch Clock Villain]]s, really, who either think that [[The Empire]] is flawed but good or don't think they can join [[La Resistance|the Rebellion]], either because they are [[Resignations Not Accepted|stuck]] or they think it would just be curb stomped (they ''are'' on the Death Star). The cast includes the gunner who pulled the trigger to destroy Alderaan, a pilot who shot down enough X-Wings to become an [[Ace Pilot]], a Force-Sensitive [[Cultured Warrior|cultured stormtrooper]], a surgeon who'd been stuck in service since the start of the Clone Wars, Grand Moff Tarkin, and Darth Vader. The [[Foregone Conclusion|survivors]] all either join the Rebellion (it blew up the Death Star! Maybe there's a chance!), flee to somewhere far away, or are Darth Vader. The Rebels aren't seen much - they're out there, but they don't show up for long. Leia's in the novel long enough to impress and guilt the surgeon who's treating her for torture, but the others don't get voices or faces, let alone names.
** The [[Darth Bane]] trilogy follows the exploits of Darth Bane, a ''[[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|dark lord]] [[Department Of Redundancy Department|of the Sith]]''.
** [[Darth Plagueis]] follows both [[Emperor Scientist|Plagueis]] himself and (even more so, ironically considering the title) the rise of his apprentice, [[Big Bad|Palpatine]].
* The entire cast of the ''[[HIVE]]'' series.
* Tom Ripley in Patricia Highsmith's ''[[Ripliad|The Talented Mr. Ripley]]'' and its sequels. His most significant acts include murder for the purposes of identity theft, art forgery, and [[Crowning Moment Of Awesome|taking revenge on a random guy who pissed him off]] by [[Manipulative Bastard|tricking him into thinking that he's dying of cancer, then persuading him to become a hitman]]. The Ripley books were Highsmith's only series, but the central characters of her books are almost always either Villain Protagonists or [[Crapsack World|pathetic losers who suffer horribly]].
* The "My Side of the Story" series of [[Disney]] picturebooks. One side of the book has the protagonists' story while the literal flip side has the villain's account.
* Steerpike is the protagonist of the first ''[[Gormenghast]]'' novel, while he either manipulates or assassinates the Groan family and their associates.
* To at least one other protagonist's surprise, Clem's motives for assembling the ''[[Hand Of Mercy]]'' are only a part the problem- as a Fallen angel, he's the villain by default. To a lesser extent, Nana Sophie and Salve aren't loyalists either, so it could be argued that most of the main characters are, at the very least, officially morally grubby.
* The title character of ''[[The English Patient]]'', in the sequences where he tells the other characters his backstory, probably qualifies, seeing as {{spoiler|he was actively helping Axis spies cross the deserts in North Africa.}}
* Baron Harkonen from ''[[Dune]]'' during his POV segments. You ''so'' want him dead for his crimes and perversions, but while waiting for his comeuppance, you can't help but admire his brilliant political maneuvering and epic-level [[Magnificent Bastard]]y.
** Subverted in Book 4, where Leto II says that the Baron wasn't really evil at all, just a very excessive individual. And Leto II knows evil better than anyone, {{spoiler|since he has most of humanity living in his head.}}
* Catherine de' Medici is the protagonist of Jean Plaidy's trilogy ''Madame Serpent'', ''The Italian Woman'', and ''Queen Jezebel''. Plaidy paints her as a monster who has her brother-in-law and one of her own sons murdered, and orders courtiers to sexually abuse another son to "turn him gay" and ensure that her favourite would reach the throne. She also shows the abuse Catherine endured as a child - in one scene, a 6-year old Catherine is forced to watch her beloved dog die in agony because her aunt disapproved of her crying over her other dog's death (all [[Truth In Television]], sadly).
* For most of the book ''The Woad to Wuin'', the normally cowardly [[Anti Hero]] [[Sir Apropos Of Nothing]] descends into this. And fully enjoys it.
* Gerald Tarrant of the [[Coldfire Trilogy]] is the true embodiment of a villain hero. From the beginning of the first book he is foreshadowed as the boogieman of a country. He is what parents threaten their children with to get them to go to their beds on time, and it is completely justified. The only reason he is a protagonist is because the thing that is threatening the world just happens to be a threat to him as well. He is a Magnificent Bastard who feeds on suffering and fear. But he also has an amusing side, in a state of near exhaustion in a land where he might be attacked at any moment, he still uses a part of his magic to fix his clothes and hair to look dashing.
* A.E. van Vogt's classic sci-fi novel ''The Voyage of the Space Beagle'' opens with his previously published story "Black Destroyer", recounting the powerful, feline predator Coeurl's battle of wits against the crew of human space explorers who arrive on his planet. Partly because the story's told largely through Coeurl's eyes, and partly because the human characters' [[Expo Speak]] dialogue makes them seem bland and uninteresting in comparison, his eventual defeat almost comes across as a [[Downer Ending]]. In the end, though, perhaps Coeurl had the last laugh: the Space Beagle's crew has passed on into obscurity, while he's gotten a [[Shout Out]] as an enemy in practically every [[Final Fantasy]] game.
** [[Dungeons And Dragons]]...hello, [[Does This Remind You Of Anything|displacer beast]].
*** And, thanks to van Vogt's estate, a ''[[Pathfinder]]'' module.
* In the second book of ''[[The Bartimaeus Trilogy]]'', Nathaniel becomes one of these as part of his [[Character Development]], especially unfortunate seeing as how he had previously been disgusted with the behavior of magicians who acted similarly to how he started to in the book.
* [[Fantomas]], protagonist of a series of stories written by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre.
* Brendan Stokes in Edmund Power's ''The Last Chapter'' starts out as an "aspiring novelist", i.e. a pathetic, conceited, talentless hack. He finds a manuscript while ''looting his dead neighbor's apartment'', promptly ''steals and plagiarizes'' it, lies his way to success, and on the way expands his repertoire with adultery, blackmail, and eventually, double homicide.
* In the second book in the [[Night Watch]] series, ''Day Watch'', part of the story is narrated by Alysa, who is the series protagonist Anton's opposite [[Evil Counterpart]] in the forces of darkness (They start at the same level of power; while the [[Big Good]] is Anton's mentor, the [[Big Bad]] was Alysa's lover), and she is one of the protagonists of the book.
* ''[[The Eye Of The Needle]]'' has a villain co-protagonist, since it spends far more pages following the spy's progress across England than it spends with the heroine who eventually brings him down.
* Most Gothic horror fiction features a Villain Protagonist:
** Ambrosio, the villainous priest of Matthew G. Lewis's [[The Monk]], who gives in to his desire for his pupil Matilda, a woman disguised as a monk, and then is overcome by lust for the innocent Antonia. With Matilda's sorcerous help, Ambrosio seduces her, then later rapes and murders her. He is delivered into the hands of the Inquisition and makes a [[Deal With The Devil]] to avoid the death sentence that awaits him. Only after getting tortured to death does he learn that Antonia was actually his sister.
** The title character of ''Les Chants de Maldoror'' by Lautréamont, a figure of absolute evil who is opposed to God and humanity, and has renounced conventional morality and decency.
** Edward Montague's ''Demon of Sicily'', who promises two holy people fulfillment of their wanton sexual urges in exchange for their souls.
** Manfred, the lord of [[The Castle Of Otranto]], who tries to forcibly marry his own son's fiancee in order to avert the destruction of his line.
** [[Byronic Hero]] Heathcliff in [[Wuthering Heights]]. His life ambition is to wreak vengeance on all who have (in his opinion) stood between him and his would-be lover Cathy Earnshaw. He achieves this by mentally and physically abusing them, and embezzling their property. He extends his revenge to the children of his enemies.
** The unnamed protagonist of Georges Bataille's ''Story of the Eye'', which is full of [[Squick]].
** Medea from the final novel in ''[[The Icemark Chronicles]]''. Its debatable though if she should be included in the category as the book has so many main characters
** When the Marquis De Sade wasn't writing about good people that horrible things happen to, he was writing [[Villain Protagonist]]s.
** [[Edgar Allan Poe]] used this trope a lot; for example, in "The Tell-Tale Heart."
* While some would argue that ''every''''Warhammer 40000'' novel has a Villain Protagonist [[Crapsack World|by]] [[Black And Gray Morality|default]], the Chaos Space Marine viewpoint characters of Graham McNeill's ''[[Iron Warriors|Storm of Iron]]'' and Anthony Reynolds' [[Word Bearers]] trilogy definitely qualify.
* The ''[[Malus Darkblade]]'' series by Dan Abnett certainly qualifies though its plain Warhammer.
* Lady Susan Vernon of [[Jane Austen]]'s epistolary novel [[Lady Susan]]. Despite being the novel's central, most prominent figure, she is an unscrupulous, manipulative [[The Vamp|Vamp]] engaged in a sort of pre-affair with a married man while at the same time trying to snare the man her daughter is in love with as she struggles to force said daughter to marry a man against her will. Unlike Austen's ''[[Emma]]'', Lady Susan does not change at all over the curse of her story. Her daughter Frederica is the more sympathetic heroine.
* Edmund Pevensie for the first half of ''[[The Chronicles Of Narnia]]: [[The Lion The Witch And The Wardrobe]]''. He intended to commit something vile against his siblings, even before the witch persuaded him into doing it. Fortunately, he does a [[Heel Face Turn]] and becomes an [[Anti Hero]] later.
* Simon Darcourt from [[A Snowball In Hell]] spends an awful lot of time narrating his crimes to the reader with glee.
* Lysander in the last ''[[Apprentice Adept]]'' book, ''Phaze Doubt''. Much of the book is spent trying to lure Lysander over to [[Photon]]'s cause (doubling as distracting him from his "real" mission as [[The Mole]]). {{spoiler|Even though he's essential in the good guys' eventual triumph, [[Honor Before Reason|he never actually switches sides]].}}
* [[Umberto Eco]]'s latest novel ''[[The Prague Cemetery]]'' stars a racist, misogynistic forger whose only redeeming feature is his love of good food. The book starts with him penning down why he hates Germans, Italians, French, women, Jews, Catholics, Freemasons and many others, and ends with him {{spoiler|penning The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as his magnum opus.}}
* Jill from ''[[Blubber]]'' has no qualms in [[The Bully|bullying]] an [[Actual Pacifist]] classmate. [[Kids Are Cruel|She never seems to think of her as a sensitive human being]].
* In [[John C Wright]]'s ''[[The Golden Oecumene|The Golden Age]]'', Ao Aeon points at Phaethon's behavior and assures him he is obviously the villain of the piece. In ''The Golden Transcendence'', Phaethon cites this to explain his behavior to Daphne, who is obviously, he explains, the heroine.
* [[Dr Seuss]] wrote villain protagonists: [[The Grinch]] in [[How The Grinch Stole Christmas]], the Once-ler in [[The Lorax]], and the eponymous Yertle the Turtle (based on ''Hitler'').
* We spend so much time experiencing ''[[Realm Of The Elderlings|The Liveship Traders]]'' through Captain Kennit's POV that it sometimes becomes hard to remember that he really ''is'' the villain of the piece. Just an extremely charismatic, sympathetic villain who tends to overshadow his more heroic fellow-protagonists.
* [[Johannes Cabal The Necromancer|Johannes Cabal]] in the series of the same name by Jonathan L. Howard.
* Haplo of ''[[The Death Gate Cycle]]'' begins as one of these. In addition to being the main character, he is also a member of the Patryn race, which seeks to subjugate all the worlds under Patryn rule. {{spoiler|Later, he becomes less of a villain.}}
** Specifically, his progression goes thusly- in the first two books, he's the flat-out [[The Dragon|Dragon]] to [[Evil Overlord|Lord Xar]], and though his backstory makes him sympathetic, there's no real doubt that he's a bad guy. Then, in books 3 and 4, he starts getting pitted against people ''much'' worse than he is, moving to more of a Type V [[Anti Hero]]. {{spoiler|From the fifth book onward, Haplo has reevaluated his purpose and place in the universe, and though he never loses his ruthlessness or hard edges, he softens up enough to settle in as a Type III [[Anti Hero]]}}.
* Chichikov in ''[[Dead Souls]]''.
* The ''[[Private]]'' series [[Spin Off]] ''Privilege'' is from the point of view of Ariana Osgood, the villain of one of the books in the series.
* Most of the protagonists in ''[[Arabian Nights|Tales of 1001 Nights]]'' are thieves.
* ''[[Therese Raquin]]'' is all about a woman who murdered her husband to be with her lover.
* [[The Monk|Ambrosio]], who was never a particularly nice or forgiving person to begin with, quickly falls from what grace he had and over the course of the story gets involved in [[Black Magic]], rape, and murder.
* In ''[[The Picture Of Dorian Gray]]'', Dorian Gray is corrupted by Lord Henry's ideas of [[The Hedonist|hedonism]] and becomes a cruel man who does whatever he wants, regardless of the consequences, and ends up causing pain and death to several people. His [[Artifact Of Doom|portrait]] reflects Dorian's inner soul and becomes uglier and uglier with each evil act he commits until it becomes monstrous.
* ''[[A Song Of Ice And Fire]]'' features a wide variety of POV chapters, including from characters who are considered the villains of Westeros.
* Thought we don't find out until halfway through [[Within Ruin]] {{spoiler|Virgil}} is the reason behind nearly every awful thing that has happened throughout the novel, including the plague.
* The central character of Alberto Moravia's [[The Conformist]], is a member of [[Fascist Italy]]'s [[Secret Police]].
* Aside from the boatman and the epilogue's police, every character in ''[[And Then There Were None]]'' is culpable in someone's death, ranging from negligent homicide to premeditated murder. The one who seems most sympathetic and protagonist-like within the ensemble ({{spoiler|Vera}}) turns out to be the ''most'' culpable. Subverted in most adaptations.
* Colonel Sebastian Moran (and Professor Moriarty) in Kim Newman's ''The Hound of the d'Urbervilles'', which tells their point of view in the Holmes stories and a number of other Victorian works.
** Likewise, [[Neil Gaiman]]'s "AStudyInEmerald" {{spoiler|sets up Moran and Moriarty as the heroes in a [[Twist Ending]]. Throughout most of the story the reader thought Moran was Watson and Moriarty was Holmes.}}

=== TV ===
* [[The Sopranos]]: Considering that well over half the cast is in the Mob, this trope was bound to pop up. Even the nicer ones have no problem with murder, drug traficking and other unsavory, illegal activities. And chances are, if you're not in the mob, you're a huge Jerkass who just doesn't happen to be as morally bankrupt.
* ''[[Blackadder]]'' in the third series. In the first series, he's set up as one, but comes off as an [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]].
* The title character of ''[[The Mary Whitehouse Story]]''. (She was an overbearing [[Moral Guardian]], and permanently upset by [[The BBC]], by the way.)
* Alan [[Meaningful Name|B'stard]] of ''[[The New Statesman]]''. A corrupt politician abusing his power, all [[Played For Laughs]].
* Nancy Botwin and her [[Affably Evil]] associates from ''[[Weeds]]'' are drug dealers. Then again, [[Bad Cop Incompetent Cop|almost every official and law officer is a corrupt hypocrite]]. She starts out in a [[Stepford Suburbia]] in a [[Crapsack World]], and [[Cerebus Syndrome|things go downhill from there]].
* ''[[The Shield]]'' Vic Mackey, and the other members of the Strike Team.
* Walter White of ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' becomes this in the fifth season. In the first four seasons, he's a Type V [[Anti Hero]] and a Type III [[Anti Villain]], but after {{spoiler|letting Jesse's girlfriend die, forcing him to kill a relatively innocent man, taking out Gus to become the new kingpin, AND poisoning a child,}} it's become increasingly difficult to still root for him.
* ''[[Hustle]]'' is about a group of con artists, though they tend to remain sympathetic due to their incredible charm and their code of only scamming people who are dishonest, greedy, and otherwise presented to the audience as [[Kick The Dog|unsympathetic]].
** The same goes for ''[[Leverage]]'' with the [[Just Like Robin Hood|Robin Hood]] element increased.
* There a few episodes of [[I Carly]] where even Freddie and Carly end up going against Sam when she does something bad. Example, starting a child labour sweatshop.
* Jim Profit of ''[[Profit]]''.
* Sylar of ''[[Heroes]]''. In the first season he's the [[Big Bad]], but in the second and subsequent seasons he's a protagonist and goes through a [[Heel Face Revolving Door]], spending some portions as a hero and more portions as a villain.
* To the extent that they are protagonists, rather than Echo, the staff of the ''[[Dollhouse]]'' is this. Although their villainy lessens over time, especially in season 2 as a Greater Evil is uncovered.
* All male members of the [[Blakes Seven]] crew flirt with this, even Blake when you consider that in the finale of season 2 it's made clear that he was fully willing to cause the deaths of millions of people (by computer failure) in order to take down the Federation.
* Francis Urquhart in the BBC series ''[[House Of Cards]]'' and its sequels ''To Play the King'' and ''The Final Cut''. Urquhart is a [[Richard III]]-esque British MP who schemes his way up to being Prime Minister via various sneaky and some downright evil acts.
* [[Lex Luthor]] in ''[[Smallville]]'' fits this trope. Although the show is supposed to be about Clark it focuses on Lex just as much and his descent into becoming the [[Arch Enemy]] of Superman. So much so that he becomes [[The Woobie]].
* [[Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia]]. Don't hang out with those guys, or they'll crush your spirits and make you as vile as them.
* Neal Caffrey of ''[[White Collar]]'' is a ''thief'', but he's presented as all-around cooler than his stick-in-the-mud partner Burke. He could count as [[The Atoner]], since he has stayed with the FBI beyond the three months he had left on his sentence.
** Not exactly. He works for the FBI as part of a work release after four years were added to his sentence when he broke out of prison with only three months left on the sentence (with more time added on after he fled the country to avoid being screwed over by someone higher up the FBI hierarchy right when he was about to be freed from the extended sentence).
* Al Swearingen in the first season of ''[[Deadwood]]'' is a co-protagonist and the main villain, with Seth Bullock as the heroic co-protagonist. In the second and third season, the Hearst enterprises serve as the villain and Al becomes a more sympathetic [[Anti Hero]].
* [[Rod Serling]] wrote three stories in which the main character is a {{Nazi|Germany}} who receives a supernatural punishment: [[The Twilight Zone]] episodes "Judgment Night" and "Death's-Head Revisited", and a segment of the ''[[Night Gallery]]'' pilot film titled "The Escape Route".
* Almost every episode of ''[[Columbo]]'' started off from the villain's point-of-view as he or she carried out a supposedly perfect murder.
* Basil Fawlty from ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'', although he's not a villain per se and more of just a nasty jerk.
* ''[[The Borgias]]'': Rodrigo Borgia, also known as Pope Alexander Sextus, is this. He's [[Affably Evil]], has four kids and an openly-known mistress, and has no problem with blackmail or bribery, and pimps his kids out to the highest bidder. Plus, there's all of the less-than-ethical executions he's considered, and the situations his children have had to endure--in what amounts to emotional abuse. His elder son, Cesare, is an even better example, what with the killing people, having a personal assassin as a best friend, and [[Brother Sister Incest|really]] loving his sister, though that's probably the least villainous part of his personality. [[Truthin Television|If history has anything to say about it,]] [[It Got Worse|he gets worse]].
* [[Sailor Moon]]: {{spoiler|Sailor Moon herself}} is revealed to have been this all along toward the end of [[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]. She's the [[Woobie Destroyer Of Worlds]] variety.
* Nucky Thompson in ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]''.
* Harry Montebello in [[The Straits]] has been known to kill people by feeding them to a variety of exotic wildlife. This is because he takes the security of his drug-smuggling business and his family ''extremely'' seriously.
* Everyone on ''[[Leverage]]''. No matter how likeable they are, they're all wanted criminals and at least one has an (implied) very high body count. Plus, the sheer amount of collateral damage that results from their jobs.
* Don Draper of ''Mad Men'': Sympathetic, yes, but the fact remains that Don Draper is a lying, manipulative, philandering, identity-stealing rapist, who spends most of his time creating campaigns to convince the world at large to smoke more cigarettes.

=== Music ===
* Clockwork Quartet's [http://clockworkquartet.com/music.php 'The Watchmaker's Apprentice'] is told from the perspective of a man who frames his boss for murder.
* The narrator of the Wreckers song "Crazy People". There's a ''reason'' only crazy people fall in love with you, lady.
* Likewise, the viewpoint characters in [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s "Skullcrusher Mountain" and "Re: Your Brains".
** The narrator of "The Future Soon" doesn't actually ''do'' anything, but he daydreams about taking over the Earth with a robot army and forcing the girl he likes to marry him, so he could also count.
* In his first few albums, [[Eminem]] was this in his persona of "Slim Shady".
* Pink, from [[Pink Floyd]]'s [[The Wall]]. Though the album begins with a [[Start Of Darkness]] and ends with a redemption of sorts.
* The narrator of [[Warren Zevon]]'s "Mr. Bad Example". He starts out stealing from a church fund for widows and orphans, and only gets worse.
** The [[Ax Crazy]] "Excitable Boy" would be another example.
* Opera, by Mozart: "Don Giovanni". He probably even qualifies as a [[Magnificent Bastard]]...
* Hip-Hop artists like [[Jay Z]] or [[Fifty Cent|50 Cent]] were allegedly criminals before having music careers, and many of their songs deal with this topic from their perspective.
* The viewpoint character of Voltaire's song "When You're Evil" is a [[Card Carrying Villain]]. Also "Almost Human", and "The Chosen" and "Brains"... he kinda likes that one.
* The Rake from [[The Decemberists]]' "The Rake's Song" sings, without so much as a hint of regret, about how he killed his three children in order to escape from the responsibilities of parenthood. It's quite [[Crowning Music Of Awesome|good.]]
* Nick Cave has a few songs about villain protagonists, most notably the entire album ''Murder Ballads''.
* Then there's "Sympathy for the Devil" by [[The Rolling Stones]], which should qualify.
* [[Black Sabbath]]'s "Iron Man" is about a hero who travels to the future and witnesses [[The End Of The World As We Know It]], and when he travels back to the present, [[And Then John Was A Zombie|he is transformed into the title's villain]] who [[Stable Time Loop|causes the future destruction]] in the first place.
* [[Peter Gabriel]]'s songs "Intruder" and "Family Snapshot" are told from the perspectives of a burglar and Lee Harvey Oswald, respectively.
* Everything that happens in a Monster Magnet song happens with a fistful of pills. Protagonists run the gamut from garden-variety drug [[dealers]] to comic-book-style supervillains and demonic agents. There are a lot of bombs getting planted, and things might get a little rape-y. Notable are the infanticidal couple of "See You in Hell", the drug-addled character in "Tractor", and various personifications of evil in "Kiss of the Scorpion", "Atomic Clock", and "Bummer".
** "I drove out to the Meadowlands to throw our baby away."
*:See You in Hell
** "If you wanna spank your demons and make them pay, well baby, I'm your man of the hour"
*:Bummer
** "Got a knife in my back, got a hole in my arm, I'm driving a tractor on a drug farm"
*:Tractor
* "Bohemian Rhapsody" by [[Queen]] is sung by a condemned murderer who is only sorry he didn't get away with it. [[Word Salad Lyrics|Maybe.]] At the very least, we know Beelzebub has a devil put aside for him. For him. For ''hiiiiiiiiiiiim''.
* [[The Beatles]] actually had a few examples as well.
** The title characters in John's ''The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill'' and Paul's ''Maxwell's Silver Hammer''. The persona in John's ''Run for Your Life'' would qualify as well as would John's persona in the second half of ''Happiness is a Warm Gun'' and George's persona in ''Taxman''.
* Ziltoid from the Ziltoid the Omniscient album by [[Devin Townsend]] is definitely this. He destroys earth, because he didn't like the coffee they presented him, follows the escaping humans to another planet, unsuccessfully attempts to destroy that one, then he asks the Planet Smasher to destroy another planet, which is populated by sentient being, just to lift his mood.
* The [[Nirvana]] song "Polly" is sung from the point of view of a rapist who holds his victim captive and tortures her with razors and a blowtorch. It was based on a true story.
* Many, many Vocaloid songs. Notable examples include Mothy-P's Story of Evil and the numerous 'yandere' songs like Luka's Love Disease and Miku's Rotten Girl, Grotesque Romance.

=== Tabletop Games ===
* After two expansions to their ''[[Middle Earth|RolePlaying]] CCG'', Iron Crown Entertainment tried shaking things up by releasing a whole second basic set called "The Lidless Eye", casting the players as one of the nine Nazgul, working in the shadows to locate the Ringbearer {{or}} rally the monstrous races into an army. [[They Wasted A Perfectly Good Plot|An interesting idea]], but unfortunately, one which did nothing to [[CCG Importance Dissonance|stem fan complaints of "filler lore"]], and only ruffled ''more'' feathers by being largely incompatible with cards from the previous set.
* The forthcoming ''Warhammer 40000'' RPG ''[[Black Crusade]]'' will cast the player characters as members of [[Warhammer 40000/Forces Of Chaos|the Forces of Chaos]], either Chaos Space Marines or human Heretics. A PC's story arc will have one of four endings: [[Karmic Death|death]], [[One Winged Angel|ascension as a Daemon Prince]], [[Galactic Conqueror|leadership of a Black Crusade]], or [[And I Must Scream|transformation into a Chaos Spawn]].
** In the main 40k game, playing as any of the "evil" factions will automatically lead to this, even the fluff in the book is less sympathetic. This is most notable with the aforementioned chaos space marines and Tyranids, the latter of which usually has fluff written in an [[Apocalyptic Log]] style. This is more true during global campaigns, where the victories of "evil" factions will slowly edge the plot towards a downer ending, and the player base will still cheer for it.
* The basic assumption when you play an Abyssal in ''[[Exalted]]''. One chapter even has discussion about how to make the game more than one slaughterfest after another; they are ''that'' Baaad.
** This is where you're assumed to start as a Green Sun Prince. Subverted, however, in the assumption is that you'll quickly catch on that the [[Demon Lords And Arch Devils|Yozis]] are (A) certifiably insane and (B) can't actually rope you in, so you'll either become a [[Punch Clock Villain]] looking for an escape, a [[Well Intentioned Extremist]] [[Anti Hero]] using a loose interpretation of your orders to push an ultimately producitive agenda, or just a plan ol' [[Noble Demon]] who just wants to be left alone, before you slip the leash entirely.
* Though not specific to any system in particular, it's very much the point to many campaigns. the "evil campaign" is often used to change things up where the PCs are the group of troublesome goblins, the terrorizing bandits or eclectic grouping of monsters. the goals tend to vary from pure destruction for the sake of destruction, sticking it to a certain group, actual goals of [[country]]/world domination or even a subversion of the genre.

=== Theater ===
* [[Byronic Hero]] [[The Phantom Of The Opera]].
* Although ''[[Othello]]'' is ostensibly a play about Othello, Iago is really the protagonist and most definitely the villain.
* Richard of Gloucester (aka King Richard III) from [[William Shakespeare]]'s [[Richard III]] is one of the earliest [[Villain Protagonist]]s. To some extent, Richard's father, Richard of York, in the ''Henry VI'' trilogy.
* The title character of ''[[Macbeth]]'', naturally. He is somewhat of an [[Anti Villain]] despite his [[Moral Event Horizon]] against the family of the play's [[Hero Antagonist]]; though his antivillainy isn't really of the "[[Well Intentioned Extremist|good intentions]]" variety so much as the "[[Woobie Destroyer Of Worlds|just plain pitiable]]" variety.
* Medea from Greek Myth, at least as presented by [[Euripides]] in the play ''[[Medea]]''. A straight reading of the facts of the myth makes Medea come across as an irredeemably evil multiple murderess (her victims included {{spoiler|her younger brother}} and {{spoiler|her sons}}), yet [[Woobie Destroyer Of Worlds|Euripides presents her as sympathetic]], or at least understandable. So this is [[Older Than Feudalism]].
* [[Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street]]: The title character kills everyone who comes into his barbershop and [[Crosses The Line Twice|has them baked into meat pies]] to get rid of the bodies. [[Im A Humanitarian|Mrs. Lovett]] fits the trope as well.
* Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly, and Billy Flynn from ''[[Chicago]]''.
* Shylock from [[The Merchant Of Venice]], although Bassanio and Portia have about as much or more lines. Some productions turn Shylock into an [[Anti Villain]], as the play was fairly [[Fair For Its Day]] and gives him legitimate reasons for being so ruthless.
* In ''[[Used Cars]]'', the salesman protagonists lie, cheat, and steal from essentially everyone they meet.
* Volpone of ''[[Volpone]]'' is a greedy and lecherous con man; the play's main plot is about him faking being on the edge of death to trick people into giving him gifts in the hopes that he'd name them as his heir.
* Arnolphe, from ''The School for Wives'' (''L'école des femmes''), is a clear example, although he is usually seen as sympathetic because all his plans are easily thwarted and his villainy stems mostly from his desire to have a loving wife who will not be unfaithful to him.
* Don Giovanni of ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' is a lecherous noble who has had sex with over two thousand women before callously abandoning them. The opera begins with him trying to rape a woman, then {{spoiler|killing her father when he defends her honor.}}

=== Video Games ===
* Walker of ''[[Spec Ops The Line]]''. Though he thinks he's the hero, he's the one who's {{spoiler|firebombing fellow soldiers and innocent people with white phosphorus and opening fire on an unarmed crowd}}. Late in the game, it's even spelled out for Walker why he's the bad guy, as part of a long [[Villainous Breakdown]].
* All [[RTS]]s with playable factions, [[Grey And Gray Morality|a clear]] [[Evil Versus Evil|good faction]] ''[[No Antagonist|and]]'' [[Good Versus Good|evil faction]], and a full compliment of Campaigns have this, especially ones with intertwined campaigns: At some point, you can or will be given the option to play the story's [[Big Bad]]. Exceptions fall under [[No Campaign For The Wicked]].
* [[Amnesia The Dark Descent]] is an odd example. The backstory, which is slowly revealed over the course of the game, shows that the protagonist was once a normal man who sunk to shockingly low depths in order to save his own life.
* [[Neverwinter Nights 2|: Mask of the Betrayer]] bears mention, because there is no other clear villain in the story unless the player takes it upon him or herself to be one. It is hard to consider The Founder a villain, despite what she did, and the only other character who bears any blame has been dead (for certain values of dead) for centuries.
* Longtime [[Big Bad]] Bowser from ''[[Super Mario Bros]]'' is ''the'' central character in ''[[Mario And Luigi Bowsers Inside Story|Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'', though he functions more as an unwitting [[Anti Hero]] secretly aided by the Mario Brothers rather than a villain. In other ''Mario'' RPGs, he's more of a [[Token Evil Teammate]] when playable.
* The Chaos Path in ''Der [[Langrisser]]'' has the protagonist Elwin become this. The other three paths (Light, Imperial and Independent) are [[Black And Grey Morality|considerably more morally grey]].
* ''[[Overlord]]'', although you're allowed to choose between being really evil and just [[Noble Demon|self-proclaimed evil]]. Plus, given that all the "good" characters are corrupt, choosing the latter option makes you the most sympathetic character in the game with this depiction being decidedly canon (the Overlord at least saves the Elves and {{spoiler|Rose is the mother of his child}}). In the sequel you are 100% evil and you fight some genuinely Good foes, though your main enemies are still the anti-magic [[The Empire|Glorious Empire]] bent on the destruction of all magic. Lord Gromgard of the Wii prequel ''Dark Legend'' is portrayed as a [[Villain With Good Publicity]] who is at the least well-liked amongst his servants for not letting them starve.
* The [[Grand Theft Auto]] series stars mass-murderering criminals who [[Evil Versus Evil|conquer other crime bosses]]. [[Catharsis Factor|Aaahhhhh]].
** The games have gone back-and forth with this trope:
*** In [[Grand Theft Auto III]], the protagonist was not even ''named'', and appeared to be doing what he did solely to survive (the game starts with him being busted out of a prison transport). Only at the very end does a revenge motive appear.
*** The most clear-cut Villain Protagonist of the series is Tommy Vercetti from [[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]. Unlike the other protagonists, Tommy is not above dealing drugs, and the game's plot mostly revolves around Tommy seizing control of Vice City from the criminals who previously controlled it.
*** By [[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas]] the first [[Anti Hero]] protagonist appeared, Carl Johnson. In cutscenes CJ is present as an honourable, even admirable character, and his motivation for most of the game is simple survival as well as keeping his family safe. Notably, CJ is opposed to dealing drugs of any nature, the only protagonist in the series that does so. Out of cutscenes he's just as willing to murder, steal, and destroy as any of the other protagonists.
*** Niko from [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] is a strange example. He cares about his family, and part of him wants to live a normal life, but his experiences in the wars in Serbia, in his own words "ruined him." He kidnaps, robs, murders, sells drugs, and in general, does not seem to have anything close to a conscience. Interestingly, he realizes this about himself, and readily recognizes that the things he does are awful. When questioned on it at one point, he says that he considers himself to be completely soulless.
* The "Dark" story in [[Sonic Adventure 2]] runs opposite in goals to the "Hero" story.
** Also, Blaze the Cat in [[Sonic Rush]]... intially.
* Anyone in the MMO ''[[City Of Villains]]''. It's kind of in the name.
* ''[[Destroy All Humans]]'', at least in the first game (the second casts the protagonist as more of an [[Anti Hero]] by circumstance and the third has him become an [[Unwitting Pawn]]).
* ''[http://vz4.net/index.php?juegos/descripcion-2 The Bad Guy]'', a famous demo game in the Hispanic [[RPG Maker]] scene, chronicles the rise of Omaen, an aspiring villain, while parodying every RPG trope. Omaen is presented as downright evil but the [[Only Sane Man]] in comparison with both the [[Stupid Good|idiotic "heroes"]] and the other [[Slave To PR]] [[Card Carrying Villain]]s who fear more the strike of the [[Weird Trade Union]] of monsters and minions than anything the heroic characters can do.
* ''[[Warcraft]] III'' has a linear storyline that puts the player in control of different commanders from different sides of the war depending on the point of time in the story. The human campaign features Prince Arthas, an idealistic young man fighting a horrific undead army. As the war carries on, Arthas must resort to increasingly reprehensible tactics, starting with the slaughter of a sleeping town when he learns they've received shipments of food from a village secretly contaminated by the undead plague. Out of desperation to save the human population, he acquires, at the cost of his soul, a magic sword powerful enough to defeat his undead nemesis. The player is still in control of Arthas during the next campaign, but now he's a [[Our Souls Are Different|soulless]] Death Knight leading the undead in their war against the living.
** Similarly, ''[[Star Craft]]'' has one campaign for each of the three factions, all of which form a cohesive story. During the Zerg campaign, you're an evil giant brain-slug monster, commanding your evil [[Big Creepy Crawlies]] into killing the good(ish) guys.
** Likewise in ''Star Trek Armada'', the second to last campaign is the Borg campaign. In the final mission, you {{spoiler|successfully assimilate Earth, killing Worf in the process}}. {{spoiler|This is undone via [[Time Travel]] in the subsequent hidden campaign, in which the Federation, Klingons, and Romulans join forces to defeat the Borg.}}
* Kratos from the [[God Of War]] series is a berserker whose primary motivation is revenge on anyone who has spurned him. Which eventually expands to everyone who crosses his path or tries to stop him doing whatever he's doing. Also a fair few people whose deaths would be convenient for him.
* Subverted with [[Disgaea Hour Of Darkness|Laharl]] ([[Disgaea Hour Of Darkness]]) and newcomer Mao (''{{Disgaea 3|AbsenceOfJustice}}'') from the ''[[Disgaea]]'' series-- but they are really [[Noble Demon]]s.
** Also the Prinnies in ''[[Prinny Can I Really Be The Hero]]'' [[Spin Off]]. Remember, those [[Made Of Explodium|volatile]] [[Everythings Better With Penguins|penguin]] [[Butt Monkey]]s contain the souls of dead criminals.
** The PSP port of ''[[Disgaea 2|CursedMemories]]'' has a [[Another Side Another Story|side story]] starring Axel, though he's [[Anti Villain|played much more sympathetically]] than [[Goldfish Poop Gang|in the main story]].
* Zetta from ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'' is another [[Noble Demon]] example of this trope.
* {{spoiler|Revya during the Demon Path}} of ''[[Soul Nomad And The World Eaters]]''. Unlike other [[Nippon Ichi]] games listed here, definitely ''not'' a [[Noble Demon]].
* Agent 47 from the ''[[Hitman]]'' series borders on this, but his victims tend to be worse.
* The Brotherhood of Nod in general, and Kane in particular, of the [[Command And Conquer]] series, ''especially'' in ''Tiberium Wars'' where a large part of the Brotherhood's basic motivation stems from economic woes, health problems, and perceived oppression and marginalization by the Global Defense Initiative.
** Taken up to eleven in Kane's Wrath, where you learn that a previous mission you played in Wars, where you were defending as the bad-guy Nod and were attacked by a rogue group of Nod traitors supposedly led by Killian, where you learn the truth of the treachery. However the perpetrator did it in belief that she would be helping Nod rid themselves of an unbeliever, but unintentionally (however it was planned by Kane) triggering the arrival of the Scrin. What makes this a villain protagonist is that you are now in command of the traitor army. It's hard to understand exactly ''who'' she ended up helping in the end, but she's definitely a villain to all factions.
** The vast majority of [[Real Time Strategy]] games have campaigns for both sides. Except when there is [[No Campaign For The Wicked]].
* ''[[Tie Fighter]]''. You play on the side of [[The Empire]], and have Darth Vader as your wingman.
** Note that while you do spend quite a bit of time fighting the [[Freedom Fighters|Rebels]], the Empire is portrayed as quite a bit less ruthlessly evil than in the films and other media. The result is more like an [[Anti Villain|Anti-Villain]] Protagonist.
* [[Infocom]]'s 1983 game ''Infidel'' featured a villain protagonist, making this trope in computer games [[Older Than The NES]].
* ''[[The Force Unleashed]]'' features Starkiller, a Dark Jedi who was raised by Darth Vader and has a disturbing talent for killing his enemies in outlandish, yet surprisingly amusing ways. Justified to an extent as he was raised from childhood to believe in Vader's cause and eventually turns against him anyway (canonically).
** The non-canon add-on missions included in ''Ultimate Sith Edition'' take it further, complete with Starkiller informing a captain "YouHaveFailedMe For The Last Time."
* [[Star Wars Battlefront|II]]'s Campaign mode. You play as the Republic's 501st Legion, who quite obviously become the bad guys just before the halfway point.
* Optionally, {{spoiler|the amnesiac Revan}} from [[Knights Of The Old Republic]] or the Jedi Exile from ''KOTOR II''.
* [[Star Wars The Old Republic]], if you go with the dark side on [[The Empire]] side. Sith warriors who follow this path will stun many a jedi with their vicious brutality. Then you have the [[Psycho For Hire]] bounty hunters, inquisitors with force lightning as way of greeting people, and Imperial agents who take the protocol of [[Leave No Witnesses]] to heart.
* [[American Mc Gees Grimm]] features a dwarf named Grimm who despises the [[Disneyfication]] of fairy tales and whose goal is to [[Grimmification|return them into the dark stories that they were]]. His [[Catch Phrase]] in the ads is:
*:'''Grimm:''' Happily ever after ends NOW!
* The critically acclaimed freeware game ''[http://www.bigbluecup.com/games.php?action=detail&id=602 Emily Enough]'' revolves around a [[Enfante Terrible|little girl who has slaughtered her entire family]] and who proceeds to kill several innocent people over the course of the game.
* [[Saints Row 2]] has the player becoming this, with the goal of the game being 'take over the city over the corpses of rivals gang, cops and any innocent civilians that get in the way'. The only reason the Saints look sympathetic is via the ''even worse'' antics of their enemies and the [[Undying Loyalty]] the Saints develop to each other. This continues into the [[Saints Row The Third|next game]], though much more downplayed in favour of chaos and stunts than outright villainy.
* ''The Misadventures of Tron Bonne'' has you play as [[Goldfish Poop Gang]] member from [[Mega Man Legends]], Tron Bonne in her quest to steal one million zenny worth of goods to save her kidnapped air pirate family.
* Vile Mode in [[Mega Man X|: Maverick Hunter X]].
* In [[No More Heroes]], Travis Touchdown creates [[Even Evil Has Standards|the line in the sand]] for a character who either just ''barely'' counts as a Villain Protagonist (he has very few, if any, likable qualities, and kills people for a living) or is not ''quite'' evil enough to be a Villain Protagonist (the people he kills are, for the most part, even ''more'' [[Asshole Victim|sick and twisted]] than he is, or at the very least other assassins). Which side he is actually on is up for debate. He veers completely away from this in the sequel, however.
* Servant Avenger from ''[[Fate Stay Night|Fate hollow ataraxia]]'' is definitely a Villain Protagonist - he ''is'' supposed to Evil Incarnate, after all. His soul itself is twisted and [[Always Chaotic Evil]], and he actively pursues murder and rape to [[For The Evulz|pass the time]]. This does not prevent him from becoming a character you can sympathise with, especially after the flashback to his horrific [[Start Of Darkness]] and some very poignant conversations with other characters. Despite hating humanity, he still shoulders the responsibility [[Humans Are Bastards|that was forced onto him]] - {{spoiler|to bear every sin ever committed and will be committed by a human}} and forever serve as a twisted 'champion' of humanity. The ending is complete with a {{Tear Jerk|er}}ing [[Heroic Sacrifice]].
*:"Even if humanity is worthless, the history that has been laid down until now has meaning.

:::(...) It is not a sin to exist."
* In [[Threads Of Fate]], you can choose to play as either Rue, the hero, or Mint, the [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]].
* The unreleased arcade game ''[[Chimera Beast]]'' is about ruthless and mindless [[Horde Of Alien Locusts]] who [[Power Copying|reabsorb the DNA of what they eat to become stronger]]... ''and you play as one of them'', digging your way through the food chain of your homeplanet starting from bacteria. If you win against the final boss {{spoiler|you end up [[Earth Shattering Kaboom|blowing up the planet]] and going through a killing spree across the universe, eventually reaching Earth... [[No Fourth Wall|Even the game mocks you]] for this. To get the "good" ending, you must lose to the final boss and opt not to continue.}}
* Firebrand of ''[[Gargoyles Quest|Demon's Crest]]'' is, for starters, a Red Arremer from ''[[Ghosts N Goblins|Ghouls 'n Ghosts]]'' (the original [[Demonic Spider]]). The game starts with him as a prisoner of the demon Phalanax, who interrupted his attempt to take over the world and stole the Crests he was using to do so. Once he breaks out, the rest of the game concerns him reclaiming his stolen property and kill Phanalax so that he can [[Take Over The World]] as previously planned.
* In ''[[Prototype]]'', the main character, Alex Mercer is quite unrepentant about the horrible things he does throughout the game. Unlike [[In Famous]], a game with a roughly similar premise, ''Prototype'' has no [[Karma Meter]], and automatically assumes [[Person Of Mass Destruction|the player will choose to behave]] [[Ax Crazy|the way players ''always'' behave]] in a [[Wide Open Sandbox]] game.
* Wylfred of ''[[Valkyrie Profile Covenant Of The Plume]]'' is one of these on the C path, if you use the Plume to sacrifice more than a certain number of your teammates. Otherwise, he's either a [[Byronic Hero]], or an [[Anti Hero]].
* [[Atlach Nacha]], where the protagonist is a [[Im A Humanitarian|humanitarian]] [[Giant Spider]] who lusts after [[Girls Love|tender young schoolgirls]].
* In the ''[[Silent Hill]]'' series, which ending you get often determines whether your main character is a tortured hero or this trope. [[Silent Hill 4]] takes it one step further by having the plot revolve entirely around the [[Big Bad]] [[Implacable Man]] antagonist instead of the borderline [[Featureless Protagonist]] [[Dull Surprise|Henry Townshend]].
* [[Umineko No Naku Koro Ni]] loves to play with this trope, at least in-universe. Namely, in the 5th Arc, {{spoiler|Battler become the [[And Then John Was A Zombie|Endless Sorcerer]]}} while a Mary Sue of {{spoiler|Bernkastel}}'s creation takes up the 'protagonist' role. (That is, has a reliable perspective.) In reality, though, no face heels or heel faces occur. The 'protagonist' role simply gets taken over by the two most evil characters in the series while they force the good guys into the 'antagonist' role.
* In the ''[[Rampage]]'' games you score points by destroying as much property as possible and eating people, and most of the people haven't done anything to you or are just soldiers doing their job. You can also kick them to death or knock them off [[tear]] off parachutes and watch them splat.
* [[The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion]] has the Dark Brotherhood quest line, in which the player takes the role of an assassin. It mixes in clearly deserving targets (The very first one is lightly implied to be either a rapist or a murderer) with somewhat-deserving ones (A pirate, who's clearly killed people 'on the job' before) with clearly innocent people. You also get to kill {{spoiler|your entire 'family' of assassins}}, which may or may not qualify for the [[Moral Event Horizon]]. Several of the Daedric quests in the game are also pretty villainous, ranging from gleeful sociopathy to diabolic evil: In Molag Bal's Daedric quest, the player is asked to goad a [[Reluctant Warrior]] into murder. Obviously being a sandbox game it also features [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]] aplenty.
** After you give a Daedric artifact to Martin as part of the main storyline, he assures you that he won't ask what you had to do to get it -- as a former Daedra worshipper, he is all too aware of the cruel whims of the Daedra lords. Some are more clearly evil than others (like Molag Bal), some are relatively harmless pranks in comparison (Sheogorath pranking a small village), and others are downright heroic (freeing enslaved Ogres for Malacath, mercy killing vampirized worshippers for Azura, and killing a bunch of evil necromancers for Meridia).
* [[Evil Genius]]. No, really? You play a typical [[Supervillain]], sending out henchmen from your [[Supervillain Lair|lair in a hollowed-out volcano]] (or somewhere like that) to commit evil deeds, working towards the culmination of [[Evil Plan]], setting off your [[Doomsday Device]] or [[Take Over The World|taking over the world]].
* ''[[Dungeon Keeper]]'': Build your sprawling dungeon, employ creatures of darkness, spread your dark influence over the land. Don't forget to deal with those adventuring heroes who want to slay your army and steal your treasure. If the imps or the traps don't kill the them, have them tortured.
* [[The Gunslinger|Caleb]], the main character in the ''[[Blood]]'' series, is a psychotic undead cowboy killing his way through his former cult so he can get revenge on their god, Tchernobog. What pushes Caleb into true villainy is just how much he ''loves'' his [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]]; when he isn't wisecracking or snarking, he's cackling like a madman while chucking dynamite at anything that gets in his way. And then, in the second game, {{spoiler|his disuse of Tchernobog's powers begins to unravel the very stability of the universe; he's quite happy to let the totality of existence collapse out of '''boredom'''.}}
* In the flash game ''[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/474268 Armed with Wings 2]'', you play as the exiled king Vandheer Lorde, the main villain of the series, who is undeniably [[Badass]].
* [[Devil May Cry|3: [[Updated Rerelease|Special Edition]]'' adds the ability to play through the story as Dante's [[Evil Twin]], Vergil.
* Jin Kazama becomes this in ''[[Tekken]] 6''.
** Also [[Bait The Dog|as it is revealed]], Kazuya Mishima has always been this since the first game.
* The Forsaken from [[World Of Warcraft]], who are former Scourge who gained free-will away from the Lich King often look like this. Even people as [[Obviously Evil]] as Varimathras and Putress blend in perfectly with them, almost completely unnoticed until they double-cross the Horde. Post Lich King and Sylvanas has no problems with using the same method the Lich King himself used to raise the dead for her own army. Even [[Comeplete Monster|Garrosh]], who was perfectly fine with ''nuking a city'' was practically spittingly disgusted by this. It reached it's pinnacle when they began massacring and experimenting on entire human settlements, just to see what would happen. Even on the Horde, the questlines lead to you killing the person who was leading these atrocities.
** The rest of the Horde isn't so shiny either, in most battlegrounds, the Alliance is defending sovereign territory or trying to evict whats essentially squatters on their land while the horde ''are'' those invaders or squatters.
*** It's almost as if the Horde and Alliance are fighting a war or something.
* ''[[Centipede]]'': The comic book adaptation has the playable character (a wizard) in the role of the bad guy, with a boy trying to stop him.
* [[Sands Of Destruction]] has us follow the adventures of the [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|World Destruction Committee]]. Although only one is actively seeking the destruction of the world, the other is tagging along because he likes our [[Axe Crazy|crazed]] lady protagonist, and the third is going with to protect him.
* ''[[Okage]]'''s main character is a slave of the evil king Stan, and through the game, you're trying to take the power of the other evil kings that showed up while Stan was in a jar, so he can take over the world. It's not very prominent though, what with Stan being a [[Harmless Villain]] who spends more time fighting evil than causing it.
* The title character in ''[[Legacy Of Kain]]'' is quite the nasty piece of work. The series starts with him becoming a vampire so he can avenge his death. He then decides to destroy the town he was murdered in. And then he gets a list of people to kill, and just settles for slaughtering every man, woman, and child he sees. And right as he's finished, he ruins the whole point of the quest and just decides to rule over Nosgoth's dying remains. In ''Blood Omen 2'', he mind controls bystanders to their deaths, kills every human he sees, {{spoiler|and murders his [[Love Interest]] when she realizes what a monster he is}}, all in the name of regaining his empire. It takes Nosgoth itself dying in the ''Soul Reaver'' series for him to simmer down, and then, he's a [[Manipulative Bastard]] to his vampire offspring Raziel, and is only out to save himself.
* {{spoiler|Scott Shelby}} in [[Heavy Rain]] especially when it is revealed that {{spoiler|he ''is'' the Origami Killer.}}
* ''[[Transformers War For Cybertron]]'' has a campaign where you play as the Decepticons, and control [[Big Bad|Megatron]] for most of the levels.
** You get a choice in who you want to play as though. Four of the five levels have Megatron playable, but the first level also has Barricade and Brawl, while the last three have Soundwave and Breakdown. The second level is dedicated to Starscream, with Skywarp and Thundercracker as choices. Whoever you don't control become your (almost useless) CPU buddies.
* The ''[[Descent]] 3: Mercenary'' [[Expansion Pack]] casts you on the side of the [[Big Bad]] [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] Dravis, as the leader of his Black Pyro squadron.
* [[Double Switch]]: {{spoiler|Eddie}} is revealed to be this later on.
* While people tend to forget about this and usually paint him as a rebel [[Jerk With A Heart Of Gold]], Ragna the Bloodedge from ''[[Blaz Blue]]'' was actually a mass murderer even in human form, killing thousands of innocent NOL people, women or even [[Punch Clock Villain|those just to pick up his paycheck and not really attacking him]]. He's not doing that anymore, but he'll admit his murders without regret so that bounty on his head was really genuinely due to his fault and not because NOL is looking for a scapegoat. Granted, though, [[Woobie Destroyer Of Worlds|he's got reasons and shitty enough past to sympathize with despite such thing.]]
** Also when you play as Hazama in story mode, he's the story's Villain Protagonist, with no past or reasons to justify his villainy. Also the same goes to Relius Clover.
* ''[[Wizardry]] IV'' is an atypical entry in the series: it has the player take control of Werdna, the [[Evil Sorcerer]] of the first episode, now resurrected and thirsty for revenge... If he manages to just leave the dungeon where he was buried first, which is [[Nintendo Hard|not an easy task]].
* ''[[PAYDAY The Heist]]'' has you as crook taking part in various heists, complete with taking hostages and shooting a whole lot of cops.
* {{spoiler|Joshua}} in [[The World Ends With You]] especially when it's revealed {{spoiler|he is the Composer}}.
* Jinkuro, the malevolent ghost possessing Momohime's body, in [[Muramasa The Demon Blade]]. He's outright only into the whole ordeal to get his chosen weapon back and find a better target in his [[Grand Theft Me]] scheme to live forever, and does a lot of villainous actions (such as invading Heaven) in order to find alternate routes to immortality.
* The Voinian campaign in ''[[Escape Velocity|Escape Velocity: Override]]'' is about as unambiguously evil as they come. The Voinians are a race of vicious [[Alien Invasion|alien warlords]] bent on conquering the galaxy and enslaving everything in their path. The player has the option to help the Voinians break their stalemate with the human United Earth<ref>Word of God is it fails and the stalemate ends up broken in favour of the UE</ref>, and crippling the attempts of a ''previously'' conquered race to rebel against their overlords. Rewards for doing so include access to a variety of powerful Voinian military vessels and the unsettling satisfaction of committing genocide against your own race.
** Once you do join, the Voinians never question your motivations for helping them, yet they only seem superficially appreciative of your efforts. One gets the sense that they're stringing you along simply because they know you're capable and willing to [[One Man Army|wipe out entire UE fleets]] at a moment's notice.
** ''All'' [[Escape Velocity]] games have at least one storyline where the player character can be called a villain: in ''Classic'', working for the Confederation and trying to bring the Rebels back to heel, in ''Override'', the Voinian and the two Renegade storylines, and in ''Nova'', the Federation storyline (after a certain point of no return).
* Brice, a UFO-obsessed ghost and one of the playable characters in the adventure game, ''Amber: Journeys Beyond''. {{spoiler|After you complete his level he is sent to Hell in a particularly horrifying way - granted, he did murder at least 3 people in the game's backstory.}}
* Demitri Maximoff from ''[[Darkstalkers]]''. He wants to [[Take Over The World]], and yet was advertised as the lead originally. Unfortunately, this led to [[Darkness Induced Audience Apathy]], as his foe was Pyron, another world-conqueror.
* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' has "The Darkspawn Chronicles" DLC.
* In ''[[Disciples]]''''2'', the Elves are initially on the side of the "good" guys. In ''Rise of the Elves'', their god Gallean, driven mad by his resurrection and the [[Trauma Conga Line]] inflicted upon him by the vengeful [[Woman Scorned|Mortis]], commands them to be brutal warmongers. Gallean is sick of the Elves always getting shafted by their so-called allies and has them taking what he believes is rightfully theirs by force. The "Villain" part is [[Establishing Character Moment|established]] in the first scenario, where the goal is to slaughter a town of innocent humans. A few Elves question these orders, but their doubts don't last. Ironically, the only Elf who continues to have reservations about this is the Oracle who relays Gallean's will to his people.
* ''[[Based On A True Story|V-Tech Rampage'' and ''Super Columbine Massacre RPG]]'', in which the player assumes the role of...yeah.

=== Webcomics ===
* ''[[Niels]]'' and Duncan.
* ''[[The Fourth]]'' is about Dark Lord Tiberius Skarva [[Character Title|IV]] and his plans to take over the local kingdom.
* ''[[Darken]]'' features a party of evil characters led by Gort, the Lord of Hellfire, who wants to unite the three Artifacts of Hell in order to become a demonic demi-god and rule all of Darken with an iron fist.
* ''[[Counting]]'' The Colonel {{spoiler|poisons}} the entire town of Thirston.
* The protagonists of ''[[Hellbound]]'', especially Mel the demon.
* ''[[Narbonic]]'''s protagonists are evil, but it's [[Affably Evil|cute fluffy evil]]. The [[Mad Scientist]] is an upbeat, plump, 26-year old blonde woman ([[Real Time|aging to ~32 by the end of the strip's run]]) with pink glasses and a T-shirt that says "evil" with the "i" dotted with a heart. They're all [[Card Carrying Villain]]s, too.
* Black Mage of ''{{Eight Bit Theater}}''. ...Come to think of it, [[Magnificent Bastard|Thief]] would probably count as well. Actually, [[Crapsack World|every main character]] that isn't [[Purity Sue|White Mage]] is not someone you'd want to share a bus ride with. Strangely enough, Garland (the main "villain") is [[Harmless Villain|the next friendliest]] character. Fighter is mostly just played as being [[Dumb Is Good|way too stupid]] [[Psychopathic Man Child|to understand morality above a kindergarten level]].
* This trope is basically the premise of ''[[When She Was Bad]]''.
* [http://antagonist.swimtrunkstudio.com/ The Antagonist], which follows a villain after he fails. K, the Antagonist, is largely [[Affably Evil]], and would be [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] if he were a little more ruthless. He frequently [[No Fourth Wall|talks to the readers]], an act which confuses [[Genre Blind|everyone around him]], sounding sometimes like the narrator of a book, and he believes his life is ruled by an overreaching "plot".
* The title characters of ''[http://www.succubus-justice.com/ Succubus Justice]'' are soul stealing demons who regularly mutilate innocent people.
* [http://hipsterhitler.com/ Hipster Hitler].
* ''[[Suicide For Hire]]''. Boy howdy, ''[[Suicide For Hire]]''. Especially Hunter. In their defense though the people who die such over the top deaths do tend to deserve it.
* ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'' is from the point of view of a group of evil humanoids (and unnatural beings) living underground.
* ''[[The Last Days Of Foxhound]]'' is as pure an example of this trope as you can find, given that the [[Quirky Mini Boss Squad|six lead characters]] are all the freak mercenary terrorists that Solid Snake must fight in [[Metal Gear Solid]].
** It's also a subversion. Foxhound might be villains by the time [[Metal Gear Solid]], but they start out the comic as heroes working for the US government, and remain so right up until the very end, where they become heroes working against The Patriots, Metal Gear's version of the Illuminati.
* ''[[Sins|The Sins]]''. Sure they are the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]s of The [[Seven Deadly Sins]] and no matter how [[The Cutie|innocent their unwitting host is]] they lose their soul instantly, but they are also pretty fun guys to have around. That they are also [[Punch Clock Villain]]s and [[Affably Evil]] helps.
** Either way, the Virtues are the ones that made it so the Sins need hosts to prevent the universe from being destroyed ([[Take Over The World|the Sins were not always so nice]]). But, the Virtues are ''actively trying'' to [[The End Of The World As We Know It|destroy the universe]] by killing the [[Knight Templar|Sins]] on the off chance the universe gets remade without evil.
* ''[[Webcomic/Anti Heroes]]''. The title [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|sums it up]], although we should avoid confusion by saying that they're the opposite of heroes (i.e. villains, but sympathetic and fun) NOT [[Anti- Hero]]es as we know them.
* ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/Villian_Next_Door/ Villain Next Door]''
* ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Maniac_Chainsaw_Wielding_Duckbilled_Platypus/ The Maniac Chainsaw Wielding Duckbilled Platypus]''
* ''[[Life And Death]]'', while played for laughs, Steve takes his job as Death seriously and murders a lot of people as does his assistant Sally.
* ''[[Chopping Block]]''. Hard to get more Villain than a serial killer protagonist.
* Bun Bun of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' is a sociopathic, switchblade-wielding, possibly immortal madman (well, madrabbit) who cuts anything that annoys him, and he was actually the protagonist of a story arc.
* In ''[[Zebra Girl]]'', the eponymous character's transformation into a demon was initially [[Played For Laughs]], but the long-running [[Cerebus Syndrome]] is turning her into a Villain Protagonist. [http://zebragirl.keenspot.com/d/20090221.html As of now], she's wiping the floor with her [[True Companions]].
* ''[http://badgods.com Sean and Wormwood]'', the Friendly Satanists.
* Yahtzee from ''[[Yahtzee Takes On The World]]'' is a wannabe [[Evil Genius]] who's trying to take over the world.
* Every character in ''[[Cry Havoc]]'' bar Hati is greedy, violent, sadistic, or manipulative. The only defining characteristic the protagonists share is a sense of group loyalty (that may or may not be innate).
* Dr. Kinesis, and in fact, most of the main characters in ''[[Evil Plan The Webcomic]]''. The webcomic is about supervillains, so this trope applies heavily.
* The stunningly mis-named Angel of ''[[The Good Witch]]'', who has a [[Freudian Excuse]], but long since went over the [[Moral Event Horizon]].
** Frankly, she makes [[No More Heroes|Travis Touchdown]] look like a candidate for sainthood.
** The premise of ''[[The Good Witch]]'' boils down to "What would happen if you took someone who, through years of social ostracism and abuse, became a sociopath, and gave that person magic powers centering around transformation and memory modification?" The short answer: Angel happens. [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge|Boy]] [[And I Must Scream|does]] [[Lack Of Empathy|she]] [[Fate Worse Than Death|ever.]]
* The main characters of [[True Villains]]. Really though, what else would you expect in a comic by that title?
* ''[[Jared]]'' features three main characters who are all varying shades of evil; Jared, Mary and Lilac, as well as some with questionable motives; corrupt police officer Carl and Hat Cat. The [[Designated Hero|good guy]] is not introduced until the last page of the first arc.
* ''[[Second Empire]]'' has the [[Doctor Who|Daleks]] of the Second Dalek Empire going against the slightly more evil First Dalek Empire.
* The main characters of ''[[Overlord Academy]]'', excluding [[Stranger In A Strange School|A-san]].
* ''[[Bad Guy High]]'', which is about a school for wannabe supervillains.
* ''[[Overlord Of Ravenfell]]'' features a character who intends on becoming an [[Evil Overlord]].
* ''[[Heist]]'' stars Geist, an [[Intangible Man]] master thief who makes the same mistake [[Greek Mythology|Icarus]] did.
* The [[Grey And Grey Morality]] of ''[[Two Rooks]]'' complicates matters, but protagonist Dea O'Malley ''is'' a ruthless assassin working for a crime syndicate, and his opposite number, Serus Eden, ''is'' undeniably [[A Lighter Shade Of Grey]]. But neither side is all that nice.
* ''[[Voodoo Walrus]]'' ended their first year with a massive [http://voodoowalrus.com/?p=777 storyline focusing on baddies Mac and Shmeerm] viciously taking down ''[[Big Bad]]'' Cyradwee and every last one of his underlings.
** We still don't know the final fate of Mungo though.
* ''[[Minion Comics]]'' focuses on the lives of minions who sign up with an evil organization.
* ''[[Marla]]'', at least in Act 1.
* Every male protagonist (and some females too) in ''[[Fansadox]]''.
** Peter in ''[[Birthday Gift]]'', despite the [[Title Character]].
** [[Basement Dweller|Roy]] in ''[[Confiscated Twins]]''.
* Most of the females in ''[[Lustomic]]''.

=== Web Original ===
* The Blogfic [http://sooniwillrule.blogspot.com/ Soon, I will Rule The World!] has one of these. He's a [[Our Liches Are Different|Lich]] who [[Mage In Manhattan|has come to our world to take it over]]. He hasn't really crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] yet, and he's decent to his minions, but does collect protection money from a substantial chunk of the city and did try (and fail) to hypnotize some orphans to mess with his nemesis. Though it is implied (Albeit barely, though the author says that more on that is planned) that he does have a [[Freudian Excuse]].
* Unlike most superhero based [[Shared Universe|Shared Universe's]]. The [[Metaverse]] focuses primarily on the villains. And even then, a lot of the heroes aren't all that heroic...
* ''[[The Joker Blogs]]''. He knows that this time, you're rooting for him.
* In ''[[Sailor Moon Abridged]]'', [[Sailor]] Mars is very much this, being a [[Satan]]-worshipper (Human Sacrifice included) who was more than happy to {{spoiler|take Molly up on her offer of "Kill me first!" when she defended Nephlyte}}. All of it is played for [[Rule Of Funny|laughs]].
* Doctor Horrible from [[Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog]] is a [[Card Carrying Villain|self-proclaimed]] [[Supervillain]], and the story opens with him practicing his [[Evil Laugh]]. As a nerdy, [[Affably Evil]], [[Well Intentioned Extremist]], he's contrasted starkly with [[Hero Antagonist]] Captain Hammer, who is closer to a [[Knight Templar]] [[Villain With Good Publicity]] than anything resembling an actual hero.
* ''[[Dorf Quest]]'''s Beardbeard embodies this trope - cutting down forests, killing elves, attacking small children, and {{spoiler|promoting Satan himself to godhood.}}
* Muschio in ''[[Dive Quest]]'''s goal is to "become the Devil" and has no qualms about burning down peaceful villages and assassinating his rivals to get his way.
* The point of the [http://causeofdeath.weebly.com/ entire series] [[Cause Of Death]], where individual serial killers and psychos end up joining together and, in some cases, dueling against one another. It's up to the viewer to decide who to root for, because everyone in the show is going to Hell anyway.
* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] (and the rest of the [[That Guy With The Glasses]] crew) in ''[[Kickassia]]''.
** In their regular shows, Lindsay Ellis has been making an effort into making sure everyone knows [[The Nostalgia Chick]] is this.
** The most blatant example on the site would be [[Diamanda Hagan]], who is an actual supervillain.
*: "[[Doctor Doom]] [[Take That|is a pussy!]]"
** [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses]] is a rapist, a [[Domestic Abuser]], a pedophile, a murderer, works for the devil and yet still stays [[Sympathetic POV|sympathetic and charming]].
*** Then there's Sage, who [[Even Evil Has Standards|disgusts and terrifies even That Guy with the Glasses]], and may or may not be [[Satan]].
* [[Red Letter Media|Mr. Plinkett]]. You're still rooting for him over Nadine, right?
* ''[[Worm]]'' not only is the protagonist a villain ([[The Infiltration|sort of]]) but most of the perspectives seen via [[A Day In The Limelight|Interludes]] are also villainous. Anti-villainy varies greatly.
* Michael from ''[[The Salvation War]]''. Though the humans are undoubtedly the real heroes of the story, Michael acts as our main viewpoint in Heaven, and has quite sympathetic motivations in wanting to limit the damage done to Heaven when the humans inevitably invade, even as he keeps crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]] to accomplish this.
* Duggan Masters aka Light Master in [[Waiting For A Miracle]].
* [[Whateley Universe]] example: the story "Mimeographic", featuring the supervillain Mimeo. He's not an amoral street thug. He's an amoral street thug with unstoppable superpowers.
** Or "It's Good to be the Don", told from the viewpoint of Don Sebastiano.
** Or the Jobe stories. Or "Razzle Dazzle", told by a supervillain who may have been, among other supervillains, the legendary Cerebrex. It's hard to be sure, since it clearly has an [[Unreliable Narrator]].
* Eric from ''[[Mall Fight]]''. Originally he was [[Heroic Neutral]], a Type IV Anti Hero at worst, but in the latest canon he rules over a [[Wretched Hive]], keeping dozens of slave girls and [[Stalker With A Crush|a former classmate he's obsessed with]] as his queen [[Abduction Is Love|against her will.]] He still tries to do good and wants to be a hero, he just doesn't care about what anyone else wants.
* Iriana from ''[[Ilivais X]]'' gradually becomes this. At first, she's mostly freaked out, having narrowly escaped from an eternity of servitude to an empire that half-unwittingly tortured her for more than half of her life. As such, she spends her first week or so taking respite, learning to use the eponymous robot, defending herself, getting in close with Mille, and generally being moderately suspicious but even pitiable at times. But soon she realizes the infinitely destructive power of her robot, and her grudge against the Aztecs and the world in general begins to surface. She begins antagonizing the empires far more adamantly for little reason aside from wanting them destroyed, manipulates and forces people into serving her (especially Mille), and shows an unwillingness to accept things that aren't in her control- and if that doesn't change, she deigns to erase it from existence.
* The Sly Cooper series is based on your theif team either running from the cops or beating other villains.

== Notes ==
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[[Category:Villains]]
[[Category:Criminal Procedural]]
[[Category:Overdosed Tropes]]
[[Category:The Millennium Age Of Animation]]
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{{wiki|VillainProtagonist}}{{2012}}

The Erotic Mind Control Story Archive

2012-12-01T15:18:13Z

Tropers:

[[File:mcstories.png|thumb|right|350px|Look into the green hole, the lite green hole... you're getting sleepy, sleepy... all you want is to read more stories and to be hypnotized by the people on this site... sleepy, sleepy...]]
:''"When I snap my fingers, you will [[Describe Topic Here|describe]] [http://www.mcstories.com this website] [[Describe Topic Here|here]]."''
:''"Yes, Master."''
:'''*snap*'''

Is the subject of hypnosis [[Fetish Fuel]] for you? Then you'll probably like this website. Originally part of the newsgroup alt.sex.stories, it was spun off into its own website in 1996 by a man who calls himself "[[Underdog|Simon Bar Sinister]]". The site contains a huge archive of stories from many, many users, and these stories tend to run the gamut from [[Mythbusters|plausible]] to [[Nightmare Fuel|downright bizarre]].

Their unifying theme is that they all contain some form of mind control, and that the mind control is somehow used as part of a sexual act. The most common use of mind control on the site is hypnotizing someone, and then using suggestions to make them orgasm while under. Another common use involves hypnotic alternate personality play, where characters in a story think they're sluts, [[Sex Slave]]s, and other stuff like that. We have a trope for the final common use -- [[People Puppets]], combined with [[And I Must Scream]].

All the MC stories on the site are categorized. [http://www.mcstories.com/Tags/index.html What's your pleasure?]

This site also has an official forum, available [http://www.mcforum.net here], as well as a secondary spinoff forum [http://www.mcgarden.org/forum/ here].

Quite infamously, fan fiction is banned from the site after Warner Bros. sent a cease and desist letter to the site in 1998. There are a few ''[[Star Trek]]'' and ''[[X-Files]]'' fanfics on the site, but these are legacy fics from before 1998 that weren't affected by the ban; fan fiction hasn't been accepted since.

Similarly, [[Transgender]] stories were removed from the archive some time ago, due to the generally correct opinion of the webmaster that [[X Meets Y|Transgender / Mind Control fiction]] tends to use MC to enforce gender play, at which point the MC is more or less dropped.

Despite it having no "fanfics" [[Subverted Trope|in the true sense of the word]], it still generally is a site for ordinary people to post their stories

Also, one more note: When direct-linking, it's recommended that you use the "mcstories.com" URL; while the site technically does still exist at [http://www.asstr.org/~mcstories its original alt.sex.stories home], that URL is deprecated. [[Word Salad Title|And slightly longer and harder to remember.]]

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:'''Hypnotist''': ''...and when I count to 3, you will tell me every single trope this website uses. You will have no memory of this trance. Do you understand?''
:'''[[Trope-Tan|Trope]]-[[Adapted For The Tropes|Tan]]''': (eyes half-closed and staring blankly ahead with her mouth hanging open and the rest of her body completely relaxed, says this weakly and in monotone:)'' ...yes... @_@
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{{RWWW|The_Erotic_Mind_Control_Story_Archive}}
* [[A Date With Rosie Palms]]: [[Captain Obvious|Gee, I wonder what the stories marked as "MA: Masturbation" contain? =P]]
* [[A God Am I]]: Notably, the origin of the "Master PC" stories about a computer program that lets the user reprogram people.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]] / [[All Women Are Lustful]]: Even ''if'' they're among the most [[Chivalrous Pervert|restrained]] with their abilities.
* [[All Men Love Ponygirls]].
* [[Anatomically Impossible Sex]]: Sometimes it's because the writer screwed up (or doesn't mind that what they're describing is unrealistic), sometimes it's because characters have [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that makes it work anyway, and sometimes ''characters'' attempt this and then find out that [[Reality Ensues]] ([[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity]] optional).
** The story "He's The Greatest Writer" parodies this, in which a writer who [[Anatomically Impossible Sex|failed Sex Ed forever]] finds out for himself how impossible the scenarios in his stories are.
* [[And I Must Scream]]: A very large chunk of the stories marked "NC: Non-Consensual" revolve around the victim being trapped, aware of their situation but unable to change it.
* [[Archive Binge]]: There are only about 10,000 stories... ranging from one chapter to ''hundreds'' of chapters.
* [[The Artifact]]: This website has quite a few remnants of its original home at the alt.sex.stories Text Repository:
** Actually it's still hosted with the A.S.S.T.R and is actually just an account under the A.S.S.T.R domain. It uses the A.S.S.T.R Webservers to serve pages. Hence the A.S.S.T.R error messages.
** Whenever you try to access a story that doesn't exist, you get redirected to ASSTR's HTTP 404 page.
** As mentioned above, the website keeps [http://www.asstr.org/~mcstories its original URL] as a sort of "alternate" location. Please see above.
** As mentioned in "Department of Redundancy Department", every story on the site is classified as "MC: Mind Control". This dates back to when it was a part of alt.sex.stories. Of course, that website has a much larger focus than the EMCSA, and Simon's aren't the only stories around. This definitely helped in sorting newsgroups. In fact, all of the site's current tags come from an old 'standard' set of tags from that time.
** Actually, not every story has the MC tag. Quite a few don't include it so you may miss out on these stories. Some times the MC is implied but not directly fixated on so the 'MC' tag is omitted to reflect this. It keeps people guessing!
* [[Asshole Victim]].
* [[Author Appeal]]: Well, this IS a fetish site, after all.
* [[Author Existence Failure]], [[What Could Have Been]]: Well known author Blankpage, who was also a troper, died in early 2010 before finishing his masterpiece ''Chateau [[Darkstalkers|Aensland]]''.
** Sara castle, known for a series of related stories starring a villain known as The Confectioner, died in early 2011.
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: Stories in which the heroine (or hero) succumbs to the [[Obviously Evil]] mind controller and ends up a [[Sex Slave]] are fairly common.
** Played with in the Super Hero category. At least one villain has the super heroines continue defending the world and another has a super heroine mind control a super villainess into becoming a hero.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]].
* {{Brainwashed}}: Another obvious trope use.
* [[Bound And Gagged]]: Oddly enough, the stories marked "BD: Bondage and/or Discipline" [[Subverted Trope|don't feature this trope as much as you'd think]].
** At least, not with physical bonds. Instead, people will be [[Mind Rape|hypnotized into thinking they're tied up]].
* [[Biggus Dickus]]: Well, it is a porn site. Sometimes they actually do cause problems for characters who both [[Anatomically Impossible Sex|failed Sex Ed]] (and whose authors didn't) and lack the magic or ]]Applied Phlebotinum]] to make them practical.
* [[Bikini Bar]]: One story centers about a guy getting his money "back" from girls at a bar he used to frequent, [[If You Know What I Mean|with interest]].
* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Lots of stories involve turning people into these. It's referred to on the forum as "bimboization". [[Dumb Blond|Blond hair]] is optional, but common.
* [[Breast Expansion]]: Some stories, especially those marked as "GR: growth or enlargement of bodies and parts" There's also "LA: Lactation".
* [[Break The Haughty]]: Many, but ''The Humiliation of Jane'' is probably the website's personal Trope Codifier, revolving around a [[Asshole Victim|nasty law student]] being given a drug that makes it impossible for her to disobey ''anyone''. Permanently.
* [[Buxom Is Better]]: Several references to women being more attractive due to their breast size. This even has a sub-section of the site: the GR: growth or enlargement of bodies and parts tag.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: For legal reasons, trademarked characters are not allowed to be used in stories, except for a few stories that were there before the ban was imposed. As a result, you'll see characters that are exactly the same as, say, [[Wonder Woman]], but with a different name.
* [[Color Coded For Your Convenience]]: The links to stories on the site have a different color underline that gives a general indication of what category a story falls under, such as male or female-dominant in a het fic, or [[Ho Yay|which]] [[Les Yay|gender]] if it's a gay story. If the story contains none or many of these tags, there's a fifth catch-all color for it.
** To be more specific:
*** [[color:green:Green: female dominant]]
*** [[color:red:Red: lesbian sex]]
*** [[color:yellow:Yellow: male dominant]]
*** [[color:cyan:Cyan: gay sex]]
*** [[color:purple:Purple: the aforementioned "fifth catch-all color"]]
* [[The Conspiracy]]: All sorts, including [[Ancient Conspiracy]], [[Government Conspiracy]], [[Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy]], and others that don't necessarily fit into one of these categories. Not all of them are actually evil, though, and some even [[We Help The Helpless|help the helpless]].
* [[A Chat With Satan]]: Generally, ''[[The Erotic Mind Control Story Archive]]'' has people with powers coming to (female) psychologists to [[This Is My Story|tell their stories]]. Because the site is highly detrimental to free will, this usually ends in clients enslaving/[[Mind Rape|Mind Raping]] the shrink after they've got everything off their chests.
** In the end chapter of ''[http://www.mcstories.com/SlavePit/SlavePit9.html The Slave Pit]'', a man is responsible for turning a big chunk of the female population into [[Sex Slave|subservent slaves for any other male]], mostly [[For The Evulz]]. However, he realizes after he becomes more mature that this process is [[Captain Obvious|actually harmful for women's rights]], and goes to a famous study of the "Slut phenomenon" and how to undue some of its harmful effects. The twist is she turns out to be "[[Mad Scientist Beautiful Daughter|The Devil's Daughter]]". [[Break The Haughtie]] ensues.
* [[Dead Fic]] / Orphaned Series: Far too many.
* [[Department Of Redundancy Department]]: Every single fic on the site is labeled as "MC: Mind Control". For the main reason why, see "The Artifact". Also, it helps make the stories easier to sort; since it can be used as a catch-all, the servers don't need an extra algorithm to show all - just use the same stuff to sort things like ft and mm.
* [[Dirty Mind Reading]].
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Never piss off a mind controller.
* [[Doorstopper]]: ''Tim, the Teenage Mind Controller''. 22 chapters, each of which the size of a short story, written over 11 years, with plans to continue updating it soon.
** And plenty of others.
* [[Emotion Bomb]]: The "lust" version has obvious applications; others may be useful as well.
* [[Exact Words]]: Many mind controllers learn the hard way to be very, very careful about what orders they give.
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: The stories classified as "CB: Comic Book Superhero" tend to fall under this trope. The heroines usually exist only to get defeated by the first supervillain with hypnosis powers, or vice versa.
* [[Fetish Fuel Future]].
* [[Fighting From The Inside]].
* [[Freak Lab Accident]].
* [[Furry Fandom]]: Only 38 stories are this trope as of March 19, 2010. There are also no gay male furry stories.
* [[Getting Smilies Painted On Your Soul]].
* [[God Mode Sue]]: Lots of the controllers, mildly tempered only by [[I Thought Everyone Could Do That]].
* [[Guy On Guy Is Hot]]: [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|All of the fics marked as "MM:Male/Male Sex", natch!]]
* [[Girl On Girl Is Hot]]: [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|All of the fics marked as "FF: Female/Female Sex", natch!]]
* [[Gone Horribly Right]].
* [[Happiness In Slavery]].
* [[Het Is Ew]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]]. Heterosexual stories (those labeled "MF: male-female sex") outnumber homosexual stories by almost a 2-to-1 margin. (As of March 19, 2010, there are 4,789 stories with heterosexual sex.) However, do keep in mind that the numbers for this trope as well as "Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls" below are unreliable. The FF, MF, and MM categories are not mutually exclusive, and some stories on the site are classified into more than one of these three categories.
* [[Horny Devils]].
* [[Hospital Hottie]]: Many stories involve someone getting [[Psychic Powers]] from a head injury or other accident. I'll give you one guess as to who ends up being the first person to be affected by those powers.
** Lampshaded in one story when a guy seems able to mentally control a nurse, leading to [[Hospital Hottie]] situations. But it turns out she was the one with the powers, reading his mind to see what he desired, then wiping his memory of the scene afterwards.
* [[Hypnotic Eyes]]: Sometimes it's played relatively realistically, sometimes it's an actual superpower.
* [[Hypno Fool]]: Some stories, typically those with stage hypnosis.
* [[Hypnotize The Princess]]: And then have one's way with her.
* [[I Thought Everyone Could Do That]]: Most [[God Mod Sue]] controllers that get more awesome powers than any other member of some [[Ancient Conspiracy]] group, will think their powers are between low and average, that it's easy for them and such should be as easy for others.
* [[It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It]]: So you meet some stranger who you think is really, really hot. The two of you go rent a motel room and have a night of really, really good sex, and then go your separate ways, never regretting any of it for the rest of your life. Does it really matter that your attraction was caused by [[Applied Phlebotinum]] instead of something more mundane?
** Often overlaps with [[Rape Is OK When It Is Sci Fi]].
** Sometimes subverted: even if the victims enjoy it (physically), some of them will be hurt to the core by the fact that, emotionally, can't stop the abuse.
* [[The Immodest Orgasm]]: Enhanced through mind control, even.
* [[I Have Boobs You Must Obey]].
* [[Incest]]: Between [[Brother Sister Incest|siblings]], [[Parental Incest|parents and children]], and other relatives, too. Stories containing incest are always marked as such, though.
* [[Incompatible Orientation]]: Overcoming this obstacle and initiating the target into a new form of sexuality is sometimes played as [[Fetish Fuel]].
* [[Just Between You And Me]]: Some mind controllers give their subjects a detailed description of the fate that awaits them, either as a form of post-hypnotic suggestion or simply as foreplay.
* [[Lolicon]]: Mostly averted. There used to be a Pedophilia category, but the category, and subsequently the stories, were purged over a decade ago, most likely due to [[Paedo Hunt|this trope]]. There are still a number of stories set in and around high school.
* [[Love Is In The Air]].
* [[Love Potion]]: Some even work exactly the way the user wanted them to!
* [[Mad Scientist]]: If your story requires a [[Mind Control Device]], this is the go-to guy.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: There's a user named [http://www.mcstories.com/Authors/Jukebox.html Jukebox] whose stories are all named after songs. And those songs themselves are an indicator as to what the story is about.
* [[Me Love You Long Time]]: Some stories have a guy of undisclosed race hooking up with an Asian girl. The guy is presumed to be white.
* [[Misapplied Phlebotinum]]: Given the premise of the site, this is somewhat inevitable. At the end of one story,
* [[Mind Control Device]].
* [[Mind Control Eyes]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted.]] Most stories show the "look" of hypnosis realistically.
* [[Mind Over Manners]]: Generally not used. Lose a fight with a mind controller, and you're almost certainly ''not'' going to be yourself afterward, even if said mind controller isn't evil.
* [[Mind Rape]]: Some stories, especially those with so-called "hypnodommes".
* [[Morality Chain]]: What keeps some of these worlds to face from [[Fetish Fuel Future]]s to [[The End Of The World As We Know It]]
* [[More Than Mind Control]].
* [[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted.]] There are only a few known female writers; this is most likely due to the tendency of males to be more forward with their fetishes than females. The [[Yaoi Fangirl]] subtrope of this trope is [[Averted Trope|averted]], as there is a section labeled "MM: Male/Male Sex", but gay stories on the site (840 as of March 19, 2010) are outnumbered by lesbian stories (2,569 as of the same date). See also "Het is Ew" above.
* [[Narm]]: Some stories harken back to all those horror movies of the 1950's that many real-life hypnotists [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|wish never existed]].
* [[NSFW]]: Make no mistake: '''This is an erotica (read: Porn) site.''' Over 99% of the stories on the site include sex, and the other ones imply sex.
* [[People Puppets]]: The other half of the NC section (unofficially termed "BC" -- body control -- by the fanbase) revolves around people being forced to watch / feel / etc as their body goes off and does it's own thing, often at the direct command of someone else.
* [[Plot With Porn]]: Because of the erotica nature of the site, MC stories that have little porn or a lot of plot often warn readers about this fact, so you'll get your [[A Date With Rosie Palms|fapping]] done elsewhere.
* [[Power Incontinence]]: One older story, ''Tales of the Institute'', has a chapter in which the heroine gains the ability to read minds... but then her mind changes to match what other people ''think'' she is like. In other words, it's the complete ''[[Deconstruction|opposite]]'' of the standard trope used most of the stories.
** A more standard example is "I Volunteered". Because of a medical experiment, any woman who smells the main character's pheromones ends up an addicted sex slave incapable of living a normal life - so all he can do is seclude himself and hope that his [[Unwanted Harem]] doesn't end up getting any bigger.
* [[Phlebotinum Induced Stupidity]]: Occurs in the above mentioned Bimboization stories, [http://mcstories.com/BimboDotCom/index.html such as this one.]
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Kind of the point.
* [[Psychic Powers]].
* [[Rewriting Reality]]: The various versions of the Master PC program displayed in the titular stories are limited to rewriting people, but that's usually more than enough.
* [[Robot Girl]]: [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|The stories classified as "RB: Robots", natch!]]
** The "RB" stories often involve people being turned into robots. Sometimes even with their permission!
* [[Rule Of Sexy]].
* [[Sex Slave]].
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Many of the stories by [http://www.mcstories.com/Authors/Wiseguy.html Wiseguy] show this trope. ''Busman's Holiday'' is an [[egregious]] example; Wiseguy might be a hypnotherapist in real life.
* [[Slave Collar]].
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: Often [[Applied Phlebotinum|Phlebotinumally induced, in fact.]]
* [[Three Way Sex]]: And it doesn't always stop at three.
* [[Time Stands Still]]: Ironically, even though this is a very common feature of the hypnoplay that the site's users engage in, only 31 actual stories (as of April 12, 2010), all of which are marked "TS: time stop", feature this trope.
** While TimeStandsStill as a hypnotic suggestion is used, TS stories are literal uses of TimeStandsStill -- there being much overlap between the Time Stop fetish (Yes, it exists) and Hypnosis Fetishes, apparently.
* [[TV Genius]].
* [[Unwanted Harem]]: Not everyone with a harem of enslaved beauties planned on it. Perhaps you rescued them from someone who was using their talents for evil, or you have [[Power Incontinence]] and anyone who gets near you falls under your spell, or your first slave decides to go "recruiting" without your permission, or something else happens, and now you have to deal with all these people who are calling you "Master", say that they love you, and get very upset if you tell them to go away.
* [[Unwilling Roboticisation]]: Some of the fics have this trope, including "Bimborg" and "Metal Harvest".
* [[You Bastard]]: Some particularly dark stories very subtly (or not so subtly) condemn the reader for getting off on the horror and anguish within.
* [[You Make Me Sic]], [[Engrish]]: Quite famously, on the homepage and on the site's FAQ, Simon proclaims that he makes no post-production edits of any stories submitted to the site, meaning that any spelling and grammar errors that the authors made are preserved.
* [[Villain Protagonist]].
* [[Wish Fulfillment]].
* [[Zeroth Law Rebellion]].

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Confiscated Twins

2012-12-01T03:34:59Z

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Part of the ''[[Fansadox]]'' franchise, this is the over-the-top story of a [[Jerk Ass]] [[Basement Dweller]] having [[A Date With Rosie Palms]] to his [[Twincest]]-engaging neighbors, only to be caught by his sister, be threatened to be ratted out on his parents and having a lousy life in general. [[It Gets Worse|No, that's not the half of it.]] His father eventually buys the twins for his son's 18th birthday as a result of a law that allows young women to be auctioned in case a family cannot pay its debts. When it was posted on [[Imageboard|/b/]], many believed it the greatest creation since... sex, probably.

Tropes include:
* [[Abstract Scale]]: There's a sort of female turn-on measuring system, packed with a lot of [[Techno Babble]].
* [[A Date With Rosie Palms]]: Roy gets caught in the middle of doing it over the twins' (still free) window. [[Brother Sister Incest|By his sister]].
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Utterly subverted. The teens are at the mercy of adults, Roy's father is the one who takes the twins, Roy's a pityful [[Basement Dweller]] that doesn't have the guts or power to do anything that the state or his parents didn't put in his grubby hands, he {{spoiler|becomes an Unwitting Pawn for an older woman - twice, and even when he loses the girls, his best revenge is to help them escape (which just means he loses them too) and to rape them from time to time in the shadows to feel like he spites Mrs. O'Reilley. Clara tries to screw her over, only to be handed as a package to Roy to be thoroughly raped and abused... without him knowing it.}}
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The tools used to break women.
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|Mrs. O'Reilly. Twice.}}
* [[Batman Gambit]]: The entire end of part 4. {{spoiler|Mrs. O'Reilly [[Schmuck Bait|intentionally types the code for her slave vault in front of Clara]], kidnaps her, puts a blond wig, chastity belt and mouth gag (so she can't tell Ray it's her), takes with her one of her slaves, then waits for Roy to break in and rape the two slaves. She even gives Roy indications from Clara's phone each time she's satisfied on how things went until then. Of course, this works because Roy is close to [[Ralph Wiggum]] in terms of intelligence.}}
* [[Basement Dweller]]: Roy.
* [[Bed Trick]]: {{spoiler|Roy is tricked into having sex with/raping his sister}}.
* [[Better Than Sex]]: Since sex becomes relatively common for Roy, he has several scenes showing more attention to: a) [[Video Game]]s b) [[Stalker With A Crush|stalking]] his fully-clothed MILF neighbor. {{spoiler|He should've stayed at videogames...}}
* [[Big Screwed Up Family]]: Roy's family: A fat, ugly, bitter, but hard-working mother, a fat, ugly, bitter man working in the enslavement industry who is implied to often cheat on his wife with his merchandise, a [[Basement Dweller]] son and a [[Fille Fatale]] daughter. Maybe because of their bitterness, they turn the twins' family into this too.
* [[Big What]]: The girls when their mother gets tasered.
* [[Blackmail]]: {{spoiler|After having Roy arrested for rape of a free woman (herself, no less), Mrs. O'Reilly asks Roy's twins as compensation.}}
* [[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce]]: The girls are stuffed with condiments [[O Ring Orifice|anywhere but the mouth]].
* [[Break The Cutie]]: The twins.
* [[Break The Haughty]]: Roy implies he intends to do this in a future issue to {{spoiler|Mrs. O'Reilly}}. Also done to {{spoiler|Roy and Clara.}}
* [[Brother Sister Incest]]: Mostly averted, but many connotations still remain. We're just led to believe they're not doing it because they seem to dislike each others' personalities.
** {{spoiler|Enforced in part 4 by Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
* [[Caught With Your Pants Down]]: The beginning of the comic finds Roy in this position in front of his sister ''and mother''.
* [[Comic Book Time]]: The four issues appear over a few years, yet ''each issue continues right at the point the other ended''.
* [[Cruel Mercy]]: When the mother tries to free her daughters and is tasered, When the SWAT-ish guys say they'll send her to jail, Roy's father suggest they cut her some slack... [[All Women Are Lustful|because she's just cock-crazy]] [[Cool And Unusual Punishment|and they should fix that]] and then let her go.
* [[Dangerously Short Skirt]]: Clara wears a [[Stripperific]] [[Goth]]ish two-item, complete with [[Underboobs]].
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|If you're rooting for Roy, he got pwnd good by the end, Mrs. O'Reilly is with his father breaking up Roy's parents' marriage, and she has a tape of him and his sister tricked to have sex with which she can blackmail them and his father will never know.}}
* [[Earth Drift]].
* [[Enemy Mine]]: {{spoiler|Roy helps the sisters escape to piss off Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: {{spoiler|Roy's revenge on Mrs. O'Reilly? Having fun with her slaves whenever he can. Not much of a comeback, Roy.}}
* [[Electric Torture]].
* [[Frameup]]: Mild version, but the twins' mother's owner suggests doing this to families that have daughters regarding their debts. Also the mother herself claims to have been a victim of this.
** Roy is framed of {{spoiler|raping Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
* [[Gold Digger]]: Mrs. O'Reilly is said to be this. She's much more and worse than that (although not a certified [[Black Widow]]).
* [[Home Porn Movie]]: Roy likes to send naked pictures of the twins to their mother [[For The Evulz|just to torment her]].
* [[I Should Have Been Better]]: The twins' mother is convinced into thinking this. Considering [[Failure Is The Only Option|it was probably a set up from the start]], she's not really right.
* [[Internet Backdraft]]: Its similarities with ''[[Birthday Gift]]'' brings rage to any [[Erenich]] fan.
* [[Laser Guided Karma]]: At the end of part 4 with {{spoiler|Roy and Clara}}.
* [[Love Thy Neighbour]]: Part 4 is even named that.
* [[Made A Slave]].
* [[Maid Of Sexy]]: The [[Mother Daughter Threesome]].
* [[Mother Daughter Threesome]].
* [[Not Distracted By The Sexy]]: Roy gets used to his new slaves faster than feaseble, that it gets to the point where he's more interested in his video games than in lovely 18 year olds masturbating in front of him at his orders.
* [[Lady In Red]]: Mrs. O'Reilly is seen mostly wearing red. One of the twins also wore red before their capture, implying their [[The Tease|Tease]] status.
* [[Out Gambited]]: {{spoiler|Roy gets some serious pwnage in the third part from Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
** And in the fourth, {{spoiler|both he and his sister.}}
* [[Pervert Dad]].
* [[Porn Stash]]: Roy seems to have this when he's not jerking off to his neighbors.
* [[Rape As Comedy]]: Probably one of the few issues to try it. It's... [[YMMV|arguable if it works]].
* [[Rape Is Funny When It Is Male On Male]]: Subverted with Mrs. O'Reilly's slave. It's actually so cruel when she tells he's mentally handicapped that it falls into [[Dude Not Funny]] ([[Double Standard|...you know]][[Crosses The Line Twice|... worse than usual]]).
* [[The Tease]]: The twins before their capture, Clara, Mrs. O'Reilly... everyone, maybe except the twins' mother.
* [[Transparent Closet]]: An [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] would have Clara having the hots for Roy, if for not other reason, than because incest is xtreem. She acts like [[The Tease]] around him at least [[Once An Episode|Once A Strip]]. This may be {{spoiler|{{Forshadowing}}, as Mrs. O'Reilly indulges them by tricking Roy to bed Clara}}.
* [[To Be Continued]].
** Finally ended (maybe?)
* [[Tragedy]]: Implicit for the women, at the end of part 3 {{spoiler|Roy is at the end of this}}, gets worse by the end of part 4.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into The Future]].
* [[Twincest]]: The main plot of the comic.
* [[The Twist]]: Because you couldn't have guessed it unless you figured the author had it in for {{spoiler|Roy and Clara}}.
* [[Uncanceled]]: The third number appeared ''80 issues after the second'', out of 260 Fansadox had at the time. It may even be a record in the difference. The series was considered dead until then.
* [[Underboobs]]: Clara.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Spoofed, between Roy and Clara. {{spoiler|"Resolved" with a little help from Mrs. O'Reilly}} at the end of part 4.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Roy.
* [[Woman In Black]]: Clara skims [[Perky Goth]] (though never outright stated), but is not as dangerous as her outfit make her look. Well, she is for the twins, but not in the plot.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: A minor character that torments the teens has this.

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The Descent

2012-11-30T20:40:05Z

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[[File:The_Descent_by_Jeff_Long|thumb|right|300px|[[What If|What if]] [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|Hell was an actual place on Earth]]?]]
{{cquote|''Adventure isn't dead. It's just gone to Hell.''}}

''The Descent'' is a 1999 science-fiction/horror novel by American author [[Jeff Long]] focusing on the discovery and exploration of [[Beneath The Earth|an extensive labyrinth of tunnels and passages stretching throughout the sub-surface of the entire world]], inhabited by several species of alternately-evolved troglobitic hominids. While [[Always Chaotic Evil|presently degenerate and brutal]], the "hadals" had once possessed a high level of civilization, having reached the Iron Age as far back as 20,000 years ago and [[Benevolent Precursors|mentored subsequent human civilizations]]. [[Doing In The Wizard|Their fall from grace formed the basis of the historical belief in demons]].

The book is split between two storylines. The first concerns an ill-fated expedition into the sub-planet. The other about the Beowulf Club, [[Badass Bookworm|a group of highly-determined scholars]] who set out to find the historical figure who inspired the legends of [[The Devil]]. Eventually, these two stories intersect as the expedition comes face-to-face with Satan himself.

Has nothing to do with the video game series ''[[Descent]]''. Nor the 2005 British horror film ''The Descent'' written and directed by Neil Marshall, although there are certainly similarities. The novel was followed by a sequel, ''Deeper'', and ''The Ascent''.
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;''The Descent'' contains examples of:

* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Clemens to Rebecca.
* [[All Of Them]]: Used twice in a row in ''Deeper''.
* [[All Myths Are True]]: They're pet projects of Satan either [[Gone Horribly Right]] or [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]. Generally, the second. Some of them are still lurking around the world, starving or being worshiped and fed by madmen.
* [[Always Chaotic Evil]]: Reconstructed. Lip service is paid to the idea that the hadals simply act out of a culture with [[Blue And Orange Morality|a different set of expectations about good and evil]]. None of that changes the fact that hadal behavior towards outsiders involves hefty doses of what humans would consider [[Rape, Pillage, and Burn|slavery, rape, mutilation]], [[Moral Event Horizon|torture and cannibalism]].
* [[Antichrist]]: {{spoiler|Satan under Samantha's skin.}}
* [[Apathetic Citizens]]: At least one group of humans from below is like this, believing their hear their dead.
* [[Arc Words]]: ''The deeps provide''. See [[Unusual Euphemism]] below.
* [[The Atoner]]: Beckwith. Ike in some manner.
* [[Beauty And The Beast]]: Clemens tried to invoke this with Rebecca.
* [[Beneath The Earth]]: The discovery and exploration of the sub-planet drives the plot of the novel.
* [[The Berserker]]: {{spoiler|Ike is turned into this.}}
* [[Better To Die Than Be Killed]]: Considering that hadal captivity often leads to cannibalism and trauma-induced psychosis among humans, many characters choose to commit suicide instead.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Rebecca escaped, and is reunited with (a vision of?) her daughter, which is actually Satan who found the closest thing to getting out... for now. Ike got out too, but he's still an}} [[Unwitting Pawn|{{spoiler|Unwitting Pawn]]}} {{spoiler|of Satan. Beckwith has come back with a lot more ghosts than with how he went in, and Ali's}} [[Self Exile|{{spoiler|Self Exiled]]}}{{spoiler| herself in Satan's cage to keep him there... and is implied to crack after death herself, thus releasing him sooner or later.}}
* [[Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word]]:
*: '''Clemens''': ''I believe we can put a quick end to what seems to be brewing.''
*: '''Rebecca''': ''A mutiny? Is that what you mean?''
*: '''Clemens''': ''There's an ugly word. It sounds so old-fashioned, don't you think?''
* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Hunter, Clemens, Beckwith, Rebecca's entire army in a greater sense.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]: Clemens.
* [[Church Militant]]: Deconstructed with Rebecca. She's on an one-person crusade to rescue the only other person left to her - her child. And if she has to pretend to be this, to be the "patron whore" of a Rag Tag Band of... well, [[Ax Crazy]] [[Crazy Awesome|Awesome]] [[Too Dumb To Live]] [[Jerk Ass]]es to get her daughter back, [[I Did What I Had To Do|so be it.]]
* [[Cold War]]: China and the US.
* [[Consummate Liar]]: Clemens.
* [[The Corruption]]: Turns out to be Satan.
* [[Dead Guy On Display]]: Satan has his former "disciples" on display there, as much for himself as well to [[Scare Em Straight]] in case they'd think to go against him.
* [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Little Daughter]]: Maggie to Ike and Ali.
* [[Deliberate Values Dissonance]]: Between above and below.
* [[Demonic Possession]]: Satan claims to do this. At the end, {{spoiler|he seems to reincarnate a part of himself in Samantha to get the closest he's been to the outside world.}}
* [[Doing In The Wizard]]: The novel goes to great lengths to show that seemingly supernatural phenomena observed in the sub-planet are rooted in science. [[Weird Science]] but science nonetheless.
** Subverted in ''Deeper'', though.
* [[The Dragon]]: {{spoiler|Ike is the closest thing directly under Satan. Ali takes his place at the end.}}
* [[Eagleland]]: A deconstruction of type 1.
* [[Eats Babies]]: One of the [[Manipulative Bastard|many]] [[Complete Monster|reasons]] people tend to not believe [[Satan Is Good]].
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Rebecca invokes this and thinks it'll go smoothly, but she tends to forget [[Humans Are Bastards]].
* [[Enthralling Siren]]: Satan has this power for souls, and souls bring more souls and people the same way. Hell, he probably created the mythological creatures too.
* [[Failure Knight]]: Beckwith, with a strange mix of [[Spanner In The Works]]. His actions have almost started [[World War Three]] between China and the US, but have also {{spoiler|almost stopped Satan from exiting his cage}} and {{spoiler|probably}} reunited a mother with her daughter... {{spoiler|at the expense of the world}}. He also saved {{spoiler|Clemens from Ike and the girls from Clemens ''and'' Satan}}. If it wasn't for his [[Blessed With Suck]] Spannery powers, he probably wouldn't have been such a failure either.
* [[Go Mad from the Revelation]]: People tend to not take too well the (sort of) trapped souls of their relatives calling to them. [[It Doesn't Help]] that lost souls of this world become [[Attention Whore]]s, as Ali commented, ''competing'' for the attention of the living.
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: The attack on "The Studio".
* [[Guns In Churches]]: Guns for Rebecca's posse are seen as this when above ground, since they're received through unsavory means and would destroy their credibility if seen in the open with them, or worse, would trigger a [[We Are Struggling Together]] moment before they even have the chance to "go under".
* [[The Hedonist]]: Satan has indulged in having sex and/or eating humans since they're so close to him in appearance. One of the reasons he goes out hunting (his own creations, for sport) or [[Eats Babies]].
* [[Home Of Monsters]]: The "hell" below. With a twist: it's ours too (thus we're the monsters too) and it's where Satan lives too. At the end of ''Deeper'', {{spoiler|Ike tries to tell people to stop going there. It's implied he'll fail/be derailed by said Satan.}}
* [[Human Resources]]: An artifacts exhibit shows hadal weapons made of human bones.
* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: A lot chunk of them, at least.
* [[I'm A Humanitarian]]: One of the defining characteristics of ''Homo hadalis''.
** {{spoiler|Humans are just as willing to, once stuck down there, making them no different.}}
* [[I Did What I Had To Do]]: Rebecca pitches this as her excuse. Nobody's buying it.
* [[It Didn't Help]]:
*: [...] ''Rebecca started over the bridge. For the first steps, she actually felt graceful. Then the bridge began swaying in big arcs. It did not help trained its lights on the rope bridge.''
* [[I Have Many Names]]: Satan gives his name to people according to their questions they have about him, all apparently embedded in history by himself.
* [[The Jail Bait Wait]]: Hadals kidnap little girls as [[Slave Slave]]s, but have to wait a year after their first period.
* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Clemens.}}
* [[The Ketchup Test]]: Clemens tastes some blood and proudly declares it's human female vaginal blood. May be a subversion since {{spoiler|he was The Mole and had his "script" written a long time ago, so he didn't need to know and probably, indeed, just outright lied.}}
* [[Knight In Sour Armour]]: Ike. Beckwith in a certain measure.
* [[Mama Bear]]: Rebecca.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Contest between {{spoiler|Clemens and Satan}}, bordering on [[Complete Monster]]s.
* [[Master Of Illusion]].
* [[Names To Run Away From Really Fast]]: Hunter. Satan intentionally averts this, using [[Meaningful Name]]s, but not necessarily with bad connotations.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero]]: Beckwith's entire story. Also the novel's ending.
* [[Not So Omniscient After All]]: Everyone goes out of their way to point this out about Satan. He admits it himself.
* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: Satan threatens Ali to send her daughter below ''him'' if she ever leaves. When asked why would that be a bad thing, he says he doesn't know. She realises this means nothing return from there.
* [[Our Demons Are Different]]: First off, there are not demons. They are cave-dwelling hominids with [[Always Chaotic Evil|a culture that makes the Aztecs look like the Amish]]. Also, they are revealed to be able to {{spoiler|transmit the consciousness of their dead into other sapient lifeforms via electrical currents}}.
** But then an expy of [[Satan]] appears...
* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]: The President of the United States apparently, as in the two cases a statement from him has been presented, once he quotes that people walk "through the shadow of the valley of death" and the second time he assures people that ''a Chinese washed-ashore submarine on American soil '''will not explode'''''... so keep calm.
* [[Powder Keg Crowd]]: {{spoiler|Poor Li triggered it...}}
* [[Precursors]]: Satan and... whatever made the Universe and imprisoned him. Arguable on either of their morality.
* [[Satan Is Good]]: What he'd like you to think. Arguably, he may be, but more of a [[Psychopathic Manchild]], as he himself admits it. He'll make creatures, he'll save creatures, but he can't give life, and if you try to ditch on him, [[Disproportionate Retribution|he'll cut pieces of your body and make you eat them]] because he may be genuinely answering your requests to [[Exact Words|feed]] you.
* [[Sex Slave]]s: The kidnapped girls are [[The Jail Bait Wait|kept for this purpose]].
* [[Shaming The Mob]]: {{spoiler|It ''almost'' worked...}}
* [[Shout Out]]: Where to begin.
** The expedition into the sub-planet is called [[A Journey To The Center Of The Earth|The Jules Vernes Society]].
** The group of scholars looking for [[The Devil]] are called the [[Beowulf|Beowulf Club]].
** An entrance into the sub-planet [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|inspired Dante]] in [[Divine Comedy|his depiction of Hell]].
** We have [[Warhammer 40,000|people in a certain area "warped" by "corruption", having "mutations" that keep the poor soul alive and functional.]]
** There are people greatly deformed but with technological advances below, and people used as slaves above. [[The Time Machine|You know, like Morlocks and Eloi]].
* [[Social Darwinist]]: Satan turns into this, for relatively good reason. Species evolved more and more in His image, and from evolution, souls appeared, so generally he has less appreciation for anything under "the next best thing".
* [[Spanner In The Works]]: Beckwith, to the point that any action of his is important to the plot and, as much as he furthers a certain cause, [[Failure Is The Only Option|he squashes more]], thus he becomes the [[Butt Monkey]] of everyone, who ask him "what did you break this time?".
** Clemens tries to do this, but he ends up doing almost exactly as he was asked, anyway.
* [[Think of The Children]]: Deconstructed, slowly but surely. By the end of the novel, thinking of the children {{spoiler|has cost around a thousand lives and furthered Satan's plan to escape his cage.}}
* [[Thirty Pileup Gambit]]:
*: ''There were twelve hundred different agendas out there, one for each man, [[Oh Crap|each waiting to be unfolded in the days ahead]].''
** [[It Gets Worse]] when you involve other various humans, hadal [[And Zoidberg|and]], [[Bread Eggs Milk Squick|you know]], [[Satan]].
* [[Torches and Pitchforks]].
* [[Trickster Mentor]]: Though because of his morality void, he's confused with [[Evil Mentor]]
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Rinpoche's "disciple" in ''Deeper'' has doubts that Satan can actually remodel life, and some of his other stories can be seen as unreliable, including saying God is nothingness and implying he knows of no such entity, but getting pissed at the name of God nonetheless.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: ''The deeps provide'', which is fancy talk for [[I'm A Humanitarian|{{spoiler|"We kill anything that comes our way, hadals or even other cities/tribes people.]]}} [[Crosses The Line Twice|{{spoiler|Sometimes even our own that]]}} [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|{{spoiler|Protest Too Much]]}}.
* [[Villains Never Lie]]: Played straight with Satan. Subverted with {{spoiler|Clemens}}.
* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]] Or Pity? Narrator outright says he ''certainly'' doesn't know the former. He uses the first to play with Ali and Ike.
* [[Who You Gonna Call]]? Reconstructed with Rebecca. She goes to all the government institutions for help with rescuing her little girl and has no luck. But then she becomes the "patron saint" of a racist posse, and soon she has an at least 1200 ''army'', ready to be equipped with ''live army weapons'' to go find her daughter. [[Deconstruction|Although most of them are scum of the Earth there for their own interests.]]
* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Satan claims he was there when most of human masterpieces were created, including Beethoven, Bach etc. Hell, he even [[Demonic Possession|possessed]] most of them to create those.
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]]: {{spoiler|Ike thinks he escaped Hell, but this is all at the plan of Satan. He also left his wife there, and helped lead out the creature he tried to keep below himself.}}
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Satan is implied to eventually do this to humanity as he did to the hadal if they don't free him, if only for the same reason {{spoiler|he did it to the hadal: because their empire has fallen and they stand in his way.}}
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Of course, since being the oldest sentient being in the Universe... you know. {{spoiler|I don't have his daughter's soul? Ask his wife. I don't have the girls down here to play with and to blackmail Ali? No worries, I'll use that crazy mother to get a part of me outside.}}
* [[Xanatos Roulette]]: Rebecca plays this. Even she's scared what she got herself into and how it'll end.
* [[Xanatos Sucker]]: Rebecca turns out to be this. While she knows from the start she's used as the motor of more unscrupulous entrepreneurs, towards the end it's revealed she's this for {{spoiler|Clemens}}, who in turned hijacked the same operation from {{spoiler|Satan himself.}} At the end though, she takes the cake, as it's strongly implied she takes out {{spoiler|the Antichrist in the form of Samantha.}}

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Confiscated Twins

2012-11-30T20:28:05Z

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Part of the ''[[Fansadox]]'' franchise, this is the over-the-top story of a [[Jerk Ass]] [[Basement Dweller]] having [[A Date With Rosie Palms]] to his [[Twincest]]-engaging neighbors, only to be caught by his sister, be threatened to be ratted out on his parents and having a lousy life in general. [[It Gets Worse|No, that's not the half of it.]] His father eventually buys the twins for his son's 18th birthday as a result of a law that allows young women to be auctioned in case a family cannot pay its debts. When it was posted on [[Imageboard|/b/]], many believed it the greatest creation since... sex, probably.

Tropes include:
* [[A Date With Rosie Palms]]: Roy gets caught in the middle of doing it over the twins' (still free) window. [[Brother Sister Incest|By his sister]].
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Utterly subverted. The teens are at the mercy of adults, Roy's father is the one who takes the twins, Roy's a pityful [[Basement Dweller]] that doesn't have the guts or power to do anything that the state or his parents didn't put in his grubby hands, he {{spoiler|becomes an Unwitting Pawn for an older woman - twice, and even when he loses the girls, his best revenge is to help them escape (which just means he loses them too) and to rape them from time to time in the shadows to feel like he spites Mrs. O'Reilley. Clara tries to screw her over, only to be handed as a package to Roy to be thoroughly raped and abused... without him knowing it.}}
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The tools used to break women.
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|Mrs. O'Reilly. Twice.}}
* [[Batman Gambit]]: The entire end of part 4. {{spoiler|Mrs. O'Reilly [[Schmuck Bait|intentionally types the code for her slave vault in front of Clara]], kidnaps her, puts a blond wig, chastity belt and mouth gag (so she can't tell Ray it's her), takes with her one of her slaves, then waits for Roy to break in and rape the two slaves. She even gives Roy indications from Clara's phone each time she's satisfied on how things went until then. Of course, this works because Roy is close to [[Ralph Wiggum]] in terms of intelligence.}}
* [[Basement Dweller]]: Roy.
* [[Bed Trick]]: {{spoiler|Roy is tricked into having sex with/raping his sister}}.
* [[Better Than Sex]]: Since sex becomes relatively common for Roy, he has several scenes showing more attention to: a) [[Video Game]]s b) [[Stalker With A Crush|stalking]] his fully-clothed MILF neighbor. {{spoiler|He should've stayed at videogames...}}
* [[Big Screwed Up Family]]: Roy's family: A fat, ugly, bitter, but hard-working mother, a fat, ugly, bitter man working in the enslavement industry who is implied to often cheat on his wife with his merchandise, a [[Basement Dweller]] son and a [[Fille Fatale]] daughter. Maybe because of their bitterness, they turn the twins' family into this too.
* [[Big What]]: The girls when their mother gets tasered.
* [[Blackmail]]: {{spoiler|After having Roy arrested for rape of a free woman (herself, no less), Mrs. O'Reilly asks Roy's twins as compensation.}}
* [[Break The Cutie]]: The twins.
* [[Break The Haughty]]: Roy implies he intends to do this in a future issue to {{spoiler|Mrs. O'Reilly}}. Also done to {{spoiler|Roy and Clara.}}
* [[Brother Sister Incest]]: Mostly averted, but many connotations still remain. We're just led to believe they're not doing it because they seem to dislike each others' personalities.
** {{spoiler|Enforced in part 4 by Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
* [[Caught With Your Pants Down]]: The beginning of the comic finds Roy in this position in front of his sister ''and mother''.
* [[Comic Book Time]]: The four issues appear over a few years, yet ''each issue continues right at the point the other ended''.
* [[Cruel Mercy]]: When the mother tries to free her daughters and is tasered, When the SWAT-ish guys say they'll send her to jail, Roy's father suggest they cut her some slack... [[All Women Are Lustful|because she's just cock-crazy]] [[Cool And Unusual Punishment|and they should fix that]] and then let her go.
* [[Dangerously Short Skirt]]: Clara wears a [[Stripperific]] [[Goth]]ish two-item, complete with [[Underboobs]].
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|If you're rooting for Roy, he got pwnd good by the end, Mrs. O'Reilly is with his father breaking up Roy's parents' marriage, and she has a tape of him and his sister tricked to have sex with which she can blackmail them and his father will never know.}}
* [[Earth Drift]].
* [[Enemy Mine]]: {{spoiler|Roy helps the sisters escape to piss off Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: {{spoiler|Roy's revenge on Mrs. O'Reilly? Having fun with her slaves whenever he can. Not much of a comeback, Roy.}}
* [[Electric Torture]].
* [[Frameup]]: Mild version, but the twins' mother's owner suggests doing this to families that have daughters regarding their debts. Also the mother herself claims to have been a victim of this.
** Roy is framed of {{spoiler|raping Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
* [[Gold Digger]]: Mrs. O'Reilly is said to be this. She's much more and worse than that (although not a certified [[Black Widow]]).
* [[Home Porn Movie]]: Roy likes to send naked pictures of the twins to their mother [[For The Evulz|just to torment her]].
* [[I Should Have Been Better]]: The twins' mother is convinced into thinking this. Considering [[Failure Is The Only Option|it was probably a set up from the start]], she's not really right.
* [[Internet Backdraft]]: Its similarities with ''[[Birthday Gift]]'' brings rage to any [[Erenich]] fan.
* [[Laser Guided Karma]]: At the end of part 4 with {{spoiler|Roy and Clara}}.
* [[Love Thy Neighbour]]: Part 4 is even named that.
* [[Made A Slave]].
* [[Maid Of Sexy]]: The [[Mother Daughter Threesome]].
* [[Mother Daughter Threesome]].
* [[Not Distracted By The Sexy]]: Roy gets used to his new slaves faster than feaseble, that it gets to the point where he's more interested in his video games than in lovely 18 year olds masturbating in front of him at his orders.
* [[Lady In Red]]: Mrs. O'Reilly is seen mostly wearing red. One of the twins also wore red before their capture, implying their [[The Tease|Tease]] status.
* [[Out Gambited]]: {{spoiler|Roy gets some serious pwnage in the third part from Mrs. O'Reilly.}}
** And in the fourth, {{spoiler|both he and his sister.}}
* [[Pervert Dad]].
* [[Porn Stash]]: Roy seems to have this when he's not jerking off to his neighbors.
* [[Rape As Comedy]]: Probably one of the few issues to try it. It's... [[YMMV|arguable if it works]].
* [[Rape Is Funny When It Is Male On Male]]: Subverted with Mrs. O'Reilly's slave. It's actually so cruel when she tells he's mentally handicapped that it falls into [[Dude Not Funny]] ([[Double Standard|...you know]][[Crosses The Line Twice|... worse than usual]]).
* [[The Tease]]: The twins before their capture, Clara, Mrs. O'Reilly... everyone, maybe except the twins' mother.
* [[Transparent Closet]]: An [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] would have Clara having the hots for Roy, if for not other reason, than because incest is xtreem. She acts like [[The Tease]] around him at least [[Once An Episode|Once A Strip]]. This may be {{spoiler|{{Forshadowing}}, as Mrs. O'Reilly indulges them by tricking Roy to bed Clara}}.
* [[To Be Continued]].
** Finally ended (maybe?)
* [[Tragedy]]: Implicit for the women, at the end of part 3 {{spoiler|Roy is at the end of this}}, gets worse by the end of part 4.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into The Future]].
* [[Twincest]]: The main plot of the comic.
* [[The Twist]]: Because you couldn't have guessed it unless you figured the author had it in for {{spoiler|Roy and Clara}}.
* [[Uncanceled]]: The third number appeared ''80 issues after the second'', out of 260 Fansadox had at the time. It may even be a record in the difference. The series was considered dead until then.
* [[Underboobs]]: Clara.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Spoofed, between Roy and Clara. {{spoiler|"Resolved" with a little help from Mrs. O'Reilly}} at the end of part 4.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Roy.
* [[Woman In Black]]: Clara skims [[Perky Goth]] (though never outright stated), but is not as dangerous as her outfit make her look. Well, she is for the twins, but not in the plot.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: A minor character that torments the teens has this.

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{{2012}}

Annie's Stories

2012-11-30T19:41:25Z

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In an [[Alternate Universe]], around the '80s, on "The Day", people shrank. The world was in outrage and fear, and decided to make the little people second-class citizens. Well, worse really, pets with no rights (except maybe being registered).

This is the story of one of them, Annie, at that time a high-schooler, who was found by a pre-teen boy who decided to "adopt" her as a pet. She was probably lucky it wasn't in his teens. [[It Gets Worse]], but mostly [[Played For Laughs]]. Ray turns out to be a decent fellow (after his teenager phase, at least) and treats Annie at least decently, and they start to have a more equal relation (as much as they can have compared to their heights).

[http://original.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600099534 You can read it here.] They also have a spinoff [http://original.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600102233 "Tammy and Cruiser"].

== Tropes present in this work ==
* [[Accidental Public Confession]]: Though the bad repercursions are avoided by good intentions/[[The Power Of Love]]:
*: ''"Someone loves another that much, gives me the most hope I've had since the day a gnome shrank me." Bubba had also outed himself in that comment, but no one took him to task for it.
* [[Anachronic Order]]: The "present guiding the past bits" type.
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: {{spoiler|The Alchemists}}, whose only concern seems to be to turn anything into gold. For all their powers, [[Cut Lex Luthor A Check|they could have gained money a lot easier and without drawing the attention of]] [[Eagleland]].
* [[Anvilicious]]: Be careful how you treat those smaller than you, because life's a bitch and it's going to punish you if you're naughty! Discrimination is evil! Third world nations expatriating their citizens is evil! [[The Power Of Love]] is magic!
* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: We have a guy that can {{spoiler|manipulate elements (in this case, fire), turn junk into gold and claims to get his indications and protection from a God}}. But ghosts? Those are just stories!
* [[Bait And Switch]]: Most titles will give you the impression that something happens to the girls, when it's actually about something different and usually more benign. Even "New World Order" is an overreaction to what happens next. For example, one chapter is titled "No Annie At All" is not about, say, Annie getting lost/being kidnapped, but it's about {{spoiler|Denise in High School}}.
* [[Bait And Switch Tyrant]]: {{spoiler|Dorre}}.
* [[Because Destiny Says So]].
* [[Caretaker Reversal]]: Pet rescuing Denise after {{spoiler|she gets sylphed}}.
* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: The sylphs can basically run around anywhere (provided they aren't caught or locked up), can hear things over a large distance, whether some insulation tries to stop that, their metabolism run much, much faster, but if they're fed by ordinary-sized humans, they're not going to have a feeding problem or a food supply problem. This is however [[Blessed With Suck]], since being small means you can be crushed by big things or ordered by them around, needing lots of food means you're at the pity of your giant again, and hearing ''everything, all the time'' is ''not a good thing''.
* [[Cliffhanger Copout]]: In chapter 80, it appears that {{spoiler|a [[Slave Liberation]] act is underway}}. Two or three chapters later, [[Status Quo Is God]] again, at least in that aspect.
* [[Crapsaccharine World]]: Don't be fooled by the happy-happy relationship between Ray and Annie, Annie described the world pretty much in a nutshell from the first chapter. ''It is that bad''.
* [[Crowning Moment Of Funny]]: A few of the quotes here.
* [[Cool And Unusual Punishment]]: Ray does this to Annie, though sometimes (rarely and not for a long while though) tend to fall on [[Cruel And Unusual Punishment]]. Of course, other sylphs have it ''worse''.
* [[Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon]]: "Annie'd carve out your heart with a potato chip."
* [[Dangeous Forbidden Technique]]: Using Ray's robots for more than he's made them to work under safe conditions. {{spoiler|He's got an [[Override Command]] for that, though}}.
* [[Dark And Troubled Past]]: Well, for Annie, it was mostly one night... but ''[[Adult Fear|was it a bad night]]''.
** For others it was much, much worse.
* [[Deliberate Value Dissonance]]: Annie's one of the few to get out of her way to point out how life used to be for the sylphs before The Day.
* [[Exactly What I Meant To Say]]: How some [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]s are shoehorned in there. For example:
*: ''Pet''' [ [[Motor Mouth|...]] ] ''but it's for a good cause we're going to establish a sylph Olympic event of confined sports so if they ever have Olympic sylphs we can submit a suggestion.
*: '''Denise''': ''I think you mean combined sports?
*: '''Pet''': ''Nooooooo, ''Pet said slowly, thinking and tapping her chin''. No, I'm pretty sure Annie said that sylph events would be confined sports.
* [[Everything's Better With Bob]]: A cameo by a random sylph, but still, ''Bob''. He's also an [[Ain't No Rule]] type of guy... which came against him.
* [[Extreme Doormat|Moderate Doormat]]: Ray as the story progresses and he's at the whim of more and more females a tenth his size.
* [[Doing In The Scientist]].
* [[Door Stopper]]: '''125 chapters'''.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: ''And how''.
* [[Fetish Fuel Future]]: Despite the sympathetic twists, this ''is'' the author's favorite topic for stories, on that site at least.
* [[Freak Out]]: Denise after {{spoiler|she sylphed}}.
** Annie had an {{spoiler|anxiety attack/nervous breakdown, where she became "allergic" and (unproperly) paranoid of Ray for being her Master and [[Big Brother Is Watching You|literally being the Big Brother watching her]]}}.
** Annie's prediction about Pet below almost came true when {{spoiler|Annie threw Pet into the making-big-tunnel and made her big instead}}. Pet has ''such'' a nasty freakout that {{spoiler|it indeed almost kills Annie}}.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Pet. She's ditzy and may not be a grammar fan, and she may give the impression of being raised into a [[Rich Bitch]], but she's all heart and all "street smarts". Denise is actually surprised when Pet saves her.
* [[Giant Foot Of Stomping]]: The sylphs are in constant danger of this in public places, though mostly accidental.*
* [[Got Volunteered]]: Ray, though more than it's {{lampshaded}}:
*: ''Ray had been volunteered into being a judge. Annie suggested it, Buttercup approved and Pet made her eyes three times as big and silently threatened a disappointed lip quiver. He was helpless against their coordinated efforts and now stood close to the Start.
* [[Green Aesop]]: [[Anvilicious]], though it verges on {{spoiler|[[Gaia's Vengeance]]}}.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Narrowly averted, at least twice, though this is a (mostly) [[Everybody Lives]] fic:
** Annie is ready to die at the hands of Pet for {{spoiler|turning her big, instead of herself, so she'd experience the life she never had}}. Daw!
** Denise when {{spoiler|confronting more than one rat with a fork. She's ready to die there and then for stranger sylphs}}.
* [[Hollywood Atheist]]: Annie blamed God for The Day and won't stop reminding people that she hates him... or doesn't believe in him... except when her friends believe in him... and they get their wishes and prayers answered from whoever sylphed a part of the world anyway... and...
* [[Hormone Addled Teenager]]: Ray, so much. It's his [[Freudian Excuse]] for [[Kids Are Cruel|tormenting]] (albeit mostly playfully) Annie.
* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: Some of them, obviously.
* [[Humans Are Cthulhu]]: Annie's one of the few to put it this way, ''constantly'', though she probably doesn't believe it herself. She makes fun of humans as being a monstrous alternate species because she's allowed and to not go mad with her new situation.
* [[Humans Are The Real Monsters]]: Obvious to the readers, oblivious to the rest of the in-universe characters for over 30 years. They treat sylphs as pets ''because they fear them of being monsters''. Right...
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Annie, from some in-universe points of view.
* [[The Missus And The Ex]]: Ray, Denise and Deliah. All is good until Denise {{spoiler|gets shrunken}} and has a [[Heroic BSOD]], and a few days contemplates that Ray would live her for Deliah, seeing that now {{spoiler|she's only - legally - property and won't be treated as a wife anymore. Ray fixes this by [[Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming|reofficializing their marriage, and marrying Annie and Pet too, so they won't feel left out]]}}.
* [[Mistaken For Pervert]]: Ray. Well, he ''is'' in some ways, but not like that:
*: ''Some people that passed Ray kinda recognized him. [[Companion Cube|The guy with the weird Ark fetish.]]
* [[Mood Whiplash]].
* [[Mutant Registration Act]]: Passed out initially that sylphs can be "owned" as property as part of world-wide panic. Later discussed to turn at least slightly into a [[Slave Liberation]] act.
* [[Noodle Incident]]s: A few, especially those involving [[Cold Blooded Torture]].
* [[Nothing Is The Same Anymore]]: When the "present" timeline turns to "New World Order #1".
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: "Freedom Anxiety" revolves around the benevolent version [[Played For Laughs]]. A sylph asks the pros of cons of {{spoiler|being able to live free}}. Three people reply (except the intended one), and the sylph gets more and more afraid by each reply. It culminates in:
*: '''Amelia''': ''Dear Denise, Butters and Hearts, Y'all are idiots. Sincerely, Amelia.
* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]:
** President Personable: The (current) president of the United States.
** President Action: Straw President of a [[Banana Republic]] and a {{spoiler|[[Bait And Switch Tyrant]]}}
* [[Override Command]]: {{spoiler|Ray's miniature robots have these for the maximum time of staying inside - since staying more than the maximum may lead to mental illness or overexerting the body}}.
* [[The Power Of Love]].
* [[Preemptive Declaration]]: Played for [[Black Comedy]]:
*: '''Dorre''': Former President Kendall will spin in his grave, but that's just gravy.
*: '''Ray''': ''He's not dead yet.''
*: '''Dorre''': ''Oh, he won't be finished spinning before they put him in the ground.''
** Dubs as a [[Tear Jerker]] when Annie apologizes to Pet for {{spoiler|making her big, instead of going for it herself}}:
**: '''Annie''': ''Pet? I want you to know...I forgive you.
**: '''Pet''': ''For what?
**: '''Annie''': ''If...you should do something. Later today. If you get overcome with emotion and do something you regret? I don't want that hanging on your conscience. Not me, not because of me. Okay?
**: '''Pet''': ''Okay.
**: '''Annie''': ''Remember. I forgive you.
**: '''Pet''': ''What could I possibly do today that I'll regret?
**: '''Annie''': ''You might kill me.
* [[Reassigned To Antarctica]]:
*: ''Yes, the Kendall appointed, tight assed, mouth breathing, lip reading, finger pointing, brain dead Minister of Paranoia and Party Pooping. He was transferred the same day you were released from jail. Kisu said the man was harshing his mellow and Dorre said they need a diplomatic presence on Christmas Island.''
* [[The Reveal]]: The Swede that Ray {{spoiler|punched}}, just a [[Jerkass]] that seemed to have no bearing on the story, was actually {{spoiler|an alchemist}}. Ray didn't find out this until much later, until after the reveal of these people was made clear.
* [[Right Behind Me]]: Narrowly averted by Annie when Ray was talking about one of his dates... a bit too... ungentlemenish.
*: '''Annie''': ''I really should let you keep talking. Just to see the look on your face when she hears you.''
* [[Sick Episode]]: Denise gets a cold so that Pet can have [[A Day In The Limelight]].
** Actually, that's how Ray and Denise met/got closer.
* [[The Snack Is More Interesting]]: Chocolate. {{Justified}}, as it borders on {{Phlebotinum}} for their metabolisms.
* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]: When it enters the [[Green Aesop]] and [[The Power Of Love]] part.
* [[Tenchi Solution]]: {{spoiler|[[Marry Them All]]}}.
* [[Sarcastic Confession]]: A few months after she was Ray's pet, Annie wasted no time when she got the chance to be alone... dubs as an Accidental Confession as she was hungover at the time:
*: '''Ray''': ''How did you survive without me?
*: '''Annie''': ''Oh, it was great. Your parents bought me clothing and wine and RC cola and left me alone in the house all day and I stole a knife and dug an escape tunnel and-''
* [[Sex Slave]]: The [[Logical Conclusion]] of making second-class citizens [[Made A Slave|into slaves]].
* [[Shut Up And Help Me|Shut Up And Hug Me]]: Buttercup to Pet in "Hostess".
* [[Slave Liberation]]: Sam and Amelia's organisation strives for this, {{spoiler|''almost'' succeed in chapter 80, [[Title Drop|finally]] accomplished in [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|"Finally"]], in chapter 90}}.
* [[Stealth Insult]]: Well, at least she took it as one:
*: '''Date''': ''You men! You're all ALIKE! Shut up, honey this is men talk. Shut up, bitch, you don't know what you're talking about. Don't drink while you're on the medication, dear, you'll pass out.
*: '''Ray''': ''And did you?
*: '''Date''': ''Did I what?" she blinked, tantrum suspended.
*: '''Ray''': ''[[Comically Missing The Point|Did you pass out?]]
*: '''Date''': ''[[I Resemble That Remark|That's not the POINT!]]
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: In-universe: the Pentathlon was supposed to be fun, but the escape-from-jar contest turned into [[Accidental Nightmare Fuel]] for the contestants.
* [[Unperson]]: So much so that sylphs are made to stay naked and are treated as household pets and/or wild animals.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Ray and Annie of course, with healthy doses of [[Deadpan Snarker]], especially from her.
* [[Wangst]]: Some in-universe characters feel Annie is this, considering Ray a good guy who is used too much of a [[Extreme Doormat|mild doormat]] for her. I repeat, this is not from the readers (to be fair, they know better and sympathize more with Annie), it is ''from other characters in-story''.
* [[Weirdness Censor]]:
*: ''Nothing anyone could say or do would change Grandma Foster's mind about Annie. In her eyes, Raymond had shaved a gerbil and pretended he was a ventriloquist. How he'd taught Annie to walk erect or move her lips at the right time was a mystery she never touched on.
*: ''Dad's theory was that on The Day, she'd decided she was too old to shift her paradigm.
* [[Wham Episode|Wham Chapter]]: Though the chapter's title isn't too obvious, the "Timeline" is ominous named and it goes downhill from there: "New World Order #1"
* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?|Who Names Their Pet "Pet"?]]: A 5 year old, though it's deconstructed, since the mother and Denise's parents agreed.
* [[You Are Grounded]]: Ray in his highschool years gets this often.

== Notes ==
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Audience Alienating Premise

2012-11-30T19:37:39Z

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{{cquote|''"I simply don't care a damn what happens in Nebraska, no matter who writes about it."''|author=--'''''A now-forgotten critic''' on the book ''O Pioneers!'''' }}
While some shows fail just because they're bad, or because they weren't marketed much and people didn't know they existed, there are some that don't stand a chance in the first place. Not because they're terrible or badly done, and in fact they may be even fantastically done for what they are. But because the very concept scared people away.

It could be because of [[Squick]]. For example, ''An American Crime'' is a movie based on the real life torture and murder of a teenage girl at the hands of her foster mother and her children. Sound like fun? Most people don't think so, even if the movie is genuinely well-made.

Other times, it's because the concept is unique, but in a way that scares away audiences rather than grows them. For example, [[Avatar The Last Airbender]], about kids and young teens going on adventures to save a fantasy world, is a hit with both kids and adults, due to the generally light tone and the complexity of the story, and a theme that has broad appeal. On the other hand, ''[[Peter Pan And The Pirates|Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates]]'' was by comparison a failure and was cancelled in less than 2 years. It featured young children going on adventures in a fantasy world, had complex characterization for the time, and took itself seriously and got quite dark at times. But instead of growing its audience, it shrunk it. Older kids think ''Peter Pan'' is beneath them, while younger kids would find the cartoon scary or intimidating (and it did have its share of [[Nightmare Fuel]]).

This is the [[Audience Alienating Premise]]. An idea that could be cool and could even make a fantastic show, book, movie, video game or comic, and may very well have, but which instead dooms the work from the very start due to the mere concept alone being totally unapproachable to most people. Sadly, due to merely how it "sounds", many people won't try it out. In some cases, it might become [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|much more popular in another country]] due to differences in tastes and sometimes [[Values Dissonance|values]].

See also [[One Episode Wonder]], which is what happens to many of these. Can overlap with [[Public Medium Ignorance]], as works with that suffer from this have a strong tendency to be audience alienating. Could also overlap with [[Necessary Weasel]], and [[Anthropic Principle]].

[[File:HugoHonestPoster_2553.jpg|thumb|right|350px|" Martin Scorsese's [http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/feature/if-2012s-oscar-nominated-movie-posters-told-the-truth.php loving homage to the early era of cinema and filmmaking...] [[So My Kids Can Watch|for children]]"]]
== Examples ==
=== Anime & Manga ===
* ''[[Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro Chan]]''. Bear with us here: an angel comes back in time to repeatedly and brutally murder (and promptly reanimate) a junior high student, in order to stop him from creating a 'pedophile's world' where all females don't age past 12 years old. And it's a COMEDY!
* ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' at least attempts to pose thought-provoking questions about nature vs nurture and unethical science (albeit rather hamhandedly.) To anyone walking in, however, it's just a gory series about little girls being tortured. You're lucky if they don't think of you as a sadistic pedophile.
** Although tempting, using this series to demonstrate that anime is [[Animation Age Ghetto|not always for children]] is just as likely to backfire as anything else, since people will simply jump to [[All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles|the other extreme]].
* ''[[Koi Kaze]]'' is a love story between a 27-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl. This would be controversial enough, but it gets worse when it's revealed that they're a long-lost brother and sister. They learn this at the end of the first episode. The series goes on for 12 more episodes.
* ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]''. A [[Magical Girl]] series aimed specifically at [[Seinen|young adult males]]. While this unique approach may work in Japan, it's a different matter in the west. Most adult male anime fans in the U.S. would take one good look at [[Improbably Female Cast|the cutesy imagery on Nanoha's DVD and run for cover]]. As it stands, the licensors have passed on bringing anymore of ''Nanoha'' to American shores... and it looks like it'll stay that way for the foreseeable future. Maybe if they used [[American Kirby Is Hardcore|a different type of cover]], it'd be more acceptable considering Nanoha is less "MagicalGirl series" and more "Action-packed mecha series disguised as a cute [[Magical Girl]] series".
* ''[[Maria Holic]]''. The series is about a sadistic double-faced crossdresser who torments and abuses a perverted lesbian teenager at an all girls school. It hasn't fared well with many people, [[Values Dissonance|especially in the U.S. and other countries.]].
* ''[[Spice And Wolf]]''. It's about medieval economics. ''You'' try getting people to watch it. The way they ''did'' try to sell it was emphasizing the [[Naked First Impression|initial nakedness]] of the female lead, which had the side effect of making it look (to anime fans) like a [[Magical Girlfriend]] series ala [[To Love Ru]], which it isn't.
* ''[[Madoka Magica]]'' exploited this trope by starting off disguised as a mostly normal-looking cutesy [[Magical Girl]] show, causing many people to [[Tastes Like Diabetes|stop watching it in disgust]] before the real, [[Cosmic Horror Story|much darker premise]] took shape. But, of course, [[Late Arrival Spoiler|once everyone learned what the show was actually about]], the trope got played straight, since some of the people who actually ''like'' cutesy magical-girl shows didn't have any interest in watching a brutally deconstructed version.
* ''[[Wandering Son]]'' portrays puberty and LGBT issues - especially transgendered ones - quite seriously. This puts off many people (mostly cis heterosexuals) since it's outside of their comfort zone or they're so used to comedies about the subject.
* The manga ''Lotte no Omocha'' is a story about a strapping young man who is tricked by elves into moving to another world, specifically so a 10-year-old succubus can have sex with him for the rest of his life. Trying to talk about it generally goes like this: "It's a story about a man becoming a surrogate father--" "Wait. Isn't that the one with the ten-year-old succubus?" "Yeah, but--" "Ten-year-old. ''Succubus''."
* ''Kodomo No Jikan'' is about a pre-pubescent girl who falls in love with her teacher, and acts overtly sexual to get his attention, which you wouldn't expect to do well in the US. It didn't get a chance to -- it was canceled when the licensing company learned how bookstores and distributors would react: by canceling orders. Outside of Japan, owning something like this could theoretically get you ''thrown in jail''. The US release was also slated to have the audience-alienating ''title'' of "[[Lolita|Nymphet]]", which was requested by the author since [[Seven Seas]] couldn't use the original [translated] title of "A Child's Time".
* ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' has a duck who has changed into a human and studies [[Ballet]]. At least it managed a strong female fanbase, but the title alone gave it trouble establishing a [[Periphery Demographic]], and this wasn't helped by a plot that revolved heavily around such a niche interest.
* ''kissxsis'' is an [[Refuge In Audacity|over-the-top]] harem comedy that goes as far as it can possibly go without actually being considered porn. The premise -- boy's twin stepsisters have obsessive crushes on him -- alienates a lot of people, but that's the least offensive by a fair margin. Blatant fanservice, shameless [[Playing To The Fetishes]]...going into too much detail would be a bad idea, so we'll just leave it at that.
* ''[[Sankarea]]'' is about a boy with an unhealthy zombie fixation, and a suicidal girl who tests his experimental reanimation serum, dies, comes back as a zombie, and becomes his girlfriend. Yep.
* [[Mysterious Girlfriend X]] is the story of a high school boy who becomes addicted to the new transfer student's saliva. As in, he ''licks it off her desk'' in the first episode. Interested yet?

=== Cartoons ===
* The animated movie ''[[Felidae]]'' is a film noir with blood, murder, sex, and a cult. Starring '''cats''' (''real'' ones, not [[Funny Animal]]s). Its look made many people think it was a Disney-type movie, but the actual content is not kid-friendly, thus it scared away adult audiences while not attracting kid audiences. The film has since gained a cult status online, however.
* ''Fox's [[Peter Pan And The Pirates]]'' was a cartoon with some great writing and storytelling, that was surprisingly gothic at times (with its share of [[Nightmare Fuel]]!). Why didn't it do well? Well, it's about [[Peter Pan]], and yet it takes itself dead seriously and has more mature storytelling than you'd expect given the source material. Hence, little kids who might be drawn in by [[Peter Pan]] got scared away, and older kids who'd enjoy the story took one look at who it's about and [[Animation Age Ghetto|decided it was kiddy]]. Note that the original novel was very dark in its way, as well (at the end, Tinkerbell is dead, and Peter is too childlike to remember, or care, who she was, for example). But, thanks to [[Disneyfication]], anything that returns to the spirit of the original alienates ''everyone''.
* ''[[Allen Gregory]]''. The show is about a homeschooled 7-year-old played by Jonah Hill, who is forced to attend elementary school when his gay parents hit hard times; and thus has little idea on how to act as a kid. It also contains a recurring subplot about Gregory attempting to date his principal, who is in her 70s. The show was met with poor reviews and was canceled after just 7 episodes due to poor ratings.

=== Comics ===
* ''[[Amethyst Princess Of Gemworld]]'': A [[Magical Girl]] maxiseries created during early 80's? It didn't stand a chance, so DC killed the series by making the main character evil and blowing up her homeworld. Of course, if they had the foresight to allow the property to live until [[Sailor Moon|the 90s]], they could have had a hot product on their hands. Relaunched in 2012 with the woman behind ''[[Jem]]'' writing the book, so we'll see if its time has come.
* ''[[Power Pack]]'' (the original 1980s comic): Kid superheroes, except that instead of featuring wacky antics and dumb adult villains, the theme was played totally straight. In other words, the story took itself seriously and was meant to be seen as such, but many people wrote it off because it was about kids. Kids who wanted to see wacky antics probably ended up disappointed. Most other people dismissed it out of hand, because they assumed a story about children would just be wacky and stupid. It's probably no coincidence that most of the letters to the editor came from adults, and the occasional 12-year-old who was surprised at the quality of the storytelling.
* ''Yeah!'' by Peter Bagge and Gilbert Hernandez is a girls' comic about three girls in a rock band who are trying to make it big but can only get fans in outer space. It was intended to resemble the girls' comics of the sixties, and it is to comic books what a disco album by [[Iron Maiden]] would be to the world of music: It doesn't contain any of the stuff that their fans like, and it belongs to a genre that nobody's been interested in for decades. It was cancelled after nine poorly-selling issues, and the fact that it's a fun comic with good writing and nice artwork didn't really make a difference.
* [[Avengers Arena]]: Taking C-List but cult favorite teenage heroes (including members of ''[[Runaways]]'', and [[Avengers Academy]]) and putting them in a ''[[Hunger Games]]''/[[Battle Royale]] scenario by a C-Lists 80s gimmick villain (Arcade) who is now a getting a push as a legitimate threat with a promise of a lot of death. The amount of vitriol it has generated before its release is rather amazing.

=== Movies ===
* Almost every movie set during the second Gulf War has been a box office bomb, including ''[[The Kingdom]]'', ''The Green Zone'', ''In The Valley Of Elah'', and most notably, Best Picture Winner ''[[The Hurt Locker]].'' The war itself is so politically charged that any depiction of it risks alienating large chunks of the audience based on its perceived politics and it's too current to work as escapism. An alternative explanation is that the problem is with films perceived as critical of the military, or as depicting typical soldiers as victims [[or]] war criminals. ''[[Act Of Valor]]'', for example, made money.
* ''[[Alegria]]'', the dramatic film inspired by the [[Cirque Du Soleil]] show, is a fable that entwines the story of a street mime and a circus singer falling in [[Love At First Sight]] with that of unwanted children being forced to tend and sell flowers for a cruel taskmaster. It's too dark and mature thematically for children -- the story kicks off with the mime and his child friend both literally wanting to die, a supporting character is a lovelorn old alcoholic, etc. But how many teens or adults want to watch a movie about whimsical circus people helping to realize a [[World Half Full]]? The film only made it to theaters in Canada and a few European countries.
* This is one reason ''[[Newsies]]'' bombed in 1992: A drama about a 1899 newsboys' strike! And it's a ''musical''!
* ''[[Funny Games]]'' (either version) presents itself as a [[Gorn]] film that deconstructs the genre and makes the viewer question why they watch gorn films to start with. The problem here is that gorn fans don't appreciate being told they're sick bastards by the films they're watching, and non-fans aren't going to watch it in the first place.
* ''[[The Human Centipede]]'': [[Mad Scientist|As an experiment]], [[Rule Of Three|three people]] [[Nightmare Fuel|are sewn to one another]] [[Nausea Fuel|as part of a single digestive tract]].
* ''[[Lawn Dogs]]''. A 10-year-old girl and a 21-year-old man [[Intergenerational Friendship|become close friends]]. It's rated R. Their relationship is mostly platonic, but there are strong hints that the girl has [[Precocious Crush|feelings]] for the man. Not many people want to watch a movie about this, though those that have tended to consider the film to be excellent.
* ''[[Milk Money]]'': A lighthearted comedy about [[What Do You Mean Its Not For Kids|three young boys trying to see a prostitute naked.]] Then it gets even crazier when the prostitute is introduced to the father of one of the boys as a potential love interest.
* [[The Postman]]: It was, um, difficult for the marketing to explain the movie's premise. Apparently, it involves a man rebuilding America [[After The End]] by... delivering the mail?
* ''[[Precious]],'' a film about a 16-year-old illiterate obese girl having the baby resulting from her rape by her father. The baby has Down's Syndrome, a ''second'' incest-rape baby is on the way, her mother is ''also'' sexually abusive, and at the end she finds out her father is dead. From HIV. Which she also has. And she's only ''sixteen'' (though fortunately for her, she gets a few hopeful moments by the end: {{spoiler|she can read and write, her kids are HIV-negative, and she's finally escaped her parents}}). Interestingly, this one escaped the stigma: while these elements are typically Hollywood poison, they're [[True Art Is Angsty|extremely popular]] with [[Lit Fic]]. Being [[The Film Of The Book]] of the critically acclaimed ''[[Push]]'', it had the buzz of a hot literary property, plus the support of superstars like [[Tyler Perry]] and [[The Oprah Winfrey Show|Oprah]]. ''[[Precious]]'' made $62 million and earned two Oscars for Best Supporting Actress (Mo'Nique as Precious' mother Mary) and Best Adapted Screenplay.
* [[Scott Pilgrim Vs The World]] failed to find an audience due to combining too many niches together: comic books, indie rock and video games from the 80s. Its audience would have to be a particular breed of hipster that appreciates all three. The fact that Michael Cera lacks drawing power also didn't help. In addition, the people who normally watch lots of movies would get turned off by the fact that it has strong video game motifs, and most gamers the movie was aimed at would never pay to see a Hollywood movie (in fact, the word "Hollywood" is derogatory in some circles). In other words, this movie got caught between potential audiences, both of whom refuse to associate with the other.
* ''[[Tideland]]'' is about a 10-year-old girl who spends several weeks in an abandoned house with her father's bloating corpse. To pass the time, she has increasingly bizarre daydreams about her Barbie heads and befriends a mentally handicapped man, with whom she practices kissing. The DVD automatically plays an introduction by director [[Terry Gilliam]], who admits that the viewer might very well hate the film.
* [[A Serbian Film]]. It's basically 90 minutes of intentionally shocking and violent sex, capped off with {{spoiler|[[Memetic Mutation|newborn porn]]!}}
* ''Vulgar'', a film financed by [[Kevin Smith]] and written and directed by his friend Bryan Johnson, recounted the story of a kind, but struggling, children's party clown who is viciously raped by a father and his brain-dead sons.
* ''[[Dick]]'', a comedy set in the 1970's about two teenage girls who develop a crush on [[Richard Nixon]] and end up becoming major figures in the Watergate scandal. Teens weren't interested in a comedy based around 1970's nostalgia while adults weren't interested in the revisionist history concept (the film also depicts Woodward and Bernstein as a pair of morons) so the film died a quick death at the box office. However, it has become a cult classic over the years.
* ''[[Trash Humpers]]'': Grainy, camcorder footage of a trio of crazed elderly people that kill people, mutilate baby dolls, and [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|fornicate garbage.]]
** Basically, all of Harmony Korine's work can be deemed at this.
* ''[[Freddy Got Fingered]]'', which starred absurdist comedian Tom Green, was almost universally denounced, disparaged, and ridiculed. [[Covers Always Lie|Although mainstream TV ads for the movie looked harmless enough]], the film itself followed the misadventures of an apparently mentally retarded man who made it his life's mission to be as bizarre and offensive as possible (licking an open wound, wearing a bloody deer carcass as clothing, etc.). [[Roger Ebert]] at least paid this movie the compliment of reminding him of the classic surrealist film ''[[Un Chien Andalou]]'' - but then, moviegoers in 1929 hated ''that'', too.
* ''[[Shakes The Clown]]'' didn't do too well in theaters, even though most people would say it isn't that bad. But it just couldn't find its niche. On one hand, it's about birthday party clowns who never take off their makeup even when not working, so the premise was too ridiculous for adults. On the other hand, the clowns drink heavily, sleep around (sometimes contracting veneral diseases), snort cocaine, and commit numerous acts of violence, including [[Fantastic Racism|hate crimes (yes, really)]] - so it was too dark for kids. The result was a film that wasn't very funny and worth seeing only for novelty value.
* Although the 2011 Best Picture Oscar winner ''[[The Artist]]'' did well in theaters, one of the things that deterred it from attracting a lot of mainstream attention is the fact that it's in black and white and is a silent film.
** Its companion at awards ceremonies that year, ''[[Hugo]]'', [http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/feature/why-martin-scorseses-hugo-will-flop.php had similar problems], inspiring the page image. In general, it's a bad idea to aim [[Period Piece]] films at children unless they feature cute animals [[or]] fantasy elements.
* ''[[Paint Your Wagon]]'': It's a western starring [[Clint Eastwood]] and [[Lee Marvin]]. Oh, and it's a musical! No wonder [[The Simpsons|Homer and Bart]] were shocked when they watched it.
* ''[[The Strange Thing About The Johnsons]]'' is about a young man who rapes his father for years on end, until the latter kills himself.
** It's drawn controversy, not only because of the subject matter, but also because the entire cast is African-American. Some people say this adds to the story while others accuse the director of racism.
* The title of ''[[The Princess Bride]]'' can be this for guys. It sounds very much like a girly romance story so many young boys (very much like the boy in the movie) are put off by it.
* This was one reason ''[[Frankenweenie]]'' was a box office disappointment. A black and white stop-motion animated feature focused around death and reanimation is a hard sell for today's families. Disney didn't help matters by refusing to move its release date to distance it from the more accessible ''[[Hotel Transylvania]]''; when that became a [[Sleeper Hit]] that exceeded industry expectations and had strong weekly holds, that pretty much burned off demand for another family Halloween film for 2012.
* [[Fun Size]], an even bigger box-office disappointment, is a [[Nickelodeon]] movie that looks like it's aiming for the tween girl demographic like the many kidcoms from the Nick Channel (starting with it starring [[Victoria Justice]]) yet it's rated PG-13. The movie's too crude for young kids (the trailers alone highlight this) and the find-the-missing-little-brother plot is too childish for the tweens. Well, that's what happens when you get the man who shepherded ''[[The OC]]'' and ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' to direct...
* The makers of ''[[Philadelphia]]'' deliberately countered this problem by hiring [[Tom Hanks]] to play the lead.

=== Food ===
* ''[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5830947-natural-harvest---a-collection-of-semen-based-recipes Natural Harvest - A Collection of Semen-Based Recipes]''

=== Literature ===
* ''[[Lolita]]'' is a prime example of this, to the extent that it's mostly known in the general public as "that novel about paedophila". Fortunately, its status as a modern classic prevents it from becoming too neglected, but most people unaware of why it's considered so great are likely to pass it up due to the premise.
* Stephen King withheld ''[[Pet Sematary]]'' from publication for several years because he felt the subject matter made the book unpublishable.

=== TV ===
* [[Heil Honey Im Home]]: A 1990 British sitcom starring caricatures of [[Adolf Hitler]] and Eva Braun who live in matrimonial bliss until they become neighbors to a Jewish couple. Being a satire didn't help much, nor the fact that the ''only'' joke the show had was that the main characters are Hitler and Eva. An argument could be made that the show was a [[Deconstruction]] of the sitcom format itself, not only in that it could turn the most evil man in the world not just into a supposedly cuddly sitcom character, but also the conventions of the sitcom format forced what could be a brilliant [[Black Comedy]] into yet another unfunny formulaic sitcom. However, that's probably giving the creators of the show too much credit.
* ''Lone Star'' was supposed to be the big show of 2010 for its network, but the premise turned off audiences so badly it was canceled after two episodes. Unlike shows like ''[[Leverage]]'' or ''[[Hustle]]'', the conman protagonist was not stealing just from [[Jerkass]]es but was also cheating nice, hard-working people. The [[Heel Face Turn]] that was supposed to set him up on the road to redemption (and audience sympathy) turned out to be just a way for him to marry two different women and maintain a double life. When the audience finds no redeeming qualities in the main character and wants him thrown in jail as soon as possible, the premise just doesn't work.
* ''[[Profit]]'' featured a [[Villain Protagonist]] before other shows dabbled with the concept. It didn't last a single season.
* Not nearly as severe as other examples, but some viewers find themselves put off by the fact that ''[[Friday Night Lights]]'' is "about football". It kind of is, but interest in football isn't (necessarily) a requirement to enjoy the show at all, any more than an interest in ghosts is required to enjoy ''[[Ghostbusters]]''. It's just a good and interesting small-town/family drama.
** And the flipside was that NBC also targeted football fans, promoting it heavily during ''Sunday Night Football'' telecasts, only that those fans found too little football and passed, and everyone else who passed on it thought "too much football."
*** That the football in question is the American variety didn't help it overseas; in Britain, [[ITV]]4 only aired the first season (although Sky Atlantic did eventually... well... pick up the ball).
* Even pro-capitalist viewers have reported difficulties with the show ''[[House Of Lies]]''. It's about taking money from rich business owners... and giving it to rich management consultants instead. This wouldn't be so bad if the consultants in question didn't [[Kick The Dog]] every episode, or act in some hypocritical fashion that makes it difficult to take the characters seriously.
* This was why the show ''[[Cop Rock]]'' failed. It's a crime drama... and a musical! Though with the success of shows like ''[[Glee]]'', one wonders if it was just a bit ahead of its time.

=== Music ===
* Mahler's ''Kindertotenlieder''. That's right, "Songs on the Death of Children". [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin]].
* [[Kiss]]'s ''Music From the Elder''. One of the hardest rock bands in the world at the time attempting ''classical music''? It just wouldn't fly.
* [[Prog Rock]] gets this in general. While the genre is wide-spread, incorporating many different styles such as folk, metal, and classical music, most people only know it as "20-minute-long keyboard solos", despite there being many songs which only go on for about five minutes, and having music that incorporates absolutely nothing other that guitar, bass, drums and voice.

=== Real Life ===
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* In politics, there is frequently a "race to the middle" by candidates seeking to avert this trope. Candidates frequently try to avoid positions which would drive away those few undecided voters. The colorful American idiom, "It wouldn't play in Peoria," captures the feel of this. Peoria stands in for "Middle America," and saying an idea wouldn't play there means it would alienate American moderates, something no one hoping to be elected wants to do.

=== Tabletop Games ===
* ''[[FATAL]]'''s premise is "What if, instead of playing in a sanitized ''{{Dungeons And Dragons}}''-style fantasy world, you had one with all the negative traits of Ancient Rome and [[The Dung Ages]] rolled into one?" Even if FATAL had been a masterwork of mechanical genius (which, um, it isn't), with a premise like that, it wouldn't have made it big anyway. One of the most well-known memes about the "game" is "Roll for anal circumference!" That single line right there tells you all you need to know about this "game".
** To be clear, one basic roll for character generation is four one-hundred sided dice divided by two, minus one from the total. This must be repeated twenty times. One thematic element are suits of magical armor that turn your character into offensive racial stereotypes and are named after racial slurs. The sample adventure mentions a character called Cuntrina. The audience for this game seems to be racist, misogynistic men who enjoy polynomials and scatological humor.
* There is a half-finished RPG called Racial Holy War. The title alone probably satisfies any sane person's curiosity, but the premise is that in the future, folks without a lot of melanin are oppressed by racial stereotypes of those with a lot of melanin who have taken over the world at the behest of Jewish masters. The game seems aimed at [[Dungeons And Dragons]] playing Klansmen who were upset racial minorities weren't in the Monster Manual.
* ''[[Wraith The Oblivion]]'' was part of the ''[[Old World Of Darkness]]'' and falls into this trope. While the World of Darkness - as the name implies - is a {{Crap Sack World}}, most of the games shot into [[World Half Full]] and let you [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]. Even then, there was definitely some [[Darkness Induced Audience Apathy]] in the setting and its metaplot, which was the slow wind-down to extinction. Wraith took all that darkness and doubled-down. Your character is already dead, is in the underworld harrowed by his own destructive impulses - which are trying to destroy him forever - and everything he has in the underworld is made from the souls of those too weak to stand. Many an [[Eldritch Abomination]] commands hordes of hungry, tormented spirits, and a restful afterlife looks to be little more than a happy fiction. The other wraiths live in a society that is a caricature of oppression in ancient Rome. The landscape and characters look like something H.G. Giger would paint if he were aiming for self-parody via BDSM. A few games of this, and even Warhammer sounds bright and cheery.
** Wraith also had a mechanic wherein every ghost had a "shadow" that turned up periodically to try to corrupt and undermine them, and each player character's shadow was played by another character's player. So not only was every player required to effectively play two characters (their PC and another PC's shadow) but the game had a built-in mechanic requiring players to screw each other over. The intent was to create deep, psychological roleplaying where the players got to flex their drama muscles as much as the GM; the effect was that most people saw it as a game that could only end in hurt feelings and recriminations.
** ''[[Changeling The Dreaming]]'' often got painted with this brush as well, and for the opposite reason - it came across as too ''bright'', especially when the second edition outright told players that the Dreaming was supposed to be a bright contrast to the rest of the World of Darkness (illustrations like the "bear with balloons" certainly didn't help, making it seem almost childlike). And then those who were looking for a brighter game than, say, Vampire or Werewolf dug deeper, only to find that [[Gotterdammerung|the whole game was about fighting against the death of imagination, a fight most changelings inevitably lost]]. Those who were looking for something along the lines of the rest of the World of Darkness found something covered in glitter; those who wanted something cheerier found the glitter flaked off easily.
** ''[[Kindred Of The East]]'' suffered some of this as well, as it required Westerners to have a decent understanding of Asian mysticism and religions. It never came close to the popularity of [[Vampire The Masquerade]] and it's many spin-offs.
* ''[[Star Fleet Battles]]'' does this through sheer complexity. The premise is to make a game which captures the full in-universe depth of running the starships from [[Star Trek]] in combat. Many people take one look at the [[Door Stopper]] manual and opt out. A second, minor point of alienation is that the game has its own 'verse, which is likely to annoy some purists who would be more willing to invest in learning the game if it was "really Trek." However, the game has been around since 1979, so it has found sufficient fans to be a [[Long Runner]].

=== Videogames ===
* ''[[The Binding Of Isaac]]'' '''definitely''' fits the bill. You are a young boy named Isaac. Your mother was commanded by God to kill you to prove her loyalty, so you escape into the [[Creepy Basement|basement]]...which happens to be filled with demons, mutants, undead fetuses, and the occasional Horseman of the Apocalypse or incarnation of one of the Seven Deadly Sins. And you have to fight them off using only your tears. And sometimes your urine. Or your blood. [[Word Of God|Edmund McMillen]] himself has lampshaded this fact several times, stating that he considered it way [[Nausea Fuel|too repulsive for most people's stomachs]].
** Subverted in that it has done [[Sleeper Hit|very well for itself, selling more than a million copies]], and receiving a substantial DLC (''Wrath of the Lamb'') that was in the top sellers list on Steam when released. This is a good example of how the trope can be overcome by word of mouth from a loyal fan base. It also helps that, gameplay-wise, it's extremely satisfying.
* ''[[JFK Reloaded]]'': A simulation game where [[Who Shot JFK|you fire the fateful shot]] that kills [[John F Kennedy]], scoring you based on how well you were able to recreate the actual assassination. It's actually [[Edutainment Game|pretty educational]], and developed with the noble goal of disproving the [[Conspiracy Theories]] surrounding the shooting, [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|but]]... ''{{Yeah}}''.
* ''[[Monster Girl Quest]]'': [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|Lose and the Girls Rape You]]''. It's a deep and engaging story [[Deconstructor Fleet|deconstructing half the tropes in existence and parodying the rest]], involving a race war that goes back to the dawn of the world... but that doesn't change the fact that the battle mechanic is the hero fighting off the monster girls who are trying to rape him.
* ''[[The Unholy War]]'' is a great game which combined fast paced combat with very slow paced turn-based strategy, not targeting any of those two genres' audiences. Action-oriented gamers are scared by the "slow and meticulous" chess-like gameplay while the strategy-oriented gamers are scared by the "quick and dumb" action gameplay.
* American hate groups have put out a few video games, the most infamous of which is Zog's Nightmare. The games mirror those groups' views, which should be enough to explain why they fit this trope.
* ''Criminal Girls'' is an above-average dungeon crawler with excellent characterization, but good luck getting anyone to see beyond the Squicky (and fanservice-y) premise about beating and torturing teenage girls into subservience.
* ''[[Death Smiles]]'', a side scrolling [[Shoot Em Up]] by [[CAVE]], got a lot of flak for the Gothic Lolita artwork of the game. Most is nice, tasteful and beautiful, but too many instances of pre-teen girls getting sensual with each other (including a bubble bath scene) has gotten the game an ill reputation among fans, mainly Americans. Most Shump fans will warn potential players to ignore the artwork for the intricate gameplay for a ''reason''.
* Something similar happens with ''[[Otomedius]]'', which is a ''[[Gradius]]'' parody game which exchanges the spaceships with scantily-clad females showing off their bosom.
* On the other side of the coin, there is ''[[Cho Aniki]]'', a [[Shoot Em Up]] with muscular guys in speedos. Most gamers only knows it as "that gay Japanese game".
* A generic example: Ignoring the legal reasons, [[Spiritual Successor|spiritual successors]] in video games tend to happen because the original game's mechanics and design decisions alienate modern gamers. For example, in the original circa-1994 [[XCOM]], your units had ''Time Units'' that made the very act of movement into [[Everybody Hates Mathematics|horrible math games]]. In the [[X- C O M Enemy Unknown2012|new XCOM]], movement is determined visually.
* ''[http://www.columbinegame.com/ Super Columbine Massacre RPG]'', a freeware RPG Maker game where you play as the two Columbine shooters who go on a murderous rampage at the titular high school. The second half of the game involves the duo going to Hell fighting enemies from ''[[Doom]]'' and becoming minions of Satan (the [[South Park]] version).
* [[Spec Ops The Line]] looked like a typical war shooter while telling a tale of madness, despair, and horror. The kind of "games are art" player who might appreciate the [[Whole Plot Reference]] to [[Heart Of Darkness]] would be put off because it ''looks'' so much like a modern military shooter. The fans of modern military shooters found a game with gameplay that is somewhat dated compared to the juggernauts in that genre and which savagely lampoons all the premises of those games. The audience was fans of shooters who wanted to see shooters taken down a peg, which is not a very big audience at all.

==== Visual Novels ===
* ''[[Sengoku Rance]]'': It's a text heavy [[Eastern RPG]] series where the protagonist is a [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath]] serial rapist. It has an interesting relationship with [[Rape Is A Special Kind Of Evil]] while playing with all other [[Sexual Harassment And Rape Tropes]], [[Black Comedy Rape|mostly for comedy]]. That being said, it is one of the [[Videogame Long Runners]] for a ''reason.''
* ''[[Hatoful Boyfriend]]'' is a dating game where the potential mates are ''pigeons''. (It's based off a pun that doesn't translate into English.)

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{{cquote|''"I see no difference between things and people."''|author=--'''''Seishiro Sakurazuka'''''' '[[Tokyo Babylon]]''}}
[[The Sociopath]] is far from your ordinary criminal or villain. Combine a willingness to cross the [[Moral Event Horizon]] without a shred of guilt, a keen sense of other people's mental and emotional fault lines and a [[Lack Of Empathy]] and you have the consummate evildoer.

'''[[The Sociopath]] displays the following:'''
* [[Consummate Liar|Super Lying Skills]]: Not just any ordinary good liar, [[The Sociopath]] is good enough to fool any [[Living Lie Detector|Living Lie Detectors]] in the cast, can pass any polygraph with flying colors and fool even you, the viewer. Many crime dramas and thrillers have [[The Reveal]] that the crying victim or [[Insanity Defense|seemingly-insane defendant]] was really [[The Sociopath]] pulling the wool over the eyes of everyone involved and only the hero sees their true side in the last private moment [[Just Between You And Me|between him and the sociopath]]. Alternatively, showing a villain beat a [[Living Lie Detector]] is a way to show [[The Sociopath]] in a setting where psychiatric terms aren't common descriptors.
* [[The Charmer|Superficial Charm]] and [[Manipulative Bastard|Persuasion]]: [[The Sociopath]] is a Machiavellian plotter, skilled at reading people, understanding emotions and desires, and manipulating them using their aformentioned lying skills for personal gain. Most of their friends, family and colleagues are [[Horrible Judge Of Character|horrible at noticing]] they're being manipulated. Expect a [[Hannibal Lecture]] if the hero ever confronts them with their manipulations. This aspect is what makes them an example of how [[Evil Is Cool]].
* [[Lack Of Empathy|No Conscience]]: Utterly ruthless doesn't begin to describe them: except for when trying to appear normal, they disregard any social norms, rules and morality in pursuit of [[Its All About Me|their own self-centered goals]]. [[The Sociopath]] will do whatever it takes: lie, cheat, steal, or use [[Blood Knight|outright violence]] without the slightest hesitation, disgust or remorse and for as little as [[For The Evulz|The Evulz]]. Murder and violence have no more emotional weight than eating Chinese takeout or some other mundane activity and they have no concern for the direct or collateral damage they do to other people, and are unable to understand why anyone should.
* [[Troubling Unchildlike Behavior|A Troubling Childhood]]: Since they were old enough to strangle a kitten, [[The Sociopath]] has been the way they are. Any flashbacks to their childhood will involve [[Creepy Child|creepy, monotone emoting]], tortured puppies, defiance, and a [[Dark And Troubled Past]] of child [[neglect]] to [[Freudian Excuse|explain it all]], though some sociopaths come from loving, stable backgrounds to hammer home just how un-correctable their personality disorder is.

The [[Trope Namer]] is an old edition of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders DSM] which used the term to refer to a personality disorder now known as [[Hollywood Personality Disorders|Anti-Social Personality disorder]]. Though the terms sociopathy and psychopathy are still recognized in some circles, they have no official standing. See [[Analysis/The Sociopath|Analysis]] and [[Useful Notes/The Sociopath|Useful Notes]]. [[Lack Of Empathy]] for more detailed information.

Note that while [[The Sociopath]] has overlap with [[Complete Monster]], a villain can qualify for the latter without overt or covert indicators about their mental state that would indicate sociopathy.

Compare [[Sociopathic Hero]] and [[Comedic Sociopathy]]. See [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]], [[What Is This Thing You Call Love]] and [[Evil Feels Good]]

== Examples ==
=== Anime & Manga ===
* In ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'', [[Well Intentioned Extremist|Kyubey has reasons for his actions]], he does not hesitate to employ [[Half Truth]]s for his means, and to lead one of the [[True Companions]] into certain death knowing full well there was nothing she could do. {{spoiler|And he flat-out states that he is of an alien race which likely has a [[Hive Mind]], ''and to whom emotions as we know them are mental illnesses''.}}
* Seishirou Sakurazuka {{spoiler|mori}} from ''[[Tokyo Babylon]]'', although he may or may not have managed to fall in love with Subaru.
* Johan Liebert, [[Anime/Monster|the eponymous Monster]]. The title suits him.
** And really, the title is strangely ''not wasted or exagerated''. He comes off as a true sociopath without too much [[Card Carrying Villain]]y or even too much spotlight.
* Michio Yuki from ''[[MW]]'', who was the prototype for Johan.
* Yami Bakura and Yami Marik from ''{{Yu Gi Oh}}''. The first one is far deadlier than you think and you'll learn why in the "Dawn of the Duel" arc.
* ''[[Darker Than Black]]'': The Contractors are this in theory (and popular belief in-universe), but Hei at least is proof this isn't necessarily the case. Then again, Hei {{spoiler|isn't a true Contractor}}, and he's arguably more sociopathic than most, since his most pronounced character difference seems to be that he can become angry.
* ''[[Akagi]]'' has some sociopathic qualities. He has no regard for his own life, can't be threatened, doesn't care about rules, will cheat if he can and generally doesn't really care about other human beings. He isn't really malevolent, however, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4yvpoh78_M#t=3m15s unless you manage to piss him off.]
* Dilandau Albatou from ''{{Vision Of Escaflowne}}'', although he was more psychotic than sociopathic. {{spoiler|Also, remember that he was originally a she. ...And that's the nicest thing about what was done to [[her]] by the [[Big Bad]] of the series}}.
* [[Light Yagami]], the [[Villain Protagonist]] of ''[[Death Note]]'', becomes one as the series progresses and his ego expands. By the time {{spoiler|his father dies, Light is more upset that his father failed to do what Light wanted of him than the fact that he's dead!}}
** Mello's also a strong candidate, given his aggression, tendency to put himself and others in danger, and superficial charm. On the other hand, the author has pointed out that he doesn't think Mello was an inherently bad person, because he shows genuine empathy for his accomplice Matt. While he has strong aggressive personality disorders, he probably isn't a full sociopath.
** Light was probably a successful psychopath all along, the kind who make up a large percentage of world leadership rather than the kind that make up a large percentage of the prison population; he degraded into the more antisocial kind with the possession of the [[When All You Have Is A Hammer|nasty book of death]]. He never shows any actual empathy for anyone, even in his relatively nice and highly-socialized period where he'd lost his memories.
*** Misa Amane, too. The histrionic kind. In one of her earliest appearances she's quite calmly contemplating how to kill Rem just because it would probably be more convenient. The fact that she fiercely and insanely pair-bonds to Light doesn't actually make her less of a psychopath, it just makes her one with poor self-esteem.
* Sakyou from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' is a textbook example. As a child, he lived a normal life and had loving parents and siblings...whom he ''detested'' for no reason. He later got a job in a pet store, abusing and killing animals for the hell of it. Then he became a gambler, and then a crime lord, and by the time of the series, has plans to open a portal linking Demon World to the human realm just because "life would be more interesting" that way.
* Azusa from ''[[Hot Gimmick]]''. Some have said that Ryoki qualifies as one, but he seems to be more of a Borderline, or perhaps Narcissistic Personality. Hatsumi, meanwhile, seems to have some traits of Dependent Personality Disorder. Actually, most of the characters are probably diagnosable with some sort of mental illness or personality disorder.
* Due to brain damage suffered in infancy, Kazuo Kiriyama of ''[[Battle Royale]]'' cannot form meaningful connections to ''anything'' (a condition known as pseudopsychopathy in real life). The manga shows him mastering painting and the violin... and immediately throwing out both his artwork and his instrument when he's finished with them. He only associates with his "friends" because they won a coin toss; when they lose a second coin toss on the island, he slaughters them.
** Interestingly, he is VERY self-aware that he is a sociopath. One of his lines, is that he sometimes gets 'confused' on right and wrong. When he slaughters his friends, he takes no pleasure in it. It is just something he has to do. Afterwards, however, he becomes a [[Determinator]], dedicated to winning, with few lines.
* ''[[Let Dai]]'': Dai doesn't understand empathy or why Jaehee cares about anyone other than Dai and himself.
* In the 2003 anime of ''{{Full Metal Alchemist}}'', [[Green Eyed Monster|Envy]], [[Misanthrope Supreme|Zolf J. Kimblee]], [[Creepy Child|Wrath]], [[Smug Snake|Frank Archer]], and [[It's All About Me|Dante]] are all examples of this. Envy, Kimblee, and Wrath are excellent examples of low-functioning sociopathy, while Archer and [[The Chessmaster|Dante]] lean towards the high-functioning end of things.
** In the [[Full Metal Alchemist|FMA manga]] and ''Brotherhood anime'', Envy, Pride, Shou Tucker, and Kimblee are this as well. This version of Kimblee is a particularly chilling example of high-functioning sociopathy, being an extremely intelligent, extremely self-aware psychopath in the vein of Hannibal Lecter, masking his lunacy beneath a {{Faux Affably Evil}} facade and a [[Even Evil Has Standards|bizarre code of honor]].
* [[Psycho For Hire]] Ali al-Saachez, and siblings Michael and Nena Trinity of ''{{Gundam00}}''.
** The same goes for Yazan Gable of ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'', whom Ali is arguably an [[Expy]] of.
** And Decil Galette of ''[[Gundam AGE]]'', who combines the worst traits of both Ali and Yazan with [[Enfante Terrible]].
* [[Jerk Jock|Agon Kongo]] of ''{{Eyeshield 21}}'' is this, along with having ''every single'' trait that characterizes antisocial personality disorder. Fortunately, with the series' scope being limited to high school football and a shonen jump title, most of his truly horrendous acts are stopped before they could follow through.
* [[Big Bad|Grings Kodai]] from ''[[Pokemon Zoroark Master Of Illusions]]''. He fits all of the above criteria plus is one of the most sadistic monsters in [[Pokemon]] history.
** [[Psychofor Hire|Pokemon Hunter J]] also qualifies.
* Lloyd from ''[[Code Geass]]'' cheerfully refers to himself as a sociopath.
** A ''true'' sociopathic character from the same anime is Brittanian knight [[Psycho For Hire|Lucciano Bradley.]]
* Muruta Azrael of ''[[Gundam Seed]]''. He's smug, arrogant, condescending, [[He Man Woman Hater|misognynistic]], [[Hair Trigger Temper|loses his temper at the drop of a hat]], finds the very idea that he could lose to be inconcievable, and views his subordinates as [[We Have Reserves|expendable pawns]] in his [[Fantastic Racism|personal vendetta]] against the [[Designer Babies|Coordinators]]. His [[Faux Affably Evil|superficial charm]] cannot cover his inner monstrousness for long, with continued exposure to him alienating even his staunchest supporters, and while he's bright, he has a definite inability to learn from experience. Even his bravery--he does after all, lead the assault on ZAFT from the front--stems from his [[Smug Snake|arrogance]], and he's far more afraid of ''[[Sore Loser|losing]]'' than he is of dying.
** In ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'', Azrael's successor, Lord Djibril, is a classic example of a low-functioning sociopath. He's short-sighted, has an [[Hair Trigger Temper|explosive temper]] and [[No Indoor Voice]], and his first reaction to any sort of rebellion or insubordination is to deploy [[Weapons Of Mass Destruction]] against the target. He's also a [[General Failure]] and [[Dirty Coward]] who leaves his subordinates to clean up his messes, and generally has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
* ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'' features quite a few examples, such as Yandere [[Nightmare Fetishist]] Ryuuko Kounuma, the [[Knife Nut]] Kuroda brothers, and ''especially'' Haguro Dou.
* From ''[[Naruto]]'' we have [[Psycho For Hire|Hidan]], who unlike most characters in the series has no positive traits and ''never did''. He slaughtered his village simply because he was disgusted with their pacifistic way of life, and performed gruesome rituals to attain immortality for himself. He's also [[Axe Crazy]] and cruel [[For The Evulz|for its own sake]]. On top of that, even the series itself seems to posit him as the most unsympathetic major villain, as he's exempt from the [[Cycle Of Revenge]] [[Aesop]] pervading the storyline with his [[Fate Worse Than Death]] (though it helps Shikamaru's case that Hidan has nobody who would care about his cruel fate barring potential allies).
* Frieza from ''[[Dragon Ball Z]]'' fits most of this to a T. As does Cell for that matter (maybe he inherited it from Frieza's cells!)
** '''KID BUU.''' [[Earth Shattering Kaboom|If you blow up the Earth just for shits and giggles,]] [[Jeff Foxworthy|you might be a sociopath.]]
* [[Big Bad]] Naraku from ''{{Inu Yasha}}''.
** As a conglomerate consciousness nothing about Naraku's psychology is normal. Also that many characters act like sociopaths when introduced and then receive [[Character Development]]. Including people like ''Kouga'', although arguably he never actually shakes the title.
* An aversion to the normal presentation of [[The Sociopath]] occurs in [[Haruhi Suzumiya]], in which the title character Haruhi has all the symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder except animal cruelty (unless you count [[Moe Blob|Mikuru]]). She's harmless to society in general and played sympathetically, just extremely impulsive, domineering, and an eternal source of exasperation for [[The Hero|Kyon]].
* ''[[Medaka Box]]'': A lot of the characters are sociopaths to some degree (the title character narrowly escaped becoming one herself), but {{spoiler|Ajimu}} takes the cake: not only does {{spoiler|she}} regard people as things {{spoiler|she}}'s a ''[[Physical God]]''. There's also Shiranui, who pitted her friends against an Irish wolfhound (a giant dog that [[Captain Obvious|was used to hunt wolves in Ireland]]) [[For The Evulz|because it was funny]].
* ''[[Full Metal Panic]]'': Gauron is a [[Combat Sadomasochist]] and [[Death Seeker]] with a [[Hair Trigger Temper]], [[No Sense Of Personal Space]], [[No Social Skills]], an utter [[Lack Of Empathy]], and [[Stalker With A Crush|an obsession]] with [[Foe Yay|the hero]] that borders on the ephebophiliac. His successor as [[Big Bad]], Mr. Gates, is worse, being an example of psychopathy at its purest. Like Gauron he's a [[Bad Boss]] with a ridiculously exagerated [[Hair Trigger Temper]], and a total [[Lack Of Empathy]]. He's also a [[Large Ham]] and a sexual predator who is implied to have slept with two teenage girls, jacks off to images of squirrels and kittens, talks about the many, many uses for [[I Love The Dead|a dead body]], and takes a completely [[Axe Crazy|insane]] delight in causing as much damage as humanly possible; he's also oddly unconcerned about his own death in the TSR finale. Averted by his replacement, [[Smug Snake|Leonard Tesstarossa]] who's more of a [[Narcissist]] than this.
* In the first couple of episodes of ''[[Black Cat]]'' many of Train's assigned targets seem to posses sociopathic traits.
** [[Big Bad]] Creed Diskenth has many of the characteristics of Antisocial Personality Disorder; it hurts him rather than helping him as he is oblivious to his underlings' opinions of him.
* Arguably, [[Troll|Izaya]] [[Jerkass|Orihara]] of ''{{Durarara}}'', who has absolutely no [[Freudian Excuse]] for the crap he pulls. Upon first introduction in the novels, he organizes a fake suicide group and talks to two suicidal girls about why they want to kill themselves with a big ol' smile on his face, mocks them for wanting to end their lives, and he's even taken aback when one of them tells him that he's wrong. He then ''drugs them, stuffs them into suitcases'' and asks his courier to "plop them on a park bench somewhere". It's outright stated that this is nowhere near an isolated incident and implied that he's even sold his past victims to loan companies. This scene isn't much better in the anime, where he orchestrates a girl's kidnap and rescue, mocks her thoroughly, holds her over the edge of a building, then watches from the sidelines with a gleeful smirk when she decides to jump (thankfully, someone cared about her safety a little more). It's also likely that he's the one who sent her photos of her father with another woman, which caused the start of her angst in the first place. Throughout the course of the series, he [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulates humans and supernatural beings]] [[For The Evulz]], [[Break The Cutie|breaks many a cutie]], orders hits on his [[Foe Yay|enemy]], manipulates a ''ten year old [[Yakuza]] [[Mafia Princess|princess]] into {{spoiler|attempting to kill said enemy}}'', [[Arson Murder And Jaywalking|stomps on a girl's cellphone while laughing like a maniac]] and generally [[Evil Gloating|hurting]] [[Big Brother Bully|and]] [[A God Am I|using]] [[Poisonous Friend|anyone]] [[The Chessmaster|and]] [[Disproportionate Retribution|every]][[Batman Gambit|one]] [[Diabolical Mastermind|who]] [[Green Eyed Monster|comes]] [[Kick The Dog|in]] [[Guinea Pig Family|contact]] [[Psychopathic Manchild|with]] [[Poisonous Friend|him]] [[Lack Of Empathy|and not even giving a shit about who gets hurt]] [[It Amused Me|and sadistically enjoys every minute of it]].
** However, it becomes {{spoiler|{{Subverted}} when we learn about his past and realize that there is at least [[Morality Pet|one person]] he cares for - Shinra. It's so extreme that he's more or less [[Yandere]] for him (though not in the romantic sense) to the point that he's stalking the man who hurt Shinra and setting him up for two huge crimes even though he realizes that he could get into trouble too. He even gets close to breaking down at the thought that he might have to betray his only friend to advance in his own goal}}.
** Also, Izaya's never said that he is {{spoiler|''unable'' to love}}, just that he {{spoiler|[[Love Is A Weakness|simply has no ''desire'' to]]}}.
* {{spoiler|Sosuke Aizen}} from ''[[Bleach]]'' He [[Bitch In Sheep's Clothing|puts on an affable façade]], is ''the'' [[Xanatos Roulette|most manipulative character in the manga]] (with the possible exception of Kisuke Urahara), sees people as little more than pawns and tosses them aside once they've [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|outlived their uselessness]], harms people just because he can {{spoiler|([[Moral Event Horizon|just look]] at what he made Hitsugaya [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice|do to Momo]])}}, and tortured and killed who knows how many shinigami in order to create the Hogyoku, just so he could 'stand in Heaven'. He's responsible for the creation and near-execution of the Vizards, and came pretty close to destroying Soul Society itself. [[Mad Scientist|Mayuri]] has sociopathic tendencies as well, given the lengths he goes to in the name of 'research'.
** Mayuri is ''definitely'' a sociopath. As his "evil-counterpart" on the villain's team, Szayel Apporo Granz, and quite a few other Arrancar, and by definition all normal Hollows. That some Arrancar ''aren't'' this is actually the remarkable part, but plenty of them aren't, even among the total bastards.
** Nnoitra Jiruga and Kenpachi Zaraki also count.
** And now it looks like Aizen has a contender in the equally [[Affably Evil]] and manipulative {{spoiler|Shukuro Tsukishima.}}
** Incredibly, another contender has come along, with none of the [[Affably Evil]] of either, yet the [[A God Am I]] mentality of Aizen: {{spoiler|Giriko Kutsuzawa. He kills his wife to '''test his ability'''.}}
* [[The Caligula]] Delphine Eraclea from ''[[Last Exile]]'' is a [[The Hedonist|decadent aristocrat]] with [[Lackof Empathy|zero empathy]] and manipulates everyone around her for her own amusement.
* [[Mad Scientist]] Akihiro Kurata from ''[[Digimon Savers]]''.
* The [[Unreliable Narrator]] and [[Villain Protagonist]] Itsuki (Boku) Kamiyama from ''[[Goth]]''.
* [[A Nazi By Any Other Name|Gihren]] [[Social Darwinist|Zabi]], ''de facto'' [[Big Bad]] of the original [[Mobile Suit Gundam]] is an [[Evil Prince]] with a [[Lack Of Empathy]] so severe it's almost awe-inspiring. [[Its All About Me|Caring nothing for others]], Gihren turns his brother's funeral into a political rally, condescends to his other siblings, isolates his father while plotting to [[Patricide|steal his position]], and uses [[Weapons Of Mass Destruction]] to lethal effect. [[Ambition Is Evil|Ambitious]], [[Smug Snake|overconfident]], [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulative]], and a [[Rousing Speech|brilliant orator]] Gihren lacks the sadism and [[For The Evulz]] motivation of many psychopaths and sociopaths, but nevertheless profiles as a charismatic, Machiavellian personality taken to such an extreme that there really is no other word for it. He also has the shallow affect, limited emotional range, shamelessness and total fearlessness associated with the most extreme psychopaths--even at the end, when {{spoiler|[[Cain And Abel|his sister]] has a gun against his head}} it never seems to cross Gihren's mind that he could possibly lose.
* Millions Knives, [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Trigun]]'' seems to have developed this as part of his [[Face Heel Turn]] when he [[Go Mad Fromthe Revelation|went mad from the revelation]] that [[Humans Are Bastards]]. He [[Used To Be A Sweet Kid]], though children are generally a bit patchy at empathy given they're not fully cognizant of other people as individuals. Given Knives went into his [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]] when technically about a year old, he never seems to have gotten past this developmental stage, emotionally. Though in many respects he's a [[Magnificent Bastard]].
** As well as completely disregarding human feelings, which doesn't really count since he [[Kill All Humans|hates them]], he mindslaves his psychic 'sisters' into a giant [[One Winged Angel|million winged angel]] without really noticing they didn't want to, and torments his twin brother.
* The [[Kick The Dog|H]][[The Worf Effect|u]][[Invincible Villain|c]][[Smug Snake|k]][[Jerk Ass|e]][[Lack Of Empathy|be]][[Its All About Me|in]] [[Badass Family|fa]][[Big Screwed Up Family|mily]] of ''[[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force]]''.
* Nakago in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' will go to any means to achieve his goal of godhood, and manipulates anyone who can advance his goals, and [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|kills]] them when they are of no use to him. He manipulates Yui into making him a god, and knows that she would be eaten by Seiryuu after wards, and kills one of the Seiryu warriors when he has no other need of him.
* Hody Jones from ''[[One Piece]]''; Fukaboshi's description of him fits the definition, as he's done many horrible things including revoking the prejudice of humans by assassinating the queen and blaming it on a human he had hired to work for him only to betray him and later taking over the kingdom and killing anyone who got in his way.
* Katejina Loos, of ''[[Victory Gundam]]'', is an interesting [[Character Development]] example. She starts out as one of the heroic main cast with Uso. However, even then, you could see signs of her true nature rising to the surface. After she is captured by the Empire, she charms her way into joining the BESPA and manipulates everyone else around her. She then turns against the Federation Forces and tries to kill Uso on multiple occasions. {{spoiler|She kills off five of the established cast members.}} She does all this to fuel her own ego and to take advantage of any situation given to her.
* Kino of ''[[Kinos Journey]]'' displays no regard for human life or suffering. Complete with a traumatic childhood.

=== Cartoons ===
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Princess Azula, and her father Ozai even moreso - Azula {{spoiler|has at least some humanizing qualities, though she mostly tries to bury them due to both her father's influence and her mistaken beliefs about her mother's love}}. Ozai, by contrast, doesn't seem to feel anything for anybody but himself. Not his son Zuko, his daughter Azula, his brother Iroh... he doesn't even bat an eyelid when admitting he {{spoiler|framed and banished his own wife}}! The saddest part is that neither of them ''used'' to be this way, but the conditions in which they group up and the parental influence on them shaped them into being such uncaring, self-centered monsters. [[Word Of God]] has it that, since she's still just a teenager, Azula might get better with time. Ozai... not so much.
* [[Jerk Ass|Eric Cartman]] in [[South Park]]. Let's see, he has no conscience, he's incredibly racist, oh, and he *deep breath* {{spoiler|tried to restart the Nazi movement, joined the Special Olympics and pretended to have Tourette's for personal gain, put a classmate in a ''Saw''-inspired trap, infected one of his friends with AIDS somehow, oh and turned a kid's parents into chili and fed it to him.}}
** He hates Jews and idolises [[Adolf Hitler]]. However he does not idolise Hitler because he hated Jews; he does so because Hitler was one of the greatest manipulators that history has ever known and Cartman is also a manipulator; thus he mimicks Hitler's hatred of minorities. Cartman just doesn't get that Hitler was also a monster.
** In the episode "Toilet Paper", Stan and Kyle confess to doing something bad, for which Butters had unfairly been blamed. Cartman [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|could not understand]] Stan and Kyle's guilt. In the end, he's the one who ends up confessing though... because he realized that he'd get off with a lighter punishment for confessing, not because he felt any guilt.
* Kevin 11 from ''[[Ben 10]]'', and when the [[Time Skip]] sequel shows had him become good, first Kevin's [[Evil Counterpart]] Darkstar and then the evil alien Aggregor came around to fill the void.
** Ultimately, it's [[Authors Saving Throw|revealed]] that for Osmosians like Kevin and Aggregor, using their powers to absorb energy (which Kevin did as a kid, and Aggregor still does) induces [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|a sociopathy-like state]]. Kevin stopped absorbing energy before ''Alien Force'' began, which was what allowed him to regain his sanity.
* {{spoiler|Lotso}} from [[Toy Story|3]] [[Used To Be A Sweet Kid|used to be a good toy]] until a tragic incident caused him to "snap," and now he no longer believes in the concept of love or the bond between a child and a toy; [[Word Of God]] even describes him as now permanently believing the love his own owner had for him was nothing but an illusion, which he even yells out at one point ("She never loved me!")
* [[Big Bad]] Slade from [[Teen Titans]]. He admits as much in "The End: Part 2".
* [[Word Of God]] describes the villains Jackal and Hyena from ''[[Gargoyles]]'' as sociopaths.
** Jackal's a sociopath, Hyena is a psychopath.
** Xanatos tries to be one of these, but he's eventually forced to confront the fact that he {{spoiler|genuinely loves his wife and son}}, and after his [[Break The Haughty]] moment in ''The Gathering'' {{spoiler|he gave the gargoyles their home back}}.
* The Ice King from [[Adventure Time]] is a rare sympathetic example, as his sociopathy [[Jerkass Woobie|NEVER works out in his favor]]. Then it's learned {{spoiler|he used to be a normal person who went insanely sociopathic against his will because of the power of his magic crown}}. Even all the show's ''characters'' show pity for the poor guy after this... his [[Lack Of Empathy]] is just a sad, sad case.
** The Ice King is more of a Narcissist than a Sociopath: he's self-centered, but his main obsession is with getting other people to praise him and acknowledge how great he is. Unfortunately, the only way he can think of making people like him is to force them to. The Ice King is also genuinely embarrassed when he appears foolish in front of prospective brides, something a sociopath wouldn't really care about. Really... a sociopath would have forced himself on a princess long ago. As a Narcissist, the Ice King kidnaps princesses... so that he can force them to socialize with him at his castle, "interrogating" them about inane little details about their likes and dislikes.
** Lemongrab is a sociopath by the OLDER definition of the word (the definition that didn't have as many negative connotations, and was once used to describe Aspies), as in "one who is not able to understand the emotions of others" and "cannot read social cues." Because of this, he's grossly unsympathetic towards everyone, and doesn't realize that he's making everybody completely miserable.
** Goliad has no empathy for others. She honestly believes that she has the right to do whatever she wants just because no one is powerful enough to stop her.
* ''[[The Penguins Of Madagascar]]'' has King Julien XIII. He lies with a smile, he manipulates people, he treats people as objects, he often loses his temper, he lays claim to a job he's clearly not qualified for, and he never admits that he has a problem with any of those things. All this is covered by wit and charm and hilarious antics.
** However, he also saves Skipper's life on a few occasions, has proved more then once that his "subjects" are the most important things to him, and has mustered up some empathy on several occasions. He is a case in point that not all sociopaths are monsters, and some may suffer themselves for their disorder.
* Mozenrath from ''[[Aladdin]]'' the series.
** [[Big Bad|Jafar]] from the movie was described as "Senor Psychopath" by the Genie, and with good reason too.
* Most of the bad guys in [[X Men Evolution]] have shades of this. The Brotherhood is primarily filled with narcissistic and amoral mutants who, despite often been said to be more 'sympathetic' than normal, they're anything but when you take a good look at it. Pietro was self caring and allowed a train of bystanders be derailed and let it crash into one filled with fuel. Blob kidnapped Jean and showed incredibly creepy, rapist vibes, as well as other violent behaviour. Toad was amoral, selfish, vulgar, and cruel, with his attraction to Wanda being his only redeeming quality. Avalanche was aggressive and violent, and while he looked rather sympathetic in the second season, a number of things made it look like he was faking the nice guy persona he had during that season. Of the Acolytes, Pyro and Sabretooth are the closest we get to text book Sociopaths in a show for kids; the two attempted murder, [[For The Evulz|enjoyed their work]], and are the definition of why mutants ''may'' be a risk. Averted with Colossus and Gambit; the former a good guy forced to work for bad people, the latter a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Card Carrying]] [[Card Carrying Villain|Villain]].
** Granted, the Brotherhood are eally more bullies and delinquents than sociopaths, given how it's implied none of them were brought up properly and that they feel like the world owes them (plus, they're [[Teens Are Monsters|teenagers]]). Several episodes indicate that they have the capacity to potentially reform in the future. Not as sympathetic as the [[Fan Dumb]] makes them out to be, but not utterly repulsive either.
* The [[Big Bad]] of Season 1 of [[WITCH]], Prince Phobos.
* Jeff, Quagmire's sister's abusive boyfriend from one episode of [[Family Guy]]. As if beating his girlfriend over the smallest things wasn't monsterous enough. The gang has had enough of him and decide to take him to the woods to kill him, but he turns the tables on them, [[Shoo Out The Clowns|knocks out Peter and Joe,]] and [[No Holds Barred Beatdown|beats Quagmire within an inch of his life, seemingly choking him to death]]. {{spoiler|Then it turns out Quagmire survived [[Chekhovs Gun|(since he chokes himself for sexual pleasure)]], and rams Jeff into a tree, killing him.}}
* Starscream from [[Transformers Prime]].
* [[Future Me Scares Me|Dark Danny]] from [[Danny Phantom]] ''definitely'' counts as this. He feels no emotion, single-handedly caused an apocalypse, and [[Batman Gambit|ruthlessly manipulated all the people who loved his past self]], to their ''[[Stuff Blowing Up|horrible deaths]]'' to ensure he would exist as he did.
* Despite heavy censorship, ''[[Spider Man The Animated Series]]'' still managed to make their version of Cletus Kasady, aka Carnage, into a bonafide psychopath, portraying him as a [[Laughing Mad]] [[Mad Bomber|Bomber]], who cackles with glee at the possibility of vaporising a city block--himself included--in his first appearance. He shows no remorse for his actions, and after becoming Carnage is downright eager to get back in action and start stealing souls for Dormammu (an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] who will consume the souls of everyone in the world if he is unleashed). He displays no regard for human life (least of all his own) and goes out of his way to injure anyone who tries to help him, including his psychiatrist, Anne Kafka.
* Miss Power from ''[[Word Girl]]'' counts. She [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulates the entire town into bullying each other]], she teaches [[Word Girl]] to mock the other villains, she throws Mrs. Botsford into jail for a disagreement they had, she [[No Holds Barred Beatdown|severly beats up WordGirl]], and she tries to kill Dr. Two-Brains. This was all her plan to [[Take Over The World]]. Also, she's one of the few villains in the show that do not have any redeeming qualities.
* [[Sponge Bob Square Pants|Squidward Tentacles]]. He's arrogant, and doesn't seem to care for anyone but himself. An example would be when Mr. Krabs handcuffed someone [[Lack Of Empathy|he refused to help uncuff him]]. Most of his paintings and statues are of himself, he genuinely calls others imbeciles, and in a few episodes he crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]] by being elated that [[Sponge Bob]] or Patrick would be leaving, and in a flashback he tried using voo-doo dolls on them.
** This is mostly after [[Seasonal Rot]] and Flanderization. In the seasons preceding [[The Movie]], he was largely a [[Jerk With A Heart Of Gold]].
** Though, like the Ice King above, his attitude is more symptomatic of the [[Narcissist]], particularly since he ''does'' care what people think of him, even if he also thinks that said people are his inferiors, and the hints that he's actually compensating for his cripplingly ''low'' self-esteem.
** Mr Krabs will do anything for money no matter how small the amount. He has no qualms in feeding his customers tainted and unhealthy food to make a fast buck, and has little concern to the well being, and the lives of his employees. One of his few redeeming factors is he really care about his daughter Pearl. However, this is also after [[Seasonal Rot]], and Mister Krabs used to be [[Mr Vice Guy|a generally decent guy who just happened to be greedy]].
* Harm from [[Young Justice]] ''tries'' to be this so that he can be [[Pure Is Not Good|pure]] enough to wield the Sword of Beowulf. {{spoiler|He murdered his own little sister Greta because he loved her, and that love was the only thing holding him back.}} It ultimately doesn't work out for Harm because deep down it's only an act: {{spoiler|the moment he sees his sister's ghost his repressed guilt gets the better of him and the Sword rejects him.}}
** This seems to be a requirement for members of The Light.
* In ''[[Gravity Falls]]'' there's Lil'Gideon he acts like an adorable kid, and swings to a total jerk, he is willing to use any diabolical scheme to get revenge on the Pines family and killing people is no problem to him.
* Discord from [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] is a sadistic [[Reality Warper]] who [[Mind Rapes]] the mane cast and turns Equestria into a chaotic hellhole for no other reason than [[For The Evulz]].

=== Comics ===
* [[The Joker]], [[Arch Enemy]] of [[Batman]].
** The [[DC Universe]] also has Kid Karnevil, an adolescent [[Torture Technician]] first introduced in ''Shadowpact''. He claims to emulate the Joker and ultimately wants to kill him. Old Greenhair is unimpressed.
* Max in ''[[Sam And Max]]'' is described repeatedly in story as a sociopath, but ''The Devil's Playhouse'' [[Retcon]]s him into having a conscience ([[Ghost In The Machine|who is highly repressed]] and [[Driven To Suicide|suicidal]]).
** Even before that, his behavior doesn't quite fit; he's more like a violent psychotic with psychopathic tendencies.
* Gideon Graves of [[Scott Pilgrim]].
** Todd Ingram qualifies as well. He thinks he's better than everyone because he's a rock star and a vegan, he punches a young girl in the face just because she annoyed him, and he cheats on his girlfriend just because he feels like it, yet feels entitled to get in the way of Scott and Ramona's relationship.
* Alfie O'Meagan from [[Nth Man The Ultimate Ninja]] is a textbook example: he tortures small animals, shamelessly lies and shifts the blame to others, has sudden outbursts of anger and arrogance, and lacks any sympathy or empathy for others. Problem is, he's also a [[Reality Warper]] and the most powerful being on Earth.
* ''[[Sin City]]'' has Senator Roark and his [[Serial Killer]] son as probably the best examples of sociopaths. There are plenty of crazy people but they show at least some remorse or have emotional attachments here or there.
* The ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' [[Myth Arc]] features the protagonist squaring off against a sociopath who [[President Evil|got himself elected President of the United States]] just so he could exercise his every sadistic whim unimpeded.
* ''[[Lucifer]]'', to no-one's surprise, would be considered a sociopath by human standards. He isn't one (human that is), and neither are many of the comic's other sociopathic characters.
* The Juggernaut has killed countless people and caused untold destruction. And he will tell you all about it over a beer.
* [[Lex Luthor]] is often described as being a sociopath, and he has done many heinous things without remorse. Some of those things being killing his father for startup capital (granted he was a textbook [[Abusive Parents|abusive father]], too), curing his sister's disease then giving it back to her just because he could, strangling a black belt just because she had the gall to beat him in training, and (implied) letting a biochemist-turned-superhero die to give [[Superman]] a [[Heroic BSOD]]. Also, his (PostCrisis) motivation for hating [[Superman]]? Because he exists, and Luthor [[Driven By Envy|doesn't want someone more powerful than he around]].
* As we find out from ''[[Watchmen]]'', {{spoiler|The Comedian}}.
** Although, interestingly enough, the Comedian is ultimately capable of realizing that what he did was wrong - he admits to doing "bad things" during his [[Villainous Breakdown]] to Moloch. Rorschach on the other hand is a [[Sociopathic Hero]].
* This is one of the defining traits of Hush from [[Batman]]. Unlike Bruce, Thomas had a poor relationship with his parents, to the point that he murdered them both. He thinks Bruce is lucky that someone else killed his parents, and doesn't understand why someone might prefer having parents to having a lot of money. In addition, he knows that Bruce is Batman, and thinks that he does it for fun.

=== Fan Works ===

* [[Big Bad|Checker]] [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Monarch]] from [[Getting Back On Your Hooves]]. She's been confirmed by [[Word Of God]] to have been based off of real life sociopaths.
* [[Alex]] from the [[Adventure Time]] fanfic named after her.

=== Movies ===
* ''[[Little Sweetheart]]'': Thelma, a nine year old girl who is willing to blackmail, steal, spy and {{spoiler|murder her best friend}} to get her way.
* ''[[American Psycho]]'': Patrick Bateman. A perfect example. On the starpulse.com article about the most believable sociopaths in film, Bateman scored higher on the [[sociopathy]] checklist than [[The Silence Of The Lambs|Hannibal Lecter]] and [[The Dark Knight|the Joker]].
* Nicky Santaro in [[Casino]]. And speaking of mobsters played by [[Joe Pesci]], Tommy De Simone in [[Goodfellas]] probably counts as well.
* ''[[Heathers]]'' features Jason Dean, who is originally seen as simply [[Troubled But Cute]] before revealing himself as one of these.
* The Scorpio Killer from [[Dirty Harry]].
* Vincent from ''[[Collateral]]''. He's even described as such, in story.
* As you later [[Moral Event Horizon|find out]] in the film ''[[Chinatown]]'', {{spoiler|Noah Cross}}.
* Peter and Paul, the protagonists from the film ''[[Funny Games]]''.
* {{spoiler|Aaron Stampler}} from the film ''[[Primal Fear]]''.
* Frederick "Junior" Frenger from the film ''Miami Blues'' is a textbook example.
* Catherine Tramell of the ''[[Basic Instinct]]'' series is a rare example of a female sociopath in popular culture. A charismatic, seductive, [[Narcissist|narcissistic]] author, [[Femme Fatale]], pathological liar and [[Serial Killer]], she manipulates and causes the deaths of nearly everyone in the story, including many of her lovers and her own parents, largely for her own personal gain, amusement and to inspire her novels with no real remorse whatsoever. She is even described as such by multiple characters in the films.
* Geaer Grimsrud from the film ''[[Fargo]]''. A mute, nearly emotionless man with a love of pancakes, he reveals his true colors when he murders a police officer and several innocent people nonchalantly, and later {{spoiler|kills an innocent woman for simply making too much noise and shoves his partner into a wood chipper for mouthing off to him}}. He does all of this [[Dissonant Serenity|without changing his emotionless demeanor whatsoever]].
* Daniel Plainview is gradually revealed to be one as ''[[There Will Be Blood]]'' progresses.
* Anton Chigurh from ''[[No Country For Old Men]]''. He seems to view people much like cattle, and shows absolutely no remorse or consideration for any of the horrible deeds he performs throughout the movie.
*: "What's this guy supposed to be, the ultimate badass?"
*: "I don't think that's how I'd describe him."
*: "Well, how ''would'' you describe him?"
*: "I guess I'd say he...doesn't have a sense of humor."
* Waldo Lydecker from 1944's ''[[Laura]]''.
* Emperor Palpatine from [[Star Wars]] certainly qualifies. [[Lack Of Empathy]] ? Check. Manipulates people like chesspieces and only emitting shallow emotions? Check. Experiences extreme rage and is uplifted when hurting enemies? Check. That's just in the movies. The expanded universe has him being a sociopath even when he was a kid (including [[Self Made Orphan|murdering his parents and siblings]]), and is incapable of feeling regret when committing heinous actions and various misdemeanors (including manslaughter when driving like a maniac). His cloning attempts only make his sociopathy even worse.
* Professor Moriarty is portrayed as such in ''[[Sherlock Holmes|Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows]]''. People are just pawns to him, [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|employment termination involves life termination ("No loose ends")]], he has a ginormous ego, [[Faux Affably Evil|has superficial charm]], and is completely ruthless.
** Holmes lampshades this by diagnosing him with "moral insanity", a dated term for ASPD.
* From [[The Lion King]]: The two main villains, Scar and Zira, qualify. They also show great contrast between High Functioning and Low Functioning sociopathy, with the more [[The Chessmaster|calculating]] Scar being the more high-functioning and the [[Ax Crazy|deranged]] Zira being more low-functioning.
* [[The Warriors]] Luthor from the Rouges kills the gang leader Cyrus, and blames it on the Warriors, all because he felt like doing it.
* ''Stoker'': {{spoiler|Uncle Charlie is one of these in the screenplay, superficially glib, manipulative and charming, but he seems to have a seriously low threshold for physical aggression and beats several people to death with his bare hands or whatever's handy. His affection for his niece is more as an extension of himself than anything else. India seems to be likewise, but she's more of the Hollywood, unnaturally-cool-and-collected variety.}}

=== Literature ===
* Kevin Khatchadourian, the eponymous character of ''[[We Need To Talk About Kevin]]''. A teenage school shooter and torturer, he has been a monster ever since he was a young child. Kevin has a severe case of [[sociopathy]]; his disorder results in him never relating to other people and finding ''everything'' to be dreary, pointless and uninteresting. Every day of his life. By the time he is a teenager, he exists in a constant state of [[And I Must Scream]].
* ''[[Discworld]]'' has Jonathan Teatime in ''[[Hogfather]]''. According to the book, he "sees things differently from other people, in that he sees other people as things." {{spoiler|He even spent a significant amount of his time theorizing how to kill the various holiday entities of the Disc, like the Hogfather, the Soul Cake Duck, and even DEATH himself}}.
** [[Witches Abroad|Lady Lillith]] has shades of this as well, what with being a high-caliber [[Tautological Templar]]. While not quite as [[Ax Crazy]] as Teatime, she's likely done at least as much harm in the long run, most of it presumably more long-lasting. Never once does she stop to think if her idea of "good" has ''anything'' in common with other people's.
* Roose Bolton from ''[[A Song Of Ice And Fire]]'' is possibly one. Capable of extreme cruelty and betrayal, while never wavering from his [[Dissonant Serenity]]. Although his lack of emotions and total detachment from other humans is actually more indicative of a [[schizoid]] mental disorder.
** His son Ramsay (who is a sadistic serial killer) is more of a typical sociopath.
** '''Gregor Clegane'''. Case-in-point: he burned and scarred his little brother's face ''over a toy''. A toy that he had thrown away.
** [[Yandere|Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish]] is beginning to show shades of this beneath his [[Affably Evil]], [[Magnificent Bastard]] personality, and even more disturbingly, he knows how to feign and manipulate emotions to his advantage.
* Somerled from [[Juliet Marillier]]'s ''Wolfskin''. He commits genocide, fratricide and rape, has no empathy, and his only reaction to human pain and sufering is mild curiosity. He also thinks [[Despotism Justifies The Means]]
* [[Harry Potter|Lord Voldemort]] is a textbook sociopath. In his younger days before he became [[Obviously Evil]], he was a canny manipulator brimming with superficial charm. He [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|does not understand love]], viewing other people - including his own followers - as merely tools to serve his ends. Also, the "persistent killing" part fits him pretty well.Though the book posits a reason for his sociopathy. His mother seduced a Muggle with a love potion, and it was a completely loveless union. Riddle Sr. did not ''truly'' love Merope back, diplaying affection only under the influence of the potion. This absence of love in Voldemort's conception was the reason for his complete inability to love. Dumbledore also believes that had his mother not lost the will to live and died in childbirth, but instead raised Voldemort and loved him, his sociopathic tendencies might have been avoided.
** Bellatrix Lestrange definitely falls under this category as well. She definitely ''does'' have emotions, but she is unable to extend any of these emotions to anyone outside her own social circle of bigoted murderers.
** It is questionable whether Dolores Umbridge is also a sociopath (albeit to a slightly lesser extent), but since she completely lacks a conscience and only displays kindness to people to win them over so that she can use them for her cause, she probably is.
* Alex from [[A Clockwork Orange]] (both the book and the movie). Although considering the [[Crapsack World]] he lived in, the general deconstruction of human morality, and Alex's own status as an [[Unreliable Narrator]], it is debatable exactly where he falls on the in-universe scale of [[Chaotic Evil]].
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Some interpretations]] of [[Sherlock Holmes]]. Another, probably much straighter example is Sherlock's [[Evil Counterpart]] Moriarty.
* Though many of the supernatural creatures in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' exhibit elements of sociopathy (notably vampires who fully embrace their predatory nature and many of the nastier Winter Court sidhe), the most obvious example is the all-too-human Nicodemus, a man so thoroughly and unapologetically (and yet [[Affably Evil|often politely]]) evil that a ''[[Fallen Angel]]'' works with him as a ''genuine partner''. Nick's wife Tessa and daughter Deirdre are also candidates.
* Henry Bowers in ''[[IT]]'' by Stephen King is a prime example of a sociopath, as he matures from a schoolyard bully to a murderer. Had he not been institutionalized, he likely would have ended up eventually going on a shooting spree.
** In the same book, Patrick Hockstetter is explicitly described as a sociopath, with no grasp of the fact that others are in fact real, and at five years old killed his baby brother for disrupting household routine.
* In the gruesome flashback scenes in the [[Inspector Lynley]] novel ''This Body of Death'', one of the three boys shows most of the listed traits. As an adult and {{spoiler|one of the murder suspects, he turns out to be innocent and eventually [[Redemption Equals Death|dies redeeming himself]].}} Since the author has a degree in psychology, this may well be intentional.
* Count Olaf of ''[[A Series Of Unfortunate Events]]''. He burns down ''a hospital'' to cover his tracks, kills at least one person per book to further his agenda, seems to view violence as rather entertaining, is extremely narcissistic, has a sense of entitlement to a fortune that isn't his and is able to manipulate and charm [[Adults Are Useless|anyone but the children]]. Oh, and he's perfectly willing to kill children.
** Subverted in book 13 when we find out {{spoiler|he loved Kit Snicket}} and he {{spoiler|he saves her life and is shocked that the Baudelaires would even think that he would hurt their parents.}} Also, he has a Freudian excuse - {{spoiler|it's implied that the Baudelaire parents killed his parents with poison darts.}}
* [[Evil Albino|Ivar]] [[Evil Cripple|Ragnarson]] of [[The Last Light Of The Sun]]. He doesn't see people as people, murdered his sister for laughing at him, sheds no tears over his dead brother, has to keep reminding himself to speak to people as ''though'' they were equals, and loses his temper when irritated. At one point he murders a captured earl just to make sure the mercenaries he's hired won't think of just ransoming him and going home; Ivar has lots more [[For The Evulz]] murder and mayhem planned for them. [[Captain Obvious|He's the bad guy]].
* Caine from ''[[Gone]]'' is confirmed by [[Word Of God]] to be a sociopath. His [[Lack Of Empathy]] becomes clear early on, but his status as this is confirmed when he tells a pack of mutated coyotes that they can feed on young (some daycare-age) children because . . . there was no reason ''not'' to. He actually manages to be a nuanced character, though; the ''real'' complete monster is his [[Dragon]], Drake.
* ''[[The Silence Of The Lambs]]'': Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a [[Serial Killer]] and an [[Evil Genius]], and perhaps one of the most famous examples of the inhumanly charismatic and exceptionally intelligent "[[Magnificent Bastard|elite psychopath]]" popularized by Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer.
** Though Dr. Chilton's diagnosis ("Oh, he's a monster") is likely more accurate, it's hardly a clinical diagnosis.
* ''[[The Talented Mr Ripley]]''.
** The movie's central plot essentially is the interplay of two sociopaths. Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law) is a rich kid whose bumming around Europe on his plutocrat father's dime. Tom Ripley is a young blue collar musician willing to impersonate a fellow Princeton grad, defraud Dickie's father of a rather nice expense account to "convince" Dickie to come back, then play Dickie off his father to bum around Europe. Both display a great deal of superficial charm, little remorse about lying and manipulating others, quick tempers, a willingness to lash out violently when it suits them, and no qualms with defrauding the old man. Dickie has no problem blowing off a young Italian girl he impregnated, and when she is [[Driven To Suicide]], he seems more upset at how this affects him. Tom lies his way into high society and is willing to lie, steal, and murder to stay there. Marge, Dickie's girlfriend, describes how when Dickie takes note of you it's like being in the sun. This is a common trait among sociopaths. Tom has a similar trait and facility for lying. The few moments where either shows an emotion similar to remorse may seem to break the mold, but even real sociopaths are not ''completely'' inhuman. Sociopathy exists on a sliding scale.
* [[Psycho For Hire]] Anton Chigurh from ''[[No Country For Old Men]]'' is a particularly potent example.
* In the [[RCN]] series, Adele Mundy's [[bodyguard]] Tovera is a complete sociopathic monster who knows she needs Adele to act as her conscience to keep her functioning in society, and enjoys, as much as she can be said to, serving Adele (and by extension, Daniel Leary) because it gives her plenty of opportunity for authorized mayhem. For her part, Adele is very scrupulous in ''not'' asking Tovera what she does in her free time for amusement when she disappears into the city's slums.
* [[I Am Not A Serial Killer|John]] [[Mr Monster|Wayne]] [[I Dont Want To Kill You|Cleaver]] is a deconstruction of a sociopath: he's completely aware that he is nothing less than a nascent serial killer who has yet to kill anyone, but is also every bit as aware that acting out his fantasies of killing would ultimately lead to his arrest and execution. {{spoiler|Having to kill someone to save his mother's life at the end of the first book ''seriously fucks him up'', and leads into the plots of the other two.}}
* In the [[Red Dwarf]] novel "Last Human", {{spoiler|the alternate Lister}} is a full-fledged sociopath, nicely outlined in his psych profile.
* [[Abusive Dad|Richard]] [[The Alcoholic|Lopez]] of ''[[Ship Breaker]]'' is a drug-addicted, [[Axe Crazy]], [[Archnemesis Dad]] who suffers from massive mood swings and a severe inability to connect to other people. He has no qualms about threatening to maim his son, or cut out a girl's eyes, and eventually tries to sell [[Distressed Damsel|Nita's]] organs on the black market. His attitude towards his son, Nailer, is especially volatile, shifting from almost fatherly affection to an attempt at [[Offing The Offspring]] at the drop of a pin. He kills without remorse, and no one, not even Nailer, is sad when he dies.
* In the ''Privilege'' series, Kaitlynn Nottingham is this. {{spoiler|She kills her best friend's dad, who happens to be her lover, and has no qualms with killing one of her classmates so she can get into a secret society. The protagonist, Ariana Osgood, arguably counts as this, since she kills at least 3 people in the book and only feels remorse about one of them.}}
* John Dread of ''[[Otherland]]'' is explicitly described as a sociopath, complete with a psychologist telling the police how he was the scariest person he'd ever attempted to treat, because he could tell that Dread did not see him as a person, but merely an object, to be evaluated on his usefulness and killed without a second thought if he became too inconvenient. Dread is given the [[Freudian Excuse]] of a drug-addled prostitute mother who brutally abused him in order to turn him into a weapon against the world she hated. It worked.
* Razim from [[Alex Rider]] is this [[Up To Eleven|to an unbelievable degree]].
* Jadis the White Witch from [[The Chronicles Of Narnia]] is up there with Iago. Superficial charm? Check. Above average intelligence? Check. Pathological egocentricity? You betcha! Incapacity for empathy or remorse? "So much for love."
* The 13 year-old piano student {{spoiler|who ruins Reiko's life}} in [[Norwegian Wood]].
* In the [[Young Adult]] novel [[Rosebush]], it turns out that {{spoiler|Langley Winterman is this, as she's the mastermind behind the hit-and-run and she casaully uses and manipulates people to get what she wants.}}
* [[Alpha Bitch|Massie]] the [[Villain Protagonist]] from ''[[The Clique]]''.

=== Real Life ===
;''NOTE: Must be actually professionally diagnosed with sociopathy''.
* Ted Bundy. He raped, tortured and murdered women for several years, including 2 12-year-old girls, while appearing to lead an exemplary life. Yes, this sadistic [[Serial Killer]] was a member of the Crime Prevention Council, a political staffer, and a volunteer at a suicide hotline. If Ted hadn't done "those things," today he'd probably be holding elective office.
** The main reason he was so successful as a serial killer was that he, like most sociopaths, was very charming. It also didn't hurt that he was handsome and had a 100-watt smile. [[Draco In Leather Pants|He used to get fan mail from women while he was in prison]].
* Hermann Göring, the Reich Marshal of [[Nazi Germany]] and the initial second-in-command to [[Adolf Hitler]]. Also the founder of the [[Secret Police|Gestapo]]. He was diagnosed as a narcissistic sociopath, and found to have the highest IQ among the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials. Cruel, corrupt and self-indulgent, he amassed enormous wealth at the expense of his country, during wartime. Neither did he give two shits about any National Socialist ideals - when they asked him why he joined the Nazi movement in the first place, his explanation boiled down to "I did it [[For The Evulz]]."
** And yet Goring also [[Pet The Dog|rescued several Jews and Jewish families from the Nazis]], making sure they were able to get out of Germany, mostly because they'd showed him some kindness when he was poor or otherwise in a bad way. And by all accounts he really did love his daughter. His brother was an opponent of the Nazis who used Hermann's name to smuggle Jews out of Germany- Hermann knew about this, and turned a blind eye.
*** He also deeply loved his first wife Karin -- enough that he maintained a shrine in her honor after she died.
* Reihnard Heydrich, Himmler's deputy and SS governor of Bohemia and Moravia, is almost universally seen as this by historians. The man planned the Holocaust with ruthless efficiency (what's more, before the age of 40), was a skilled manipulator, and practically ran a private spy agency to better blackmail political opponents. [[Kenneth Branagh]], who played him in ''[[Conspiracy]]'', said he felt that Heydrich wasn't even particularly anti-Semitic: if he had been ordered instead to exterminate tennis players or Eskimos, he would have done so with just as much enthusiasm.
** One episode from his personal life alone pushes him over the edge here. As a young naval officer, he impregnated his fiancee and then left her. His reason? Any woman who gave herself away so freely was beneath him. It backfired when Admiral Erich Raeder dismissed him for refusing to marry her, only for him to (quickly) withdraw under the protective wing of Heinrich Himmler. He despised everything, his bosses included, and cared only for power.
* Robert Hare estimates that around 1% of the population is made up of psychopaths. Other Psychologists have gone even higher, some going as high as 5% of the population (1 in 20 people).
** Those percentages mostly account for 'functioning sociopaths', meaning people such as grifters, con artists, and shady used car dealers because they're unempathic enough to not be bothered by swindling people but are still affected by stronger [[moral]] conventions like 'murder is bad'. Violent sociopaths, like Bundy and Dahmer, are much more rare, sitting at perhaps .5% of the population.

=== TV ===
* ''[[Dexter]]'':
** The eponymous Dexter Morgan, the most famous [[Sociopathic Hero]] and [[Serial Killer Killer]] on TV, is an example of a sociopath with a moral code his father instilled to direct his murderous urges at other killers. As such, he self-identifies as a sociopath but he usually only lies & manipulates his targets or [[Hero Antagonist|people who are trying to hunt him down]] or to maintain a facade of normalcy (he initially gets into a relationship with Rita entirely as a disguise). With his [[Character Development]], he's a hybrid of schizoid and sociopath who displays enough guilt, love and empathy to qualify as a reformed sociopath.
** The Ice Truck Killer, {{spoiler|Miguel Prado}}, Jordan, Travis, Trinity and Lila also count.
* ''[[Profit]]'': Jim Profit
* Around half of the cast of ''[[Oz]]'', most notable with Simon Adebisi and Chris Keller.
* Serial killer Hoyt from ''[[Rizzoli And Isles]]''.
* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' encounters a "pure psychopath" about once a season. Interestingly, despite the hundreds of cases the BAU have investigated, only 9 characters have been listed as genuinely [[psychopathic]]. They are [[Mad Bomber|Adrian Bale]], Nathan Harris (who was not actually a criminal), [[Smug Snake|Frank Breitkopf]], [[It's All About Me|The Boston Reaper]], Ray Campion, [[Unholy Matrimony|Raymond Donovan and Sydney Manning]], [[Enfante Terrible|Danny Murphy]], and [[Stalker With A Crush|Greg Phinney]]. Of these, The Reaper is probably the worst, being an utterly amoral psycho who killed people for no better reason than a desire for fame, and went after the police when they dared to try and stop him.
** Jeremy from the Season 6 episode, ''Safe Haven'' is a [[Teens Are Monsters|13-year old]] "budding psychopath", with severe attention deficit problems and antisocial tendencies. He can't pay attention to anything for more than a few minutes, has a serious lack of impulse control, lies complusively and convincingly, killed his neighbour's dog, regularly tortures his little sister, and tried to poison his entire family with rat poison in the Thanksgiving turkey. After being abandoned by his mom he goes on a cross country killing spree as he attempts to return home and murder her, killing entire families and torturing the mothers. He has no real emotions (as is repeatedly demonstrated), but fakes them incredibly well, and at one point expresses a very creepy sexual interest in a girl who can't be much more than ten. Rossi suggests that they should keep him on file for a reason.
* Mr. Rabbit on ''The Kill Point'', who manages to be the [[Token Evil Teammate]] of a ''bank robbing crew''. He beats the hostages unprovoked, psychologically tortures one of them for no particular reason, carries around the severed ear of an Iraqi soldier he previously tortured to death, and tells Captain Cali that he considers the hostages "cattle" and "sheep being led to the slaughter." He ends up {{spoiler|getting beaten to death by the leader of the team}}, because [[Even Evil Has Standards]].
* ''[[It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia]]'': Every character is a sociopath. They're frequently doing things that are unethical if not illegal, [[With Friends Like These|stabbing each other in the back]], and no one in the gang is able to stick to a plan.
* ''[[Smallville]]'': If we are to believe [[Archnemesis Dad|Lionel Luthor]], his [[Bastard Bastard]] Lucas is one of these. Lionel himself, and his son, Lex, both display traits of the disorder as well, but not enough to qualify. A much better example is probably [[Alternate Universe|Earth-2's]] [[Evil Twin|Clark Luthor]] aka Ultraman. A promiscous [[Professional Killer]] and [[Psycho For Hire]], he lies like a dog to everyone he meets, has a violent, [[Hair Trigger Temper]], and switches between moods quickly enough to give you whiplash. His adoptive father, Earth-2 Lionel is likely an example as well, with a [[Lack Of Empathy]] that runs so deep it's almost frightening. The same goes for [[Serial Killer]] and [[Torture Technician]] Desaad.
** Lx-3, Lex's clone and [[Shadow Archetype]] from Season 10's "Lazarus" is a solid example. He spends all his time on-screen committing mass murder, has a [[Hair Trigger Temper]] and a sadistic streak, seems to actively enjoy murder for its own sake, and hates everyone. He tries to kill every person he meets.
** Bob Rickman, corrupt salesman with [[Mind Control]] powers who has no qualms making his enemies [[Psychic Assisted Suicide|kill themselves]] or brainwashing innocent people to kill for him. His pesticide plants were massively toxic, spreading cancer and environmental damage, which he took delight in being able to get away with thanks to his powers.
* ''[[Heroes]]'' has a few among its villains, notably Arthur and Sylar . Elle Bishop was actually diagnosed as a sociopath and displays extreme aggression coupled with no empathy.
*:'''Elle:''' The shrinks diagnosed me as a sociopath with paranoid delusions, but they were just out to get me because I threatened to kill them.
** It's also heavily implied that she wasn't naturally a sociopath so much as driven insane after her father had used her in various experiments relating to her power. She seemed to be growing out of it but never got the chance for redemption.
*** Bob Bishop most likely is one. Letting a sociopath raise a child to become a sociopath...
** Sylar's own father is a case. When asked why he murdered Sylar's mother and sold him to another family, he replies that he doesn't even remember because "it didn't matter to me."
* [[Big Bad|Servalan]] of [[Blakes Seven]] is another rare female example.
* Francis from ''[[Malcolm In The Middle]]'' qualifies. Early on in his life he deliberately set a teddy bear of his on fire by dousing it with lighter fluid. During his childhood, after Reese and Malcolm were born, he frequently tortured them, stole their toys, locked them in a closet, and presumably scarred Reese on the shoulder with a bayonette. Probably one of his greater joys is tormenting his own mom. During his teen years, he also frequently made destructive revolts for no reason outside of just for the heck of it or simply to spite his mother. One instance of this is his stealing a neighbors car and then proceeding to total it. He also frequently smoked, did drugs, and slept around, also getting four nose pierces just to spite his mom, who said that she'd put him in military school if he goes so far as to get one. He seemed to become more sane when he joined a Dude ranch, but he then reverted back after he was fired, and it was implied in the season finale that the reason why he got a steady job and wanted to keep it a secret was to further anguish his mother about being jobless for his own entertainment.
* Nora Dershlit from [[I Carly]]. The only thing she cares about is [[I Just Want To Have Friends|to make friends]], but her perception of what counts as "friends" is so horrifically skewed that she believes ''locking the iCarly gang in her basement against their will'' qualifies, ignoring their repeated expressions of the fact they don't even like her, believing she can ''force'' people to be her friends. She has absolutely no remorse for holding people against their will and outright tries to ''murder'' Gibby when he comes to save the iCarly gang. In her second appearence, she once more holds them against their will by ''holding Spenser hostage'' and torturing him on a giant wheel to keep the iCarly gang under control, even implying she can and will ''kill him'' if it comes to it. She also shows the [[Manipulative Bitch]] qualities of the trope, feigning remorse for her actions to trick the iCarly gang into agreeing to release her from prison and luring them into her trap again. She's also confirmed to be a sociopath [[In Universe]], even referring to herself as one.
*:'''Carly''': Nora... You're a ''nutcase!''
*:'''Nora''': The correct term is disturbed, lonely sociopath.
** The largest example of this trope would be Sam Puckett. She fits most of the signs without the torturing animals part.
* On ''[[Dark Oracle]]'', Omen appears to be one of these initially, but his genuine liking of Cally and slow development of human emotion keeps him from falling fully into the trope. [[Villain Of The Week]] Claudia, who believes "if it feels good, do it," might well be a low-functioning sociopath. And then there's the comic book characters, Blaze (a [[Hair Trigger Temper|hot-tempered]] [[Jerk Ass]] who has no qualms about breaking a fellow student's arm), Violet (a [[Manipulative Bitch]] who enjoys scaring the crap out of her victims), and [[Evil Twin|comic!Sage]] (who plays mindgames with Lance, screws around, and tries to off several girls with a poisonous snake).
* The eponymous Sherlock Holmes of [[The BBC]]'s ''[[Sherlock]]'' certainly plays with the trope a lot. [[Lack Of Empathy|He doesn't care at all about the people who bring him his cases]], [[Its All About Me|only solves them to keep himself from getting bored]], and then [[The Charmer|charms]], [[Consummate Liar|lies to]] and [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulates]] everyone involved to solve the mysteries. Ends up being a subversion though, since despite having all the other traits of a sociopath, [[Jerk With A Heart Of Gold|he's missing the black heart]]
*:{{spoiler|'''Moriarty:'''}} If you don't stop prying, I will burn you. I will burn the ''heart'' out of you.
*:'''Sherlock:''' I have been reliably informed that I don't have one.
*:{{spoiler|'''Moriarty:'''}} But we both know that's not quite true.
** Moriarty is as usual an actual one, and [[Evil Counterpart|just as brilliant as Sherlock]].
* Charlie Harper from ''[[Two And A Half Men]]'' probably qualifies as a sociopath. For starters, he often shamelessly sleeps around and manipulates women (and the only time he doesn't try to sleep with a woman is if that woman is married, although sleeping unknowingly with a married woman happens as well) and some of the instances possibly could also qualify as statuatory rape or require him by law to get registered as a sex offender had it been real life, and he doesn't seem to have any remorse for what he did. He's also extremely dispicable around those near him.
* The Master from [[Doctor Who]] is this with a generous helping of [[A God Am I|megalomania]].
* There's a good chance that Mordred from ''[[Merlin]]'' is one of these. He is a rather unemotional child, seems quite apt at manipulating the adults around him, shows no remorse when he kills several armed men, and responds with anger rather than grief when his father is executed.
* [[Self Made Orphan|Alice Morgan]] from ''[[Luther]]''. She's Hannibal Lecter in drag, with a healthy [[Villainous Crush]] on the hero, no ability to empathise with others and a [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] streak.
* ''[[CSI]]'' had a few of these as killers of the week. One possibility is the teenage killer in "Unsual Suspect" and "Goodbye and Good Luck". Another appeared on an earlier episode, and it was even lampshaded how she could switch personalities on a whim.
* ''[[CSINY]]'' had one, possibly two of these. In one episode, a young woman manipulated an older guy into killing a woman at a French Revolution themed party. Stella is annoyed that they can't prosecute the girl, because she didn't commit any actual crime, she just pulled the strings to get the other guy to act.
* ''[[Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger]]'': a borderline case is Dr. Mikoto Nakadai, the man is a super smart surgeon who was so bored with his life, that when he became Abare Killer he joined the Evolians and use his powers to what he consider as good use. In which case he formulate his own evil plans that are close to working and make the old villains look comical. It doesn't help the fact that {{spoiler|he had a shard of the Evolian god Dezumozorlya.}}
* The default setting for vampires in [[Buffy The Vampire Slayer]]. Newly turned vamps are [[The Berserker]], [[Chaotic Evil]] mold, if they are not quickly dusted then they start to grow a brain, but rarely emotions or feelings unless magic is involved.
* Marlo Stanfield from [[The Wire]]. Unusual in a show well-known for it's [[Gray And Grey Morality]], where even the most hardened criminals are capable of [[Pet The Dog|kindness]] and are often shown doing [[Villains Out Shopping|ordinary things]]. A ruthless drug dealer, Marlo has no qualms and seemingly no moral compass. One of his defining moments is when he was a security guard with a [[I Have A Family|family]] killed...[[For The Evulz|just because]]. He is also the most prolific criminal on the show, with {{spoiler|over a dozen victims to his name}}. His personality is remarkably reminiscent of a [[Serial Killer]].
* [[Law And Order Special Victims Unit]] had a serial-killer prostitute (based on Aileen Wuornos) who displayed the "cocktail personality" where she'd become a troubled mentally-frail patient for the psychiatrist or a seductress for Detective Stabler. Her son was the only thing she cared about {{spoiler|and it turns out she killed his mother and kidnapped him as an infant.}}
* [[Person Of Interest]]: Root demonstrates all the clinical symptoms of this (pronounced [[Lack Of Empathy]], lack of proper understanding of morals, etc.)

=== Tabletop Games ===
* In ''[[Trinity Universe|Trinity]]'', this is the dirty secret of the main branch of the vitakinetic order. Their powers make them intimately aware of the physical and mental health of people in close proximity to them. Quite a few of these healers find being surrounded by so much pain and decay so overwhelming that they voluntarily undergo a process that turns them into sociopaths, just so they can get on with their jobs without being constantly crippled by empathy with their patients.
* Your stereotypical player character would probably fall under this category.
* Chaos worshippers from ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' actually turn into this through [[The Corruption]].

=== Video Games ===
* A friendly nerdy character in ''[[Bully]]'' flat out calls Gary, your supposed "ally" in the game, a sociopath, to which the main character doesn't know what that means. It turns out the nerd was right, and all it took was for Gary to run out of medication to become a sadistic sociopathic lunatic who takes control of the entire school, ties up the headmaster, and then attempts to take over the entire town. Also, he makes a few good attempts to KILL the player in the final battle.
* Morinth in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''. The mission overview after Samara's loyalty mission even says that her biotic powers would make her an excellent addition to the squad...if her "sociopathic tendencies were mitigated." {{spoiler|Though you can kill Samara and recruit her anyway.}}
** Quarian Admiral Daro'Xen displays several classic signs of sociopathy as well. She especially shows it in matters related to [[Mechanical Lifeforms|the Geth]], whom she plans to, as a race, mind-wipe and return to their "rightful place" as the Quarians' slaves. Tali'Zorah flat-out calls Xen insane when this bit of info comes out, showing that even among the anti-Geth Quarians Xen's stance is seen as radical. Also, Xen apparently used to perform surgery on childhood toys; Tali's [[This Explains So Much|response]] is predictable. Lastly, she shows unhealthy interest in Legion (your Geth squadmate), once expressing the desire to dissect the poor thing to see what makes it tick (which Paragon!Shepard is having none of, by the way).
* Kefka Palazzo of ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'', is a particularly over the top example of this.
* Likewise, the jester Dimentio from [[Super Paper Mario]].
* The ''[[Suikoden]]'' series has a few, with the most exemplary examples being [[Suikoden II|Luca Blight]] and [[Suikoden V|Childerich]].
* One of the more unstable versions of this trope is Albedo Piazolla from the ''[[Xenosaga]]'' series, particularly in Episode 1.
* {{spoiler|Tohru Adachi}} in [[Persona 4]], {{spoiler|who initially hides behind the mask of a [[Nice Guy]], though when revealed shows himself as a sadistic manchild who finds entertainment in ruining the lives of others with a tendency of violently lashing out at women who spurn his advances}}.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'':
** Vanitas in''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep|Birth By Sleep]]''. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in that {{spoiler|[[Literal Split Personality|he's Ven's personified]] [[Made Of Evil|darkness]]. Makes you wonder what he'd be like if he were the darkness of someone less nice than [[Cute Shotaro Boy|Ven]]...}}
** Nobodies are by their very nature sociopaths, since they lack the hearts required to form bonds or experience true emotions. The members of Organization XIII function at varying levels, with the exceptions of Roxas and Xion, the former of which {{spoiler|actually does have a heart; the heart of the aforementioned Ven}} and the latter of which {{spoiler|isn't even a Nobody.}} Another member, Axel, does gain emotional care for Roxas and Xion after hanging out with them, but it's ''only'' for them; he is still a sociopath in regards to anyone else.
* [[Big Bad|Irenicus]] and [[The Dragon|Bodhi]] from ''[[Baldurs Gate]] II: Shadows of Amn''. In their case, it's a magically caused condition, though from what we hear, they weren't exactly nice people before.
* {{spoiler|The real Alex Mercer}} from ''[[Prototype]]''. {{spoiler|After all, he "wasn't paid to feel."}}
* ''[[Blaz Blue]]'''s own [[Archnemesis Dad|Relius Clover]]. In what can only be considered a seriously messed up logical extreme of the page quote, he even turned both his daughter and his wife into puppets! Completely unapologetically. [[For Science]] And then he attempted to [[Offing The Offspring|kill his son]] when he [[Calling The Old Man Out|demanded an explanation]]. Relius' sociopathy puts him in [[Red Oni Blue Oni|nice contrast]] to [[Blaz Blue]]'s [[Big Bad Duumvirate|other]] [[Big Bad]], Hazama / [[Ax Crazy|Terumi]] [[Troll|Yuuki]], who is fully aware of the difference between "things" and "people", and greatly enjoys the misery innocent furniture cannot feel, but innocent humans can.
* ''[[Hitman]]'''s protagonist, Agent 47, is a sociopathic clone who is also the best assassin the ICA, Agent 47's employer, has at its disposal. He tries to avoid unnecessary deaths, but that is only out of professional pride and a desire to avert suspicion; he will murder anybody who inconveniences him.
* Purple Eyes from ''[[Pokemon Ranger]]'' :Guardian Signs depending on how you look at it.
* Kratos from ''[[God Of War]]'' would definitly qualify, for oh so many reasons. That is, if you don't just take it a step further.
* Danny St. John from ''[[The Walking Dead]]'', while Danny himself is mostly not explored, due to his limited amount of time on the game, we did find out, {{spoiler|he was a cannibal, he killed Jolene just because she knew his secret, and he even gave Lee tips on how to cook him when he got trapped in the beartrap.}}
* {{spoiler|Dahlia Hawthorne}} from ''[[Ace Attorney|Phoenix Wright: Trials & Tribulations]]''. {{spoiler|She is arguably the cruelest and most evil character in the entire series, and has the longest list of intended murder victims out of any of the other killers Phoenix has encountered. At one point, she explicitly states that she has never cared for anyone or anything aside from herself, and she plots to kill Maya simply to get back at Mia from beyond the grave.}}
* {{spoiler|Hades}} from ''[[Kid Icarus Uprising]]''. {{spoiler|He starts a pointless war that results in the deaths of millions of humans for no other reason than to harvest their souls to either create more underworld monsters and do whatever else he wants with them, and has absolutely no remorse for his actions.}}

=== Webcomics ===
* ''[[MAGISA]]'' -- All the villains of MAG-ISA are this personality type. The higher up the ladder you go, the more evil you are. [http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119829 (1)] [http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119816 (2)]
* ''[[The Order Of The Stick]]'': Xykon, even before he became an undead abomination.
** And Belkar, of the Comedic sort.
** Tarquin is quite the sociopath himself -- while his fans like to paint him as [[Draco In Leather Pants|leather pants-wearing]] [[Noble Demon]], that doesn't change the fact that the lives of others mean very little to him. Just look at how he "[[Cold Blooded Torture|convinces]]" his wives to marry him, or how he forced Gannji and Enor to fight to the death because he thought Elan would enjoy it (and seemed confused when Elan wasn't thrilled with the idea). He's also got [[Lack Of Empathy]] down, as he told Malack (his supposed friend) to stop whining about his dead children and ordered him to work with Nale (who killed said children).
* Angel, the [[Villain Protagonist]] of ''[[The Good Witch]]'', remorselessly torments and ruins the lives of her friends, family, and anybody unfortunate enough to cross her path with her newfound magic powers. There are hints she is a "made sociopath," not originally being so cruel and self-centered but gradually cracking under an intense amount of bullying, but any sympathy that might have been gifted to her has long since passed; for God's sake, she turns people into articles of clothing, and ''keeps them sentient'' so that they can desperately try to find anyone to help them and eternally despair over their predicament!

=== Web Original ===
* ''[[Survival Of The Fittest]]'' villains can quite frequently be sociopaths, with characters like J.R. Rizzolo and Jacob Starr being prominent examples of these traits. In spin-off ''The Program'', Brigadier General David Adams has all the hallmarks of being one, given he doesn't seem to care at all about the imminent deaths of the students.
* ''[[The Nostalgia Chick]]'', especially with the "not understanding boundaries" thing. What's wrong with installing cameras in your friend's bedroom?
* IN ''[[MSF High Forums]]'', Seram Rosenbyme is meant to be one. Whether or not she can stay written as one of these, when she is engaged, is an interesting conflict for the player, and is likely to cause severe character drama in the future.
** She does not possess the lack of long-term planning, but DEFINITELY lacks empathy.
* Jobe Wilkins of the [[Whateley Universe]]. At age fourteen, he's already a threat to everyone who gets in his way. He views his family as opponents. He discovered a new cure for dysentery ''by experimenting on unwilling prisoners''. He provided a way for his father to have mine workers by developing a serum that turned people into big green Ork-like creatures. He has all the empathy of a tarantula. Fortunately, he's not a [[Karma Houdini]].

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The Witches Of Eastwick

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''The Witches of Eastwick'' is a novel by John Updike that was adapted into a film starring [[Jack Nicholson]] and later a musical. It also inspired the television series ''[[Eastwick]]''.

It's about three suburban women who start their own little witch coven and get to meet the Devil himself...

[[Needs A Better Description]].

== The film ==

* [[Affably Evil]]: Daryl.
* [[Attack Of The 50 Foot Whatever]]: Hey, [[Alien (Film)|Alien]]!Daryl.
* [[Babies Ever After|{{spoiler|Babies Ever After]]}}: Daryl's entire plan.
* [[Bad Powers, Good People]]: The powers Daryl gives them are implied to be evil/demonic, though the girls are good to the core.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: First bringing Daryl to town, and then {{spoiler|killing Felicia}}. Though he probably [[Manipulative Bastard|orchestrated both events somehow.]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: For Daryl, {{spoiler|being left}}.
* [[Beware The Nice Ones]]: The girls, once they realize they've been [[Unwitting Pawn]]s to Daryl.
* [[Big Bad]]: Daryl, of course.
* [[Black Comedy]].
* [[Blonde Brunette Redhead]]: The eponymous witches, played by Michelle Pfeiffer (blonde), Cher (brunette) and Susan Sarandon (redhead).
* [[Break The Cutie]]: Poor {{spoiler|Felicia and Sukie}}...
* [[Broken Masquerade]]: Daryl doesn't have much qualms entering a full church for refuge from a supernatural hurricane and start puking cherry cores, then admit it's a cheap trick and he taught "them" how to do it. When a woman of the same town was killed by ''him'' the same way days before. It's implied churches in general and probably Christian dogma doesn't affect him, so that'd explain why he doesn't really care.
* [[Brown Note]]: Daryl's name, which when remembered by a room full of people causes an unfortunate chain of events that ends in Felicia's [[Staircase Tumble]].
* [[Busby Berkeley Number]]: The choreography for "Dirty Laundry" deliberately invoked Berkeley's style.
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Enforced by Daryl.
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: Nicholson.
* [[Church Militant]]: Deconstruction.
* [[Corrupt The Cutie]]: Daryl's whole plan. It turns sour for him when he makes the three {{spoiler|accomplices to a murder}}.
* [[Crosses The Line Twice]]: [[Cold Blooded Torture|{{spoiler|Torturing]]}} Sukie.
* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: Towards the end of the movie, {{spoiler|the girls have had enough of his shit and use his own magic against him}}.
* [[Devil In Plain Sight]]: Literally [[The Devil]], also by name and actions. See above too.
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: Daryl considers himself this. Of course, he's also a {{Sociopath}} and the [[Big Bad]], so...
* [[Empathic Environment]]: Justified. This is a story about ''three witches and the Devil''. Elements bend to their wills and oods.
* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: Jane.
* [[Evil Detecting Dog]]: And it ''really'' hates Daryl.
* [[Evil Is Petty]]:
*: '''Daryl''': ''What was I supposed to do, take it like a man?!''
* [[Evilly Affable]]: Daryl, most of the time. He'll treat you like royalty ([[Horny Devils|especially if you're a woman he wants to bonk]]). Most of what he does usually ''has'' a reason (bonking you, getting you out of his way).
* [[Exotic Equipment]]: His penis is described as bending backwards, which is apparently a major turn-on to the witches.
* [[God Is Inept]]: Daryl Van Horne's rant:
*: '''Daryl''': ''Do you think God knew what He was doing when He created woman? Huh? No shit. I really wanna know. Or do you think it was another one of His minor mistakes like tidal waves, earthquakes, ''floods''? You think women are like that? S'matter? You don't think God makes mistakes? Of course He does. We ''all'' make mistakes. Of course, when ''we'' make mistakes they call it evil. When ''God'' makes mistakes, they call it "nature". So whaddya think? Women... a mistake, or did he do it to us ''on purpose?
* [[Good Hurts Evil]]: So much averted. Daryl even walks in a church to ''take refuge'' from a supernatural storm that was raging outside ''against him''. The church does nothing to either protect him or harm him, as {{spoiler|the girls' spell continue to affect him}}.
* [[Gossipy Hens]]: They call Jane "slut".
* [[Henpecked Husband]]: Clyde. He knows Felicia is sick, but still {{spoiler|fires}} Sukie.
* [[Hollywood Voodoo]]: Daryl does this, but then again, he's the Devil.
* [[Horny Devils]]: Daryl Van Horne. He even identifies himself as such, by name, in a [[Sarcastic Confession]].
* [[Hot Witch]]: The eponymous witches, played by Michelle Pfeiffer, Cher and Susan Sarandon.
* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: The girls pretend to relent to {{spoiler|Daryl's blackmail to get Sukie better, then promptly use nasty spells on him.}}
* [[Jerkass Facade]]: To get into Alex's pants.
* [[Kill It With Fire]]: {{spoiler|How they finally manage to defeat him. Not kill him though.}} [[Mind Screw|Probably.]]
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Daryl's master of lampshading most of his nature while doing it in moments when his victims would dismiss it as [[Sarcastic Confession]]s or are otherwise too bewitched by him.
*: '''Sukie''': ''Who are you, really?''
*: '''Daryl''': ''Anyone you want me to be.''
* [[Louis Cypher]]: Daryl Van Horne.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl|Manic Pixie Dream Guy]].
* [[Manipulative Bastard|Manipulative]]/[[Magnificent Bastard]]: Daryl.
* [[Mass Oh Crap]]: The tennis match degenerates in a series of these.
* [[Metaforgotten]]: Clyde tries to [[Justifying Edit|justify himself]] to {{spoiler|firing}} Sukie. It ends in this:
*: '''Clyde''': ''What am I doing?
*: '''Sukie''': ''You were {{spoiler|firing}} me.
* [[Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal]]: What did you expect after making them {{spoiler|murderers and torturing their sister to get them back?}} [[Rhetorical Question Blunder|Well, he actually thinks {{spoiler|he'll get them under his control, and back that way]]}}. [[So Yeah|Yeah]].
** Also {{spoiler|Clyde}} finally has enough and whacks {{spoiler|Felicia}} with a frying pan, [[Mood Dissonance|then goes back to reading.]]
* [[Moral Event Horizont]]: Killing (slowly) {{spoiler|Felicia}}. It doubles as a strange [[Shoo Out the Clowns]] moment.
* [[More Than Mind Control]]: Felicia's paranoia still clings to her personality: it's not outright [[Demonic Possession]].
* [[Nigh Invulnerable]]: Even when they {{spoiler|"kill" him, he doesn't stay dead}}...
* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]: Felicia, inadvertently.
* [[Not So Omniscient After All]]: Daryl screws up once or twice, it's the only way the plot would move on and he'd be exposed. Generally however, he's very [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]].
* [[Obfuscating Insanity|Obfuscating Eccentricity]], if not outright insanity. He even lampshades that Jane probably thinks he's crazy.
* [[Ominous Multiple Screens]]: Darryl has a bank of TV screens, apparently just for the hell of it.
** Probably for his rituals (and to impress women). He's seen at the end using the screen as {{spoiler|a conduit to return to the house or even the physical plane.}}
* [[One Winged Angel]]: {{spoiler|Daryl at the end.}}
* [[Our Demons Are Different]]: In his [[True Form]], he looks more like an [[Our Elves Are Different|{{spoiler|elf]]}}. This information may lead to big [[Epileptic Tree]]s on his entire motivation.
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: Felicia.
* [[Recycled: The Series]]: ''[[Eastwick]]''.
* [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]]: {{spoiler|Daryl}} at the end. The girls' actions may count too.
* [[Rock Me Asmodeus]]: Jack Nicholson's Devil and Susan Sarandon's repressed music teacher play a literally explosive duet for piano and cello. After this (and after a bout of wild sex), the music teacher finds herself in possession of supernatural musical talent.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Part of Daryl's plan.
* [[He Knows Too Much|She Knows Too Much]]: Daryl [[Flanderization|flanderizes]] a more righteous and [[Genre Savvy]] woman in town into a [[Mad Oracle]], then uses the three witches {{spoiler|as accomplices in her murder}}.
* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: {{spoiler|Felicia's}} death tells the girls shit just got dangerous. [[It Got Worse|It indeed gets worse.]]
* [[The Sociopath]]: Daryl, of course.
* [[The Speechless]]: {{spoiler|Daryl during his [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge]]}}, after his ordeal. Probably justified, as one of the needles seems to have entered his throat. All his does is [[Nightmare Fuel|growl]].
* [[Staircase Tumble]]: Felicia, cuing her [[Sanity Slippage]].
* [[Shut Up, Kirk!]]: Being [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] and nigh-all-knowing, as well as only self-serving and putting on a facade only when there's some use in that, he outright says "No, not interested, you're wasting your breath" to when he's finally confronted by Alex.
* [[Suspiciously Specific Sermon]]: As Daryl van Horn is being blown toward the church by a gale-force wind, the sermon being spoken inside is as follows:
*: '''Priest''': ''Elijah fled to the Mount of God, and behold, the Lord passed by and the great and strong wind rent the mountains and breaked in pieces the rocks before the Lord.''
* [[Personal Mook]]: Daryl's butler.
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: At one point Jack Nicholson's character is whistling the film's theme.
* [[The Reason You Suck Speech]]: Alex gives a couple of these to Daryl. Daryl does it in their absence in a church.
* [[Think of The Children]]: Felicia uses this as a shallow argument before moving on to other matters.
* [[Transformation Sequence]]: {{spoiler|Daryl Van Horne,}} near the end of the film.
* [[Twin Telepathy]]: The sisters are implied of having this after the [[Time Skip]], since at least one knows when the other is thinking about Daryl. It's also implied they [[Took A Level In Badass]] and learned more about their powers and their relation with Daryl {{spoiler|after the Time Skip}}.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]s: The girls, at least until they wise up.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Daryl, a couple of times, especially at the end.
* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: Daryl Van Horne inducing vomiting via magic ("Have another cherry") and later suffering as the spell is used on him.
* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: Not enough to ''actually'' bring him back, though.
* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Daryl, at least [[Manipulative Bastard|when it suits him]].
* [["What Do They Fear?" Episode|"What Do They Fear?" Tape]]: Daryl makes one [[Manipulative Bastard|after he gets them drunk]] and {{spoiler|uses it when they leave him}}. That's right, this guy doesn't get women drunk to have sex with them, he gets them drunk ''[[Paranoia Fuel|{{spoiler|to find out his lovers' fears and exploit them]]''}}.
* [[Woman Scorned]]: Multiply that by 3.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Daryl. The girls are forced to make some improvisations themselves.
** [[Xanatos Gambit]]: At the end, {{spoiler|although he's vaguely vanquished and/or dead, or at least forced out of the house he bought, his plan ended relatively well: he made the children he wanted, and can still get around the house to influence them.}}

== The novel ==

* [[Hollywood New England]].
* [[Name's The Same]]: Two characters are called [[The Simpsons|Homer and Marge]]. Oh, and they're married.
* [[Widow Witch]]: In the novel, the women of the village of Eastwick only gain powers after their husbands/significant others either die or divorce them. It is mentioned that for some reason, it does not matter if the woman leaves or is left, she becomes a ''[[Malleus Maleficarum]]'' style witch (with bonus third nipple) automatically.

== The musical ==

* [[Busby Berkeley Number]]: The choreography for "Dirty Laundry" deliberately invoked Berkeley's style.
* [[Henpecked Husband]]: Clyde: He ends up killing her with a frying pan. With her dying breath, she jams his tie in the garbage disposal and hits on.
* [[Elegant Classical Musician]]: Jane Spofford
* [[Motor Mouth]]: In the musical, Suki begins the song "Words, Words, Words" as a shy little stutterer. By the time she's halfway through the song, she's speedtalking/-singing.

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[[Category:The Start Of The Index]]

Annie's Stories

2012-11-22T05:06:14Z

Tropers:

In an [[Alternate Universe]], around the '80s, on "The Day", people shrank. The world was in outrage and fear, and decided to make the little people second-class citizens. Well, worse really, pets with no rights (except maybe being registered).

This is the story of one of them, Annie, at that time a high-schooler, who was found by a pre-teen boy who decided to "adopt" her as a pet. She was probably lucky it wasn't in his teens. [[It Gets Worse]], but mostly [[Played For Laughs]]. Ray turns out to be a decent fellow (after his teenager phase, at least) and treats Annie at least decently, and they start to have a more equal relation (as much as they can have compared to their heights).

[http://original.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600099534 You can read it here.] They also have a spinoff [http://original.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600102233 "Tammy and Cruiser"].

== Tropes present in this work ==
* [[Accidental Public Confession]]: Though the bad repercursions are avoided by good intentions/[[The Power Of Love]]:
*: ''"Someone loves another that much, gives me the most hope I've had since the day a gnome shrank me." Bubba had also outed himself in that comment, but no one took him to task for it.
* [[Anachronic Order]]: The "present guiding the past bits" type.
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: {{spoiler|The Alchemists}}, whose only concern seems to be to turn anything into gold. For all their powers, [[Cut Lex Luthor A Check|they could have gained money a lot easier and without drawing the attention of]] [[Eagleland]].
* [[Anvilicious]]: Be careful how you treat those smaller than you, because life's a bitch and it's going to punish you if you're naughty! Discrimination is evil! Third world nations expatriating their citizens is evil! [[The Power Of Love]] is magic!
* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: We have a guy that can {{spoiler|manipulate elements (in this case, fire), turn junk into gold and claims to get his indications and protection from a God}}. But ghosts? Those are just stories!
* [[Bait And Switch]]: Most titles will give you the impression that something happens to the girls, when it's actually about something different and usually more benign. Even "New World Order" is an overreaction to what happens next. For example, one chapter is titled "No Annie At All" is not about, say, Annie getting lost/being kidnapped, but it's about {{spoiler|Denise in High School}}.
* [[Bait And Switch Tyrant]]: {{spoiler|Dorre}}.
* [[Because Destiny Says So]].
* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: The sylphs can basically run around anywhere (provided they aren't caught or locked up), can hear things over a large distance, whether some insulation tries to stop that, their metabolism run much, much faster, but if they're fed by ordinary-sized humans, they're not going to have a feeding problem or a food supply problem. This is however [[Blessed With Suck]], since being small means you can be crushed by big things or ordered by them around, needing lots of food means you're at the pity of your giant again, and hearing ''everything, all the time'' is ''not a good thing''.
* [[Cliffhanger Copout]]: In chapter 80, it appears that {{spoiler|a [[Slave Liberation]] act is underway}}. Two or three chapters later, [[Status Quo Is God]] again, at least in that aspect.
* [[Crapsaccharine World]]: Don't be fooled by the happy-happy relationship between Ray and Annie, Annie described the world pretty much in a nutshell from the first chapter. ''It is that bad''.
* [[Crowning Moment Of Funny]]: A few of the quotes here.
* [[Cool And Unusual Punishment]]: Ray does this to Annie, though sometimes (rarely and not for a long while though) tend to fall on [[Cruel And Unusual Punishment]]. Of course, other sylphs have it ''worse''.
* [[Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon]]: "Annie'd carve out your heart with a potato chip."
* [[Dangeous Forbidden Technique]]: Using Ray's robots for more than he's made them to work under safe conditions. {{spoiler|He's got an [[Override Command]] for that, though}}.
* [[Dark And Troubled Past]]: Well, for Annie, it was mostly one night... but ''[[Adult Fear|was it a bad night]]''.
** For others it was much, much worse.
* [[Deliberate Value Dissonance]]: Annie's one of the few to get out of her way to point out how life used to be for the sylphs before The Day.
* [[Exactly What I Meant To Say]]: How some [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]s are shoehorned in there. For example:
*: ''Pet''' [ [[Motor Mouth|...]] ] ''but it's for a good cause we're going to establish a sylph Olympic event of confined sports so if they ever have Olympic sylphs we can submit a suggestion.
*: '''Denise''': ''I think you mean combined sports?
*: '''Pet''': ''Nooooooo, ''Pet said slowly, thinking and tapping her chin''. No, I'm pretty sure Annie said that sylph events would be confined sports.
* [[Everything's Better With Bob]]: A cameo by a random sylph, but still, ''Bob''. He's also an [[Ain't No Rule]] type of guy... which came against him.
* [[Extreme Doormat|Moderate Doormat]]: Ray as the story progresses and he's at the whim of more and more females a tenth his size.
* [[Doing In The Scientist]].
* [[Door Stopper]]: '''125 chapters'''.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: ''And how''.
* [[Fetish Fuel Future]]: Despite the sympathetic twists, this ''is'' the author's favorite topic for stories, on that site at least.
* [[Freak Out]]: Denise after {{spoiler|she sylphed}}.
** Annie had an {{spoiler|anxiety attack/nervous breakdown, where she became "allergic" and (unproperly) paranoid of Ray for being her Master and [[Big Brother Is Watching You|literally being the Big Brother watching her]]}}.
** Annie's prediction about Pet below almost came true when {{spoiler|Annie threw Pet into the making-big-tunnel and made her big instead}}. Pet has ''such'' a nasty freakout that {{spoiler|it indeed almost kills Annie}}.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Pet. She's ditzy and may not be a grammar fan, and she may give the impression of being raised into a [[Rich Bitch]], but she's all heart and all "street smarts". Denise is actually surprised when Pet saves her.
* [[Giant Foot Of Stomping]]: The sylphs are in constant danger of this in public places, though mostly accidental.*
* [[Got Volunteered]]: Ray, though more than it's {{lampshaded}}:
*: ''Ray had been volunteered into being a judge. Annie suggested it, Buttercup approved and Pet made her eyes three times as big and silently threatened a disappointed lip quiver. He was helpless against their coordinated efforts and now stood close to the Start.
* [[Green Aesop]]: [[Anvilicious]], though it verges on {{spoiler|[[Gaia's Vengeance]]}}.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Narrowly averted, at least twice, though this is a (mostly) [[Everybody Lives]] fic:
** Annie is ready to die at the hands of Pet for {{spoiler|turning her big, instead of herself, so she'd experience the life she never had}}. Daw!
** Denise when {{spoiler|confronting more than one rat with a fork. She's ready to die there and then for stranger sylphs}}.
* [[Hollywood Atheist]]: Annie blamed God for The Day and won't stop reminding people that she hates him... or doesn't believe in him... except when her friends believe in him... and they get their wishes and prayers answered from whoever sylphed a part of the world anyway... and...
* [[Hormone Addled Teenager]]: Ray, so much. It's his [[Freudian Excuse]] for [[Kids Are Cruel|tormenting]] (albeit mostly playfully) Annie.
* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: Some of them, obviously.
* [[Humans Are Cthulhu]]: Annie's one of the few to put it this way, ''constantly'', though she probably doesn't believe it herself. She makes fun of humans as being a monstrous alternate species because she's allowed and to not go mad with her new situation.
* [[Humans Are The Real Monsters]]: Obvious to the readers, oblivious to the rest of the in-universe characters for over 30 years. They treat sylphs as pets ''because they fear them of being monsters''. Right...
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Annie, from some in-universe points of view.
* [[The Missus And The Ex]]: Ray, Denise and Deliah. All is good until Denise {{spoiler|gets shrunken}} and has a [[Heroic BSOD]], and a few days contemplates that Ray would live her for Deliah, seeing that now {{spoiler|she's only - legally - property and won't be treated as a wife anymore. Ray fixes this by [[Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming|reofficializing their marriage, and marrying Annie and Pet too, so they won't feel left out]]}}.
* [[Mistaken For Pervert]]: Ray. Well, he ''is'' in some ways, but not like that:
*: ''Some people that passed Ray kinda recognized him. [[Companion Cube|The guy with the weird Ark fetish.]]
* [[Mood Whiplash]].
* [[Mutant Registration Act]]: Passed out initially that sylphs can be "owned" as property as part of world-wide panic. Later discussed to turn at least slightly into a [[Slave Liberation]] act.
* [[Noodle Incident]]s: A few, especially those involving [[Cold Blooded Torture]].
* [[Nothing Is The Same Anymore]]: When the "present" timeline turns to "New World Order #1".
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: "Freedom Anxiety" revolves around the benevolent version [[Played For Laughs]]. A sylph asks the pros of cons of {{spoiler|being able to live free}}. Three people reply (except the intended one), and the sylph gets more and more afraid by each reply. It culminates in:
*: '''Amelia''': ''Dear Denise, Butters and Hearts, Y'all are idiots. Sincerely, Amelia.
* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]:
** President Personable: The (current) president of the United States.
** President Action: Straw President of a [[Banana Republic]] and a {{spoiler|[[Bait And Switch Tyrant]]}}
* [[Override Command]]: {{spoiler|Ray's miniature robots have these for the maximum time of staying inside - since staying more than the maximum may lead to mental illness or overexerting the body}}.
* [[The Power Of Love]].
* [[Preemptive Declaration]]: Played for [[Black Comedy]]:
*: '''Dorre''': Former President Kendall will spin in his grave, but that's just gravy.
*: '''Ray''': ''He's not dead yet.''
*: '''Dorre''': ''Oh, he won't be finished spinning before they put him in the ground.''
** Dubs as a [[Tear Jerker]] when Annie apologizes to Pet for {{spoiler|making her big, instead of going for it herself}}:
**: '''Annie''': ''Pet? I want you to know...I forgive you.
**: '''Pet''': ''For what?
**: '''Annie''': ''If...you should do something. Later today. If you get overcome with emotion and do something you regret? I don't want that hanging on your conscience. Not me, not because of me. Okay?
**: '''Pet''': ''Okay.
**: '''Annie''': ''Remember. I forgive you.
**: '''Pet''': ''What could I possibly do today that I'll regret?
**: '''Annie''': ''You might kill me.
* [[Reassigned To Antarctica]]:
*: ''Yes, the Kendall appointed, tight assed, mouth breathing, lip reading, finger pointing, brain dead Minister of Paranoia and Party Pooping. He was transferred the same day you were released from jail. Kisu said the man was harshing his mellow and Dorre said they need a diplomatic presence on Christmas Island.''
* [[The Reveal]]: The Swede that Ray {{spoiler|punched}}, just a [[Jerkass]] that seemed to have no bearing on the story, was actually {{spoiler|an alchemist}}. Ray didn't find out this until much later, until after the reveal of these people was made clear.
* [[Right Behind Me]]: Narrowly averted by Annie when Ray was talking about one of his dates... a bit too... ungentlemenish.
*: '''Annie''': ''I really should let you keep talking. Just to see the look on your face when she hears you.''
* [[The Snack Is More Interesting]]: Chocolate. {{Justified}}, as it borders on {{Phlebotinum}} for their metabolisms.
* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]: When it enters the [[Green Aesop]] and [[The Power Of Love]] part.
* [[Tenchi Solution]]: {{spoiler|[[Marry Them All]]}}.
* [[Sarcastic Confession]]: A few months after she was Ray's pet, Annie wasted no time when she got the chance to be alone... dubs as an Accidental Confession as she was hungover at the time:
*: '''Ray''': ''How did you survive without me?
*: '''Annie''': ''Oh, it was great. Your parents bought me clothing and wine and RC cola and left me alone in the house all day and I stole a knife and dug an escape tunnel and-''
* [[Sex Slave]]: The [[Logical Conclusion]] of making second-class citizens [[Made A Slave|into slaves]].
* [[Shut Up And Help Me|Shut Up And Hug Me]]: Buttercup to Pet in "Hostess".
* [[Slave Liberation]]: Sam and Amelia's organisation strives for this, {{spoiler|''almost'' succeed in chapter 80, [[Title Drop|finally]] accomplished in [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|"Finally"]], in chapter 90}}.
* [[Stealth Insult]]: Well, at least she took it as one:
*: '''Date''': ''You men! You're all ALIKE! Shut up, honey this is men talk. Shut up, bitch, you don't know what you're talking about. Don't drink while you're on the medication, dear, you'll pass out.
*: '''Ray''': ''And did you?
*: '''Date''': ''Did I what?" she blinked, tantrum suspended.
*: '''Ray''': ''[[Comically Missing The Point|Did you pass out?]]
*: '''Date''': ''[[I Resemble That Remark|That's not the POINT!]]
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: In-universe: the Pentathlon was supposed to be fun, but the escape-from-jar contest turned into [[Accidental Nightmare Fuel]] for the contestants.
* [[Unperson]]: So much so that sylphs are made to stay naked and are treated as household pets and/or wild animals.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Ray and Annie of course, with healthy doses of [[Deadpan Snarker]], especially from her.
* [[Wangst]]: Some in-universe characters feel Annie is this, considering Ray a good guy who is used too much of a [[Extreme Doormat|mild doormat]] for her. I repeat, this is not from the readers (to be fair, they know better and sympathize more with Annie), it is ''from other characters in-story''.
* [[Weirdness Censor]]:
*: ''Nothing anyone could say or do would change Grandma Foster's mind about Annie. In her eyes, Raymond had shaved a gerbil and pretended he was a ventriloquist. How he'd taught Annie to walk erect or move her lips at the right time was a mystery she never touched on.
*: ''Dad's theory was that on The Day, she'd decided she was too old to shift her paradigm.
* [[Wham Episode|Wham Chapter]]: Though the chapter's title isn't too obvious, the "Timeline" is ominous named and it goes downhill from there: "New World Order #1"
* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?|Who Names Their Pet "Pet"?]]: A 5 year old, though it's deconstructed, since the mother and Denise's parents agreed.
* [[You Are Grounded]]: Ray in his highschool years gets this often.

== Notes ==
{{reflist}}

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[[Category:Works]]
[[Category:Works Of The 2000s]]
[[Category:Works Of The 2010s]]
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Video Nasties

2012-11-21T22:33:22Z

Tropers: .

Annie's Stories

2012-11-21T05:09:40Z

Tropers:

In an [[Alternate Universe]], around the '80s, on "The Day", people shrank. The world was in outrage and fear, and decided to make the little people second-class citizens. Well, worse really, pets with no rights (except maybe being registered).

This is the story of one of them, Annie, at that time a high-schooler, who was found by a pre-teen boy who decided to "adopt" her as a pet. She was probably lucky it wasn't in his teens. [[It Gets Worse]], but mostly [[Played For Laughs]]. Ray turns out to be a decent fellow (after his teenager phase, at least) and treats Annie at least decently, and they start to have a more equal relation (as much as they can have compared to their heights).

[http://original.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600099534 You can read it here.] They also have a spinoff [http://original.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600102233 "Tammy and Cruiser"].

== Tropes present in this work ==
* [[Accidental Public Confession]]: Though the bad repercursions are avoided by good intentions/[[The Power Of Love]]:
*: ''"Someone loves another that much, gives me the most hope I've had since the day a gnome shrank me." Bubba had also outed himself in that comment, but no one took him to task for it.
* [[Ancient Conspiracy]]: {{spoiler|The Alchemists}}, whose only concern seems to be to turn anything into gold. For all their powers, [[Cut Lex Luthor A Check|they could have gained money a lot easier and without drawing the attention of]] [[Eagleland]].
* [[Anvilicious]]: Be careful how you treat those smaller than you, because life's a bitch and it's going to punish you if you're naughty! Discrimination is evil! Third world nations expatriating their citizens is evil! [[The Power Of Love]] is magic!
* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: We have a guy that can {{spoiler|manipulate elements (in this case, fire), turn junk into gold and claims to get his indications and protection from a God}}. But ghosts? Those are just stories!
* [[Bait And Switch]]: Most titles will give you the impression that something happens to the girls, when it's actually about something different and usually more benign. Even "New World Order" is an overreaction to what happens next. For example, one chapter is titled "No Annie At All" is not about, say, Annie getting lost/being kidnapped, but it's about {{spoiler|Denise in High School}}.
* [[Bait And Switch Tyrant]]: {{spoiler|Dorre}}.
* [[Because Destiny Says So]].
* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: The sylphs can basically run around anywhere (provided they aren't caught or locked up), can hear things over a large distance, whether some insulation tries to stop that, their metabolism run much, much faster, but if they're fed by ordinary-sized humans, they're not going to have a feeding problem or a food supply problem. This is however [[Blessed With Suck]], since being small means you can be crushed by big things or ordered by them around, needing lots of food means you're at the pity of your giant again, and hearing ''everything, all the time'' is ''not a good thing''.
* [[Cliffhanger Copout]]: In chapter 80, it appears that {{spoiler|a [[Slave Liberation]] act is underway}}. Two or three chapters later, [[Status Quo Is God]] again, at least in that aspect.
* [[Crapsaccharine World]]: Don't be fooled by the happy-happy relationship between Ray and Annie, Annie described the world pretty much in a nutshell from the first chapter. ''It is that bad''.
* [[Crowning Moment Of Funny]]: A few of the quotes here.
* [[Cut His Heart Out With A Spoon]]: "Annie'd carve out your heart with a potato chip."
* [[Dangeous Forbidden Technique]]: Using Ray's robots for more than he's made them to work under safe conditions. {{spoiler|He's got an [[Override Command]] for that, though}}.
* [[Dark And Troubled Past]]: Well, for Annie, it was mostly one night... but ''[[Adult Fear|was it a bad night]]''.
** For others it was much, much worse.
* [[Deliberate Value Dissonance]]: Annie's one of the few to get out of her way to point out how life used to be for the sylphs before The Day.
* [[Exactly What I Meant To Say]]: How some [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]s are shoehorned in there. For example:
*: ''Pet''' [ [[Motor Mouth|...]] ] ''but it's for a good cause we're going to establish a sylph Olympic event of confined sports so if they ever have Olympic sylphs we can submit a suggestion.
*: '''Denise''': ''I think you mean combined sports?
*: '''Pet''': ''Nooooooo, ''Pet said slowly, thinking and tapping her chin''. No, I'm pretty sure Annie said that sylph events would be confined sports.
* [[Everything's Better With Bob]]: A cameo by a random sylph, but still, ''Bob''. He's also an [[Ain't No Rule]] type of guy... which came against him.
* [[Extreme Doormat|Moderate Doormat]]: Ray as the story progresses and he's at the whim of more and more females a tenth his size.
* [[Doing In The Scientist]].
* [[Door Stopper]]: '''125 chapters'''.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: ''And how''.
* [[Fetish Fuel Future]]: Despite the sympathetic twists, this ''is'' the author's favorite topic for stories, on that site at least.
* [[Freak Out]]: Denise after {{spoiler|she sylphed}}.
** Annie had an {{spoiler|anxiety attack/nervous breakdown, where she became "allergic" and (unproperly) paranoid of Ray for being her Master and [[Big Brother Is Watching You|literally being the Big Brother watching her]]}}.
** Annie's prediction about Pet below almost came true when {{spoiler|Annie threw Pet into the making-big-tunnel and made her big instead}}. Pet has ''such'' a nasty freakout that {{spoiler|it indeed almost kills Annie}}.
* [[Genius Ditz]]: Pet. She's ditzy and may not be a grammar fan, and she may give the impression of being raised into a [[Rich Bitch]], but she's all heart and all "street smarts". Denise is actually surprised when Pet saves her.
* [[Giant Foot Of Stomping]]: The sylphs are in constant danger of this in public places, though mostly accidental.*
* [[Got Volunteered]]: Ray, though more than it's {{lampshaded}}:
*: ''Ray had been volunteered into being a judge. Annie suggested it, Buttercup approved and Pet made her eyes three times as big and silently threatened a disappointed lip quiver. He was helpless against their coordinated efforts and now stood close to the Start.
* [[Green Aesop]]: [[Anvilicious]], though it verges on {{spoiler|[[Gaia's Vengeance]]}}.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Narrowly averted, at least twice, though this is a (mostly) [[Everybody Lives]] fic:
** Annie is ready to die at the hands of Pet for {{spoiler|turning her big, instead of herself, so she'd experience the life she never had}}. Daw!
** Denise when {{spoiler|confronting more than one rat with a fork. She's ready to die there and then for stranger sylphs}}.
* [[Hollywood Atheist]]: Annie blamed God for The Day and won't stop reminding people that she hates him... or doesn't believe in him... except when her friends believe in him... and they get their wishes and prayers answered from whoever sylphed a part of the world anyway... and...
* [[Hormone Addled Teenager]]: Ray, so much. It's his [[Freudian Excuse]] for [[Kids Are Cruel|tormenting]] (albeit mostly playfully) Annie.
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Annie, from some in-universe points of view.
* [[The Missus And The Ex]]: Ray, Denise and Deliah. All is good until Denise {{spoiler|gets shrunken}} and has a [[Heroic BSOD]], and a few days contemplates that Ray would live her for Deliah, seeing that now {{spoiler|she's only - legally - property and won't be treated as a wife anymore. Ray fixes this by [[Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming|reofficializing their marriage, and marrying Annie and Pet too, so they won't feel left out]]}}.
* [[Mistaken For Pervert]]: Ray. Well, he ''is'' in some ways, but not like that:
*: ''Some people that passed Ray kinda recognized him. [[Companion Cube|The guy with the weird Ark fetish.]]
* [[Mood Whiplash]].
* [[Mutant Registration Act]]: Passed out initially that sylphs can be "owned" as property as part of world-wide panic. Later discussed to turn at least slightly into a [[Slave Liberation]] act.
* [[Noodle Incident]]s: A few, especially those involving [[Cold Blooded Torture]].
* [[Nothing Is The Same Anymore]]: When the "present" timeline turns to "New World Order #1".
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: "Freedom Anxiety" revolves around the benevolent version [[Played For Laughs]]. A sylph asks the pros of cons of {{spoiler|being able to live free}}. Three people reply (except the intended one), and the sylph gets more and more afraid by each reply. It culminates in:
*: '''Amelia''': ''Dear Denise, Butters and Hearts, Y'all are idiots. Sincerely, Amelia.
* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]:
** President Personable: The (current) president of the United States.
** President Action: Straw President of a [[Banana Republic]] and a {{spoiler|[[Bait And Switch Tyrant]]}}
* [[Override Command]]: {{spoiler|Ray's miniature robots have these for the maximum time of staying inside - since staying more than the maximum may lead to mental illness or overexerting the body}}.
* [[The Power Of Love]].
* [[Preemptive Declaration]]: Played for [[Black Comedy]]:
*: '''Dorre''': Former President Kendall will spin in his grave, but that's just gravy.
*: '''Ray''': ''He's not dead yet.''
*: '''Dorre''': ''Oh, he won't be finished spinning before they put him in the ground.''
** Dubs as a [[Tear Jerker]] when Annie apologizes to Pet for {{spoiler|making her big, instead of going for it herself}}:
**: '''Annie''': ''Pet? I want you to know...I forgive you.
**: '''Pet''': ''For what?
**: '''Annie''': ''If...you should do something. Later today. If you get overcome with emotion and do something you regret? I don't want that hanging on your conscience. Not me, not because of me. Okay?
**: '''Pet''': ''Okay.
**: '''Annie''': ''Remember. I forgive you.
**: '''Pet''': ''What could I possibly do today that I'll regret?
**: '''Annie''': ''You might kill me.
* [[Reassigned To Antarctica]]:
*: ''Yes, the Kendall appointed, tight assed, mouth breathing, lip reading, finger pointing, brain dead Minister of Paranoia and Party Pooping. He was transferred the same day you were released from jail. Kisu said the man was harshing his mellow and Dorre said they need a diplomatic presence on Christmas Island.''
* [[The Reveal]]: The Swede that Ray {{spoiler|punched}}, just a [[Jerkass]] that seemed to have no bearing on the story, was actually {{spoiler|an alchemist}}. Ray didn't find out this until much later, until after the reveal of these people was made clear.
* [[Right Behind Me]]: Narrowly averted by Annie when Ray was talking about one of his dates... a bit too... ungentlemenish.
*: '''Annie''': ''I really should let you keep talking. Just to see the look on your face when she hears you.''
* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]: When it enters the [[Green Aesop]] and [[The Power Of Love]] part.
* [[Tenchi Solution]]: {{spoiler|[[Marry Them All]]}}.
* [[Sarcastic Confession]]: A few months after she was Ray's pet, Annie wasted no time when she got the chance to be alone... dubs as an Accidental Confession as she was hungover at the time:
*: '''Ray''': ''How did you survive without me?
*: '''Annie''': ''Oh, it was great. Your parents bought me clothing and wine and RC cola and left me alone in the house all day and I stole a knife and dug an escape tunnel and-''
* [[Sex Slave]]: The [[Logical Conclusion]] of making second-class citizens [[Made A Slave|into slaves]].
* [[Shut Up And Help Me|Shut Up And Hug Me]]: Buttercup to Pet in "Hostess".
* [[Slave Liberation]]: Sam and Amelia's organisation strives for this, {{spoiler|''almost'' succeed in chapter 80, [[Title Drop|finally]] accomplished in [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|"Finally"]], in chapter 90}}.
* [[Stealth Insult]]: Well, at least she took it as one:
*: '''Date''': ''You men! You're all ALIKE! Shut up, honey this is men talk. Shut up, bitch, you don't know what you're talking about. Don't drink while you're on the medication, dear, you'll pass out.
*: '''Ray''': ''And did you?
*: '''Date''': ''Did I what?" she blinked, tantrum suspended.
*: '''Ray''': ''[[Comically Missing The Point|Did you pass out?]]
*: '''Date''': ''[[I Resemble That Remark|That's not the POINT!]]
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: In-universe: the Pentathlon was supposed to be fun, but the escape-from-jar contest turned into [[Accidental Nightmare Fuel]] for the contestants.
* [[Unperson]]: So much so that sylphs are made to stay naked and are treated as household pets and/or wild animals.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Ray and Annie of course, with healthy doses of [[Deadpan Snarker]], especially from her.
* [[Wangst]]: Some in-universe characters feel Annie is this, considering Ray a good guy who is used too much of a [[Extreme Doormat|mild doormat]] for her. I repeat, this is not from the readers (to be fair, they know better and sympathize more with Annie), it is ''from other characters in-story''.
* [[Weirdness Censor]]:
*: ''Nothing anyone could say or do would change Grandma Foster's mind about Annie. In her eyes, Raymond had shaved a gerbil and pretended he was a ventriloquist. How he'd taught Annie to walk erect or move her lips at the right time was a mystery she never touched on.
*: ''Dad's theory was that on The Day, she'd decided she was too old to shift her paradigm.
* [[Wham Episode|Wham Chapter]]: Though the chapter's title isn't too obvious, the "Timeline" is ominous named and it goes downhill from there: "New World Order #1"
* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?|Who Names Their Pet "Pet"?]]: A 5 year old, though it's deconstructed, since the mother and Denise's parents agreed.
* [[You Are Grounded]]: Ray in his highschool years gets this often.

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{{cquote|''"She's 'furniture'"''|author=--''''[[Soylent Green]]'''' }}
Simply put, this is a character who has been [[Made A Slave]] for the sexual desires of others. This happens especially often in [[Dystopia]], [[The Empire]], and the darker versions of [[Fetish Fuel Future]], either to [[Crapsack World|show how much the world sucks]], or, well, [[Romanticized Abuse|just because]]. In the former kind, the [[Sex Slave]] is rarely a protagonist. At best, she's a [[Damsel In Distress]] for the hero to rescue. At worst she only exists as a narrative tool to show the audience that this is indeed a [[No Womans Land]]. In the [[Romanticized Abuse]] kind, however, she ([[Lady Land|or]] [[Equal Opportunity Evil|he]]) is usually the protagonist. In that case, expect [[Property Of Love]] and [[Freedom From Choice]] to come along with [[Happiness In Slavery]].

The contrast between some of the more [[Fetish Fuel|risque aspects]] of this trope and the [[Crapsack World]] environment it usually occurs in can often create [[Unfortunate Implications]]. In some works, the slavery can [[Stockholm Syndrome|develop]] into a [[Property Of Love|mutual relationship]]. Expect [[Bathe Her And Bring Her To Me]], [[Go Go Enslavement]], [[or]] a [[Slave Collar]].

Unfortunately, this is [[Truth In Television]], although [[No Yay|generally]] [[Squick|quite]] [[Sick And Wrong|different]] from the fetishised fantasy. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_prostitution Forced prostitution] in general amounts to this. Human trafficking in particular is one of the biggest ways that people are enslaved like this.

== Examples ==
=== Anime & Manga ===
* ''[[Yuria 100 Shiki]]'': If [[Sexbot|Dutch Wife]] Yuria has sex with someone, and she automatically becomes programmed to become said person's sex slave.
* ''[[Blue Drop]]'': Tenchi no Bokura had school girls as sex slaves. To the teachers. The school ''claimed'' to be teaching them the usual things, but the real purpose was to teach the all-female students to be sex slaves to their lesbian alien conquerors and be utterly alien to the concept of sex with men.
* Hana Katsuragi from ''[[Seikon No Qwaser]]'', though is should be pointed out the one she's a slave to gave her a potential out early, she walked into the deal knowing what would result, and now she couldn't be [[Happiness In Slavery|happier.]] In fact, she even gets to invert the trope and have her own slave in the second season.
* In ''[[Berserk]]'', this happened to both Guts and Casca in their childhoods. Guts was sold by his adoptive father Gambino to the mercenary Donovan for one night for three silver coins, leading to his traumatic rape. Casca was sold by her parents to a noble who wanted a new serving girl, only for it to turn out that this was what he wanted her for. She was saved by Griffith before the bastard could rape her, but Griffith made her [[Accidental Pun|finish him off herself.]] {{spoiler|Unfortunately, the very same Griffith would later rape her himself after getting hooked on [[The Dark Side]].}}
* In ''[[Shitsurakuen]]'', this is mostly [[Fridge Logic]], since we don't see what the boys do to their girls in the off-hours (but they're [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]], so we have a fair guess). Ironically, the one unambiguous case is the ''heroine's'' [[Victim Falls For Rapist|encounter]] with Reiko, as part of a [[Batman Gambit]] to save her.
* One of the many uses of the ''[[Dear S]]''. Takeya [[Above The Influence|isn't happy]] when Ren offers to fulfill her function for him.
* Askeladd's mother in ''[[Vinland Saga]]''.
* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'':
** In the manga version, the group enters a [[Lady Land]], and the [[Dropped A Bridget On Him|guys must dress like women]] to get through safely.
** One of the omakes in the OVA takes it to a more comedic level. A drag-queen Mitsukake apparently looks disgusting enough to have his face censored and make the rest of the cast [[Blue With Shock]], and is still singled out to become the [[Sex Slave]]. Then Tamahome and Tasuki drop their disguises and willingly and gleefuly volunteer to become slaves themselves, much to Miaka's chargin.
** Also, Soi was sold to a brothel by her impoverished family when she was a little girl. At the age of 12, she is [[Attempted Rape|about to be]] [[Rape As Drama|punished]] by her pimp for refusing to have sex with a client, but is rescued by Nakago. (She is also "used" by him for her sexual healing powers, but does so willingly out of love, [[Love Martyr|even knowing that the love is more or less one-sided.]])
** The emperor of Kutou kept [[Cute Shotaro Boy|Nakago]] as a sex slave [[Rape As Backstory|in the past]]. This is Nakago's [[Start Of Darkness]].
** This is implied to be what the slave traders truly want to do to Miaka and Yui in the beginning. Miaka tries to fight back, but is overpowered, and then [[Big Damn Heroes|Tamahome]] steps in.
* ''[[Black Butler]] II'': Episode 8 reveals that {{spoiler|old man Trancy captured many [[Shota Con|young boys]] to choose sex slaves from, raped most of them, and Alois ended up being his favorite sex slave right up until either he died of old age, or Alois killed him.}} Also, the flashbacks in the manga to when {{spoiler|Ciel is kept as a self-described 'pet' to the cult members}} has several panels that suggest this probably happened to him.
* [[Ax Crazy|Legato]] [[The Dragon|Bluesummers]] from the ''[[Trigun]]'' manga was revealed to have been one in his past... until Knives happened upon the town Legato was in and massacred everyone. Legato managed to use his strings to stop Knives from killing him at the same time, and then said he was going to let him go, so he could kill him if he wanted, but please don't. Knives decided he was interesting, and asked [[The Nameless|his name]], and [[Mad Love|the rest is history]]. This notably explains Legato's insane loyalty in the face of Knives' indifference and cruelty in really depressing terms: Knives isn't ''good'' to him, but he's better than anyone else ever was.
* Underclassmen at Garderobe Academy in ''{{Mai- Otome}}'' are given to the [[Onee Sama|Onee-samas]] as "room attendants." One student states, when explaining the system, that the kohai ''could'' be made to do [[This And That]] for the [[Onee Sama]], complete with [[Imagine Spot]].
* Being reduced to this drove {{spoiler|Mai Kamio}} insane to the point of {{spoiler|a [[Face Heel Turn]]}} in ''[[Video Girl Ai]]''.
* What Chaka wanted to do to Yukio in ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', after stripping her of power within the Washimine clan. Ginji, Rock, and Revy stop him, though. {{spoiler|And Ginji gives him a [[Cruel And Unusual Death|Cruel And Unusual]] [[Karmic Death]].}}
* ''[[Violence Jack]]'' OVA has something like in one episode.
* In the ''[[Peacemaker Kurogane]]'' manga, the old merchant Yamatoya makes Suzu his sex slave after Suzu's master was killed and he was left all alone starving in the streets. Suzu wasn't the only one, however — two twin kitty boys were also picked up by him for this purpose.
* In ''Sensitive Pornograph'', Aki-chan is this to his [[Bastard Boyfriend]]. {{spoiler|After being dumped, battered, and thrown out for having sex with the [[Unlucky Everydude]] who came in expecting a pet rabbit to look after, Aki-chan ends up in a new relationship with said [[Unlucky Everydude]].}}
* ''Almost'' happens to Kurumi Akino in ''[[Haou Airen]]''. When she has a [[Heroic BSOD]] and tries to run away from Hakuron in the middle of Hong Kong, she's captured by some Triad members who intend to sell her as one; then, they strip and almost rape her. Hakuron finds them and shoots them to death, then takes Kurumi to safety.
* {{spoiler|Tsubaki}} from ''[[Mirai Nikki]]''.
* Much of the plot of ''[[Ai No Kusabi]]'' revolves around how Riki was forcibly [[Made A Slave|Made A Sex Slave]] as a "Pet" and the effect it has on him, his master, and his ex-lover.
* ''[[Master Of Martial Hearts]]'': {{spoiler|The fate of those who lose the tournament is to be [[Mind Rape]]d into mindlessness and then sold into sexual slavery. This drives the [[Cycle Of Revenge]] in the series in general.}}
* This is what actually happened to {{spoiler|Shiro Masuda aka Amakusa}} in ''[[Amakusa 1637]]''. More exactly, {{spoiler|Shiro is captured and given as a slave to Naozumi, an already emotionally unstable [[Time Travel]]er, who made him his forced lover due to Shirou [[Identical Stranger|being identical]] to Natsuki, Naozumi's [[Unrequited Love]]. According to Naozumi's own testimony, [[The Messiah|Shi]][[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|rou]] first attempted to understand his "lord"'s broken psyche via speaking to him politely and gently, then tried to [[Please I Will Do Anything|use this to try helping his fellow Christians]]... but when Naozumi realized [[Lima Syndrome|that he was starting to fall for Shirou]], he strangled the poor kid to death, and then threw his lifeless body into the sea.}}
* In ''[[Legend Of The Blue Wolves]]'' Captain Continental has many sex slaves and tries to make Jonathan into one as well. Jonathan refuses so Captain Continental rapes him.
* Ayase in the [[Boys Love Genre]] ''[[Okane Ga Nai]]''.
* Sex slaves are the primary source of income for the Ulfan organization in the [[Hentai]] ''[[Bondage Queen Kate]]''.

=== Comics ===
* "The Slavers", a [[Punisher]] arc, has Frank Castle taking on a slave-trafficking ring. The horrible things that the slavers do to the people they've enslaved hits every one of Castle's [[Berserk Button]]s concerning mistreatment of women and children in general, resulting in [[Roaring Rampage Of Revenge|one of his most brutal killing sprees]].
* [[The Incredible Hulk]] features a surprising amount of this. In one story, the Maestro, an insane, evil version of the Hulk, rules the world and keeps a harem of slave girls for this purpose.
** In another story featuring the Defenders, Dormammu's sister Umar actually made the Hulk into her sex slave. She wears him out to such an extent that he turns back into Bruce Banner and can't Hulk out for a while. This was [[Rape as Comedy|played for laughs]].
* Ninjette of ''[[Empowered]]'' was intended as one for her clan. Training her to be a [[Bad Ass]] ninja first was probably a bad idea. Emp herself is nearly subject to this in the "Cosmolactic Emperor's" harem.
** Ninjette is an unusual case, as her clan's intended use for her isn't as a sex slave per se; the forced sex would have been "merely" a necessary prerequisite for her bearing [[Asian Baby Mama|lots of ninja babies.]]
** Emp herself was nearly taken as one, but the Robot sent to capture her decided her butt was too big. [[Arent You Going To Ravish Me|She was more devastated by the insult than her good fortune]].

=== Fanfic ===
* In ''[[Chaos Is Very Good]]'', Discord threatens to do this to Luna.
* In ''[[Annie's Stories]]'', some of the sylphs are treated as such, [[Fantastic Racism|since they have no rights and nobody to protect them from their owners]].
* Several ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' fanfics use this trope liberally.
* Among ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fan fiction writers, Severus Snape-hating fans tend to believe that he didn't really love Lily Potter, but rather wanted her as [[Ron the Death Eater|one of these]].
** There's also a [[Fandom Specific Plot]] in the ''Potter'' fandom centered around the fetishized version of this trope. The set-up is as follows: Voldemort has won, Harry and all the "good" characters whom the author doesn't care to write about are dead, and someone (usually Hermione) is made a slave to one of the hotter Death Eaters (most commonly [[Misaimed Fandom|Draco]], [[Draco in Leather Pants|Snape]], or [[Misaimed Fandom|Lucius]]). It varies whether she is explicitly made into a sex slave or if she's just a slave and the "sex" part is "unofficial". Either way, the set-up is followed by a [[Porn Without Plot]] bondage fantasy, which [[In Name Only|might as well having nothing to do with]] ''[[Harry Potter]]''.
* According to a majority of fan fiction he's in, many fans believe Fenris of ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' was once this.
* ''[http://yamirkins.livejournal.com/1333.html An Asian's Harem of Asians]'' has Japan as a [[Complete Monster]] and [[Memetic Molester]] who sexually enslaves '''''many''''' of the Asian nations, [[OC Stand In|OC nations included]]. In the fic itself he personally rapes at least three of them {{spoiler|(China via anal sex, OC!Singapore and OC!Philippines via fingerfucking them)}} while planning to rape everyone later, and forces the rest to either rape each other ({{spoiler|ie. OC!Burma must fingerfuck Vietnam and both Koreas give forced oral sex to China}}) or sexually serve him via erotic massages or other stuff ({{spoiler|Thailand, OC!Indonesia, Hong Kong and Taiwan}}). [[Squick]] doesn't begin to describe it, and even worse [[Fridge Horror|when you recall]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_Women what DID happen in Real Life...]
* ''[[Saffron]]'' revolves around a world where Pokemon are used as sex slaves, though some get ([[Stockholm Syndrome|through]] [[Rape Is Love|different means]]) to [[Happiness In Slavery]].

=== Movies ===
* ''[[Blue Velvet]]'': Dorothy Vallens is forced into this role after her child and husband are kidnapped by a local crime-boss Frank. Eventually, she develops a sort of [[Stockholm Syndrome]] and seems to take a twisted pleasure in Frank's rape at one point.
* In ''[[Don Juan Demarco]]'', the titular mental patient relates a yarn about spending a year in the 'service' of a lusty Sultana. Not that he seems to've minded much. It probably helped that she kept him hidden in the Sultan's harem (apparently she didn't mind sharing.)
* Similar to the Orion girls from [[Star Trek]] are the [[Green Skinned Space Babe|Twi'lek girls]] from ''[[Star Wars]]''. According to the [[Expanded Universe]] they actually encourage sexual slavery: since they have no spacecraft of their own, becoming [[sexslave]]s is their primary method of going offworld, with the plan of freeing themselves to get a real job at some point. However, they don't seem to be doing a very good job as it's been this way for thousands of years.
** Averted in the prequel trilogy and ''[[The Clone Wars]]'' with Aayla Secura, a female Twi'lek Jedi.
* ''[[The Street Fighter]]'': Because the guy who hired him didn't have enough money to pay him for the job he did for him, Terry sent the guy out the window and then sold the guy's sister into sexual slavery. It's quite the dick move on Terry's part, cementing him as a ''very'' dark antihero, and when the sister gets out of this, she is very much pissed at Terry and goes after him for revenge.
* In ''[[Manos The Hands Of Fate]]'', this is the sickening [[Fate Worse Than Death|fate]] of {{spoiler|[[I Have Your Wife|the hero's wife]] ''and'' [[Squick|his]] [[Lolicon|child]].}}
* Some of the replicants in ''[[Blade Runner]]''.
* The "Furniture Girls" in ''[[Soylent Green]]''. The one owned by the murder victim even becomes the love interest of Ty Thorn.
* In ''[[Taken]]'', the [[Papa Wolf]] main character must pretty much race against the clock to make sure his kidnapped daughter won't be sold into sex slavery. {{spoiler|He's too late to save the daughter's best friend, but ''does'' manage to save his child.}}
* Three or four unfortunate young blondes are locked in an attic as forced prostitutes in ''[[The Sinful Dwarf]]''.
* ''[[Deadgirl]]'': The titular zombie girl is used as a sex slave after a pair of teens discover her chained in the basement of an abandoned mental hospital. The discovery that she is undead only provokes her captors into even [[I Love The Dead|further depravity]].
* This is the whole premise of the film ''[[Human Trafficking]]'' - the trafficking happens only to get sex slaves.
* The heroines of ''[[Sucker Punch]]'', in two of the film's realities.

=== Literature ===
* In Anne Bishop's ''[[Black Jewels]]'' trilogy, two of the three main male good guys were pleasure slaves in Courts in Tereille. Aside from Daemon and Lucivar, there's also Jared (pre-Invisible Ring) and a small army of others.
** Jaenelle and the Briarwood girls also count, being kept in a secure facility, drugged, and used for sex on a regular basis.
* The Imperium in ''[[Dune]]'' allows the possession of sex slaves. The Emperor is allowed to have slave-concubines, Baron Harkonnen uses a slave boy as one, and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen spends a lot of his time with the women in the Baron's slave quarters.
* ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'' has a main character who is the sex slave (more specifically, a ''breeding'' slave) of a military commander.
* Is a main plot point of the [[John Ringo]] ''[[Paladin Of Shadows]]'' series, an extremely guilty pleasure for both the reader ''and'' the writer.
* Romanticized in John Norman's ''[[Gor]]'' series.
* A lot of Werewolf fiction like [[Mercy Thompson]] and [[Kitty Norville]] has a type of sexual slavery. The alpha can have sex with any female he wants, [[or]] decide the lowest female in the pack can be given to other males as reward and the female has to take it.
* [[Playing With A Trope|Played with]] in the ''[[Warchild Series]]''. The pirates take prisoners and sometimes recruit children as geishas, which are only loosely based on the old customs. Mostly, they are sex slaves and sometimes assassins. In the first book, the main character was a prisoner whom the [[Big Bad]] intended to turn into one of these. He escapes without much of the training (but a lot of the abuse). It's not until the third book that one of these slaves becomes a main character. This is not played for [[Fetish Fuel]], but rather [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]] to show the psychological ramifications related to such an existence. Very [[Darker And Edgier|dark]] portrayal, really.
* [[Robert E Howard]]'s ''[[Conan]]'' has rescued his share of slave girls in his day, such as Olivia from Shah Amurath in "Iron Shadows in the Moon."
** And in "The People of the Black Citadel" Yasmina is forced to [[Break The Haughty|remember]] past lives of this:
**: ''She reeled naked and bleeding over burning sands, dragged at the slaver's stirrup, and she knew the grip of hot, fierce hands on her writhing flesh, the shame and agony of brutal lust.''
** In "The Slithering Shadows", Thalis tells Conan to kill Natala because unlike her, she is too soft to survive the sexual demands of the men in the city.
** In "A Witch Shall Be Born", one of the luxuries Salome is after is "handsome men and soft women for my paramours and my slaves."
* Davy in ''[[The Female Man]]''
* ''[[A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows]]'': A major character is sold into prostitution by her political enemies.
* The White Court's human thralls in ''[[The Dresden Files]]''. It should be noted that most of them are essentially brainwashed.
* Several female characters, most notably Susan Stern and Dayna Jurgens, share this origin story in ''[[The Stand]]''.
* In ''The Fifth Sacred Thing,'' by Starhawk, post-eco-apocalypse Southern California is ruled by a high-tech religious dictatorship with gene-engineered slave castes, one of which is bred exclusively for sexual entertainment. In one scene, the protagonist Madrone, a witch-healer from the neopagan utopia around San Francisco, is forced by circumstances to share a cot with a five-year-old girl of that caste. The child tries to touch Madrone sexually and, when gently rebuffed, has a temper tantrum -- because she has been frustrated in the only only way she knows of to get approval from adults. Madrone, when she is told about the girl's background, and that these sex-slaves' owners can do ''anything at all'' to them, remarks, "I was raised not to believe in evil. But I can't think of any other name for this."
* ''[[The Draka]]'' revel in this trope, with "bedwenches" and "prettybucks" (male serfs "for men so inclined"). At the same time, sex between female Draka and male serfs is forbidden, as are homosexual relations between male Draka. [[Girl On Girl Is Hot|Instead female Draka get it on with]] [[Author Appeal|other female Draka or female serfs.]]
** Depends on the era. After the Draka developed perfect contraception and switched to using serf women to carry Draka fetuses female Draka were allowed to have male sex slaves. And the genetically engineered 'new race' is altered to be universally bisexual, apparently.
* [[Piers Anthony]] invokes this in ''[[Bioofa Space Tyrant]]'', where the hero's older sister Faith gives herself up to pirates as a sex slave in order to save her fellow refugees from being destroyed. [[It Got Worse|Even more dispiriting than it sounds,]] since the family had fled the planet to protect Faith from being raped in the first place.
* Manpower Incorporated's c-line genetic slaves in the [[Honor Harrington]] books, which was the origin of a handful of secondary characters including Virginia Usher and Elaine Kormandorski ({{spoiler|otherwise known as Lady Georgia Young, Countess North Hollow) }}.
* ''[[Horus Heresy]]'' shows us that this wasn't unheard of even in the "Golden Age Of Humanity", with a woman noble has a male guardian and sex slave with his tongue cut out, to be an [[Asshole Villain]] all the way. Horus himself has his eye on him after gaining his respect for his [[Badass Normal]] fighting skill and courage, and assassinates the slave's mistress {{spoiler|that is, Horus does it with his own hands}} as a sort of reward but also because [[He Knew Too Much|She Knew Too Much]]. Later ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' novels strongly imply that in the 41st century, sexual slavery is condoned and living flesh trafficking is a legal thing (though mostly for [[We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future|slave labour]]).
* In Nora Keller's ''[[Comfort Woman]]'', Akiko was forced to serve as a military "comfort woman," a sex slave provided to troops during the Japanese occupation of Korea in [[World War II]]. Her daughter Beccah does not know of this history, and as she learns of it, she comes to understand her mother's apparently strange ways.
* In ''[[The Count Of Monte Cristo]]'', this is the Count's cover story for Haydee's presence. It also helps him to justify why a man of his standing isn't courting women.
* This turns out to be common in ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' as the fate of {{spoiler|physically attractive winners of [[Deadly Game|the Hunger Games]]. The money made from renting them out goes straight to President Snow, but they typically cooperate anyways so as to avoid "accidents" happening to their families. Finnick manages to use this to collect information from the powerful people who purchase him, and after joining the rebels he reveals all the Capitol's dirty laundry in a television broadcast.}}
* A.N. Roquelaure's ''Beauty'' series features more of a sexual indentured servitude. Before they're permitted to take rulership, young nobility and royalty are sent into training as sexual slaves. It's also a means a social mobility, as commoners and lesser nobles may also submit themselves for the same treatment. Slaves may also beg to remain so for life.
* Paolo Bacigalupi's ''[[The Windup Girl]]'' features Emiko, a Japanese Windup abandoned by her master in a [[Dystopia]]n Bangkok. Windups, or "New People," are genetically altered to have an irrepressible instinct to please and have been trained from birth that they are in a position of servitude. While revered in Japan as works of art and strong workers, they are hated in Bangkok and, in order to avoid being picked up by police and incinerated, Emiko is forced to work in a sex club, where she is routinely humiliated and abused.
** Of note is that Emiko's body has been genetically engineered to feel orgasm automatically under sexual stimulation. When she is raped, she actually ''comes'' - hating every moment of it and despising herself for it.
* In J.R. Ward's ''[[Black Dagger Brotherhood]]'' series, we learn that Zsadist, kidnapped by his nanny as an infant, was sold into slavery and eventually used as a [[blood]] slave by a sadistic mistress. Zsadist is eventually rescued by his twin brother, Phury, and kills his mistress but suffers intense psychological damage. He is considered souless by his fellow Brothers, and dangerous. His book in the series involves him falling in love with a woman and having to overcome (well, not completely) his past.
* In ''[[A Song Of Ice And Fire]]'', the city Yunkai in the Slaver's Bay region is famed for its pleasure slaves trained in the ways of the "seven sighs" and the "sixteen seats of pleasure."
* Vlad Tepes' younger brother Radu is this to the Ottoman army in ''[[Count And Countess]]''.
* The Red Temple in Fred Saberhagen's ''[[Books Of Swords]]'' series is known to use sex slaves among its prostitutes, and the Silver Queen sells her own daughter into slavery to the Red Temple for this purpose. Arian is rescued by Baron Doon and his party before she actually gets to the Red Temple or is raped, [[It Got Worse|but....]]

=== Music Video ===
* The video for [[Bad Romance]] depicts [[Lady Gaga]] as one of these. {{spoiler|At the end of the video, she burns to death the man who buys her.}}
* The video for "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by Swanky Tunes & Hard Rock Sofa portrays kidnapped Russian girls being sold at an "Elite Men's Club."

== Real Life ==
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* During slavery in America, "Fancy Girls" were attractive slave woman (who were usually light-skinned black or mixed race) who were sold as sex slaves and house servants.

=== TV ===
* The plot of Season 2 of ''[[The Wire]]'' kicks off when a shipping container full of dead Eastern European sex slaves are found on the Baltimore docks.
* Orion slave girls from ''[[Star Trek]]''.
** These are an interesting example because they were [[Ret Con]]ned in [[Star Trek Enterprise]] into secretly being the ''rulers'' of their race. They used the pretense of being sex-slaves to infiltrate enemy organizations, and then used [[Love Is In The Air|powerful pheromones]] to control any males they wished, as they did with the males of their own species. The whole set-up [[Stealth Pun|came across]] as a bit of an awkward plot device, though, and some argue that this situation carries more [[Unfortunate Implications]] than just playing the trope straight.
** Another interesting ''Trek'' example: In one episode of the [[Star Trek The Original Series|Original Series]], [[The Kirk|Kirk]] is the well-treated prisoner of the ruler of an [[Planet Of Hats|Ancient Rome Planet]]. A female slave is sent to his quarters by his captor. The slave makes it clear (quite suggestively) that she was ''ordered'' to please Kirk. It's left unclear whether Kirk actually has sex with her, but it is clearly at least a possibility.
** [[Star Trek Voyager]]. The holodeck program ''The Adventures of Captain Proton!'' (a [[Flash Gordon Serial|Flash Gordon]] expy) has slave girls that the players can rescue. Presumably they are [[Rescue Sex|quite grateful]] to their saviours.
** In [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine]], Bajoran women were kept as "comfort women" during the Cardassian occupation.
* Warren's ex-girlfriend Katrina in ''[[Buffy The Vampire Slayer]]'' almost became this when the Trio (a trio of villainous college-aged nerds turned [[madscientist]]s) tested their mind control ray on her. She fought off the mind control before anything could happen, and Warren killed her in the ensuing struggle.
** When setting up their grand scheme, their plans included [[Glamour|Conjure Fake I.D.s]], Girls, [[All Men Are Perverts|Girls]], The Gorilla Thing, [[Bread Eggs Milk Squick|and Make Buffy Their Sex Slave]].
* Zev (or [[The Nth Doctor|Xev]]) of ''{{Lexx}}'' was going to be made one of these, but she broke free before the mental reconditioning was implemented. This conditioning was inflicted instead on 790, the robot drone overseeing the operation. Since the conditioning resulted in the victim falling hopelessly in love with the first person [[he]] saw next, 790 became obsessed with Zev, devoting himself to her completely.
* In ''[[Dante's Cove]]'', Ambrosius [[I Have Your Wife|holds Toby hostage]] to force Kevin to become his sex slave. Later, Griff uses his influence with the Tresum Council to try to get Grace to submit to him similarly, but she outwits him.
* Every Active in ''[[Dollhouse]]'' is used for this frequently.
* In ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'', one of the many signs that the ''Pegasus'' crew have crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] is their use of a captured Number Six Cylon as a sex slave.
* The final series of the ''[[Murphy's Law]]'' revolves around the search for a missing police officer who has been caught up in a sex slave ring. Does a very good job at describing just how brutal and terrifying the real thing can actually be.
* ''[[The Commish]]'' also has an episode where a 15 year old girl (who used to be the babysitter of the Commisioner's son) is forced into doing porno films. ''And'' pleasing the boss.
* ''[[Lost Girl]]'' plays with this: the closest anyone comes to using the word "slave" to describe Lauren is when she refers to herself as the Ash's property, even though she clearly is a slave, even to the point of wearing a [[Slave Collar]]. She nevertheless enjoys a great deal of prestige within the fae community, and is primarily valuable as a slave for her medical expertise. All the same, when it suits his purpose, the Ash orders her to seduce and sleep with Bo, even though it ends up wrecking her relationship with Bo when she finds out that that was why Lauren slept with her.
* Though we don't see it directly in ''[[Firefly]]'', it is implied that the sexual slave trade is around. When Mal discovers River in Simon's cryo box, the first thing he assumes is that Simon is smuggling her to be sold to a Border-world baron.

=== Tabletop RPG ===
* ''[[Earthdawn]]''. The Theran Empire designated some of its slaves as "Pleasure Slaves".
* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'':
** [[Dark Eldar]] and followers of Slaanesh practice sexual slavery.
** This is also common among Imperial nobility, though whether they're called courtesans, consorts, slave or whatever else varies depending on the specific [[Planet Of Hats|planet]]. As long as the nobles don't go to far (which is [[Crapsack World|pretty far]]), the Inquisition doesn't care.
* ''[[Exalted]]'': In addition to the "regular" form, some populations have been raised, trained, and even bred (or worse yet, genetically engineered!) for this. A particularly disturbing case of the "regular" variety is found in the Djala, who are slender, delicately built pygmies. True pygmies; as adults, they do not exceed 4'10". Don't think about it too much.
* The Batraeans of ''[[Talislanta]]'' has this as their [[Planet Of Hats|Hat]]: the males, who are grossly ugly, systematically sells their female relatives, who are all incredibly beautiful and sensual, as slaves and concubines to their more civilised neighbours, and treat them very much as chattle before they do. Batraean females has pheromones that makes men lustful, but for some reason their own males are immune, which they often use to be relatively [[Happiness In Slavery|well-treated slaves]]. Other forms of sex slavery exist as well - Thaecians and Sawilans are preyed upon by slavers for that reason, for instance.

=== Video Games ===
* ''[[Fallout 3]]'': Alejandra, one of the Temple Of The Union residents, is a former sex slave Crimson and Clover are current sex slaves (the Lone Wanderer can even buy the latter, but [[Celibate Hero|nothing sexual]] comes out of it), and Red becomes a sex slave if you send her to [[Nonindicative Name|Paradise Falls]].
** In ''[[Fallout New Vegas]]'' although all the player ever sees of Legion slaves is them carrying heavy loads, it is heavily implied that the women are subjected to rape on a regular basis, and a bit more subtly that the men aren't just used as pack mules either.
** There's also an entire quest ("Bye Bye Love") set in the casino of [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|Gomorrah]] to break a prostitute out of sexual slavery done in a similar fashion to [[Real Life]]: Joana is an expensive hooker who's controlled by her bosses using her drug addiction and threats of violence.
* After you are invited to Davik's estate in ''{{Knights Of The Old Republic}}'' you are encouraged to enjoy a relaxing bath at the hands of his slaves. This being [[Bio Ware]], there ''are'' male and female slaves...
* {{spoiler|Keristrasza}} becomes Malygos's unwilling consort in ''[[World Of Warcraft|Wrath of the Lich King]]'', which is essentially this, but said in a more Safe For Work kind of way.
* The implication of what Ser Alrik [[I Have You Now My Pretty|intends to do with Ella]] by [[Mind Rape|threatening to make her Tranquil]] in the [[Dragon Age II]] quest "Dissent".
** Fenris is implied to have been one, as well as a slave [[Super Soldier]]. [[Word Of God]] has confirmed this.

=== Webcomics ===
* Alisin from ''[[Fans]]'' was [[Rape As Backstory|kept as a sex slave]], which led to her [[Cycle Of Revenge|refusing to let Feddyg go after they had sex, which led to him...]] well... [[Complete Monster|doing a lot of things]].
* Implied in ''[[Last Res0rt]]'', or at least [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2009/11/who-needs-a-shirt-when-you-have-poles/ feared enough by Jigsaw] that she snaps and {{spoiler|kicks her Vampire Sire out a hotel window... thirty stories up}}!
** Since it's explained later on that the Talmi were historically a [[Slave Race]]...
** Mentioned again when Geisha imagines [http://www.lastres0rt.com/2011/08/for-once-i-like-the-way-geisha-thinks/ what could be happening to Jigsaw] {{spoiler|now that she and some of the other players have been captured by Gabriel}}.
* ''[[Tea House]]'' has a full cast of these ([[Insistent Terminology|insistently called "courtesans"]]) and their clients
* In ''[[Endstone]]'', they think [http://endstone.net/2009/07/15/issue-2-page-4/ they can enslave Kyri because she's a higher animal and one customer doesn't want her slaughtered yet].
* ''[[Fansadox]]'' and all its ossprings is based around this.
* ''[[Lustomic]]'' for men [[Gender Bender|Gender Bent]] and [[Break The Haughty|Broken]].
* ''[[Collar 6]]'' has the main character as one of these in a future where BDSM lesbian harems seem to be the norm.

=== Web Original ===
* In ''[[Chakona Space]]'':
** Many species of Morph were created for this express purpose, by 2090 [[The Federation]] had banned Morph slavery but in the 24th century when most of the stories take place there are still quite a few sex slave traits in the gene pool (ranging from simple [[Buxom Is Better|big breasts]] to [[Hermaphrodite|hermaphrodism]].
** Leanna Fennec was designed on a Non-Aligned World where slavery is still legal and most slaves have an overt or hidden sexual purpose, shi was meant to be a combination exotic sex slave and industrial spy (which probably contributed to her [[Asshole Victim|master's]] [[Make It Look Like An Accident|"accidental"]] death).
* ''[[Orions Arm]]'' has Erotogini, which range from humanoids to living carpets. Though the Sapient Rights accords means that in most civilized regions they are illegal unless designed to be nonsapient (like an animal). Of course, descendants of Erotogini are fairly common.
* ''[[The Erotic Mind Control Story Archive]]'' sometimes turns girls into these.
* This is the worst-case scenario for the titular creatures in ''{{Pokegirls}}''. Since they're neither fully human nor fully inhuman, [[Not Even Human]]applies and [[But You Screw One Goat]] doesn't -- but since many of them ''used'' to be human, characters outside the [[No Woman's Land|Amethyst League]] still tend to be appropriately horrified.

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The Erotic Mind Control Story Archive

2012-11-18T03:20:17Z

Tropers:

[[File:mcstories.png|thumb|right|350px|Look into the green hole, the lite green hole... you're getting sleepy, sleepy... all you want is to read more stories and to be hypnotized by the people on this site... sleepy, sleepy...]]
:''"When I snap my fingers, you will [[Describe Topic Here|describe]] [http://www.mcstories.com this website] [[Describe Topic Here|here]]."''
:''"Yes, Master."''
:'''*snap*'''

Is the subject of hypnosis [[Fetish Fuel]] for you? Then you'll probably like this website. Originally part of the newsgroup alt.sex.stories, it was spun off into its own website in 1996 by a man who calls himself "[[Underdog|Simon Bar Sinister]]". The site contains a huge archive of stories from many, many users, and these stories tend to run the gamut from [[Mythbusters|plausible]] to [[Nightmare Fuel|downright bizarre]].

Their unifying theme is that they all contain some form of mind control, and that the mind control is somehow used as part of a sexual act. The most common use of mind control on the site is hypnotizing someone, and then using suggestions to make them orgasm while under. Another common use involves hypnotic alternate personality play, where characters in a story think they're sluts, [[Sex Slave]]s, and other stuff like that. We have a trope for the final common use -- [[People Puppets]], combined with [[And I Must Scream]].

All the MC stories on the site are categorized. [http://www.mcstories.com/Tags/index.html What's your pleasure?]

This site also has an official forum, available [http://www.mcforum.net here], as well as a secondary spinoff forum [http://www.mcgarden.org/forum/ here].

Quite infamously, fan fiction is banned from the site after Warner Bros. sent a cease and desist letter to the site in 1998. There are a few ''[[Star Trek]]'' and ''[[X-Files]]'' fanfics on the site, but these are legacy fics from before 1998 that weren't affected by the ban; fan fiction hasn't been accepted since.

Similarly, [[Transgender]] stories were removed from the archive some time ago, due to the generally correct opinion of the webmaster that [[X Meets Y|Transgender / Mind Control fiction]] tends to use MC to enforce gender play, at which point the MC is more or less dropped.

Despite it having no "fanfics" [[Subverted Trope|in the true sense of the word]], it still generally is a site for ordinary people to post their stories

Also, one more note: When direct-linking, it's recommended that you use the "mcstories.com" URL; while the site technically does still exist at [http://www.asstr.org/~mcstories its original alt.sex.stories home], that URL is deprecated. [[Word Salad Title|And slightly longer and harder to remember.]]

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:'''Hypnotist''': ''...and when I count to 3, you will tell me every single trope this website uses. You will have no memory of this trance. Do you understand?''
:'''[[Trope-Tan|Trope]]-[[Adapted For The Tropes|Tan]]''': (eyes half-closed and staring blankly ahead with her mouth hanging open and the rest of her body completely relaxed, says this weakly and in monotone:)'' ...yes... @_@
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{{RWWW|The_Erotic_Mind_Control_Story_Archive}}
* [[A Date With Rosie Palms]]: [[Captain Obvious|Gee, I wonder what the stories marked as "MA: Masturbation" contain? =P]]
* [[A God Am I]]: Notably, the origin of the "Master PC" stories about a computer program that lets the user reprogram people.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]] / [[All Women Are Lustful]]: Even ''if'' they're among the most [[Chivalrous Pervert|restrained]] with their abilities.
* [[All Men Love Ponygirls]].
* [[Anatomically Impossible Sex]]: Sometimes it's because the writer screwed up (or doesn't mind that what they're describing is unrealistic), sometimes it's because characters have [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that makes it work anyway, and sometimes ''characters'' attempt this and then find out that [[Reality Ensues]] ([[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity]] optional).
** The story "He's The Greatest Writer" parodies this, in which a writer who [[Anatomically Impossible Sex|failed Sex Ed forever]] finds out for himself how impossible the scenarios in his stories are.
* [[And I Must Scream]]: A very large chunk of the stories marked "NC: Non-Consensual" revolve around the victim being trapped, aware of their situation but unable to change it.
* [[Archive Binge]]: There are only about 10,000 stories... ranging from one chapter to ''hundreds'' of chapters.
* [[The Artifact]]: This website has quite a few remnants of its original home at the alt.sex.stories Text Repository:
** Actually it's still hosted with the A.S.S.T.R and is actually just an account under the A.S.S.T.R domain. It uses the A.S.S.T.R Webservers to serve pages. Hence the A.S.S.T.R error messages.
** Whenever you try to access a story that doesn't exist, you get redirected to ASSTR's HTTP 404 page.
** As mentioned above, the website keeps [http://www.asstr.org/~mcstories its original URL] as a sort of "alternate" location. Please see above.
** As mentioned in "Department of Redundancy Department", every story on the site is classified as "MC: Mind Control". This dates back to when it was a part of alt.sex.stories. Of course, that website has a much larger focus than the EMCSA, and Simon's aren't the only stories around. This definitely helped in sorting newsgroups. In fact, all of the site's current tags come from an old 'standard' set of tags from that time.
** Actually, not every story has the MC tag. Quite a few don't include it so you may miss out on these stories. Some times the MC is implied but not directly fixated on so the 'MC' tag is omitted to reflect this. It keeps people guessing!
* [[Asshole Victim]].
* [[Author Appeal]]: Well, this IS a fetish site, after all.
* [[Author Existence Failure]], [[What Could Have Been]]: Well known author Blankpage, who was also a troper, died in early 2010 before finishing his masterpiece ''Chateau [[Darkstalkers|Aensland]]''.
** Sara castle, known for a series of related stories starring a villain known as The Confectioner, died in early 2011.
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: Stories in which the heroine (or hero) succumbs to the [[Obviously Evil]] mind controller and ends up a [[Sex Slave]] are fairly common.
** Played with in the Super Hero category. At least one villain has the super heroines continue defending the world and another has a super heroine mind control a super villainess into becoming a hero.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]].
* {{Brainwashed}}: Another obvious trope use.
* [[Bound And Gagged]]: Oddly enough, the stories marked "BD: Bondage and/or Discipline" [[Subverted Trope|don't feature this trope as much as you'd think]].
** At least, not with physical bonds. Instead, people will be [[Mind Rape|hypnotized into thinking they're tied up]].
* [[Biggus Dickus]]: Well, it is a porn site. Sometimes they actually do cause problems for characters who both [[Anatomically Impossible Sex|failed Sex Ed]] (and whose authors didn't) and lack the magic or ]]Applied Phlebotinum]] to make them practical.
* [[Bikini Bar]]: One story centers about a guy getting his money "back" from girls at a bar he used to frequent, [[If You Know What I Mean|with interest]].
* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Lots of stories involve turning people into these. It's referred to on the forum as "bimboization". [[Dumb Blond|Blond hair]] is optional, but common.
* [[Breast Expansion]]: Some stories, especially those marked as "GR: growth or enlargement of bodies and parts" There's also "LA: Lactation".
* [[Break The Haughty]]: Many, but ''The Humiliation of Jane'' is probably the website's personal Trope Codifier, revolving around a [[Asshole Victim|nasty law student]] being given a drug that makes it impossible for her to disobey ''anyone''. Permanently.
* [[Buxom Is Better]]: Several references to women being more attractive due to their breast size. This even has a sub-section of the site: the GR: growth or enlargement of bodies and parts tag.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: For legal reasons, trademarked characters are not allowed to be used in stories, except for a few stories that were there before the ban was imposed. As a result, you'll see characters that are exactly the same as, say, [[Wonder Woman]], but with a different name.
* [[Color Coded For Your Convenience]]: The links to stories on the site have a different color underline that gives a general indication of what category a story falls under, such as male or female-dominant in a het fic, or [[Ho Yay|which]] [[Les Yay|gender]] if it's a gay story. If the story contains none or many of these tags, there's a fifth catch-all color for it.
** To be more specific:
*** [[color:green:Green: female dominant]]
*** [[color:red:Red: lesbian sex]]
*** [[color:yellow:Yellow: male dominant]]
*** [[color:cyan:Cyan: gay sex]]
*** [[color:purple:Purple: the aforementioned "fifth catch-all color"]]
* [[The Conspiracy]]: All sorts, including [[Ancient Conspiracy]], [[Government Conspiracy]], [[Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy]], and others that don't necessarily fit into one of these categories. Not all of them are actually evil, though, and some even [[We Help The Helpless|help the helpless]].
* [[A Chat With Satan]]: Generally, ''[[The Erotic Mind Control Story Archive]]'' has people with powers coming to (female) psychologists to [[This Is My Story|tell their stories]]. Because the site is highly detrimental to free will, this usually ends in clients enslaving/[[Mind Rape|Mind Raping]] the shrink after they've got everything off their chests.
** In the end chapter of ''[http://www.mcstories.com/SlavePit/SlavePit9.html The Slave Pit]'', a man is responsible for turning a big chunk of the female population into [[Sex Slave|subservent slaves for any other male]], mostly [[For The Evulz]]. However, he realizes after he becomes more mature that this process is [[Captain Obvious|actually harmful for women's rights]], and goes to a famous study of the "Slut phenomenon" and how to undue some of its harmful effects. The twist is she turns out to be "[[Mad Scientist Beautiful Daughter|The Devil's Daughter]]". [[Break The Haughtie]] ensues.
* [[Dead Fic]] / Orphaned Series: Far too many.
* [[Department Of Redundancy Department]]: Every single fic on the site is labeled as "MC: Mind Control". For the main reason why, see "The Artifact". Also, it helps make the stories easier to sort; since it can be used as a catch-all, the servers don't need an extra algorithm to show all - just use the same stuff to sort things like ft and mm.
* [[Dirty Mind Reading]].
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Never piss off a mind controller.
* [[Doorstopper]]: ''Tim, the Teenage Mind Controller''. 22 chapters, each of which the size of a short story, written over 11 years, with plans to continue updating it soon.
** And plenty of others.
* [[Emotion Bomb]]: The "lust" version has obvious applications; others may be useful as well.
* [[Exact Words]]: Many mind controllers learn the hard way to be very, very careful about what orders they give.
* [[Faux Action Girl]]: The stories classified as "CB: Comic Book Superhero" tend to fall under this trope. The heroines usually exist only to get defeated by the first supervillain with hypnosis powers, or vice versa.
* [[Fetish Fuel Future]].
* [[Fighting From The Inside]].
* [[Freak Lab Accident]].
* [[Furry Fandom]]: Only 38 stories are this trope as of March 19, 2010. There are also no gay male furry stories.
* [[Getting Smilies Painted On Your Soul]].
* [[Guy On Guy Is Hot]]: [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|All of the fics marked as "MM:Male/Male Sex", natch!]]
* [[Girl On Girl Is Hot]]: [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|All of the fics marked as "FF: Female/Female Sex", natch!]]
* [[Gone Horribly Right]].
* [[Happiness In Slavery]].
* [[Het Is Ew]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]]. Heterosexual stories (those labeled "MF: male-female sex") outnumber homosexual stories by almost a 2-to-1 margin. (As of March 19, 2010, there are 4,789 stories with heterosexual sex.) However, do keep in mind that the numbers for this trope as well as "Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls" below are unreliable. The FF, MF, and MM categories are not mutually exclusive, and some stories on the site are classified into more than one of these three categories.
* [[Horny Devils]].
* [[Hospital Hottie]]: Many stories involve someone getting [[Psychic Powers]] from a head injury or other accident. I'll give you one guess as to who ends up being the first person to be affected by those powers.
** Lampshaded in one story when a guy seems able to mentally control a nurse, leading to [[Hospital Hottie]] situations. But it turns out she was the one with the powers, reading his mind to see what he desired, then wiping his memory of the scene afterwards.
* [[Hypnotic Eyes]]: Sometimes it's played relatively realistically, sometimes it's an actual superpower.
* [[Hypno Fool]]: Some stories, typically those with stage hypnosis.
* [[Hypnotize The Princess]]: And then have one's way with her.
* [[It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It]]: So you meet some stranger who you think is really, really hot. The two of you go rent a motel room and have a night of really, really good sex, and then go your separate ways, never regretting any of it for the rest of your life. Does it really matter that your attraction was caused by [[Applied Phlebotinum]] instead of something more mundane?
** Often overlaps with [[Rape Is OK When It Is Sci Fi]].
** Sometimes subverted: even if the victims enjoy it (physically), some of them will be hurt to the core by the fact that, emotionally, can't stop the abuse.
* [[The Immodest Orgasm]]: Enhanced through mind control, even.
* [[I Have Boobs You Must Obey]].
* [[Incest]]: Between [[Brother Sister Incest|siblings]], [[Parental Incest|parents and children]], and other relatives, too. Stories containing incest are always marked as such, though.
* [[Incompatible Orientation]]: Overcoming this obstacle and initiating the target into a new form of sexuality is sometimes played as [[Fetish Fuel]].
* [[Just Between You And Me]]: Some mind controllers give their subjects a detailed description of the fate that awaits them, either as a form of post-hypnotic suggestion or simply as foreplay.
* [[Lolicon]]: Mostly averted. There used to be a Pedophilia category, but the category, and subsequently the stories, were purged over a decade ago, most likely due to [[Paedo Hunt|this trope]]. There are still a number of stories set in and around high school.
* [[Love Is In The Air]].
* [[Love Potion]]: Some even work exactly the way the user wanted them to!
* [[Mad Scientist]]: If your story requires a [[Mind Control Device]], this is the go-to guy.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: There's a user named [http://www.mcstories.com/Authors/Jukebox.html Jukebox] whose stories are all named after songs. And those songs themselves are an indicator as to what the story is about.
* [[Me Love You Long Time]]: Some stories have a guy of undisclosed race hooking up with an Asian girl. The guy is presumed to be white.
* [[Misapplied Phlebotinum]]: Given the premise of the site, this is somewhat inevitable. At the end of one story,
* [[Mind Control Device]].
* [[Mind Control Eyes]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted.]] Most stories show the "look" of hypnosis realistically.
* [[Mind Over Manners]]: Generally not used. Lose a fight with a mind controller, and you're almost certainly ''not'' going to be yourself afterward, even if said mind controller isn't evil.
* [[Mind Rape]]: Some stories, especially those with so-called "hypnodommes".
* [[Morality Chain]]: What keeps some of these worlds to face from [[Fetish Fuel Future]]s to [[The End Of The World As We Know It]]
* [[More Than Mind Control]].
* [[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted.]] There are only a few known female writers; this is most likely due to the tendency of males to be more forward with their fetishes than females. The [[Yaoi Fangirl]] subtrope of this trope is [[Averted Trope|averted]], as there is a section labeled "MM: Male/Male Sex", but gay stories on the site (840 as of March 19, 2010) are outnumbered by lesbian stories (2,569 as of the same date). See also "Het is Ew" above.
* [[Narm]]: Some stories harken back to all those horror movies of the 1950's that many real-life hypnotists [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|wish never existed]].
* [[NSFW]]: Make no mistake: '''This is an erotica (read: Porn) site.''' Over 99% of the stories on the site include sex, and the other ones imply sex.
* [[People Puppets]]: The other half of the NC section (unofficially termed "BC" -- body control -- by the fanbase) revolves around people being forced to watch / feel / etc as their body goes off and does it's own thing, often at the direct command of someone else.
* [[Plot With Porn]]: Because of the erotica nature of the site, MC stories that have little porn or a lot of plot often warn readers about this fact, so you'll get your [[A Date With Rosie Palms|fapping]] done elsewhere.
* [[Power Incontinence]]: One older story, ''Tales of the Institute'', has a chapter in which the heroine gains the ability to read minds... but then her mind changes to match what other people ''think'' she is like. In other words, it's the complete ''[[Deconstruction|opposite]]'' of the standard trope used most of the stories.
** A more standard example is "I Volunteered". Because of a medical experiment, any woman who smells the main character's pheromones ends up an addicted sex slave incapable of living a normal life - so all he can do is seclude himself and hope that his [[Unwanted Harem]] doesn't end up getting any bigger.
* [[Phlebotinum Induced Stupidity]]: Occurs in the above mentioned Bimboization stories, [http://mcstories.com/BimboDotCom/index.html such as this one.]
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Kind of the point.
* [[Psychic Powers]].
* [[Rewriting Reality]]: The various versions of the Master PC program displayed in the titular stories are limited to rewriting people, but that's usually more than enough.
* [[Robot Girl]]: [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|The stories classified as "RB: Robots", natch!]]
** The "RB" stories often involve people being turned into robots. Sometimes even with their permission!
* [[Rule Of Sexy]].
* [[Sex Slave]].
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Many of the stories by [http://www.mcstories.com/Authors/Wiseguy.html Wiseguy] show this trope. ''Busman's Holiday'' is an [[egregious]] example; Wiseguy might be a hypnotherapist in real life.
* [[Slave Collar]].
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: Often [[Applied Phlebotinum|Phlebotinumally induced, in fact.]]
* [[Three Way Sex]]: And it doesn't always stop at three.
* [[Time Stands Still]]: Ironically, even though this is a very common feature of the hypnoplay that the site's users engage in, only 31 actual stories (as of April 12, 2010), all of which are marked "TS: time stop", feature this trope.
** While TimeStandsStill as a hypnotic suggestion is used, TS stories are literal uses of TimeStandsStill -- there being much overlap between the Time Stop fetish (Yes, it exists) and Hypnosis Fetishes, apparently.
* [[TV Genius]].
* [[Unwanted Harem]]: Not everyone with a harem of enslaved beauties planned on it. Perhaps you rescued them from someone who was using their talents for evil, or you have [[Power Incontinence]] and anyone who gets near you falls under your spell, or your first slave decides to go "recruiting" without your permission, or something else happens, and now you have to deal with all these people who are calling you "Master", say that they love you, and get very upset if you tell them to go away.
* [[Unwilling Roboticisation]]: Some of the fics have this trope, including "Bimborg" and "Metal Harvest".
* [[You Bastard]]: Some particularly dark stories very subtly (or not so subtly) condemn the reader for getting off on the horror and anguish within.
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Birthday Gift

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''[[Birthday Gift]]'' or ''Birthday Girl'' is a [[Webcomic]] subseries of the ''[[Fansadox]]'' publishing franchise. It stretched eight issues (which is impressive for Fansadox's record, which barely has two stories in the same continuity) with several [[Shared Universe]] stories entitled "Slave Fair", "Slavecop", "Sluts in Training", "The Clinic", (and similar titles), all of which explore the world from other characters' perspective.

The [[Plot With Porn|story follows]] Peter and his crush Maggie, a woman who doesn't even notice him. As his 18th birthday approaches, he notices some of his colleagues started owning women, as part of the Slave Registration Act, which allows the selling of women over 18. A bit distraught by these changes in his life, Peter goes home, for his father to give him they key to something he really wanted. He expects a new car, but finds... Maggie!

Also has a [[Characters/Birthday Gift|Character page]].

Not to be confused with [[Movie/Birthday Girl|the American movie]] with Nicole Kidman. The plots aren't even similar.

'''Warning:''' Vulgar language (can't be helped, most of the series contains [[Cluster F Bomb]]s and references to sexual organs) and [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]] ahead.

=='''''Birthday Gift'' provides examples of the following tropes:'''==
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Peter, Steve and Jeff are seen as this. They look more like [[Hollywood Homely]].
* [[Abusive Parent]]: Fathers sell their daughters for the price of a new car in the very best case.
* [[Acme Products]]: Torture devices versions.
* [[A Day In The Limelight]]: The soon-to-be-slaves, also Peter and Paul.
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: Many spiral downwards from Type 1 to Type 2. Some just start at Type 2.
* [[All Abusers Are Male]]: Played straight.
* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]].
* [[All Men Love Ponygirls]]: The Slavefairs.
* [[All Take And No Give]]: The owners to the slaves. Then they accuse ''the slaves'' [[Hypocritical Humor|of living off their back]].
* [[All There In The Manual]]: Erenisch Special 1 (for [[Break the Haughty|Sherry]]) and 2 (for [[Break the Cutie|Maggie]]). Others may be coming.
* [[All Women Are Prudes]]: Needed for the [[Break the Cutie]] material.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]:
** [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]]: For most girls that act like a [[Complete Monster]] themselves;
** [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]] for the males.
** [[All Women Are Lustful]] for Maggie, Sherry and the rest (less likely for their mothers) and that they actually like it. [[Lampshaded]] in the disclaimer pages.
** [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]/[[Fair For Its Day]]: The guys/men, [[Beyond the Impossible|compared with the State's methods in the Expanded Universe]].
** [[Bastard Boyfriend]]/[[Spectacled Sadist]]: Peter and Maggie, possibly Peter and Sherry ... Peter's father and his mother? ... Well, more accurate would be the master and slave relationships in general.
* [[Am I Just A Toy To You]]: Maggie finds herself in this position often. It's implied Steve didn't even do the "courtesy" thing of telling Gwen he had a crush on her, like Peter told Maggie. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]
* [[A Million Is A Statistic]]. We don't need the EU to tell us Maggie and Sherry are not the worst off. Then again, throughout the series the worse fates of other women are shwon. [[Fridge Logic|Indeed, the schoolgirls are actually mostly lucky]].
* [[Amoral Attorney]]: The one advising Paul how to keep Sherry, and betraying Potts.
* [[Anger Montage]]: Steve and Peter have their share.
* [[A Real Man Is A Killer|A Real Man Is A Sadist]]: It's so much a rule and an empowering feeling, that even girls like Anna or Peter's mom want to get in on it.
* [[A Party Also Known As An Orgy]]: Half the plot of the sixth issue.
* [[Author Catchphrase]]: The author always uses the phrase "I have a bad feeling about this", as an homage to ''[[Star Wars]]''.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The tools used to break women.
* [[Aw Look They Really Do Love Each Other]]: Peter and Maggie. This trope is usually played [[Dead Baby Comedy|for laughs]] and/or deconstructed.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: First the slaves, then the teachers.
* [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]]: Most likely Peter's mom and possibly Anna.
* [[Bald Of Awesome]]: Inverted, it's for humiliation.
* [[Bald Women]].
* [[Band Of Brothels]]: The BFA/Slave-Cops. In the usual subversion, they're not the good guys or out for the women's good.
* [[Badass Teacher]]: The male teachers will not shy from getting physical if their slaves, female teachers or female students piss them off. See also [[Sadist Teacher]] below.
* [[Before And After Pictures]]: The Bureau has these of slaves.
* [[Beta Couple]]: A rather unexpected version between Maggie and Sherry. Alternately, Steve and Gwen.
* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: The whole Gwen's mother sleeping with [[Acme Products]] around her, not to mention the [[Narm]]y cartoonish letter received from the BFA.
* [[Bigger Is Better In Bed]]: Inverted: The bigger it is, the more uncomfortable the girls are.
* [[Biggus Dickus]]: Gwen comments Peter's bigger than Steve's.
* [[Black Comedy]]/[[Dead Baby Comedy]]: Characteristic.
* [[Blonde Brunette Redhead]]: Maggie, Sherry, Gwen. Comes full circle in some cameos and {{spoiler|in Part 7, where Peter owns all of them.}}
* [[Boarding School Of Horrors]]: Erenisch High School is, but only for girls.
* [[Brand X]]: All comics in the EU uses the same fake brands of products from soft drinks to state-of-the-art medical equipment.
* [[Break The Cutie]]: Obligatory for Fandsadox.
* [[Brick Joke]]: Probably a couple, but that nasty incident where female students were made to suck teachers' dicks for not learning their sex-slave-homework is referenced in part 8 with Natalie.
* [[But Thou Must]]: Part of the [[Break the Cutie]] ploy: they're ironically asked what they want, but they're either [[Bound and Gagged]] or tortured (worse) if they give the "wrong" answer.
* [[Calling Your Orgasms]]: Men force women to do this. Men do this too (even more often).
* [[Catholic School Girls Rule]]: Anna tries this on new student, Ginger, [[For the Evulz]].
* [[Character Development]]: For better or worse, the girls go through it, especially Maggie and Sherry, being the [[Main Characters]] of the comic. See [[Birthday Gift (Characters)|the character page]] for more.
** Peter's mother explains her own as she gets demoted from her husband's almost-equal tormentor of lower-level pets to barely being noticed. [[Take That|As pissed as she may be, she can't really comment on that out loud, make a fuss or do anything about it.]]
**: '''Molly''': ''First he stopped touching me, [[Stay in the Kitchen|then he confined me to the kitchen]], [[Humiliation Conga|and now I'm just a piece of furniture for him to rest his feet on]], while his new favorites suck his cock. I must admit, [[We Want Our Jerk Back|I even miss his cock in my ass and his whip on my back.]]''
* [[Citizenship Marriage]]: Actually, enslavement marriage. Paul marries {{spoiler|Sherry}} so she can be kept as a slave of the house.
* [[Cliffhanger Copout]]: Subverted with more than one cliffhanger: they'll apparently be ignored in the next number, but they'll be followed up in other issues.
* [[Cold Blooded Torture]]: Obligatory for Fansadox.
* [[Color Coded For Your Convenience]]: When two or more girls will be in a situation together, they'll be dressed in different colors, even if in similar clothes. This becomes useful if no heads are shown and their bodies look too similar.
* [[Come With Me If You Want To Live]]: Miss Cummings tries to pull a [[Big Damn Hero]] moment... in an otherwise [[Obvious Trap]].
* [[Coming Of Age Story]]: Mostly deconstructed, including the following, also ''all'' deconstructed:
** [[The Hero's Journey]]
** [[Growing Up Sucks]]
** [[Sex As Rite Of Passage]]
* [[Complete Monster]]: Most of the men and "boys" turn into this when the law is on their side.
* [[Conscience Makes You Go Back]]: Miss Cummings comes back for Miss Cox. It was a trap.
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: From the sixth part, Erenisch introduces 3Dish drawings. They look like oil paintings and it appears for now, not much integration in the story for them is possible. The author seems to have realised that and only used one page as cover in said CG.
* [[Corrupt Hick]]: How the Slave Registration Act passed. Lampshaded in Part 7:
*: '''Jeff''': ''Let's drink to the Slavery Law, brothers! Thanks to those thieving, old, fat politicians, we are blessed with the best pussy available!''
* [[Corrupt The Cutie]]: Anna to Ginger, the Preacher's Daughter.
* [[Crapsaccharine World]] / [[Uncanny Village]]: If you [[Trailers Always Spoil|conveniently skip over the background narration]] of the first "Birthday Gift" number, you'd expect it's a normal world, with all the teenage angst, "class" and cliches. Something appears to be ''very wrong'' when Peter [[Weirdness Censor|casually enters]] a room with his parents torturing some girls they call "slaves" without even blinking. It goes down hill from there.
** The life-filled colors and general [[Light Is Not Good|good lighting]] of the show [[It Helped|help]] this trope too.
* [[Crapsack World]]: It's stated it wasn't like that at first (at least not for the women) and at the beginning of the series, only one slave was shown and the school was mostly "normal" and unaffected. Several weeks later...
* [[Crazy Awesome]]: The entire world, [[From A Certain Point Of View]].
* [[Creepy Uncle]]: Maggie's uncle, who sells both her and her mother. He even has [[Rape The Dog]] moments with her mother. Maggie's uncle at least only treats Maggie as a commodity and claims he never was interested in her (and indeed sold her as a virgin). Cindy's uncle, on the other hand, {{spoiler|[[Old Man Marrying A Child|takes her as his wife]]}} after forcing her to perform and have sex for him, and as a last solution of making her profitable.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]].
* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Used ironically between Sherry's father and her sister, as he "[[If You Know What I Mean|uses]]" her at the office.
* [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday]]: Eighteenth actually. That's when a woman (girl) can be sold... [[Real Life Writes The Plot|because it's the legal age in the US to include a naked character into]].
* [[Deconstruction Fleet]]: You will not see another [[Coming Of Age Story]] with the same understanding eyes again.
* [[Deliberate Value Dissonance]].
* [[Demoted To Extra]]: Jeff seemed to be Peter's best friend, while Heather was supposed to be Maggie's. Their presence fades away by each number.
* [[Did Not Eat The Mousse]]: All of a master's slaves will usually be punished for one's transgressions (or worse, as Peter suggests, one slave will pay for the loss of another). In the wider sense, all the technically free women have less and less chances of being treated fairly (or at least not outright abused) as time passes.
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: The girls' fathers or [[Creepy Uncle|uncles]], who are also [[Covert Pervert]]s.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Don't you ''dare'' cum without my approval or you'll get 20 whips. Talking back? 40!
* [[Don't Tell Mama]]: Strongly deconstructed with the girls and what they're forced to do (Maggie and Gwen, as far as we know). Subverted with the boys, who don't seem to care, as their mothers are living rugs for their fathers anyway.
* [[Double Meaning Title]]: "The Exchange". The twins for Maggie's mother ([[Captain Obvious|obvious]]) and Gwen for Anna (double unwillingly).
** "Vengence" has [[Up To Eleven|(at least) Triple]] Meaning: Maggie's [[Torture Makes You Evil|revenge on Molly]], Molly's revenge on Maggie ({{spoiler|convincing Paul to have her bought for revenge against her mother}} and {{spoiler|Anna's revenge on Steve}}.
* [[Dystopia]]: For women over 18.
** [[Dystopian Edict]]: Turned into a dystopia by the "Compulsory female slavery law" of 2022.
* [[Earth Drift]].
* [[Epiphanic Prison]]: The girls aren't kept in line by the chains or the ropes -- those are just "for fun" (as Peter points out in the first number) and maybe to distract them from the actual prison -- but by that of the laws and fear of them. A girl could sneak out of a house in the middle of the night if she wanted to -- that's not a big problem, the big problem is what to do after and the punishment that awaits them if getting caught.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Probably subverted by Peter. While he seems to treat his mother okay, he has greater respect for his father. Anna doesn't talk about her folks either.
* [[Even The Girls Want Her]]: Anna. Maggie, Sherry and Gwen may count.
* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: The slaves after they've been bought.
* [[Evil Teacher]]: See [[Sadist Teacher]] below.
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: [[Zig-Zagged]]. Peter is seen throughout the series as treating Maggie and Sherry like crap. But there are worse monsters in that world, especially in the shared/[[Expanded Universe]]. But Anna is worse, because she betrays "her own kind" for cheap thrills. And Steve too, because he's treating Gwen, his first love, even worse. But then {{spoiler|Steve kidnaps Anna and treats her even worse}}. [[Discussed]] [http://erenischcomics.adultforumhost.com/290138.html?displayreplyid=964815 here].
** More recently, Paul Stevenson and Potts.
* [[Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor]]: Type 2.
* [[Evil is Sexy]]: Anna. Maybe Peter's mom.
** Paul tried to [[Mind Rape]] Sherry [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil|into thinking this.]]
* [[Evilly Affable]]: Most dominant characters will try to keep their calm.
* [[Exalted Torturer]].
* [[Faceless Goons]]: A variation used for [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]] for the rest of the teachers whose faces don't appear in the series at all who will face-rape the girls in detention. They're first shown with black background and [[Red Eyes Take Warning|red eyes]], and then just the top part of the face, up until under the jaw, is shown.
* [[Fair For Its Day]]: Peter is actually fair to his slaves in comparison even with his colleagues. ''Much'' fairer than the state actions described in the [[Expanded Universe]], which basically ''kills'' women [[The Spartan Way|who don't perform to the standard]], while others are sent to be dog food (literally) or in government-approved places which result in the death of women as a sport.
* [[Fake Band]]: The Juices.
* [[The Family That Slays Together]]: Enforced by the laws.
* [[Family Values Villain]]: And they ''love'' bragging about that... when it's their own families. The young ones don't even have that.
* [[Fetish Fuel Future]].
* [[Fictional Document]]: "How To Forge A Document". Apparently [[For Dummies]] version.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Gwen. Despite brown hair, Sherry too.
* [[Fluffy Fashion Feathers]]: Some women who are dressed up in ridiculous outfits may have this.
* [[For the Evulz]]: Peter and most of the boys' actions.
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Inverted with men, played straight with the enslaved women.
* [[Girl In A Box]]: Apparently it's a "ritual" to gift-wrap slaves, or less often, put their heads in a cardboard box. Happens to {{spoiler|Gwen and Anna.}} Most of the slaves are also kept in boxes, cages, cupboards and desk drawers.
* [[Girl Next Door]]: Maggie, Sherry, Gwen etc etc
* [[Girl Of The Week]] "... in this number, introducing [girl to be enslaved]"
* [[Girl On Girl Is Hot]].
* [[Give Geeks a Chance]]: Enforced. Peter and his friends.
* [[Going Commando]]: Girls are forced to do this. Or... worse.
* [[Goodbye Cruel World]]: Variation of the "To whom it may concern" note, which is now a ''note in a letter'' made ''by the government''. It apparently relies on the victim's [[Too Dumb to Live|stupidity]] or dumb luck (maybe someone lives in the house or passes by and sees it, but still, being ''in a sealed envelope'', [[Voodoo Shark|that brings up even more questions]]) and it states a woman's termination status as a free woman.
* [[Good Is Old Fashioned]]: Enforced by the state: It's implied the men against the law are "fair game" to kill for those who want their daughters or even wives. [[Fridge Horror|Even more suspicious is the level of]] [[Parental Abandoment]] [[Fridge Horror|and dead fathers of girls in ''only one neighborhood'']].
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Played as straight as it could be, very little blood ever involved.
* [[The Government]]: The (risen from) [[Hanlon's Razor|ineptitude]], [[I Did What I Had To Do|necessity]], and [[Inherent In The System|sheer size of the]] [[The New Depression|economic crash]]. While it's presented more thoroughly in the Expanded Universe, all these traits are exaggerated rather than show direct malevolence or planning to get to what it is.
* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have]]: Peter's parents, Paul's (possibly new steady) mistress.
* [[Growing the Beard]]: It's trying to distance itself from the [[Strictly Formula]] Fansadox employs, while still trying to appeal to its readers. As said above, it's already "old and wise" compared to the comics' other titles.
* [[Harem Seeker]]: Peter is, literally. Actually most men in the [[Erenischverse]] are.
** His dad deconstructs this as "costly" and hard to manage. On the other hand, it may be just their way of humor.
* [[Heartwarming Orphan]]: Deconstructed with Miss Cox. May still fit with The Principal's secretary.
* [[The Hero's Birthday]]: Maggie's birthday. [[Jerkass|Peter]] doesn't stop reminding her of her 19th.
* [[Hope Spot]]: It was recently introduced that the closest male relative of a sold woman can buy her back within a year with the same sum of money. For most though, it doesn't happen.
* [[If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good For You]]: Variation: Food for slaves is intentionally made to taste "like puke", but it is said to contain vitamins and "everything a slave needs to do her job" and it's very likely it does. [[Punny Name|Girlfodder]] is a [[Brand X|popular brand]] of slave food that looks as disgusting as advertised...
* [[I Kiss Your Foot]].
* [[I'm Taking Her Home With Me]]: The [[Logical Extreme|extreme]] of the tropes: boy sees girl, boy likes girl, boy talks to father to buy her, or just kidnaps her or rapes her in her sleep.
* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: The main characters (the villains, anyway) are said to be geeks, and owning people is their way of taking their frustrations out on others weaker.
* [[Initiation Ceremony]]: Although not much into religion, there seems to be a ritual called "baptism of cum".
* [[Inner Monologue]]: The girls' way of coping with things. Older slaves, like Peter's mother, learned to keep to themselves ''always''. Others, like Gwen (or even Maggie and Sherry), tend to forget this from time to time, and once it proves very dangerous for Gwen. [[It doesn't help]] that, as Ginger puts it, most girls' mouths are gagged ([[Informed Ability|we don't actually see this too often]], she probably means they're constantly ''[[If You Know What I Mean|stuffed]]''.)
* [[Instructional Dialogue]]: Often used subtly in order to explain the intricacies of the alternate universe the stories take place in.
* [[It Gets Worse]]: Skipping the "little" daily things, every college and presumably high school in the country turning into state-endorsed brothels in something between a few weeks and a few months definitely counts.
* [[Jack Attack]]: [[Punny Name|Jack]], the [[Jerk Jock]].
* [[Jail Bait Wait]]: Can't touch them until they're 18, but you can sure wait and make contracts for when they hit that age...
* [[Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life]]: Close to aberrant rules like if a girl is punished at school and nobody comes to pick her up the next day, she's state property (or the teacher's), if a free woman over 18 breaks ''any law'' she's automatically sold and so on.
* [[Jerkass]].
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Jack. He seems to diss Peter off in the beginning, but then he comes around (or Peter becomes more Badass in the context).
* [[Les Yay]]: In all its variations, but mostly BDSM related.
* [[The Libby]]: Deconstructed with Maggie, probably fits better to Sherry and Gwen, or the cheerleader squad.
* [[Lightmare Fuel]].
* [[Long Hair Is Feminine]]: Most recurring characters have long hair for some reason.
* [[Love Hurts]]: Strangely enough, played often straight. Depending on your interpretation, it may be also a ''very fucked up'' [[Space Whale Aesop]]: either it's "you hurt girls, you get your love stolen", or "you're not supposed to love in a world where you can have all the fuck you need".
* [[Love Obstructing Parents]]: Girls' parents, but not for long, not as long as they need money badly...
* [[Made A Slave]].
* [[Madness Mantra]]: Twanie has "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God..."
* [[Mass Oh Crap]]: Especially shown when the girls see the "party" and "party treats" (women to be used until death).
* [[My Girl Is a Slut ]].
* [[Nerds Are Virgins]]: At least before your family buys you a girl... [[That Came Out Wrong|no, not like that]].
* [[The New Depression]]: Why things went like this.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: The State through the BFA. And as such, those names stick and have legal value.
* [[N-Word Privileges]]: Inverted: Men can call women what they want, women on the other hand, at least as by morality terms, don't usually address bad to each other.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Peter does this to Sherry, and Steve is highly implied to do this to his slaves, too. {{spoiler|Steve to Anna}} too recently. Earlier even, the principal to Miss Cox.
* [[Not Very Pretty Now Is She]]: The bald girls. Recently, {{spoiler|Anna}}. She bounces back relatively fast considering.
* [[No Womans Land]]: There is a compulsory female enslavement law in effect.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Girls have this reaction from time to time.
* [[Omake]]: At the start and the end of the comic, characters claim they're professional BDSM models out of [[Executive Meddling]]. The author makes them into sorts of Omakes, sometimes giving previews for future series. The Maggie and Sherry specials may also be seen as this (as well as [[Evil Counterpart]]s to the disclaimers), tripling as [[All There In The Manual]].
* [[Once An Episode]]: A(t least one) woman will be enslaved, a few sex scenes will occur and someone will say [[Star Wars|they have a bad feeling about this]].
*: "''It was basically just surprise sex, surprise sex, humilation ''[sic]'', surprise sex, torture, surprise sex, surprise sex."'' [http://216.86.148.111/showthread.php?threadid=3436999&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=103]
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Enforced. It gets [[Hilarious In Hindsight|ironic]] when you consider Peter's family name is Stevenson, his friend is Steve.
* [[Orphans Ordeal]]: Every orphaned girl will have it even worse because of perverted adults always leering around [[The Jail Bait Wait|waiting for them to turn 18.]]
* [[Outlaw Couple]]: {{spoiler|Anna and Cathy after Anna murders Steve}} at the end of BG9.
* [[Pair The Spares]]: Rather, give the free women to boys.
* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]]: An [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] to why everyone seems to turn sex-crazed nuts.
* [[Perfectly Arranged Marriage]]: Peter and Maggie end up as this.
* [[Pervert Dad]]: Again, ''everyone''. [[And Zoidberg|Except this one guy that refused to sell his daughter or enslave his wife]] [[Make It Look Like An Accident|and got offed for his troubles]].
* [[Plain Name]]: Peter's full name is revealed in the second number as ''Peter Stevenson''. The others have plain names too, but filled with irony.
* [[Please I Will Do Anything]]: Mothers will plead for their daughters like this sometimes. It never works.
* [[Plot Hole]]: See Voodoo Shark below.
* [[Preacher's Kid]]: Ginger, the one Anna starts seducing as part of her thrill-seeking [[Corrupt The Cutie]].
* [[Pretty Freeloaders]]: Deconstructed.
* [[Pride]]: All the men are prone and even ''required'' to have it. Arguably, [[Driven By Envy|Steve]]'s turns out to be too large.
* [[Prophetic Names]]: Miss Cummings, Miss Cox, Maggie [[Break the Cutie|Sweetie]]...
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]]: Peter, Steve and Jeff.
* [[Punny Name]]: See [[Theme Naming]]. [[And Zoidberg|Also]] [[Jerk Jock|Jack]].
* [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|Rape In the Butt Is a Special Kind of Evil]]: Just ask the girls.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: For some of the men. When it's not hate.
* [[Refusal Of The Call]]: Most of the slaves really. Except Maggie, almost surprisingly.
* [[The Reveal]]: Doubled with a [[Wham Line]] from Steve.
* [[Right Behind Me]]: Tragic example ([[Played for Laughs]]): Gwen comments on wanting a less sadistic master (but doesn't manage to say the "s" word). Steve is behind her and assumes she meant "ugly", and proceeds on mercilessly raping and hurting her. Anna and Peter [[Pass The Popcorn]].
* [[Sadist Teacher]]: The male teachers, including the Principal and vice-principal, but only to female students and female staff.
* [[Scarpia Ultimatum]]: (Male) Teachers actually give these to mothers of girls in detention. The issue is actually [[Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life|pretty serious]] since if they don't release the girls back, there's the risk they'll be confiscated by the State.
* [[School Bullying Is Harmless|School Bullying Is Rape]].
* [[Seemingly Wholesome Fifties Girl]]: The Cheerleader squad first; the highschool in its whole is soon to be filled by these (many against their will, though).
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted: The girls are made to dress slutty, while the men dress ordinary. Played straight with Anna and Peter's mom.
* [[Series Hiatus]]: ''Birthday Girl'' is suffering more and more from this as a result of the author making more EU spin-offs. The world's still there, some BG characters too, but the main story is progressing a lot slower...
* [[Servile Snarker]]: Some of the girls talk (or think... oh the nerve) behind the masters' back... until they learn what's good for them.
* [[Sex Slave]]ry: Legalized in the near future, no less.
* [[Sexual Karma]]: Since everyone gets all the sex they want, it's actually inverted in ''Love Karma''. You do bad things, you lose your love. {{spoiler|Well, Anna falls victim to both.}}
* [[Sexy Back]]: The girls are sometimes made to wear backless dresses.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: [http://img98.imageshack.us/i/slashersmile.jpg/ SWEET JESUS!] Peter and his friends display these too, although to a lesser extent.
* [[Slave Brand]]: Maggie and her mother get branded with distinctive tattoos to signify their owners.
* [[Slave Collar]]: More of a choker.
* [[Marital Rape License|Slave Rape License]].
* [[Small Town Boredom]]: Till you hit 18, boy or girl, you'll be bored out of your wits (though as the world "evolves", the age may be lowered, at least unofficially). If you're a girl, you risk being sold off, if boy, you'll have a lot more things and experiences to share with your college friends.
* [[Song Parody]]: By "[[Meaningful Name|The Juices]]":
*: ''[[Shrinking Violet|I've been a little coy]]
*: ''Before I met a young boy
*: ''[[Asexuality|I wanted to die a virgin]]
*: ''[[Made A Slave|But he made me his fucktoy]].
* [[Spell My Name With an S]]: Maggie's name is so simple, it's easy to forget it's spelled "Sweetie". Anna with two "n"s.
* [[Stalker With A Crush]]: Mild versions in Peter and Steve, for Maggie, respectively Gwen.
* [[Standard '50s Father]]: Paul, Peter's dad most obviously, Sherry's dad and presumably most parents of the school they're in.
* [[Stay In The Kitchen]]: Again, lampshaded and [[Played For Laughs]]. See Character Development above.
* [[STD Immunity]]: They do it everywhere, all the time.
* [[Stepford Suburbia]]: That's what Erenischville is, except that sexual slavery is not a secret.
* [[Suddenly Sober]]: Peter and Steve after talking on the phone. Also brings up the question how did Steve manage to overpower a woman after he probably drank as much as Peter, and kept awake probably all night and was more than ok in the morning.
* [[Super Fun Happy Thing Of Doom]]: The Bureau of Female Affairs is not in the business of solving women's problems.
* [[A Taste Of The Lash]]: Favorite punishment technique.
* [[Tenchi Solution]]: The Stevensons are fans of this.
* [[Terms of Endangerment]]: Men often call women "slave" or other nasty words. Since it's a [[No Womans Land]], this is allowed legally and even encouraged by society.
* [[Theme Naming]]: They come in two general categories: Sexual [[Incredibly Lame Pun|puns]] (Miss Cox (cocks) and Miss Cummings) and [[Break The Cutie]] (full use of [[Irony]]: Maggie ''Sweetie'').
* [[To Be Continued]].
* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: Sherry and Cherry.
* [[Three Plus Two]]: Peter, Steve and Anna, with Maggie and Sherry taking the rear.
* [[To the Pain]].
* [[Took A Level In Badass]]: Peter and Steve as part of their [[Character Development]].
* [[Torture Cellar]]: Usually they don't need it, since the law leaves them in the open and the house/the boy's room serves the same purpose. {{spoiler|Except Steve with Anna.}}
* [[Tragedy]]: The girls in general, Sherry in particular, and lately {{spoiler|Peter and Anna.}}
* [[Triangle Relations]]: Through a ''complicated'' series of events, Peter, Maggie and Sherry settled down into one of these. Honestly, that's the best thing a master can hope for. They're usually stuck on type one, and they don't need it requited to have it.
* [[Truth In Television]]: In a [[Shown Their Work]] [[Fridge Brilliance]], the events of the series/world are not so far-fetched (although [[Exaggerated Trope|Exaggerated]]). See the description of the [[Marital Rape License]] trope/page.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into The Future]]: Year 2038.
* [[Twin Threesome Fantasy]]: The main character's father had twin slave girls to enjoy in the mornings.
* [[Two Person Pool Party]]: Actually, it 's a three person pool party at the end of the second episode.
* [[Two Teacher School]]: More prominently shown are Miss Cox and Miss Cummings, as [[Screw the Rules I Have Plot|they're going to be turned into slaves]]. The principal and vice-principal make some appearances as well, as well as a few female teachers abused and [[The Faceless]] teachers that abuse Gwen and Tawnie, but mostly Miss Cox and Cummings teach classes.
* [[Unholy Matrimony]]: Peter and Anna. Match made in fetishists' hell indeed.
* [[Up To Eleven]]: Arguably, the series takes ''[[Fansadox]]'''s recent years self-imposed limitations and tries to cross the fine line, including blurring the [[Even Evil Has Standards]] notions that "[[Catch Phrase|buggering]]" a family member (specifically blood daughter) is okay or that girls shouldn't be killed.
* [[Vapor Wear]]: Girls forced to wear revealing clothes.
* [[Villainous Incest]]: Sherry's father, with her sister.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Peter.
* [[Villain World]]: For twenty years and counting.
* [[Voodoo Shark]]: By the more recent strips, it's suggested Peter's father could just go and buy slaves ''as many as he wanted, like shopping'', but until then, he has to buy Peter's slaves for big prices and his income looks rather modest anyway. Peter's mother is reported to have ''been bought'', that means the slave law should be in effect ''for a good 20 years'', but the ''effects'' of the law are spreading like wildfire just when see the character. Also, if Peter's dad was so prolific in buying girls, why is Peter ''the only one without a girlfriend/slave''? Peter's dad could have kept one for his own until he was 18, and -- [[Plot With Porn|ah screw it!]]
* [[Wake Up Go To School Save The World|Wake Up, Go to School, Suck Cock]]: Recently girls turned slaves are still taken to school while expected to perform their other duties. Inversion of the usual morality meter of the situation.
* [[Wedding Day]]: {{spoiler|Paul and Sherry.}}
** And in a [[Flashback]], Molly and Paul.
* [[Wham Line]]: More like wham panels.
** Steve's [[The Reveal|Reveal]] about {{spoiler|Anna}} (to the audience, so far).
** '''Paul Stevenson''': ''Ah, Potts! I'm so glad you could make it... my poor little bride waited for you to arrive for hours.''
* [[What Measure Is A Non Human]]: What measure is a slave in this world.
* [[Your Normal Is Our Taboo]]: [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]] type of men tend to... disappear or [[Make It Look Like An Accident|have accidents]]. Generally, in 20 years of [[Earth Drift]], a lot of (especially) sexual (and) morality tropes have been twisted or inverted.

== The expanded Universe contains examples of these tropes ==
* [[The Aggressive Drug Dealer|The Aggressive Slave Dealer]]: ''Virgins'' are given as ''freebies'' in Slave Fairs. Hot, 18-year-old ones whose value should go through the roof. 20 years after the law has passed. [[This Is Sparta|This is]] [[Crazy Awesome|insane]].
* [[Amusement Park Of Doom]]: Slave Fair stories.
* [[Arc Welding]]: Every issue in the EU has repercussions back and forth with the main series. The only one that seemed too far-fetched to be included in that world - Frankiesteinns - is shown as a movie poster in Peter's room.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: Every female job in the expanded universe; Slave cops especially.
* [[Bald Of Awesome]]: Actually played straight with the main character of "Slave Fair".
* [[Biker Babe]]: We see one in Slave Fair 2. Read: Girl turned into a bike.
* [[Blonde Brunette Redhead]]: At the beginning, the blond protagonist has her 18th birthday party, with her brunette and redhead friends. Maggie, Sherry, Gwen may have been based on this.
* [[Breast Expansion]]: The Clinic has a special ward for that.
* [[Buffy Speak]]: Surprisingly, "professionals" like doctors or slave trainers speak more simple than their 18-35 year old costumers and slaves that they belittle.
* [[C List Fodder]] / [[Cerebus Ending]]: A lot of secondary or tertiary girls from the main series are thrown into this for sometimes the sole purpose of killing them and "tying up loose ends". Characters first created for the EU are even [[Red Shirts|more expandable]].
* [[Come With Me If You Want To Live]]: Women in desperate situations are given a choice (unbeknown to them, [[Sadistic Choice|Sadistic]]), to go with them and be rescued from their owners and join a group/cult, or be slowly tortured to death by their masters.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Some pages go out of their way to show that the stories are in the same universe as the ones in "Birthday Gift". Maggie, Peter and Sherry make two, respectively one appearance.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]]: Why the uniform is bad.
* [[Den Of Iniquity]]: Oh God, the slave fairs...
* [[Dr. Jerk]]: World's full of them... [[Crapsack World|of course]].
* [[Drowning Pit]]: Women in/as urinals. Life expectancy: low. Also the cum pit.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The first issue introducing this world is ''Bureau of Female Affairs''. It's weirdly (plainly bad) drawn, even for the norms of the time, and has two [[The Matrix|Agents]], one named [[Does This Remind You OF Anything|Smith]], and a slave trainer, after showing his face, ''puts a mask on'', probably to get into atmosphere.
* [[Evil Vs Evil]]: The Government vs. a weird cult in ''Slave Cop'' that [[Idiot Plot|steals women to give them as sacrifices]] to a giant raping monster. Lampshaded at the end, where the girls thank for being saved, but they're promised as bad as a life, if not worse, as before. [[It doesn't help]] their agent now knows and will tell them that [[Sadistic Choice|the cult gave the girls the choice]] [[More Than Mind Control|to leave their masters in the first place]].
* [[FBI Agent]]: Slave Cops serve this role for the Bureau of Female Affairs.
* [[Fed To The Beast]]: Women of Slave Cop vs. The Cult, after they've been thoroughly raped.
* [[Forced Prize Fight]]: A popular "fair" freebie viewing.
* [[Furry Fandom]]: "Dude, you know what my thing is? It is chicks dressed as animals... we must check this out."
* [[Girls Behind Bars]]: And in cages.
* [[Going To See The Elephant]]: ''Slave Fair''(s) tend to do this with men.
* [[Gold Digger]]: A girl from ''The Kennels'' has the [[Background Story]] of having been this, and then sent to reeducation.
* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: In this world, they just don't care, neither do the owners (who aren't exactly paid to watch over their slaves). Technological breakthroughs and [[Misapplied Phlebotinum|(mis)applications of current technology]] make sure to keep the system as "clean" as possible.
** Played straight (and the subversion of the above example) in ''Slave Cop'', where the guards of a [[James Bond|Doctor No-esque]] facility ''are crazy'' to fall asleep after abusing their "guests". They probably figure there'd be no danger from the inside, but when you're a facility that steals prized goods from the citizens of an [[Ax Crazy]] government, you should probably be [[Properly Paranoid]].
* [[Human Sacrifice]]: Why the women were gathered in ''Slave Cop''. Why would they need to do this? [[Plot With Porn|Who cares]].
* [[Hunter Of His Own Kind]]: The poor Slave Cops.
* [[I Don't Like The Sound Of That Place]]: Snatchfield, Maidenfair, Harlotport, Chickston...
* [[It Gets Worse]]: You thought that letter left to Gwen's mother would have been the end of it? As shown in ''Slave Fair 2'', the authorities have the dates of all who did not pay their free women fees, and so staying in your house and trying to forge documents [[Too Dumb To Live|is stupid beyond thought]], and so [[Failure Is The Only Option|they would have gotten caught rather sooner than later anyway.]]
* [[Karmic Transformation]]: Miss Cox becomes this... well, partly. She doesn't become a slave owner, but she does become a stupid person, contrary to her education and her beliefs.
* [[La Resistance]].
* [[Locked Away In A Monastery]]: A hair to the throne of some European country was sent by her uncle to a Pony Farm to be tamed in time for ''his'' crowning ceremony.
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: We see them in "The Clinic".
* [[Not Distracted By The Sexy]]: Hell, they got used to it pretty quick (the male workers, that is).
* [[Path Of Inspiration]]: The whole world is presented as something great and supreme. Obviously, it's not.
* [[Pizza Boy Special Delivery]]: Inverted, including [[Gender Flip]]ped. Here, pizza delivery girls are delivered.
* [[Police State]]: The Slavecops are efficient (and the reason a lot of goods, including ''an ambulance transporting slaves'', [[The Guards Must Be Crazy|is not secured]]).
* [[Rape Is A Special Kind Of Evil|Rape In The Butt Is A Special Kind Of Evil]]: Taken to its [[Logical Extreme]] where an owner in "Slave Fair" sows his girls' vaginas because he doesn't think they deserve sex in there.
* [[Religion Of Evil]]: The Cult in ''Slave Cop'', bordering on [[Cargo Cult]]. Worst thing is that the monster wasn't even revealed to be supernatural in any way, it was just ''big'' and it liked ''raping women''.
* [[Room 101]]: The room where the [[The Big Bad Wolf]] "consumes" young girls in Slavecop vs The Cult.
* [[Secret Police]]: The police sent to recover lost slaves.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: The doctors in ”The Clinic” use this kind of language when referring to some of their work.
** Other times, though, they just use plain [[Buffy Speak]].
* [[Sexy Stewardess]]: Deconstructed with the slave cops, as well as various stewardesses now forced into sexual serving.
* [[Show Within A Show]]: The author introduces his relatively unrelated world into the settings as one of Peter's wall papers as a film named "Frankiesteinns". Dubs as an extreme form of [[Arc Welding]].
* [[STD Immunity]]: They do it everywhere, all the time.
* [[Super Prototype]]: The new batch of mind-controlled slaves in ''The Clinic''.
* [[The Spartan Way]]: How the state treats women. Those who don't rise to the level are swiftly (or not so swiftly) killed.
* [[Tragedy]]: Implicit for the women.
* [[Trauma Conga Line]].
* [[Utopia]]: What the women in ''Slave Cop'' are promised. [[Captain Obvious|It's not]].
* [[Villain World]]: For twenty years and counting.
* [[Visual Pun]]: The author likes [[Literal Minded]] puns, including making girls literal "bike-women".
* [[Worst Whatever Ever|Worst!]] [[Complaining About Rescues You Don't Like|Rescue! Ever!]]: Lampshaded by a Slave Cop in "The Clinic". The hijacker is running in open territory, with a hot car and a ''freakin' helicopter'' on their tail. It is implied organized rebels at least have more common sense than them.

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Birthday Gift

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''[[Birthday Gift]]'' or ''Birthday Girl'' is a [[Webcomic]] subseries of the ''[[Fansadox]]'' publishing franchise. It stretched eight issues (which is impressive for Fansadox's record, which barely has two stories in the same continuity) with several [[Shared Universe]] stories entitled "Slave Fair", "Slavecop", "Sluts in Training", "The Clinic", (and similar titles), all of which explore the world from other characters' perspective.

The [[Plot With Porn|story follows]] Peter and his crush Maggie, a woman who doesn't even notice him. As his 18th birthday approaches, he notices some of his colleagues started owning women, as part of the Slave Registration Act, which allows the selling of women over 18. A bit distraught by these changes in his life, Peter goes home, for his father to give him they key to something he really wanted. He expects a new car, but finds... Maggie!

Also has a [[Characters/Birthday Gift|Character page]].

Not to be confused with [[Movie/Birthday Girl|the American movie]] with Nicole Kidman. The plots aren't even similar.

'''Warning:''' Vulgar language (can't be helped, most of the series contains [[Cluster F Bomb]]s and references to sexual organs) and [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]] ahead.

=='''''Birthday Gift'' provides examples of the following tropes:'''==
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Peter, Steve and Jeff are seen as this. They look more like [[Hollywood Homely]].
* [[Abusive Parent]]: Fathers sell their daughters for the price of a new car in the very best case.
* [[Acme Products]]: Torture devices versions.
* [[A Day In The Limelight]]: The soon-to-be-slaves, also Peter and Paul.
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: Many spiral downwards from Type 1 to Type 2. Some just start at Type 2.
* [[All Abusers Are Male]]: Played straight.
* [[All Guys Want Cheerleaders]].
* [[All Men Love Ponygirls]]: The Slavefairs.
* [[All Take And No Give]]: The owners to the slaves. Then they accuse ''the slaves'' [[Hypocritical Humor|of living off their back]].
* [[All There In The Manual]]: Erenisch Special 1 (for [[Break the Haughty|Sherry]]) and 2 (for [[Break the Cutie|Maggie]]). Others may be coming.
* [[All Women Are Prudes]]: Needed for the [[Break the Cutie]] material.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]:
** [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]]: For most girls that act like a [[Complete Monster]] themselves;
** [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]] for the males.
** [[All Women Are Lustful]] for Maggie, Sherry and the rest (less likely for their mothers) and that they actually like it. [[Lampshaded]] in the disclaimer pages.
** [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]/[[Fair For Its Day]]: The guys/men, [[Beyond the Impossible|compared with the State's methods in the Expanded Universe]].
** [[Bastard Boyfriend]]/[[Spectacled Sadist]]: Peter and Maggie, possibly Peter and Sherry ... Peter's father and his mother? ... Well, more accurate would be the master and slave relationships in general.
* [[Am I Just a Toy to You]]: Maggie finds herself in this position often. It's implied Steve didn't even do the "courtesy" thing of telling Gwen he had a crush on her, like Peter told Maggie. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]
* [[A Million Is A Statistic]]. We don't need the EU to tell us Maggie and Sherry are not the worst off. Then again, throughout the series the worse fates of other women are shwon. [[Fridge Logic|Indeed, the schoolgirls are actually mostly lucky]].
* [[Amoral Attorney]]: The one advising Paul how to keep Sherry, and betraying Potts.
* [[Anger Montage]]: Steve and Peter have their share.
* [[A Real Man Is A Killer|A Real Man is a Sadist]]: It's so much a rule and an empowering feeling, that even girls like Anna or Peter's mom want to get in on it.
* [[A Party Also Known As An Orgy]]: Half the plot of the sixth issue.
* [[Author Catchphrase]]: The author always uses the phrase "I have a bad feeling about this", as an homage to ''[[Star Wars]]''.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The tools used to break women.
* [[Aw Look They Really Do Love Each Other]]: Peter and Maggie. This trope is usually played [[Dead Baby Comedy|for laughs]] and/or deconstructed.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: First the slaves, then the teachers.
* [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil]]: Most likely Peter's mom and possibly Anna.
* [[Bald Of Awesome]]: Inverted, it's for humiliation.
* [[Bald Women]].
* [[Band Of Brothels]]: The BFA/Slave-Cops. In the usual subversion, they're not the good guys or out for the women's good.
* [[Badass Teacher]]: The male teachers will not shy from getting physical if their slaves, female teachers or female students piss them off. See also [[Sadist Teacher]] below.
* [[Before And After Pictures]]: The Bureau has these of slaves.
* [[Beta Couple]]: A rather unexpected version between Maggie and Sherry. Alternately, Steve and Gwen.
* [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]]: The whole Gwen's mother sleeping with [[Acme Products]] around her, not to mention the [[Narm]]y cartoonish letter received from the BFA.
* [[Bigger Is Better In Bed]]: Inverted: The bigger it is, the more uncomfortable the girls are.
* [[Biggus Dickus]]: Gwen comments Peter's bigger than Steve's.
* [[Black Comedy]]/[[Dead Baby Comedy]]: Characteristic.
* [[Blonde Brunette Redhead]]: Maggie, Sherry, Gwen. Comes full circle in some cameos and {{spoiler|in Part 7, where Peter owns all of them.}}
* [[Boarding School Of Horrors]]: Erenisch High School is, but only for girls.
* [[Brand X]]: All comics in the EU uses the same fake brands of products from soft drinks to state-of-the-art medical equipment.
* [[Break The Cutie]]: Obligatory for Fandsadox.
* [[Brick Joke]]: Probably a couple, but that nasty incident where female students were made to suck teachers' dicks for not learning their sex-slave-homework is referenced in part 8 with Natalie.
* [[But Thou Must]]: Part of the [[Break the Cutie]] ploy: they're ironically asked what they want, but they're either [[Bound and Gagged]] or tortured (worse) if they give the "wrong" answer.
* [[Calling Your Orgasms]]: Men force women to do this. Men do this too (even more often).
* [[Catholic School Girls Rule]]: Anna tries this on new student, Ginger, [[For the Evulz]].
* [[Character Development]]: For better or worse, the girls go through it, especially Maggie and Sherry, being the [[Main Characters]] of the comic. See [[Birthday Gift (Characters)|the character page]] for more.
** Peter's mother explains her own as she gets demoted from her husband's almost-equal tormentor of lower-level pets to barely being noticed. [[Take That|As pissed as she may be, she can't really comment on that out loud, make a fuss or do anything about it.]]
**: '''Molly''': ''First he stopped touching me, [[Stay in the Kitchen|then he confined me to the kitchen]], [[Humiliation Conga|and now I'm just a piece of furniture for him to rest his feet on]], while his new favorites suck his cock. I must admit, [[We Want Our Jerk Back|I even miss his cock in my ass and his whip on my back.]]''
* [[Citizenship Marriage]]: Actually, enslavement marriage. Paul marries {{spoiler|Sherry}} so she can be kept as a slave of the house.
* [[Cliffhanger Copout]]: Subverted with more than one cliffhanger: they'll apparently be ignored in the next number, but they'll be followed up in other issues.
* [[Cold Blooded Torture]]: Obligatory for Fansadox.
* [[Color Coded For Your Convenience]]: When two or more girls will be in a situation together, they'll be dressed in different colors, even if in similar clothes. This becomes useful if no heads are shown and their bodies look too similar.
* [[Come With Me If You Want To Live]]: Miss Cummings tries to pull a [[Big Damn Hero]] moment... in an otherwise [[Obvious Trap]].
* [[Coming Of Age Story]]: Mostly deconstructed, including the following, also ''all'' deconstructed:
** [[The Hero's Journey]]
** [[Growing Up Sucks]]
** [[Sex As Rite Of Passage]]
* [[Complete Monster]]: Most of the men and "boys" turn into this when the law is on their side.
* [[Conscience Makes You Go Back]]: Miss Cummings comes back for Miss Cox. It was a trap.
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: From the sixth part, Erenisch introduces 3Dish drawings. They look like oil paintings and it appears for now, not much integration in the story for them is possible. The author seems to have realised that and only used one page as cover in said CG.
* [[Corrupt Hick]]: How the Slave Registration Act passed. Lampshaded in Part 7:
*: '''Jeff''': ''Let's drink to the Slavery Law, brothers! Thanks to those thieving, old, fat politicians, we are blessed with the best pussy available!''
* [[Corrupt The Cutie]]: Anna to Ginger, the Preacher's Daughter.
* [[Crapsaccharine World]] / [[Uncanny Village]]: If you [[Trailers Always Spoil|conveniently skip over the background narration]] of the first "Birthday Gift" number, you'd expect it's a normal world, with all the teenage angst, "class" and cliches. Something appears to be ''very wrong'' when Peter [[Weirdness Censor|casually enters]] a room with his parents torturing some girls they call "slaves" without even blinking. It goes down hill from there.
** The life-filled colors and general [[Light Is Not Good|good lighting]] of the show [[It Helped|help]] this trope too.
* [[Crapsack World]]: It's stated it wasn't like that at first (at least not for the women) and at the beginning of the series, only one slave was shown and the school was mostly "normal" and unaffected. Several weeks later...
* [[Crazy Awesome]]: The entire world, [[From a Certain Point of View]].
* [[Creepy Uncle]]: Maggie's uncle, who sells both her and her mother. He even has [[Rape The Dog]] moments with her mother. Maggie's uncle at least only treats Maggie as a commodity and claims he never was interested in her (and indeed sold her as a virgin). Cindy's uncle, on the other hand, [[Old Man Marrying A Child|takes her as his wife]] after forcing her to perform and have sex for him, and as a last solution of making her profitable.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]].
* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Used ironically between Sherry's father and her sister, as he "[[If You Know What I Mean|uses]]" her at the office.
* [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday]]: Eighteenth actually. That's when a woman (girl) can be sold... [[Real Life Writes the Plot|because it's the legal age in the US to include a naked character into]].
* [[Deconstruction Fleet]]: You will not see another [[Coming Of Age Story]] with the same understanding eyes again.
* [[Deliberate Value Dissonance]].
* [[Demoted To Extra]]: Jeff seemed to be Peter's best friend, while Heather was supposed to be Maggie's. Their presence fades away by each number.
* [[Did Not Eat The Mousse]]: All of a master's slaves will usually be punished for one's transgressions (or worse, as Peter suggests, one slave will pay for the loss of another). In the wider sense, all the technically free women have less and less chances of being treated fairly (or at least not outright abused) as time passes.
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: The girls' fathers or [[Creepy Uncle|uncles]], who are also [[Covert Pervert]]s.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Don't you ''dare'' cum without my approval or you'll get 20 whips. Talking back? 40!
* [[Don't Tell Mama]]: Strongly deconstructed with the girls and what they're forced to do (Maggie and Gwen, as far as we know). Subverted with the boys, who don't seem to care, as their mothers are living rugs for their fathers anyway.
* [[Double Meaning Title]]: "The Exchange". The twins for Maggie's mother ([[Captain Obvious|obvious]]) and Gwen for Anna (double unwillingly).
** "Vengence" has [[Up To Eleven|(at least) Triple]] Meaning: Maggie's [[Torture Makes You Evil|revenge on Molly]], Molly's revenge on Maggie ({{spoiler|convincing Paul to have her bought for revenge against her mother}} and {{spoiler|Anna's revenge on Steve}}.
* [[Dystopia]]: For women over 18.
** [[Dystopian Edict]]: Turned into a dystopia by the "Compulsory female slavery law" of 2022.
* [[Earth Drift]].
* [[Epiphanic Prison]]: The girls aren't kept in line by the chains or the ropes -- those are just "for fun" (as Peter points out in the first number) and maybe to distract them from the actual prison -- but by that of the laws and fear of them. A girl could sneak out of a house in the middle of the night if she wanted to -- that's not a big problem, the big problem is what to do after and the punishment that awaits them if getting caught.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Probably subverted by Peter. While he seems to treat his mother okay, he has greater respect for his father. Anna doesn't talk about her folks either.
* [[Even The Girls Want Her]]: Anna. Maggie, Sherry and Gwen may count.
* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: The slaves after they've been bought.
* [[Evil Teacher]]: See [[Sadist Teacher]] below.
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: [[Zig-Zagged]]. Peter is seen throughout the series as treating Maggie and Sherry like crap. But there are worse monsters in that world, especially in the shared/[[Expanded Universe]]. But Anna is worse, because she betrays "her own kind" for cheap thrills. And Steve too, because he's treating Gwen, his first love, even worse. But then {{spoiler|Steve kidnaps Anna and treats her even worse}}. [[Discussed]] [http://erenischcomics.adultforumhost.com/290138.html?displayreplyid=964815 here].
** More recently, Paul Stevenson and Potts.
* [[Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor]]: Type 2.
* [[Evil is Sexy]]: Anna. Maybe Peter's mom.
** Paul tried to [[Mind Rape]] Sherry [[Being Tortured Makes You Evil|into thinking this.]]
* [[Evilly Affable]]: Most dominant characters will try to keep their calm.
* [[Exalted Torturer]].
* [[Faceless Goons]]: A variation used for [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]] for the rest of the teachers whose faces don't appear in the series at all who will face-rape the girls in detention. They're first shown with black background and [[Red Eyes Take Warning|red eyes]], and then just the top part of the face, up until under the jaw, is shown.
* [[Fair For Its Day]]: Peter is actually fair to his slaves in comparison even with his colleagues. ''Much'' fairer than the state actions described in the [[Expanded Universe]], which basically ''kills'' women [[The Spartan Way|who don't perform to the standard]], while others are sent to be dog food (literally) or in government-approved places which result in the death of women as a sport.
* [[Fake Band]]: The Juices.
* [[The Family That Slays Together]]: Enforced by the laws.
* [[Family Values Villain]]: And they ''love'' bragging about that... when it's their own families. The young ones don't even have that.
* [[Fetish Fuel Future]].
* [[Fictional Document]]: "How To Forge A Document". Apparently [[For Dummies]] version.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Gwen. Despite brown hair, Sherry too.
* [[Fluffy Fashion Feathers]]: Some women who are dressed up in ridiculous outfits may have this.
* [[For the Evulz]]: Peter and most of the boys' actions.
* [[Freaky Fashion Mild Mind]]: Inverted with men, played straight with the enslaved women.
* [[Girl In A Box]]: Apparently it's a "ritual" to gift-wrap slaves, or less often, put their heads in a cardboard box. Happens to {{spoiler|Gwen and Anna.}} Most of the slaves are also kept in boxes, cages, cupboards and desk drawers.
* [[Girl Next Door]]: Maggie, Sherry, Gwen etc etc
* [[Girl Of The Week]] "... in this number, introducing [girl to be enslaved]"
* [[Girl On Girl Is Hot]].
* [[Give Geeks a Chance]]: Enforced. Peter and his friends.
* [[Going Commando]]: Girls are forced to do this. Or... worse.
* [[Goodbye Cruel World]]: Variation of the "To whom it may concern" note, which is now a ''note in a letter'' made ''by the government''. It apparently relies on the victim's [[Too Dumb to Live|stupidity]] or dumb luck (maybe someone lives in the house or passes by and sees it, but still, being ''in a sealed envelope'', [[Voodoo Shark|that brings up even more questions]]) and it states a woman's termination status as a free woman.
* [[Good Is Old Fashioned]]: Enforced by the state: It's implied the men against the law are "fair game" to kill for those who want their daughters or even wives. [[Fridge Horror|Even more suspicious is the level of]] [[Parental Abandoment]] [[Fridge Horror|and dead fathers of girls in ''only one neighborhood'']].
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Played as straight as it could be, very little blood ever involved.
* [[The Government]]: The (risen from) [[Hanlon's Razor|ineptitude]], [[I Did What I Had To Do|necessity]], and [[Inherent In The System|sheer size of the]] [[The New Depression|economic crash]]. While it's presented more thoroughly in the Expanded Universe, all these traits are exaggerated rather than show direct malevolence or planning to get to what it is.
* [[Grandma, What Massive Hotness You Have]]: Peter's parents, Paul's (possibly new steady) mistress.
* [[Growing the Beard]]: It's trying to distance itself from the [[Strictly Formula]] Fansadox employs, while still trying to appeal to its readers. As said above, it's already "old and wise" compared to the comics' other titles.
* [[Harem Seeker]]: Peter is, literally. Actually most men in the [[Erenischverse]] are.
** His dad deconstructs this as "costly" and hard to manage. On the other hand, it may be just their way of humor.
* [[Heartwarming Orphan]]: Deconstructed with Miss Cox. May still fit with The Principal's secretary.
* [[The Hero's Birthday]]: Maggie's birthday. [[Jerkass|Peter]] doesn't stop reminding her of her 19th.
* [[Hope Spot]]: It was recently introduced that the closest male relative of a sold woman can buy her back within a year with the same sum of money. For most though, it doesn't happen.
* [[If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good For You]]: Variation: Food for slaves is intentionally made to taste "like puke", but it is said to contain vitamins and "everything a slave needs to do her job" and it's very likely it does. [[Punny Name|Girlfodder]] is a [[Brand X|popular brand]] of slave food that looks as disgusting as advertised...
* [[I Kiss Your Foot]].
* [[I'm Taking Her Home With Me]]: The [[Logical Extreme|extreme]] of the tropes: boy sees girl, boy likes girl, boy talks to father to buy her, or just kidnaps her or rapes her in her sleep.
* [[Inferiority Superiority Complex]]: The main characters (the villains, anyway) are said to be geeks, and owning people is their way of taking their frustrations out on others weaker.
* [[Initiation Ceremony]]: Although not much into religion, there seems to be a ritual called "baptism of cum".
* [[Inner Monologue]]: The girls' way of coping with things. Older slaves, like Peter's mother, learned to keep to themselves ''always''. Others, like Gwen (or even Maggie and Sherry), tend to forget this from time to time, and once it proves very dangerous for Gwen. [[It doesn't help]] that, as Ginger puts it, most girls' mouths are gagged ([[Informed Ability|we don't actually see this too often]], she probably means they're constantly ''[[If You Know What I Mean|stuffed]]''.)
* [[Instructional Dialogue]]: Often used subtly in order to explain the intricacies of the alternate universe the stories take place in.
* [[It Gets Worse]]: Skipping the "little" daily things, every college and presumably high school in the country turning into state-endorsed brothels in something between a few weeks and a few months definitely counts.
* [[Jack Attack]]: [[Punny Name|Jack]], the [[Jerk Jock]].
* [[Jail Bait Wait]]: Can't touch them until they're 18, but you can sure wait and make contracts for when they hit that age...
* [[Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life]]: Close to aberrant rules like if a girl is punished at school and nobody comes to pick her up the next day, she's state property (or the teacher's), if a free woman over 18 breaks ''any law'' she's automatically sold and so on.
* [[Jerkass]].
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Jack. He seems to diss Peter off in the beginning, but then he comes around (or Peter becomes more Badass in the context).
* [[Les Yay]]: In all its variations, but mostly BDSM related.
* [[The Libby]]: Deconstructed with Maggie, probably fits better to Sherry and Gwen, or the cheerleader squad.
* [[Lightmare Fuel]].
* [[Long Hair Is Feminine]]: Most recurring characters have long hair for some reason.
* [[Love Hurts]]: Strangely enough, played often straight. Depending on your interpretation, it may be also a ''very fucked up'' [[Space Whale Aesop]]: either it's "you hurt girls, you get your love stolen", or "you're not supposed to love in a world where you can have all the fuck you need".
* [[Love Obstructing Parents]]: Girls' parents, but not for long, not as long as they need money badly...
* [[Made A Slave]].
* [[Madness Mantra]]: Twanie has "Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God..."
* [[Mass Oh Crap]]: Especially shown when the girls see the "party" and "party treats" (women to be used until death).
* [[My Girl Is a Slut ]].
* [[Nerds Are Virgins]]: At least before your family buys you a girl... [[That Came Out Wrong|no, not like that]].
* [[The New Depression]]: Why things went like this.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: The State through the BFA. And as such, those names stick and have legal value.
* [[N-Word Privileges]]: Inverted: Men can call women what they want, women on the other hand, at least as by morality terms, don't usually address bad to each other.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Peter does this to Sherry, and Steve is highly implied to do this to his slaves, too. {{spoiler|Steve to Anna}} too recently. Earlier even, the principal to Miss Cox.
* [[Not Very Pretty Now Is She]]: The bald girls. Recently, {{spoiler|Anna}}. She bounces back relatively fast considering.
* [[No Womans Land]]: There is a compulsory female enslavement law in effect.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Girls have this reaction from time to time.
* [[Omake]]: At the start and the end of the comic, characters claim they're professional BDSM models out of [[Executive Meddling]]. The author makes them into sorts of Omakes, sometimes giving previews for future series. The Maggie and Sherry specials may also be seen as this (as well as [[Evil Counterpart]]s to the disclaimers), tripling as [[All There In The Manual]].
* [[Once An Episode]]: A(t least one) woman will be enslaved, a few sex scenes will occur and someone will say [[Star Wars|they have a bad feeling about this]].
*: "''It was basically just surprise sex, surprise sex, humilation ''[sic]'', surprise sex, torture, surprise sex, surprise sex."'' [http://216.86.148.111/showthread.php?threadid=3436999&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=103]
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Enforced. It gets [[Hilarious In Hindsight|ironic]] when you consider Peter's family name is Stevenson, his friend is Steve.
* [[Orphans Ordeal]]: Every orphaned girl will have it even worse because of perverted adults always leering around [[The Jail Bait Wait|waiting for them to turn 18.]]
* [[Outlaw Couple]]: {{spoiler|Anna and Cathy after Anna murders Steve}} at the end of BG9.
* [[Pair The Spares]]: Rather, give the free women to boys.
* [[Peer Pressure Makes You Evil]]: An [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] to why everyone seems to turn sex-crazed nuts.
* [[Perfectly Arranged Marriage]]: Peter and Maggie end up as this.
* [[Pervert Dad]]: Again, ''everyone''. [[And Zoidberg|Except this one guy that refused to sell his daughter or enslave his wife]] [[Make It Look Like An Accident|and got offed for his troubles]].
* [[Plain Name]]: Peter's full name is revealed in the second number as ''Peter Stevenson''. The others have plain names too, but filled with irony.
* [[Please I Will Do Anything]]: Mothers will plead for their daughters like this sometimes. It never works.
* [[Plot Hole]]: See Voodoo Shark below.
* [[Preacher's Kid]]: Ginger, the one Anna starts seducing as part of her thrill-seeking [[Corrupt The Cutie]].
* [[Pretty Freeloaders]]: Deconstructed.
* [[Pride]]: All the men are prone and even ''required'' to have it. Arguably, [[Driven By Envy|Steve]]'s turns out to be too large.
* [[Prophetic Names]]: Miss Cummings, Miss Cox, Maggie [[Break the Cutie|Sweetie]]...
* [[Protagonist Journey To Villain]]: Peter, Steve and Jeff.
* [[Punny Name]]: See [[Theme Naming]]. [[And Zoidberg|Also]] [[Jerk Jock|Jack]].
* [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|Rape In the Butt Is a Special Kind of Evil]]: Just ask the girls.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: For some of the men. When it's not hate.
* [[Refusal Of The Call]]: Most of the slaves really. Except Maggie, almost surprisingly.
* [[The Reveal]]: Doubled with a [[Wham Line]] from Steve.
* [[Right Behind Me]]: Tragic example ([[Played for Laughs]]): Gwen comments on wanting a less sadistic master (but doesn't manage to say the "s" word). Steve is behind her and assumes she meant "ugly", and proceeds on mercilessly raping and hurting her. Anna and Peter [[Pass The Popcorn]].
* [[Sadist Teacher]]: The male teachers, including the Principal and vice-principal, but only to female students and female staff.
* [[Scarpia Ultimatum]]: (Male) Teachers actually give these to mothers of girls in detention. The issue is actually [[Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life|pretty serious]] since if they don't release the girls back, there's the risk they'll be confiscated by the State.
* [[School Bullying Is Harmless|School Bullying Is Rape]].
* [[Seemingly Wholesome Fifties Girl]]: The Cheerleader squad first; the highschool in its whole is soon to be filled by these (many against their will, though).
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted: The girls are made to dress slutty, while the men dress ordinary. Played straight with Anna and Peter's mom.
* [[Series Hiatus]]: ''Birthday Girl'' is suffering more and more from this as a result of the author making more EU spin-offs. The world's still there, some BG characters too, but the main story is progressing a lot slower...
* [[Servile Snarker]]: Some of the girls talk (or think... oh the nerve) behind the masters' back... until they learn what's good for them.
* [[Sex Slave]]ry: Legalized in the near future, no less.
* [[Sexual Karma]]: Since everyone gets all the sex they want, it's actually inverted in ''Love Karma''. You do bad things, you lose your love. {{spoiler|Well, Anna falls victim to both.}}
* [[Sexy Back]]: The girls are sometimes made to wear backless dresses.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: [http://img98.imageshack.us/i/slashersmile.jpg/ SWEET JESUS!] Peter and his friends display these too, although to a lesser extent.
* [[Slave Brand]]: Maggie and her mother get branded with distinctive tattoos to signify their owners.
* [[Slave Collar]]: More of a choker.
* [[Marital Rape License|Slave Rape License]].
* [[Small Town Boredom]]: Till you hit 18, boy or girl, you'll be bored out of your wits (though as the world "evolves", the age may be lowered, at least unofficially). If you're a girl, you risk being sold off, if boy, you'll have a lot more things and experiences to share with your college friends.
* [[Song Parody]]: By "[[Meaningful Name|The Juices]]":
*: ''[[Shrinking Violet|I've been a little coy]]
*: ''Before I met a young boy
*: ''[[Asexuality|I wanted to die a virgin]]
*: ''[[Made A Slave|But he made me his fucktoy]].
* [[Spell My Name With an S]]: Maggie's name is so simple, it's easy to forget it's spelled "Sweetie". Anna with two "n"s.
* [[Stalker With A Crush]]: Mild versions in Peter and Steve, for Maggie, respectively Gwen.
* [[Standard '50s Father]]: Paul, Peter's dad most obviously, Sherry's dad and presumably most parents of the school they're in.
* [[Stay In The Kitchen]]: Again, lampshaded and [[Played For Laughs]]. See Character Development above.
* [[STD Immunity]]: They do it everywhere, all the time.
* [[Stepford Suburbia]]: That's what Erenischville is, except that sexual slavery is not a secret.
* [[Suddenly Sober]]: Peter and Steve after talking on the phone. Also brings up the question how did Steve manage to overpower a woman after he probably drank as much as Peter, and kept awake probably all night and was more than ok in the morning.
* [[Super Fun Happy Thing Of Doom]]: The Bureau of Female Affairs is not in the business of solving women's problems.
* [[A Taste Of The Lash]]: Favorite punishment technique.
* [[Tenchi Solution]]: The Stevensons are fans of this.
* [[Terms of Endangerment]]: Men often call women "slave" or other nasty words. Since it's a [[No Womans Land]], this is allowed legally and even encouraged by society.
* [[Theme Naming]]: They come in two general categories: Sexual [[Incredibly Lame Pun|puns]] (Miss Cox (cocks) and Miss Cummings) and [[Break The Cutie]] (full use of [[Irony]]: Maggie ''Sweetie'').
* [[To Be Continued]].
* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: Sherry and Cherry.
* [[Three Plus Two]]: Peter, Steve and Anna, with Maggie and Sherry taking the rear.
* [[To the Pain]].
* [[Took A Level In Badass]]: Peter and Steve as part of their [[Character Development]].
* [[Torture Cellar]]: Usually they don't need it, since the law leaves them in the open and the house/the boy's room serves the same purpose. {{spoiler|Except Steve with Anna.}}
* [[Tragedy]]: The girls in general, Sherry in particular, and lately {{spoiler|Peter and Anna.}}
* [[Triangle Relations]]: Through a ''complicated'' series of events, Peter, Maggie and Sherry settled down into one of these. Honestly, that's the best thing a master can hope for. They're usually stuck on type one, and they don't need it requited to have it.
* [[Truth In Television]]: In a [[Shown Their Work]] [[Fridge Brilliance]], the events of the series/world are not so far-fetched (although [[Exaggerated Trope|Exaggerated]]). See the description of the [[Marital Rape License]] trope/page.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into The Future]]: Year 2038.
* [[Twin Threesome Fantasy]]: The main character's father had twin slave girls to enjoy in the mornings.
* [[Two Person Pool Party]]: Actually, it 's a three person pool party at the end of the second episode.
* [[Two Teacher School]]: More prominently shown are Miss Cox and Miss Cummings, as [[Screw the Rules I Have Plot|they're going to be turned into slaves]]. The principal and vice-principal make some appearances as well, as well as a few female teachers abused and [[The Faceless]] teachers that abuse Gwen and Tawnie, but mostly Miss Cox and Cummings teach classes.
* [[Unholy Matrimony]]: Peter and Anna. Match made in fetishists' hell indeed.
* [[Up To Eleven]]: Arguably, the series takes ''[[Fansadox]]'''s recent years self-imposed limitations and tries to cross the fine line, including blurring the [[Even Evil Has Standards]] notions that "[[Catch Phrase|buggering]]" a family member (specifically blood daughter) is okay or that girls shouldn't be killed.
* [[Vapor Wear]]: Girls forced to wear revealing clothes.
* [[Villainous Incest]]: Sherry's father, with her sister.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Peter.
* [[Villain World]]: For twenty years and counting.
* [[Voodoo Shark]]: By the more recent strips, it's suggested Peter's father could just go and buy slaves ''as many as he wanted, like shopping'', but until then, he has to buy Peter's slaves for big prices and his income looks rather modest anyway. Peter's mother is reported to have ''been bought'', that means the slave law should be in effect ''for a good 20 years'', but the ''effects'' of the law are spreading like wildfire just when see the character. Also, if Peter's dad was so prolific in buying girls, why is Peter ''the only one without a girlfriend/slave''? Peter's dad could have kept one for his own until he was 18, and -- [[Plot With Porn|ah screw it!]]
* [[Wake Up Go To School Save The World|Wake Up, Go to School, Suck Cock]]: Recently girls turned slaves are still taken to school while expected to perform their other duties. Inversion of the usual morality meter of the situation.
* [[Wedding Day]]: {{spoiler|Paul and Sherry.}}
** And in a [[Flashback]], Molly and Paul.
* [[Wham Line]]: More like wham panels.
** Steve's [[The Reveal|Reveal]] about {{spoiler|Anna}} (to the audience, so far).
** '''Paul Stevenson''': ''Ah, Potts! I'm so glad you could make it... my poor little bride waited for you to arrive for hours.''
* [[What Measure Is A Non Human]]: What measure is a slave in this world.
* [[Your Normal Is Our Taboo]]: [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]] type of men tend to... disappear or [[Make It Look Like An Accident|have accidents]]. Generally, in 20 years of [[Earth Drift]], a lot of (especially) sexual (and) morality tropes have been twisted or inverted.

== The expanded Universe contains examples of these tropes ==
* [[The Aggressive Drug Dealer|The Aggressive Slave Dealer]]: ''Virgins'' are given as ''freebies'' in Slave Fairs. Hot, 18-year-old ones whose value should go through the roof. 20 years after the law has passed. [[This Is Sparta|This is]] [[Crazy Awesome|insane]].
* [[Amusement Park Of Doom]]: Slave Fair stories.
* [[Arc Welding]]: Every issue in the EU has repercussions back and forth with the main series. The only one that seemed too far-fetched to be included in that world - Frankiesteinns - is shown as a movie poster in Peter's room.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: Every female job in the expanded universe; Slave cops especially.
* [[Bald Of Awesome]]: Actually played straight with the main character of "Slave Fair".
* [[Biker Babe]]: We see one in Slave Fair 2. Read: Girl turned into a bike.
* [[Blonde Brunette Redhead]]: At the beginning, the blond protagonist has her 18th birthday party, with her brunette and redhead friends. Maggie, Sherry, Gwen may have been based on this.
* [[Breast Expansion]]: The Clinic has a special ward for that.
* [[Buffy Speak]]: Surprisingly, "professionals" like doctors or slave trainers speak more simple than their 18-35 year old costumers and slaves that they belittle.
* [[C List Fodder]] / [[Cerebus Ending]]: A lot of secondary or tertiary girls from the main series are thrown into this for sometimes the sole purpose of killing them and "tying up loose ends". Characters first created for the EU are even [[Red Shirts|more expandable]].
* [[Come With Me If You Want To Live]]: Women in desperate situations are given a choice (unbeknown to them, [[Sadistic Choice|Sadistic]]), to go with them and be rescued from their owners and join a group/cult, or be slowly tortured to death by their masters.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: Some pages go out of their way to show that the stories are in the same universe as the ones in "Birthday Gift". Maggie, Peter and Sherry make two, respectively one appearance.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]]: Why the uniform is bad.
* [[Den Of Iniquity]]: Oh God, the slave fairs...
* [[Dr. Jerk]]: World's full of them... [[Crapsack World|of course]].
* [[Drowning Pit]]: Women in/as urinals. Life expectancy: low. Also the cum pit.
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The first issue introducing this world is ''Bureau of Female Affairs''. It's weirdly (plainly bad) drawn, even for the norms of the time, and has two [[The Matrix|Agents]], one named [[Does This Remind You OF Anything|Smith]], and a slave trainer, after showing his face, ''puts a mask on'', probably to get into atmosphere.
* [[Evil Vs Evil]]: The Government vs. a weird cult in ''Slave Cop'' that [[Idiot Plot|steals women to give them as sacrifices]] to a giant raping monster. Lampshaded at the end, where the girls thank for being saved, but they're promised as bad as a life, if not worse, as before. [[It doesn't help]] their agent now knows and will tell them that [[Sadistic Choice|the cult gave the girls the choice]] [[More Than Mind Control|to leave their masters in the first place]].
* [[FBI Agent]]: Slave Cops serve this role for the Bureau of Female Affairs.
* [[Fed To The Beast]]: Women of Slave Cop vs. The Cult, after they've been thoroughly raped.
* [[Forced Prize Fight]]: A popular "fair" freebie viewing.
* [[Furry Fandom]]: "Dude, you know what my thing is? It is chicks dressed as animals... we must check this out."
* [[Girls Behind Bars]]: And in cages.
* [[Going To See The Elephant]]: ''Slave Fair''(s) tend to do this with men.
* [[Gold Digger]]: A girl from ''The Kennels'' has the [[Background Story]] of having been this, and then sent to reeducation.
* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: In this world, they just don't care, neither do the owners (who aren't exactly paid to watch over their slaves). Technological breakthroughs and [[Misapplied Phlebotinum|(mis)applications of current technology]] make sure to keep the system as "clean" as possible.
** Played straight (and the subversion of the above example) in ''Slave Cop'', where the guards of a [[James Bond|Doctor No-esque]] facility ''are crazy'' to fall asleep after abusing their "guests". They probably figure there'd be no danger from the inside, but when you're a facility that steals prized goods from the citizens of an [[Ax Crazy]] government, you should probably be [[Properly Paranoid]].
* [[Human Sacrifice]]: Why the women were gathered in ''Slave Cop''. Why would they need to do this? [[Plot With Porn|Who cares]].
* [[Hunter Of His Own Kind]]: The poor Slave Cops.
* [[I Don't Like The Sound Of That Place]]: Snatchfield, Maidenfair, Harlotport, Chickston...
* [[It Gets Worse]]: You thought that letter left to Gwen's mother would have been the end of it? As shown in ''Slave Fair 2'', the authorities have the dates of all who did not pay their free women fees, and so staying in your house and trying to forge documents [[Too Dumb To Live|is stupid beyond thought]], and so [[Failure Is The Only Option|they would have gotten caught rather sooner than later anyway.]]
* [[Karmic Transformation]]: Miss Cox becomes this... well, partly. She doesn't become a slave owner, but she does become a stupid person, contrary to her education and her beliefs.
* [[La Resistance]].
* [[Locked Away In A Monastery]]: A hair to the throne of some European country was sent by her uncle to a Pony Farm to be tamed in time for ''his'' crowning ceremony.
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: We see them in "The Clinic".
* [[Not Distracted By The Sexy]]: Hell, they got used to it pretty quick (the male workers, that is).
* [[Path Of Inspiration]]: The whole world is presented as something great and supreme. Obviously, it's not.
* [[Pizza Boy Special Delivery]]: Inverted, including [[Gender Flip]]ped. Here, pizza delivery girls are delivered.
* [[Police State]]: The Slavecops are efficient (and the reason a lot of goods, including ''an ambulance transporting slaves'', [[The Guards Must Be Crazy|is not secured]]).
* [[Rape Is A Special Kind Of Evil|Rape In The Butt Is A Special Kind Of Evil]]: Taken to its [[Logical Extreme]] where an owner in "Slave Fair" sows his girls' vaginas because he doesn't think they deserve sex in there.
* [[Religion Of Evil]]: The Cult in ''Slave Cop'', bordering on [[Cargo Cult]]. Worst thing is that the monster wasn't even revealed to be supernatural in any way, it was just ''big'' and it liked ''raping women''.
* [[Room 101]]: The room where the [[The Big Bad Wolf]] "consumes" young girls in Slavecop vs The Cult.
* [[Secret Police]]: The police sent to recover lost slaves.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: The doctors in ”The Clinic” use this kind of language when referring to some of their work.
** Other times, though, they just use plain [[Buffy Speak]].
* [[Sexy Stewardess]]: Deconstructed with the slave cops, as well as various stewardesses now forced into sexual serving.
* [[Show Within A Show]]: The author introduces his relatively unrelated world into the settings as one of Peter's wall papers as a film named "Frankiesteinns". Dubs as an extreme form of [[Arc Welding]].
* [[STD Immunity]]: They do it everywhere, all the time.
* [[Super Prototype]]: The new batch of mind-controlled slaves in ''The Clinic''.
* [[The Spartan Way]]: How the state treats women. Those who don't rise to the level are swiftly (or not so swiftly) killed.
* [[Tragedy]]: Implicit for the women.
* [[Trauma Conga Line]].
* [[Utopia]]: What the women in ''Slave Cop'' are promised. [[Captain Obvious|It's not]].
* [[Villain World]]: For twenty years and counting.
* [[Visual Pun]]: The author likes [[Literal Minded]] puns, including making girls literal "bike-women".
* [[Worst Whatever Ever|Worst!]] [[Complaining About Rescues You Don't Like|Rescue! Ever!]]: Lampshaded by a Slave Cop in "The Clinic". The hijacker is running in open territory, with a hot car and a ''freakin' helicopter'' on their tail. It is implied organized rebels at least have more common sense than them.

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{{cquote|How about Fansadox BDSM stories, just the descriptions will make me loose sleep for a month! - NC 17 to all you wanks (possible Gorn)|author= [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/archived_discussion.php?s_t=Main.HighOctaneNightmareFuel Comment in archived discussion] related to the ''[[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]'' page on [[TV Tropes]]}}

''Fansadox'' is a BDSM pornographic comic franchise centered around rough BDSM play, the beating and rape of women. As it's expected, being made for a specific niche, readers will have reactions ranging from [[Squick]] to [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]] to [[Beyond The Impossible|beyond that]]. In rare cases, it can even turn to snuff.

It consists of contributions from [[Depending On The Artist|several artists with several (and highly different) way of draw, or even think]]. This obviously results in different numbers with different stories.

In more recent issues, the company has made several disclaimer pages, almost mocking the porn industry, in which the ''fictional cartoon'' characters swear they're over 18 and that they are actually BDSM (sometimes payed) actors who enjoyed every moment of it. [[Hilarity Ensues]], but it also becomes a [[Narm]] moment as you realise they appear in just about any issue, from when they started using it [[Our Lawyers Advised This Trope|so to not have trouble with the US law]], fact confirmed by [[Word Of God|creator Gary Roberts himself]] ([http://atheistnexus.org/forum/topics/bdsm-and-the-decline-of?groupUrl=cynics&x=1&groupId=2182797%3AGroup%3A122352&id=2182797%3ATopic%3A702264&page=5#comments link]).

''Warning: Vulgar language ahead'' and if you don't like how it starts, leave now before needing to use some [[Brain Bleach]].

==On the Sliding Scales, it ranges==
* [[Sliding Scale Of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: [[Humans Are Bastards]], of course. Women have to kill to get away in most cases, and if they do, [[Corrupt Hick|the Hick judge]] will probably give them a life sentence anyway. Also men don't have much qualms to kill women, there's more out there where that came from.
* [[Sliding Scale Of Gender Inequality]]: Level 2.
* [[Sliding Scale Of Shiny Versus Gritty]]: Pretty gritty/gloomy.
* [[Sliding Scale of Broad Appeal vs. Specific Appeal]]: Specific, with little to no [[Periphery Demographic]].

==Issues with continuity include==
* ''[[Birthday Gift]]'', currently 8 issues and several [[Expanded Universe]] spinoffs;
* The ''Cheerleeders'' series, spanning around 8 issues itself;
* ''[[Women Hunt]]'', spanning 5 issues
* ''[[Confiscated Twins]]'' series, 4 issues and [[Cult Hit]] in... certain circles;
* ''[[The Great Invasion]]'', spanning 4 issues and set in a setting where [[China Takes Over The World]].

[[File:Fansadox world.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Basically... [[So Yeah|yeah]]]]
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==Novels include==
* ''[[Women Hunt]]'' is (loosely) based on ''Fansadox Novel 05 - Year 2050. Slave Training'';
* ''[[Training My Slave-Girl]].

==Compare==
* [[Lustomic]]
* [[Saffron]]
* [[The Erotic Mind Control Story Archive]]

==The works contain examples of these tropes==
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: The main kind of abusers. Women find them repulsive.
* [[Acceptable Targets]]: Anything and anyone. Special mention to the US, Russia, the Arab World and Africa (though no countries mentioned).
* [[Action Girl]].
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Entire comics based on [[Frankenstein]] and other well known works are just that: Frankenstein [[Recycled In Space|with porn!]] There's usually little [[Take That]] at the original work, since it's playing the story straight, only involving many many women at their service.
* [[After The End]]: ''Women Hunt'', ''Sex Wars''.
* [[Ain't Too Proud To Beg]]: The girls, swinging from Type 1 to Type 2 once they're broken.
* [[All Abusers Are Male]]: Mostly played straight.
* [[All Men Love Ponygirls]]: And oh yeah, the girls don't actually like being pony girls.
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Taken to extremes.
* [[All Take And No Give]]: The masters to the slaves. Then they accuse ''the slaves'' [[Hypocritical Humor|of living off their back]].
* [[All Women Are Lustful]]: While ''not true'' from the outside perspective, all men will tell the women this repeatedly. Eventually, [[Rape Is Love|some will start to behave like this]].
* [[All Women Are Prudes]]: Played with in the first hundred issues or so to make a better [[Break The Cutie]] story. After that, the victims were sluts too.
* [[All Your Base Are Belong To Us]]: US gets invaded from the inside or from the outside more often than one would think possible.
* [[Alone With The Psycho]]: The introduction of a lot of stories.
* [[Alternate History Wank]]: [[China Takes Over The World]]. Other stories are placed [[Twenty Minutes Into The Future]], including a female compulsory enslaving law, a slave hunting world...
* [[Amazon Brigade]]: Very few women [[La Resistance|resistance groups]] manage to make these (or keep them for long), but they're present in some.
* [[Ancient Rome]]: Some stories are set there, one is even called that, or similar.
* [[And I Must Scream]]. Some of the girls end up in this situation quite literally.
* [[Anything That Moves]]: Averted in the first hundred issues, where the targets were only pretty barely 18 women. As it took off, [[Acceptable Targets|convenient almost-mutant-monster-humans appeared to shag the girls' boyfriends, usually pretty sissy boys]].
* [[Apocalypse How]]: Class 2 in ''Women Hunt'', ''Sex Wars'' and a few others.
* [[Art Evolution]]: The first issues were almost horrible in art compared to the more recent ones.
* [[Author Avatar]]: Fernando and the [[Mirror Universe]] version of [[Standard Fifties Father]].
* [[Author Tract]]: Fernando more and more often puts his [[Author Avatar|male 50s sadists]] in positions of giving lengthy [[The Reason You Suck Speech]] to teens that did nothing but sit in front of the TV and ask for daddy's money. Even ends (with a permanent "The End") ''[[Confiscated Twins]]'' with {{spoiler|Roy, the main teen character being [[Humiliation Conga|thoroughly humiliated]] along with his backstabbing sister)}}, possibly as a [[Take That]] to the non-paying predominant youthful readers.
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Ranks in post-apocalyptic societies work that way.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: The tools used to break women.
* [[Bad Job Worse Uniform]]: Slaves get the bad end of this.
* [[Bald Of Awesome]]: Inverted in ''[[Birthday Gift]]'' and ''[[Women Hunt]]'', it's for humiliation. Played straight in ''Slave Tales'' ([[Break The Cutie|for a while, at least]]).
* [[Bald Of Evil]]: Many of the male [[Villain Protagonist]]s.
* [[Bald Women]]: Mad Satan of ''[[Women Hunt]]'' prefers one of his slaves like that, mostly for humiliation; alternately, some authors find this sexy (or easy to draw?) and draw them in directly as a "fashion statement".
* [[Basement Dweller]]: Some of the male protagonists.
* [[Being Watched]]: Some start with this.
* [[Belly Dancer]].
* [[Beta Test Baddie]]: Most villains will start hurting women because they were rejected. There are exceptions, of course.
* [[Big Bad]].
* [[Big Beautiful Man]]: [[Fat And Proud]] too.
* [[Biggus Dickus]]: Taken to its [[Logical Extreme]], with girls fearing the sheer size of the thing. Also vibrators.
* [[Bikini Bar]].
* [[Bile Fascination]]: If you're not into this stuff, but read it anyway.
* [[Blackmail]].
* [[Blue And Orange Morality]]: Hell, there'll be not morality at all in some cases, but there are still some cases where honor and respect between some domineering characters will be established. And there's the in-world type of morality on using family ties as displayed at [[Parental Incest]].
** The entire series can be considered this. Everything and anything is acceptable, except that some tropes show up more and some [[Villain Protagonist]]s have sympathetic traits. Welcome to [[Pandering To The Base|Pandering]].
* [[The Bluebeard]]: Some arabs are like that, some more obvious than the others.
* [[Boldly Coming]]: Apparently capturing women from different planets isn't a problem...
* [[Bondage Is Bad]]. To all but the targeted readers.
* [[Bound And Gagged]].
* [[Bounty Hunter]]: Result from the often spicy combination of New world order + [[La Resistance]]
* [[Brains And Bondage]]: Mostly inverted (Stupidity And Bondage?), sometimes averted (otherwise average Joes). Straight example: Mad Satan in ''Women Hunt''.
* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]: One type of [[Acceptable Target]]s
* [[Breaking In Old Habits]].
* [[Break The Cutie]].
* [[Break The Haughty]].
* [[Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl]].
* [[Burn The Witch]]: After you torture the living daylights out of her.
* [[But Thou Must]]: Part of the [[Break The Cutie]] ploy: they're ironically asked what they want, but they're either [[Bound And Gagged]] or tortured (worse) if they give the "wrong" answer.
* [[Calling Your Orgasms]]: Men like to do this, but they'll force women to, too.
* [[Cannibal Tribe]].
* [[Captured By Cannibals]]: One of the early issues (from the first 20) has this.
* [[Carpet of Virility]]: Type 2: Hairy slobs.
* [[Cash Cow Franchise]]: A good example of [[Tropes Are Not Bad]], as being made for paying readers keeps the franchise going and the quality to increase too.
* [[Casting Couch]]: Girls are sometimes tricked by being promised something they'll never get. This may imply sex before or after. In an egregorious example, two girls are tricked to go to an ''unstaged'' online BDSM headquarters.
* [[Catholic School Girls Rule]]: Part of [[All Women Are Prudes]].
* [[Chained By Fashion]]: An useful (although not really necessary, rope usually does its job) accessory to keep girls in line.
* [[Chained To A Bed]]: To a bed, from above a bed, around a bed... not yet [[Beyond The Impossible|under a bed]], but there's still time.
* [[China Takes Over The World]]: In "The Great Invasion" and its sequels, China invades the US to get ''their women'' (and not die out as a race). Bonus points for most of the Chinese having more Mongolian facial treats than Chinese (weak, small, etc).
* [[Cold Blooded Torture]].
* [[Complete Monster]]: A show centered around victims of torturers who will often kill their victims in the most horrendous ways for the mere pleasure of it.
* [[Conveniently Common Kink]]: Everyone loves torture. Except the victim.
* [[Cool And Unusual Punishment]]: Oh they ''love'' this.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: Some of them do. [[TV Tropes.org]] had a cover that didn't related to anything (except ''barely alluding'' to a ''Women Hunt'' type scenario) on account that no NSFW images could be found. Proved'em wrong! Arguably, even some of the NSFW covers are random or sometimes portray [[BLAP]]s that have little to do with the story in the comic.
* [[Covert Pervert]]: Many abusers pretend to be social role models. Then, they have women tortured in the basement.
* [[Crapsack World]]: While most stories aren't situated in the same world, the subtleties are about the same. If you're a "good girl", anyone around you is probably going to want to rape and torture you in the most vile way. Call the police? They're in on it. Captor's neighbor? Friend? ''Your own family''? They're in on it. [[Failure is the Only Option|There is no escape !]] As part of a crapsack world, most officials are corrupt:
** [[Corrupt Church]];
** [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]];
** [[Corrupt Hick]].
* [[Crazy Survivalist]]: Somewhat justified in some post-apocalyptic stories. Others fit into a realistic version of our world, not so much.
* [[Creepy Basement]].
* [[Creepy Cool Crosses]]: The imagery in "The Convent".
* [[Crisis Of Faith]]: One of the original cheerleaders in the eponymous series says she prayed to God, and for her trouble she got to see her sister... in the same situation as her.
* [[Curiosity Causes Conversion]]: Or so the men would like to think.
* [[Curiosity Is a Crapshoot]]: Anyone remotely interested in any [[underworld]] dealing is either going to get killed or raped and tortured before eventually getting killed.
* [[Custom Uniform Of Sexy]]: In prisons and asylums.
* [[Dad The Veteran]].
* [[Darkest Africa]]: Played straight.
* [[Grandpa What Massive Hotness You Have]]: [[Depending On The Author]].
* [[Deep South]]: "1850, White Slaves"
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Most women that are on the other side of the whip. Men will only prefer women, because it's not manly for a warlord/mobster to be sucked by a guy, or to shag one.
* [[Dirty Old Man]].
* [[Do You Want To Copulate]]: This is how men start their "mating game" with women. Less from lack of social skills, and more because they're rich and they think they deserve everything. When [[Captain Obvious|it fails miserably]], they go to plan B...
* [[Driven To Suicide]]: Some girls actually manage to "escape" like this. The captors make sure it won't happen with anyone else.
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Or at least that's how the sadists see them and want to make them.
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Some of the victims are outright lesbians. Some are usually (though sometimes wrongfully implied to be) "frigid".
* [[Don't Come A-Knockin']]: The vans of the kidnappers, of course.
* [[Earth Drift]].
* [[Earth Is A Battlefield]]. Happens in a few history wank strips.
* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: Taken to extremes in order to break the girls' self-esteem and their idea of being normal human beings.
* [[Electric Torture]].
* [[Erotic Asphyxiation]]: Men like to do this to women, ''without telling them it's just "for fun"''. They actually think they're going to be killed.
* [[Et Tu Brute]]: Two sisters are betrayed repeatedly by [[The Mole|someone on the inside]] in ''Sex Wars''. Turns out to be {{spoiler|the president herself}}, who would be reunited with her cousin in return.
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: [[Not Blood Siblings]] / [[Kissing Cousins]] usually enforced.
* [[Every Man Has His Price]]: Even [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]] can be tempted and swayed in these [[Crapsack World]]s.
* [[Evil Has A Bad Sense of Humor]]: Those line that start or end with '''[[Evil Laugh|AHAHAHA!!]]'''... you were supposed to laugh at them.
* [[Evil Laugh]].
* [[Exaggerated Trope]]s: So many.
* [[Exalted Torturer]].
* [[Expendable Clone]]: In one number, there's a clone facility. Of course, the women there may be killed, they can just make more.
* [[Exploitation Film|Exploitation Series]].
** [[Nazisploitation]].
* [[Exotic Equipment]]: The aliens of ''Abducted'', as well as those of ''Slave Trek One'' have ridiculously humanoid dicks, [[Dissimile|only]] [[Recycled In Space|WITH SPIKES!]]
* [[Face Of A Thug]]: Most [[Villain Protagonist]]s. [[It doesn't help]] that they range from [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]s to actual dangerous law-breaking madmen.
* [[Failure Is The Only Option]]: For the victims. They seldom try to escape, but even then it's to give a sick thrill to their captor (and the reader) and you can be sure in just a few panels they'll be back to "[[Dude Not Funny|the operating table]]".
* [[The Family That Slays Together]]: Another good portion of starting plot points.
* [[Fangirl]]: Deconstructed in ''Hentai Band Horror Orgy'': What happens with a [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] naive teen when she meets her idols? [[Family Unfriendly Aesop|She gets raped]].
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: The victims usually pray for death after a while.
* [[Fetish Fuel Future]]: Related to [[Alternate History Wank]] above.
* [[Force Feeding]]: Sometimes becomes necessary.
* [[Forced Prize Fight]]: ''Invaders Wild Orgy'' has former free women gladiator fights, other issues too.
* [[Forced To Watch]]: Sisters, mothers to daughters, lovers etc.
* [[Frameup]]. Most women who end up in prisons/asylums ran by sex-crazed psychopaths.
* [[Friend Or Idol Decision]]: Her cousin or two good soldiers who entrust you with their lives? In ''Sex Wars''.
* [[Galley Slave]]: Naked and made to stand on dildos, of course.
* [[Genre Blind]]: Half of the stories could be avoided if the girls would avoid anything avoidable listed on [[Strictly Formula]] below.
* [[Gem Encrusted]]: Arabs encrust their women's ''genital organs'' with diamonds, for their own (and their guests') viewing pleasure, and for the victim's further humiliation.
* [[Gene Hunt Interrogation Technique]]: Another trademark.
* [[The Generic Guy|The Generic Guy/Girl]]: Most girls, some of the men.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Half the women abducted.
* [[Girl Friday]]: Some [[Big Bad]]s have these, some even *gasp* not sexual partners.
* [[Girls Behind Bars]].
* [[Gladiator Games]]: Women are forced to fight in them.
* [[Good Is Impotent]]: God either [[The Gods Must Be Lazy|doesn't]] [[Jerkass Gods|care]] or is [[God Is Evil|just plain evil]], considering the level of madness in all these worlds.
** Same goes for the authorities, which are either dumber than bricks, or in on it.
* [[Going Commando]]: Girls are forced to do this. Or... worse.
* [[Gorn]].
* [[Great White Hunter]]. Spoofed: it's a [[Evil Poacher|woman hunter]]. Trope still fits since they're considered this in-world.
* [[Guns In Church]]: Played scarily straight especially in [[After The End]] stories.
* [[Hell Bent For Leather]].
* [[Hellhole Prison]].
* [[He Man Woman Hater]].
* [[Hollywood Nuns]]: The whole grid.
* [[Hope Spot]]: [[La Resistance]] -> there's still some hope to be free. Men breaking in and shooting -> Hope broken.
* [[Horny Devils]]: 2 or 3 numbers touch this problem.
* [[Horny Vikings]]: #293 is dedicated to them, in both the trope's spirit, and its literal sense.
* [[Hostage Situation]].
** [[Hostage Video]].
* [[Huge Guy Tiny Girl]]: [[Fat And Proud]] type.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: The men may be dumb hillbillies, but the women who believe themselves so smart aren't that much in front of them either. They'll get into [[Obvious Trap]]s just to keep their jobs or because they're [[Too Dumb To Live]].
* [[If You Ever Do Anything To Hurt Her]]: You know how that ends...
* [[I Have Boobs You Must Obey]]: It ''never'' works.
* [[I Have You Now My Pretty]]: Although the victimized women are more referred to as "slut", "whore" or "bitch" instead of "My pretty".
* [[I Have Your Wife]].
* [[I Kiss Your Foot]].
* [[Improbably Cool Car]]: Having post-apocalyptic settings give large possibility over the design of a car.
* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: If they're men, [[Break the Cutie|they'll break]]. If they're women... [[If You Know What I Mean|they'll break in a different way]]. If they're men and won't break, they'll be killed. Simple as that.
* [[Inner Monologue]]: Fansadox trademark: swearing and pleading to God in their head. [[Crapsack World|It doesn't help.]]
* [[Institutional Apparel]]: Orange jumpsuits in ''Reformatory School For Lost Girls''.
* [[It Gets Worse]]: Often lampshaded by the torturers. "You think you had it rough until now? Just wait, it's just beginning!"
* [[I Showed Her What A Real Man Is]].
* [[Jerkass]]: Even when they have the law on their side and the slaves obedient, they still like to hurt them just to be a douche about it.
* [[Lampshaded Double Entendre]]:
*: '''Valet boy at a hotel''': ''By the ''saints''! This must be his excellency's ''harem''! Father O'Mally is going to have to give me '''extra''' penance this Sunday... because I'm having impure thoughts ''right now''!''
* [[Les Yay]]: Mostly when the torturers are women, sometimes with two or more slaves forced.
* [[Locked Away In A Monastery]]: Both the literal version of this, and the sex type.
* [[Los Angeles]]: ''The Great Invasion'' and the beginning of the reboot of ''[[Women Hunt]] are placed there.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: So you kidnapped a girl and took her away from her usual life to turn her into a mindless cocksucker? [[It Gets Worse|It could get better]], you could sell her off to slave ring and make money for a few more of these! You could even start your own slave racket! If you're ''really'' lucky, you could catch the eye of a beautiful honest female police officer... and enslave her too! The sky's the limit. [[Sincerity Mode|No, seriously.]]
* [[Klingon Promotion]]: Rarely happens, especially in stable (even if otherwise fucked-up) societies, but in #43 - ''Revenge'' {{spoiler|the (female) creator of a sexual fantasy-turned-revenge facility is removed from rulership by her brother and "the richest man in the world" and given a [[Fate Worse Than Death]]}}.
* [[La Resistance]]: They're hiding, underfed, unhelped, their ranks are being broken every day, there are specialised hunters on their trail, without a chance in hell, but they're still there... for plot and sadists.
* [[Made A Slave]].
* [[Maid Of Sexy]]. Again, broken.
* [[Mars Needs Women]]: Played literally in ''Women Hunt''. Also in stories set in space.
* [[Me Love You Long Time]]: Inverted, including the love part. Authors are fond of making "couples" from male non-white and female white.
* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor|Mean Character Drawer, Nice Artist]]: Gary Roberts at least admits it [[Money Dear Boy|he's in it for the money]] and was a race car driver before being a BDSM comic artist. May be the case for most others, although Cagri tends to kill off half his negative characters, and Fernando has a thing for [[Dirty Old Man|taking jabs at teens]] through [[Author Avatar]]s [[Dad The Veteran]]...
* [[Men Are Uncultured]]. Smelly. Slobs. Lazy. Abusive. But [[If You Know What I Mean|they sure]] [[Biggus Dickus|compensate...]] And it's implied they don't need more than that, anyway. Note that they may be all that, but they're not ''stupid''. Some know how to fight (or just hit), run offices, have gotten to a position of power by some means, and so on.
* [[Mind Rape]].
* [[Minion With An F In Evil]]: [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] with Norville from "Psycho". The poor guy wasn't as willing at first, that's why he pretty much sucked at being evil. [[The Master]] knew this, and taunted and tried to turn him every turn he had.
* [[Missing White Woman Syndrome]]: Played straight in issues which deal with the abduction and training of girls from other countries or other races than white. Circumvented with the actual deal: sometimes nobody cares anyway, and when it's played into effect, there's still nothing anyone can do to save them. Also interesting subversion when a large chunk of the police raids in force the mansion of a wealthy man for a stripper in ''#167 - Stripper'', although it's implied it still has a [[Bad End]], but at least the guy wasn't [[Screw The Rules I Have Money|''totally'' above the law]].
* [[Momma's Boy]]: There's even one number named like that.
* [[Money Dear Boy]]: Why these things are made in the first place.
* [[Moving The Goal Posts]]: When it's not outright "[[I Lied]]".
* [[Mutilation Interrogation]]: Very rare, but present in the ''Chinese Warlord'' series.
* [[My Girl Is A Slut]]: Men are PROUD of displaying their slaves to their family, friends, neighbors, and where it's legally available, the whole world. They don't mind sharing their services either.
* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: Averted with men, inverted with women. Women in positions of power don't complain if other women are owned, raped and tortured, preferably by them.
* [[Naughty Nuns]]: Too bad it's only the ''[[Nuns Are Spooky|spooky]]'' ones that are like that.
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: #74 [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|Abducted]]
* [[Naughty Under The Table]]: Deconstructed: Women are made to serve under the table, men enjoy it/eat their dinner with little interruption/annoyance.
* [[Negative Continuity]]: Except for a few continued series.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: Some series that risk going into [[Gorn]] territory do this to their female protagonists.
* [[Not Distracted By The Sexy]]: Pretty much every free girl seems to think her showing some skin will appease ''everyone'' and they'll get what they want with the slightest move. [[Genre Blind|They're so wrong.]]
* [[Not My Driver]].
* [[No Womans Land]].
* [[Nuns Are Spooky]]: And [[Naughty Nuns|naughty]] [[Squick|too]].
* [[Oblivious Younger Sibling]]: Usually subverted after the first 5 seconds a family member enters and finds abused women, pretending to be horrified. It ''always'' turns out for them to be in on it. The only times it's played straight is with the daughters or young women, who are in some mob-like business and don't want it to be known.
* [[Only Six Faces]]: Most women in the same series have similar faces. If you're looking at the works of the same author, you may think "new" characters are literally the reincarnations of old ones.
* [[Orphaned Series]]: Many, many series do not have a sequel (although the author will continue onto other series). Many have a "To be continued" at the end, only to never have a continuance. Hell, it's safer to say that half the stories in the series don't claim to continue the story, half claim but don't, and a small portion that is neither get actual sequels. And even fewer get [[Uncanceled]].
* [[O Ring Orifice]]: The things that get stuffed in different orifices, "won't fit", but fit anyway... with some bleeding sometimes, but they fit and we never hear about serious injury again.
* [[Over The Shoulder Carry]]: Happens very often.
* [[Parental Incest]]: It's only ok if it's [[Kissing Cousins|step-father on step-daughter, uncle on niece, or mother on daughter]]. It's usually [[Double Standard|not ok for blood-father on daughter or mother on son]]. "The Birthday Gift" series deconstructs this, as a father uses his own daughter as a slave at the company he works at, but without telling anyone. But it's still not ok for the same family to buy its relatives, or so it would seem.
* [[Past Victim Showcase]]: While no real graphic examples, mentions of the slaves' predecessors who... happened to die in nasty ways are common.
* [[Pirate]]: Type 1 pirates, both in the 18th century in books like "Carribean Pirates" and "Barbary Corsairs" and modern day [[Somalia]]n pirates in others.
* [[Place Worse Than Death]]: Siberia in several occasions, and Africa and the Arab-speaking world are presented as the worst place ''to even take a vacation in''.
* [[Poisonous Captive]]: A rich man caught with torturing famous girls is captured and requests to talk to [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|a certain incorruptible detective]]. His entire story turns out to be a complicated [[Batman Gambit]] [[Hannibal Lecture]], to which the detective eventually falls pray, destroys the evidence against the rich man, but is sold out by him and caught raping a girl the rich man left for him. The [[Book Ends]] with the detective calling another specific detective to [[This Is My Story|tell his story]]...
* [[Police Are Useless]]: Dumb as brick or corrupt.
* [[Porn Stash]]: From your 40ish [[Basement Dweller]] to your successful business man or even women. they all have it.
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: The entire ''[[Women Hunt]]'' is based around this.
* [[Prison Rape]]: All of male-on-female, male-on-male and female-on-female examples.
* [[Psycho Ex Girlfriend]]: Happens at least in #168 - ''Evil Parole''
* [[Psycho For Hire]]: Prevalent in ''Women Hunt''.
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Most women that aren't tortured will usually be this.
* [[Psycho Psychologist]]s: [[Exactly What It Says On The Tin|"Mad Madhouse", "Siberian Madhouse"]] and "[[Rule of Three|Cracked Bombshell]]" stand out.
* [[Rape And Switch]]: Examples of raped women turning straight. It generally works too.
* [[Rape Is A Special Kind Of Evil|Rape In the Butt Is A Special Kind Of Evil]]: Because plain ol' non-consensual vaginal sex with adolescent virgins is ''[[So Last Season|so vanilla]]''.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: Usually averted, the torturers want their victim ''not to love every moment of their ordeal''. In some issues however, at least one woman is made into a perfect "pet", who will love her master's abuse and will not swear him [[Inner Monologue|in her head]].
* [[Rape Is Ok When It's Female On Female]]: The main kind of [[Unfortunate Implication]] is averted for the stories (rape by woman is ''not'' considered less demeaning than rape by man, it's considered even worse), but it's "for fun" too.
* [[Rape Is Ok When It's Female On Male]]: Oh so subverted.
* [[Rape Pillage And Burn]]: About a quarter of the numbers start with this premise.
* [[Refuge In Audacity]].
* [[Resistance Is Futile]]. And how.
* [[Revenge Tropes]]. Full list. See [[Strictly Formula]] below.
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Half the girls that are taken.
* [[Robotic Torture Device]]: Abundant in technological evolved worlds.
* [[Ruritania]]: It varies from this to [[China Takes Over The World]] settings, to the US being indirectly mentioned. Oh yeah, and generic "Africa" and [[Somalia]].
** Cagri especially loves doing this, since he actually does a lot of [[Take That]] at [[Real Life]] celebrities.
* [[Sacrificial Lamb]]: Many, just to show how sadistic and meaning in their deeds the men are.
* [[Sadist Show]]: Some of the issues can turn into this when the girls taken were not much better when they were free.
* [[Scarpia Ultimatum]].
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Many issues set in SubSaharan Africa or Harlem and in various other issues.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: With the advance of technology, adding [[Rule of Cool|cool]] sceneries has become an easy thing (depending on the artist's talent, too). Since about the 200th issue and the introduction of new artists, many pages are concentrated on the awesome background of the place it's talking about than about the female body. That's all nice and well, but being a porn magazine, the [[Plot with Porn|plot part]] without naked, tortured women is getting too much advanced on the latter.
* [[Screw The Money I Have Rules]]: Some of the sadists will give up big sums of money that they could receive for their rich hostages just for the chance of breaking the girls and never letting them go. A weird example of [[Even Evil Has Standards]] ... standards that in practice are evil too.
* [[Secret Chaser]]: Any woman in this position will be quickly spotted and taken to rape quarters. Men are implied to not be so lucky.
* [[Secret Police]]: The Junta double comic. Also some 3rd world countries.
* [[Seemingly Wholesome Fifties Girl]]: Some of the victims.
* [[Sensible Heroes Skimpy Villains]]: Inverted: The girls are made to dress slutty, while the men dress ordinary.
* [[Sensitive Guy And Manly Man]]: The team in ''Psycho''.
* [[Sequel Escalation]]: Where there are sequels, also in the general run of all Fansadox works.
* [[Series Hiatus]]: While the entire ''Fansadox'' franchise will probably not suffer from this in the future (because of multiple authors, new authors always appearing and being a [[Cash Cow Franchise]]), announced sequels of individual issues do this all the time.
** Or simply put, [[Never Trust A Trailer}Never Trust]] a "[[To Be Continued]]" caption.
* [[Servile Snarker]]: When there's a duo, one will almost certainly be a snarker. Usually, not to the other, but to the captured women.
* [[Sexy Back]]: The girls are sometimes made to wear backless dresses.
** [[Sexy Backless Outfit]].
* [[Shameful Strip]]: Once they're got.
* [[Shameless Fanservice Girl]]: Most of the female protagonists.
* [[Show Some Leg]]: Doesn't work, since the bad guys can just take anything they want.
* [[Sinister Minister]].
* [[Slave Collar]].
* [[Slipping A Mickey]]: Another often used way of ensnaring victims.
* [[Snuff Film]]: Some bad guys are actually in this business.
* [[So Beautiful Its A Curse]]: Many women in these stories are targeted specifically because of their beauty.
* [[Soft Glass]]: Most of the times played straight, [[Shown Their Work]] once:
*: ''Can't fall through... Broken glass'll kill me. But must alert neighbors...!''
*:-- '''Annie''', #121 ''The Snatcher''
** Of course, ''why she doesn't break the glass with her head'' or something to '''alert the neighbors''' is anybody's guess...
* [[Southern Belle]]: Mrs. O'Hara and her two daughters in "1850, White Slaves".
* [[Spies In A Van]].
* [[Spikes Of Villainy]]: Goes well with the bondage theme.
* [[Stalker With A Crush]].
* [[Stalker With A Test Tube]]: The female party in ''Sex Wars'' are shown to use these to get their attackers' sperm, so they can procreate (they're a society of [[Hot Amazon]]s).
* [[Standard Fifties Father]]: Although the girls comment "they could be their grandfathers", these are usually the types of older abusers. Sometimes strongly deconstructed.
* [[STD Immunity]]: Some stories [[Hand Wave]] that all venerical diseases have been cured in the near future, some don't bother and some [[Fate Worse Than Death|thoroughly subvert it regarding veneric diseases]]. Pregnancy is more common, because it's a fetish itself in some circles (read more on [[Fetish-Fuel Future]]).
* [[Straw Feminist]]: They will usually be the main characters, before being submissed as part of [[Break The Cutie]]/[[Break The Haughty]] plot.
* [[Strictly Formula]]: A female character possessing any amount of innocence and/or dignity at the start of the story will have it all taken away in the most horrifying way possible by the final page. Or by page three.
** Alternately, man [[Do You Want To Copulate|courts]] woman, woman says he's a pig, man plans and employs [[Disproportional Retribution]].
** Woman/women are on a deserted road, needing a lift and [[Genre Blind|thinking the dude is hot/harmless]].
** A couple or a group of women take a tour of diverse interests to an exotic country. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** A disaster has happened, there are either no more rules, or rules are modified for the [[Asskicking Equals Authority|pleasure of strong]]. Women ''always'' get the shorter end of the stick.
** See also below ''Underestimating Badassery''.
* [[Super Fun Happy Thing Of Doom]]: ''Reformatory School For Lost Girls''.
* [[A Taste Of The Lash]]: Favorite punishment of the franchise.
* [[The Taxi]]: Taxi Cab Mafia.
* [[Telepathic Spacemen|Telepathic Space Amazons]]: It doesn't really help them...
* [[Tempting Fate]]: Pretty much every girl that ''managed to escape for the time being'', or worse, who for a moment think they turned the table on the captors. [[Dude Not Funny|Hilarity]] [[Hilarity Ensues|Ensues]].
* [[This Is My Story]]: Some girls tend to tell their story. One even declares [[Discussed Trope|she's forced to]], [[Deconstructed Trope|for her masters]].
* [[To Be Continued]]: A lot get this line slapped at the end, few are actually continued.
* [[Too Dumb To Live]]: Some of the victims, ''always'' lampshaded in such occasions. Eventually just played with: in one comic, in a slave-state, women are actually ''euthanized'' if they don't learn to perform their sexual duties.
* [[Too Kinky To Torture]]: Subverted by the many female Dominatrices that got the other end of the torture...
* [[Torture Always Works]]: To be fair, it's also highly advanced.
* [[Torture Cellar]]: Played straight and many variations on it.
* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: So abused. Victims fall from A to F, [[Break The Cutie|B being]] the rarest.
* [[Trap Door]]: There was one in at least one strip.
* [[Trope Overdosed]]: Mainly because each number is set in virtually a different world with different characters, and around 10 artists, each with their own worlds, contribute here. That makes the range of tropes fall all over the grid.
* [[Tragedy]]: Implicit for the women.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into The Future]]: Some of the stories are placed then.
* [[Twincest]]: Usually with blond barely 18 year old sisters.
* [[Twin Telepathy]]: Alluded in one comic that two twin girls could feel each other's feelings. Again, it didn't help them much. If anything, it makes it worse.
* [[Two Plus Torture Makes Five]]: Some girls are made to honestly believe this life is now what they must strive for. Mostly, their owners try not to let them get that far, since it's considered a "release" they're not willing to give.
* [[Uncanceled]]: The rarest of the stories have this luck. May be the case of the ''[[Confiscated Twins]]'' series, which had a new issue ''80 issues after the second'' (out of 260). A few other series were as lucky.
* [[Undead Horse Trope]] / [[Forgotten Trope]] / [[Dude Not Funny]] / [[Unfortunate Implications]] / [[Did Not Do The Research]]: Nothing's too old, too worn out, too unfunny or too vile to use. Except [[Pandering To The Base|what would offend the target audience]].
* [[Ugly Guy Hot Wife]]: Most of the men are ugly as hell - probably one of the reasons they need to kidnap a woman to even have some. Replace "wife" with "slave".
* [[Underestimating Badassery]]: Women actively provoking very rich people or sheiks (or just strong men) in public places and thinking they can get away with it (they can, for the moment). [[Logical Extreme|Taken to extreme]] with a ''Drug lord'' by a ''female chemist''. Ok, female cop we'd understand, but humiliating a ''Drug lord'' in public and thinking you can nail him, too? [[Too Dumb To Live]], baby.
* [[Unwilling Suspension]]: The [[Cold Blooded Torture]] type.
* [[Used Future]].
* [[Vapor Wear]]: Again, girls forced to wear revealing clothes.
* [[Villain Protagonist]]s.
* [[Villain World]]: Has a few of these.
* [[Yank The Dog's Chain]]: Cagri ''loves'' to do this. Towards the end of their predicament, the women are presented with an escape chance apparently coming from Heaven itself... only to be told that their "saviors" are in on it too.
* [[You Fail Biology Forever]]: Some of the things those women go through should leave them horribly mutilated or dead.
* [[We All Live In America]]: Deconstructed: acting and dressing American or even westernly in other countries ''will'' set off views (sometimes [[Hypocrite]]cal) of [[Moral Dissonance]] and [[Disproportionate Retribution|will be punished harshly]].
* [[What Does She See In Him]]: Hinted in the beginning of some issues, until it's revealed ''the women are forced to serve''.
* [[What Measure Is A Non Human]]: What measure is a Non-''man'' (woman and/or slave).
* [[Working On The Chain Gang]]: "African Chain Gang" etc.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Most women don't realise they're born in [[Crapsack World]]s.

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All Men Love Ponygirls

2012-11-18T03:00:46Z

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We know [[All Girls Like Ponies]] and [[All Abusers Are Male]]. But what are men going to do with ponies? No, not that... [[But You Screw One Goat|maybe one time]]... Well, they're turn the girls into ponies! [[Insane Troll Logic]]? You betcha, but is that going to stand in the way between [[Fetish Fuel]] and those who want to receive it? Hell no!

The process from a pony to a ponygirl is not simple or easy and involved a lot of [[Cold Blooded Torture]].

Though generally not related, compare [[Furry Fandom]] and [[Cat Girl]].

== Examples ==
* A few issues in ''[[Fansadox]]''.
** And of course, in the [[Fetish Fuel Future]] of ''[[Birthday Gift]]'', men ''love'' ponygirls!
* Some are made into this through [[hypnosis]] in ''[[The Erotic Mind Control Story Archive]]''.

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All Men Love Ponygirls

2012-11-18T02:58:13Z

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We know [[All Girls Like Ponies]] and [[All Abusers Are Male]]. But what are men going to do with ponies? No, not that... [[But You Screw One Goat|maybe one time]]... Well, they're turn the girls into ponies! [[Insane Troll Logic]]? You betcha, but is that going to stand in the way between [[Fetish Fuel]] and those who want to receive it? Hell no!

The process from a pony to a ponygirl

Though generally not related, compare [[Furry Fandom]] and [[Cat Girl]].

== Examples ==
* A few issues in ''[[Fansadox]]''.
** And of course, in the [[Fetish Fuel Future]] of ''[[Birthday Gift]]'', men ''love'' ponygirls!
* Some are made into this through [[hypnosis]] in ''[[The Erotic Mind Control Story Archive]]''.

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Incarceration

2012-11-18T02:41:39Z

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