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Womanliness as Pathos
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Womanliness as Pathos is a narrative idea that the mere presence of something female or feminine will cause emotions like angst, drama, suffering, or pity. Under this theory, even "positive" emotions like sympathy, protectiveness, love or lust are merely desires to overcome or prevent negative emotions (like sadness, worry, loneliness or heartbreak). In fiction, you can tell this trope is at play when scenes involving a woman create intrigue, concern, competition, tension, danger or stress for the characters, or when some major conflict or disaster is caused by a woman doing (or convincing a man to do) something manipulative, selfish or foolish. It takes the form of male characters being harmed or held back by them, women themselves being endangered or oppressed, tougher characters vigilantly protecting them, female characters fighting and scheming against each other, femininity being portrayed as inherently shallow, vapid or unstable, feminine male/transmasculine characters causing some sort of trouble, or women not being held to the same scrutiny as men. Put bluntly, this conclusion is one of the most common forms of misogyny, but it also has elements of Truth in Television due to the inherent problems and disadvantages that many women face socially and physically. For example...without a Daddy DNA Test, a man will always have uncertainty about his paternity, and thus fear being a Cuckold. A Pregnant Hostage will always be considered more delicate and more sympathetic due to the impossibility for cis men to bear life. As long as "boys only want one thing", a Boyfriend-Blocking Dad will always fight to defend his daughters from that. And if a male character constantly uses destructive means to achieve success, then yes, women who don't like those things will always oppose them. However, like any Stereotype, this is easily taken too far, especially when people/characters despise femininity, or want women kept out of the way just to avoid these issues, or when women/feminine characters are themselves blamed for something bad happening to them. As you can imagine, this is one of The Oldest Ones in the Book. Just see the number of myths and ancient legends that follow this pattern in the examples below to demonstrate how this trope was at one point even more in fashion. Due to its very controversial and delicate subject matter, we must ask that there be No Real Life Examples, Please!. Also, examples listed on this page should be extremely egregious, repetitious, or well-known; otherwise, it is probably a better fit in one of the relevant Sub Tropes in the subpage for tropes. Sub-Trope of Women Are Delicate. Super-Trope of Men Are Generic, Women Are Special, as this trope is the reason they're considered "special". Compare and contrast with Females Are More Innocent, Moe and Women Are Wiser; while on the surface, they seem to counter this trope by eliciting positive emotions, the wiser or "innocent" women are often seen as valuable enough to protect. This trope is common in Film Noir and Hardboiled Detective stories, often to make the protagonist uncomfortable or to make him "care" about solving the case. Also the calling card of Nothing Nice About Sugar and Spice. Tropes: |
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Terminator: Sarah Connor in The Terminator was scripted to be a vulnerable, accessible Girl Next Door compared to the unstoppable, terrifying monster coming to kill her. Her design was crafted to be as far as possible from what you'd expect from a woman destined to save the world. In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, she was redesigned so that the girl we knew was gone. Now, we have a tougher, more proactive Sarah, but she is described as being like a "cornered animal" whose voice and behavior are simultaneously defiant and chilling. She attempts to become a Terminator herself when stalking Miles Dyson but finds she's not a machine after all. | |
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Women are usually the primary focus of the series, as they are most often portrayed as the victims of rape or sexual abuse. Many stories deal with the negative assumptions of this trope, such as Victim-Blaming a woman who should have "known better" under the assumption that rape was an inevitable consequence of a woman being in a particular place, time, or situation. Other negative consequences, such as men being raped by women (or other men) and not being believed or receiving the same sympathy are also brought up. This trope even extends to the personal struggles of the main characters. Olivia Benson is a Child by Rape who empathizes with female victims and, later, endures a sexual assault herself. Her original partner, Elliot Stabler, is overly-protective and feels it's his "duty" to not only protect his partner but to apprehend the perpetrators of these crimes because he fears something like it happening to his wife and daughters. | |
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The Trojan Cycle: The Trojan War. The whole thing was started by Eris, the goddess of discord, tossing a golden apple into Olympus "for the fairest". As a result, the goddesses fight over it, resulting in Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena choosing Paris as the 'judge'. Aphrodite bribing Paris with Helen of Sparta, the World's Most Beautiful Woman and the famous 'face that launched a thousand ships', is what gets the war going. This causes the men around Helen, including her husband King Menelaus, to start and sustain a conflict that lasts over a decade while Helen herself remains relatively passive in Troy. The Iliad: The driving conflict of Achilles being in his tent for the first half is Agamemnon refusing to hand over the conquest he wanted, the priest's daughter Briseis. |
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The Trojan War is parodied in the Discworld novel Eric, where the noncombatants are shown to be rather uninterested in the whole war and wish Elenor would just choose which king she wanted to stay with. | |
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Grand Theft Auto V: The Inciting Incident for the events of the game is the moment when Michael chooses to wreck what he thinks is the house of the man (or one of the men) his wife has been having an affair with. The fact that he himself cheats on her with random strippers and prostitutes is barely addressed at all; it's her infidelity that the game mostly focuses on. We also see many other examples of important or secondary male characters whose love interests or girlfriends are seeing other people. Franklin is motivated to get rich primarily to try and win back his ex-girlfriend from her rich fiancé, and Trevor points out that his unwilling accomplice, Floyd, is being cheated on by his fiancée Debra—something given credence when Debra mentions a "Robert" later. Trevor himself is also introduced in the game cuckolding Johnny from Lost and Damned (soon after killing him), and one of the few characters that elicits Trevor's sympathy (and, in fact, outright love) is the beleaguered but loyal wife of the mob boss whose house Michael ruined. | |
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Eve and Adam: Terra Striker is the cold, rather bitchy mother of the first protagonist, Evening, who basically adopts the second protagonist and Evening's love interest, Solo. Early into the story, her attitude and controlling nature have everyone assuming that she's the mastermind behind the entire story but it turns out that she's not. While she is definitely not blameless, most of her actions were done out of genuine concern for her daughter. And it's also revealed that she tried to stop the events that led up to the story. Terra is basically the axis that drives the entire plot forward and brings the characters together. | |
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A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky: Subverted. The Lydian religion, which is based around a Mother Goddess, is the source of all the conflict pre-Time Skip, such as the imprisonment of the initial protagonists' mother and their need to live in a barren land... And then that goddess is revealed to actually be a male nearly-immortal android pretending to be a god, who is so insane that he actually believes it. | |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show: In addition to the villain being a rather feminine transvestite whose love for constant, responsibility-free sex leads him to manipulate, murder, cheat, rape, and abuse those around him, his actions also cause the heroine, Janet, to start some drama of her own. In discovering her sexuality, she cheats on Brad with both Frank and, more importantly, Rocky- the one person who Frank doesn't want anyone else to sleep with. Frank jealously attacks Janet afterward, and in trying to protect her, Brad and Dr. Scott both get turned to stone. In the end, while Janet is feeling freed, Brad is a broken mess, and it's left ambiguous whether or not her newfound sexual freedom is a good thing- it certainly wasn't one for the other characters, who suffered directly and indirectly because of both her and Frank. | |
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise makes extensive use of this trope, with women often being the causes of game's events or important motivators for the male protagonists. In Grand Theft Auto III, the story proper begins when the protagonist Claude is betrayed by his girlfriend, Catalina, during a bank robbery and gets arrested for it. Catalina thus becomes the story's main antagonist and is demonstrated to be a complete psychopath. Further, Claude is later betrayed by one of his mafioso bosses because the mafioso falsely thinks Claude is sleeping with one of his mistresses, Maria, who becomes both the Damsel in Distress as well as the closest thing Claude has to a Love Interest. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas This game is a prequel reintroduces Catalina as one of Carl "CJ" Johnson's "girlfriends" (although it's clear that CJ is only putting up with her to try and get money to bail his older brother out of jail). Once again, Catalina is a complete psychopath and further demonstrates herself to be an extremely impulsive and inept criminal due to her Hair-Trigger Temper. She continuously nags, screams, and derides CJ, using him as an example of why she "hates men" while ignoring any of the problems she herself causes. Further, when confronted by CJ on her actions (and her refusal to pay him the money she promised), she changes the subject by accusing him of eyeing other women and being a bad boyfriend, and blames her chaotic actions on "the female heart". The protagonist's sister, Kendl, is portrayed as the "brains" of the Johnson family and is constantly frustrated by her brothers' attempts at gangbanging and criminal activities (although she has no qualms about using the ill-gotten gains). Further, her brothers show constant concern about her virtue, at first staunchly disapproving that she is dating the Latino gangster, Caesar. The main antagonist, Officer Tenpenny, even constantly tries to intimidate and anger Carl by threatening Kendl with harm and rape, stating at one point that Carl should be glad that she currently "only sucking one greaseball's dick". A very obscure mechanic in San Andreas can have Carl's date with one of his girlfriends interrupted by another one of his girlfriends. Grand Theft Auto IV: Early in the game, Niko finds out that his cousin Roman is being cuckolded by a small-time criminal with powerful connections. Roman is devastated to learn of it but begs Niko to do nothing that would draw the wrath of the more powerful criminals. Niko is appalled by his cousin's resignation and kills the criminal anyway to retaliate. Later in the game, it's also revealed that Niko's girlfriend Michelle is actually a government agent named Karen Daniels, and depending on the ending, Niko's other canonical girlfriend, Kate, can also be accidentally killed during a drive-by, prompting Niko to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Grand Theft Auto V: The Inciting Incident for the events of the game is the moment when Michael chooses to wreck what he thinks is the house of the man (or one of the men) his wife has been having an affair with. The fact that he himself cheats on her with random strippers and prostitutes is barely addressed at all; it's her infidelity that the game mostly focuses on. We also see many other examples of important or secondary male characters whose love interests or girlfriends are seeing other people. Franklin is motivated to get rich primarily to try and win back his ex-girlfriend from her rich fiancé, and Trevor points out that his unwilling accomplice, Floyd, is being cheated on by his fiancée Debra—something given credence when Debra mentions a "Robert" later. Trevor himself is also introduced in the game cuckolding Johnny from Lost and Damned (soon after killing him), and one of the few characters that elicits Trevor's sympathy (and, in fact, outright love) is the beleaguered but loyal wife of the mob boss whose house Michael ruined. |
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The Silence of the Lambs: The character of Buffalo Bill was not meant to be seen as truly homosexual or transgender. Instead, the writers, cast, and actors state (as repeated by Hannibal Lector in-universe) that Bill was a deeply disturbed man who wanted to create a "new him" with the "respect and power" he felt that women were afforded in society. For this reason, he kidnapped, tortured, killed, and then skinned overweight women to create his "woman suit", which made him feel confident and sexy the way he thought "women" would. | |
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In Grand Theft Auto III, the story proper begins when the protagonist Claude is betrayed by his girlfriend, Catalina, during a bank robbery and gets arrested for it. Catalina thus becomes the story's main antagonist and is demonstrated to be a complete psychopath. Further, Claude is later betrayed by one of his mafioso bosses because the mafioso falsely thinks Claude is sleeping with one of his mistresses, Maria, who becomes both the Damsel in Distress as well as the closest thing Claude has to a Love Interest. | |
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Sin City: Women (whether good or bad) are quite often the cause of anguish, danger, or the eventual downfall of several characters, especially the protagonists. "That Yellow Bastard" opens with protagonist John Hartigan pursuing pedophile child-killer Roark Junior to save the eleven-year-old Nancy Callahan. John saves Nancy and wounds Junior's genitals but is betrayed by his fellow cops and framed for the crimes himself. While in prison, Hartigan's wife refuses to wait for him, divorces him, and has children with another man. Hartigan's only solace during this time are the periodic letters he receives from Nancy, who (under an alias) tells him about her life and how much she loves him for saving her. One day, Hartigan receives one of Nancy's letters with a finger inside, and he confesses to all the false charges so that he'll be released early and able to save Nancy. Upon finding her working as a stripper, Hartigan realizes that he was tricked and has led Roark Junior directly to Nancy. Nancy spots Hartigan in the crowd and immediately leaps into his arms, kissing him, thus accidentally revealing who she is. Hartigan protects her from Junior, and while hiding out, Nancy tries to convince Hartigan to sleep with her, but he refuses due to their age difference. While Hartigan struggles to keep his urges under control, Junior finds them and attempts to kill Hartigan while promising to rape and kill Nancy. Hartigan escapes, saves Nancy, and kills Junior. He and Nancy declare their love for each other, and she goes off to wait for him to find her again. Hartigan, however, realizes that with Junior dead, his father will now scour the ends of the Earth for Hartigan and Nancy, and so he does the only thing he can to protect her—killing himself. "The Big Fat Kill" involves a gang of Dirty Cops trying to shakedown and sexually assault one of the prostitutes who are in charge of Old Town. The cops and the hookers have a non-aggression truce whereas they'll leave each other alone, but this is broken when Miho kills the dirty cops and gives the police an excuse to throw The Lopsided Arm of the Law at Old Town and take it over. This starts a war in which the protagonist Dwight has to protect the freedom of the working girls against an army of cops, gangsters, and mercenaries. It's later revealed that Becky, the girl who caused all of this, intentionally provoked the cops and started the war—and she is later implied to be killed because of it. In "The Hard Goodbye", Marv is a hideous, lonely man who pines for Nancy but feels that no woman would ever love him because of his looks. He is shocked when a woman named Goldie takes him to bed and gives him a great night of sex, only to find her dead when he awakens. Feeling indebted to Goldie for giving him the one night of passion he thought he'd never enjoy, he tracks down everyone involved with her death—leading up to Cardinal Roark, brother of the corrupt Senator. Along the way, Marv finds his parole officer, Lucille, tortured and with her hand eaten off, and she is later killed by a squad of Dirty Cops. He is then attacked by (and later teams up with) Goldie's twin sister Wendy. After killing the people responsible for torturing Lucille and killing Goldie, Marv is captured and sent to prison. He endures every torture they inflict and refuses to sign a confession that would allow them to legally execute him, but reluctantly signs the confession when they threaten to kill his mother. The story then ends with him being thanked by Wendy, but executed for his good deeds. |
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas This game is a prequel reintroduces Catalina as one of Carl "CJ" Johnson's "girlfriends" (although it's clear that CJ is only putting up with her to try and get money to bail his older brother out of jail). Once again, Catalina is a complete psychopath and further demonstrates herself to be an extremely impulsive and inept criminal due to her Hair-Trigger Temper. She continuously nags, screams, and derides CJ, using him as an example of why she "hates men" while ignoring any of the problems she herself causes. Further, when confronted by CJ on her actions (and her refusal to pay him the money she promised), she changes the subject by accusing him of eyeing other women and being a bad boyfriend, and blames her chaotic actions on "the female heart". The protagonist's sister, Kendl, is portrayed as the "brains" of the Johnson family and is constantly frustrated by her brothers' attempts at gangbanging and criminal activities (although she has no qualms about using the ill-gotten gains). Further, her brothers show constant concern about her virtue, at first staunchly disapproving that she is dating the Latino gangster, Caesar. The main antagonist, Officer Tenpenny, even constantly tries to intimidate and anger Carl by threatening Kendl with harm and rape, stating at one point that Carl should be glad that she currently "only sucking one greaseball's dick". A very obscure mechanic in San Andreas can have Carl's date with one of his girlfriends interrupted by another one of his girlfriends. |
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Indian Maiden: A young and beautiful member of a tribal society and thus stands out from others in her tribe in some way. | |
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Steven Universe: The extraterrestrial race of gems are almost all female-identifying, and while this is normally a non-issue on the show, the "feminine" qualities of the cast sometimes contribute to the story. For example, the fact that Rose Quartz (Steven's mother) was female and had to give birth to Steven by giving him her own gem is a major plot point. In addition to making her a Missing Mom, it causes Steven himself to be misgendered as "she" several times as people refuse to see the half-human boy and only the "female" gem wedged in his body. In particular, three out of four of the Diamond Authority demonstrate extremely toxic elements of stereotypical femininity: Pink Diamond was a bratty, impatient Rebellious Princess whose obsession with getting her own colony, desire to stop being pampered and patronized by her "sisters", and later falling in love with the organic life on said planet were what caused the events of the series. Blue Diamond is Prone to Tears and uses her emotions as a weapon to turn other people into crying, hysterical wrecks as well. In particular, she was the one who abused Pink Diamond the most and treated her desires and concerns as irrelevant. White Diamond is the "mother" of the entire gem race and believes she knows what's "best" for everyone while ignoring her own flaws. If her children don't behave the way she likes, she simply "fixes" them by removing their free will and turns them into extensions of her own ego. |
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The Hagakure goes at length about the unreliability of women in general. For example, it is emphasized that a samurai has to avoid allowing a son to grow too close to his mother (such as by being too strict... as a woman will "naturally" side with her son) or by allowing too much contact between the two after a certain age. The book goes on to say that the concepts of "reason" and "women" are mutually exclusive, that women should not have contact with any man closer than a distance of six feet, and that it is good to be strict with daughters and let them endure suffering under the assumption that Misery Builds Character and their strife will end once properly married. | |
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G.I. Jane: This trope is exploited by several characters to try and justify their beliefs that a woman is unfit to join and inherently disruptive to a Navy Seal unit. The main character, O'Neil, is put through miserable hazing and bullying, is accused of being a predatory lesbian, and Master Chief Urgayle begins to sexually assault her during a training exercise to show what is "likely" to happen to a woman captured by the enemy — an action that all of the male trainees fiercely object to but do not try to stop. O'Neil fights off Urgayle before things go too far, leaving it ambiguous whether or not he would have truly gone that far. | |
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Indiana Jones: Dr. Jones's experiences with women are fraught with emotional baggage. He is constantly tempted and solicited by his female students and endures heavy Belligerent Sexual Tension with the women he works with like Marion, Willie, and Elsa. In particular, Willie is portrayed as a constant obstacle — she is consistently a Damsel in Distress and has such a shallow reaction to bugs and creepy-crawlies that she hesitates to save him and Short Round from a death trap (and then accidentally reactivates said trap while frantically trying to get them off her). Elsa, meanwhile, is a Honey Trap that seduces and betrays Indy, and he later learns she did the same thing to his father. She winds up tricking her boss into killing himself with a false Grail and then dies trying to take the real Grail out of the temple so that she can be with Indy. Indy winds up almost getting himself killed trying to save her, and still mourns her (unlike any other villain in the series). | |
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Women often are frith-keepers or keepers of peace/security. However, their priority was to their kin, and they would ensure that vengeance was enacted whenever their kin had been harmed. Women, then, are often the source of drama and suffering, galvanizing their husbands into enacting vengeance. In these instances, their husbands are typically portrayed as more peaceable, lazy, or even feckless. A specific example would be Gudrun from The Saga of the Volsungs, who cannot revenge her murdered husband because her brothers are the murderers, but she can justifiably kill her next husband for her brothers' murders. | |
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Antigone: Played With. The protagonist, Antigone, actually acts far more like a Greek male hero would, rather than a heroine; these traits create a lot of friction with the other characters, who expect her to act as a woman should. Creon is especially fed up with her antics, feels the need to assert his dominance over her as a man, and tries to get his lovesick son Haimon to abandon her. He believes that she makes Haimon act weak and foolish — in other words, like how a woman would be expected to act. Creon's misogyny is one of the main reasons he opposes Antigone in her quest, and the drama is ironically created because she doesn't act stereotypically. The only time she acts "womanly" is when she's Driven to Suicide, and that leads to a very Bittersweet Ending. | |
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The Bible: According to the Abrahamic tradition, Adam and Eve are cast out of Eden when Eve eats the fruit of Knowledge and then convinces Adam to eat it too. Samson's downfall is caused by falling in love with the Philistine woman Delilah, to whom he confesses that his hair is the source of his strength. After she cuts off his hair in his sleep, Samson is then blinded and captured by the Philistines. |
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The Iliad: The driving conflict of Achilles being in his tent for the first half is Agamemnon refusing to hand over the conquest he wanted, the priest's daughter Briseis. | |
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Spider-Man: Gwen Stacy is a constant source of angst and turmoil for Peter, resulting in the circumstances her death being retreaded several times throughout publication, as well as many stories that resulted directly from her death or the events immediately leading up to them. For example, The Clone Saga started when Stalker with a Crush Miles Warren cloned both her and Peter Parker as revenge for Peter letting the object of his affection die. The story Sins Past revealed more details about her past, including that she cheated on him with his archenemy Norman Osborn and bore two children… however this was mercifully retconned away in The Amazin Spider Man Nick 2018 with the blessing of J. Michael Straczynski who always regetted the storyline himself and what it did to Gwen’s legacy. | |
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Conan the Barbarian: A commonality in Conan stories is that there are two types of women: helpless (often very shallow and naive) women who cling to Conan and require his constant protection and attention at all times...and scheming, evil temptresses. In some stories, one may also become the other. For this reason, Conan is often in no mood to deal with the women he comes across, although he will reluctantly save one in trouble because it's in his personal code to do so and because he often demands she reward him for the hassle with her body. Whenever they're together, Conan even remarks that Red Sonja is a rare exception of this, as she is just as capable as he is. But even then, she's a constant source of sexual frustration for Conan, as she's the one woman who won't simply fall into his bed. | |
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Out Cold drew heavy inspiration from Casablanca in regards to its Love Triangle, as Rick and Anna had hit it off in Cancun, but she's engaged to Barry, who's a professional snowboarder-turned-doctor and pilot after an accident left him a Handicapped Badass. Rick, unaware of this, had spent months mooning over her departure at the start of the movie - which his friends call him out on, as he'd known her for all of a few weeks. | |
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Casablanca: Despite ostensibly being a film about cynical nightclub owner Rick Blaine getting over his bitterness to help resistance leader Victor Laszlo escape from Nazis during World War II, the majority of the film's angst is about a woman: Ilsa, who fell in love with Rick a year ago after believing Laszlo (her husband) to be dead but left him out of obligation once she learned he was alive. From the moment Ilsa walks in, all of Rick's angst and turmoil come bubbling right to the surface, with Rick's loyal musician Sam even telling his boss that dealing with the woman is nothing but trouble, as she was the cause of Rick's bitterness. When Ilsa and Rick meet again, it becomes clear that the two still harbor strong feelings for each other, and as the person with the only two passes out of Axis-controlled Casablanca, everything rides on Rick. For reference, when Rick and Laszlo discuss who should use the passes, Ilsa is the only one they both agree on for the purposes of keeping her safe and happy. Laszlo wants Rick to go with her because it's clear he's the one she loves, while Rick wants her to go with Laszlo because he's her lawful husband and a very important man. Rick finally cements himself as a hero when he gives the passes to Ilsa and Laszlo and then persuades her to leave with her husband at the expense of his own happiness. In addition to the main plot between Rick and Ilsa, the movie demonstrates the corrupt and apathetic nature of Dirty Cop Captain Renault by introducing a young, beautiful, and sympathetic Bulgarian refugee named Annina whom Renault has agreed to help escape to America with her husband if she performs sexual favors for him. Before she makes her choice, the desperate Annina comes to Rick to ask if she can trust that Renault will keep his word and if (as a man) Rick could forgive a wife who slept with someone else even if it was for his own happiness. The young, innocent woman's plight persuades the usually-cynical Rick to rig the roulette tables in her husband's favor and allow them to leave the country without giving in to Renault's demands. |
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Grand Theft Auto IV: Early in the game, Niko finds out that his cousin Roman is being cuckolded by a small-time criminal with powerful connections. Roman is devastated to learn of it but begs Niko to do nothing that would draw the wrath of the more powerful criminals. Niko is appalled by his cousin's resignation and kills the criminal anyway to retaliate. Later in the game, it's also revealed that Niko's girlfriend Michelle is actually a government agent named Karen Daniels, and depending on the ending, Niko's other canonical girlfriend, Kate, can also be accidentally killed during a drive-by, prompting Niko to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. | |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh has a wide variety of examples of the trope, beginning with Gilgamesh himself being a despotic tyrant who raped any woman he wanted, whether or not they were married or a relative to his allies. As part of the gods' plan to stop him, a wild man named Enkidu encounters a prostitute and has sex with her, which (to the animal spirits) now made Enkidu "domesticated" and no longer wild. This civility causes Enkidu to become outraged when he learns of Gilgamesh's action, and so he goes to challenge him. The two fight and become Best Friends. During their adventures, the Love Goddess Ishtar becomes enraptured with Gilgamesh, but he spurns her. The gods see this as a great insult and punish the two by having Enkidu fall fatally ill. Enkidu's death causes Gilgamesh to become an Immortality Seeker, and this becomes his primary motive throughout the rest of the tale. | |
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