Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
Browse movies, tv shows, books and more where a woman is brutalized for spectacle.
Many women are victims of physical violence and abuse. Women in media are often made into narrative props that get used as targets for violence, for shock value. This may overlap with some cases of other categories, but encompasses the broader range of situations where women are made into hapless victims of brutal treatment, for shock. Being able to know, beforehand, whether a piece of media includes this trope would be greatly beneficial to many women.
Pin to top of search results.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
16
No
151
6
KamiSteele
Female characters die and are injured, but most of the scenes aren't particularly gendered and are plot-important. In terms of triggers, the most potentially upsetting instance occurs during the climax, which has DV themes contextually. That said, the character survives to the end and appears in one of the last scenes recovering in a hospital.
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
8
No
88
9
jdpamv
None of the TVA Agents that are brutalized are implied to be women. A woman with superpowers dies brutally but briefly.
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
0
No
81
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
2
No
80
TV Show • 2021 Report
Yes
0
No
77
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
2
No
74
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
14
No
71
6
trashbirdfilmwatcher
[Spoiler]
During the end the Oliver rips a breathing tube out of Elspeth’s mouth and disconnects her life support. He then proceeds to get on top of her.
During the end the Oliver rips a breathing tube out of Elspeth’s mouth and disconnects her life support. He then proceeds to get on top of her.
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
0
No
67
Movie • 2019 Report
Yes
2
No
63
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
6
No
57
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
5
No
42
4
Yes but it happens to male characters too and is all consensual.
The “talk to me” game is what I’m talking about
The “talk to me” game is what I’m talking about
Movie • 2004 Report
Yes
11
No
40
3
MagitekVai
A woman is put in a death trap (she survives) and is later seen with mild injuries. A other and daughter are taken hostage, they're crying and menaced with a gun. The film goes to great length to show how scared they are. However, the overwhelming majority of the violence is committed against men
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
0
No
40
TV Show • 2005 Report
Yes
8
No
39
TV Show • 2018 Report
Yes
0
No
37
TV Show • 2024 Report
Yes
2
No
36
0
falc09
women are beat up and handled roughly in some scenes.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
0
No
36
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
0
No
34
Video Game • 2024 Report
Yes
14
No
33
6
thepoopooman
This is debatable. Though the worst of it isn't shown onscreen, the only female character largely exists to be verbally abused, sexually assaulted, and driven to suicide by a specific man onboard the ship.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
3
No
33
0
birddog
Pearl lights her mother on fire and kills her sister-in-law.
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
9
No
31
4
Gobou
(SPOILERS)
Throughout the entire scene where Rory and Lydia end up in Beetlejuice's "office", Beetlejuice messes with Lydia in a way that could be considered brutalizing. He forces her mouth shut and manifests a "baby" version of himself into her stomach, which causes the latter to swell quickly until it bursts violently. Though that entire scene is played as a gag, it personally shook me up quite a bit, as Lydia is shown to be distraught by the whole ordeal.
Throughout the entire scene where Rory and Lydia end up in Beetlejuice's "office", Beetlejuice messes with Lydia in a way that could be considered brutalizing. He forces her mouth shut and manifests a "baby" version of himself into her stomach, which causes the latter to swell quickly until it bursts violently. Though that entire scene is played as a gag, it personally shook me up quite a bit, as Lydia is shown to be distraught by the whole ordeal.
TV Show • 2022 Report
Yes
10
No
31
9
S2
E2
A fight scene between a woman and a non-binary character which is demanded by the main character but appears to be consensual (pirate “shenanigans”) ?
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
0
No
31
Movie • 2024 Report
Yes
17
No
30
6
serpuntine
The birth scene is very brutal and graphic, I’d be remiss not to include it here
Video Game • 2020 Report
Yes
0
No
30
TV Show • 2022 Report
Yes
0
No
29
TV Show • 2016 Report
Yes
0
No
29
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
0
No
29
Movie • 2018 Report
Yes
0
No
28
Movie • 1982 Report
Yes
0
No
27
9
SiRenfield
I mean there’s no women anyway. Only men are brutalized here