Sex Is Violence/Comic Books

Examples of Sex Is Violence in Comic Books include:

DC Comics

• The Joker. He looks like he seriously getting some whenever Batman starts to beat him up, and in most of those fights it sure looks like Batman is thoroughly enjoying himself...
  • It's more because, when Batman resorts to this, it's because the Joker really got under his skin. Also a running theme is that the Joker hopes he can finally push Batman to cross the line and kill him.
  • 70 years of rotating authors means Joker veers back and forth between this and In Love with Your Carnage based on whether he's currently trying to cause general destruction or to harass Batman in particular in the comic in question.
  • In the "Cacophony" miniseries, Joker's stated dreams are to humiliate Batman, kill him, and then violate his corpse sexually.
• Seen in Watchmen, in the fight scene between ex-super heroes Laurie and Dan and the unfortunate criminals who tried to mug them. After trouncing their assailants, Laurie and Dan are shown panting in a rather suggestive way, and it's stated explicitly that one reason why they and others became costumed adventurers is because of the arousing feeling of dressing in spandex and beating people up.
  • In the comic, they mention a masochist named "Captain Carnage", who only dressed up in a costume in hopes of getting beaten up. And then Rorschach shoved him down an elevator shaft, and that was the end of that.
  • Hooded Justice also gets aroused by fighting, if we're to believe the Comedian.
    • Based on That Scene in the movie, if anyone would know about that kind of thing...
  • This is one of the main themes of Watchmen. Almost every character has some kind of fetish - Silhouette and Hooded Justice were implied to be homosexual S&M practitioners, The Comedian and arguably Silk Spectre I apparently has a thing for sexual violence, and Nite Owl I discusses it at length in his book—in fact, the only character you might say is "innocent" is the naked guy with the big blue dong.
  • This is most clearly exemplified in the relationship between Silk Spectre II and Nite Owl II—they share their first kiss after beating up some thugs in an alleyway, but they aren't physically able to consummate their relationship until they both go out on a rescue mission in Nite Owl's airship, in full costume.
• One issue of The Spectre from the mid-80s shows a remarkably explicit (for a title not part of DC's "mature" Vertigo line) ... something ... going on between Spectre and Madame Xanadu. The action for the first several pages alternates between Spectre doing his normal grim work and Madame X, obviously nude and surrounded by the fog that indicates Spectre's presence in incorporeal form, writhing in apparent ecstasy. It's strongly implied that all of this is happening simultaneously.
• In Birds of Prey: Dead of Winter, we have this line from a gory fight:

Big Barda: Do you know what they call this on Apokolips, harridan? (snaps Knockout's wrist) Foreplay.

• During the Secret Six series, Catman and his ex Cheshire are duking it out alongside their respective teams. In the middle of the fight, Cheshire suddenly demands that Catman make love to her... and Catman actually considers it.

Marvel Comics

• The Ultimate Hulk is described by Banner as being just as horny as angry. It's implied to have raped at least one person to death.
  • Taken literally in Ultimate Hulk vs Wolverine when Hulk and a Hulked out Betty Ross stop punching each other's lights out and start having angry, angry hulk sex
• There was an X-Force miniseries titled "Sex & Violence". It was collected in a trade paperback by the same name.

Vertigo Comics

• The Invisibles has an issue starting with a woman getting shot and cumming as she dies.
• Y: The Last Man had a few interesting things to say on the subject, too.^[context?]

Other Publishers

• In Warren Ellis's Global Frequency, we meet Captain Richard Quinn, a test subject for cybernetic augmentations, and discover that "They took my genitals away... There's a wire in my brain that simulates sexual pleasure when I kill people. That's all I have now." Of course, what does he do when he wakes up from his last operation and accidentally catch his reflection in a mirror? Go Mad from the Revelation and embark on a massive killing spree, of course.
• Also used in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, with Alan and Mina screwing for the first time in a cottage while Mr. Hyde works out his pent-up aggression on a captured Martian tripod.
• A recurring theme in the Sachs and Violens miniseries.
• There's a reason why it's called Sin City.^[context?]
  • This is a re-occurring trend in the works of Frank Miller. This also appears in The Dark Knight Strikes Again, All Star Batman and Robin, and Holy Terror.
• The Savage Dragon has had plenty of T along with bloody violence. The women have the Most Common Superpower and the violence ranges from Dead Baby Comedy to horror, depending on Erik Larsen's mood. In fact, there was a Dragon miniseries called Sex and Violence.

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