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{{noreallife|this is a [[:Category:Rape Tropes|rape trope]], and All The Tropes does not care to [[squick]] its readers.}}

 

* ''[[Peach Girl]]'': Momo fights off Kairi's older brother Ryo when he makes advances on her. Sae gets a taste of her own medicine in the form of an obese rapist whom Momo saves her from before he can rape her. Also, Momo rescues Sae again when she is being forced to participate in a porno film.

** In the sequel series "Sae's Story" Sae is drugged and almost raped by a group of guys at a party. Kanji thankfully rescues her.

* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'': At one point Nanami gets the Akio Car treatment, where Touga attempts to rape her, which she fights off in fright.

* ''[[Franken Fran]]'': [[Chew Toy|Officer Kuhou]] was almost raped by a [[Reality Warper]] who couldn't control his sexual impulses. He snapped out of it after she fired in the air.

* ''[[Skip Beat!]]'' gives us {{spoiler|Reino}} in the forest with {{spoiler|Kyouko}} with a spine-shivering creepy lead-up that is completely and utterly ruined by the arrival of the moment's [[Big Damn Heroes|Big Damn Hero:]] {{spoiler|Fuwa Sho}}

* ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'': In the original manga series, D almost gets raped three times by [[Even the Guys Want Him|men]]; Leon prevents two of them. One of those rape attempts included a kiss and getting to second base.

* ''[[Macross 7]]'': Mylene Jenius, the female lead of the anime, after being drugged is the victim of an [[Attempted Lesbian Rape]] in the Dynamite OVA, In that she is rescued by her bandmates. In the companion manga ''Mylene Beat'', things go much further before a dragon like creature causes Mylene to fight off her Rapist.

 

* One of the many [[Jump the Shark|shark jumps]] of ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'': when Elizabeth is almost raped by her co-worker, Howard Bunt. And Anthony saves her. And it rekindles their relationship... while Anthony is still married to someone else.

** Rekindles it ''fifteen minutes after the assault'', where instead of taking her to report the crime, he drives her to a park to whine about his miserable marriage and beg her to wait for him. Not only a [[Jump the Shark]], but a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] (as the artist at least thought of Anthony as a hero, no matter what many, many fans thought he was after that.)

* In ''[[All Fall Down]]'', the super-heroine Portia experiences this in the middle of a fight when she loses her powers. {{spoiler|Rescued by The Ghoul, she spends the rest of the book coping with the indignity of needing to be saved.}}

 

* In ''[[Tiberium Wars]]'', a Nod soldier attempts to rape {{spoiler|Sandra Telfair}}. However, he is foiled when {{spoiler|Black Hand Captain Allen [[Dynamic Entry|smashes down the door to the room]] and proceeds to ''beat the rapist's head against the wall'' while '''[[Badass Preacher|loudly reciting his offences]]''' before chucking him out a third story window}}, proving that [[Even Evil Has Standards]] and also providing a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

{{quote|'''Allen''': Uniform Code of Brotherhood Justice Section 2, Line 27: 'any form of sexual assault of any kind by a member of the Brotherhood is considered a Class 1 Offense against the Messiah, punishable by summary execution.'}}

* In any ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' fanfiction where Danny starts dating Kitty, Johnny 13 is usually just about tp rape her when Danny swoops in.

 

* Early on in ''[[Training Day]]'', Hoyt stops a rape attempt on a girl while on patrol. This comes back to help him later on when {{spoiler|the girl's cousins are about to kill him and then realize he was the one who saved her.}}

* Both the movie and comic book of ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' have this happening to Evey. She's saved by the title character.

* King Einon does this to Kara in ''[[Dragonheart]]'', and she stabs him to drive him away. It works. In the [[Adaptation Distillation|expanded novelization]] of the film, {{spoiler|there's no attempt - he does rape her}}.

 

* A man at a party tries to rape Jelka Tolonen in David Wingrove's ''[[Chung Kuo]]'' series. Really not a smart idea, as he is beaten more than half to death.

* [http://www.amazon.com/One-Who-Waited-Erika-Griffin/dp/1411627164 The One Who Waited], the main character, Alice, is nearly raped after refusing to have sex with a childhood friend after their first date.

* Lord Arlington in the Louisa May Alcott book ''The Inheritance'' tries to seduce Edith many times but each time she rejects him. The final time she rejects him he reacts very angrily and it's implied that he means to rape her but Lord Percy shows up and Arlington departs.

 

* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'': Claire almost gets raped by the [[Jerk Jock]] of her school, but he ends up killing her before he does anything. ([[Good Thing You Can Heal|She got better]].)

** She gets revenge by ramming his car into a brick wall. While he's in it. [[Good Thing You Can Heal|She gets better]]. He doesn't. And then her dad has the rapist's memory wiped. All of it.

* In the [[In Plain Sight]] episode "Stan By Me", Mary Shannon is mistakenly kidnapped and held captive for several hours. One of her captors attempts to rape her and - with her being very much an [[Action Girl]] - it doesn't end well for him. She shoots him. Repeatedly. And then escapes.

* In the Season 7 episode "Death Is Not The End" of ''True Blood'', a bad vampire states to Sookie, "Spread your legs, blondie. I want it from your nasty place." He later approaches her menacingly when he doesn't get the chance to rape her before getting killed.

 

* In the [[Insane Clown Posse]] song "Under the Moon," the narrator is sent to prison after killing a guy with his father's .45 for trying to rape the unnamed love interest of the song.

 

* ''[[I Love Bees]]'' has its [[Action Girl]] protagonist Jan fight off a guy trying to rape a woman as a gang initiation test.

 

 

* In [[The Lion King]], the portion of the song The Madness of King Scar, where Scar tries to seduce Nala, the scene is at first played humorously and then [[Mood Whiplash|abruptly switches]] to this with Nala screaming, "Get away from me!" and finally scratching him across the face with her claws to get him to stop.

* In [[West Side Story]], Anita is roughed up and nearly gang-raped by the Jets when she tries to deliver a message from Maria to Tony.

 

* In ''[[Assassin's Creed (video game)|Assassin's Creed I]]'', Altair can save women in the streets who are being harassed by gangs of armed thugs who are threatening and groping them. Though it's never [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|exactly stated what they intended to do]], the rescued citizens indicate just what they believe the thugs were planning. If you bother listening to the guards chatter, they are accusing the women of stealing from someone in front of them. Whether that's an excuse or not is not known.

** In the sequel, when Vieri de Pazzi ambushes Ezio and his family outside Monterigionni, he says that "I have ''such things'' planned for your mother and sister!" He doesn't outright say it, but its very clear what he's going to do. Fortunately, Ezio quickly introduces Vieri's goons to his hidden blade, and then [[Big Damn Heroes|Uncle Mario crashes the party.]]

* In ''[[Dragon Age II]]'''s "Dissent" quest, you're out to stop Ser Alrik from using [[Mind Rape|the Rite of Tranquility]] on a young runaway female mage with which he intends to use as a potential sex slave. In the quest "Who Needs Rescuing", a young girl was protected from a group of would-be gang rapists by Feynriel, who uses his Fade powers to [[Mind Rape|kill her assailants while they were still awake]].

 

** And then he tries it ''again'' in "Heaven's Feel" with {{spoiler|Sakura, and he's done it before to her}}. What happens? {{spoiler|[[Kick the Son of a Bitch|Sakura blows his head off with magic]].}}

** And before all this, [[Jerkass|Gilga]][[Pure Is Not Good|mesh]] to [[Lady of War|Saber]].

* Kanna's route in ''[[YU-NO|Yu No]]'' has her nearly raped by the detestable Houjou. However, the protagonist notes that scummy as Houjou is, it's simply not in his character to do something ''that'' bad. It raises questions as to what exactly is going on and why he was trying in the first place.

 

* Close call in ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]'' when {{spoiler|a mugger attacks Lucy. It [http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c12/p22.html doesn't go too well for him.]}}

** {{spoiler|Final Fantasy Cat was about to do [http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c40/p17.html this] to Daisy, but Abbey intervened}}

* In ''[[Thistil Mistil Kistil]]'', [http://tmkcomic.depleti.com/comic/ch05-pg18/ part of what Hedda is fleeing.]

 

* In ''[[The Gamers Alliance]]'', Ax almost ends up raped twice by her friend Refan when his demonic side takes over. The first time she deals with Refan herself by using a [[Groin Attack]], and the second time Shyralis saves her.

* [[Whateley Universe]] example: Nex, the mutant ninja assassin at [[Super-Hero School|Whateley Academy]] beats up Fey, and when she fights back, decides to move up to rape and murder. He gets stalled by Stalwart, who's an annoying inventor who has been following Fey around, and he rips Stalwart apart. Fey then has time to heal herself and use her magic to kick ninja ass. Stalwart gets a [[Rescue Romance]] out of the deal.

* [[Complete Monster|Stalker]] tries to assault [[Innocent Flower Girl|Hanami]] in Book III of ''[[Tasakeru]]''. {{spoiler|She uses her [[Green Thumb]] to plow her would-be attacker through her wall.}}

 

* [[Betty Boop]] was a victim of this in the cartoon short ''Boop-Oop-A-Doop''. In this cartoon, Betty is a circus performer who is lusted after by the Ringmaster. At night, the Ringmaster accosts her in her tent and threatens to rape her until Koko the Clown comes in to rescue her. A daring plot for a cartoon made in 1932, a supposedly "purer" time.

* The early [[Looney Tunes|Looney Tune]] ''[[Bosko the Talk Ink Kid|Bosko]]'s Knight-Mare'' has Honey abducted by the villainous Black Knight. He carries her to his castle and actually gets her down onto the bed before our hero intervenes. (It's even more amazing when you realize that our hero and his girl are African-American and the Black Knight is... er, White.)

 

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