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The whole point of [[Dead Baby Comedy|a certain type of comedy]] is to cross the lines, violate the boundaries, and be as offensive as possible. In [[Real Life]], of course, rape is an appalling crime that brutalizes the victim and can destroy lives. But in the wacky world of fiction, particularly those stories written by [[Values Dissonance|old-school, non-PC types]], rape (or the threat of it) is a 'hilarious' way to punish a character.

'''Please note that [[Skinship Grope]] is not Black Comedy Rape. Nor are the many, ''many'' varieties of [[Sex Tropes|consensual sex]] being used for comedy. Please post such examples where they belong.'''

 

 

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== Rape in General ==

* There is a [[Hentai]] by the name of Power Play which is basically about an [[Evil Overlord|Evil Sex King]] kidnapping and raping beautiful girls into his [[Victim Falls For Rapist|harem]]. His evil plot to do this to all [[Bishoujo Series]] in the world is constantly thwarted by three female magic knights. Their tactic: raping him dry and thus powerless. The result: the warrior girls and the king attempting to outrape each other.

* It's not too uncommon for a lighter-hearted H-doujin to feature a woman being raped - and focusing entirely on some tiny little detail (like being late for work or some such thing) and completely ignoring the rape itself.

* On [[Chelsea Lately]], sometimes the comedian Loni Love will suddenly grab the man sitting next to her by the head and kiss him. She calls it "face-raping someone".

* The Brazilian comedian "Rafinha Bastos" told a lot of rape jokes of man by man, and even told one about him being a child/teen prostitute that would please truck drivers. Things hit the fan when he made a joke about ugly women thanking the rapists, and another that he would "do" a famous actress and her baby.

'''Q''': Why don't rapists eat at TGI Friday's?

'''A''': Well, it's hard to go out and ''rape'' when you've got a stomachache! }}

 

=== [[Video Games]] ===

* A large number of hentai flash games (the interactive sex kind with no text) seem to play rape for laughs as much as for arousal. The target of the rape is invariably female, but the act may be perpetuated by a man, several men, a tentacle monster, or any of an increasingly ludicrous selection of large objects.

* ''[[Duke Nukem Forever]]''. From Destructoid's [http://www.destructoid.com/review-duke-nukem-forever-203658.phtml review]:

** In gym class when everyone has to tell a secret, Snot's is "My therapist says I'm a bad kisser".

** The episode "Jenny Fromdabloc" has Roger and Snot having sex, although it's revealed that Roger was using a stress ball instead of a, ya know. Speaking of Roger, he also did that weird chin innuendo with Steve in "License to Till." In "School Lies" when he's dressed up like Steve, he wants Stan to kiss him on the lips because he "wants that kind of relationship".

 

== Rape of/by Animals ==

** There is also some some man-on-dolphin, and suggested man-on-fox action.

* [[The BBC|The BBC2]] nature series ''[[Last Chance To See]]'' features a rare tropical parrot [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY who takes quite a liking to Mark Carwardine].

* ''[[iCarly]]'': As VERY toned down "safe-for-kids" version: In "iPie", Trudy (Mr. Galini's sweaty weirdo granddaughter) dragged Spencer to the couch and practically spent the episode repeatedly lip-raping him, leaving the trio in a state of [[Squick]].

** In the episode "iGot a Hot Room", an incident is mentioned concerning Carly when she was at a petting zoo. [[Black Comedy|"What did the goat do?"]].

 

=== [[Magazines]] ===

* In typical fashion, ''[[The Onion]]'' parodied this in one article, which reported a zookeeper's rape and subsequent death at the hands of an adult black bear as "the lighter side of the news" and full of [[Hurricane of Puns|really horrendous puns]]. Notable in being one of the only articles that [[Dude, Not Funny|is no longer on the main site]].

 

=== [[Web Comics]] ===

* The [[Ironic Hell]] of ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]'' briefly shows the personal Hell of a character supposedly based on the ex-boyfriend of the artist's wife, who was apparently an extremely unpleasant fellow in many ways, including a... fondness... for dolphins. This being an Ironic Hell, the character now finds himself constantly being raped by dolphins, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Not being real dolphins, the rapists aren't particularly bothered by the lack of water.

* [http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol_403.php Implied] in ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures|Dan and Mabs Furry Adventures]]''. "Did he at least give you a dinner and a movie?"

 

=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===

* At one point in ''[[Excel Saga (manga)|Excel Saga]]'' the title character Excel gets jumped by and subsequently raped offscreen by Ropponmatsu Unit 2, a [[Robot Girl]] designed by a pedophile [[Mad Scientist]] to look like a twelve year old catgirl.

 

* A story in ''[[Hack Slash]] Trailers 2'' featured the RapeVan, a malevolent van that prowled lovers lanes, raping other vehicles, obliterating them and anyone unfortunate enough to be in them at the time.

 

=== [[Live Action TV]] ===

* In one particular Bartender game of the British ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'', Ryan sings of his eternal love for his teddy bear. Being an improv show, sometimes scrambling for words leads people to... odd places. Because things weren't disturbing enough, Josie decides to reach for a little Rape of Animals to finish off the scene. At least she has the decency to look horrified at what's come out of her mouth. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FcPpys_b90 It really has to be seen to be believed.]

 

=== [[Video Games]] ===

 

=== [[Web Original]] ===

* [[RedLetterMedia|Half in the Bag]]'s review of ''[[The Hunger Games (film)|The Hunger Games]]'' and ''Jeff who Lives at Home'' ends with the accidental creation of a murderous robot who [[Refuge in Audacity|gets raped by another robot]].

 

** Another episode had Peter being raped by steam ''coming off of a pie.'' The steam made Quagmire [[Forced to Watch|watch.]]

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Barney Gumble once mentioned he drunkenly had his way with Moe's pool table. Repeatedly.

 

== Rape by Monsters ==

** Of course, this scene also features the reverse when the 'victim' turns the table on the clown doll.

* An infamous scene from the 1997 horror film ''[[Jack Frost (1997 film)|Jack Frost 1997]]'' in which the title character, [[Snowlems|a killer snowman]], liquidates himself to rape Shannon Elizabeth in a bathtub with a carrot.

 

=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===

=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===

* Tequila's actions toward Kazuya in ''[[Galaxy Angel (video game)|Galaxy Angel II]]'' are played for laughs, although he's terrified; were it the other way around, the character would certainly have to be changed.

* In the OVA ''Labyrinth of Flames'', anemic pantyshotting [[Stalker with a Crush]] kunoichi Kasumi attempts to seduce the object of her desire, Datenoshin. When he pays no attention to her (he has more serious problems on his mind) she drugs him.

* A plot summary of ''[[Kanokon]]'': the ''very'' well-endowed Chizuru molests/seduces/outright tries to have sex with Kouta on a regular basis, giving ''him'' the permanent reputation at school as a huge pervert. At one point, he is caught with a naked Chizuru in the middle of a street when her [[Phantom Zone|barrier]] shatters. She goes furthest on the last episode: tired of waiting for a confession, she abducts and sets out to rape him in an empty classroom, while the helpless, almost-crying Kouta covers his face and begs her to stop (which she does at the last minute, when his rejection finally hits home).

* ''[[Beerfest]]'' at first makes it look like Jay Chandrashekar's character is being taken advantage of, he fades in and out of beer goggle vision of the woman he picked up at the bar. When he wakes up and turns over, he stares up at the ceiling camera and says "Naaah, I knew all along!"

* In ''[[Super Troopers]]'', while Foster is posing as a flasher in front of the police station, Ursula (his soon to be love interest) holds him at gunpoint from behind and uses a voice changing device to make him think he's about to be raped.

* In the third ''[[Basket Case]]'' the sheriff's [[Seemingly-Wholesome Fifties Girl|Seemingly Wholesome Fifties Daughter]] randomly turns out to be a [[Dominatrix]] who tries to rape Duane, much to the sheriff's annoyance.

 

=== [[Literature]] ===

* In ''Myra Breckinridge'', the titular character anally rapes a man using a strap-on dildo. This act is generally construed as [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop|teaching the man a lesson]] and making a statement for sexual equality. The entire work satirized sex, gender, and sexual practices.

* In the ''[[Red Dwarf (novel)|Red Dwarf]]'' novel ''Last Human'', Lister is forced to marry a hideously ugly Gelf (Genetically Engineered Life Form). The situation is played mostly for laughs, but his emotions during the sex are touched on in a curiously realistic way.

 

* ''[[Porterhouse Blue]]'': The rape of a college's only research graduate male student by his middle-aged bedder is graphically portrayed, but we never learn how it would have affected him because [[Death by Sex|moments after the act starts they both die in a heating gas explosion]].

* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' Episode #610, ''The Violent Years'' features a scene where a young man is sexually assaulted by a group of four attractive high school girls. While William Morgan, the director of the movie (and [[Ed Wood (creator)|Ed Wood]], its writer) attempt (and, arguably, fail) to play the scene dead straight as a horrific and traumatizing crime, Mike and the 'bots have the typical male "What a lucky guy" reaction to these events, because the scene ended up being pure [[Narm]].

 

=== [[Web Comics]] ===

** Davan's rejection letters for bad plays in cartoon form: "Cap'n Hoot-Hoot says a better title for your play would be 'Rape-Rape: A Tale of Rapening'. Also, your next play should have a little less rape in it."

* In ''[[Girls with Slingshots]]'', Candy attempts to rape Chris; this is [http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/comic/gws268/ played partly for laughs], though the character is portrayed as having done something at the very least tasteless.

* Seemingly played for laughs by Old Man Death in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' while reciting the story of how he met his wife.

* In ''[[Oglaf]]'', the thief Vanka rapes monks as a means of making them break their vows because ancient secrets aren't necessarily hard to figure it out when you practically carve it into a visible statue.

 

=== [[Web Original]] ===

* Reika from ''[[Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun]]'' might be a huge pervert with a love of watching gay men but she herself is straight with a giant crush on Shungo. Unfortunately, his sister Ryoko does not believe her and regularly molests her despite Reika's protests.

* Makoto from ''[[Chocotto Sister]]'' already walks on thin ice with her groping of Chitose's breasts, but she really crosses the line when she forcefully removes Yurika's dress.

** Another episode had a near miss as Ranko the head of a rival cosplay club and the defending champion cornered Reika in a storage room and began to molest her.

* Sousou from ''[[Koihime Musou]]'' has the habit of forcing girls into sex with her. She is shown succeeding on at least one occasion—and then there are her efforts to get into [[Chaste Hero|Kannu]]'s pants.

 

=== [[Fan Works]] ===

 

 

* As number fourteen [http://danarchy.youfailit.net/Spiderman/ this] ''[[Spider-Man]] [[Remix Comic]]'' shows, rape may not be funny, but the concept of "rape dollars" is.

* [http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/3672/yonofui027pf4.jpg This other strip] by [[Quino]], although it's not the (attempted) rape per-se the one that's been [[Played for Laughs]].

 

=== [[Film]] ===

* In ''[[Once Upon a Time in America]]'', Noodles rapes the woman during the diamond merchant heist - turns out she's a nymphomaniac and encourages him personally whilst pretending to resist out loud. The comedic effect is played up with a one-liner: the other guys are doing all the work while Noodles is engaged, then when the robbery is finished Max asks, "You coming? We're going...".

* ''[[Higher Learning]]'': A college freshman girl is brought along to a rush party by some other girls and encouraged to drink alcohol until she stinks of the stuff. She then retires to the dormitory's upstairs room with an [[Affably Evil]] fratboy, where they lay on the bed and he reaches under her dress and lowers her panties. As they go into it, the girl starts to have second thoughts and urges the boy to stop for a moment and put on a condom; he ignores her. After struggling and screaming a bit, the girl breaks free and flees down the stairs and out of the dormitory, with the rapist awkwardly pursuing her with his trousers around his ankles. The mostly male crowd, not understanding what has just happened, laugh and applaud. It's clear the crowd is laughing at the rapist rather than the victim, but it's still uncomfortably inappropriate humor in the midst of a tragic scene.

 

=== [[Literature]] ===

* The novel ''Money'' by Martin Amis features a scene where the main character tries to rape his gold digging girlfriend but is so drunk and unenthusiastic he gives up, just before a [[Groin Attack|kick to the nuts]] floors him.

* The comedy book ''Curious Pleasures'' (a glossary of unusual fetishes, ostensibly written by a Victorian scientist) mentions a lady who told her maid to find a man to pretend to break into her house and rape her. Shortly afterwards, she found a man breaking into her house, and happily allowed him to have his way. The next day, the maid told her that she hadn't been able to find a suitable participant yet, and the guy had been a real burglar, ''"although it should be noted that her complaints commenced only after this discovery."''

{{quote|'''Cohen:''' I've got to go and have a talk with Old Vincent. Not that there's anything wrong with him, at all. It's just that his memory's bad. We had a bit of trouble on the way over. I keep telling him, it's rape the women and set fire to the houses.

'''Rincewind:''' Rape? That's not very—

* Mr G., the over-excited drama teacher in ''[[Summer Heights High]]'' performs improv with his class, and starts off with: "Help, grandma's just been raped!"

* ''[[Jam]]'' has [[Dead Baby Comedy|at least]] two. One sketch features a couple arguing about what seems to have been an affair on the part of the husband. The wife is relieved when he reveals that he wasn't having an affair with the woman—he was raping her. Then there's the "sex for houses" sketch, wherein a couple trying to buy a house agree to have sex with the seller 12 times in exchange for lowering the price. But when a new offer causes the seller to add more sessions to the arrangement, the couple ultimately decide to let him use the husband's mentally challenged sister in their place.

* A flashback on ''[[Scrubs]]'' explaining why Dr Cox and Jordan don't go on couple dates any more shows Creepy Swinger Doctor and his wife slipping them both roofies, and announcing "It's party time!" when they're unconscious.

{{quote|'''Jordan''': I think we should give them another chance.}}

* A rather twisted version appears in the webcomic ''[[Deep Fried]]'', in a story line which revolves around a child whose ''dad'' rapes her.

* ''[[Three Panel Soul]]'': A [[Incredibly Lame Pun|sort of]] [[Poke the Poodle]] [http://www.threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2009-11-16 example].

 

=== Web Original ===

** The notorious "Rape Rap," in which, based on a fan's grim comment on the ''[[Teen Witch]]'' review that their school saw more rape than rap, Lindsay has a friend of hers, stated in the video to be a convicted rapist, do a rap "instead," and it turns into a celebration of his crimes. Fan outcry, especially after an astoundingly insensitive forum post by Lindsay defending it, has put the incident ''firmly'' into [[Fanon Discontinuity]].

* Go to [[Image Boards|4chan]] some time, and mention the idea that rape can be a bad thing. You will find a lot of people who apparently disagree, and find it all very funny.

 

=== [[Western Animation]] ===

{{quote|Group W's where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me!}}

 

 

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Rape Tropes]]

[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]

[[Category:Dude, Not Funny]]

[[Category:Hentai Tropes]]