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This trope is very much [[Truth in Television]]. A single occurrence of vaginal rape is (according to published scientific studies) almost 50% more likely to result in pregnancy than a single instance of consensual vaginal sex, at least in women between 16 and 40. This is mostly because many female rape victims aren't on the Pill, and rape rarely gives a victim--male or female--the opportunity to use or request barrier contraceptives, [[Captain Obvious|nor are rapists generally that considerate]]. There can also be overlap if the child is the result of a [[Bed Trick]], also known as rape by fraud.

== Anime and Manga ==

* In the backstory of ''[[Ooku]]: the Inner Chambers'', we learn that Shogun Iemitsu idly raped a passing commoner girl one night to prove he could ''too'' lie with a woman. His actual preference for young males until his death by [[Gendercide|Red-Faced Pox]] a decade later left the resulting daughter as the only hope to maintain his bloodline, keep the house of Tokugawa in power, and more to the point avoid the warfare that would come with a [[Succession Crisis]] atop the plague. Iemitsu's [[El Cid Ploy|death was hidden]], and the daughter was imprisoned in Edo castle until she came of age and a male heir was sired upon her. Her attempt to escape led in turn to ''another'' example of this trope, as she was raped and gave birth to her own daughter, who died in infancy.

* In ''[[Sakura Gari]]'', there's {{spoiler|Masataka, the main character.}}

* Hinted to be the case of {{spoiler|Sana Kurata}} in the ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]'' manga.

* In ''[[Blood Plus]]'' {{spoiler|Diva's children since their mother, the [[Big Bad]], rapes and then murders their "father" Riku, Kai and Saya's little brother.}}

* [[Vampire Hunter D]] is the result of a cruel game Dracula played with a mortal woman: he would rape her, impregnate her, and kill the resulting child, promising she could keep the next one. After multiple cycles of this, Dracula kept that promise, and D was born.

* Implied in regards to {{spoiler|Yoshino and Kariya}} in a ''[[Bleach]]'' [[Filler]] arc. {{spoiler|She's the only Bount who can actually reproduce, according to him... and then he uses her to create new Dolls without her consent and kills her immediately afterwards.}}

* In [[Elfen Lied]], the ultimate plan of the [[Big Bad]] Chief Kakuzawa is unveiled when he introduces Lucy to {{spoiler|her own half-brother, a Male Diclonius, Primary like herself, the result of his rape of Lucy's mother, taken captive after Lucy herself was. He wishes them to mate. Lucy's reaction is not at all surprising.}}

* Wallflower from the ''[[New Mutants]]'' was conceived when her father used his pheromone powers (which Laurie would inherit) to seduce her mother.

** Purple Man fell for a girl and used his powers to seduce and marry her. [[Alpha Flight|Purple Girl]] was their daughter.

* Subverted in [[Watchmen]]. After the photo shoot for the 1940s Minutemen, The Comedian attempts to rape Silk Spectre before being interrupted by Hooded Justice. They later [[Victim Falls For Rapist|have a consensual relationship]] resulting in a daughter, Laurie (aka Silk Spectre II).

* Something similar to the Green Arrow example happens to [[Starman|Jack Knight]] when he is drugged and repeatedly raped by his enemy, The Mist, with her intention being to raise the resulting child to hate and ultimately kill Jack. Fortunately, by the last issue, it ends MUCH happier for both father and son.

* The title character of ''[[Nikolai Dante]]'' was conceived when Katarina was raped by Dmitri Romanov, and she almost killed him soon after birth. This rape is about the only thing that ever managed to really harm Katarina.

* In ''[http://percyjacksonfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Stand_In_The_Rain Stand In The Rain]'', the main character gets pregnant from rape.

* Also happens in another ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' fanfiction called ''[http://percyjacksonfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Happy_Endings_Only_Happen_In_Fairytales Happy Endings Only Happen In Fairytales]''.

== Film ==

* A girl is raped by Bigfoot in ''Night of the Demon'' (1980) and later gives birth to its offspring.

* Main character was conceived by this way in ''The Beast Within''.

* The hero in ''Grave Of The Vampire'' is an example.

** For bonus points, he's told that his mother clung to life in the hopes that her unborn baby was sired by her dead husband, and upon giving birth and discovering otherwise...

* In ''[[Deep Love]]'' after {{spoiler|Reina}} is raped she gets pregnant and has a child {{spoiler|whom she names Ayu.}}

** Arthur could be considered this as well, since he was conceived under false pretenses, his father (Uther) magically disguised as his mother's real husband (Gorlois), who was being killed by Uther's men at the time. Ygraine does marry Uther, and according to all sources that comment they were very happy, but she sure wasn't pleased when she worked out what had just happened.

* ''[[Sir Apropos of Nothing]]'', whose lame leg is a clue to figuring out who raped his mother.

* In ''The King's Peace'' by [[Jo Walton]], the protagonist falls victim to the first part of a [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]] raid, resulting in a son with an important Destiny. (It is explicitly acknowledged that the god responsible for this destiny is not very nice, and enjoys messing with people.)

* In the ''[[Night Huntress]]'' series, [[Dhampyr|Cat's]] mother [[Abusive Parents|Justina]] was raped by a vampire, resulting in [[Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad|Cat's conception]]. Avenging her mother's rape and atoning for her own existence is [[Heroic Bastard|Cat's]] primary motivation for [[Van Helsing Hate Crimes|killing all vampires]] in the first book. {{spoiler|Later we learn that Cat's father mind raped Justina only after the physical seduction had been completed, violating her mind and causing her to believe she'd been physically raped as well. Your mileage may vary on whether that's better or worse.}}

* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, Voldemort is conceived this way. Voldemort's mother, Merope, forced a guy she was infatuated with to marry her using a [[Love Potion]]. He has sex with her willingly enough, but the will itself is manufactured - and therein lies the problem. He left her and their unborn child when he was freed from the potion's effects, and it's implied that Voldemort's refusal to accept that his mother was a rapist contributes to his eventual villainy.

* In [[Christopher Moore]]'s ''Fool'', Pocket was assumed to be the child of a nearby town's resident crazy lady, who claimed he was a prince before dropping him off at a convent and drowning herself. A witch later grants Pocket the ability to see what really happened: {{spoiler|Nine months before he was born King Lear essentially forced his own brother to rape Pocket's mother.}}

* A couple times in the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series. First we learn of {{spoiler|Richard}}, whose father turns out to have been the [[Big Bad]]. The next book has Du Chaillu, who was kept as a slave and raped repeatedly, and has become pregnant. Richard convinces her not to abort the child.

* In ''[[Stationery Voyagers]]'', ''both'' Glario ''and'' Katrina can claim it was rape. Yehtzig snipers launched Eros gas canisters through the living room window at both of them when one went to visit another. But they aren't both shooting up bad guys because Katrina got pregnant. They're shooting up bad guys so they [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|won't get killed with RPG launchers]] if they try to get married.

* Tillu from [[Megan Lindholm]]'s ''The Reindeer People'' was captured and abused by four men, after which she gave birth to Kerlew.

* Fern from ''[[The Stone Dance of the Chameleon]]''.

* Elena Bothari-Jessik from the ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'' only learned she was the product of a rape when she finally met her mother... who promptly shot her father.

* The title character of Stephen King's ''[[Carrie]]'' may have been the result of marital rape, as revealed by her religious fanatic mother Margaret directly before her attempt to [[Offing the Offspring|Off the Offspring]]. Her mother and father, being extremely religious strongly disliked and were repulsed by sex; Margaret thought that she had "a cancer of the womanly parts" until a doctor told her she was pregnant.

* Quite common in the ''[[Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'' as rape can double as a form of greeting in some cases. One child, after being told he was a child of rape, at first misunderstood this to mean that was his father's name.

** Perhaps the most disturbing of such cases are the Children of the Dead Seed. The mothers were willing, the fathers were already dead...

* In ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]],'' Janie was conceived when her mother was raped by her schoolteacher. The mother arguably counted as an example herself, her father apparently being the plantation owner who used to own Nanny.

* Ushahin Dreamspinner from ''[[The Sundering]]'' is the result of the rape of an [[Our Elves Are Better|Ellyl]] woman by a human man. He is eventually rejected by both peoples and beaten to within an inch of his life, after which he is adopted by the leader of the wolf-like Were.

== Live-Action Television ==

* Detective Olivia Benson in ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' spent years thinking she was a child of rape, making rape cases a particularly sore point for her. Then she discovered that her (then-deceased) mother had lied about it to keep her from ever looking for her (also deceased) father.

** A more villainous example is {{spoiler|Darius Parker, whose mother (Fin's ex wife) was [[Parental Incest|raped by her father]].}} While {{spoiler|he}} may not have known at the time, the fact that this is the reason {{spoiler|[[The Unfavorite|why his mother hated him so much that it's implied that she threatened him]]}} [[Freudian Excuse|could explain]] [[Sympathetic Murderer|what]] {{spoiler|[[Fate Worse Than Death|he]]}} [[Offing the Offspring|became]].

** Also, a good few cases deal with children by rape.

* Three examples from ''[[Eastenders]]'': the character of Donna Ludlow, who turned out to be the daughter of Kathy Beale conceived when Kathy was raped at the age of 14; Little Mo Mitchell, who was raped in the Queen Vic, fell pregnant and decided to keep the child; and Zoe Slater is the result of Kat being raped by her uncle as a teenager.

* A [[Lifetime Movie of the Week]] called ''Sin And Redemption'' where the main character was raped and became pregnant. Her [[Holier Than Thou]] father kicks her out of the house and she moves in with her sister. The woman later marries a man she meets at her job. Turns out he's an abusive [[Jerkass]]. Worse still, her oldest child's kidneys have failed and needs a transplant. Hubby won't get tested. Why? {{spoiler|he was his wife's rapist and the father of the sick child.}}

* A woman in the [[X Files]] episode ''Aubrey'' was raped by a serial killer, bore his child and put it up for adoption. Her grandchild ended up {{spoiler|continuing her grandfather's work; to the letter.}}

* One example in ''[[Strong Medicine]]''. A matching donor could not be found for a patient, until the patient's mother informs the clinic staff that the patient's father could be a match. The father was in prison for raping the mother.

* On ''[[All My Children]]'', Erica's daughter Kendall Hart was conceived when one of her Dad's Hollywood friends, a has-been actor with a taste for young girls, rapes Erica on her fourteenth birthday. Erica's rejection of Kendall when she finds her (in stalker-ish ways) unleashes a hailstorm of vengeance even Erica's less-than-friends sympathize with her about. Kendall is stuck on her revenge-spree, believing her rapist father's tale of a doomed romance, until she finds him trying to rape Bianca, her younger half-sister. This storyline is especially notable as the main rise-to-stardom role for a very young [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]].

== Mythology ==

** Zeus has to be the master of this one, often not bothering with the "spouse" part, and occasionally not even disguising himself as human.

* Pegasus. He was Medusa's son-by-rape by Poseidon, and formed from her blood when she was slain by Perseus. [[Classical Mythology]] is like that.

* Would you believe that in classical mythology, good [[King Arthur]] was the product of a rape? [[Bed Trick|His father Uther Pendragon had a spell cast on him that made Ingraine think he was her husband]] (see the Literature section for more). Later on, his own half-sister Morgana would play the same trick on him, making their son Mordred a product of rape and incest as well as a [[Magnificent Bastard|bastard]] [[Bastard Bastard|in more ways than one.]]

* In ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]'', {{spoiler|an [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|Elven mage]] turned the humans in the area into werewolves after a group of them gang-raped his daughter, after which she committed suicide when she discovered she was pregnant. (Oh, and they also murdered the mage's son.)}}

** [[Heroic Bastard|Alistair]] is stated to be such by {{spoiler|his half-sister}}. The truth is a bit more complex and only covered in the tie-in novels: {{spoiler|Alistair is the offspring of an affair between King Maric and an elven Grey Warden mage named Fiona. Since neither elves, mages, or Wardens are well-liked in Ferelden, and Alistair might be a threat to his half-brother Cailan's rule, covering up the truth of his heritage became very important.}}

* Rayne (the title character of the ''[[Blood Rayne]]'' games) spends the first game taking down bad guys for the Brimstone Society while waiting for information about the powerful vampire Kagan. She wants to punish him for the heinous crime he committed against her. His crime? CAUSING HER TO EXIST.

* Possibly Sephiroth from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''; it's implied that {{spoiler|Hojo raped Lucrecia}}.

* In the [[Soul Series]], Ivy is the result of this. Her father, Cervantes, raped a barmaid in order to insure that the evil blade has another host should he die, not knowing that it might find another host in Siegfried at first, resulting in Ivy having her cursed blood and adoptive parents.

* Many fans of ''[[Mystery Case Files]]'' believe that {{spoiler|Victor}} is this, being the result of his father's rape of {{spoiler|the imprisoned nurse Rose}}. However, this has not been confirmed in any of the games to date.

== Webcomics ==

* In ''[[Mob Ties]]'', {{spoiler|Mika conceived while in a coma after being raped by [[Big Bad]] Bengal. Her father tries to keep it a secret due to the fact that any reminder of the incident sends her into a horrible shock.}}

* {{spoiler|Alexi's son}} in ''[[Parallel Dementia]].'' For once, though the mother actually cares for her child and doesn't harbor any bad feelings towards the child.

== Web Original ==

* [[Equestria Chronicles|Fireflare]] is notable for being a ''well-adjusted'' child of rape.

** And now her wife has one on the way.

== Western Animation ==