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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Hey, you! Get your damn hands off... her..."''
|'''George McFly''', ''[[Back to The Future]]''}}
{{quote|''The lady you have drugged is the daughter of one of my scientists. Allow me to introduce you to her security detail.''
|'''Gendo Ikari''', ''[[Nobody Dies|NGE: Nobody Dies]]''}}
A teenage girl is on a date with a guy (or maybe even her boyfriend). They are sitting in his car, often at a [[Make-Out Point]], and he's trying to put the moves on her or get into her pants, but she doesn't want it. ("No! No, stop that, I mean it!!!")
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If it '''is''' her father, he sometimes is an [[Overprotective Dad]] and the girl is mad at him for being exactly that, telling him that she could have handled the situation.
Sometimes it's not her father or some other guy who saves her, but a killer or other [[Monster of the Week]]. He kills the boy, then, if she doesn't see it and goes to thank him, kills her too. In some cases though, the villain is the type who believes [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil]].
Rarely, the savior is none of the above and is instead the would-be victim's [[Spear Counterpart|best friend,]] Alice, [[Big Damn Heroes|swooping in to save the day]] with the [[Power of Friendship|power of friendship.]]
See also [[Near-Rape Experience]], [[Attempted Rape]].
{{noreallife|this is a [[:Category:Rape Tropes|rape trope]], and All The Tropes does not care to [[squick]] its readers.}}
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== Anime
* Most of the backstory of one of the characters in ''[[Boogiepop Phantom]]''.
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* The ''[[
== Film ==
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** Though honestly, it didn't look even close to date rape considering he wasn't even being that pushy and it make McClane come off a bit stalker-ish.
*** Not to mention the fact that Lucy's actions later in the movie cast doubt on whether or not the boy would be able to date rape her without getting his ass handed to him by his would-be victim.
* In the movie ''[[Eight Legged Freaks]]'' the girl in question zaps the guy with a stun gun that her mother gave to her in case this happened - doubling as a [[Groin Attack]].
* ''[[American Graffiti]]'' had an interesting variation. A 14-year-old girl somehow became a tag-along passenger to an 18-year-old graduate. She annoyed the hell out of him, but he didn't want to kick her out on the street at midnight, and she refused to tell him where she lived so he could take her home. To finally get her to tell him her address, [[Xanatos Gambit|he told her that he had "fallen in love" with her and started to move closer to her. She was so freaked out she gave him directions.]]
* In the remake of [[The Blob]] the girl in question doesn't have a choice, because the boy got her drunk first. But there's beautiful poetic justice because when the slimy boy goes to get his hands in her bra, he finds only the Blob, which had gotten into and consumed most of her insides already, leaving it gelatinously filling her empty flesh sack. Eww.
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[The Time
* [http://community.livejournal.com/1bruce1/1289.html Happens] [http://community.livejournal.com/1bruce1/3207.html a lot] in ''[[Sweet Valley High]]''.
* Happens (like every other possible bad thing that could happen to a college girl) to the title character in ''[[I Am Charlotte Simmons
== Live
* Happened on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' [[Trope Overdosed|(didn't everything?)]]. Of course, her "resistance" broke the guy's nose...
** In another episode she gets drugged at a party by a group of cultists. One of the cultists seems to be planning this, but another stops him, since she and the other girls [[Human Sacrifice|have another purpose]].
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* ''[[A Different World]]'' uses the rescued variation when Dwayne saves Freddie from a [[Jerk Jock]] serial rapist.
* Happened in the very first episode of ''[[Mork and Mindy]]''. The titular characters meet for the first time because Mindy has driven out into the woods with her date who then drove off, taking her car when she refused to, ahem, play. Mork's spaceship lands nearby and he agrees to walk her home. The incident in the car gives us this line:
{{quote|'''Mindy:''' Don't
* Mildly subverted in ''[[Sex and the City]]'' when Charlotte is rescued (though not from attempted rape) by the 'hero' punching the attacker. Turned out he just liked punching people. When he started a fight over somebody bumping into Charlotte's chair (even after they apologised) she left.
* ''Excruciatingly'' averted in a recent episode of ''[[Mad Men]]''; plenty of people who ''could'' have been in a position to come to {{spoiler|Joan's}} rescue, and not one of them does. In this case it counts as [[Values Dissonance]], since in the early 1960s there was no popular consciousness of date rape. And the fact that {{spoiler|Joan is engaged to the man in question}} would probably have led to it not even having been considered an incident. No one would have done a god damned thing except said "Whoops!" and closed the door.
* In at least four episodes of ''[[Step by Step]]'', twice with Al (the one-time tomboy that was quickly becoming the hottest teen in Port Washington, thanks to Christine Lakin entering puberty):
** In a 1995 episode, 15-year-old Al convinces Dana and Karen to take her to a college party, where she meets an attractive boy. After lying to him that she was of age, the boy takes Al back to his room to talk and make out. He tries to take things further and presses on despite her repeated pleas to stop. Dana and Karen show up in time to run off the boy, after which they reveal that Al was 15. (The boy then runs off.) Although they don't press charges, the sisters do get a measure of revenge by throwing his stuff out the window and announcing she was 15.
** Poor Al becomes date rape fodder again two years later, when another cute guy tries to get it on with her in his '57 Chevrolet. (He had a trick seat in his car, which allowed it to recline; he then laid on top of her in an attempt to initiate sex, but the petite Al is able to fight him off.) Things become complicated later when
** In 1993, Dana was once a near-victim of date rape when her boyfriend came over (unannounced) to talk to her and hopefully make out. Her stepfather Frank (with whom she had a major argument about for his buffoonish attempt to check out the boy after Cody warns that the boy is trouble) arrives in time to run the boy off.
** At another college party (this one hosted by a fraternity Cody was hoping to join), Karen had to deal with unwanted advances by a guy she began talking with. Cody, along with Dana and Al's friends, run the guy off.
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* It happens on an episode of ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' where Mason saves a college student and the trope is lampshaded.
* Kelly Taylor in ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]'' 'dressed too provocatively' one Halloween. A creepy cowboy attempts to rape her, but Donna and Brenda come to the rescue.
* ''[[Mr. Belvedere]]'': A 1990 episode saw the teen-aged girl of the Owens' family (Heather) date a cute guy, who was hoping to get a sports intern job at the local TV station where Mr. Owens ([[Bob Uecker]]) worked. While at a Make-Out Point, the boy takes things a little too
* ''[[Quantum Leap]]'': Played straight, as Sam (the series' hero) leaps into the body of a woman who was raped by the local high school football hero on their date. (In a rare twist, the female victim is brought into the Imaging Chamber to testify.) The boy is acquitted ... but Sam (still playing the role of the boy's victim gets a very satisfying revenge; the boy comes over to try to rape the girl again, only this time, Sam bashes apart the kid's groin.
* ''City Guys'': In the episode "Raise the Roofies," Cassidy's date makes two attempts to slip her some rohypnol (the notorious "date rape drug"). When both attempts fail (Dawn inadvertently drank the first one and Cassidy simply declined the second), he tries to rape her by sheer physical force. She is rescued by Chris.
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== Music ==
* "Womanhood," a country music song written by Bobby Braddock and made popular in 1978 by Tammy Wynette. The song is about a young woman named Patricia's sexual initiation, and it is strongly implied that her
* In Nickleback's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RtTFP2TNcM video] for "I'd Come For You", this situation is played straight to the hilt. When the girl can't handle the boy by herself, she texts her father, and he comes to save her in an awesome [[Papa Wolf]] moment.
== Theater ==
* ''[[Grease]]''.{{context}}
== Video Games ==
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* Arguable/Borderline example in ''[[Misfile]]'' read [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=922 this strip] and then [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=923 the following one] and decide for yourself. Certainly it made [[Gender Bender|boy turned girl Ash]] so uncomfortable she [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=929 even claimed to be on her period] to get out of it.
* ''[[General Protection Fault]]'': In college, Ki begs off having sex with her [[Jerk Jock]] boyfriend. Boyfriend doesn't want to take "no" for an answer, but she's saved by Fooker (who, unknown to her at the time, was a government
* A [[Love Potion]] induced example in [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=000317 this] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' strip.
* A close call in ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]'' for {{spoiler|Daisy}}. She's saved by Abbey.
* Happens to {{spoiler|Joyce}} in ''[[Dumbing of Age]]'' in [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/smash/ this] strip.
== Western Animation ==
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