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* The rape scene(s) can be taken out entirely and not affect the plot
* The plot actually makes ''more sense'' if the rape scene(s) is replaced by something else (e.g. torture, or just [[Kill Him Already|Killing Him Already]]). This one is usually apparent from the [[Fridge Logic]] it causes.
* The rape scene(s) relies on [[Bad Writing Index|bad writing tropes]] such as [[Character Derailment]] (the [[Big Bad]] just forgets his usual ''modus operandi'' of killing quickly and efficiently and just rapes everything that has an orifice) or an [[Idiot Plot]] (the [[Mooks]] stop to rape a wounded hero as they are [[[[Too Dumb to Live]] |being shot at by the other heroes]]).
heroes]]).
 
Note that this trope is NOT complaining about the use of rape in a work, just the unnecessary rape scenes ([[[[Tropes Are Tools]] |and we're not always complaining either]] in the case of parodies). Before posting an example, ask yourself if the scene was at all relevant to the plot, [[Fridge Logic]] would be fixed if it was replaced, or if it only exists due to lazy writing. As usual, [[Your Mileage May Vary]].
 
Contrast [[Coitus Ensues]], a pointless but consensual sex scene.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Generally a common staple in [[Hentai]], particularly of the "tentacle porn" variety.
* ''[[Berserk]]'' has been accused of this. Rape happens a ''lot'' in the [[Crapsack World]] of this series, and many of the major characters (particularly if they're female) have had to deal with at least one attempted -- or successful -- rape during their lives. It doesn't really help that the nastier villains, particularly many Apostles, are fond of the crime in general.
help that the nastier villains, particularly many Apostles, are fond of the crime in general.
* ''[[Okane ga Nai]]'' has Ayase frequently subjected to this.
* ''[[Hen]]'' has a rape subplot that's so gratuitous it falls into [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]] territory. It comes out of nowhere, has no plot relevance, is never mentioned again, and the victim just blows it off and doesn't seem at all affected by the experience.
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== Comics ==
* Sleez forcing a mind-controlled Big Barda to star in porn movies in ''[[Action Comics]]'' #593. He almost did it to Superman, too. (How creepy was Sleeze and this story? Sleeze was kicked out of [[[[|Polluted Wasteland]] |Apokalips]] by [[God of Evil|Darkseid]] [[[[Even Evil Has Standards]] |for being too creepy]].)
** When it was featured on ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'', Linkara cited the page quote.
* Infamously, ''[[Identity Crisis]]'' created the [[Retcon]] of Dr. Light raping Sue Dibny in The Watchtower, and worse, we only found out about it ''after'' Sue had been murdered and its only purpose was to motivate the heroes into crossing into [[[[Moral Dissonance]] |very questionable territory]]. And worse, the entire rape plot turns out to be [[spoiler:a [[Red Herring]] when it comes to the central murder mystery.
 
 
== Fanfics ==
* The infamous ''[[Power Rangers]]'' fanfic ''[[Agony Inin Pink]]'' mainly focused on [[Gorn]], but this eventually happened, too.
* In the [[Old Shame|old version]] of ''A Sorceror, a Demon, and Emeralds'', a corrupted [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] rapes anything that's not nailed down. Including [[Squick|Robotnik.]]
* The sex scenes in the ''[[Naruto]]'' fanfic ''For Your Eyes Only'' are mostly this or of very dubious consent. To add insult to injury, it's all portrayed as "cute."
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** ''Rectified Anonymity'' (aka "The Pokemon Story")
* ''[[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]'' mostly focuses on [[Coitus Ensues]], but sometimes (like when Sakura gets knocked out) this happened.
* ''Hogwarts Exposed'' has [[Gratuitous Rape]], Gratuitous [[Attempted Rape]] and [[Rule of Three|Gratuitous]] [[[[Easy Amnesia]] |"I Can't Remember What Happened; What If I Was Raped?"]] in the course of the first fic.
* In ''[[In This World and the Next]]'', Harry and Hermione kill [[Ron the Death Eater]] because he raped her. Any number of other things could
have (to paraphrase the page quote) filled the same function, and might not have opened the enormous [[Plot Hole]] that this did.
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* The random [[Attempted Rape]] in the [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]] film ''The Return''.
* In ''[[Evil Dead]]'', the infamous "tree rape" scene was so completely unneeded in the movie, and added so much to its controversy, that director Sam Raimi deeply, deeply regrets including it. In ''Evil Dead 2'', which recreates many of the same situations as the first movie, the evil trees simply ''kill'' their victim instead.
* A triple rape occurs in ''Naked Weapon'', with only the [[[[Excuse Plot]] |weakest of excuses]] that the perpetrators are teaching the girls an "important" life lesson.
* ''The Condemned'' contains a scene where one of the characters is [[Forced to Watch]] as his wife gets raped and then murdered. This adds nothing to the plot whatsoever, and is just needless ugliness.
 
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* Obviously a staple of [[H-game|H-Games]].
** Often, visual novel creators turn their works into [[H-game|H-Games]] to increase sales. This tacking on of sex scenes is invariably unnecessary and sometimes takes away from the story.
* ''[[Custer's Revenge]]'' is one big #3 with Custer attempting to rape a woman while [[Too Dumb to Live|arrows are raining down on him]]!
 
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