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{{quote|''Take a good look at your story. Why do you think a rape is what you need for it to progress? Is there something else that could fill the same function? Unless you have a damn good reason to include rape in a story, you probably shouldn't.''| --'''Rachael Edidin''', [http://www.girl-wonder.org/insideout/ Inside Out]}}
Gratuitous Rape is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] - a pointless rape scene usually happening [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|for little to no reason]]. Did the [[Big Bad]] defeat [[The Hero]]? Rape. Did a whole bunch of [[Mooks]] gang up on [[The Hero]] at once? Rape. Does the angsty [[The Lancer|Lancer]] have childhood issues? [[Rape as Backstory|It was because he was raped.]] Is [[The Hero]] going up against a foe that has [[Mind Manipulation]] powers?
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With all that said, works should not be listed here just for including rape. The reason this trope exists is because the topic is ''very'' easy to mishandle, and we at All The Tropes wish to send the message that there are far more tasteful ways of breaking a character than by resorting to this trope.
Contrast [[Coitus Ensues]], a pointless but consensual sex scene. Compare with [[Rape Is the New Dead Parents]], when mentions of sexual abuse is tacked into a character backstory for easy tragedy.
{{noreallife|it would be nothing but disrespectful.}}
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