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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
[[Mind Rape]] THEN rape. Did [[The Hero]] defeat the [[Big Bad]]? Rape - [[Out of Character|Wait,]] [[Canon Defilement|WHAT]]?!
There are many guesses as to why [[Gratuitous Rape]] is used so much. To name a few, rape makes for good [[Rape
A good indicator as to whether or not rape is gratuitous is if:
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* ''[[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.
* In the ''[[Zeorymer]]'' manga Masaki could have explained his sinister plan to Miku without raping her, but he rapes her anyway. {{spoiler|[[Narm|With an icicle]].}}
* ''[[Sanctuary (
== 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 ''[[
* 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.
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* 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."
* The titular character is (very briefly) raped by orcs in ''[[Legolas By Laura (Fanfic)|Legolas By Laura]]''. At the end of the story, Legolas reveals that [[Rape
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin|Snap-I mean-Snoop-I mean-Snake-I mean-Snape's]] wacky attempts to rap-I mean-rape Draco in ''[[My Immortal]]''.
* Most of the fics by the infamous [[So Bad It's Good]] ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' author Sephiroth. Her most famous one is about a panther raping Duo and him [[Mister Seahorse|giving birth]] to [[Petting Zoo People|catgirls]].
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* ''[[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
have (to paraphrase the page quote) filled the same function, and might not have opened the enormous [[Plot Hole]] that this did.
* A lot, and we do mean ''a lot'' of [[Hetalia]] fanfics are all about this trope. The [[Kink Meme]] is a goldmine for these, and the basis for a majority of the [[Ron the Death Eater]] characterizations the characters are subjected to.
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* The alien parasite showing a drill/tentacle-like appendage up the heroine's vagina in the theatrical version of ''Meatball Machine''. This scene was not in the original independent film.
* In ''[[Showgirls]]'', Molly is beaten and raped by her client...''just before she was about to have consensual sex with him''! One ''could'' guess that raping was his kink, but it still came right out of nowhere.
* The infamous "snowman rape scene" from the [[Slasher Movie]] ''[[Jack Frost (1997
** With a likely dose of [[Old Shame]] for Shannon Elizabeth, the actress who played the girl in question.
* The rape scenes in ''[[The Hills Have Eyes]]'', though the sequel to the remake tries to justify it by explaining the mutant numbers are low, and they needed normal people for breeding purposes.
* The random attempted rape in ''[[Friday the 13th (
* 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.
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* [[Game of Thrones]] has a scene where Khal Drogo rapes Danaerys on their wedding night, in a completely different turn from what happened in the book.
* David Morse's saintly doctor on ''[[St Elsewhere]]'' was a victim of Gratuitous Gay Rape.
* The ''[[Titanic (TV series)|Titanic]]'' miniseries includes a scene where a third-class girl is raped in the shower by [[Tim Curry|an evil steward.]]
* Within one calendar year (2005), so many characters on the soap opera ''[[Passions]]'' were raped that it was known as "The Year of the Rapes". Adding insult to injury, only one of these stories was handled even remotely seriously or realistically (the victim dressed shabbily
and could not bear to be touched). All other victims went on with their lives as though nothing had happened.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[
* A common criticism of ''[[Cthulhu Tech]]'' is that there's just a teeeeensy bit too much rape in the fluff. At least one of the writers appeared on rpgnet and spent quite some time explaining that there really wasn't ''that'' much rape in it given its reputation, but fans will be fans.
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