Rape and Revenge: Difference between revisions

The character, or someone close to the character, has been [[Rape as Drama|raped]]. And now it's time to settle the score. It might develop into a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] or [[Axe Crazy]] vigilantism, but it might also take a far more sophisticated turn.

 

 

The revenge can be divided into three kinds:

 

== Fan Fiction ==

* ''Quite a few'' fan sequels to ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia|World Financial Crisis Gangbang]]'' involve this.

* In [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2560661/ Familiar47's] ''[[Invader Zim]]'' fan-series, this is part of his character Skullene's backstory: after failing to assassinate Tallest Red, she was sent to prison, where Admiral Rizz (one of the Tallest's lackeys) repeatedly raped her, [[For the Evulz|for the fun of it]]. Eventually she had enough, broke free during one of Rizz's "visits", killed him, and then proceeded to kill ''everyone else who worked in the prison,'' because they all knew what Rizz was doing and did nothing to stop him.

* Another [[Exploitation Film]], ''[[Axe (film)|Axe]]'', also features this trope as a central theme.

* Examples with male victims are ''Vulgar'' and [[Troma]]'s ''Father's Day''.

* In ''[[Braveheart]]'', the husband of a woman raped by an English nobleman exercising ''[[Droit Du Seigneur]]'' near the beginning of the film gets his chance at payback when the Scottish rebels take over the rapist's garrison. Not being, apparently, the overly subtle type, he unceremoniously smashes the guy's head in with a mace, and that's the last we hear about it.

* In ''[[Lajja]]'', Bulwa avenges Ramdulaari's rape, as well as {{spoiler|the [[Attempted Rape]] on his mother}} by killing male followers of [[Sleazy Politician]] Gajendra.

{{quote|''"What now? Let me tell you what now. I'ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin' niggers, who'll go to work on homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow torch. You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'ma get medieval on your ass."''}}

* A female on female example of this is ''Five Across the Eyes'', where a psychotic woman tortures five teenage girls through means that include sexually humiliating them, and violating them with objects like a screwdriver and a shotgun. They avenge themselves by stabbing her to death with a screwdriver and then setting her on fire.

* This is a major theme in the 1987 Australian film ''Shame''.

* [[Sucker Punch]]: Baby Doll was raped by her step father before she seeks revenge on all the [[Big Bad]] males who are implied to have raped at least some of the ladies in the asylum.

 

 

* In ''[[Tess Of The D Ubervilles|Tess of the D'Ubervilles]]'', Tess murders Alec, who deflowers her when she was young and later forces her to become his mistress to save her family from financial ruin. Now it's ambiguous how consensual (if there was any consent involved) their first "sexual" act was, but it was clear that Tess had a vague understanding of sex and even rejected his initial advances. It's implied out of despair she becomes his mistress soon after the rape (because Victorian standards would stipulate she belongs to him) until she finds the courage to leave him. Then, Tess later becomes Alec's mistress a second time to save her family, then she fiercely murders him, not just to be with the husband who abandons her, but because Alec clearly wronged her.

* In ''Dirty Weekend'', the protagonist Bella is a shy little woman who have been stalked by a [[Always Male|predator]] for a while and finally [[Axe Crazy|snaps]]. Her "revenge" is of the slippery slope kind, eventually including a man who merely politely flirted with her.

* The very title of an episode of ''Hunter'', which has McCall being raped and Hunter being shot (after he beats up the guy) by a foreign diplomat who is protected by immunity. An incensed Hunter follows the man back to his country, kills him and escapes.

* Renee Walker of ''[[24]]'' stabs her rapist [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|15 times with a table knife.]]