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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.
Of course, the rape doesn't have to technically be rape. It could be a ongoing case of sexual harassment or stalking that finally make the victim snap. However, due to [[Double Standard|Double Standards]], this narrative is [[Double Standard Rape (Female On Male)|normally limited]] to female characters.
The revenge can be divided into three kinds:
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In some stories, these three kinds of revenge are the stages in a slippery slope where one leads to the other.
In a way, the first stage on that slippery slope is an inversion [[Honor
It goes downhill from there, with the third stage [[Crosses the Line Twice|Crossing The Line Twice]] in a bad and not at all amusing way. In either case, Rape and Revenge accept the premise that rape constitutes permanent destruction, but adds the idea that it's not necessarily the victim who gets destroyed. She can avert being [[Defiled Forever]] by defiling her abuser back... or maybe it will turn into a [[Moral Event Horizon|black hole]] where ''everyone'' is damned.
While the victim doesn't necessarily have to do the fighting herself, it still has to be ''her'' revenge. If a male hero helps her to get revenge, it's still Rape And Revenge. If the quest for revenge is his own, then it's just plain [[Revenge]] instead, and if he's doing it against her will (or even with her as one of the targets) then it's [[Honor
Vengeance for violation is a subset of "Crime Pursued by Vengeance," one of the ''[[Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations]]'' recognized by Georges Polti.
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