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And if the goal isn't to bring the rapist and his victim together, it'll make the victim a walking angst magnet, perfect for being [[Rescue Romance|saved by his/her soulmate.]]

 

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* An alarmingly common trope in [[Boys Love|BL]] manga, where the [[Seme]] will often repeatedly attempt to force an [[Uke]] to make out with or even have sex with him, much to the uke's anger and [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?|protests that he's straight]] (which often leads to the seme trying harder just to prove him wrong). It's considered justified in the end because it turns out the seme was right about him, [[Karma Houdini|which apparently invalidates any need for his consent]].

* In ''[[Okane ga Nai]]'', Kanou rapes Ayase in an attempt to convey his feelings, but Ayase eventually falls in love with him anyways. Then it's played for [[Black Comedy Rape|comedy]] in an extra by having Kanou travel back in time back to the moment of the rape and proceed to attack his past-self for what he is about to do to Ayase. Ayase also gets hit with this trope at nearly every corner, where ''every single straight male'' in this manga either falls in love with and wants to or attempts to rape Ayase. And Ayase, being the living embodiment of [[Too Dumb to Live]] and [[The Ingenue]], only narrowly avoids said rape--when it's not [[Karma Houdini|Kanou]]--by virtue of the people around him who ''don't'' want him to get raped noticing the danger signs. Ironically, the only men who aren't interested in Ayase at all are the gay guys. Who are interested in Kanou.

* It is up to debate whether Shizuru raped Natsuki in her sleep in ''[[Mai-HiME]]'', as the details are sketchy and the plot never goes back and addresses it and exactly how far she went. However, the [[Victim Falls For Rapist]] plot is used straight in the same series between Yukariko the nun and the art teacher Ishigami. Many fans [[Hand Wave]] actions done in the series as the "dark influence" of various plot devices, as most everyone is [[Easily Forgiven|miraculously forgiven in the end]].

* In ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'', Chikane rapes the love of her life, Himeko, as part of a [[Plan]] to destroy the [[Big Bad]] without killing Himeko [[Because Destiny Says So]].

* A different take on this trope occurs in ''[[Gravitation]]'': {{spoiler|Shuichi allows himself to be gang-raped to protect his lover from defamation. It's implied that the fact that he did it out of love allowed him to recover from it pretty quickly. No emotional damage, no second thoughts, Shuichi is okay because he got raped out of love for Yuki.}} The more traditional version is subverted in a flashback: {{spoiler|Eiri Uesugi kills his mentor for raping him, although his name--Yuki--does become Eiri's pen name}}.

** There are also some non-explicit sex scenes in Volume 2 of the ''Gravitation'' manga between Shuichi and Yuki that are borderline non-consensual with Yuki very much being the [[Seme]]; the quote at the top of the page comes from one of these scenes. In contrast, the anime implies that whatever sex occurred off-screen was consensual.

* ''[[Hot Gimmick]]'' romanticizes an abusive relationship: readers are expected to support the heroine's [[Love Martyr|decision to remain]] with her [[Troubled but Cute]] love interest at the end -- his blackmail, physical force, and coerced sexual encounters with her are supposed to be how he expresses his love for her. {{spoiler|And then it's subverted in the novels, where Hatsumi is paired up... with Shinogu.}}

* Just-about-averted in ''[[Rose of Versailles]]'', in which the male romantic lead Andre forces himself on the heroine Lady Oscar--he does come to his senses and [[Near-Rape Experience|stop short of actual rape]], however, and repeatedly tells her he's sorry. The whole incident is treated as evidence of his unrequited passion for her, and doesn't stop her from falling in love with him in return by the end of the series.

* One [[Girls Love]] example can be found in the manga ''[[Gokujou Drops]]''. [[Moe Moe]] Komari gets frequently molested quite explicitly by [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]] Yukio despite Komari's protestations. Komari eventually admits to herself that she enjoys it and starts developing strong feelings for Yukio.

* Another such example is ''[[Blue Drop]]''. The [[One-Gender Race|Arume]] are not above raping earth women, if only to torture the men, which they seem to dislike pretty much. A lot of women appear to enjoy this quite a bit.

* One of the later chapters of ''[[Karin]]'' has her brother Ren {{spoiler|forcing a vampire named Bridget to be bent over sticking out a window so she can be burned by the sun wearing, ''very'' revealing clothes. He's crouched over behind her holding her down in a scene that looks a lot like a rape but apparently isn't one. That is, until she calls later and announces she is now pregnant with his son, so they get married.}} ...kay.

* ''[[Rapeman]]'', a superhero who punishes heartless villainesses with his legendary (nonconsensual) lovemaking prowess! It's supposed to be edgy satire.

** It was mentioned in a [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]] of ''[[Law and Order SVU]]''.

* In the ''[[The Tyrant Falls in Love]]'' AU manga ''Aru Hi Mori No Naka'', once Ookami (Souichi) is back to health and Kuma (Morinaga) has made it through the winter, Morinaga thinks the best way to show his love for Souichi is to, you guessed it, rape him. Although, throughout the rape, Souichi believes that Morinaga is actually ''just trying to kill him''. The next morning, after realizing what happened and also being confessed to, Souichi comments, "Are you telling me that you'd force yourself on someone you love?"

* In ''[[Samurai 7]]'', the emperor makes a habit of kidnapping farm girls for his harem. One of them [[Heroic Sacrifice|fawns on him so that he will leave the others alone]], but eventually does come to love him anyway, much to the other women's horror. Carrying his baby has something to do with that, but it certainly leads to a complicated relationship with her actual husband when they are reunited, and he can't understand why she would have any positive feelings for the man.

* ''[[Ode to Kirihito]]'' uses this as a symptom of the rapist's madness.

* [[Tanaka Yutaka]] pretty much puts this concept to the sword in ''Doubt'' (from the [[Virgin Night]] anthology). The first part shows a ''very'' unpleasant impelled sex scene which proves to be [[Poor Communication Kills]]-catalyzed (Tsutsui was making a ''bad'' assumption about Motoko's hesitancy to respond to his desire for sex as merely playing hard-to-get; she wasn't, she was just nervous about proper broaching), and leaves ''both'' Tsutsui and Motoko feeling degraded. The second part, once both participants open up about their desire for each other, is affection and pleasure distillate--and not so much as a cubic micron of anything forced (or, for that matter, hurried). Tanaka isn't really leaving any question as to which form actually fits with long-lasting love.

* The H manga ''Yanagida-kun to Mizuno-san'' plays this not quite straight, but not quite averted either. [[Tsundere|Mizuno]] technically started it, but Yanagida ends up going farther than she wanted. Later, when Mizuno's boyfriend starts badmouthing her to other people at their school, Mizuno sees Yanagida stand up for her (and get beat up for his trouble, naturally). Mizuno later states that it was this situation that made her think better of him, rather than anything directly related to the rape. Not a full aversion, but for an H manga, the slightest aversion to this trope is noteable.

** He tends to distinguish it as Ayase and Sesaam being gentle and caring while they have sex with him while everyone else literally tied him up and drugged him. [[Nightmare Fuel|From the age of 10]]. The one time that Ayase is incredibly rough with him out of jealousy is the one time he calls it rape.

* ''[[Bitter Virgin]]'' takes its plot and throws it into the face of this trope, not exactly subverting it, but definitely going against all its different types and forms. As [[The Woobie|Hinako]] could tell you, [[Tear Jerker|rape is definitely not love]].

* Played straight in ''[[Sensitive Pornograph]]'' with Hitomi and Kashima, with attempts to justify. Hitomi likes Kashima, but [[Cannot Spit It Out|is too insecure to say anything]] so instead he lets the sex do the talking. Kashima does like him as well, but is not pleasantly surprised by the sudden advances. Made worse by the fact that Hitomi takes pictures while doing it. And distributes them.

* It's especially noticeable in sub-genres such as [[Lolicon]] or [[Shotacon]] (shota/loli is especially fond of this). The character will obviously not want to have sex, but is forced into it by their apathetic associates. After it they act like they liked it, shove it off with little or no consideration that it was rape, or just continue to do it.

* Both subverted ''and'' played with in ''Unbalance na Netsu'' by [[Minase Masara]], where the main character, Ryu's, rape is played straight as a traumatic experience that he didn't enjoy. ''Afterwards'', however, Shinya, the rapist, starts to fall in love with him and tries to tell Ryu... who promptly beats him up for drugging and raping him. Eventually though, after taking pity on Shinya, who is younger than him and a temperamental brat, he does grow fond of him and they end up a couple. What's different is that in this manga the normal [[Uke]] and [[Seme]] stereotypes aren't present, the rape is never played as anything other than assault, and Ryu - the [[Uke]] - is the calm and collected one who is in control of the relationship while Shinya is just muddling along, trying not to fuck things up.

* Played with in ''[[Anatolia Story]]''. When Prince Kail initially brings Yuri in to pose as his concubine, he starts trying to have his way with her, despite her fighting back and screaming to stop. When he hears her shout the name of her boyfriend, he stops and she tells him "I love [my boyfriend] and ''hate'' you!" While Yuri does eventually fall in love with Kail, it's much later, and after he starts courting her in ways that are much more like what she tells him twenty-first century dating is like.

* The hentai ''[[Magical Twilight]]'' has a scene where Liv the Black Witch, hunting for the protagonist Tsukasa in her exam quest to kill him, runs into Tsukasa's buddy who isn't taking no for an answer. She ends up enjoying it, they fall in love (or some kind of similar emotion at least) and she gives up on her quest to kill Tsukasa, so it's regarded as a happy ending.

{{quote| {{spoiler|Ayane}}: "Six years ago, {{spoiler|Kou violated me.}} (...) [[Lampshade Hanging|Even I think there's something wrong with me.]] (...) {{spoiler|That sound and Kou himself}}, despite the calamitous past that we have, are drawing me in."}}

 

 

== Fairy Tales ==

** That's the happy variation, for a given value of "happy". In another, she wakes up after giving birth, and when she realizes what was done to her, she's so enraged she '''[[I'm a Humanitarian|eats the babies.]]''' Not sure just what sort of social commentary ''that'' one was trying to get across.

* An early version of ''Sleeping Beauty'' has this. {{spoiler|The Prince, upon seeing Beauty, so overcome by her beauty, rapes her. She wakes up nine months later when she gives birth to twins, and they all live [[Happily Ever After]].}}

 

* Sasuke rapes ''[[Naruto]]'' in almost 80% of the yaoi fics in which they appear.

* Sierra from [[Total Drama Island|Total Drama World Tour]] will do this to Cody in a lot of fanfics (and probably to a lesser extent, she'll do this to the rest of the characters)

* Rape-obsessed author [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/520793/Akenaten Akenaten] has written a bunch of stories for different fandoms that all have the same plot: a young, innocent woman is repeatedly raped and brutalized by a man who loves her deeply in his own way; in the end, they get married and have kids.

* In the ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' fanfic "Let Me Be Your Savior", this is Lovino's (Romano) justification for his raping of Feliciano (Italy).

** There's more than one Japan/China fanwork where Japan is a rapist because he was madly in love with his older brother but couldn't confess it all those centuries before 1894 because it was incestuous. Hell, there's a doujinshi called "Midare Botan" where China realizes these feelings after being ''slashed across the back and raped while still bleeding'' and asks to have reconciliation sex when their bosses reconcile some years later.

** Not even pairings that are seen as "fluffier" get free of this. There's a Germany/Italy doujinshi in which Germany had raped North Italy during the last times of [[World War Two]] (presumably the Salo Republic days), but Italy not only forgave this, but similarly to ''Midare botan'' he asked for reconciliation sex when he snuck in to check on a captured Germany who was in the hands of the Allies after his defeat. And this is despite a very remorseful Germany's initial reluctance to go through sexual therapy.

* In a Pokemon fanfiction named Captured a 17 year old teenager named Ike is caught in a unwanted harem of female Pokemon who rape him. The harem consists of a Mightyena, a Ninetails, a Zangoose and a Lucario who were all outcasts from their clans for one reason or another and in their mating season felt lonely and found Ike wandering in the woods near his home town and captured him to make him their collective mate. The dynamic mentioned in the story is that Lucario is the dominant female. In Lucario's mind she finds Ike's refusal of her love as insulting, all she wanted was a mate but Ike simply views this as a deep-rooted psychological desire on her part to have someone who she can control. Eventually Ike befriends the Zangoose and out of regret for her earlier actions helps him escape the other Pokemon and get back home where his life finally returns to normal.

* In ''The Girl Who Lived'' series, the [[It Makes Sense in Context|druid community]] has a ceremony for when the women come of age, which involves them performing a complicated sex ceremony with their boyfriends while said boyfriends are put under a mind-altering spell that halts their sentience temporarily. It only ''narrowly'' squeaks past this trope because the guys agree to it ahead of time, but it's still very squicky.

* Nine times out of ten, any fanfiction of ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' involving Kairi getting raped usually ends with her falling in love with the guy who raped her... such as Pete for instance.

* Subverted/Averted with the Sherlock fic "A Reliable Man". (Chapter 1 can be found [http://randomly-rusted.livejournal.com/559.html here].) Mycroft is disturbing, but still sympathetic particularly when he {{spoiler|realizes the [[Break the Cutie|effect]] that his [[What the Hell, Hero?|threats]] [[Be Careful What You Wish For|have]] on [[My God, What Have I Done?|Lestrade]].}}

 

== Film ==

** The novel ''Goldfinger'' averts this, since Bond does not rely on Pussy's aid to foil Goldfinger. At the end the former lesbian crime boss succumbs to Bond's charms, saying "I never met a man before...I come from the South. You know the definition of a virgin down there? Well, it's a girl who can run faster than her brother. In my case I couldn't run as fast as my uncle. I was twelve."

** Also pretty disturbing is ''[[Thunderball]]'', where he blackmails a health clinic employee into having sex with him after he's nearly killed when she doesn't check up on him frequently enough. She doesn't seem too put out over it, which apparently makes it okay.

* Played quite disturbingly in ''[[Straw Dogs]]''. As in many cases, the viewer respects the "[[Asshole Victim|victim]]" a lot less, but here, it appears quite intentional.

* [[Rutger Hauer]]'s and [[Jennifer Jason Leigh]]'s characters in ''[[Flesh And Blood]]''. Here, at least, she doesn't seem to suffer this with any of her ''other'' rapists.

** Actually, a joke generally lost on modern audiences, because the woman in the car who makes the comment is Dorothy Parker, making a cameo appearance. She was famous for writing short stories, in many of which, people fail spectacularly when trying to demonstrate love, or by misperceiving some gesture by another person as indicating love.

** Not to mention the fact that Parker's own love life was a spectacular mess, and the public was generally aware of it. She was very jaded with regard to romantic love fairly early in life, and it showed in her writing.

* Lara in ''[[Doctor Zhivago]]'', though she ends up {{spoiler|changing her mind and shooting her rapist.}}

** In the original book the movie was based on, she isn't even raped in the first place. She shoots the guy because she's in desperate need for money and wants to blackmail him.

* In the [[Clint Eastwood]] movie ''[[High Plains Drifter]]'', a woman insults and slaps him, so he drags her into a barn and rapes her. She screams in protest initially, but about halfway through her demeanor changes and she gives [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYgC10cVfqg every appearance of enjoying it].

* The Russian adaptation of ''[[And Then There Were None]]'', depending on your interpretation. {{spoiler|Lombard}} rapes {{spoiler|Vera}}, who still hangs around with him afterwards, albeit partially out of desperation. {{spoiler|However, she does kill him in the end, and it's unclear whether or not she's wanted to since he forced himself on her and was just waiting for an opportunity.}}

 

 

== Literature ==

* Though seduction plays its part, is it cruelly subverted in ''Tess of D'Urbervilles.'' Sadly, the rapist, Alec, is the only one who can make Tess's and her family's life financially better.

* Kathleen E. Woodiwiss' acclaimed historical romance ''The Flame and the Flower'' is quite well-written but has an exceptionally disturbing rape-to-love conversion. The heroine stabs a man who is attempting to rape her and flees, believing she has killed him. The so-called "hero" has men wandering the streets looking for a prostitute to bring to him, and when they see her on the streets they grab her. She goes with them thinking they are police. The hero rapes her, dismissing her resistance as "mere coyness". She escapes and goes back to her abusive aunt, only to find out that she is pregnant. Her aunt forces her to wed her rapist... whom she eventually falls in love with, and bears the child, and they all live happily ever after. However, ''he never apologizes for the rape,'' and the novel leaves the reader with a distinct impression that because she was out on the street alone, she deserved it. Even for a novel set in the early 1800s, this seems excessively misogynistic and left a bad taste in many readers' mouths.

* Reversal in the ''Mode'' series from [[Piers Anthony]]. The protagonist couple finally get married, but after having been raped in her past, the female lead finds herself psychologically unable to submit to sexual intercourse, even in a consensual relationship. She offers to let the male rape her to consummate their marriage. {{spoiler|He declines.}}

* Averted massively in [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''Shards of Honor'': Sergeant Bothari, during a period of severe mental illness, is forced to participate in his commanding officer's rape and torture of a female POW. After she goes into a catatonic state he keeps her in his own quarters for several days, playing out a fantasy relationship with her; the experience leaves her pregnant and nearly destroyed by the mental trauma, and when they meet him again nineteen years later in ''The Warrior's Apprentice'' she promptly shoots him dead. Bothari, by this point much saner, seems to regard it as [[Karmic Death|cosmic justice]].

** Played with in ''Barrayar'', too. Koudelka and Drou have an unplanned, er, encounter, on the couch; Kou then takes to avoiding Drou. When finally confronted, he miserably apologizes for raping her. She is offended both by the implication that she couldn't have fought him off--Drou being the Empress's personal bodyguard, after all--and by the realization that Kou was so caught up in his own actions he didn't even notice Drou was participating (though perhaps being cold-shouldered after the fact confused him -- he didn't realize she was worried about pregnancy). She didn't enjoy the sex much, since it was her first time and neither of them were much good at it, but she ''absolutely'' wanted to be there. They eventually get things straightened out, and go on to marry, have four daughters, and live happily ever after.

* Played for [[Squick]], or at least tragedy, in ''The [[Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]]''. After Lena is raped, the trauma of the experience leaves her no longer entirely sane, and she imagines herself as having been in a romantic relationship with her rapist.

* In Ken Follet's ''[[World Without End]]'', Ralph Fitzgerald thinks that, if he rapes Annet, she will love him. Ralph, there was a reason you were called stupid behind your back. He would have been executed, if it were not for the king. Ralph makes many crossings of the [[Moral Event Horizon]].

* In Paul Gallico's ''[[The Poseidon Adventure]]'', Susan is searching for her brother alone in a darkened corridor, when she is brutally raped by a panicking teenage crewman, afraid to die a virgin. Not only does Susan grow to like the boy after a brief conversation, she mourns his death and hopes that she's pregnant with his child so that he'll leave a legacy.

** She actually did threaten to castrate Pete with her bare hands when she first met him again... until she found {{spoiler|he was also an Artificial Person, at which point she immediately empathized with him. Apparently their common origin and sex-slave training had Friday realizing that she couldn't really hate him without also in a way hating ''herself''... when her [[Character Development]] over most of the book is that she's slowly been learning ''not'' to do that.}}

** Pete explains very specifically that his rape of Friday was ''not'' a matter of "only following orders"; he raped her, he explains, "because I ''wanted'' to. Because you are so sexy you could corrupt a [[wikipedia:Stylite|Stylite]]. Or cause Venus to switch to Lesbos." This is, if not [[Rape Is Love]], at least rape as compliment.

** After Marsty [[Heel Face Turn|renounces Astrabolo]], and he is found severely wounded and betrayed, Verdegal refuses to let anyone keep him in jail for having raped her a long time ago. More of a roundabout; as the rape didn't lead to love. It was the fact that he was browbeaten into service to Astrabolo that led to [[Not So Different|Verdegal pitying him]], [[Red String of Fate|which lead to love]].

* Edith Maude Hull's ''[[The Sheik]]'', which might as well be called ''[[Values Dissonance]]: The Novel''. Strong, independent female protagonist is kidnapped by a (ridiculously stereotyped) Arab sheik and raped pretty much daily for a month or so. She finally tries to escape because she quite rightly loathes him, but no sooner does he catch her again than she realizes she's completely in love with him and is willing to efface herself utterly to make him happy. Eventually he realizes he loves her too, which...really doesn't excuse the rest of it.

* The Ira Levin novel ''[[This Perfect Day]]'' has a very disturbing scene where, after kidnapping her to rescue her from the drug-addled conformity of The Family, Chip rapes Lilac. This is the event that finally awakens her to her true humanity, and the two are soon a couple and get married shortly thereafter.

** In ''Freedom's Landing'', the heroine, Kris, helps shanghaied Catteni nobleman Zainal (temporarily) escape their mutual captors. Zainal tries to repay her help... by attempting to throw her down and have his way with her. And [[Values Dissonance|he's honestly baffled]] as to why she's not thrilled about it. It's suggested, but never really followed up on, that the Catteni view non-procreative sex as a token of favor a male gives a female. Then again, one of the nastier recurring themes in the series is that many of the women in Kris's makeshift colony were coping with rape trauma after encounters with other Catteni. It's highly doubtful ''all'' of them looked to "honor" the women.

*** In an introduction [[Anne McCaffrey]] stated the initial short story was an unsuccessful attempt to cash in on the porn market. She then had a choice of leaving this in the drawer and coming up with some new ideas, or expanding on the short story.

* Sometimes appears abruptly in otherwise innocuous pre-feminist-era romance novels, ratcheting up the [[Squick]] factor by about x10000. A typical example by Victoria Holt: the "hero" abducts the heroine when he learns she's about to marry another man, and repeatedly rapes her over three days in order to spoil her for marriage for anyone else. Another example from the same author features the reluctant heroine deliberately trapped in a bedroom by the hero; when she ''beats out a window'' trying to escape, the hero is to his credit shocked to his senses, but ''she's'' left feeling all confused, since part of her wishes she'd just gone along...

** Similarly, at least one Catherine Cookson novel involves a rich young rake carelessly raping a poor young girl, who from no fault of her own has a reputation as the town tramp. She then bears his child, which she is forced to give up to him. She is eventually married to a kindly local miller... but the story downplays his selflessness in favour of an ending wherein he dies and the rake, far from being repentant, realizes he's loved her all along, and deigns to marry her. Yechhh.

* Used realistically in [[John Ringo]]'s ''[[Council Wars]]'' series when the Big Bad kidnaps one of the heroines (along with a bunch of other women) for his harem. All are raped repeatedly until [[Stockholm Syndrome]] sets in, at which point the heroine is horrified to realize that she actually loves him, though that doesn't stop her from killing him in a [[Karmic Death|particularly nasty and gruesome fashion]]. Unusual in that the victim is fully aware of what has happened to her and recognizes that she's undergone a form of brainwashing. A later book shows that all of her harem-mates also suffered severe psychological trauma from the experience.

* Played fairly straight in Frank Herberts [[Dune]] series. The novels include various characters who are manipulated or forced into sexual situations and then end up in love with their partner. Of particular note are clones (called gholas) who lack the memories of their clone-parent until they are awakened through extreme trauma or awesome Jedi ninja sex. Since it is easier to awaken a clone through sex than trauma, "surprise sex" becomes the method of choice.

* Subverted in the French science fiction juggernaut (11.500+ pages without counting the sequel and spinoffs) ''La Compagnie des Glaces'' (''The Ice Company''): The "Rail Pirate" Kurts and his crew rape the powerful [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Corrupt Corporate]] [[European Union|European]] [[Femme Fatale]] Floa Sadon, who acts as if she was enjoying it. The subversion comes from the fact that Kurts then falls in love with Floa, but she starts to love him only once their relationship becomes consensual and she has him wrapped around her little finger. Well, since they both are [[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent Bastards]], maybe they were meant to be together...

** Another example comes from the fact that the protagonist, Lien Rag, is captured by a repulsive female mob leader who wants to have a child by him (she enjoys being pregnant, and Lien is supposed to have some specific genetic material that the mob leader would like to "implement" into her offspring). The mob leader then uses her younger and much better-looking daughter to make Lien "ready" and switch with her at the last minute. Lien Rag does not fall in love with the mob leader, but when it comes to her daughter, the fact that she was the accomplice in his rape does not bother him... or her, for that matter.

* Subverted in ''The Hellfire Club'' by Peter Straub. The villain [[Serial Killer]], Dick Dart, narcissistically claims that ''all'' sex is rape, since when he does it with women, he completely owns them. It initially seems that the heroine, Nora, ''does'' develop [[Stockholm Syndrome]] with him, and genuinely starts liking him more than the other men in the book. Until later on, where she rebels and tries to kill him after he tries to force her to be his accomplice in killing a bunch of old ladies.

* Popped up in a ''Christian romance series'', specifically in Marylu Tyndall's ''[http://www.amazon.com/Redemption-Legacy-Kings-Pirates-Book/dp/1597893595 The Redemption]''. A main character is raped by the dashing, amoral young captain of a pirate ship, escapes, has his baby, and eventually decides that he's a [[Draco in Leather Pants]]. Note that, in previous books, he also kidnapped a woman (twice) and caused her to miscarry.

* In S.L. Viehl's novel ''StarDoc'', the protagonist, a female doctor, enters an isolation chamber with someone who is a possible carrier of a plague in order to prove it's not airborne. This someone happens to be the [[Jerk Stu|irritating but handsome male linguist]]. He sexually assaults her, and she, to her own disgust, begins to enjoy it. It later turns out that the "plague" is actually sentient, and was in control of him at the time and actively trying to infect her, so her forgiveness of him is somewhat understandable. What's ''not'' so understandable is {{spoiler|that there's obvious unresolved sexual tension between them by the second book, and they eventually fall in love}}.

** There are two cases in later books which could also be constituted as forced intercourse. The second time they have sex is when he is disguised as an alien. She only finds out it's him the next morning. Later on, after they're married, he throws her on the floor of a cave and orders her to do him right then and there in order to prove her love. Having a rough childhood does not justify this sort of behavior towards a loved one.

** What the "plague" wants to do is kill Cherijo, as she is immune to it (i.e. her advanced immune system kills any foreign body). The guy convinces it to let him try to infect her in a "different way". Somehow, she forgives him and doesn't mention the incident in later books.

* [[Wynette Hoffman]]'s satirical pulp adventure ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=BMfTMy3lYnYC&dq=love+%26+benjamins&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=Zm7q5pRIX3&sig=je2Sl1iVewiSDCFvuzA-iuc9hBU=en&ei=VJw7S-3nN4y1tgfwteyPCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result=1&ved=0CAgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage=&f=false Love & Benjamins]'' features a protagonist who's a sociopathic KGB agent. Traumatized and betrayed by various women, he rapes his way through life until he encounters a brilliant virgin who's used as bait to attract him. He rapes her, she 'likes' it, ''he'' likes it, and they both realize how intensely (and literally) fucked up they've become. The novel weaves through several other dysfunctional and outright horrifying partnerships, too. The major redeeming force is that both the author and her characters realize and admit that things are wildly out of control... and, to quote both, "un-PC."

* The entire ''plot'' of the ''[[Anita Blake]]'' series seems to revolve around this. The ''ardeur'' forces her, previously a [[Chaste Hero]] to have sex with people -- nonconsensual on ''both'' sides more frequently than not -- and afterwards usually they're somehow in love and fanatically loyal to her. Not helped by the fact that in later books (when the ''ardeur'' is introduced) she's a [[Canon Sue]]. Not to mention in the first appearance of the ''ardeur'', Micah finds Anita in the shower and, despite Anita repeatedly saying NO, has sex with her. From that point on apparently he's the most perfect giving forgiving partner ever, and they love each other.

* Toyed with by [[Roald Dahl]] in the short story ''Bitch''. A woman casually consents to being 'raped' for a scientific experiment, but it's much more forceful than she expected it would be. She loves it so much she ends up stealing the experiment's components.

* Dr. Mark Ahriman of ''[[False Memory]]'' has a bizarre variant of this. While he [[Mind Rape|mind rapes]] some of his patients so he can ''literally'' rape them, he's genuinely fond of them, in his sick way. Mostly he doesn't let them remember what he does to them, but one of the protagonists in particular catches his fancy, and he's "delighted at the prospect of falling in love or in [[Squick|something like it]]". Fortunately for her, {{spoiler|she breaks his mental hold not long before another patient shoots him for entirely unrelated reasons.}}

* In Peter Watts' sci-fi novel ''Starfish'', there's a character who's a psychotic pedophile; when he's arrested and put through therapy, he claims he gropes and rapes children because "that's what you do when you love someone." The psychiatrist tells him he's heard that dozens of times from rapists, but "you're the only one I've seen who might actually believe it."

* Similar to the ''Eclipse'' example, the book ''Hush, Hush'' has the love interest, Patch, repeatedly corner Nora, put his hands all over her, and kiss her, while she outright tells him to back up and give her room and that she doesn't feel safe with him (this goes to the point where she considers ''pulling a fire alarm'' to escape from him). He also metaphorically rapes her by [[Mind Rape|planting fake images in her head]] and [[Grand Theft Me|temporarily taking possession of her body]], which she describes as being both involuntary and very frightening. In spite of all of this, Nora ends up deciding that Patch is the greatest guy ever and ends up [[Stockholm Syndrome|happily dating him]].

** It's also worth noting that Nora and Patch officially hook up after [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|he ignores her protests, tricks her into staying in a single-bed motel room with him, throws her on the bed and against the wall, and kisses her.]]

* The narrator of Chris Lynch's ''Inexcusable'' fully believes in this trope, but he has a habit of unintentionally undermining his own arguments. This is ''entirely'' deliberate on Lynch's part.

* The [[Gor]] novels by John Norman. There are examples in all the books of the series, usually many examples apiece.

 

** Another ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'' example, much much earlier. Bill Horton raped Laura Horton, his brother Mickey's wife. She confided in their father, and they agreed it was best to keep it a secret. She became pregnant from the rape and passed the child off as her husband's, but eventually the true paternity was revealed. She ended up divorced from Mickey and married to Bill.

*** Deconstructed in the late eighties when Jack forced himself on his wife Kayla, who married him only because he was dying and her actual boyfriend (Jack's long lost brother) pushed her to marry him so that he could be happy in his final days. Of course, Jack survived his illness and his crazy-ass father was secretly trying to kill Kayla (forcing her to spend more time with Jack's brother in order to protect her). For a long time, Jack justified his rape as saying that as Kayla's legal husband, that he had a right to force himself upon her. A defense he used to successfully avoid jail time when Kayla filed charges against him. Cut to a few years later and Jack (now a good guy after falling in love with the spunky [[Purity Sue]] Jennifer Horton), finds out that Jennifer ended up marrying a crazy rich guy named Lawrence, while pretending to be his intended arranged marriage bride to be. Oh and that Lawrence, upon finding out that Jennifer is not the woman his parents intended him to marry right before the ceremony, went through with the wedding simply so that he could confront Jennifer after the wedding with the truth and violently rape her and then tells her that no judge in the world would convict him of rape since they were legally married when he assaulted him. Jennifer ultimately goes through a slow boil breakdown which culminated in her calling Jack a rapist to his face right before she confessed to him about what happened between her and Lawrence. For added humiliation and evil lulz, Jack is called as a witness by Lawrence's lawyer and forced to read from his previous spousal rape trial transcript in order to make Lawrence's case that he had every right to rape Jack's beloved. This leads to Jack's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], where he yells at Lawrence that his claim is bullshit and FINALLY owns up to what he did to Kayla and admits that he raped her.

*** At present, Marty is again being played by the original actress. The character has amnesia and Todd is manipulating her into falling in love with him. Todd remains one of the show's most popular characters, possibly because those offended by his continued presence and supposed "redemption" have stopped watching.

** On [[Another World]], Jake raped Marley when she tried to end their relationship. Fast-forward a few years and not only is Jake engaged to Marley's sister Vicky, Marley is [[Clingy Jealous Girl|insanely jealous]] and gushing and fawning over Jake to the point where HE seems genuinely disturbed by this.

* Scott attempts to do this in ''[[Higher Ground]]'' by writing love letters to his sexually abusive stepmother.

{{quote| '''Scott:''' I thought that if I loved her, it would make what was going on okay.}}

 

== Music ==

* "Gimme The Night" by eurobeat alias Dave McCloud sounds like [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] at first, but listen to the lyrics closely and you get creepy lines like "[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Like a nice empty shell]] / Such a beautiful girl" and "[[Victim Falls For Rapist|You're my beautiful toy]]".

* Katy Perry's E.T. has [http://smartiepops.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/katyperrykanyeet/ received some flack] for its "Stockholm Syndrome" like lyrics such as "Wanna be a victim, Ready for abduction" not helped by Kanye West's additional lyrics of "I�mma disrobe you, Then I�mma probe you, See, I abducted you, So I tell you what to do."

* Can occur in the Bastard of Kosigan series, but only with Diane using a high-Charisma character. Every other rape scene is played more realistically (i.e. she uses the opportunity to pull a [[Groin Attack]], she calls the city guards on you, she pulls a [[Groin Attack]] forcing you to drop your weapon then [[Shapeshifting Lover|turning back into her natural form and attacks you]]...)

* If the player romances Vico in ''[[A Dance With Rogues]]'', it is as a result of this trope. Especially given how the initial scene of the romance plays out.

** Also subverted, in that it's 1. Literally all a fantasy, 2. A very bad idea by Aruceid, and 3. Is coming a good portion from Shiki's own head. Also overlaps with '[[Black Comedy Rape]]', and 'Be careful what you wish for'.

** There is also a later seen where Shiki catches a glimpse in Arcueid's Gold Eyes as she kills some undead. The Line "I just...want her..." Results in his Nanaya persona forcing himself upon her. Afterwards, she is apologetic, as A) She's starting to fall for Shiki by that point and B) her Gold Eyes have hypnotic properties. That is to say, she thinks she accidentally hypnotized him into having sex with her, which would make her the rapist. They both feel horribly guilty for a good deal after the event.

* Ridiculously common in both yaoi and otome h-games (that is, Japanese porn games for women). Possibly due to a taboo about women being forward about sex, or even admitting they enjoy it, in some otome games sex is ''always'' forced upon the heroine by her love interests. All of them.

* Many, if not most, h-games do this. To quote an above editor: "And that's enough about hentai or this page will never stop."

** {{spoiler|Considering what she's been through, her being screwed up enough to believe this is a bit of a [[Tear Jerker]]. She seems genuinely surprised and confused that Beckett is rejecting her. Her solution is to make herself look beautiful, instead of a rotten corpse.}}

* Firmly entrenched in [[Sengoku Rance]]. Rance ''will'' have sex with you if you're a cute girl, willing or not. And eventually, you will fall in love with him. Any other rapist is horribly evil, though.

** Rance, while he doesn't comprehend that rape is wrong, believes that regardless of the situation, both parties should be at least physically satisfied at the end of it. Hence why when he found out a character was raped in order to traumatize them, he was enraged beyond imagination.

* Subverted in ''Rapelay'', by ILLUSION, a game which is about stalking and raping women. The entire game is actually an affirmation of the this trope, where the player trains the victims into loving his attacks.

 

 

* Inverted in [http://www.theonion.com/content/video/crime_reporter_man_had_sex_with this Onion video] where the reporter characterizes a mostly-happy 10 year marriage as if the husband was holding the wife hostage.

* Relationships between humans and [[Pokegirls]] tend to start this way, due to the [[Deus Sex Machina|mechanics of the setting]]. [[Property of Love]] is the best possible outcome. [[Sex Slave|It's not the only one, though]] . . .