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{{quote|'''Shuichi''': Anyone would cry after what you did! You're a ''rapist,'' you big jerk!

'''Yuki''': Admit it, you liked it! You masochist punk!

* Discussed in the [[Josei]] manga [[Rouge Noir]]. {{spoiler|The female lead Ayane aknowledges that her and the male lead Kou's sexual encounter, years ago, ''was'' rape, and yet she also admits to having feelings for him when she finds him again. Later, when Kou and Ayane declare their mutual love and have consensual sex, Kou reveals that [[My Greatest Failure|he has been feeling guilty ever since then]] and apologizes profusely to her. After some more hardships, they get married.}}

{{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."}}

 

== Ballads ==

** Note that his entire take on the matter is reduced to two small panels and then never dealt with again.

* In ''[[Nexus (fanfic)|Nexus]]'', Ursula drugs Horatio and sleeps with him while he believes that she is his girlfriend Sundra. Later, when Ursula shows up on Ylum with Scarlet and Sheena, her twin daughters by Horatio, the four of them live together as a family. It must be noted that, at first Horatio, as much as he loves his daughters, neither feels nor expresses any affection for Ursula, but he eventually does seem to warm up to her, to the point where they do make love consensually. Also, Ursula does seem to develop feelings for Horatio.

** Indeed, the current ''[[Red Sonja]]'' series has shown the oath to be rather more nuanced. For example, she's in no way compelled to sleep with a man who defeats her—it's an option, but she doesn't have to submit if she finds him odious. (Fighting a demigod along with two allies, she was still trounced, but he had no knowledge of her oath; later, when she comes to admire him as a person, she comes to him at night.) Similarly, she can love anyone she chooses, but cannot be physically intimate with the man. It is not just a gift, but a test of Sonja's own willpower in staying true to her quest at the expense of a permanent home, family and love—one story outright said that Sonja was free to give up her skills any time she wanted, should she find a worthy man she wished to spend her life with who was not capable of besting her in battle.

*** Of course, she could duck the whole thing by running off with [[Conan the Barbarian|Conan]], who is openly attracted to her and whom they both know is capable of besting her.

== Fan Works ==

* The German fanfiction community Fanfiktion.de averts this. As stated in their guidelines for authors, [[Rape Is Love]] stories are not endorsed and get consequently blocked.

* [[Ax Crazy|Flippy]] from the''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' rapes [[Fan-Preferred Couple|Flaky]] in most stories and fanart. Or kills her.

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

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

** Also occurs in many fics for love/hate pairings that focus on the "hate" part a little too intensely, especially for Russia/Lithuania or Turkey/Greece. One example of these [[Sarcasm Mode|lovely gems]] has Turkey tying up Greece and raping him because he loves him but believes that Greece will never love him back [[Insane Troll Logic|and hence that raping him is the best way to make sure that the one he loves never forgets him]].

** 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.

* 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.

 

== Film ==

* At the end of 2002, in it's Year End Issue, Soap Opera Digest listed the Worst Trend as 'Romanticizing Rape", citing two infamous soap storylines. One, on [[Guiding Light]], in which a man nearly raped his girlfriend upon learning that she had cheated on him. The girl not only forgave him because [[Near-Rape Experience|he stopped before actually raping her]], she blamed herself for the incident because of her infidelity. The second storyline was on [[The Young and The Restless]], where Paul, who had cheated on his wife Christine and left her for the other woman was so incensed and distraught at the news of Christine's engagement that he showed up at her apartment to half-demand, half-beg that she not marry the other man, eventually telling her that he still loved her and beginning to make advances to her. Although she initially responded, when he began removing his clothes, she shifted gears and stated, "Wait, wait, this is wrong. I want you to leave." He grabbed her and threw her on the bed. Writers split hairs by pointing out that Christine never said the word "no", and completely ignored the fact that she made it explicitly clear that she wanted Paul to leave. In both cases, the assaults were presented as the result of a man's unbridled lust and passion, not the violent act it truly was.

** Which is interesting because [[Guiding Light]] did a deconstruction of this in 1979, with Roger and Holly. Holly had been cheating on Roger with Ed. When Roger found out, he raped her, in his mind, to prevent her from leaving him. Holly, needless to say, did not see it that way, and filed charges against him. Look it up on Google or Yahoo.

* In the television version of [[Pretty Little Liars]], {{spoiler|Jenna}} had been forcing {{spoiler|Toby}} to have sex with her, but she insisted that they were in love, and that there was nothing wrong with it.

* In ''[[Being Human (UK)]]'', Saul tries to invoke something like this on Annie, after the voices of the dead secretly egg him on through the TV. She doesn't fall for it, and teleports out. {{spoiler|This was all a [[Kansas City Shuffle]] on the part of the dead, who planned on it leading to Saul drinking, having a car accident, and nearly dragging Annie into the afterlife.}}

 

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== Theatre ==

** Rance plays with this trope in unusual ways in that he very clearly believes that it applies in-universe, so much so that when Kenshin falls for him the ''normal'' way he has no idea how to handle it. And yet various comments scattered throughout the game make it clear that Rance has no evil in his heart, and ''honestly doesn't understand'' that rape is harmful, at least not when he does it.

** 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.

* [[Embric of Wulfhammers Castle]] has the Duchess of Elstwhere raped by Carmina, a dark elf sorceress, in an elaborate [[Nightmare Fuel]] ritual surrounded by skeletons and dark-elf attendants. Since it happens [[All Just a Dream|in a dream]], [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Female)|Carmina is a woman and the Duchess is a lesbian]], and [["It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It"|Duchess describes the encounter in detail to titillate her maid]], Carmina is easily forgiven, and the two fall in love; they're the only couple that gets a truly "happily ever after" ending.

* In ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]'', {{spoiler|Angus Bumby was infatuated with Alice's sister Lizzie. Lizzie however hated Bumby since she could see that he was [[Obviously Evil]]. Believing that she was playing hard to get, he then sneaks into her room, rapes her and then burns down the Liddel household in order to cover his tracks.}}

** This finally got a more satisfying conclusion in the Rebirth Of Maltak arc.

** It's also made clear that "[[Dirty Business]]" doesn't even ''begin'' to describe Stonewater's feelings about that day, which softens the [[Unfortunate Implications]] of this trope a bit.

* ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'' had insecure Karen assault her boyfriend Marshall in the shower. She completely blew off a philosophical chat to grope him. All of which was portrayed as okay because she's insecure, because [[Double Standard|men are not victims]], and because Marshall is portrayed as too insecure to have sex because of his nymphomaniac mother. This is still fiercely debated in the fandom.

* Subverted in the comic [[All Roses Have Thorns]]. The vampire protagonist gets attracted to a human, then turns him into a vampire and rapes him repeatedly after killing his entire family. Needless to say the poor guy became a miserable terrified shell for quite a few years and retreated into himself, and after a few centuries now only silently hates his master.

== [[Web Original]] ==

* Occurs in the [[Whateley Universe]] at least twice in the ''Second Book of Jobe''.

* 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]] . . .

* Played for intentionally creepy laughs with [[The Nostalgia Critic]] and Spoony, with the Critic acting like a [[Tsundere]]; one minute he'll be trying to kill Insano and actually being glad that Spoony's in there, being so traumatized he can't speak at the actual rape, or making him review an awful game as punishment - the next he'll be masturbating over the prospect of the Spocker again, lovingly daydreaming about how giving Spoony was, or having drunk sex with the guy again.

 

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