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[[File:Souma and Ryo 1 and 8.png|350px|thumb|right|link=Fire in His Fingertips|Left: Episode 1 Right: Episode 8 <ref> Source:Episode 1 and 8 of [[Fire in His Fingertips]] </ref>]]
{{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!
'''Shuichi''': [["It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It"|I--I couldn't help it! It felt... well... nice.]] ([[Luminescent Blush|blushes]])
|'''''[[Gravitation]]''''' manga}}
The idea that people can enjoy being raped and/or will [[Love Martyr|fall in love]] with their rapists as a consequence of the rape. More often than not, the rapist turns out to have acted out of pure love, or winds up loving his/her victim emotionally too.
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According to many sexologists, this is a common submissive ''fantasy'' for both women and men, although it certainly does '''NOT''' mean that s/he wants to get raped for real. After all, people who play paintball don't really want to shoot and kill each other. The "rape" remains a fantasy or a [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual|game]].
It is a staple of published [[Yaoi]] and [[Slash Fic]], in which a disproportionate amount used a rape scene to bring the two male characters together, but can also extend to heterosexual couples and [[Psycho Lesbian|women]]. Also popular in "bodice ripper" [[Romance Novel|romances]], in which resistant women are overwhelmed with passion as men force themselves upon them, though it should be noted that these types of stories were mostly popular in the 70s and 80s and are now, for the most part, considered a [[Dead Horse Music Genre]] in the romance novel community. The receiving end may rant, protest, push away, cry [[Sparkling Stream of Tears|glistening tears]]... but before the first half of the scene is over, they'll have started cooperating and acknowledging their enjoyment, probably while [[Luminescent Blush|blushing furiously]]
Nearly all [[Boys Love|yaoi]] manga published in English contain some element of this. Plots have become almost frighteningly predictable too, often beginning with Mr. [[Seme]] either raping, or at least [[Near
Whichever genre, a
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.]]
A subtrope of [[Stockholm Syndrome]] and [[Hollywood Sex]]. See also [[Prison Rape]], [[Naughty Tentacles]]. Compare [[Stalking Is Love]], [[Black Comedy Rape]], [[Rape
{{noreallife|First, this is a [[:Category:Rape Tropes|rape trope]], and All The Tropes does not care to [[squick]] its readers. Second, this is a trope about how characters are depicted in media. Please don't use this page to smear the reputations of real people.}}
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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]].
* ''[[Winter Demon]]'' from Yaoi Press featured this with the titular winter demon Fuyu raping a young (male) monk before the manga begins. The monk is forced to seek Fuyu's help in the actual beginning and the pair fall in love. And then as if this counts as [[Rape
* 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
* It is up to debate whether Shizuru raped Natsuki in her sleep in ''[[
** [[Mai-Otome]] [[Zig
* 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.
* In Saki Hiwatari's Shoujo classic ''[[Please Save My Earth]]'' The ''concept'' is used for Big Drama, as well as propelling much of the plot. The two characters end up in love and together. However what actually happened is moot as everyone is an [[Unreliable Narrator]] due to unclear memories heavily influenced by emotions. This causes the characters and readers to be uncertain about how much blame to impart and who to feel sorry for. See [[Please Save My Earth
* ''[[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
* Just-about-averted in ''[[Rose of Versailles]]'', in which the male romantic lead Andre forces himself on the heroine Lady
** In the anime version, anyway, Andre's actions are also supposed to be evidence of his ''immaturity'', and one of the reasons Oscar doesn't (yet) return his feelings. (The title of the episode wherein it occurs is "Andre, a Green Lemon")
** It's also an indication of the extreme stress he's been under ever since he {{spoiler|lost his eye, and potentially going completely blind}}. The anime makes it very clear [[Not Himself|that he snapped and that what he did was wrong]], hence why their relationship is (for a while) ruined by it.
* Nearly half of hentai mangas and animes start in this way, when guy/girl/child gets raped and likes that in the next page, then comes back for more in the end.
* In the [[Hentai]] OVA ''[[Dragon Knight]] IV: Wheel of Time'', the [[Lady of War|warrior princess]] Bianca doesn't know her place in the army of good guys and is unwilling to submit to [[The Hero]], Eto. So when she challenges him, he easily defeats her, and then rapes her to put her in her place. It works, and she enjoys it. And that's enough about hentai or this page will never stop.
** Hentai in general tends to take things even farther to the extreme (duh), with rape not just being love, but being some sort of fetish. A number of hentai involve a woman who is raped and/or degraded, and is turned into an insatiable sex addict because of it, and become willing to do almost ''anything'' for it.
* In ''[[After School Nightmare]]'', Sou sexually assaults Mashiro
* More or less the entire plot of ''[[System Of Romance]]''.
* 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.
* [[Kanokon
* 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 [[
* 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 the ''[[
* 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.
** Respected as he is, [[Osamu Tezuka]] seems to have had a disturbing fondness for this trope. It also appears in ''[[MW]]'' (in which the victim spends the rest of the book pining for her sociopathic rapist without ever doing anything important) and ''[[Ayako]]'' (in which a spy exploits this trope to "ensure" the allegiance of another agent sent to kill him).
* This happens to all of the kidnapped girls in ''[[Bondage Queen Kate]]''. After they go through their captors "special training", they soon become loving and compliant sex slaves.
* ''[[Hana Yori Dango]]'', Tsukasa sends some boys to rape Tsukushi, who is saved by Rui. Later Tsukasa develops feelings for Tsukushi and
* In ''[[Aki Sora]]'' the number of girls that Sora has slept with voluntarily for the first time is one however he has had consensual sex with at least 3 of the girls after they raped him and he shows no ill effects of the rape. As a matter of fact a classmate of his that was one of the women who gang raped him at the party was angry this did not happen to her.
* [[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
* 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.
* [[Zig
** 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.
* This happens in ''[[
* This occurs in ''[[
* 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.
* A one-shot in the Yaoi collection ''Letters of love'' plays so aggressively and ironically with this trope that it deserves a detailed description here. Kazuhiro is in love with his student, Mikami, so when he catches him going through his desk for what he assumes are the answers to the up-coming test, he decides to blackmail him into having sex with him (intending to rape him if he doesn't). However, when Mikami starts to cry and beg him to stop he realises he can't do this to someone he loves, has an [[My God, What Have I Done?]] moment and tells him to go home. The next day, he tells Mikami to delete the video he'd taken of him going through his desk, that he's sorry and that he won't tell anyone about him trying to cheat. Mikami asks him why he tried to rape him and Hazuhiro tells him that he loves him but that he doesn't expect him to forgive him... cue Mikami turning on him, having recorded the entire conversation and blackmailing ''him'' into having sex with ''him'' (it turns out Mikumi's a [[Stalker
* 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.
* ''[[
* Discussed in the [[Josei]] manga [[
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* Yukiha falls hard for her own rapist, Masami, in ''[[The Girl in the Library: Until The Pure You Falls From Grace]]'' after being disappointed by her boyfriend's [[Speed Sex|poor performance]] and [[Teeny Weenie|small penis.]] She becomes Masami's [[Sex Slave]] of her own [[Happiness in Slavery|free will]] and ends up [[Babies Ever After|pregnant with his child.]] By chapter six, she's [[Undying Loyalty|completely devoted to him]] and ends up as [[Sex Face Turn|evil as he is.]]
* Souma Mizuno from ''[[Fire in His Fingertips]]'' has raped Ryo Fujihashi before and after she becomes his girlfriend. He is nevertheless [[Sex God|really good at sex]] and aside from his perversion is still a good man and a loyal boyfriend becoming a rare justified example. They are the page image.
== Ballads ==
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* In ''The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter'', the title daughter chases after the knight to insist that he marry her.
* In ''The Wylie Wife of the Hie Toun Hie'', when the rapist returns several years later and sees the beautiful child his victim bore, he marries her.
== Comic Books ==
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* Recently over at DC, the decision was made to make the ''Son of the Bat'' mini-series canon again, but decided to retcon Batman and Talia Al-Ghul's consensual encounter into Talia drugging and raping Bruce in order to conceive their son, Damien. Talia still acts like Bruce was a willing participant, so in at least in her mind it was love. Bruce however isn't all that amused and all but called it rape.
** 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.
* Averted, oddly enough, by [[Red Sonja]] whom was gifted with incredible skill in battle by a goddess after her family was slaughtered by evil soldiers and she was raped and left for dead. But this blessing required Sonja to swear a holy oath to never love any man who could not beat her in fair, single combat. While some feel this would require Sonja to repeat the rape that ruined her life and put her on the warrior's path it hardly seems logical, [http://comicsnexus.com/2007/02/12/64703/ as one writer pointed out]{{Dead link}}, that a compassionate goddess would bless a woman with fighting prowess only to turn her into a trophy concubine for any well-muscled idiot with a sword.
** 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
*** 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.
**** Conan has bested her at least once, and was expecting to bed her. She told him "I don't have to enjoy it", which convinced him to give up the attempt.
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== Fairy Tales ==
* Appears in the ''[[
* An old Italian precursor of "[[Sleeping Beauty]]", "[[Sun, Moon, and Talia
** 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.
* Some early versions of "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (
* 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]].}}
== 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.
* The ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion
* What starts the events in ''[[
* the ''[[Death Note]]'' fic ''[[Poison Apple]]'' by [[Robbin Rocks]] and Narroach; first Light rapes L, then L rapes Light for revenge, Light drugs L and they have drugged "making love". . . somehow.▼
* [[Ax Crazy|Flippy]] from the''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' rapes [[Fan
▲* Poison Apple by [[Robbin Rocks]] and Narroach; first Light rapes L, then L rapes Light for revenge, Light drugs L and they have drugged "making love". . . somehow.
▲* [[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.
* 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20120419172124/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).
** 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.
* The horrific ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' fanfic ''[[
* ''Beautifully''
* In a
* 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.
* In ''[[
* 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
* [[Zig-Zagging Trope|Zig-zagged]] in ''[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/troop-of-beasts-dragon-ball.6675/ Troop of Beasts]''{{Dead link}}. While some of the girls and women Kakarot rapes (Colonel Violet, Hasky, Chi-Chi, etc.) fall in love with him before long, others (notably Bulma) [[Averted Trope|don't]].
== Film ==
* The [[James Bond]] movies ''[[Goldfinger]]'' and ''[[Live and Let Die (
** 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.
* In ''[[Gone
* 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
* ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'' features a [[Black Comedy Rape|comedic]] version of this with The Monster and Elizabeth. Borderline: Elizabeth is pleasantly impressed when she gets her first sight of The Monster's [[Gag Penis|"very large shvanstocke"]]; however, the Monster doesn't seem particularly interested in her consent, and she continues to protest right up until the moment of, er, union.
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* ''Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann'' uses this with the 'going back in time to become your own grandfather' plot. The "grandmother" rapes her "grandson" at gun-point and they develop a relationship.
* In ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]'', Louis dons an identical Darth Vader costume as one of his [[Jerk Jock]] rivals and proceeds to have sex with the jock's girlfriend. As she's post-coitally gushing about her "boyfriend's" performance, Louis unmasks himself... ''On top of her''. She expresses dismay at his deception, for about five seconds, before openly marveling that "a nerd" could be that good in bed, and spends the rest of the movie in heat for him. They end up married in subsequent sequels. Played for laughs, but [[Fridge Logic]] quickly turns it into [[Dude, Not Funny]].
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** 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.
* ''[[Lust, Caution]]'': The heroine is supposed to become the mistress of the [[Big Bad]] in order to draw him into a [[Honey Trap|trap]]. He rapes her, but she ends up falling in love with him anyway.
* 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.
* One of the many interpretations of the pitch-black [[David Lynch]] film ''[[Blue Velvet]]'': most critics agree that, in his own depraved way, the sadistic gangster/rapist Frank is in love with Dorothy, but debate whether she feels the same way. Dennis Hopper hilariously, and disturbingly, lampshades the twisted dynamics of their relationship in a [[Cluster F-Bomb]] answer to an interviewer asking why he took the villainous role:
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* In ''Beowulf & Grendel'', the witch Sarah Poley is raped by the troll. Apparently that's what trolls usually do to witches since she then tries to protect him and their child again the arrogant Geatish hero ([[Meet Cute|nothing unexpected]], by the way) who wants to kill him.
* Played for laughs in [[Monty Python]]'s ''[[Life of Brian]]'', when the protagonist confronts his mother on discovering he exists because she was raped by a Roman. Her response? "Well, at first..."
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* 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.}}
* ''[[
* In ''[[
== 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.
* Played straight AND played for laughs in Piers Anthony's "[[
* 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.
* In Margery Allingham's [[Genteel Interbellum Setting|1930s]] [[
* In [[
* 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
* Inverted in Jacqueline Carey's ''[[
* 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.
* Variation in Jim Grimsley's ''Dream Boy''. The rape of one of the main characters by a third party somehow causes he and his boyfriend to become closer and solve all their relationship problems. Possibly [[Rape
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s novel ''[[Friday (
** 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 [
* [[Stationery Voyagers|Neone Delft]] and Carl Worniti's short-lived affair is a subversion of both this and [[Platonic Prostitution]]. She really didn't want to give herself to ''anyone'' before her wedding day, but settled for Carl's advances both because he paid and because [[Resigned to
** 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]].
*** [[Face Palm|Rather depressing]] for Philidrio to see them together though, seeing that it was ''his'' former dream girl (with whom the sex was consensual, and the one who funded his "life"-saving mechanization) that was leaving him for a former rapist. But he realizes [[Resigned to
* 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.
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** 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.
* In ''[[
* 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.
** Come to that, the sheer volume of post-feminist "romance" novels that have fallen in love with this trope is... disturbing. See also: Jennifer Blake's ''The Storm and the Splendor''. Shirlee Busbee's ''Gypsy Lady''. At least one story called ''The Reluctant Bride''...
*** In ''The Storm and the Splendor'' the hero saves the heroine from attempted rape by the villain, marries her (more or less against her will) and then explicitly resists the urge to consummate the marriage until she is truly willing (at one point, after they've been kissing and she gets upset, he abruptly leaves the bed and stands at the window, to, uh, de-arouse himself). A better example is ''Royal Seduction'' which can only be characterized as a guilty
* Used more as "love is rape" in Diane Pearson's ''Summer of the Barshinskeys'', in which Ivan Barshinskey rapes the protagonist in anger out of not being able to have her beautiful sister, but she goes along with it because she loves him. It seems that it would count as rape because he is not aware of her consent, as he later apologizes and she soothes him. They later become contentedly married.
* [[Ayn Rand]] is rather notorious for ([[Useful Notes Objectivism|amongst other things]]) her very "bodice-ripper" style sex scenes. In ''[[The Fountainhead]]'', the first sex scene between Roark and Dominique Francon is arguably an instance of this trope being played straight (although a legitimate, if not necessarily correct, case can be made for the sex being dubiously or implicitly consensual given the rather obvious flirting between Roark and Dominique that occurred beforehand). Certainly to a [[Values Dissonance|modern reader that considers the no-means-yes-coy courtship game to be ridiculous]], the scene can plausibly be read as
* 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.
** In the fifth book, ''Heretics of Dune'', a sixteen year old Duncan Idaho ghola is raped by Murbella. Murbella and her Honored Matres sisters are so good at sex that they enslave men and planets they land on by having sex with them. Somehow, [[Ass Pull|Duncan is so good at sex that he and Murbella become addicted to each other.]]. This also has tones of [[Shotacon]] and [[Double Standard Rape (Female
* 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
** 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 ''[[Atonement]]'' -- {{spoiler|Lola marries Paul due to societal pressure, and can't bear to admit that he raped her.}}
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* 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.
* He doesn't actually rape her, but Jacob forces himself on Bella in ''[[Twilight (
* 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."
* In [[Bertolt Brecht]]'s novelization of ''[[
* Subverted HARD in Richelle Mead's ''Dark Swan'' series, particularly the second novel, ''Thorn Queen''--{{spoiler|Eugenie is captured and drugged so that Leith, previously thought to be a [[Dogged Nice Guy]], can force himself on her and try to impregnate her}}. {{spoiler|Leith}} genuinely ''believes'' that he's doing it out of love, and is bewildered when {{spoiler|Eugenie}} has finally escaped and is confronting him about it at gunpoint, believing that what he did "wasn't rape." So, it's ultimately incredibly satisfying when {{spoiler|Dorian [[Impaled
* 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
* 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.
* In [[Peter Benchley]]'s novel ''Jaws'' Brody's wife admits to having had rape fantasies in which she finds it horrible at first but really likes it "once she's...you know...into it."
* The flashback to Sedric's first encounter with Hest in Robin Hobb's Dragon Keeper is this. Hest manhandles him and kisses him roughly enough to make his lips bleed, then says that he can tell Sedric wants this and the sooner he admits that the easier it will be. Sedric stops struggling, and over the next few weeks Hest completely takes over his life. Sedric views this as a good thing, and many years later is still hopelessly in love with him.
* In Victor Pelevin's ''The Sacred Book of the Werewolf'', Alexander Sery goes berserk and rapes A Hu-Li after her attempt to hypnotize him goes awry. This causes them to realize they're both werecreatures, and they start a relationship soon after. {{spoiler|It doesn't last}}.
** The late 70's/early 80's spawned a new genre of historical romance novels which became known as 'bodice rippers'. Invariably, this was the entire plot of all of them. Our hapless heroine was raped by the
* In the novel of [[Mildred Pierce]], Mildred and Monty are having one of their furious fights, and as they sit there fuming, he says "Damn it, what this needs is the crime of rape!" He then attempts to take her to bed and yank her clothes off, but she gets away. Several of their romantic encounters are kind of questionably ambiguous, but that is the most 'WTF' example.
* Played with in Nabakov's ''Lolita''. Humbert believes that his relationship with Lolita is love, even though Lolita herself refers to it as rape, {{spoiler|as does Humbert himself at the end of the book}}. Even ignoring how she is well below the legal age of consent in their state (twelve years old), given how she believed that he killed her mother and how terrified he was after that first night together, when she found out he drugged her, the relationship was not consensual in any way. Even at seventeen, she also has more confused and loving opinions about the man who molested her (and most likely groomed her so she'd behave like a [[Fille Fatale]]) when she was ten, and the older children (a boy and a girl) who raped her at her summer camp.
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* 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."
* The third book of ''[[
* 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.
* In Megan Barker's ''Black-Eyed Susan'', a [[The Alcoholic|horribly drunk]] {{spoiler|Roderick Brandon}} mistakes {{spoiler|the title character}} for the streetwalker with whom he had been...attempting to negotiate. He rapes and [[Child
* The ''[[Gor]]'' novels by John Norman. There are examples in all the books of the series, usually many examples apiece.
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Soulless vampires in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' often have a tendency to see rape and torture by their mates as a playfully kinky sign of affection. This is epitomized by Spike and Drusilla's relationship; when they break up at one point, Spike mopes and worries about how to win her back, before cheerfully realizing that he just needs to step up, take charge and "torture her until she likes me again".
** Subverted and toyed with to the breaking point by Spike's later relationship with Buffy. Both inflict rape-like behavior on one another until Spike ''actually'' tries to rape Buffy in her
*** Relating to the Spike/Buffy example, it is interesting to point out that Spike tried to rape Buffy in an attempt to "use this very trope." He even said it outright to Buffy: He's going to force himself on her so she'll see she does loves him.
**** To go with the Spike/Dru example, don't forget the Dru/Angelus- Angelus raped, tortured, killed her family, drove her insane and then turned her, and yet Dru completely loves her 'daddy'.
* Done with disturbing frequency on soaps:
** Luke and Laura of ''[[General Hospital]]''. Despite Luke's rape of Laura while drunk, the two fell in love and eventually got married. Critics weren't too pleased with the [[Unfortunate Implications]], but fans ate it up.
*** Subverted years later when the show FINALLY dealt with the issue by having their teen-aged son Lucky find about the incident. Lucky was furious and disgusted with BOTH
*** At the time the original plan of the writers was for Luke to die in atonement for his crime. Then the character got too popular to kill off and the the rape was retroactively defined a seduction.
** A similar reaction happened in [[The Eighties]] with Venezuelan [[Soap Opera]] ''Leonela'', whose titular protagonist fell in love with the man who raped her (although, to be fair, the man ''was'' in prison for many years and redeemed himself before even trying to have a second encounter with the heroine). The soap was so popular that it got a Peruvian remake fifteen years later, firing up the controversy again.
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** 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.
** The head writer of the soap ''[[One Life to Live]]'' originally planned on pairing up Marty with the leader of her gang-rape, Todd. Both actors so vehemently protested the story that it never got off the ground. However, both characters have been [[The Other Darrin|recast]] since then and Todd himself has fallen victim to [[Double Standard Rape (Female
*** 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.
** Frequently seen as the motive behind many of soaps [[Double Standard Rape (Female
** 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.
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* ''[[Rescue Me]]''. Take your pick, people. We have drugged, drunk, physical, mental, verbal...the list just keeps going. And nobody seems to care.
* ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'' somehow managed to play this trope for laughs when Bob Fossil's plot to get two pandas to mate goes haywire. Vince dresses up like a panda and has a romantic dinner with the female to make the male jealous, but proves too sexy for even a panda to resist, and gets raped by the female. But after the rape, Vince continues the ruse, seeming to have developed a meaningful romantic/sexual relationship with the panda.
* 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
** 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.
* Inverted in ''[[Penn
* 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.}}
* In the ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode "The Slave of Duty", the Unsub's second victim does this. However, it was merely a ploy in the hope he would let her go {{spoiler|and, unfortunately, it didn't work}}.
== Music ==
* Songs about rape or stalking or general "Ha ha we'll subvert [[Intercourse
* "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 "
* [[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 "
* The Decemberists' song "We Both Go Down Together", a Romeo-and-Juliet-esque story of love and tragedy, reveals in the lines "I laid you down in the grass of a clearing/You wept, but your soul was willing" that their love initially begins when the narrator of the story rapes Miranda, and she likes it.
== Mythology ==
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* On one episode of ''[[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] [[Monday Night Raw]]'', [[Vince McMahon]]'s daughter Stephanie was all set to marry Test live in the arena, until [[Triple H]] interrupted, played a video showing that he had roofied Stephanie the night before and then married her at a drive-through chapel in Vegas while she was drugged, and then taunted Vince by claiming to have raped her afterwards ("It's not ''if'', but ''how many times'' we consummated the marriage!") At the next Pay-Per-View, Test fought Triple H to defend Stephanie's honor... until Steph had a [[Face Heel Turn]] and joined up with Trips, both out of newfound love and just to piss her daddy off.
* The original version of Eve Ensler's ''[[The Vagina Monologues]]'' features an ''extremely'' controversial section about a teenage girl who is given massive amounts of booze by an adult woman, who then takes advantage of her while she's drunk. The character in question finds herself ''enjoying'' the experience, and closes the monologue with the line, "If it was rape, it was a ''good'' rape." Later versions of the script attempt to rectify it by making the girl sixteen and removing the good rape line... but still portraying a
▲== Theater ==
▲* The original version of Eve Ensler's ''The Vagina Monologues'' features an ''extremely'' controversial section about a teenage girl who is given massive amounts of booze by an adult woman, who then takes advantage of her while she's drunk. The character in question finds herself ''enjoying'' the experience, and closes the monologue with the line, "If it was rape, it was a ''good'' rape." Later versions of the script attempt to rectify it by making the girl sixteen and removing the good rape line... but still portraying a [[Victim Falls For Rapist]] scenario.
** [[Broken Aesop|Which makes it puzzling, as the play is the cornerstone of the "V-Day" movement, which attempts to raise rape awareness...]]
* The titular character in [[David Mamet]]'s ''[[Edmond]]'' seems in the final scene to have developed a strangely close bond with the [[Scary Black Man]] who raped him just two scenes earlier. Of course, this case is... well, not [[Justified Trope|justified]] ''per se'', but... well, [[Gainax Ending|part of something altogether bizarre anyway.]]
* In the original play of ''[[Spring Awakening]]'' by Frank Wedekind, Melchior rapes Wendla in the hayloft of his family's barn. In subsequent scenes, Wendla doesn't appear to be too troubled by the experience, but Melchior angsts over it, worried that Wendla will be angry with him.
* In ''[[Phantom of the Opera]]'', there has been much speculation about what happens between Christine and the Phantom when the lights go out after "Music of the Night". If there * was* sex, it was rape, as Christine was alternately unconscious/in a trance the entire time, but the lyrics of "Music of the Night" make it very obvious that the Phantom intends this a seduction, not an assault. In fact, the way the Phantom lovingly tucks her in and steps away after she falls unconscious was probably intended to show that he was not going to violate her. The film takes this a step further by showing her asleep from the Phantom's point of view with a curtain coming down between them.
*** The original script called for the Phantom to ''get into bed with her'' as the song ended and for the scene to fade out as he drew the curtain around them, leaving little doubt as to his intentions. Probably changed as it would have been hard to continue presenting him as a romantic hero after such a blatant violation.
* In [[Ayn Rand]]'s early play ''Night of January 16th'', Karen Andre is raped by and falls in love with Bjorn Faulkner in essentially the same way as Dominique Francon.
* Greek/Roman comedy often centred on the plight of a guy who had knocked up the girl next door, whom he loved deeply, before he'd got parental consent (whose he needed varied with the situation) to marry her. This wouldn't be too uncomfortable with modern audiences- however, the ''contemporary'' audience would have been extremely uncomfortable with a guy continuing to want any woman who consented to premarital sex... so the plot was almost invariably that the guy had got drunk at a festival, come home and committed this trope. (The girlfriend/victim would usually be [[The Unseen]]). Sort of overlap with [[Black Comedy Rape]], though more a case of [[Rape Baby]] As Comedy rather than the attack itself.
* ''[[Aida]]'': In at least two scenes before she willingly goes to bed with him, Radames hints at forcing himself on the title character, even though by the time of the second scene, it's obvious that he's attracted to her.
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Crescendo]]'', this looks like it's played straight in {{spoiler|Ayame's}} path, but it actually winds up being a rather gut wrenching, traumatic inversion. {{spoiler|Your hero has a MAJOR [[Heroic BSOD]] on discovering he adopted, and find out his stepsister purposely [[B Sed]] him for years into believing otherwise sends his already depressed psychological state over the edge, and proceeds to ''rape'' her, or so it appears and looks like. In truth, she had feelings for you, and her massive lack of resistance was this combined with her guilt for lying to you, so it not entirely nonconsensual. It's still traumatic and messed up, but it eventually gets resolved in the good ending, where they both acknowledge their feelings, and you both manage to overcome the trauma together.}}
* Not quite rape, but sexual
** Snake can also be on the molesty end of the equation if the player decides to pat down a [[Amazon Brigade|FROG]] and touches their breasts or crotch. They hate it--[[I Was Quite a Looker|unless he looks young]].
* In the [[Touhou Project]] [[Hentai]]-[[Doujinshi]] ''Love-Reign'', [[Badass Bookworm|Alice's]] love for her doll Shanghai is portrayed in this manner. To quote one of [[Yandere|Alice's]] [[Nightmare Fuel|most disturbing lines ever]] (said when she as forcing a soul into Shanghai):
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There, it's done.
I love you, Shanghai."
** In ''Ningyou Kakumei'', [[Yandere|Alice]] tricks the naive [[Artificial Human|Medicine Melancholy]] into helping her with her ''[[This and That|research]]'' in making self-reliant dolls with a little help from a special drug made by [[Deadly Doctor|Eirin.]]
** In ''Fragile Prismatic Colors'', [[Marionette Master|Alice]] decides the only way she can get [[Miko|Reimu]] to accept her love is by using a spell that [[People Puppets|controls her like a puppet]]... Seriously? What's with all these authors turning Alice into a disgusting creep who can only get love if she rapes someone?
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* 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.
* Shiki's dreams in ''[[Tsukihime]]'' in the sense that it becomes consensual during the process. Of course, it's not really that bad since it's [[Double Standard Rape (Female
** 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."
* In ''[[
** {{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 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.
* Subverted in ''
* [[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
* 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.}}
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]: Oracle For Hire''. Adolescent Stonewater ([[Noble Savage]] orc) leapt in to save the outlawed Melna ([[Noble Savage]] orc) from being butchered along with her parents by a tribe of [[
** Later revisited, where Melna admits that it wasn't Stonewater himself she was falling for, but the way he's grown into a Orc much like her father.
** 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.
* Viciously averted in the ''[[Tally Road]]'' story arc [https://web.archive.org/web/20100120145642/http://www.tallyroad.com/t/tallyroad-294.html Darkest Before The Dawn] where Finn practices his [[Black and Gray Morality]] by raping 'Eight' with hefty doses of BDSM expertise to {{spoiler|break her spirit and sell her into prostitution for money}}. Finn can and will cause her to respond sexually by patience and technique, but his final act of violation is explicitly {{spoiler|demanding her consent on the grounds that the rape will go faster and be over sooner, to which she assents, in despair}}. He causes her to just about explode with orgasm, setting up the trope perfectly- then [[Took a Level
* ''[[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.
* Arguably [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] in ''[[Something
* In a [[Date Rape Averted]] example, taking the [[Love Chart]] into consideration, {{spoiler|Augustus}} had this in mind for [[Bittersweet Candy Bowl|Daisy]].
* Peter of ''[[Niels]]'' firmly believes in this trope, and says that he [[Depraved Bisexual|loves everyone even if they don't love him]].
* ''[[Ghastly's Ghastly Comic]]'' had a short 'arc' wherein a hentai schoolgirl is raped at the bus stop by an (apparently) passing tentacle monster. The succeeding strips show the unforeseen consequences when his watch gets left inside of her and culminate in her berating him for this and him buying her flowers to apologize, revealing their boyfriend/girlfriend relationship.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Occurs in the [[Whateley Universe]] at least twice in the ''Second Book of Jobe''.
* Inverted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100314111907/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]] . . .
* Played for intentionally creepy laughs with [[
== Western Animation ==
* In the second ''[[Futurama]]'' movie: {{spoiler|Yivo, the titular ''Beast With A Billion Backs'' does this with the entire universe}}.
* ''Starchaser: The Legend of Orin'' features one of the protagonists kidnapping a [[Ridiculously
* ''[[Moral Orel]]'' got cancelled because of an episode centering on a woman who lured a rapist to lose her virginity, fell in love with him, and recently learned he committed suicide in prison. This is followed by a masturbation session that gets [http://i53.tinypic.com/2isee81.png pretty goddamn surreal].
* [[South Park|Mr. Garrison]] believes that his father does not love him because he never molested him as a child. For some reason his mother thinks the same way and is shocked to find out that it never happened.
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* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' has a skit called 'the morning-after phone call', where a tentacle monster contacts the schoolgirl he raped the previous night to ask her to a movie. (She says no and hangs up.)
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