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* In ''Literature/TheRedTent,'' Dinah's rape by Shechem from TheBible is changed to a consensual romance. As such, her male relatives [[AdaptationalVillainy are presented as villains]] for [[RapeAndRevenge destroying his city]], while the Bible presented this more as just DisproportionateRetribution.
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* In the manga version of ''{{Manga/Bokurano}}'', Chizuru was seduced by [[HotForStudent her teacher Hatagai]] and blackmailed by him into being gang-raped by his friends. When this plot was adapted into the TV series the gang rape part is left out, even though Hatagai is still clearly manipulating her and is portrayed as a reprehensible person for it.
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* In the manga version of ''{{Manga/Bokurano}}'', ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', Chizuru was seduced by [[HotForStudent her teacher Hatagai]] and blackmailed by him into being gang-raped by his friends. When this plot was adapted into the TV series the gang rape part is left out, even though Hatagai is still clearly manipulating her and is portrayed as a reprehensible person for it.
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* {{Franchise/Batman}} and Talia Al Ghul's son Damian Wayne was originally stated to be the result of Talia drugging and raping Bruce [[StalkerWithATestTube to sire the perfect heir]], but after the ComicBook/New52 relaunch it was retconned into a consensual relationship, which now seems to be the official version. The rape explanation is, however, used in ''WesternAnimation/SonOfBatman''.
* The origins of {{ComicBook/Raven}} fall into this depending on the creative team writing a particular story arc. She's the daughter of the human woman Arella and the demon lord Trigon, but whether he first seduced Arella using a human guise or brutally raped her varies (with the most recent version using the former, which still counts as [[BedTrick rape by fraud]] as Arella would have never agreed had she known what he really was).
* The origins of {{ComicBook/Raven}} fall into this depending on the creative team writing a particular story arc. She's the daughter of the human woman Arella and the demon lord Trigon, but whether he first seduced Arella using a human guise or brutally raped her varies (with the most recent version using the former, which still counts as [[BedTrick rape by fraud]] as Arella would have never agreed had she known what he really was).
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* {{Franchise/Batman}} Franchise/{{Batman}} and Talia Al Ghul's son Damian Wayne was originally stated to be the result of Talia drugging and raping Bruce [[StalkerWithATestTube to sire the perfect heir]], but after the ComicBook/New52 relaunch it was retconned into a consensual relationship, which now seems to be the official version. The rape explanation is, however, used in ''WesternAnimation/SonOfBatman''.
* The origins of{{ComicBook/Raven}} ComicBook/{{Raven}} fall into this depending {{depending|OnTheWriter}} on the creative team writing a particular story arc. She's the daughter of the human woman Arella and the demon lord Trigon, but whether he first seduced Arella using a human guise or brutally raped her varies (with the most recent version using the former, which still counts as [[BedTrick rape by fraud]] as Arella would have never agreed had she known what he really was).
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* In the ''Literature/{{Wicked}}'' book it is mentioned that Elphaba's mother Melena was drugged with an elixir (which caused her daughters green skin) and doesn't remember who fathered Elphaba. The [[Theatre/{{Wicked}} musical]] makes their encounter seem more consensual.
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* In ''Literature/AClockworkOrange'', Alex lures two ten-year-old girls to his flat and proceeds to drug and rape them, whereas in [[Film/AClockworkOrange the film]] this is changed to Alex having consensual sex with two teenage girls around his age.
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* In ''{{Series/Arrow}}'' Shado is a mentor of Oliver Queen and was in a consensual romantic relationship prior to her death. In the original ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' comics she raped Oliver when he was delirious from a wound (that ''she'' gave him, no less) and [[ChildByRape conceived a child, Robert]], from the encounter. The ''Arrow'' version of Shado pretty much has nothing in common with with the comics version apart from her name, choice of weapon and being Asian (and not even the same nationality of Asian, either).
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* In ''{{Series/Arrow}}'' Shado is a mentor of Oliver Queen and was in a consensual romantic relationship prior to her death. In the original ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' comics she raped Oliver when he was delirious from a wound (that ''she'' gave him, no less) and [[ChildByRape conceived a child, Robert]], from the encounter. The ''Arrow'' version of Shado pretty much has nothing in common with with the comics version apart from her name, choice of weapon and being Asian (and not even the same nationality of Asian, either). This wasn't unique to the TV series, as [[DependingOnTheWriter different writers]] on ''Green Arrow'' comics have subsequently taken different positions about whether the sex was consensual or not.
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** Daenerys' wedding night to Khal Drogo is altered, as in the books, counter to her expectations, he arouses her first to gain her consent, while in the TV series he simply rapes her.
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* In most previous versions of flavor text for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' half-orcs were stated to usually be the result of male orcs raping human women after raiding or conquering a human population. 4th and 5th Edition altered this to put more emphasis on them being the result of consensual relationships borne from marriage alliances between the two communities.
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* In ''Webcomic/OlympusOverdrive'' Poseidon's encounter with Medusa and subsequent "defiling" of Athena's temple is changed to a consensual but forbidden kiss and portrays the two as StarCrossedLovers. This was presumably done because Poseidon is a protagonist and would be ''very'' hard to root for if the story presented the original version, where he raped Medusa purely to piss off Athena and the latter punished ''her'' for it anyway.
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* In Creator/AGnosis' comics on GreekMythology, Persephone and Hades fall in love and end up quite HappilyMarried with no abduction required. Conversely, Zagreus' conception is the result of Zeus pulling a BedTrick on Persephone, and Persephone is very disturbed to realize who the mysterious stranger [[ParentalIncest really is]].
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* The 21st-century version of ''Series/{{Poldark}}'' attempted to tone down an incident in the original novels, and the 1970s TV series, in which the titular protagonist raped a woman unambiguously enough to make him impossible to portray as sympathetic nowadays, by having her initially say "no" but [[QuestionableConsent then start actively taking part in the sex]]. The scene as made still got widely condemned in the press and online for apparently endorsing rape.
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* Non-sexual example: In ''Literature/TheHobbit'', Bilbo Baggins is pretty much forced to go on an adventure with the dwarves; although he does get a longing feeling when he listens to the dwarves singing, he might have stayed home if Gandalf didn't kick him out his own door the next morning. In the [[Film/TheHobbit Peter Jackson film]] Gandalf and the dwarves leave him behind, and he runs after them, thus joining the adventure hundred percent voluntarily. The 2003 videogame uses the same version of events.
* Overlapping with AdaptationalVillainy, several characters who were coerced to help Voldemort in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' voluntarily do it in [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows the film adaptation]] of the book. Examples include the new Minister of Magic, Pius Thicknesse, who was under the Imperius curse (a brainwashing magic spell) in the book, but is one of Voldemort's followers in the film, and Gellert Grindelwald, who refuses to tell Voldemort the whereabouts of the Elder Wand in the book, but tells him all the information without any coercion in the film.
* Non-sexual example: In ''Literature/TheHobbit'', Bilbo Baggins is pretty much forced to go on an adventure with the dwarves; although he does get a longing feeling when he listens to the dwarves singing, he might have stayed home if Gandalf didn't kick him out his own door the next morning. In the [[Film/TheHobbit Peter Jackson film]] Gandalf and the dwarves leave him behind, and he runs after them, thus joining the adventure hundred percent voluntarily. The 2003 videogame uses the same version of events.
* Overlapping with AdaptationalVillainy, several characters who were coerced to help Voldemort in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' voluntarily do it in [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows the film adaptation]] of the book. Examples include the new Minister of Magic, Pius Thicknesse, who was under the Imperius curse (a brainwashing magic spell) in the book, but is one of Voldemort's followers in the film, and Gellert Grindelwald, who refuses to tell Voldemort the whereabouts of the Elder Wand in the book, but tells him all the information without any coercion in the film.
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* Non-sexual example: In ''Literature/TheHobbit'', Bilbo Baggins is pretty much forced to go on an adventure with the dwarves; although he does get a longing feeling when he listens to the dwarves singing, he might have stayed home if Gandalf didn't kick him out his own door the next morning. In the [[Film/TheHobbit Peter Jackson film]] Gandalf and the dwarves leave him behind, and he runs after them, thus joining the adventure hundred percent voluntarily. The 2003 videogame uses the same version of events.
* Overlapping with AdaptationalVillainy, several characters who were coerced to help Voldemort in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' voluntarily do it in [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows the film adaptation]] of the book. Examples include the new Minister of Magic, Pius Thicknesse, who was under the Imperius curse (a brainwashing magic spell) in the book, but is one of Voldemort's followers in the film, and Gellert Grindelwald, who refuses to tell Voldemort the whereabouts of the Elder Wand in the book, but tells him all the information without any coercion in the film.
* Non-sexual example: In ''Literature/TheHobbit'', Bilbo Baggins is pretty much forced to go on an adventure with the dwarves; although he does get a longing feeling when he listens to the dwarves singing, he might have stayed home if Gandalf didn't kick him out his own door the next morning. In the [[Film/TheHobbit Peter Jackson film]] Gandalf and the dwarves leave him behind, and he runs after them, thus joining the adventure hundred percent voluntarily. The 2003 videogame uses the same version of events.
* Overlapping with AdaptationalVillainy, several characters who were coerced to help Voldemort in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' voluntarily do it in [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows the film adaptation]] of the book. Examples include the new Minister of Magic, Pius Thicknesse, who was under the Imperius curse (a brainwashing magic spell) in the book, but is one of Voldemort's followers in the film, and Gellert Grindelwald, who refuses to tell Voldemort the whereabouts of the Elder Wand in the book, but tells him all the information without any coercion in the film.
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* In ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', the relationship between [[BrotherSisterIncest siblings]] Akio and Anthy is [[DomesticAbuse obviously not healthy]], but the two seem happy enough with jumping into bed with each other, at least before things start deteriorating and Akio starts using force on her. The movie version on the other hand shows him [[SlippingAMickey drugging]] Anthy's drink so he can rape her and panicking when he realizes she was awake the whole time. This is one reason fans of Series!Akio tend to dislike his movie counterpart, as Series!Akio had no need for drugs to [[ThePornomancer get people into bed with him]]. The movie presumably simplified things due to its shorter runtime.
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* In ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', the relationship between [[BrotherSisterIncest siblings]] Akio and Anthy is [[DomesticAbuse obviously not healthy]], but the two seem happy enough with jumping into bed with each other, at least before things start deteriorating and Akio starts using force on her. It's also never shown which one of the two of them actually initiated the sexual part of their relationship. The movie version on the other hand shows him Akio [[SlippingAMickey drugging]] Anthy's drink so he can rape her and panicking when he realizes she was awake the whole time. This is one reason fans of Series!Akio tend to dislike his movie counterpart, as Series!Akio had no need for drugs to [[ThePornomancer get people into bed with him]]. The movie presumably simplified things due to its shorter runtime.
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* In ''Literature/TeitoMonogatari'', Yoichiro and Yukari Tatsumiya are brother and sister and have a consensual but squicky sexual relationship. The anime adaptation, ''Doomed Megalopolis'', instead shows him raping her. This is part of why Yoichiro tends to come off as a KarmaHoudini in the film version after his actions are exposed, since besides a few punches to the jaw he never really suffers any serious consequences and has the balls to whine about having to take care of his maddened sister and Yukiko, his daughter/niece that was born from the rape, even though it was his own fault.
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* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' has Jenna and her stepbrother Toby. In the books he was molesting her against her will. In the show she initiated things with him.
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* In ''Literature/TeitoMonogatari'', Yoichiro and Yukari Tatsumiya are brother and sister and have a consensual but squicky sexual relationship. The anime adaptation, ''Doomed Megalopolis'', instead shows him raping her. This is a bit part of why Yoichiro tends to come off as a KarmaHoudini in the film version after his actions are exposed.
* In ''Literature/SongOfAchilles'', the meeting of Peleus and the sea goddess Thetis is portrayed as him finding her by the water and forcing himself on her to conceive Achilles, and is described as quite a violent encounter that leaves Thetis clearly hating Peleus for this and refusing to live with him. In the original myth she rejected his offer of marriage at first due to him being a mortal and Peleus was advised to find her by the water and tied her up, and after she shapeshifted several times but was unable to escape she consented to marrying him in what seems to be a variant of BestHerToBedHer, with no indication he actually raped her. The two actually lived together for a while until in some versions she fled after Peleus discovered her trying to cast magic to protect their son (in one version literally trying to burn his mortality away), but the two otherwise seem to have had a happy marriage.
* In ''Literature/TeitoMonogatari'', Yoichiro and Yukari Tatsumiya are brother and sister and have a consensual but squicky sexual relationship. The anime adaptation, ''Doomed Megalopolis'', instead shows him raping her. This is a bit part of why Yoichiro tends to come off as a KarmaHoudini in the film version after his actions are exposed.
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* In ''Literature/SongOfAchilles'', the meeting of Peleus and the sea goddess Thetis is portrayed as him finding her by the water and forcing himself on her to conceive Achilles, and is described as quite a violent encounter that leaves Thetis clearly hating Peleus for this and refusing to live with him. In the original myth she rejected his offer of marriage at first due to him being a mortal and Peleus was advised to find her by the water and tied her up, and after she shapeshifted several times but was unable to escape she consented to marrying him in what seems to be a variant of BestHerToBedHer, with no indication he actually raped her. The two actually lived together for a while until in some versions she fled after Peleus discovered her trying to cast magic to protect their son (in one version literally trying to burn his mortality away), but the two otherwise seem to have had a happy marriage.
* In ''{{Literature/Dragonlance}}'', Tanis Half-Elven was conceived when his elven mother was raped by a human warrior, but the later novel ''The Inheritance'' (written by a different author) retcons this by saying his mother fell in love with her human captor and had a consensual relationship which produced Tanis, but after her husband and her abductor fought each other and both died she made up the story about being raped to protect her and Tanis. Most fans consider this explanation non-canon.
* In ''Literature/SunMoonAndTalia'', the princess Talia is put into a magical sleep and eventually found by the King, who [[DudeShesLikeInAComa raped her]] and she eventually gives birth to twins, awakening when one sucks the thorn out from her finger while trying to nurse. Understandably its successor ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'' and various adaptations thereof leave this part out.
* In ''Literature/SongOfAchilles'', the meeting of Peleus and the sea goddess Thetis is portrayed as him finding her by the water and forcing himself on her to conceive Achilles, and is described as quite a violent encounter that leaves Thetis clearly hating Peleus for this and refusing to live with him. In the original myth she rejected his offer of marriage at first due to him being a mortal and Peleus was advised to find her by the water and tied her up, and after she shapeshifted several times but was unable to escape she consented to marrying him in what seems to be a variant of BestHerToBedHer, with no indication he actually raped her. The two actually lived together for a while until in some versions she fled after Peleus discovered her trying to cast magic to protect their son (in one version literally trying to burn his mortality away), but the two otherwise seem to have had a happy marriage.
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* In ''{{Series/Arrow}}'' Shado is a mentor of Oliver Queen and was in a consensual romantic relationship prior to her death. In the original ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' comics she raped Oliver when he was delirious from a wound (that ''she'' gave him, no less) and [[ChildByRape conceived a child, Robert]], from the encounter. The ''Arrow'' version of Shado pretty much has nothing in common with with the comics version apart from their name, choice of weapon and being Asian (and not even the same nationality of Asian, either).
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* In ''{{Series/Arrow}}'' Shado is a mentor of Oliver Queen and was in a consensual romantic relationship prior to her death. In the original ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' comics she raped Oliver when he was delirious from a wound (that ''she'' gave him, no less) and [[ChildByRape conceived a child, Robert]], from the encounter. The ''Arrow'' version of Shado pretty much has nothing in common with with the comics version apart from their her name, choice of weapon and being Asian (and not even the same nationality of Asian, either).
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* In most previous versions of flavor text for ''TabletopGames/DungeonsAndDragons'' half-orcs were stated to often be the result of male orcs raping human women after raiding or conquering a human population. 4th and 5th Edition altered this to put more emphasis on them being the result of consensual relationships borne from marriage alliances between the two communities.
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* In most previous versions of flavor text for ''TabletopGames/DungeonsAndDragons'' ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' half-orcs were stated to often usually be the result of male orcs raping human women after raiding or conquering a human population. 4th and 5th Edition altered this to put more emphasis on them being the result of consensual relationships borne from marriage alliances between the two communities.
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* In ''Literature/TeitoMonogatari'', Yoichiro and Yukari Tatsumiya are brother and sister and have a consensual but squicky sexual relationship. The anime adaptation, ''Doomed Megalopolis'', instead shows him raping her. This is probably why Yoichiro tends to come off as a KarmaHoudini in the film version after his actions are exposed.
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* In ''Literature/TeitoMonogatari'', Yoichiro and Yukari Tatsumiya are brother and sister and have a consensual but squicky sexual relationship. The anime adaptation, ''Doomed Megalopolis'', instead shows him raping her. This is probably a bit part of why Yoichiro tends to come off as a KarmaHoudini in the film version after his actions are exposed.
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* In ''Literature/TeitoMonogatari'', Yoichiro and Yukari Tatsumiya are brother and sister and have a consensual but squicky sexual relationship. The anime adaptation, ''Doomed Megalopolis'', instead shows him raping her. This is probably why Yoichiro tends to come off as a KarmaHoudini in the film version even after his actions are exposed.
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* In ''Literature/TeitoMonogatari'', Yoichiro and Yukari Tatsumiya are brother and sister and have a consensual but squicky sexual relationship. The anime adaptation, ''Doomed Megalopolis'', instead shows him raping her. This is probably why Yoichiro tends to come off as a KarmaHoudini in the film version even after his actions are exposed.
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* In ''Webcomic/OlympusOverdrive'' Poseidon's encounter with Medusa and subsequent "defiling" of Athena's temple is changed to a consensual but forbidden kiss and portrays the two as StarCrossedLovers. This was presumably done because Poseidon is a protagonist and would be ''very'' hard to root for if the story presented the original version, where he raped Medusa purely to piss off Athena and the latter punished ''her'' for it anyway. It also makes Athena (who hasn't appeared in the comic yet) look even worse than in the original story and her cursing Medusa look like DisproportionateRetribution.
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* In ''Webcomic/OlympusOverdrive'' Poseidon's encounter with Medusa and subsequent "defiling" of Athena's temple is changed to a consensual but forbidden kiss and portrays the two as StarCrossedLovers. This was presumably done because Poseidon is a protagonist and would be ''very'' hard to root for if the story presented the original version, where he raped Medusa purely to piss off Athena and the latter punished ''her'' for it anyway. It also makes Athena (who hasn't appeared in the comic yet) look even worse than in the original story and her cursing Medusa look like DisproportionateRetribution.
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* In ''{{Series/Arrow}}'' Shado is a mentor of Oliver Queen and was in a consensual romantic relationship prior to her death. In the original ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' comics she raped Oliver when he was delirious from a wound and [[ChildByRape conceived a child, Robert]], from the encounter.
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* In ''{{Series/Arrow}}'' Shado is a mentor of Oliver Queen and was in a consensual romantic relationship prior to her death. In the original ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' comics she raped Oliver when he was delirious from a wound (that ''she'' gave him, no less) and [[ChildByRape conceived a child, Robert]], from the encounter.encounter. The ''Arrow'' version of Shado pretty much has nothing in common with with the comics version apart from their name, choice of weapon and being Asian (and not even the same nationality of Asian, either).
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* In ''{{Literature/Dragonlance}}'', Tanis Half-Elven was conceived when his elven mother was raped by a human warrior, but the later novel ''The Inheritance'' (written by a different author) retcons this by saying his mother fell in love with her human captor and had a consensual relationship which produced Tanis, but after her husband and her abductor fought each other and both died she made up the story about being raped to protect both her and Tanis. Most fans consider this explanation non-canon.
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* In ''{{Literature/Dragonlance}}'', Tanis Half-Elven was conceived when his elven mother was raped by a human warrior, but the later novel ''The Inheritance'' (written by a different author) retcons this by saying his mother fell in love with her human captor and had a consensual relationship which produced Tanis, but after her husband and her abductor fought each other and both died she made up the story about being raped to protect both her and Tanis. Most fans consider this explanation non-canon.
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* In ''Webcomic/OlympusOverdrive'' Poseidon's encounter with Medusa and subsequent "defiling" of Athena's temple is changed to a consensual but forbidden kiss and portrays the two as StarCrossedLovers. This was presumably done because Poseidon is a protagonist and would be ''very'' hard to root for if the story presented the original version, where he raped Medusa purely to piss off Athena and the latter punished ''her'' for it anyway. It also makes Athena (who hasn't appeared in the comic yet) look even pettier than in the original story and her cursing Medusa look like DisproportionateRetribution.
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* In ''Webcomic/OlympusOverdrive'' Poseidon's encounter with Medusa and subsequent "defiling" of Athena's temple is changed to a consensual but forbidden kiss and portrays the two as StarCrossedLovers. This was presumably done because Poseidon is a protagonist and would be ''very'' hard to root for if the story presented the original version, where he raped Medusa purely to piss off Athena and the latter punished ''her'' for it anyway. It also makes Athena (who hasn't appeared in the comic yet) look even pettier worse than in the original story and her cursing Medusa look like DisproportionateRetribution.
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* In ''Webcomic/OlympusOverdrive'' Poseidon's encounter with Medusa and subsequent "defiling" of Athena's temple is changed to a consensual but forbidden kiss and portrays the two as StarCrossedLovers. This was presumably done because Poseidon is a protagonist and would be ''very'' hard to root for if the story presented the original version, where he raped Medusa purely to piss off Athena and the latter punished ''her'' for it anyway.
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* In ''Webcomic/OlympusOverdrive'' Poseidon's encounter with Medusa and subsequent "defiling" of Athena's temple is changed to a consensual but forbidden kiss and portrays the two as StarCrossedLovers. This was presumably done because Poseidon is a protagonist and would be ''very'' hard to root for if the story presented the original version, where he raped Medusa purely to piss off Athena and the latter punished ''her'' for it anyway. It also makes Athena (who hasn't appeared in the comic yet) look even pettier than in the original story and her cursing Medusa look like DisproportionateRetribution.
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* In ''Webcomic/OlympusOverdrive'' Poseidon's encounter with Medusa and subsequent "defiling" of Athena's temple is changed to a consensual but forbidden kiss and portrays the two as StarCrossedLovers. This was presumably done because Poseidon is a protagonist and would be ''very'' hard to root for if the story presented the original version, where he raped Medusa purely to piss off Athena.
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* In ''Webcomic/OlympusOverdrive'' Poseidon's encounter with Medusa and subsequent "defiling" of Athena's temple is changed to a consensual but forbidden kiss and portrays the two as StarCrossedLovers. This was presumably done because Poseidon is a protagonist and would be ''very'' hard to root for if the story presented the original version, where he raped Medusa purely to piss off Athena.Athena and the latter punished ''her'' for it anyway.
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* In the manga version of ''{{Manga/Bokurano}}'', Chizuru was seduced by [[HotForStudent her teacher Hagatai]] and blackmailed by him into being gang-raped by his friends. When this plot was adapted into the TV series the gang rape part is left out, even though Hagatai is still clearly manipulating her and is portrayed as a reprehensible person for it.
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* In the manga version of ''{{Manga/Bokurano}}'', Chizuru was seduced by [[HotForStudent her teacher Hagatai]] Hatagai]] and blackmailed by him into being gang-raped by his friends. When this plot was adapted into the TV series the gang rape part is left out, even though Hagatai Hatagai is still clearly manipulating her and is portrayed as a reprehensible person for it.
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{{UsefulNotes/Consent}} is a thorny issue, and when a work is translated from one medium to another a sexual or romantic encounter that fell on a clear side of consensual or nonconsensual may be altered.
Usually LighterAndSofter works will go the route of making it consensual, often with older stories because of ValuesDissonance and a modern audience being unlikely to root for the character committing a rape, especially if this character is supposed to be [[AdaptationalHeroism a valid love interest]]. It may also be because the target audience of an adaptation is on the younger side, which falls under {{Bowdlerise}}. DarkerAndEdgier works, on the other hand, tend to go the opposite route and make what was a consensual encounter into a rape and portray the perpetrator [[AdaptationalVillainy in a]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil worse light]]. Alternately if the original fell somewhere in the realm of QuestionableConsent the "questionable" part is removed one way or the other. And like QuestionableConsent, an act doesn't have to be sexual to fall under this, though sexual examples are by far the most common situations affected.
Both versions of this trope can carry massive UnfortunateImplications. Changing a rape scene into consensual sex can verge on meta-textual RomanticizedAbuse, i.e. someone responsible for the adaptation looked at the rape scene and decided it should be made sexy or romantic. On the other hand, changing a scene of consensual sex into sexual assault may suggest that the writers just wanted to show someone, usually a woman, getting brutalized for purposes of cheap drama or titillation, which often leads to accusations of GratuitousRape.
Compare TheDogShotFirst, which retcons an act of aggression into an act of self-defense.
And as with all SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes, NoRealLifeExamplesPlease
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!!Examples
[[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]
* In the manga version of ''{{Manga/Bokurano}}'', Chizuru was seduced by [[HotForStudent her teacher Hagatai]] and blackmailed by him into being gang-raped by his friends. When this plot was adapted into the TV series the gang rape part is left out, even though Hagatai is still clearly manipulating her and is portrayed as a reprehensible person for it.
* In ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', the relationship between [[BrotherSisterIncest siblings]] Akio and Anthy is [[DomesticAbuse obviously not healthy]], but the two seem happy enough with jumping into bed with each other, at least before things start deteriorating and Akio starts using force on her. The movie version on the other hand shows him [[SlippingAMickey drugging]] Anthy's drink so he can rape her and panicking when he realizes she was awake the whole time. This is one reason fans of Series!Akio tend to dislike his movie counterpart, as Series!Akio had no need for drugs to [[ThePornomancer get people into bed with him]]. The movie presumably simplified things due to its shorter runtime.
[[AC:ComicBooks]]
* During a Marvel/DC crossover event, ComicBook/WonderWoman meets the Marvel version of [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] and is enraged because the DC version raped her mother Hippolyta. Marvel's Herc is nonplussed by this, as while he was basically Hippolyta's prisoner at the time theirs was nonetheless a consensual encounter and ''he's'' certainly not the one who should be accused of anything untoward.
* {{Franchise/Batman}} and Talia Al Ghul's son Damian Wayne was originally stated to be the result of Talia drugging and raping Bruce [[StalkerWithATestTube to sire the perfect heir]], but after the ComicBook/New52 relaunch it was retconned into a consensual relationship, which now seems to be the official version. The rape explanation is, however, used in ''WesternAnimation/SonOfBatman''.
* The origins of {{ComicBook/Raven}} fall into this depending on the creative team writing a particular story arc. She's the daughter of the human woman Arella and the demon lord Trigon, but whether he first seduced Arella using a human guise or brutally raped her varies (with the most recent version using the former, which still counts as [[BedTrick rape by fraud]] as Arella would have never agreed had she known what he really was).
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* In ''{{Literature/Dragonlance}}'', Tanis Half-Elven was conceived when his elven mother was raped by a human warrior, but the later novel ''The Inheritance'' (written by a different author) retcons this by saying his mother fell in love with her human captor and had a consensual relationship which produced Tanis, but after her husband and her abductor fought each other and both died she made up the story about being raped to protect both her and Tanis. Most fans consider this explanation non-canon.
* Non-sexual example: In ''Literature/TheHobbit'', Bilbo Baggins is pretty much forced to go on an adventure with the dwarves; although he does get a longing feeling when he listens to the dwarves singing, he might have stayed home if Gandalf didn't kick him out his own door the next morning. In the [[Film/TheHobbit Peter Jackson film]] Gandalf and the dwarves leave him behind, and he runs after them, thus joining the adventure hundred percent voluntarily.
* In ''Literature/SunMoonAndTalia'', the princess Talia is put into a magical sleep and eventually found by the King, who [[DudeShesLikeInAComa raped her]] and she eventually gives birth to twins, awakening when one sucks the thorn out from her finger while trying to nurse. Understandably its successor ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'' and various adaptations thereof leave this part out.
* In ''Literature/TeitoMonogatari'', Yoichiro and Yukari Tatsumiya are brother and sister and have a consensual but squicky sexual relationship. The anime adaptation, ''Doomed Megalopolis'', instead shows him raping her. This is probably why Yoichiro tends to come off as a KarmaHoudini in the film version even after his actions are exposed.
* In ''Literature/SongOfAchilles'', the meeting of Peleus and the sea goddess Thetis is portrayed as him finding her by the water and forcing himself on her to conceive Achilles, and is described as quite a violent encounter that leaves Thetis clearly hating Peleus for this and refusing to live with him. In the original myth she rejected his offer of marriage at first due to him being a mortal and Peleus was advised to find her by the water and tied her up, and after she shapeshifted several times but was unable to escape she consented to marrying him in what seems to be a variant of BestHerToBedHer, with no indication he actually raped her. The two actually lived together for a while until in some versions she fled after Peleus discovered her trying to cast magic to protect their son (in one version literally trying to burn his mortality away), but the two otherwise seem to have had a happy marriage.
* Overlapping with AdaptationalVillainy, several characters who were coerced to help Voldemort in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' voluntarily do it in [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows the film adaptation]] of the book. Examples include the new Minister of Magic, Pius Thicknesse, who was under the Imperius curse (a brainwashing magic spell) in the book, but is one of Voldemort's followers in the film, and Gellert Grindelwald, who refuses to tell Voldemort the whereabouts of the Elder Wand in the book, but tells him all the information without any coercion in the film.
[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* In ''{{Series/Arrow}}'' Shado is a mentor of Oliver Queen and was in a consensual romantic relationship prior to her death. In the original ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' comics she raped Oliver when he was delirious from a wound and [[ChildByRape conceived a child, Robert]], from the encounter.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' has two examples, both of which have resulted in accusations of the show using GratuitousRape:
** Daenerys' wedding night to Khal Drogo is altered, as in the books, counter to her expectations, he arouses her first to gain her consent, while in the TV series he simply rapes her.
** The scene of Cersei and Jaime having sex next to the body of [[spoiler:Joffrey]] is altered so that Cersei's consent (or lack thereof) is far murkier, not helped by a FlipFlopOfGod on whether it was actually rape. In the same scene in the books she was far more enthusiastic about it.
* ''{{Series/Merlin}}'' portrays the birth of Myth/KingArthur as being the result of a consensual relationship between his mother Igraine and father Uther, counter to the usual story where Uther [[BedTrick was magically disguised as Igraine's first husband Gorlois]] when Arthur was conceived, and the series contains no indication Igraine had ever been married to anyone but Uther. While series Uther certainly isn't a nice guy, a rapist he's not.
[[AC:{{Mythology}}]]
* Myth/GreekMythology. Many modern tellings of the myth of Hades and Persephone downplay the AbductionIsLove angle of the original by having Persephone be a willing participant in her own abduction, sometimes because Demeter has become MyBelovedSmother.
[[AC:TabletopGames]]
* In most previous versions of flavor text for ''TabletopGames/DungeonsAndDragons'' half-orcs were stated to often be the result of male orcs raping human women after raiding or conquering a human population. 4th and 5th Edition altered this to put more emphasis on them being the result of consensual relationships borne from marriage alliances between the two communities.
[[AC:{{Theatre}}]]
*''Theatre/SpringAwakening'': In the original play, Melchior rapes Wendla. The musical presents it as QuestionableConsent and even [[RomanticizedAbuse romanticizes]] the scene.
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* The fourth ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos'' game, ''Six Days A Sacrifice''. [[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee]] has stated that if he ever has the chance to remake the game he'd change the scene of Theo and Janine having sex into a straight-up rape to better get across what he was going for, as he'd intended it to show their descent into savagery but most people took it as [[FetishRetardant badly done fanservice]].
[[AC:{{Webcomic}}]]
* In ''Webcomic/OlympusOverdrive'' Poseidon's encounter with Medusa and subsequent "defiling" of Athena's temple is changed to a consensual but forbidden kiss and portrays the two as StarCrossedLovers. This was presumably done because Poseidon is a protagonist and would be ''very'' hard to root for if the story presented the original version, where he raped Medusa purely to piss off Athena.
Usually LighterAndSofter works will go the route of making it consensual, often with older stories because of ValuesDissonance and a modern audience being unlikely to root for the character committing a rape, especially if this character is supposed to be [[AdaptationalHeroism a valid love interest]]. It may also be because the target audience of an adaptation is on the younger side, which falls under {{Bowdlerise}}. DarkerAndEdgier works, on the other hand, tend to go the opposite route and make what was a consensual encounter into a rape and portray the perpetrator [[AdaptationalVillainy in a]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil worse light]]. Alternately if the original fell somewhere in the realm of QuestionableConsent the "questionable" part is removed one way or the other. And like QuestionableConsent, an act doesn't have to be sexual to fall under this, though sexual examples are by far the most common situations affected.
Both versions of this trope can carry massive UnfortunateImplications. Changing a rape scene into consensual sex can verge on meta-textual RomanticizedAbuse, i.e. someone responsible for the adaptation looked at the rape scene and decided it should be made sexy or romantic. On the other hand, changing a scene of consensual sex into sexual assault may suggest that the writers just wanted to show someone, usually a woman, getting brutalized for purposes of cheap drama or titillation, which often leads to accusations of GratuitousRape.
Compare TheDogShotFirst, which retcons an act of aggression into an act of self-defense.
And as with all SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes, NoRealLifeExamplesPlease
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!!Examples
[[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]
* In the manga version of ''{{Manga/Bokurano}}'', Chizuru was seduced by [[HotForStudent her teacher Hagatai]] and blackmailed by him into being gang-raped by his friends. When this plot was adapted into the TV series the gang rape part is left out, even though Hagatai is still clearly manipulating her and is portrayed as a reprehensible person for it.
* In ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', the relationship between [[BrotherSisterIncest siblings]] Akio and Anthy is [[DomesticAbuse obviously not healthy]], but the two seem happy enough with jumping into bed with each other, at least before things start deteriorating and Akio starts using force on her. The movie version on the other hand shows him [[SlippingAMickey drugging]] Anthy's drink so he can rape her and panicking when he realizes she was awake the whole time. This is one reason fans of Series!Akio tend to dislike his movie counterpart, as Series!Akio had no need for drugs to [[ThePornomancer get people into bed with him]]. The movie presumably simplified things due to its shorter runtime.
[[AC:ComicBooks]]
* During a Marvel/DC crossover event, ComicBook/WonderWoman meets the Marvel version of [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] and is enraged because the DC version raped her mother Hippolyta. Marvel's Herc is nonplussed by this, as while he was basically Hippolyta's prisoner at the time theirs was nonetheless a consensual encounter and ''he's'' certainly not the one who should be accused of anything untoward.
* {{Franchise/Batman}} and Talia Al Ghul's son Damian Wayne was originally stated to be the result of Talia drugging and raping Bruce [[StalkerWithATestTube to sire the perfect heir]], but after the ComicBook/New52 relaunch it was retconned into a consensual relationship, which now seems to be the official version. The rape explanation is, however, used in ''WesternAnimation/SonOfBatman''.
* The origins of {{ComicBook/Raven}} fall into this depending on the creative team writing a particular story arc. She's the daughter of the human woman Arella and the demon lord Trigon, but whether he first seduced Arella using a human guise or brutally raped her varies (with the most recent version using the former, which still counts as [[BedTrick rape by fraud]] as Arella would have never agreed had she known what he really was).
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* In ''{{Literature/Dragonlance}}'', Tanis Half-Elven was conceived when his elven mother was raped by a human warrior, but the later novel ''The Inheritance'' (written by a different author) retcons this by saying his mother fell in love with her human captor and had a consensual relationship which produced Tanis, but after her husband and her abductor fought each other and both died she made up the story about being raped to protect both her and Tanis. Most fans consider this explanation non-canon.
* Non-sexual example: In ''Literature/TheHobbit'', Bilbo Baggins is pretty much forced to go on an adventure with the dwarves; although he does get a longing feeling when he listens to the dwarves singing, he might have stayed home if Gandalf didn't kick him out his own door the next morning. In the [[Film/TheHobbit Peter Jackson film]] Gandalf and the dwarves leave him behind, and he runs after them, thus joining the adventure hundred percent voluntarily.
* In ''Literature/SunMoonAndTalia'', the princess Talia is put into a magical sleep and eventually found by the King, who [[DudeShesLikeInAComa raped her]] and she eventually gives birth to twins, awakening when one sucks the thorn out from her finger while trying to nurse. Understandably its successor ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'' and various adaptations thereof leave this part out.
* In ''Literature/TeitoMonogatari'', Yoichiro and Yukari Tatsumiya are brother and sister and have a consensual but squicky sexual relationship. The anime adaptation, ''Doomed Megalopolis'', instead shows him raping her. This is probably why Yoichiro tends to come off as a KarmaHoudini in the film version even after his actions are exposed.
* In ''Literature/SongOfAchilles'', the meeting of Peleus and the sea goddess Thetis is portrayed as him finding her by the water and forcing himself on her to conceive Achilles, and is described as quite a violent encounter that leaves Thetis clearly hating Peleus for this and refusing to live with him. In the original myth she rejected his offer of marriage at first due to him being a mortal and Peleus was advised to find her by the water and tied her up, and after she shapeshifted several times but was unable to escape she consented to marrying him in what seems to be a variant of BestHerToBedHer, with no indication he actually raped her. The two actually lived together for a while until in some versions she fled after Peleus discovered her trying to cast magic to protect their son (in one version literally trying to burn his mortality away), but the two otherwise seem to have had a happy marriage.
* Overlapping with AdaptationalVillainy, several characters who were coerced to help Voldemort in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' voluntarily do it in [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows the film adaptation]] of the book. Examples include the new Minister of Magic, Pius Thicknesse, who was under the Imperius curse (a brainwashing magic spell) in the book, but is one of Voldemort's followers in the film, and Gellert Grindelwald, who refuses to tell Voldemort the whereabouts of the Elder Wand in the book, but tells him all the information without any coercion in the film.
[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* In ''{{Series/Arrow}}'' Shado is a mentor of Oliver Queen and was in a consensual romantic relationship prior to her death. In the original ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'' comics she raped Oliver when he was delirious from a wound and [[ChildByRape conceived a child, Robert]], from the encounter.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' has two examples, both of which have resulted in accusations of the show using GratuitousRape:
** Daenerys' wedding night to Khal Drogo is altered, as in the books, counter to her expectations, he arouses her first to gain her consent, while in the TV series he simply rapes her.
** The scene of Cersei and Jaime having sex next to the body of [[spoiler:Joffrey]] is altered so that Cersei's consent (or lack thereof) is far murkier, not helped by a FlipFlopOfGod on whether it was actually rape. In the same scene in the books she was far more enthusiastic about it.
* ''{{Series/Merlin}}'' portrays the birth of Myth/KingArthur as being the result of a consensual relationship between his mother Igraine and father Uther, counter to the usual story where Uther [[BedTrick was magically disguised as Igraine's first husband Gorlois]] when Arthur was conceived, and the series contains no indication Igraine had ever been married to anyone but Uther. While series Uther certainly isn't a nice guy, a rapist he's not.
[[AC:{{Mythology}}]]
* Myth/GreekMythology. Many modern tellings of the myth of Hades and Persephone downplay the AbductionIsLove angle of the original by having Persephone be a willing participant in her own abduction, sometimes because Demeter has become MyBelovedSmother.
[[AC:TabletopGames]]
* In most previous versions of flavor text for ''TabletopGames/DungeonsAndDragons'' half-orcs were stated to often be the result of male orcs raping human women after raiding or conquering a human population. 4th and 5th Edition altered this to put more emphasis on them being the result of consensual relationships borne from marriage alliances between the two communities.
[[AC:{{Theatre}}]]
*''Theatre/SpringAwakening'': In the original play, Melchior rapes Wendla. The musical presents it as QuestionableConsent and even [[RomanticizedAbuse romanticizes]] the scene.
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* The fourth ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos'' game, ''Six Days A Sacrifice''. [[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee]] has stated that if he ever has the chance to remake the game he'd change the scene of Theo and Janine having sex into a straight-up rape to better get across what he was going for, as he'd intended it to show their descent into savagery but most people took it as [[FetishRetardant badly done fanservice]].
[[AC:{{Webcomic}}]]
* In ''Webcomic/OlympusOverdrive'' Poseidon's encounter with Medusa and subsequent "defiling" of Athena's temple is changed to a consensual but forbidden kiss and portrays the two as StarCrossedLovers. This was presumably done because Poseidon is a protagonist and would be ''very'' hard to root for if the story presented the original version, where he raped Medusa purely to piss off Athena.
