History Main / AdaptationalConsent

* From Myth/ClassicalMythology, 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 is MyBelovedSmother. Others have her warm up to him after the abduction but before anything sexual happens. This is probably because, kidnapping aside, Hades was actually one of the better divine husbands, rarely if ever cheating on her. Modern retellings also tend to discard the fact that Hades is [[CreepyUncle her uncle]] (which did not matter to the gods, but sure does matter to people).
** It is also worth stating that the exact nature of their relationship is debatable, as the Ancient Greeks never make mention of Persephone's willingness. ''[[http://spiralheart.org/post/66058267951/double-take-issue-3-persephones-identity-part/ There are those]]'' who note that many aspects of the original myth could reasonably suggest that Persephone really was a willing participant,[[note]]One of the points raised is that ambrosia and nectar are the food of the gods, so Persephone wouldn't have been eating the pomegranate seeds for sustenance, and it wouldn't make sense for Hades to have tricked her into doing so.[[/note]] or at least that a rape never took place in the sexual sense. [[note]] To make things even trickier, the Greek word for kidnapping is the same word used for rape (''arpaxo'', literally "to be carried off"). [[/note]]

* In Myth/ClassicalMythology, Hades ''kidnapped'' Persephone and essentially forced her to marry him against her will. The story is even called ''The Rape of Persephone.'' In ''Webcomic/{{Punderworld}}'' is pretty clear that the relationship is way more consensual, Persephone finding every reason to return to the Underworld or stall for time leaving it.

* In ''Literature/TheRedTent'', Dinah's rape by Shechem from Literature/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.
* The ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' series does this to the Greek gods and goddesses as a whole, deliberately removing the DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal rampant in the original myths in favor of the gods [[ReallyGetsAround just having a lot of consensual sex with mortals]].

* 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]].

* From Myth/ClassicalMythology, 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 is MyBelovedSmother. Others have her warm up to him after the abduction but before anything sexual happens. This is probably because, kidnapping aside, Hades was actually one of the better divine husbands, rarely if ever cheating on her. Modern retellings also tend to discard the fact that Hades is [[CreepyUncle her uncle]].

* This is actually inverted in ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor''. In ''Myth/NorseMythology'', its stated Loki and Sigyn had a BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage, Sigyn is shown to genuinely love Loki despite all his many flaws. However [[{{ComicBook/Loki}} Marvel's version of Loki]] lusted after an repulsed Sigyn (thinking to himself he'd have her "willing or NOT"), [[MurderTheHypotenuse killed Theoric, her fiance]], took his form to spend time with Sigyn (with very strong implications of him pulling a BedTrick), and only revealing the truth immediately after the marriage. Whilst Sigyn still stays loyal to Loki, its out of obligation to the law of the marriage rather then any love towards Loki. Unlike their mythologic counterparts, Marvel's early version of the Asgardians do not have the concept of divorce outside of [[DivorceRequiresDeath death]].

* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' had Europa appear as a summonable servant, but tones down the story so Europa was a willing partner of Zeus rather than being kidnapped and raped.

* ''Theatre/SpringAwakening'': In the original play, Melchior unquestionably rapes Wendla. The musical presents it as QuestionableConsent and even {{Romanticize|dAbuse}}s the scene.

* In ''{{VideoGame/Hades}}'', the marriage of Hades and Persephone follows much of the plot of the original with one significant difference: ''Zeus'' is the one who kidnapped Persephone and dropped her off in the Underworld as a sort of housewarming gift for his brother. Neither party was thrilled about the situation, but they made it work and managed to get along until [[spoiler:their son Zagreus was stillborn]) causing Persephone to leave.

* This is actually inverted in ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor''. In ''Myth/NorseMythology'', its stated Loki and Sigyn had a BureaucraticallyArrangedMarriage, Sigyn is shown to genuinely love Loki despite all his many flaws. However [[{{ComicBook/Loki}} Marvel's version of Loki]] lusted after an repulsed Sigyn(thinking to himself he'd have her "willing or NOT"), [[MurderTheHypotenuse killed Theoric her fiance]], took his form to spend time with Sigyn (with very strong implications of him pulling a BedTrick), only revealing the truth immediately after the marriage. Whilst Sigyn still stays loyal to Loki, its out of obligation to the law of the marriage rather then any love towards Loki. Unlike their mythologic counterparts, Marvel's early version of the Asgardians not have the concept of divorce outside of [[DivorceRequiresDeath death]].

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden'' has [[AmbiguouslyBrown Gray]], who tries to aggressively win over Clair, a Pegasus knight. They marry each other after the war, but in ''Gaiden'', her ending implies she only caved in to him (though she ''does'' remain single if he dies, lamenting that she was "going to let [him] win"). "She gave into Gray's persistence and reluctantly got together with him [...] ". The remake ''Shadows of Valentia'' paints this in a more positive picture, where Gray decides to leave when she says she is not interested, only for her to approach him and give him a second chance, which ended in marriage. "In time, Gray's tenacity won her over, and she became his wife..."

* In [[Myth/KingArthur Arthurian legend]], Arthur was conceived when his father, King Uther, used magic to pull a BedTrick on Igraine, who was married to Duke Gorlois at the time; Uther and Igraine were married right after he died, and she was actually happy that her pregnancy was from him instead of Gorlois. Naturally, modern adaptations either call out Uther for being a rapist or go the other way (like ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' above) and say that they had a consensual relationship, sometimes [[AdaptedOut leaving Gorlois out entirely]].

* Almost all film adaptations of ''Literature/TheThreeMuskeeters'' change d'Artagnan's act of tricking Milady de Winter into having sex with him [[BedTrick by pretending to be her lover]] to a completely consensual sexual encounter between them where Milady knows who he is or omit it entirely.

* During the Marvel/DC crossover event ''ComicBook/JLAAvengers'', ComicBook/WonderWoman meets the Marvel version of [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] and is enraged because the DC version (a villain) raped her mother Hippolyta. Marvel's Herc (a LovableRogue hero) is nonplussed by this, as his story is TruerToTheText of the original myth: theirs was a consensual encounter, but since he was her prisoner at the time ''he's'' certainly not the one who should be accused of anything untoward.

* In the ''Literature/{{Wicked}}'' book it is mentioned that Elphaba's mother Melena was drugged with an elixir (which caused her daughter's green skin) and doesn't remember who fathered Elphaba. The [[Theatre/{{Wicked}} musical]] makes the encounter between her and [[spoiler:the Wizard]] seem more consensual. The elixir seems to just have caused Elphaba's skin tone, not drugged Melena.

* During a Marvel/DC crossover event, ComicBook/WonderWoman meets the Marvel version of [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]] and is enraged because the DC version (a villain) raped her mother Hippolyta. Marvel's Herc (a LovableRogue hero) is nonplussed by this, as his story is TruerToTheText of the original myth: theirs was a consensual encounter, but since he was her prisoner at the time ''he's'' certainly not the one who should be accused of anything untoward.

* In ''Film/Warcraft2016'', Garona's backstory is changed so instead of being the result of rape between an orc warrior and draenei prisoner, she is now implied to be the result of a consensual relationship between the human sorcerer Medivh and an orc woman while he was off travelling the universe.

* 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]]; however, many fans thought this was OutOfCharacter, since she and Bruce had had a legitimate romance before she [[DaddysLittleVillain chose her follow in her father's footsteps]] (Morrisson, the author behind the rape explanation admits he forgot about it). As such, the ComicBook/New52 relaunch retconned it into a consensual encounter. The rape explanation was still used in the ''WesternAnimation/SonOfBatman'' movie, however.

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* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueVsTeenTitans:'' In this version of Raven's backstory (compare to "Comics" above), Rachel's mother was part of a cult and slept with Trigon willingly, though was at least smart enough to regret it very quickly.

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* ''Theatre/SpringAwakening'': In the original play, Melchior rapes Wendla. The musical presents it as QuestionableConsent and even {{Romanticize|dAbuse}}s the scene.

* This can happen within Myth/ClassicalMythology itself. Nowadays the most popular origin story for Medusa is that she was a human woman raped by Poseidon in Athena's temple, with Athena subsequently [[VictimBlaming transforming her]] into a Gorgon. However, this story was seemingly invented by the Roman writer Ovid, who tended to portray the gods in a negative light. In older versions of the story Medusa was ''always'' a monster, and while Poseidon is said to have slept with her [[HotGuyUglyWife for some reason]], there's no mention of it being non-consensual.

Compare TheDogShotFirst, which retcons an act of aggression into an act of self-defense.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden'' has [[AmbiguouslyBrown Gray]], who tries to aggressively win over Clair, a Pegasus knight. They marry each other after the war, but in ''Gaiden'', her ending implies she only caved in to him. "She gave into Gray's persistence and reluctantly got together with him [...] ". The remake ''Shadows of Valentia'' paints this in a more positive picture, where Gray decides to leave when she says she is not interested, only for her to approach him and give him a second chance, which ended in marriage. "In time, Gray's tenacity won her over, and she became his wife..."