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* Done with Paris and Helen's relationship in ''Film/{{Troy}}''. In the original ''Literature/TheIliad'', Aphrodite promises Helen to Paris in exchange for the golden apple, and then overrides Helen's free will and makes her temporarily fall in love with Paris to fulfill the promise; left to her own devices, Helen would never have been involved with Paris, and she's very upset over the whole thing once Aphrodite's magic wears off. In ''Troy'', Aphrodite's role is [[AdaptedOut eliminated entirely]] in favor of having Helen and Paris genuinely and organically fall in love. By extension, this then also applies in the opposite direction to Helen's marriage, as she was HappilyMarried to Menelaus in the original, while in the film she indicates that she was [[AwfulWeddedLife miserable every day she was with him]].

* 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 opposing their relationship and [[RapeAndRevenge destroying his city]], while the Bible presented this more as just DisproportionateRetribution.

* ''House Of the Dragon" In House Of the dragon, Alicent's character was aged down to be 14 instead of 18 and she gets raped by King Viserys and is forced to marry him while in the book it was portrayed very differently.

* The 2010 ''Film/{{Tekken}}' film establishes Jin Kazama as being a ChildByRape. As for the [[Franchise/{{Tekken}} the original games]], the matter of Jin's conception is not discussed much, but implied to have been consensual between Kazuya Mishima and Jun Kazama.

** Likewise, Mordred's conception in the original legends is usually (although not always) the result of a consensual one-night stand between Arthur and Morgause, with them being unaware of their incestuous act. Many modern adaptations make Mordred a Main/ChildByRape (among the most influential, in ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing'' Arthur's consent to Morgause is questionable, and in ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'' [[Main/CompositeCharacter Morgana]] sleeps with her brother via BedTrick).

* The heavy censorship in the simulcast version of ''Literature/HaremInTheLabyrinthOfAnotherWorld'''s anime adaptation has the effect of making an already ethically questionable HerosSlaveHarem look even worse, since they actually bleep out the part where slave trader Alan explains to protagonist Michio that Roxanne consented in her slave contract to having sex with her eventual purchaser.

* ''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]].

* 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 a 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.

* Both the ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'' book and movie have a scene were Tris goes through simulations to conquer her fears, one of which is sexuality. In the book the simulation of Four is lying on the bed suggestively but in the movie he tries to force himself on her.

* In ''Literature/TheSongOfAchilles'', 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.

** This series uses Medusa's "used to be human" origin, but describes her as Poseidon's "girlfriend" rather than a rape victim. Medusa is even willing to "just" turn Percy into a statue out of lingering affection for Poseidon, but wants to tear Annabeth (a daughter of Athena) to pieces.
** The backstory of Zeus and Hera's marriage has this as well. In the myth, Zeus turns into an injured cuckoo, Hera picks him up to care for him, and then he turns back and rapes her; she marries him to avoid being DefiledForever. In ''Percy Jackson's Greek Gods'' Hera was in love with Zeus, but refused to admit it because of his promiscuity. He challenged her that she would have to marry him if she ever admitted her feelings, then turned into an injured cuckoo so that she would eventually express affection for it and lose the bet.

* 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.

** Daenerys' wedding night to Khal Drogo is altered: in the books, counter to her expectations, he arouses her first to gain her consent, while in the TV series he simply rapes her (although this is a complicated example, as in the books she is 13 years old when she marries Drogo, and he is initially depicted as a firm believer in the MaritalRapeLicense even if he doesn't ''technically'' rape her on their wedding night, so the show's version doubles as AdaptationDistillation).
** 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/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.

** 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.[[note]]While the story is called the "Rape of Persephone", the Greek word for kidnapping is the same word used for rape (''arpaxo'', literally "to be carried off"), hence the story's other name of "Abduction of Persephone". In fact, no explicit reference to sexual intercourse is made at all.[[/note]] This is probably because, kidnapping aside, Hades was actually one of the better divine husbands, having never cheated on her, and both of them are shown to have a pleasant and loving relationship in the various stories they share afterward. 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. As such, [[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 (or at least took the whole thing in stride), with one example being that ambrosia and nectar are known to be the food of the gods, so Persephone wouldn't have been eating the pomegranate seeds for sustenance and thus her eating them wouldn't have been Hades tricking her into doing so.
** A little known myth claims that Zeus "proposed" to Hera by [[WoundedGazelleGambit disguising himself as an injured bird]], then raping her when she comes to care for him, forcing her into an unwanted marriage simply because she was so ashamed of the incident. Many later myths and modern adaptations either alter this into a more heartfelt and/or comical scenario or leave it out entirely, probably because it makes Zeus look a bit ''too much'' like an asshole.

** The story of Helen and Paris also usually gets this in most media, and even within ancient sources. Homer sticks to the idea that Helen is unhappy in Troy and would not have left Menelaus without her judgment having been clouded by Aphrodite, while Sappho portrays it as an elopement, and Dio Chrysostom says that Paris won her hand legitimately and she was never Menelaus's wife. (Still other sources insist that it never happened at all, and Helen was in Egypt the whole time, having been secretly replaced with a body double made out of clouds by Hera. ItMakesSenseInContext.)

* In Myth/ClassicalMythology, as mentioned repeatedly throughout this page, Hades kidnapped Persephone, presumably against her will and forcing her into marriage. 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.

* ''Literature/GoingPostal'', possibly by accident, since it's not clear Moist is ''meant'' to look unsympathetic in this scene: In the book, when he dances with Miss Dearheart in the ruins of the Post Office, the worst that can be said is that he took "too bewildered to react" as implied consent. In the Creator/SkyOne miniseries, which makes their initial relationship [[BeligerentSexualTension far more antagonistic]], she actively refuses and he drags her up anyway.

* Inverted in ''Literature/GoingPostal'': in the book, when Moist von Lipwig dances with Miss Dearheart in the ruins of the Post Office, the worst that can be said is that he didn't give her time to react. In the Creator/SkyOne miniseries, which makes their initial relationship [[BeligerantSexualTension far more antagonistic]] she actively refuses and he drags her up anyway.

* The heavy censorship in the simulcast version of ''Literature/HaremInTheLabyrinthOfAnotherWorld'' has the effect of making an already ethically questionable HerosSlaveHarem look even worse, since they actually bleep out the part where slave trader Alan explains to protagonist Michio that Roxanne consented in her slave contract to having sex with her eventual purchaser.

* The heavy censorship in the simulcast version of ''LightNovel/HaremInTheLabyrinthOfAnotherWorld'' has the effect of making an already ethically questionable HerosSlaveHarem look even worse, since they actually bleep out the part where slave trader Alan explains to protagonist Michio that Roxanne consented in her slave contract to having sex with her eventual purchaser.

* The origins of ComicBook/{{Raven}} fall into this {{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).

* ''LightNovel/BlackSummoner'': Kelvin's battle slave Efil falls for him and approaches him for sex. In the original LightNovel he accepts the offer; however, in the anime adaptation, he pushes her off him after having a HeelRealization about [[QuestionableConsent the power dynamics between master and slave]], and resolves to put her in her own bedroom when he eventually buys a house.

** The story of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Helen and Paris]] also usually gets this in most media, and even within ancient sources. Homer sticks to the idea that Helen is unhappy in Troy and would not have left Menelaus without her judgment having been clouded by Aphrodite, while Sappho portrays it as an elopement, and Dio Chrysostom says that Paris won her hand legitimately and she was never Menelaus's wife. (Still other sources insist that it never happened at all, and Helen was in Egypt the whole time, having been secretly replaced with a body double made out of clouds by Hera. ItMakesSenseInContext.)
* 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]] or [[AdaptationalVillainy making him the bad guy]].

* In ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans1981'', we're told that Medusa became a monster as punishment for "making love to Poseidon" in the temple of [[LoveGoddess Aphrodite]]. In the actual myth, she was [[DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal raped by Poseidon]] [[DoubleStandard and received the punishment anyway]] (also, from Athena, not Aphrodite). [[Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010 The remake]] changes the story back to rape, but also strangely alters the story of Perseus' own conception. In the myth, Zeus came to his mother in the form of a magical golden rain; whether she realized what was happening, or consented to it, is never really explained. In the movie, his mom is changed from an unmarried maiden to a married queen whom Zeus slept with via BedTrick.

* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' SelfInsertFic ''FanFic/WithThisRing'', this happens InUniverse [[ShowWithinAShow with the Amazon play]] "the Foolish Prince." In the earlier variants of the play, the titular prince raped the foreign queen's daughter. In the modern version starring the Orange Lantern, the most Prince Pavlos does is hold hands with the daughter and stay out all night stargazing before [[SleepCute literally sleeping together.]]

* In ''Series/{{Titans}},'' unlike in the comics, [[spoiler:Raven's mother [[AdaptationalVillainy is evil]] and slept with [[BigBad Trigon]] willingly]].

* ''[[https://banter-latte.com/2007/12/04/prosperina-a-mythology-of-the-modern-world-holiday-special/ Prosperina]]'', from the "Mythology of The Modern World" series of short stories by Creator/EricBurnsWhite, re-imagines the myth of Persephone and Hades, making their marriage consensual, and making Persephone the subject of the story, acting with agency, rather than the object who is acted upon. In this version, Persephone is a RebelliousPrincess, Demeter is {{My Beloved Smother}}, and Persephone is drawn to Hades because AllGirlsWantBadBoys. Rather than being tricked into it, Persephone eats the pomegranate seeds on her own initiative, with full knowledge of the consequences. Granted, ''[[http://spiralheart.org/post/66058267951/double-take-issue-3-persephones-identity-part/ there are those]]'' who argue that some of this consent might have been present in the original myth, as well; the exact nature of the mythological Persephone's relationship with Hades is still subject to debate. [[note]]One of the points raised in the linked page 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]]

* 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]].

* Done with Paris and Helen's relationship in ''Film/{{Troy}}''. In the original ''Literature/TheIliad'', Aphrodite promises Helen to Paris in exchange for the golden apple, and then overrides Helen's free will and makes her temporarily fall in love with Paris to fulfill the promise; left to her own devices, Helen would never have been involved with Paris, and she's very upset over the whole thing once Aphrodite's magic wears off. In ''Troy'', Aphrodite's role is [[AdaptedOut eliminated entirely]] and Helen and Paris genuinely and organically fall in love. By extension, this then also applies in the opposite direction to Helen's marriage, as she was HappilyMarried to Menelaus in the original, while in the film she indicates that she was [[AwfulWeddedLife miserable every day she was with him]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' SelfInsertFic ''FanFic/WithThisRing'', this happens InUniverse [[ShowWithinAShow with the Amazon play]] "the Foolish Prince." In the earlier variants of the play, the titular prince raped the foreign queen's daughter. In the modern version starring the Orange Lantern, the most Prince Pavlos does is hold hands with the daughter and stay out all night stargazing before [[SleepCute literally sleeping together.]]

* 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 to 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.

* Done with Paris and Helen's relationship in ''Film/{{Troy}}''. In the original ''Literature/TheIliad'', Aphrodite promises Helen to Paris in exchange for the golden apple, and then overrides Helen's free will and makes her fall in love with Paris to fulfill the promise; when she gets her own mind back, Helen is genuinely upset by what's happened. ''Troy'' completely [[AdaptedOut eliminates Aphrodite's role]] in the story; instead, the story in ''Troy'' is that Helen was miserable in her marriage and the love between her and Paris was genuine.

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* In the first anime adaptation of ''Anime/{{Hellsing}}'', Alucard flat out tells Seras that he's planning to shoot through her and offers to make her a vampire, which she accepts. In the original manga and the Ultimate anime, Alucard just checks to see if she's capable of becoming a vampire (by asking a girl who is being held hostage by an undead monster whether or not she's still a virgin), then unceremoniously shooting her and then turning her as she bleeds out. The fact that she didn't give anything resembling informed consent before becoming a vampire plays a role in why she's reluctant to embrace her vampiric nature for most of the series (and makes the anime version of Seras, who knew what she was getting into, [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole seem like a bit of a whiner for maintaining that character trait]]).

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** The story of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Helen and Paris]] also usually gets this in most media, and even within ancient sources. Homer sticks to the idea that Helen is unhappy in Troy and would not have left Menelaus without her judgment being clouded by Aphrodite, while Sappho portrays it as an elopement, and Dio Chrysostom says that Paris won her hand legitimately and she was never Menelaus's wife. (Still other sources insist that it never happened at all, and Helen was in Egypt the whole time, having been secretly replaced with a body double made out of clouds by Hera. ItMakesSenseInContext.)

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* Flavor text for older editions of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' described [[HalfHumanHybrid half-orcs]] as usually being [[ChildByRape children by rape]] of human women by male orcs after raiding or conquering a human population. 4[[superscript:th]] and 5[[superscript:th]] Editions put more emphasis on them being the result of consensual relationships borne from marriage alliances between the two communities.

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* In Creator/AGnosis' comics on Myth/ClassicalMythology, 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]].

* The ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'' 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]].

* 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.[[note]]While the story is called the "Rape of Persephone", the Greek word for kidnapping is the same word used for rape (''arpaxo'', literally "to be carried off"), hence the story's other name of "Abduction of Persephone". In fact, no explicit reference to sexual intercourse is made at all.[[/note]] This is probably because, kidnapping aside, Hades was actually one of the better divine husbands, having never cheated on her, and both of them are shown to have a pleasant and loving relationship in the various stories they share afterward. 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. As such, [[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 (or at least took the whole thing in stride), with one example being that ambrosia and nectar are known to be the food of the gods, so Persephone wouldn't have been eating the pomegranate seeds for sustenance and thus her eating them wouldn't have been Hades tricking her into doing so.
* A little known myth claims that Zeus "proposed" to Hera by [[WoundedGazelleGambit disguising himself as an injured bird]], then raping her when she comes to care for him, forcing her into an unwanted marriage simply because she was so ashamed of the incident. Many later myths and modern adaptations either alter this into a more heartfelt and/or comical scenario or leave it out entirely, probably because it makes Zeus look a bit ''too much'' like an asshole.
* 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 [[UsefulNotes/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.
* The story of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Helen and Paris]] also usually gets this in most media, and even within ancient sources. Homer sticks to the idea that Helen is unhappy in Troy and would not have left Menelaus without her judgment being clouded by Aphrodite, while Sappho portrays it as an elopement, and Dio Chrysostom says that Paris won her hand legitimately and she was never Menelaus's wife. (Still other sources insist that it never happened at all, and Helen was in Egypt the whole time, having been secretly replaced with a body double made out of clouds by Hera. ItMakesSenseInContext.)

* 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.[note]]While the story is called the "Rape of Persephone", the Greek word for kidnapping is the same word used for rape (''arpaxo'', literally "to be carried off"), hence the story's other name of "Abduction of Persephone". In fact, no explicit reference to sexual intercourse is made at all.[[/note]] This is probably because, kidnapping aside, Hades was actually one of the better divine husbands, having never cheated on her, and both of them are shown to have a pleasant and loving relationship in the various stories they share afterward. 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).