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* In ''AudioPlay/TheConfessionsOfDorianGray'', Dorian at one point encounters his IdenticalStranger with Jonathan Moore with the two agreeing to swap lives. While Moore at one point tells Dorian that he can't do anything with his wife Scarlet, Dorian does seem to develop actual feelings for Scarlet and ends up breaking this rule. Scarlet is naturally horrified when she finds out about the switch, along with the fact that her husband would even do something like this.

This is basically the definition of '''rape by deception''' (or rape by fraud), though that crime can also include situations like doctors performing unnecessarily invasive sexual acts on patients while claiming that they're necessary for diagnosis or treatment. Most areas do not recognize this as a crime, but in the U.S. under expanding federal definitions of rape to include any non-consensual penetration, it may qualify and be prosecuted in the same vein as all other forms of rape. In other words, DoNotTryThisAtHome. Seriously. We mean it.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'': It's heavily implied that Sonic's EvilTwin Scourge the Hedgehog has sex with Sonic's teammate Bunnie Rabbot while pretending to be him.

* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' has a few examples.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Karolina is dating the SexShifter Xavin, but is also interested in Nico, [[UnresolvedSexualTension who she has had a crush on for most of the series]]. At one point, Xavin tried appearing as Nico because they thought that this was what Karolina really wanted and that it would help Karolina deal with her emotions. It did not work; Karolina thought it was "some kind of sick test". Xavin, not being from around here, is somewhat baffled.
* ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'': During the Skrull AlienInvasion, many of the Skrull imposters ended up replacing a few people that had lovers, who slept with the Skrull imposters without knowing:

* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' (of all things), it's heavily implied that Sonic's EvilTwin Scourge the Hedgehog has sex with Sonic's teammate Bunnie Rabbot while pretending to be him.

* ''ComicBook/SubMariner''. Lemurian supervillainess Lyra tricked Namor into sleeping with her by disguising herself as Susan Richards.

* ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'': [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] was once seduced by the shape-shifting Mirage in the form of his girlfriend Koriand'r/Starfire. This was a large factor in them subsequently breaking up. Mirage even goes so far as to taunt Dick for not noticing the difference.
* ''ComicBook/{{Voodoo|2011}}'' In the second issue, the title (female) character shapeshifts into the (male) partner of Agent Fallon, whom Fallon is sleeping with and who Voodoo has just [[KillAndReplace killed]]. Voodoo then goes back to Fallon's hotel room and sleeps with her, before the truth comes out the next morning. Though it is never described as 'rape,' and Fallon is more angry over the death of her lover, in issue #8, when Voodoo tries to claim that they shared a legitimate emotional connection, Fallon is quick to point out that she does not love Voodoo at all, and that was simply the bond that she had with her lover. [[spoiler:Voodoo admits that, yes, it was meaningless. She then kills Fallon]].
* ''ComicBook/{{The Warlord|DC}}'': Y'Smalla seduces Machiste by disguising herself as Tara.

* Brazilian newspaper comic ''ComicStrip/{{Aline}}'' had one of the Aline's boyfriends disguising himself as her to trick a lesbian who had a crush on Aline.

* In ''Series/OrphanBlack'', after stealing the deceased Beth's identity, Sarah sleeps with Beth's boyfriend, Paul, tricking him by virtue of looking exactly like Beth. She does it in part because she can, but mostly as a way of convincing him that she's Beth. [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] as Sarah's enthusiasm is actually a clue that leads Paul to figure out the truth. Then, to complicate things, Paul falls for Fake!Beth. [[spoiler:Once the secret is out, he transfers his feelings to Sarah, and the two have moved into a genuine relationship. Just before making a HeroicSacrifice, he tells Sarah that he never loved Beth, but he did love her]].

* It's happened twice on ''Series/OnceUponATime'': once in season 4/5 by Zelena, who had disguised herself as Robin's wife Marian, and once in season 7 when [[spoiler:Gothel disguises herself as Rapunzel to convince the Wish Realm Hook to sleep with her]]. Both situations result in pregnancies, though thus far only Robin was able to properly call out his attacker for her actions. In a twist of irony, [[spoiler:the daughters resulting from these Bed Tricks are engaged to each other by the end of the series]]. Strangely, despite having been the victim of such, the Wish Realm Hook had also attempted it on Emma Swan, but he decided not to go through with it when he learned she was pregnant.

* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': In the [[Rule34 NSFW doujin]] "What's Yor's," after Loid puts Anya to bed he sees his bedroom light on, and when he goes to investigate he finds Yor naked and asking to have sex. Aftert they finish, she says "I love you," and immediately covers her mouth in regret. Loid responds that of all the women he could've chosen to be his wife, he's happy he chose her and says "I love you" back. After Loid dozes off, she then gets out bed and heads to the bathroom, where Fiona takes off the contact lenses, make-up, and wig that gave her the appearance of Yor, and sadly walks out of the Forgers' apartment. As she walks into the street in the middle of the night, Fiona spots Yor running home with a trench-coat covering her [[ProfessionalKiller Thorn Princess]] dress. Realizing that [[HoistByHisOwnPetard her intent to embrace her beloved, only resulted in her pushing him further into the arms of her romantic rival]], when Fiona sees Yor walking towards her, [[GreenEyedMonster the former lets out a bitter "you're welcome."]] As Yor stands in front of the apartment building beguiled, [[HopelessSuitor Fiona sadly walks away in defeat]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' Jordan Price, a rival business man to Bruce Wayne gets into bed with what he thinks is his girlfriend, but it turns out to be one of the Dee Dee twins who works for the Joker, nothing happens and he is shocked to see her, and she reveals she and the other members of the gang kidnapped the girlfriend and tied her to a pole outside his yacht.

* An unusual variant is the joke where a very suspicious wife, convinced that her husband is cheating on her, allows him to attend a costume party in a devil costume. She then sneaks in wearing a costume of her own, finds her devil-suited husband on the dance floor, and convinces him to take her upstairs for a quick one. She then leaves, smugly certain about his infidelity. The next morning she asks him how the party went. "Kind of boring, really," he tells her. "I played cards all night in a back room. But the guy I loaned my costume to said he had a great time!"

* A borderline example from ''Series/{{Crownies}}'': a woman dresses up very provocatively for a blind date set up by a friend, with someone she's been told is an attractive dentist named Phil. Around the time she's expecting him, an average-looking campaign worker who has been going door-to-door stops by. Before he can get a word in, she asks "Are you Phil?" DistractedByTheSexy, he impulsively answers "Yes." She proceeds to sleep with him, even though he's nowhere near as attractive as she was led to believe Phil is, and he never makes an effort to pretend to be the man she was expecting beyond lying about his name - the implication is that she never gave him a chance to talk after that. When the real Phil shows up, she reports the campaigner to the police and then to the Crown Prosecution Service. Though Richard acknowledges the man's actions could constitute rape by fraud, most of the characters are just dumbfounded by the fact that the woman slept with him for no reason beyond "He said he was Phil." Whether or not the man was charged is left unrevealed by the end of the episode.

** In "The Butterjunk Effect," Amy ([[KissingUnderTheInfluence long story]]) jumps into bed with Fry, who thinks she's Leela. They're almost immediately interrupted by the real Leela.
** In "T: The Terrestrial," Bender's attempts to cover for Fry's absence seemingly included [[NoodleIncident a makeout session with Leela in a dark closet]].

* Likewise averted in "Literature/TheTwoBrothers" by Creator/TheBrothersGrimm, in which the brother mistaken for his valiant twin keeps the new queen from accidentally cheating on her husband by placing a double-edged sword between them. Once the brother who married her sorts out what happened, the HappilyEverAfter line for this tale is: "Then he knew how true his brother had been."
* Reversed in an old story. A fairy/magic/sorcerer-king needs an enemy defeated, and can't do it himself. He enlists the help of a human king/nobleman. The sorcerer-king uses his powers to make each look exactly like the other and gives the human king specific instructions on how to defeat the enemy, and specific permission to use anything and everything he owns as though it actually belongs to the human king--including the sorcerer-king's ''wife''. The human king does as he's bid, but lays a sword or bolster down between him and the fairy queen. (In some tales, this happens for a ''year''.) At the right time, the human king kicks the bad guy's tail, then rides back to the agreed-upon meeting spot and switches back with the other king. When the sorcerer-king gets home, his wife wants to know what the deal is with the not sleeping together and all. (Exactly what she says depends on the story.) The sorcerer-king is both shocked and impressed because the queen is described as a very beautiful woman. (And usually the human king has no wife of his own to remain faithful to.)

** When ComicBook/DoctorOctopus did a GrandTheftMe on Peter in the ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'' storyline, he tried to get fresh with Mary Jane as well. She felt something was off because Peter wasn't himself (plus they were [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay no longer together]]) and Doc Oc gave up his attempts. He tried again later with another woman, Anna Maria, who had no clue about anything. When Peter got back his body and let her in on everything, she was quite stunned by what had gone on. When Otto later on comes back from death (kinda, it's actually [[ItMakesSenseInContext a mental duplicate]]) and tries to be a hero again, he even starts mentally kicking himself for denying her the full knowledge needed to make a conscientious choice.

* Technically every single woman Sam in ''Series/QuantumLeap'' has sex with or even kisses is a victim of sexual assault by this definition, as they're not watching Sam but a man Sam has leap onto, which would make Sam probably the most notorious serial rapist in TV history. Of course you can argue that sometimes Sam leaps right in the middle of the sexual act and/or is himself disoriented after leaping, but in some cases he is clearly and actively pursuing the sex. Also you can argue that he needs to sleep with some of the women to keep his cover but, again, that's still questionable for modern standards and a lot people would still consider it rape by deception.

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'': Lanfear, one of the Forsaken, pretends she's just ordinary innkeeper Selene, becoming lovers with Rand while he's none the wiser. As he's TheChosenOne fighting against her side, he certainly wouldn't have slept with her knowingly.

* ''Series/LovecraftCountry'': [[spoiler:Ruby]] has sex with [[spoiler:William]], and then learns he was actually [[spoiler:Christina]] from the beginning, by means of a magical potion, to her dismay.
* In Season Five of ''Series/Lucifer2016'' [[spoiler:Michael, Lucifer's identical twin brother]] attempts this. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for him, his badly flawed impersonation of Lucifer makes Chloe suspicious very quickly and she only pretended to be going along with it so that she could prove he wasn't the real Lucifer]].

** The same principle is at work when, in the Season Four episode "Someone to Watch Over Me", [[spoiler:Boomer pretends to be Athena in order not to be found out by Helo, who wants to have some goodbye sex. WordOfGod is that she also did it to spite Athena (who was BoundAndGagged in a vantage point from which she could see what was happening). Athena remarks on the irony in the extended version of "Islanded in a Stream of Stars"]].

* In one of the few male on female examples on soaps, on ''Series/SunsetBeach'' a man's evil twin seduce his unaware fiancee, all the while forcing the man to watch through a two-way mirror. She's sickened and horrified when she realizes what has happened.

* In ''[[VideoGame/TheTraderOfStories Bell's Heart]]'' the ghost in the lake was on the receiving end of this, which [[DrivenToSuicide resulted in him becoming the ghost]].

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** One of his enemies, the Chameleon, impersonated Spidey and slept with his roommate Michele Gonzales. Somewhat unusual in that this is being played up [[UnwantedHarem as an inconvenience to Peter]], since Michele never found out and just assumed Peter was being a jerk after sleeping with her.
** The Chameleon once attempted to do this to ComicBook/MaryJaneWatson (as in the above case he was disguised as Peter), only to be {{defied|Trope}}. When he kisses her, [[NotRightInTheBed she realizes it isn't him]] (with an extra spewing of information Peter should have known to be false to make sure), and then proceeded to [[BatterUp beat him senseless with a baseball bat]].

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': In ''ComicBook/TilDeathDoUsPart'', the Parasite (Rudy Jones), having learned Superman's true identity, takes the place of Lois Lane and attempts to tear him down emotionally by ruining their marriage. To facilitate his plan, he approaches an oblivious Lex Luthor and conducts an "extramarital" affair with him while in Lois's form. Unsurprisingly, Luthor is furious when he finally learns the truth.
* Anton Arcane, ''ComicBook/SwampThing'''s primary nemesis, famously did this to Abby, his own niece, by possessing the body of her husband. That isn't even the worst thing he's done to her.

* In the second issue of ''ComicBook/{{Voodoo 2011}}'', the title (female) character shapeshifts into the (male) partner of Agent Fallon, whom Fallon is sleeping with and who Voodoo has just [[KillAndReplace killed]]. Voodoo then goes back to Fallon's hotel room and sleeps with her, before the truth comes out the next morning. Though it is never described as 'rape,' and Fallon is more angry over the death of her lover, in issue #8, when Voodoo tries to claim that they shared a legitimate emotional connection, Fallon is quick to point out that she does not love Voodoo at all, and that was simply the bond that she had with her lover. [[spoiler:Voodoo admits that, yes, it was meaningless. She then kills Fallon]].
* ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'': Y'Smalla seduces Machiste by disguising herself as Tara.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Karolina is dating the SexShifter Xavin, but is also interested in Nico, [[{{UST}} who she has had a crush on for most of the series]]. At one point, Xavin tried appearing as Nico because they thought that this was what Karolina really wanted and that it would help Karolina deal with her emotions. It did not work; Karolina thought it was "some kind of sick test". Xavin, not being from around here, is somewhat baffled.

* ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'': During the Skrull AlienInvasion, many of the Skrull imposters ended up replacing a few people that had lovers, who slept with the Skrull imposters without knowing:

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'': Lanfear, one of the Forsaken, pretends she's just ordinary innkeeper Selene, becoming lovers with Rand when he's none the wiser. As he's TheChosenOne fighting her side, he certainly wouldn't have done this while knowing.

* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' (of all things), it's heavily implied that Sonic's EvilTwin Scourge the Hedgehog did this with Sonic's teammate Bunnie Rabbot while pretending to be him.

** ''Fanfic/AllAmericanGirl'' also has a serious occurrence of this, with Chrysalis storing Shining's genetic material and using it to create an army of unicorn/changeling hybrids (Chrysalis terming the species "pepsis"), treating those who show any of their father's nobility as ChildSoldiers (especially since she accelerates their aging) and CannonFodder.