History Main / DateRapeAverted

** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E8ReptileBoy Reptile Boy]]", she gets drugged at a party by a group of cultists. One of the cultists seems to be planning this, but another stops him since she and the other girls [[HumanSacrifice have another purpose]].

** In another episode, she gets drugged at a party by a group of cultists. One of the cultists seems to be planning this, but another stops him since she and the other girls [[HumanSacrifice have another purpose]].
** There was also a version of this with [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Dawn]], where her date revealed that he was a vampire and that she was in the midst of a bunch of vamps. Cue the BigDamnHeroes moment for the Scoobies.
** Leaving aside the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil soulless vampire bit]], TheWoobie factor gets ratcheted up when you realize Dawn was forced to kill the guy who gave her her first kiss [[WithThisHerring with a pencil]]. Though she plays it off at the time, it certainly puts her neurosis later in the season into perspective.
** And Angel [[BatterUp hits a home run]] -- with Faith's head as she was in the process of trying to rape and murder Xander.

Sometimes it's not her father or some other guy who saves her, but a killer or other MonsterOfTheWeek. In the best-case-scenario, they will hold that RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil, kill the boy, and then leave the girl alone, in which case it's a form of the VillainousRescue. It's commonly subverted, however, when he kills the boy (whether it's due to having standards or just seeing a potential victim), then, when she goes to thank him, kills her too. In ''really'' bad cases, he'll kill the boy, then rape her himself.

* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' Tim's first girlfriend Ariana goes to a movie with three classmates and learns the boy who invited her along considered it a double date when he pulls over the car instead of taking her home. When he insists he "knows she was coming on to him" and tries to force himself on her she slams a six pack from the back seat in his face and flees the car in a panic.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' has a DoubleSubversion. Marty tries to [[InvokedTrope stage this]] so that his father from the past, George [=McFly=], can "rescue" Lorraine, Marty's mother from the past, but the plan is subverted when Lorraine [[strike:reciprocates Marty's advances]] [[SpringtimeForHitler is doing the advances]]. But when Biff takes over and [[AttemptedRape tries to rape her for real]], that's when George delivers the badass quote, "Hey you, get your damn hands off her", which was originally meant as part of the play, and then [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts3lE3hNduw punches Biff out]] in a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome when he doesn't listen.

* In ''{{Film/Beethoven}}'s 2nd'', Ryce appears to be in for something she doesn't want at the hands of her boyfriend, who's been knocking back a few underage drinks, until the Great Big Dog turns up opportunely.

* In ''{{Film/Stoker}}'', India goes into the woods with her classmate Whip, and makes out with him for a bit, but then changes her mind and tries to leave. He gets violent in response, and prepares to take off his belt to rape her... not noticing India's uncle approaching him from behind. [[spoiler:India's uncle takes off his ''own'' belt, and uses it to strangle Whip to death. While India's grateful for her rescue, the whole thing has an ''incredibly'' creepy undertone when you realize that India's uncle is in love with her, and likely killed Whip not because he was violating his niece, but because he was ''jealous''. Not to mention it's never explained [[StalkerWithACrush how he even knew where India and Whip were]]...]]

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** In another episode, she gets drugged at a party by a group of cultists. One of the cultists seems to be planning this, but another stops him, since she and the other girls [[HumanSacrifice have another purpose]].
** There was also a version of this with [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Dawn]], where her date revealed that he was a vampire, and that she was in the midst of a bunch of vamps. Cue the BigDamnHeroes moment for the Scoobies.

* ''Excruciatingly'' averted in the ''Series/MadMen'' "The Mountain King"; plenty of people who ''could'' have been in a position to come to [[spoiler:Joan's]] rescue, and [[BystanderSyndrome not one of them does]]. In this case, it counts as DeliberateValuesDissonance, since in the early 1960s there was no popular consciousness of date rape. And the fact that [[spoiler:Joan is engaged to the man in question]] would probably have led to it not even having been considered an incident. No one would have done a damned thing except said "Whoops!" and closed the door.

** Poor Al becomes date rape fodder again two years later, when another cute guy tries to get it on with her in his '57 Chevrolet. (He had a trick seat in his car, which allowed it to recline; he then laid on top of her in an attempt to initiate sex, but the petite Al is able to fight him off.) Things become complicated later when Karen -- who had also had her eye on Al's now-former boyfriend -- refuses to believe Al, refusing to defend her even as rumors run rampant in school that Al was "easy" ... until Al breaks down in tears and says she wants to die. Karen then realizes that Al is telling the truth and that she has to expose Kyle as a predator (which she does quite well).

* ''Series/QuantumLeap'': Played straight, as Sam (the series' hero) leaps into the body of a woman who was raped by the local high school football hero on their date. (In a rare twist, the female victim is brought into the Imaging Chamber to testify.) The boy is acquitted... but Sam (still playing the role of the boy's victim) gets a very satisfying revenge; the boy comes over to try to rape the girl again, only this time, Sam bashes apart the kid's groin.
* ''Series/CityGuys'': In the episode "Raise the Roofies," Cassidy's date makes two attempts to slip her some rohypnol (the notorious "date rape drug"). When both attempts fail (Dawn inadvertently drank the first one and Cassidy simply declined the second), he tries to rape her by sheer physical force. She is rescued by Chris.
* ''Series/HangTime'': In "Secrets and Lies," Mary Beth is nearly mauled by a guy named Brett while in a back room at a concert at a nightclub. She manages to get away on her own (threatening to bash him with a guitar), while Brett threatens to get Deering kicked out of the tournament as Mary Beth and her friends used fake [=IDs=] (that he sold them) to get into the club. Antonio and Michael confront Brett when Mary Beth, Kristy and Julie inform them about what happened, but Mary Beth and Coach Katowinski step in before things get out of hand and have Brett arrested.

* In an episode of ''Series/OneTreeHill'', Brook and Peyton sneak into a college party. Peyton is lured into a bedroom by a guy who she's been talking about music with as he promises to show her his really cool music collection. Once inside, he locks them in and Peyton shows clear signs of being drugged. She struggles to leave and yells for help but can't be heard over the music from the party and the guy forces her onto a bed. Brooke notices that Peyton is gone and begins to look for her. Two of the guys' friends try to keep Brooke from accessing the locked room, but Brooke is able to find party goers who are willing to help and they rescue Peyton before anything can happen.

* Rachel's gag reel in ''VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift'' has Litchi and Kokonoe attempt to [[SlippingAMickey drug Ragna]] in an attempt to win his undying love. Noel shoots out Litchi's "Philtre of Unwavering Passion" while Litchi shatteres Kokonoe's candy, which contained a sleeping pill that can "knock the Black Beast out". What makes it qualify as date rape in Kokonoe's case is what she says afterwards when Noel asked what she was going to do with him; the dialogue is peppered with {{double entendre}}s that are CensoredForComedy.

%% No real life examples on rape tropes. Seriously.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' has a DoubleSubversion. Marty tries to [[InvokedTrope stage this]] so that his father from the past, George [=McFly=], can "rescue" Lorraine, Marty's mother from the past, but the plan is subverted when Lorraine [[strike:reciprocates Marty's advances]] [[SpringtimeForHitler is doing the advances]]. But when Biff takes over and [[AttemptedRape tries to rape her for real]], that's when George delivers the badass quote, "Hey you, get your damn hands off her", which was originally meant as part of the play, and then [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts3lE3hNduw punches Biff out]] in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome when he doesn't listen.

* Mildly subverted in ''SexAndTheCity'' when Charlotte is rescued (though not from attempted rape) by the 'hero' punching the attacker. Turned out he just liked punching people. When he started a fight over somebody bumping into Charlotte's chair (even after they apologised), she left.

* ''Manga/OyasumiPunpun'' has an example of the ''protagonist'' attempting this while on a date with a girl he liked. Punpun is very [[HormoneAddledTeenager hormonal]] and equally [[BrokenBird screwed]] [[{{Jerkass}} up]].

* ''Series/HangTime'': In "Secrets and Lies," Mary Beth is nearly mauled by a guy named Brett while in a back room at a concert at a nightclub. She manages to get away on her own (threatening to bash him with a guitar), while Brett threatens to get Deering kicked out of the tournament as Mary Beth and her friends used fake IDs (that he sold them) to get into the club. Antonio and Michael confront Brett when Mary Beth, Kristy and Julie inform them about what happened, but Mary Beth and Coach Katowinski step in before things get out of hand and have Brett arrested.

* [[http://community.livejournal.com/1bruce1/1289.html Happens]] [[http://community.livejournal.com/1bruce1/3207.html a lot]] in SweetValleyHigh.

->''The lady you have drugged is the daughter of one of my scientists. Allow me to introduce you to her security detail.''

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* ''{{Grease}}''.
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* ''Excruciatingly'' averted in a recent episode of ''Series/MadMen''; plenty of people who ''could'' have been in a position to come to [[spoiler:Joan's]] rescue, and [[BystanderSyndrome not one of them does]]. In this case, it counts as DeliberateValuesDissonance, since in the early 1960s there was no popular consciousness of date rape. And the fact that [[spoiler:Joan is engaged to the man in question]] would probably have led to it not even having been considered an incident. No one would have done a damned thing except said "Whoops!" and closed the door.

* Kelly Taylor in ''BeverlyHills90210'' dressed as a sexy witch (in a clingy dress with plunging neckline and high-slit skirt) for a Halloween party. A partygoer dressed as a cowboy attempts to rape her, but Donna, Brenda, and Dylan come to the rescue. Brenda [[SlutShaming tells Kelly that she shouldn't have worn the provocative dress]], but Dylan rightfully points out that as much as Kelly chose to wear the sexy dress, her attacker could have, and should have, chosen not to assault her just because she did.
* ''MrBelvedere'': A 1990 episode saw the teen-aged girl of the Owens' family (Heather) date a cute guy, who was hoping to get a sports intern job at the local TV station where Mr. Owens (BobUecker) worked. While at a Make-Out Point, the boy takes things a little too far -- the scene fades to black as he pushes her down and she screams, "NO!". Not until she confesses to Mr. Belvedere does the audience learn she was able to fight him off, though she's still shaken by the incident. Eventually, she tells her father, who promptly warns the boy to stay the hell away from his family.

* [[FanFic/NobodyDies NGE: Nobody Dies]]. When Asuka's blind date drugs her, Shinji, Hikari, and Gendo stop by their table as the date tries to run off with her – then it's revealed that ''every other patron'' at the restaurant is a Section 2 agent. Then they hand the date off to Rei.

* It happens on an episode of ''{{Dead Like Me}}'' where Mason saves a college student and the trope is lampshaded.

* ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' has a DoubleSubversion. Marty tries to [[InvokedTrope stage this]] so that his father from the past, George [=McFly=], can "rescue" Lorraine, Marty's mother from the past, but the plan is subverted when Lorraine [[strike:reciprocates Marty's advances]] [[SpringtimeForHitler is doing the advances]]. But when Biff takes over and [[AttemptedRape tries to molest her for real]], that's when George delivers the badass quote, "Hey you, get your damn hands off her", which was originally meant as part of the play, and then [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts3lE3hNduw punches Biff out]] in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome when he doesn't listen.

* Happened in the very first episode of ''MorkAndMindy''. The titular characters meet for the first time because Mindy has driven out into the woods with her date, who then drove off, taking her car when she refused to, ahem, play. Mork's spaceship lands nearby and he agrees to walk her home. The incident in the car gives us this line:

* Ashley of ''Franchise/MassEffect'' will describe how this happened to her sister if you pursue all the dialogue options. Sara, the sister, had been dating a boy for a while and requested that they "go slow." Unfortunately, after she continually rebuffed his more adventurous advances, he became forceful and decided that it had finally been long enough. What he did not know, however, was that Sara and Ashley's father was himself a Marine and had taught all his daughters to defend themselves. [[CaptainObvious So the guy got his ass kicked.]] He tried again a while later ([[WhatAnIdiot with Ashley, the combat-trained Marine, there no less]]), only to end up face-down and bleeding again and began to sob his apologies as he was being loaded into an ambulance.

* Happened to [[spoiler:Anaru]] of ''Anime/AnoHanaTheFlowerWeSawThatDay'' in episode 5, when [[spoiler:the dude she went on a blind date with tried to force her into going to a LoveHotel. Yukiatsu, of all people, saved her from being raped by her "date"]]. And later we learn that [[spoiler:the [[MaliciousSlander rumors born from that incident]] [[MadonnaWhoreComplex marked the poor girl as the local slut]] among her schoolmates and got her harshly chewed out by her mother.]]

* Arguable/Borderline example in ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}''. Read [[http://www.misfile.com/?date=2008-02-08 this strip]] and then [[http://www.misfile.com/?date=2008-02-11 the following one]] and decide for yourself. Certainly it made [[GenderBender boy turned girl Ash]] so uncomfortable she [[http://www.misfile.com/?date=2008-02-19 even claimed to be on her period]] to get out of it.

* ''City Guys'': In the episode "Raise the Roofies," Cassidy's date makes two attempts to slip her some rohypnol (the notorious "date rape drug"). When both attempts fail (Dawn inadvertently drank the first one and Cassidy simply declined the second), he tries to rape her by sheer physical force. She is rescued by Chris.