History Main / DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal

* Callisto, daughter of a king named Lycaon, was a virgin follower of Artemis, fell in with Zeus and was willingly impregnated by him. Depending on the version of the story you hear, one of the goddesses Zeus pissed off (some say Hera, for his cheating, and others Artemis, for tricking her acolyte) turned Callisto into a bear either immediately after Zeus was found out (in which case Arcas was born while his mother was a bear) or after Lycaon lured the grown Arcas to some kind of festival. In either case, Lycaon ends up turned into the first werewolf, Arcas inherits his grandfather's kingdom (renamed Arcadia for his trouble), and runs into his transformed mother while out hunting. Zeus then transforms him into a bear to keep him from killing his mom, and then throws both Arcas and Callisto into the sky by the tail, stretching the tails and turning the now-ursine mother and son into constellations. [[JustSoStory This is why Ursa Major and Ursa Minor look like bears with unusually long tails]].
** Later stories state that Zeus [[ShapeShiftersDoItForAChange took the guise of Artemis]]. Somehow she got pregnant from this, producing the hunter Arcas.

* Helen of Troy and her brothers were conceived when Zeus seduced their willing mother Leda.
** Later stories state that Zeus did this in the form of a swan. The details of the birth are not well described, but apparently it involved the babies along with their half siblings Castor and Clytemnestra hatching from eggs. Leda of course was the Queen of Sparta, and the marriage of her daughters to the Atreids Menelaos and Agamemnon gave them great legitimacy.

* To father Heracles, Zeus had sex with Alcmene [[BedTrick in the guise of her husband Amphitryon]]. Heracles legendarily founded or was an ancestor to about half the royal and noble houses of Greece.

* '''MightMakesRight''': The attention is not appreciated but the gods can treat the mortals in whatever way they please because they have OmniscientMoralityLicense or simply because they are strong enough to get away with it.

* When [[UsefulNotes/AncientEgyptianHistory Hatshepsut]] was staking her claim for King of Egypt after the untimely death of her husband and half-brother Thutmose II, she said that she was actually the son of Amun who had slept with her mother in the guise of Thutmose I (her actual father). Therefore in the context of the story, Hatshepsut's mum thought she was having sex with her husband when really it was Amun.[[note]]Or Ra, or both. The gods had been identified with each other for a long time by then, ever since the establishment of the Middle Kingdom under the Theban Eleventh Dynasty had turned Amun from a local god of Thebes to the official state god of the monarchy. As the older royal cult of Ra based in Lower Egypt was still powerful, identification of Amun with Ra was a useful tool to keep the northern priesthood happy. That being said, the most complete version of Hateshepsut's story comes from the walls of her mortuary temple at Thebes, where the god in question is explicitly Amun.[[/note]] This bit of royal propaganda supported her claim to full royal powers in her own right, rather than just being the regent for her stepson-nephew, the boy-king Thutmose III (at that point just a toddler). Interestingly, this eventually became the ''standard'' royal propaganda for Pharaohs. This meant that it was, in fact, quite possible that any woman married to a Pharaoh was hoping for this to happen, as in theory this, and not birth order, determined whom the heir was. (In reality, the throne always went to the late Pharaoh's eldest son by his Great Royal Wife--the most noble/"legitimate" of his queens--assuming such an heir existed.)

** In Creator/{{Ovid}}'s version of the myth of Perseus, Poseidon raped a virgin priestess of Athena named {{Medusa}} within the goddess' own temple. Medusa was [[DisproportionateRetribution transformed into a Gorgon by Athena]] as punishment. Poseidon wasn't punished at all. Presumably a case of MightMakesRight, seeing as Poseidon was second only to Zeus in power. However in the original story by Hesiod, Poseidon's union with Medusa (who was born a gorgon) was consensual, occurring in a beautiful meadow.

* Subverted in the sixth volume of ''Literature/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign''. Kyousuke is incapacitated for 24 hours after losing a battle, during which [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination the White Queen]] is allowed to do whatever she wants with him]]. After waking up and vaguely remembering what happened, he's horrified and nearly breaks down.

* Subverted in the sixth volume of ''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign''. Kyousuke is incapacitated for 24 hours after losing a battle, during which [[spoiler:[[EldritchAbomination the White Queen]] is allowed to do whatever she wants with him]]. After waking up and vaguely remembering what happened, he's horrified and nearly breaks down.

* Myth/AztecMythology gives us an interesting example in the story of legendary priest-king Ce Acatl Topiltzin, who is taken to be an earthly incarnation of the creator god Quetzalcoatl in most versions of the myth. Quetzalcoatl's brother and eternal rival Tezcatlipoca decided it would be fun to humiliate him, so he tricked Quetzalcoatl into thinking he was old and decrepit. Tezcatlipoca offered him a potion that would restore his youth. Little did he know, the potion of youth was actually just alcohol. Desperate, he chugged the whole thing, getting himself completely wasted. Amorous in his drunkenness, he forced himself on the closest beautiful woman he could find... and the next morning, he woke up in bed with his own sister. The twist here comes in that unlike most gods who've committed rape, he felt incredibly ashamed and horrified at his act, feeling that he had defiled not only his sister but his own self. The following day, he resigned from his position as king, built himself a bonfire and burned himself to death.

* An indirect example: Danae was locked underground by her father Acrisius of Argos, to stop her having the son that was prophesied to kill him. Zeus appeared to Danae as a shower of gold, conceiving the hero Perseus. Acrisius then put both Danae and her son [[GirlInABox in a chest]] and threw them into the sea. This didn't work; Perseus went on to become King of Mycenae, ''accidentally'' kill his grandfather, and found the royal lines of Argos and Tiryns. (Mycenae would be lost to the Atreides shortly after Perseus' reign.)

* When [[UsefulNotes/AncientEgyptianHistory Hatshepsut]] was staking her claim for King of Egypt after the untimely death of her husband and half-brother Thutmose II, she said that she was actually the son of Ra who had slept with her mother in the guise of Thutmose I (her actual father). Therefore in the context of the story, Hatshepsut's mum thought she was having sex with her husband when really it was Ra. This bit of royal propaganda supported her claim to full royal powers in her own right, rather than just being the regent for her stepson-nephew, the boy-king Thutmose III (at that point just a toddler). Interestingly, this eventually became the ''standard'' royal propaganda for Pharaohs. This meant that it was, in fact, quite possible that any woman married to a Pharaoh was hoping for this to happen, as in theory this, and not birth order, determined whom the heir was. (In reality, the throne always went to the late Pharaoh's eldest son by his Great Royal Wife--the most noble/"legitimate" of his queens--assuming such an heir existed.)

* {{Inverted}} or played with in Franchise/{{Tron}}: [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/1144855/chapters/2317686 Invasion]] (a loose adaptation of ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh''). Mercury (Program) corners Jet (User) and interrogates him, at first threatening his life, and then changing tactics. Jet sees little option but to comply with her wishes. Mercury didn't ''know'' what Jet was at the time, and mistook his energy patterns for agreement.

* In Myth/NorseMythology, Odin raped Rindr so that she would give birth to Vali, who would avenge Baldur's death at the hands of Hoder. He tried to sleep with her the normal way, but she turned him down twice, so he cast a spell on her to drive her crazy, then disguised himself as a healer woman, tied her to the bed and had his way with her. {{Averted}} however, since the other gods were horrified and had Odin banished for a decade. Living as a beggar(or possibly a prostitute) in Midgard.

* In Myth/NorseMythology, Odin raped Rindr so that she would give birth to Vali, who would avenge Baldur's death at the hands of Hoder. He tried to sleep with her the normal way, but she turned him down twice, so he cast a spell on her to drive her crazy, then disguised himself as a healer woman, tied her to the bed and had his way with her.

* Myth/NorseMythology doesn't skimp on this version either. Freyr, God of Fertility and Sexuality, got his Giantess wife Gerd by sending over a servant to threaten her loved ones until she consented. Joke's on him, though--during [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Ragnarok]], the sword he gave the servant so he could do his job turned out to be crucial, and without it, he forfeited his life. Scholar Sigurður Nordal believed it was that very sword with which Surtr will do him in.