History Main / DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal

* The ultimate fate of Medea, Jason's one-time lover, is not agreed upon, one version saying she was the only woman who successfully ''did'' say "No" to Zeus and escape. Hera would reward her for this by making her immortal.

* In ''{{Berserk}}'', Griffith undergoes a horrific transformation to become the [[SatanicArchetype godlike entity Femto]], and his very first action was to rape his former comrade Casca. Now, a few brave fans - some of which are [[DracoInLeatherPants very diehard Griffith fans]] - have tried to explain or even justify Griffith's actions, one of which falls into the OmniscientMoralityLicense rationale, since Griffith [[spoiler: subsequently used the body of Casca's demonically corrupted child as a vessel to reincarnate himself into the physical world in two years time.]] Of course, there are a LOT of holes in this theory, ranging from the very rules of causality in the ''Berserk'' mythos, to the very [[ColdBloodedTorture sadistic and humiliating degree]] of the rape itself, so it's safest to say that Griffith did what he did ForTheEvulz.

* ''ComicBook/AgeOfBronze'': As the point of the comic is "TheTrojanWar minus divine interference", several deconstructions occur:

* '''ValuesDissonance:''' Personal attention from a super-being you worship? Getting to become the mother of a god or demigod? Consent? Someone somewhere at some time might say the mortal was a rape victim but the mortal in this position would be deeply offended by the accusation. They may not have been told beforehand but would have consented anyway.

* According to some sources (Creator/{{Ovid}}, in particular), 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.
** Theseus, who defeated the Minotaur and became King of Athens, has an interesting parentage: Poseidon ravished his mother Aethra on the same night that she lay with her husband Aegeus, which in the Greek understanding gave him two fathers, one divine, and one mortal. This allowed the Athenian royals to both claim an unbroken line of succession (as Aegeus, in the legend, was part of the original Athenian royal line) and descent from Poseidon (which [[JustSoStory explained Athens' dominance of the sea lanes]]).
** In fact, Poseidon was really little better than his brother in this regard. He was just luckier, due to the fact Amphitrite didn't care about his philandering like Hera did.
** Tyro, spouse of Cretheus, was in love with the river god Enipeus. Poseidon took his form, seduced Tyro then revealed himself to her. Their children are Neleus and Pelias.

* Io had it particularly rough. She was pestered by Zeus to have sex with him until her father was fed up with it and kicked her out (because you just don't say no to Zeus, especially when he's [[SacredHospitality your guest]]), and then Zeus raped her. To keep Hera from finding out, Zeus [[BalefulPolymorph turned her into a cow]], which Hera then forced him to present to her as a gift. Hermes helped Io escape and she fled to Egypt, pursued by a fly that Hera sent to sting her. Once there she finally turned back into a human and became queen. Also, [[JustSoStory this is why women have periods]].
** Io's child by Zeus, Epaphus, became King of Egypt, and his daughter Libya was herself ravished by Poseidon; her descendants include Danaë, Semele, and Europa--all of whom would also be targeted by Zeus (so [[ParentalIncest ew]])--and several other significant figures of Greek myth.
* Europa was ravished by Zeus in the form of a beautiful white bull before [[AbductionIsLove being whisked away to Crete]]. Ouch. Some sources say he just used the bull form to seduce her and carry her to Crete (don't ask how a bull can cross the sea from Phoenicia to Crete), and then turned into a more human form to do the deed; to modern audiences, of course, this just makes it creepier. They had three sons--whether as triplets or in succession is unclear--named Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Serpedon, who were adopted by the King of Crete; Rhadamanthys became king but was kicked out by or fled from Minos, who founded the Cretan royal line. Minos' wife would eventually give birth to the Minotaur.

* Callisto, daughter of a king named Lycaon, was a virgin follower of Artemis, so in order to seduce her, Zeus [[ShapeShiftersDoItForAChange took the guise of Artemis]]. Somehow she got pregnant from this, producing the hunter Arcas. 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]].
* Antiope was raped while she slept, by Zeus in the form of a satyr. As she was carried away shortly thereafter by the hero-king Epopeus of Syceon, she gave birth to two sons: Amphion, son of Zeus, and Zeuthos, son of Epopeus, who went on to found Thebes.

** A few more obscure stories actually make this one worse, in that the potion Zeus used to knock up Semele was made from the heart of his long-dead son Zagreus. Zagreus, in turn, was conceived when Zeus seduced his own daughter Persephone by taking the form of a snake or a dragon or a [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs dragon-snake thing]], depending on the story. [[{{Squick}} Yeah...]]
*** Jossed by the fact that the Followers of Orpheus were trying to overshadow the older and vastly superior Eleusian Mysteries, in which Zagreus was the child of [[https://www.scribd.com/document/357078902/Sibylline-Hymns-Translated-and-interpreted-by-Virginia-Stewart-Avalon Persephone, by Hades]] pulling the aforementioned snake trick.

* Helen of Troy and her brother Pollux were conceived when Zeus raped their mother Leda 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.
* Zeus was an [[DepravedBisexual equal opportunity rapist]]. He abducted the beautiful prince Ganymede in the form of an eagle so that Ganymede could become his [[{{Uke}} eromenos]] and personal cup bearer. [[JustSoStory Ganymede was made into the constellation Aquarius]] so that Hera couldn't hurt him.

* Zeus's relationship with Persephone in some obscure myths is in interesting case, not least because she was the only one of Zeus's immortal daughters to have been on the receiving end of such actions. This is probably because most of Zeus's other immortal daughters were either Hera's daughters as well, and thus harder to get at without Hera knowing, or proficient enough fighters that they could have held him off, like Athena and Artemis. Persephone was impregnated at least two times by her father, at least once when she was still a young Kore on Olympus (because Zagreus was killed in the war against the Titans) and at least once after she had married Hades, using the BedTrick on her (and conceiving Melinoe, minor goddess of madness and night terrors, in the process). And Persephone was the one who was punished for Zeus's philandering, forced to watch Zagreus torn apart the once and smacked around by either Zeus or Hades (the pronouns make that bit unclear) the other time.

** The Followers of Orpheus were trying to overshadow the older and vastly superior Eleusian Mysteries, so they rewrote the stories, the changing of the myths is noticeable due to the large amount of ParentalIncest that occurs in them. Several cases in point have Nyx be raped by her father Phanes, Rhea be raped and impregnated by Zeus, resulting in Persephone's birth (Apparently Demeter and Rhea were the same deity to the Orphics) and Persephone bearing Zagreus. [[https://www.scribd.com/document/357078902/Sibylline-Hymns-Translated-and-interpreted-by-Virginia-Stewart-Avalon But the Sibylline Oracles have two hymns reffering to Melinoe being the daughter of Hades and Persephone.]]

* OlderThanDirt: As king, [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]] (who was 'two thirds' a god) made it a rule that [[DroitDuSeigneur all women who were about to get married had to have sex with him first]]. This pissed off his subjects, and the gods sent Enkidu to wrestle Gilgamesh and give him an outlet for his pent up energy (and yes, we do realize that [[HoYay can be taken in more ways than one]], which was in the original myth too).

* OlderThanDirt: As king, [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]] (who was 'two thirds' a god) made it a rule that [[DroitDuSeigneur all women who were about to get married had to have sex with him first]]. This pissed off his subjects, and the gods sent Enkidu to wrestle Gilgamesh and give him an outlet for his pent up energy (and yes, we do realize that [[HoYay can be taken more ways than one]], which was in the original myth too).

* Despite being {{Gender Flip}}ped, the story of a drunken Quetzalcoatl (better known in series as Lucoa) forcing herself on her sister (see below for full details) is kept completely intact in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid''

* The story of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}' birth from Literature/TheFourGospels is sometimes accused of being this, but ultimately [[AvertedTrope averts]], as Mary agrees to give birth to Christ in the Book of Luke, which records the ArchangelGabriel telling Mary she is going to conceive and bear a son, and Mary is happy about this, saying, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word."[[note]]Although Mary was likely fairly young at the time of conception, [[ValuesDissonance and hence would likely not be legally allowed to decide such things for herself in our time]], there was no such legal age restriction on the books in her time. Remember, back in BibleTimes, there ''was'' no concept of [[SocietyMarchesOn "adolescence" as we have it today]]; you were either a child or an adult, and the delineation was mostly made along lines of ''physical'' maturity (e.g. when a girl had her first period or a boy had his first wet dream). Then too, God is not indicated to have had ''sex'' with Mary in any physical sense of the word, [[MysticalPregnancy just miraculously placed Jesus in her womb to grow]], which was to make a point of His divinity that it could make a virgin give birth. (This was also back before sperm donation became a commonly known practice.) Moreover, compare His waiting for her acceptance (explicitly stated in Luke 1:38) before actually making her pregnant with her society's expectation that she was to be little more than [[BabyFactory a passive vessel for childbearing to her husband]] whether that was what ''she'' wanted or not, and it's downright FairForItsDay.[[/note]][[note]]It [[RashomonStyle still leaves]] Matthew's account where there was no explicit consent given, and the Gospels of Mark and John, which do not comment on conception and birth of Jesus at all.[[/note]]

* Europa was ravished by Zeus in the form of a beautiful white bull before [[AbductionIsLove being whisked away to Crete]]. Ouch. Some sources say he just used the bull form to seduce her and carry her to Crete (don't ask how a bull can cross the sea from Phoenicia to Crete), and then turned into a more human form to do the deed; to modern audiences, of course, this just makes it creepier. They had three sons--whether as triplets or in succession is unclear--named Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Serpedon, who were adopted by the King of Crete; Rhadamanthys became king but was kicked out by or fled from Minos, who founded the Cretan royal line. Minos, whose wife would eventually give birth to the Minotaur.

* The story of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}' birth from Literature/TheFourGospels is sometimes accused of being this, but ultimately [[AvertedTrope averts]], as Mary agrees to give birth to Christ. The Book of Luke records the ArchangelGabriel telling Mary she is going to conceive and bear a son, and Mary is happy about this, saying, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word."[[note]]Although Mary was likely fairly young at the time of conception, [[ValuesDissonance and hence would likely not be legally allowed to decide such things for herself in our time]], there was no such legal age restriction on the books in her time. Remember, back in BibleTimes, there ''was'' no concept of [[SocietyMarchesOn "adolescence" as we have it today]]; you were either a child or an adult, and the delineation was mostly made along lines of ''physical'' maturity (e.g. when a girl had her first period or a boy had his first wet dream). Then too, God is not indicated to have had ''sex'' with Mary in any physical sense of the word, [[MysticalPregnancy just miraculously placed Jesus in her womb to grow]], which was to make a point of His divinity that it could make a virgin give birth. (This was also back before sperm donation became a commonly known practice.) Moreover, compare His waiting for her acceptance (explicitly stated in Luke 1:38) before actually making her pregnant with her society's expectation that she was to be little more than [[BabyFactory a passive vessel for childbearing to her husband]] whether that was what ''she'' wanted or not, and it's downright FairForItsDay.[[/note]]

* During Creator/GeorgePerez's run on ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'', Ares managed to focus Zeus' attentions on Wonder Woman, still a naive young woman. Zeus put [[https://multiframe.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/screen-shot-2015-04-03-at-1-56-37-pm.png rather direct moves on Wonder Woman]], and royally pissed him off when she refused harshly, and attempted to rape her -- in front of her mother Hippolyta no less.

** The Followers of Orpheus were trying to overshadow the older and vastly superior Eleusian Mysteries, so they rewrote the stories, the changing of the myths is noticeable due to the large amount of ParentalIncest that occurs in them. Several cases in point has Nyx be raped by her father Phanes, Rhea be raped and impregnated by Zeus, resulting in Persephone's birth (Apparently Demeter and Rhea were the same deity to the Orphics) and Persephone bearing Zagreus. [[https://www.scribd.com/document/357078902/Sibylline-Hymns-Translated-and-interpreted-by-Virginia-Stewart-Avalon But the Sibylline Oracles have two hymns reffering to Melinoe being the daughter of Hades and Persephone.]]

* Semele, mother of Dionysus, was said to have been fed a potion by Zeus that impregnated her with a divine child. Shortly after the impregnation Semele was [[ItMakesSenseInContext incinerated]]. Zeus took Dionysus, sewed him into his thigh[[note]]Or possibly his scrotum. "Thigh" was a common euphemism for "ballsack" in the Eastern Mediterranean; Literature/TheBible uses it, too.[[/note]] and delivered him on term.

* Despite being [[GenderFlip gender flipped]] the story of a drunken Quetzalcoatl (better known in series as Lucoa) forcing herself on her sister (see below for full details) is kept completely intact in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid''

* During Creator/GeorgePerez's run on ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'', Ares managed to focus Zeus' attentions on Wonder Woman, still a naive young woman. Zeus put rather direct moves on Wonder Woman, and royally pissed him off when she refused harshly.

* According to the Tupi people of the Amazon area of present day Brazil, the sun was outraged when early human society was dominated by women. It caused sap from the curura (or puruman) tree to spray on the breast of a virgin named Ceucy, impregnating her with Jurapari (or Jurupari). He declared war on women and tore down the matriarchy. After his victory, Jurapari set up feasts in which the secrets of men�s rule were passed down through the generations. Any women attending were put to death, Ceucy being their first victim. In some versions of the legend, one day Jurupari will find a woman worthy of him and from that day forward, the sexes will be equal.
** In other South American regions, Jurupari is the name of a man-eating spirit of the palm tree. It�s unclear how the two myths relate.

* The story of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}' birth from Literature/TheFourGospels is sometimes accused of being this, but ultimately [[AvertedTrope averts]], as Mary agrees to guve birth to Christ. The Book of Luke records the ArchangelGabriel telling Mary she is going to conceive and bear a son, and Mary is happy about this, saying, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word."[[note]]Although Mary was likely fairly young at the time of conception, [[ValuesDissonance and hence would likely not be legally allowed to decide such things for herself in our time]], there was no such legal age restriction on the books in her time. Remember, back in BibleTimes, there ''was'' no concept of [[SocietyMarchesOn "adolescence" as we have it today]]; you were either a child or an adult, and the delineation was mostly made along lines of ''physical'' maturity (e.g. when a girl had her first period or a boy had his first wet dream). Then too, God is not indicated to have had ''sex'' with Mary in any physical sense of the word, [[MysticalPregnancy just miraculously placed Jesus in her womb to grow]], which was to make a point of His divinity that it could make a virgin give birth. (This was also back before sperm donation became a commonly known practice.) Moreover, compare His waiting for her acceptance (explicitly stated in Luke 1:38) before actually making her pregnant with her society's expectation that she was to be little more than [[BabyFactory a passive vessel for childbearing to her husband]] whether that was what ''she'' wanted or not, and it's downright FairForItsDay.[[/note]]

* In some versions of the myth, Dionysus fell in love with Ariadne and forced Theseus, Ariadne�s lover, to abandon her on Naxos, where he picked her up and made her his wife. Ariadne's own feelings on the whole matter are never discussed, but Theseus was so devastated he forgot to change the sail on his ship from black to white. This caused his father's suicide, since the black sail was supposed to mean Theseus was killed by the Minoatur.

* Europa was ravished by Zeus in the form of a beautiful white bull before [[AbductionIsLove being whisked away to Crete]]. Ouch. Some sources say he just used the bull form to seduce her and carry her to Crete (don't ask how a bull can cross the sea from Phoenicia to Crete), and then turned into a more human form to do the deed; to modern audiences, of course, this just makes it creepier. They had three sons--whether as triplets or in succession is unclear--named Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Serpedon, who were adopted by the King of Crete; Rhadamanthys became king but was kicked out by or fled from Minos, who founded the Cretan royal line.

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** The Followers of Orpheus were trying to overshadow the older and vastly superior Eleusian Mysteries, so they rewrote the stories, the changing of the myths is noticeable due to the large amount of [[ParentalIncest]] that occurs in them. Several cases in point has Nyx be raped by her father Phanes, Rhea be raped and impregnated by Zeus, resulting in Persephone's birth (Apparently Demeter and Rhea were the same deity to the Orphics) and Persephone bearing Zagreus. [[https://www.scribd.com/document/357078902/Sibylline-Hymns-Translated-and-interpreted-by-Virginia-Stewart-Avalon But the Sibylline Oracles have two hymns reffering to Melinoe being the daughter of Hades and Persephone.]]

* The story of Jesus' birth from Literature/TheFourGospels is sometimes accused of being this, but ultimately averts this by Mary agreeing to it. The Book of Luke talks about a scene where an angel ([[ArchangelGabriel St. Gabriel the Archangel]]) tells Mary she is going to conceive and bear a son, and Mary is happy about this, saying, "Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word."[[note]]Although Mary was likely fairly young at the time of conception, [[ValuesDissonance and hence would likely not be legally allowed to decide such things for herself in our time]], there was no such legal age restriction on the books in her time. Remember, back in BibleTimes, there ''was'' no concept of [[SocietyMarchesOn "adolescence" as we have it today]]; you were either a child or an adult, and the delineation was mostly made along lines of ''physical'' maturity (e.g. when a girl had her first period or a boy had his first wet dream). Then too, God is not indicated to have had ''sex'' with Mary in any physical sense of the word, [[MysticalPregnancy just miraculously placed Jesus in her womb to grow]], which was to make a point of His divinity that it could make a virgin give birth. (This was also back before sperm donation became a commonly known practice.) Moreover, compare His waiting for her acceptance (explicitly stated in Luke 1:38) before actually making her pregnant with her society's expectation that she was to be little more than [[BabyFactory a passive vessel for childbearing to her husband]] whether that was what ''she'' wanted or not, and it's downright FairForItsDay.[[/note]]

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** Io's child by Zeus, Epaphus, became King of Egypt, and his daughter Libya was herself ravished by Poseidon; her descendants include Danaë, Semele, and Europa--all of whom would also be targeted by Zeus (so [[ParentalIncest ew]])--and several other significant figures of Greek myth.

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* In the ''ComicBook/XMen'' CrackFic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10081442/4/Shuffle-or-Boogie Shuffle or Boogie]]'', it's revealed that the Phoenix Force possessed Jean Grey's body so it could sleep with Scott. Of the several people present, only Jean herself objects to this [[note]]and Scott never finds out about it[[/note]].

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* In some versions of the myth, Dionysus fell in love with Ariadne and forced Theseus, Ariadne’s lover, to abandon her on Naxos, where he picked her up and made her his wife. Ariadne's own feelings on the whole matter are never discussed, but Theseus was so devastated he forgot to change the sail on his ship from black to white. This caused his father's suicide, since the black sail was supposed to mean Theseus was killed by the Minoatur.
* Calypso keeps Odysseus as her lover for seven years, despite his clear desire to return to his wife in Ithaca. Ultimately subverted, when Zeus intervenes and forces Calypso to release her captive.

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* Possibly happens in the play ''Theatre/AngelsInAmerica''. It [[OrWasItADream may or may not be a dream or vision]] when the Angel appears before Prior, but he claims this is what she did to him, not to mention that she [[OurAngelsAreDifferent had eight vaginas]]. He seems rather blasé when talking about it, especially given he's in love with someone else and gay, but then, the hell he's put through in the first act is most likely much worse.

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* According to the Tupi people of the Amazon area of present day Brazil, the sun was outraged when early human society was dominated by women. It caused sap from the curura (or puruman) tree to spray on the breast of a virgin named Ceucy, impregnating her with Jurapari (or Jurupari). He declared war on women and tore down the matriarchy. After his victory, Jurapari set up feasts in which the secrets of men’s rule were passed down through the generations. Any women attending were put to death, Ceucy being their first victim. In some versions of the legend, one day Jurupari will find a woman worthy of him and from that day forward, the sexes will be equal.
** In other South American regions, Jurupari is the name of a man-eating spirit of the palm tree. It’s unclear how the two myths relate.

* Myth/NorseMythology doesn't skimp on this version either. Freyr, God of Fertility and Sexuality, got his Giantess wife Gerth 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. Schoolar Sigurður Nordal believed it was that very sword which Surtr will do him in with.

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