History Main / DoubleStandardRapeSciFi

** In "The Doctor's Daughter", the Doctor's distress over having his genetic code nonconsensually stolen and altered to make him a TrulySingleParent, producing a young woman who calls him "Dad" is put down by Donna to being "Dad Shock". The story seems to agree with her and think the Doctor should be more comfortable with the idea of being forced to father a child - though it helps that Jenny is an innocent in all this.

* Alternate Olivia in ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' having sex for several weeks with Peter is [[BedTrick rape by fraud]]. No one is really okay with this except Walternate though, so it's more of a subversion. Olivia apologizes to Peter for not thinking about how it affected him, and Broyles is reluctant to let Peter and Olivia read Fauxlivia's files because of "what they've been through". But initially, everyone acts like [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale it's Olivia who's been primarily harmed in this situation]], not Peter. Instead of worrying about his son's well-being, Walter immediately pressures Peter to tell Olivia what happened - as if Peter made a knowing mistake he should confess. (Imagine making a real world rape victim talk about their ordeal with no regard to his/her own feelings.) And Olivia's complaints and [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming accusations]] even push Peter to apologize to her for what happened to him. Also, it's never called "rape", and Fauxlivia is forgiven quite easily once they have to work together (considering that seducing Peter under false pretenses was not strictly speaking necessary for her mission).

** In season 5, BigBad Mara sees an AppleOfDiscord in Duke, as he falls into a self-destructive depression after [[spoiler: Jennifer's death]], which was directly caused by his involvement with Nathan and Audrey's crusade against the Troubles. [[SexForSolace Capitalizing]] on his grief, she seduces him multiple times for the express purpose of infecting him with as many Troubles as possible, turning him into a timebomb. Because Duke turning into a walking weapon of mass destruction has more impact on the plot, Mara's actions and their impact on Duke (who is now unable to express ''any'' emotion, including grieving [[spoiler: Jennifer]] because his tears are contaminated) are never addressed.
** Mara, for her part, is also subject to this trope. She's a MisanthropeSupreme and [[spoiler: created the Troubles]], so she isn't meant to be sympathetic, but many fans thought the choice to give her an AndIMustScream backstory was a bit too far. In season 5's "Spotlight," she reveals that she's been in the background of all of her overlays for the last 500 years, forced to watch them help with the Troubles while they don't even know she exists. Which would be fine, except that the overlays do more than just help with the Troubles, they also do things like have sexual relationships; one of them even gave birth and gave that child up for adoption. All while Mara was in the background, unable to consent to the use of her body in this way. This is never addressed by the show.

* In the ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' episode "[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E15YesMen Yes Men]]", Ward is mind-controlled by the Asgardian criminal Lorelei, who [[DestructoNookie proceeds to have sex with him]]. After he is rescued, Agent May (his paramour at the time) [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale lashes out at him physically]], and the other team members discuss how men are weak for not being able to resist Lorelei's enchantment. The fact that he was kidnapped, brainwashed, and raped by a supervillain is completely glossed over, even by Ward himself. [[spoiler:Then Ward is revealed to have been TheMole for HYDRA the whole time and EvilAllAlong, which put paid to any chance this would be brought up in the future]].

** Mostly {{averted|Trope}} in the case of Liam "Kincaid" (more accurately, Liam Beckett-Sandoval). the [[LastOfHisKind Kimera Ha'Gel]] was seeking a way to reproduce, but most human women couldn't [[OutWithABang handle the experience]]. So he overpowers Ron Sandoval (a human altered by the Taelons), takes his form and overpowers Sibohan Beckett, another Taelon-altered human. Liam is conceived from the incident, but Sandoval remembers nothing of it, and Beckett had her memory wiped shortly after Liam's birth in [[LaResistance Resistance headquarters]]. ''Liam'' is fully aware he is a ChildByRape, though, and won't acknowledge his Kimera heritage any more than absolutely necessary.
** Unfortunately played straight in the form of Lili being captured by the Jaridians, and having an affair with one disguised as a human soldier before learning the truth. When next seen, she's knowingly in a relationship with him and gives birth to their daughter. UsefulNotes/StockholmSyndrome is implied to be a factor.

** Eva uses a LovePotion on Killian so she can have sex with him as much as possible in order to [[spoiler:have a baby, because she's under a spell that makes her an immortal witch only so long as she conceives a child by a warlock every generation]], yet when everything is out in the open [[spoiler: her death scene]] is rendered as a poignant moment where the audience is meant to sympathize with her - both Freya and Killian himself are visibly moved, and he shows no emotional trauma from the abuse. The indignation of the other characters seems to stem from Eva coercing Killian's love and taking him from Freya, with no mention of forced sex.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'' has "[[Recap/TheXFilesS04E20SmallPotatoes Small Potatoes]]", in which a shapeshifter has seduced five women wearing a variety of faces, resulting in the birth of babies with tails. One woman he got while looking like Luke Skywalker, while the other four women were seduced while he was wearing the faces of their husbands. Although he eventually goes away on rape charges, the episode's still a fair bit more comedic than most stories focusing on a serial rapist.

* In the ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' episode "[[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E15YesMen Yes Men]]", Ward is mind-controlled by Lorelei, who [[DestructoNookie proceeds to have sex with him]]. After he is rescued, Agent May (his paramour at the time) [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale lashes out at him physically]], and the other team members discuss how men are weak for not being able to resist Lorelei's enchantment. The fact that he was kidnapped, brainwashed, and raped by a supervillain is completely glossed over, even by Ward himself.

* In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', Mystique attempts to do this to Wolverine by shifting to look like Jean. She's on top of him and they're shedding clothes before he realizes who she truly is. Plays on AllMenArePerverts when she proceeds to turn herself into Storm and Rogue (who is effectively his teenager sidekick/surrogate daughter), suggesting one of them might be what he "really wants", something that visibly disgusts him. It's not quite so bad in the novelization, when Wolverine knows it's Mystique the entire time but chooses to play along for a while.

* ''Film/{{Wishcraft}}'': Brett's wish causes Samantha to fall in love with him and they have sex the first night after it's made. Given she only wanted to because of the wish's effect however it wasn't truly consensual. Howie does gradually realize what he did (with the wish overall, though including this) was wrong, though neither he nor the film treats it as really rape due to a magical wish affecting her mind. Sam does immediately break up with him in anger on hearing what he did, though she never says this was rape.

* In ''Film/{{Descendants}}'', Ben brushes off Mal's drugging him with a magic potion as something she did out of misguided love, and after one conversation they never mention it again (and become an OfficialCouple). Even worse, he was dating another girl when Mal drugged him. To be fair though, since this is a Disney movie there's no actual sex involved; they don't even kiss.

* ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' has Steve Trevor brought BackFromTheDead by Wonder Woman's wish, [[GrandTheftMe possessing a random guy]] to continue his relationship with her. He appears as himself only to her, and eventually the man [[spoiler:gets his body back]]. Not before Steve and Diana endanger his life and have sex, of course. The guy Steve's possessing has no idea what's going on and unable to give consent, meaning Diana is raping him (and, in a roundabout way, Steve is too). The problematic nature of Steve coming back and stealing a random man's body is never addressed by the work itself despite mundane sexual harassment being a theme. Perhaps even more confusingly, since Steve was brought back [[AWizardDidIt by a magical wish with no apparent limitations]], it's unclear why he wasn't given a new body to avoid the whole situation all together.

* {{Averted|Trope}} in ''Series/FamilyMatters'': Steve feels guilty about gaining Laura's affection through a LovePotion. Even though she tells him she's happy, even if it's not 'genuine', he pours the antidote on himself so that Laura smells him and reverts to normal, beleiving that it was AllJustADream.

** The curse was briefly reversed, which somehow caused his victims to forget what he'd done to them.

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', where Rick outright compares a LovePotion Morty had requested to a roofie. (Although, as Morty points out, it didn't stop Rick from making it in the first place, and Rick's original objection had more to do with it being a waste of his MadScientist talents than any kind of ethical problem.) Rick clarifies that he doesn't actually have a problem with doing unethical things (he does far worse in just that episode); he was just pointing out Morty doesn't have the moral high ground.

* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': The Aes Sedai Warder bond includes magic that lets the Aes Sedai compel the Warder, and it is not uncommon for Aes Sedai (especially those of the Green Ajah) to have sex with their Warders. This is never implied to be a matter for concern, though it is somewhat mitigated by the fact that Aes Sedai are only supposed to bond Warders who give informed consent and forcibly bonding someone ''is'' treated as highly unethical.

** In "Duet", a female airman ends up sharing [=McKay=]'s body by accident. After they argue a bit about who's in charge, she simply takes over after he falls asleep, takes his body for a run, then showers and sleeps naked. Later she wrests control from him to force him to kiss his girlfriend (which he'd been too shy to do), and then to kiss Dr. Beckett against the man's will. She did all this without ever asking [=McKay=]'s permission, and while ignoring his protests. Again, it's a [[BlackComedyRape comedy episode]] and we're supposed to side with the [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale woman]] during all of this, though both [=McKay=] and the therapist call the airman on it. ''Series/StargateSG1'''s main villains were a species of {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s who took over people's bodies without their consent, and it was treated as rape when two Goa'uld made their hosts have sex with each other (Apophis and Daniel's wife Sha're).

** Deconstructed in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E13DeadThings Dead Things]]" when the nerd villains "The Trio" honestly don't see the ethical implications of their plan to brainwash women into sex slaves, until the girl they victimized (Warren's ex, Katrina) spells it out for them and Warren murders her as she tries to escape. Then they try to make Buffy think ''she'' accidentally killed Katrina by using shapeshifting magic and a summoned demon who distorts her sense of time, providing the MoralEventHorizon for what had been played as {{harmless villain}}s up to that point.

** In "The Doctor's Daughter", the Doctor's distress over having his genetic code nonconsensually stolen to produce an OppositeSexClone who calls him "Dad" is put down by Donna to being "Dad Shock". The story seems to agree with her and think the Doctor should be more comfortable with the idea of being forced to father a child.

** Unfortunately played straight in the form of Lili being captured by the Jaridians, and having an affair with one disguised as a human soldier before learning the truth. When next seen, she's knowingly in a relationship with him and gives birth to their daughter. StockholmSyndrome is implied to be a factor.

* Issue #200 of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' involved such an incident, which was so infamous that it would later be dubbed "The Rape of Ms. Marvel", which involved limbo-stranded villain Marcus kidnapping her and using MindControl to create a fantasy romance world to seduce and [[{{Squick}} impregnate Carol Danvers with himself]], erase her memory and send her back with a phantom pregnancy that led to Marcus being "reborn" and {{Rapid Ag|ing}}ed to adulthood, and Carol falling in love with him and going back to Limbo with him, all of which the Avengers were cool with. It wasn't originally intended or perceived as squicky until much later, and Creator/ChrisClaremont wrote an AuthorsSavingThrow of Carol returning from Limbo and [[WhatTheHellHero calling out the Avengers for not helping her]]. These days it has been inverted to the point that the incident can't be referred to ''without'' calling it a rape or a violation. This was very much glossed over in the decade that followed.

** [[Recap/TorchwoodS1E1EverythingChanges The first episode]] sees Owen using a [[LovePotion alien love perfume]] he has taken from Torchwood's lockup to make a woman go from disgusted by him saying he just wanted her for sex to gagging for him, and when her boyfriend shows up enraged, Owen uses it again to get himself a threesome with them both. This act would by all means qualify as the legal definition of drug-facilitated sexual assault, but in the end, the only punishment Owen faces for all of this is being reprimanded for stealing from his workplace and made to hand the perfume back, while the actual sex crime he used the perfume to carry out goes completely unmentioned and is never commented on again in the show. But a few episodes later, Owen ends up repeatedly experiencing the memories of a woman who was raped decades earlier. The trauma of ''that'' experience pushes him to undergo some CharacterDevelopment.

* Issue 200 of ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' involved such an incident, which was so infamous that it would later be dubbed "The Rape of Ms. Marvel", which involved limbo-stranded villain Marcus kidnapping her and using MindControl to create a fantasy romance world to seduce and [[{{Squick}} impregnate Carol Danvers with himself]], erase her memory and send her back with a phantom pregnancy that led to Marcus being "reborn" and {{Rapid Ag|ing}}ed to adulthood, and Carol falling in love with him and going back to Limbo with him, all of which the Avengers were cool with. It wasn't originally intended or perceived as squicky until much later, and Creator/ChrisClaremont wrote an AuthorsSavingThrow of Carol returning from Limbo and [[WhatTheHellHero calling out the Avengers for not helping her]]. These days it has been inverted to the point that the incident can't be referred to ''without'' calling it a rape or a violation. This was very much glossed over in the decade that followed.
* Creator/GrantMorrison created a similar situation in their ComicBook/JeanGrey/ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}/ComicBook/EmmaFrost triangle in ''ComicBook/NewXMen'', where Emma, acting as Scott's therapist, convinces him that the best treatment for his PTSD was to have psychic sex then and there. No one, save Jean has any issue with this, (and even then, it's treated no worse than an act of seduction) and Professor X even goes so far as to ''defend'' her.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Another problematic case was during ''Brand New Day'', when Spider-Man and the Black Cat decided to have anonymous sex. This was preconditioned on the fact that thanks to the "Blind Spot", a techno-magic spell of forgetting enacted by Doctor Strange, Iron Man and Mr. Fantastic at Spidey's request, the Black Cat had forgotten that she knew Spider-Man's secret identity (which meant that her memories of more than twenty years' worth of continuity were seriously re-edited). She even made it clear that she would not have entered an affair with Spider-Man if she knew who he really was because she wanted to avoid the emotional involvement. But could this wish not to find out who she was sleeping with be considered truly consensual if one of the effects of the Blind Spot was to make people care about remembering that they once knew who Spider-Man was in his civilian identity but now no longer did?
* Played with in ''ComicBook/SheHulk'' where Starfox is tried for rape, being accused by a married woman who came onto and had sex with him while under the influence of his psychic hormones. He is also accused of doing this to She-Hulk although it turns out he didn't. Prior to this storyline, there's not much sign that he actually uses pheromones like that and [[DebateAndSwitch it was eventually resolved]] by having a reveal that ComicBook/{{Thanos}} had brain-damaged him so that he lost conscious control of his powers, but that he never consciously used his powers that way on anyone who wasn't already looking for a casual sex partner.

** When ComicBook/{{Raven}}'s powers were fully unlocked, she started subconsciously pulling [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] into [[MentalAffair shared dreams of them getting it on]], except that Dick was with Comicbook/{{Starfire}} and he'd wake up from these dreams with a CatapultNightmare. It was quasi-averted in the sense that Raven wasn't fully aware Dick didn't share her feelings and horrified when she found out what she was doing to him.

* In an issue of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', the Chameleon pretends to be Peter Parker and has sex with Peter's roommate. The writer acknowledged it was a violation but didn't consider it "rape" and the resulting backlash led the writer to hastily {{Retcon}} it into [[WordOfGod "they were just making out"]] but it still left a bad taste in the fans' mouths.
* Accusations of this has been leveled at ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan: Issue 22'', where [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/DoctorOctopus Dr. Otto Octavius]]]] in Peter Parker's body has sex with Anna Marconi. Initially he broke up with Mary Jane because continuing Peter's relationship would eventually become rape by deceit, but the author insists that's not the case now because Anna didn't know Peter before the switcheroo happened.
* ''ComicBook/{{Cable}}'' is a victim of rape by deception courtesy of the mutant shapeshifter Copycat, who was disguising herself as Domino and was sent to infiltrate X-Force by Cable's enemy Tolliver. She proceeded to fall [[InLoveWithTheMark in love with]] Cable and wanted to [[BecomingTheMask join X-Force]] for real, to [[HighHeelFaceTurn stop working for]] Tolliver and start a new life. When her true identity and allegiances are revealed, Cable is shocked and horrified, but the whole thing is quickly glossed over and swept under the rug, with Copycat escaping any real consequences of what she did or being considered villainous for it, being treated more with sympathy instead. Though a later story set in the aftermath of it shows further how much the incident troubled Cable.

* Averted in the series [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor the Submariner]]: Llyra, who previously killed Namor's wife, uses her shapeshifter abilities to have sex with the titular hero. Namor all but states that it was a rape ("There is a word for what she did to me, Susan") and goes to crush her skull with his hand, only to be stopped when she claims she's pregnant.

* Phantom Rider's treatment of [[ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}} Bobbi Morse]] in ''ComicBook/WestCoastAvengers'' was an early semi-subversion. The Rider, who was a hero originally but had gone off the deep end at that point, used a magic potion to make her think she was his lover, and kept her like that for some time. She [[HeroicBSOD did not take it well]] when the spell was broken, and killed/[[MurderByInaction did not try very hard to save]] the Rider, once she had told him how she felt about it. It was played straighter by some of her fellow Avengers, however, who found ''her'' conduct blameworthy. Most shockingly, her own ''husband'' Hawkeye (Clint Barton) took Bobbi to task for this, enraged that his wife not only broke one of the Avengers biggest rules (no killing), but also lied to him about it. It should be noted, however, that the Avengers by and large were pretty much on Mockingbird's side with this, as Tigra and Moon Knight quit in support of the resigning Bobbi, and the Wasp, Henry Pym, the Scarlet Witch and the Vision calling Hawkeye out on his insensitivity, pigheadedness and non-support of his wife. But tragically, the larger issue as portrayed in the story was the Avengers non-killing policy, and not the fact that Mockingbird had been ''repeatedly raped''.

** At the end of season 2, when [[spoiler:David uses his powers to make Syd forget their arguments and then has sex with her (i.e., doing [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale exactly the same thing as in the Willow/Tara example above]])]], she has the nerve to not only (rightly) accuse him of raping her, but to also [[spoiler: free the finally captured Shadow King in order to imprison David, and then to demand that David either be drugged to suppress his powers (and sanity) or stay forever imprisoned]].