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23->'''Captain Fancey:''' You're a comely wench. There's nothing to stop me forcing my attentions on you.\
24'''Harriet:''' Oh, promises, promises!\
25'''Captain Fancey:''' Whoa! Oh, get off! She's incorrigible!
26-->-- ''Film/CarryOnDick''
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28Someone is about to be {{rape|AsDrama}}d, but [[JustInTime at the last minute]], [[AssholeVictim the rapist is foiled violently]]. This can happen in one of two ways. If the victim is particularly tough, she (or more rarely he) fights the rapist off themself. Alternatively, they will be rescued by someone else. Depending on who does the rescuing, this can fuel BodyguardCrush or start a RescueRomance.
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30JustForFun/NotToBeConfusedWith NearRapeExperience, where the would-be rapist stops of their own free will. Distinct from DateRapeAverted in that there is no date, and the rapist must, by necessity, be stopped violently -- no amount of yelling and slapping is going to work as a deterrent.
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32If the victim requires no time or effort to move past the assault before engaging in sex or romance with their love interest, they GotOverRapeInstantly.
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34It is not unknown for the would-be rapist to [[EvilCannotComprehendGood offer a rescuer a chance to join in]] (and then be shocked when it makes him/her angrier).
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36Popular in FanFiction, especially for the aforementioned BodyguardCrush and RescueRomance. Can result in BigDamnHeroes since RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil.
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38As with all SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes, '''Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease''' -- and Administrivia/NoVideoExamplesPlease
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42[[index]]
43* AttemptedRape/AnimeAndManga
44* AttemptedRape/FanWorks
45* AttemptedRape/{{Film}}
46* AttemptedRape/{{Literature}}
47* AttemptedRape/LiveActionTV
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50!!Work subpages:
51[[index]]
52* ''AttemptedRape/RevengeFilms''
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55!!Other examples:
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58[[folder:Audio Plays]]
59* In chapter 20 of ''AudioPlay/WereAlive'', after taking Lizzy captive, Tardust tries to rape her, only to be stopped by a very angry Scratch who is pissed because he's late in meeting up with the rest of the Mallers. It's only after Lizzy starts [[MorningSickness throwing up]] that Scratch tells Tardust that she's "off limits."
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62[[folder:Comic Books]]
63* In ''ComicBook/{{Alena}}'', a guy tries to rape Alena in the locker room before being stopped by Josefin. In the film, it's another girl who tries it as a result of the setting being an all-girls institution.
64* In ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'', the super-heroine Portia experiences this in the middle of a fight when she loses her powers. [[spoiler:Rescued by the Ghoul, she spends the rest of the book coping with the indignity of needing to be saved.]]
65* One of the first crimes Batman deals with once he comes back in both ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' and [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns the animated version]] is this, saving a woman from a man who'd just grabbed her.
66* Issue 2 of ''ComicBook/FrankMillersRoboCop'' sees a guy threatening to rape a teenaged hooker after she rejects him. He doesn't do much more than take out a knife and threaten her when Murphy does a drive-by kneecapping of the punk.
67* ''ComicBook/TheGreatPowerOfChninkel'': A trio of kolds try to rape G'wel when she is a slave for speaking up before they're stopped by J'On.
68* In ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'', it is strongly implied that Squee would have been molested by a man who led him into an alley, before Johnny showed up and [[AxCrazy smashes the pedophiles face in with a pipe, cuts his hand off and rips his brain out]]. Johnny [[EvenEvilHasStandards does not like child molesters, nor rapists in general]].
69* In ''ComicBook/TheMetabarons'', the Endoguard were fed up with the Metabarons being better than them. When they found out that Aghora -- the Metabaron of the time -- is a woman, they try to rape her. Besides being the [[WorldsBestWarrior greatest warrior in the universe]], she also has a very loyal mutant spider-wolf. Her pet ended up eating a couple of Endoguards before the rest retreated.
70* ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'':
71** Castle comes across a woman about to be raped by a group of thugs in an alley. He doesn't like that.
72** In the ''[[ComicBook/ThePunisherBorn Born]]'' miniseries, this is combined with MercyKill when Frank shoots a female Viet Cong sniper in the head when a soldier tries to rape her.
73%%* PlayedForLaughs in a strip by Creator/{{Quino}}, slightly {{NSFW}}.%%Administrivia/ZeroContentExample
74* In ''ComicBook/RedRobin'', the celibate Tim Drake is nearly raped by Ra's al Ghul's sister after he caught the siblings' attention while searching for Bruce. Luckily Tim had kept ''his'' sister [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cass]] involved with his plans and she saved him just in time.
75* In ''Return To Wonderland'', Calie is fed drugged tea by the Mad Hatter. Just as the sick bastard is about to rape her, she revives and smashes his head with a vase, then breaks off a table leg and proceeds to kick the everloving crap out of him.
76* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'':
77** Ariana almost gets raped by a classmate after she agreed to go to a movie with him and a couple of other classmates and ended up in the car alone with him. Luckily, she was able to whack him in the face with a soda and flee the car, but the experience understandably traumatized her.
78** Stephanie tells Tim about a near-rape experience at the hands of one of her father's friends back when she was in elementary school that she escaped by fleeing her parent's home after learning about her father's supposed death.
79* In ''ComicBook/RogueTrooper'', when Friday is on the way to Highsight, he comes across a combat mechanic from the opposing side who is about to be gangraped by three grunts. Gaia manages to fend one off, but then Friday shoots the other two.
80* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', this happens to Karolina thanks to some DeliberateValuesDissonance while the team is temporarily sent to New York in the 1900s. She goes out for a walk during the night, and a man figures she's a prostitute (by his logic, that's the only reason a woman would be out alone at that time of night). When Karolina makes it clear she's not interested in sex, he gets angry and drags her into an alley. One panel later, he's sent flying across the street.
81-->'''Karolina:''' Man. History just lost one buff.
82* In the ''A Doll's House'' storyline of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', Rose Walker is on the verge of being raped (and probably murdered) by a SerialKiller when she calls on Dream to save her. Dream's retribution, while not physically violent, results in sending the would-be rapist into a dream state with no indications that he will ever wake again (in fact, following the allusion in the dream itself, it's heavily implied that he may [[YouAreAlreadyDead already be dead]]).
83* In the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Fury's origin story (in ''ComicBook/SecretOrigins'' volume 2 #12, 1987), the Nazi soldiers that Helena Kosmatos encounters as Fury grab her and attempt to rape her when her superhuman strength kicks in and her being possessed by the spirit of Tisiphone the Blood Avenger puts an end to her assailants.
84* [[spoiler:Miss Martian]] from ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' was almost made into having sex with a random guy when her SuperpoweredEvilSide took over. Thankfully, she gained control quickly, almost killing the guy.
85* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates3'': Pyro suggests to Mastermind that they rape Valkyrie while she's unconscious. Before they can get further than Mastermind [[LecherousLicking licking her face]], she regains consciousness, [[OffWithHisHead beheads Mastermind]] and [[AnArmAndALeg cuts off Pyro's hands]].
86* ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'': After a few rapes in a park, Vampirella goes out on patrol. One almost felt sorry for the rapist... almost. The case where Mad God Chaos wants to mate with her to get some eldritch offspring may or may not count (he probably wasn't sexually interested in her) but for poor Vampi it hardly made a difference. (Luckily some female cultist who wanted that honor for herself freed her, with expectable results.)
87** In one of the various origins of Vampirella, the Earth astronauts who arrived on Drakulon attempted to rape Vampi after first killing her lover Tristan. She prevents it by biting her first attacker in the neck and draining his blood.
88* ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'': When Holly is captured by The Saviors, she is nearly raped by David while she's restrained. However, Negan walks in on them in this attempt and is [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusted]], reminding David that they ''[[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil never]]'' rape. He kills David in front of Holly right there as punishment for breaking this rule.
89* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'':
90** The Comedian attempts to rape Silk Spectre after a team meeting, only to get the crap beaten out of him by Hooded Justice.
91** Rorschach also happens upon a mugging/rape/both in progress.
92--->'''Rorshach:''' Sometimes the night is generous to me.
93* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
94** Storm was nearly raped as a child by a man from whom she accepted a ride but killed him with a knife.
95** Psylocke once faced an attempted rape by an alternate universe version of [[BrotherSisterIncest her brother]], ComicBook/CaptainBritain. Fortunately for her, she discovered her previously minimal PsychicPowers were considerably more formidable than she believed at that point. Unfortunately for her brother, who was trapped in the alternate universe his counterpart came from, he too faced this at the hands of villainess Sat-Yr-9, just without any ability to fight them off, adding to his growing list of [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale never-mentioned-after rape experiences]].
96** In her first appearance in ''ComicBook/NewXMenAcademyX'', the mutant Dust [[spoiler:is stuck in dust form after killing a group of men; Fantomex explains that the men tried to remove her burqa, presumably in an attempt to rape her]].
97** Occurs near the end of Creator/JossWhedon's run of ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' to Agent Brand. [[spoiler:Some of the Breakworld soldiers threaten to gang-rape her, whereupon she kills them with her heretofore-only-barely-hinted-at alien superpowers.]]
98* ''ComicBook/XWingRogueSquadron'': As shown in #25, this is the reason why Soontir Fel went to the Imperial Naval Academy and became an AcePilot. Back when he was a FarmBoy, he very violently stopped a management's kid from raping someone, and was subsequently blackmailed into going to the academy so that he would not be there to testify at the trial. Much later, the management's kid kidnapped Fel's nephew and was shot by Fel's brother.
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102* In the old ''ComicStrip/FlashGordon'' comic strip, Dale Arden is frequently attacked by lecherous bad guys with obvious intentions, but Flash comes to her rescue every time, punching the villains' lights out in the process (only Vultan going down after more than one punch).
103* ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'': When Elizabeth is almost raped by her co-worker, Howard Bunt. Anthony intervenes, then infamously uses the incident to try rekindling their relationship; rather than taking her to report the crime, he encourages her to stay silent, instead taking her to the park so he can vent about how miserable he is in his marriage. Especially how upset he is that his wife expects him to actually ''keep his promises'' to her, begging Elizabeth to "wait for me." Not to mention the implication that Lynn Johnston was playing this trope as RapePortrayedAsRedemption.
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107* A Soviet-era [[RussianHumour Russian joke]] about [[UsefulNotes/TsaristRussia Imperial-era]] Hussar Lt. Rzhevsky sets this up, and then averts this:
108-->'''Rzhevsky:''' Yesterday, I saved a lady from a rape...\
109'''Party guest:''' Oh, it's so interesting, Lieutenant, do tell how you did it!\
110'''Rzhevsky:''' Well, [[TheCasanova I just persuaded her]]...
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114* ''Manhwa/HesDedicatedToRoses'': This happens once to Mi-Mi. [[spoiler: Later she convinces her delinquent boyfriend Hak-Yoon to kidnap her maid I-Da and her friends so they can gangrape I-Da and videotape it as blackmail. Neither gets away with it: Hak-Yoon is sent to jail, and Mi-Mi is soon subjected to an HumiliationConga.]]
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118* In the Music/InsaneClownPosse song "Under the Moon", the narrator is sent to prison after killing a guy with his father's .45 for trying to rape the unnamed love interest of the song.
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121[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]
122* Myth/ClassicalMythology:
123** A son of Poseidon named Alirrothios tried to rape a daughter of Ares named Alkippe; Ares killed him, and was subsequently put on trial by the other gods at Athens' Areopagus (hence its name). Ares was acquitted.
124** ''Many'' women in the Greek myths managed to escape their divine attackers in transformation: Daphne into a laurel, from Apollo, and Cornix into a crow, from Poseidon, for instance.
125** [[ActionGirl Atalanta]] was once assaulted by two Centaurs named Hylaeus and Rhoecus who wanted to rape her. [[CurbStompBattle This didn't end well for the Centaurs]]. In some versions, Atalanta killed them herself. In other versions, Meleager rescued her by killing them.
126** Two giant sons of Poseidon named Otos and Ephialtes planned to rape Artemis; she led them to an island and then arranged for [[MutualKill each to accidentally kill the other]].
127** Heracles rescued Hera from being raped by the giant Porphyrion. Out of gratitude, Hera dropped her vendetta against Heracles and befriended him.
128** A Centaur named Nessus volunteered to help carry Heracles' wife Deianira across a river, but once they were on the other side, he tried to rape her, [[TooDumbToLive with Heracles just on the other side of the river]]. Heracles killed him with [[PoisonedWeapons an arrow soaked in Hydra blood]]. Nessus got the last laugh, as when he was dying, he managed to fool Deianira into thinking his blood was a love potion, but it was just his ordinary blood tainted with the Hydra blood. She eventually anointed Heracles' shirt with the blood, and when he put it on, the poison infected him and he committed suicide to be free from the pain.
129** Priapus, a minor fertility god with a disproportionately large...[[BiggerIsBetterInBed well, y'know]], once tried to rape Hestia, the goddess of the hearth and Olympians' TeamMom, while she was asleep at a party. His attempt was thwarted when a braying donkey woke Hestia up, prompting her to scream upon seeing Priapus looming over her. Then, ''every single Olympian god in attendance'' rushed to Hestia's aid, ready to kick Priapus' ass. Wisely, Priapus opted to run off rather than face their wrath.
130** Hermes intended to rape Princess Apemosyne, but she ran away and despite Hermes specializing in SuperSpeed and flight, could not catch up to her. Unfortunately, he tried again later by setting a trap. He spread freshly skinned hides along her path when she went to a spring and she slipped on them, allowing him to catch and rape her.
131* Joseph of ''Literature/TheBible'' was nearly raped by his employer Potiphar's wife, only managing to slip away by leaving her holding his coat. To add insult to injury, she then accused him of trying to rape her. Joseph is thrown into prison for this, and only gets out after he correctly interprets the Pharoah's dream.
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134[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
135* Wrestling/ColtCabana as a {{heel}} once attempted to rape Nadia Nyce in the ring to taunt then injured baby {{face}} Wrestling/CMPunk, who couldn't do anything to stop him. Of course this was in [[GarbageWrestler Ian Rotten]]'s Wrestling/{{ECW}} rip-off promotion IWA: Mid-South.
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139* In ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers'', Calchas' ColdBloodedTorture of Shakila was seconds away from ending in rape when Dr. Shelton intervened.
140* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', [[TheLadette Ax]] almost ends up raped twice by her friend [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Refan]] when his [[SuperpoweredEvilSide demonic side]] takes over. The first time she deals with Refan herself by using a GroinAttack, and the second time [[LadyOfBlackMagic Shyralis]] saves her. She gets assaulted a third time, this time by her comrade, Sultan [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Khalid]], who is influenced by the demoness Lust, but manages to stop Khalid in time.
141* In ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' version 1, Johnny Lamika ambushes and tries to rape Adam Dodd. However, before things can get too far, Adam manages to bring out his taser and fend Lamika off, before proceeding to beat him to death.
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145* ''Theatre/BeMoreChill'' features a rare example of the male protagonist being on the receiving end of this trope. At Jake's Halloween party, [[AlphaBitch Chloe]] attempts to seduce him, despite (and indeed [[GreenEyedMonster because of]]) him being involved with her best friend, Brooke. However, Chloe is drunk while this happens, thus unable to fully consent either, so most of the blame falls on Jeremy's SQUIP, who is actively preventing him from leaving. The situation doesn't escalate due to the SQUIP's prompt [[AIGettingHigh incapacitation]] and Jake breaking into the room while yelling that he's going to kill Jeremy for (presumably) having sex with his ex-girlfriend on his parents' bed.
146* In ''Theatre/TheLionKing'', the portion of the song "The Madness of King Scar" where Scar tries to seduce Nala. The scene is first played humorously, then then [[MoodWhiplash abruptly switches]] to this with Nala screaming, "Get away from me!" and finally scratching him across the face with her claws to get him to stop.
147* In ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'', Scarpia tries to rape the heroine after forcing her to accept the original ScarpiaUltimatum. She explains to him why that was not a good idea, which involves taking a very long, very sharp knife and stabbing him to death. "Il bascia di Tosca!" (That's how Tosca kisses!)
148* In ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', Anita is roughed up and nearly gang-raped by the Jets when she tries to deliver a message from Maria to Tony. This drives her to lie to them that Chino killed Maria, setting up the final tragedy of the play.
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152* In the 1st book of ''Sagas of the Demonspawn'' by J.H. Brennan of ''Literature/GrailQuest'' fame. Your BarbarianHero, Fire*Wolf, is being held in a pen of slaves. The vile slaver Baj comes into the pen to have some fun and chooses the beautiful Jaen to drag to his yurt. Fire*Wolf can choose to intervene and if he does not only does his fighting ability improve a bit, the girl's mother gives you a valuable healing artifact in gratitude and Jaen later has sex with him. If you don't stop it, Fire*Wolf feels horribly guilty and all the prisoners can hear Jaen's screaming as Baj rapes her - Fire*Wolf promises to kill Baj for what he's done.
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156* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'':
157** In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI'', Altair can save women in the streets who are being harassed by gangs of armed thugs who are threatening and groping them. Though it's never exactly stated what they intended to do, the rescued citizens indicate just what they believe the thugs were planning. If you bother listening to the guards chatter, they are accusing the women of stealing from someone in front of them. Whether that's an excuse or not is not known.
158** In [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII the sequel]], when Vieri de Pazzi ambushes Ezio and his family outside Monterigionni, he says that "I have ''such things'' planned for your mother and sister!" He doesn't outright say it, but its very clear what he's going to do. Fortunately, Ezio quickly introduces Vieri's goons to his hidden blade, and then [[BigDamnHeroes Uncle Mario crashes the party.]]
159*** If it wasn't outright clear in the second game, ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' makes it evident that Vieri would have done such a thing, as during a flashback to Ezio's pre-Assassin life, he tries to rape Cristina Vespucci when she returns home, after having rejected his advances so often. Luckily, Ezio comes along and sends him running, after giving him a nice beating.
160* ''[[Franchise/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon DanMachi]] VideoGame/MemoriaFreese'': Hitachi Chigusa finds herself on the receiving end of one from a group of goblins soon after she and her friend Kashima Ouka wind up in ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'''s world during the crossover campaign ''Dungeon and Goblins''. Fortunately, Ouka was able to cut them down before they could do much damage to her clothes. Ouka also saves Amid Teasanare, Noble Fencer, and Sword Maiden from this at the hands of another group as well.
161* ''Franchise/DragonAge'':
162** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' gives you two different ways to stop this at the hands of Bann Vaughan Kendalls and his men in the City Elf origin: Breaking into the castle as a male in order to save the kidnapped women or grabbing a weapon from a guard and start gutting them as a female. [[spoiler: Not so "attempted" for your best friend Shianni]].
163** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'''s "Dissent" quest, you're out to stop Ser Alrik from using [[MindRape the Rite of Tranquility]] on a young runaway female mage with which he intends to use as a potential SexSlave. In the quest "Who Needs Rescuing", a young girl was protected from a group of would-be gang rapists by Feynriel, who uses his Fade powers to [[MindRape kill her assailants while they were still awake]].
164* In ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR 2: Project Origin]]'', the plot indicates that [[spoiler:Alma is trying to "consume" Becket whenever she attacks him hand-to-hand, because of the psychic signal he emits]]. In reality, though, [[spoiler:Alma was trying to ''rape'' him, as shown in the final cutscene after she apparently succeeds, and is pregnant with Becket's child]].
165* ''VideoGame/{{Gingiva}}'' has a number of monsters who will ask for your hand in marriage. If you refuse, they will shout things like "Strip now!" before initiating combat with you.
166* In ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'', the [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent homunculous Riccardo]] wants to rape and impregnate his "niece" Fiona Belli. He's too scared of her dog friend Hewie to fight her until he's too desperate and has to try. But if he should successfully assassinate Hewie in a pivotal moment, he'll go after Fiona and succeed...
167* ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'': Towards the end of the game, [[spoiler:David]] tries to force himself on Ellie and gets a fatal case of machete in the face for his troubles. Even earlier than that, it's made clear he's initially interested in Ellie for physically intimate reasons, which is the first time his AffablyEvil façade cracks before a full out VillainousBreakdown.
168* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'': During the raid on his hometown of Hamel in his backstory, Joshua's sister was pushed down by Jeagers and died, before the child Joshua ended up shooting the assailant dead. The whole ordeal left the young boy mentally shattered despite Loewe's care, and vulnerable to indoctrination into a shady organization. Doubles as a CynicismCatalyst, and it spurred protectiveness of his adoptive sister Estelle. The whole sequence of events are expounded upon in the Manga ''Trails in the Sky Side Story: Loewe's Tale.''
169* During ''VideoGame/{{LISA}}: The Joyful'', Buddy ends up on the wrong end of this trope [[spoiler: when [[ChekovsGunman Bolo Bugautiichi]] ends up capturing Rando and dangling him over a pit by some barbed wire, forcing Buddy to hold on to him while Bolo, [[PaedoHunt "reaps his reward"]]. Rando tells Buddy to drop him and fight Bolo, [[OptionalBoss but it’s possible to hold on despite his demands]].]] Doing this [[spoiler: has Bolo move in and unzip his pants [[RapeDiscretionShot as the camera pans offscreen]], only for [[VillainousRescue Yado to command Sweetheart to tear Bolo in half]] before he can rape Buddy.]]
170* In the backstory to ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'', we learn that [[spoiler: Seedle and Salome were once human adventurers working together as part of a party. Seedle had the hots for Salome, but she didn't reciprocate, leading to him trying to force himself upon her at one point. She manages to stab him to death, but the rest of the party refused to hear her out and had her [[BurnTheWitch Burned At The Stake]] for killing a "noble samurai". Now the ruler of the Underworld, Seedle foils an attempt to revive Salome in the game's True Ending, implying he plans to succeed where he failed as a human. Alexander, Zetta's rival who had a one-track mind of settling said rivalry, upon hearing of Seedle's plans, outright ''annuls his rivalry'' to beat the piss out of Seedle, presumably killing him.]]
171* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'': Quiet ends up captured by the Soviets late in the story. One of her captors tries to have his way with her, and while she's initially unable to fight back because her prisoner getup is preventing her from breathing through her skin as normal, she's able to quickly turn the tables after her would-be rapist (seemingly) renders her unconscious and removes her pants.
172* Among the reasons why ''VideoGame/MetroLastLight'''s rating is so high is the inclusion of a scene in which two bandits try to force themselves upon a captive refugee woman. Thankfully, you can save the woman by knocking out or killing the bandits and [[KarmaMeter earn a moral point]] in the process, but if you're too slow, [[spoiler:they accidentally kill her]].
173* ''VideoGame/PeretEmHeruForThePrisoners'': Upon learning the DarkSecret of one of the women accompanying his tour group, [[spoiler:Soji Mizumi]] ''immediately'' starts trying to {{Blackmail}} her into having sex with him, while bragging about how this isn't the ''first'' time he's taken advantage of someone. The creep's so single-minded that [[spoiler:when a figure appears to judge him, he attempts to force himself onto ''her'' as well, leading to some heavy LaserGuidedKarma]].
174* Happens to [[RaisingSim your adoptive daughter]] in ''VideoGame/PrincessMaker2'', if she loses her duels with the bandits (be the two males [[PsychoLesbian or the single female]]) in the Adventure routes. Cube arrives in time to drive them away and take the injured girl back home, though.
175* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': [[BlackComedyRape Played for laughs]], when [[CasanovaWannabe Vigoro]] corners [[PirateGirl Aika]] in her cell, while she and her friends are being held at [[TheAlcatraz the Grand Fortress.]] By the tim Vyse and Gilder make their timely arrival, he's snuggling up against Aika's leg while she's clinging to the bars of her cell window.
176* ''VideoGame/{{Tomb Raider|2013}}'': Early in the game Lara is captured by a gang of mooks. After being recaptured by their leader following an escape attempt, he starts to paw her with this in mind. Lara fights back and blows his head off during the struggle for her first human kill. However if the player fails the QuickTimeEvent there's no ''actual'' rape and the scene ends with the mook strangling her or (after they begin fighting over the gun) shooting her through the head instead.
177* In ''VideoGame/{{Wadanohara}}'', a flashback reveals that [[spoiler:Sal tried to rape Wadanohara herself after tricking her to coming into a wave alone with him in a ''very'' uncomfortable and drawn out scene]]. Thankfully, this is prevented by [[spoiler:Samekichi]].
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181* In ''VisualNovel/AtlachNacha'', [[ShrinkingViolet Kanako]] is attacked by three delinquent students who try to rape her. Hatsune arrives at the place where they're attacking her. Hatsune also happens to be a GiantSpider in human form and is hungry...
182* In ''VisualNovel/AtomGrrrl'', Jessica and Big E meet after Jessica saves Big E from being raped by a mafia member.
183* Subverted near the end of ''VisualNovel/DoubleHomework''. Dennis appears like he’s about to force himself on Johanna, and the protagonist throws out of a window. However, when he questions Johanna, it turns out that Dennis blackmailed her into helping him prank the protagonist.
184* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', "Unlimited Blade Works" route, [[spoiler:Shinji]] tries to rape [[spoiler:Rin]]. Lancer stabs him into submission. Twice.
185** And then he tries it ''again'' in "Heaven's Feel" with [[spoiler:Sakura, who he has brutalized before]]. What happens? [[spoiler:Sakura [[PayEvilUntoEvil blows his head off with magic]].]]
186** And before all this, [[PureIsNotGood Gilgamesh]] to [[LadyOfWar Saber]].
187* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'':
188** [[spoiler:Those three boys]] who [[spoiler:[[BreakTheCutie Rena]] beat with a [[BatterUp bat]]]], had attempted to rape her in her backstory. That also may have been one of the things that tempted her to [[InterruptedSuicide suicide]]. [[spoiler: Well, the boys ''[[AmbiguousSituation might]]'' have tried to rape her. On the other hand, it might be that her Hinamizawa Syndrome made her ''think'' they were trying to rape her, and the boys refuse to testify against her because she scares the living crap out of them, rather than because they're guilty.]].
189** When [[spoiler:Shion]] is consumed by the HatePlague, it's implied she's going to do this to [[spoiler:Keichii]] before torturing and killing him. The arrival of a police search party on her family grounds cuts the attempt short. These implications are only in the anime, not the manga or sound novels.
190* In Ginnosuke Oguri's route of ''VisualNovel/InYourArmsTonight'', [[spoiler:Ai Yashima]] drugs the protagonist and sets her up to be raped, but Ginnosuke arrives before it goes very far.
191* In the DatingSim ''VisualNovel/TrueLoveJunaiMonogatari'', the player must have the PC save one of his prospect love interests ([[spoiler: the local FieryRedhead]]) from a rapist if they want him to score either with her or [[spoiler: with [[HotForTeacher their beautiful teacher]].]]
192* In ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', [[spoiler:Shiki]] attempts to rape [[spoiler:Arcueid]] due to a brief bout of insanity, brought on in part by the combination of an unexpected surge of [[spoiler:his natural monster-slaying instincts]] and the attraction and growing affection for her that he's been trying to avoid up to that point. Though, unlike Shinji, he is the protagonist so you do have the option to succeed. However, going through with it ''will'' get Shiki killed by her later [[spoiler: due to her own brief bout of vampiric insanity]].
193** And later on in Ciel's route, Shiki is trying not to give in to his rising urges [[spoiler:after having supposedly killed Roa]] so that he doesn't become both a killer [[spoiler: AND the next Roa]]. One of these moments that may happen [[spoiler:is that Shiki must do everything in his power to make sure he doesn't rape Kohaku when she comes to see him in his room. If Shiki does go through with this, he and Ciel fight each other late that night in his school and he eventually dies by her blade]]. The kicker? [[spoiler: In the following 'Please Teach Me, Ciel-sensei!', Nrvnsqr Chaos pops in [[EvenEvilHasStandards and says that you must not kill, cheat nor rape]] so that Shiki doesn't fall to his urges and ends up killed.]]
194* In ''VisualNovel/War13thDay'', the clan of the [[AmazonBrigade Valkyrie]] see men as [[LustObject lust objects]], and they aren't above conquering them in battle, sexually or not. When Wildfire starts getting serious about Chase, [[spoiler:her best friend, Brooks, pins down the boy and prepares to rape him. The player can have Wildfire join it or stop it.]]
195** Grant also threatens to take Wildfire by force if she loses to him. He isn't successful.
196* Kanna's route in ''VisualNovel/YuNo'' has her nearly raped by the detestable Houjou. However, the protagonist notes that as scummy as Houjou is, it's simply not in his character to do something ''that'' bad. It raises questions as to what exactly is going on and why he was trying in the first place.
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200* ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hume553aFxE In this chapter,]] Yuri was [[spoiler:about to be sexually assaulted by the loan shark Akamatsu to pay her mother's debts. However, Karin steps in and kicks him before he could actually harm Yuri.]]
201* In the ''WebAnimation/MangaSoprano'' episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RKFsJqjtZ4 A Delinquent Group Ambushed Me and My Love On The Beach But I Am The Strongest Student.]]'' [sic], a group of delinquents take Kanade away to a dark place at the beach. Thankfully, Alto shows up before the leader could have his way with her and scares them all off with his "Silver Devil" persona.
202* ''WebAnimation/MangaWaido'':
203** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM4I7hZxiAc Mariko]] narrowly escaped from a playboy who attempted to rape her at a matchmaking party, albeit traumatized by the ordeal and unwilling to go to school. Turns out [[AlphaBitch Miki]] planned the rape to punish her for trying to expose her bullying to John.
204** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea__MLAIfEU Nomura]] tries to take Amane to a hotel, unfortunately for him, he is easily knocked down by Amane due to her skill in martial arts, despite her appearance.
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208* Close call in ''Webcomic/BittersweetCandyBowl'' when [[spoiler:a mugger attacks Lucy. It doesn't go too well for him]].
209* In ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000730c Protoman fears this is a possibility.]] [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000731c Fortunately the Author is too drunk.]]
210* In ''Webcomic/{{Endstone}}'', [[http://endstone.net/comic/issue-1-page-21/ what Cole was dealing with when she rocked the Banestone.]]
211* ''Webcomic/{{Evon}}'' has two attempted rapes in a row, both stopped when someone more powerful turns up.
212* In a ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'' storyline, Ki reveals that the reason she broke up with her former fiancé Sam was because when she went to have sex with him, and was unable to go through with it, he tried to rape her, but she fled and Fooker fended him off. He tried to apologize, but she told him that [[MoralEventHorizon what he did was unforgivable]], and returned his ring.
213* The ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' prequel comic ''Webcomic/ADayInTheAfterlife'' has Alastor brutally murder (and then devour) a butcher for attempting to rape a female customer.
214-->'''[[EvenEvilHasStandards Alastor]]:''' You know, I do really hate those who can't show a little more respect to those of fairer means. It's rather distasteful, ''[[VoiceOfTheLegion LIKE]]'' ''[[NightmareFace BAD]]'' ''[[PreMortemOneLiner MEAT.]]''
215* In ''Webcomic/{{Kagerou}}'', [[spoiler:James/Red]] is a rapist, and the first time he's foiled it results in his death (the victim shot him). Later, he's foiled again when he attempts to rape [[spoiler:Fuuka]].
216* Almost happens to [[GenderBender Ash]] and Missi in ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}''. Fortunately, Logan happens upon the scene and manages to scare the two men off.
217* In ''Webcomic/MayonakaDensha'', when the Baker Street Irregulars get caught by the husband of the woman they are investigating snooping around their house, he offers to let them go but only if Hatsune pays him physically. Hatsune punches him in the face and runs, but later he tracks the Irregulars down and tries to rape her again, only to be stopped by Tom.
218** Almost happens to Constance, but her attacker is thwarted by Hatsune knocking him over the head with a chair.
219* ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'': Invoked -- No need to ask Ping what she would do if someone tried to rape her.
220* In ''Webcomic/OutOfPlacers'', Brakka intends to rape Kass after kidnapping her. Fortunately, Elim comes to the rescue before he can begin doing anything.
221* In ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'', a pair of drunken frat boys jump the newly-empowered Heather and get their hindquarters handed to them. Subverted, they only wanted to scare her.
222-->'''Frat Boy:''' We're not rapists, we're merely douchebags!
223* In ''Webcomic/ThistilMistilKistil'', Hedda is fleeing her planned ritual rape and sacrifice, to be burried with the man who owned her.
224* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'':
225** Starfish finds Sette when Stockyard has her restrained to keep her from messing up his plans and starts lifting her shirt to undress and rape her. Stockyard enters his office to the scene and physically tosses Starfish out, who flees like the coward he is when faced with an opponent who isn't a child or already dying.
226** Sette thwarts Starfish's second attempt to rape her by stabbing him in the groin with her hidden knife, after making him think she was going to try and slash him with the knife on the floor.
227** Bugaboo snaps Elleri's neck when the soldier pins Ilia against a wall and lowers his trousers to rape her.
228* In ''Webcomic/WhenSheWasBad'', a flashback to Gail's high school days reveals that a gang leader saved her from being raped by the quarterback of the football team. [[spoiler:The would-be rapist was Amber's boyfriend at the time, which is one of the factors contributing to Gail's hatred of Amber]].
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232* ''VideoGame/Halo2'' ARG ''ARG/ILoveBees'' has its ActionGirl protagonist Jan fight off a guy trying to rape a woman as a gang initiation test.
233* ''Literature/ReceiverOfMany'' has a rare female-on-male example. [[spoiler: Minthe tries to force herself on Hades and make this seem like he was willing, in order to paint him as unfaithful in Persephone's eyes. She poisons his nectar with ergot, which makes him unable to fight back and uses the golden arrow she stole to force his body to react with arousal against his will. Fortunately for Hades, Persephone gets there in time to save him.]]
234* ''Literature/TailsOfTheBountyHunter'' has Stollar nearly getting raped in the bathroom by [[DirtyCop Gobor Grizzer]] in chapter 10. The only reason why he stops is because someone interrupted him and he nearly got caught pulling Stollar's pants down.
235* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' example: Nex, the mutant ninja assassin at [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]] beats up Fey, and when she fights back, decides to move up to rape and murder. He gets stalled by Stalwart, who's an annoying inventor who has been following Fey around, and he rips Stalwart apart. Fey then has time to heal herself and use her magic to kick ninja ass. Stalwart gets a RescueRomance out of the deal.
236* ''Literature/{{Winchester}}'' :While rescuing the population of Cumberland Forge from slavers, Farrah is forced into a desperate fight with the slaver band's leader, who attempts to force himself upon her from a combination of spite and a desire to get some pleasure before he's inevitably killed. Thankfully, Farrah rather lethally cuts the attempt short.
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240* ''{{WebVideo/AFK}}'': A male gamer tries to rape Steven, but Jack stabs him in the back.
241* This is played for laughs in "[[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses Ask That Guy Violates Ma-Ti]]", where Ma-ti knocks Ask That Guy unconscious. [[spoiler:He proceeds to rape Ask That Guy, because apparently the viewers are there to watch ''someone'' get raped.]]
242* ''WebAnimation/NyanNekoSugarGirls'': In Episodes 2 and 3, Kidnapper-kun attempts to take Hitoshi away to his "secret place" so they can "[[DoubleEntendre have some fun]]". Raku and Koneko foil this attempt and save Hitoshi.
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246* WesternAnimation/BettyBoop was a victim of this quite often and one of the most known examples is in the cartoon short ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Boop-Oop-a-Doop}} Boop-Oop-A-Doop]]''. In this cartoon, Betty is a circus performer who is lusted after by the Ringmaster. At night, the Ringmaster accosts her in her tent and threatens to rape her until Koko the Clown comes in to rescue her. A daring plot for a cartoon made in 1932, a supposedly "purer" time. Only "WesternAnimation/TheOldManOfTheMountain" may be more explicit than this.
247* This has happened not once, but ''twice'' on ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}''. And they say [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids it's a kids' show]].
248* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfCalamityJane'', it's discovered in a flashback that this was what led to Jane's first kill; she shot a man trying to rape her as a teen.
249* The early WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes ''[[WesternAnimation/BoskoTheTalkInkKid Bosko's Knight-Mare]]'' has Honey abducted by the villainous Black Knight. He carries her to his castle and actually gets her down onto the bed before our hero intervenes. (It's even more amazing when you realize that our hero and his girl are African-American and the Black Knight is... er, White.) Maybe it helped that [[spoiler: it was [[AllJustADream all a dream]]]].
250* Happens twice to Tommy in ''WesternAnimation/MrPickles''. First by a group of pedophiles while he's asleep who get slaughtered by the titular dog, then in a later episode when two bullies almost sodomize him with vibrators after seeing their mother do it to their father. Mr. Pickles nearly kills them until Tommy's mother arrives and stops them.
251* Nearly every ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon features Bluto/Brutus attempting to rape Olive Oyl towards the end, with the eponymous hero downing a can o' spinach to always save the day in the nick of time. Bluto/Brutus has to be the most prominent serial attempted rapist in popular fiction, making all the times Popeye socks the fat bastard to the moon look like he got off easy.
252* This happens quite occasionally on ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', and, unlike most BlackComedy in general, '''[[PlayedForDrama none of it is ever played for laughs]].''' '''''Ever.''''' The most terrifying example, however, happens in the episode, "Meeseeks and Destroy", when [[spoiler:a child molester attacks Morty in a public bathroom, [[BreakTheCutie leaving the poor kid completely traumatized as soon as he (violently) escapes]]]]. And Rick gets homicidally angry as soon as he puts 2 and 2 together.
253* In the first season of ''WesternAnimation/ToddMcFarlanesSpawn'' the eponymous hero tries [[spoiler:and succeeds JustInTime]] to stop a serial pedophile from making a little girl his latest victim.
254* In the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' episode "Secrets", during Artemis and Zatanna's night out in New York, a female jogger is jumped under a bridge by a trio of unseemly looking guys. Zatanna magically lifts her in the air while Artemis [[CurbStompBattle beats the crap out of them]]. When asked if it was a little overboard, Arty replies "they had it coming!"
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