Child by Rape

"Centuries ago, when women of our tribe were raped by white conquerors, many gave birth to their children, and we did not reject them. They were accepted by the tribe. One was a direct ancestor of ours, Chakotay. His name was Ce Actl. He became a great leader of our people. Here is a man who was given life without his mother's consent."

— Kolopak, Star Trek: Voyager, "Basics"

A subtrope of Rape as Backstory reliant on the Inverse Fertility Law. Namely, a rape survivor conceives a child from the encounter.

In fiction, children conceived by rape are sometimes considered to be "tainted", especially in horror movies where they often grow up to be either deformed Bastard Bastard killers or straight up monsters. However, equally common for a fictional serial killer in the horror genre is, if they are conceived via rape, for their conception to be used as a Freudian Excuse, as if either their upbringing or the idea that the rapist somehow managed to "inject evil" into their DNA led the serial killer character to murder.

Considering that Marital Rape License was pretty much Truth in Television in all patriarchal countries at some point in history, there is plenty of proof that a child by rape usually won't turn out more evil than any other child, but writers don't let that get in the way of their horror movie plot.

If the child in question is a Heroic Bastard, then they may fear or angst about the possibility of being tainted by their parents' crimes. Especially if the victim mistreats or refuses to love their child on the basis that That Thing Is Not My Child!. Some such children go on to avenge themselves and their victimized parent upon the perpetrator. Even if the child is able to make peace with their origin, parental mistreatment or abuse might result in the child resenting their parents — or the situation can be flipped: even when the child is loved and assured by their parent, the child might angst about their conception.

In other cases, the parent loves and accepts their child and while the child may have difficulty coming to terms with this trope, they are eventually able to do so. If the child's conception is well-known, then society at large might ostracize the victimized parent, their child, or both for being "tainted". If the child is the product not only of rape, but incest, then the child is likely to be depicted as doubly "damaged". See Inbred and Evil.

May be caused by Rape, Pillage, and Burn if a civilian is unfortunate enough to fall into enemy hands. A particularly ugly possible origin for a Half-Human Hybrid or Nonhuman Humanoid Hybrid, especially if one parent's race is Always Chaotic Evil. Such children will often be subject to Half-Breed Discrimination, especially if most conceptions of this type result from rape. Some settings where this is a common occurrence will offer a Stereotype Flip: a character whose race is usually conceived in this manner is instead born to willing, loving parents who just happen to be an Odd Couple.

A variation is Medical Rape and Impregnate, wherein a woman is made pregnant through non-sexual means without her consent.

This was actually viewed as medically impossible for centuries in the West, due to a theory that female and male genitalia were mirror images, thus conception supposedly required ejaculation by both sexes, which they held would only happen if the sex were enjoyed (i.e. was consensual). Biologically there is some truth to this, though the latter is not the case. Obviously the male ejaculation is a somewhat important factor, but there is evidence that a female orgasm can cause part of the cervix to dip into the part of the vagina where semen would normally pool, thus increasing odds of conception.

However, you can see the problem already: the woman's pregnancy was actually a defense to rape charges, since the logic goes Pregnancy = Orgasm = Consent. There is a remnant of the "no pregnancy due to rape" concept still floating around, as Todd Akin's infamous comments on "legitimate rape" made clear in 2012.^specificsIn 2012, U.S. Congressman Todd Akin made comments related to his opposition to abortion even in cases of pregnancy by rape. "It seems to me, from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare (referring to the commonality of pregnancy from rape). If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try and shut that whole thing down."

Apart from showing a stunning lack of knowledge of basic human biology, the implication was that if a woman became pregnant following a sexual assault, that it was because she somehow willingly overrode this make-believe defense mechanism and therefore shared the fault for her own pregnancy, meaning she should have no reason to seek an abortion because she in some degree "wanted" it. At the time, Akin was in a race for a seat in the Senate where he was leading in the polls by a slight margin; following the comment and its fallout, he lost his Senate election and subsequently retired from politics.

Along with this, the idea that an orgasm means it was enjoyed, thus rape must not have occurred. This isn't the case though — orgasm has been documented to occur involuntarily for men and women.^*It is an entirely physical response with nothing to do with the emotional state nor the state of mind of those that experience it. With the (for lack of a better phrase) proper physical stimulation, the recipient could no more prevent orgasm from occurring any more than he or she could bring themselves to orgasm without stimulation through sheer force of will.

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Examples:

Anime and Manga

• Attack on Titan has Ymir Fritz's three daughters, Maria, Rose and Sina. While nothing is shown on screen, she's a slave, and the man who impregnated her is her owner. She's also a teenager. Due to the man being not only a slave owner but the King of Eldia, nobody can oppose the situation, and Ymir is forced to raise her daughters on her own. Until she's killed trying to save King Fritz.
  • It's also implied that Levi is this, as his mother was a sex worker and we never once see the father. How consensual his mother's impregnation was is left vague.
  • Arguably, Reiner, as he was the result of a one-night stand between his mother, an Eldian, and his father, a Marleyan, which is seen as a Forbidden Romance. When he meets up with his father years later, his father claims that he was tricked by Reiner's mother into having sex with her. As with the above example, the extent of the consent is left rather vague, so it's up to interpretation.
  • Historia aka Krista, whose father had an affair with his mistress. Given the mistress's intense hatred of her daughter, it's assumed she was forced to at least keep the baby, if not forced/coerced into sex in the first place.
• In Baki the Grappler, Yujiro Hanma rapes Jane, after revealing that he knew about her hidden agenda all along, resulting in Jack Xamma.
• Berserk:
  • Rosine, the Big Bad of the Lost Children Arc, is heavily implied to be the result of her mother being raped when her village was raided. This has led to a buttload of emotional and physical abuse coming from her father, making her a much more sympathetic villain.
  • In a zigzagged variant, Guts and Casca's child became what it is due to Femto having contaminated it with his demonic seed when he raped Casca during the Eclipse.
• Hinako in Bitter Virgin was raped by her stepfather multiple times and gave birth twice to two children as a result. The first child was stillborn and the second child was given up for adoption and taken away from her before she could see him.
• In Blade of the Immortal, Hyakurin gets pregnant after being captured and raped by a group of Itto-Ryu thugs. The story ends before her child is born, however.
• Implied in regards to Yoshino and Kariya in a Bleach filler arc. She's the only Bount who can actually reproduce, according to him... and then he uses her to create new Dolls without her consent and kills her immediately afterwards.
• In Blood+ Diva's children since their mother, the Big Bad, rapes and then murders their "father" Riku, Kai and Saya's little brother.
• Don't Meddle with My Daughter!
  • Averted in Clara's case. Athena's archnemesis, Heavy Metal, was convinced he may have been her father since he orchestrated having her gang raped 20 years ago. Athena corrects him by explaining she had given her virginity to her husband, BM "the Shooter", and was carrying his child by the time of the incident. Then follows up by settling the score.
  • Ironically played straight in her husband's case, as the reveal in chapter 16 explains the Japanese government repeatedly had Zenovia raped by supervillains and extracted her ovum each time she was successfully impregnated, in order to create an army of super beings. She was pregnant with BM at time of her eventual rescue, which means Zenovia is Athena's mother-in-law!
• In Elfen Lied, the ultimate plan of the Big Bad Chief Kakuzawa is unveiled when he introduces Lucy to her own half-brother, a Male Diclonius, Primary like herself, the result of his rape of Lucy's mother, taken captive after Lucy herself was. He wishes them to mate. Lucy's reaction is not at all surprising.
• In Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), Ed and Al's friend Rosé has a child by the second time they meet her. It's never stated outright, but it is very heavily implied that she was raped by at least two Amestrian soldiers.
• Genma Wars: The main protagonists Loof and Gin are the children of a human female raped by the demonic Maoh King. This is all part of a Super Breeding Program to create powerful heirs, and he has done this many, many times before and after that. The heroes also face stigma with Gin being raised by his mother, who became a pariah by her tribe for laying with the Maoh King and they were forced to live in exile, while Loof was raised by his father and lived in relative privilege, he was mistreated by his stepmother Parome.
• This is what happens to Sara following her rape in Now and Then, Here and There
• One Piece has "Worst Generation/Supernova" pirate Jewelry Bonney. Her mother, Ginny, was a revolutionary who was abducted and forced into becoming the wife of a Celestial Dragon. Bonney herself seems to have been unaware of this, as she was Happily Adopted by Ginny's longtime friend and love interest, Bartholomew Kuma, shortly after her mother's death when she was an infant.
• In the Alternate History Edo Japan of Ōoku: The Inner Chambers:
  • Shogun Iemitsu raped a passing commoner girl one night just to prove he could bed a woman if he wanted to. Since his other bed partners were all teenage boys, when he died of the Red-Faced Pox a decade later, his illegitimate daughter became the only hope for keeping the Tokugawa direct line in power and avoiding a Succession Crisis civil war that would drive the country to collapse. Iemitsu's death was hidden and his daughter secretly imprisoned in Edo Castle to produce a male heir. In a second instance of this trope, she was raped and impregnated by a castle guard. Her daughter died in infancy.
  • Sakyo's two older children are strongly implied to be this, as their mother is also his mother and he was quite eager to leave and join Ienobu's household.
• In Uwakoi, Yuno's child was conceived after she rapes her childhood friend and crush, Yukiteru, in the penultimate act of the series.
• Vampire Hunter D is the result of a cruel game Dracula played with a mortal woman: he would rape her, impregnate her, and kill the resulting child, promising she could keep the next one. After multiple cycles of this, Dracula kept that promise, and D was born. Knowing this it's not surprising that D grew up and dedicated his life to killing vampires.
• Words Worth uses it as a minor plot point, concerning Miyu's parentage. All evidence strongly implies that Maria's daughter was the result of having been raped by Astral 20 years prior. Miyu's age (18) places her around the time she would have been conceived, plus, Maria is unwed and isn't said to have been with anyone else since the incident with Astral. Further, he and Maria are believed to be the biological offspring of Pollux and his wife, also named Maria. If so, it would mean Maria was raped by her biological brother^note without either of them knowing they were related by blood and gave birth to their daughter/niece.

Comic Books

• In Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Search, Ursa was coerced into marrying Ozai through death threats against her lover and her entire family. The couple went on to have Zuko and Azula, who are G-rated versions of this trope since the rape is left implied by context.
• In Billy Majestic's Humpty Dumpty, the titular Humpty Dumpty is a Half-Human Hybrid conceived from a human redneck named Pervis Brakk raping an alien woman.
• Black Moon Chronicles: Ghorghor Bey was conceived when his mother's small northern village was attacked by a group of man-eating ogres and she was discovered by a young ogre who, struck by her beauty, decided to rape her instead of eat her. She still loved her half-human half-ogre baby boy (partly because his birth crippled her for life, meaning she wouldn't be able to have children again), but to the rest of the village he was some sort of abomination.
• In one Black Comedy story of Clara de Noche (English it's Clara after dark a.k.a Betty by Night), Clara is asked by her son what his father was like. Clara then tells him a lie while she has a PTSD memory of a ginormous violent thug attacking her on the streets.
• The DCU:
  • Batman: Batman and Talia's son, Damian Wayne, was explained by Grant Morrison in their run of the comic as having been conceived when Bruce was drugged, in order to be the male heir that her father Ra's al Ghul always wanted. There was some backlash about this, since it seemed unnecessary — while she eventually became Daddy's Little Villain, Talia used to be conflicted (before she was tortured into compliance by her sister) and had a legitimate romance, marriage, and conception with Bruce. Morrison has since apologized, stating that they hadn't remembered the earlier story where the characters had mutually conceived the child. Since the 2011 reboot, it seems to have been retconned back into a consensual relationship.
  • Batgirl: Cassandra Cain was conceived after her mother Sandra was captured by her father, David, who spared her in exchange for having his child.
  • Green Arrow: The villain Shado raped Oliver Queen after she shot him with an arrow and while he was delirious with fever from a medication, and reveals later that she had a son, Robert, as the result of the rape. Robert seems to be perfectly normal and not know the circumstances of his birth.
  • L.E.G.I.O.N.: Lyrl Dox was conceived when Stealth raped and murdered her L.E.G.I.O.N. team mate/employer Vril.
  • New Gods: In Orion, Tigra tells her son that Darkseid raped her, but the fact that she was also lying at the time and claiming Orion was the result of a non-extant consensual extra-marital affair rather than being Darkseid's son makes it unclear whether or not she was telling the truth.
  • This nearly happens in Red Robin issue 25 where Tim Drake, a.k.a. Red Robin, is chained and nearly raped to produce an offspring for Ra’s al Ghul's sister.
  • Starman: Something similar to the Green Arrow example happens to Jack Knight when he is drugged and repeatedly raped by his enemy, the Mist, with her intention being to raise the resulting child to hate and ultimately kill Jack. Fortunately, by the last issue, it ends much happier for both father and son. In the alternate future presented by Justice Society of America (2022), the son, Kyle, ends up taking the name The Mist and joining a future iteration of the JSA.
  • Teen Titans: Raven, with the specifics depending on the version. The very first origin (written before Marv Wolfman and George Perez got their act together), Trigon took Arella, her mother, as his bride while using a human guise and didn't reveal himself until much later, making her a child of rape by fraud since Arella never would have agreed had she known what he really was. The second origin, which is generally considered to be the canon (by this point, Wolfman and Perez had long settled down in their thing), Trigon brutally raped Arella. In the latest origin (written by Geoff Johns), it uses the fraud explanation, but still counts as this trope.
  • Wonder Woman:
    • Wonder Woman (1987): Introduced a villainous non-immortal sect of Amazons known as the Bana, whose children come from men kidnapped and kept in breeding stalls where they are raped. One of the last daughters of the Bana before their Heel–Face Turn, and therefore a child of such a union, was Artemis.
    • Wonder Woman (2006): Theana (and her murdered brothers) were conceived when her horrific mother abducted and raped men trying to produce an child she found acceptable. Then Theana was put through Training from Hell and forced to murder over a hundred other children starting at age two, making her a killing machine for her mother. She still showed signs of wanting to be more when presented with the opportunity but her mother had her executed immediately for daring to have an original thought.
    • Wonder Woman: Amazonia: Diana has two daughters through her husband Stephen Trevor, who is implied to have used his marriage to Diana as an excuse to have sex with her regardless of her consent, making it unlikely either of Diana's daughters' conceptions were consensual.
    • In Wonder Woman: Earth One, Diana was conceived when Hercules raped her mother.
• In Gold Digger, the hybrid dragon D'bra was conceived when the Iron Dragon Dreadwing raped his former childhood friend and first love Platinum Dragon T'mat in a successful attempt to destroy any love she still had for him.''.
• In Khaal: The Chronicles of a Galactic Emperor, the title character was born from a female Psycog's gang-rape by several humans. After having the truth revealed to him by his own father, Khaal brutally murders him.
• In Lucifer, Jill Presto is raped and impregnated with twins by the Basanos and is also made completely invulnerable until the pregnancy reaches term. Nevertheless, she manages to get one of them, Eikon, to die while still technically unborn. The surviving twin, Noema, later intends to cause Jill's death during childbirth, but Jill gets help and manages to communicate with Noema before the birth, the two eventually reaching a deal.
• Marvel Universe:
  • The Incredible Hulk: Nightmare killed Betty and Bruce's unborn baby. He also raped her in her sleep to magically conceive the entity "Daydream", who is Betty's daughter that she never met.
  • Daredevil: This is how the Purple Children were born. Their father is Zebediah Killgrave, also known as the Purple Man due to his skin, and he was using his Compelling Voice to his own pleasure, primarily sexual. The man is essentially a walking date rape drug. His kids are not happy with him. His oldest child, Kara, became part of Alpha Flight. Incidentally, Killgrave was so taken with Kara's mother that he relenquished his control over her, hoping that she would genuinely love him back — naturally, she was horrified by what he had done to her and fled from him. Killgrave offered no such courtesy to his subsequent victims.
  • Infinity: Thane, the son of Thanos, is implied to have been conceived when his father raped an Inhuman woman.
  • Laurie Collins/Wallflower from New X-Men: Academy X was conceived when her father, Sean Garrison, used his pheromone powers to seduce her mother, much like the Purple Man above. In this case, because Laurie had inherited her father's mutation, carrying her made her mother immune to Sean's pheromones and enabled her to break free of his control.
  • This is how Kevin MacTaggart/Proteus was conceived in Uncanny X-Men. His father, Joseph MacTaggert, was physically abusive towards his wife Moira — in one argument with her, he punched her unconscious and then raped her while she was knocked out. It's explicitly stated to be the reason why he's so screwed up too, as he was able to sense his mother's overwhelming negative emotions from in the womb. Moira secretly raised her son alone, keeping his existence secret from his father — however, Proteus eventually escapes and sets off in search of his father (who he refers to in his internal monologue as the "one-I-hate") to kill him for what he did to Moira.
• The title character of Nikolai Dante was conceived when Katarina was raped by Dmitri Romanov, and she almost killed him soon after birth. This rape is about the only thing that ever managed to really harm Katarina.
• In The Sandman (1989), Rose Walker's mother was conceived when Desire raped her comatose mother, Unity Kincaid. This wasn't because of any sexual interest in Unity, but simply because Desire needed to have a child with her for The Plan it was trying to pull against its brother Dream. Unity remained in her coma throughout the duration of the pregnancy and birth, and for a long time afterward thought she had dreamed the entire thing.
• The comic Smax reveals that Jeff Smax and his twin sister Rexa were conceived when their warrior mother was raped by an ogre. A very large ogre, making this a very dark example of Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action. It was mentioned that she was unusually strong, to the point that she survived the rape, and then the pregnancy, and possibly could even have survived the birth if they had not been twins.
• In The Technopriests, Almagro, Albino, and Onyx were all conceived when their mother Panepha was gang-raped by pirates.
• Tom Strong was raped by Ingrid Weiss and fathered a son, Albrecht, whom she raised to be a Nazi like herself. Tom only learned all of this when Ingrid showed up with their fully indoctrinated Nazi son. It's also implied that an alien queen seduced him in the past using pheromones, meaning the present-day queen is his daughter since Tom and the present-day queen have the same hair color.
• Subverted in Watchmen. After the photo shoot for the 1940s Minutemen, the Comedian attempts to rape Silk Spectre before being interrupted by Hooded Justice. They later have a consensual relationship, resulting in a daughter, Laurie (a.k.a. Silk Spectre II).

Fairy Tales

• In Sun, Moon, and Talia, a precursor to Sleeping Beauty, the princess ends up being impregnated in her sleep by a king who's fallen for her. She is awoken when one of her twins sucks out the splinter while trying to breastfeed. The princess later is reunited with the king, and they fall in love. They end up living with him, though he hides her because he is already married. The queen finds out and tries to feed him his children, however they end up saved. Instead, the queen is the one who dies.

Fan Works

• Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): In this Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) fanfiction, three female Russian Disposable Vagrants have been artificially inseminated with Fetus Terribles that are evidently related to Ghidorah's DNA, without their knowledge let alone their consent. It's also revealed later in the story that Ghidorah intends to impregnate Monster X (specifically the Vivienne Graham half) with a "Death-Child" as another way to torture her into madness.
• In Another Brother, an Avatar: The Last Airbender Alternate Universe Fic fic, Zuko is nearly killed by Northern Tribe Waterbenders who mistake him for a Fire Nation soldier. Sokka tells them that Zuko is their half brother conceived during a Fire Nation raid. This works, but Zuko is really pissed at Sokka for it.
• Apprentice and Pregnant:
  • An apprentice named Hollypaw is raped by a ShadowClan warrior named Longtail. She ends up pregnant as a result.
  • In the sequel, Hollyshine's own daughter Laurelpaw becomes pregnant by her uncle, who raped her and attempted to murder her. She only learns this after being told she's miscarried.
• Ash and Petals:
  • Referenced. As an alibi, Mai tells a soldier that Katara is the daughter of a Water Nation slave and a Fire Nation noble.
  • A few chapters in, Azula finds out she's pregnant by her father.
• Bad Future Crusaders has a very dark interpretation of Hearts And Hooves Day where Merrilay was conceived while Big McIntosh and Cheerilee were under the effects of the love poison. Knowing this has convinced her that emotions are "phony", turning her into a psychotic Straw Nihilist.
• Beautiful Monster: Defied with Betty, who gets an abortion after she's raped during her evening jog.
• In The Bridge (MLP), Princesses Melpomene and Hymnia were enslaved and raped. Melpomene became pregnant with Adagio Dazzle and Hymnia became pregnant with Aria Blaze. Then Melpomene was raped again while she was pregnant and became pregnant again with Sonata Dusk (the author noted that this can actually happen in real life). The two then escaped their captors. Adagio was born first, then Aria, and then Sonata a month after Adagio's birth. Their fathers are the Windigos.
• One Pokémon: The Series one-shot "Circumstances of One's Birth" has Ash reveal that this was how he was conceived. But this was after Misty carelessly shouts out that she wishes Ash had never been born, which completely destroys him and sends him running off crying.
• This happens in the Kill la Kill fic Concerning a Drifter, when we find out that, not only was she kidnapped and held against her will, but Ryuuko was also raped, resulting in four pregnancies and three miscarriages. No one was really sure if she had given birth or not but, through via a letter written to Satsuki, she reveals that she did give birth to a girl, however, while she doesn't remember too much, she states that her captors didn't let her keep her. We later find out that, actually, she miscarried two of her pregnancies and gave birth twice, leading to Yayoi and Ruri.
• In the Azumanga Daioh fic Control, Yukari ends up pregnant by her drug dealer. Due to her immature and self-centered nature not making for a good mother, she briefly thinks it's best if she abort the baby. However, she decides to keep the baby and raise it as a "Screw you" to everyone who thinks she can't do it.
• The oneshot Cradle of Shame revolves around Link being reunited with a pregnant Malon after his 7 year slumber. It turns out that Ingo had been prostituting her and she ended up pregnant. The townsfolk look down upon her for her pregnancy.
• Dear Old Dad has a majority of the Phantom Thieves of Heart be this, all by the same man, Big Bad Masayoshi Shido. None are happy about it, and unlike canon do plan on killing him for it.
• Room: In this Encanto fic, Antonio was retconned to be this, becoming the product of Pepa being kidnapped and raped.
• The Dragon and the Bow: Gobber's mother was taken from her Highland home during a Viking raid and brought back to Berk by Gobber's father. She gave birth to the man's child and did her best to raise Gobber properly.
  • Also implied that the union between Hilde and the Red Death that made Mor'du was less than a pleasant one for his mother.
• Enlightenments: All of Wander and the Queen's children after their first son, who was conceived before she got corrupted by a botched exorcism ceremony. Wander doesn't hold it against them.
• Eyes on Me:
  • Defied with Connie, who gets an abortion at a Planned Parenthood after discovering she's pregnant following a rape at a Halloween party in Being Human.
  • Whitney was conceived when her twelve-year-old birth mother was raped by her uncle in an attempt to make her straight.
  • William is revealed to be one during a "The Reason You Suck" Speech Van gives him in Happily Ever After.
  • Spinel is revealed to have been conceived when Jeremy raped his adoptive daughter Kimber in Isn't That Cruel?
  • Nyoko ends up pregnant after Xemnas drugs and rapes her. However, it turns out to be an ectopic pregnancy, which is non-viable and nearly kills her.
• In Fairy Without Wings Jellal Fernandes is this. What's noticeable is that his mother was the perpetrator, not the victim. Jellal's mother, Dark Lord Sabine/Margaret Fernandes, raped Travis Fateburn in front of his guild, including his pregnant wife and then killed him, just to crush their spirits. What's worse is that she sold him into slavery some years later for not living up to her expectations.
• In Faith by sbmcneil, Bellatrix decides to bear a child from Harry as an heir for Voldemort. After a most sick aversion of Double Standard Rape: Female on Male, she does fall pregnant, but once the baby turns out to be a girl, she dumps her on Harry's doorstep. Harry doesn't hesitate a moment before taking her in.
• Disturbingly, Harry figures out in For Love of Magic that the odds of two muggle parents having a magical child is somewhere between one in a million and one in ten million. In reality, a large number of "muggleborns" are actually halfbloods from a wizard raping a muggle woman and either obliviating her himself or magical law enforcement doing it. Even worse, the DMLE don't bother to investigate such crimes beyond arresting someone caught in the act.
• Also happens in another Percy Jackson and the Olympians fanfiction called Happy Endings Only Happen In Fairytales.
• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: Likely the case with Bellatrix Black's son Lesath Lestrange, as Voldemort "gave" her to the Lestrange brothers.
• Laneen in the non-ectoclone Homestuck AU Hivefled may have been the child of Her Imperious Condescension and the unwilling Psiioniic. A confirmed example from the main troll gang is Karkat, who's the result of The Grand Highblood and the troll Empress raping The Signless.
• Implied in The Hunger Games Prequel Collection. One of the characters, Astrid, is rumoured to have a Peacekeeper for a father. Her mother eventually confirms this, but says she never knew who he was and "never wanted to know him."
• It's (Not) Your Fault: It's revealed on Page 130 that Lina was conceived when Sam forced herself onto Lincoln amidst an alcohol-induced mental breakdown and got pregnant as a result. Lina's parents decided to raise their child together afterwards.
• In the New Tamaran sequel Justice Returns, Speedy discovers that Cheshire drugged and raped him, and has left behind the resulting baby girl (Lian Harper).
• Khaos Omega uses this often in his works. Two characters even use an occurrence of this trope to specialize in fighting rape in particular, as Rochelle was unable to prevent Karin Maaka's rape-induced pregnancy despite her best efforts while Amethyst agent Ayane shares her canon origins. Both girls notably ignore any rape that meets one of their requirements for turning a blind eye to it, which Fontina Evans and Michaela Martin take advantage of in Ayane's case on springing their 2811 trap on rape fetishist Anise, as said fetish is one of Ayane's blind-eye requirements.
• Kiryuuin Chronicles implies this with Ragyo and her two younger daughters, Ryuuko and Nui, considering that her husband was abusive and would, outside of those two pregnancies, cause her miscarriages. Regardless, she loved her children enough to entrust them to Rei as a means of protecting them from the abuse.
• In The Monstrous Company of Thorin Oakenshield dwarves have a culture with Marital Rape License, so all dwarf protagonists are likely to be conceived in rape. However, they are too busy escaping this rape culture to angst about the circumstances of their conception, and Thorin loves Fíli and Kíli dearly even though their father is known to be a rapist, and not just the usual kind.
• My Fluttering Heart involves Flurry Heart having been conceived by Chrysalis when she was pretending to be Shining's fiancee, Cadance. After finding Flurry as a newborn, Shining decides to raise her as his and Cadance's daughter.
• Mordred in My Hero Playthrough is effectively this. Her 'father's' eggs were stolen by her mother, without her father's knowledge or consent. Her mother then mixed her father's eggs with one of her own via her Quirk and implanted the embryo in herself to give birth to their daughter.
• The Bubblegum Crisis fanfic The Next Generation has this as the backstory of its main character, Yumeko Asagiri. She was born when Priss Asagiri was raped shortly after coming home from her first tour.
• The Night Unfurls: Chloe is the result of a dark elf mother being raped by a human father, John Mandeville, one of the slavers who enslaved them along with many other dark elves. This explains her Fantastic Racism against humanity, as well as her Undying Loyalty to Olga, who raised her like a daughter.
• In the One Piece Alternate Universe Fic One Piece: Final Holy War, Luffy is the son of Saint Cassandra and Monkey D. Dragon, the Big Bad of the fic. This was not on a whim nor was it for carnal pleasure; Dragon did this in order to conceive a child who had the blood right to inherit the leadership of the world from both empires that had the right to claim it: the World Government and the Ancient Kingdom of the Void Century. He would then use that child as a puppet ruler so that the world may be claimed by the Ds once more.
• Only Truly Dead: Ty Lee's grandfather Ji Nian was the child of a kidnapped Air Nomad woman and a Fire Nation admiral. Admiral Tong impregnated Lu Hui and forced her into marrying him under the threat of death.
• In the RWBY fic Phoenix Rose, Ruby is kidnapped by the White Fang and spends a week as their hostage. During that period she was tortured and raped by Adam. Ruby ends up pregnant, but she can't abort because she needs a family member's signature and she doesn't want to reveal the pregnancy to anyone. Ruby ends up carrying to term with plans on giving him up for adoption, but she ends up keeping the baby and naming him "Phoenix". Ruby spends the next decade avoiding her family and her ex-girlfriend Blake for fear of their reaction to Phoenix, but eventually she comes clean about her son.
• The Pony POV Series has an interesting spin on this. Fluttercruel, a separate entity now sharing Fluttershy's body, was born from Discord's Mind Rape of Fluttershy. While it wasn't physical rape, Discord's Mind Rape is treated with a somewhat sexual context in the story, so Fluttercruel comes off as this. Though she doesn't seem to have any problem with it, nor does Fluttershy, who considers Fluttercruel her daughter, though Fluttercruel does loath her father for completely different reasons. Worth noting is that Discord has no clue how this happened and didn't even realize Fluttercruel existed until a good time after.
  • Same goes for Dark World!Fluttercruel, who, due to who she is, is actually happy she was conceived this way, as it means Discord didn't fall in love with anyone. It's finally played dead straight when Rarity and the others learn of Fluttercruel's existence. Rarity's reaction is understandable.
• A side story of Pokémon Reset Bloodlines reveals that Zinnia of the Draconid people was raped by a Sootopolitan man, resulting in the birth of Aster.
• In Sonic the Hedgehog fanfic Prison Island Break, in a variation of the normal origin angst, Silver The Hedgehog doesn't find out he is this until almost halfway through the story, and after a while he simply accepts it.
  Silver The Hedgehog: All my life I've wanted to know the truth. And it hurts. But I kind of expected it to.
• Ella from Promises Kept was conceived under dubious consent, though her mother Glinda believes it was consensual.
• The Ever After High fic Queens mixes Sleeping Beauty with Sun, Moon, and Talia. It's implied that Briar was conceived when her mother Sleeping Beauty was still asleep. This isn't unusual for Sleeping Beauty's.
• The Redemptionof Harley Quinn: Harley becomes pregnant with twins due to her gang rape.
• In Restraint's sequel, it's mentioned that Azula wasn't conceived consensually. It's part of the reason her mother Ursa had trouble attaching to her.
• Inverted in Sonic the Hedgehog fanfic A Rose And A Thorn. Amy is raped by Sonic, then finds out she's pregnant while she's being examined. Sonic, already guilt-tripping, is terrified that he might be the father, but they find out it's Shadow's baby anyway.
• In the A Song of Ice and Fire fanfic Safe Anchorage, Jeyne Poole discovers she's pregnant with Ramsay's child after her rescue and his execution. In addition to the usual trauma of this trope, she's only thirteen.
• The Twin Jades are apparently this in all the timelines in The Same Moon Shines. By different men, no less.
• Second Generation explores the possibility of Catalina Flores bearing Nightwing's children after she forcibly had sex with him. The whole Batclan is already unhappy about her being the mother, but when they learn how she fell pregnant... they were livid.
• There is, apparently, a Simpsons Crack Fic out there that states that Maggie was conceived when Bart raped Lisa.
• In the Cardcaptor Sakura Continuation Fic Shadow of the Dragon, Satome, the resident school bully at Sakura and Syaoran's school, is revealed to be one in chapter 10. His mother only sees him as a reminder of the event and thus constantly abuses him.
• The infamous Shinra High SOLDIER by Sephirothslave has Jenova taking control of Sephiroth's body and raping his fiancee Julia during the Wutai war. This resulted in the birth of a baby boy, Orion.
• Joseph Regent, the protagonist of Son of the Warp, is this, given that his mother was legally insane when she was impregnated by Tzeentch. Of course, Tzeentch is an Eldritch Abomination, and Joseph is too busy being terrified of his father to apply any sort of morality to him.
• Zelda mentions in Their Bond that she became pregnant by Ganondorf sometime at age 15. She ended up miscarrying when Ganondorf later tortured her with a sword.
• In Troop of Beasts, it's explicitly stated that at least two of Kakarot's children were conceived when he raped their mothers.
• Yet another Percy Jackson and the Olympians example with Jackson Overland from The Unrelenting Frozen Seas: The Trials, whose mother Khione took a fancy for the demigod Jamie Overland, keeping him imprisoned several months before releasing him a broken and traumatized mess who was Driven to Suicide when he learned his violation has produced offspring. Apollo - Jamie's father - almost killed the kid when he tried to meet his grandmother but stayed his hand as he acknowledged Jack was innocent, letting him go after threatening him. When the boy asks his mother is she truly did it, she bluntly confirms it. Jack doesn't take it well.
• Evan Lee Tennyson is Gwen's Child by Rape in Ben 10: Ultimate Alien Fanfic Vindictive Hand of Vengeance.
• Bai Mao, main character in The Warrior Of Love, is conceived this way.
• In one classic The Mighty Thor work, Loki manipulates a teenage girl with apparent mutant powers by convincing her that she was in fact sired by Thor during a rape. It turns out that he was telling the truth, but never let on that Thor was the one being raped (by the telepath Moondragon, who gave birth during her subsequent imprisonment in Asgard).
• Late in Meg's Boyfriend, Jillian comments that Zack was conceived through rape, and it is mentioned by his mother as well. Subverted in the sequel, where it's revealed that Zack was conceived through a one-night stand between Valerie and Lucifer, and that Valerie made up the rape story because she didn't want her husband to learn she had knowingly cheated on him.
• In numerous Hetalia: Axis Powers fics, certain Nations are born as this Trope.
  • And apparently, in some involving subdivisions of the Nations themselves (cough *State-tans* cough), even they aren't spared, like in this one with Texas and California.
• Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi fanfics often turn the Twin Jades of Lan into the product of Marital Rape License, since their mother has married into the clan in very iffy circumstances and was basically imprisoned afterwards, making her ensuing pregnancies rather suspicious.
• With Pearl and Ruby Glowing:
  • Several characters get impregnated by their assailants, and some are trans males, including Julien producing Mort and Flug producing 5.0.5. In Julien's case, this was invoked by the God's Will First cult, as they wanted to punish him for being trans and "remind" him of his "true" gender.
  • Variation with trans male Steele and cis female Helga, who got pregnant when they raped people.
  • Kovu is also written as the child of Zira and her twelve-year-old son Nuka.
  • Both of Jasper's forceful fusions in canon are translated as impregnating her victims, as she's intersex here.
• Subverted in there is a fire in me, when Jet is revealed to have Fire ancestry and Team Avatar assumes he's the product of a Fire Nation soldier raping an Earth Kingdom woman (it's hinted this is a very common backstory for mixed-blood offspring) but he actually was born from a consensual affair between a mercenary and his mistress from the colonies.
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Paradox: Ian Joule was a result of a Natural woman being raped by a Coordinator male. When Ian is born, his biological mother tried to abandon him in a cemetery, where she also meets his eventual Parental Substitute, Kiryu. Ian's mother decided to have Kiryu raise Ian and tell him to forget who his mother is when he grows up. Ian didn't take the truth about the circumstances of his birth parents too well at first but decided to move on anyways. Which explains that his crude and trollish antics are basically his only coping mechanism to hide the pain he experienced in regard to his Dark and Troubled Past.

Film — Animation

• A version is seen in Justice League: Gods and Monsters. Like in John Bryne's The Man of Steel, this universe's Superman is technically a test tube baby, only before Jor-El could insert his genetic material to intermingle with Lara's, General Zod attacked and inserted his own, instead, so while (aside from cupping her face) Zod didn't touch Lara, he still forced his DNA intermingle with Lara's.
• Wonder Woman (2009): This version of the tale cuts out Hercules and has Hippolyta be raped by Ares instead. They end up having a son that Hippolyta doesn't want and kills after he shows up fighting for Ares after Ares raised and indoctrinated him.

Film — Live-Action

• In 2:37, it's probably subverted. Melody is revealed to be pregnant, the implication being that the child may have been conceived when she was raped by her brother. However, the rape occurs the day before she takes the pregnancy test, in which case it would be far too early for a positive result to come up. Early in the film, it's hinted that she had a sexual affair with Luke behind Sarah's back, meaning that Luke is more than likely the father.
• American Me: It eventually is revealed that main character Santana was conceived when his mother was raped by a sailor during the 1943 Zoot Suit Riots, in which US sailors on leave clashed with Hispanic residents of Los Angeles.
• Michael MacCleary from the horror movie The Beast Within (1982) is born after his mother Caroline is raped by a creature that escaped from a cellar and attacked her on a deserted road as her husband was seeking to get help. Michael's mysterious illness and disturbing behavior turn out to be possession by the evil spirit of his true father, a man named Billy Connors, who turned into the aforementioned monster after a guy who killed his wife for having an affair with Connors shut him into a cellar and fed him with corpses from a mortuary. Connors escaped soon after turning into the monster and killing the guy, and was killed soon after raping Caroline. Michael and Connors fight for control of Michael's body throughout the film, but unfortunately, Connors ultimately takes Michael over completely, raping Michael's girlfriend Amanda and having to be killed by Caroline. And even worse, the last scene implies that Amanda is pregnant as a result of the attack, continuing the cycle of Connors's resurrection.
• In Black Angel Vol. 1, Ikko was conceived when Chiaki was raped as a teenager. Chiaki's father took the baby away at birth, telling Chiaki that the child had died, and gave Ikko to his mistress to raise. Hence, Chiaki and Ikko grew up believing they were half-sisters.
• BloodRayne: According to Rayne, she was conceived by the vampire lord Kagan raping her human mother. See details in the Video Games folder below.
• Born in the Maelstrom: Rebecca it turns out was conceived by rape. Her mother finds it hard looking at her increasingly, since she's got some of his appearance.
• Byzantium: Eleanor, whose mother was a sex slave.
• Carrie (2013): Carrie was conceived by her father raping her mother.
• In Cherry Falls, where the killer reveals he was born from the Sheriff and his friends drunkenly raping Loralee Sherman several years ago.
• In Chinatown, Katherine is revealed to be the sister and the daughter of Mrs. Mulwray. Noah Cross, their father, takes on the status of a true monster immediately following this reveal.
• Clash of the Titans (2010) has Perseus being conceived by a Bed Trick as punishment to King Acrisius for daring to challenge the gods. Zeus disguises himself as King Acrisius and sleeps with his queen, who gives birth almost immediately. Acrisius still has it in for Perseus, even though it wasn't his fault.
• In Dagon, everyone in Imboca is a child of Dagon, whether the mother wants it or not.
• Defiance: One of the Jewish women became pregnant by a German soldier raping her. She's afraid to reveal it since Tuvia banned pregnancy as they can't take care of an infant, but he lets it slide once the baby's born.
• Excalibur: Arthur was conceived when Uther raped Igraine and Mordred was conceived when Morgana raped Arthur. Uther and Morgana did so through magical illusions which made them look like someone else so Igraine and Arthur would have sex with their respective spouses.
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald: Leta, whose mother was under the Imperius curse when she was conceived and therefore couldn't consent.
• For Colored Girls: Tangie and Nyla are indicated to be this, since her mother was "given" to a white man, because Alice's father (their grandfather) wanted light-skinned granddaughters, not like their dark-skinned mother.
• In God's Gun, outlaw Sam Clayton discovers that he is Johnny's father, as he raped Jenny 15 years earlier furing the American Civil War.
• Two of the cast of House of the Wolf Man come to the realization that every invited member in the house is related to each other, as their mothers were all raped by the same assailant in the past, with them as the result. Except for the Chapel twins, who were adopted.
• The deformed killer in Humongous is a result of his mother being raped during a Labor Day cocktail party. Since she killed her rapist right afterwards, she came to see the child as a curse inflicted on her.
• The mutants in The Hills Have Eyes 2 are out to catch women for this very purpose.
• i am sam: The circumstances of Lucy's conception are not elaborated upon. However, as he's severely mentally disabled, he could not give legal consent, so Lucy would be one.
• Immortal Love: The unfortunate Eiichi, conceived when Heibei raped Sadako. She can't get past what happened and love her son, until it's too late.
• Into the Forest: One of the two protagonist sisters, Eva, finds she's pregnant after a man she bought gas from earlier in the film rapes her. Eva decides against getting an abortion as Nell suggests. Instead Nell helps her give birth and they end up intending to raise the baby together.
• I Spit on Your Grave:
  • Near the end of Deja Vu, it’s revealed that Jennifer’s daughter Christy is this. Her father was none other than Johnny.
  • In the second film, Ana's sons were revealed to have been conceived this way.
• In Johnny Belinda, Belinda is raped by a neighbor. She seems pretty happy to be pregnant with Johnny, though, and she goes full Mama Bear when her rapist tries to take the baby from her.
• In the film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club, An-Mei's half-brother is a product of this.
• Killer Joe: Possibly Dottie's baby with Joe, depending on how consensual you feel their relationship was.
• Listen to Me: In the final debate, Monica reveals she became pregnant by rape and had an abortion at fourteen. She's using this to argue against abortion, oddly enough, despite saying that she'd do the same thing again. Her opponents are unimpressed.
• Logan: Laura and the other X-23 children were conceived after Zander Rice and Donald Pierce kidnapped multiple Mexican women and impregnated them with the mutant gene against their will. They were eventually disposed of after they gave birth to the mutant children.
  Gabriela: They were raised in the bellies of Mexican girls. Girls no one can find anymore.
• Madea's Big Happy Family: Byron was conceived when Kimberly was raped by her uncle at the age of 12. He was then passed off as her brother after he was born.
• Mad Max: Fury Road: The Splendid Angharad is pregnant with a child by rape. She was part of a harem kept by the villain. Another wife, the Dag, reveals midway through the film that she is also pregnant, though significantly earlier along.
• Mental: Shirley reveals to Shaz in conversation that Coral is this, because Barry raped her on their first date. After she found herself pregnant, they got married. This is treated as black comedy at worst.
• In Monty Python's Life of Brian, Brian was born because his mother was raped (at first) by a Roman centurion named Naughtius Maximus.
• In A Most Wanted Man, it turns out that Isa Karpov is the result of this. His Russian father raped his mother, a fifteen-year-old Chechen girl, who died in childbirth. All this more than explains why he hates his father and identifies only as Chechen, along with being a devout Muslim (the Chechens' religion) who fought the Russians for Chechnya's independence.
• Mythica: Dagen was born to an elven woman held in a brothel as a sex slave for soldiers.
• Nell: It's revealed through old newspaper clippings that Nell and her sister are the result of their mother's rape.
• A Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy Krueger's mother was a nun, raped by a hundred inmates of an insane asylum. This gave him the nickname "Bastard Son of 100 Maniacs". Though we do see the man we can assume to be his biological father in a flashback in one of the movies, also played by Robert Englund.
• A girl is raped by Bigfoot in Night of the Demon (1980) and later gives birth to its offspring.
• In North Country, Josey was raped by a teacher in high school and got pregnant, as revealed near the end of the film.
• The Northman: The protagonist's mother reveals that she was a slave forcibly impregnated by the father he is seeking to avenge.
• In The Omen what had started as a consensual one-night stand between Damien and Kate Reynolds later became an anal rape and Kate was impregnated in the large intestine with Damien Jr.
• A plot point in Phenomena; an offhand mention of a nurse being attacked by a mental patient in the past resulted in the film's deformed killer.
• In Precious, the titular teenager has had two pregnancies by her currently-deceased father. He gave her HIV, which ends up killing her in the book's sequel.
• In The Prey, the Final Girl is captured by the killer and the film ends with her giving birth to his child.
• The title character of the Rika series is half-American, half-Japanese; her mother was raped by soldiers on leave from the Korean War.
• Rob Roy: Quite possibly the case with Mary's baby, although she can't say for sure whether Rob or her rapist is the father.
• Room has 5-year-old Jack. His mother was abducted seven years ago and Jack is the product of her being raped regularly by her abductor "Old Nick". When Jack and his mother eventually escape from captivity and are reintegrated into society, Jack's grandfather rejects him as he can't forget that Jack was conceived by rape.
• In Rosemary's Baby the titular Rosemary was either impregnated by her husband or Satan while she was passed out. Either way, that would make the child a product of rape and, depending on whether you interpret the ending as real or her own paranoid delusions, The Antichrist.
• Scream 3: Roman Bridger was conceived when Maureen Prescott (Sidney's mother) was gang-raped by Hollywood director, John Milton. She put Roman up for adoption because he served as a reminder of her gang-rape, and rejected him when he showed up around decades later to reconcile.
• In Splice, Dren, after changing sex from female to male, rapes her/his adoptive mother, Elsa, resulting in pregnancy.
• Swallow: The main character, Hunter, is a product of rape; she meets her father for the first time at the end of the film.
• Played for Laughs in That's My Boy, where Todd (a.k.a. Han Solo) was conceived out of an infamous relationship between an adult teacher and her 12-year-old student. Said teacher ended up in jail for statutory rape, while said student ended up raising Todd through horrible circumstances.
• Theresa & Allison: In a particularly awful example, we learn vampires like Paisley have women raped repeatedly until they get pregnant, then kill the babies by feeding on them since infant blood is more tasty apparently.
• Trishna, a 2011 reimagining of Tess of the D'Urbervilles set in contemporary India, features the titular main character (just like her book counterpart) being raped by a British businessman (in this case of South Asian ancestry). She becomes pregnant, but has an abortion, rather than like the book where Tess gives birth but her baby dies early in childhood. Later, Trishna also murders her rapist in order to escape him, but then kills herself in guilt at the end.
• In Vampire Diary, Vicki claims that the child she is carrying is the result of her being raped by a male vampire. The story of her upbringing she tells Holly indicates that all vampire pregnancies are the result of rape. However, Vicki is an Unreliable Narrator, so how much (if any) of this is true is unknown.
• The Vikings: Eric (Tony Curtis) turns out to be the son of Queen Enid of Northumbria. She gave birth to him following her rape by Viking chieftain Ragnar.
• The Violent Years ends with the main character giving birth to a child fathered by a man she raped at gunpoint.
• Sylvia from Within Our Gates is the child of a racist white man and a black woman. The film says the two were married, however it's generally believed that the two being married was only added in later to get around censors (the movie was made in 1920, back before the advent of The Hays Code).
• Women Talking: Ona's pregnancy is a result of her rape. Some of the other children in the colony were also born as a result of the attacks. Melvin (a teen trans boy) became pregnant by his brother raping him, but miscarried.
• The World Unseen: Amina's mother was conceived as a result of her grandmother being raped by a Black man. She was blamed for this, beaten by her male relatives and sent off to India.

Literature

• Defied in The Alice Network: both characters that were left pregnant after non-consensual sex got abortions.
• Author V. C. Andrews tends to use this trope a lot, and often as backstory.
  • Corrine in the Dollanganger Series was the result of Malcolm Foxworth raping his young stepmother Alicia.
  • The storyline of the Casteel Series is set off when Leigh is raped by her stepfather and gives birth to the heroine Heaven.
• Ascendance of a Bookworm: In the temple, blue robed priests and shrine maidens aren't allowed to marry, but it's common for them to take Sex Slaves from the orphanage that takes in children who lost their guardians to raise them as gray robed priests and shrine maidens, whose official purpose is to serve blue robes as attendants. The other difference between blue robes and gray robes is that the former are unwanted children of the Supernatural Elite, while gray robes are orphaned commoner Muggles. The setting has a particularity in that only people with similar magic levels can have children with each other... except that the Superpowerful Genetics have a random element to them and having a low magic level in regards to one's family is how one ends up becoming a blue robe working for the temple in the first place. While Sex Slave pregancies are rare, they happen often enough that until the temple started dealing with a massive loss of revenue by getting rid of "pure loss" mouths to feed, the care of infant orphans was reliant on gray shrine maidens who had become mothers to children fathered by blue priests. Myne's attendants Delia and Wilma have been confirmed to be among such children, Delia by a casual mention of having noble blood, Wilma by memories of having been cared for by her mother in the orphanage as a young child.
• A Brother's Price:
  • The younger sisters of Balin Brindle are rumored to be actually fathered by him, on his own mothers, as his father is old and frail. The protagonists seem to think this consensual, but there is some Fridge Horror involved if you don't believe that All Men Are Perverts.
  • Averted with Trini, who was raped by her own husband, but didn't get pregnant. The rapist doesn't seem to have fathered any other children, either, except for an incestuous child with his sister/biological cousin. Having children is also the main reason why women commit rape in this universe — men are so rare that the only three options to conceive a child are a husband (to be shared by all sisters in a family), a male prostitute, or rape. The above-mentioned male rapist, on the other hand, was just a sadist, as he had more than ten wives who were smitten with him.
• In The Century Trilogy, Carla is raped by soldiers and becomes pregnant; she marries her sweetheart and they raise her son together, and he's one of the protagonists of the next book.
• The Chronicles of Dorsa: It turns out that the Order of Taghren gets more members (or hosts), this way. An all-female group, they reproduce with enslaved male sailors to father daughters who will join the Order. Their fathers don't even know what's going on at the time, being mindless drones as a result of their shadow infection, fathering them and caring for the girls while in that state. Nonetheless, they love and want to protect them after getting freed too.
• In the first part of Stephen R. Donaldson's The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the titular character rapes and impregnates one of the first people he meets in the Land, then later has to deal with his child as an adult because of the time difference between the Earth and the Land.
• In Deep Love, after Reina is raped, she gets pregnant and has a child whom she names Ayu.
• In Dragonlance, Tanis Half-Elven's elven mother was raped by a human and gave birth to Tanis, who was raised by his mother's people. Both the circumstances of his conception and his biracial status make Tanis uncomfortable. For bonus angst points, he's told that his mother clung to life in the hope that her unborn baby was sired by her dead husband, and upon giving birth and discovering otherwise... Some writers later turned it into a lie to cover up a consensual affair between his parents, but others changed it back.
• Dragonvarld: Melisande becomes pregnant twice this way. In the first case, she's drugged with a potion by Draconas which causes her libido to increase, along with Edward's. This causes them to lose control, having sex (just as Draconas wished). However this isn't treated as rape by the narrative. Then shortly after this she's attacked and raped by Grald, getting pregnant from this too. She gives birth to two sons later, one by each.
• Evillious Chronicles:
  • A king named Arth is magically induced to have an affair with the arc's Big Bad Prim Marlon, conceiving a little girl whose existence he never even knows about.
  • The Lunacy Of Duke Venomania: The titular Duke impregnates several women while he's enchanted them to believe they're madly in love with him. The result is a lot of his descendants being treated like crap for his crimes for centuries.
• In the original light novel of Fate/Zero, Maiya Hisau briefly mentions that she was once raped by soldiers. The resulting son was taken away from her and raised by the soldiers to become one of them. The boy eventually grows up to be Sigma, a character in Fate/strange Fake.
• In The Foretelling by Alice Hoffman, the protagonist Rain is the result of her mother being gang-raped by fifty enemy warriors — when she was thirteen, to make it worse. Her relationship with her mother is a bit strained as a result, with her being raised more by a kindly aunt, but she's reasonably well-adjusted given her circumstances and basically a decent person.
• Inverted in The Ghost Writer. The protagonist Gerard Freeman is conceived when his mother, Phyllis Hatherley, screwed / raped Hugh Montfort, the fiance of her sister, Anne. However, it's quite ambiguous whether it's consensual or not. What's known is that Phyllis aggressively seduced Hugh, leading to their affair and Gerard's conception. And when Anne discovered this, Phyllis was naked and "on his top, riding on him".
• In Goblin Slayer, goblins are a One-Gender Race that reproduce by raping human or elven women, meaning that every last goblin in the series is one of these.
• In The Jeremiah School, the main character Peter Stone is told in a dream that he is the son of Lucien Morgenstern, the headmaster of Luciferian Academy, who gave Peter's mother a little "going away present" when she broke off her relationship with Lucien.
• In The King's Peace by Jo Walton, the protagonist falls victim to the first part of a Rape, Pillage, and Burn raid, resulting in a son with an important Destiny (it is explicitly acknowledged that the god responsible for this destiny is not very nice, and enjoys messing with people).
• In Maresi, a group of men attacked the abbey. One of the women, Eostre, who sacrificed herself so the others would not be raped, gives birth to a child. She loves her daughter and seems to cope with the trauma really well.
• A Master of Djinn: Siti says her mother was less than fifteen when her father, a djinn, seduced her, using his magic for this and impregnating her.
• Le Morte d'Arthur:
  • Sir Tor was the result of the rape of a cowherd's wife by a knight. So much for chivalry.
  • Arthur himself could be considered this as well, since he was conceived under false pretenses; his father (Uther) magically disguised himself as his mother's real husband (Gorlois), who was being killed by Uther's men at the time, the sorcerous equivalent of a Bed Trick. Ygraine does marry Uther, and according to all sources that comment they were very happy, but she sure wasn't pleased when she worked out what had just happened.
  • For that matter, Sir Galahad is usually said to have been conceived when Lancelot had been enchanted into believing that Elaine was actually Guinevere, whom he was in love with. The "tainted" aspect sure doesn't apply, since he turns out to be Incorruptible Pure Pureness and the one knight worthy of gaining the Holy Grail.
  • In stories where Mordred is Arthur's inbred, illegitimate son rather than his nephew, he is conceived when either Morgan or Morgause magically disguises herself as Guinevere and sleeps with Arthur. In Le Morte d'Arthur, there is no rape or even deception; Morgause and Arthur sleep with each other willingly, knowing that it's adultery (Morgause is married) but not knowing that it's incest. The Mists of Avalon portrays the scenario as the two of them reacting like they'd both been effectively raped by Viviane, who set up the encounter as part of a religious ritual where they were both disguised and didn't bother to tell the two of them who their partner actually was until afterward, and she seems nonplussed when they freak out about it.
• In the Night Huntress series, Cat's mother Justina was raped by a vampire, resulting in Cat's conception. Avenging her mother's rape and atoning for her own existence is Cat's primary motivation for killing all vampires in the first book. Later, we learn that Cat's father mind raped Justina only after the physical seduction had been completed, violating her mind and causing her to believe she'd had sex with a demon, hence she claimed to have been raped. Your mileage may vary on whether that's better or worse.
• Reign of the Seven Spellblades:
  • Exaggerated with Ophelia Salvadori, who was essentially turned into a Breeding Slave for her mother's eugenics experiments the moment she hit puberty and was forced to bear multiple children before the age of fifteen, when she was able to escape to Kimberly Magic Academy.
  • Shannon Sherwood's pregnancy, first alluded to in main character Oliver Horn's memory in volume 2, which mentions him being desperate to help her: "Every night, he’d faced her back and suppressed the tears that threatened to overflow." It's ultimately revealed they were both drugged by the Sherwood clan elders and he was made to impregnate her, in the interest of a pure-blooded heir. The pregnancy ended in a stillbirth.
• Sir Apropos of Nothing, whose lame leg is a clue to figuring out who raped his mother.
• In the Harry Potter series, Voldemort was conceived this way. Voldemort's mother, Merope, forced a guy she was infatuated with to marry her using a Love Potion. He abandoned her and their unborn child as soon as she stopped drugging him, leaving Merope to Death by Despair and Tom to a joyless upbringing in an orphanage. Word of God states that had Merope survived to raise Tom with love, he would have turned out much differently.
• In Christopher Moore's Fool, Pocket was assumed to be the child of a nearby town's resident crazy lady, who claimed he was a prince before dropping him off at a convent and drowning herself. A witch later grants Pocket the ability to see what really happened: Nine months before he was born, King Lear essentially forced his own brother to rape Pocket's mother.
• A couple times in the Sword of Truth series:
  • First we learn of Richard, whose father turns out to have been the Big Bad.
  • The next book has Du Chaillu, who was kept as a slave and raped repeatedly, and has become pregnant. Richard convinces her not to abort the child.
  • Usually the case with Confessors, as the nature of their power means they try to avoid falling in love and having sex with men they love, as they can't avoid Confessing them in the throes of passion, essentially turning them into brainwashed slaves. As such, they usually confess "bad" men and use them to father and protect their children. However, as in the case of Kahlen and Dennee Amnell, their mother died when they were little, which caused their father to die of despair as well.
• This is Saavik's backstory in the novelization of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; she's one of several children produced by Romulans raping captured Vulcans. She mentions that she doesn't even know if the rapist was her mother or her father.
  • This is also a backstory of Soleta, a character prominent in Star Trek novels. Her story is particularly tragic: her mother desperately wanted a child with her husband, but all of her pregnancies ended prematurely. Then she was raped by a rogue Romulan, became pregnant, and decided to have the child (as a gift of fate). And indeed, Soleta is the only child her mother gives birth to.
• Clovis Holstein in the Warrior Trilogy of BattleTech novels learned early on in his life that he was the Child by Rape of Duke Aldo Le Strade. When Le Strade's actions lead directly to the near-annihilation of his entire town, Clovis demands of his allies that no one but he kills Le Strade.
• Starling from the Farseer trilogy was raped by an Outislander invader, but aborted the child, which unfortunately left her infertile.
• Tillu from Megan Lindholm's A Saga Of The Reindeer People was captured and abused by four men, after which she gave birth to Kerlew.
• The Stone Dance of the Chameleon:
  • Fern was conceived via his mother Akaisha's rape by a Maruli. (It is unclear if his second edition counterpart Blue was also born as a result of rape, as the circumstances of his conception are described in far more ambiguous terms.)
  • Protagonist Carnelian is an example of this trope played straight regardless of edition.
• Need 2008 by Carrie Jones has a character outright using this phrase, though whether it's "really" rape is a matter of a brief debate. The woman consented...because she was under heavy threats to herself and her family. And then the disaster that this was supposed to avoid happened anyway. The child is Zara herself.
• At least some of the half-human half-fae characters in The Dresden Files are children conceived via rape. One of them was conceived when a human woman raped by a troll. In one short story, we're introduced to a Grendelkin, who can only reproduce this way, with the offspring clawing its way out of the poor "mother".
• Elena Bothari-Jesek from the Vorkosigan Saga only learned she was the product of a rape when she finally met her mother... who promptly shot her father. A very rare case where the perpetrator is actually a sympathetic character, who carried out the rape whilst his anti-psychotic medication was being forcibly withheld by a third party and was wracked with guilt when he was lucid again.
• The title character of Stephen King's Carrie may have been the result of marital rape, as revealed by her religious fanatic mother Margaret directly before her attempt to kill her. Carrie's mother and father, being extremely, puritanically religious, strongly disliked and were repulsed by sex; however Margaret implies that they couldn't resist no matter what and that her father raped her one night when he was drunk, which made Margaret even more ashamed when she enjoyed it. Margaret then thought that she had "a cancer of the womanly parts" until she gave birth.
• Bruce Robertson, the brutal misanthropic policeman in the Irvine Welsh novel Filth (1998), is revealed to have been conceived after his mother is raped by "The Beast".
• This happens quite often in the Malazan Book of the Fallen, but then again, it's a big series.
  • In Memories of Ice, the so-called Children of the Dead Seed are the products of women who have gone mad due to cannibalism taking to the battlefield and having their way with the corpses of very recently dead or dying soldiers, based on how the soldiers' bodies would release a last portion of semen upon death. Anaster, in particular, is the product of such a situation and it is heavily implied that he has no soul and becomes a violent cannibal thanks to that.
  • In Midnight Tides, Rud Elalle is the product of his goddess mother raping Udinaas, a human slave, to get at the wyval blood he is temporarily infected with at that time. Since she then drops off her child in a community of Imass to be raised, though, Rud becomes a very friendly, caring youth willing to stand up to his own mother to protect those who raised him.
  • In The Bonehunters, Scillara gives birth to a child which was conceived by rape during the Whirldwind Rebellion. She used to be a prostitute in the Whirlwind Army camp, but Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil, and she cannot abide to keep the child and leaves it to some villagers to care for.
  • In Toll the Hounds, Harllo is introduced, who was conceived by a high ranking officer raping Stonny Menackis during the siege of Capustan. She is not beating about the bush concerning her revulsion regarding the child, and Harllo, being five by this point, actually thought for a long time that Rape was his father's name.
  • In The Crippled God, Korlat makes a vague statement about not being a pure-blooded Tiste Andii, and her mother Sandalath's point of view heavily implied that Korlat was conceived by rape. The Kharkanas Trilogy, the prequel, confirms that Korlat is the product of mystical rape resulting in That Thing Is Not My Child! from her mother's point of view. Korlat is influenced by this even a millennia later and is not able to face her mother again, despite being a respected figure among the Tiste Andii, because she was unable to prevent her brother's death, whom Sandalath had charged her to protect no matter what as punishment for being a child by rape.
• In Island Beneath the Sea, Jean-Claude (separated from his mother and later adopted by Violette and Étienne Relais) and Rosette are conceived as a result of Toulouse Valmorain raping the enslaved Teté. Valmorain often tells Teté that she should be grateful he allowed her to keep Rosette.
• In Phenomena, Sha-ra's child was born out of a case of Date Rape. Apparently, this was one of those times in fiction when a woman raping a man isn't displayed as a humorous situation.
• In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie was conceived when her mother was raped by her schoolteacher. The mother may possibly count as an example herself since her own father is the plantation owner who used to own Nanny.
• Ushahin Dreamspinner from The Sundering is the result of the rape of an Ellyl woman by a human man. He is eventually rejected by both peoples and beaten to within an inch of his life, after which he is adopted by the leader of the wolf-like Were.
• In We Can't Rewind, Jaymee was conceived when her mother Denise was eleven, due to her teacher (who thought she was too young to get pregnant) molesting her.
• The Wicked Years:
  • In Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire, Liir, the protagonist is raped by a young Quadling girl when he is comatose. Their daughter Rain is a child by rape. At the end of the book, the mother abandons their green-skinned daughter for Liir to find.
  • In Wicked, the first book of the Wicked Years series, it's strongly implied (confirmed via the family tree in the third book) that Elphaba herself was this. She was conceived after the Wizard had her mother, Melena, drink the Miracle Elixir, and then had sex with her while she was unconscious.
• Tsotha-lanti from Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian story "The Scarlet Citadel" is said to have been conceived when a dancing girl of Shadizar slept too near the pre-human ruins of Dagoth Hill and woke in the grip of a demon.
• Queen Yrsa, mother of the title hero of The Saga of Hrolf Kraki, was conceived when her mother Queen Olof of Saxony was raped by King Helgi of Denmark.
• Jodi Picoult:
  • In Handle with Care, Charlotte's lawyer, Marin, is adopted and finds out that her birth mother gave her up because she was a child by rape. Marin's birth mother refuses to talk to her because she reminds her of the rape.
  • In Salem Falls, Addie's deceased daughter Chloe is revealed to be the result of a gang rape.
• Trapped on Draconica: Gothon captured Kalak's mom and raped her before she escaped. Kalak himself is more shocked and outraged that his mother didn't abort him (as is the Leondian custom) than discovering that he's this trope.
• Tantufi from the Dreamblood Duology is the result of a father molesting his daughter. She's kept hidden in the basement from people outside the family.
• This drives the entire plot of Francine Rivers’ novel The Atonement Child. When Dynah, a young Christian girl at a Bible college, winds up pregnant after being raped, Dynah has to decide whether to abort the child (which is against her beliefs) or carry it to term as an "atonement child."
• At the end of Last Snow by Eric Van Lustbader, Annika learns that she was conceived when her mother was raped by the man who had just killed her husband. She responds by putting a bullet in the head of her "father", especially since said father had tracked her down and kidnapped her as a child, and had tried to start a sexual relationship with her when she was only 5 years old, knowing full well who she was.
• The Alienist: The killer was the result of marital rape.
• Corie in Summers at Castle Auburn. Though in an interesting reversal, her mother raped her father.
• Major characters in several Dean Koontz books fit this trope, most commonly being the result of incestuous rape, such as in Whispers, Life Expectancy, The Bad Place, and What The Night Knows.
• In Villains by Necessity, it turns out that Sam is one, via Mizzamir long ago raping his mother.
• Máel Dúin, hero of the medieval Irish romance The Voyage of Máel Dúin, owes his existence to his father Ailill Ochair Aghra raping a young prioress during a raiding expedition.
• In Disgrace, Lucy Lurie conceives a child after being viciously gang-raped.
• In Fort Hope, Emma is most likely one of these. Towards the end of the book, she ends up (briefly) meeting TJ, her biological father.
• Memer, the protagonist of Voices, was one of many children born when the Alds sacked Ansul and raped any woman they found. They have lighter skin and the Alds' characteristic blond, fuzzy hair to mark them out, and they're derisively known as "siege brats".
• As they fight each other, Le Gérant in Never Dream of Dying tells James Bond that he is the result of his father raping a Berber girl.
• Dahlia Sin'felle from The Neverwinter Saga (part of The Legend of Drizzt) was raped by the Shadovar battle leader Herzgo Alegni when his band raided her village, and she later gave birth to his child. When he came back to collect his son, she got back at him by throwing the boy from a cliff. The child survived the fall, and grew up to be the sorcerer Effron the Twisted, who wants revenge on her along with his father.
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles contains an example of this. For added drama, the child dies young, and the priest refuses to give it a christening because it is the result of extramarital sex.
• In the Towers Trilogy, Xhea learns from her grandmother that her mother Nerra became pregnant with her after being raped.
• Saga Of The Noble Dead: Magiere's mother did not volunteer for Ubad's little project.
• The Forgotten Beasts of Eld: Sybil, quite possibly, given that her father controlled her mother by magic.
• In Kane Series story "Raven's Eyrie" Ionor is abducted and repeatedly raped by outlaw leader Kane. She escapes and gives birth to Klesst, who grows up knowing fully well who she is, since she shares her father's characteristic looks. Ionor hates her daughter because she is a constant reminder of her suffering and shame and is even willing to sacrifice Klesst to the demon lord Tloluvin to get her revenge. In comparison with the mother, the rapist father turns out to be a decent guy.
• In the Earth's Children series, this applies to most first generation "children of mixed spirits", the term used for those born of mixed Neanderthal (Clan) and Cro-Magnon (Others) parentage. However, Ayla (herself the mother of such a child) speculates that Rydag may be a rare exception since his mother, though initially wary of the members of Lion Camp, did not show the levels of fear which Clan women usually show around the Others.
• In Beloved, the protagonist, Sethe, is the only one of her mother's children not conceived through rape (her mother "put her arms around" Sethe's father, which the book seems to use to imply consent). It's for this reason that Sethe's mother nurtured her and raised her to adulthood, while abandoning all of Sethe's half-siblings as soon as they were born.
• The half-demon Liz from Darkest Powers is rumored to be the product of this but she is uncertain.
• The Silerian Trilogy: Zarien turns out to be one due to Kiloran's rape of his mother.
• In Linda Castillo's The Dead Will Tell, it turns out that the murderer, Ruth aka Hannah, may have been conceived this way, since her Amish mother Wanetta Hochstetler was abducted, raped and left for dead after a botched home invasion and robbery that resulted in the deaths of her husband and all but one of her existing children (though the latter's deaths turn out to have been because of an overturned lantern causing a fire). After Wanetta was found and nursed back to health, it was discovered that she was pregnant, and she never returned home or let her living son, William, know she was still alive out of shame at what had happened to her and because William had unintentionally left the lantern that caused the fire and his mother held him responsible. Ruth believes that her father is her mother's murdered husband but Wanetta at least believed she was actually this trope and verbally abused her. After Wanetta dies, Ruth goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the perpetrators and tracks down and murders them, and to accomplish this she goes so far as to marry William with the intent of Gaslighting him for his role in the deaths of his other siblings. It's vaguely implied she succeeds in this by telling him their true relationship which causes him to take his own life. Eventually, Kate causes Ruth's unbothered demeanor to crack after being caught by pointing out her resemblance the only rapist she hadn't yet killed, which normally would be a Kick the Dog moment but given everything Ruth has done comes off as Laser-Guided Karma instead.
• Raybearer: The Lady's second wish is to have a fully obidant child that acts and feels whatever she tells them to. The restrictions on what a person can and cannot wish for forbids Melu from granting that exact wish, but The Lady knows the ehru can't let a wish go ungranted. Instead, The Lady commands Melu to have sex with her, which leads her to conceiving and giving birth to Tarisai.
• Rose of the Prophet: This is the means by which Black Paladins produce new children, with captured women used as breeding slaves for them. It's also stated that some monsters on their island reproduce by raping women.
• The Belgariad: Unrek, son of Barak and Merel, was conceived due to the latter demanding his "rights". All of the Dryads, too, since they're conceived with captured human men. Taiba had twin daughters this way, due to a fellow slave having gotten her as a "gift" from the Murgos.
• I Am Mordred: Sir Torre is one, as a result of Pellinore raping a milkmaid.
• In the Colleen McCullough novel The Touch, 13-year old mentally disabled girl Anna is raped by a local and conceives. As it's too late for an abortion when her pregnancy is discovered, she gives birth and her mother raises the baby as her own as she's incapable of doing so.
• Shadow of the Conqueror deals with this trope several times, always connected to Dayless the Conqueror, who raped hundreds of girls and unknowingly fathered numerous children on them.
• Indexing:
  • How Sleeping Beauties work. As said in the second chapter:
    Reports from the hospital said that Alicia Connors, our erstwhile Sleeping Beauty, was already awake, unaware of the bullet she'd just dodged. She wouldn't need a Prince to save her. She wouldn't sleep through her own rape and pregnancy, or any of the other horrible fates that await the four-tens.
  • Protagonist Henry Marchen turns out to be the daughter of one such unfortunate, who was taken advantage of by her doctor when she was in a coma.
• Kushiel's Legacy:
  • Hyacinthe, as his mother was raped by a patron of Bryony House.
  • Bao is the result of his mother being raped by a raider.
  • Kamala, daughter of female bodhisattva Laysa by the Falconer Tarik Khaga, a warlord who kidnapped her and many other women to join his harem.
• Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi: It turns out that Qin Su's father isn't Qin Cangye, but Jin Guangshan, who forced himself on her mother. This leads to serious trouble down the line.
• The Color Purple begins with Celie being sexually abused by her (step) father, resulting in two children named Adam and Olivia. They are later taken away from Celie, and given up to married couple Samuel and Corrine.
• Push has the main character Precious raped by her father countless times. By the time the story begins, she is sixteen and pregnant with her second child from him.
• Split Heirs: Artemisia was forced to marry Gudge, making their triplets all this.
• Copper Sun: Amari, a slave, is raped repeatedly by her master, the son of a wealthy plantation owner. At the end of the story, when she's escaped the plantation and found freedom, an older woman informs her that she's pregnant. The woman tells Amari that she herself was raped by her own master, who killed her baby after she gave birth, and it's implied this is a regular occurrence for most female slaves. Amari is at first disheartened that she had a child with such a despicable man, though she gets over it after realizing that her child will be born free.
• The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali: Rukhsansa finds out that her mother was conceived this way as her grandfather repeatedly raped her grandmother, which also goes for her uncle. Since he would let up temporarily when she was pregnant her grandmother felt the most happy during her pregnancies.
• In The Curse of M, Lorna's twins are fathered when the Big Bad rapes her. In the subsequent books, she takes great care to make sure they don't know this; only her husband and a few close friends know she was raped in the first place.
• A Song of Ice and Fire has several examples of this. But, the consensus is pretty much "it's not the incidence of rape that a terrible child makes, but what comes afterwards which can". Raise a child poorly and, well... yeah.
  • Ramsay Bolton is an interesting examination of the trope, since it's pretty clear that the reason Ramsay is so awful has less to do with being conceived in a "tainted" situation and more to do with being related to/"raised" by/deliberately neglected by and then suddenly accepted by someone horrible enough to go around raping people in the first place. Perhaps you could have looked into providing a better education and a more stable environment, sooner, Roose — instead of, say, trolling that mill-owning family from a distance with occasional, Reekish-esque, "help", eh?
  • Daenerys Targaryen might be this. According to Jaime Lannister's recollections, her parents' sex life had devolved to the point that it only happened when her insane father got horny after a burning and violently abused the Marital Rape License. However, whatever problems Dany has are more to do with spending her life on the run from Robert Baratheon's assassins while being raised in a exile with an abusive brother as one's only family and parental figure — all thanks to a rebellion overthrowing the Targaryen dynasty — than how she might have been conceived.
  • The previous Daenerys was likely a child by rape as well, considering her parents Aegon IV and Naerys hated each other, and only stayed together because Aegon was a lecherous Entitled Bastard. Naerys begged Aegon to let herself go after giving birth to his heir, the future Daeron II, but he said no. While there was a rumor that Daeron wasn't conceived by Aegon (a rumor likely started by Aegon himself as a way to disinherit him), there was no question that Daenerys was his daughter, even though there was nothing resembling a functional couple in Aegon and Naerys by the time she was born.
  • Lollys Stokeworth's son, Tyrion, was conceived when she was gang-raped during the Riot of Kings' Landing.
  • Gilly's son is almost definitely a case of this, considering the father of her child is also her own father, Craster. Poor mite didn't ask for that any more than Gilly did. And, he didn't ask to be made into a Moses/swapsie story to save somebody else, either. Whatever happens to the kid as a consequence of that, that's on Jon et al. Which could be highly ironic, considering Jon's possible background.
  • Had it not been aborted, Lysa Arryn and Petyr Baelish's child might have been this, since it was the result of Lysa taking advantage of Petyr being passed out drunk and later bedridden with fever to sleep with him while he thought she was someone else. "Might" because it is unclear whether she was intentionally impersonating the woman he actually loved. She appears to believe it was consensual, although she is more than a bit unhinged so that by itself doesn't prove much.
  • Franklyn Flowers claims his mother was a washerwoman who was raped by one of Lord Fossoway's sons. As a result, Franklyn hates the Fossoways despite kind of being one himself (maybe). Well, that, and any time he'd approach one about it, it's gone badly for unspecified reasons. Probably to do with lack of any solid proof combining with him still being a bastard if it is actually true (so his opinion about anything wouldn't count because no status).
• Star Wars: In the novel "Bloodline" after Darth Vader is revealed to be Luke and Leia's biological father, some of Leia's staff wonder if Padmé Amidala had become pregnant with Luke and Leia as a result of being raped by Vader. They dismiss this theory as all available records show Amidala had died before Vader came on the galactic scene.
• Tales from the Flat Earth has the angelic Soveh (renamed Dunizel by her adoptive parents) turn out to be conceived when the brutish servant of a sorcerer, uses the village's "idiot girl" as his sex slave (he had previously attempted to rape the reed-cutter's wife). It could have all ended tragically except for the sorcerer's experiment with a magical comet, which could be considered Dunizel's 3rd parent in her conception.
• The Traitor Son Cycle: It eventually turns out that the Red Knight is a child of the King and his sister, conceived when the King raped the latter. The Heroic Bastard in question doesn't bemoan this, but he does despise the King.
• In The War Gods the minor character Arsham was conceived when his mother was raped by Churnazh, Prince of Navahk. Unlike many cultures Hradani don't consider this to be a mark against him since they have a low birth rate and regard all children as precious. As a consequence following Churnazh's overthrow Arsham is named Prince of Navahk (it helps that his half-brothers are all rapists and assholes as well).
• Who Fears Death: Onyesonwu is an Ewu, the product of the rape of a woman of the Okeke tribe by a man of the Nuru tribe. Because of this she is shunned by the villagers in the town she grows up in, and haunted by the spirit of her biological father, a powerful sorcerer who wants her dead.
• Wings of Fire: Winter the IceWing dragon doesn't go into too much detail about it considering its demographic, but Darkstalker's NightWing mother kidnapped his IceWing father and forced him to have him in order to have the NightWings get the IceWings' animus powers. Though it turns out in the Darkstalker special edition that they were actually in love, but the IceWings assumed no prince of their tribe would ever be in love with a NightWing dragon.
• Worlds of Shadow: Amy gets pregnant due to being repeatedly raped by her owner Walter.
• Kagor from Mermaid's Song was conceived when Groff raped Tia as punishment for not obeying him. When he learned she was pregnant, he had her imprisoned so she couldn't go to a healer for an abortion. Shortly before Kagor's birth, Tia escaped and fled into the open sea to raise her son in peace. Groff tracked her down almost three years later and kidnapped Kagor to raise as his own son, but it soon became apparent that Kagor has no feeling for anyone, and he grew into a remorseless hunter who takes great delight in watching the sharks he controls rip his victims to shreds. Groff wonders if the violence of his conception and Tia's hatred for Groff caused him to turn out that way.
• Gaia Marinos from Natural Law is raped by the Hunter, one of the men raising her, and gets pregnant as a result. She later gives birth to a son, but the way he was conceived never makes her love him any less - rather, her whole life starts revolving around making the world a safe place for her son to live in.
• In The Moon and the Sun, Marie-Josèphe grew up with the slave Haleed and saw her as a sister. Late in the book, she learns that Haleed actually is her half-sister - she was conceived when Marie-Josèphe's father raped an enslaved Turkish woman.
• The Mermaid Chronicles: In Fight for Freedom, Cordelia meets her older half-sister Raina, who was conceived when their mom was raped as a teenager. Raina was put up for adoption and raised in the Midwest, and doesn't learn she's a mermaid until she's twenty-nine.
• In Wrong Time for Dragons, the main characters eventually learns that his mother was conceived when the previous Dragonslayer raped his grandmother (the last Dragon) instead of killing her, before banishing her to our world. As such, the main character has both Dragon and Dragonslayer legacy and must eventually choose between the two. Ironically, the main chasing him is his own grandfather, who stops the moment he learns the truth.
• The Mermaid's Daughter: Kathleen's great-grandmother, Caolinn, was a lesbian. She thought that meant that her Hereditary Curse would be broken, until she was raped one night by a man entranced by her singing. She named the resulting child Deirdre, meaning "child of sorrow."
• The Shadowhunter Chronicles mentions that Warlocks are always conceived by rape, because demons are Always Chaotic Evil, and no human will ever give their consent to them. Magnus Bane's mother committed suicide upon learning that she banged a demon and gave birth to a Warlock, while Tessa Gray's father is a demon who fooled her mother into believing that he was her husband, so he could have sex with her.
• Tales of the Pack: It's revealed that full-blood werewolves reproduce by raping women.

Live-Action Television

• Accused (2023): Clara became pregnant as a result of her stepfather raping her, it turns out in "Jack's Story".
• All My Children:
  • Erica Kane gave birth to her eldest daughter, Kendall Hart, after she was raped by one of her father's friends, a movie star, on her 14th birthday. Erica and her mother place Erica's baby girl for adoption with the Harts but the Harts keep the adoption a secret from Kendall, who feels displaced growing up. After she learns her lifelong idol, Erica Kane, is actually her natural mother when she finds her adoption papers, a 16-year old Kendall seeks Erica's approval and runs away to Pine Valley to meet her mother with dreams of a mother-daughter reunion. Though Erica first welcomes Kendall into her life as her daughter and she and Kendall work to develop a healthy mother-daughter relationship, much drama ensues on both parts and Kendall, proving she is her mother's daughter, follows in Erica's footsteps and becomes quite the handful as the newest troublemaker in town. Mother and daughter experience a strained, dysfunctional, and complicated relationship during this time in the series as Kendall, hurt over being given up for adoption, cries, schemes, throws vases, and longs for Erica's approval/attention while acting out against her mother for said attention — really acting out (although Kendall has her good side too). Erica and an apologetic Kendall make peace and Erica forgives her repentant daughter for the crap she's pulled. Kendall later develops a healthier, very loving and close relationship with her mother, Erica, and sister, Bianca, after the character's return in 2002. In addition to being the daughter of Erica Kane, this character is also notable for launching Sarah Michelle Gellar's career,^note Gellar was the first actress to play Kendall and was called the "second coming of Erica" for her work in the popular role but decided to leave the show in 1995 to pursue other projects. When the character returns in 2002, Alicia Minshew played Kendall until the series' end in 2011 and returned in the 2013 online revival. who won a Daytime Emmy for the role in 1995.
  • Miranda Montgomery was conceived this way when Michael Cambias raped her mother Bianca Montgomery, who is Kendall's sister and Erica's youngest daughter. Bianca raises Miranda herself and she and Miranda share a very close and loving mother-daughter relationship, but Miranda has no idea who her biological father is or how she was conceived since Bianca and her family (Erica, Kendall, and Kendall's ex-husband Zach Slater — who is also Miranda's biological paternal uncle) have done everything in their power to keep this fact hidden from her. Instead, Bianca told Miranda that her father is a sperm donor and Miranda seems to more or less accept this, as she has grown up with two mothers as her mother, Bianca, is a lesbian woman.
  • Emily Ann Sago was conceived when her mother was raped by Billy Clyde Tuggle.
  • Julia Santos was impregnated by her rapist, but had an abortion.
• American Horror Story: Asylum has John Morgan, also known as John Thredson, the modern-day serial killer known as Bloody Face. Especially disturbing as his father was the original infamous Bloody Face and his mother was a lesbian who became one of his victims. When John discovered his true parentage, he decided to follow in his father's footsteps.
• Andromeda combines this with Double Standard: Rape, Sci-Fi. It's even called "rape" in-universe. The species known as "The Magog" reproduce this way and only this way. In addition to being cannibals, and feeding on other sentient species, their bites can, and do, "infest" any victim they chow upon. If they don't feel like eating their victims, they can just bite them, and then simply sit back and wait for the larva to hatch and rip their way out from the inside. Surgical removal of the larva is not an option as the larva wrap themselves around vital organs and will kill the host upon any attempt to remove them by normal means. (It essentially takes bending the rules of space-time to succeed.)
• Angel: According to Word of God, they personally believe that Billy Blim was conceived when a good demon woman was raped by an evil human man.
• As the World Turns's twins Lily and Rose are this to their mother.
• Black Sails: Max was born to a slave woman and the landowner who had owned her mother.
• The Boys (2019): It turns out that Rebecca Butcher became pregnant by Homelander after he raped her. At first he was told their baby died, but then it's revealed this was a lie and they have a son she's raising.
• Burden of Truth: Luna is one due to statutory rape, as her mother was underage when she had an affair with her (much older) father.
• Camelot:
  • Arthur, due to his father using magic to impersonate his mother's husband (in keeping with the original legends often). Unlike in most examples, it's actually called rape as well (by Arthur himself, when he finds out). Even so, no one else seems to mind, and he doesn't bring it up again (to be fair, he's quite busy).
  • It later comes up in another episode that the head man of a village takes his "tithe" through raping the women before they've been married. One of the girls who's a result of this was going to be next, leading to her father (not by blood, but she still considers him this) killing the head man when he comes.
  • It's also likely that in the series finale Morgan's rape by fraud of Arthur-they had sex while she was transformed into Guinivere-caused Mordred to be conceived.
• Chicago Justice: In "Double Helix", it turns out the defendant is the child of a serial killer due to him raping her mother.
• The Confessions of Frannie Langton: Though it's not elucidated, Frannie is a biracial woman, Born into Slavery to a black mother and (it's strongly implied) John Langton, who's a white Englishman (given that she also has his last name), who had run the plantation where they were enslaved. Obviously, her mother could not have refused to sleep with him, though the exact circumstances are left unknown.
• Criminal Minds:
  • In the episode "Birthright", the team suspects a serial killer's son is carrying on his legacy... only to discover there's also a second son, whose mother was raped by the killer. While this son is not a stellar human being (he's a bit of a bum), he isn't at all evil and he's known for most of his life that his father was a bad man and loved his mother for caring for him despite it. The child by marriage however...
  • In another episode, this was the unsub's motivation, though he does not succeed (the only victim he impregnates is unwilling to have an abortion, but also unwilling to carry the child, and ultimately commits suicide.)
  • The killer in "Profiling 101" was conceived through his mother's rape, after which she died giving birth to him. He was horribly abused by his cruel grandmother, who resented him being born and said he was conceived in sin and that her daughter's "womb was cursed". This abuse led him into murdering women and cutting out their uteruses.
  • The unsubs in "Cradle to Grave" are a married couple with an agreement: the husband gets to abduct, rape, torture, and murder girls, just as long as he impregnates them and keeps them healthy enough to bear sons, which the wife then gets to raise. We know of two living sons (both named Michael), three living daughters (who were put up for adoption because the wife didn't want them), and one stillborn son that resulted from this scheme over roughly seven years.
• Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders: The killer in "Il Mostro" turns out to be the Monster of Florence's son as a result of him raping his sister. A combination of extreme child abuse, genetic predisposition to violence, and learning who his father is makes him turn into the Monster's heir.
• Days of Our Lives's Nancy finally has to admit to husband Craig's that her daughter Chloe is this after the girl becomes ill and needs a bone marrow transplant.
• Defiance: Amanda turns out to have been raped in the past, leading to a pregnancy that she terminated.
• Devious Maids: Opal's son Ethan.
• Diff'rent Strokes Season 4 episode 10 "Hello, Daddy": The son of a woman Philip Drummond knew during the Korean War, which was way before Drummond met his late first wife, shows up claiming that Mr. Drummond is his father. This leads to a reunion with the woman, who reveals that a deserter in the army hid her in a cave. When she tried to leave, he raped her. Ashamed of what happened, she said that Drummond, a kind man, was the father and that he had been killed in the war.
• Liam "Kincaid" (more accurately: Liam Beckett) from Earth: Final Conflict. The Kimera Ha'Gel, Last of His Kind, essentially goes on a spree to try and procreate. His "mates" are not able to withstand the experience. Ha'gel ends up overpowering Ronald Sandoval and Siobhan Beckett (i.e. "mating" with Beckett while possessing Sandoval's body) to produce Liam, the hero of seasons 2-4. Liam becomes increasingly "alienated" from his Kimera side and doesn't seem to acknowledge Ha'Gel any more than he absolutely has to (to the point of considering Sandoval, the show's Magnificent Bastard, to be his "real" father), and gets to tell Ha'Gel off later.
• Three examples from EastEnders: the character of Donna Ludlow, who turned out to be the daughter of Kathy Beale, conceived when Kathy was raped at the age of 14; Little Mo Mitchell, who was raped in the Queen Vic, fell pregnant and decided to keep the child; and Zoe Slater, the result of Kat being raped by her uncle as a teenager.
• Scorpius from Farscape was conceived when his mother, a Sebacean named Rylani, was abducted by the Scarrans and raped by one of their own, Wolesh, in a horrific experiment to see if Sebaceans could be used as breeding stock. Scorpius was the only surviving offspring of this "experiment", and Rylani would die giving birth to him. He does not take this revelation at all well, and a good deal of his loathing towards the Scarrans stems from what they did to him and his mother.
  • Interestingly, the Scarrans tried to convince him that it was the other way around (i.e. that a Sebacean male raped a Scarran female).
• The Frankenstein Chronicles: Fiona's pregnancy is the result of her being drugged and later raped by an aristocrat. It turns out this was Garnet Chester.
• Game of Thrones:
  • Although not explicitly stated, it's pretty clear Gilly's son Sam was conceived this way, along with all the other children of Craster's wives fathered by Craster. Many of Craster's wives are his daughters as well. No doubt he would not view it as rape.
  • Ramsay finds out that he is one, thanks to Roose's "How I Raped Your Mother" tale in Season 5. Ramsay already knew that he was an illegitimate child of the highborn Roose, but his father actually engaged in Droit du Seigneur when he learned that two commoners in his feudal domain had married without his permission. Roose took Ramsay in after he was born because the mother told Roose that Ramsay was his son, based solely on his physical resemblance.
• General Hospital's Tom Hardy is the result of his biological father enacting the Marital Rape License on his mother Audrey.
• Goodbye My Princess: Xu Niang gets pregnant when Zhang Can rapes her. The empress helps her hide it... by pretending that her child is Cheng Yin's.
• The Handmaid's Tale: All of the children the Handmaids give birth to, as they're slaves who have no say in the matter.
• Hell on Wheels: Elam was conceived by his master raping Elam's mother. Another freedman says Elam shouldn't consider their former master his father, and he appears to agree.
• Heroes Reborn (2015): Taylor Kravid was conceived when Erica was extorted by an evo to have sex with him so he would heal her terminally ill father. This is the core of her hatred towards evos, though she does not hold the circumstances of Taylor's conception against her.
• Home and Away has a few examples:
  • Charlie's daughter Ruby, who was raised as Charlie's sister until she was 16,
  • Ailsa's daughter Shauna was conceived when Ailsa was in prison and was raped by a guard
  • Tasha's daughter Ella, from when she was drugged and raped by a member of the cult she'd joined.
  • Irene's son Mick Jennings, who she gave up for adoption and didn't meet until around forty years later.
  • Billie's son Luc, conceived when the aforementioned Mick Jennings raped her the night he arrived in Summer Bay.
  • Mia's daughter Chloe was conceived when she was assaulted by a co-worker while too drunk to consent. For his part, Matthew insists that he remembers it differently and that he was at least as drunk as Mia that night, but the way he conducts himself throughout the whole storyline makes it clear he can't take no for an answer, culminating in him attacking Mia and Chloe killing him with a brick.
• The Honourable Woman: It turns out Nessa's secret was she became pregnant by one of her kidnappers raping her. Kasim is her son, though Atika agrees to raise him as her own.
• Hostages: Nina Carlisle, whose mother was raped by current president Kincaid. Nina's existence is unknown to him, since her loved ones shielded her from the awful truth, and the danger it might bring.
• Played with in House of Cards (US). When Claire is confronted in an interview with some old abortion rumors she admits to having terminated a pregnancy, but says that the father was a prominent general who raped her in college. Both the rape and the abortion took place, but with several years in-between.
• Jessica Jones (2015): Hope Schlottman becomes pregnant as a result of her time under Kilgrave's control. When she realizes this, she tries to miscarry by having Jessica give her money so that she can pay an inmate to beat her up. When that fails, Jessica and Jeri arrange to give Hope abortion drugs. This is undoubtedly for the better, because readers of the comics will know that children of Kilgrave inherited his mind control abilities.
• As per the Arthurian legend, Arthur from Kaamelott is one, as his father shapeshifted into his mother's husband to have sex with her.
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
  • Detective Olivia Benson was conceived by rape. There was a moment when it seemed like it was not the case, but then it was made clear that her father raped her mother and her mother was not lying about it. Benson's mother was also Not the First Victim, though she was the only one known to have become pregnant.
  • A more villainous example is Darius Parker, whose mother (Fin's ex-wife) was raped by her father. While he may not have known at the time, the fact that this is the reason why his mother hated him, so much that it's implied that she threatened him, could explain what he became. Darius refused to believe her.
  • Also, a good few cases focus on children conceived by rape.
  • One memorable episode featured a guy conceived through rape who started committing crimes similar to his father's. His lawyer used this as evidence for an Insanity Defense, arguing he became a rapist because of some inherited genetic defect. It didn't work.
  • Another episode involved the team trailing a rapist some thirty years after his attacks. When Olivia talks to the daughter of one of the victims, the daughter — who previously had no idea — realizes she was the product of her mother's rape. This realization of the reason why her parents treated her coldly growing up sends her into a psychological tailspin, and as she and Olivia continuing talking and the investigation continues, Olivia realizes that the rapist they're tailing has similar patterns to her own mother's rapist, leading her to believe that the woman she's been talking to may be her half-sister. She's not, which disappoints Olivia a little bit.
  • The Season 7 episode "Design" features a woman claiming her unborn child is this, as she became pregnant after being raped. It turns out to be half-true; the child was conceived without the consent of one of the parents, but it was the mother who was the aggressor while the father was the victim. While the mother cuts a deal with SVU and abandons her daughter for Florida, the father steps up to raise her and it's clear she'll be raised in a loving, stable home.
  • Benson eventually adopts another child who was conceived by rape. Noah Porter-Benson's biological mother was raped by the sex trafficker who was holding her hostage at the time. Noah is later confirmed to have at least one half-sibling who was conceived the same way.
  • Dr. Fran Stanton from the episode "Conned" conceived a son as a result of raping her underage patient Andrew Hingham.
  • The entire plot of "Legitimate Rape" ultimately comes down to this; the defendant, serving as his own attorney, uses junk science to argue that the victim's pregnancy proves it wasn't rape.
• Legend of the Seeker:
  • As in its source materials, all children of Confessors are conceived this way, as their mates have lost all free will and do as the Confessor wishes. After coming back to his senses, Kahlan's father forced her sister and her to use their powers for evil, binding their wrists if they refused. The only other living Confessor was locked in a tower all her life by her father out of fear.
  • Richard and Jennsen as well, due to Panis Rahl seducing their mother while disguised as a young shepherd — a rape by fraud.
• Leonela's son in the Mexican telenovela Leonela was conceived by rape.
• Little House on the Prairie: The 1981 episode "Sylvia", where Albert's girlfriend (the 14-year-old title character) is impregnated by a masked rapist (this is contrary to the vicious gossip Mrs. Olesen spreads about the girl, claiming that Albert had gotten her pregnant.) Later, as Caroline is counseling Albert on his declaration of love for Sylvia, she asks him what she might be thinking about becoming a mother and what she'll think about the child she is now forced to bear. The episode ends tragically, with Sylvia losing the baby in her final confrontation with the rapist; she suffers a critical injury after falling from a rickety ladder while trying to escape, causing her to miscarry, and she dies shortly afterward.
• Luke Cage (2016): Mariah Dillard was regularly raped and molested by her uncle Pete, and in the process, ended up giving birth to a daughter, Matilda Maybelline "Tilda" Johnson. Mama Mabel wouldn't let Mariah get an abortion, so Mariah passed Tilda off as the product of her marriage to her late husband Dr. Jackson Dillard and had Tilda raised by her cousins, the Johnsons (explaining Tilda's different surname). Although almost every one in the public believes this is the truth, those more intimately connected to Mariah, like Cottonmouth and Captain Thomas Ridenhour, are aware of what actually happened.
• The Magicians:
  • Julia gets pregnant due to her rape by Reynard, and decides to have an abortion. However he, or it, stops this by forcing the doctor to kill herself. Later a magical abortion is successful.
  • John Gaines is a child of Reynard's from his last rampage.
• One episode of Maury featured a woman who was convinced that her son was the product of a rape since she'd been raped by a friend around the same time she'd had sex with her husband, so the child's paternity was in doubt. As such, she neglected the child in favor of her other children, and her husband, who was disturbed by how she was acting and decided he'd love his son even if he wasn't the biological father, dragged her in to get a DNA test to settle the matter once and for all. It turns out the boy was her husband's son.
• Misfits: Jess's son, at least by fraud, as his father continually reverses time to seduce her.
• The Musketeers has Grimaud, the Big Bad of season three. His mother, who was apparently "barely a child herself" was imprisoned and raped by soldiers. She had no desire to care for the child, so she tried to drown him, but he was rescued and raised by a friend.
• Neighbours:
  • Julie Robinson-Martin found out she was the result of rape in 1993, long after her mother had died and shortly after the man she believed was her father did.
  • Declan Napier was conceived when his mother Rebecca was raped by her abusive ex-boyfriend.
  • Isabelle Hoyland invoked this when she told Karl that the child he'd believed was his was really Gus's. He found out she was lying less than a day later.
  • Jarrod's son Hugo was conceived as a result of a Bed Trick by Andrea Somers, a con artist who was posing as his first wife Dee and who later turned out to be her Evil Twin.
  • In a statutory rape example, David and Leo Tanaka were conceived as a result of Paul Robinson unwittingly sleeping with 15-year-old Kim Taylor.
• Christian Troy on Nip/Tuck. His mother was raped as a teenager and he was given up for adoption. His adoptive father is a pedophile who repeatedly molests Christian. Later Christian is sexually assaulted by a bisexual serial rapist. When he meets his mother after many years she refuses to see him again because he so closely physically resembles his biological father — her rapist.
• Once Upon a Time: Robin Hood Jr, daughter of Robin Hood Sr, and Alice Jones, daughter of the Wish Realm's Killian Jones, the man better known as Captain Hook, qualify as this as they were both conceived as a result of their mothers (Zelena the Wicked Witch of the West and Mother Gothel, respectively), magically disguising themselves as other women (Maid Marian and Rapunzel, respectively) to trick their fathers into sleeping with them. Oddly enough, Robin and Alice become a couple in Season 7.
• The Outer Limits (1995): In the episode "Dark Child", an alien abducts Laura, rapes her, then returns her to Earth, where she gives birth to a daughter, Tammy. Although deeply traumatized by the experience, Laura does her best to raise Tammy. Years later, when Tammy is a teenager, the alien returns and reveals his previous assault on Laura was a ploy to create a powerful Half-Human Hybrid to use as a weapon against humanity. Just like any deadbeat dad, the alien's attempt to get Tammy to join him fails, then mother and daughter team up and kill him.
• Outlander:
  • Jamie Fraser's son William Ransom, as Jamie was blackmailed by William's mother Geneva Dunsany into having sex with her.
  • Brianna Randall realizes she is pregnant two months after the night she was raped by pirate and thief Stephen Bonnet, which was the same night she had earlier lost her virginity in a consensual sexual experience with Roger MacKenzie. After Brianna and Roger had sex, they ended up having a huge argument, Roger left, and Brianna ran into Bonnet, who raped Brianna when she tried to buy her mother Claire Fraser's stolen ring back from him. Brianna confides to her mother that she believes she is pregnant as the result of the rape by Stephen Bonnet and not from her sexual experience with Roger because Roger had pulled out. Brianna gives birth to a son named Jeremiah (Jemmy), who is raised by her and Roger. It eventually turns out that Jemmy is almost certainly Roger's son after all, since they share a hereditary mole on their heads.
• Chad Harris on Passions. Originally he knew his parents were from the town Harmony and eventually came to believe he was the son of wealthy white businessman Julian Crane and his black lounge singer-turned doctor Eve after he fathered a child with Eve's daughter Whitney. Later he turned out to have not committed incest with Whitney and that he was actually the son of Eve's deranged adopted sister Liz who was raped by Julian's father Alistair. Then we find out he really did have gay incest with Vincent, who turns out to be the actual son of Julian and Eve (thus Chad's half-nephew/cousin and Whitney's half brother. Vincent is also a cross-dressing intersex serial killer (no seriously this is all true) who has violently raped or tricked various of his relatives into sex including his uncle Chad, his sister Fancy and the topper is he becomes pregnant with his father Julian's baby. Yeah. Bear in mind Passions is a parody of soap operas.
• The Power (2023): Tatiana's sister Zoia is heavily pregnant when she's introduced, held in sex slavery with other women. As a result, obviously there's no realistic chance her baby was conceived by anything except rape.
• Princess Silver: Rong Qi was conceived when the emperor of Western Qi raped Fu Yuan. Because of this Fu Yuan hates Rong Qi and even considers killing him.
• Cristina was conceived after Yolanda was raped by two strangers in La Querida del Centauri.
• Proven Innocent: In "Acceptable Losses" it turns out that someone else committed the rape and murder Daniel Hernandez had been convicted of. This is found out as a result of them inputting the DNA from the crime scene and finding his son had searched for relatives with an online service. It turns out that the son was the result of him committing a rape in the past, and this helps show the truth of the previous crimes as well.
• Romper Stomper: Kane turns out to be the result of his mother being raped by her father.
• Roots (1977) and its 2016 remake: Chicken George, the primary protagonist in the latter half of the miniseries, was conceived when Tom Moore (Tom Lea in The Remake) rapes Kizzy.
• Shameless (US): When Mickey's father discovers Mickey and Ian having sex, he has a Russian prostitute named Svetlana rape Mickey. She conceives and births a child from the encounter.
• The Shannara Chronicles: Mag in the episode "Pykon", whose father is the Elven warden of a now-abandoned prison used by the Elves in the War of the Races, and Mag was born and raised there. Her mother was a human prisoner whom the warden lobotomized in order to make her his "wife", which he tries to do to Elven princess Amberle, too, before being killed.
• The Sinner: Julian was conceived when Jack Novack raped Marin Calhoun in a fit of rage.
• Spartacus: Blood and Sand: Aurelia gets pregnant due to her (offscreen) rape by a man whom she believed was a friend. Initially her husband Varro is reluctant to believe this, then says she should have fought him off. Finally he accepts it however and agrees to raise the child. However when he's killed, she has an abortion, having been left alone and thus feeling unable to cope.
• Stargate SG-1: Apophis and his queen, Amaunet, decide to create a Harsesis — a human child created by two Goa'uld hosts who naturally contains all the knowledge of the Goa'uld without needing to become a host. This is a crime in Goa'uld society, but Apophis wants a Harsesis host so badly, he and his queen don't care. Neither Apophis's host nor Amaunet's host (Sha're, Daniel's abducted wife) get any say in the matter. For the due date, Amaunet is sent into hiding so other Goa'uld cannot hunt her down, she goes to Sha're's family home, then goes into hibernation, leaving a fully conscious Sha're to have to give birth in secret — with Daniel as the midwife. As soon as the baby is born, Amaunet retakes control of Sha're and leaves — childless — with Apophis. Daniel managed to take the baby away from the Goa'uld and the child, Shifu, ends up getting a much more beneficial fate than his tragic origins set up.
• Star Trek:
  • Star Trek: The Original Series: In the episode "The Return of the Archons" it's implied that Regar's daughter Tula had been raped during Landru's festival. While not explicitly mentioned, it raises the disturbing possibility that many people born on Beta III were the result of similar rapes.
  • Sela in Star Trek: The Next Generation is the daughter of a Romulan general who captured the USS Enterprise-C and forced an Alternate Timeline version of Tasha Yar to become his mistress in exchange for him sparing the surviving crew's lives. He eventually had Tasha executed after she tried to escape with their daughter Sela. Sela takes after her father.
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine:
    • The Cardassian Occupation reportedly resulted in many Cardassian/Bajoran hybrids, most of which weren't voluntary.
    • Benjamin Sisko himself is one, though this is on the Prophets, not either of his parents, as the Prophets possessed his mother and forced her into a relationship with an unknowing Joseph so Ben could be born. Because of this, however, when the Prophets let her go, his mother understandably bolted.
  • A variation occurs in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Basics" when Chakotay's ex-girlfriend impregnates herself with his DNA. When he consults his father on the matter (through meditation), his father draws the parallel between Chakotay's situation and the children born to Native American mothers who were raped by white settlers in the 1800s. Ultimately subverted, as it turns out the baby wasn't Chakotay's after all.
• In a Lifetime Movie of the Week entitled Sin And Redemption, the main character was raped and became pregnant. Her Holier Than Thou father kicks her out of the house and she moves in with her sister. The woman later marries a man she meets at her job, who turns out he's an abusive JerkAss. Worse still, her oldest child's kidneys have failed and needs a transplant. Hubby won't get tested. Why? Turns out he was his wife's rapist and the father of the sick child.
• One example in Strong Medicine. A matching donor could not be found for a patient, until the patient's mother informs the clinic staff that the patient's father could be a match. The father was in prison for raping the mother.
• Taken: Allie is conceived because her parents Charlie and Lisa are forced to have sex by the aliens.
• Thirteen (2016): It's revealed that Ivy got pregnant from Mark White during her years of captivity with him, though she never actually had a baby since she miscarried. When he speaks about how upset Ivy was about it, she says they were tears of relief that she wouldn't be bringing a baby into that situation.
• Tidelands (Netflix): Human men don't appear to have any choice when called by sirens for mating in the sea, as they drown doing so especially, and this implies all human-siren hybrids are the product of rape.
• Ray's son Chad from the second season of True Detective appears to be this, as the timing of his birth matches up with when his mother was raped, and he doesn't look anything like Ray. Ray's ex-wife spends much of the season trying to get a paternity test. In the end, it actually turns out that Chad isn't a child of rape and really is Ray's biological son, but Ray dies before finding out.
• Twin Peaks: Richard Horne of the 2016 continuation from the doppleganger's rape of Audrey Horne.
• Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter: Alina was repeatedly raped by the German farmer she was forced to work for as a Polish slave laborer, then got pregnant and gave birth to a girl. Her daughter was taken away by the farmer because he and his wife couldn't have children. After he stated his intent to sire a son by her as well, she threatened him with a knife, and was sent off to Auschwitz, though she escapes before arrival.
• Vikings:
  • Possibly the case with Astrid's baby. She was gang raped before getting pregnant, although the baby could also be her husband's. This appears to be why Astrid gets Lagertha to kill her.
  • There's an ambiguous example with Ingrid as well. First she's raped by Harald, and later turns out to be pregnant. She's adamant that the baby is Björn's, though Harald insists otherwise. It's uncertain if she's lying, right or this is wishful thinking.
• War of the Worlds (2019): Chloe's son is revealed to have been the result of her rape.
• The X-Files:
  • A woman in the episode "Aubrey" was raped by a serial killer, bore his child and put it up for adoption. Her grandchild ended up continuing her grandfather's work, to the letter, apparently due to genetic memory essentially making her become him.
  • In "The Post-Modern Prometheus", Mutato is revealed to have gotten women pregnant by raping them after they're knocked senseless by gas. This is because he wanted a mate, but couldn't find one. While viewed sympathetically by Mulder and Scully, it was not only a crime they never arrest him for, but drastically undercuts his status as a "good" monster.
  • Scully's son William who was thought to be Mulder's son is revealed to be actually the product of Medical Rape and Impregnate by the Smoking Man.

Music

• The second verse of Nina Simone's "Four Women", a song about pains inflicted on African American Women:
  My father was rich and white
  He forced my mother late one night
  What do they call me?
  My name is Saffronia

Religion and Mythology

• Arthurian Legend:
  • King Arthur's father Uther Pendragon had a spell cast on him that made Arthur's mother Igraine think he was her husband. In some versions, Arthur's own child is this, in tales where he is believed to have raped Morgause, though most versions claim a mutual lack of knowledge of their kinship.
  • Merlin, too, was the product of rape. According to the Prose Merlin, an incubus raped his mother to create The Antichrist. Fortunately, he had free will and decided to use his powers for good.
  • So was Sir Galahad, the knight of Incorruptible Pure Pureness. Elaine of Corbenic, daughter of the Fisher King, fell in love with Lancelot, and tricked him into believing she was Guinevere, by means of wine and a ring.
  • Sir Bors had made a vow of eternal chastity, but a princess who was in love with him used a magic ring to make him sleep with her. Their child, Elyan the White, became a knight himself and later the emperor of Constantinople.
• The Bible:
  • The Book of Genesis has Dinah raped by Shechem, and several Jewish midrashim claim that she had a child. In one version the daughter was taken by angels to Egypt, adopted by Potipher and became Asenath, the eventual wife of Joseph. Another version says she had a son, Shaul; the two were taken in by Dinah's brother Simeon.
  • Some interpretations claim Goliath was the child of a gang rape.
  • Genesis also recounts the story of Lot and his daughters after they escaped Sodom minus his wife (who made the mistake of looking back as God was destroying the city and got turned into a pillar of salt for her trouble). They got him drunk to the point of unawareness before they had sex with him (which is rape) and then each had one son as a result.
• Celtic Mythology: Cu Chulainn fought a duel with Aife/Aoife and barely managed to defeat and capture her. When she begged him to let her go, he agreed only if she would drop her vendetta against his teacher/her sister Scathach and sleep with him, making it rape by coercion. Sometime after he left, she gave birth to his only son Connla. For additional squickiness, Cu Chulainn was around the age of 10 when this happened. Connla would later become one of the only two people Cu would kill with the infamous spear Gae Bolg, during a battle provoked by his refusal to give his name (which he couldn't because of a geas that was put on him).
• Classical Mythology:
  • Many a demigod has been conceived by a god disguising him- or herself as the victim's spouse. Zeus has to be the master of this one, often not bothering with the "spouse" part, and occasionally not even disguising himself as human.
  • In Ovid's The Metamorphosis, Pegasus was Medusa's son-by-rape by Poseidon, and formed from her blood when she was slain by Perseus. Some versions add another child, Chrysaor, a golden sword-wielding giant.
• Nart Sagas: In some traditions, the mighty hunter Shebatinquo is conceived when Argwana rapes Setenay.
• Norse Mythology: Loki, who gave birth to Sleipnir, an eight-legged horse, after being raped by a magic horse (he was in the form of a mare at the time).
• Romani Mythology: The Keshali Ana was raped by the King of the Loçolici (humans cursed by Satan) many times, resulting in demonic entities that represent every disease known to man. In this case, the rape seems to illustrate their abhorrence rather than give them sympathy, and the oldest of the children, Melalo, even goaded his father into raping her more often.

Tabletop Games

• Diesel Punk fantasy game Children of the Sun gave humans the ability to breed with any of the sapient races in that setting. The vast majority of these hybrids (including the half-elves because most elves in the setting are violent imperialists) are the result of human women getting raped.
• In Dungeons & Dragons:
  • The trope is Zig-Zagged by half orcs, who are often implied to be the result of male orcs raping human women after raiding or conquering a human population. 4^th Edition also suggests consensual Interspecies Romance, humans being infused by the Orc god's essence, the god Kord combining the best elements of humans and orcs, and controlled breeding by an ancient hobgoblin empire. Bringing this topic up around half-orcs is a good way to get something important broken. 5^th Edition's Players Handbook largely sets it aside in favour of human-orc marriage alliances, though the Monstrous Manual spends several paragraphs talking about how orcs are bloodthirsty, savage raiders before bringing up the fact that their patron goddess Luthic demands that they mate as often and indiscriminately as possible. The dots aren't exactly hard to connect.
    • Pathfinder plays up this trope, something that the game's designers have defended as emphasizing both the Darker and Edgier nature of their setting and the innate heroism of half-orc player characters. That said, there are at least two named half-orc NPCs in two separate adventure paths who were born of Interspecies Romance: a male half-orc pirate in Skull & Shackles who was born to a human man and the female orc he befriended and helped escape, and a female half-orc paladin born to a male orc who abandoned his people's evil ways to marry a human woman.
  • Some half-elves get born this way as well, particularly in settings where humans and elves have gone to war against each other or are otherwise on hostile terms.
    • Half-drow, on the other hand, are almost always explained as the result of male drow forcing themselves on female slaves. While female drow have little reservation against using male sex slaves, a drow female who willingly lets herself be impregnated by a slave, let alone carries a child fathered by a slave to term, would be, at best, highly unusual.
  • The 2^nd-Edition Monster Manual implies that minotaurs breed by raping human females.
  • Hags, an all-female race, breed by raping human men, then usually kill and eat them. Female offspring are more hags; males, in the settings where they exist, are typically brutish hagspawn.
  • The undead archmage Acererak was conceived when a wizard summoned up a demon who promptly ate him and raped his serving woman. His mother tried to raise the fiendish child nonetheless and got murdered by a torch-wielding mob for her trouble, setting Acererak on his multiverse-spanning From Nobody to Nightmare path.
• The Warcraft Expanded Universe implies that some half-orcs in this universe were conceived this way as well, and that the rapist could be of either gender/race. But unlike D&D, most orcs find rape just as abhorrent as humans do.
• Always a possibility for a Scion's origin in Scion; while most gods at least try to get consent, they're more than willing to perform rape-by-deception (it comes from the myths). Meanwhile, most Titanspawn have no scruples — and the all-male minotaurs only reproduce this way.
• In Magic: The Gathering, the Kenrith twins, Will and Rowan, were conceived when an evil witch drugged their father, the Good King Kenrith, with a Love Potion. She needed children in order to sacrifice them to maintain eternal youth. However, they were saved upon their birth, and the king and his queen raised them with love. Learning the truth of their conception proves so traumatic to them that it causes their shared planeswalker spark to ignite.
• Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay explicitly had the disgusting half-demonic Fimir kidnap human women to breed (their rare females are infertile). It was also implied that other Chaos forces did the same (one such incident ended up producing Archaeon the Everchosen).
• Zweihänder took a lot of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay elements including Fimirs mating with human women and ran them even more Darker and Edgier. So besides the Fimir analogues going after women, now the Beast Men and Orcs are doing the same to increase their populations so they can finally conquer humanity for Chaos.

Video Games

• In Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura, half-ogres (and, to a lesser degree nowadays, half-orcs) have the stigma of rape attached to their origins. The pregenerated half-orge Player Character implies he may be a result of this, but consensual or not, the ogre was his mother. It later comes to light that a Gnomish Government Conspiracy had been 'mass-producing' half-ogres by mass abduction and rape of human women by ogres in specialised breeding facilities over several years, with the last victim apparently being Tarant's last queen.
• In Baldur's Gate, a letter to the Player Character from their deceased foster father Gorion explains that they are the child of a woman he knew, and that they were conceived after Bhaal, God of Murder forced himself upon her; she died shortly after giving birth to them. It later turns out that Gorion was, to some extent, lying to them. Although the fandom generally agrees that he probably was her lover, their mother was actually a priestess of Bhaal who willingly bore his child. However, Bhaal did rape at least some women with conception in mind, since his Bhaalspawn children were all to serve as a collective Soul Jar, releasing his divine essence upon death so that he could come Back from the Dead.
• Rayne (the title character of the BloodRayne games) spends the first game taking down bad guys for the Brimstone Society while waiting for information about the powerful vampire Kagan. She wants to punish him for the heinous crime he committed against her. His crime? Causing her to exist — she was conceived when Kagan raped her human mother. And if that wasn't bad enough, Kagan then proceeded to hunt her mother down like an animal and brutally kill her, not to mention forcing Rayne to spend her formative years constantly on the run because he tried to kill her too, for the "unforgivable sin" of "turning away from her noble vampire heritage", because despite being clinically insane as the result of Kagan's horrific rape, Rayne's mother and heavily implied her maternal family were kind and loving to her enough that their deaths drives the protagonist to avenge them.
  • Rayne finds out she has siblings in the second game because Kagan has a centuries long history of doing this — impregnating women by rape and then hunting them down like animals once the child is weaned. All purely to make certain the child is viciously brutal, powerful, loyal through a mix of gratitude and fear, and constantly vying with its siblings for supremacy. He got three out of four with Rayne. What really pisses Rayne off though? Alongside the deaths of her maternal family and her misspent life, the fact that to Kagan, and this is a direct quote, "It's all so fucking bloody routine!"
  • On a less sordid note, one of her siblings is Svetlana Lupescu.
• Ayane from Dead or Alive, whose biological father, Raidou (the Big Bad of the first game), raped the lover of his brother Shiden. She doesn't learn until the sixth main game that she's Raidou's second daughter, but so far she is the only confirmed case of this trope applying to Raidou (as it's currently unknown exactly how he orchestrated Honoka's conception).
• In Dragon Age: Origins, The leader of the Dalish Elf clan you run into turned the humans in the area into werewolves after a group of them gang-raped his daughter, after which she committed suicide when she discovered she was pregnant. (Oh, and they also murdered the mage's son.)
  • Alistair is stated to be such by his half-sister. The truth is a bit more complex and only covered in the tie-in novels: Alistair is the offspring of an affair between King Maric and an elven Orlesian Grey Warden mage named Fiona. Since neither elves, mages, Orlesians, and Wardens are well-liked in Ferelden (until the Wardens are welcomed back in Ferelden around 9:30), and Alistair might be a threat to his half-brother Cailan's rule, covering up the truth of his heritage became very important, helped by the fact that he takes after his human parent more than his elven one.
• Fire Emblem:
  • Fire Emblem Gaiden: The remake, Fire Emblem Echoes, reveals Celica is this, as her father used to kidnap women to force them to satiate his lust. Due to this, even if he's dead by the time of the main plot, Celica refuses to acknowledge him as her father.
  • Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War:
    • Azelle of Velthomer is the son of Lady Cigyun's favorite maid, who was raped by Cigyun's complete prick of a husband, Lord Victor. Azelle turned out to be a Nice Guy, though. (Quite possibly because his dad killed himself not long after that.) Incidentally, Azelle's half-brother Arvis, Victor's legitimate son, banished all of his late father's mistresses and bastards except for Azelle and his mother.
    • Julius and Julia also count, as their mother Deirdre was brainwashed into believing that Arvis was her husband, thus never actually consenting to him of her own free will.
• First Encounter Assault Recon:
  • F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin ends with Alma becoming pregnant by raping Becket while he's strapped into a machine. The baby seems to come out okay, but Becket has deep mental scars as a result of the incident. In the third game, Becket's Last Request before being killed is to beg Point Man to kill the "filthy maggot that grows inside her", which is ultimately not honored.
  • Alma is a victim of this herself, as she was subjected to Medical Rape and Impregnate by her own father in her backstory, both of her sons — the Point Man and Paxton Fettel — being conceived in this manner. Point Man himself seems well-adjusted, but Paxton is completely unhinged.
• Knight Bewitched: Bjalla is Typhus's concubine and is the mother of Typhus the Younger. When she dies, she thanks the party for killing her and implies that Typhus brainwashed her for the sole purpose of breeding offspring.
• Many fans of Mystery Case Files believe that Victor is this, being the result of his father's rape of the imprisoned nurse Rose. However, this has not been confirmed in any of the games to date.
  • Fate's Carnival suggests this is correct if you read the notes for the bobblehead collectibles ... but gives a completely different story in one of the mutoscope reels you find during the game. So who knows?
• Notably subverted with Gannayev-of-Dreams, your hagspawn companion in Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer. Hagspawn are normally the product of a hag raping a human male. Gann's parents actually loved each other, which is the reason he's much more handsome than most hagspawn and has greater magical prowess. Then his mother's sisters forced her to kill and eat his father, driving her insane.
• Persona 5: Goro Akechi is this, as his mother was a prostitute who was raped by Masayoshi Shido, with her later committing suicide from the whole ordeal.
• Pillars of Eternity: Maerwald, the previous Watcher, is the reincarnation of an Aedyran soldier who was fathered by a Glanfathan tribesman who raped an Aedyran settler in the War of Broken Stone. The Soldier was himself the reincarnation of his own father the Marauder, who was killed shortly afterward. And Maerwald carries both personalities in addition to his own, giving him a Split Personality.
• Red Dead Redemption II: Discussed in one campfire event, when Lenny Summers says that his mother's birth in a cotton field was the result of his grandmother being raped by an overseer who would become his grandfather.
• In the Soul Series, Isabella "Ivy" Valentine is the result of this. Her father, Cervantes, raped a barmaid in order to ensure that the evil blade has another host should he die, not knowing that it might find another host in Siegfried at first, resulting in Ivy having her cursed blood and adoptive parents, and deciding to never have a lover so she won't spread the curse.
• In Suikoden II, Luca Blight's sister, Jillia, was the product of his mother being raped in front of him. This consequently sent Luca on his spiral into ax craziness.
• Garona Halforcen was retconned into this (along with being a half-orc-half-draenei) in the Warcraft universe, daughter of a draenei woman raped by a male orc. There was always some implication of this with her being half-orc in the first place, as mentioned higher up on the page, but it was only made explicit later.
• In The Walking Dead, Alvin Jr. was originally implied to be the product of William Carver raping Rebecca. This was later retconned by having AJ look more like Alvin Sr.

Visual Novels

• In Oni Chichi (Demon Father) one and two, the "good" endings result in pregnancy.
  • In the first novel (and the anime adaptation), the protagonist uses a powerful, and experimental, aerosol aphrodisiac upon his step-daughters, without their consent, to make them "want" sex with him. It gets worse when, in one of those OVAs, one of his daughters loses her memories and regresses to a more child-like mind (with Artistic Age actually making her look younger), and then she and her "mother" (the other daughter) have a threesome with the guy.
  • In the second novel, a car accident causes some kind of neurological trauma that triggers intense lust in the protagonist towards his own biological daughters, until he snaps and outright rapes them which is documented to actually happen in reality.
• In Umineko: When They Cry, Sayo Yasuda, also known as Shannon, Kanon and Beatrice is revealed to be this, born from Kinzo Ushiromiya forcing himself on his illegitimate daughter Beatrice II after deluding himself into believing she was the reincarnation of his mistress. By extension, Lion Ushiromiya, Sayo's Alternate Self is this as well. Finding out about this is the Start of Darkness for Sayo, and even Lion, who is much more mentally stable than Sayo, doesn't take it well.

Webcomics

• In Mob Ties, Mika conceived Kyoko-chan while in a coma after being raped by Big Bad Bengal. Her father tries to keep it a secret due to the fact that any reminder of the incident sends her into a horrible shock.
• Subverted For Laughs in The Order of the Stick. In Dungeons & Dragons, half-orcs have traditionally been assumed to be the result of a male orc raping a female human. It turns out Mauve Shirt Therkla has a different backstory.
  Therkla's human father: Come here, my snuggly green cutie-pie!
  Therkla's orc mother: *giggle!* me so in love!
  Chief Grukgruk: chief grukgruk frankly not want dwell on that very much.
  Therkla: Try growing up with it.
• Alexi's son in Parallel Dementia. For once, though, the mother actually cares for her child and doesn't harbor any bad feelings towards the child.
• Strongly implied to be the case with Emily's daughter Lydia in Rain; Emily's (now ex-)boyfriend Chase got her pregnant around Halloween, and she's all but said that the sex was nonconsensual. Fortunately, she harbors no ill will towards the child, and gets through the pregnancy okay with the help of her girlfriend, Rain.
• Becca McKay in Shadowgirls appears to believe that she was the product of a rape committed during her mother's amnesia, since her father has never come forward.

Web Original

• Inverted by Ask That Guy with the Glasses. A woman force-fed him viagra and made him have sex with her. After this he ran away because he was so scared of her batshittery. This comes out when the child grew up and asked why he left, resulting in him angrily telling the child he'll see them in hell.
• In The Gamer's Alliance, Unithien and her half-brother Ildor were both conceived this way when two powerful men raped their mother Varalia.
• In Mommy Sleeps in the Basement, Paisley and Tommy are revealed to be this, as their father kidnapped their mother.
• Inverted again by The Nostalgia Critic and The Nostalgia Chick where they have happy enough G-Rated Sex (making fun of a scene in FernGully: The Last Rainforest), but then she makes him have a breakdown when she announces she's made him pregnant.
• Sometimes discussed in Protectors of the Plot Continuum with the offspring of self-insert characters and their victims; their parents' modus operandi is to mind-control the target, thus rendering their consent to any sexual contact meaningless. The offspring in question are often adopted by the Protectors when the Sue is killed.

Western Animation

• In W.I.T.C.H., Caleb's mother Nerissa, the Big Bad of Season 2, tricked his father Julian into falling in love with her under the false identity of the kind sorceress known as the Mage whom she had pulled a Kill and Replace on so she would become pregnant and have Caleb, intending him to lead the rebellion against Season 1 Big Bad Prince Phobos (which he did). Caleb was raised by Julian and is not happy to learn who his mother is.
• Dermott Fictel of The Venture Brothers is a child by statutory rape. The sex was consensual, but his mother (who he believes is his sister) was only 15. It's a rare non-villainous version of this trope, as his mother deliberately misled his father about her age and it's heavily implied he wouldn't have had sex with her had he known.

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