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* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Insheeption" downplays this, as the "insanity" in question merely takes the form of a hoarding problem that the show treats as a CompressedVice. [[spoiler:Mr. Mackey the guidance counselor turns out to have developed his hoarding problem after a childhood field trip to a forest preserve, where the Woodsy Owl mascot ("Give a hoot, don't pollute!") sexually assaulted him and the terrified kid promised not to litter. After Mackey repressed the memory, the trauma took the form of a compulsion to not throw anything away.]]

* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Insheeption" downplays this, as the "insanity" in question merely takes the form of hoarding (a habit that the show treats as a CompressedVice). [[spoiler:Mr. Mackey the guidance counselor turns out to have developed his hoarding problem after a childhood field trip to a forest preserve, where the Woodsy Owl mascot ("Give a hoot, don't pollute!") sexually assaulted him and the terrified kid promised not to litter. After Mackey repressed the memory, the trauma took the form of a compulsion to not throw anything away.]]

* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Insheeption" downplays this, as the "insanity" in question merely takes the form of hoarding (a habit that the show treats as a CompressedVice). [[spoiler:Mr. Mackey the guidance counselor turns out to have developed his hoarding problem after a childhood field trip to a forest preserve, where the Woodsy Owl mascot ("Give a hoot, don't pollute!") sexually assaulted him and the terrified kid promised not to litter. After Mackey repressed the memory, the trauma took the form of a compulsion not to throw anything away.]]

* ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'': [[spoiler:Tricia's father Hawthorne]] is a serial child groomer and -killer who [[WifeHusbandry raises, abuses]] and then discards his 'daughters' when he tires of them. During the first playthrough, Shauna ends up [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork dealing with the situation]] before it becomes an issue. Playing a NewGamePlus [[spoiler:through the Demon Path, the party hires Shauna early on and only encounters Tricia much later, at which point she's completely mentally broken, with all the nasty implications intact.]]

* ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'': [[spoiler:Trish's father Thorndyke]] is a serial child groomer and -killer who [[WifeHusbandry raises, abuses]] and then discards his 'daughters' when he tires of them. Normally, the party discovers this from Lobo well before it becomes an issue for the character in question. [[spoiler:In the Demon Path, however, the party encounters Trish much later, at which point she's completely mentally broken due to Thorndyke's attentions.]]

-->-- ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist''

* Some [[RecursiveFanfiction fan written sequels]] for the ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fancomic called the "Financial Crisis Gang-Rape" will explore this, either with the victim (America) turning into an [[UpToEleven extreme]] StepfordSmiler, or just becoming flat out AxCrazy and taking bloody, violent revenge on his assailants.

See also ShellShockedVeteran (for "Combat Leads to Insanity"), the entirety of the SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes index, and HatesBeingTouched (one of several common behavioural adaptations to sexual abuse).

* In the classic silent film ''Film/TheWind1928'', Creator/LillianGish's character, who is already being driven around the bend by the neverending titular wind, finally cracks completely when the bad guy rapes her.

* In ''{{Film/Centurion}}'', being raped was one of the many things that turned Etain into the sadistic Roman-hating BloodKnight she is. The others — watching her mother and sisters being raped and murdered, and having her tongue cut out.
* The sister of the {{Anti Hero}}ine in the ''Film/DirtyHarry'' sequel ''Film/SuddenImpact'' becomes catatonic after the two of them are gang-raped.

* In ''Film/LaPielQueHabito'', Norma's (near) rape left her in a traumatic state where she wouldn't even recognize her father anymore and which ultimately made her commit suicide.
* A variant in ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Judge Turpin drugged Barker's wife and raped her. Afterwards, she [[spoiler:AttemptedSuicide, which likely gave her physical brain-damage and led to her becoming a crazy derelict]]. The insanity is still causally connected to the rape, but with an extra step in between.

* In the movie ''Film/{{Precious}}'' and the book ''Push'' it was based on, the titular Precious is sexually abused by her father and is implied to have had the same thing happen to her by her mother, who also piles emotional and physical abuse on her. Precious finds a way out of her traumatic daily life by escaping into daydreams. In her mind, she has created an alternate world where she is loved and appreciated.
* ''Film/GirlWithAPearlEarring'': Griet is nearly raped by Van Ruijven and when he leaves her she is shown clenching on to her clothes he tore open looking lost and terrified beyond belief. Afterwards, she's noticeably more quiet than usual.

* ''Film/RedEye'': Lisa was hinted to have been raped in the past and attacked with a knife. Jackson accosts her in an airplane bathroom, presumably to trigger her. These occurrences made her firm in the belief that she would never be attacked that way again and stabs him in the neck with a pen she had stolen.

* In ''Film/GhostShip'', Katie's body is found [[spoiler:hanged]] in her quarters. If her killers had time to [[spoiler:drag her back to her quarters and string her up]], what else did they have time to do? Why else would they go to the trouble of [[spoiler:taking her all the way back to her room]] if they were openly [[spoiler: slitting everyone else's throats in the middle of the hallway]]? Chances are, [[spoiler:being hanged was just the end of [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil what they did to her]]...]]
** [[http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/ghost_ship.html Original script]] / First Draft confirms this. [[spoiler:To make it worse, everything happened [[ForcedToWatch in front of her father]].]] No wonder she looks like she’s been through hell and utterly distraught and broken when we see her ghost appear before Epps. Generally, people's ghosts hang around the place they died because they have unfinished business or never received closure.
* ''Film/Ms45'': After being raped twice in one day, Thana goes off the deep end and starts killing any man she considers sexually aggressive towards her, and finally just any man.
* ''Film/KissTheGirls'' features as its main villain a SerialRapist known as "Casanova", who kidnaps numerous women to form a captive harem so he can break their minds down through endless torture and rape.
* ''Film/PromisingYoungWoman'': After being gang-raped in college, Nina committed suicide. Her best friend Cassie also suffers serious SanitySlippage as a result of Nina's own assault and death.
* ''Film/HoodedAngels'': After being gang-raped by Confederate militia during the Civil War, Ellie becomes a PsychoLesbian PsychoKnifeNut who is easily the most bloodthirsty member of the gang, and who takes a special pleasure in killing men slowly with her blades.
* ''Film/TheWitchWhoCameFromTheSea'': Molly's [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence screwed-up sexuality]] and descent into [[AxeCrazy murderous insanity]] are the results of unresolved sexual trauma inflicted by her incestuously abusive father.
* ''Film/OnTheCountOfThree'': Deconstructed. Kevin was already suffering from mental illness as a kid due to being in foster care. He entered therapy and was raped by Brenner, who is heavily implied to use his practice helping underprivileged kids simply as a front for abusing them. However, as a result, Kevin is much more violent and unstable due to untreated PTSD.
* ''Film/TwinPeaksFireWalkWithMe'': Her past [[RapeAsBackstory rape]] was heavily implied in ''Series/TwinPeaks'', but the movie confirms that [[spoiler:Laura was raped for years by her father Leland, while -- sort of -- posessed by [=BOB=].]] While she suffers from severe SanitySlippage, it's also confirmed that [[spoiler:this was [=BOB=]'s intention to drive her to madness through this. Played with, though, in that Laura ultimately maintains her inner goodness and refuses to let BOB or the Black Lodge get to her in her death.]]

* The Whistleblower DLC for ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}'' has Eddie Gluskin, also known as the Groom. Having been sexually abused by his uncle and father as a child, he became obsessed with sexuality and marriage, and was already a serial killer before coming to the asylum. The experiments conducted on him there only made him worse. When you finally meet him, he has already mutilated and killed dozens of other (male) inmates, turning them into his 'brides' — and he attempts to do the same to you. He fluctuates from using creepily loving terms ("Darling!") to crazily misogynistic ones ("Filthy sluts. You're like all the others.") to outright death threats ("You don't deserve my children. You don't even deserve to live."). Gluskin is quite an unusual example as he isn't obsessed with one individual in particular; anyone he sees as being a candidate for becoming his 'bride' can fall prey to his desire, usually fatally. Although it is possible that since Waylon has survived the longest and would have been his last victim, Gluskin was "attached" to him the most, especially since he held his hand before he died.

* ''Film/HoodedAngels'': After being gang-raped by Confederate militia during the Civil War, Ellie becomes a PsychoLesbian KnifeNut who is easily the most bloodthirsty member of the gang, and who takes a special pleasure in killing men slowly with her blades.