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• Basic Trope: A character is raped for the sake of the plot.
• Played Straight: Alice is walking home late one night and is raped by a bunch of thugs. Alice has to come to terms with what happened.
• Exaggerated: When those guys leave her, Alice gets up and tries to make it home (or to the hospital), and another gang rapes her.
• Justified: Alice is the victim on a Cop Show about detectives who specialize in dealing with sex crimes
  • Alice has been led to believe that what she was wearing, where she was going, what she was doing, etc. brought on the rape, and that being raped was karmic retribution.
    • Rape is a traumatic experience.
  • The plot is "Alice gets raped and deals with the aftermath." Though given that this is probably also a Lifetime Original Movie...
• Inverted: Rape Is Love
  • Alice is raped. There's no effect or followup to this event in the story afterward.
  • Alice is the rapist.
    • Alice herself was not raped, but a close friend or sibling of hers was, and Alice attempts (successfully or otherwise) to help her friend through emotional support and/or a Roaring Rampage of Revenge on the rapist(s).
• Subverted: Alice gets up, makes her way home or to the ER, and gets on with her life.
• Double Subverted: As soon as she gets home, Alice cries, scrubs herself obsessively, and/or attempts to kill herself
• Parodied: Rape as Comedy
• Deconstructed: Alice feels ashamed, worries that no man will want her (or that her current partner will leave her), thinks it was her fault, etc.
• Reconstructed: Alice gets some help, and realizes it wasn't her fault (regardless of what she was wearing/not wearing, where she was, etc.), and is eventually able to lead a normal life.
• Zig Zagged: Alice is conflicted; rationally she knows it wasn't her fault, that no man worth his salt will reject her for that, etc., but can't help but have these feelings about the attack.
• Averted: Alice does not get raped.
  • The thugs attempt to rape Alice, but she fights them off or is rescued by someone before that can happen.
• Enforced: Rape As Backstory
• Lampshaded: Alice performs in a dramatic rape scene. The effects listed above (and below) apply to said scene.
  • May even be comedic in universe intentionally, but becomes frightening through the circumstances.
• Invoked: Somebody with a chip on his/her shoulder (either towards Alice specifically or towards women in general) rapes Alice, hoping to make her suffer for whatever wrong(s) she committed (or the rapist thinks she committed.)
  • Exploited: Betty, who has a lot of grudges toward Alice, pay some thugs to rape the latter. She secretly tapes the, uh, incident from a hiding place and then use the tape to ruin Alice's life.
• Defied: The thugs on the corner choose not to rape Alice, because Even Evil Has Standards.
  • Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
• Discussed: "Alice sure is having a hard time after what happened to her..."
• Conversed: "Well, she was just violently attacked and forced to have sex with men she didn't want to have sex with. Of course she's going to have a tough time dealing with that...anyone would!"
• Played For Laughs: See "Parodied"
• Played For Drama: The whole premise of this trope.