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* The episode "Unexpected" of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. Tucker becomes pregnant when an alien tricks him into activity which would be the alien equivalent of sex, impregnating him. Played for humor because of the [[MisterSeahorse male pregnancy]], and the fact that Tucker didn't give meaningful consent is ignored. Tucker wasn't even informed it was sex until after he was pregnant; she said it was a game, and there was no physical contact. The alien is very apologetic when she finds out, and didn't think cross-species impregnation was a possibility at ''all'', but that doesn't change the fact that she lied to him about a sexual interaction they were having. It also doesn't excuse the fact that Tucker was made fun of by the crew of the Enterprise and a crew of Klingons over it. While it might be in-character for the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Klingons]] to react this way, it makes Archer and his crew come off as assholes. Even he isn't allowed to get that upset about it--he shows more mild annoyance than anything else.

** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E17Superstar Superstar]]", Jonathan casts a spell to make himself look amazing to everyone and, among other things, brainwashes [[SexyScandinavian Swedish twins]] into a sexual relationship with him. This is played for comedy and when the spell is undone, it's just briefly mentionned that they left his mansion.

** ZigZagged in [[Recap/StargateAtlantisS03E03Irresistible "Irresistible"]], where a man named Lucius gets what he wants using {{Pheromones}}, and has six wives as a result and attempts to make Dr. Weir his seventh. The episode itself is mostly [[PlayedForLaughs a comedic farce]]. The pheromones were affecting the team as well, but after it's all been sorted out they dump him back on his original planet. The people there were furious about it. Yet [=McKay=] still thinks it's a good idea to test out some of the pheromones himself at the end of the episode, knowing that [[VitriolicBestBuds his friend]] Colonel Sheppard (and he alone) hasn't been inoculated yet and will now gladly clean [=McKay=]'s quarters for him. Though this was a non-sexual use, it's still a kind of MindControl being PlayedForLaughs, and between two characters who are known for their HoYay.[[invoked]]

* In ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Jasmine has sex with Connor while [[PuppeteerParasite possessing]] and posing as Cordelia. This counts as raping both Cordelia and Connor via body control and deception respectively.

** ZigZagged in [[Recap/StargateAtlantisS03E03Irresistible "Irresistible"]], where a man named Lucius gets what he wants using {{Pheromones}}, and has six wives as a result and attempts to make Dr. Weir his seventh. The episode itself is mostly [[PlayedForLaughs a comedic farce]]. The pheromones were affecting the team as well, but after it's all been sorted out they dump him back on his original planet. The people there were furious about it. Yet [=McKay=] still thinks it's a good idea to test out some of the pheromones himself at the end of the episode, knowing that [[VitriolicBestBuds his friend]] Colonel Sheppard (and he alone) hasn't been inoculated yet and will now gladly clean [=McKay=]'s quarters for him, which is also PlayedForLaughs. Though this was a non-sexual use, it's still a kind of MindControl, and between two characters who are known for their HoYay.[[invoked]]

** ZigZagged in [[Recap/StargateAtlantisS03E03Irresistible "Irresistible"]], where a man named Lucius gets what he wants using {{Pheromones}}, and has six wives as a result and attempts to make Dr. Weir his seventh. The episode itself is mostly [[PlayedForLaughs a comedic farce]]. The pheromones were affecting the team as well, but after it's all been sorted out they dump him back on his original planet. The people there were furious about it. Yet [=McKay=] still thinks it's a good idea to test out some of the pheromones himself at the end of the episode, knowing that [[VitriolicBestBuds his friend]] Colonel Sheppard (and he alone) hasn't been inoculated yet and will now gladly clean [=McKay=]'s quarters for him, which is also PlayedForLaughs.

* ''Series/LoisAndClark'': In the episode "Pheromone, My Lovely", all main characters are poisoned by pheromone, which makes their romantic and sexual relations nonconsensual. Nevertheless, Cat Grant's sexual encounter is PlayedForLaughs.

* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': In the episode "Dream Sorcerer", Phoebe and Piper cast a spell to help with their guy troubles. While Piper is overwhelmed by the attention of multiple men, Phoebe hooks up with a hunky stranger and has sex with him multiple times until he goes berserk from the spell. The episode also contains [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale a gender double standard]] as the plot revolves around a disabled man seducing women in their dreams and killing them, which is treated rightfully as creepy.

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'':
** Subverted when [[spoiler:Gina, a version of Number Six]], a female "skinjob" Cylon (an ArtificialHuman descended from a machine race) is viciously abused and gang-raped over the course of months by the crew of the [[spoiler:Battlestar ''Pegasus'']], which she had previously served on and attempted to sabotage while disguised as a human, as part of a successful genocidal cylon attack that destroyed almost all of humanity. When [[spoiler:Chief Tyrol and Lt Helo]] discover that [[spoiler:Sharon Agathon]] is about to be similarly assaulted, they interrupt her would-be rapists just as they are initiating the attack, killing one of them. This leads to serious arguments between characters [[WhatMeasureIsANonhuman on the morality (or even possibility)]] of raping a "machine".

** The [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] gets even stickier when another regular client who sleeps with a male doll is revealed to be one of the female higher-ups running the Dollhouse, but "breaks up" with the doll because she feels so guilty about it.
** Then there’s the subplot with Topher and [[spoiler:Dr. Claire Saunders]]—when she discovers she’s really a doll implanted with her predecessor’s memories, [[spoiler:Claire]] confronts Topher with the accusation that he designed her to want to sleep with him even though she hates him. He denies this and rejects her advances, however.

* Somewhat averted on ''Series/{{Alphas}}''-when Nina "pushes" her ex-boyfriend from high school into leaving his wife and son to go on a petty crime spree with her, it's depicted as a despicable act, and when she forces Rachel to kiss her, even though she knows that it's going to overwhelm Rachel's [[SensoryOverload hypersensitive senses]], she's not forgiven for several episodes.
* Thoroughly averted in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Hathor", where the Goa'uld Queen Hathor rapes a brainwashed Daniel in order to get DNA to prevent immune rejection of her offspring. After everything's sorted out everyone, including Daniel, is visibly disgusted. So were the writers, who considered "Hathor" the worst episode in the series: in later episodes the characters refuse to talk about the episode's events, and that aspect of Goa'uld reproduction was quietly {{retcon}}ned away. Likewise, several months prior to "Secrets" Apophis impregnates the host of his queen Amaunet, which happens to be Daniel's wife Sha're who was kidnapped in the pilot. Kudos to Daniel for being horrified at what was done to her but completely unwilling to reject her.
* Mostly {{averted}} in ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'' with the case of Liam "Kincaid" (more accurately, Liam Beckett-Sandoval). the [[LastOfHisKind Kimera Ha'Gel]] was seeking a way to reproduce, but most human women couldn't [[OutWithABang handle the experience]]. So he overpowers Ron Sandoval (a human altered by the Taelons), takes his form and overpowers Sibohan Beckett, another Taelon-altered human. Liam is conceived from the incident, but Sandoval remembers nothing of it, and Beckett had her memory wiped shortly after Liam's birth in [[LaResistance Resistance headquarters]]. ''Liam'' is fully aware he is a ChildByRape, though, and won't acknowledge his Kimera heritage any more than absolutely necessary.

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

* In the ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' episode [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS1E15YesMen "Yes Men"]], Ward is mind-controlled by Lorelei, who [[DestructoNookie proceeds to have sex with him]]. After he is rescued, Agent May (his paramour at the time) [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale lashes out at him physically]], and the other team members discuss how men are weak for not being able to resist Lorelei's enchantment. The fact that he was kidnapped, brainwashed, and raped by a supervillain is completely glossed over, even by Ward himself.
* In ''Series/{{Eastwick}}'', Joanna uses her persuasion power to make a guy have sex with her. She finds out he's actually gay when his husband confronts them and it's treated as an embarrassing moment for her rather than a crime.

* Subverted in ''Series/{{Jake 20}}''. After losing his memory in one episode, Jake still trusts/is drawn to Diane (his doctor who works for the people he thinks he should be running from) and almost sleeps with her in the next episode. She wants to but can't go through with it. In the next episode she tells him her reason was he wasn't himself and she was (implying he wasn't capable of giving informed consent and it would have been [[BedTrick rape by fraud]], though the word is never used).
* Utterly defied, taken out back and shot in ''Series/JessicaJones2015''. [[BigBad Kilgrave]] using his CompellingVoice to make women have sex with him is treated ''exactly'' like regular rape, with all the inherent trauma and abuse that comes with it. Kilgrave [[InsistentTerminology detests the term "rapist" for himself]] and switches his excuses between [[NeverMyFault his women "wanting it" at the moment and him not being able to help it]]; [[PowerIncontinence he can't turn off his powers]] and is never sure whether someone actually wants him on their own or because he tells them to. No one else buys his explanation. After all, his powers only work when he issues direct commands.
* ''Series/{{Lucifer 2016}}'':

* ''Series/{{Legion}}'':
** This is handled [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale inconsistently]]. In one case, Lenny in Season 2, exists as a disembodied mind trapped inside The Shadow King's own disembodied mind. She clearly states that whilst a prisoner there she is being repeatedly raped by The Shadow King. In another case, we learn something troubling about Syd, in that [[spoiler: she used her body swapping powers to take over the body of her own (sleeping) mother, seduce her mother's boyfriend, and initiate sex with him in the shower. When the powers swap her back into her own body, said boyfriend is terrified to discover he is mid-coitus with an underage girl. People don't know about her powers so Syd not only gets away with it, but her victim is arrested for committing statutory rape. Whilst the scenario isn't at all presented in a positive light, Syd shows no apparent remorse and no one ever confronts her about what she has done. On the contrary, David reacts like Syd was the victim when he sees what happened in her memory. And in Season 3, Syd portrays herself as the victim because her mother's boyfriend turned her around during sex. As if that's inherently wrong and there's no way he and her mother could have simply liked doing it that way without it being some kind of aggressive power move]].
** And in the end of season 2, when [[spoiler:David uses his powers to make Syd forget their arguments and then has sex with her (i.e. doing [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale exactly the same thing as in the Willow/Tara example above]])]], she has the nerve to not only (rightly) accuse him of raping her, but to also [[spoiler: free the finally captured Shadow King in order to imprison David, and then to demand that David either be drugged to suppress his powers (and sanity) or stay forever imprisoned]].

* ComicBook/Cable is a victim of rape by deception courtesy of the mutant shapeshifter Copycat, who was disguising herself as Domino and was sent to infiltrate X-Force by Cable's enemy Tolliver. She proceeded to fall [[InLoveWithTheMark in love with]] Cable and wanted to [[BecomingTheMask join X-Force]] for real, to [[HighHeelFaceTurn stop working for]] Tolliver and start a new life. When her true identity and allegiances are revealed, Cable is shocked and horrified, but the whole thing is quickly glossed over and swept under the rug, with Copycat escaping any real consequences of what she did or being considered villainous for it, being treated more with sympathy instead. Though a later story set in the aftermath of it shows further how much the incident troubled Cable.

* The ''Literature/CodexAlera'' series, also by Jim Butcher, makes an effort to avoid this but there are still instances where people are coerced into having sex why having their arousal manipulated with Earthcrafting. That said, Earthcrafting isn't mind control, it's basically just a limited and very specific version of EmotionControl.

** Similar to the ''Series/DoctorWho'' example, Superman is ''very much'' unnerved that a sketchy organiasation somehow got a hold of his DNA and created Superboy, to the point where he's uncomfortable just being around his clone. This is sadly a played straight example, since ''everybody'' - InUniverse and [[MisaimedFandom out]] - treats him akin to a deadbeat dad who needs to "man up and take responsibility".

** It turns out that [[spoiler:Benjamin Sisko owes his ''existence'' to this trope. A Prophet of Bajor possessed a woman named Sarah and had her marry Joseph Sisko for the sole purpose of giving birth to the Prophets' Emissary: Ben. It's unclear exactly what that means in terms of Sarah's experience and level of control over her actions (it's implied she and the Prophet somehow shared their existence during this period). However, she ran from New Orleans to Australia without a word once the Prophet left her (and then died in a shuttle accident), so this was clearly not a consensual event]]. Sisko displays his usual irritation over the Prophets' meddling, but not much more than usual. The Prophet [[spoiler:then uses Sarah's appearance when appearing to him and acts as a motherly figure]].

It can frequently occur in variants of AliensMadeThemDoIt and the BedTrick. FridgeLogic points out that {{Love Potion}}s that lead to sex may fall under this. Compare GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul for manipulation that can be used in this way. Contrast SafeSaneAndConsensual as well as FreeLoveFuture and EthicalSlut. See also DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}'', there's a lot of widely-available love spells (usually specifically male-on-female) that outright mind-control the target. There is absolutely no restriction on their use (aside from needing to be a magic-using class). Of course, since this is [=FATAL=]], one could make a case for this trope being averted, since regular rape is ''also'' treated very cavalierly.

* In Japanese folklore, ''{{kitsune}}'' -- as well as their Chinese and Korean counterparts -- use their shapeshifting abilities and other mystical powers to transform into beautiful women and seduce men, usually to drain their vitality through sex or outright eat them. In cases where the ruse is revealed -- either by accident or the intervention of a priest or exorcist -- the fox's unwitting lover is usually horrified and disgusted. However, in other cases -- like the tale of ''Kuzunoha'' -- the human and the fox-spirit genuinely fall in love, though such romances almost always end in tragedy when the ''kitsune''[='=]s true form is revealed.

* Generally averted in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', where just about all forms of supernaturally coercing sex are considered bad mojo, whether it is shapeshifting, faerie glamours, or the [[HornyDevils White Court's mental whammy]]. Mortals using mind control to coerce sex gets the death penalty from the White Council, though this falls under the general blanket Laws of Magic, one of which states that using magic to control minds is illegal. {{Love Potion}}s ''technically'' do not count under the Laws, as the recipe used involves creating a strong aphrodisiac instead of outright mind control. Later in the series, the revelation that [[spoiler:Luccio was only in a relationship with Harry due to being mind-controlled into doing so by the Black Council]] is treated as disturbing for both of them.

* Downplayed in ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald''. Queenie slips Jacob a LovePotion after he refuses to marry her. However, it's not because he doesn't love her (he very much does), but rather because she's a witch and he's a Muggle. Marriage between the two of them is illegal and he doesn't want to get her in trouble. Still, when Newt discovers what she's done, he's appalled and undoes the enchantment.

** It's also revealed that at least one of them did ''not'' sign up willingly. Sierra had schizophrenia and was taken from an institution against her will for her own good, the idea being that she'd be cured when her five years were up. But she only had schizophrenia because a wealthy man she rejected was having her drugged, and he tricked the Dollhouse by putting her on their radar so that he could sleep with her as a client.

* Even far more common and utterly un-addressed in ''Series/StargateUniverse'', due to the show's heavy use of the 'communication stones' technology that allows people to [[FreakyFridayFlip swap bodies]] across galactic distances so that the crew on the ''Destiny'' can visit Earth and vice versa. This technology, which is imported from the final seasons of SG-1, when it [[GenreShift became increasingly fantasy in tone]] (well, ''[[FranchiseOriginalSin more]]'' [[FranchiseOriginalSin fantasy]]), is given an extreme HandWave by the somewhat more grounded ''Universe''. However, much more problematic than the [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum inexplicable nature of the technology]] is that the writers apparently chose to treat the moral implications of every single use of the technology as [[FridgeLogic Fridge Logic]] not worth even a moment of lip service: several sexual encounters take place when a character is in another's body, and no one partaking in this liberty is ever shown to consider that the regular inhabitant of the body might find this to be a violation, or that there are any other moral issues involved. Or is ever turned off by the fact their partner looks like a stranger (the audience sees the person inside, but the characters don't). Typically the technology is only used if both parties are volunteers, but never is there a mention of anyone signing off on their swap partners exposing them to potential [=STDs=], unanticipated pregnancy/paternity, or the knowledge that your body spent the night with Dr. Rush--all of which are frightening possible implications of the laissez-faire attitude the characters take to this technology. One of the webisodes has a character confirm that they sign an agreement saying they understand their body could be used for anything up to and including sex, but (a) how realistic is it that several people would willingly agree to routinely allow that? (b) it's dubious this arrangement could even be ''legal'' in RealLife; it would be far more practical to stick to one where sex is explicitly off limits.

* Even far more common and utterly un-addressed in ''Series/StargateUniverse'', due to the show's heavy use of the 'communication stones' technology that allows people to [[FreakyFridayFlip swap bodies]] across galactic distances so that the crew on the ''Destiny'' can visit Earth and vice versa. This technology, which is imported from the final seasons of SG-1, when it [[GenreShift became increasingly fantasy in tone]] (well, ''[[FranchiseOriginalSin more]]'' [[FranchiseOriginalSin fantasy]]), is given an extreme HandWave by the somewhat more grounded ''Universe''. However, much more problematic than the [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum inexplicable nature of the technology]] is that the writers apparently chose to treat the moral implications of every single use of the technology as [[FridgeLogic Fridge Logic]] not worth even a moment of lip service: several sexual encounters take place when a character is in another's body, and no one partaking in this liberty is ever shown to consider that the regular inhabitant of the body might find this to be a violation, or that there are any other moral issues involved. Or being turned off by the fact their partner looks like a stranger. Typically the technology is only used if both parties are volunteers, but never is there a mention of anyone signing off on their swap partners exposing them to potential [=STDs=], unanticipated pregnancy/paternity, or the knowledge that your body spent the night with Dr. Rush--all of which are frightening possible implications of the laissez-faire attitude the characters take to this technology. One of the webisodes has a character confirm that they sign an agreement saying they understand their body could be used for anything up to and including sex, but (a) how realistic is it that several people would willingly agree to routinely allow that? (b) it's dubious this arrangement could even be ''legal'' in RealLife; it would be far more practical to stick to one where sex is explicitly off limits.

* Mostly {{averted}} in ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'' with the case of Liam "Kincaid" (more accurately, Liam Beckett-Sandoval). the [[LastOfHisKind Kimera H'Gel]] was seeking a way to reproduce, but most human women couldn't [[OutWithABang handle the experience]]. So he overpowers Ron Sandoval (a human altered by the Taelons), takes his form and overpowers Sibohan Beckett, another Taelon-altered human. Liam is conceived from the incident, but Sandoval remembers nothing of it, and Beckett had her memory wiped shortly after Liam's birth in [[LaResistance Resistance headquarters]]. ''Liam'' is fully aware he is a ChildByRape, though, and won't acknowledge his Kimera heritage any more than absolutely necessary.

* Somewhat averted on ''Series/{{Alphas}}''-when Nina "pushes" her ex-boyfriend into leaving his wife and son to go on a petty crime spree with her, it's depicted as a despicable act, and when she [[spoiler:forces Rachel to kiss her, even though she knows that it's going to overwhelm Rachel's hypersensitive senses]], she's not forgiven for several episodes.

* Somewhat averted on ''Series/{{Alphas}}''-when Nina "pushes" her ex-boyfriend into leaving his wife, it's depicted as a despicable act, and when she [[spoiler:forces Rachel to kiss her, even though she knows that it's going to overwhelm Rachel]], she's not forgiven for several episodes.

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

** It also featured in an earlier episode where William Boone sleeps with a woman who he believes is an ex-lover but is actually a complete stranger: He has been implanted with false memories of their relationship as part of a Taelon test, and she often seduces men in this manner to test their loyalty. Boone does feel used when he realises the truth, although he seems more concerned about the fact that the false memories caused him to kill a man who was threatening her.

** It's also revealed that at least one of them did ''not'' sign up willingly. Sierra had schizophrenia and was taken from an institution against her will for her own good, the idea being that she'd be cured when her five years were up. But she only had schizophrenia because a wealthy man she rejected was having her drugged, and he tricked the Dollhouse by putting her on their radar so that he could sleep with her.

** It's also revealed that at least one of them did ''not'' sign up willingly. Sierra had schizophrenia and was taken from an institution against her will for her own good, the idea being that she'd be cured when her five years were up. But she only had schizophrenia because a wealthy man she rejected was having her drugged, and he put her on the Dollhouse's radar so that he could sleep with her.
** This is also averted in that it's treated as one of the things that makes the Dollhouse a criminal organization that should be shut down.

** It's also revealed that at least one of them did ''not'' sign up willingly. Sierra had schizophrenia and was taken from an institution under protest, the idea being that she'd be cured when her five years were up. But she only had schizophrenia because a wealthy man she rejected was having her drugged, and he put her on the Dollhouse's radar so that he could sleep with her.