History Main / GratuitousRape

* Infamously, ''IdentityCrisis'' created the RetCon of Dr. Light raping Sue Dibny in The Watchtower, and worse, we only found out about it ''after'' Sue had been murdered and its only purpose was to motivate the heroes into crossing into [[MoralDissonance very questionable territory]].

* Every novel by Richard Laymon. No, really. Every. Single. One.

* The rape scenes in ''TheHillsHaveEyes''.

* The random attempted rape in ''Film/{{Friday the 13th}} Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan''.

* Although not the actual rape victim, Luca Blight from [[{{SuikodenII}} Suikoden II]] was forced to watch the rape of [[spoiler: his mother, the Queen, on the hands of bandits hired by the Muse mayor. ]]. Luca will hold a deep grudge against his father because of his perceived inaction, culminating in the prince killing the king with a poisoned chalice. [[spoiler: His sister Jillia is the result of the rape, and the queen descended into severe depression.]]
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* Although not the actual rape victim, Luca Blight from [[{{SuikodenII}}Suikoden II]] was forced to watch the rape of [[spoiler: his mother, the Queen, on the hands of bandits hired by the Muse mayor. ]]. Luca will hold a deep grudge against his father because of his perceived inaction, culminating in the prince killing the king with a poisoned chalice. [[spoiler: His sister Jillia is the result of the rape, and the queen descended into severe depression.]]

* Although not the actual rape victim, Luca Blight from Suikoden II witnessed the rape of [[spoiler: "his mother on the hands of bandits hired by the Muse mayor, the father of Anabelle. "]]. Luca will hold a deep grudge against his father because of his perceived inaction, culminating in the prince killing the king with a poisoned chalice. [[spoiler: "His sister Jillia is the result of the rape."]]

* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7044694/1/Dawns_Punishment This]] ''PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' fanfic basically involves Dawn being apprehended while breaking into Team Galactic's hideout, and as punishment being raped by everyone in Team Galactic, including [[{{Lolicon}} Cyrus]], [[LesYay Mars, Jupiter]], Saturn, every single Galactic Grunt, and even ''Cyrus's Gyarados and Crobat!''

-->--Rachael Edidin, [[http://www.girl-wonder.org/insideout/ InsideOut]]

* Sleez forcing a mind-controlled Big Barda to star in porn movies in ''ActionComics'' #593. He almost did it to Superman, too. (How creepy was Sleeze and this story? Sleeze was kicked out of [[{{Mordor}} Apokalips]] by [[GodOfEvil Darkseid]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards for being too creepy]].)

* The infamous "snowman rape scene" from the SlasherMovie ''JackFrost''. Jack brutally kills everybody else but stops to rape the teenage girl taking a bath.

* {{YMMV}}, but many people think that ''ASongOfIceAndFire'' suffers from this. It's definitely part of what makes Westeros such a CrapsackWorld.

There are many guesses as to why GratuitousRape is used so much. To name a few, rape makes for good [[RapeAsDrama drama]], it can show the BigBad as [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil very, very, evil]], or it can be used for just plain ol' {{Fanservice}}. What some creators forget, however, is that rape is a sensitive subject and therefore rape scenes should be handled with care. When unskilled hands insist on shoehorning rape somewhere into their work, THIS happens. This is a common cliche in FanWorks, but professional works are no stranger to it, either.

* {{YMMV}}, but many people think that ''ASongOfIceAndFire'' suffers from this. Then again, no one ever said living in [[CrapsackWorld Westeros]] was easy...

* Rape happens a ''lot'' in ''{{Berserk}}''. Many of the more despicable bad guys are prone to engaging in it (particularly Apostles such as Wyald), and many of the main characters (particularly if they're female) have had to deal with either attempted or successful rape. Like the main page says, the manga borders on {{Hentai}} at times.

* {{YMMV}}, but many people think that ASongOfIceAndFire suffers from this.

* ''{{Berserk}}'' has a lot of this

* YMMV, but many people think that a Song of Ice and Fire suffers from this.

* The ''{{Titanic}}'' miniseries includes a scene where a third-class girl is raped in the shower by [[TimCurry an evil steward.]]

** Often, visual novel creators turn their works into H-Games to increase sales. This tacking on of sex scenes is invariably unnecessary and sometimes takes away from the story.

* ''Sanctuary'' tries to play with Tokai habit of raping random women as a Fanservice or RapeIsFunny, but its always so pointless that makes you dislike the character even if you liked him before.

* The rape scene(s) relies on BadWriting tropes such as CharacterDerailment (the BigBad just forgets his usual ''modus operandi'' of killing quickly and efficiently and just rapes everything that has an orfice) or an IdiotPlot (the {{Mooks}} stop to rape a wounded hero as they are [[TooDumbToLive being shot at by the other heroes]]).