History Main / RapeDiscretionShot

* Half the rape storylines on SoapOperas use this (the other half being [[NightmareFuelUnleaded wrenchingly graphic]]). A classic example is the infamous RapeIsLove scene for Luke and Laura of GeneralHospital--he pulls her down to the floor as she cries out, "No, Luke, no!" as the camera pans away. There's some quick shots of the record turntable and various items scattered around the bar, such as her purse and her sweater, before we see Laura huddled on the floor crying with a disheveled Luke standing over her. This may have been one of the few times where a soap HAD to use a discretion shot, as Laura's actress Genie Francis was only 17 at the time and it may very well have been illegal to film anything more blatant.

* Subverted in {{Bleach}}. After Grimmjow rescues Orihime from Loly and Menoly [[spoiler: via brutalizing both girls (to death, in Menoly's case)]], he then lifts her up by the collar and tells her that his debt to her has been repaid, and now he has "a little favour to ask". [[DiscretionShot The scene then fades to black.]] However, we soon see that he didn't rape her: he only wanted her to heal Ichigo so they can finish their fight.

* Happens in ''[[ThreeHundred 300]]'' when the Queen is raped by the council member in exchange for an audience with them. [[spoiler: When he turns out to be a traitor, she rather awesomely has her revenge]].

* Half the rape storylines on SoapOperas use this (the other half being [[NightmareFuel wrenchingly graphic]]). A classic example is the infamous RapeIsLove scene for Luke and Laura of GeneralHospital--he pulls her down to the floor as she cries out, "No, Luke, no!" as the camera pans away. There's some quick shots of the record turntable and various items scattered around the bar, such as her purse and her sweater, before we see Laura huddled on the floor crying with a disheveled Luke standing over her. This may have been one of the few times where a soap HAD to use a discretion shot, as Genie Francis, Laura's portrayer, was only 17 at the time and it may very well have been illegal to film anything more blatant.

* In the ''{{Firefly}}'' episode Heart of Gold, Burgess is standing in front of a large crowd of men, making an angry speech about how women need to know their place, with the hooker, Chari, standing by him. He tells the crowd "Let us all remember, right here and now, what a woman is, to a man." Then he turns to Chari, says "Get on your knees.", and the camera fades away as she starts kneeling.

* The beginning of pretty much any episode of Law & Order: SVU

* Happens in ''{{300}}'' when the Queen is raped by the council member in exchange for an audience with them. [[spoiler: When he turns out to be a traitor, she rather awesomely has her revenge]].

* The climax of the "Poor Thing" scene with Judge Turpin and Lucy Barker from ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet''.

* The rape scene in ''PulpFiction'' is entirely off screen, but you know exactly what's going on from the dialogue.
** Well...''most'' of it's offscreen. When Butch sneaks into the room wielding the sword, you get an eyeful right before he takes the bad guys down.

* {{Batman}} in a retroactive manner. the Son of the Demon graphic novel depicted Talia and Bruce in a consensual relationship. For almost two decades it wasn't considered cannon until 2006 when Batman & Son was a story in the main Batman books. Over the course of two panels we learn that everything in the book was basically Talia's warped fantasy and that she'd had him drugged the whole time. So it's a bit of a retroactive discretion shot. The fact that Bruce was raped as a consequence of this has never been dealt with.

* Used in ''{{Noir}}'' when the young [[spoiler:Altena]] is about to be raped by a soldier. He's put her on a bed and is about to lie down next to her, and we then see [[EmpathyDoll her doll]] hit the floor.

* [[http://manga.animea.net/queen-s-blade-hide-seek-chapter-9-page-26.html This page]] from [[QueensBlade Queen's Blade Hide 'n Seek]], complete with falling rosebud, makes it clear that [[spoiler: Elina rapes Nyx, which is alluded to [[http://manga.animea.net/queen-s-blade-hide-seek-chapter-9-page-25.html here]]]], without having to show it.

* In The BBC's 1967 adaptation of TheForsyteSaga, just as Soames is about to claim his "marital rights" from his reluctant wife Irene the scene shifts to a barrel-organ playing beneath their window.

* Often used on ColdCase if the victim of the week was raped before being killed. Rather than the depicting the murder the way most of the final flashbacks did, the scene would cut away as the assualt began.
* An early episode of LawAndOrder had a woman being drugged during a doctor's visit and the scene fading out coinciding with her passing out, horrified at the realization of what has happened and that she's now powerless to stop him from raping her.
** The LawAndOrderUK episode based on this even plays it twice. Aside from the similar scene, as the other members of the team review the tape the woman made of the attack, we can hear everything, but see only their grim, angry, disgusted reactions, never the assault itself.

* Two episodes of ''WithoutATrace'' employ this, both during flashback sequences. In one episode, the event in question is recalled by a blind girl who had been kidnapped, along with her tutor, by two teens who did what they were doing ForTheEvulz; the tutor is assaulted by one of the guys, and though we don't see the act, we ''do'' hear the woman's sobs while getting a full camera view of the blind girl's face as she listens in abject terror. The other episode employs this with the revelation of a main character's DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Samantha's sister was raped by a local man, who Sam crept up on and clubbed to death with a shoven during the act]].

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* The beginning of pretty much any episode of {{Law & Order: SVU}}

* The camera pans up right before [[ClintEastwood the Stranger]] rapes an impudent woman to teach her a lesson in ''HighPlainsDrifter''.

* In [[Comicbook/{{Starman}} Starman]] when Jack Knight is drugged into unconsciousness and raped by Nash, the second Mist, the scene occurs from his point-of-view as a very strange erotic dream. Additionally, while the implication is there in the initial scene, it isn't until many issues later that the series confirms the fact that a rape occurred with a WhamLine.

* Surprisingly, despite its tremendous profanity, explicit portrayals of sex, and outright gore elsewhere, {{Preacher}} keeps Herr Starr's rape by "sexual investigator" entirely off-panel. As with some other examples, this is because the scene runs on RapeIsFunnyIfItsMale OnMale. Indeed, all the male-on-male rape in the series is both played for laughs and kept offscreen; the instance we do see is male-on-female, and is played as RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil.

* The climax of the "Poor Thing" scene with Judge Turpin and Lucy Barker from ''SweeneyTodd''.

* The camera pans up right before [[ClintEastwood the Stranger]] rapes a woman to teach her a lesson in ''HighPlainsDrifter''.

* In ''[[{{Deryni}} The King's Justice]]'', Princess Janniver's memory is read by Rothana, who [[ExpositionBeam shows it to Kelson]]. The text reflects Rothana's editing of the vision in its description of Janniver's emotional reaction, emotions an outraged Rothana passes unfiltered to Kelson. Thus, the readers get no explicit details of the act itself, yet there's no doubt what happened.