History Main / TheWomenAreSafeWithUs

[[Administrivia/TropesAreTools This trope is not going anywhere.]] There's no shame in audiences demanding minimal standards of conduct from characters courting their support, and writers are wise to remember this. Having pirates that act like pirates, or Vikings that act like Vikings would [[AudienceAlienatingPremise alienate the audience]], which is something to be avoided with far more care than historical inaccuracy. Even history buffs that sneer at inaccurate diet or clothing styles may cringe.

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* Without breaking the prohibition against real-life examples, as stated above in order to maintain discipline, Commanders throughout history have tried to enforce this trope.
* Indeed some of the well-known aversions of this occurred when Commanders lost control of their troops, although it is often disputed how much effort they made to maintain said control. A perfunctory face-saving "tsk tsk" was very common. Though to be fair, so were determined but ill-fated efforts to prevent rapes.
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* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' the Silver Horde of barbarian warriors do not rape. However, this may be because they're all over 80 and is possibly subverted somewhat when the Ankh-Morpork Guild of Historians distinguishes between rape and ravishment. "It's a question of style. There were never any actual ''[[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization complaints]]''." Of course, there is an exchange between Rincewind and Cohen in ''Literature/InterestingTimes'' which suggests that the Silver Horde do not rape for more.... [[TheLoinsSleepTonight practical reasons]]. Speaking about an 85-year-old Barbarian...

Movies that involve historical generals, chiefs, or warlords will generally [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade treat it as a given]] that they didn't tolerate such things, unless such leaders are the villains of the work. Sometimes the all-too-common occurrence of officers who ''did'' disapprove being limited in their ability to control their men [[ObligatoryWarCrimeScene will be shown]], since it still leaves the hero sympathetic.

Although we'd never tolerate it from a hero, rape remains one of the many depraved types of behavior we may expect from a villain. Villains being villains, [[RapePillageAndBurn rape while pillaging]] will still be the order of the day when the evil enemy soldiers attack a village full of protagonists, and will be used to underline exactly how ruthless and vile The Enemy is. Individual mooks [[EvenEvilHasStandards might be above this]], but an army full of them... not so much.

Too many aversions go to the opposite extreme, painting whatever era or world they're set in as a NoWomansLand CrapsackWorld, which is an oversimplification at best, sometimes outright {{Demonization}}. At the same time, this Trope was played straight throughout history and infact was more likely to happen then not. Commanders like to maintain discipline and order amongst the ranks, an Army without either is basically a mob, and there are few better ways to cause such breakdown then letting the troops run wild over womenfolk. RealLife Pirate Codices (pirates, due to being confined to very limited space, required the strictest discipline of all), tellingly, often had a clause for severely punishing the rape of female captives, execution on the spot being common enough. Throwing the captive women overboard was still fair play though.

* Played with in ''Eikou no Napoleon: Eroica'': at the start of the First Italian Campaign UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte denies his men the right of sacking (that is, RapePillageAndBurn), but this isn't out of the goodness of his heart but to make the people of the area they're invading more sympathetic (and in fact he's explicitely shown giving it to the Army of Egypt for the Battle of the Pyramids. Immediately followed by announcing that the enemy Mamluk cavalrymen they're about to face [[BlingOfWar go at war wearing large amounts of gold jewels]]). The end result is that the civilians ''willingly give them more than what they would have got by sacking'': that is, the cities of all Italy (and not just the ones getting occupied) send them the supplies they needed and lavish gifts, and the women of Milan accept having consensual sex with the invaders.

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* ''ComicBook/RedSonja'': After becoming [[TheHighQueen Queen of Songaria]], Sonja (a [[RapeAsBackstory rape survivor]] herself) expressly forbids her soldiers from raping and is throughly displeased after hearing they tried to do that to one of [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes her enemies' little sister]]. Due to the men who sought to rape the girl being [[BigBrotherInstinct killed by her big brother]], she doesn't punish the others outright, but forbids them from laying a finger on her and promises a severe punishment if they try it again with anyone.

** During one ObligatoryWarCrimeScene, Juvage's MoralityPet Konstantin is wandering through a Christian city being ravaged by Juvage's troops, puling soldiers off women wherever he sees them. He's no fighter, but the soldiers know he's protected, so they just get right back to it.

* 1962's ''Film/The300Spartans'' has the evil (from the POV of the movie) King Xerxes order that his soldiers on the campaign be given one last night with their wives, then the women are to be killed. Yes, women from ''his'' side. "There are plenty of women in Athens and Sparta and I want my men to be eager to get at them". [[MoralEventHorizon Perhaps the audience wasn't quite sure he was the villain of the movie yet.]] How the Spartans treated the enemy women is of course not discussed.

* Both played straight and averted in 1960's ''Film/{{Spartacus}}''. The gladiator students (who are slaves) are, as a perk, given women (also slaves) to spend the night with. Varinia meekly prepares to go through with it, her sense of dignity long since subjugated by her survival instinct. But Sparty, being the hero, will have none of it - especially since his owners are leering to watch the show. Whether he's reluctant to take advantage of Varinia, simply appalled by the idea of performing for an audience, or both is not made 100 % clear. Averted slightly, in that the other women with the other gladiators are almost certainly being ravished. In spite of this, the other gladiators later form Spartacus' army, and retain audience sympathy.

** Even the [[spoiler:anti]]villainous Barbossa abides by this... up to a point. When Elizabeth rejects his NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine proposal in the first film, he says that the alternative is to dine with the crew, and without the dress he was offering her.

* The 2004 movie ''Film/{{Troy}}'', both supports and avoids this trope, depending on how much we're supposed to identify with the character. Achilles' nameless soldiers behave the way you might expect an ancient army to towards Trojan captive Briseis (not well). Achilles' lieutenant Eudorus also sees her as a prize to be enjoyed by his boss, and is not chastised for his attitude. Agamemnon, being the dastard of the film, naturally feels the same way. Audience-courting Achilles however, is shown to be respectful of Briseis. The script takes pains to show that sex between them is consensual. Achilles even rescues her from rape at the hands of his men (out of altruism, it seems, not jealousy). OTOH, in Homer's ''Literature/TheIliad'', Briseis is seized by Achilles and later Agamemnon as a prize. Her consent, or lack thereof, is not treated as a concern either way.
** Achilles constantly refers to Briseis as his wife and bride, indicating it's of ''some'' concern to him (though they had weird attitudes about rape, Greeks generally thought taking a love-interest purely by force [[CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest was unkind]] -- Plato thought it was one of the things that made Zeus a {{Jerkass}}[[note]]Or rather, that made the myths written by poets a blasphemy for portraying Zeus as a Jerkass, since Plato, an initiate of the Eleusinian Mysteries, [[FanonDiscontinuity didn't consider the poets' myths canon]][[/note]]). That her feelings might not be a concern to Agamemnon seems to be a part of why he's angry Agamemnon took her, and why it's very important Agamemnon swears he never touched her, when he gives her back. They were fighting a war over that kind of thing, after all.
** In the myth, Achilles isn't all that interested in raping Briseis either, or really doing anything with her until she is taken away by Agamemnon. She was Achilles' honor gift, taking her back was a major insult, and Achilles was very upset about the insult, but not so much about the presence of the actual person. Furthermore, high ranking female captives were mainly used as a display of power in Homers epics, and their duties involved such things as serving wine to guests.

** She pretends to enjoy it in order to get the protection of Rutger's character against his fellow soldiers, but eventually develops feelings for him (at one point saving his life from plague-infected drink after having allowed his comrades to be exposed).

* ''Film/CaptainBlood'': Blood's ship has it as an explicit rule that no one will mistreat any woman, nor take them prisoner in the first place. He kills one of his partners over it.
* The Clive Owen ''Film/KingArthur'' movie uses a twist on this trope: the good Roman knights don't rape. The villainous Saxons are shown attempting to rape a woman but the BigBad stops them, arguing they shouldn't dilute their bloodline. One of the soldiers claims it's his right, and is stabbed for his trouble. The BigBad then kills the woman. Whether this is meant as a [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation hate crime]] or because he knew [[EvenEvilHasStandards he couldn't protect the woman for long]] is left ambiguous.

* Zig-Zagged in the German film ''[[Film/Stalingrad1993 Stalingrad]]''. Near the end of the film, the platoon discover a Russian woman tied to a bed whom Captain Haller has been keeping as a sex slave. Some of the soldiers suggest "taking turns" with her, but [[OfficerAndAGentleman Lieutenant Von Witzland]] ultimately enforces this trope.

* The ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' series, which painfully [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructs]] everything else about medieval style life and the stereotypical KnightInShiningArmor, hits this one as well. Soldiers from ''every'' army involved in the War of the Five Kings are shown engaging in various atrocities, including, quite frequently, rape -- regardless of whether they support the protagonists or not. A few nobles have edicts against their men raping (most notably Daenerys Targaryen, who is a woman herself and took a number of eunuchs into her army because they wouldn't rape, and Stannis Baratheon, who embodies HonorBeforeReason), but they are the exception to the rule. Rape is, however, a crime outside of times of war, and rapists without the fortune of noble blood are shown as having a choice between castration and serving with the Night Watch. Highborn rapists go scot-free, though, and [[MaritalRapeLicense marital rape]] isn't even considered a crime.

* In the ''1632'' series the armies the "uptimers" come across are frequently mercenary companies without regulation regarding rape (not that the downtimers consider it in the same light as their twenty-first century neighbors), and the characters deal with the resultant complications.

* ''Literature/TheSwordOfTruth'' series has [[PunctuatedforEmphasis every. single. bad guy.]] be a rapist. For example the books constantly point out that Jagang's (the villain) army is full of rapists. We couldn't even begin to guess how many times it's mentioned that some soldier or soldiers are/were raping women and children. The armies of the good guys, on the other hand, are super professional and would never rape anyone.

* ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' plays with this a bit: it doesn't beat around the bush about how the armies of old raped the women of conquered lands (and still do), and trying to avoid this is why Leto II makes his armies all female. Considering the Honored Matres are descended from various Fish Speaker armies he made and the amount of (male) raping they do, it shows that line of thinking doesn't work.

* The protagonist of ''Literature/TypewriterInTheSky'' (by Creator/LRonHubbard) tries to enforce this trope on the pirates he commands, but finds that they refuse to obey any orders on the subject. The author gives a fair bit of attention to [[RapePillageAndBurn what would actually happen]] during a pirate attack, as well as how the main character's modern morality estranges him from his crewmen. In-story, the resolution to the problem is through a CosmicRetcon--the protagonist's the antagonist of the story-within-a-story, and the writer decides he's not evil enough and rewrites him straight into IHaveYouNowMyPretty ([[MediumAwareness much to his displeasure]].)

* Completely averted in the ''Literature/{{Horseclans}}'' series, where the protagonist (notably, someone originally from modern America) of the first book is quite willing to have his men rape prisoners of war, because they're "just Dirtmen."

* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' the Silver Horde of barbarian warriors do not rape. However, this may be because they're all over 80, and is possibly subverted somewhat when the Ankh-Morpork Guild of Historians distinguishes between rape and ravishment. "It's a question of style. There were never any actual ''[[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization complaints]]''." Of course, there is an exchange between Rincewind and Cohen in ''Literature/InterestingTimes'' which suggests that the Silver Horde do not rape for more.... [[TheLoinsSleepTonight practical reasons]]. Speaking about an 85-year-old Barbarian...

* Surprisingly subverted in the otherwise rather lighthearted ''[[Literature/TheElenium Sparhawk]]'' series. The fierce Peloi Tribesmen of the Great Plains (FantasyCounterpartCulture to the Mongols/Huns) are loudly and clearly in favor of the full RapePillageAndBurn trinity, and are staunch allies to the heroes, the [[ThePaladin Knights of the Church]]... who are not only unsurprised, but somewhat tolerant of the Peloi's predilections. During one memorable scene in the first trilogy, Sparhawk has to politely but firmly explain to their Peloi allies that there will be no rape, plundering or burnination during the invasion of a particular city, because it was one of their ''own'' cities that they were ''liberating'' from an occupying force. The implication being that if it was a ''foreign'' city, they'd mostly just stand aside and let the Tribesmen take what they wanted. The leader of the tribesmen is obviously depressed about this, but agrees--with a sigh--since they're old friends. The same Peloi chieftain winds up being a fairly major character in the second trilogy... and, somewhat amusingly, [[spoiler: winds up marrying one of the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Atan people]]--who had previously murdered any number of would-be rapists during her stay in foreign lands.]] What ''she'' thought of his past hobbies remains unsaid.
* In the Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar series, the Eastern Empire, despite being an antagonist, is like this. They have very strict laws about rape that get imposed whenever they conquer a new land. Basically, any woman that gets raped is granted the status of a divorced spouse, which means that half the perpetrator's possessions and wages go to the victim for five years if there is no child and sixteen if there is one. If the child is a daughter, the guy has to provide a dowry, and if it's a son, he has to pay for the outfitting when the son is conscripted into the military. If the perpetrator doesn't have means to pay, then he gets sent to a government labor camp with his wages paying for it. If a guy is stupid enough to rape again, then he undergoes physical and magical punishment that leave him outwardly intact but unable to repeat the act.
* In ''Literature/{{Sharpe}}'', [[AntiHero Sharpe]] is ''proud'' of being a "thief, pirate and murderer" but is '''very''' clear that he never commits rape. Nonetheless, the books quite frequently mention or show the soldiers from ''all'' armies committing rape. A besieged city which refuses to surrender is considered fair game for RapePillageAndBurn once it's taken (this is all TruthInTelevision-it's only very recently these became punishable as crimes).
* In ''Literature/TheCinderSpires'' Played with. When Albion Guardsman Bridget is trying to negotiate the end of a Mexican standoff between the Auroran marine Ciriaco, his soldiers and her friends by allowing herself to be taken as hostage, she believes she'll probably be 'raped and murdered'. Ciriaco sincerely tells her that if such a situation had played out, he would have gutted any man who tried to lay a hand on her. He assures her "[i]f it had to be death, I'd have given it to you quick and clean." Bridget is not comforted by this knowledge.

* The main goal of the Cel legions from ''Literature/DarkShores'' is to subdue a province as efficiently as possible, make the people see the benefits of joining the Empire and get them to pay taxes. Raping the populace would not be conductive to that. Fortunately for the legionnaires, consorting with prostitutes is allowed, as long as they are paid.

** {{Deconstructed}} with Daenerys. When her husband's men crush a small village to take the poplace as slaves, she tries to save the women of the defeated tribe from rape. Later one of those women gives Daenerys a WhatTheHellHero speech for seeing herself as a hero for "saving" her when she had already lost everything and everyone she cared about at the hands of Daenerys' husband. Later, though aware of the measures and consequences of conquest, Dany still tries to counter the excess 'spoils' of war by acquiring eunuch warriors as the main core of her infantry, all of whom are incapable of rape. However, it is unlikely that Dany will ever be able to enforce this if she bands together a large myriad force of many cultures to march on Westeros. [[spoiler:By the penultimate episode in the series, circumstances have led her to make a FaceHeelTurn and become a FallenHeroine and when she finally attacks King's Landing, she no longer cares about enforcing this trope as her coalition army are free to rape and prey upon the innocent populace of the city]].

* ''{{Series/Sharpe}}'': The eponymous hero will absolutely not tolerate rape, even--perhaps especially--by his own men. He has two enemy soldiers shot in front of their commander when he catches them at it, and almost hangs a member of his own unit who's caught with a girl, only relenting when the girl says it wasn't rape. Even then, he has the man taken behind a building and beaten for "making free" with her.
** ''[[Recap/SharpeS4E2SharpesSiege Sharpe's Siege]]'''s plot is reliant on the aversion of this trope. The British army is camped outside the French-occupied city of Badajoz, and Sharpe's wife--a spy for British-allied Portugal--is inside the city, along with their infant daughter. Much of the plot, therefore, relies on his need to find and protect his family from his own army ransacking the city.
* In an episode of the French comedy show ''Series/{{Kaamelott}}'', the daughter of a Celt chieftain tells KingArthur--who just conquered her village--that according to Celtic law he must now rape her to confirm his victory. [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe She seems utterly disappointed when he refuses]] (as she traded place with her sister for it) and threaten Arthur at knife point for it until she settles for being one of his mistress.

** Also, more broadly, soldiers were not allowed to have ''any'' kind of sex if they were actively fighting in a war, most likely in an effort to keep diseases (that could potentially wipe out their army, or their society as a whole if they brought said diseases home to their wives) at bay. (However, needles to say, this didn't always happen in practice.) This becomes a major plot point during King David's UriahGambit in the ''Literature/BooksOfKings''.

* Almost averted in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''. This being ''Franchise/DragonAge'', the number of [[FaceHeelTurn true allies]] with whom your women are safe is quite small, to say the least. In the City Elf origin, all the women in your family, and you (if female), are dragged off by human nobles to be raped. A few [=NPCs=] allude to this fate when talking about war and banditry in Thedas. There are quite a few female [=NPCs=] with RapeAsBackstory. And, just in case you thought you were safe fighting inhuman, nonsentient beasts who don't seem to reproduce normally, the women who are taken away by the Darkspawn are [[spoiler: mutated into [[BodyHorror Broodmothers]] and forced to give birth to new Darkspawn]]. Yes, women are safe with the few actual heroes in this world (even the oversexed Zevran will be very, very sure you're into him before he'll make a move), but this seems to be a fact about these particular characters as people, and does not automatically apply to anyone on their sides, ever.

* ''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'': A somewhat-outnumbered human army is standing against an Orcish Horde, when the protagonists bring in a small army of mercenaries to help the beleaguered humans... unfortunately, the mercenaries are... well, ''mercenaries'', and it soon turns into a bidding-war between the human forces and the orcs. Finally, the Orcs offer the mercenaries a fat percentage of the looting, "And your pick of the women!" to which the mercenaries respond with a resounding "SOLD!" But of course, Nodwick manages to turn things around in his usual, understated fashion, by playing the virtues of the Stupid Good poster-child, Piffany, against the mercenaries' ruthlessness. Realizing that if they sell out to the orcs, it'll make her cry, they turn on the orcs with unbridled fury...

* Without breaking the prohibition against real life examples, as stated above in order to maintain discipline, Commanders throughout history have tried to enforce this trope.
* Indeed some of the well known aversions of this occurred when Commanders lost control of their troops, although it is often disputed how much effort they made to maintain said control. A perfunctory face saving "tsk tsk" was very common. Though to be fair, so were determined but ill fated efforts to prevent rapes.

%% No real life examples on rape tropes, please.

* In ''King of the Middle-March'' by Kevin Crossley-Holland, the Christian armies in the Crusades are depicted as raping women in addition to other crimes, including both Muslims and the residents of a Byzantine city that the crusaders are used by their Venetian financial backer to besiege and ransack (that episode at least is TruthInTelevision). The protagonist, a crusader (and a ChildOfRape) is always horrified and intervenes when he can, and a tendency to treat women well is also used as a PetTheDog trait for his {{Jerkass}} BigBrotherBully.

* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' the Silver Horde of barbarian warriors do not rape. However, this may be because they're all over 80, and is possibly subverted somewhat when the Ankh-Morpork Guild of Historians distinguishes between rape and ravishment. "It's a question of style. There were never any actual ''[[NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization complaints]]''." Of course, there is an exchange between Rincewind and Cohen in ''Discworld/InterestingTimes'' which suggests that the Silver Horde do not rape for more.... [[TheLoinsSleepTonight practical reasons]]. Speaking about an 85-year-old Barbarian...

--->'''Sparrow:''' Very well then, I confess: It is my intention to commandeer one of these ships, pick up a crew in Tortuga, ''raid,'' pillage, plunder, and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out.

--->'''Sparrow:''' Very well then, I confess: It is my intention to commandeer one of these ships, pick up a crew in Tortuga, ''raid,'' pillage, plunder, and otherwise pilfer me weasely black guts out.

* Indeed some of the well known aversions of this occurred when Commanders lost control of their troops, although it is often disputed how much effort they made to maintain said control. A perfunctory face saving "tsk tsk" was very common. Though too be fair, so were determined but ill fated efforts to prevent rapes.

Too many aversions go to the opposite extreme, painting whatever era or world they're set in as a NoWomansLand CrapsackWorld, which is an oversimplification at best, sometimes outright {{Demonization}}. At the same time, this Trope was played straight throughout history and infact was more likely to happen then not. Commanders like to maintain discipline and order amongst the ranks, an Army without either is basically a mob, and there are few better ways to cause such breakdown then letting the troops run wild over womenfolk. RealLife Pirate Codices, tellingly, often had a clause for severely punishing the rape female captives, execution on the spot being common enough. Throwing the captive women overboard was still fair play though.

Interestingly, the RealLife Pirate Codices did often have a clause for severely punishing raping female captives (execution on the spot common enough)... but not throwing them overboard. That's because the pirates writing them seldom gave a damn about morals; the purpose of a Codex was [[PragmaticVillainy to prevent crew conflicts and mutinies]]. Fighting over women is the most surefire path to both.

Too many aversions go to the opposite extreme, painting whatever era or world they're set in as a NoWomansLand CrapsackWorld, which is an oversimplification at best, sometimes outright {{Demonization}}. At the same time, this Trope was played straight throughout history and infact was more likely to happen then not. Commanders like to maintain discipline and order amongst the ranks, an Army without either is basically a mob, and there are few better ways to cause such breakdown then letting the troops run wild over womenfolk.

[[TropesAreTools This trope is not going anywhere.]] There's no shame in audiences demanding minimal standards of conduct from characters courting their support, and writers are wise to remember this. Having pirates that act like pirates, or Vikings that act like Vikings would [[AudienceAlienatingPremise alienate the audience]], which is something to be avoided with far more care than historical inaccuracy. Even history buffs that sneer at inaccurate diet or clothing styles may cringe.

** {{Deconstructed}} with Daenerys. When her husband's men crush a small village to take the poplace as slaves, she tries to save the women of the defeated tribe from rape. Later one of those women gives Daenerys a WhatTheHellHero speech for seeing herself as a hero for "saving" her when she had already lost everything and everyone she cared about at the hands of Daenerys' husband. Later, though aware of the measures and consequences of conquest, Dany still tries to counter the excess 'spoils' of war by acquiring eunuch warriors as the main core of her infantry, all of whom are incapable of rape. However, it is unlikely that Dany will ever be able to enforce this if she bands together a large myriad force of many cultures to march on Westeros.

Interestingly, the RealLife Pirate Codices did often have a clause for severely punishing raping female captives (execution on the spot common enough)... but not throwing them overboard. That's because the pirates writing them seldom gave a damn about morals; the purpose of a Codex was to prevent crew conflicts and mutinies. Fighting over women is [[PragmaticVillainy the most surefire path to both]].

* The short story 'The Women of our Occupation', by Kameron Hurley, subverts this. Read more here http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20060731/women-f.shtml

** Achilles constantly refers to Briseis as his wife and bride, indicating it's of ''some'' concern to him (though they had weird attitudes about rape, Greeks generally thought taking a love-interest purely by force [[CantActPervertedTowardALoveInterest was unkind]] -- Plato thought it was one of the things that made Zeus a {{Jerkass}}[[note]]Or rather, that made the myths written by poets a blasphemy for portraying Zeus as a Jerkass, since Plato, an initiate of the Eleusinian Mysteries, [[FanonDiscontinuity didn't consider the poets' myths canon.]][[/note]]. That her feelings might not be a concern to Agamemnon seems to be a part of why he's angry Agamemnon took her, and why it's very important Agamemnon swears he never touched her, when he gives her back. They were fighting a war over that kind of thing, after all.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': {{Deconstructed}} with Daenerys. When her husband's men crush a small village to take the poplace as slaves, she tries to save the women of the defeated tribe from rape. Later one of those women gives Daenerys a WhatTheHellHero speech for seeing herself as a hero for "saving" her when she had already lost everything and everyone she cared about at the hands of Daenerys' husband. Later, though aware of the measures and consequences of conquest, Dany still tries to counter the excess 'spoils' of war by acquiring eunuch warriors as the main core of her infantry, all of whom are incapable of rape. However, it is unlikely that Dany will ever be able to enforce this if she bands together a large myriad force of many cultures to march on Westeros.

** ''Sharpe's Siege'''s plot is reliant on the aversion of this trope. The British army is camped outside the French-occupied city of Badajoz, and Sharpe's wife--a spy for British-allied Portugal--is inside the city, along with their infant daughter. Much of the plot, therefore, relies on his need to find and protect his family from his own army ransacking the city.

* Jack Sparrow from the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' movies embraces every stereotype of a pirate... yet somehow, we know that because he's a "good" character the women he comes across are pretty well safe.
** Even the [[spoiler:anti]]villainous Barbossa abides by this... up to a point. When Elizabeth rejects his NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine proposal in the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl first film]], he says that the alternative is to dine with the crew, and without the dress he was offering her.

* ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven''. The villagers hide their women because they're afraid the hired guns will rape them. Yul Brynner's character acknowledges that their fears are not entirely unjustified (not all gunslingers being as noble as the seven, after all) but opines that "you might have given us the benefit of the doubt." In ''Film/SevenSamurai'', a father is so terrified that his daughter will be raped by the Samurai that he cuts off her hair to disguise her as a boy.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': {{Deconstructed}} with Daenerys. She tries to save the women of a defeated tribe from rape. Later one of those women gives Daenerys a WhatTheHellHero speech for seeing herself as a hero for "saving" her when she had already lost everything and everyone she cared about at the hands of Daenerys' husband.

** Also, more broadly, soldiers were not allowed to have ''any'' kind of sex if they were actively fighting in a war, most likely in an effort to keep diseases (that could potentially wipe out their army, or their society as a whole if they brought said diseases home to their wives) at bay. (However, needles to say, this didn't always happen in practice.) This becomes a major plot point during King David's UriahGambit in the ''Literature/BookOfKings''.