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Memetic Molesters in Western Animation.

  • He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983):
    • There's a disturbing scene in the episode "Prince Adam No More" with a tentacle monster implied to be this. Mer-man gets shoved into a cell with it at one point, and can be clearly seen adjusting his, uh, loincloth after emerging a few minutes later. What the hell happened in that cell?
    • Whiplash might qualify as well. Between him trying to keep a Bird-Woman as a 'pet' in "Betrayal of Stratos" and making outright lewd comments to Trap-Jaw in "Hunt for He-Man", if he's not this he's certainly a Depraved Bisexual (or a repressed homosexual in denial — whichever works).
  • Mr. Dink, the creepy next-door neighbor from Doug, fits this trope to a T.
  • There's a distinct pattern of who got this treatment (molester and victim) on Avatar: The Last Airbender during the initial airings of each season:
    • Season 1: Zuko—>Katara; Zhao—>Katara
    • Season 2: Azula—>Everyone
    • Season 3: Surge in Azula—>Everyone
    • There are a few fanworks out there involving Katara using her bloodbending for this purpose, most commonly on Zuko.
    • On a related note, there's a meme about Toph to the effect of "I have learned that pedophilia is OK if it's for someone who would have an easier time raping you."
    • Much of fandom take the opposite view of Zuko, declaring that "the question is not if Zuko will be on top or on bottom, the question is if he will be facing up or facing down." Zuko wants you to bring him your elderly! And he wants to touch little boys and tween girls while they are unconscious.
    • And now Amon in The Legend of Korra. The events of "The Revelation" and "The Voice in the Night" have only emphasized the point. And then there was that whole scene where Amon takes away Tahno's bending while Tahno's begging Amon not to do it and offering to give Amon "anything" in exchange.
    • Tahno will give you some "private lessons".
    • Tarrlok has become this as of the events of "When Extremes Meet", when it's revealed that he is a bloodbender and he uses his creepy powers to kidnap Korra. In the season finale, it's revealed that Amon and Tarrlok are actually brothers, so memetic molester behavior must run in the family. Not to mention, Amon is also a bloodbender.
    • Book 2 has one in Eska, as Bolin is dismayed to find out. "My feeble little turtleduck..."
  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force:
    • Handbanana is going to see you. Tonight. This may be the only example ever where that is exactly what he is like in the actual shows, except there he only does it to Carl. (Does he count as a memetic molester when his canon motivation is actually molestation?)
    • Carl himself has some 'rape-y' tendencies.
  • Danny Phantom:
    • Vlad's first appearance alone has him creeping into Danny's room just watching the boy struggle in his sleep, not to mention the multiple attempts Vlad has done to try luring Danny into the dark side which when taken in a different context, it sounds almost seductive. And of course, there's the episode "Eye for an Eye" where Vlad gives such quotes as ("I'm rubbing your nose in this mess you made, Daniel, doesn't it smell yummy?" and "You forgot to take your supplements, have a dose of vitamin-ME!" for example). Then there's the fact Vlad made a prepubescent female clone of him... whom he only planned to use to perfect a male clone.
    • Spectra as well, given that she's basically a succubus and dominatrix.
    • Even Valerie could be seen as this. Because of her almost single-minded obsession to hunt down Danny’s ghost half, she gets plenty of tension with him already. Taken a step further in D-Stabilized, where she chains him up in her basement, sadistically mocks him at every turn, and even does classic electric torture to get information. It’s fairly easy to misinterpret the scene as straight up sexual tension. Did we forget to mention that their respective alter egos canonically dated a few times?
  • Metalocalypse:
    • Seth. Specifically, his creepy, unintelligible breathy mumble of a voice and constant swearing under his breath.
    • Dr. Rockzo also counts as this. First, he is a clown. Second, since the Dory McLean incident, he's a canon Ephebophile. Lastly: Murderface. Keys. Pocket. Awkward.
      "I woke up with a clown's hand in my pants. That's what I did today."
  • Transformers:
    • Tarantulus from Beast Wars. Two quotes specifically "Surprise!" to Rattrap after ambushing him, and "My filters will adjust; it is the act I enjoy more than the nourishment," to a Bound and Gagged Cheetor.
    • Transformers: Animated: Lockdown's hobby involves strapping people to tables and taking parts off them, and there's a good chance he'll do other things while you're down there.
    • Transformers: Prime:
      • Airachnid, mostly due to her... uncomfortable obsession with and behavior towards Jack (even referring to him as "my Jack"). Like Lockdown, she's made a hobby out of keeping "trophies" from her various hunting exploits. The Japanese dub of the show plays this for laughs. Her characterization is exaggerated to the point that in her introductory episode, the dialogue was rewritten so that she hunts Jack for her collection of "cute boys".
      • Megatron, if him saying things like his and "dear Starscream"'s "positions shall never again be reversed" while hovering above him.
      • Starscream himself does get touchy-feely with "[his] dearest Megatron" when the latter happens to be comatose, creepily leaning in with his trademark Slasher Smile. There's also this line to Miko:
        Starscream: You like playing with the big robots, don't you, little girl?
  • Teen Titans (2003):
    • Slade is always joked about being an Ephebophile, being an adult man obsessed with teenage heroes Robin, Terra, and Raven. Plus, he's a serial mind-rapist in canon. In the comics canon, Slade actually was having a sexual relationship with Terra, who was sixteen at the time.
    • Also, there is a somewhat disturbing tendency of portraying Aqualad, maybe not as a molester, but as an irresponsible Casanova who does his best to steal (sometimes successfully) a girl's virginity from the guy she should really be with.
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy has the Kanker Sisters.
  • In the old Popeye cartoons, Bluto/Brutus would often find himself chasing Olive before Popeye utterly destroys him. Did he really just want to kiss her, like he always said? His lecherous attitude, combined with Olive's panicky reaction ('''"HELP! HELP!"''') suggests otherwise. A forced kiss is bad enough, and irrespective of his real intentions, she probably concludes from his disregard for her opinion that he will rape her, too.
  • Code Lyoko: William's Rape Face is a fairly minor example.
  • Drew Pickles from Rugrats (1991) is one of the best-known examples, thanks to the Barney Bunch.
    "Hello, my name is Drew Pickles and I am really really gay."
    "Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha Bag. That was swell."
  • Darkstar from Ben 10 could almost rival Slade in this department. Really, you could make reasonable arguments that fanfics depicting him as a rapist are not that Out of Character with him, especially since he canonically is a stalker toward Gwen.
  • Miss Bitters of Invader Zim. Her body has a "snake-like" quality and is animated as such that it seems she can "slither" around, and sticks out a forked tongue while hissing. Occasionally she even emerges out of other people's shadows and even sucks people into her own. It bears mention that most of the kids in her class are no more than ten years old.
  • Freako the Clown from the Mighty Max episode "The Clown Without Pity". That creepy clown sure had a penchant for attacking children and invading Max's personal space.
  • Generator Rex: Van Kleiss has a lot of weird undertones in his behavior — most notably, his continued assertion that Rex is "special" and "very important to me". It's also worth noting that Van Kleiss's design and powers make him seem somewhat vampiric (vampires are often framed as sexual predators). At one point, Van Kleiss sticks his hand through Rex's chest, and sucks nanites out of Rex as Rex screams in pain. The whole scene gives off some seriously rapey vibes.
  • Not as popular as Chris Hansen, but another memetic molester loister would be the Paedofinder General from Monkey Dust.
  • Xeexi from Sym-Bionic Titan has become such. This came from his specific form of Mind Rape, where he jams his entire body down people's throats. The hitch is: He only rapes Lance. Lance, and only Lance. "Lance was raped by a space squid and doesn't want to talk about it." is an ongoing joke in the fandom, and it's even played with on the Twitter page someone set up for him.
  • The Simpsons: The Rich Texan's daughter, Paris Texan, loves her some sweet, sweet shota.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Adventure Time:
    • The Ice King constantly tries to kidnap princesses and force them to marry him. He's completely insane and has no qualms about physically brainwashing princesses into wanting to marry him, traumatizing them, or even stealing the body parts of various princesses so he can make a new princess for himself!
    • Lemongrab is turning out to be this. When the synopsis of "You Made Me!" revealed that Lemongrab came back to the Candy Kingdom to peep on Princess Bubblegum while she's sleeping (she wasn't pleased), the phrase LEMONGRAB WATCHES YOU WHILE YOU SLEEP became fairly popular. He's also got those hella creepy, expressionless eyes.
    • Then there's this deer. Those hands...
  • Archer: Doctor Krieger is one both in and out of universe. Canonically, he is apparently a "food rapist" and his van has been coined the "SS Date Rape".note 
  • Thunder Cats 2011: Tygra will ring your bell, whether you want him to or not.
  • Looney Tunes:
    • Pepé Le Pew, always stalking after cats, holding them close, and planting forceful kisses on them... you know the deal. And Penelope Pussycat, one of his victims, turns into this on three occasions when she turns the tables on Pepe and pursues him. There is also a short which ends revealing that Pepe has Penelope chained to his bed. A much more innocent time, to be sure.
    • Lola Bunny's incarnation in The Looney Tunes Show turns out to be quite a creeper, especially for Bugs Bunny.
  • Mission Hill: Phew, crazy wiki out there, huh? Well, don't let it get you down, editor, and... penis penis penis penis
  • Zeb from the My Little Pony 'n Friends episode "Bright Lights" is becoming this. He's a sketchy anthropomorphic zebra who looks even more out of place among the ponies, who are non-anthropomorphic Talking Animals. He's supposed to seem like a sleazy talent agent, but he comes off looking more like a filly-molester.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • Codename: Kids Next Door:
    • Knightbrace seems to be becoming this. Knightbrace is a wannabe dentist who was rejected by the ADA for being too crazy. He is shown stalking the streets, ambushing children, and mutilating their mouths in scenes that are just full of Does This Remind You of Anything?.
    • And then there's the seriously creepy Delightful Children and their obsession with defeating the Kids Next Door and making them exactly like them. Their subtext with Numbuh 1 is the definition of No Yay.
    • Count Spankulot. This may be why his character changed significantly in later episodes.
  • Him from The Powerpuff Girls (1998). In the 2016 reboot, Allegro from the episode "Painbow". His voice, eyes, and perpetual smile are creepy enough, but his insistence on hugging Buttercup despite her clearly and repeatedly saying no makes him come off as a pedophile.
  • From the Xiaolin Showdown Rogues Gallery, we have plenty of people messing with young boys:
    • Season 1: Wuya, who spends the bulk of this time as a ghost living in a delicate teen genius' home and flying through him, to Jack's obvious discomfort. When she recruits her next partner, Raimundo, it's by feeding off feelings of inadequacy and promising him anything he wants, and then she gets a drop-dead-gorgeous body. There's enough sexy voice and hugging to make you wonder what she really meant by "learn how to play air hockey". For added fun, she spends the rest of the series jumping between partners.
    • Season 2 later gives us Chase Young, who spends a bulk of his screentime trying to get Omi to pull a Face–Heel Turn. When he succeeds, he takes Omi's Essence and turns him into a cat. As he does to all warriors he defeats, almost including his former best friend. The "I just felt like having my ear scratched" scene does not help. Or taking young, Chi-drained monks and having them do chores, including washing his underwear. Which, like everything else Chase wears, has spikes pop out.
    • Season 3 introduces Hannibal Roy Bean, who loves manipulating everyone from young monks to Jack Spicer. This includes trying to recruit Raimundo through the boy's feelings of inadequacy and mistreatment. When it doesn't work, Bean spends the next episode Mind Raping him using the Shadow of Fear. This includes posing as both Kimiko and Rai's movie theatre drink. Did we mention that there's also a Super-Deformed Rai running around the dream world as the embodiment of his being scared?
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Ahsoka seems to run into these at least Once a Season. In the first season, General Grievous stalked her in a dark wareroom. In the second, Cad Bane took her hostage by electrocuting and handcuffing her, then he caressed the side of her head in a rather creepy way before taking her padawan braid. In Season 3, she had been kidnapped by the Son during the Mortis trilogy (and then quickly corrupted into being his servant, "You are mine now.") and then an entire group of Trandoshan hunters, who have been hunting other Jedi children for quite some time by that point. At one point their leader even told her that she'd be a prized trophy in his collection. In Season 4, she ran into Cad Bane again, who left promising her a dance (meaning fight) at another time. In Season 5, Hondo captures her and treats her like she's going to be sold as a Sex Slave in the black market while caressing her multiple times.
  • Daria:
    • The fandom has Skylar Feldman, for some reason. He's one of Quinn's main Guys of the Week in "Pinch Sitter", with the distinguishing trait of being as conceited as she is. For some reason, fans decided to take his smarmy personality and exchange it for one obsessed with rape and murder.
    • For a straighter example, there's that one substitute teacher who loves telling Quinn's friends about his Lolita-style novel whilst stroking their hair.
  • Niblet from Pound Puppies (2010) has become this thanks to the "Secret, but fun!"/secret butt fun meme.
  • Grunkle Stan from Gravity Falls has achieved this status in some corners of the internet, due in no small part to his much-quoted line, "Now who wants to put on some blindfolds and get into my car?" Not to mention the infamous “I Eat Kids” balloon that is shaped like his face.
    • Being a Fountain of Memes and a creepy eldritch being automatically guarantees that Bill Cipher is going to be this. He eagerly explores the darkest depths of people’s minds and like to play around with people for his own amusement. Safe to say, this one-eyed triangle is not above rape.
  • Thomas & Friends:
    • In the episode "Pop Goes the Diesel", Duck has a rather unsettling harlequin-like grin which fans have dubbed as his "rape face". Even so, one of the pictures of the episode shows him with this same expression, but only looking directly at the viewer.
    • Trevor the traction engine gets this treatment from various memes and YouTube Poops because of his Friend to All Children personality combined with his borderline-Creepy Circus Music theme tune and how George Carlin voices him in the American version.
  • Family Guy: Who else but Quagmire?
  • Dr. Viper in SWAT Kats, what with all the tail-grabbing, coiling and the fact he just about gets off to mutating victims.
  • Bill Dauterive's cousin Gilbert (pronounced Zhil-BEAR) in King of the Hill is all but outright stated to be gay, has sexually charged dialogue, has a habit of sneaking up on people and confesses to being a "creeper". Hank also seems to think of Gilbert as this since he does everything he can to keep Bobby away from him.
    Hank: So, Gilbert, how do the Saints look this year?
    Gilbert: Oh, I am more familiar with sinners than saints, my dear. And sinners always look good.
  • Dexter's Laboratory: Dee Dee's imaginary friend Koosalagoopagoop has been branded a pedophile by some after a scene where he forcibly shoves a Pepe Wrap into Dexter's mouth.
  • The Smurfs themselves in the episode "A Hug for Grouchy". The way they're always stalking after Grouchy to give him a hug, it almost seems like a legalized form of rape.
  • Samurai Jack:
    • Aku sometimes gets this, based mainly on the episode where he poses as a female adventurer and flirts with Jack to screw with his head. Made worse in the final season by his intensely creepy treatment of his daughter, Ashi.
    • The Dominator is even worse. His name and gimmick (mind-controlling kids to use them as weapons) is bad enough, but practically all of his dialogue seems dedicated to making him as creepy as possible, like wistfully talking about how "easily manipulated" children are or the way he very obviously gets off on torturing Ashi.
  • Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory tends to have some of the characters smile in such a way that they look like they're about to molest someone. Particular mention goes to Charlie and Wonka, who at one point smile at each other in such a way that it looks like they're planning on molesting the other and it's only a question of who will act first.
  • The Mr. Men Show has Mr. Tickle who, as the name implies, loves tickling people whether they agree to it or not. It's even to the point where one of the music numbers frames him as some sort of monster.
  • Both of the protagonists of Breadwinners have this reputation. Made worse by the episode "Love Loaf", which features one of them trying to force a Love Potion down his love interest's throat.
  • Greg from Steven Universe is often portrayed in the fandom as a Lovable Sex Maniac. This began with a Fan Nickname of "The Murdercock", because Greg impregnated Rose Quartz, causing her to give up her existence to pass her gem and her powers on to Steven, creating the joke that having sex with Greg Universe alone causes gems to die. His reaction to Blue and Yellow Diamond's assault on the Gem Temple being "Time to work the old Universe Charm!" caused many people to joke that Greg expected to be able to fuck the Diamonds into submission. Lastly, there are more than a few depictions following the series finale of Greg not even waiting for Steven to be out of Beach City to try to seduce his girlfriend Connie.
  • Derek Landy's Demon Road trilogy has a group of monster hunters that are parodies of Mystery Incorporated, including an Expy of Scooby who humps anything he can. They threaten to let him ride the faces of people they interrogate, and he even does it to a decapitated head at one point.
  • W.I.T.C.H.:
    • Lord Cedric, a grown man who makes himself a trusted confidante to the thirteen-year-old Elyon, manipulates her into trusting him over her parents and friends, and lures her into Meridian. The way he talks to her is just creepy on so many levels.
    • Nerissa is also extremely creepy. It doesn't help that in season two episode "T is for Trauma", she uses glamours to make all men and boys (possibly just anyone attracted to women, but it's mostly high school boys) who see her fall in love with her. Only Matt is unaffected, speculated to be because Nerissa had already used magic on him earlier in the season, transforming him into an evil version of himself. Nerissa also tends to speak in a rather suggestive manner, particularly to Matt/Shagon and, even worse, Caleb, who is not only a teenager but also her son.
  • The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius has Carl and his obsession with Jimmy's mom Judy. Most infamously is when Professor Calamitious is defeated at the end of Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 2: When Nerds Collide, he gets trapped in a tiny jar and Carl requested Wanda (who herself look creeped out) to make him look like Judy. After which Carl leers at Calamitious and he responds with a horrified expression.
    "Hi, Mrs. Neutron!"
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003): The episode Bad Blood from Fast Forward had a scene where Cody gets grabbed by a large alien frog guy in a warehouse next to a bar. From his tone of voice(calling him delicious doesn't help either) and his persistent chase of Cody after Splinter and Serling free him, it seemed like the alien wanted to rape him.
  • Sarah from The Amazing World of Gumball. This song says it all, really.
    • There’s also Margaret Robinson, who is said to be the most evil person in all of Elmore. She regularly commits crimes purely because it’s what she enjoys and has cheated on her husband at least once. Who’s to say that she hasn’t committed rape at least once in her life?
  • Allen Gregory has quite a few creepy interactions with his 80 year-old principal. His father counts as well, considering that he forced an innocent man to become his husband against his will.
  • Amphibia has Andrias Levithan. He grooms Marcy so that she’ll grow attached to him, and he eventually stabs her torso with a giant sword. This extends to The Core as well, for the incredibly unsettling scene where it Mind Raped Marcy while it took over her body.
  • The Owl House
  • Dirk from Fleabag Monkey Face. The fact that he’s essentially an anthropomorphic penis probably has something to do with it.
  • Bluey: Bandit is a good father. Too good of a father. It’s kind of suspicious really. Perhaps there’s an ulterior motive for the way that he’s so dedicated to his kids. Maybe he wants to butter them up, so that they’ll let him perform unspeakable acts to them later. Considering that this is such a cute and innocent show, it’s hard not to laugh at the idea of some of its characters performing these horrible crimes against humanity!

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