"A girl who was almost raped doesn't invite another man into her bed two hours later."
— Shae, Game of Thrones, "Baelor"
A character trope that typically occurs when someone is sexually assaulted or an attempt is made, but the person is saved or escapes, and then immediately expresses romantic or sexual interest in their savior or another love interest without displaying or having to deal with the expected signs of shock and/or trauma. note
In most cases, the assault is never mentioned again and the victim suffers no impact on their ability to engage in romance or sexuality. If the victim recalls or internalizes anything about the assault, it's only the gallantry of the one who saved them.
If the victim expresses no immediate romantic or sexual interest after the sexual assault but moves on without ever having to address the trauma, see Angst? What Angst?.
This trope is sometimes Played for Laughs. It is most prevalent when writers that are usually men either didn't consider or didn't want to realistically address how the assault would impact the victim, often because All Women Are Lustful or Rule of Sexy. Most commonly, it is employed to:
- Advance the character's relationship with their love interest for a Relationship Upgrade.
- "Cleanse" the victim of the Attempted Rape through Sex for Solace or Intimate Healing.
- Introduce a new romantic interest to the protagonist as a "Meet Cute" combined with a Disposable Woman Stuffed into the Fridge while avoiding the need for pesky character development or romantic buildup.
- Reward the protagonist's good deed of preventing Attempted Rape with Rescue Sex or Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex, courtesy of the victim they just rescued.
In most cases, the character receiving the assault victim's sexual or romantic interest waits at least one scene or chapter before indulging the victim's desire. If the victim is The Not-Love Interest or they are Just Friends, the receiver may reject the victim's advances altogether. In other cases, the receiver is Oblivious to Love or simply chooses not to appease the victim's desires until later in the story because The Women Are Safe with Us.
Women victims of sexual assault are most likely to be characterized under this trope. Men are less likely to be depicted escaping sexual assault situations but this trope frequently applies when they are as All Men Are Perverts and A Man Is Always Eager.
Very much not Truth in Television. Sexual abuse creates immense emotional turmoil for survivors. While it does not make them 'damaged goods', it massively afflicts their mood, their confidence and their ability to relate to prospective partners in a healthy way. It can take years of therapy to recover from traumatic ordeals like these before a functional relationship can be established, rendering this trope a Cliché.
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Common companion tropes
- A Man Is Always Eager: It's assumed that men are inherently obsessed with getting laid and will gladly accept any opportunity for sexual intercourse that comes their way.
- All Women Are Lustful: It's assumed that all women are horny deep down, so it's conceivable that the only issue they'd have with sex is who they're doing it with.
- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Someone who is at another's mercy expects their captor to violate them, but is disappointed, surprised or even offended when no such thing happens.
- Attempted Rape: In some cases, the rescuer may be able to save the victim before the one trying to rape them is able to do anything.
- Best Her to Bed Her
- Bodyguard Crush
- Date Rape Averted: Someone tries to rape the person they're dating, but is stopped.
- Double Standard: Rape, Female on Male: A work treats a woman raping a man as funnier or more acceptable than if it was a man raping a woman.
- The Dulcinea Effect
- Fetish-Fuel Future
- Florence Nightingale Effect
- Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex
- Gratuitous Rape
- If It's You, It's Okay
- Optional Sexual Encounter
- The Pollyanna: A character who has a ludicrously bright outlook on life no matter what happens, which may include not being particularly upset about someone raping them or attempting to do so.
- Purity Sue
- Ready for Lovemaking
- Rescue Romance: A couple fall in love after one saved the other from a perilous situation, which may consist of being at the mercy of a rapist.
- Rescue Sex: After the hero saves someone, the person shows their gratitude by agreeing to have sex with the one who helped them out.
- Romanticized Abuse
- Rule of Sexy
- Sex Starts, Story Stops
- Smooch of Victory
- Standard Hero Reward
- Unequal Pairing
Contrasting tropes
- Rather than the assault being prevented or forgotten, it instead becomes the victim's core characterization or a main plot point.
- Hates Being Touched: The sexual abuse has resulted in the victim really not liking it when other people touch them.
- Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality
- Promiscuity After Rape: Getting raped causes a person to become more sexually promiscuous.
- Rape as Backstory: A character has a tragic backstory where they were raped in the past.
- Rape as Drama: A work has a character get raped and treats the ordeal as the horrific event it truly is.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: The characters consider rape to be a particularly inexcusable and horrid crime.
- Not to be confused with a victim falling in love with their abuser. For that, see A Match Made in Stockholm.
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Anime and Manga
- Call Me Tonight: Ryō gets raped by Oyuki and Rumi nearly gets raped by Oyuk's four henchmen. Neither of them is left scarred by the experience and they even strike up a friendship of sorts with their attackers.
- Classroom of the Elite: In the anime episode "There Are Two Kinds of Lies
", Sakura is sexually assaulted by her stalker and is saved by Ayanokoji. Within seconds of the police taking her attacker away, Sakura blushes and shows romantic interest in Ayanakoji.
- Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu:
- In one episode, Ena Saeki leaves a love note for Sousuke in his locker, but he blew it up without reading it. She waits to meet him, and is almost assaulted by a group of thugs. Kaname buys a few moments, putting their attention on her. Before they can do anything, they're hit from out of nowhere by rubber bullets, and Sousuke reveals he was there in a gilly-suit the whole time. Ena Saeki is grateful for the rescue but heartbroken that Sousuke doesn't acknowledge her feelings and detonated her letter. Kaname is used to being in danger around Sousuke, maintaining status quo.
- In another episode, Kaname and Kiyoko are fleeing a different group of thugs after Kaname hit one of them thinking they were running a scam. Before they can capture the girls, however, they are stopped by Issei Tsubaki, who then chides the girls for causing a commotion behind his shop. Kaname puts a bandage on a small cut on his hand, and tells him if he'd been nicer, she'd have given him a kiss, as well, before saying she was just kidding and leaving with Kiyoko.
- Hidoku Shinaide: Nemugasa is almost raped by a female friend of Akira's and is saved by Maya. Maya even stresses to Nemugasa what was about to happen and Nemugasa cries, thankful that he was saved and that Maya didn't betray him like he previously thought...And then Maya hauls him over to a love hotel where the two have sex all night.
- Highschool of the Dead: Hirano saves Asami from Shimada's attempted rape. Immediately afterward she thanks him on the rooftop and heavily implies that she's available and interested in him.
- Kamisama Kiss In one of the early episodes, Mizuki kidnaps Nanami and tries to rape her, only failing due to Tomoe showing up at the last second. Nanami instantly lets it slide and actually ends up inviting Mizuki into her home, where he goes on to become one of her most loyal companions. While Tomoe remains bitter about this, Nanami never brings up the matter again.
- Downplayed in Let’s Start an Inn on the Dungeon Island!. The main character Sanada Shirou is immediately subjected to attempted Prison Rape upon arriving at the new world, the rape only stopped by a senior officer who was bringing a high-value prisoner and ordering the offending soldiers elsewhere, passing Shirou off to the prisoner, Princess Christia, in lieu of her "last wish." Shirou hooks up with Christia, after she dotes on him for a while and makes it clear she's gentle, kind, and would never, ever force herself on him.
- In later chapters, Shirou expresses eagerness to have sexual relationship with one of the expeditionary soldiers of the same Imperial army who had tried to rape him. However, when he sees their armor he immediately feels nauseous and realized that he still has the trauma from his unpleasant first impression of the new world.
- My Love Story!!. Takeo rescues Rinko from a train molester. Rinko immediately falls in love with Takeo, baking him sweets and finding ways to be around him, and the effects of the assault on her are never addressed.
- Ranma ½: Kuno is trying to invoke this trope by "rescuing" the beautiful pig-tailed girl from the clutches of the "Zvengalli", Ranma, even pantomiming Ranma taking advantage of the pig-tailed girl. Of course, what Kuno doesn't know is that Ranma and the pig-tailed girl are, in fact, one and the same.
- Skeleton Knight in Another World: In "The Wandering Knight Sets Out to Make the World a Better Place", the opening scene begins with a graphic sexual assault against two women that is thwarted by the skeleton knight. Within minutes, both assault victims are smiling and blushing at the hero and one indicates a desire to marry him. This is an Adaptation Deviation from the original Light Novel, where the women are just grateful.
Comic Books
- Largo Winch: In "See Venice..." Domenica Leone is almost raped by two men but she successfully drives them off after grabbing a riffle. The next day, she has no issue kissing her "friend" Charity Atkinson and joining her in the shower. She also gets involved with Largo not long after.
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: In the first volume, Pollyanna is assaulted and nearly raped by the Invisible Man, but after she is rescued, she continues her "Glad Game" and gets over it almost instantly.
- Thorgal: In The Archers, Kriss of Valnor gets abducted and gang raped by bandits for hours. While she gets revenge on them upon release and tortures one to death, she displays no signs of trauma whatsoever and instantly goes back to her proud and smug self the next day. The incident is never brought up again, and in The Eyes of Tanatloc (which takes place a few weeks later at most), Kriss seduces and sleeps with Tjall to sway him on her side. A late and retroactive explanation is given in "I, Jolan and her own spinn-off series where it's revealed that Kriss was sexually abused by an older man when she was a girl and was raped again as a teenager, got pregnant and had a painful abortion as a result, meaning that The Archers'' was not her first experience with sexual assault.
Fan Works
- In Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness, immediately after the reveal that Lavender Brown is being regularly raped by Crabbe and Goyle hard enough to leave bruises, Neville sees her and Seamus sleeping together, which all characters and the narrative treat as a fix for her trauma. A later story in the series, the one-shot "More Realer", has Ron effectively force Hermione into sex after she's repeatedly, brutally raped, and this too is treated as a magic cure for her trauma.
- A Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia fic, "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine," has this (also overlapping with Rescue Sex) after Zofian knight Mathilda is saved from her imprisonment at the hands of the traitorous Evil Chancellor Desaix, who also intended to rape her before having her executed. Once she is settled back in with the Deliverance, she is reunited with her lover Clive and asks him to make love to her.
- Downplayed in the From Eroica with Love fanfiction drama Alles Klar, Klaus and Dorian have hot, intimate sex after surviving torture and (mostly) getting over the trauma of rape together.
- In Knight in Shining Armor, a bunch of bullies beat up Mami Tomoe and then try to rape her. Madoka finds Touma Kamijou, who proceeds to burst in and beat the shit out of the bullies in the nick of time. Immediately after the danger is gone, Mami Tomoe blushes around and appears infatuated with Touma Kamijou.
- In the X-Men: Evolution fic My Friend, My Lover (NSFW), Duncan attempts to assault Jean during a party, angry over their breakup. Scott (Jean's Friend with Benefits) finds them in time and drives the Jerk Jock away. As soon as they're alone, Jean asks Scott to help her get the feeling of the bastard's hands off her body.
- Deconstructed in The New Retcons: While Anthony's intervention in Elizabeth's Attempted Rape initially helped rekindle their relationship, things sour after their marriage, as the more Elizabeth reflects back upon the incident, the more she questions his Skewed Priorities. Why, for instance, did he insist that she not report the incident? Why, instead of taking her to the police, did he take her to the park and make the incident all about himself by pleading for her to "wait for him" while he figured out how to deal with his first marriage? Eventually, she discovers that her own mother Elly deliberately invoked this, arranging the rape attempt in hopes that Anthony would save her.
- Subverted in Not Powerless: After the Sludge Villain nearly raped him, Izuku is left extremely uncomfortable with the notion of exploring any type of sexual intimacy in the future. It takes considerable therapy for him to slowly work through his trauma.
- The EPIC: The Musical fanfic polished has Calypso explaining to Odysseus that a goddess when raped is only injured in her pride, not in body or mind. So Calypso was utterly baffled and somewhat remorseful when she decided to jump on Odysseus when he was bathing and he suffered a major Freak Out, establishing humans are very different from gods when it comes to live with the memory of sexual assault.
- In The Silent Horse, Ranma and Akane's relationship starts when she rescues him (in his female form) from a gang that wants to gang-rape him.
- With This Ring (2013): In both the Renegade and Paragon timelines, Koriand'r and Komand'r of Tamaran shrug off having been kept as hostages and sex slaves by the Gordanian Empire surprisingly quickly (they're far angrier at the Citadelians, the true power behind the Gordanians, who used them for medical and scientific experiments) and even engage in a threesome with Renegade!OL/Grayven during the victory celebration, with Grayven and Komand'r becoming romantically involved afterwards. When asked by Paragon!OL, Komand'r implies that Tamaraneans don't process trauma the same way humans do, so something that would have left a human with lifelong mental and emotional damage that could even leave them unable to function is mostly written off as "it already happened, so it can't hurt anymore".
Film — Live-Action
- 40 Days and 40 Nights: Matt ends up being raped in his sleep by his ex-girlfriend Nicole. His love interrest Erica walk on them and assumes that Matt has been unfaithful. In what appears to be just hours later, Matt apologizes to Erica, the two kiss, consumate their relationship and it apparently lasts for hours.
- Alien³: Ripley is held down and almost penetrated by four prison inmates before being saved by their leader. Within hours she willingly has sex with Clemens, the prison doctor, without any reference or mention of the previous assault.
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me: Felicity Shagwell is raped by Fat Bastard - he puts his weight on top of her and does it without her consent. She is clearly terrified. However, she displays no sign at all of being traumatised afterwards and continues to flirt with Austin.
- Back to the Future (1985). George ends Biff's sexual assault against Lorraine after which point she immediately appears infatuated with George and the assault is never again mentioned or addressed.
- Easy A: Anson attempts to coerce Olive into sex. Woodchuck Todd who was nearby offers her a ride after she escapes. Though Olive cried briefly on the drive home, the situation never comes up again and the two ride off into the sunset without further mention.
- Faust: Love of the Damned: Dr. Jade De Camp is targeted by the satanic villains after she gave the hero Jaspers the willpower to disobey Hell. A group of thugs sexually assault her in a subway station, but Jaspers saves her in his demonic form and takes her back to her apartment. She immediately has sex with him.
- A History of Violence: When Edie learns of her husband Tom's crime-filled past and double life, Tom chases after her to stop her from leaving and she slaps him. During their fight, Tom grabs Edie by the neck and attempts to force himself on her. Only when he realizes what he is doing and stops, Edie pulls him back in herself and they have passionate violent sex on the staircase.
- The Midnight Meat Train: Downplayed. Leon saves a young woman named Erika from a potential gang rape by luring her assailants into view of a subway security camera. She responds by planting a deep and very personal kiss on his lips but immediately runs off to catch her train while he snaps a few flirty pictures of her.
- In the crime film Payback (1995), ex-convict Oscar lusts after his former prison guard's wife Rose and he attempts to force himself on her. Rose manages to fight him off but then she smiles and pulls him back in and they end up having sex in the kitchen where her husband almost catches them in the act. Despite his near-rape attempt, Rose actually embarks on a passionate affair with Oscar because he paid attention to her when her husband wouldn't.
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights: The Sheriff of Nottingham sexually assaults Maid Marian with a jackhammer to break her chastity belt. She is saved by Robin and immediately Marian tries to engage him in intercourse but is thwarted by Broomhilde.
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves: Marian passionately kisses Robin right after he rescued her from an attempted rape by the Sheriff of Nottingham. They get married soon after with no further mention of the sexual assault.
- Spider-Man 1: Spider-Man saves Mary Jane from a group of men attempting to gang rape her. She immediately has no problem giving him an upside-down kiss afterwards and the assault is never mentioned again.
Literature
- Male victim in Between Worlds: Jason is sexually assaulted in a bar bathroom by a pair of Interior officers, and is rescued by his squadmate Freyxh. He struggles to acknowledge that it even was an Attempted Rape because of his Earth upbringing (unlike humans, female Shil'vati are generally bigger, stronger, and more aggressive than their males) and feels more weirded out by the experience than violated. Jason then spends the evening helping Freyxh wash off the pepper spray they used against the attackers before having sex with her in the tub. Later a male Shil'vati calls Jason out on the fact that he was twitchy for several days afterwards but refused to explain why, implying that it affected him more than he's willing to admit.
- Casca: The Eternal Mercenary
- In The Barbarian, Casca and his friend Glam save a village from raiders who have already raped the women. Once liberated, the woman proceed to torture the few prisoners to death. Some of them offer Rescue Sex to our heroes, but even the notoriously horny Glam is reluctant to sleep with a woman who's literally red-handed from having cut a man's balls off so she can shove them down his throat and choke him to death.
- In The Sentinel, a girl is raped by bandits who have taken over her village, so she seeks help from the King in the Mountain that she's fallen in love with over the years (who of course is a Human Popsicle Casca). She's entirely willing to take him for her husband afterwards, and even claims her Child by Rape is his. Casca knows better as he can't have children, but she gives a blank look whenever he tries to discuss what happened to her. After a while Casca wonders if the rape affected her more than it initially appeared.
- The Demon Princes: In "The Face", Kirth Gersen rescues Jerdian Chanseth, the girl he has a crush on, from Attempted Rape. They end up spending the night together.
- In Heralds of Valdemar, Herald Talia is subjected to rape and torture before her love interest Dirk, her near-daughter Elspeth, and several divine beings save her through The Power of Love. It's the perfect, well-earned happy ending — until Talia realizes she's too traumatized to want sex, and she's afraid of telling Dirk because his self-esteem has been shattered once before. It takes a month of separation and some actual therapy before she and Dirk can properly enjoy their relationship.
- Kane Series: In "Undertow" handsome and strong barbarian Dragar saves beautiful and noble Dessylyn from some street thugs who attempt to rape her. The two go on to become lovers.
- The Lightlark Saga: In one of the flashback chapters in Nightbane, Isla flirts with and kisses a man who offered her a drink at a party, only for Grim to suddenly stab the man through the chest. Isla initially thinks Grim was just being jealous (which he is), only for Grim to clarify the man had slipped a fantasy-version of a roofie into her drink with the intention of raping her. At this point Isla begins feeling the effects of the drug and Grim takes her somewhere quiet to lie down… and quickly begins flirting with her and talking about how they “do such depraved things” in his dreams. Isla is very receptive to this and doesn't dwell on the earlier unpleasantness in the slightest.
- Lord Marksman and Vanadis: After Elen is rescued from Greast, who did pretty much everything short of rape (he was saving that for when Tigre was around to see it), she becomes increasingly sullen, and later confides to Tigre that she can't get over the experience even though she counts herself lucky that she still has her chastity. Tigre then requests to take her virginity then and there, which they both recognize as insensitive after what she went through, but Elen agrees to it as Intimate Psychotherapy.
- The Mists of Avalon: After Gwenhwyfar is kidnapped by Meleager she is rescued by Lancelet, but not in time to prevent her rape. Gwenhwyfar begs Lancelet to "take this unclean feeling from" her and he does, practically over Meleager's dead body.
- Played with in Shadow of the Conqueror:
- After Daylen helps rescue a group of girls who were being sex trafficked, they all look at him adoringly and fawn over him for being their handsome saviour. One of the girls approaches Daylen in private and outright tries to seduce him, claiming that she would feel better staying with him because she can't go home, as she'd be seen as "damaged goods" by her family (who weren't all that nice to her beforehand). She even says it doesn't matter if Daylen is sexually inexperienced because she now knows a lot about sex (though being sold into sexual slavery is hardly a good lesson on consensual sex). Daylen does seriously consider sleeping with her but ultimately rejects her, feeling repulsed.
- On the other end, Lyrah was raped as a teenager over twenty years ago and while she has largely moved on with her life, she still has deep trauma around it, to the point she can barely tolerate anything to do with sex.
- A Song of Ice and Fire: Tyrion's backstory provides a Double Subversion. When he was a teenager, he and his brother Jaime rescued a girl named Tysha from men who intended to rape her. Tyrion comforted and took care of Tysha, and they quickly developed feelings for each other and made love, even getting married. However, Tyrion was later told that Tysha was a prostitute and the whole scenario had been set up by his brother so Tyrion could lose his virginity. Or at least that's what Tyrion believed for over a decade; Jaime eventually confesses that their father forced him to go along with this story because he didn't approve of Tyrion marrying a common girl. According to Jaime's account, Tysha wasn't a prostitute and really did fall that hard for Tyrion after he rescued her, which infuriates Tyrion, who proceeds to kill his father over it.
- Twilight: Bella is cornered by a group of men who verbally harass her before being saved by Edward who indicates they would have assaulted her. She exhibits no symptoms of stress or trauma and shows even more interest in Edward, including going on a date with him that same night. The ordeal is rarely mentioned again and when it is, Bella is pretty nonchalant about it. In New Moon, she even accepts a motorcycle ride from a man she thought was one of the harassers in the vain hope Edward (who has left her) will swoop in to save her again.
Live-Action TV
- Arrow: Roy Harper saves Thea Queen from Attempted Rape by gang members and is stabbed in the process. She then kisses him in the hospital room and they eventually go on to have a relationship.
- In season 4 of The Boys (2019), aside from breaking down a few hours after his rescue, Hughie displays no long term trauma over being molested and tortured by Tek Knight. He and Annie instantly resume their regular intimacy as if nothing happened. And then it turns out Annie had been replaced by a shapeshifter who took her appearance.
- Game of Thrones:
- Deconstructed in "Baelor", Tyrion relates an incident from his youth where he and Jaime rescued a peasant girl named Tysha from a gang of rapists. That same evening, Tyrion and Tysha have sex and were so head-over-heels for each other that they wed. It turned out that Tysha was a prostitute and Jaime arranged the incident as a Confidence-Building Scheme for Tyrion to lose his virginity. Their father found out and everything ended in tears. Shae, the audience to this story, tells Tyrion that the sham should have been obvious from the start since someone who was nearly raped isn't going to have consensual sex that same night.
- Decon-Recon Switched in "The Gift" where Gilly is cornered and almost raped by two Night's Watch recruits, only to be rescued at the last minute by Sam (whom they beat the living crap out of) and Ghost (whom they flee from). While Sam is recovering from the beatdown, Gilly thanks him for his bravery by having sex with him.
- Played with in Half Man (2026):
- In episode 4, after Ruben violently rapes Niall with a car ornament, they are still able to make up and even hug at the end of their fight. Given that Ruben is physically violent and otherwise aggressive to either Niall or the people around him in every single episode, it's implied Niall has become used to how Ruben behaves. Played with later on as, while Niall never explicitly mentions Ruben's assault on him, he later does aversion therapy and enters a relationship with Ava.
- Downplayed in episode 5. Ruben subjects Niall to what is most likely an Attempted Rape, stripping his trousers off in the middle of the street. Niall doesn't speak to Ava about it, but he has a Thousand-Yard Stare.
- Several episodes of M*A*S*H feature Margaret being harassed and in some cases outright attacked by soldiers or other men who aren't interested in taking no for an answer (amusingly, played by Stuart Margolin on two separate occasions). In each instance, she seems to suffer no psychological ill effects and the incident is never mentioned again.
- Within a month after being brutally raped and beaten, One Life to Live's Barbara jumped into bed with a man she'd been attracted to for a while. This is the same show where it took two years for Marty Saybrooke to recover from her gang rape.
- Within one year (2005), so many of Passions characters were raped that it was known by fans as "The Year Of The Rapes". Adding insult to injury is that the writers played this trope to the hilt—only one victim—who was reacting to being raped a second time—displayed any of the tropes that commonly happen after a sexual assault, while everyone else went on with their lives as normal.
- Quantum Leap: In 5x05 "Killin' Time" a serial killer that Sam has leapt into escapes from the waiting room and picks up a sex worker. Al arrives and saves her before he can rape and/or kill her. Seconds after the escaped fugitive choked her and held a gun to her head, she offers Al a freebie, which he turns down because he doesn't have time. To make it even more ridiculous, on top of almost being murdered, she's just found out time travel and body swapping is real.
- Robin Hood (BBC): Kate is constantly being threatened with rape by various antagonists, something she brushes off effortlessly each time. After one such capture/threat/escape, she kisses her rescuer (Robin Hood) on the cheek to thank him and indicate her romantic interest in him.
Music
- In the final verse of "Poor Little Angeline", Angeline seems rather eager to have sex with the blacksmith after he just saved her from being raped by the squire.
Myths & Religion
- Amymone, daughter of Danaus, prayed to Poseidon to save her from being raped by a satyr. The god answered the call and drove off the offender. Amynone then slept with Poseidon to thank him and bore Nauplius.
Theatre
- Don Giovanni:
- At the end of the first act Zerlina is assaulted by Don Giovanni offstage, but narrowly escapes. In the second act, presumably just a few hours later, she's seemingly back to her old cheerful self, and sings an aria to her fiancé Masetto about the romantic "remedy" she has for the injuries the Don has given him. That said, she shows murderous rage when she seemingly encounters the Don again, which doesn't abate even when it turns out to "only" be his servant Leporello in disguise: in the second edition of the score, she even ties Leporello to a chair and threatens to carve him up with a shaving razor.
- Averted with Don Giovanni's other near-rape victim, Donna Anna, whose father is also killed when he fights the Don in her defense. She spends the rest of the opera in a traumatized state of grief and rage, and refuses when her fiancé Don Ottavio tries to comfort her by suggesting that they get married the next day. Instead she insists on postponing the wedding for a year, "for my heart to heal."
Video Games
- Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood: It is revealed (through suppressed memories) that Ezio and Cristina started their relationship after he saved her from an implied Attempted Rape by Vieri de Pazzi.
- Dragon Age II: Implied. The nobleman's daughter falls in love with Feynriel after rescuing her from being gang-raped. She asks Hawke to help her find him so she can "thank him properly".
- Happens in the second Fear Effect game, when Rain gets strapped to device that was clearly violating her, she cracks jokes about it with her lover Hana and an hour later takes part in a Distracted by the Sexy scheme with Hana to get access to a private elevator.
- In Heavy Rain, Ethan can have an Optional Sexual Encounter with Madison who was attacked by a serial killer and nearly raped at gunpoint during the preceding day. This does not appear to cause issues for her in this encounter.
- Ride to Hell: Retribution: Some quests have Jake save a woman from sexual assault. After he saves her, the game cuts to them having sex, and Jake's health is restored. The woman is then never seen or mentioned again.
Visual Novels
- True Love Junai Monogatari: The Protagonist rescues Mayumi from a Near-Rape Experience that can lead to him romancing her.