History AttemptedRape / Literature

* Happens to Erik in Susan Kay's ''Phantom'' by Javert (not [[Literature/LesMiserables that one]]). He escapes by [[spoiler:murdering him, with a knife]].

* ''Literature/{{Dragonvarld}}'': Evelina has Marcus drink absinthe, which gets aroused enough to declare his love and want to sleep with her when otherwise he wasn't going to. However, they don't have sex with him under its influence, as he gets a severe allergic reaction to the absinthe.

* In ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses'' Feyre stumbles upon Lucien restrained by Ianthe, who is undressing him against his will as he demands that she stop touching him. When they realize she's spotted them, Ianthe insists that Lucien actually wants her, and continues to try and have her way with him until Feyre subjects her to MindRape.

* ''Literature/{{Baccano}} 1932 - Another Junk Railroad'': When he was younger, [[spoiler:Firo]] was kidnapped and almost sexually assaulted by a pervert who [[DudeLooksLikeALady mistook him for a girl]]. As a result, he's developed a ParalyzingFearOfSexuality.

** Yuu and Mika prevent a group of boys from doing this to a young girl in the light novel ''The Story of Vampire Mikaela''.

* In ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' two men herd Bella towards their two friends in order to do this. Luckily Edward [[ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive arrives just in time.]]
** In ''Literature/NewMoon'' while Bella and Jessica are going out, Bella believes she sees the would-be-rapists when she realises that she hears Edward's voice while in danger. Because of this she approaches them but Jessica convinces Bella to stop. It turns out not to be the same guys anyway, and in fact in ''Midnight Sun'' we find out Edward had gotten them arrested before that point.

* ''And I Darken'' 's Lada is surprised in the woods one day by a Jannisary who hates her. He attempts to force himself on her. She kills him instead.

* In Creator/WenSpencer's ''Endless Blue'', [[spoiler:Butcher]] tries to rape [[spoiler:Eraphie Bailey]], and Mikhail shoots him to death.

* In the ''Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries'' novel Living Dead in Dallas, Sookie is nearly raped by Gabe, [[spoiler:a henchman of Fellowship of the Sun leader Steve Newlin]]. She is rescued just in time by [[spoiler:self-hating vampire Godfrey/Godric]], who accidently kills Gabe.

* In Creator/SandyMitchell's ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' novel ''Scrouge the Heretic'', while Kyrlock and Elyra are waiting to get on the off-planet ship, their guide tries to rape Zusen, a telepathic girl who is also waiting. [[spoiler:When Elyra objects, he tells her [[EvilCannotComprehendGood that she can join the fun]]. Kyrlock says that Elyra wouldn't, but [[FakeDefector he would]] -- and thereby gets close enough to brain him. Elyra shoots him as well. Zusen, between her fragile emotional state and her ability to read in his mind what he intended, is overwhelmingly grateful at first, and rather withdrawn after.]]

* In the ''Literature/{{The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries}}'' novel Living Dead in Dallas, Sookie is nearly raped by Gabe, [[spoiler:a henchman of Fellowship of the Sun leader Steve Newlin]]. She is rescued just in time by [[spoiler:self-hating vampire Godfrey/Godric]], who accidently kills Gabe.

* In Aaron Dembski-Bowden's ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000}}'' ''Literature/NightLords'' novel ''Soul Hunter'', an attempt to deprive the Night Lord Talos of two slaves he values goes awry when the men sent to do it drag Eurydice off for this instead. Talos, having saved the other slave, charges into a stronghold of his enemies to get her back, killing the men involved. One of them would have gotten away if only he had fled; Talos had retrieved Eurydice and only thought of getting her to safety.

* In the ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' novel 'Dragons of Spring Dawning' both types of foiling occur when Bakaris attempts to rape Laurana. First {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Tasslehoff Burrfoot comes to her defense, stabbing Bakaris right when he has Laurana at his mercy. Then with Bakaris distracted Laurana attacks him in a frenzy and succeeds in killing him.

* ''Literature/{{Speak}}'': Andy Evans tries to [[spoiler:rape Melinda in her broom closet at the climax but she fights him off]]. The girls' lacrosse team helped. Subverted offscreen before the book started. [[spoiler: He did rape her.]]

* In Creator/GrahamMcNeill's ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' Literature/HorusHeresy novel ''Fulgrim'', Serena starts crying and claims this [[spoiler:to get Lucius to help cover up her murder]].
* In the BackStory of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/TheTempest'', Caliban tried to rape Miranda.
* In Creator/WenSpencer's ''Endless Blue'', [[spoiler:Butcher]] tries to rape [[spoiler:Eraphie Bailey]], and Mikhail shoots him to death.
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* In Tracy Chevalier's novel ''Literature/GirlWithAPearlEarring'' (adapted into a film in 2003) van Ruijven, a patron of Creator/JohannesVermeer, accosts Griet one morning while she's hanging up laundry, pushes her against a wall, and tries to tear her clothes from her but is stopped when Cornelia arrives asking what he's doing. His intentions are made more apparent in the film when he tells her that she's "ripe as a plum but still unplucked".
* In the ''Literature/BloodyJack'' series this occurs every book towards the titular Jacky.
* In Aaron Dembski-Bowden's TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Literature/NightLords novel ''Soul Hunter'', an attempt to deprive the Night Lord Talos of two slaves he values goes awry when the men sent to do it drag Eurydice off for this instead. Talos, having saved the other slave, charges into a stronghold of his enemies to get her back, killing the men involved. One of them would have gotten away if only he had fled; Talos had retrieved Eurydice and only thought of getting her to safety.
* This trope tends to end badly in ''Literature/DigitalDevilStory''. The first time, Loki's trying to use his tentacles on Yumiko but[[spoiler: her neck is snapped by her jealous teacher before Loki can do the deed]]. The second time, Loki tries to rape [[spoiler: the goddess Izanami herself, but he is defeated by Nakajima before he can do the deed.]]
* In Creator/RobertEHoward's Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian story "Literature/RedNails" Olmec tries this on Valeria. [[spoiler:The rescue is even worse.]]
** Conan himself tried this on Literature/TheFrostGiantsDaughter after killing her giant brothers, but she was saved by her father Ymir, who spirited her away. Conan was fairly young at the time, and this experience did quite a bit to put him off rape ever since.
* In L. Jagi Lamplight's ''[[Literature/ProsperosDaughter Prospero Lost]]'', Miranda is passionate about rapists ever since the time, in the BackStory (of this and ''Theatre/TheTempest'') when Caliban had tried to rape her.
* Happens to Erik in Susan Kay's ''Phantom'' by Javert (not [[Literature/LesMiserables that one]]). He escapes by [[spoiler:murdering him, with a knife.]]
* In the Literature/LeftBehind book ''Kingdom Come'', an unbelieving under-100 "natural" attempts to assault a female "glorified" in the hopes of siring a child that may be able to [[DeathsHourglass live past 100 years of age without becoming a believer]]. God foiled the attempt by having the would-be rapist die in her arms and then incinerated. Given that in the book series the "glorifieds" are [[ImmortalProcreationClause not able to sire or have children]], this would have proved to be pointless.
* In ''Literature/AcrossTheUniverseBethRevis'', Amy goes out jogging in the middle of "the Season", which is when the population of the ship is dosed up on hormones to encourage them to reproduce. She doesn't consider how potent the hormones are, and finds herself caught by a group of guys who want to have sex with her and can't tell that she's unwilling. Also, one of the guys in the group is unaffected by the drugs and just wants to rape her. She's saved when another unaffected person knocks the guys over the head and takes her inside.
** This continues into the sequel, where the undrugged would-be rapist makes it clear he wants to have another go at Amy. She does her best to avoid him, but knows that with the ''Godspeed'' in as much turmoil as it's in, things could turn bad. [[spoiler:So in case he does corner her, she carries a patch soaked with a powerful sedative. When he does catch her, she slaps it on him, lets his other victim kick the shit out of him, and tells him that if he tries anything else, she'll shoot him.]]
* Lord Arlington in the Louisa May Alcott book ''The Inheritance'' tries to seduce Edith many times but each time she rejects him. The final time she rejects him he reacts very angrily and it's implied that he means to rape her but Lord Percy shows up and Arlington departs.
* In ''The Innocent'' a would-be suitor that Elinor has rejected tries to rape her. One of her serfs steps in and tosses the guy right into a table with a stone top, knocking the creep cold on the edge.
* In the ''Literature/{{The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries}}'' novel Living Dead in Dallas, Sookie is nearly raped by Gabe, [[spoiler:a henchman of Fellowship of the Sun leader Steve Newlin]]. She is rescued just in time by [[spoiler:self-hating vampire Godfrey/Godric]], who accidently kills Gabe.
* In ''Literature/RogueSorcerer'', Aiden has to fend off a man who tries to rape Claron. This experience is what convinces him that it is time to teach Claron how to defend herself.
* Cygnusisans, who're half human half animal creatures in ''Literature/SpectralShadows'', cannot rape because of how their mating process works. However, it is possible to attempt this, as Perry tries with Christine [[spoiler: (He fails at it though)]] by manipulating her body in a way for it to get wound up for intimacy, despite the fact that Christine does not want to join with him.
* ''[[Literature/AMagesPower A Mage's Power]]'': [[spoiler: Tahart's job offer to Annala is a ruse for the purpose of raping her. He hides {{Power Nullifier}}s and a SlaveCollar in her uniform to weaken her. He would have succeeded if not for Eric's intervention.]]
* Literature/KateShugak is almost raped after being captured by the killers in ''Hunter's Moon''. Even though her hands are bound behind her back, she manages to escapes when the would-be rapist cuts her legs free, thanks to a timely distraction from Jack Morgan and some applied violence on her part.
* A man tries to rape Snow White in ''Literature/SixGunSnowWhite'' after she breaks the fingers of a few of his friends. He fails, and the ensuing fight is pretty brutal.
* In ''Literature/FiftyShadesDarker'', Editor Jack Hyde tries, after work, [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse to blackmail his new employee Ana Steele into having sex with him]], and when that fails, he attempts to rape her. Ana escapes, thanks to a [[GroinAttack well-placed kick]]. The situation is treated badly, however; for one thing, the book presents Ana as [[SoBeautifulItsACurse too beautiful]] for Hyde [[ImAManICantHelpIt to resist]], rather than putting the blame for the attempted rape on the would-be rapist. And, despite having his bodyguard Jason Taylor administer a beating to Hyde offscreen, Christian Grey yells onscreen at ''Ana'' [[BlamingTheVictim for almost being raped]]--because, as he states in the first book, he doesn't believe that a beautiful woman [[CheatingWithTheMilkman could possibly refrain from having sex]]. (And no, he doesn't distinguish between sex and rape). By ''Fifty Shades Freed'', Ana [[YouKeepTellingYourselfThat has mentally retconned the attempted rape]] into "Jack Hyde made a pass at me."
* Early in ''Literature/{{Uprooted}}'', Prince Marek casually attempts to rape Agnieszka solely to piss off her teacher. She says in her narration that his reputation as a WarriorPrince was enough that she could have been willing if ''asked'', but instead he goes right to forcing himself on her. She uses the only spell she knows (for GorgeousGarmentGeneration) to block him and then beats him half to death with a metal tray.
* In ''Literature/DoraWilkSeries'', Dora invokes it to deal with a serial rapist - she glamours herself to look like his victims and strolls in his hunting grounds, then lays him down when he tries to have his way with her.

* In ''Literature/TheDinosaurLords'', when Falk tries to rape Melodía while drunk, her handmaiden manages to stop him with [[DeathGlare implied]] violence alone.
* In ''Literature/SchooledInMagic'', Emily fends off one by a drunken villager, [[ForcedTransformation turning him into a pig]]. He had to be very drunk for [[MuggingTheMonster trying this on a sorceress]]. This brings up bad memories about her creepy stepfather. It's stated he probably had done this many times before, and Lady Barb puts a curse on him that will turn him into a pig for good if he ever does again.
* In ''Literature/InColdBlood'', Dick Hickok tries to rape Nancy Clutter during the home invasion, but his accomplice Perry Smith prevents him from going any further [[EvenEvilHasStandards because he hates sexual crimes.]]
* Literature/AlexisCarew is nearly raped by a drunken spacer, Alan, in ''Into the Dark'', but she fights him off and then tells the bosun and the captain that he CutHimselfShaving, not wanting to see a man hanged on her account. [[spoiler:Alan stops drinking after this and becomes a model crewman, ultimately [[HeroicSacrifice saving her life at the cost of his own]].]] She's also threatened with it a couple times, but informs a sexist midshipman in ''Mutineer'' that if he so much as touches her, his next meal will be "nutmegs and sausage".
* In ''Literature/TheGoblinEmperor'', Csevet tells the story of how a nobleman once grabbed him, clearly intending to rape him, and how he ''bit'' the guy, and then managed to flee.
* In ''Literature/TheGirlFromTheMiraclesDistrict'', Nikita mentions that early in her career in the Order, one guy tried to assert his position above her in the pecking order, and so attempted to rape her under the shower. Unfortunately for him, Nikita was expecting something like this to happen sooner or later, and had a gun with her. Inevitable happened.
* In ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses'' Feyre stumbles upon Lucien restrained by Ianthe, who is undressing him against his will as he demands that she stop touching him. When they realize she's spotted them, Ianthe insists that Lucien actually wants her, and continues to try and have her way with him until Feyre subjects her to MindRape.
* ''And I Darken'' 's Lada is surprised in the woods one day by a Jannisary who hates her. He attempts to force himself on her. She kills him instead.
* In ''Literature/TheCourtsOfTheMorning'' by John Buchan, Janet Roylance is taken hostage by the bad guys after things start turning against them. She's kept in a locked room at nights as much for her own protection as anything else, because the villain had some really nasty henchmen who are less inclined to take orders from the higher-ranking bad guys now that things are going bad. One of them gains access to her room, but doesn't manage to get his hands on her before being interrupted by the arrival of the heroes, one of whom lays him out with a single punch.
* ''Literature/FamilySkeletonMysteries'': A man tries to molest a six-year-old Georgia during a blackout at a carnival. Sid [[BackFromTheDead revives]] and scares him off.
* ''Literature/PatienceAndSarah'': While on a boat to New York, Sarah is attacked by a man. Too embarrassed to call for help, Sarah tries to fight him off but has trouble. Luckily her lover Patience appears, which scares the man into letting Sarah go.
* In the ''Literature/KaneSeries'' novel ''Bloodstone'' mercenary Ristkon, who holds a grudge against her family, tries to rape [[TheLadette Teres]], even against his lord's orders, mostly to humiliate her. Teres pretends to submit to him and then kills him.
* ''Literature/TheOneWhoEatsMonsters'':
** Harper Pruett tries to force Ryn to give him a blowjob after leading her into a broom closet and mistaking her increasingly irritated threats for her flirting with him. When she realizes what his intent is, she furiously headbutts him through the door.
** Splat plans to rape and torture Naomi Bradford to death, though Ryn torches his van and foils his attempt on Naomi's life. Naomi is left traumatized by the encounter with Splat's mutilated Hollow and Ryn's borderline LivingShadow form, and suffers from chronic night-terrors.
** At the Nine Lives nightclub, Denise is drugged into a stupor by John Laek and his thugs and almost winds up their sex-slave -- and is indicated to have at least given him a blowjob. When Naomi intervenes to save her friend, Ryn delivers a thorough CurbStompBattle provoked by one of the thugs declaring his intent to rape them too, stopping just short of killing them... [[spoiler:this time]]
* ''Literature/TheArtOfBeingNormal'': It's implied that trans boy [[spoiler:Leo's]] classmates planned on assaulting him to "remind him he's a girl" when they attacked him in the woods.
* ''Literature/DaystarAndShadow'': A few days after Robin and Shadow meet, Robin leaves her alone at the campsite and comes back to find three men trying to rape her, [[WouldHurtAChild even though she's about ten years old at this point]]. Robin, who's a teenager now, kills two of the men and chases the third away. He and Shadow have to leave the area after that.
* ''Literature/TheTeresaKnightTrilogy'': Teresa stops a man who is about to rape his girlfriend at a sex club when she breaks off their encounter because of discomfort.

* ''Literature/ThePower'': Tunde is nearly raped by a woman in Delhi, but luckily three other women arrive and stop her.
* ''Literature/TheNowhereGirls'': Eric Jordan, one of Lucy's rapists, pins Erin against the lockers and roughly grabs her crotch. She wants to resist, but is unable to move or cry out. Then Eric hears a security guard's walkie-talkie and lets go of Erin for fear of being caught.
* ''Literature/TheSocietyOfSylphs'': At the beach, Chuck [[SlippingAMickey roofies]] Pam and drags her away from her friends, up the pathway to the top of the cliff to rape her. She resists and manages to get loose and stumble away from him. Unfortunately, there's nowhere to go but off the cliff, and when he pursues her, she falls to her death.

* In ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' two men herd Bella towards their two friends in order to do this. Luckily Edward [[ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive arrives just in time.]]

* In Tracy Chevalier's novel ''Literature/GirlWithAPearlEarring'' (adapted into a film in 2003) van Ruijven, a patron of Johannes Vermeer, accosts Griet one morning while she's hanging up laundry, pushes her against a wall, and tries to tear her clothes from her but is stopped when Cornelia arrives asking what he's doing. His intentions are made more apparent in the film when he tells her that she's "ripe as a plum but still unplucked".

* The main plot of ''Literature/ABadPlaceToBeAHero'' is kicked off when one of the side characters catches the protagonist Thessa stealing from him, and feels entitled to rape her in exchange. Unbeknownst to him, Thessa is a werewolf. The outcome is [[CruelAndUnusualDeath exactly what you'd expect]].

* In Creator/LloydAlexander's ''The High King'', the final volume of ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain'', Princess Eilonwy finds herself a prisoner of the outlaw band led by the ruffian Dorath, who had menaced protagonist Taran in the preceding book. Once Dorath realizes who Eilonwy is to Taran, he says that when she's reunited with the hero, he will find that she has few charms left. It's never explicitly stated that he intends to rape her, but the implication is there; the language is vague enough for young children to realize only that she's in danger. Before he can actually lay a hand on her, however, she's rescued by a group of wolves and bears.

* In Literature/{{Kane}} novel ''Bloodstone'' mercenary Ristkon, who holds a grudge against her family, tries to rape [[TheLadette Teres]], even against his lord's orders, mostly to humiliate her. Teres pretends to submit to him and then kills him.

* In ''Literature/FiftyShadesDarker'', Editor Jack Hyde tries, after work, [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse to blackmail his new employee Ana Steele into having sex with him]], and when that fails, he attempts to rape her. Ana escapes, thanks to a [[GroinAttack well-placed kick]]. The situation is treated badly, however; for one thing, the book presents Ana as [[SoBeautifulItsACurse too beautiful]] for Hyde [[ImAManICantHelpIt to resist]], rather than putting the blame for the attempted rape on the would-be rapist. And, despite having his bodyguard Jason Taylor administer a beating to Hyde offscreen, Christian Grey yells onscreen at ''Ana'' [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming for almost being raped]]--because, as he states in the first book, he doesn't believe that a beautiful woman [[CheatingWithTheMilkman could possibly refrain from having sex]]. (And no, he doesn't distinguish between sex and rape). By ''Fifty Shades Freed'', Ana [[YouKeepTellingYourselfThat has mentally retconned the attempted rape]] into "Jack Hyde made a pass at me."

* In ''Literature/SchooledInMagic'', Emily fends off one by a drunken villager, [[BalefulPolymorph turning him into a pig]]. He had to be very drunk for [[MuggingTheMonster trying this on a sorceress]]. This brings up bad memories about her creepy stepfather. It's stated he probably had done this many times before, and Lady Barb puts a curse on him that will turn him into a pig for good if he ever does again.

* Played for laughs in Creator/KWJeter's ''Fiendish Schemes'', a giant Orangutan steam-powered automaton puts protagonist George Dower into a bent-over position and then it yanks his pants down. George looks back to see a very large third appendage rise with a blast of steam coming out. Luckily he's saved when a worker with an axe disables the robot and Dower is only mildly nonplussed (British stiff upperlip and Dower's a real dullard). Previously another worker was in a similar predicament and wasn't so lucky, the result is a life term in an asylum as the doctors won't believe the man's ranting of being buggered by a steam engine in simian fur. Turns out years ago, George's genius inventor father had a commission from a jaded nobleman. The nobleman once brought over orangutans as vicious animals for a good hunt and to bugger him (he was a product of British boarding schools and "Greek" oriented schoolmasters). He was disappointed that the orangutans are placid in nature and not interested in either activity, so George Dower Sr. was hired to make a savage Orangutan {{Sexbot}}...

* In ''Literature/TheSocietyOfSylphs'': At the beach, Chuck [[SlippingAMickey roofies]] Pam and drags her away from her friends, up the pathway to the top of the cliff to rape her. She resists and manages to get loose and stumble away from him. Unfortunately, there's nowhere to go but off the cliff, and when he pursues her, she falls to her death.

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* In ''Literature/AcrossTheUniverse'', Amy goes out jogging in the middle of "the Season", which is when the population of the ship is dosed up on hormones to encourage them to reproduce. She doesn't consider how potent the hormones are, and finds herself caught by a group of guys who want to have sex with her and can't tell that she's unwilling. Also, one of the guys in the group is unaffected by the drugs and just wants to rape her. She's saved when another unaffected person knocks the guys over the head and takes her inside.