History Main / AttemptedRape

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* ''PeachGirl'': Momo fights off Kairi's older brother Ryo when he makes advances on her. Sae gets a taste of her own medicine in the form of an obese rapist whom Momo saves her from before he can rape her. Also, Momo rescues Sae again when she is being forced to participate in a porno film.
* In ''{{Berserk}}'', Casca has people try to rape her twice, once in her backstory and the other roughly halfway through the anime. The first attempt is stopped by Griffith, who then has Casca kill the would-be rapist herself. The second attempt is fought off by Casca herself, who kills her attackers. [[spoiler:But when the Eclipse goes down, the very first thing that Griffith does upon becoming the demon god Femto is to rape Casca right in front of Guts. [[GoMadFromTheRevelation She doesn't]] [[{{Chickification}} come out of it]] [[CuteMute very well]]]].
** Also, Princess Charlotte has to fight off her own half-maddened father's attempt to rape her after her night with Griffith leads to him getting arrested and thrown in the dungeons to be put to the [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]]. This alienates her from her father to the point of disowning him and refusing to see him when he's on his deathbed, his health having seriously deteriorated because of the guilt of what he had done.

* Light's second kill in ''DeathNote'' was a member of a biker gang who was trying to rape a woman. Light uses the titular ArtifactOfDoom to send him right into the path of an oncoming semi. This kill proves to Light that the Death Note's powers are real and ultimately leads to his decision to become Kira.
** But that was only in the anime - in the manga, the scooter gang harassed the girl, and Light only chose the victim because he gave away his name. (In fairness, his attitude towards the note at that point was "Am I supposed to believe this crap?" He wasn't depraved enough to kill someone just for being a pain...''[[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope yet.]]'')
** Mikami Teru kills a man who is harassing a woman on a subway, as a crucial part of Light's plan.
* ''FullMetalPanic'' has one in Fumoffu, where Chidori tries to stop some guys from assaulting another girl, and in turn becomes the center of their attention. Fortunately, Sousuke was around to save the day.
* Vega, in full-on psycho mode, breaks into Chun-Li's apartment in the ''StreetFighter'' movie (the good one) and intends to rape her before killing her. She proves her ActionGirl credentials all over his face in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome that also proves she is quite the PluckyGirl. Eventually, Guile arrives to Save The Girl after the whole thing is over.
* Implied to have happened in ''MacrossPlus''.
* ''FateStayNight'', "Unlimited Blade Works" route, [[spoiler:Shinji tries to rape Rin. Lancer slices off his arm. This is part of the reason that it's Lancer's CrowningMomentOfAwesome.]]
** And then he tries it ''again'' in "Heaven's Feel" with [[spoiler: Sakura, and he's done it before to her.]] What happens? [[spoiler:[[KickTheSonOfABitch Sakura blows his brain out with magic.]]]]
** In {{Tsukihime}}, Shiki [[spoiler: attempts to rape Arcueid]] due to a brief bout of insanity, brought on in part by the combination of an unexpected surge of [[spoiler: his natural monster-slaying instincts]] and the attraction and growing affection for her that he's been trying to avoid up to that point. Though, unlike Shinji, he is the protagonist so you do have the option to succeed. However, going through with it ''will'' get Shiki killed by her later [[spoiler: due to her own brief bout of vampiric insanity]].
** In ''KaraNoKyoukai'', the antagonist of the third chapter/movie is [[spoiler:a victim of attempted rape, plus some other rapes in the past, who systematically slaughters anybody guilty of sexual violence who she comes across. She]] is pretty much the only antagonist in the series whom the main characters do not hold to blame (although they still need to stop [[spoiler:her]] killing other people, obviously). The other attempted rapist in the series is wtfpwned by Shiki and becomes the only {{Muggle}} she (or at least her current personality) ever kills. Noticing a pattern in the {{Nasuverse}} yet? [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped Remember kids, rape is bad]].
* In ''{{Gantz}}'', Kei Kishimoto is almost raped soon after she's introduced. As in, she materializes naked and unconscious in a sealed apartment, and a violent thug, already present, carts her off to the bathroom for "privacy" inside a minute. However, Kato rescues her, and so starts their RescueRomance.
* A backstory chapter in ''Challengers'' reveals that Souichi's homophobia was caused by almost being raped by one of his male professors. Morinaga came to his rescue, which might have set up a RescueRomance for the two... if not for Morinaga being a gay guy and Souichi being violently anti-gay after that incident.
* The Watermelon Island chapters of ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'', which provide Kuno with a temporary powerup that puts him well above Ranma's league (and also conveniently give him amnesia that [[LaserGuidedAmnesia preserves his kendo skills, but does away with his pesky "nobility" and "chivalry"]]) culminate in him terrorizing a [[PrimalFear thoroughly freaked-out]] girl-Ranma, making the none-too-subtle threat that he's about to have his way with her and it's impossible for her to defeat him. Since, for once, she really ''can't'' beat him up, she outsmarts him so he smacks himself with his wooden sword, which helps him regain his memory.
** The anime also included a Rescuer version of this trope. One episode has Ranma suffering LossOfIdentity after getting smashed on the head in the koi pond, replacing his normal personality with that of a timid, stereotypically nice girl. Towards the episode's end, Happosai attempts to take advantage of Ranma's mangled mentality- and when his attempt to just grope her is foiled, he starts flailing his arms and legs around and crying like a little baby, whereupon "New Ranma" is compelled to offer to let him have his way with her if that will make him feel better. Akane immediateley intervenes and sends Happosai flying out through the window, horrified by this turn of events.
* This is the act that effectively [[MoralEventHorizon clinches]] Aoshima as a villain in his first appearance in ''AhMyGoddess''. Fortunately, even though Belldandy is caught off guard for a variety of reasons, she manages to stop him with her abilities as a goddess -- namely, a liberal dose of lightning. The last episode of the season has a similar scene with an aged-up Skuld as the victim, with older sister Urd stepping in to fry him again.
* Many moments in the {{hentai}} series ''MahouShoujoAi'' (aka ''Sexy Magical Girl''). Often times, the victim is in the middle of it when ActionGirl Ai steps in.
* Happens twice in one episode of ''GlassFleet'', almost simultaneously: pretty young pilot Eimer gets tossed into a cell full of big scary prisoners, but [[ActionGirl manages to fend them off]] long enough for the hero to join her; meanwhile, the SweetPollyOliver gets drugged by the villain for nefarious purposes... but he apparently [[DroppedABridgetOnHim backs off in disgust upon realizing she's not a man]].

* Hinako Aikawa, the female lead of the manga ''BitterVirgin'', experiences an AttemptedRape midway through the series. She is rescued by [[BerserkerTears male lead Daisuke]].
* Happens to Sara Ringwalt in ''NowAndThenHereAndThere,'' when she is used as part of a breeding program. After being successfully raped at least once, she fights off a later attempt and escapes her imprisonment.
* While out on the town during her semester break in ''{{Mai-Otome}}'', Arika almost falls victim to an attack by a group of back-alley thugs. Luckily for her, Sergey shows up just in time to chase them away.
* In ''MahouSenseiNegima'', just as Tsukuyomi ([[FoeYay her rival/enemy]]) stripped her down to her undergarments with a [[{{Obake}} Demon]] [[{{Onmyodo}} Charm]], and pinned her down with her [[{{Sarashi}} chest wrappings]] [[ClothingDamage sliced off]] by the [[StalkerWithACrush Stalker's]] sword, Setsuna barely managed to summon a floating Tanto to send at the PsychoLesbian's back, managing to nick her scarf off. Before the battle could go on, Tsukuyomi was [[{{Telepathy}} telepathically]] called away by her superior Fate as he was retreating. Of all things, Setsuna was most humiliated by the fact that she was defeated.
* In ''Dramacon'', the protagonist Christie is nearly raped by her drunk boyfriend Derek---apparently he feels she isn't giving him enough attention due to all the time she's been spending with her crush Matt(who incidentally goes back to try and pulverize Derek after Christie tells him what happened.)
* This happens to Miaka in ''FushigiYuugi'' at least three times--thankfully Tamahome keeps saving her.
* YuuWatase seems to be particularly fond of this trope, especially with teenage heroines -- it also happens at least twice in ''Alice 19th''.
* In ''ShoujoSect'', Shinobu gets sexually harassed by one of her many female admirers. The attempt gets interrupted by the interference of Shinobu's childhood friend and love interest Momoko, who promptly [[spoiler:knocks down the assailant with a fire extinguisher]].
* In ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427531/ Mezzo Forte]]'', the BigBad captures the ActionGirl and leaves her with his HiredGuns who proceed to graphically rape her. It is an example of AttemptedRape because the girl they rape is NOT ActionGirl, but a [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots look-alike robot]].
* In {{Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni}} [[spoiler: those three boys who [[BreakTheCutie Rena]] beat with a [[BatterUp bat]], had attempted to rape her. That also may have been one of the things that tempted her to [[InterruptedSuicide suicide]].]]
* Played straight in AngelDensetsu, soon after Ryoko is introduced (Kitano saves her). Doubly lampshaded too, when some random thugs wants to check out ''[[MuggingTheMonster Ikuno's]]'' [[PantyShot panties]].
* In chapter 9 of ''MiraiNikki'', [[spoiler:Tsubaki threatens to have her followers rape Yuno unless Yukiteru comes out of hiding and confronts her.]]
* In TheFiveStarStories [[HeroicSociopath Schaft]] tries to rape Lachesis during the enormous snafu known generally as the Emperor's Rescue Mission. He bites [[LadyOfWar much more than he could swallow]], though. But the trope gets then subverted, because not only he manages to [[KarmaHoudini escape consequences]], but he gets so much impressed that he declares himself [[DefeatMeansFriendship Lachesis' eternal knight]].
* In ''HotGimmick'', Ryoki saves Hatsumi from several guys who were attempting to rape her by stabbing one of the would-be rapists in the face with a ''ballpoint pen''.
** Ryoki himself also tries to rape and/or assault Hatsumi several times, but is always thwarted by a third person walking in on them.
* In Kaze Hikaru, Okita saves Sei from being raped [[spoiler: even though they don't even know she is a girl.]]
* In the Thriller Back arc of ''OnePiece'', [[{{Invisibility}} Absalom]]'s attack on Nami ''in her shower'' has distinct overtones of this.
* ''PerfectBlue'': Near the end of the film the stalker Me-Mania attempts to rape and kill Mima but she knocks him out by slamming a hammer into the side of his head.
* ''StrawberryPanic'': Hikari by Kaname, twice. Yaya also comes on to Hikari too strong not long after she was almost raped by Kaname and she shoves Yaya to the ground.
* Occurs several times in ''WolfGuyWolfenCrest'' to Ms. Aoshika.
** Kuroda takes a break from blowing up stuff (and students) to try to rape a meganekko character with his ''gun''. Fortunately, Inugami interrupts him.
* ''ElfenLied'': In one chapter The Unknown Man unexpectedly barged into Kouta's house and would have raped and murdered Mayu (just because he could) had it not been for some last minute intervention from Bandou.
** In episode 5 Professor Kakuzawa drugs and attempts to rape Lucy but she simply beheads him before he can.
* In ''Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru'', there's Pedro, the Brazilian martial artist and transfer student. It turns out that he was the masked rapist that went around buttraping a bunch of male martial arts students, and he ends up setting his sights on Minoru, the pretty boy protagonist. Of course, his depraved, rapist tendencies are played as comedy, and eventually the main characters forgive him and have him join their karate club. And even make Minoru room with him. Which results in him trying several times to rape Minoru (including an instance where Pedro went pantless with his junk out, in the middle of the night, to try to buttrape Minoru while Minoru was unconscious and drunk). Fortunately, Minoru was getting sick in the bathroom so Pedro winded up climbing into the bed of one of the karate instructors who quickly woke up and Pedro took that chance to run away.
* The monster woman Mine tries to rape CuteShotaroBoy Nai in the first chapter of ''{{Karneval}}'' but Gareki ends up saving Nai.
* In the yaoi manga ''Under Grand Hotel'' inmates like Sen are frequently raped. However, on one occasion Sen defended himself against a rapist by poking the guy's eye out with a cross necklace. Another time he was nearly raped before a bunch of guards found out and put a stop to it.
* ''{{Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun}}'': Reika's [[{{Yandere}} alternate personality]] tries to rape Shungo in the 11th episode, but is forced to stop when told by her subordinate that there are intruders.
* ''SpeedGrapher'': Dr. Nishiya, on Kagura.
* ''QueensBlade'': The first frightening scene in the franchise actually played straight, when Nowa-chan is kidnapped by a gang of rapists and thrown onto a stable floor... but thankfully rescued by Echidna at the last second.
* Osanai tries to rape ''{{Paprika}}'' but the Chairman interrupts and tries to kill her.

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* One of the many [[JumpTheShark shark jumps]] of ''{{For Better or for Worse}}'': when Elizabeth is almost raped by her co-worker, Howard Bunt. And Anthony saves her. And it rekindles their relationship... while Anthony is still married to someone else.

* In ''{{Watchmen}}'', The Comedian attempts to rape Silk Spectre after a team meeting, only to get the crap beaten out of him by Hooded Justice.
** Rorschach also happens upon a mugging/rape/both in progress.

* In ''ThePunisher MAX'' series, Castle comes across a woman about to be raped by a group of thugs in an alley. [[BerserkButton He doesn't like that.]]

* In ''{{Johnny the Homicidal Maniac}}'', it is strongly implied that Squee would have been molested by a man who led him into an alley, before Johnny showed up and [[AxCrazy smashes the pedophiles face in with a pipe, cuts his hand off and rips his brain out.]] Johnny [[EvenEvilHasStandards does not like child molesters.]]
** Johnny doesn't like rapists in general. When crazy copycat fanboy Jimmy arrives, Johnny listens to his list of crimes with disinterest, until Jimmy gets to the point where he raped a girl, whereupon Johnny kills him in an especially gruesome manner. It's implied that a large part of his distaste for rape is the fact that it requires actual physical contact, which he...[[{{Understatement}} doesn't like]]. He also kills people because he thinks they deserve it for being assholes--which includes rapists.
* This is the reason why [[XWingSeries Soontir Fel]] went to the Imperial Naval Academy and became an AcePilot. Back when he was a FarmBoy, he very violently [[http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/4452/blz05.jpg stopped]] a management's kid from raping someone, and was subsequently blackmailed into going to the academy so that he would not be there to testify at the trial. Much later, the management's kid kidnapped Fel's nephew and was shot by Fel's brother.
* Psylocke of ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' once faced an attempted rape by an alternate universe version of [[BrotherSisterIncest her brother]], [[{{ComicBook/Excalibur}} Captain Britain]]. Fortunately for her, she discovered her previously minimal psychic powers were considerably more formidable than she believed at that point.
* Occurs near the end of JossWhedon's run on ''[[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} Astonishing X-Men]]'' to Agent Brand. [[spoiler: Some of the Breakworld soldiers are threatening to gang-rape her, whereupon she kills them with her heretofore only barely hinted-at alien superpowers.]]
* In ''RogueTrooper'', when Friday is on the way to Highsight, he comes across a combat mechanic from the opposing side who is about to be gangraped by three grunts. Gaia manages to fend one off, but then Friday shoots the other two.
* In ''Return To Wonderland'', Calie is fed drugged tea by The Mad Hatter. Just as the sick bastard is about to rape her, she revives and smashes his head with a vase. Then, she breaks off a table leg and proceeds to kick the everloving crap out of him.

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* In ''[[FanFic/TiberiumWars Tiberium Wars]]'', a Nod soldier attempts to rape [[spoiler: Sandra Telfair]]. However, he is foiled when [[spoiler: Black Hand Captain Allen [[DynamicEntry smashes down the door to the room]] and proceeds to ''beat the rapist's head against the wall'' while '''[[BadassPreacher loudly reciting his offences]]''' before chucking him out a third story window]], proving that EvenEvilHasStandards and also providing a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

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* Both the movie and comic book of ''VForVendetta'' have this happening to Evey. She's saved by the title character.
* Happens in the first ''{{Film/Spider-Man}}'' movie. A gang attempts to gang-bang Mary Jane, then Spider-Man shows up and kicks their asses, earning Spider-Man the iconic upside down kiss.
* The Comic/{{Supergirl}} movie has the title heroine beat up two truckers who try to rape her (of course given that she's [[SuperStrength super]] [[CuteBruiser strong]] it doesn't go very well for them). Amusingly, one is Matt Frewer in a pre-''{{Max Headroom}}'' role.
* ''BackToTheFuture'' has an interesting example, in that it follows a [[InvokedTrope staged instance]] of DateRapeAverted.
* ''Film/{{Teeth}}'': A rape is quite violently ended by the titular [[VaginaDentata teeth]]. 'Nuff said.
* Terry Tsurugi in the grindhouse flick ''The Street Fighter'' stops a guy trying to rape Sarai Hammet, the woman he's been hired to protect by a DragonLady who has since turned against him. And he does it by ''[[GroinAttack tearing the guy's balls right off]]''. Yeah, it's that kind of movie.
* A subversion of sorts occurs in ''Revenge of the Ninja''; a woman is about to be attacked/raped, the titular ninja turns up, eliminates the beefy assailant in about three seconds, then ''hypnotizes'' the would-be victim and sends her off on an errand.
* ''QuantumOfSolace'': [[spoiler: General Medrano's going to do this to some poor hotel waitress before [[ActionGirl Camille]] enters the room and proceeds to kick his ass.]]
** Considering that [[spoiler: in the past the General had also succeeded in raping Camille's sister and mother]], it's poetic justice.
* In ''FridayThe13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan'' a pair of street thugs drug and try to rape FinalGirl Rennie, whose only saved when Jason (whose chased Rennie all the way from Crystal Lake) shows up kills the two thugs, [[RuleOfCool impaling one with a syringe]] and smashing the head of the other off a hot steam pipe. Similarly, Gibb of ''Freddy vs. Jason'' presumably ingests some date rape drugs at a rave and falls unconscious, with a glow stick covered sleaze happening upon her a few minutes later. As the guy tries to rape Gibb who should come along but Jason, who impales the two of them with a broken tractor harrow. Also near the end, when [[spoiler:Lori, trapped in her nightmare by Freddy, while wearing a nightgown, is about to raped by said madman before waking up.]]
* In one scene in ''RoboCop'', the titular cyborg interrupts an attempted rape. The attacker then tries to use his victim as a human shield, not knowing [[GroinAttack just how accurate]] Murphy's gun-targeting systems now are.
* An attempted rape in a nightclub parking lot and what happens to the rapist afterwards starts the crazy roadtrip in ''ThelmaAndLouise.''

** Rhett also tries to rape... Wait, [[RapeisLove no he doesn't]].
* ''[[TwentyEightDaysLater 28 Days Later]]'': Jim's [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge bloody rampage]] ends with him rescuing his love interest, Selena, from the soldiers who planned to rape her. Arguably leads to an atypical {{Rescue Romance}}, with {{Action Girl}} Selena falling for Jim - admittedly this had already been set in motion earlier in the movie.
** He was moving so fast and violently, she thought he was infected, and was ready to kill him until he came to a full stop before her. When asked if she would have killed him, she says "In a heartbeat".
* ''Hud'' has the title character nearly raping housekeeper Alma while drunk. His nephew Lonnie stops him.
* When the Bride in KillBill wakes up from her coma, she immediately plays pretends to still be asleep when a nurse and a john come in the room. She discovers that the nurse has been pimping out her comatose body as well as taking liberties with it himself- and that her reproductive plumbing has been damaged so that there's no worry about it being discovered. Unluckily for them, now that the Bride's conscious, even paralyzed from the waist down she promptly brutalizes the john and waits next to the door to do the same to the nurse.
* [[spoiler: Freddy]] keeps getting up close and personal with [[spoiler: Nancy]] throughout the {{Remake}} of ANightmareOnElmStreet, but it comes to a peak in the climax, where [[spoiler: he traps her on a bed and starts feeling her up.]] Crisis averted when [[spoiler: Nancy]]'s friend finally wakes her and they kick the spit out of him.
* There was an attempted rape scene in, of all movies, ''Beethoven's 2nd''. Yes, a PG-rated family movie. Made even worse by the fact that both characters (the rapist and the victim) were underage. The victim is saved in the nick of time by Beethoven. This scene was heavily criticized by many critics as seeming out of place in an otherwise innocuous comedy.
* In ''BookofEli'' a character is about to be raped when the would-be rapist recieves an arrow to the... well let's just call it a case of poetic justice.
* In ''{{Slugs}}'', Pam manages to fight off the would-be rapist and run away, but ends up slugfood.
* In ''{{Alien}}3'', a group of prisoners attempt to rape Ripley, but she struggles and Dillon shows up with a crowbar.

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* Both types of foiling happen in ''ASongOfIceAndFire'': Sansa is rescued from rape twice, once from an angry mob and once from [[{{Casanova}} a creep with busy hands]]. Cue BodyguardCrush: the first rescue is performed by the Hound, and during the second, her first thought of who's come to rescue her is immediately, and illogically, that it's the Hound once more. In the second variety, ActionGirl Brienne bites the ear off a man who tries to rape her, which proves to be a sufficient turnoff. Of course, then he throws her in a pit to fight a bear, but what can you do?
* Happens in every single one of ''TheSwordOfTruth'' books. Some women actually fight off their attackers. Others are saved by men. And a whole mess of 'em [[RapeAsDrama aren't so lucky]].
** Subverted in the first book when Richard shows up to rescue Kahlan, but later figures out that due to her magic powers she wasn't actually in any danger.
* Happens to HonorHarrington. She just happens to have lived on a high gravity planet, and studied martial arts for years. Her attacker is shown in the books to be TooDumbToLive for attacking her (as well as for the rest of his actions during his life).
** Possibly Honor's earliest CrowningMomentOfAwesome, except she didn't turn him in.

* In ''{{Twilight}}'' two men herd Bella towards their two friends in order to do this. Luckily Edward arrives just in time.
** In ''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 arrest before that point.
* In ''{{The Bourne Identity}}'', the novel, not the movie, Marie is almost raped and murdered by one of Carlos' Mooks before Jason decides to save her.
* In ''CloudOfSparrows'', Emily is almost gang-raped by her three adoptive brothers; they are only stopped when their mother walks in.
* In SandyMitchell's {{Warhammer 40000}} 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 LloydAlexander's ''The High King'', the final volume of the PrydainChronicles, 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 GrahamMcNeill's {{Warhammer 40000}} HorusHeresy novel ''Fulgrim'', Serena turns on the WaterWorks and claims AttemptedRape [[spoiler: to get Lucius to help cover up her murder]].
* In the BackStory of WilliamShakespeare's ''TheTempest'', Caliban tried to rape Miranda.
* In EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''[[JohnCarterOfMars A Princess Of Mars]]'', Tal Hajus declares that he will rape Dejah Thoris. John Carter intervenes. With Tal Hajus dead, they try to escape.

** In ''The Chessman of Mars'', Tara is to be put of as the stakes in GladiatorGames. A noble comes to see what she is like before fighting, and she stabs him. She is still put up as the stakes -- and she and another woman are to be the prizes of the winning side, not just one of them. [[spoiler:Fortunately, the hero manages to get in the game, and fill his own side with men who will support him.]]
* In WenSpencer's ''Endless Blue'', [[spoiler:Butcher]] tries to rape [[spoiler:Eraphie Bailey]], and Mikhail shoots him to death.

* Pick a series by PiersAnthony. ''Any'' series by [[AuthorAppeal Piers Anthony]].

* In Tracy Chevalier's novel "Girl With A Pearl Earring" (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".
* In the ''BloodyJack'' series this pretty much occurs every book towards the titular Jacky.

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* Happens to Edith in an episode of ''AllInTheFamily''.
** And to Gloria in an earlier episode, although that one happens offscreen and is less about the assault itself than her reaction to it: Gloria decides not to press charges against her attacker due to the humiliation she'll face in court.
*** Of course, when Gloria finds out that Edith isn't planning to press charges either, she is duly outraged, to the point of bringing her mother to tears by screaming that she's ashamed of her and declaring, "[[IHaveNoSon You're not my mother anymore!]]." This is less [[{{hypocrite}} hypocrisy]] on Gloria's part than overlooked continuity on the part of the writers; still, the failure to CallBack the earlier episode was a missed dramatic opportunity.

* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Claire almost gets raped by the JerkJock of her school, but he ends up killing her before he does anything. ([[GoodThingYouCanHeal She got better]].)
** She gets revenge by ramming his car into a brick wall. While he's in it. [[GoodThingYouCanHeal She gets better]]. He doesn't. And then her dad has the rapist's memory wiped. All of it.
** Claire was almost raped again in season 4, this time by [[spoiler:Sylar]] as part of an intended DeusSexMachina.
*** It's debatable whether or not he actually wanted to ''rape'' her--he had to touch her to use Lydia's ability, so he kissed her. Creepy as hell, but he didn't seem to be ready to go further than that. [[spoiler:The fact that he got [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome stabbed in the eye with a pencil]] deterred him either way, though.]]
* In ''BattlestarGalactica'', Cally bites off part of an attempted rapist's ear.
** Helo and Tyrol arrive just in time to save Sharon from her would-be rapist. The extended version on DVD shows them interrupting the rape instead.
* Spike attempts to rape Buffy in ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', requiring Buffy to fight him off.
** A strong example of MoodWhiplash, {{Chickification}} ''and'' CharacterDerailment, since up to that point their [[SlapSlapKiss foreplay]] consisted of [[LoveAtFirstPunch beating the crap out of each other]] with equal strength and fighting skill, usually ''initiated'' by Buffy.
*** With their relationship the way it was, an eventual misunderstanding seemed inevitable. But half the fanbase treats the incident as AttemptedRape (he was using force, he hurt her, and he had to be fought off) and the other half as NearRapeExperience (rape was never his intent and he backed off when he realised the misunderstanding). The two sides... don't get along well.
** Xander tried to rape her in "The Pack" (while possessed by a hyena), though nobody was surprised that Buffy fought him off.
*** And Xander was almost raped by Faith.
**** Raped nothing. She tried to seduce him and then strangle him after realizing that she couldn't convince him to stay quiet about her killing a man.
***** It could be viewed as attempted raped (he firmly told her a few times that he wasn't interested in sex) and attempted murder.
** And there was Katrina almost being raped by Warren [[AppliedPhlebotinum under the effects of a device that suppressed her will]]. She was less than happy about it when it wore off just in time. Her calling them out on it and the events that followed cemented Warren's slide into CompleteMonster territory and started Jonathan down the road toward his HeelFaceTurn.
** A swim coach offered Buffy to be pack raped by his team of monster fish. When she escapes and he is trapped with them instead...

* In ''{{Supernatural}}'' episode ''Houses Of The Holy'', Dean violently prevents a guy from raping a woman the guy's asked out on a date. Leading into a CarChase and [[{{Gore}} Gruesome Death]]. Yay!
* Happens ''twice'' in the pilot episode of ''GossipGirl'', both times with the [[DracoInLeatherPants same character]] as the perpetrator.
** Happens much later in the series, with the DracoInLeatherPants being the rescuer.
* In the intro to the second season of ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'', it appears that Sarah is about to be raped by one of the men who stole the Turk. However, [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry that makes John angry.]] ThouShaltNotKill goes out the window.
* In ''{{Dollhouse}}'', Boyd Langton punches a fellow {{Handler}} through a plate glass window {{just in time}} to prevent a rape.

* In ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'''s episode ''Undercover'', [[spoiler: Olivia]] is almost raped by a Correction's Officer. [[spoiler:Finn]] busts in at the [[JustInTime VERY LAST SECOND]] and stops it from happening.
* In a fifth season episode of [[BeverlyHills90210 Beverly Hills, 90210]], Donna is almost raped by the Campus Rapist who has been terrorizing her college. He breaks into her apartment, waits for her in the dark, ties her up, and prepares to rape her [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty (delighting in her reveal that she is a virgin)]] [[JustInTime when her ex-boyfriend, David arrives to rescue her.]] David miraculously figures out something is wrong when Donna calls him Dave and runs in with a baseball bat, knocking out the rapist.
* In the the television version of [[Series/FridayNightLights Friday Night Lights]], Tyra is attacked by a rapist outside a restaurant where she she was to meet her tutor for a missed study date. [[ActionGirl Tyra manages to fight off the rapist herself]] when he tries to drag her into her truck to rape her by burning him with the truck's cigarette lighter and repeatedly slamming him with the truck door. Her tutor, Landry, then arrives to comfort her.
** In the second season premiere, Tyra's attacker is back and stalking her. He attempts to attack her again outside a convenience store and in an example of {{Chickification}}, this time she needs Landry to defend her. Landry then murders the rapist as he's escaping by hitting him in the head with a lead pipe. The murder and subsequent cover-up is the catalyst for [[RescueRomance Landry and Tyra to have a romantic relationship]].

* ''{{Oz}}'': Episode 4.16 "Famous Last Words" – Beecher's parole comes up and the Aryans wish to interfere with it, Said warns Vern Schillinger not to interfere but Beecher is denied his chances at parole for another year. Schillinger and Robson attempt to rape Beecher after the cancellation, but Said defends him by stabbing Schillinger and Robson and then is charged with attempted murder.
* ''{{True Blood}}'': At the very end of the episode "Release Me," [[spoiler:Sookie]] is about to raped until [[spoiler:[[BadAss Godric]]]] [[spoiler:(whom Sookie has been trying to find for the entire episode)]] [[JustInTime bursts in]] and grabs the would-be rapist off of [[spoiler:her]] by the neck. The episode concludes with [[spoiler:Sookie's [[BadAss "Godric?"]]]] and a ReactionShot, thus ending with a CliffHanger.
** Also, at the very beginning of the following episode "Timebomb," [[spoiler:Godric then kills the rapist by snapping his neck.]]

* Twice in the first season of StarTrekTheOriginalSeries, both times to Yeoman Rand. First attempt was the titular Charlie in Charlie X, foiled by Kirk. Second time was Captain Kirk's evil twin in The Enemy Within, foiled by Rand herself. Come to think of it, it's really not surprising [[BrotherChuck she wasn't back for the second season]]....
* Happens in the first episode of ''{{Carnivale}}'' - Sofie gets jumped by a couple of gas station attendants and Ben shows up and knocks one of them out with a pipe, while Sofie knocks the other out with a can while he's distracted. This leads to some uncomfortable slut-shaming from Jonesy when she gets back to the Carnivale.



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* In the InsaneClownPosse song "Under the Moon," the narrator is sent to prison after killing a guy with his father's .45 for trying to rape the unnamed love interest of the song.

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* Athenians explained the name of the Areopagus by saying the first trial there was when Poseidon prosecuted Ares for murder, over the death of his son Alirrothios. Ares was acquited on the defense that he was protecting his daughter Alkippe from being raped by Alirrothios.

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* In ''AssassinsCreed'', Altair can save women in the streets who are being harassed by gangs of armed thugs who are threatening and groping them. Though it's never [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar exactly stated what they intended to do]], the rescued citizens indicate just what they believe the thugs were planning. If you bother listening to the guards chatter, they are accusing the women of stealing from someone in front of them. Whether that's an excuse or not is not known.

* In the DatingSim ''True Love'', you must make the male lead save one of his prospect love intrests form a rapist if you want him to score either with her or with [[HotForTeacher his beautiful teacher]]
* Happens to [[RaisingSim your adoptive daughter]] in PrincessMaker 2, if she loses her duels with the bandits (be the two males [[PsychoLesbian or the single female]]) in the Adventure routes. Cube arrives in time to drive them away and take the injured girl back home, tho.
* DragonAge gives you two different ways to do this in the City Elf origin: Breaking into the castle as a male in order to save the kidnapped women or grabbing a weapon from a guard and start gutting them as a female.

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* Close call in ''BittersweetCandyBowl'' when [[spoiler:a mugger attacks Lucy. It [[http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c12/p22.html doesn't go too well for him.]]]]
* [[http://www.gpf-comics.com/archive.php?d=20051020 This]] ''GeneralProtectionFault'' flashback: Ki has a Deep Dark Secret to confess to her fianc?Nick. The secret was that she ''almost'' had sex with the local [[JerkJock Alpha Jock]], who tried to force the issue when she balked. (She was rescued by [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Fokker]], who was down the hall and heard the commotion). She felt guilty because she felt she sort of [[WallBanger "drove him to it."]]

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* In ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'' Maxie Dasai managed to fight off would-be rapist Adam Reeves in the nick of time (almost at the last possible moment), overlapping with the rescue scenario when Keith Jackson stepped in to threaten Reeves at gunpoint.
* WhateleyUniverse example: Nex, the mutant ninja assassin at [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]] beats up Fey, and when she fights back, decides to move up to rape and murder. He gets stalled by Stalwart, who's an annoying inventor who has been following Fey around, and he rips Stalwart apart. Fey then has time to heal herself and use her magic to kick ninja ass. Stalwart gets a RescueRomance out of the deal.
* Laburnum of the {{PPC}} managed to save herself from rape when a mission in a DarkerAndEdgier {{Redwall}} fic went wrong by [[GlamourFailure changing back to her human form]]. Sadly all this did was make the vermin decide to eat her instead, but she did get rescued in time.
* This is played for laughs in [[AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses Ask That Guy Violates Ma-Ti]], where Ma-ti knocks Ask That Guy unconscious. [[spoiler:He proceeds to rape Ask That Guy, because apparently the viewers are there to watch ''someone'' get raped.]]

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* BettyBoop was a victim of this in the cartoon short ''Boop-Oop-A-Doop''. In this cartoon, Betty is a circus performer who is lusted after by the Ringmaster. At night, the Ringmaster accosts her in her tent and threatens to rape her until Koko the Clown comes in to rescue her. A daring plot for a cartoon made in 1932, a supposedly "purer" time.
** How daring was it, really? Lots of cartoons from the period feature a villain capturing a DistressedDamsel and clearly trying to force some kind of sexual behavior on her, even if it's not explicitly rape.
* The early [[LooneyTunes Looney Tune]] ''[[BoskoTheTalkInkKid Bosko]]'s Knight-Mare'' has Honey abducted by the villainous Black Knight. He carries her to his castle and actually gets her down onto the bed before our hero intervenes. (It's even more amazing when you realize that our hero and his girl are African-American and the Black Knight is... er, White.)

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* In CageOfEden, it seems that if you're a girl, this trope follows you around like a lost puppy. Kusuru-sensei, Oomori and Rion were almost raped, and the rest of the girls...well, the same couldn't be said for them, notably Oomori's senpai, who was raped TO DEATH.

* In L. Jagi Lamplight's ''Prospero Lost'', Miranda is passionate about rapists ever since the time, in the BackStory (of this and ''TheTempest'') when Caliban had tried to rape her.

** And then he tries it ''again'' in "Heaven's Feel" with [[spoiler: Sakura, and he's done it before to her.]] What happens? [[spoiler: Sakura blows his brain out with magic.]]

* Yuu Watase seems to be particularly fond of this trope, especially with teenage heroines -- it also happens at least twice in ''Alice 19th''.

* This is played for laughs in [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Ask That Guy Violates Ma-Ti]], where Ma-ti knocks Ask That Guy unconscious. [[spoiler:He proceeds to rape Ask That Guy, because apparently the viewers are there to watch ''someone'' get raped.]]

* This trope tends to end badly in {{Digital Devil Story}}. The first time, Loki's trying to use his Naughty 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 Aaron Dembski-Bowden's {{Warhammer 40000}} 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, 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 GrahamMcNeill's {{Warhammer 40000}} HorusHeresy novel ''Fulgrim'', Serena turns on the waterworks and claims AttemptedRape [[spoiler: to get Lucius to help cover up her murder]].

* In {{Yu-Gi-Oh}}, a creepy midget psychic knocks out Anzu with chloroform and tries to rape her, but Yugi (Awesome form, not the midget) challenges him to a shadow game that ends up in HIM being knocked out as well.. And Anzu STLL doesn't know who that voice is coming from.....

* [[spoiler: Freddy keeps getting up close and personal with Nancy,]] throughout the {{Remake}} of ANightmareOnElmStreet, but it comes to a peak in the climax, where [[spoiler: he traps her on a bed and starts feeling her up. Crisis averted when Nancy's friend finally wakes her,]] and they kick the spit out of him.

* [[spoiler: Freddy keeps getting up close and personal with Nancy, throughout the {{Remake}} of ANightmareOnElmStreet, but it comes to a peak in the climax, where he traps her on a bed and starts feeling her up. Crisis averted when Nancy's friend finally wakes her,]] and they kick the spit out of him.

* In ''{{Slugs}}'', Pam manages to fight off the woulb-be rapist and run away, but ends up slugfood.

* In {{Yu-Gi-Oh}}, a creepy midget psychic knocks out Anzu with chlorophyl and tries to rape her, but Yugi (Awesome form, not the midget) challenges him to a shadow game that ends up in HIM being knocked out as well.. And Anzu STLL doesn't know who that voice is coming from.....

** A swim coach offered Buffy to be pack raped y his team of monster fish. When she escapes and he is trapped with them instead...

It is not unknown for the would-be rapist to [[EvilCannotComprehendGood offer a rescuer a chance to join in]] (and then be shocked when it makes him angrier).

* ''PeachGirl'': Momo fights off Kairi's older brother Ryo when he makes advances on her. Sae gets a taste of her own medicine in the form of an obese rapist whom Momo saves her from before he can rape her. Also, Momo rescues Sae again when she is being forced to participate in a porno film.
* In ''{{Berserk}}'', Casca has people try to rape her twice, once in her backstory and the other roughly halfway through the anime. The first attempt is stopped by Griffith, who then has Casca kill the would-be rapist herself. The second attempt is fought off by Casca herself, who kills her attackers. [[spoiler:But when the Eclipse goes down, the very first thing that Griffith does upon becoming the demon god Femto is to rape Casca right in front of Guts. [[GoMadFromTheRevelation She doesn't]] [[{{Chickification}} come out of it]] [[CuteMute very well]]]].
** Also, Princess Charlotte has to fight off her own half-maddened father's attempt to rape her after her night with Griffith leads to him getting arrested and thrown in the dungeons to be put to the [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]]. This alienates her from her father to the point of disowning him and refusing to see him when he's on his deathbed, his health having seriously deteriorated because of the guilt of what he had done.
** And then of course, there's that maddened, anthropomorphic horse that tries to rape Farnese.
* Light's second kill in ''DeathNote'' was a member of a biker gang who was trying to rape a woman. Light uses the titular ArtifactOfDoom to send him right into the path of an oncoming semi. This kill proves to Light that the Death Note's powers are real and ultimately leads to his decision to become Kira.
** But that was only in the anime - in the manga, the scooter gang harassed the girl, and Light only chose the victim because he gave away his name. (In fairness, his attitude towards the note at that point was "Am I supposed to believe this crap?" He wasn't depraved enough to kill someone just for being a pain...''[[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope yet.]]'')
** Mikami Teru kills a man who is harassing a woman on a subway, as a crucial part of Light's plan.
* ''FullMetalPanic'' has one in Fumoffu, where Chidori tries to stop some guys from assaulting another girl, and in turn becomes the center of their attention. Fortunately, Sousuke was around to save the day.
* Vega, in full-on psycho mode, breaks into Chun-Li's apartment in the ''StreetFighter'' movie (the good one) and intends to rape her before killing her. She proves her ActionGirl credentials all over his face in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome that also proves she is quite the PluckyGirl. Eventually, Guile arrives to Save The Girl after the whole thing is over.
* Implied to have happened in ''MacrossPlus''.
* ''FateStayNight'', "Unlimited Blade Works" route, [[spoiler:Shinji tries to rape Rin. Lancer slices off his arm. This is part of the reason that it's Lancer's CrowningMomentOfAwesome.]]
** And then he tries it ''again'' in "Heaven's Feel" with [[spoiler: Sakura, and he's done it before to her.]] What happens? [[spoiler: Sakura blows his brain out with magic.]]
** In {{Tsukihime}}, Shiki [[spoiler: attempts to rape Arcueid]] due to a brief bout of insanity, brought on in part by the combination of an unexpected surge of [[spoiler: his natural monster-slaying instincts]] and the attraction and growing affection for her that he's been trying to avoid up to that point. Though, unlike Shinji, he is the protagonist so you do have the option to succeed. However, going through with it ''will'' get Shiki killed by her later [[spoiler: due to her own brief bout of vampiric insanity]].
** In ''KaraNoKyoukai'', the antagonist of the third chapter/movie is [[spoiler:a victim of attempted rape, plus some other rapes in the past, who systematically slaughters anybody guilty of sexual violence who she comes across. She]] is pretty much the only antagonist in the series whom the main characters do not hold to blame (although they still need to stop [[spoiler:her]] killing other people, obviously). The other attempted rapist in the series is wtfpwned by Shiki and becomes the only {{Muggle}} she (or at least her current personality) ever kills. Noticing a pattern in the {{Nasuverse}} yet? [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped Remember kids, rape is bad]].
* In ''{{Gantz}}'', Kei Kishimoto is almost raped soon after she's introduced. As in, she materializes naked and unconscious in a sealed apartment, and a violent thug, already present, carts her off to the bathroom for "privacy" inside a minute. However, Kato rescues her, and so starts their RescueRomance.
* A backstory chapter in ''Challengers'' reveals that Souichi's homophobia was caused by almost being raped by one of his male professors. Morinaga came to his rescue, which might have set up a RescueRomance for the two... if not for Morinaga being a gay guy and Souichi being violently anti-gay after that incident.
* The Watermelon Island chapters of ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]'', which provide Kuno with a temporary powerup that puts him well above Ranma's league (and also conveniently give him amnesia that [[LaserGuidedAmnesia preserves his kendo skills, but does away with his pesky "nobility" and "chivalry"]]) culminate in him terrorizing a [[PrimalFear thoroughly freaked-out]] girl-Ranma, making the none-too-subtle threat that he's about to have his way with her and it's impossible for her to defeat him. Since, for once, she really ''can't'' beat him up, she outsmarts him so he smacks himself with his wooden sword, which helps him regain his memory.
** The anime also included a Rescuer version of this trope. One episode has Ranma suffering LossOfIdentity after getting smashed on the head in the koi pond, replacing his normal personality with that of a timid, stereotypically nice girl. Towards the episode's end, Happosai attempts to take advantage of Ranma's mangled mentality- and when his attempt to just grope her is foiled, he starts flailing his arms and legs around and crying like a little baby, whereupon "New Ranma" is compelled to offer to let him have his way with her if that will make him feel better. Akane immediateley intervenes and sends Happosai flying out through the window, horrified by this turn of events.
* This is the act that effectively [[MoralEventHorizon clinches]] Aoshima as a villain in his first appearance in ''AhMyGoddess''. Fortunately, even though Belldandy is caught off guard for a variety of reasons, she manages to stop him with her abilities as a goddess -- namely, a liberal dose of lightning. The last episode of the season has a similar scene with an aged-up Skuld as the victim, with older sister Urd stepping in to fry him again.
* Many moments in the {{hentai}} series ''MahouShoujoAi'' (aka ''Sexy Magical Girl''). Often times, the victim is in the middle of it when ActionGirl Ai steps in.
* Happens twice in one episode of ''GlassFleet'', almost simultaneously: pretty young pilot Eimer gets tossed into a cell full of big scary prisoners, but [[ActionGirl manages to fend them off]] long enough for the hero to join her; meanwhile, the SweetPollyOliver gets drugged by the villain for nefarious purposes... but he apparently [[DroppedABridgetOnHim backs off in disgust upon realizing she's not a man]].
** It's possible that he still raped her even after he discovered she was a woman, as she does wake up completely naked. At the very least, she makes it clear from her ShowerOfAngst and some later dialogue with the hero that she ''believes'' she was raped.
* Hinako Aikawa, the female lead of the manga ''BitterVirgin'', experiences an AttemptedRape midway through the series. She is rescued by [[BerserkerTears male lead Daisuke]].
* Happens to Sara Ringwalt in ''NowAndThenHereAndThere,'' when she is used as part of a breeding program. After being successfully raped at least once, she fights off a later attempt and escapes her imprisonment.
* While out on the town during her semester break in ''{{Mai-Otome}}'', Arika almost falls victim to an attack by a group of back-alley thugs. Luckily for her, Sergey shows up just in time to chase them away.
* In ''MahouSenseiNegima'', just as Tsukuyomi ([[FoeYay her rival/enemy]]) stripped her down to her undergarments with a [[{{Obake}} Demon]] [[{{Onmyodo}} Charm]], and pinned her down with her [[{{Sarashi}} chest wrappings]] [[ClothingDamage sliced off]] by the [[StalkerWithACrush Stalker's]] sword, Setsuna barely managed to summon a floating Tanto to send at the PsychoLesbian's back, managing to nick her scarf off. Before the battle could go on, Tsukuyomi was [[{{Telepathy}} telepathically]] called away by her superior Fate as he was retreating. Of all things, Setsuna was most humiliated by the fact that she was defeated.
* In ''Dramacon'', the protagonist Christie is nearly raped by her drunk boyfriend Derek---apparently he feels she isn't giving him enough attention due to all the time she's been spending with her crush Matt(who incidentally goes back to try and pulverize Derek after Christie tells him what happened.)
* This happens to Miaka in ''FushigiYuugi'' at least three times--thankfully Tamahome keeps saving her.
* Yuu Watase seems to be particularly fond of this trope, especially with teenage heroines -- it also happens at least twice in ''Alice 19th''.
* In ''ShoujoSect'', Shinobu gets sexually harassed by one of her many female admirers. The attempt gets interrupted by the interference of Shinobu's childhood friend and love interest Momoko, who promptly [[spoiler:knocks down the assailant with a fire extinguisher]].
* In ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427531/ Mezzo Forte]]'', the BigBad captures the ActionGirl and leaves her with his HiredGuns who proceed to graphically rape her. It is an example of AttemptedRape because the girl they rape is NOT ActionGirl, but a [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots look-alike robot]].
* In {{Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni}} [[spoiler: those three boys who [[BreakTheCutie Rena]] beat with a [[BatterUp bat]], had attempted to rape her. That also may have been one of the things that tempted her to [[InterruptedSuicide suicide]].]]
* Played straight in AngelDensetsu, soon after Ryoko is introduced (Kitano saves her). Doubly lampshaded too, when some random thugs wants to check out ''[[MuggingTheMonster Ikuno's]]'' [[PantyShot panties]].
* In chapter 9 of ''MiraiNikki'', [[spoiler:Tsubaki threatens to have her followers rape Yuno unless Yukiteru comes out of hiding and confronts her.]]
* In TheFiveStarStories [[HeroicSociopath Schaft]] tries to rape Lachesis during the enormous snafu known generally as the Emperor's Rescue Mission. He bites [[LadyOfWar much more than he could swallow]], though. But the trope gets then subverted, because not only he manages to [[KarmaHoudini escape consequences]], but he gets so much impressed that he declares himself [[DefeatMeansFriendship Lachesis' eternal knight]].
* In ''HotGimmick'', Ryoki saves Hatsumi from several guys who were attempting to rape her by stabbing one of the would-be rapists in the face with a ''ballpoint pen''.
** Ryoki himself also tries to rape and/or assault Hatsumi several times, but is always thwarted by a third person walking in on them.
* In Kaze Hikaru, Okita saves Sei from being raped [[spoiler: even though they don't even know she is a girl.]]
* In the Thriller Back arc of ''OnePiece'', [[{{Invisibility}} Absalom]]'s attack on Nami ''in her shower'' has distinct overtones of this.
* ''PerfectBlue'': Near the end of the film the stalker Me-Mania attempts to rape and kill Mima but she knocks him out by slamming a hammer into the side of his head.
* ''StrawberryPanic'': Hikari by Kaname, twice. Yaya also comes on to Hikari too strong not long after she was almost raped by Kaname and she shoves Yaya to the ground.
* Occurs several times in ''WolfGuyWolfenCrest'' to Ms. Aoshika.
** Kuroda takes a break from blowing up stuff (and students) to try to rape a meganekko character with his ''gun''. Fortunately, Inugami interrupts him.
* ''ElfenLied'': In one chapter The Unknown Man unexpectedly barged into Kouta's house and would have raped and murdered Mayu (just because he could) had it not been for some last minute intervention from Bandou.
** In episode 5 Professor Kakuzawa drugs and attempts to rape Lucy but she simply beheads him before he can.
* In ''Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru'', there's Pedro, the Brazilian martial artist and transfer student. It turns out that he was the masked rapist that went around buttraping a bunch of male martial arts students, and he ends up setting his sights on Minoru, the pretty boy protagonist. Of course, his depraved, rapist tendencies are played as comedy, and eventually the main characters forgive him and have him join their karate club. And even make Minoru room with him. Which results in him trying several times to rape Minoru (including an instance where Pedro went pantless with his junk out, in the middle of the night, to try to buttrape Minoru while Minoru was unconscious and drunk). Fortunately, Minoru was getting sick in the bathroom so Pedro winded up climbing into the bed of one of the karate instructors who quickly woke up and Pedro took that chance to run away.
* The monster woman Mine tries to rape CuteShotaroBoy Nai in the first chapter of ''{{Karneval}}'' but Gareki ends up saving Nai.
* In the yaoi manga ''Under Grand Hotel'' inmates like Sen are frequently raped. However, on one occasion Sen defended himself against a rapist by poking the guy's eye out with a cross necklace. Another time he was nearly raped before a bunch of guards found out and put a stop to it.
* ''{{Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun}}'': Reika's [[{{Yandere}} alternate personality]] tries to rape Shungo in the 11th episode, but is forced to stop when told by her subordinate that there are intruders.
* ''SpeedGrapher'': Dr. Nishiya, on Kagura.
* ''QueensBlade'': The first frightening scene in the franchise actually played straight, when Nowa-chan is kidnapped by a gang of rapists and thrown onto a stable floor... but thankfully rescued by Echidna at the last second.
* Osanai tries to rape ''{{Paprika}}'' but the Chairman interrupts and tries to kill her.
* In {{Yu-Gi-Oh}}, A creepy midget psychic knocks out Anzu with chlorophyl and tries to rape her, but Yugi (Awesome form, not the midget) challenges him to a shadow game that ends up in HIM being knocked out as well.. And Anzu STLL doesn't know who that voice is coming from.....

* One of the many [[JumpTheShark shark jumps]] of ''{{For Better or for Worse}}'': when Elizabeth is almost raped by her co-worker, Howard Bunt. And Anthony saves her. And it rekindles their relationship... while Anthony is still married to someone else.
** Rekindles it FIFTEEN MINUTES AFTER THE ASSAULT, where instead of taking her to report the crime, he drives her to a park to whine about his miserable marriage and beg her to wait for him. Not only a JumpTheShark, but a WhatTheHellHero (as the artist at least thought of Anthony as a hero, no matter what many, many fans thought he was after that.)
* In ''{{Watchmen}}'', The Comedian attempts to rape Silk Spectre after a team meeting, only to get the crap beaten out of him by Hooded Justice.
** Rorschach also happens upon a mugging/rape/both in progress.

* In ''ThePunisher MAX'' series, Castle comes across a woman about to be raped by a group of thugs in an alley. [[BerserkButton He doesn't like that.]]
* ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'s'' Storm was nearly raped as a child by a man from whom she accepted a ride, but killed him with a knife.
* In ''{{Johnny the Homicidal Maniac}}'', it is strongly implied that Squee would have been molested by a man who led him into an alley, before Johnny showed up and [[AxCrazy smashes the pedophiles face in with a pipe, cuts his hand off and rips his brain out.]] Johnny [[EvenEvilHasStandards does not like child molesters.]]
** Johnny doesn't like rapists in general. When crazy copycat fanboy Jimmy arrives, Johnny listens to his list of crimes with disinterest, until Jimmy gets to the point where he raped a girl, whereupon Johnny kills him in an especially gruesome manner. It's implied that a large part of his distaste for rape is the fact that it requires actual physical contact, which he...[[{{Understatement}} doesn't like]]. He also kills people because he thinks they deserve it for being assholes--which includes rapists.
* This is the reason why [[XWingSeries Soontir Fel]] went to the Imperial Naval Academy and became an AcePilot. Back when he was a FarmBoy, he very violently [[http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/4452/blz05.jpg stopped]] a management's kid from raping someone, and was subsequently blackmailed into going to the academy so that he would not be there to testify at the trial. Much later, the management's kid kidnapped Fel's nephew and was shot by Fel's brother.
* Psylocke of ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' once faced an attempted rape by an alternate universe version of [[BrotherSisterIncest her brother]], [[{{ComicBook/Excalibur}} Captain Britain]]. Fortunately for her, she discovered her previously minimal psychic powers were considerably more formidable than she believed at that point.
* Occurs near the end of JossWhedon's run on ''[[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} Astonishing X-Men]]'' to Agent Brand. [[spoiler: Some of the Breakworld soldiers are threatening to gang-rape her, whereupon she kills them with her heretofore only barely hinted-at alien superpowers.]]
* In ''RogueTrooper'', when Friday is on the way to Highsight, he comes across a combat mechanic from the opposing side who is about to be gangraped by three grunts. Gaia manages to fend one off, but then Friday shoots the other two.
* In ''Return To Wonderland'', Calie is fed drugged tea by The Mad Hatter. Just as the sick bastard is about to rape her, she revives and smashes his head with a vase. Then, she breaks off a table leg and proceeds to kick the everloving crap out of him.

* In ''[[FanFic/TiberiumWars Tiberium Wars]]'', a Nod soldier attempts to rape [[spoiler: Sandra Telfair]]. However, he is foiled when [[spoiler: Black Hand Captain Allen [[DynamicEntry smashes down the door to the room]] and proceeds to ''beat the rapist's head against the wall'' while '''[[BadassPreacher loudly reciting his offences]]''' before chucking him out a third story window]], proving that EvenEvilHasStandards and also providing a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

** By the same author, ''[[FanFic/{{Forward}} Forward]]'' involves this happening twice with River. The first time, she is nearly raped by [[spoiler: Niska's men]], but is saved by [[spoiler: working together with a [[UnstoppableRage pissed off]] Jayne.]] The second time involves [[spoiler: Reavers and paralyzing darts]], which is averted by [[spoiler: a sword-and-Bible-quote-slinging Book.]]

* Both the movie and comic book of ''VForVendetta'' have this happening to Evey. She's saved by the title character.
* Happens in the first ''{{Film/Spider-Man}}'' movie. A gang attempts to gang-bang Mary Jane, then Spider-Man shows up and kicks their asses, earning Spider-Man the iconic upside down kiss.
* The Comic/{{Supergirl}} movie has the title heroine beat up two truckers who try to rape her (of course given that she's [[SuperStrength super]] [[CuteBruiser strong]] it doesn't go very well for them). Amusingly, one is Matt Frewer in a pre-''{{Max Headroom}}'' role.
* ''BackToTheFuture'' has an interesting example, in that it follows a [[InvokedTrope staged instance]] of DateRapeAverted.
* ''Film/{{Teeth}}'': A rape is quite violently ended by the titular [[VaginaDentata teeth]]. 'Nuff said.
* Terry Tsurugi in the grindhouse flick ''The Street Fighter'' stops a guy trying to rape Sarai Hammet, the woman he's been hired to protect by a DragonLady who has since turned against him. And he does it by ''[[GroinAttack tearing the guy's balls right off]]''. Yeah, it's that kind of movie.
* A subversion of sorts occurs in ''Revenge of the Ninja''; a woman is about to be attacked/raped, the titular ninja turns up, eliminates the beefy assailant in about three seconds, then ''hypnotizes'' the would-be victim and sends her off on an errand.
* ''QuantumOfSolace'': [[spoiler: General Medrano's going to do this to some poor hotel waitress before [[ActionGirl Camille]] enters the room and proceeds to kick his ass.]]
** Considering that [[spoiler: in the past the General had also succeeded in raping Camille's sister and mother]], it's poetic justice.
* In ''FridayThe13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan'' a pair of street thugs drug and try to rape FinalGirl Rennie, whose only saved when Jason (whose chased Rennie all the way from Crystal Lake) shows up kills the two thugs, [[RuleOfCool impaling one with a syringe]] and smashing the head of the other off a hot steam pipe. Similarly, Gibb of ''Freddy vs. Jason'' presumably ingests some date rape drugs at a rave and falls unconscious, with a glow stick covered sleaze happening upon her a few minutes later. As the guy tries to rape Gibb who should come along but Jason, who impales the two of them with a broken tractor harrow. Also near the end, when [[spoiler:Lori, trapped in her nightmare by Freddy, while wearing a nightgown, is about to raped by said madman before waking up.]]
* In one scene in ''RoboCop'', the titular cyborg interrupts an attempted rape. The attacker then tries to use his victim as a human shield, not knowing [[GroinAttack just how accurate]] Murphy's gun-targeting systems now are.
* An attempted rape in a nightclub parking lot and what happens to the rapist afterwards starts the crazy roadtrip in ''ThelmaAndLouise.''
* In ''GoneWithTheWind'', in a scene toned down considerably from its counterpart in the book, Scarlett is attacked by two hobos while riding through a poor part of town.
** Rhett also tries to rape... Wait, [[RapeisLove no he doesn't]].
* ''[[TwentyEightDaysLater 28 Days Later]]'': Jim's [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge bloody rampage]] ends with him rescuing his love interest, Selena, from the soldiers who planned to rape her. Arguably leads to an atypical {{Rescue Romance}}, with {{Action Girl}} Selena falling for Jim - admittedly this had already been set in motion earlier in the movie.
** He was moving so fast and violently, she thought he was infected, and was ready to kill him until he came to a full stop before her. When asked if she would have killed him, she says "In a heartbeat".
* ''Hud'' has the title character nearly raping housekeeper Alma while drunk. His nephew Lonnie stops him.
* When the Bride in KillBill wakes up from her coma, she immediately plays pretends to still be asleep when a nurse and a john come in the room. She discovers that the nurse has been pimping out her comatose body as well as taking liberties with it himself- and that her reproductive plumbing has been damaged so that there's no worry about it being discovered. Unluckily for them, now that the Bride's conscious, even paralyzed from the waist down she promptly brutalizes the john and waits next to the door to do the same to the nurse.
* [[spoiler: Freddy keeps getting up close and personal with Nancy, throughout the {{Remake}} of ANightmareOnElmStreet, but it comes to a peak in the climax, where he traps her on a bed and starts feeling her up. Crisis averted when Nancy's friend finally wakes her,]] and they kick the spit out of him.
* There was an attempted rape scene in, of all movies, ''Beethoven's 2nd''. Yes, a PG-rated family movie. Made even worse by the fact that both characters (the rapist and the victim) were underage. The victim is saved in the nick of time by Beethoven. This scene was heavily criticized by many critics as seeming out of place in an otherwise innocuous comedy.
* In ''BookofEli'' a character is about to be raped when the would-be rapist recieves an arrow to the... well let's just call it a case of poetic justice.
* In ''{{Slugs}}'', Pam manages to fight off the woulb-be rapist and run away, but ends up slugfood.
* In ''{{Alien}}3'', a group of prisoners attempt to rape Ripley, but she struggles and Dillon shows up with a crowbar.

* Both types of foiling happen in ''ASongOfIceAndFire'': Sansa is rescued from rape twice, once from an angry mob and once from [[{{Casanova}} a creep with busy hands]]. Cue BodyguardCrush: the first rescue is performed by the Hound, and during the second, her first thought of who's come to rescue her is immediately, and illogically, that it's the Hound once more. In the second variety, ActionGirl Brienne bites the ear off a man who tries to rape her, which proves to be a sufficient turnoff. Of course, then he throws her in a pit to fight a bear, but what can you do?
* Happens in every single one of ''TheSwordOfTruth'' books. Some women actually fight off their attackers. Others are saved by men. And a whole mess of 'em [[RapeAsDrama aren't so lucky]].
** Subverted in the first book when Richard shows up to rescue Kahlan, but later figures out that due to her magic powers she wasn't actually in any danger.
* Happens to HonorHarrington. She just happens to have lived on a high gravity planet, and studied martial arts for years. Her attacker is shown in the books to be TooDumbToLive for attacking her (as well as for the rest of his actions during his life).
** Possibly Honor's earliest CrowningMomentOfAwesome, except she didn't turn him in.
*** Only because she was afraid she wouldn't be believed. She hates herself for not turning him in, once she realizes that, in fact, she ''would'' have - she only really stops beating herself up for it after her attacker is dead.
* In ''{{Twilight}}'' two men herd Bella towards their two friends in order to do this. Luckily Edward arrives just in time.
** In ''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 arrest before that point.
* In ''{{The Bourne Identity}}'', the novel, not the movie, Marie is almost raped and murdered by one of Carlos' Mooks before Jason decides to save her.
* In ''CloudOfSparrows'', Emily is almost gang-raped by her three adoptive brothers; they are only stopped when their mother walks in.
* In SandyMitchell's {{Warhammer 40000}} 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 LloydAlexander's ''The High King'', the final volume of the PrydainChronicles, 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 GrahamMcNeill's {{Warhammer 40000}} HorusHeresy novel ''Fulgrim'', Serena turns on the waterworks and claims AttemptedRape [[spoiler: to get Lucius to help cover up her murder]].
* In the BackStory of WilliamShakespeare's ''TheTempest'', Caliban tried to rape Miranda.
* In EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''[[JohnCarterOfMars A Princess Of Mars]]'', Tal Hajus declares that he will rape Dejah Thoris. John Carter intervenes. With Tal Hajus dead, they try to escape.

** In ''The Chessman of Mars'', Tara is to be put of as the stakes in GladiatorGames. A noble comes to see what she is like before fighting, and she stabs him. She is still put up as the stakes -- and she and another woman are to be the prizes of the winning side, not just one of them. [[spoiler:Fortunately, the hero manages to get in the game, and fill his own side with men who will support him.]]
* In WenSpencer's ''Endless Blue'', [[spoiler:Butcher]] tries to rape [[spoiler:Eraphie Bailey]], and Mikhail shoots him to death.
* In ''GoneWithTheWind'', Scarlett is attacked by "a big ragged white man and a squat black negro" while riding through a bad part of town.
* Pick a series by PiersAnthony. ''Any'' series by [[AuthorAppeal Piers Anthony]].
* In the ''{{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.
* ''{{Speak}}'': Andy Evans tries to [[spoiler: rape Melinda in her broom closet at the climax but she fights him off]].
* In Tracy Chevalier's novel "Girl With A Pearl Earring" (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".
* In the ''BloodyJack'' series this pretty much occurs every book towards the titular Jacky.

* Happens to Edith in an episode of ''AllInTheFamily''.
** And to Gloria in an earlier episode, although that one happens offscreen and is less about the assault itself than her reaction to it: Gloria decides not to press charges against her attacker due to the humiliation she'll face in court.
*** Of course, when Gloria finds out that Edith isn't planning to press charges either, she is duly outraged, to the point of bringing her mother to tears by screaming that she's ashamed of her and declaring, "[[IHaveNoSon You're not my mother anymore!]]." This is less [[{{hypocrite}} hypocrisy]] on Gloria's part than overlooked continuity on the part of the writers; still, the failure to CallBack the earlier episode was a missed dramatic opportunity.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Claire almost gets raped by the JerkJock of her school, but he ends up killing her before he does anything. ([[GoodThingYouCanHeal She got better]].)
** She gets revenge by ramming his car into a brick wall. While he's in it. [[GoodThingYouCanHeal She gets better]]. He doesn't. And then her dad has the rapist's memory wiped. All of it.
** Claire was almost raped again in season 4, this time by [[spoiler:Sylar]] as part of an intended DeusSexMachina.
*** It's debatable whether or not he actually wanted to ''rape'' her--he had to touch her to use Lydia's ability, so he kissed her. Creepy as hell, but he didn't seem to be ready to go further than that. [[spoiler:The fact that he got [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome stabbed in the eye with a pencil]] deterred him either way, though.]]
* In ''BattlestarGalactica'', Cally bites off part of an attempted rapist's ear.
** Helo and Tyrol arrive just in time to save Sharon from her would-be rapist. The extended version on DVD shows them interrupting the rape instead.
* Spike attempts to rape Buffy in ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', requiring Buffy to fight him off.
** A strong example of MoodWhiplash, {{Chickification}} ''and'' CharacterDerailment, since up to that point their [[SlapSlapKiss foreplay]] consisted of [[LoveAtFirstPunch beating the crap out of each other]] with equal strength and fighting skill, usually ''initiated'' by Buffy.
*** With their relationship the way it was, an eventual misunderstanding seemed inevitable. But half the fanbase treats the incident as AttemptedRape (he was using force, he hurt her, and he had to be fought off) and the other half as NearRapeExperience (rape was never his intent and he backed off when he realised the misunderstanding). The two sides... don't get along well.
** Xander tried to rape her in "The Pack" (while possessed by a hyena), though nobody was surprised that Buffy fought him off.
*** And Xander was almost raped by Faith.
**** Raped nothing. She tried to seduce him and then strangle him after realizing that she couldn't convince him to stay quiet about her killing a man.
** And there was Katrina almost being raped by Warren [[AppliedPhlebotinum under the effects of a device that suppressed her will]]. She was less than happy about it when it wore off just in time. Her calling them out on it and the events that followed cemented Warren's slide into CompleteMonster territory and started Jonathan down the road toward his HeelFaceTurn.
** A swim coach offered Buffy to be pack raped y his team of monster fish. When she escapes and he is trapped with them instead...

* In ''{{Supernatural}}'' episode ''Houses Of The Holy'', Dean violently prevents a guy from raping a woman the guy's asked out on a date. Leading into a CarChase and [[{{Gore}} Gruesome Death]]. Yay!
* Happens ''twice'' in the pilot episode of ''GossipGirl'', both times with the [[DracoInLeatherPants same character]] as the perpetrator.
** Happens much later in the series, with the DracoInLeatherPants being the rescuer.
* In the intro to the second season of ''TheSarahConnorChronicles'', it appears that Sarah is about to be raped by one of the men who stole the Turk. However, [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry that makes John angry.]] ThouShaltNotKill goes out the window.
* In ''{{Dollhouse}}'', Boyd Langton punches a fellow {{Handler}} through a plate glass window {{just in time}} to prevent a rape.
** This is not entirely played straight, however, as [[spoiler: the aforementioned handler had already committed the crime off-screen more than once.]] It was also a set-up - Boyd was hiding nearby, waiting for the handler to try it again and get punched through a plate glass window.
* In ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'''s episode ''Undercover'', [[spoiler: Olivia]] is almost raped by a Correction's Officer. [[spoiler:Finn]] busts in at the [[JustInTime VERY LAST SECOND]] and stops it from happening.
* In a fifth season episode of [[BeverlyHills90210 Beverly Hills, 90210]], Donna is almost raped by the Campus Rapist who has been terrorizing her college. He breaks into her apartment, waits for her in the dark, ties her up, and prepares to rape her [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty (delighting in her reveal that she is a virgin)]] [[JustInTime when her ex-boyfriend, David arrives to rescue her.]] David miraculously figures out something is wrong when Donna calls him Dave and runs in with a baseball bat, knocking out the rapist.
* In the the television version of [[Series/FridayNightLights Friday Night Lights]], Tyra is attacked by a rapist outside a restaurant where she she was to meet her tutor for a missed study date. [[ActionGirl Tyra manages to fight off the rapist herself]] when he tries to drag her into her truck to rape her by burning him with the truck's cigarette lighter and repeatedly slamming him with the truck door. Her tutor, Landry, then arrives to comfort her.
** In the second season premiere, Tyra's attacker is back and stalking her. He attempts to attack her again outside a convenience store and in an example of {{Chickification}}, this time she needs Landry to defend her. Landry then murders the rapist as he's escaping by hitting him in the head with a lead pipe. The murder and subsequent cover-up is the catalyst for [[RescueRomance Landry and Tyra to have a romantic relationship]].
* In ''{{Misfits}}'', Alisha's power is the [[BlessedWithSuck ability to induce this]].
* ''{{Oz}}'': Episode 4.16 "Famous Last Words" – Beecher's parole comes up and the Aryans wish to interfere with it, Said warns Vern Schillinger not to interfere but Beecher is denied his chances at parole for another year. Schillinger and Robson attempt to rape Beecher after the cancellation, but Said defends him by stabbing Schillinger and Robson and then is charged with attempted murder.
* ''{{True Blood}}'': At the very end of the episode "Release Me," [[spoiler:Sookie]] is about to raped until [[spoiler:[[BadAss Godric]]]] [[spoiler:(whom Sookie has been trying to find for the entire episode)]] [[JustInTime bursts in]] and grabs the would-be rapist off of [[spoiler:her]] by the neck. The episode concludes with [[spoiler:Sookie's [[BadAss "Godric?"]]]] and a ReactionShot, thus ending with a CliffHanger.
** Also, at the very beginning of the following episode "Timebomb," [[spoiler:Godric then kills the rapist by snapping his neck.]]
* ''TheOC'': Towards the end of the second season after taking cocaine Trey tries to do this to Marissa but she fights him off.
* Twice in the first season of StarTrekTheOriginalSeries, both times to Yeoman Rand. First attempt was the titular Charlie in Charlie X, foiled by Kirk. Second time was Captain Kirk's evil twin in The Enemy Within, foiled by Rand herself. Come to think of it, it's really not surprising [[BrotherChuck she wasn't back for the second season]]....
* Happens in the first episode of ''{{Carnivale}}'' - Sofie gets jumped by a couple of gas station attendants and Ben shows up and knocks one of them out with a pipe, while Sofie knocks the other out with a can while he's distracted. This leads to some uncomfortable slut-shaming from Jonesy when she gets back to the Carnivale.

* In the InsaneClownPosse song "Under the Moon," the narrator is sent to prison after killing a guy with his father's .45 for trying to rape the unnamed love interest of the song.

* Athenians explained the name of the Areopagus by saying the first trial there was when Poseidon prosecuted Ares for murder, over the death of his son Alirrothios. Ares was acquited on the defense that he was protecting his daughter Alkippe from being raped by Alirrothios.

* In ''AssassinsCreed'', Altair can save women in the streets who are being harassed by gangs of armed thugs who are threatening and groping them. Though it's never [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar exactly stated what they intended to do]], the rescued citizens indicate just what they believe the thugs were planning. If you bother listening to the guards chatter, they are accusing the women of stealing from someone in front of them. Whether that's an excuse or not is not known.
* In ''[[FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR 2: Project Origin]]'', the plot indicates that [[spoiler: Alma is trying to "consume" Becket whenever she attacks him hand-to-hand, because of the psychic signal he emits.]] In reality, though, [[spoiler: Alma was trying to ''rape'' him, as shown in the final cutscene after she apparently succeeds, and is pregnant with Becket's child.]]
* In AtlachNacha, [[ShrinkingViolet Kanako]] is attacked by three delinquint students who try to rape her. [[TallDarkAndBishoujo Hatsune]] arrives at the place where they're attacking her. Hatsune also happens to be a GiantSpider in human form and is hungry...
* In the DatingSim ''True Love'', you must make the male lead save one of his prospect love intrests form a rapist if you want him to score either with her or with [[HotForTeacher his beautiful teacher]]
* Happens to [[RaisingSim your adoptive daughter]] in PrincessMaker 2, if she loses her duels with the bandits (be the two males [[PsychoLesbian or the single female]]) in the Adventure routes. Cube arrives in time to drive them away and take the injured girl back home, tho.
* DragonAge gives you two different ways to do this in the City Elf origin: Breaking into the castle as a male in order to save the kidnapped women or grabbing a weapon from a guard and start gutting them as a female.
** [[spoiler: Not so "Attempted" for your best friend]]

* Close call in ''BittersweetCandyBowl'' when [[spoiler:a mugger attacks Lucy. It [[http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c12/p22.html doesn't go too well for him.]]]]
* [[http://www.gpf-comics.com/archive.php?d=20051020 This]] ''GeneralProtectionFault'' flashback: Ki has a Deep Dark Secret to confess to her fianc?Nick. The secret was that she ''almost'' had sex with the local [[JerkJock Alpha Jock]], who tried to force the issue when she balked. (She was rescued by [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Fokker]], who was down the hall and heard the commotion). She felt guilty because she felt she sort of [[WallBanger "drove him to it."]]

* In ''SurvivalOfTheFittest'' Maxie Dasai managed to fight off would-be rapist Adam Reeves in the nick of time (almost at the last possible moment), overlapping with the rescue scenario when Keith Jackson stepped in to threaten Reeves at gunpoint.
* WhateleyUniverse example: Nex, the mutant ninja assassin at [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]] beats up Fey, and when she fights back, decides to move up to rape and murder. He gets stalled by Stalwart, who's an annoying inventor who has been following Fey around, and he rips Stalwart apart. Fey then has time to heal herself and use her magic to kick ninja ass. Stalwart gets a RescueRomance out of the deal.
* Laburnum of the {{PPC}} managed to save herself from rape when a mission in a DarkerAndEdgier {{Redwall}} fic went wrong by [[GlamourFailure changing back to her human form]]. Sadly all this did was make the vermin decide to eat her instead, but she did get rescued in time.
* This is played for laughs in [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Ask That Guy Violates Ma-Ti]], where Ma-ti knocks Ask That Guy unconscious. [[spoiler:He proceeds to rape Ask That Guy, because apparently the viewers are there to watch ''someone'' get raped.]]

* BettyBoop was a victim of this in the cartoon short ''Boop-Oop-A-Doop''. In this cartoon, Betty is a circus performer who is lusted after by the Ringmaster. At night, the Ringmaster accosts her in her tent and threatens to rape her until Koko the Clown comes in to rescue her. A daring plot for a cartoon made in 1932, a supposedly "purer" time.
** How daring was it, really? Lots of cartoons from the period feature a villain capturing a DistressedDamsel and clearly trying to force some kind of sexual behavior on her, even if it's not explicitly rape.
* The early [[LooneyTunes Looney Tune]] ''[[BoskoTheTalkInkKid Bosko]]'s Knight-Mare'' has Honey abducted by the villainous Black Knight. He carries her to his castle and actually gets her down onto the bed before our hero intervenes. (It's even more amazing when you realize that our hero and his girl are African-American and the Black Knight is... er, White.)

* Occurs near the end of JossWhedon's run on ''[[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} Astonishing X-Men]]'' to Agent Brand. [[spoiler: Some of the Breakworld soldiers are threatening to gangrape her, whereupon she kills them with her heretofore only barely hinted-at alien superpowers.]]

* In yugioh Millenium world, A creepy midget psycic knocks out Anzu with chlorophyl and tries to rape her, but it turns out that Yugi (Awesome form, not the midget) chal;lenges him to a shadow game and ends up in HIM being knocked out as wel.. And Anzzu STLL doesn't know who that voice is coming from.....

*In ''GoneWithTheWind'', Scarlett is attacked by two hobos while riding through a bad part of town.