History Main / NearRapeExperience

* In the second [[TortallUniverse Song of the Lioness]] book, Jonathan unlaces Alanna's bodice, assuming she wants to sleep with him, then has to tie it back up for her when she protests and is shaking so hard that she can't do it herself. The real [[Wallbanger]] is that instead of being remoreseful, he then tells her to "go away before I change my mind", and this is presented as [[RapeIsLove romantic]], somehow. Most of fandom puts it down to Jonathan being unusually cocky rather than actually a bad guy, but still.

* In the second [[TortallUniverse Song of the Lioness]] book, Jonathan unlaces Alanna's bodice, assuming she wants to sleep with him, then has to tie it back up for her when she protests and is shaking so hard that she can't do it herself. The real [[Wallbanger Wallbanger]] is that instead of being remoreseful, he then tells her to "go away before I change my mind", and this is presented as [[RapeIsLove romantic]], somehow. Most of fandom puts it down to Jonathan being unusually cocky rather than actually a bad guy, but still.

* The ''{{Tsukihime}}'' VisualNovel, several times. At one point, a glimpse into Arc's own mystic eyes switches Shiki into Rape Mode. If you don't immediately stop when given the option, you suffer an unrelated KarmicDeath not long after. Shiki also nearly (or actually) rapes the maids, depending on the route.

* This happens to Tsukushi Makino in the episode of BoysOverFlowers "Domyoji Tsukasa Snaps". But when Makino starts crying during thier ForcefulKiss, Domyoji stops.

* In ''AmericanBeauty'', Lester finally has the cheerleader he's fantasized about for the entire movie. She's willing, but she's an under aged virgin, and Lester stops himself short.

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** One episode had Brian nearly force himself on Lois. He spends the next scene angsting about what he almost did.

* The season 1 finale of ''{{Series/The Walking Dead}}'' has Shane nearly forcing himself on Lori when, in a drunken stupor, his conflicted feelings about his "abandonment" of Rick at the hospital and Lori's having shut him out because she believes he lied about Rick being dead surface along with slurred insistences that he loves her. Played as kind of pathetic and tragic because he's been [[SanitySlippage increasingly off-kilter mentally]] since Rick's return and the loss of his position as leader of the survivors.

* The season 1 finale of ''TheWalkingDead'' has Shane nearly forcing himself on Lori when, in a drunken stupor, his conflicted feelings about his "abandonment" of Rick at the hospital and Lori's having shut him out because she believes he lied about Rick being dead surface along with slurred insistences that he loves her. Played as kind of pathetic and tragic because he's been [[SanitySlippage increasingly off-kilter mentally]] since Rick's return and the loss of his position as leader of the survivors.

This trope also covers other My-God-I-am-nearly-a-rapist situations, such as drunk people stepping back just in time, and realising that NoMeansNo.

This trope also covers other My-God-I-am-nearly-a-rapist situations.

* The classic StudioGainax example isn't ''[[NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]]'', but ''WingsOfHonneamise (Royal Space Force)''. Especially jarring because the guy is otherwise a good guy and hero, and the girl (even if she's a {{Deconstruction}} of the MessianicArchetype) doesn't care about it by the next scene, even using PolitenessJudo on his apology attempt.

[[IThoughtItMeant Has nothing to do with]] raping [[DeathNote a certain]] WhiteHairedPrettyBoy.

* Mark does this in ''MirrorDance'' by LoisMcMasterBujold; for added {{Squick}} value, the near-rapee is a twelve-year-old girl (who, as a clone and an impending victim of having her progenitor's brain transplanted into her body, has had plastic surgery to make her look older).

** Both used straight and then subverted in ''ShardsOfHonor''. [[spoiler: Admiral Vorrutyer first orders Sgt. Bothari to rape the heroine. When Bothari refuses to do it, Vorrutyer decides to do it himself, only to have Bothari cut his throat.]]

**** It's a little more complicated than that. [[spoiler:Bothari knows he's a rapist, since that was how his daughter came about, with another woman. What he could not recall was whether he had raped the heroine, due to politically motivated LaserGuidedAmnesia.]] Then again, with LoisMcMasterBujold, what isn't?

* Svidrigailov nearly rapes Dunya in Crime and Punishment.

** Playing off Meg's {{butt monkey}} status, In another episode where the rest of the family is trapped except for Meg, Meg asks the burglars if they'll have their way with her. They refuse (with Meg promising she'd be quiet), and Meg tries to force herself on them, emotionally scarring them. At the end of the episode, Joe is telling the Griffins that the burglars are pressing charges and Meg would be going to jail, which the family ignores as Meg is dragged away screaming.

* EncyclopediaDramatica parodies this phenomenon under the title [[http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Almost_raped "Almost raped"]].
** No, EncyclopediaDramatica mocks the people using this trope as part of an inept WoundedGazelleGambit to get sympathy from strangers online. This trope is about ''actual'' rape attempts, "Almost raped" is about making them up.

See also DateRapeAverted, AttemptedRape.

[[IThoughtItMeant Does NOT have anything to do with]] raping [[DeathNote a certain]] WhiteHairedPrettyBoy.

* Also happens in ''{{Simoun}}''. In this case, the woman about to commit rape later is forgiven by the victim, and they begin their relationship anew as close friends.

* Also happens in ''{{Simoun}}''. In this case, the woman about to commit rape later is forgiven by the victim, and they begin their relationship anew as close, though entirely platonic, friends.

* Also happens in ''{{Simoun}}''. In this case, the woman about to commit the rape ''doesn't'' do anything much about it; she just angsts a lot.

* Shakespeare's comedic ''Two Gentlemen of Verona'' nearly ends in tragedy when one of the titular gents decides in a fit of frustration that he'll force his beloved (who is in love with the other gent) to love him by raping her. Gent #2 shows up and talks him down before anything happens.
* Another of Shakespeare's comedies, ''Pericles,'' has a 15-year-old girl kidnaped by pirates and sold to a brothel. Clients pay to have their way with her but she is so virtuous, they repent and become upstanding, respectful citizens. None too realistic but fitting with the play.

[[IHeardThatAs Does NOT have anything to do with]] raping [[DeathNote a certain]] WhiteHairedPrettyBoy.