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* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': In [[Recap/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019S03E05KindestCut "Kindest Cut"]], Allison seeks out her sometimes-love-interest Luther for SexForSolace. He turns her down: 1) because he now has a new love interest who he intends to be loyal to, and 2) because [[AmIJustAToyToYou feels like Allison is just using him]]. Angered by his rejection, Allison uses her CompellingVoice superpowers to make him stay and want her. He does; under the influence of the powers he starts kissing her and it looks like they're about to have sex on the pool table. Then Allison gets overwhelmed by the whole thing and tells him to stop. For a split-second it looks like he won't--like she did the spell too well and it can't be broken now. There's a very brief HourglassPlot aspect to it. But after she yells "stop!" again, his eyes clear, the spell is broken, and Allison leaves.

* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': In [[Recap/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019S03E05KindestCut "Kindest Cut"]], Allison seeks out her sometimes-love-interest Luther for SexForSolace. He turns her down: 1) because he now has a new love interest who he intends to be loyal to, and 2) because AmIJustAToyToYou. Angered by his rejection, Allison uses her CompellingVoice superpowers to make him stay and want her. He does; under the influence of the powers he starts kissing her and it looks like they're about to have sex on the pool table. Then Allison gets overwhelmed by the whole thing and tells him to stop. For a split-second it looks like he won't--like she did the spell too well and it can't be broken now. There's a very brief HourglassPlot aspect to it. But after she yells "stop!" again, his eyes clear, the spell is broken, and Allison leaves.

* Happens to Ophelia in the fifth episode of ''Series/SweetVicious'' when she uses herself as [[TheBait bait]] to try and catch [[MonsterOfTheWeek Landon]]. Even though she escaped from it unscathed, it still left her badly traumatized.
* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': Allison seeks out her sometimes-love-interest Luther for SexForSolace. He turns her down: One, because he has a new love interest now and he intends to be loyal to her. Two, because he thinks she's just using him, and he's a second choice to her. In a fit of rage and pain, Allison uses her powers to make him stay and want her. But at the very last moment, she reneges.

* Svidrigailov nearly rapes Dunya in ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment''.

* This happens at least once in ''The Last of the T'En'', where the main male character is once possessed by something evil and nearly rapes the heroine, but realizes what he's doing and stops 'himself' from doing it, and also in a rather dodgy scene in her bedroom. Both times he says, "I'm not really like that," or some variation of the theme...

* ''The Storm and the Splendor'' has such a scene, although Rud makes it clear soon afterward that he has a ''very'' loose definition of "willing."

* In the pre-[[UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode Hays Code]] drama ''She Had to Say Yes'', Creator/LorettaYoung's character is nearly raped by her boyfriend when he suspects she's a "loose woman". After she stops resisting and asks if that's all she means to him, he stops himself. Then, not only does she forgive him, [[ValuesDissonance she ends up offering herself to him in the end]].

%% * Both the German and American versions of ''The Experiment'' feature guards, drunk with power, about to commit rape.

* The title character of ''Film/{{Hundra}}'' pins a man to the wall with the intention of raping him but backs down when he explains the concept of male arousal to her. They end up falling in love and having consensual sex later.

* ''The Storm and the Splendor'' has such a scene, although Rud makes it clear soon afterward that he has a ''very'' loose definition of "willing."
* In P.C. Hodgell's ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'', [[spoiler: Ganth]], half-crazy, almost rapes his seven-year-old daughter [[spoiler: Jame]], before he realizes what he's about to do and runs from her. The memory of this is told in flashbacks in book 4, ''To Ride a Rathorn'', and in the short story collection ''Blood and Ivory: A Tapestry''.

* Svidrigailov nearly rapes Dunya in ''Literature/CrimeAndPunishment''.
* Marino almost rapes Scarpetta in one of Patrica Cornwell's later books. Because he's under the influence of some strange drug at the time, Kay forgives him. No one else (including Marino himself) does the same after and several subsequent books bring it up, usually when someone is trying to discredit Marino or imply Kay goes too easy on him.

%% * George and Bree in ''Series/DesperateHousewives''.

* On ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' in Season 15, serial rapist/murderer William Lewis nearly rapes Olivia Benson twice. The first time he is interrupted (and thus not the trope), but the second time he changes his mind at the last possible moment; he anticipates Olivia trying to resist his assault and when she remains mute and refuses to resist his advances, he is displeased and backs off. [[spoiler:Although Lewis decides not to rape her, what he decides to do next proves to be just as traumatic.]]
* On ''Series/OneLifeToLive'', Todd is literally this close to raping his wife Blair (he's infuriated at having discovered that she lied to him about being pregnant to get him to marry her and to get her hands on his money) when he looks down at her and sees not her face, but that of his previous victim.
%% * In ''Series/TheBletchleyCircle'', Lucy is used as bait to try and draw out the killer. Unfortunately, all they snag is a garden variety rapist.

* Happens to Ophelia in the fifth episode of ''Series/SweetVicious'' when she uses herself as [[TheBait bait]] to try and catch [[MonsterOfTheWeek Landon]]. Even though she escaped from it unscathed, it still left her badly traumatized.
* ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'': Kahlan almost has sex with Richard when he's been [[{{Brainwashed}} Confessed]] and commanded to be with her. She changes her mind at the last minute though, realizing that it's wrong.
* ''Series/DarkDesire'': Darío throws Alma down on the bed and appears to be intent on rape, but then (looking shocked at himself as she protests while struggling under him) he pulls back.
* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': Allison seeks out her sometimes-love-interest Luther for SexForSolace. He turns her down: One, because he has a new love interest now and he intends to be loyal to her. Two, because he thinks she's just using him, and he's a second choice to her. In a fit of rage and pain, Allison uses her powers to make him stay and want her. But at the very last moment, she reneges.

* In ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', Taiga Saejima accidentally ends up pinning the [[{{Jailbait}} underaged]] Haruka to the ground. Him having just been in prison for twenty-five years, there's a long, frightening pause before he gets off of her, and they both seem very disturbed afterwards.

* Shakespeare's comedic ''Theatre/PericlesPrinceOfTyre'', has a 15-year-old girl kidnapped 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.

* Another of Shakespeare's comedies, ''Theatre/PericlesPrinceOfTyre'', has a 15-year-old girl kidnapped 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.
* Shakespeare's comedic ''Theatre/TwoGentlemenOfVerona'' 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.

* In the supplement ''City of Stories'' for the first edition of ''TabletopGame/LegendOfTheFiveRings'', there's the story of the noblewoman Bayushi Omoto. A servant of her family attempted to rape her, encouraged by her beauty. In order to stop the assailant, Omoto scratched and cut her own face to make herself undesirable. She was later rescued, but felt the attempted rape was a divine punishment, and [[DriventoSuicide commited suicide]]. In ''City of Lies'', [[spoiler:it is revealed that this story was a lie to cover up she was alive.]]

* In ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', Taiga Saejima accidentally ends up pinning the [[Jailbait {{Underaged}}]] Haruka to the ground. Him having just been in prison for twenty-five years, there's a long, frightening pause before he gets off of her, and they both seem very disturbed afterwards.

* In ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', Taiga Saejima accidentally ends up pinning the [[Jailbait underaged]] Haruka to the ground. Him having just been in prison for twenty-five years, there's a long, frightening pause before he gets off of her, and they both seem very disturbed afterwards.

* ''Manga/YoureUnderArrest'': A vacation episode has a pair of guys sneak into Aoi's room to take advantage of her, while she's sleeping. Minutes later, they leave the room stunned after finding out [[{{transgender}} she]] had ''[[UnsettlingGenderReveal a penis.]]'' Aoi was a male patrol officer who "went native," while working [[DisguisedInDrag undercover]] to catch would-be muggers and [[TheChikan rapists]].

A person ''nearly'' rapes another person. The first person then takes a step back, goes into MyGodWhatHaveIDone mode, and reacts with horror. They often run from the scene. Basically, it's the realization that "If I keep going now, I will have raped this person." In return, the near-rape victim is always badly shaken but often forgives their attacker later because they had the self-control to stop. Forgiveness is a lot less likely in RealLife.

In RealLife, the victim is generally less forgiving, as even when it doesn't go all the way it is a shockingly traumatic experience.

* Manga/KarakuridoujiUltimo: After being screwed by a ReincarnationRomance-slash-GenderBender leaving him loving someone who now sees him solely as a best friend, Rune partners with the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification embodiment of]] [[GreenEyedMonster Jealousy]] and attempts to rape Yamato so that Yamato will love him back. He stops at the last minute though, realising he's too attached to Yamato to really go through with something horrible just to sate his own jealousy.

* In ''NyotaiKa'' DoggedNiceGuy Makoto, tired of lavishing his money and attention on women who don't reciprocate, attracts a goddess' attention when he wishes he could be a woman so someone would pay attention to him for a change. Unfortunately, after the goddess grants his wish and makes him a woman Makoto learns that the grass actually isn't greener on the distaff side when his very first date decides he's going to get sex in exchange for his money and attention and is not going to take no for an answer.

* In ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', Taiga Saejima accidentally ends up pinning the [[{{Jailbait}} underaged]] Haruka to the ground. Him having just been in prison for twenty-five years, there's a long, frightening pause before he gets off of her, and they both seem very disturbed afterwards.

* In ''ComicBook/XMen'', during her time with the X-Men, Mystique may (or may not) have been raped by her erstwhile lover Iceman (he allegedly did it while she was in the bath; he waited for her to run a bath, then got into the water system so that he WAS the bathwater); this would explain why she later betrayed the X-Men to the Marauders AND why she tried to steal baby Hope Summers (during "Messiah Complex"); not because she wanted the power that she could obtain from her, but because she didn't feel that a group that tolerated a rapist on the team was fit to look after a baby.

%% * [[spoiler: Ryo]] in ''VisualNovel/CrescendoEienDatoOmotteItaAnoKoro'' or not, depending on what choice the player makes.

* ''WebOriginal/SurvivalOfTheFittest'':

A person ''nearly'' rapes another person. The first person then takes a step back, goes into MyGodWhatHaveIDone mode, and reacts with horror. They often run from the scene. Basically, it's the realization that "If I keep going now, I will have raped this person." In return, the near-rape victim is always badly shaken, but often forgives their attacker later because they had the self-control to stop. Forgiveness is a lot less likely in RealLife.

* Done twice virtually identically by Rumiko Takahashi, in the one-shot ''Fire Tripper'' and in a very early episode of ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku''. In both cases, the male lead is very drunk and basically tries to pull the old ''Gone with the Wind'' sweep her up and carry her to his room bit. In neither case was the relationship at that level at the time; both female leads are a mixture of scared, worried, (slightly) touched and quite angry. In both cases our boy passes out before things get too scary, which frees the object of his "affection" to get really annoyed/angry/disgusted. Both times, our hero remembers nothing about the incident the next morning, which ''really'' gets them in trouble.

* At one point in the ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' manga, [[spoiler: Guts almost rapes Casca due to the strain of constantly fighting the monsters that are drawn to the their brands and watching over Casca in her [[CuteMute post-Eclipse state]] (which isn't made any easier seeing as Guts is [[HeartBrokenBadass desperate for Casca's emotional and physical intimacy]], adding that she also [[InnocentFanserviceGirl gets indecent a lot]]). His stress and desires eventually gets to be too much for Guts, and he almost succumbs to his [[EnemyWithin inner Beast]]. Luckily Guts stops himself before things go any further, but not before physically attacking her and the emotional damage inflicted on Casca is done.]]

* This happens to main character of ''Manga/AfterSchoolNightmare'', Mashiro, an intersex boy with female genitals, when Sou attacks and strips him, intending to rape him to "prove" he is a girl. When Sou taunts him, telling him he's "nothing like a real guy", Mashiro replies that if a real man is someone willing to hurt anyone to get what they want, then Mashiro really isn't one. Taken aback, Sou lets Mashiro go.

* ''LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}}'': In episode 4, Tanukichi begins receiving love letters from a possible stalker. So he and Ayame decide to lure them out by leaving a note on the door saying [[DidntThinkThisThrough it was unlocked and that he reciprocated.]] When [[spoiler: Anna]] sees the note inviting her in, she takes it as a love confession and assumes they wanted [[DoYouWantToCopulate the same thing.]] So she binds Tanukichi, then strips him and herself, but doesn't go further than making out with him[[note]]she didn't know what else to do, since her parents never taught her about intercourse[[/note]]. Ayame walks in at that moment, causing [[spoiler: Anna]] to become flustered with embarrassment, gather her clothing, and leave.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Shatterheart}}'' Kurogane pins down Syaoran and threathens to rape him after the latter expresses disappointment that [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe nothing happened when they were drunk]]. He backs off when he sees that Syaoran is terrified of him.

* ''Fanfic/NotCompletelyAltogetherHere'': In chapter 14, Glinda goes into a frenzy after [[spoiler:finding her parents graves in the yard of their abandoned house]]. She's striken with a frigid feeling and feels a sudden need to warm herself using her girlfriend Elphaba. Glinda starts forcibly kissing Elphaba's body, but it doesn't make her feel any less cold. To make matters worse, her kisses ''literally'' burn Elphaba's skin. She snaps out of it quickly but Elphaba is still left seriously injured. [[spoiler:Elphaba would have died if not for a healing spell]].

* In the second film of the ''Samurai Trilogy'', Miyamoto Musashi nearly forces himself on his ScreamingWoman / NeutralFemale love interest, Otsu. She doesn't want it, and Musashi carries on well past the point where its clear she doesn't want it. He catches himself before he actually does it, though. He is so ashamed and disgusted with himself that (after running away from Otsu) he quietly says "I renounce the love of women" and walks off into sunset (and the credits), marking his CharacterDevelopment from an ArrogantKungFuGuy to a zen MartialPacifist.

* A variation is used in ''Film/SchindlersList''. Nazi Captain Amon Goeth develops a creepy infatuation for his Jewish maid, and makes an abortive attempt to force himself on her while she's standing motionless and frightened in a wet shirt. He stops himself, but not on any moral grounds; he accuses her of "seducing him" because he considers her an inferior, and beats her senseless instead.
* In ''Film/{{Siberiade}}'', Phil grabs Nastya, rips her dress apart, and throws her down on the hay in the barn. Then he seems to come to his senses, and walks out. She gathers up her clothes and leaves.

** A very drunk Sandor Clegane pins Sansa Stark down on her bed and makes her sing him a song. He leaves before going any farther, but later admits to her little sister that he had indeed intended to rape Sansa and possibly regrets not doing so. Making things more complex is the fact that Sandor had previously [[RescueRomance saved Sansa from a mob]] [[AttemptedRape intent on raping her during a riot]], and the fact that Sansa seems to like her memory of this incident.

** A drunken [[spoiler: Shane]] nearly forces himself on [[spoiler: Lori]] in "TS-19", until her resistance makes him stop and think about what he was doing.

* In ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', Taiga Saejima accidentally ends up pinning the [[{{Jailbait}} underaged]] Haruka to the ground. Him having just been in prison for twenty five years, there's a long, frightening pause before he gets off of her, and they both seem very disturbed afterwards.

%% No real life examples on rape tropes. Seriously.