History Main / RapeAndRevenge

* ''Franchise/TheCrow'': Centers around this premise. Eric Draven is brought BackFromTheDead to take revenge against the gangsters that raped and killed his girlfriend. The comic inspired a very [[Film/TheCrow successful movie adaptation]] and several not-so-well-received sequels, [[Series/TheCrowStairwayToHeaven and a TV show]].

* The main plot of Creator/BrandonLee's last and most famous movie ''Film/TheCrow'' (see comic section).

* French 1975 film ''La Traque'' has British tourist Helen Wells (played by Mimsy Farmer) get raped by a gang of local French hunters in the countryside. However, the "revenge" part is very subdued as most of the movie is about her trying to escape them, as they are simply more numerous and well-armed. [[spoiler:She doesn't make it and dies, and while she managed to shoot the one guy who raped her and leave it to die, everyone else is a KarmaHoudin.]]

* In the [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherwoods Telugu film]] ''Film/{{Narasimhudu}}'' (as well as its predecessor ''Durgi'', which cast an ActionGirl in the hero role and did not have any kind of romantic subplot unlike ''Narasimhudu''), it turns out that the reason the hero is going after the bad guys on his RoaringRampageOfRevenge is that they were responsible for the rape of his little sister Chitti (who was still a child), as well as her later murder by means of VorpalPillow in order to silence her as a witness.

* In ''Film/KPax'' a MaybeMagicMaybeMundane explanation about the nature of the supposed extraterrestrial K-Pax is given when it turns out [[spoiler:the character is actually a man who murdered the escaped prisoner that raped and murdered his wife and kill his son.]]

* In''Literature/ShadowAndBone'', Genya Safin was regularly abused by the King and then she made a poison that could slowly kill the King as revenge.

* ''Film/PromisingYoungWoman'' plays with this. The actual rape victim, Nina, is heavily implied to have been DrivenToSuicide before the events of the film itself, but her friend Cassie drives the story forward. Most of her activities are ''not'' this trope, as she pretends to be [[PlayingDrunk extremely drunk]], and then when men attempt to "seduce" her while she's in that state, she gives them an intimidating TheReasonYouSuckSpeech but doesn't actually try to harm them, in what might be a genuine learning experience for the self-proclaimed NiceGuy. When she gets information on exactly who was present during Nina’s rape, she does move into this trope. [[spoiler:She manages to trick the rapist into getting handcuffed to a bed, but her attempt to carve Nina's name onto his skin results in him breaking free and killing her]]. This SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome of the lone woman attempting to take a violent, masculine type of revenge against a predator has caused the film to be read partly as a deconstruction of this trope, and an attempt to put more emphasis on dealing with predatory men [[ObliviouslyEvil who wouldn't consider themselves predators]] through education and self-reflection.

* During the Renegade Doctor arc in ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'', said incarnation of the Doctor went back in time during his fight with the Engineer to sexually assault her in high school, then returned with a PostRapeTaunt. In a mix of this and type 2, the Engineer and Apollo took advantage of the Renegade's gaining the other Doctors' power of empathy to behead him.
* ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'' has a story where it's implied that when Clayface captured Poison Ivy, he forced himself on her. Ivy, once she's freed, gets revenge on Clayface and even mocks his pleas for mercy considering he ignored hers.
* This is part of the plot of ''ComicBook/{{Conqueror of the Barren Earth}}'': after Zhengla captures Jinal, he [[RapeDiscretionShot appears to rape her]], although it is not completely clear. After that, he [[MadeASlave enslaves]] [[GoGoEnslavement her]], until she declares her love for him. The two of them then team up to conquer the world. At the moment of their complete victory, however, she shoots and kills him. Was that for revenge, which she does claim, or because she wanted to rule alone [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness without sharing power]]? Probably both. It is also an unusual example, in that her repeated declarations of love for him appear to be unfeigned, or at least not altogether insincere. When she realizes that he has not died from her gunshot, her immediate reaction appears to be relief, and she rushes to his side. When she realizes that he has only moments to live, she holds his hand and promises that she will carry on their work. She seems to have simultaneously loved him, hated him, and used him as a means to an end.
* ''{{ComicBook/Fables}}'' makes this [[spoiler: Snow White]]'s backstory. There's a ''damned'' good reason why [[spoiler: Snow does not take kindly to anybody mentioning the [[DepravedDwarf Seven Dwarfs]]]].
* In ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', Captain Nemo's daughter Janni (who is also Jenny Diver from ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera'') initially runs away from her birthright as a pirate queen to work in a greasy spoon in London, where she is gang-raped by depraved, misogynistic customers. Cue the total devastation of the London waterfront when she calls in the ''Nautilus'' and takes command.

* Creator/KevinSmith's ''ComicBook/SpiderManBlackCatTheEvilThatMenDo'' controversially gave this as ComicBook/BlackCat's origin, via {{Retcon}}. However, it's subverted in that [[VengeanceDenied she didn't actually get revenge on her rapist, as he died in a car accident before she could kill him]].
* At the end of Chuck Austen's heinously ''bad'' Church of Humanity arc in ''[[ComicBook/XMen Uncanny X-Men]]'', we find that this entire arc was an elaborate revenge scheme headed up by the leader of the aforementioned church, who was previously a Catholic nun who'd been raped by a priest and wanted to destroy the Catholic Church in retaliation, annihilate mutantkind just because she hated them, and set herself up as a sort of messiah to prove her importance all in one fell swoop.
* In ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'', the Governor rapes Michonne repeatedly. As soon as she escapes, she puts him through [[ColdBloodedTorture the most terrifying torture scene of the series]], but doesn't have the time to finish him off.

* Another ''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia'' fic series called ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1864420 Playlist]]'' sees Present Mic attacked and raped while his show is live on the radio. Later on in the third story ''Three People'', Aizawa, Midnight and Hound Dog track down the rapist, beat him to death, and throw his body into the ocean.

* Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme's character ends in a Russian prison in ''Film/InHell'' after he kills the man who raped and murdered his wife.

* ''Film/Mom2017'' is a Hindi-language film where a teenage girl is kidnapped and gang raped by four men as she's leaving a party. When the court acquits the rapists for various reasons, [[MamaBear Devki]], the eponymous mom (actually stepmom of the victim), with the help of a tech-savvy private detective, hunts down said rapists to give them their well-deserved punishment relating to their crime against her stepdaughter.

* Camille Montes in ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' (played by Creator/OlgaKurylenko) is so obsessed with getting her revenge for the rape and murder of her mother and sister at the hands of General Medrano, that she even [[SexForServices sleeps]] with criminal boss Domic Greene in exchange for getting close to Medrano.

* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010'': The kid's parents killed Freddy where he hid after they found out that he'd molested their children.

* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'': Serial killer Freddy Krueger was burned alive by the angry parents of his victims. Craven's original idea was that Freddy Krueger was a child molester/murderer, but it was too controversial for the time, thus it was changed to child murderer only instead. They did go straight with the molestation part in the reboot ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010''.

* In ''Film/TheOutlawJoseyWales'', in a post-Civil War South, the eponymous hero gets home late from hunting just to find his house burning and his wife raped and murdered by Unionist soldiers, afterward going into a RoaringRampageOfRevenge in TheWildWest.

* The title character of Gillian Welch's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nugXkgd_-84 Caleb Meyer]]" rapes the narrator Nellie Kane while her husband is out of town, but he pays the price mid-act when she slashes his throat open with a bottle-neck.

* Music/{{Apocalyptica}}'s "I'm Not Jesus" is another one about {{Pedophile Priest}}s.

* ''Film/Mom2017'' is a Hindi-language film where a teenage girl is kidnapped and gang raped by four men as she's leaving a party. When the court acquits the rapists for various reasons, Devki, the eponymous mom (actually stepmom of the victim), with the help of a tech savvy private detective, hunts down said rapists to give them their well-deserved punishment relating to their crime against her stepdaughter.

* In the third book of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series ''Eclipse'', it's implied that this trope happened to [[spoiler: Rosalie. It's not outright stated that she was raped, but at the very least she was severely beaten and later killed the guys who did it, which included her ''fiancé'']].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Funan}},'' Lili is raped by a Khmer Rouge guards, then hangs herself. When her brother Hout gets back from another camp and learns what happens, he locks the rapist and another guard in a hut and sets it on fire. He's then killed himself, along with an old woman that the guards randomly decide was an accomplice.
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* In the backstory of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', Robert Baratheon started a war and toppled a nearly three hundred year old dynasty of kings when the crown prince, Rhaegar Targaryen, abducted and raped Robert's betrothed, Lyanna Stark. Robert personally killed Rhaegar himself in single combat. [[spoiler:However, Lyanna didn't actually want to marry Robert at all, and it's not clear if her being "abducted and raped" was actually her voluntarily running off with Rhaegar.]]