r/TopCharacterTropes • u/mon_sizinj • 8h ago
Characters [Rare trope] A female character defends a male character from sexual assault
Rick and Morty – S1E11 ("Ricksy Business") – Jerry and Beth go to a Titanic reenactment, where a cleaning lady harasses Jerry and tries to rape him, but Beth saves him.
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire (2023) – in the bar/cantina scene, a local thug sexually assaults Gunnar, while Cora responds by beating the thug up.
Awake (2021) – a group of escaped criminals see the female main character's teenage son and quite openly say that they want to rape him. The main character successfully defends her son.
The Flower and the Empress (2019) – in prison, female guards going to rape the male lead, but the female lead arrives and saves him.
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u/Imaginary-West-5653 6h ago
Athena and Odysseus - Homer's Odyssey
When Odysseus arrieved at Calypso's island, Ogygia, he ended up becoming a prisoner of the goddess in the island, being forced to sleep with the deity against his will while he yearned with returning home to his wife Penelope. He stayed like that for 7 years, by the will of Poseidon... until he went into a visit to Aethiopia. Taking her chance to do something now that Poseidon was not around, Athena went to ask her father Zeus for the release of Odysseys, who had suffered many woes. Zeus, feeling bad for Odysseus, agreed at her request and send Hermes to demand the release of Odysseus by his will, thus Calypso was forced to comply.
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u/AnotherPerson120 2h ago
And yet everyone says Odysseus cheated on his wife....
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u/GateEducational6100 1h ago
I think it depends on which translation/version you look at.
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u/AnotherPerson120 1h ago
No, because there's only one version: the Odyssey. And every translator agrees it was against his will (Circe might be up for more debate though).
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u/Imaginary-West-5653 1h ago
Circe might be up for more debate though).
It actually isn't, the only time in the Odyssey where both had sex is when Odysseus was being blackmailed into having sex with her to free his men; in the Odyssey at least, there is no evidence that he cheated on Penelope whatsoever (non-Homeric myths discounted).
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u/AnotherPerson120 1h ago
I suppose so. But I had the impression he stayed longer than he had to? Or was it just storms?
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u/Imaginary-West-5653 50m ago
He did so, but he was Circe's guest, and it would be impolite to leave so soon considering the laws of xenia at the time (and Circe is a fearsome goddess; even when he left, he had to kneel and beg for her permission to go). Besides, he had already spent ten years at war and a good while sailing, and Circe was showering them with gifts, baths, and delicacies. The point of this passage is that despite everything Circe tried to make Odysseus stay, his heart belonged elsewhere (at Ithaca), so Circe ultimately gave up.
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u/MeetTheHannah 8h ago
Love from the TV show You defended her brother, Forty, from being sexually assaulted as a teen by their adult babysitter while he was under the influence of drugs by killing the babysitter. This is shown in a flashback but it still counts.
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u/TheStonedFox 6h ago edited 4h ago
The 2019 BBC adaptation of A Christmas Carol is a much darker interpretation of the classic story. During the past segment, the Nandor of Christmas Past shows Ebenezer a memory of when his sister came to pick him up from his boarding school where he is being sexually abused by his headmaster.
What he didn’t realize at the time was that his sister literally had to threaten his headmaster with a gun (“like a fucking highwayman!”) in order to get Ebenezer out of there. Scrooge gained a new perspective on a traumatic memory and learned the depth of love that his sister had for him and how far she was willing to go to protect him.
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u/Vwgames49 2h ago
The what of Christmas Past?
https://giphy.com/gifs/Ur8g3qgbgd52eVo88J11
u/TheStonedFox 2h ago
The ghost is kind of a shapeshifter in this one but at one point it appears to Scrooge as Ali Baba from 1001 Nights and he’s played by Kayvan Novak.
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u/Toukafan4life 6h ago
The Rebel Moon one is particularly intriguing, since in order to know that, you have to watch the movie, and the fact that someone sat through it is a miracle
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u/TheDragonOverlord 6h ago
I watched it though with my dad and I wish I hadn't 🥲
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u/Toukafan4life 6h ago
The only thing I know about Rebel Moon is that Snyder fanatics will insist it's better than Star Wars and that there's a vagina portal
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u/L0ll0ll7lStudios 6h ago
The R-rated cuts, while really long, are pretty fun as dumb action movies. The PG-13 versions are kind of mid.
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u/10-4shutthefckupnow 6h ago
Id argue that rebel moon was actually pretty good right up until the bar scene.
The world building and setup is so good that even a child could write a decent story from there. Sadly we had Snyder in charge instead.
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u/Rexcodykenobi 3h ago
I watched it but I legitimately do not remember this scene. I just remember being bored out of my mind and feeling like I was about to fall asleep
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u/PointyNipple 8h ago
Futurama: when the guys are saved from death... by SNU SNU
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u/redelectro7 8h ago
I mean they're saved from death, but I'm not sure it fits this category,
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u/Due-Ingenuity9803 8h ago
And they definitely do not seem to consider it SA
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u/Mountain-Resource656 8h ago
To be fair it doesn’t have to be recognized as SA to be so, and by the end of it they seemed to have been asking for a break for at least a little bit
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u/Terminal_Insomnia_ 6h ago
Turns out being fucked to death, however willingly, would qualify as assault of a sexual nature.
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u/Randver_Silvertongue 6h ago
But if they did consent to it would it still be SA?
The scene is satirizing the stereotype that men always want sex, but Fry and Zapp did consent until it started to physically hurt them. And even then they still seemed to be satisfied afterwards despite their injuries.
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u/Zorro5040 6h ago
Once they became injured, they no longer wanted it and that's when consent is taken away.
They seemed happy at the end but also traumatized and wanted to leave.
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u/mantis-toboggan-phd 8h ago
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u/Tackyhillbilly 6h ago
And Kif, as the most attractive male, will mate with the most beautiful women of Amazonia.
Then the large women.
Then the petite women.
Then the large women again!
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u/No_Location_8199 4h ago
Elvia/Via (I Fell Into a Reverse Harem Game!)
With threats of death, banishment, and mutilation, she makes sure that nobody even thinks about SAing her concubine again.
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u/pierogi_waystation 3h ago edited 3h ago
The following exchange in King Arthur (2004), spoken while facing an enormous army.
Lancelot: “You look frightened. There's a large number of lonely men out there...”
Guinevere: “Don't worry, I won't let them rape you.”
Edit: This might be debatable, because Guinevere is mocking Lancelot for assuming she’d be the target, but it’s also plausible as the King of the Saxon hoard had ordered the men not to rape the local women lest they mix their blood. So, in a sense, Guinevere is the least likely of the protagonists to be raped, and pretty Lancelot could have conceivably been in danger.
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u/Ok_Duty_8645 8h ago
Sadly I have no examples. But this sounds real nice.
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u/returnofthewinston 7h ago
I’ve got one - “The End of the Fucking World”, the main female protagonist protects the male protagonist (James) from a man trying to sexually assault him.
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u/CrimsonThunder87 7h ago
Peter gets sexually assaulted by a woman in Family Guy to provoke Lois into a fight, which Lois wins.
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u/FyouinyourA 6h ago
Umm what the fuck is awake about lol
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u/PoeDameronPoeDamnson 55m ago
The entire population of Earth, including animals, can suddenly no longer fall asleep despite the need too. It’s an interesting premise and we see people rapidly go insane as society collapses in the course of a week.
A key point is that the main characters youngest child can inexplicably sleep. So it’s a battle for the MC to keep her children safe while also trying to hurriedly prep her 9ish year old on how to survive once alone.
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u/ContractNational2680 8h ago
Mikasa rescues Armin when he's getting molested (Attack on Titan)