The Gor novels could be considered to have a long string of rapists as main characters since the slavery is nonconsensual and the owners can have sex with their slavegirls at will. The slavegirls all love being slaves, so it’s kind of a romantic fantasy sex slavery mixed with what is supposedly real sex slavery.
Thinking about it, the same can be said of many romance novels, not to mention erotic romances. I can’t speak for the romance novels, but erotic romances have stories about women who become sex slaves but just happen to wind up owned by this WONDERFUL guy …
Evan Hunter’s novel Last Summer ends with a rape scene by the main characters, and it’s treated like “Boys Will Be Boys.” He later wrote a sequel “Come Winter” where five years later, the boys (now young men) are punished for their sins.
In one of Fritz Lieber’s short stories about Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser (I think The Sadness of the Executioner), Mouser rapes a woman who Death magicks into his bedroom to kill him.
I know I mentioned another character in this thread some pages ago, but one that I thought now (and searching this thread I cannot find), is Lestat.
In one of the Interview with the Vampire series (I think the fourth one, maaaybe the third one?), Lestat is able to change bodies (if even for a short while), and becomes “human”. In this human form, he befriends a waitress (not sure if he is also injured), and eventually rapes her. He realizes later what he has done, and I think at the end of the novel, back in vampire form, he goes back to the waitress to try and make amends (and probably verify she is not pregnant?).
Not correct. In Crystal Skull, when Jones expresses disdain over Marion’s marriage to Colin Williams, Marion says: “I think you gave up your vote on who I married when you decided to break it off a week before the wedding!”
Sure. I don’t dispute the claim that she was extremely upset and felt betrayed.
Except that what “under age” is varies, sometimes dramatically. There’s nothing magical about age 18. At present, some state laws say that 17 is the legal age to consent. Others say 16.
I’m perfectly comfortable accepting that a person is a rapist if their conduct violates the law at the place and time the act is completed.
I am not remotely persuaded that you’ve shown any canonical support for the claim that this describes Indiana Jones.
Not completely sympathetic of course, but there are overtones from various people because…let’s face it…life is complicated.
edit: and of course there’s Yellowbeard, my go to guy (Besides Blazing Saddles) when people say “No rape joke in the history of the planet has ever been anything less than an abomination.”
The protagonist of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s novel, The Burning City, an allegory about the 1992 L.A. Riots, participates in a gang rape during one of the periodic “Burnings” of the city. He reforms but never atones for the crime.
The setting is the same as other stories in Niven’s “The Magic Goes Away” series. I like the setting quite a bit, but don’t really care for the novel.
Encourage? no. But his funeral is attended. And Whassername kisses his picture at the end doesn’t she? And I could argue that Watchmen does encourage you to pity The Comedian. Pity and sympathy are damn close.
Seth Rogen’s lead character in “Observe & Report” bangs the girl in that when she’s pretty drunk (and he’s sober) and it caused quite a bit of controversy when it came out.
It’s been nearly 30 years since I’ve seen the movie Trouble in Mind, but my recollection is that Kris Kristofferson’s character forces himself on Genevieve Bujold’s character early on.
I’m also skeptical about the truth of that claim. I find a couple of different mentions on the Internet, but all see to go back to the same source cracked.com has: a ramascreen.com page which no longer exists.