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A teenage girl is on a date with a guy (or maybe even her boyfriend). They are sitting in his car, often at a [[Make-Out Point]], and he's trying to put the moves on her or get into her pants, but she doesn't want it. ("No! No, stop that, I mean it!!!")

 

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* Most of the backstory of one of the characters in ''[[Boogiepop Phantom]]''.

 

 

 

 

 

** Though honestly, it didn't look even close to date rape considering he wasn't even being that pushy and it make McClane come off a bit stalker-ish.

*** Not to mention the fact that Lucy's actions later in the movie cast doubt on whether or not the boy would be able to date rape her without getting his ass handed to him by his would-be victim.

* ''[[American Graffiti]]'' had an interesting variation. A 14-year-old girl somehow became a tag-along passenger to an 18-year-old graduate. She annoyed the hell out of him, but he didn't want to kick her out on the street at midnight, and she refused to tell him where she lived so he could take her home. To finally get her to tell him her address, [[Xanatos Gambit|he told her that he had "fallen in love" with her and started to move closer to her. She was so freaked out she gave him directions.]]

* In the remake of [[The Blob]] the girl in question doesn't have a choice, because the boy got her drunk first. But there's beautiful poetic justice because when the slimy boy goes to get his hands in her bra, he finds only the Blob, which had gotten into and consumed most of her insides already, leaving it gelatinously filling her empty flesh sack. Eww.

== Literature ==

* In ''[[The Time Traveler's Wife]]'', the teenage Clare tells adult Henry about her "date" with a football player. This does not end well for said football player.

 

 

* ''[[A Different World]]'' uses the rescued variation when Dwayne saves Freddie from a [[Jerk Jock]] serial rapist.

* Happened in the very first episode of ''[[Mork and Mindy]]''. The titular characters meet for the first time because Mindy has driven out into the woods with her date who then drove off, taking her car when she refused to, ahem, play. Mork's spaceship lands nearby and he agrees to walk her home. The incident in the car gives us this line:

* Mildly subverted in ''[[Sex and the City]]'' when Charlotte is rescued (though not from attempted rape) by the 'hero' punching the attacker. Turned out he just liked punching people. When he started a fight over somebody bumping into Charlotte's chair (even after they apologised) she left.

* ''Excruciatingly'' averted in a recent episode of ''[[Mad Men]]''; plenty of people who ''could'' have been in a position to come to {{spoiler|Joan's}} rescue, and not one of them does. In this case it counts as [[Values Dissonance]], since in the early 1960s there was no popular consciousness of date rape. And the fact that {{spoiler|Joan is engaged to the man in question}} would probably have led to it not even having been considered an incident. No one would have done a god damned thing except said "Whoops!" and closed the door.