Rape plays a large and controversial part in the Whedonverse. When most people think of rape in the ‘verse they will most always think of the scene in Seeing Red, whether you be a Spuffy or Bangel or even Tillow.
I will try to keep my own thoughts and feelings about that scene from this. I have a personal bias for the character Spike and the ship of Buffy & Spike and I’m sure that shows.
If you were just looking for the obvious attempt of physical rape, then yes, Seeing Red would enter your mind. It is most interesting to me that one that is only attempted, never followed through and left Spike in a flood of tormenting guilt that would lead him on a journey, is put through glaring focus, while the rapes not attempted but completed on screen were looked over.
Now you may be thinking, what is she talking about? There were no actual rapes. Well, I wasn’t talking about physical rape, though that has been done by more than one character. I was talking about mental rape. The rape of an unwilling mind, and that has been completed several times on screen, most notably by Willow and Angel.
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