A realistic situation that represents and explains the horrific truth about date rape.
| “ | He suggested a nightcap. I just told him one. I had an illustration due in the morning. That's the last thing I remember. I woke up. Bleeding. Sore. Confused. Angry. There were only two things I wanted. To find him... and to hurt him back. I did a Google search for Will Dean. Tons of hits. It's an incredibly common name. None of them were him, far as I could tell. Like a fool, I even searched the NASA web site. There was no such astronaut in training or otherwise. I needed to find him. He was everywhere... and nowhere. | „ |
| ~ The harshest thing about date rape in reality is that it was just her first date and this was a tragically horrible way to end it. She perfectly sums up the accuracy of a date rapist. |
It's been 2 weeks since my last proposal, which was published during my birthday, and lately I've been absent due to wanting to focus on other stuff but got caught up playing Persona 5 Royal for out of maximum 24/7 daily and ended up catching hay fever due to a drastic allergy attack. Thankfully I've recovered and micromanaged my gaming time for the moment, right now I'm back with another easy candidate at hand but one particularly disturbingly realistic.
As you may know by now, I currently go about reading the many wonders of Moon Knight and his past journey of fighting crime as Marvel's own Batman but with a dissociative personality disorder. Lately, I've come across this one-shot annual featuring today's candidate and at once my mind began refreshing for a moment now that I've gotten my intel on him. So to easily sum up discussing another vile scumbag at hand, this one in particular... has no name.
I'm not kidding, the real problem when creating his page was who I was supposed to go with? His past three fake identities or make him nameless since it fits the bill, the latter ended up being the winner. That aside, let's go about discussing the nameless rapist that would end up likely being a target for the Special Victims Unit.
What's the Work?[]
Moon Knight is one of Marvel's most underappreciated comic books ever written and basically the Batman of the franchise. Likewise, our hero is a lunar-themed superhero with a Dissociative Personality Disorder with three identities out there fighting criminals and tons of evil baddies under the name and oath of Khonshu.
Focusing on the first annual, titled "Date Night", follows a realistic and horrifying scenario of date rape. Two unsuspecting women were violently beaten and raped on the ending nights of their horrible dates, and to say so is an understatement, to which a therapy room full of past victims talk about their experiences all while Moon Knight himself in those stories tracks down the assailant to give him what he truly deserves.
Who is He? What has He Done?[]
The unnamed Serial Rapist, also known between three false identities such as NASA astronaut in training Will Dean, medical surgeon Dean Charles, and Montana cowboy Charlie Williams, as his namesake puts, is a dangerously profiled, unidentified serial rapist who preys on unsuspecting women and feigns as many false identities to charm his way onto them throughout dating them. Only then he spikes their drinks with drugs and proceeds onto violently raping them after leaving the next morning, leaving his victims in a horrifically bruised and mentally messed-up state.
Nobody knows what his real name is, not that it genuinely matters, as he's known for several cases of domestic abuse and sexual assault, climatically leading to a violent form of rape under several identities throughout past dates with his victims. Ranging from implications such as a law attorney named "Charles Anderson", television producer "Andy Leonard", and private investigator "Leonard Scott", one can assume the rapist had his way with four more victims or possibly more prior to his introduction in the present and by using common names (generically unsubtle ones), he was able to cover his tracks. Currently under his astronaut persona, Will Dean, he met his next victim in a bar in the present, offering her a drink and dinner before walking her home, giving her a "nightcap" as they danced the night away on their first date. And what a horrible first date that turned out, because it was after spiking her drink, the rapist went about violently abusing and raping her as she blacked out, leaving her a bruised-up mess the next morning after leaving. The woman in question was left horribly covered in beat marks and was bleeding, traumatically angry and confused. She began a revenge search to get back at him, only to discover his name was so common, he was nowhere found, especially since NASA had no record of the man in question, though little was expected next was it caught Moon Knight's attention.
Now as the medical surgeon "Charlie Williams", he targeted a black-haired woman who managed to play it safe with him on the last two dates declining his offer to walk her home. Only then by the third date, he spiked her wine glass with drugs that caused her to black out, which the rapist strikes twice more once by removing her clothes and the horrible way to end that date began. The next morning, the black-haired woman woke up with the same bruises and bleeding marks as the previous woman, trembling in trauma and thought about "leaving" town. When I mean that, I mean resort to suicide by jumping off the building ledge (Serious Kamoshida vibes, I did NOT need a reminder!). However, she was saved by Moon Knight by the last second, giving him a trace that makes him one step closer to hunting down the vile rapist. Though it did leave the woman having a fanatical crush on him upon seeing "the light" (Yeah, weird writing right there).
On his latest (and final) attempt, the rapist went onto dressing as cowboy "Charlie Williams" from Montana, stalking and charming a hooker from a club, already taking her to dinner as the first step of his next move. Out of unfortunate timing, one of his previous victims spotted him and tries to punch him for hurting her, only to scoff it off and smugly loom over her that "it's over", which it wasn't long till the cops apprehended his victim, believing he can always get away with it... but that's what he thinks. Already spiking her drink with drugs and proceeds walking her home to have his way once again, only for Moon Knight to come falling down from the heavens and beats the living sh-t out of the nameless scumbag. However, the cathartic beating seized when the confused hooker used her taser against him, allowing the rapist to sadistically pummel Moon Knight to a pulp until she blacked out due to the drug's effects.
Handing out only his most vicious slasher smile and attempts to violently rape her like the rest, Moon Knight pulled off a surprise attack and injects him with a syringe, then proceeds to likely brutalize him in the only cathartic way possible to where the assailant found himself hospitalized in critical condition. It wasn't over for him though, because with help from his colleagues, Moon Knight informed the black-haired woman he rescued regarding her rapist's status and gave her the golden opportunity to get sweet, sweet revenge. Entering his room, karma continued biting the bastard in his arse when his past victim proceeds to cut off the oxygen tank keeping him alive, causing him to cower in panic and does barely little to stop her... thus the man slowly dies in the most satisfying way his victim described it.
Heinous Standards[]
The universe of Earth-616 in the Marvel multiverse is no stranger to serial rapists but under special cases when push comes to shove, they are treated as an exceptionally unique kind of evil out there in individual series works such as Wolverine being a prominent example. In regards to Moon Knight's rogue gallery of villains like Raoul Bushman, Zodiac, Ernst, and many more, the serial rapist easily stands out for his own tier alone for several reasons.
It wouldn't be the first time he's done this and wouldn't be the last (until Moon Knight gave him a taste of his own medicine after), it accurately defines date rape in worst ways given the "everywhere and nowhere" statement implying to have more than just four-to-six women.
He's basically an absolute nobody. This isn't a joke, he's got no resources; no weapons, no superpowers, no backup amounts of wealth, no connections. Nothing like that, he's simply operating all by himself as a one-man show with multiple identities and few supply of drugs, that and has kept a massively low profile to where we do not know his real name at best but to say he does the absolute worst he has all by himself is, to reiterate in case, an understatement. The rapist has an established pattern on how he rapes his victims, a favorite habit of his is to violently beat them which caused tremendously great harm physically, to which the next morning they wake up with bruises all over their bodies, swollen faces, bleeding, and can barely move in this state of pain. So far we are given confirmation of six victims in total, and possible even more (if the "he's everywhere" statement meaning something else), with the two women and the latest attempted victim present in a therapy room, it goes to show how bad the experience was. If that wasn't enough, one of them attempted to resort to suicide because of this violent treatment (it was straight akin to bringing Kamoshida vibes closer to home).
Now as I said, rapists here in Earth-616 are treated as a special kind of evil but while rare, there have been plenty in the past - especially prolific ones - like the Purple Man, Mister Brownstone, and other cases such as mass rapists George Reagan and Banapur Khan or whatever the bloody f-ck Alejandra's father did to babies. But again, his resources are mounted to zero, and even then, in my personal opinion, he still stands out on his own method of uniqueness; considering his pattern involved dating women before having them fall unconscious for him to take advantage over, this is more than just the average serial rapist, he's a serial date rapist. Especially on a personal level given how far it hit his victims.
Another reason to his uniqueness is that he's frighteningly realistic. Wanna know a fact to help drive the point? A downer part about how realistic his crimes are is that date rapes are frequent in real life and they can happen to any woman on their first date, especially since the nameless rapist is perfectly accurate to people like him out in the real world. Imagine that you are a woman whose either excited or nervous on their first dates with the perfect man of their life, only to fall unconsciousness out of nowhere and later wake up the next morning covered in bruises with the man leaving said woman in a traumatized state. I really hate to imagine that, and this needs no further elaboration... the answer speaks for itself.
Mitigating Factors[]
One particular issue involves characterization and for me, it's safely not too big of a prevention. Throughout his screentime, he has zero dialogue and barely has anything to say but the narrative from each of the first two women present in the therapy session and by the story's direction makes it perfectly clear that from his actions, the rapist is defined as a manipulative, smug, and violent sadist with his expressions screaming nightmare fuel to further delve the point in mind. His shtick of false identities also defines his intellect somewhat, feigning friendliness in order to lure his victims into his charm and his pants, mostly the latter. Even when facing death alone takes it into cowering dread, you can see the fear in his biddy little eyes. So yeah, what also helps is how realistically accurate he's portrayed akin to the real-life sex predator and stalker.
Otherwise, none at all. Dude's a vile scumbag to the core and taking advantage of women during dates is perhaps the biggest low-blow for anyone outside Moon Knight's gallery to where he doesn't hold back his punches onto him to the point of having him hospitalized. Even his own death is portrayed as karmic satisfactory, even his second victim perfectly described how it felt.
Final Verdict[]
I apologize if I might've written this too emotionally, it's just after playing Persona 5 Royal and the whole Kamoshida arc stuff, I can't help but think of the women and girls out there who might've or had fall victim to stuff like this, and when I think that, I think of Shiho Suzui... and depression came crawling back to haunt me. That said, for every nickel I had to propose a realistic candidate and comment how they'd belong in the world of Persona 5, I'd have two more nickels. If anything, I say he'd also belong in Law and Order (mainly Special Victims Unit) if you ask me.
Anyways, a personally solid yes.