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Define "get in trouble."
By "get in trouble," what I mean is to face charges, lawsuits, and possibly being slapped with a felony.

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Nobody "gets in trouble" for properly using force to defend themselves or others from harm to life and limb.
And they shouldn't.

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Where the "trouble" comes in is where there is doubt about how much force was necessary depending on the circumstances.
That depends. As you said, there are many shades of gray.

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Whether a man would "get in trouble" for responding to sexual assault with force depends on the SPECIFIC set of circumstances and there are probably thousands of sets of circumstances that could go either way.

I'll give you two obvious examples.

1 - A man breaks into my house, grabs me, throws me down, pins me to the floor and tries to stick his _____ up my _____. I manage to get my gun and shoot him dead. No trouble there.

2 - A man breaks into my house, moves toward me in a threatening manner, I get my gun out, he sees it and runs away. I am unharmed but I shoot him in the back on his way out the door. Big trouble coming my way.
Well there really is no grey area in the two examples you provide. In the first example you were in danger of being raped which falls under the category of "grave bodily harm." Deadly force is allowed to be used if you are in danger of grave bodily harm and so you would be justified in shooting your assailant. In the second example the perpetrator is running away so to shoot him at that point would clearly not be self defense. He is running away, he is not a threat to you at that point so shooting him then would not be self defense.

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There's probably 50 shades of gray in between those two extremes that can be imagined.
Yes and that's what can create problems. Although I would think that who the attacker is in addition to how they're attacking can justify a greater level of force. For instance, a large man would certainly be a greater threat than a petite woman or a small child and thus you would be justified in using a greater level of force against a large man than the latter two if they were attacking you to the same degree.

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You'll need to explain your question better.
Well yes, and I should give some examples.