History DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale / ComicBooks

* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Writer Creator/ChrisClaremont loves "taking it out" on [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Scott Summers]]. In one issue, [[Characters/MarvelComicsMadelynePryor Madelyne Pryor]] punched Scott square in the face for daring to mention Jean ''again''. The entire storyline involving the couple had Scott questioning his wife's identity. One of many unhealthy details behind the relationship. However, it should be noted that supervillain Mastermind had orchestrated things to lead to the altercation that culminated with the punch, so in that specific case things are muddled on account of both characters being subjected to external psionic influence. What really makes the scene an example of this trope is that Scott takes the punch that seems to come out of of nowhere and thinks "I sorta deserved that." If the genders were reversed, a woman thinking she deserved to be punched by her lover would be seen as the greatest ´[[TheWoobie woobie]] ever.

* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Writer Creator/ChrisClaremont loves "taking it out" on [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Scott Summers]]. In one issue, [[Characters/MarvelComicsMadelynePryor Madelyne Pryor]] punched Scott square in the face for daring to mention Jean ''again''. The entire storyline involving the couple had Scott questioning his wife's identity. One of many unhealthy details behind the relationship.

* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Writer Creator/ChrisClaremont loves "taking it out" on [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Scott Summers]]. In one issue, [[Characters/MarvelComicsMadelynePrior Madelyne Pryor]] punched Scott square in the face for daring to mention Jean ''again''. The entire storyline involving the couple had Scott questioning his wife's identity. One of many unhealthy details behind the relationship.

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** Asterix's relationship with StrawFeminist Bravura in ''Recap/AsterixAndTheSecretWeapon''. Bravura uses her size advantage on him to physically, mentally, and sexually abuse him, forcibly moving into his house, casually smacking him on the behind, picking him up a lot, gaslighting him, and ignoring all of his constant protestations. At one point, when he turns down a marriage proposal from her, she scoops him up and forces a kiss on him, so he punches her to get away, immediately feeling terrible about it and being ostracised for it by the other villagers. When Asterix attempts to vent to Obelix about how dismayed with himself he is for [[WouldNotHitAGirl hitting a woman]], Obelix just teases Asterix about his 'thing' for her, and spreads rumours around to the other men that he likes Bravura. In the final act, he suddenly changes his mind about Bravura after seeing her slap a Roman centurion, they [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee plot together to defeat the villain of the week]] in a way full of romantic DoubleEntendre ("It's my turn to make you a proposal!"), and the final page shows them demurely kissing and making up, with the implication that Asterix did indeed have a thing for her.

** In addition to the above, the hitting of Bravura by Asterix is hardly any worse than the punching of numerous romans throughout 50 previous books, all of which has been happily treated as a joke.

* ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'': Subverted in ''ComicBook/Hawkeye2012'' #9, Spider-Woman finds out that Hawkeye had slept with another woman, despite being in a sorta-relationship with her (it's not made clear exactly, but the implication is that Clint didn't think they were in a serious, closed relationship). She then slaps him twice and tries to hit him a third time, but he stops her and says that, while she's angry, she doesn't get to do that. Should be noted that Spider-Woman has super-strength and could easily crack his skull, while he's a BadassNormal with no defense.
* ''[[ComicBook/TheFlash Impulse]]'': In an issue dealing with one of Bart Allen's classmates being the victim of child abuse, it's treated as an AssPull that it's his mother beating him and that his stepfather actually loves him and had no idea. In a later issue, the boy's mother gets visited in the mental hospital she was put in; DC stories have always treated abusive fathers as monsters deserving of jail (preferably after a severe beating from a furious superhero), so this trope goes into effect when an abusive mother is treated as someone with mental problems she needs help resolving instead.
* The violence in Baphomet and [[{{Yandere}} the Morrigan's]] relationship in ''Comicbook/TheWickedAndTheDivine'' isn't played for laughs so much as normative fantasy-violence for two angry young people with horrible emotional regulation in a mutually dysfunctional relationship. But this trope is then subverted when the reveal that the Morrigan's been physically abusing Baphomet in revenge for him cheating on her is treated with appropriate levels of severity.
* Sara and Sheila of ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'' are the two main offenders in the comic. Sara regularly grabs Dave by the shirt collar (once ripping out his chest hair) as retribution for an ill-advised sexist remark. Sheila appears to have punched out just about every man in the strip at some point, and it's always PlayedForLaughs. They have both drawn a degree of ire from some fans for this reason. This has been evening out somewhat in recent years – [[{{Slapstick}} in that Sara has been receiving as much abuse as she’s been handing out.]]
* ''ComicBook/LesLegendaires'' does this occasionally:

** [[CoolBigSis Sheyla's]] violence on her brother Razzia was slightly played for laughs in a flashback, when she had just rescued him from bullies, and was mad he didn't defend himself. [[spoiler:Ironically enough, he eventually learnt how to fight and became stronger than her, only to end up killing her by mistake when they end up on opposite sides.]]
** Tenebris has moments hitting Razzia during Book 13 when [[ClingyJealousGirl he start displaying]] [[CovertPervert peeping moments when seeing Jadina in underwears]]. This is gradually deconstructed as the book goes however, with her becoming more and more aggressive as the story goes, in a less and less funny way (she ends up threatening him to cut his other arm off when he [[WhatTheHellHero call her out for trying to kill Kasino's assassins and taking pleasure to it]]). [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that Abyss [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed her]] with his PuppeteerParasite abilities]].
** Amusingly enough, the same book portrays an inversion of this trope on the villains' side: when [[BadBoss Count Kasino]] finds out his female assassin BodyguardBabes have failed to kill his cousins, he starts insulting them and threatening them with a sword. Which is played as comedy.

* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' is pretty much this in spades when it comes to [[SuperStrongChild Monica]] and most of the boys (specially [[ThoseTwoGuys Jimmy Five and Smudge]]). While [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early comics]] showed that Monica would beat up ''anybody'' but her own parents (even her best friend Maggy [[WithFriendsLikeThese wasn't safe]]), later comics go out of the way to estabilish that she ''only'' beats up boys (and sometimes grown men), and if she hits a girl, it's always by accident. A few times when Jimmy Five gains enough courage (and SuperStrength) to get back at her, it's always treated as a bad thing (although not to an extent where [[AdultsAreUseless parents have to interfere]]), but Monica is always treated as being on the right by solving her problems with violence (something her family [[DependingOnTheWriter may or may not advocate]]). It doesn't help that most of the time, she only uses her strength to mend her own pride (such as petty insults thrown at her by the boys, but if another girl does it, Monica either hesitates or becomes heartbroken over the "betrayal") rather than to [[DesignatedHero actually help others]].
* In the "free comic day" ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment comic]], Scott is attacked by female ninjas and, much to the chagrin of Ramona and Wallace, ''refuses to defend himself because he doesn't want to hit a girl''. Missing the opportunity to tackle the issue in a meaningful way, it's instead PlayedForLaughs.

* Dixie from ''What's New? With Phil And Dixie'' regularly smacks, punches, or hammer-[=KOs=] her partner Phil, which combines this trope with TakeThatMe because he's Creator/PhilFoglio's AuthorAvatar.
* The Penthouse comic ''Oh Wicked Wanda'' tended to have... questionable messages, but the ending stands out. The two female protagonists jump around time trying to change history, and eventually land in the future, in a desolate wasteland full of deserts and wrecked cars, and vocally agree that this is not good. Then a ragged, panicking man runs into them, and they see that he's chased by two savage women. Wanda reasons that women are now in charge, and ''immediately'' concludes that the world is in good hands.
* ''Franchise/XMen'': Writer Creator/ChrisClaremont loves "taking it out" on ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}. Wife Madelyne Pryor punches Summers square in the face for daring to mention Jean ''again''. The entire storyline involving the couple had Summers questioning his wife's identity. One of many unhealthy details behind the relationship.

* Subverted in ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} #9'', Spider-Woman finds out that Hawkeye had slept with another woman, despite being in a sorta-relationship with her (it's not made clear exactly, but the implication is that Clint didn't think they were in a serious, closed relationship). She then slaps him twice and tries to hit him a third time, but he stops her and says that, while she's angry, she doesn't get to do that. Should be noted that Spider-Woman has super-strength and could easily crack his skull, while he's a BadassNormal with no defense.

* ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' is pretty much this in spades when it comes to [[SuperStrongChild Monica]] and most of the boys (specially [[ThoseTwoGuys Jimmy Five and Smudge]]). While [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early comics]] showed that Monica would beat up ''anybody'' but her own parents (even her best friend Maggy [[WithFriendsLikeThese wasn't safe]]), later comics go out of the way to estabilish that she ''only'' beats up boys (and sometimes grown men), and if she hits a girl, it's always by accident. A few times when Jimmy Five gains enough courage (and SuperStrength) to get back at her, it's always treated as a bad thing (although not to an extent where [[AdultsAreUseless parents have to interfere]]), but Monica is always treated as being on the right by solving her problems with violence (something her family [[DependingOnTheWriter may or may not advocate]]). It doesn't help that most of the time, she only uses her strength to mend her own pride rather than to [[DesignatedHero actually do the right thing]].

** Asterix's relationship with StrawFeminist Bravura in ''Recap/AsterixAndTheSecretWeapon''. Bravura uses her size advantage on him to physically, mentally, and sexually abuse him, forcibly moving into his house, casually smacking him on the behind, picking him up a lot, gaslighting him, and ignoring all of his constant protestations. At one point, when he turns down a marriage proposal from her, she scoops him up and forces a kiss on him, so he punches her to get away, immediately feeling terrible about it and being ostracised for it by the other villagers. When Asterix attempts to vent to Obelix about how dismayed with himself he is for [[WouldNotHitAGirl hitting a woman]], Obelix just teases Asterix about his 'thing' for her, and spreads rumours around to the other men that he likes Bravura. In the final act, he suddenly changes his mind about Bravura after seeing her ArmorPiercingSlap a Roman centurion, they [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee plot together to defeat the villain of the week]] in a way full of romantic DoubleEntendre ("It's my turn to make you a proposal!"), and the final page shows them demurely kissing and making up, with the implication that Asterix did indeed have a thing for her.

* ''[[ComicBook/TheFlash Impulse]]'': In an issue dealing with one of Bart Allen's classmates being the victim of child abuse, it's treated as a ShockingSwerve that it's his mother beating him and that his stepfather actually loves him and had no idea. In a later issue, the boy's mother gets visited in the mental hospital she was put in; DC stories have always treated abusive fathers as monsters deserving of jail (preferably after a severe beating from a furious superhero), so this trope goes into effect when an abusive mother is treated as someone with mental problems she needs help resolving instead.

** Asterix's relationship with StrawFeminist Bravura in ''Recap/AsterixAndTheSecretWeapon''. Bravura uses her size advantage on him to physically, mentally and sexually abuse him, forcibly moving into his house, casually smacking him on the behind, picking him up a lot, gaslighting him, and ignoring all of his constant protestations. At one point, when he turns down a marriage proposal from her, she scoops him up and forces a kiss on him, so he punches her to get away, immediately feeling terrible about it and being ostracised for it by the other villagers. When Asterix attempts to vent to Obelix about how dismayed with himself he is for [[WouldNotHitAGirl hitting a woman]], Obelix just teases Asterix about his 'thing' for her, and spreads rumours around to the other men that he likes Bravura. In the final act, he suddenly changes his mind about Bravura after seeing her ArmorPiercingSlap a Roman centurion, they [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee plot together to defeat the villain of the week]] in a way full of romantic DoubleEntendre ("It's my turn to make you a proposal!"), and the final page shows them demurely kissing and making up, with the implication that Asterix did indeed have a thing for her.

* Subverted in ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} #9'', Spider-Woman finds out that Hawkeye had slept with another woman, despite being in a sorta-relationship with her (its not made clear exactly, but the implication is that Clint didn't know they were in a serious, closed relationship). She then slaps him twice and tries to hit him a third time, but he stops her and says that, while she's angry, she doesn't get to do that. Should be noted that Spider-Woman has super strength and could easily crack his skull, while he's a BadassNormal with no defense.
* ''[[ComicBook/TheFlash Impulse]]'': In an issue dealing with one of Bart Allen's classmates being the victim of child abuse, it's treated as a ShockingSwerve that it's his mother beating him and that his stepfather actually loves him and had no idea. In a later issue the boy's mother gets visited in the mental hospital she was put in; DC stories have always treated abusive fathers as monsters deserving of jail (preferably after a severe beating from a furious superhero), so this trope goes into effect when an abusive mother is treated as someone with mental problems she needs help resolving instead.

* ''Franchise/XMen'': Writer Creator/ChrisClaremont loves "taking it out" on ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}. Wife, Madelyne Pryor punches Summers square in the face for daring to mention Jean ''again''. The entire storyline involving the couple had Summer's questioning his wife's identity. One of many unhealthy details behind the relationship.

* The powers-that-be at DC thought it was perfectly fine for ComicBook/BlackCanary, one of the most powerful martial artists in the DCU, [[http://girl-wonder.org/girlsreadcomics/?p=93 to lamp Green Arrow with a full-strength punch because she was angry at him]], only to then [[SlapSlapKiss have sex with him]]. And why was she angry? Because he was [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale raped by his archenemy way back]].

%%* Janet Van Dyne, aka ''ComicBook/TheWasp'', took advantage of a severe case of schizophrenia that her long-time crime-fighting partner [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]] underwent (an accidental chemical gassing leading to the creation of the split personality "Yellowjacket") to trick him into a marriage he wasn't really ready for, and never gave a thought about getting him the psychiatric help he clearly needed. Hank goes through several misfortunes leading up to a drug-induced mental breakdown,(this one now being his ''fourth''!) and hits Jan in a fit of rage (which wasn't even ''intentional''; he was flailing around in a mad fit and accidentally backhanded her). Guess who was divorced, branded a wife-beater, and still blames himself for something that was beyond his control at the time, and who was thought of by all, in-universe and out, as an entirely innocent victim of abuse? This misconception is so widespread that speaking the truth of what ''actually'' happened can lead to accusations of victim blaming.

* The violence in [[YourCheatingHeart Baphomet]] and [[{{Yandere}} the Morrigan's]] relationship in ''Comicbook/TheWickedAndTheDivine'' isn't played for laughs so much as normative fantasy-violence for two angry young people with horrible emotional regulation in a mutually dysfunctional relationship. But this trope is then subverted when the reveal that the Morrigan's been physically abusing Baphomet in revenge for him cheating on her is treated with appropriate levels of severity.

* [[ComicBook/LesLegendaires Les Légendaires]] does this occasionally:
** Gryf's love interests Shun-Day and Shimy both abused him physically at some points, and it's always played for laughs.
** [[CoolBigSis Sheyla's]] violence on her brother Razzia was slightly played for laughs in a flashback, when she had just rescued him from bullies, and was mad he didn't defend himself. [[spoiler:Ironically enough, he eventually learnt how to fight and became stronger than her, only to end up killing her by mistake when they ended up on opposite sides.]]

*** Amusingly enough, the same book portrays an inversion of this trope on the villains' side: when [[BadBoss Count Kasino]] finds out his female assassin BodyguardBabes have failed to kill his cousins, he starts insulting them and threatening them with a sword. Which is played as comedy.

* ''Franchise/{{XMen}}'': Writer Creator/ChrisClaremont loves "taking it out" on ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}. Wife, Madelyne Pryor punches Summers square in the face for daring to mention Jean ''again''. The entire storyline involving the couple had Summer's questioning his wife's identity. One of many unhealthy details behind the relationship.

** Asterix's relationship with StrawFeminist Bravura in ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} and the Secret Weapon''. Bravura uses her size advantage on him to physically, mentally and sexually abuse him, forcibly moving into his house, casually smacking him on the behind, picking him up a lot, gaslighting him, and ignoring all of his constant protestations. At one point, when he turns down a marriage proposal from her, she scoops him up and forces a kiss on him, so he punches her to get away, immediately feeling terrible about it and being ostracised for it by the other villagers. When Asterix attempts to vent to Obelix about how dismayed with himself he is for [[WouldNotHitAGirl hitting a woman]], Obelix just teases Asterix about his 'thing' for her, and spreads rumours around to the other men that he likes Bravura. In the final act, he suddenly changes his mind about Bravura after seeing her ArmorPiercingSlap a Roman centurion, they [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee plot together to defeat the villain of the week]] in a way full of romantic DoubleEntendre ("It's my turn to make you a proposal!"), and the final page shows them demurely kissing and making up, with the implication that Asterix did indeed have a thing for her.

** Even the cover depict Bravura carrying Asterix who looks clearly embarassed yet Obelix giggles at them in the foreground.
** Bravura is described as Asterix's "former girlfriend" in ''Asterix and Obelix's Birthday''.

** The cover, in true CoversAlwaysLie fashion, goes so far as to depict Asterix blushing adoringly at Bravura's affection, overwhelmed by love, while Obelix giggles at them in the foreground.
** Bravura is described as Asterix's 'former girlfriend' in ''Asterix and Obelix's Birthday''.

* ''[[ComicBook/TheFlash Impulse]]'': This in a one-issue story where Impulse noticed one of his male classmates turning up with suspicious injuries. It's treated as a ShockingSwerve that it's his mother beating him and that his stepfather actually loves him and had no idea. It actually did get remembered for a (little) while, as in a later issue the boy's mother gets visited in the mental hospital she was put in. Though this too is an example... she's in a mental hospital being treated as someone needing help, not in jail being treated as someone deserving of punishment like the stepfather would be (and has been in other DC stories).

* ''[[ComicBook/TheFlash Impulse]]'': This in a one-issue story where Impulse noticed one of his male classmates turning up with suspicious injuries. It actually did get remembered for a (little) while, as in a later issue [[spoiler:the boy's mother gets visited in the mental hospital she was put in.]]