History DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale / Videogames

* Amy Rose from ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' is a case of StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale. She's also not afraid to use [[{{Hammerspace}} her]] [[DropTheHammer hammer]] on anyone who even ''appears'' to be romantically interested in Sonic, having claimed him for herself despite his own refusal. In ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', she even attempts to coerce him into marriage using force. This part of her personality has been played down over time, even being completely absent in the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' continuity.

* ''VideoGame/{{Devotion}}'': Averted. While [[spoiler:Du Feng Yu]]'s physical abuse of [[spoiler:Gong Li Fang]] is treated seriously, the emotional abuse ''he'' suffers at the hands of [[spoiler:cult leader Mentor Heuh]] is portrayed as equally bad, if not more so because she is intentionally exacerbating his mental illness to make him more obedient to her.

* In ''VideoGame/ArTonelico2'':

* Contrast to the aversion in ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon'', where the "Linda"-class enemies [[WhipItGood show no mercy]], ''and'' expect none. Linda is depicted as a [[BrawnHilda mannish-muscular]] woman with a mohawk in the NES and Arcade Sequel, which raises its own set of unfortunate implications.

** And averted in the ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}/Double Dragon'' crossovers. In this one, Linda's a buxom long-haired blonde in camo pants and a tight shirt - and the Toads and Dragons hold her up in the air by her hair and punch her in the stomach repeatedly.

* In ''VideoGame/NeverDead'', Bryce's accomplis, Arcadia, shoots him several times throughout the game, and always played for comedy. However, Bryce is fully immortal and [[WhoWantsToLiveForever is very difficult to motivate]], so threats of physical violence seem to be the only disciplinary measure that works on him.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3'', invokes this to a degree with Dante and Lady, while the latter’s boss battle is semi-justified as Dante at least instigated the fight with her, at other times Lady just shoots at Dante with no provocation. Like when she first meets him and assumed he was human, Lady inexplicably decides to fire a goddamn missile at Dante, which [[RidingTheBomb he surfs on]] but put a normal dude in Dante’s position and Lady just committed manslaughter. Even more egregious is during their second meeting, when Dante saves Lady from falling to her death and she responses by ''shooting him in the face'' just because he wouldn’t let her go when she demanded, this time Dante ImmuneToBullets rightly calls her out for being so violently ungrateful. The only believable justification (apart from her being a trigger happy BrokenBird AntiHero) is that Lady must’ve believed Dante was evil given his presence at the [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Temen-ni-gru]].

* In ''VideoGame/Persona3'', Ryoji and Junpei joke around about staying in the hot springs past the allotted time for men, even though they actually panic when girls start coming in for real. When they hear [[TheOjou Mitsuru]] come in also, Akihiko all but freaks out, saying that she'd give them all a FateWorseThanDeath if she catches them in the hot spring --the same Akihiko that is otherwise fearless (bordering on BloodKnight) when facing {{Eldritch Abomination}}s in an EldritchLocation every night and has been Mitsuru's best and oldest friend for ''years''. When Junpei says that they'd just explain and apologize to the girls, Akihiko insists that it wouldn't matter to Mitsuru, she would "execute them" anyway. And indeed, if you fail to escape after a stealth-action minigame ensues, the girls are righteously enraged by the guys' presence and Mitsuru follows through with this "[[NoodleIncident execution]]" that reduces all men to quivering wrecks by the next day, and has the girls either berating them or giving them the silent treatment for at least the following week.

* In ''VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII'', one sidequest involves finding a singer's husband, who has vanished. It turns out he lost one of the songs he had written for her and was too ashamed to be in her presence after that. Once the player gives the song back to the husband, the man then reveals himself to the singer and begs her forgiveness. The singer responds by beating the living hell out of him while he tries to apologize until he's so badly beaten he spends the rest of the game lying on the ground right where she beat him up. Had the genders been reversed this would ''not'' have been PlayedForLaughs.

* A sidequest called "The Wandering Couple" in ''VideoGame/NieRAutomata'' ends with TheReveal that [[spoiler:the whole scenario was an elaborate ploy by the female android to manipulate her boyfriend into entering a reformating machine, so she could delete his entire personality and rewrite it from scratch to make him more appealing to her]]. That's a kind of DomesticAbuse that humans don't even have words for. Worst of all, not only is this the ''sixth'' time she's done it, but absolutely no way to call her out on it is presented. If the genders were reversed, this scenario would be provoke mass outrage.

* ''VideoGame/Persona5Scramble'' keeps the tradition going with another hot springs episode where the boys accidentally stay in the bath after hours and when the girls show up, they quickly try to escape unnoticed. This doesn't go so well, and Makoto quickly deals with them in quite the brutal manner.

* In {{VideoGame/Hades}}, every escape attempt involves the main character's [[spoiler: ex-girlfriend (or, later, current girlfriend) trying to murder him while he tries to talk his way past her]]. This is portrayed as funny and/or sexy.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3'', invokes this to a degree with Dante and Lady, while the latter’s boss battle is semi-justified as Dante at least instigated the fight with her, at other times Lady just shoots at Dante with no provocation. Like when she first mets him and assumed he was human, Lady inexplicably decides to fire a goddamn missile at Dante, which [[RidingTheBomb he surfs on]] but put a normal dude in Dante’s position and Lady just committed manslaughter. Even more egregious is during their second meeting, when Dante saves Lady from falling to her death and she responses by ''shooting him in the face'' just because he wouldn’t let her go when she demanded, this time Dante ImmuneToBullets rightly calls her out for being so violently ungrateful. The only believable justification (apart from her being a trigger happy BrokenBird AntiHero) is that Lady must’ve believed Dante was evil given his presence at the [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Temen-ni-gru]].

* In ''VideoGameFireEmblemThreeHouses'', Ingrid actually slaps Sylvain offscreen [[DisproportionateRetribution for making a tasteless joke]] about [[spoiler: Flayn's disappearance]], as Sylvain was speculating she might have eloped. ''Nobody,'' not Byleth, Dimitri (the leader of the Blue Lions), any of the teachers or Sylvain himself call Ingrid out on physically assaulting one of her classmates, made all the more jarring because [[InnocentlyInsensitive Sylvain genuinely has no idea why she did it in the first place, he just spoke without thinking.]] If the genders were reversed, it would have ''not'' been treated so lightly.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' we have Raine Sage who is quite the disciplinarian when it comes to Lloyd and her little brother Genis Sage. She kicks Lloyd into a wall knocking him unconscious and smacks Genis on the rear when they disobey her orders to stay in class. Then again when Genis says "You humans are all the same!" to the Governor General of a port town. In fact, she seems to smack Lloyd around even more than Genis. In the OVA, she is shown throwing chalk at a sleeping Lloyd. This would be considered domestic abuse if it was an adult male abusing a teenage female. There's also the potential of it being SlapSlapKiss (the kicking around of Lloyd, not [[BrotherSisterIncest Genis]]) should you choose to romance her in Flanoir and later in Dawn of a New World. Somewhat justified by the fact she was only a teen when her parents died, and Dirk is also shown attempting to punch his son (Lloyd) meaning corporal punishment is most likely the norm for Symphonia characters.
** There's also Sheena and Zelos' relationship in the game. Granted, Zelos generally [[LovableSexManiac deserves]] being punched/whacked, but Sheena seems to be the only one who consistently slaps around Zelos. Surprisingly, she doesn't do it as much after [[spoiler: [[TheDogBitesBack Zelos]] betrays the party to get Aionis for Kratos so Lloyd can wield the ultimate sword and split the worlds]] but that's probably because she's so shaken by [[spoiler: his betrayal even if it was only temporary (or permanent depending on what you do in Flanoir)]]. That, or she gained new respect for him. Once again if you choose to romance these two it turns into SlapSlapKiss, like Raine and Lloyd above.