History DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale / WesternAnimation

* Oddly played for laughs in ''PhineasAndFerb'' when a {{supervillain}} is hit by a chair thrown by [[spoiler:his wife, who then demands they go shopping for more "throwing chairs."]]

** WordOfGod states that at one point writers suggested making a gag where Homer strangles Lisa, which was immediately rebuked, despite no one ever critisizing the often used gag of him strangling Bart.

** Played with the [=McKormicks=]. While they are implied to both take as much as they dish out, only Mrs. [=McKormicks=] is shown hitting Mr. [=McKormicks=] onscreen (a preview for "Make Love Not Warcraft" shown Mr. [=McKormicks=] about to slug her but cuts off just beforehand, for the final episode this is edited to Mrs. [=McKormicks=] actually shown doing so to him uncut).

** If its a SethMacFarlane show, its going to have this. ''FamilyGuy'' is also never above using violence from either sex against the other as comedic fodder, finding dark humor in it.

* Zig-Zagged in ''HeyArnold''. Helga regularly harasses characters in the series, especially Arnold and Brainy (who [[RunningGag has a tendency to appear behind her and get punched after he breathes down her neck]]). Averted when a psychiatrist ''does'' visit PS 118, spots her behaviour, and immediately wishes to assess it. By the end of the episode, when Helga asks if she can still punch Briany, she's told, "No, that's the reason why you're here". Granted, it's not a punishment, but she ''did'' get repercussions for her bully tendencies. Plus her harassment is showing the audience that she has a problem, and played for drama more than it is for laughs.

* In the animated adaptation of ''Literature/WaysideSchool'', Maurecia, an ActionGirl with a crush on OnlySaneMan (and ButtMonkey) Todd, hits her love interest with an unprovoked MegatonPunch every chance she gets. She never gets in trouble for this, even when a teacher has seen what happened -- although ''Todd'' sometimes does. The punches are implied to be something like a sign of Maurecia's affection, or her confusion about her own feelings, and in either case, harmless. Although Todd always rebuffs Maurecia's romantic advances (the ''only'' way in which [[UnfortunateImplications he "provokes" the abuse]]), he still considers her a friend, spends a lot of time around her, and never, ''ever'' complains to a teacher about getting PunchedAcrossTheRoom. And this is all in a series [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop aimed at children]]...

* ''WreckItRalph'' features a scene where this is PlayedForLaughs. After Felix and Tamara fall and get suck in a Nesquicksand pit, [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan she hits him to keep him from panicking]]. However, they notice that there are vines of Laffy Taffy that dangle closer to them when something funny happens...in this case, it's Tamara hitting Felix. Even though Felix actually ''encourages'' her to hit him even more and she does so only to attract the Laffy Taffy vines (as well as the fact that [[GoodThingYouCanHeal he can heal the damage]]), one may see some UnfortunateImplications in this. To be completely fair, she's reluctant to ''continuously'' abuse him and is doing so only to attract the Laffy Taffy.

* ''WreckItRalph'' features a scene where this is PlayedForLaughs. After Felix and Tamara fall and get suck in a Nesquicksand pit, she hits him in frustration. However, they notice that there are vines of Laffy Taffy that dangle closer to them when something funny happens...in this case, it's Tamara hitting Felix. Even though Felix actually ''encourages'' her to hit him even more and she does so only to attract the Laffy Taffy vines (as well as the fact that [[GoodThingYouCanHeal he can heal the damage]]), one may see some UnfortunateImplications in this. To be completely fair, she's reluctant to ''continuously'' abuse him and is doing so only to attract the Laffy Taffy.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/Futurama'' episode "The Butterjunk Effect," Amy and Leela become Butterfly Derby athletes by doping up on "Nectar", which is bascially space steroids. Fry and Kif are the victims of their subsequent 'roid rage: Kif mentions being hit with "various chairs", and Fry gets sexually assaulted by both of them while in the throes of their Nectar-induced madness. All play for laughs, of course (Fry's kind of okay with it, actually), but if the sexes were reversed this whole situation wouldn't be funny ''at all''.

** Played with the [=McKormicks=]. While they are implied to both take as much as they dish out, only Mrs. [=McKormicks=] is shown hitting Mr. [=McKormicks=] onscreen (a preview for "Make Love Not Warcraft" shown Mr. [=McKormicks=] about to slug her, for the final episode this is edited to Mrs. [=McKormicks=] actually shown doing so to him uncut).

** Also, in one episode Arnold is fed up with Helga verbally abusing him in art class, and after she throws glue and feathers on him (and then laughs at him, shouting to the whole class "Arnold's a bird!"), he retaliates by throwing a cup of paint on her. The teacher, who never did ''anything'' when Helga abused him, is shocked at ''Arnold'' and sends him to the principal's office, and his grandparents are notified. [[KarmaHoudini Helga gets away with this.]]

* Averted in ''YoungJustice''. [[spoiler:Superboy dumped Miss Martian when she tried to use her telepathy to make him forget he was mad at her.]] Ironically, [[FanDumb some of the fans are still mad that they aren't together anymore]].

* Averted in ''YoungJustice''. [[spoiler:Superboy dumped Miss Martian when she tried to use her telepathy to make him forget he was mad at her.]] Ironically, the fans are still mad that they aren't together anymore.

* In ''TheFairlyOddParents'', Vicky's abuse of Timmy. While she's quite obviously a villain and many times her treatment of Timmy is PlayedForLaughs; ask yourself this question-If the show centered on a 10-year-old ''girl'' who was being terrorized by a 16-year-old ''boy'', would the audience be as amused, or as tolerant of it? In addition, Vicki has stripped Timmy down to his underwear and many times she has forced him to wear a dress. Think of the audience reaction if this were a teenage boy doing this to a little girl.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' Francine frequently vents unstable violent tendancies on Stan, she once beat him mercilessly for forgetting their wedding anniversary, and once threatened to shoot him kneecaps off for another disception (which he only avoided by having her gun down his double by mistake). On both occasions they kiss and make up by the end. Granted however Stan ''is'' a JerkAss whose belitting treatment of Francine is also usually PlayedForLaughs (albeit in a verbal manner, the one time Stan was falsely implied to have beaten Francine, and at a much less brutal scale than the genuine occasions vise versa has happened, he was labelled a monster and jailed). There is also more than one episode where the couple have all out bloody fights with both sides giving and getting and at least one where he's implied to have been torturing her off camera. He also accidentally threw a javelin at her, although he was trying to hit a bear (ItMakesSenseInContext). Luckily, she's still fine... then she's shot by [[{{Crossover}} Cleveland]].
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' '''Triumvirate of Terror!''' shows this. [[spoiler:Lex Luthor, Cheetah and Joker decide to switch {{arch enem|y}}ies. Joker takes on Wonder Woman and subdues her using trickery and had earlier knocked out a heap of Amazons using laughing gas. Cheetah meanwhile takes on Superman and gives him a brutal beating (subverting StandardFemaleGrabArea in process). Joker is never seen hitting Wonder Woman and is stopped before he can, compared to Superman who is badly beaten and gets his costume torn in places. Wonder Woman is also the only one of the three heroes who is shown hitting Cheetah on screen.]]
** Subverted in '''Night of the Huntress!''' with Batman punching Mrs.Manface saying "The hammers of Justice are unisex!"

* TheProudFamily. Oscar is beaten up, sometimes twice an episode, and usually by his wife or mother. Most of the times it's because he flirts with other women, which is wrong, but if Trudy ever flirts with another man and Oscar says something about it, he is portrayed as over-reacting. One particulary {{Egregious}} example: Trudy makes a joke about leaving Oscar for Denzel Washington. Everyone laughs. Oscar makes a joke about leaving her for Halle Berry. Trudy and Penny glare at him before Trudy drops his foot, which was bandaged after an earlier accident.
* In the FairlyOddParents, Vicky's abuse of Timmy. While she's quite obviously a villian and many times her treatment of Timmy is PlayedForLaughs; ask yourself this question-If the show centered around a ten year ''girl'' who was being terrorized by a sixteen year old ''boy'', would the audience be as amused, or as tolerant of it? In addition, Timmy has been stripped down to his underwear by Vicky and many times forced to wear a dress. Think of the audience reaction if this were a teenage boy doing this to a little girl.
* ''WreckItRalph'' features a scene where this is PlayedForLaughs - After Felix and Tamara fall and get suck in a Nesquicksand pit, Tamara hits Felix in frustration. However, they notice that there are vines of Laffy Taffy that dangle closer to them when something funny happens...in this case, it's Tamara hitting Felix. Despite that Felix actually ''encourages'' her to hit him even more and she only does so to attract the Laffy Taffy vines (As well as the fact that [[GoodThingYouCanHeal he can heal the damage]]), one may see some UnfortunateImplications in this. To be completely fair, she's reluctant to ''continuously'' abuse him and is only doing so to attract the Laffy Taffy.

* ''WreckItRalph'' features a scene where this is PlayedForLaughs - After Felix and Tamara fall and get suck in a Nesquicksand pit, Tamara hits Felix in frustration. However, they notice that there are vines of Laffy Taffy that dangle closer to them when something funny happens...in this case, it's Tamara hitting Felix. Despite that Felix actually ''encourages'' her to hit him even more and she only does so to attract the Laffy Taffy vines (As well as the fact that [[GoodThingYouCanHeal he can heal the damage]]), one may see some UnfortunateImplications in this.

* Raven's frequent smacking of Beast Boy, either physically or telekinetically, is almost always PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' due to the cartoonish style of the serie. Surprisingly, Starfire and Robin, on the other hand, subvert this trope: you would expect a naive alien girl with super-strenght to be a perfect opportunity for this trope, but Starfire only hit Robin in the pilot, which ''wasn't'' played for laughs. For the remaining of the show, she acts actually extremely nice toward him and ''never'' abuse him, despite being obviously the strongest of the two.

* JohnnyBravo has to deal with this trope on a daily basis, in every single episode, even in the opening titles.

** Granted he does deserve it sometimes due to his attitude towards women.
*** This comment is itself an example of this trope, as everyone would be horrified at a cartoon where a woman was habitually beaten for her "attitude towards men," and nobody would argue that it was a justification.
*** Nobody really deserves to get attacked if they haven't been a threat. Of course he is obnoxious but wanting to approach women isn't a crime of itself.

* Zig-Zagged in ''HeyArnold''. Helga regularly harasses characters in the series, especially Arnold and Brainy (who [[RunningGag has a tendency to appear behind her and get punched after he breathes down her neck]]). Averted when a psychiatrist ''does'' visit PS 118, spots her behaviour, and immediately wishes to assess it. By the end of the episode, when Helga asks if she can still punch Briany, she's told, "No, that's the reason why you're here". Granted, it's not a punishment, but she ''did'' get repercussions for her bully tendencies. Plus her harassment is showing the audience that she has a problem, the other characters don't do anything.
** Also, in one episode Arnold is fed up with Helga verbally abusing him in art class, and after she throws glue and feathers on him (and then laughs at him, shouting to the whole class "Arnold's a bird!"), he retaliates by throwing a cup of paint on her. The teacher, who never did ''anything'' when Helga abused him, is shocked at ''Arnold'' and sends him to the principal's office, and his grandparents are notified.

* TheProudFamily. Oscar is beaten up, sometimes twice an episode, and usually by his wife or mother. Most of the times it's because he flirts with other women, which is wrong, but if Trudy ever flirts with another man and Oscar says something about it, he is portrayed as over-reacting. One particulary {{Egregious}} example from one episode: Trudy makes a joke about leaving Oscar for Denzel Washington. Everyone laughs. Oscar makes a joke about leaving her for Halle Berry. Trudy and Penny glare at him before Trudy drops his foot, which was bandaged after an earlier accident.

** Granted he does deserve it sometimes due to his attitude towards women.

* In ''EdEddNEddy'', the Eds are commonly beaten up by Ed's sister Sarah, plus all the times they've been possibly [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale raped by the Kankers]], who are the walking definitions of Do Not Want. Not only are the Kankers beasts, but the cul-de-sac is ''scared'' of them. So while their [[AmusingInjuries treatment]] of the Eds and anyone who annoys them is usually played for laughs, there are times that it ''is'' wrong and quite likely illegal, but those moments are never actually on screen and only inferred or alluded to. It's to the point that when they drag [[spoiler:Eddy's brother]] away for 'mouth to mouth', it's viewed as his ''comeuppance''. Granted, he [[spoiler: abuses Eddy]] but ''still''...

* In ''EdEddNEddy'', the Eds are commonly beaten up by Ed's sister Sarah, plus all the times they've been possibly [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale raped by the Kankers]], who are the walking definitions of Do Not Want. Not only are the Kankers beasts, but the cul-de-sac is ''scared'' of them. So while their [[AmusingInjuries treatment]] of the Eds and anyone who annoys them is usually played for laughs, there are times that it ''is'' wrong and quite likely illegal, but those moments are never actually on screen and only inferred or alluded to. It's to the point that when they drag [[spoiler:Eddy's brother]] away for 'mouth to mouth', it's viewed as his ''comeuppance''. Granted, he's a [[spoiler:CompleteMonster that abuses Eddy]] but ''still''...

* ''MuppetBabies'': Piggy does this to Gonzo in almost every episode. When Gonzo Sweet talks Piggy into liking him, she gets very mad and beats him up in the most hilarious ways imaginable.