History GroinAttack / AnimeAndManga

** In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', [=WarGreymon=] uses his Great Tornado attack to drill right into [=VenomMyotismon's=] crotch, but all it does is reveal Myotismon's true form within. After this happens, [=WarGreymon=] proceeds to kick the Fuji Broadcasting Center's observatory into [=VenomMyotismon's=] crotch-face, before he and [=MetalGarurumon=] finish the job with a CombinationAttack.

* Hikari Domina, female protagonist of ''Manga/DominaNoDo'', routinely strikes her [[ArrangedMarriage parentally chosen spouse]] Takeshi Tsuchie in the nuts when she's angry with him -- which, since she's a {{Tsundere}} who [[FetishizedAbuser belives all male/female romance is based on femdom/malesub dynamics]], is a ''lot'', and it's always presented as being comedic, under the usual rule that [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale girls hitting guys is funny]]. Ironically, Hikari ends up on the receiving end of a GroinAttack herself twice. One time, in a story involving her getting a set of magical, fully-functional male genitalia attached, she gets struck in the balls with a baseball bat. In another story, after her FilleFatale little sister Akari tells her that what guys feel when hit in the balls is what girls feel when they pinch their clitorises with hairclips, [[SchmuckBait Hikari does that to herself to see what all the fuss is about]]... her HowlOfSorrow can be heard through the mansion. [[EpiphanyTherapy These two incidents make her stop hitting Takeshi below the belt]]... but they don't stop the general abuse.

* Hikari Domina, female protagonist of ''Manga/DominaNoDo'', routinely strikes her [[ArrangedMarriage parentally chosen spouse]] Takeshi Tsuchie in the nuts when she's angry with him -- which, since she's a {{Tsundere}} who [[FetishizedAbuser belives all male/female romance is based on femdom/malesub dnamics]], is a ''lot'', and it's always presented as being comedic, under the usual rule that [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale girls hitting guys is funny]]. Ironically, Hikari ends up on the receiving end of a GroinAttack herself twice. One time, in a story involving her getting a set of magical, fully-functional male genitalia attached, she gets struck in the balls with a baseball bat. In another story, after her FilleFatale little sister Akari tells her that what guys feel when hit in the balls is what girls feel when they pinch their clitorises with hairclips, [[SchmuckBait Hikari does that to herself to see what all the fuss is about]]... her HowlOfSorrow can be heard through the mansion. [[EpiphanyTherapy These two incidents make her stop hitting Takeshi below the belt]]... but they don't stop the general abuse.

* Hikari Domina, female protagonist of ''Manga/DominaNoDo'', routinely strikes her [[ArrangedMarriage parentally chosen spouse]] Takeshi Tsuchie in the nuts when she's angry with him -- which, since she's a {{Tsundere}} who [[FetishizedAbuser belives all male/female romance is based on femdom/malesub dnamics]], is a ''lot'', and it's always presented as being comedic, under the usual rule that [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale girls hitting guys is funny]]. Ironically, Hikari ends up on the receiving end of a GroinAttack herself twice. One time, in a story involving her getting a set of magical, fully-functional male genitalia attached, she gets struck in the balls with a baseball bat. In another story, after her FilleFatale little sister Akari tells her that what guys feel when hit in the balls is what girls feel when they pinch their clitorises with hairclips, [[SchmuckBait Hikari does that to herself to see what all the fuss is about]]... her HowlOfSorrow can be heard through the mansion. [[EpiphanyTheraphy These two incidents make her stop hitting Takeshi below the belt]]... but they don't stop the general abuse.

** The original ''Manga/DragonBall'' series! [[ButtMonkey Yamcha]] was unlucky enough to get an especially painful one during the World Tournament. And from Shen [[spoiler:aka Kami possessing a random passerby's body and making him a BadassNormal for a while]] nevertheless. Poor, poor Yamcha. Normally groin attacks are grounds for immediate disqualification in the Tenkaichi Budokai, but the judges ruled it was an accident (Yamcha went for a jump kick, Shen ducked, and groin hit head) so Shen was allowed to continue fighting, although only after Yamcha was given enough time to recover.
** This happened to Mister Satan once as well. He landed crotch-first on something pointy... ouch.

*** When Tagoma boasts that being Frieza's sparring partner for four months has made his body harder than steel and sophisticated attacks have no effect on him... and Gotenks promptly headbutts him right in the Dragon Balls (likely the one place Frieza did not attack him in those four months), for devastating effect. Roshi promptly states it wasn't a sophisticated attack.
*** During his final face-off against Fused Zamasu, Future Trunks slices the mad god [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe in half]] from the bottom up, right through his groin. It's not PlayedForLaughs at all or even called attention to, for fairly obvious reasons.

*** In episode 89 Yurin kicks [[DirtyOldMan Master Roshi]] in the groin for looking up her skirt after he knocked her on her back.

* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', after upgrading his sword into a LaserBlade powered by the combined ki of everyone on the planet, Future Trunks splits Merged Zamasu in half vertically, starting at his groin. And he holds his sword there for several seconds before moving it up.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Checkmate."'']]

** In the [[Manga/DragonBallSuper manga version]] of their fight, Toppo managed to defeat Goku this way by [[https://i.redd.it/3k1277ttoyt31.png kicking him below the belt]] and knocking him away from the arena.
** In episode 89 Yurin kicks [[DirtyOldMan Master Roshi]] in the groin for looking up her skirt after he knocked her on her back.

** Done to ''ridiculous'' extremes as part of [[TrainingFromHell Wan Yundao's training]], whose teacher started with punching him there, then progressed to striking him with a ''hammer'', and, as the final exercise, used a ''siege ram''. By the time he fought a royally pissed Tsuyoshi and got punched in the groin it had no effect because his balls had already been shredded... Resulting in Tsuyoshi [[GameBreakingInjury striking and breaking his clavicle to immobilize his arms]] and then [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating him unconscious]].

* Sunmi clubs Skunk in the nuts with a microphone in ''Manga/TokyoTribe 2''.

* Trane from ''Die Wergelder'' provides a ''very'' nasty example when she defeats a powerful assassin by sliding under him and ''tearing out his entire crotch'' with her super-strong mechanical hand. She then crushes it while giving her regards to his family.* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', after upgrading his sword into a LaserBlade powered by the combined ki of everyone on the planet, Future Trunks splits Merged Zamasu in half vertically, starting at his groin. And he holds his sword there for several seconds before moving it up.

* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', after upgrading his sword into a LaserBlade powered by the combined ki of everyone on the planet, Future Trunks splits Merged Zamasu in half vertically, starting at his groin. And he holds his sword there for several seconds before moving it up.

* Trane from ''Die Wergelder'' provides a ''very'' nasty example when she defeats a powerful assassin by sliding under him and ''tearing out his entire crotch'' with her super-strong mechanical hand. She then crushes it while giving her regards to his family.

*** A gender-inverted one happened to Chi-Chi in ''Dragon Ball''. Although it doesn't appear painful, while Goku and Chi-Chi (as kids) were flying on the nimbus, Goku (lightly) kicked her in the groin to see if she was a boy or a girl. Chi-Chi then pushed him off of the nimbus as a result.

* Though not [[WhipItGood her preferred method]], [[{{Tsundere}} Louise]] of ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' has been known to employ this against Saito. Someone made a Demotivator poster of one of these occurrences, with the caption, "Telling your girlfriend she has small boobs comes at a price."

* Lakshi from ''LightNovel/TheWeatheringContinent'' pulls off a nut shot that catches her attacker ''in mid-air''.

* [[TheHeart Maylu]] actually kicks [[TheIdiotFromOsaka Tora]] in the crotch when he harasses her in the ''Manga/MegaManNTWarrior2001'', causing him to fall to the ground in pain. Could've been better, though...

* [[TheHeart Maylu]] actually kicks [[TheIdiotFromOsaka Tora]] in the crotch when he harasses her in the ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'' {{Manga}}, causing him to fall to the ground in pain. Could've been better, tho...

* In the 9th episode of ''Anime/DirtyPair'' after a giant mook picks Kei up and holds her in a lock, she gets free by kneeing him in the groin.
* The first episode of the ''Anime/DirtyPairFlash'' OVA series had Yuri kicking a leading police officer in the groin after he began to harass her about an item that she had gotten from a recently deceased man. It's safe to say that his teammates weren't too pleased to see this and that they eventually went after Yuri, who somehow got Kei involved in [[ChaseScene the chase]] as well.

* In the opening of ''LightNovel/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'', Dokuro is seen gleefully [[http://i48.tinypic.com/2myqo85.jpg grinding the main character's crotch into mush]] with a large spiked club.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Campione}}'', Godou acts as a baseball catcher and takes a baseball to the groin.
* In New Testament Vol. 1 of ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Touma makes a BigDamnHeroes rescue at the end when everyone thought he was dead. Once the bad guys have been defeated, he starts to explain what happened to him... when Leivinia Birdway suddenly sneaks up on him and kicks him in the groin, calling him a moron.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic''[='s=] Sōsuke is a CombatPragmatist who was RaisedByWolves; therefore, he doesn't get why people are so touchy when he uses the perfectly valid tactic of whaling on someone's soft-and-danglies.

* Though not [[WhipItGood her preferred method]], [[{{Tsundere}} Louise]] of ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'' has been known to employ this against Saito. Someone made a Demotivator poster of one of these occurrences, with the caption, "Telling your girlfriend she has small boobs comes at a price."

* In an early episode of ''LightNovel/KokoroConnect'', [[FreakyFridayFlip Taichi (in Yui's body)]][[note]]As a bonus, Yui is one of the most powerful characters in the show, so her kick is particularly potent.[[/note]] delivers one to Yui (in Taichi's body). [[HilarityEnsues Then they switch back]]. [[ChekhovsSkill This gets revisited in the finale]], when [[spoiler: [[BigDamnHeroes everyone goes to rescue Inaba]], and she defeats one of the thugs this way]].

** In episode 10 of Anime/LupinIIIPart1 series, when Flinch aims a second kick at Lupin, he catches it and kicks Flinch in the crotch.
** In the Anime/LupinIIIPartII series, he has used this tactic to escape from a large police officer who had him in a hold.

* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': Motoyasu finds himself on the receiving end of a good kick to the crotch from Filo for making fun of her. Next time he sees her in her human form and (not knowing it's her) refers to her as a "fat bird". She quickly changes forms and kicks him on the crotch once more (and we learn he was wearing some metal plates down there for protection). Naofumi then orders her to do that every time they see him, which she gladly accepts.

* Episode 6 of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}} NEXT'' had Martina place a curse on Lina, in which any pain she inflicts on others is magnified and directed back at her. Naturally, she ends up kicking Gourry in the groin after he had accidentally grabbed her breasts (courtesy of Xellos) and made a remark about how small they are and...well, HilarityEnsues.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'' Taiga delivers one of these to ''her own father.'' To be fair, though, Aisaka-san ''was'' a major JerkAss to her.

* In ''Manga/DevilMan The Birth'' after Ryo attacks the partygoers with a broken liquor bottle to spill their blood to summon the demons, they start fighting back and knock him to the floor, they then beat on him while he’s down and a woman kicks him in the crotch.

* Kurz Weber resorts to a groin kick during his knock-down-drag-out fight with Guen Bien Bo near the end of ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', but it doesn't give him the advantage for very long.

* ''LightNovel/{{No 6}}'': Sion does this to a greasy old corpse collector in chapter 6 that was hitting on him and had bad intentions towards him.

* [[TheChick Maylu]] actually kicks [[TheIdiotFromOsaka Tora]] in the crotch when he harasses her in the ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'' {{Manga}}, causing him to fall to the ground in pain. Could've been better, tho...

--->'''Denji:''' Thought you were full of it when you said you "wasted kindness" on me... But you ''are'' nice! 'Cause when ''I''... fight a ''dude''... it's ''nuts! OR! '''NOTHING!'''''

--->'''Denji:''' Thought you were full of it when you said you "wasted kindness" on me... But you ''are'' nice! 'Cause when ''I''... fight a ''dude''... it's ''nuts! Or! '''NOTHING!'''''

** In chapter 3 when Aki Hayakawa tries to scare Denji away from joining the agency for superficial reasons by attacking him, Denji retaliates by repeatedly kicking him in the balls. The first hit lands him on the ground, with the subsequent ones in anger. Once they return, battered and bruised, to Makima, [[BlatantLies Denji tells her that Aki got attacked by a "Testicle Devil"]] which Aki flatly calls out as a lie.
--->'''Denji:''' You really are a nice guy, huh? Because… when I fight a dude… it's nuts… or ''nothing!''
** Later on, [[spoiler:Denji and Aki have a "Groin Kicking Contest" on the Samurai Sword to see who can make him cry out the loudest before the police show up]].

** Later on, [[spoiler:Denji and Aki have a "Groin Kicking Contest" on the Sword Devil to see who can make him cry out the loudest before the police show up]].

** An example of the very rare female form of this occurs in ''The Sword of Uruk'', when Ki does it to Fatina with a spoon. From Fatina's reaction, Ki '''did hit''' the right spot.* In an episode of ''Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce'', Lightfoot hits Dauros in the groin with his [[CarFu car]]. In the Japanese version, Dauros then makes a pun about it while collapsing.