History Main / DesignatedGirlfight

* {{Enforced|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/Stardew Valley'', in [[spoiler:Leah's 10-heart event. In this event you have the option to punch Leah's ex, who will always be the same gender as the player. This was probably done to avoid any UnfortunateImplications that would come from a male player punching a girl.]]

* ''VideoGame/Persona3'': Near the end of ''The Answer'' section of [[UpdatedRerelease FES]], [[spoiler:SEES splits into factions and fights each other over what to do with the Keys of Time. Even though the Yukari-Mitsuru duo, which wants to use the keys to undo the protagonist's death, is most opposed to the Akihiko-Ken duo, who are adamant about returning to the present, they ultimately end up fighting the initially neutral and entirely female trio of [[PlayerCharacter Aigis]], Metis and [[MissionControl Fuuka]]]].
* In ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'''s first cinematic introduction, this is subverted. At first, we are shown two teams with TwoGuysAndAGirl, with the guys facing off against guys (Jim Raynor vs Diablo and Tyrael vs Arthas) and the girl against girl (Nova vs Kerrigan). As soon as they start fighting, however, Kerrigan and Tyrael take to the skies, leaving Nova dealing with Arthas and helping Raynor against Diablo.

* The ''ComicBook/MarvelVersusDC'' miniseries had [[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]] fighting Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} (the two most popular heroines in their respective universes) and [[Characters/DaredevilSupportingCharacters Elektra]] fighting Characters/{{Catwoman|SelinaKyle}} (the two {{Femme Fatale}}s). It's averted, however, when teen heroes ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}} and [[Characters/MarvelComicsJubilee Jubilee]] are paired off, though he does manage to defeat her without hitting her.

* Subverted in ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''. It ''looks'' like this is going to happen, as Valeria goes after the Princess while the boys are holding off an army of mooks -- but Valeria is far too badass to get into a catfight, and promptly passes the (now stunned and tied) princess to Conan.

** This trope shows up again during the raid on Onigashima, where the bad guys actually [[InvokedTrope invoke]] and (try to) [[ExploitedTrope exploit]] this. Kaido's crew needs to capture Nico Robin for her LivingMacGuffin qualities, so they send one of their [[DarkActionGirl Dark Action Girls]], Black Maria, to capture and beat the snot out of Sanji, knowing he WouldNotHitAGirl, until he calls for Robin to [[DistressedDude come and save him]]. Once Robin arrives, she (with a little bit of help from Brook[[note]]mostly putting out fires and holding off Black Maria's {{mooks}}[[/note]]) summarily kicks Black Maria's ass.

* In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', [[Characters/BatmanPoisonIvy Poison Ivy]] was reserved for Characters/{{Batgirl}}. She takes out both Robin and Batman with astonishing ease in her lair -- should Barbara not have butted in and become Batgirl all by herself, Poison Ivy [[NearVillainVictory would actually have won]].

* ''Film/{{Lycan}}'': The ending has [[spoiler:Isabella fight her evil adopted mother, to let Blake escape. Isabella ends up killing them both.]]

** ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}:'' The fight between the female Guardian [[Characters/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyModern Gamora]] and Ronan's henchwoman [[Characters/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyModern Nebula]], who are actually adoptive sisters (as in, [[Characters/MarvelComicsThanos Thanos]] raised them as ChildSoldiers after invading their planets). The other Guardians are busy dealing with the rest of Ronan's Sakaaran mooks. Slightly downplayed as ItsPersonal, especially for Nebula, and the only other member of the team who would likely be able to put up a fight against her is [[Characters/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyModern Drax]].

* ''Film/SkyHigh2005'' has Layla vs Penny.

* ''Film/UndercoverBrother''. When Undercover Brother and Sista Girl square off against White She Devil and two male {{mooks}}, Sista Girl fights White She Devil and Undercover Brother deals with the {{mooks}}, but not before [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK338Z4rd3M Undercover Brother and the mooks sit together on a sofa drinking beer while they watch the women rip each other's clothes off and fight in a shower.]]

* In one that crosses with [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse another universe]], ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' has Film/{{Thor}}'s friend Sif sent to chase evil sorceress Lorelei on Earth. Justified in this case as Lorelei can ensnare all men to do her bidding. When they avoid this trope by sending male SHIELD agents after her it's a massive IdiotBall. That isn't the only case. There's also: May vs Akela Amador, May vs Petra, Skye vs Raina, May vs Agent 33, Skye vs Agent 33 and there was also an episode the almost set-up a Mockingbird vs Simmons but Mockingbird was revealed to be a mole. There are also some exceptions: Coulson vs Camilla, May vs Deathlok, Ward vs Sophia and May vs Carl Creel. There was also a gender inversion when May, Lance Hunter and Mockingbird fought a bunch of HYDRA mooks, with Hunter taking out the sole female mook while May and Mockingbird fought the guys.

* ''Series/WantedDeadOrAlive'': In "Fatal Memory", the female VillainOfTheWeek is tackled by the daughter of the man she was attempting to frame, while Josh fights the villainess' brother outside.

* {{Enforced|trope}} in [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] after Bitchslap, a stable demanding equal rights for men and women, were repeatedly injured in matches against Wrestling/RonKillings and America's Most Wanted. No further male on female matches were booked and Wrestling/JimCornette would personally prevent any man from attacking a woman, regardless of how justified fans thought it was, forcing the baby {{face}}s to find female body guards.

* {{Justified|Trope}} in TNA's World Cup, where every team is made up of representatives for each of TNA's active title divisions. Heavyweight, X ([[DependingOnTheWriter which ranges from "no limits" to "cruiser weights" only]]), TagTeam, etc., with "Knockout" being a woman's title. Realizing they had no women capable of beating Wrestling/MickieJames, Wrestling/{{Aces And Eights|Wrestlers}} appropriated Wrestling/IvelisseVelez from team international, which also led to a {{subver|tedtrope}}sion (Aces and Eights ran out and attacked Mickie, surprising right?) and an {{aver|ted trope}}sion, Team USA still tied with Aces & Eights, leading to a tag match tie breaker involving all team members.

* ''VideoGame/Persona3'': Near the end of ''The Answer'' section of [[UpdatedRerelease FES]], [[spoiler:SEES splits into factions and fights each other over what to do with the Keys of Time. Even though the Yukari-Mitsuru duo, which wants to use the keys to undo the protagonist's death, is most opposed to the Akihiko-Ken duo, who are adamant about returning to the present, they ultimately end up fighting the initially neutral and entirely female trio of [[PlayerCharacter Aigis]], Metis and [[MissionControl Fuuka]].]]

** Played straight during the "Forest Training Camp" Arc where Himiko Toga, the cast {{yandere}} and [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only significant female villain in the show]], faces off against Tsuyu and Ochako.

** Out of twenty competitors in the Chuunin exams, six are female. Sakura and Ino, past rivals, fight each other, as do Tenten and [[BlowYouAway Temari]]. Averted with Hinata (who faces Neji) and Kin (who faces Shikamaru). Though it should be noted that in the absence of a female hero, [[RunningGag Shikamaru will always ends up fighting the female villains]]. Also averted in Part II outside of fillers.

** Zig-zagged in the [=CP9=] Saga: The [=CP9=] have one female member, [[spoiler:Kalifa]]. At first she fights Sanji - he is much stronger than her, but the fight still ends with obvious results, due to Sanji rather wanting to die than kicking a girl. A short while later she is pitted against Nami (who started off going up against Kumidori before fleeing,) and we get the straight example.

* Subverted in ''Manhua/CyberWeaponZ''. When Anling fights Soti, she has no idea that Soti is female since [[SweetPollyOliver she's wearing a male uniform and a rather impersonal helmet]].

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** The Angewomon/[=LadyDevimon=] catfight in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' comes to mind. Though in this case, it's more Angewomon wanted to take [=LadyDevimon=] out herself and rebuked anyone who tried to help, and [=LadyDevimon=] was Piemon's [[TheDragon Dragon]]. The fight was later repeated in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', with this [=LadyDevimon=] serving Daemon instead. However, after Tailmon loses the ability to super evolve into Angewomon, she has to ask Hawkmon to Jogress Evolve with her into Silphymon to continue the fight that got interrupted. Silphymon is basically both, female and male (although Digimon technically don't have biological sex).

* ''ComicBook/TheAvengersKurtBusiek'': Lampshaded when the team fights the ComicBook/SquadronSupreme. Lady Lark (the team's Characters/BlackCanary {{Expy}}) was paired up against [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Captain America]], and mentioned that in the olden days, she was always stuck fighting one of the female Avengers like Characters/ScarletWitch or ComicBook/BlackWidow.

* The ''ComicBook/MarvelVersusDC'' miniseries had [[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]] fighting Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} (the two most popular heroines in their respective universes) and [[Characters/DaredevilSupportingCharacters Elektra]] fighting Characters/{{Catwoman|SelinaKyle}} (the two {{Femme Fatale}}s). It's averted, however, when teen heroes ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}} and [[Characters/XMen90sMembers Jubilee]] are paired off, though he does manage to defeat her without hitting her.
* In the early issues of ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage'', Characters/{{Black Cat|MarvelComics}} immediately went for Shriek when Team Characters/{{Venom|EddieBrock}} found Team Characters/{{Carnage|CletusKasady}}.

** When the X-Men first fought ComicBook/AlphaFlight, [[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]] and Snowbird went at it, even though Storm's powers were a better match for Shaman's[[note]]In fact, the thing that ended the fight was Storm calming down a blizzard Shaman created that he couldn't control[[/note]] and Snowbird had more in common with Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}}.

* Particularly whenever Buffy and Faith went at it in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. A gender inversion occurs in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E3SchoolHard School Hard]]" when Angel fights a gang of vampires alongside Xander (TheHeart of the group) who's fighting the sole female vamp.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'': Averted. Asuka has never a Designated Girl Fight in the entire series, except that one Tag Duel Match against Rei and Kenzan, but Rei wasn't Asuka's main opponent, they even ''switched'' their partners during the duel, just because Asuka was irritated by Judai's cold behaviour.
** The female members of the Seven Stars Assassin, Camula and Tania, dueled against males. And they ''won'' (against Chronos, Kaiser and Misawa), but both of them were eventually defeated by Judai.
** In the manga, Reggie Mackenzie faces Asuka in the preliminaries of the tournament, and later fights against Midori Hibiki outside the tournament.

** Justified in the ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Best Wishes]]'' anime with Pidove VS Snivy. Snivy (female) had been stopping all of Ash's attempts to capture it by using Attract on all of his Pokémon. Then out comes Pidove, whose gender Ash was unaware of, and ''she'' proved immune to Attract due to also being female. It qualifies since Pidove was the only Pokémon able to fight Snivy.

* Lampshaded in ''Fanfic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOFDarkYagami''.

* A justified example occurs near the end of ''Fanfic/RomansEmpire''. [[spoiler: In the climactic fight, Kincaid is fighting Neo and Dwight is fighting Roman. But considering that the girls are the two best fighters in the story, this combination ensures fair fights. The other combination of pairings would be extremely onesided. [[CurbStompBattle Neo would absolutely crush Dwight]] and Kincaid would likely beat Roman.]]
* In the ''Fanfic/TamersForeverSeries'' there is a brief battle between Rosemon and Sakuyamon. However this is actually justified as both these women are actually the most competent fighters in the area. (not including those who are borderline catatonic)

* In ''Fanfic/UltimateReImaginings'', [[spoiler: Emma and Natasha]] fight.

* ''Fanfic/HereThereBeMonsters'': When Dr. Sivana deploys his forces to deal with the two Marvels approaching his base, two female villains -called Black Beauty and Illyria- go after [[Characters/ShazamMarvelFamily Mary Marvel]] for no particular reason whereas male villains Sabbac, Trug and Black Poet gang up on Captain Marvel, Jr.
* ''Fanfic/BecomingATrueInvader'': Gaz is almost always the one who fights Tak, the two hating each other almost as much as Tak hates Zim.

--> '''Trish:''' "I don't know how it is in China, but in America, if a girl's kicking your ass, you don't have to be a gentleman."

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Out of twenty competitors in the Chuunin exams, six were female. Sakura and Ino, past rivals, fought each other, as did Tenten and [[BlowYouAway Temari.]] Averted with Hinata (who faced Neji) and Kin (who faced Shikamaru). Though it should be noted that in the absence of a female hero, [[RunningGag Shikamaru will always ends up fighting the female villains.]] Also averted in Part II outside of fillers.
** The ''Naruto'' movies seem to avert this, especially the early ones. In the first one, Sakura and Sasuke collaborated into blowing up a female-male duo, while in the second movie, Naruto, Sakura, Shikamaru, Kankuro and Gaara faced three female villains (whom they killed.. quite gruesomely). Played straight in the third movie, where Sakura fights the only female villain in the film.

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'': Near the end of ''The Answer'' section of [[UpdatedRerelease FES]], [[spoiler:SEES splits into factions and fights each other over what to do with the Keys of Time. Even though the Yukari-Mitsuru duo, which wants to use the keys to undo the protagonist's death, is most opposed to the Akihiko-Ken duo, who are adamant about returning to the present, they ultimately end up fighting the initially neutral and entirely female trio of [[PlayerCharacter Aigis]], Metis and [[MissionControl Fuuka]].]]

* Because ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} [[WouldntHitAGirl won't hit a woman,]] he's always a bit helpless against a female antagonist. Olive is perfectly willing to step in and clobber them, though, with a little spinach boost.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'':

* In ''[[Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra]]'' when Cobra invades G.I. Joe headquarters, redheaded Joe Scarlett has a brutal fight with TheBaroness.

* ''Film/{{Tekken}}'' has Nina and Christie face off in an intergender tournament. This is also averted when Nina and Anna try to assassinate Jin and Christy kicks plenty of ass against Kazuya's soldiers.

* In ''Film/VanHelsing'', the female sidekick kills Dracula's last vampire bride but does not get to kill Dracula even though she was supposedly fated to do it.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': In episodes where the lead villain is a woman and a final fight is demanded, there invariably will be a female Ranger (often, that week's special guest star, and later in the show, Sydney) who will be asked to take out the female villain. This is because Walker and Trivette WouldntHitAGirl (unlike the male villains, [[WouldHitAGirl who freely beat up women]]).

Essentially, when the Hero needs to fight a girl, another female character must take his spot -- sometimes the Hero's girlfriend. Often the job of TheHeart in the FiveManBand is to smack the [[DarkChick supervillainess]] around, essentially becoming the team's Designated Hitter for all female villains.

If one girl is the [[EvilCounterpart morality-reversed equivalent of the other]] (for example, TheHeart and DarkChick, or the ActionGirl and DarkActionGirl), the odds increase exponentially.

** Averted in ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad''. Kurata assembles a team of [[ThePsychoRangers Psycho Rangers]] to fight the main PowerTrio, but the female members of each don't battle each other, at least not one on one. Instead, [[DarkChick Nanami]] takes on fellow TeenGenius Touma and Yoshino faces her StalkerWithACrush Ivan. In fact, Nanami and Yoshino had almost no interaction at all during the series, unusual in that this was the ''Digimon'' iteration in which {{fanservice}} started being a thing that regularly happens.

* Also used a lot in ''Rangers''' source material ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', in which TheHeart fights the DarkChick or DarkActionGirl.

** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', Natasha, Wanda and Okoye team up against DarkActionGirl Proxima Midnight during the battle at Wakanda. Earlier in the film however, the male heroes had no issues with fighting Proxima Midnight in Scotland.