History Main / FemaleGroinInvincibility

** ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'': The protagonist, who's pulling a SweetPollyOliver, gets bitten in the crotch by an ill-tempered horse to the horror of all the onlookers. Justified as she was wearing a wadded-up sock down the front of her pants.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In the "[[Recap/SouthParkS11E14TheList The List]]", in an attempt of getting the titular list from the girls, Cartman has Butters kick Nelly in the "balls", which would cause her to drop the folder with the list. But when Butters kicks her twice she doesn't react to the kicks other than angrily saying, "Ow!" and calling him an asshole. This causes Cartman's plan to fail and the boys to learn that girls don't have balls. However, later in the episode, Wendy kicks Lola in the groin, and this DOES end up hurting her so much she gets knocked out. Makes one wonder if Lola ''does'' have balls or if Wendy just kicks harder than Butters.

When men feel pain in their groins, they feel most of the pain in their testicles. Because of that, men usually think the pain caused by a GroinAttack comes from the testicles being harmed. Women don't usually have testicles, so men assume that attacking them in the crotch doesn't hurt them.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Averted with Brienne of Tarth's brutal fight against Sandor Clegane. She punches him in the balls, and he retaliates seconds later with a kick to her groin and she reacts with just as much pain as he did.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In the "[[Recap/SouthParkS11E14TheList The List]]", in an attempt of getting the titular list from the girls, Cartman has Butters kick Nelly in the "balls", which would cause her to drop the folder with the list. But when Butters kicks her twice she doesn't react to the kicks other than angrily saying, "Ow!" and calling him an asshole. This causes Cartman's plan to fail and the boys to learn that girls don't have balls. However, later in the episode, Wendy kicks Lola in the groin, and this DOES end up hurting her so much she gets knocked out.

* ''Website/GoAnimate'': In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9FO0h3X6J8 "Johnny Test Abuses the CBT Gun/Grounded"]], WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest shoots the titular gun (which causes instant groin pain) at his mother. It is completely ineffective against her and she [[YouAreGrounded grounds him]].

* Used in ''Cixi of Troy'', a spin-off of ''ComicBook/{{Lanfeust}}''. When the titular character has to fight a PirateGirl, she has the reflex to kick her opponent between the legs, which has absolutely no effect. Another PirateGirl points out that this technique doesn't work with women.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Averted with Brienne of Tarth's brutal fight against Sandor Clegane. She punches him in the balls, and he retaliates seconds later with a cuntpunt, and she reacts with just as much pain as he did.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Averted when Brienne of Tarth duels Sandor Clegane. She gives him a brutal punch to the balls, and he retaliates seconds later, with Brienne's injury shown to be just as agonizing as his.

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': In the first two games, Johnny Cage's GroinAttack special move doesn't work on female characters. This doesn't apply to the third game and onwards, where they get affected by it regardless of gender.

-->"She takes it like a man. That is to say, it hurts."\\

* ''Film/BirdsOfPrey'': During Harley and Renee's fight at the amusement park, Harley kicks Renee in the crotch and Renee kicks her right back. Both women suffer little more than brief annoyance.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': The "Bobby Goes Nuts" episode shows Bobby taking a women's defense course in which he learns to use a GroinAttack against all of his opponents, including his father at one point. When he tries to use the same attack on Peggy, she tells him, "I believe you will find that I have no testicles!", though Kahn thinks otherwise.

** Subverted,in a later episode Harley is on the receiving end of a GroinAttack only for her chastity belt to absorb the blow.

* ''Literature/XanaduStoryverse'': Lampshaded in "Revan". When fighting a female opponent, Revan attempts to take her down by kneeing her the groin. Revan, who had been on the receiving end of such strikes herself, reasons that the pain of having someone jam their knee in her genitals should be plenty to put her out of commission. However, to her consternation, this achieves absolutely nothing beyond insulting her opponent, who becomes convinced that Revan mistook her for a guy. In-universe, this is justified by the fact that the transformations caused by Change are rooted in what people believed the people they'd dressed as would be like -- the other woman's cosplayer had evidently been someone who believed that women really can't be harmed by groin attacks, and consequently gained an immunity to them after being transformed.

* ''VideoGame/GodHand'': Any woman you encounter in the game will be completely impervious to the Ball Buster. Trying it will result in nothing more than a dull thud.
** It's possible that this is some kind of ExactWords restriction on the ability; early in the game, you encounter a boss named Mr. Silver, some kind of muscle eunuch. Despite being subject to the same real-life potential for injury, he is ''also'' immune to the Ball Buster, lacking the necessary targets just as the women do; it's apparently not called the "Groin Buster" for a reason.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Averted when Brienne of Tarth duels Sandor Clegane. She gives him a brutal punch to the balls, and he retaliates seconds later with an absolutely nasty kick in the cunt, with Brienne's injury shown to be just as agonizing as his.

->She's a girl! Where do I grab her?
-->--'''Greg Heffley''' (while wrestling in gym class), ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid''

* [[ZigZaggingTrope ZigZaged]] in most pro wrestling promotions. Female wrestlers can be (and are) "crotched" (dropped groin first) onto the turnbuckles, or occasionally the top rope, and it will be treated as a painful blow. However, deliberate "low blow" attacks (typically an uppercut from behind) are treated as ineffectual, with the would-be attacker portrayed as stupid for even attempting such a tactic.

* Surprisingly averted in ''Film/SmillasSenseOfSnow'': Smilla gets an uncooperative woman to do what she wants by grabbing her by the crotch.

--> "She takes it like a man. That is to say, it hurts."
--> "Her childbearing days are in trouble as she collapses in a limp heap."

--->'''Kahn''': She bluffing, [[FinishHim finish her]]!

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': The "Bobby Goes Nuts" episode shows Bobby taking a women's defense course in which he learns to use a GroinAttack against all of his opponents, including his father at one point. When he tries to use the same attack on Peggy, she tells him, "I believe you will find that I have no testicles!"
** Kahn, notably, does not buy this.

* The ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': Referenced in ''A Civil Campaign''. Dono, a female to male trans whose surgery includes a pair of functional testicles, is punched in the balls during an ambush. Afterwards, he says "Ivan ... do you remember, when one of you fellows got kicked in the nuts and went over, doing sports or whatever, how I laughed. I'm sorry, I didn't know, I'm sorry." It is unclear whether Dono had been hit in the groin as a female and it didn't hurt as bad or whether he had just never been hit there as a woman.