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* [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zagged]] in ''[[Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]''. Characters like [[Franchise/SuperMario Peach, Daisy, Toadette]], [[Series/{{Teletubbies}} Laa-Laa and Po]] recieve their good dosis of slapstick, but then there's the Girl Trio[[note]][[VideoGame/{{Splatoon}} Meggy]], Tari and Saiko Bitchitaru.[[/note]], [[ImmuneToSlapstick who very rarely get hurt]].

* ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'' give [[Franchise/SuperMario Princess Peach]] and [[CanonForeigner Tari]] a lot of abuse as well as [[Series/{{Teletubbies}} Laa-Laa and Po]],

* None of the female characters in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' are spared any punishment they or the male fighters can dish out. When it comes to marketing material, [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus Aran]] tends to get singled out among the female fighters whenever [[SamusIsAGirl she's in her power suit]]. As [[TheSmurfettePrinciple the only unambiguously female fighter]] in the first game, she's depicted on the box art being punched out by [[Franchise/StarFox Fox]]. Even after more female fighters were introduced throughout the series, Samus in her power suit (and only when she's in her power suit) appears to be the only humanoid female that can be subject to comedic violence by the male characters in trailers or screenshots. And she was the main victim of Little Mac in his debut trailer. Wii Fit Trainer, the only other woman he tried to hit (or who even showed up), dodged him, resulting in him being KO'd.

* ''Manga/KemonoMichi'' features its protagonist Shibata Genzo using ''brutal'' pro wrestling moves to subdue wild demonic beasts, humans, and humanoids alike, regardless of age, gender, or position. His most common victim is Carmilla, a female vampire.
** Heck, the EstablishingSeriesMoment is when Genzo slams Princess Altena onto the floor with a devastating [[SuplexFinisher German Suplex]] after she attempts to SummonEverymanHero and gets him.

* Also happens with frequency in ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', usually featuring Ryuunosuke, Benten, Ran and the Spice Girls (No, not THOSE Music/SpiceGirls).
* In ''Anime/{{Yatterman}}'', villainess Doronjo is punished for her failure, with her team, in just about every episode. Punishments range from siccing a horde of pinching crabs on her to blasting her with meteorites and nuclear missiles. The 2008 remake keeps this tradition alive.
** This applies to all the villainess leaders of the TerribleTrio in the various ''Anime/TimeBokan'' series staring with Majo (Doronjo is her {{Expy}}).
* ''LightNovel/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions'' has a rare reversal where its female characters, rather than the male lead Yuuta, are the source of a majority of the slapstick. Doubly so because [[{{Tsundere}} Yuuta]] tends to be the one who [[DopeSlap actually inflicts it]]. That said, he is not exactly immune from being the victim of it either.

* ''LightNovel/{{Konosuba}}'': The main cast consists of three girls and one guy, none of whom escape slapstick ranging from the violent to the gross; Kazuma has called himself a supporter of "true gender equality" which pretty much amounts to this trope.

* The female zoologist from the Hip Hippos segments of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' falls in this trope, as does Rita the cat from the Runt and Rita segments, and sometimes Slappy Squirrel and Dot.

* None of the female characters in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' are spared any punishment they or the male fighters can dish out.

* The female zoologist from the Hip Hippos segments of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' falls in this trope, as does Rita the cat from the Runt and Rita segments.

* The unlucky ChineseGirl protagonist of the weird anime ''Ippatsu Kikimusume'' gets involved in a whole lot of this.

** In ''Film/IdentityThief'' Jason Bateman smashes a guitar over her head, among other incidents.
** Her role in ''Film/{{Bridesmaids}}'' was also fairly raunchy, since the movie isn't afraid to put women on the receiving end of slapstick, particularly at the bridal fitting where half the women puke in the bathroom (and on each other) and the other half experience explosive diarrhea.

* In ''Film/TheManWithTwoBrains'', Creator/SteveMartin hurls Kathleen Turner face-first into a pool of mud.

*In ''Film/Good Burger'', Carmen Electra's character Roxanne is sent by the evil restaurant conglomerate Mondo Burger to seduce and steal Ed's "secret sauce" recipe. Ed and Dexter absolutely adore her (but of course Dexter still doesn't trust her enough to actually give her the recipe.) During their double date, she is accidentally injured a few times by Ed's clumsiness, such as getting accidentally hit in her face with a miniature golf club, a golf ball (which knocks her out), and Ed judo flipping her over his shoulder and onto the pavement.
%%*In ''Film/Here Comes The Boom'', Scott is pretty beaten up after the final Ultimate Fighting match in Vegas, but he seems to be fine by the next day back in the school.
* In the ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|2016}}'' reboot, all the women Ghostbusters are on the receiving end of slapstick but they make a RunningGag out of the repeated occasions on which Kristen Wiig's character gets CoveredInGunge.
* In ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'' the trio of main characters, Bruce Willis' lone male lead included, suffer from amusing injuries but Helen and Madeline more so because they're undead. Holes in chests, heads snapped on backwards, limbs popping off, you name the lot.
* As far back as the early 1930s, Thelma Todd was renowned for her skill at slapstick; in ''Film/HorseFeathers'' she falls out of a boat after being serenaded at length by Groucho Marx, and she also starred in a series of short films, first with [=ZaSu=] Pitts, then with Patsy Kelly, the best of which feature some great slapstick: in 1932's [[https://youtu.be/TsJG-MWUgmw ''Alum and Eve'']], Pitts gets jabbed in the ass with a pen and then gets stuck in a hospital trolley. Todd's attempts to extricate her turn into something reminiscent of the stateroom scene in ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera''.[[note]]Later in the same film, which turns on Pitts being mistaken for a hospital patient, two attractive female nurses attempt to undress her. Pitts retaliates by ''undressing the nurses''. [[/note]]

* ''Film/MeanGirls'': All four the Plastics, despite being gorgeous and fashionable, suffer amusing injuries and slapstick comedy throughout the movie. For example, in a scene where they are walking in the hallway, the main character Cady trips and falls into the trash can with her legs in the air.

** In ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix The Order Of The Phoenix]]'', Molly Weasley, after spending an entire morning cleaning a room, sits on a sagging armchair, only to spring up out of it with a cry of disgust, having sat on a bag of dead rats that Sirius had fed Buckbeak the hippogriff with but left behind when he exited the room.

* This trope is briefly examined in the [[Literature/JessicaDarling Jessica Darling series]], as the protagonist's adolescent klutziness makes her a success as school {{Mascot}} Mighty the Seagull. Since school tradition requires keeping Mighty's real identity secret, everyone is puzzling over who's inside the costume, and everyone assumes it must be a boy. Jessica is annoyed at the [[DoubleStandard sexist assumption]] that girls can't be funny and goofy until realising that she's only funny and goofy [[WhatYouAreInTheDark when her identity is safely hidden.]] This prompts some CharacterDevelopment as she decides to take more risks and not be so afraid of looking silly even when not wearing the costume.

* Probably the best-known example is Lucy Ricardo from ''Series/ILoveLucy''. Really, any character Creator/LucilleBall played counts. (This has been blamed for the failure of her attempted 1980s comeback ''Life With Lucy'' - seeing a woman in her seventies still doing slapstick physical humour made the audience seriously worry for her safety and sent the show into DudeNotFunny territory.)
** Lucy's best friend on ''I Love Lucy'', Ethel Mertz, was also frequently on the receiving end of physical comedy.

* Dee from ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' is just as liable to have her leg broken by homeless people, or her face smashed in by a metal folding chair as the rest of the guys, and has been poisoned the most out of them all. Frank intentionally threw a match into a building full of kerosene while Dee was inside, intentionally setting her on fire for a fake news story.

* In her eponymous sitcom, ''Series/{{Miranda}}'' Hart subjects herself to copious amounts of slapstick.

* There is also the "Oh my nose!" scene from ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', where Marcia ([[CatchPhrase Marcia,]] [[RuleOfThree Marcia!]]) gets struck in the nose with an errant football from when the guys are playing in the backyard. The resulting swelling drives the plot for the rest of that episode, ending with Marcia learning AnAesop about not being too self-conscious about her looks. The scene has also been parodied a few times since by other shows, including the Simspons during a Couch Gag where the family runs through the sets of a couple different classic TV shows.

** In a notable aversion to the "other women or their own clumsiness" rule, C.C. Babcock was the most abused character on the show, and most of it came at the hands of Niles, the butler. He would hand her a scalding hot teapot, squirt lemon juice in her eye, "forget" to tell her he just mopped with ''very'' slippery floor polish, slam a door on her head, the list goes on and on. The only way they really got away with it was that C.C. was such a RichBitch that treated everybody so horribly throughout the whole show, all of his slapstick abuse came across a little more like KickTheSonOfABitch. According to Benjamin Salisbury (Brighton Sheffield), Lauren Lane (C.C.) cited Creator/DonKnotts, a notable name in slapstick, as a comedic influence.

* British Sitcom ''Series/{{Bottom}}'', which is known for its cartoonish violence, once had Eddie Hitler knock out a [[CrossesTheLineTwice lady going door to door asking for donations for Domestic Violence victims]].

* ''Series/StrangersWithCandy'': The main character, Jerri, suffered several amusing injuries throughout the show's run, including, but not limited to: having her head slammed against a locker repeatedly, being tasered, being savagely beaten by her teachers and principal, dropping a bar weight on her throat, and getting in a bus accident.

* The title character in ''Series/{{Jessie}}'' (played by Creator/DebbyRyan) probably ends up as a target for slapstick more than any other character, including the kids. Since, like many children's' shows, the series almost ''runs'' on slapstick, that's a lot.

** Aunt Hilda often brings this role to herself.
** Despite being an OnlySaneWoman, Aunt Zelda has many NotSoAboveItAll moments which often results in slapstick.

* Kwebbel and Smal from Flemish/Belgian children's series ''Series/KabouterPlop'' by Creator/Studio100 are always involved in slapstick situations. While Smal manages to avoid this most of the time, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7UgbGVJyDA Kwebbel gets it the most throughout the series.]]

* In the ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch "Hollywood Dish", co-host Brady Trunk (Bill Hader) would invariably ask the celebrity guest what she thought of the most recent episode of a reality TV show, whereupon he and co-host Anastasia Stix (Creator/KristenWiig) would sip beverages and await the answer. The guest would then reply "I don't really watch reality TV", at which Brady, goggle-eyed with shock, would turn and spit his mouthful of beverage directly into Anastasia's face.

** In the ''SNL Digital Short'' [[https://youtu.be/l6vS99dEexI "I Broke My Arm"]], Creator/EmmaStone plays a schoolgirl who's broken her arm after slipping in a patch of grape jelly, and is rapping about it ("Hey everybody, did you hear the news? / I broke my arm! (''She broke her arm!'')"), delighted that she can get loads of attention and have everyone sign her cast. Unfortunately, while singing and dancing about it, she slips in the jelly for a second time and breaks her other arm. She gets a second cast, and starts rapping about that too ("Hey everybody, did you hear the news? / I broke ''both'' arms!") but then slips again and breaks her leg. She comes in again, rapping about her latest injury, but then slips in the jelly ''again'' and [[CrossesTheLineTwice immediately breaks several more bones]] before finally entering in a wheelchair, only able to speak by means of a [[MachineMonotone computer]].

* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' and ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' never shied away from using slapstick on female characters. Xena, Gabrielle, Aphrodite, Amarice, Eris, Polly, Discord, Varia, and Ravenica have all fallen victim, with cartoon sound effects often being added to said moments, and one of them even suffering a "Death By Slapstick" in a Season 4 episode of Xena.
* In ''Series/TheMick'', Mickey (short for Mackenzie) is the butt of most of the show's slapstick humor. This includes getting hit by a car in two different episodes. Also, Jimmy once [[ItMakesSenseInContext got into a brawl with an entire women's soccer team.]]

* ''LightNovel/{{Konosuba}}'': The main cast consists of three girls and one guy, none of whom escape slapstick ranging from the violent to the gross; Kazume has called himself a supporter of "true gender equality" which pretty much amounts to this trope.

* Downplayed with Shizuka of ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}''. She has had this happen to her in some episodes. For example, she has been crushed by giant letters (through one of Doraemon's gadgets which is able to solidify screaming onomatopoeia), had a cannon exploding in her face and Nobita pushed her accidentally into a hole once. However, most of the time, we only see the three main boys taking a lot of slapstick pain and amusing injuries, while token pretty girl Shikuza is largely ImmuneToSlapstick, because BeautyIsNeverTarnished.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal''

* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', main female protagonist Asuna regularly takes the chance to smack about one or two other girls in their sillier or more lecherous moments, but none so much as ElegantGothicLolita Vampire Evangeline. Although given her insane skill in martial arts, she probably ''lets'' it happen. This being ''Negima'', it's promptly lampshaded:
-->'''[[RobotMaid Chachamaru:]]''' Asuna-san's the only person who's ever been able to engage with Master in physical slapstick.

* Shiina from ''LightNovel/NogizakaHarukaNoHimitsu'' has a tendency to clumsily stumble into {{Fanservice}}y Panty Shot and NotWhatItLooksLike situations that are played for laughs at her expense.

-->'''Louie: (nods sagely)''' "Mm-hm. It would've been different had it been the tear of a ''[[PurityPersonified pure]]'' maiden."

* Every time the eponymous protagonist of ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' gets squashed by anything round, we can see a nice slapstick animation, in which she gets [[SquashedFlat flattened]] in the "paper leaf" type. However, [[VideoGame/{{Bayonetta 2}} the sequel]] does not offer any round objects or enemies to squash her, due to its DarkerAndEdgier approach.

* The 1939 film ''Hollywood Serenade'' is set in the silent movie era, and at one point its star Alice Faye, then one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, is on the receiving end of a pie thrown by Creator/BusterKeaton, whose career was then in serious decline. Ironically, this was one of the few times Keaton ever threw a pie in his movie career; he was normally on the receiving end himself.

* ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'': With all the goofy hazards in the Kirby games, it's no surprise that female helper Vividria and female Dream Friends Adeleine, Susie, and [[spoiler: the Mage Sisters]] are subject to just as much punishment as Kirby or the other male characters. [[spoiler: The Mage Sisters have it even worse as they are also boss fights, meaning they get smacked around by the player was well]].

* ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' has Nyarko and Cuuko (and more rarely [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Hasta]]) subject to [[{{Tsundere}} Mahiro]]'s punches and {{fork|Fencing}}s whenever they get too annoying. It helps that they're Lovecraftian gods and can take the punishment, but more than a few fans have expressed displeasure with Mahiro, feeling that he comes off as a short-tempered {{Jerkass}}. Worth noting, the "slapstick" label only really applies to the two TV series; in the original light novels (and the ''Nyaruani'' comedy shorts) Mahiro's forks produce fountains of HighPressureBlood.

It is rare to see women in these roles because of the DoubleStandard seen in things like BeautyIsNeverTarnished, WouldntHitAGirl, and DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale. Also, due to all of these things, the women who do fit this trope are more likely to be amusingly injured by other women, their own clumsiness, or events beyond anybody's control than by men. On occasions when a male does comically harm a female, it will almost invariably by accident, and the woman will often retaliate by [[MegatonPunch doling out some slapstick right back at the male]], considerably [[ATwinkleInTheSky more painful or over-the-top]] than what happened to her. A male character deliberately harming a female character is far less likely to be played for laughs than the other way around.

* In WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot, Jenny is usually the ButtMonkey of the show.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' are renowned for taking their lumps during battles with monsters and arch-enemies, but once in a while, they will take their lumps for laughs. Notable examples are when they played out their own adventures ("The Powerpuff Girls' Best Rainy Day Adventure Ever") and when Blossom goes through a HumiliationConga after the girls defeat Mask-scara ("A Made Up Story").

* Kwebbel and Smal from Flemish/Belgian children's series ''Series/KabouterPlop'' by Creator/Studio100 are always involved in slapstick situations. But while Smal does avoid this most of the time, Kwebbel gets it the most throughout the series.

* Hotori from ''Manga/SoredemoMachiWaMawatteiru'' falls victim a large number of unfortunate mishaps. A little sneeze sends her face-first into a cup of coffee, and she trips while trying to clean it up, getting a bucket stuck on her head.

* ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'': With all the goofy hazards in the Kirby games, it's no surprise that female helper Vividria and female dream friends Adeleine, Susie, and [[spoiler: the mage sisters]] are subject to just as much punishment as Kirby. [[spoiler: The mage sisters have it even worse as they are also boss fights, meaning they get smacked around by the player was well]].

* ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'' has no problem making the girls suffer as much slapstick as the boys. Nikki is rarely without scrapes as a result, Ered often crashes into or through things thanks to her extreme sports bent, Gwen gets put through hell by the campers, and Tabii [[spoiler: gets a ''fork'' thrown into her eye in the second season.]] To say nothing of how ''everyone'' gets chased by wild animals at some point for other.

*In ''Film/GoodBurger'' Carmen Electra's character is sent by the evil restaurant conglomerate Mondo Burger to seduce and steal Ed's "secret sauce" recipe. Ed and Dexter absolutely adore her (but of course Dexter still doesn't trust her enough to actually give her the recipe.) During the mini-golf double date, she is accidentally injured multiple times by Ed's clumsiness, such as getting hit with the golf ball and Ed judo flipping her over his shoulder and onto the pavement.

*In ''Film/GoodBurger'' Carmen Electra's character is sent by the evil restaurant conglomerate Mondo Burger to seduce and steal Ed's "secret sauce" recipe. Ed and Dexter absolutely adore her (but of course Dexter still doesn't trust her enough to actually give her the recipe.) During the mini-golf double date, she is accidentally injured multiple times by Ed's clumsiness, such as getting hit with the golf ball and having her hair set on fire from a candle. In the next scene, she angrily tells Mondo Burger's managers that she quits. She vanishes from the movie after those couple of scenes.

** During episode 6, Konata lays a bar of soap down for Miyuki to slip on while they are bathing at the sentou. It works, but she [[LaserGuidedKarma misses it while teasing Kagami]].

** In episode 6, she tries attacking a clay golem with a flying kick in an attempt to [[spoiler: save her money jar]], but gets sucked into its body instead. Then it [[spoiler: squats and shits her back out]]. She finally resorts to a combination of [[CryCute tears]] and [[PuppyDogEyes doe eyes]], which doesn't work either. The golem simply grabs her by her head and nonchalantly chucks her over its shoulder (seen from [[https://youtu.be/7RYyc5TAa9Q 14:27-16:31, here).]]