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* No one is spared over the top, comical injury in ''VideoGame/DarkStalkers'', least of all the game's mascot and most well-known character, [[HornyDevils Morrigan Aensland]].

* ''Of course ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' exagerates this with Chi-Chi.

* ''Of course WebAnimation/DragonBallZAbridged'' exagerates this with Chi-Chi.

* In ''Fanfic/ReactWatchBelieveYikes'', [[PerkyGoth Ruby]], [[LovableAlphaBitch Weiss]], [[CuteBookworm Blake]] and [[CoolBigSis Yang]] go through a lot of abuse for the sake of comedy. It's rather justified, given that they're stuck in school with nothing to do but watch ten seasons of Machinima/RedVsBlue.

* ''[[Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]'': Played straight with [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Peach, Daisy, Toadette]], [[Series/{{Teletubbies}} Laa-Laa and Po]], averted with [[Franchise/{{Splatoon}} Meggy]], Tari, Saiko and Melony[[note]]Although it was played straight with Tari once in her debut video, "Mario The Ultimate Gamer", but that was before CharacterizationMarchesOn[[/note]].

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

* Happens in ''Manga/DragonHalf'', where King Siva drops a huge weight ''on his own daughter Vina's head''. The scene is funny, but it also shows that the two of them are utterly [[EvilIsHammy horrible people]]. [[spoiler: Vina's [[HalfHumanHybrid half-slime]], so she survives because she's NighInvulnerable. She then attempts to smother her father once she escapes.]]

** In another episode, Kathy tricked Katori into hiding in garbage in order to spy on someone. [[spoiler: (Clearly, the end of the series - the first in the franchise where the protagonist actually "gets" the girl - was an EarnYourHappyEnding for poor Kotori.)]]

** In Episode 7, Merrill tries to stop the clay golem from [[spoiler: taking her precious jar]] with a flying kick and gets sucked into its body. It stops long enough to literally [[spoiler: squat and shit her out]] (seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RYyc5TAa9Q at 14:27-14:42)!]]

*** The one exception where Lucy was actually on the receiving end of a debatably ''un''amusing injury is when, [[http://assets.amuniversal.com/51afe620f869013014ce001dd8b71c47 during an early Halloween strip]], she made a snide remark about the similarity between Charlie Brown's head and a pumpkin he was carving at the time. At first, Charlie laughs, making it look like he thought that her remark [[ActuallyPrettyFunny actually was pretty funny]], even chuckling a bit. [[spoiler: Then the final panel shows a loopy-looking Lucy with the remains of the pumpkin that Charlie Brown [[DisproportionateRetribution SMASHED OVER HER HEAD]]!]] If Lucy ever had a justifiable reason for all the crap she does to Charlie Brown in future strips, ''that'' would do it.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fics of Creator/AAPessimal, the young Assassin Jocasta Wiggs follows her memorable canonical appearance by ending up - in every tale where she features - being liberally smothered in crap. It's now the Wiggs trademark.

* While the climax of ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'' where people are thrown around by a firemen ladder is an aversion where only the men are involved, much suffering is laid upon both Monica (who along with her husband wrecks and is wrecked by a hardware store basement) and Mrs. Marcus (an {{Obnoxious InLaw|s}} who had it coming - the EverybodyLaughsEnding is even caused by someone throwing a banana peel for her to fall!).

* ''Film/TuckerAndDaleVsEvil'' has Allison and her [[RunningGag frequent]] [[TapOnTheHead head trauma]], which turns into a BrickJoke when it ends [[spoiler: with Dale giving her a football helmet as a gift for their first date]].

* 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.)

* Terrible things happen to the immaculately dressed police detective Sergeant Dori Doreau in ''Series/SledgeHammer''. Her tailored suit shrinks by three sizes after Sledge drags her into a sauna to interrogate a perp. In order to detain a perp whose day job is mud wrestler, Doreau is dragged into the arena - in her trademark business suit -- and deluged in mud and indignity as she wrestles the woman into the mud. And wins.

* In 2004, when ''Raw'' hosted its second Diva Search contest, the winner, Wrestling/ChristyHemme, was awarded a WWE contract - and the losers had their evening gowns [[CoveredInGunge splattered with a big pot of chili]].

* ''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: [[EyeScream gets a]] ''[[EyeScream fork]]'' [[EyeScream thrown into her eye]] in the second season.]] To say nothing of how ''everyone'' gets chased by wild animals at some point or other.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Lisa Simpson has been punched in the face at least twice (one of those times by a man!), hit in the face multiple times with a basketball, strapped to an airplane propeller that was then turned on at full speed as part of a military academy hazing, played goalie in hockey, and - probably her most humiliating moment - dared by Bart into drinking canal water from the "Little Land of Duff" ride in [[SouvenirLand Duff Gardens]] which turned her into [[MushroomSamba a hallucinating, naked "Lizard Queen"]]. Marge also takes pratfalls, although far less often.

* ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' is rife with slapstick, and the female characters are no exception. Some examples include a brutal bar fight between two girl scouts, ending with one being slid down a bar and head first into a jukebox, an IllGirl who repeatedly has her IV knocked out, causing her to convulse, and most notably the "Get a hold of yourself!" scene where several passengers violently shake and slap a HystericalWoman.

* ''[[Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]'': Played straight with [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Peach, Daisy, Toadette]], [[Series/{{Teletubbies}} Laa-Laa and Po]], averted with [[VideoGame/{{Splatoon}} Meggy]], Tari, Saiko and Melony[[note]]Although it was played straight with Tari once in her debut video, "Mario The Ultimate Gamer", but that was before CharacterizationMarchesOn[[/note]].

*** She finally resorts to trying to appeal to the golem with a combination of [[CryCute tears]] and [[PuppyDogEyes doe eyes.]] Just when it seems to have worked, it grabs her by the top of her head and nonchalantly chucks her over its shoulder.

** Taken UpToEleven in the sketch's [[https://youtu.be/F3lEPL1nzYI final appearance with Creator/ScarlettJohansson]]: on being told by Johansson that she didn't watch reality TV, Hader spat his mouthful of smoothie into Wiig's face, took her smoothie, and emptied it over her head, and finally picked up the cookie bowl, dumped the contents on Wiig's head and then put the bowl on her head as well like an oversized helmet.

** ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'': Tiana doesn't run into any slapstick at all... when she's human. Almost as soon as [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman she turns into a frog]], she along with Naveen gets tossed around for laughs, fall over, all kinds of the sort of goofy situations one could stick into a swamp setting.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Harley Quinn was often the subject of slapstick humor due to her BumblingSidekick status. Notably, in the episode "Girl's Night Out", she shoots an oversized knockout glove at Supergirl, only for it to bounce harmlessly off of Supergirl and rebound right back in her face. The ''Mad Love'' comic had Harley physically abused in both funny and unfunny ways. An early scene shows a fed-up Joker grabbing her by her nose, dragging her down to the cellar, and [[LiteralAssKicking booting her into a muddy pit]] (while she's in her underwear, no less!) [[DisproportionateRetribution as punishment for calling him "Puddin'"]]. Later, on a ''much'' less funny note, [[BastardBoyfriend the Joker pushes her through a window hundreds of feet above the street, crippling and nearly killing her]].

** Like her mother, Anais is generally one of the more intelligent and capable characters, and therefore gets herself in these situations less often than her brothers. But she still gets into them. In the "The Responsible", Anais, along with Gumball and Darwin smash into the ground after being shot into the air and falling back down. She takes another nasty fall along with her brothers (and father this time) in "The Cycle". Gets run over by a motor scooter alongside Gumball. Accidently knocks herself out with a ''brick to the face'' in "The Treasure". And gets beat up pretty badly in "The Parasite".
** Gumball's girlfriend Penny gets a milkshake repeatedly thrown in her face and later gets ''blasted across'' the room by a lightning strike in "The Storm", gets sent into an allergic reaction by Gumball in "The Dream", and inadvertently gets sent on an outright TraumaCongaLine (including another allergic reaction) by Gumball in a misguided attempt at sending her on misguided romantic quest in "The Romantic".

* Most Imbapovi videos have many female characters be subjected to comical accidents (usually making [[BreastExpansion some]] [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure part]] [[BalloonBelly of them]] bigger), but [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Jessica Rabbit]] deserves special mention; She uses a Suck-O-Lux to become even curvier, gets slapped and pin-popped, then complies to use the vacuum to make her whole body bigger, only to [[BodyInflationGag inflate like a giant balloon]] until the vacuum's expelled and she zips around, deflating back to normal.

** ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'': Shenzi usually suffers the same comeuppances as the other hyenas.

It is rare to see women in these roles because of the DoubleStandard seen in things like BeautyIsNeverTarnished, WouldntHitAGirl, or 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.

** Like her mother, Anais is generally one of the more intelligent and capable characters, and therefore gets herself in these situations less often than her brothers. But she still gets into them. On the "The Responsible", Anais, along with Gumball and Darwin literally smack into the ground after falling from the sky. She takes another nasty fall along with her brothers (and father this time) in "The Cycle". Gets run over alongside by a motor scooter alongside Gumball. Accidently knocks herself out with ''brick to the face'' in "The Treasure". And gets beat up pretty badly in "The Parasite".

** Nicole, the mother character, goes through quite a lot of this when chasing Gumball and Darwin in "The DVD". She also gets a black eye in "The Vase" after an accident.
** On "The Responsible", Anais, along with Gumball and Darwin literally smack into the ground after falling from the sky.

* ''ComicBook/EmilkaSza'': Maya, the read headed girl spends most of the book being vicitim of somedic slapstick. Emilka also get her share of comedy abuse.

With the passage of time, we both already have seen and will continue to see increasingly fewer restrictions on the use of this trope. Even [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished being physically attractive]] does not guarantee immunity, since the BrainlessBeauty is always an AcceptableTarget. If the character is an IronButtMonkey, however, she'll tend to be a lot tougher if she's a woman than if she's a man. A woman who gets [[EyeScream poked in the eye with a sharp stick]] will likely experience only a (temporary) loss of dignity; a man who gets poked in the eye with a sharp stick will have to wear an eyepatch. And it's still quite rare to see a female character [[BlackComedy comedically killed]] unless she's [[AssholeVictim particularly repellent]].

* Penelope Pitstop from ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces2017'' is no stranger to the series' beloved creatively excessive violence and/or jokes ''about'' said violence (in the first episode alone, she ends up in a body cast), and as the series goes on, it only happens ''more.'' Her [[EvilTwin evil sister Pandora]], likewise, gets the same {{Humiliation Conga}}s that come from being a villain ''and'' the same casual slapstick that comes from being a racer at the same time.