History Main / UnprovokedPervertPayback

Closely related to -- and generally intended to follow -- the AccidentalPervert, the Unprovoked Pervert Payback is a violent maneuver in which an offended girl screams "PERVERT!" and pounds the crap out of a guy for... smiling at her, or any of a hundred other things that are ''meant'' to be accidental perviness, but just ''aren't''. Hell, chances are that ''nothing'' dirty happened, at all, or even close to it. Tough luck for that poor guy; he's suddenly an AccidentalPervert and ground-zero for the (self-)righteous bitchslap of his life!

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* ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'':
** Aiko shows the main cast, girls included, her new cellphone. She then explains clearly it can mix and match voice bites to make new sentences. Akihisa says a perfectly normal phrase in front of everyone and Aiko uses it right there to make it sound like Akihisa just said something naughty. Somehow, that makes Minami and Mizuki, who were present the entire time and clearly should know what's going on as they were paying attention, completely buy that's something Akihisa has said and take him off to painfully torture him.
** The entire second season is filled with this, as well as the male characters being tortured for ''anything'' that offends the girls. The closing credits have the male characters fleeing in terror from the kanji for female. Though the first season was ''worse'' at points.
* ''LightNovel/BenTo'': Ume Shiraume will frequently abuse Satou for any perceived perverted slight, though the real reason she attacks him primarily is due to her ClingyJealousGirl [[PsychoLesbian crush]] on Oshiroi, who's always accompanying him. It gets to the point where she'll attack him [[KickThemWhileTheyreDown when he's shown to already be injured or unconscious]], leading to [[DudeNotFunny very poorly]] executed scenarios [[TheScrappy whenever she’s onscreen.]]
* Early on in ''Manga/BlackClover'' when Magna gives Asta and Noelle a ride on his broom he tells Asta to hold on, so he innocuously grabs Noelle's waist and she elbows him in the face, nearly causing him to plummet into the lake below. And she was still angry with him after almost killing him for no reason.
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
** Touma is very good at accidentally walking in on girls changing. This leads to a few examples in the second season where he does absolutely nothing out of the ordinary and still ends up bitten by a furious Index.
** Even when he's unconscious, he can't escape. As demonstrated when his hand is used to destroy the enchantments on Angeline and Lucia's clothes. Which happens to [[TheNudifier destroy them entirely]].
--->'''Touma:''' [[LampshadeHanging The fact that you're mad at me for this is totally unfair]].
** Once, he gets smacked because [[HypocriticalHumor a girl walks in on him changing]].
** By New Testament 9, he's finally gotten smart enough to stay on completely the opposite side of the store from the changing rooms when the girls drag him along swimsuit shopping. He manages to avoid getting beat up, but due to [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity Inevitably Ensuing]], ends up mistakenly making the girls think he's into dressing up in girls' swimsuits, which just weirds them out rather than making them angry.
* Happens in ''Anime/DigimonFrontier''; two of the Tamers fall down a pit into a heap leading to the following exchange:
-->'''Zoe:''' I'm alive! I could just kiss you!\\
'''Takuya:''' Uh...\\
'''Zoe:''' O.O ''(slaps him)'' Get offa me!!\\
'''Takuya:''' You're the one who grabbed me in the first place!!!
* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' plays it straight most of the time, most prominently early in the story where Sosuke catches a classmate trying to [[PantyThief steal some of Kaname's panties]] (because some upperclassmen were forcing him to). The two start talking, find common ground, and are having a friendly chat when Kaname finds them...and Sosuke has the panties in his hand. Cue [[BatterUp baseball bat to the head]]. It starts getting averted later on, especially when it comes to Sosuke's CO Tessa, who has a huge crush on him and does things like sneaking into his bed; once Kaname catches them like this and, when a panicked Sosuke insists it's NotWhatItLooksLike, Kaname says that she knows it isn't and tells Tessa off.
* ''Manga/GirlsBravo'' has this happen in the first episode - Yukinari gets up and goes into the bathroom, only to accidentally walk in on Kirie when she's naked, so she attacks him. Why is it this trope? Because it's ''his'' house and ''his'' bathroom, which she has no right to use and ''didn't even get permission to use''. She also expects him to remember that she was gonna come over to use the bathroom again like yesterday. To make things worse, when he explains that it was an accident and how, because of his allergies to girls, he wouldn't even want to see her naked, she attacks him regardless for not wanting to see her naked. Kirie has a tendency in general to overreact to anything she perceives as sexual in nature - heck, the ''reason'' he's allergic to girls is because she assaults him so often!
* ''LightNovel/GonnaBeTheTwinTail'': Averted with Aika, despite her [[{{Tsundere}} character archetype]]. Rather, she always goes for Twoearle, who's usually responsible for the antic Souji ends up in.
* ''Anime/GuiltyCrown'': Shu's alone in a room wearing only a ModestyTowel in episode 5 after being knocked out by Ayase. Then, Ayase suddenly enters without knocking or anything and [[OhCrap shocks Shu into dropping his towel]], who [[NakedFreakOut gets embarrassed]] and [[HandOrObjectUnderwear tries to cover himself]]. Cue an OhCrap and then an ArmorPiercingSlap from Ayase.
* ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'' has this happen at the start of the first episode; Tomoki's neighbor Sohara comes into ''his'' house to wake him up for school, tears off his blanket, and then screams and karate chops him in the face after seeing his morning wood when he was barely even awake.
* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' is one of the very few anime out there that ''[[SubvertedTrope subverts this trope]]'' despite high amounts of {{Fanservice}}. The shining example would have to be [[spoiler: Koneko wanting to make out with Issei and Rias walks in. Issei expected that he was going to get smacked by Rias, but instead Rias just takes a look at Koneko's condition and says that she's sick.]] The only time Issei even gets beaten is if he actively does anything perverted.
** Sadly played straight in the [[{{Omake}} DVD extras]], where an obvious accident involving MarshmallowHell with Rias and Asia means [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Koneko]] gets to smash his head like a watermelon. Then again, the extra was a large OutOfCharacterMoment for everyone. (It's implied to be a DreamSequence for Issei, whose pre-CharacterDevelopment brain is [[ThinksLikeARomanceNovel running on]] unfiltered HaremAnime tropes.)
** The series actually [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructs]] this trope at one point. When Rias starts getting bitter and passive-aggressively shaming Issei when she catches him with another girl, even when they're obviously the ones coming onto him, it's deliberately shown to be irrational (especially since she's been nothing but fair to him up to that point) and hinting at bigger issues.
** Played straight in the fourth season of the anime, where Koneko punches Issei in the gut for saying he didn't like "little girls" (which was a no-win situation for Issei, since he was denying [[WifeHusbandry getting friendly with a young kitsune]] because she had good genes). It actually ties into her characterization in the LightNovel, which is a subversion; Koneko is deeply insecure about being a [[ACupAngst completely flat]] member of a harem for someone who openly thinks BuxomIsBetter and tends to lash out when he says something that suggests she's not sexy, she's aware how unfair this is and she's ''not'' proud of her behavior.
* Ichika from ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'' gets attacked by the girls for things that are clearly not his fault.
* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': The title character gets hit on the head several times after [[AccidentalPervert accidentally walking]] [[OutdoorBathPeeping in on Kagome bathing]] to the point that it's a running gag. Bonus points for the time when Inuyasha and Miroku stumble onto Kagome and Sango bathing in some hot springs and they both get smacked. Inuyasha is pissed, but Miroku, an [[HandsomeLech actual pervert]], is pleased with what he got to see.
* ''Manga/LoveHina'' is (in)famous for this trope.
** In one chapter, Naru punches Keitaro when he walks in on her changing. Later in the same chapter, she walks in on ''him'' changing, and he's '''still''' the one who gets punched.
** One time, she tries to hit Keitaro on the grounds that he must be ''thinking'' something perverted.
** Another time, Tama-chan the turtle has gone missing, and Naru and Keitaro are looking for it. Shinobu has just got home and is changing her clothes when she is scared by Tama-chan and comes running up to them clad only in her camisole, grabbing Keitaro in panic. He's too busy trying not to choke to notice her, yet Naru ''still'' hits him "just in case".
* Thankfully averted in ''Manga/{{Magikano}}'', where whenever Ayumi gets close to Haruo, Maika pretty much gives her a piece of her mind. This ''is'' a SlapstickKnowsNoGender kind of series, after all.
* During episode 2 of ''VisualNovel/MajikoiLoveMeSeriously'', the five girls are lounging in the bath, and catch sight of a dog they were hired to catch. They proceed to chase after it, ''butt naked'' all five of them, and eventually come crashing into Yamato's room. Yamato, who was minding his own business, is beaten to a pulp for just being there. Even worse considering one of them is ''Miyako'', who is a pervert and a tease, so she has no business doing something like this, more so since earlier in that very same episode she was thinking out loud to herself that if Yamato wanted to see her naked body, that she would gladly show it to him.
* ''Manga/MakenKi'':
** In the second episode, Inaho climbs into Takeru's bunk after he's fallen asleep. Yet, the following morning, Haruko slapped ''him'' for it, rather than chastise Inaho, since Takeru's perverted antics is Haruko's BerserkButton.
** About midway in episode 3, [[ThoseTwoGuys Takeru and Kengo]] are chased [[BearsAreBadNews by a bear]] during the [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil Maken-Ki's]] visit to a hot spring. The bear quickly catches up and swats them into the girls' side of the bath, where [[{{Tsundere}} Himegami]] and [[AmazonianBeauty Azuki]] respond by intercepting them in mid-air with a kick that knocks them right back into the bear's path!
** The manga version differs by having them actually ''run'' into the girls' side of the hot spring, to hide from the bear, where they end up fondling [[http://readpanda.net/Maken-ki/4/25/ Himegami and Haruko's breasts.]] Making the girls' subsequent reaction completely {{justified}}.
* ''LightNovel/MayoChiki'' ends up running into this by default, as main guy Kinjirou has gynophobia or fear of GIRLS, yet other characters are quick to forget this. Even then, there's one instance that stands out: the very naughty, perverted and dominant [[TheTease Kanade]] is on top of the table and leaning on top of a sitting down Kinjirou, trying to kiss him as he tries to avoid her lips, when her female BattleButler Subaru walks into the room and yells at ''Kinjirou'' "What are you doing at Mistress Kanade?", even though it was impossible to think anything but that Kanade was the one being a pervert here, as it was extremely obvious! And yes, Subaru is fully aware of [[LovableSexManiac Kanade being pervy]] and [[HeManWomanHater Kinjirou scared of women]], so it seems someone slipped one IdiotBall into her pocket before that scene. Or twelve.
* ''Manga/Mx0'': The hero Kuzumi manages to avert this. His chivalrous, life-saving actions and good behavior save him twice in otherwise compromising situations.
** When he falls into the girls' shower after a class match, he did so because some guys in his class took a magic camera-ball and were trying to spy on the girls. He was just trying to get rid of it by removing it from the window and fell through.
** Later, during summer break, he disguised himself as a girl to get into the pool where the girls were hanging out. He ended up saving several of their lives from a giant whirlpool two had accidentally created. The girls accepted him being there just to watch and help them. Though, he was turned into an errand boy for them for the rest of the day.
* ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' has a deliberate example in the AnimatedAdaptation. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Through a complicated series of events]], protagonist Asahi is mistaken for a pervert when he was actually trying to protect his classmate Nagisa Aizawa's [[{{Lilliputians}} sec]][[HumanAliens ret]]. In order to sell the act, he asks Aizawa to [[HitMeDammit beat him up]] and tell the people chasing him that [[PervertRevengeMode she "punished" him for his actions]]. Aizawa goes along with it because there's no other choice, but she feels incredibly guilty for doing so and tries to make up for it by telling their classmate Youko (for whom Asahi has feelings) what really happened so she won't think less of him.
* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Asuka makes her debut by slapping Shinji, Kensuke, and Touji for the crime of seeing the wind blow her dress up. Touji immediately gets revenge by flashing her... and gets slapped again.
** In ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', she instead kicks Shinji in the face for the crime of seeing her naked when she [[CallBack freaks out after seeing Pen Pen]] and runs into the living room nude. The very next day, she does the same to another boy for simply trying to ''talk'' to her in homeroom.
* Chapter 12 of ''Manga/OmujoOmutsuJoshi'' features Shouta and Morei LockedInARoom and trying to find a way out. Morei gets on Shouta's shoulders to try shouting for help from the window, only for Shouta to lose his balance and fall backward. When Morei recovers from the fall, she discovers that she's both landed on top of Shouta and succumbed to PottyFailure as she fell. Shouta is blushing but otherwise calm as he asks Morei to get off of him. Morei responds by screaming "No!" in embarrassment and punching Shouta so hard he flies through the stuck door keeping the two trapped and freeing them. The chapter's PerspectiveFlip shows Shouta pondering whether or not Morei likes him and, upon being punched, deciding "I think I prefer girls who are kind."
* Kalifa in ''Manga/OnePiece'' takes this concept to its logical extreme: As a RunningGag, she accuses her boss Spandam of sexual harassment from things that are not even remotely related to it, such as talking to her. At one point, she calls him out on sexual harassment for just standing there, doing absolutely nothing at all.
-->'''Kalifa:''' Sir?\\
'''Spandam:''' Yes?\\
'''Kalifa:''' That's sexual harassment.\\
'''Spandam:''' My existence is?!
** In the Punk Hazard arc, Nami and Sanji [[FreakyFridayFlip switch bodies]]. After finally getting her body back, Nami quickly realizes she's not wearing the same jacket as before. She clobbers Sanji, assuming he took another opportunity to ogle at her body while they were apart. While Sanji [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman had certainly given her precedent to think so]], he actually discarded the jacket while trying to rescue Kin'emon's torso from underwater; clothing created from Kin'emon's power disappears upon removal.
* Averted in ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'', which actually has the girls hit each other simply to get to closer to Tsukune.
** Tsukune {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it when on a date with [[DefrostingIceQueen Inner Moka]] saying he feels he might get hurt if he touches her (she asked to hold hands). As soon as he does, the rest of his UnwantedHarem attack him and Moka.
--> '''Inner Moka:''' "What's wrong? You don't want to hold my hand?"\\
'''Tsukune:''' "I do, but I'm afraid I might get kicked or something like that."
* Satirized in ''LightNovel/TheSacredBlacksmith'':
-->'''Luke:''' ''You're sorry?'' You have a {{wardrobe malfunction}} and beat the crap out of me, and you expect ''sorry'' is gonna cut it?
* In the OnsenEpisode of ''Manga/SamuraiHaremAsuNoYoichi'', Chihaya jokingly tells main guy Yoichi he should bathe with her and her sisters. Everyone (That is, Yoichi and the sisters) stare in disbelief for a second before {{Tsundere}} Ibuki hits... Yoichi, on the basis he ''might'' have been thinking something perverted, even though he was just as shocked as the girls were. And Chihaya, who actually ''said'' the perverted comment? [[DoubleStandard Nothing happens to her]], not even a "Don't say those things, you might give him ideas!" or something.
* Subverted in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', when Itoshiki goes to a hot spring, only to realize that his female students are on the girls' side. When Maria accidentally knocks over the divider, the girls don't really care all that much, while ''Itoshiki'' covers himself, turns around and lets out a girlish shriek.
* Surprisingly averted in ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'' ep 7: Due to a broken lock, Rin walks on Asa while she's in the toilet. They both apologize to each other and agree to forget about the incident. No violence whatsoever.
* ''LightNovel/StudentCouncilsDiscretion'' ends up falling into this, as Ken acts extremely perverted and deserving of the payback. However, he soon shows himself to be a much nicer and more caring person than he first appears, and even though the girls know this, he's constantly receiving a lot of abuse. One JustForFun/{{egregious}} example comes from the episode where he has to take care of the WiseBeyondTheirYears little sister of the newspaper club president. She pulls out some dolls and starts playing with them, but gives them a rather perverted story. She then tells him to join in, which he reluctantly does. As soon he says ONE line, the girls jump in and start lynching him and saying he's a bad influence on the little sister, even though they were around the whole time. This case was an {{Invo|kedTrope}}cation, as the little girl was intentionally probing at their jealousy: The girls are all attracted to him to some extent, but can't actually admit it and thus blame him. Of course, this doesn't stop the girls from looking like they have a personal vendetta against Ken and are looking for excuses to berate him since nobody normal would have blamed him for this, invoked or not.
* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': Kirito has memorized a number of placating lines just in case he ever finds himself in a compromising situation. When he accidentally gropes Asuna (she was running and crashed into him), [[TongueTied he promptly forgot all of them]], and she throws him into a wall.
* ''Manga/ToLoveRu'': Yami absolutely hates perversion, and constantly beats up Rito for it no matter the circumstances.
* ''Anime/{{Vandread}}'' does this once with the main character bumping into a girl and then getting an ArmorPiercingSlap for being a pervert.
** There is the slight matter of this being a case of Men and Women are warring SPECIES and (In general...) each thinks the other is going to do horrible horrible things to them at the slightest provocation.
* In ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'', Keima is helping Haqua make an AfterActionReport with a supernatural simulation device that uses dolls to represent people. Annoyed with Keima, Haqua tells the simulation that Keima is a pervert. When, in response, doll-Keima starts molesting doll-Haqua, Haqua starts beating up the ''real'' Keima.
* At one point in the ''Anime/StarshipTroopers'' OVA, Rico encounters Carmen on the Moon and, following the example of a training mate who got a nude pic from his girlfriend, asks her for a picture, making sure to not mention the "nude" part. Before she can answer, the training mate arrives and, not noticing her, asks Rico if he got that nude pic, resulting in Carmen slapping Rico.
* ''Manga/TheUnpopularMangakaAndTheHelpfulOnryoSan'': In Chapter 23, Onryo-san wakes up to find Senai next to her (in ''his bed''), and punches him.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/EscapeFromTheHokagesHat'' has Naruto discuss this before he goes out of his way to avert it out of fear.
--> "Another confusing thing was his reaction to physical contact. First, there was Sakura's hug, then Hinata holding his hand, Shizune-nee-chan carrying him to Tsunade-baa-chan accidentally [[MarshmallowHell suffocating him in her chest]]. All these events in the past two days made up more physical attention and affection than he received in his entire life. Not sure how to deal with the resulting emotions, years of conditioning from Sakura came to the forefront as he kept his mouth shut so they wouldn't hit him for being a pervert."
* In the ''Manga/LoveHina'' fic ''Fanfic/ForHisOwnSake'', Naru attacks a complete stranger she overhears teasing a woman he's walking with. SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome when said woman -- his ''wife'' -- doesn't appreciate the 'rescue' and [[spoiler:has her arrested]].
* In another ''Manga/LoveHina'' fic, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5362570/2/KK1-Kid-Keitaro Kid Keitaro]]'', an 8-year-old Keitaro comes to live at Hinata Sou. During his first night, he has a nightmare, so Kitsune comes into his room to comfort him and ends up falling asleep with him cuddled up next to her. The next morning, Naru comes into the room, and upon seeing Keitaro lying with his head on Kitsune's chest, gets it into her head that an 8-year-old boy somehow managed to overpower and molest a 21-year-old woman and [[WouldHurtAChild gives him an]] ArmorPiercingSlap. Unlike other examples of this trope, she gets a harsh dose of LaserGuidedKarma when Kitsune slaps her back.
* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Team MNVW is going through Izuku's mail while he studies in the library. Then they realize that his mom sent him an entire box of condoms out after learning that he is sleeping in the same room as three gorgeous women his age. His [[OpenMouthInsertFoot poor choice of words]] when he walks in on this scene causes Weiss to fly off the handle and attempt to strangle him even though ''she'' was the one rifling through ''his'' things.
-->'''Izuku:''' ''[walks in on Weiss holding a condom''] W-Weiss, I kn-know our f-f-families have different ways of doing th-thiings, but that's not the sort of thing you should just... wave around. ''[tries to offer a reassuring smile]'' You're an adult, and I respect your choices, but I think we'd all just prefer some things stay private. Ok? ''[Weiss screams and tackles him before starting to strangle him as they both blush like mad]'' W-Weiss! Not in front of the others! It's lewd! \\
'''Weiss:''' Die!
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* A PlayedForDrama version in the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresOriginalSin Original Sin]]'', when a HatePlague leads to a woman beating a man to death because he accidentally brushed against her while practicing tai chi.

'''Bill:''' ''[[{{beat}} lecherous grin.]]'' Fair enough.
* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' had a case of this, where after a break-in Rose doesn't feel safe or secure anymore. It reaches a pitch when a strange man comes running after her in the parking lot and she kicks him in the groin, re-establishing her confidence and sense of security. Dorothy and Blanche are initially happy for her... until she sheepishly reveals the guy was only running after her because she had dropped her purse and [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome is probably going to file an assault charge.]]

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* An optional scene in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'' has Emil, a ShrinkingViolet, bathing alone in thermal waters. While he's there, GenkiGirl and openly in love for him Marta enters the bath, which causes him to scream in surprise. Upon hearing him, the entire playable cast of the first game but Lloyd come checking out what's going on. Despite all of them knowing how Emil and Marta are, they all ''instantly start berating Emil and calling him a pervert'', and when Marta tries to say that, yes, she was the one that entered the bath and the perverted one, they tell her to ''shut up and not make excuses for Emil''. Yes, even the cool and rational Regal, Presea and Raine instantly believe the shy guy tried to sneak into the bath of the energetic girl and not the other way around and that's totally why he was the one that screamed! And just to drive the point home, the only one that believes Emil is Lloyd, and that's because Lloyd got caught in two AccidentalPervert moments and considers this to be the same. Except in those cases, Lloyd DID look like a pervert, unlike with Emil where it's just absurd. Ironically, save for Zelos, who of course gives him kudos, the rational and mellow ones are the most upset, where Sheena, who's been peeped on before by Zelos, and usually gets pissed off from that sort of thing, simply says you can't blame him for his hormones, and Genis, instead of making a smart remark about what an immature horndog he is, is just amazed at how badly he supposedly wanted to bathe with her. Kind of feels like an [[OutOfCharacter out-of-character moment]] for everyone save Lloyd, Zelos, and those two.
* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'':
** The school [[HorribleCampingTrip camping trip scene]] in ''VideoGame/Persona4'' contains this trope, while Yosuke at least can be blamed for both hitting on Chie and Yukiko and calling them childish, the player character can actually be more complimentary in a way that can get on one of the girl's good side. Regardless you're given the options of agreeing that Chie and Yukiko are [[ButThouMust "fine" or disagreeing]], it's a lose-lose situation because no matter what you're pushed OFF A CLIFF, into freezing water. The real kicker is that Kanji, who really said nothing the whole scene is pushed into the water because he gets a {{nosebleed}}, thus he must be punished [[AllMenArePerverts because nosebleeds are only caused by perverted thoughts]] and not at all by Chie kicking him in the face hard enough to knock him unconscious the previous night.
** ''VideoGame/Persona3'' and ''4'' have other instances of this trope involving [[HotSpringsEpisode hot springs]] which is even worse because it usually has to do with the girls getting the time schedules mixed up or some other wacky misunderstanding that is exclusively their fault. Of course, they always blame the guys for being [[AllMenArePerverts lecherous little schemers]] even though, with the exception of Yosuke and Junpei, they don't really care and just want to relax in the springs.
** ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation'' at least has Yukiko realize in the middle of the misunderstanding SHE messed up with the schedules, but she continues insulting the guys anyway. Yukiko is possibly the nicest, most sensible girl in the cast. By comparison, in the game, she realizes after the fact, but the others decide not to tell anyone.
** ''VideoGame/Persona4'' also has a moment when the characters are discussing an upcoming exam. Yosuke is in need of a tutor, so he asks the hard-working and intelligent Yukiko for some "private lessons". She then slaps him.
---->'''Yukiko''': Ohhhhh...you were talking about ''studying''?
** However, in that case, Yukiko is portrayed as misinterpreting romantic overtures (she had been harassed by a ''lot'' of guests to the hotel recently), so while it is sort of a case of this, she actually did think he was hitting on her, and apologizes when she realizes what he meant. And the fact that the phrase "private lessons" can be interpreted as a DoubleEntendre did not help Yosuke's case, as Chie points out when [[NeverMyFault Yosuke blames Chie for bringing this up]].
** In ''VideoGame/Persona3'', it's implied that Junpei and Ryoji deliberately came at the time when the hot springs switch from guys only to girls only so they could get a look at the girls, and claim that they didn't know when it switched over.
** In ''VideoGame/Persona5Strikers'', the Phantom Thieves go to the same spa resort as the SEES team. When the boys hang out in the baths a little too long and realize the girls have shown up during the women hours, they quickly try to escape without being seen. Unfortunately for them, they are caught, accused of being perverts, and are quickly dealt an ice-cold glass of ass-whuppin' for an honest mistake.
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' has the female Avatar attack Chrom after [[AccidentalPervert walking in]] ''on him'' [[ShowerOfAwkward bathing]], although she did refrain from doing it when the situation was reversed previously. To be fair, she acknowledges the attack was unprovoked and sincerely apologizes.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', you can build a bathhouse in your castle. Every time the Avatar enters, there's a chance they'll accidentally walk in on someone of the opposite gender, prompting this trope. But as far as the player can see, there isn't any sign indicating that the bathhouse is in use, much less by a specific gender.
* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', Leon admittedly [[VideoGamePerversityPotential can purposefully]] look up Ashley's skirt when she's standing at the top of a ladder. However, it can also happen completely accidentally, even when Leon's clearly preoccupied, say, suplexing an enemy. But Ashley will still shriek at him that he's a pervert.
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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'', there was a RareMaleExample. Mr. Cat [[BatterUp hits Stumpy with a baseball bat]] and accuses him of voyeurism just for being outside the door when he was in the bathroom.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Brian asks a woman in the college class he's taking if he's in the right room, and she immediately freaks out and hoses him down with pepper spray. When he calls her out on this, she apologizes and says she's on edge due to a date rape seminar she'd attended earlier.

* PlayedForDrama in ''Manga/MobPsycho100'' where [[JapaneseDelinquents local gang leader Tenga Onigawara]] is shamed and verbally assaulted for stealing the mouthpieces off of girls' recorders to sniff and lick in private... except that Tenga is innocent, and the whole thing was a FrameUp by a pair of Student Council members as the first order of business to rid the school of undesirables such as his delinquent gang.

** In ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', she instead kicks Shinji in the face for the crime of seeing her naked when she [[CallBack freaks out after seeing Pen Pen]] and runs into the living room nude.

** In the Punk Hazard arc, Nami and Sanji switch bodies. After finally getting her body back, Nami quickly realizes she's not wearing the same jacket as before. She clobbers Sanji, assuming he took another opportunity to ogle at her body while they were apart. While Sanji [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman had certainly given her precedent to think so]], he actually discarded the jacket while trying to rescue Kin'emon's torso from underwater; clothing created from Kin'emon's power disappears upon removal.

* ''Manga/BenTo'': Ume Shiriume will frequently abuse Satou for any perceived perverted slight. She attacks him mostly due to her PsychoLesbian crush, Oshiroi always accompanying him. Her [[ClingyJealousGirl jealous bias]] against him for h no matter how small or ridiculous . It even gets to the point where [[KickThemWhileTheyreDown she'll abuse him when he's unconscious]] Ume will find it necessary to abuse Satou clearly out of , leading to [[DudeNotFunny very poorly executed scenarios [[TheScrappy whenever she’s onscreen.]]

* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': The title character gets hit on the head several times after [[AccidentalPervert accidentally walking]] [[OutdoorBathPeeping in on Kagome bathing]] to the point that it's a running gag. Bonus points for the time when Inuyasha and Miroku stumble onto Kagome and Sango bathing in some hot springs and they both get smacked. Inuyasha is pissed, but Miroku is pleased with what he got to see.

* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': The title character gets hit on the heads several times after [[AccidentalPervert accidentally walking]] [[OutdoorBathPeeping in on Kagome bathing]] to the point that it's a running gag. Bonus points for the time when Inuyasha and Miroku stumble onto Kagome and Sango bathing in some hot springs and they both get smacked. Inuyasha is pissed, but Miroku is pleased with what he got to see.

* An optional scene in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'' has Emil, a RareMaleExample of a ShrinkingViolet, bathing alone in thermal waters. While he's there, GenkiGirl and openly in love for him Marta enters the bath, which causes him to scream in surprise. Upon hearing him, the entire playable cast of the first game but Lloyd come checking out what's going on. Despite all of them knowing how Emil and Marta are, they all ''instantly start berating Emil and calling him a pervert'', and when Marta tries to say that, yes, she was the one that entered the bath and the perverted one, they tell her to ''shut up and not make excuses for Emil''. Yes, even the cool and rational Regal, Presea and Raine instantly believe the shy guy tried to sneak into the bath of the energetic girl and not the other way around and that's totally why he was the one that screamed! And just to drive the point home, the only one that believes Emil is Lloyd, and that's because Lloyd got caught in two AccidentalPervert moments and considers this to be the same. Except in those cases, Lloyd DID look like a pervert, unlike with Emil where it's just absurd. Ironically, save for Zelos, who of course gives him kudos, the rational and mellow ones are the most upset, where Sheena, who's been peeped on before by Zelos, and usually gets pissed off from that sort of thing, simply says you can't blame him for his hormones, and Genis, instead of making a smart remark about what an immature horndog he is, is just amazed at how badly he supposedly wanted to bathe with her. Kind of feels like an [[OutOfCharacter out-of-character moment]] for everyone save Lloyd, Zelos, and those two.

* In the ''Manga/LoveHina'' fic ''Fanfic/ForHisOwnSake'', Naru attacks a complete stranger she overhears teasing a woman he's walking with. RealityEnsues when said woman -- his ''wife'' -- doesn't appreciate the 'rescue' and [[spoiler:has her arrested]].

* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' had a case of this, where after a break-in Rose doesn't feel safe or secure anymore. It reaches a pitch when a strange man comes running after her in the parking lot and she kicks him in the groin, re-establishing her confidence and sense of security. Dorothy and Blanche are initially happy for her... until she sheepishly reveals the guy was only running after her because she had dropped her purse and [[RealityEnsues is probably going to file an assault charge.]]

* Averted in ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', which actually has the girls hit each other simply to get to closer to Tsukune.

* In another ''Manga/LoveHina'' fic, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5362570/1/KK1-Kid-Keitaro Kid Keitaro]]'', an 8-year-old Keitaro comes to live at Hinata Sou. During his first night, he has a nightmare, so Kitsune comes into his room to comfort him and ends up falling asleep with him cuddled up next to her. The next morning, Naru comes into the room, and upon seeing Keitaro lying with his head on Kitsune's chest, gets it into her head that an 8-year-old boy somehow managed to overpower and molest a 21-year-old woman and [[WouldHurtAChild gives him an]] ArmorPiercingSlap. Unlike other examples of this trope, she gets a harsh dose of LaserGuidedKarma when Kitsune slaps her back.

* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' had a case of this, where after a break-in Rose doesn't feel safe or secure anymore. It reaches a pitch when a strange man comes running after her in the parking lot and she kicks him in the groin, re-establishing her confidence and sense of security. Dorothy and Blanche are initially happy for her... until she sheepishly reveals the guy was only running after her because she had dropped her purse and is probably going to file an assault charge.

'''Lisa:''' You were thinking it.\\

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' has the female Avatar attack Chrom after [[AccidentalPervert walking in]] ''on him'' [[ShowerOfAwkward bathing]], although she did refrain from doing it when the situation was reversed previously. To be fair, she acknowledges the attack was unprovoked and sincerely apologizes.

** The school [[HorribleCampingTrip camping trip scene]] in ''VideoGame/Persona4'' contains this trope, while Yosuke at least can be blamed for both hitting on Chie and Yukiko and calling them childish, the player character can actually be more complimentary in a way that can get on one of the girl's good side. Regardless you're given the options of agreeing that Chie and Yukiko are [[ButThouMust "fine" or disagreeing]], it's a lose-lose situation because no matter what you're pushed OFF A CLIFF, into freezing water. The real kicker is that Kanji, who really said nothing the whole scene is pushed into the water because he gets a {{nosebleed}}, thus he must be punished [[AllMenArePerverts because nosebleeds are only caused by perverted thoughts]].

** In ''VideoGame/Persona5Scramble'', the Phantom Thieves go to the same spa resort as the SEES team. When the boys hang out in the baths a little too long and realize the girls have shown up during the women hours, they quickly try to escape without being seen. Unfortunately for them, they are caught, accused of being perverts, and are quickly dealt an ice-cold glass of ass-whuppin' for an honest mistake.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': Kirito is GenreSavvy enough to have memorized a number of placating lines just in case he ever finds himself in a compromising situation. When he accidentally gropes Asuna (she was running and crashed into him), [[TongueTied he promptly forgot all of them]], and she throws him into a wall.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex:''

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDxD'' is one of the very few anime out there that ''[[SubvertedTrope subverts this trope]]'' despite high amounts of {{Fanservice}}. The shining example would have to be [[spoiler: Koneko wanting to make out with Issei and Rias walks in. Issei expected that he was going to get smacked by Rias, but instead Rias just takes a look at Koneko's condition and says that she's sick.]] The only time Issei even gets beaten is if he actively does anything perverted.

* During episode 2 of ''VisualNovel/MajiDeWatashiNiKoiShinasai'', the five girls are lounging in the bath, and catch sight of a dog they were hired to catch. They proceed to chase after it, ''butt naked'' all five of them, and eventually come crashing into Yamato's room. Yamato, who was minding his own business, is beaten to a pulp for just being there. Even worse considering one of them is ''Miyako'', who is a pervert and a tease, so she has no business doing something like this, more so since earlier in that very same episode she was thinking out loud to herself that if Yamato wanted to see her naked body, that she would gladly show it to him.

* ''LightNovel/SeitokaiNoIchizon'' ends up falling into this, as Ken acts extremely perverted and deserving of the payback. However, he soon shows himself to be a much nicer and more caring person than he first appears, and even though the girls know this, he's constantly receiving a lot of abuse. One JustForFun/{{egregious}} example comes from the episode where he has to take care of the WiseBeyondTheirYears little sister of the newspaper club president. She pulls out some dolls and starts playing with them, but gives them a rather perverted story. She then tells him to join in, which he reluctantly does. As soon he says ONE line, the girls jump in and start lynching him and saying he's a bad influence on the little sister, even though they were around the whole time. This case was an {{Invo|kedTrope}}cation, as the little girl was intentionally probing at their jealousy: The girls are all attracted to him to some extent, but can't actually admit it and thus blame him. Of course, this doesn't stop the girls from looking like they have a personal vendetta against Ken and are looking for excuses to berate him since nobody normal would have blamed him for this, invoked or not.

* ''FanFic/EscapeFromTheHokagesHat'' has Naruto discuss this before he goes out of his way to avert it out of fear.

** The school [[HorribleCampingTrip camping trip scene]] in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' contains this trope, while Yosuke at least can be blamed for both hitting on Chie and Yukiko and calling them childish, the player character can actually be more complimentary in a way that can get on one of the girl's good side. Regardless you're given the options of agreeing that Chie and Yukiko are [[ButThouMust "fine" or disagreeing]], it's a lose-lose situation because no matter what you're pushed OFF A CLIFF, into freezing water. The real kicker is that Kanji, who really said nothing the whole scene is pushed into the water because he gets a {{nosebleed}}, thus he must be punished [[AllMenArePerverts because nosebleeds are only caused by perverted thoughts]].
** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' and ''4'' have other instances of this trope involving [[HotSpringsEpisode hot springs]] which is even worse because it usually has to do with the girls getting the time schedules mixed up or some other wacky misunderstanding that is exclusively their fault. Of course, they always blame the guys for being [[AllMenArePerverts lecherous little schemers]] even though, with the exception of Yosuke and Junpei, they don't really care and just want to relax in the springs.

** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' also has a moment when the characters are discussing an upcoming exam. Yosuke is in need of a tutor, so he asks the hard-working and intelligent Yukiko for some "private lessons". She then slaps him.

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* ''WebComic/DragonMango'': Dr. Yong-Yi [[UndressingTheUnconscious changes the clothes of an injured and unconscious Mango]] to [[AfterActionHealingDrama treat her wounds]]. When she [[http://dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter07/dm07-26.htm realizes this]] much later, she has a [[DelayedReaction delayed]] NakedFreakOut and doesn't accept his insistence that he's a doctor as an excuse and enters PervertRevengeMode, sending him flying out of the building.

** Played straight in the fourth season of the anime, where Koneko punches Issei in the gut for saying he didn't like "little girls" (which was a no-win situation for Issei, since he was denying [[WifeHusbandry getting friendly with a young kitsune]] because she had good genes). It actually ties into her characterization in the LightNovel, which is a subversion; Koneko is deeply insecure about being a [[ACupAngst completely flat]] member of a harem for someone who opening thinks BuxomIsBetter and tends to lash out when he says something that suggests she's not sexy, she's aware how unfair this is and she's ''not'' proud of her behavior.