History Main / WifeBasherBasher

This trope is often invoked by female villains as WoundedGazelleGambit if they are attacked by male heroes in public. They know there are usually a few chivalrous big men ready to dish out DisproportionateRetribution, even if she started it because most people with this mindset believe that AbuseIsOkWhenItIsFemaleOnMale.

This brutal form of chivalry generally earns a LOT of brownie points with the audience, especially women. Nevertheless; friends of this normally gentle person would find these [[BewareTheNiceOnes righteous outbursts]] quite disconcerting, if not downright [[NightmareFuel chilling]] to witness. Not to mention the BrokenAesop of solving violence with more violence, although this one only gets invoked if a child is present nearby, to provoke a HeWhoFightsMonsters revelation from the hero temporarily. Occasionally, this can backfire against the WifeBasherBasher himself in order to present Another BrokenAesop about "don´t mess with another one business"

This brutal form of chivalry generally earns a LOT of brownie points with the audience, especially women. Nevertheless; friends of this normally gentle person would find these [[BewareTheNiceOnes righteous outbursts]] quite disconcerting, if not downright [[NightmareFuel chilling]] to witness. Not to mention the BrokenAesop of solving violence with more violence, although this one only gets invoked if a child is present nearby, to provoke a HeWhoFightsMonsters revelation from the hero temporarily. Occasionally, this can backfire against the WifeBasherBasher himself in order to present AnAesop about "don´t mess with another one business"

This brutal form of chivalry generally earns a LOT of brownie points with the audience, especially women. Nevertheless; friends of this normally gentle person would find these [[BewareTheNiceOnes righteous outbursts]] quite disconcerting, if not downright [[NightmareFuel chilling]] to witness. Not to mention the BrokenAesop of solving violence with more violence, although this one only gets invoked if a child is present nearby, to provoke a HeWhoFightsMonsters revelation from the hero temporarily. Occasionally, this can backfire against the WifeBasherBasher himself in order to present AnAesop about "don´t mess with another one problems"

This brutal form of chivalry generally earns a LOT of brownie points with the audience, especially women. Nevertheless; friends of this normally gentle person would find these [[BewareTheNiceOnes righteous outbursts]] quite disconcerting, if not downright [[NightmareFuel chilling]] to witness. Not to mention the BrokenAesop of solving violence with more violence, although this one only gets invoked if a child is present nearby, to provoke a HeWhoFightsMonsters revelation from the hero temporarily. Occasionally, this can backfire against the WifeBasherBasher, to present AnAesop about "don´t mess with another one problems"

This brutal form of chivalry generally earns a LOT of brownie points with the audience, especially women. Nevertheless; friends of this normally gentle person would find these [[BewareTheNiceOnes righteous outbursts]] quite disconcerting, if not downright [[NightmareFuel chilling]] to witness. Not to mention the BrokenAesop of solving violence with more violence, although this one only gets invoked if a child is present nearby, to provoke a HeWhoFightsMonsters revelation from the hero temporarily.

* In the WhiteCollar episode Home Invasion Neil need is taking part in a sting to catch his first killer (she is also an art thief). However Alex comes up to him and unwittingly blows his cover causing the murderess to run away from him, he catches her outside and tries to restrain her only for her to noticed several construction workers nearby and called for help, they came over and began beating up Caffrey allowing the villaness to escape. Peter was able to save his partner from getting beaten to badly but they still lost the killer.

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This brutal form of chivalry generally earns a LOT of brownie points with the audience, especially women. Nevertheless; friends of this normally gentle person would find these [[BewareTheNiceOnes righteous outbursts]] quite disconcerting, if not downright [[NightmareFuel chilling]] to witness. Not to mention the BrokenAesop of solving violence with more violence, although this one only gets invoked if a child is present nearby, to provoke a HeWhoFightsMonsters revelation from the hero temporarily.

Compare and contrast with the similarly named SerialKillerKiller. See also EvenEvilHasStandards, RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil and EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas.

Either way, the results are the same [[BerserkButton when he sees a woman being struck]]. The gentleman [[UnstoppableRage explodes into a roaring mass of homicidal fury]] and proceed to pursue the offending coward with the relentless stamina of a wild beast; and should the brute be caught he ''will'' be [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown pounded into a bloody mess]] to the best of the Wife Basher Basher's ability. All cries for mercy and personal injuries will be ignored by the possessor of this trope, such is his unbound and righteous primal fury. ''Usually'', murder is not the intent; the basher in question instead wants to ''humiliate'' the coward, and let him have a taste of what its like to be a helpless one for a change.

Either way, the results are the same [[BerserkButton when he sees a woman being struck]]. The gentleman [[UnstoppableRage explodes into a roaring mass of homicidal hatred]] and proceed to pursue the offending coward with the relentless stamina of a wild beast; and should the brute be caught he ''will'' be [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown pounded into a bloody mess]] to the best of the Wife Basher Basher's ability. All cries for mercy and personal injuries will be ignored by the possessor of this trope, such is his unbound and righteous primal fury. ''Usually'', murder is not the intent; the basher in question instead wants to ''humiliate'' the coward, and let him have a taste of what its like to be a helpless one for a change.

This brutal form of chivalry generally earns a LOT of brownie points with the audience, especially women. Nevertheless; friends of this normally gentle person would find these [[BewareTheNiceOnes righteous outbursts]] quite disconcerting, if not downright [[NightmareFuel chilling]] to witness.

* Budd White of ''LAConfidential'' is the MostTriumphantExample of this trope. He [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome literally rips AN OAK CHAIR in two with his bare hands]] to scare the location of a kidnapped girl out of a rapist. Needless to say the sniveling little bastard immediately complied, not wanting to end up like the chair.

* The ''nicer'' techniques of [[HokutoNoKen Hokuto Shinken]] literally makes your head explode from the inside out: If you dare strike or abuse women, on the other hand, Kenshiro will literally make you strangle yourself to death. His friend Rei is equally ruthless when it comes to those who hurt or terrorize women.

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** Really, this is an expected attribute of the most loved MarvelUniverse heroes such as CaptainAmerica, [[XMen Wolverine]] and ThePunisher. What differs the last from the first two is that, being also a SerialKillerKiller, Captain Frank Castle tends to also [[{{Understatement}} brutally]] ''slaughter'' the violent husband/boyfriend in question.

* In the first issue of {{Superman}} back in the 1930's, our titular hero deals with a violent husband by throwing him into a wall and mercilessly beating ''him'' until he promises to never hit his wife again.

** Hanamichi Sakuragi doesn't get many chances to show this, but he thinks exactly the same. When he mistakenly thought that his rival Oda has been abusing his girlfriend (and Sakuragi's ex-crush) Youko, Sakuragi was determined to hit the guy and spectacularly calling his out on it. [[spoiler: Then it's subverted as Oda was ''not'' deliberately abusing her, but was more worried about a sudden injury. He still apologizes to her later.]]

* The ''nicer'' techniques of [[HokutoNoKen Hokuto Shinken]] literally makes your head explode from the inside out: If you dare strike women, on the other hand, Kenshiro will literally make you strangle yourself to death. His friend Rei is equally ruthless when it comes to those who hurt or terrorize women.

* Marv of ''SinCity'' does ''not'' like it when guys rough up girls. At all. His response to a frat boy beating up his favorite stripper Nancy was to "straighten him out but good," mentioning that maybe he went a little too far, implying that he beat the guy to death.

* An interesting variation occurs in the VerySpecialEpisode of ''ADifferentWorld'' about domestic abuse. When the abuser is confronted about the rumors by one of his friends, he tells a story of a time when he tried to save a woman who was being slapped by her boyfriend in the street and she called the cops on him. He says he learned two things that day: that every man can lose it sometimes and that whatever happens between a man and a woman is no one else's business. It is truly chilling that the NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished lesson he learned from the incident seems to be part of his justification for abusing his girlfriend.

* An interesting variation occurs in the VerySpecialEpisode of ''ADifferentWorld'' about domestic abuse. When the abuser is confronted about the rumors by one of his friends, he tells a story of a time when he tried to save a woman who was being slapped by her boyfriend in the street and she called the cops on him. He says he learned two things that day: that every man can lose it sometimes and that whatever happens between a man and a woman is no one else's business. It is truly chilling that the NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished lesson he learned from the incident seems to be part of his justification for abusing his girlfriend.