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* Jason Todd, the second Robin, hated seeing women getting beaten by their abusive husbands and boyfriends; if he witnessed this, he would beat the abuser within an inch of his life. In one story, he may have actually killed the abuser, because he was furious that the man drove his girlfriend to suicide and he got away with it because he was the son of a diplomat; so one night, he confronted him, and by the time Batman arrived, the man had fallen to his death. Jason denied any wrongdoing.

* A variant in ''Film/SawIV''. One of Jigsaw's deathtraps involved both an abusive husband ''and'' his wife. Jigsaw believed that she hasn't left him and taken her daughter with her because she doesn't have the will so he devised a trap by which they were pinned together, back to back, by a set of spikes, the removal of which would hurt her, but kill him. She has to make the choice between staying pinned to him and bleeding to death, or saving her own life at the cost of his. [[spoiler: She ends up choosing to pull the spikes out.]]

* In the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', the supervillainous Cheesecake intentionally evoked this trope by [[WoundedGazelleGambit having Mustang, one of her (also female) partners in crime, rough her up while in her Secret Identity, then arranging to be found by one of the heroes]]. After the hero "taught a lesson" to the completely innocent man whom Cheesecake blamed for the assault, the hero was convicted and thrown in jail himself.

* A variant in ''Film/SawIV''. One of Jigsaw's deathtraps involved both an abusive husband ''and'' his wife. The implication is that the wife didn't have the will to leave him, so Jigsaw devised a trap by which they were pinned together by a set of spikes, the removal of which would hurt her, but kill him. She has to make the choice between staying pinned to him and bleeding to death, or saving her own life at the cost of his. [[spoiler: she ends up choosing to pull the spikes out.]]
** Hoffman's StartOfDarkness coincides with the only good thing he does in the entire franchise: track down the man who killed his sister while they were dating and got out of prison way too early, and put him in an inescapable trap in which his hands are mangled and he's [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe sliced in half with a giant swinging pendulum.]]

** Then there is the episode where a woman claimed that her abusive husband attacked her then took their child. It turns out the woman murdered the wife and was using Mike's BerserkButton to track the man down.

* John Kramer, aka the Jigsaw Killer in the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' series. In ''Film/SawIV'', one of the many [[AssholeVictim people]] kidnaps and puts in deathtraps is a man who was abusing his wife and daughter. The trap that the wife-basher himself was in had him and his wife chained up with spikes going through both of them. In the HannibalLecture that John Kramer delivers through the tape, it's revealed that the spikes are skewering her husband's vital organs, and she's meant to his spikes out through her, killing him and allowing her and her daughter to live a better life. She does.

* John Kramer, aka the Jigsaw Killer in the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' series. In ''Film/SawIV'', one of the many [[AssholeVictim people]] kidnaps and puts in deathtraps is a man who was abusing his wife and daughter. The trap that the wife-basher himself was in had him and his wife chained up with spikes going through both of them. In the HannibalLecture that John Kramer delivers through the tape, it is revealed that the spikes are going through both of their non-vital arteries and the wife is meant to yank the spikes herself, killing him and allowing her to free herself from him forever. She does.

* John Kramer, aka the Jigsaw Killer in the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' series. In ''Film/SawIV'', one of the many [[AssholeVictim people]] kidnaps and puts in deathtraps is a man who was abusing his wife and daughter. The trap that the wife-basher himself was in had him and his wife chained up with spikes going through both of them. In the HannibalLecture that John Kramer delivers through the tape, it is revealed that the spikes are going through both of their non-vital arteries and the wife is meant to yank the spikes herself, killing him and allowing her to free herself from him forever. [[spoiler:She does.]]

* John Kramer, aka the Jigsaw Killer in the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' series. In ''Film/SawIV'', one of the [[AssholeVictim people]] [[KnightTemplar he]] kidnaps and puts in deathtraps is a man who was abusing his wife and daughter. The trap that the wife-basher himself was in had him and his wife chained up with spikes going through both of them. In the HannibalLecture that John Kramer delivers through the tape, it is revealed that the spikes are going through his vital arteries and her non-vital arteries and the wife is meant to yank the spikes herself, killing him and allowing her to get away and go get help. [[spoiler:She does.]]

* Gil Grissom from regular ''Series/{{CSI}}'' is restrained enough not to go that far, but he does have three things he can't stand, and men who hit their wives/girlfriends is one of them.

* ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'''s Mac Taylor isn't immune from it either, though unlike Horatio, his temper is usually restrained enough to just get in their face when confronting them with the evidence and then tell the escorts to get the guy out before it gets worse.

* ''Literature/HannahSwensen'': A completely unintentional example in ''Strawberry Shortcake Murder''. Boyd Watson, who has a bad temper and hits his wife Danielle from time to time (and is in therapy to try and learn how to control his anger), is the initial murder victim; while Danielle was a suspect in his death, it's later revealed that Boyd's killer had gone after him for completely different and utterly self-serving motives, and may not have even known about the abuse.

* In ''Series/GreysAnatomy'', Alex Karev is suspected is suspected to be this after Jo's abusive husband, Paul, is severely injured in a hit and run; a fair assumption considering how violently defensive Alex was of Jo in the past, but it wasn't him. Though we never find out who actually did it, it's heavily implied that it was Paul's new fiancé Jenny, who was also being abused by him.

See also BullyHunter, EvenEvilHasStandards, RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil, PayEvilUntoEvil, DisproportionateRetribution, and EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas.

* ''WesternAnimation/Adrian'' has the titular protagonist (an expy/avatar/self-insert of the author, the actor and singer Adriano Celentano) don the mask of "La Volpe" (''The Fox''), a Zorro/Batman expy stalking the streets of a corrupt Milano beating rapist and wifebeaters until they become crippled messes of scarred flesh, broken bones and open fractures. ItMakesSenseInContext: Adrian believes he's tasked to protect every kind of beauty from every kind of predatory exploitation, and that women are the ultimate avatar of the abstract concept of beauty. Defiling a woman to Adrian means defiling beauty itself, and he can't allow that.

* Glenn Quagmire becomes this in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode [[VerySpecialEpisode "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q".]] in regards to him willing to murder his sister's abusive boyfriend. Joe (a police officer) allows him to do it after seeing the abuse for himself.

* ''ComicBook/{{X 23}}'' pulls a variation of this with prostitutes. Sometime before joining the X-Men, Laura spent time on the streets of New York as a child prostitute under a sadistic and violently abusive pimp named Zebra Daddy. As a result of her experiences, on several occasions afterwards she's been shown reacting ''very'' violently to seeing other girls in the same situations: During her one-shot she stumbled across a pimp abusing one of his girls, and unceremoniously [[OffWithHisHead beheaded him]] with her claws, while the "Songs of the Orphan Child" arc of her ongoing began when Laura went after a man who murdered a teen prostitute she met at a diner. Most notably, when a girl's night out with Jubilee near the end of the series revealed that members of Zebra Daddy's gang had taken over his business, the evening turned into a bloody rampage to liberate the girls they were trafficking. Comicbook/BlackWidow herself, who arrived to clean things up afterward and help see the rescued girls were taken care of, noted that [[NotSoStoic Laura was acting entirely out of rage and not thinking clearly]] during the fight.

* Dark Kuyumaya of ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness''. If anyone harms or mistreats a woman in any way in front of him, especially his LoveInterest Mizore, they will receive a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown at the very least.

* The ''nicer'' techniques of [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar 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 older brother Raoh prefers the more direct method of [[OffWithHisHead LITERALLY slapping your head off]]. Rei, successor of Nanto-Seiken and Kenshiro's dearest friend is equally ruthless when it comes to those who hurt or terrorize women.
* LovableSexManiac masochist Sado Tarou of ''LightNovel/{{MM}}'' ''doesn't'' like to abuse people, the NiceGuy that he actually is. However, upon finding out that his adorable ShrinkingViolet girlfriend's fear of men come from being beaten by an abusive boyfriend who ''then'' [[MoralEventHorizon spread rumors of her sleeping around for refusing his sexual advances]], storms to the kickboxing gym of said abusive ex-boyfriend and proceeds to beat the evil ''martial artist'' into the ground, in spite of not possessing any proper combat training himself.

* Guts from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' could count for this one. Sure, [[TookALevelInJerkass he's changed a lot]] since the Eclipse -- some would say for [[HeWhoFightsMonsters the worse]] -- but Guts is still too decent of a guy to just standby and watch a full-grown man beat a little girl senseless. He usually dispatches them in his rare TranquilFury mode, but if he ever sees a woman in danger of sexual assault -- which reminds him all too well of [[LoveInterest the person]] [[MyGreatestFailure whom he failed to protect]] -- well, [[BerserkButton it's not going]] [[UnstoppableRage to end pretty]] for whoever (or ''what''ever) is doing it.
** Guts, in general, just does not like rapists. [[DarkAndTroubledPast Pretty obvious]] [[MindRape as to why.]]

* In ''Literature/HonorHarrington'', much of the male population of the planet Grayson is this to a degree, due to their very conservative culture, almost in contrast to the open misogyny that many Graysons were portrayed as having in their earliest appearances. Many of them were raised to see women as helpless in a man's world (though their dealings with the far more egalitarian Manticorans do much to change those attitudes) and thus, any man who is revealed to have injured or killed a woman (or a child) is not looked upon with very much favor.

* A variation in the fifth season of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': The Child Basher Basher. When Dexter discovers that a friend of his stepdaughter is being abused by her mother's boyfriend, he immediately takes action. He finds the guy and gives him an in-depth lesson on what hitting different parts of the body does to the victim, while hitting him in those locations. He then tells him to get out, STAT, and never come back. Appropriately, of course, Dexter is a SerialKillerKiller.
** He also came up with a ploy to get rid of Rita's abusive ex-husband Paul without killing him. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Dexter ended up indirectly responsible for his death anyway.]]

* Will, from Super Powereds, is this to his sisters abusive boyfriend, in a legitimately creepy manner. He uses his genius to take over the guys car, controlling it from afar. He also reroutes all calls and messages from the guy to his sister, so that she is never the wiser about what happened.
* Zeke Strahm of Blog/SeekingTruth kicked off his relationship with Lizzie by beating up her abusive father. He's also not very fond of Albert Conaghan, the serial rapist and KarmaHoudini whose sick pastime is likely what got him the attention of [[HumanoidAbomination Tall, Dark, and Faceless himself]].

* In the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', the supervillainous Cheesecake intentionally evoked this trope by [[WoundedGazelleGambit having Mustang, one of her (also female) partners in crime, rough her up while in her Secret Identity, then arranging to be found by one of the heroes]]. After the hero "taught a lesson" to the completely innocent man whom Cheesecake blamed for the assault, the hero was convicted and thrown in jail himself.