History Main / WifeBasherBasher

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'''s occasional foe [[KnightTemplar Cardiac]] usually doesn't concern himself with this kind of criminal (as a vigilante, his goal is to punish people who hurt others and do horrendous things but use legal loopholes and technicalities to escape justice). However, in one issue, while he is staking out a place, he sees a man assault his wife in a nearby apartment, and decides he can't "in clear conscience", let it happen. (Unfortunately, while he is teaching the wife-beater a lesson, it gave his true target more of a head start than he'd have liked.)

Despite the often masculine focus of this trope, women have been known to take this route too, usually against men that abuse family and friends, and sometimes [[SisterhoodEliminatesCreep gathering together to take a particular asshole down]].

See also BullyHunter, EvenEvilHasStandards, RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil, PayEvilUntoEvil, DisproportionateRetribution, and EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas. May lead to SisterhoodEliminatesCreep.

* In ''Literature/OneQEightyFour'', we find out early on that Aomame makes a ''living'' out of this -- she's an assassin who only targets abusive men. Even before starting to take assignments from the Madame, she [[spoiler:killed her best friend Tamaki's abusive husband after [[DrivenToSuicide Tamaki killed herself.]]]]

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->'''Vida:''' So, I gather you like hitting ladies.\\
'''Virgil:''' Some ladies need to get hit.\\
'''Vida:''' Then, conversely, some men need to be hit back.
-->--''Film/ToWongFooThanksForEverythingJulieNewmar''

* The narrator from Music/{{Nickelback}}'s "Never Again". All the more wrenching because it's implied the narrator is the man's son, who is too young to do anything about it.
-->''Father's a name you haven't earned yet\\
You're just a child with a temper\\
Haven't you heard "Don't hit a lady"?\\
Kickin' your ass would be a pleasure''
* The song "Mary Can You Come Outside" by Kane.
-->''Should I sit here on these hands of mine one more time?\\
Or should I use them on him the way he does on you?''

* Similarly, the Music/MirandaLambert song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWQdEDtveB0&ab_channel=MirandaLambert-Topic "Gunpowder and Lead"]] is a song about a woman sitting at home with a shotgun, waiting for her abusive boyfriend to get out of jail.
-->''I'm goin' home, gonna load my shotgun\\
Wait by the door, and light a cigarette\\
If he wants a fight, well, now he's got one\\
And he ain't seen me crazy yet\\
He slapped my face, and he shook me like a rag doll\\
Don't that sound like a real man?\\
I'm going to show him what little girls are made of\\
Gunpowder and lead''

* Music/{{Bloodywood}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a65A626Ed20 Dana Dan]] is about kicking rapists' and domestic abusers' asses (a huge problem in the group's native India).
-->''I raise a fist for the nameless faces he disgraces\\
Raise a fist for the nameless faces he disgraces\\
And yeah, one day I may change his kind with my mind\\
One day I may change his kind\\
But until then\\
De dana dan (Bring the beatdown)\\
De dana dan (Bring the beatdown)\\
De dana dan (Bring the beatdown)\\
De dana dan (Bring the beatdown)''
* Hardey's "Wait in the Truck". A drifter passing through a small town stops when he sees a woman in the headlights. Seeing that she was battered and bruised, he asks, "Where is he?" The drifter confronts the abuser, he goes for a gun, but the drifter pulls his own, killing him. He then waited for the cops to come, while smoking one of the abuser's own cigarettes, and is now five years in a life sentence. To him, it was worth the price to see a brighter side of the woman he picked up that night. Apparently, while prison isn't paradise, it's a whole hell of a lot better than the place he'd sent the abuser to.

* Beating up a female in ''VideoGame/TheWarriors'' will get certain male types to attack you for beating up a woman. However, the men that come out for this are no stronger than a regular NPC civilian, so they are just as easy to fight.

* The Flash game ''VideoGame/AnakshaFemaleAssassin'' has this as the title character's original motivation for picking up her rifle. Although in this case, it's less Wife Basher Basher and more [[BoomHeadshot Wife Basher Head Shooter]].

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' features a Random Encounter in which the player must confront a woman's abusive boyfriend and either beat him up or kill him.
* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', Trevor tears off Mexican drug lord Martin Madrazo's ear for the abuse he dishes out towards his wife, Patricia. When he eventually returns her home after kidnapping her for a while, Trevor threatens to come back for the other one if he finds out he's mistreating her again.

* [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels Mondo Owada]] from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' was taught by his older brother to hold great respect for women and to use his strength to protect them. During the chapter 1 investigation, he tells Makoto that he'll beat the guy who killed Sayaka to death, but when Makoto asks what would happen if the killer is a girl, he falls silent, and eventually says, "We'll cross that bridge when we reach it."
* ''VideoGame/Persona5'':
** At the start of the story the PlayerCharacter ends up on probation after getting arrested on assault charges for picking a fight with the BigBad while he was [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil drunkenly trying to force himself on a woman]]. Subverted in that he barely even touched him; he fell over and hit his head when he pulled them apart, [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney and used his influence to silence the witness and have Joker prosecuted as harshly as possible]] [[KidHero for a minor]].
** The Fortune Arcana storyline begins with a woman going to the FortuneTeller Chihaya for advice regarding her boyfriend beating her, which Joker overhears, leading to the Phantom Thieves beating up his [[ShadowArchetype Shadow]] in [[MentalWorld Mementos]] to [[HeelFaceBrainwashing make him change his ways]].
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': During one random event, Arthur can come across a man who's about to abuse his terrified wife, and has the option to do this. You can also shoot him, but you can also give him a taste of his medicine by giving a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' is shown to be this in ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheSecretRings'', where after [[spoiler: Erazor, who is heavily implied to be abusive towards Shahra, murders the girl before Sonic’s very eyes, prompting him to enter his Darkspine state, then after defeating Erazor, he [[AndIMustScream immobilizes Erazor, sucks him back into his lamp]], then [[KillItWithFire tosses the lamp into lava, baking him alive once and for all]].]]
* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': When Geralt finds out that [[spoiler:the Bloody Baron beat his pregnant wife Anna]], he gives him a severe beating and makes his contempt for him very clear afterwards. Also when Geralt finds out [[spoiler:what Whoreson Junior does to prostitutes, [[PapaWolf on top of trying to kill Ciri]]]].

* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' had a story arc featuring the [=VespAvenger=], a woman who rode around on a Vespa scooter beating up men who she considers abusive to their girlfriends. (That she doesn't bother to make sure is the first problem.) The characters [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=743 try to convince her to stop]] by bringing up DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale, asking her if she'd be horrified by the thought of a man who rode around on a Harley beating up women who were abusive to their boyfriends. [[AnalogyBackfire However]], the [=VespAvenger=] says that [[BattleCouple he sounds like her ideal guy]], and that she would want his phone number.
* A brief long-delayed female example in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' is present [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0603.html when Haley justifies her willingness]] to slay one particular rogue out of many she knew on the basis of him being a wife-beater just before unleashing an arrow-filled full attack on him.

* Will, from ''Literature/SuperPowereds'', is this to his sister's abusive boyfriend, in a legitimately creepy manner. He uses his genius to take over the guy's 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]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'', the spinach-eating sailor, is notorious for walloping Bluto whenever the big guy makes one move too many on Olive Oyl, which is in nearly every cartoon. Olive may be often receptive to Bluto's aggressive flirting, but she still doesn't deserve to be forced into anything if she changes her mind about it. Popeye kind of blunders into this one; he's generally ready to beat the tar out of Bluto when he starts putting the moves on Olive, but he only holds off because she'd be mad at him -- or, often as not, he doesn't hold off, and she gets mad at him. Still, because he's Bluto, it doesn't matter that he's successfully charmed her, [[DickDastardlyStopsToCheat eventually he starts getting rough with her]], which means Popeye is free and clear to open up a can of... spinach.
* Glenn Quagmire becomes this in the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS10E3ScreamsOfSilenceTheStoryOfBrendaQ 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.

* In ''Fanfic/TheMysteriousCaseOfNeelixsLungs'', Gul Evek, a husband and father himself, takes a ''very'' dim view of the Kazons' habitual mistreatment of women, starting with the summary and very painful execution of the Kazon-Ogla's First Maje Jal Jabin. (The irony of a Cardassian being a Wife-Basher Basher in the face of the [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil mass rape of Bajoran women by his fellow officers during the Occupation of Bajor]] is not lost on him.)
* In an installment of the ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' fanfic series "[[http://hyaku-legger.tripod.com/fanfics/ Little Memories of A Beautiful Life]]," [[http://hyaku-legger.tripod.com/situation/ "Infatuation Situation"]], the story's villain slaps Sasha across the face, causing her husband Charlie, who is [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness normally level-headed and docile]], to [[BerserkButton fly into an animalistic rage]] and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown rip the poor bastard to ribbons]].
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fics of Creator/AAPessimal, the fact that women are now training and graduating as Assassins is changing the Guild. The first four official female graduates - and one in particular - have a compact to pursue something called Ethical Assassination. They will still respect the Guild credo of not especially caring about the reason for inhuming a client so long as the money's right. But if their own informal investigations reveal that the client is culpable of wife-beating, rape, child molestation, or violence against women. Well, this may not be the ''official'' reason for the contract. It simply adds a degree of job satisfaction and a sensation of the world suddenly being a slightly cleaner place. As two Lady Assassins called "The Marriage Guidance Counsellors" [[note]]they provide terminal third-party guidance for troubled marriages[[/note]]might quietly tell you. And those four Lady Assassins, along with other later-arriving mature entrants, are now teachers at the School providing pastoral care to girl students.

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* Bud White of ''Film/LAConfidential''. He literally rips an oak chair in two with his bare hands out of rage after hearing a suspect's description of a sexual assault of a kidnapped girl. Then, to scare the location of a kidnapped girl out of the rapist, he plays a very non-consensual game of Russian roulette with the guy's face. It's related that when Bud himself was a child, he witnessed his abusive father beat his mother to death.
* Cyrus "the Virus" Grissom, the BigBad of ''Film/ConAir'' and a mass murderer who claims to have killed more men than cancer, threatened to throw "Johnny 23", a convicted SerialRapist, out of the title plane if he dared to try to rape the hijacked plane's only female officer. Cyrus says he normally despises rapists but will make an exception in this case, then delivers his ultimatum. And TheHero Cameron Poe repeatedly rams Johnny's head into a bulkhead for trying to do just that later in the film. (To make things even more appropriate, Poe is a Wife-Basher Basher [[SleevesAreForWimps in a "wife beater"]].)

* Sonny Corleone of ''Film/TheGodfather'' kicks the living daylights out of his sister's abusive husband in public. [[spoiler:Which leads to the ambush which kills him.]]
* Film/MajorPayne demonstrates that he is unfit to be a police officer when he responds to a domestic assault incident by smacking the abuser unconscious. Keep in mind that Payne did this during a ''training scenario'' and the man was an actor.

* Quoted above: In ''Film/ToWongFooThanksForEverythingJulieNewmar'', when the drag queens hear Virgil beating Carol Anne, Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze) thrashes him soundly, ending with the delivery of a bum's rush out the screen door. All without mussing her pink satin peignoir.
* In ''Film/SlingBlade'', a man (Creator/BillyBobThornton) has been released from a mental hospital, supposedly cured. He discovers a nice lady he knows and her son are being brutalized by a sadist, so he kills the man, then calls the police and ends up going back to the looney bin.
* A variant in ''Film/SawIV''. One of Jigsaw's deathtraps involved both an abusive husband ''and'' his wife. Jigsaw believes that she hasn't taken her young daughter and left because she doesn't have the will, so he devised a trap in which they were skewered 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. She chooses to pull the spikes out.
** Hoffman's StartOfDarkness coincides with the only good thing he does in the entire franchise of his own accord: track down the man who killed [[KnightTemplarBigBrother his sister]] while they were dating and got out of prison ''way'' too early for it and put him in an inescapable trap in which his hands are mangled by a pair of metal vice-like contraptions before he's [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bifurcated, one swing at a time, by a giant swinging pendulum.]]
* ''Film/SuicideKings'': Creator/DenisLeary's character Lono delivers a speech about domestic violence to an abusive father. When the man refuses to take the warning, Lono picks up a [[ImprovisedWeaponUser toaster]] and beats the guy into a pulp with it.
* In ''Film/GoodFellas'', when Henry finds out his then-girlfriend-future-wife Karen was sexually assaulted by one of her neighbors, he promptly walks to his house and pistol-whips him in broad daylight, then threatens to murder him. This action likely had a hand in causing Karen to marry him, as she admits in her narration that it turned her on.
* In ''Film/{{Tank}}'', Command Sergeant Major Zach Carey was visiting the base hospital, where he discovers a child being treated for bruises which are clearly the result of his father beating him. Carey summons the father to his office and tries unsuccessfully to convince the man to seek counseling, even going so far as to offer going a few rounds in a boxing ring to work off the offender's excess anger. The corporal gets to his feet and snaps at Carey that it's nobody's business but ends up pinned to the wall with Carey's forearm across his throat, whereupon Carey issues the ultimatum that neither the stockade, loss of rank, nor loss of retirement will stop him from destroying the man in place. The corporal is then much more receptive to Carey's offer of finding counseling.
* At the end of ''Film/JackReacher'', the titular hero boards a bus to leave the city. However, in the back, a woman is clearly being beaten by her abusive boyfriend, with the other passengers [[BystanderSyndrome trying to pretend not to notice.]] Jack, on the other hand, gets up from his seat to presumably beat the crap out of the boyfriend before the film cuts to credits.
* In ''Film/SavagesCrossing'' TheGunslinger Mory is visibly enraged when he sees Phil threatening Sue. When Phil goes on the rampage, it is Mory who eventually incapacitates him with a ferocious beatdown.
* The titular ''Film/JohnDoeVigilante'' is this, as he frequently includes {{domestic abuse}}rs among his victims. The beatings he inflicts are inevitably fatal.

* ''Film/{{Circle}}'': A racist cop identifies a tattooed man within the circle as a {{Domestic Abuse}}r. The abuser quickly becomes the group's next victim as a result of receiving the majority vote.

* In ''Film/DirtyDancing Havana Nights'', Katie fights off her date James when he gets fresh with her, running back into the nightclub they just left. Javier notices her disheveled state, instantly deduces what happened, and angrily asks "Where is he?!", clearly intending to invoke this trope, only relenting when Katie assures him she's okay.

* ''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.
** Honor herself is one, in a manner. In the second book, upon finding out [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil what Masadans do to female prisoners]], she [[TranquilFury approaches]] the captured Masadan base commander, [[DramaticGunCock draws and unsafeties her sidearm]], and has to be physically restrained to keep her from putting a pulse dart in the man's head, and even that was because there was enough evidence to convict the guy in court. And even then the 2 meters tall power-armored badass Marine Major, his petite ActionGirl similarly powered armored second in command, and every other officer present, except one, were frozen in fear by [[DeathGlare the look in Honor's eyes]] and didn't move a finger initially to stop her. It was the snot-nosed lieutenant with the standard-issue plasma cannon and hero worship that intervened and restrained his captain.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Harry Dresden will do horrible things to you if you hurt a woman/child, and he admits his Captain America levels of chivalry are a bit of a problem, with everyone {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing this. Later he gets more savvy but holds back until he is certain they are a) evil and b) capable of fighting. When he finds a ghoul that killed, (probably) raped, and partially ate twin Warden trainees, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge he blasts its lower body off]] [[UnstoppableRage (ghouls are really tough), sets fire to its body fat, then kicks it down a very deep chasm.]] He only did that to one of them; for the other one, [[ColdBloodedTorture he threw it into a pit with slick glass sides, then poured orange juice on him and left him to the mercy of the local fire ants]].

* ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall'':
** In quarte, Keladry of Mindelan always steps in to try to stop the strong abusing the weak, and on some occasions, that's meant this. As a page, she had a maid who was sometimes the object of unwelcome attention, and, well, unwelcome attention often involves injury. Seeing this was one of the few things that could break her [[TheStoic stoicism]].
--->'''Keladry:''' How ''dare'' you touch an unwilling woman?
** This also seems to be one duty of the Goddess' temples in [[Literature/TortallUniverse Tortall]]. Women who see victims of DomesticAbuse tell the victim that she can seek sanctuary there and mention is made of a new "aggressive" commander of their ChurchMilitant. This leads to a scene where Keladry goes to a bathhouse to relax after a rough day of page training and a group of women run up to her and tell her that whoever did that to her will pay, even if he's a noble, and Kel realizes that [[AbuseMistake her day to day training injuries look rather alarming out of context]].
* ''Literature/TheRainmaker'''s protagonist spends much of the book pining for an abused wife. [[spoiler:The climax has a very cathartic scene in which he beats the abuser to death with his own softball bat.]]
* ''Literature/NicholasNickleby'': Do ''not'' diss the title character's sister within his hearing. Just don't. (It's not a good idea to let him catch you mistreating kids, either.)

* ''Literature/SisterhoodSeries'': In a rare female example, the Vigilantes become this on Karl Woodley, a National Security Advisor who broke every bone in his wife, Paula Woodley's, body, in the book ''The Jury''. They get into his home and break every bone in ''his'' body! Despite having apparently reached her breaking point, Paula takes him back. Fortunately, he is permanently crippled, wheelchair-bound, and can't lay a hand on her. A later book reveals that she is taking great pleasure in tormenting him, implying that she only took him back so that she can make him suffer as much as she had!
* This one is OlderThanPrint, being a staple of the Chivalric romance. On at least one occasion Sir Lancelot was called on it by a battered gentleman, who proved to be in the right, and acidly suggested that the Knights of the Round Table would do well to inquire into the circumstances before dealing out retribution.
* In ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'', the narrator proudly declares that on the Moon, attacking a woman is a literal death sentence, as any male in the area will gladly kill you in the most painful way he can think of. The Earther Stuart Renè [=LaJoie=] nearly gets killed because his Earth-style flirt was too aggressive for the Moon (he survives because the boys who caught him decided to give him a trial, and the protagonist, acting as a judge, realizes he was just ignorant. Stuart learned his lesson well), while the Moon revolution is triggered by Earth Peace Dragoons raping and killing a woman and their boss preventing the chief of the guards from having them hanged.
* The protagonist of Creator/StephenKing's short story "Rest Stop" has to decide if and how he's going to assume this role when he stumbles across an unpleasant late-night scene at the eponymous location.

* In ''Literature/VampireAcademy'', Dimitri's father used to abuse his mother. A thirteen-year-old Dimitri beat up his father to defend his mother.
* ''Literature/RepairmanJack'' was hired by a man whose sister was being abused to beat the living crap out of his brother-in-law. Jack gave the guy a pounding and left him helpless, with instructions for the sister to call the cops and blame it on a burglar. [[spoiler:His plan backfires when the sister, having her abuser at her mercy for the first time in years, tortures the man nearly to death ''before'' she calls the police.]]
* ''Literature/TheAscendantKingdomsSaga'': While Blaine is in Edgeland in ''Ice Forged'', he stops a man from forcing a woman into marriage with death threats, pointing out that he was originally sent to the PenalColony for killing the man who dishonored Blaine's sister (leaving out that [[ParentalIncest it was their father]]).
* {{Exploited|Trope}} in ''Literature/TheBigFour''. Hastings gets himself hired as secretary to one of the Four, alongside a young woman with auburn hair. One day she mentions to Hastings that their employer was in an unbelievably foul mood and nearly struck her just because she'd opened a letter with the [[ArcNumber number 4]] on it. [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman Hastings, full of righteous indignation, is about to go punch the cad]] when he regains control of himself and sends the news to Poirot. Naturally, it was all a setup, the Four had gotten Hastings' chivalrous personality and even his favorite hair color to ensure they could get him to reveal himself.
* In the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' story "The Adventure of The Abbey Grange", Holmes deduces who killed Lord Brackenstall, and provides a general hint to the police (in the person of Inspector Hopkins) about the killer, but does no more, because the man who killed Brackenstall did so because Lord B. was physically and emotionally abusive to Mary, Lady Brackenstall, who the man was in love with. Holmes tells the man that he will not reveal the truth to the police unless they arrest someone else for the crime, and that he is free to go and that he can come back to Mary in a year if he still desires to do so.

* ''Literature/JackReacher'': Reacher himself tends to intervene when he witnesses domestic abuse, sometimes to the point where it can kick off the plot of a novel, like in ''A Wanted Man''. One of his suspects in ''The Enemy'', an Eastern Bloc defector, is reluctant to reveal his alibi at first. It turns out to have spent three hours working over a wife-beater. [[LetOffByTheDetective Reacher approves]].
* In ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' [[VigilanteMan Daylen]] stops several wife bashers, along with a gender-inverted case where a woman tortures and nearly kills her husband.

* In ''Literature/OneQEightyFour'', we find out early on that Aomame makes a ''living'' out of this -- she's an assassin who only targets abusive men. Even before starting to take assignments from the Madame, she [[spoiler:killed her best friend Tamaki's abusive husband after [[DrivenToSuicide Tamaki killed herself.]]]]

* Motoyasu of ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' deconstructs this. He sees himself as this regarding Naofumi's party members, and it would even seem that way outside of proper context. However, it's been spelled out to the DumbBlonde repeatedly that, no, Raphtalia and Filo are not in any danger as Naofumi's slaves and that he treats them like family. Motoyasu's blatant refusal to listen to what any of them have to say and constant antagonizing [[LethallyStupid not only causes more problems but actively puts them in danger in the process.]] This ends up being one of the reasons why Naofumi can't stand being around him, as all he does is assume the worst and refuse to listen until it's almost too late (or it already is).

* Takeshi Momoshiro from ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'' catches a JerkJock bullying Sakuno ''and'' [[KickTheDog pushing]] CoolBigSis An [[KickTheDog to the ground for defending her]], and before even introducing himself he's laying the smackdown on said jerk, physically and verbally.
* ''Manga/SlamDunk'':
** Miyagi Ryota, upon witnessing a delinquent backhand his long-time crush Ayako, leapt upon the significantly taller brute with a flying kick to the head and beat him until disfigured and unconscious.
** Hanamichi Sakuragi doesn't get many chances to show this, but he thinks exactly the same. A {{filler}} mini-arc in the anime has him thinking that his rival Oda has been abusing his girlfriend/Sakuragi's ex-crush Youko (and let's be fair to Hanamichi here, Oda ''did'' snap on her in TheMovie, and it took them a while to rekindle their relationship), so Sakuragi was determined to hit the guy and spectacularly call him out on it. [[spoiler:Then it's subverted as Oda was ''not'' deliberately abusing Youko, but was more worried about a sudden injury and was pulling a DontYouDarePityMe instead. He still apologizes to Youko later.]]
* In ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', the ''nicer'' techniques of Hokuto Shinken literally make 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.

* Toyed with in ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa''. While Tsubasa ''is'' ticked off to see his would-be girlfriend Sanae being pursued by a loud and aggressive HopelessSuitor, Kouji Kanda, he cannot openly fight him not only because the guy ''is'' stronger than him in fighting, but because he's a member of a school sports club and if he gets caught fighting, ''the whole team will be suspended from the National Tournament'' -- so, Tsubasa gets his ass handed to him by Kanda when he attacks openly. [[spoiler:It's then played straight when an injured Sanae begs Tsubasa to defend himself, and he does so '' by brutally kicking Kanda to the head'' and winning the fight in one single movement. Kanda then acknowledges that he has lost and backs off.]]
* In ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'', one of the few things that can set off the otherwise cool-headed Rokujou Chikage is hurting a woman in his presence.
* 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.]]
* This is the bait that [[spoiler:Ohtori Akio]] uses to rope [[Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena Tenjou Utena]] into his dueling game: make sure Utena sees Saionji slapping around his "girlfriend" Anthy. It plays out much the same way in the movie minus [[spoiler:Akio's]] influence.
* Believe it or not, ''Manga/InuYasha'' of all people shows shades of this in the anime. This occurs when another demon and his human band have imprisoned him and Miroku. Said demon gives his minions the okay to do whatever they want to the women of the nearby village. Hearing their screams are enough to ''piss Inuyasha off so much that he instantly activates his full-demon form and slaughter every single one of the oppressors.''
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** Jotaro Kujo is a {{Japanese Delinquent|s}} who fesses up to getting into fights where he puts people in the hospital, brutalizing arrogant teachers, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking walking out of restaurants without paying the bill if he doesn't like their food]]. In spite of all this, [[BerserkButton the thought of someone abusing women pisses him off]], something Kakyoin learns [[CurbStompBattle the hard way]].
** Dio makes the same mistake at the start of Part 1 when he stole Erina's first kiss, as he finds out when an angry Jonathan storms into his room.
* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', Joey and Tristan. The best example is when the group is sent to the Memory World and see the angry villagers beating up Kisara.
-->'''Joey and Tristan:''' You want to pick on girls!? How about we pick on you!? ''[tries to attack the villagers]''
* Yukari and Shiina gain a reputation as a result of this in ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}''. Ashikabi that mistreat their Sekirei quickly gain a hefty dose of LaserGuidedKarma, as Yukari is ''very'' fond of dealing out {{Groin Attack}}s. Shiina, who is normally an ApologeticAttacker and extremely gentle, is so disgusted when he meets another male Sekirei that abuses his [[MadLove female Ashikabi]], that he dispenses with the NiceGuy routine and curbstomps him with a single attack.
* In ''Anime/TigerAndBunny,'' [[VigilanteMan Lunatic]]/[[spoiler:Yuri]] is revealed to have begun his career by [[SelfMadeOrphan killing his father]], [[spoiler:[[FallenHero Mr. Legend]]]], who was violently beating up his mother (who hates her son for doing so). The same episode shows him taking out a SerialKiller who seduces and then kills women.

* HandsomeLech Kurz Weber from ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' displays these traits, particularly in one scene in the last arc of the first anime. When [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Kaname]] tries to comfort [[TheStoic Sousuke]] after a tough mission, he calls her a burden due to stress and misdirected anger, which sends her running away in tears. She passes by Kurz, who storms up to Sousuke, punches him in the face hard enough to knock him down, and demands that he go apologize to Kaname, saying "Guys like you grow up into wife-beaters!"
* In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', while Touma Kamijou has [[WouldHitAGirl no problem hitting girls as long as they are bad]], he will beat you to a pulp if you harm helpless and nice girls.
* In ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'', [[BadassNormal Wataru Kurozuma]] has a tendency to go, "You're hitting girls? That's not cool." and then beat up whoever is responsible.
* In ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'', the titular character is set off by the sight of young women being raped by goblins. Considering goblins are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil always depraved degenerates that take pleasure in raping]] and [[spoiler:they are responsible for raping GS's elder sister to death in front of his eyes]], his hatred is understandable. It's what [[PowerOfHate fuels his resolve]].

* Asta from ''Manga/BlackClover''. When at a mixer with Rebecca, a drunk man thinks that she's a single mom trying to nab a Magic Knight and harasses her. Asta stops him and throws him onto a table, with Rebecca falling for him not long afterwards. He later stops a Low Stage Spade Kingdom woman from being sexually assaulted by a corrupt soldier when he raids the Candelo fortress.
* In ''Anime/OnePiece'', Sanji the ChivalrousPervert will drop everything to defend any woman being attacked by a man; whether the woman is a member of his crew, a bystander, or even on an opposing side (like the Navy).
-->'''Sanji:''' You're not supposed to hurt ladies, scumbag. If your parents didn't teach you that, then I'm the one who's gonna beat the lesson into your brain.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** In [[ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber1 the first issue back in the 1930s]], our titular hero deals with a violent husband by throwing him into a wall and mercilessly beating ''him'' (as delightfully pictured above) until he promises to never hit his wife again. This scenario is revisited in the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] reality that Superman was subjected to in ''ComicBook/TheDominusEffect''.
** He faces a similar situation in the Nineties, but since he'd become much, much stronger in the interim -- to the point that any real beating would have killed the abusive husband in question -- he had to handle the situation a bit more carefully. Not just that he was stronger -- in a bit of {{Deconstruction}}, we had a flashback to the ComicBook/PostCrisis version of the above scene, and ''it doesn't solve the problem''. The woman refuses to press charges and takes her husband back, and the next time he gets violent, he kills her. Clark, [[ItsAllMyFault being Clark]], wonders if the humiliation of being beaten himself was what triggered this. So, when Clark suspected that another woman was getting roughed up like that, he hesitated to intervene for fear of making things worse. However, when in a chance encounter the woman screamed for help, then Clark was perfectly free to intervene, starting by smashing a locked door to her to splinters with one kick to rescue her while Lois called family services for appropriate qualified professionals to deal with the situation.
** The first issue of ''ComicBook/ActionComicsNew52'' mentions Superman having done this as well in his early years as a hero, though we don't see it on panel. [[spoiler:In this case, the abusive husband in question eventually becomes a Kryptonite-powered supervillain and comes back seeking revenge on Superman.]]
** As it turns out, it's InTheBlood, as ''ComicBook/YoungJustice2019'' shows Connor Kent [[spoiler:saving a pregnant peasant woman named Lophi in Gemworld from being harassed by guards when it looks like they were going to manhandle her. When one tries to antagonize him, he just catches his arm and ''crushes'' his fist without batting an eye. Lophi takes him in while he waits for his friend and Connor poses as her husband (her old one died in a war) until Young Justice arrives. The two have grown close enough for Lophi to let Connor name her daughter, which he named Martha, after Ma Kent]].

* Really, this is an expected attribute of the most loved Franchise/MarvelUniverse heroes such as ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, and ComicBook/ThePunisher. What differs the last two from the first, is that they're also [[SerialKillerKiller killers]].

** Creator/MarvelKnights' ''[[ComicBook/FantasticFour 4]]'' did this with Sue Storm threatening an abusive husband.
** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'''s occasional foe [[KnightTemplar Cardiac]] usually doesn't concern himself with this kind of criminal (as a vigilante, his goal is to punish people who hurt others and do horrendous things but use legal loopholes and technicalities to escape justice). However, in one issue, while he is staking out a place, he sees a man assault his wife in a nearby apartment, and decides he can't "in clear conscience", let it happen. (Unfortunately, while he is teaching the wife-beater a lesson, it gave his true target more of a head start than he'd have liked.)
** It's been implied that [[UnstoppableRage the psychological origin]] of ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' was young Bruce Banner witnessing his father [[HarmfulToMinors beating his mother]] and wanting to be one of these; rather notable, given that one of the more consistently heroic portrayals of the Hulk (namely, the dim-witted but extremely powerful Savage Hulk) is essentially a child in the same frame of mind as young Banner.
** When the ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' were sent back in time to 1907, Karolina discovered that one of the kids whom the team had rescued from a factory fire was living with an abusive old alcoholic. She later discovered that the poor girl, who was 11 years old, was, in fact, ''married'' to the bastard, and that he had fully claimed his "[[MaritalRapeLicense marital rights]]". They ultimately managed to extract the girl and take her back to the present, and thus it was not necessary to beat the old man's ass, but she ''really'' wanted to, especially after Klara showed up to the Leapfrog covered in bruises.
--->'''Karolina:''' I know who did this. ''[[TranquilFury And I know where he lives]].''
** ''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.
** ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'' (2016) features Aneka and Ayo, the Midnight Angels. Aneka killed a tribal chieftain who had been sexually abusing girls in his village. Later, Aneka and Ayo slaughter a group of militants who had been kidnapping women and girls for use as {{sex slave}}s.
** ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'': One issue sees Frank tailing a pair of cops, one of them crooked. The other one has a drinking problem (caused in part by his partner being crooked), but Frank doesn't really this as a problem... until the cop's wife comes in the room and he starts beating her. It takes considerable effort to get a PerpetualFrowner to look ''really'' angry, but the cop manages it. We next see him at the woman's shelter his wife ran off to, [[NeckLift being hoisted in the air by Frank]].
** ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMax'' has an unintentional example: Frank starts the series by conducting a massacre of assembled Mafiosi. During the Widowmaker arc (where their widows unite to get revenge on him), a young woman who used to be married to one of them (a rapist, wifebeater, and murderer) thanks him for taking out her husband (the flashback panel shows Frank casually shotgunning the guy's head as he lies on the ground without even looking), and kills the rest of the widows for him (as they were responsible for setting up the wedding in the first place, then trying to kill her when she wanted out).
* Marv of ''ComicBook/SinCity'' does not like it when guys rough up girls. At all. His response to a frat boy beating up his favorite stripper Nancy is to "straighten him out but good," mentioning that maybe he went a little too far (which implies that he beat the guy to death). In ''A Dame to Kill For'', Dwight plays upon this in order to recruit Marv for the "rescue mission" of Ava, which he feels rather rotten for as he's doing it. Unfortunately, it's later learned that Ava, the dame of the title, was [[WoundedGazelleGambit playing Dwight's own violent protectiveness of women like a two-bit fiddle]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Jason Todd, the second ComicBook/{{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.

* Really, this is [[RatedMForManly an expected attribute]] of the most loved Franchise/MarvelUniverse heroes such as ComicBook/CaptainAmerica, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, and ComicBook/ThePunisher. What differs the last two from the first, is that they're also [[SerialKillerKiller killers]].

This trope is often invoked by female villains as a 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 several people with this mindset are inclined to believe that [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale female on male abuse]] is not "real" abuse.

* Motoyasu of ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' deconstructs this. He sees himself as this regarding Naofumi's party members, and it would even seem that way outside of proper context. However, it's been spelled out to the DumbBlonde repeatedly that, no, Raphtalia and Filo are not in any danger as Naofumi's slaves and that he treats them like family. Motoyasu's blatant refusal to listen to what any of them have to say and constant antagonizing [[LethallyStupid not only causes more problems, but actively puts them in danger in the process.]] This ends up being one of the reasons why Naofumi can't stand being around him, as all he does is assume the worst and refuse to listen until it's almost too late (or it already is).
* LovableSexManiac to the extreme, Issei Hyoudou of ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' never makes his obsession for boobs a secret, but thankfully he's also a NiceGuy and treats girls properly when he needs to. That said, it's always a bad idea to upset or abuse women in his presence. [[spoiler:Raiser, Diodora, and Shalba all find out the hard way.]]

** LovableSexManiac masochist Sado Tarou ''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.

* Believe it or not, ''Manga/InuYasha'' of all people shows shades of this in the anime. This occurs when another demon and his human band have imprisoned him and Miroku. Said demon gives his minions the okay to do whatever they want to the women of the nearby village. Hearing their screams are enough to ''piss Inuyasha off so much that he instantly activates his full-demon form, and slaughter every single one of the oppressors.''

* In Anime/OnePiece, Sanji the ChivalrousPervert will drop everything to defend any woman being attacked by a man; whether the woman is a member of his crew, a bystander or even on an opposing side (like the Navy).

* ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'' has a strange case. The titular protagonist is disgusted by wife-bashers, but doesn't care enough to punish them; however, Eva does, and he'll gladly help her robbing them blind and closing them in their own secret vault (just to quote the most recent case at the time of the writing).

* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Surprisingly enough, Hooded Justice is this, even though he is a raging racist with Nazi sympathies. The RPG suplement even gives him a FreudianExcuse: he grew up with an abusive father that beat both him and his mother.

* It happens twice in ''Fanfic/SupermanOf2499TheGreatConfrontation''. During his first day as the newest Superman, Alan Kent stops a wife-beater. Later, Katherine saves a woman from her abusive husband, a fact which bolsters her resolution to become a hero.

* Cyrus "the Virus" Grissom, the BigBad of ''Film/ConAir'' and a mass murderer who claims to have killed more men than cancer, threatened to throw "Johnny 23", a convicted SerialRapist, out of the title plane if he dared to try to rape the hijacked plane's only female officer. Cyrus says he normally despises rapists, but will make an exception in this case, then delivers his ultimatum. And TheHero Cameron Poe repeatedly rams Johnny's head into a bulkhead for trying to do just that later in the film. (To make things even more appropriate, Poe is a Wife-Basher Basher [[SleevesAreForWimps in a "wife beater"]].)

** Hoffman's StartOfDarkness coincides with the only good thing he does in the entire franchise of his own accord: track down the man who killed [[KnightTemplarBigBrother his sister]] while they were dating and got out of prison ''way'' too early for it, and put him in an inescapable trap in which his hands are mangled by a pair of metal vice-like contraptions before he's [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bifurcated, one swing at a time, by a giant swinging pendulum.]]

** Honor herself is one, in a manner. In the second book, upon finding out [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil what Masadans do to female prisoners]], she [[TranquilFury approaches]] the captured Masadan base commander, [[DramaticGunCock draws and unsafeties her sidearm]], and has to be physically restrained to keep her from putting a pulse dart in the man's head, and even that was because there was enough evidence to convict the guy in court. And even then the 2 meters tall power-armored badass Marine Major, his petite ActionGirl similarly powered armored second in command, and every other officer present, except one, were frozen in fear by [[DeathGlare the look in Honor's eyes]] and didn't move a finger initially to stop her. It was the snot-nosed lieutenant with the standard-issue plasma cannon and hero-worship that intervened and restrained his captain.

* ''Literature/JackReacher'': Reacher himself tends to intervene when he witnesses domestic abuse, sometimes to the point where it can kick off the plot of a novel, like in ''A Wanted Man''. One of his suspects in ''The Enemy'', is an Eastern Bloc defector, is reluctant to reveal his alibi at first. It turns out to have spent three hours working over a wife-beater. [[LetOffByTheDetective Reacher approves]].

** Darkly {{subverted|Trope}} in an episode where a woman comes to Michael claiming that her abusive husband has kidnapped their son, and begging for help in finding him. Michael and his friends immediately leap to her aid. It turns out that she's a ProfessionalKiller and the man is her target. She'd made up the story specifically because she knew that domestic abuse was Michael's BerserkButton.

** In "The Brush Man", [[spoiler:The Victim, a door-to-door brush salesman named Roy Dunn, is revealed to have gone to prison after killing a wife beater in a bar fight. Before his death, he had been keeping a close eye on a family of three, which included giving free brushes to the wife of the family, Diane, and playing baseball with the son of the family, Kevin. This arouses the suspicion of the father of the family, Glenn, who Roy distrusts. Glenn makes Roy take back the brushes he gave Diane and tries to keep his son away from him. Roy later finds Diane crying and comforts her; Diane is upset because her husband mistreats and lies to her, saying he is at work when he is not. Kevin sees Roy and his mother and runs off; Roy goes after him to make sure he did not get the wrong impression. Kevin tells Roy that he had caught his father cottaging in the park and that he had had his wrist broken as 'punishment.' This angers the wife-basher basher Roy, who finds Glenn in his work-shop at night. Roy adopts a threatening tone and tells Glenn to leave his family and let them live their life. Glenn insists that Roy has no right to intrude on his 'family life' and that he will never leave. Roy then tells Glenn that he knows about his homosexuality and Glenn becomes more hesitant, but still reiterates that he will not leave. Roy then throws a punch at Glenn that sends him flying backwards; as Glenn scrambles to regain his footing, he grabs a pair of scissors and plants them into Roy's neck, killing him.]] [[spoiler: Roy tells Glenn that he has an eye for people like him and that he can't ignore it like other people on the street or like they "taught him to in jail". It is suggested that Roy had experienced domestic abuse as a child in one scene in which he tells Kevin "My House was not a place you'd like to be".]]

* Gil Grissom from ''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.

* One episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'', a woman takes advantage of this by [[spoiler:informing her boss/lover that his other girlfriend's husband is abusive, knowing that this is his BerserkButton. [[FreudianExcuse His mother]] was murdered by her dealer when he was a boy, so learning this drives him into a homicidal fury - and it's implied he wasn't exactly thinking clearly. While he is still arrested for the murder of the abusive husband, the detectives make sure to get the woman behind it as well]].
* In Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit, considering RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil, brutal violence is applied with infamous frequency in the interrogationg of suspects in this show, by Captain Olivia Benson and Detective Elliot Stabler in particular.
* ''Series/TheMarvelousMrsMaisel'': In Season Five, Susie's GirlFriday Dinah comes into work with a black eye, and Susie's reaction implies this isn't the first time this has happened. Dinah admits her boyfriend punched her, and insists she kicked him out and they're through, so Susie tells her to take the day off, go home, and get some rest... and then immediately goes to see Frank and Nicky, two mobsters she's found herself doing business with. Susie says she needs a favor, and we cut to Frank and Nicky turning up at the boyfriend's apartment with a baseball bat, kicking in his door and going inside to teach him a lesson.

** Shane finally beats the resident wife-basher [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to a red pulp]] during episode 3. Of course, he was just looking for an excuse to vent his sexual frustration than anything else.

She put on dark glasses and long-sleeved blouses\\

* ''VideoGame/BeatCop'': The Mafia task in day 19 has Kelly asked to beat on the representative's brother in-law, but to do so while the wife's out of the house. Kelly makes sure the man knows not to ever do it again.

* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': Dueing one random event, Arthur can come across a man who's about to abuse his terrified wife, and has the option to do this. You can also shoot him, but you can also give him a taste of his medicine by giving a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.

* ''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 Franchise/{{Zorro}}[=/=]ComicBook/{{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.
** Also, Adrian fits this trope to a capital T, being usually an easygoing, peace-loving, jolly fellow spreading smiles and good will. Until someone is defiling a woman in front of his eyes. Then everything gets worse.

* In Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit, considering RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil, brutal violence is applied with infamous frequency in the interrogationg of suspects in this show, by Captain Olivia and Detective Elliot Stabler in particular.

* Motoyasu of ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' deconstructs this. He sees himself as this regarding Naofumi's party members, and it would even seem that way outside of proper context. However, it's been spelled out to the DumbBlonde repeatedly that, no, Raphtalia and Filo are not in any danger as Naofumi's slaves and that he treats them like family. Motoyasu's blatant refusal to listen to what any of them have to say and constant antagonizing [[LethallyStupid not only causes more problems, but actively puts them in danger in the process.]] This ends up being one of the reasons why Naofumi can't stand being around him, as all he does is assume the worst and refuse to listen until it's almost too late (or it already is).
* LovableSexManiac to the extreme, Issei Hyoudou of ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' never makes his obsession for boobs a secret, but thankfully he's also a NiceGuy and treats girls properly when he needs to. That said, it's always a bad idea to upset or abuse women in his presence. [[spoiler:Raiser, Diodora, and Shalba all find out the hard way.]]

* ''LightNovel/{{MM}}'':

* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', one of the few things that can set off the otherwise cool-headed Rokujou Chikage is hurting a woman in his presence.

* HandsomeLech Kurz Weber from ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' displays these traits, particularly in one scene in the last arc of the first anime. When [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Kaname]] tries to comfort [[TheStoic Sousuke]] after a tough mission, he calls her a burden due to stress and misdirected anger, which sends her running away in tears. She passes by Kurz, who storms up to Sousuke, punches him in the face hard enough to knock him down, and demands that he go apologize to Kaname, saying "Guys like you grow up into wife-beaters!"
* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', while Touma Kamijou has [[WouldHitAGirl no problem hitting girls as long as they are bad]], he will beat you to a pulp if you harm helpless and nice girls.

* In ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'', the titular character is set off by the sight of young women being raped by goblins. Considering goblins are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil always depraved degenerates that take pleasure in raping]] and [[spoiler:they are responsible for raping GS's elder sister to death in front of his eyes]], his hatred is understandable. It's what [[PowerOfHate fuels his resolve]].

* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', while Asuna is usually capable of taking care of herself, Kirito still does not take kindly to those who hurt her. During the infamous scene from the "Fairy Dance" arc where Oberon/Sugou is molesting her, Kirito gets the chance to turn things around when he is granted ''full'' Game-Master powers by the ghost of his WorthyOpponent professor Kayaba & he grabs it with both hands. He turns the pain-inhibitor protocols of Sugou's in-game avatar to ''zero'', and ''butchers'' the Oberon avatar ''so'' brutally that Sugou ''himself'' suffers lasting damage in the real world.

->''"You're not supposed to hurt ladies, scumbag. If your parents didn't teach you that, then I'm the one who's gonna beat the lesson into your brain."''

* In Anime/OnePiece, Sanji the ChivalrousPervert will drop everything to defend any woman being attacked by a man; whether they're a member of his crew, a bystander or even on an opposing side (like the Navy).

* In Anime/OnePiece, Sanji the ChivalrousPervert will defend any woman being attacked by a man, monster or otherwise; whether they're a member of his crew, a bystander or even on an opposing side (like the Navy).

* In Anime/OnePiece, Sanji the ChivalrousPervert will defend any woman being attacked by a man, monster or otherwise; whether they're a memeber of his crew, a bystander or even on an opposing side (like the Navy).

* ''Film/TheGirlInTheSpidersWeb'': In an EstablishingCharacterMoment, Lisbeth Salander breaks into the home of a CorruptCorporateExecutive who had just brutally beaten his wife, and earlier been acquitted after beating two prostitutes. Salandar easily traps him in a snare leaving him hanging upside down, grabs his dropped cellphone, accesses his bank accounts, and transfers 20% of his funds into accounts held by the two prostitutes, and the rest into his wife's account. The wife is about to call security until Salandar asks for her account number, [[KickTheSonOfABitch which she promptly provides]]. Salandar then tells her, "Take your child and leave. He won't hurt you again", blackmails the husband to never contact his wife again with a video of him having sex with his boss's wife, and [[GroinAttack tasers him in the groin for good measure]].

'''Salandar:''' You should ask yourself that question.

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'':

* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Surprisingly enough, Hooded Justice is this, even though he is a raging racist with Nazi sympathies. The RPG suplement even gives him a FreudianExcuse: he grew up with an abusive father that beat bot him and his mother.

* Motoyasu of ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'' deconstructs this. He sees himself as this regarding Naofumi's party members, and it would even seem that way outside of proper context. However, it's been spelled out to the DumbBlonde repeatedly that, no, Raphtalia and Filo are not in any danger as Naofumi's slaves and that, he treats them like family. Motoyasu's blatant refusal to listen to what any of them have to say and constant antagonizing [[LethallyStupid not only causes more problems, but actively puts them in danger in the process.]] This ends up being one of the reasons why Naofumi can't stand being around him, as all he does is assume the worst and refuse to listen until it's almost too late (or it already is).

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-3998 SCP-3998]] is the burnt remains of a corpse fashioned into a scarecrow. Every night, it bursts into flames at a certain time. If a person who has killed or abused a romantic partner is standing close to it at that time, they will also catch on fire and become impossible to extinguish until SCP-3998 itself stops burning, leaving them to slowly and agonizingly burn to death. [[spoiler:SCP-3998 itself is the corpse of a 17th-century man who was abusive to his wife, and she turned into a witch by making a DealWithTheDevil. He found out and gathered a mob to burn her to death. The devil revived her and gave her the power to get revenge on him, which she did by ripping off his legs and burning him alive.]]