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* In the ''ColdCase'' episode '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 brush's 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 brush's he gave Dianne and try's to keep his son away from him. Roy later finds Dianne crying and comfort's her, Dianne is upset because her husband mistreats and lies to her, saying he is at work when he is not. Kevin see's 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 than tells Glenn that he knows about his homosexuality and Glenn becomes more hesitant, but still reiterates that he will not leave. Roy than 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.]]

* In the ''Cold Case'' episode '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 brush's 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 brush's he gave Dianne and try's to keep his son away from him. Roy later finds Dianne crying and comfort's her, Dianne is upset because her husband mistreats and lies to her, saying he is at work when he is not. Kevin see's 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 than tells Glenn that he knows about his homosexuality and Glenn becomes more hesitant, but still reiterates that he will not leave. Roy than 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.]]

* In the [[Cold Case]] episode '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 brush's 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 brush's he gave Dianne and try's to keep his son away from him. Roy later finds Dianne crying and comfort's her, Dianne is upset because her husband mistreats and lies to her, saying he is at work when he is not. Kevin see's 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 than tells Glenn that he knows about his homosexuality and Glenn becomes more hesitant, but still reiterates that he will not leave. Roy than 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.]]

* Niklas from ''Aldrig Fucka Up'', the second part of Jens Lapidus' "Stockholm Noir" trilogy. He witnessed his mother's boyfriend beating her as a kid,, and after returning from a tour of duty as a PMC in Iraq, decides to take revenge on every bad husband and boyfrined, starting with his neightbour Jamilia's one. Towards the end, he turns into a rare, male StrawFeminist, and has a bodycount of three.
* In ''[[TortallUniverse Protector of the Small]], 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]].

* 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 (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 (who it's later learned was [[WoundedGazelleGambit playing Dwight's own violent protectiveness of women like a two-bit fiddle]]).

* 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.

Compare and contrast with the similarly named SerialKillerKiller, and note that more often than not these two tropes tend to overlap.

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

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** And he started the beatdown by [[DynamicEntry delivering]] [[IKnowKungFu a flying kick to the guy's head!]] Seriously, it was awesome.

Due to unfortunate DoubleStandards, a ''Husband'' Basher Basher will sadly '''never''' be portrayed in this positive manner, no matter how cruel, manipulative, heartless and murderously-violent the abusive wife may be, especially in RealLife.

* Toyed with in 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, biut 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 ''[[IKknowKungFu by brutally kicking Kanda to the head]]'' and winning the fight in one single movement. Kanda then aknowledges that he has lost and backs off.]]

** Sadly, the scene doesn't actualy play out like that in the anime. Sado stills gets his ass effortlessly handed to him by the evil boyfriend before he finally lands just ''one'' punch (and even then it was only because of outside intervention by Mio). Mio plays this straight by proceeding to do some nasty things to the downed boyfriend, but we don't get to see what she does, just the aftermath in the form of a photograph.
* Toyed with in 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, biut because he's a member of a school sports club and if he gets cuaght fighting, ''the team will be suspended from the Natuional Tournament'' - so, Tsubasa gets his ass handed to him by Kanda when he attacks him openly. [[spoiler: It's then layed 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 aknowledges that he has lost and backs off.]]

* In the WhiteCollar episode Home Invasion, Caffrey 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.

** Really, this is [[RatedMForManly 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.

*** Not just that he was stronger - in a bit of {{Deconstruction}}, we had a flashback to the PostCrisis version of the above scene, and ''it doesn't solve the problem''.

* Bud White of ''LAConfidential''. 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.

* Sonny Corleone of ''TheGodfather'' kicks the living daylights out of his sister's abusive husband in public.
** [[spoiler: Which leads to the ambush which kills him.]]

-> "How ''dare'' you touch an unwilling woman?"

* The narrator from {{Nickelback}}'s ''Never Again''

* Bud White of ''LAConfidential''. 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.
* Cyrus "the Virus" Grissom, the BigBad of ''ConAir'' and a mass murderer who claims to have killed more men than cancer threatened to throw "Johnny 23," a convicted serial rapist, out of the title plane if he dared to try to rape the hijacked plane's only female officer.
** And TheHero Cameron Poe plays this trope COMPLETELY straight (see opening quote) as he repeatedly rams Johnny's head into a bulkhead for trying to do just that later in the film.

* LovableSexManiac masochist Sado Tarou of ''{{MM}}'' ''doesn't'' like to abuse people, the NiceGuy that he actually is. However, upon finding out that his adorable ShrinkingViolet friend'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.

* 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.
* Zeke Strahm of 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]].
* Toyed with in 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, biut because he's a member of a school sports club and if he gets cuaght fighting, ''the team will be suspended from the Natuional Tournament'' - so, Tsubasa gets his ass handed to him by Kanda when he attacks him openly. [[spoiler: It's then layed 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 aknowledges that he has lost and backs off.]]
* In SuicideForHire, Arcturus is normally (more or less) the OnlySaneMan; he tries to dissuade their "clientele" and doesn't usually enjoy the killing as much as his partner Hunter. When a man who beat his wife to the point where she sought the pair out and utilized their services comes in...he changes his tune and participates enthusiastically in the KarmicDeath.

* Bud 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 older brother Raoh prefers the more direct method of ''slapping your head off''. His friend Rei is equally ruthless when it comes to those who hurt or terrorize women.

A funny note to end this, don´t you think it would be cool...a Husband Basher Basher?