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* 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.

* In the ''HonorHarrington'' series of books, 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 [[{{Understatement}} not looked upon with very much favor]].

* 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 titlular 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(See opening quote.).

--> '''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."

* 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 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 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.]]

* ''{{Popeye}}'', the spinach-eating sailor is notorious for walloping Bluto whenever the big guy makes a move too many on Olive Oyl, which is in nearly cartoon, Some guys just never learn.[[/folder]]

** Ultimate Captain America is particularly notable. After Ant-Man and the Wasp had a verbal fight that escalated and they attacked each other (he "won"), almost no one wanted to listen to his side of the story, and Cap, with his 50s values, literally ambushes him in a bar and beats the crap out of him. Presumably, since the Ultimates don't want the bad publicity, and it involved national security matters, Cap is never charged.

* Guts from ''{{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 to end pretty]] for whoever (or ''what''ever) is doing it.

* Guts from ''{{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 get sexual assault, which reminds him all too well of [[LoveInterest the person]] [[MyGreatestFailure whom he failed to protect]] - [[BerserkButton not a good idea]].

->"Didn't you know that you don't hit a woman? You. Will. See." '''[[DynamicEntry *THUD*]]'''

-> [[UnstoppableRage YOU!!]] [[PunctuatedPounding DON'T!!]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown TREAT!!]] [[WouldntHitAGirl WOMEN!!]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes LIKE!!]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil THAT!!]]
--> -- '''Cameron Poe''', as he [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome REPEATEDLY slams serial rapist Johnny-23's head into a bulkhead]] in ''ConAir.''

* Re CharlesDickens' ''[[NicholasNickleby Nicholas Nickleby]]'': do ''not'' dis 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.)

* Yes, Lee's (JasonStatham) girlfriend left him for a violent drunk in ''TheExpendables'', but that dosen't mean he isn't going defend her honor by beating the absolute tar out of him and his fellow wife-bashing basketball-buddies in broad-daylight for beating her.

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* ''{{Popeye}}'', the spinach-eating sailor is notorious for walloping Bluto whenever the big guy makes a move too many on Olive Oyl, which is in nearly cartoon, Some guys just never learn.

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* 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.

* [[TheHero Kamijou Touma]] of ''ToAruMajutsuNoIndex'' is a subversion of this trope: even though he is more than willing to [[WouldHitAGirl hit a woman]] if she is willing to cause the death of innocent millions to further her own selfish agendas, he ''will'' hunt you down like a dog and kick you to the middle of next week if you harm helpless and nice girls; just ask Accelerator, the murderer of the gentle and innocent clone-sisters of Misaka Mikoto.

** 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 unsafties her sidearm]], and has to be [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim physically restrained by the officers under her]] from putting a pulse dart in the man's head.

** Fortunately his friend decides to make it his buisiness and calls the cops on him.

Note that just as often if not moreso, this trope is possessed by senior members of organized crime with conservative values, such as the {{Yakuza}} and TheMafia. After all, they consider themselves the final bastions of traditional and honorable masculinity. Though unfortunately still denied many opportunities even in the present 21st century, even amongst criminals it is an unspoken and universally accepted truth that women, being our caregivers [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas and above all]] ''[[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mothers]]'' [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas are to be respected and protected]] in their vulnerability at all costs for the love and life they have given us; [[EvenEvilHasStandards any "man" who strikes a helpless woman is hence an honorless and ungrateful brute]] that has renounced his claims to both masculinity AND humanity, not to mention life and (often literal) limb.

* 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 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 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 ''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 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 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 ''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 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 Dianne and tries to keep his son away from him. Roy later finds Dianne crying and comfort's her, Diane 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 ''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 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 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.]]