Line #87 DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale/AnimeAndManga


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9	* ''Amano Megumi wa Suki Darake!'': [[RuleOfSexy Megumi keeps accidentally exposing herself to her childhood friend (and love interest) Maa-kun]]. She inevitably slaps him when he tries to warn her about it, even though it's almost always ''her'' fault. She never suffers any consequences or criticism for it, or decides to wear a longer skirt. [[note]]The one time she did wear culottes, they were so short Manabu could see her panties anyway when he climbed up a ladder behind her.[[/note]]
10	** In chapter 43; they end up in an awkward position on a packed train, with her large breasts pressed up against him. He's surprised when she ''doesn't'' hit him for something he has no control over.
11	** One of Megumi's classmates has a habit of groping her boobs in the locker room and otherwise sexually touching her, while openly lusting. Since this is FanService, Megumi never really seems upset like this like she is with her best friend trying to protect her modesty. The obvious explanation is "she overreacts because she has a crush on him", but it's still a double standard. Though in later chapters, another of her classmates started getting angry and trying to stop her when that happened.
12	* In the hentai manga ''Anette XXX'', one of the sisters invokes this trope with the saying: "A sister can tease her brother if she wants to."
13	* ''Literature/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'':
14	** Shouko is one of the most extreme cases of this, routinely tazing [[TheWoobie Yuuji]], [[EyePoke sticking her fingers in his eyes]] so he doesn't even look at other girls, and doing things like breaking his arm and calling it "holding hands" or breaking into his house because she felt like it (and then burning his porn), among others. What's more, the other characters actually believe they make a good couple and [[ShipperOnDeck try to pair them together]], and at the end, even Yuuji seems rather accepting of the idea. If Yuuji even did to Shouko 10% of the things she does to him, people would deride him as a monster, but Shouko can keep doing this with no backlash whatsoever. Sure, it might be a comedy, but it's taken to a level you feel more pity for the guy than anything else, and Yuuji is far from accepting the idea of being with her. That entire episode dedicated to putting them together had him trying to run away from her. Every time he tried to flee from her and avoid Shoko resulted in his friends putting them together or framing him for stuff he didn't do only to make the situation worse. When the {{jerkass}} couple continued to make a fool of themselves, Yuuji was generally trying to get them to win the contest because his friends rigged it to the point where no matter what he did, they would get the right answer. It wasn't until the end of the episode where he changed his mind about Shoko because the {{jerkass}} couple continued to make fun of them both. Next episode, he's trying to run away from her. Final episode, his best friend sold him out to her and she forced him to sign a marriage contract.
15	** The other girls often abuse this trope as well, such as Himeji and especially Minami towards Akihisa. While it's always PlayedForLaughs, some of their actions fall into DudeNotFunny, such as when Minami breaks Akihisa's back because he didn't say "I love you" correctly to her. Granted, he's an IronButtMonkey and just walks it off, but if the roles were reversed, he'd probably be thrown in jail and the key be thrown away.
16	* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'':
17	** After Guts joins the Band of the Hawk, his LoveInterest Casca has free reign to smack him around, almost always PlayedForLaughs and Guts [[WouldntHitAGirl never returns the favour]]. Sometimes it's justifiable, like when Guts was knocked unconscious by Wyald, Casca slapping him is fine, but at other times isn't; e.g when Casca was [[IntimateHealing ordered to sleep naked]] with a feverish and wounded Guts, she takes her anger out on him when he wakes up which is very unfair since it wasn’t Guts’s fault that she was put in that position. More than a few fans also got angry at Casca for punching Guts again when he was already wounded by Zodd and just wanted to talk to Griffith, and didn’t forgive her until her CharacterDevelopment kicked in.
18	*** Kudos to the ''Anime/BerserkTheGoldenAgeArc'' movies as they manage to justify Casca’s initial physical violence towards Guts as he ruthlessly killed her horse when they met and as a FriendToAllLivingThings Casca was well within her rights to be angry at that.
19	*** Subverted with Casca’s early verbal abuse towards Guts as he made it clear ''[[BerserkButton he wouldn’t put up with it]]'', and grabbed her accusing hand in a threatening manner causing Casca to have an OhCrap moment before Griffith separated them.
20	** Averted with Farnese abusing and torturing poor Serpico in their childhood, all the other servants are horrified at what she inflicts on him (including whipping, burning and biting) and expressed what a psychotic little bitch she’s being while patching Serpico up. Farnese eventually does [[TookALevelInKindness grow out of it]] and it’s worth noting her behaviour [[FreudianExcuse stems from her domineering father and screwed up homelife]] but try telling that to an unforgiving fanbase.
21	** Played straight with Schierke and Isidro, as former gets away with hurting the latter frequently due to it being PlayedForLaughs.
22	* Averted in ''Manga/BlackLagoon''. [[DarkActionGirl Revy]] bullies, berates, threatens, and in several cases almost ''shoots'' NonActionGuy Rock. None of it is presented as funny, silly or acceptable. Rock eventually calls Revy out on her abuse, and barring some later cases of AngerBornOfWorry, she stops. He even becomes a MoralityPet to her.
23	* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', there are several cases of this. Almost everyone of either gender in Bleach is insanely violent in their free time, and it gets played for laughs. Guys are still almost always the victims.
24	** While Rukia does hit Ichigo a few times (mostly at the beginning of the series [[BerserkButton in response to him criticizing her drawings]]), their first physical interaction is Ichigo kicking ''her'' in the back when she initially doesn't realize that Ichigo [[YouCanSeeMe can see her]], and after rescuing her from her execution, he proceeds to toss her down the several-stories-high execution stand for Renji to catch her. Both of these are played as comedy.
25	** [[BunnyEarsLawyer Shinji]] of the Vizards always gets the crap beaten out of him by [[BrattyHalfPint Hiyori]] for no other reason than her being pissed off and it's always played for [[AmusingInjuries comedy]]. She showed the same behavior towards [[RetiredBadass Kisuke Urahara]] back when she served under the 12th division, and it's likewise PlayedForLaughs. The only comeuppance she ever gets for this abuse is when she [[GroinAttack kicks Urahara in the balls]] and [[BallsOfSteel hurts her own foot while doing no damage]]. Which is part of why it can be purely played for laughs: Shinji and Urahara are so much stronger than Hiyori that she literally cannot do actual harm to them.
26	* The ''point'' of ''Literature/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan''. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Ludicrously over-the-top violence]] visited on the male lead by the female lead is a series staple.
27	* ''Manga/CaseClosed'': A unique variant pops up in ''Anime/LupinIIIVsDetectiveConan''. The FemmeFatale Fujiko of Lupin's series finds out that Conan is actually a teenager who's been turned into a child, so the film ends with us hearing the sounds of her "examining" him to find "the secret to rejuvenation." This is entirely in-characer for Fujiko, and we only get the audio, but imagine how unsettling this would have been had a GenderFlip been involved. Even when Conan is at his normal age, Fujiko is still much older than he is.
28	* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
29	** This trope is played for laughs with Touma, who almost always get a punch to the face when some girl who knows him get pissed.
30	** Index is known for biting Touma.
31	** Then there is Mikoto, who could probably take on an army by herself and uses every single bit of that power on him. Was it not for his absurd reflexes and his PowerNullifier ability he would have been fried alive in more than one occasion, and they both seem to know it. In fact, she was ''horrified'' the one time he didn't nullify her power and she actually hit him when [[spoiler:he was trying to stop her from getting herself killed by Accelerator, and made it clear he wasn't going to move out of her way]]. The narration itself {{lampshades}} this, stating that she's tried to hit him so many times with her power (originally because he pissed her off once, then later to figure out ''how'' he keeps negating her power) that now she ''trusts'' him to just stop it whenever she tries, like how two friends greet each other.
32	** [[Main/PlayingWithATrope Played with]], in that even though Touma gets the brunt of comical violence from the ladies of the cast, it should be noted that said PowerNullifier is literally just his right hand. This usually results in him giving a beat down to the villain of the arc, be they a man, a woman, a teenage girl, an old man or a golem. All of these fights are presented as equally heroic and not once is Touma ever called out for his equal opportunity beat downs.
33	* In ''Literature/ClockworkPlanet'', Marie has no problems beating up Naoto to a bloody pulp whenever she gets angry at him.
34	* While this trope is generally played straight in ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys'', but in the case of [[spoiler: the [[RetiredOutlaw former]] EnfantTerrible-grade [[TheBully bully]] "Archdemon" Habara]], it was {{deconstructed}}-- it is a ''very'' serious business, indeed, especially when she is clearly [[HeelRealization quite traumatized about what she did]], not to say [[spoiler:her social life with ''any'' teenage boys in town has been ''completely ruined'' because of her her previous acts]]. Karasawa, her next-door neighbor and the worst off of her victims, harbors ''both'' a ''grudge'' and a ''phobia'' towards her.
35	* ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool Side:Despair'':
36	** Downplayed: the girls sometimes hit Teruteru Hanamura, but he doesn’t seem to mind it at all. In fact he actually [[TooKinkytoTorture enjoys it]].
37	** A gender inverted example. [[spoiler:Hajime Hinata, as Izuru Kamukura,]] stepped on [[spoiler:[[BigBad Junko]] [[CuteAndPsycho Enoshima]]]] multiple times and backhanded [[spoiler:[[TheDragon Mukuro]] [[AntiVillain Ikusaba]]]] as he was defending himself from each of their attacks. He also stomped on [[spoiler:Junko]]’s head in order to knock her out after she tried to [[spoiler:convince him to join her in [[ToCreateAPlaygroundForEvil turning the world into despair]]]]. Granted, [[spoiler:Junko]] [[TooKinkytoTorture savors]] the “feeling of despair” when he stomps on her. [[spoiler:Mukuro]], on the other hand, clearly was not fond of getting hit by [[spoiler:Izuru]] at all.
38	* ''Manga/DeathNote'':
39	** Misa Amane and Light Yagami have a very unhealthy "relationship", if it can be called that at all. Misa [[StalkingIsLove stalks Light]] and [[{{Yandere}} forces a relationship with him.]] It is shown time and again that he appears to have no sexual interest in her and only tolerates her presence because he needs her for her powers and to keep her close [[SecretKeeper to keep her from spilling his secrets]]. If he refuses her she could kill him. However after her initial appearance enraged Misa '''isn't taken seriously''' despite the fact that she could just as easily kill him as he could kill her. The "men are MadeOfIron and women are MadeOfPlasticine" idea doesn't matter much when you can kill someone [[ArtifactOfDoom by writing on a piece of paper]]. Her slapping him around is PlayedForLaughs and is seen as allegedly "deserving" of being hit when he admits he doesn't feel the same way about her. She only gets away with her pushy and sometimes violent behavior because of the [[WouldntHitAGirl male characters' chivalry.]]
40	** Aizawa is also a victim of this, coming into work with a bandaged head one day. When asked about it, he says he and his wife were in a fight, and the other men barely register that he's been ''physically injured'' by his wife.
41	* The "romance" between Takeshi Tsuchie and Hikari Domina in ''Manga/DominaNoDo'' literally only works because of this trope. The basic premise is that shy and gentle-natured Takeshi is forced into an ArrangedMarriage with Hikari due to his family's poor finances, but Hikari's mind has been warped by the fact her parents are an ''extremely'' harcore femdom/malesub couple who are both [[CasualKink completely open about their BDSM fetish]] and passionately in love -- as a result, Hikari belives '''all''' male/female romances are based on their dynamic. Consequently, she subjects Takeshi to all manner of physical and emotional abuse despite his constant protestations of pain, sadness and disapproval -- the greatest "win" he gets in making her tone it down is when she stops [[GroinAttack hitting him in the balls]] after a combination of [[EpiphanyTherapy getting hit in her own temporary magical set of male genitalia and pinching her clitoris with a clothespin makes her realize that this hurts him]]. Even ''with'' this trope in full effect, Hikari's behavior is so offputting that the manga was CutShort due to vehement backlash.
42	* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
43	** In the original ''Manga/DragonBall'', Bulma and Yamcha's relationship is like this. Sometimes, Bulma would hit Yamcha when she accuses him of flirting with other women. He never did, usually being the target of another woman flirting with ''him'' because he's extremely handsome in-universe. Sadly, it didn't stop Bulma from eventually dumping him and instantly moving on to Vegeta, believing that Yamcha ''did'' cheat on her once. But even if it wasn't Bulma's paranoia, it could be thought of as a MistreatmentInducedBetrayal on Yamcha's part.
44	** At one point in the original series Roshi gets angry at Goku for knocking out [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Blonde Launch]] admonishing him for hurting girls, Roshi is overlooking the fact said girl was shooting at them ''with a Uzi'' so Goku's actions were completely justified.
45	** Also in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', Bulma's treatment of Jaco wouldn't be allowed if their genders were reversed. At the same time this is par the course with Dragon Ball where the males take a lot of abuse from females.
46	** Episode 17 of ''Super'' has Chi-Chi treating both Goku and Gohan in this manner. In another context, she can be seen as an abusive control freak. Her anger at Gohan, however, is justified. Most people would freak out and be upset at seeing a four-month-old baby being tossed around like a ball.
47	** A lot of fans accuse Chi-Chi of this throughout the franchise, but it's worth noting [[IronButtMonkey she gets it as much]] as she dishes it out which subverts this. There's a RunningGag that Chi-Chi gets hurt and knocked around by her super alien husband and half-alien sons when they [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength don't know their own strength]], at one point she even ends up in ''bandages'', put this in any other context and it becomes horrifying. If Chi-Chi wasn't a strong martial artist herself she would likely be dead or hospitalized by now.
48	* The manga ''Duck Prince'' has a disturbing example. The main character, a real {{Sensitive Guy\|AndManlyMan}} was "[[HollywoodHomely ugly]]" in the eyes of everyone. But he rescues his LoveInterest's dog in a car accident and falls into a coma. While in coma a doctor preforms MagicPlasticSurgery on him, and he's now a {{Bishonen}}. His verbally abusive family now loves him and his new life can begin. One day he helps his drunk older sister home after beating her boyfiend. She hits on him and says that [[NotBloodSiblings how can they actually be siblings]] when she's so beautiful and he was so ugly, she then strips him and in the next panel can they be seen naked in bed with him crying and her saying it must've been his first time. This is disturbingly treated as okay InUniverse and by some of the fandom, InUniverse because "AManIsAlwaysEager" or something unfortunate like that.
49	* Subverted with Celty and Shinra in ''Literature/{{Durarara}}''. Sure, Celty punches Shinra and wraps him up in her shadows all the time, but it is outright stated that [[TooKinkyToTorture Shinra actually]] ''[[TooKinkyToTorture enjoys]]'' [[TooKinkyToTorture the abuse]] and tends to goad her on for it. It's a very symbiotic relationship.
50	* Subverted and inverted all the way and then some in ''Manga/ExcelSaga'', both the manga and the anime versions, where it's Lord Il Palazzo's physical and psychological abuse of his female, lovesick subordinate [[GenkiGirl Excel]] that is (most of the time, anyway) PlayedForLaughs.
51	* Largely averted in ''Manga/FairyTail''. There are several times (more so early in the series) where Erza dealing corporal punishment to Natsu and Gray is portrayed as comedic, but it's only after repeatedly challenging and getting beaten up by her that the two are afraid of her. Natsu unintentionally hits Erza twice during the Sun Village arc (with Gray the first time), and it's played for comedy. In the aftermath of the Edolas arc, a sleeping Natsu punches Lucy through the roof while fighting in his dreams, and that too is PlayedForLaughs.
52	* Louise in ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'' can get frighteningly violent towards Saito and he's the only one that has a problem with it. Many fans found it horrifying even without the gender-flipping. Many [[AbandonShipping bailed]] on the Louise/Saito pairing after one incident has her beating on him with a whip until he passed out bloody and bruised.
53	* In ''Manga/FruitsBasket'':
54	** Machi is [[{{Tsundere}} incredibly aggressive when she gets embarrassed]] (and [[ShrinkingViolet she's shy]] so she gets easily embarrassed) and her half-brother Manabe gets it the worst. Once when Manabe gave her a embarrassing and rather forward compliment she punched him in the face through a bag of meat and Yuki looked onward calmly stating he told Manabe he'd be hit if he said that. Even his girlfriend was more concerned with the meat than Manabe, but she kinda has an obsession...
55	** Manabe even lampshades it at one point, when he comments "I'm risking my life playing the stooge here." It was said in regards to Yuki, but he seems to have the same goal for Machi (getting them both out of their shells).
56	** Kagura's abuse of Kyo is played for laughs. [[spoiler: However, this eventually changes somewhat when Kagura comes to realise that she cannot force Kyo to love her, and she apologises to him for her behaviour.]]
57	** To a slightly lesser extent, Uotani towards Kyo as well. She picks fights with him whenever she feels like when he's otherwise not bothering her at all. Kyo explicitly states after having his chair kicked by her because "it's easy to kick" that he doesn't retaliate BECAUSE she's a woman.
58	** Interestingly, this trope is zigzagged with [[spoiler:Akito, the BigBad (who dresses as a male because of her mother's abuse but is biologically female) and Ren, the aforementioned abusive mother. Half of the plot is caused by these two women trying to hurt each other and, by proxy, the rest of the Sohma family. The damage they cause is never excused on the grounds of their gender... ''however'', Akito being revealed as female is also the moment she starts being treated sympathetically by the narrative and goes on the path to her HeelFaceTurn, while Ren is at least mentally due to ostracization; an excuse not given to Kyo's father who went through similar circumstances]]. Ultimately, the manga's [[MoodWhiplash seesawing between drama and comedy]] results in a confusing DoubleStandard.
59	* ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'':
60	** Winry beats Ed with a spanner (one time even a chainsaw) every time he breaks his [[ArtificialLimbs automail]] (that's often).
61	** The [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 2003-2004 anime]] also played this trope straight when [[spoiler:Ed and Al]] were beaten bloody by their former teacher [[spoiler:Izumi Curtis]]. What makes it worse is that she is a grown woman and they are children/young adolescents. It's ''supposed'' to be TrainingFromHell.
62	** Major Alex Armstrong suffers major abuse at the hands of his sister, the badass General Olivier Armstrong. She sees him as weak, worthless, and a disgrace to their family name, and either verbally abuses him or beats the crap out of him every time they see each other. There is an air of professionalism to this, as they're both members of the military and Olivier is her brother's superior, but her bullying of him is far meaner than anyone under her command (which says a lot). We later find out that there's more to it: [[spoiler: The reason she views Alex as a failure is because he succumbed to post traumatic stress during the Ishvalan massacre and lost his will to fight. More specifically, it was because he "ran away" rather than try to do something about it about the injustice. He brings this up when he and Olivier fight Sloth and he proclaims he won't run away again. ]]
63	* Inverted with two minor characters from ''Manga/FutariEcchi''. First it looks like it will be PlayedForDrama that the shy and timid woman is beaten by her jerkass boyfriend, but after it's revealed that he punches her, when she injures him through her clumsiness (tripping and pouring scalding hot coffee on him, running him over with her bike, etc.) it's PlayedForLaughs.
64	* Konoha Hoshinomori sometimes hits Keita Amano in ''Literature/Gamers2015''. Portrayed as PlayedForLaughs.
65	* Like most harem anime, ''Manga/GirlsBravo'' uses this [[PlayedForLaughs for comedic purposes]]:
66	** Kirie brutally beats up her best friend, Yukinari, for things [[NotWhatItLooksLike that aren't his fault]] at several points during the series. But no one ever calls her out on it, or even tries to stop her. Though she lets up on him in season 2 and begins to act more like a real friend towards him.
67	** Her treatment of [[HandsomeLech Fukuyama]] is a different matter, since he usually brings it on himself by repeatedly groping her and pulling up her skirt, so he can see what color panties she's wearing and ''what kind''. Which usually goes on for several seconds before she either [[MegatonPunch decks him]], or flattens him [[WrestlerInAllOfUs with one of her suplexes.]]
68	** Kosame often shoots Fukuyama, under his sister's orders, whenever he gets in the way of her attempts to get with Yukinari. Fukyuyama [[ToonPhysics will usually recover within seconds]] and express his disapproval, only for Lisa to silently order Kosame to shoot him again.
69	* Averted in the fifth ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'' movie where Tomoe's parents are mutually abusive to one another, and Tomoe's mother hitting his father in the back of the head with a skillet [[spoiler:and killing him before killing herself and Tomoe in a murder-suicide]] is played as horrific and wrong on all sides.
70	* Deconstructed in ''Anime/GoldenBoy'' during the second episode. Kintaro starts spending time with Naoko, the spoiled daughter of a corrupt politician. Naoko goes out of her way to sexually harass Kintaro by doing things like undressing in front of him, and falling into his arms in a way that gets her breasts into his hands. While it's all initially PlayedForLaughs because Kintaro has a ''raging'' libido but is also a ChivalrousPervert and thus never does anything, Naoko later has a VillainousBreakdown after getting Kintaro's notebook and learning he wasn't fooled for a second. Kintaro saw from the start that Naoko was deliberately trying to mess with him, described her teasing as "amateurish," and accurately dressed her down as a sad, bitter girl lashing out at her daddy with the only reason why he put up with her behavior is because he pities her and wants to help. Naoko's so enraged the next day she cuts up her clothes, gives Kintaro the scissors, and screams for her dad exclaiming Kintaro tried to assault her. She's then floored when Kintaro instead kisses Naoko and proclaims he loves her, letting her dad and his henchmen beat the shit out of him. Naoko can't handle the thought that someone would protect her after all the horrible things she did, and breaks down crying exclaiming Kintaro did nothing as she begs his forgiveness.
71	* Discussed in ''Anime/GoldenTime'': Mitsuo explains how he got NoSympathy during his highschool days because of this trope; everyone else just thought he was lucky to have a pretty childhood friend [[StalkerWithACrush harassing and stalking]] him. The series itself subvert this, though; while Kaga's attitude is played for laughs, it is presented as a major flaw, Mitsuo being understandably pissed about it is not treated as wrong by either the narrative or the other characters, [[spoiler: and Kaga is talked out of it as early as episode 4 when Mitsuo has a serious conversation with her.]]
72	* ''Anime/HellGirl'' subverts this. There are abusive men in multiple episodes, but one of the first season's episodes has a woman getting sent to Hell for using her boyfriend as an open wallet and then abandoning him when his money ran out. One episode of ''Mitsuganae'' has an abusive mother whose husband left her over the abuse, though she doesn't get sent to Hell. The guy who does get sent to Hell is implied to also have issues with his mother (albeit different ones), and wanted the VictimOfTheWeek (the woman's son) to suffer as he did. The episode ends in a way that suggests that the son is going to be making his mother's life a lot harder from there on.
73	* In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'':
74	** Hungary sometimes beats male nations senseless more than once. {{Subverted}} in one instance, where God orders Hungary to beat France with her skillet and while she ''is'' tempted, she is still conflicted as she knows it's wrong to attack France for no reason, and "only" beats him when he flips her skirt and [[PantyShot exposes her underwear]].
75	** Likewise, Belarus' attraction to her older brother Russia, which includes wanting to get rid of people in her way, is not portrayed as okay, and him being scared of her is genuinely heartbreaking. No wonder Russia likes his older sister better.
76	* Subverted in ''Manga/{{Horimiya}}'' with Hori hitting Miyamura. While it's PlayedForLaughs, Hori's violent temper is depicted as being an issue that she has to work through. The fact that Miyamura is such a NiceGuy that he always apologizes, even when both of them know that whatever happened is usually Hori's fault, just makes her feel worse. Just to add a bit of irony, Hori would actually ''prefer'' if Miyamura would hit her instead since [[AggressiveSubmissive she's a masochist]].
77	* In ''Manga/HoshinEngi'', Tou Sengyoku's [[SelfProclaimedLoveInterest attitude]] [[ClingyJealousGirl toward]] [[{{Gonk}} Dokuson]] is generally played for laugh, and there is even a bit of black comedy where she say that if [[IfICantHaveYou she can't have him]], she will [[{{Yandere}} kill him]] then kill herself. When [[StalkerWithACrush Ryuu Kan]] fights Sengyoku and threatens to do the same thing, it is presented more seriously and the other characters are shocked. Justified in-universe, because, in Ryuukan's case, he was actually trying to go through with that menace. Before this, the fight was played rather lightly, and the fear of birds Tou Sengyoku got from Ryuukan's stalking had been played for laughs earlier in the manga.
78	* Hajime's list on how to calm girls down in ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'' lampshades this:
79	-->3. It can't be helped even if you get hit.
80	* ''Literature/InfiniteStratos'' has Ichika Orimura as the target of this, mostly because of his AccidentalPervert moments, because he's ObliviousToLove or because his older sister wants to discipline him. Some of them are even willing to use their [[MiniMecha IS]] for this!
81	* ''[[Literature/{{Kampfer}} Kämpfer]]'' has Natsuru getting beat up by the girls no matter what gender he is in.
82	* ''Literature/KazeNoStigma'' - Averted. [[{{Tsundere}} Ayano]] often tries to slap or burn the more powerful [[TheStoic Kazuma]] but he usually blocks it. In fact, it's almost genderflipped in that while Kazuma never hits Ayano, he is able to tease her, be a {{Jerkass}} to her, or incite her jealousy with impunity. It is '''hilarious''' to watch.
83	* ''Manga/KotouraSan'':
84	** Daichi gets smacked around by Yoriko in episode 3 after he jokingly teased [[{{telepathy}} Haruka]] about wanting to dissect her (in PokeInTheThirdEye fashion) while they were alone.
85	** Hiyori gets to beat up Manabe [[EasilyForgiven with impunity]], which is rather audacious considering she was responsible for sending him to the hospital with serious injuries earlier, escaping all punishment for that caper because she was "sorrowful".
86	*** Worse, in the manga adaptation he was ''stabbed''.
87	** Haruka's mom, generally considered a [[JerkassWoobie colossal bitch]], also assaults Manabe rather viciously in public without any repercussions, and it is treated as [[PetTheDog vaguely heartwarming]] that she still cares enough about Haruka to come to her defense (never mind that she herself is treating Haruka far worse than Manabe ever would).
88	* ''Literature/KyoKaraMaoh'' It's apparently perfectly ok for girls to hit ''the king himself'' and then remark that 'men need training' (with the implication being that they are there to serve women). Apparently a certain technically minded woman thinks it is 'enlightened' to jump in right after Yurri saves the day and slap the crap out of him. What? What the hell did he do wrong?
89	* ''Manga/LoveHina'':
90	** Keitaro gets horribly abused by every female he encounters. Just about every other scene ends with Keitaro getting hit by one of the girls, either unfairly or for no reason, sometimes forcing him into seeing flesh just so they can abuse him. ''He'' blames ''himself'' for this. Naturally, it's PlayedForLaughs. This is so intense and continuous it's enough to scare a good number of readers away immediately; people who know about the series often joke, "If anything turns you off about it, it'll be this."
91	** The manga's better about this; Naru especially is called on her behavior at least once, Keitaro eventually learns to avoid these attacks, and the girls stop doing them eventually. Also, when Naru tried the same thing on someone who wasn't Keitaro, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome she got in trouble with the police, and was almost arrested for assault]], which also convinced her to back off. Furthermore, when Keitaro's little sister Kanako first entered the picture, she subjected all of the Hinata's residents to a major HumiliationConga to punish them for their actions.
92	* ''Manga/LoveTyrant'':
93	** [[{{Yandere}} Akane]] routinely pulls out knives to stab Seiji for any slight hint that he might have eyes for any girl other than her. In one episode, she attacks 2 robbers for shooting Seiji with a stray bullet (informing her terrified victim that the only person allowed to hurt Seiji is herself) and is so incredibly violent the policemen responding to the scene stay back out of fear. It's all Main/PlayedForLaughs.
94	* ''VisualNovel/MajikoiLoveMeSeriously'': In episode 2, the girls chase after a dog in the bath house naked. They then catch it when it runs into Yamato's room. After some initial embarrassment and screaming, the next scene shows Yamato all bruised up as they continue chasing after the dog.
95	* In ''Manga/{{MAR}}'', it's not so much abuse as it is sexual harassment, but Dorothy pretty much harasses Ginta on a daily basis against his consent (often he's extremely annoyed by this, but too nice of a guy to really call her out on it), and the only person bothered by it is Snow, but only because she's jealous because she is crushing on him pretty hard. This is always PlayedForLaughs but whenever Jack or Nanashi try to do anything perverted (or sometimes even when they AREN'T trying), they get chewed out bad.
96	* Gender inverted in ''Manga/MariaHolic''. Mariya, who is a boy cross-dressing as a female, has no problems stepping on Kanako which Kanako herself [[TooKinkytoTorture enjoys it]] until she realizes Mariya is [[WholesomeCrossdresser actually a boy]].
97	* Jiro from ''Literature/MayoChiki'' is forcefully beaten up by his sister for "wrestling practice" every morning, and as a result develops gynophobia similarly to Yukinari from Manga/GirlsBravo from it. He's also attacked regularly by Subaru as well, yet it's entirely PlayedForLaughs, and no one seems to mention anything about it.
98	* ''Anime/MekakucityActors'': Kido gut-punches or foot-stomps [[TheGadFly Kano]] a lot - usually after he makes fun of her, Momo or Marry. It kind of becomes DudeNotFunny if one knows [[spoiler:that Kano spent his early years as his mother's punching bag ([[ConsummateLiar but whether or not he told anyone is something else entirely]])]].
99	* In ''Manga/MysteriousGirlfriendX'', Urabe's treatment of Tsubaki gradually moves from mild aloofness and [[CloudCuckoolander weirdness]] to mind-games that have an increasingly abusive element to them. In the later chapters she adds physical abuse as well, when she [[spoiler:almost bites Tsubaki's finger off after agreeing that he could place it in her mouth]]. However she did this mainly to finally make him forget about another girl he couldn't stop thinking about, despite wanting to. [[spoiler:It works.]]
100	* ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'':
101	** Jiraiya had six ribs, both arms and both legs broken, as well as several organs ruptured for trying to peep on Tsunade. He counts it as one of 2 moments where he nearly died. Now imagine that with the genders flipped. [[SarcasmMode Ha, ha! Hilarious!]]
102	** Also seen in the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' anime where much of the {{Filler}} arcs contain Sakura knocking around [[TheHero Naruto]] for no clearly defined reason for comedic purposes, though she's not as bad in the manga.
103	*** One noteworthy (and canon) example was her punching Naruto for not denying Konohamaru's assumption that they were dating, which happens shortly after Sasuke derisively points out that she's weaker than the guy she just clobbered. She then beats up both Naruto and Konohamaru after the latter starts throwing insults at her for attacking the former boy who he idolizes, and starts chasing them to do more when Konohamaru mutters another insult under his breath. This results in Konohamaru running into Kankuro (making his debut along with his siblings), who is portrayed as a serious threat for pulling up the former by his collar even though Sakura outright injuring the boy was PlayedForLaughs.
104	*** Creator/MasashiKishimoto eventually acknowledged that her habit of hitting Naruto is unpleasant.
105	** In ''Anime/{{Boruto}}'' there's a scene where Ino gets pissed at her husband Sai and so decides ''to beat the shit out of him'', though Sai dodges every blow, and when her son Injojin tries to intervene Ino just yells at him. While they do simmer down there's no getting past the fact were the roles reversed, people would most certainly consider Sai an abusive JerkAss.
106	* Creator/KenAkamatsu seems to have largely outgrown this trope during the course of his long-running ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''. Considering Negi's only about 10 years old and the girls are fifteen, he probably thought it would look like child abuse, though in one story arc where Negi was aged up to 15 or so, he suffered a few Keitaro-esque smacks in the face himself. Later, when Anya, Negi's best friend from home, comes to visit him, she's able to beat him up as much as she wants (with flaming punches and kicks, no less) since they're the same age.
107	* Inverted in ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' where Mahiro Yasaka hitting Nyarko and Cuuko is treated as [[PlayedforLaughs comedic]].
108	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
109	** Generally played straight as Nami seems to have free reign to beat up her male friends whenever they annoy her (even mildly), but also occasionally subverted.
110	** Also, though he never hits Nami back (likely since she only ever hits him in "comical" situations), [[TheHero Luffy]] was depicted as justified after punching Vivi (who's also a close friend) in the face when she suddenly slapped him ''hard'' during what was otherwise a civil argument.
111	** [[FemmeFatale Kalifa]] taking advantage of [[ChivalrousPervert Sanji's]] WouldntHitAGirl tendencies in battle via kicking him the [[GroinAttack groin]] and brutally beating him is painted as being dishonorable on her part.
112	** The [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombified]] Victoria Cindry treats Dr. Hogback rather poorly, such as making him eat his meals directly off the table becuase of her personal hatred of plates or casually spouting threats of violence, all portrayed comedically. When the story wants to highlight how despicable Hogback is, Cindry suddenly becomes completely obedient as he smacks her around and orders her to lick the floor. While his general practice of reanimating corpses as servants is put in a negative light, the protagonists never took such offence to the servitude of any other zombie.
113	** Cleverly subverted in Punk Hazard as due to a FreakyFridayFlip Nami finds herself in Franky’s body and Sanji is in her body ([[ManIFeelLikeAWoman and loving it]]). Nami goes for the usual PervertRevengeMode but the problems are 1) while Sanji's body [[MadeOfIron can take abuse]], [[SquishyWizard her body can't]] and 2) she’s currently in Franky’s powerful {{Cyborg}} body which results in Nami nearly breaking her own skull and killing Sanji. It was extra shocking for rest of the crew who were unaware of the body swap, and were seeing Franky bringing his massive metal fist down on Nami's head.
114	* Kouki gets beat up by his sister Ruri in episode 3 of ''Manga/OneechanGaKita'', simply because she thought he was about to fight Tomoya, the younger brother of her friend Ichika.
115	* Kuromi constantly does this to Baku in ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody'', usually with the use of a paper fan, or with her own hands.
116	* Played with in ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}''. Ringo beats up / slaps Shouma around at the beginning and it's PlayedForLaughs as well as a {{Tsundere}} trait. {{Averted}} later as CharacterDevelopment ''and'' CerebusSyndrome kick in and she stops doing so.
117	* In ''Literature/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'', after Nanami moves into Sakura Hall, Sorata sees her sleeping by the table in the dining room. He puts a blanket on her, but she wakes up, and punches him in the face, and accuses him of making her move in to take advantage of her. He then reminds her where he found her sleeping.
118	* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' has a few examples of this - meant to be non-romantic, but considering the series's huge [[ShipTease shipping base]], it could be viewed as romantic:
119	** Jessie commonly hits her teammates, James and male (humanoid) Pokemon Meowth when she feels they are incompetent. Meowth has gotten away with slashing both of their faces, though.
120	** James' ex-fiancee, Jessibelle, definitely has an abusive nature. Whenever they meet as adults, James does everything in his power to get away from her.
121	** Misty being a FieryRedhead is very quick to hurt Ash and Brock in a PlayedForLaughs fashion, she even gives Ash an unnecessary slap on the face in her first appearance. This was edited out of the 4kids version.
122	** Bulbasaur's introduction episode subverts and inverts this: Brock punches Misty in the head twice when she teases him about a girl he has a crush on and it's played for comedy. 4Kids Entertainment, notorious for otherwise removing any indication of violence from their anime dubs, even leaves this scene intact in English!
123	* Being a GenreDeconstruction of the FightingSeries PlayedForLaughs, ''Manga/RamenFighterMiki'' has males Kankuro and Akihiko get routinely beaten by females Miki and Megumi. Akihiko, as an adult, WouldntHitAGirl, but Kankuro as an AdultChild definitely WouldHitAGirl… if only he could, but he CantCatchUp with Miki. All of them are presented as {{Adult Child}}ren that only an idiot would try to imitate.
124	* Creator/RumikoTakahashi frequently makes use of this trope. Case in point, three of her best-known series -- ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' and ''Manga/InuYasha'' all make heavy use of this in the name of [[ComedicSociopathy comedy]]. It seems that she has heard of the flak she was getting for this, though, as she began avoiding this trope in her subsequent works, like ''Manga/{{Rinne}}'', ''Manga/{{Mao}}'' and ''Anime/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon''.
125	** In ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'', Ataru Moroboshi is constantly harassed by the women in his life. In particular Lum uses her electricity to shock him five times a day (due to her being [[ClingyJealousGirl insanely possessive of him]]) and Shinobu and Ryuunosuke beat him senseless with their super-strength and martial-arts respectively. True, Ataru is a LoveableSexManiac who usually provokes this behavior by either hitting on other girls (for Lum) or trying to forcibly hug, kiss, or ask them out (Shinobu & Ryuunosuke), but the violence of the response can push it into DisproportionateRetribution. The ''worst'' example in the series is probably the {{yandere}} Carla from the final story, who spends over a decade attacking her crush Rupa with explosives and big guns, but has all of that [[EasilyForgiven swept aside]] when he proposes to her in the very last chapter.
126	** ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' uses this so much that for early '90s anime fans it was considered the Queen of this trope. The series is notorious for how the [[BelligerentSexualTension interactions]] between Ranma Saotome and Akane Tendo many times boiled down to "Ranma says something insulting, purposefully or accidentally, and Akane gives him a MegatonPunch, [[ATwinkleInTheSky boots him (through the roof if need be) into LEO]], slaps him, hammers him over the head with a random object or otherwise physically abuses him in response". Making it worse is that Akane often starts the exchange of insults, but still hits Ranma for retorting.
127	** In ''Manga/InuYasha'', she largely dispenses with {{Megaton Punch}}es, and presents instead a simple scenario: a half-demon, wearing a cursed necklace which allows their master to force to the ground the one who wears it with a single word. And while at first it's a legitimate KidWithTheLeash scenario as Kaede put the necklace on him to stop him from outright murdering Kagome for the Shikon Jewel, after he softens up it's more often used for trivial reasons. No points for guessing that it's a male half-demon, a female who controls the collar that frequently uses it over romantic angst, and that it is played for comedy. It gets to the point where [[SayMyName Kagome shouting Inuyasha's name]] is enough to send shivers down his spine. Meanwhile, Inuyasha is treated as in the wrong for such minor offenses as not thanking Kagome for making lunch or not intuiting the feelings that she passive-aggresively refuses to ever tell him.
128	* In ''Manga/RequiemOfTheRoseKing'' Margaret is extremely abusive to Henry. It's never, ever PlayedForLaughs.
129	* Deconstructed in ''Manhwa/OperationLiberateMen.'' It is perfectly acceptable for women in the Para Kingdom to abuse men for perceived wrongs, or even for no reason at all. Nobody but Sooha, a foreigner, even bats an eye at the murdered corpse of a man. However, Sooha often ridicules the women for their abuse and allowing such a mindset to exist.
130	%%* Kaori and Tsubaki are the main offenders in ''Manga/YourLieInApril'' to the point both of them became sort of {{Base Breaking Character}}s because of their actions.
131	* ''Manga/{{ReKan}}'':
132	** The girls often hit Kenta Yamada no matter if he deserves them or not and it treated as [[PlayedforLaughs humorous]] as he doesn’t seem to mind them.
133	** Kogal spirit girl sometimes smacks Roll-call samurai around.
134	** Masaki, Kenta’s older brother and a cop, got hit multiple times by Kyouko Esumi
135	* ''Anime/RuneSoldierLouie'' subverts this in episode 12, when Louie fights [[AmazonianBeauty Jeanie]] back, after she decks him for coming back for her after she told him to leave. Jeanie took it personally, because it reminded her of the time when [[spoiler: her former comrade, Hector, [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificed himself by staying behind]] so she wouldn't have to]]. At the time, she thought he'd done it because [[spoiler: she was a woman]] and made the same assumption about Louie. She finds she was wrong on both counts, after Farbe sets the record straight by telling her the truth about why [[spoiler: Hector]] had done it.
136	* Averted in ''Literature/TheSacredBlacksmith''. After Cecily beats up Luke for witnessing her wardrobe malfunction, he's very upset with her, and she's ashamed of what she did.
137	* ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'', being a harem series at heart, has several running jokes concerning {{Tsundere}} [[MagicalGirlfriend Magical Girlfriends]] using their powers on their love interests. It's treated as comical, even when people are being electrocuted or thrown across the room.
138	* Averted in ''Sensitive Pornograph'' with Mari. Ten days after his wife's accidental death, he's still badly bruised. His childhood friend Gouzou is worried and somewhat shocked when he hears of the domestic abuse. Also PlayedForDrama as Mari's little twin sons ask Gouzou to not hurt Papa.
139	* ''Manga/SgtFrog'' breathes this trope, expect it to be played on a daily basis. It doesn't help that all female characters in the show are generally far stronger than the males and one of them is an ''infamous galaxy destroyer.''
140	* In ''Manga/SketDance'':
141	** Repeatedly played for laughs with Bossun, [[VitriolicBestBuds who would often get on Himeko's nerves]], and thus end up experiencing a world of pain. So much, that he gets both hands broken. Ouch.
142	** Also, one of the characters the Sket Dan help, [[HugeSchoolgirl Koma-chan]], has a tendency to violently shove or throw people when she's embarrassed. Considering she's [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower insanely strong]], this can have painful results, so much so that the group start referring to it as the "Koma-Cannon". Guess who's always on the receiving end? You guessed it, [[ButtMonkey Bossun]].
143	** Averted in the "Ogress" backstory arc, where the abuse is ''very'' much not intended to be funny.
144	* ''Anime/SonicX'' turns Amy Rose's {{Tsundere}} quirks up to eleven, her temper leading to her pulling out her hammer on people for trivial reasons (usually Sonic).
145	* ''Manga/SoulEater'': Soul got hit with a double case of this (sexual abuse then physical abuse) in an early episode, when he suddenly found Blair, a sexy CatGirl with large breasts, on top of him while he was waking up. No actual molestation occurred, but she does [[MarshmallowHell shove her breasts into his face]] and rub them on his chest, and flirts with him by suggesting he should stay inside and play with her instead of leaving to go to school. Soul for his part doesn't act like your average fictional anime teenager would in this situation, and despite a nosebleed, struggles futilely to escape the Marshmallow Hell. Maka proceeds to enter the room at exactly that moment, and instead of asking her closest friend and ally if this is NotWhatItLooksLike, proceeds to ''[[DestinationDefenestration punt him out a window]]''. What's especially [[SarcasmMode amusing]] about this is that Maka is not romantically involved with Soul at all, so even if Soul had given consent to Blair, she shouldn't have taken this level of umbrage with it. We do not see if she then did the same thing with Blair, [[KarmaHoudini but probably not]]. This is all entirely PlayedForLaughs, by the way.
146	* Yami in ''Manga/ToLoveRu'' makes her hatred of "ecchi" people clear by hitting or slashing at men or boys (especially Rito) who ''accidentally'' get a look under her skirt or touch her breasts - or even just look at her with too much admiration. But when a girl fondles her while another flips up her skirt to check out her panties, she merely asks them - rather weakly - to please stop.
147	** Invoked in a chapter of ''Darkness'' where Rito, [[FreakyFridayFlip in Haruna's body]], slips in the hallway on a banana peel and accidentally gropes Yami. Yami states that Haruna gropes her just as Rito has, but because it is Haruna she will let it slide.
148	* Largely [[AvertedTrope averted]] in ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', where there are plenty of formidable female combatants on both sides of the conflict. Played straight (and often [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]]) with Touka and Kaneki; when they reunite in the sequel, one of the first things she does is punch him so hard he loses consciousness, and she happily says that that makes her feel a lot better. Their first explicitly romantic interaction is when Touka seduces him while he's emotionally vulnerable and has just confided in her about missing Hide, right after she admits that she's [[TheBabyTrap looking for a way to keep him at her side]]. While her plan works, when he suspects something's up and visits her, she panics and physically hurls him out of her room in front of his shocked subordinates. Kaneki has more than one monologue where he believes the people he loves always hurt him, and it's strongly implied that Touka reminds him of his physically abusive mother. Still, [[spoiler:they end up married with a child]].
149	* Averted in ''Anime/TokyoGodfathers''. When a group of gossiping women is discussing the couple the main trio are searching for, it is brought up that "sometimes you'd see bruises". One of the women initially takes pity on the wife until it's brought up that the husband was the victim, at which she's even more horrified and surprised.
150	* ''Literature/{{Toradora}}'': Taiga regularly assaults Ryuuji for comedy, [[DownplayedTrope although her behavior is portrayed as wrong and he usually calls her out for it]]. It ameliorates somewhat as the series goes on. Also happens with Taiga and her father.
151	* In ''Anime/{{Trigun}}'' Meryl hurting Vash is completely PlayedForLaughs even when he wasn’t doing anything wrong and she’s just annoyed at his silliness. Subverted when Milly slaps Vash in one episode as she had just seen him seemly gun some innocent kids down in cold blood which does justify her violent reaction. Also Milly is normally a GentleGiant who unlike Meryl never hurts anyone.
152	* ''Anime/{{Tsugumomo}}'' plays the this trope up to eleven. Kiriha has no problem with beating Kazuya to a bloody pulp on a seemingly regular bases, and he also gets beaten up by other female characters such as Chisato and Sunao -- although much less compared to Kiriha. Other male characters such as Shiro, Osamu and Kotetsu received abuse from other female characters.
153	* Subverted in ''Literature/UndefeatedBahamutChronicle''. Lux literally falls into a girls' bath and the girls then try to attack him, but this is partly because of a very unfortunate sequence of events that makes him look like even more of a pervert than typical in this situation[[note]]He pursued a cat, which had stolen another girl's bag containing underwear, across the rooftops. He took back the bag but fell through a roof into the bath, then had to quickly push down one of the girls to save her from falling rubble. When he tried to explain the situation, he repeated lines that someone had previously told him for praising girls, which ended up being sexual harassment in the current situation. Then he showed the bag that he had recovered in an attempt to explain things, which made him look like an underwear thief.[[/note]]. While some of the girls use [[MiniMecha Drag-Rides]] in their pursuit, this is explicitly noted to be excessive force. Later on, Lux doesn't get beaten up at all even in similar incidents.
154	* ''Manga/{{Wagnaria}}'' double subverts this one. The series tells us [[DoesNotLikeMen Inami]] is not supposed to hit men and is bad when she does it, yet they not only almost always show her violence PlayedForLaughs, when her habitual "target" Souta gets fed up and [[WhatTheHellHero calls her out on this]], ''everyone'' treats him as the bad guy and acts as if Inami didn't deserve his calling out, thus firmly planting the series in this trope, period.
155	* One of main reasons for people dropping ''Anime/YourLieInApril'' (as pointed out in one [[http://randomc.net/2014/11/07/shigatsu-wa-kimi-uso-05/ anime review site]] that skipped reviewing between Episodes 6-11) is because its [[HeroicBSOD traumatised]] main character, Kousei, is prone to abuse such as being kicked, slapped, or having stuff thrown at him by the girls, Tsubaki and Kaori. [[spoiler: In the end, one of them (Kaori) apologizes to him via her posthumous letter for being mean and hitting him all the time.]]
156	* ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'': Yuzu Hiragi regularly hitting [[HotBlooded her father Shuzo Hiragi]] and [[TheHero her friend Yuya Sakaki]] whenever she perceives them doing something stupid [[PaperFanOfDoom with a fan]]? Considered hilarious and part of what makes her a strong female protagonist in the eyes of the fans. Doesn't help that sparkles fly in the fan's wake and [[AmusingInjuries their reactions to being hit are meant to be comical]]. [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend She]] also whacks Yuya for [[ClingyJealousGirl getting hit on by other girls]], never mind that [[LikeBrotherAndSister Yuya]] never instigates it and isn't even her boyfriend.
157	** Averted in the second episode when Yuya gets whacked for proclaiming that his upcoming duel with Yuzu will be a "one-man show", as if she's not important. The audience is not amused and start heckling her.
158	* ''Anime/YuGiOhSEVENS'': [[HairTriggerTemper Haruka]] [[InsistentTerminology "Tiger"]] [[BigSisterBully Kamijo]], older sister of [[IdiotHero Tatsuhisa]] [[InSeriesNickname "Luke"]] [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling Kamijo]], is admired for being "strong" and "putting Luke in his place". Even when she [[GlowingEyesOfDoom constantly death-glares him]], [[SuperScream blows him away with screams]] strong enough [[ImpactSilhouette to crack whatever surface he crashes into]], hurls insults at him, or has him in a chokehold. With said chokehold happening [[DisproportionateRetribution just because]] [[SoreLoser Luke beat her in a Rush Duel]]. It's to the point that Luke [[TheDreaded is scared at even the sight of her]], and even their great-grandfather is afraid of her outbursts. However, this is all [[PlayedForLaughs meant to be funny]].
159	* Shizuru Kuwabara from ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' in how she treats her younger brother, regularly beating him up for the most trivial of reasons to the point that he is ''deathly terrified'' of her. Becomes true FridgeHorror when you realize where Kuwabara's desire to never fight with women comes from.
160	** Surprisingly averted in Yusuke's case. Although there are a couple times where Botan smacks him annoyance, there are also a couple times where he does the same to her (when she nearly and almost immediately blabs about her being Death for one), all PlayedForLaughs. He also delivered a slap to Keiko near the end of the Dark Tournament arc, and while not portrayed for comedy like when he's smacked Botan, and it was to [[GetAholdOfYourselfMan snap her out]] of a HeroicBSOD, and he wasn't portrayed in any negative light.

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