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10* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Down played with Nicole Watterson. She is generally a loving, if imperfect wife and mother about Richard and her children, and some fans do think her parenting could be dysfunctional. When does Double Standard come in? She does however threaten her family from time to time, such as in episodes like, The Egg, The Limit, or any other times she's seen threatening or being extra strict to Richard or her kids. She may be seen as much more abusive if not for the fact she's a woman (and some fans argue it doesn't help that much), considering how rude she can be to Richard and Gumball (fathers in animation can only get away with being extra stern to their daughters, most often they won't dish it out on them as much as they do to their sons, or their wives do) that's saying a lot.
11** PlayedStraight with Anais. While she and Gumball can both be pretty big jerks to each other ([[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther even if they do still care about each other]]) and Gumball can even be a BigBrotherBully to Anais at times (such as in "Halloween"), Gumball has never (intentionally) physically harmed Anais, while she has physically harmed him several times in the series, such as in the "The Secret" where she gives him an offscreen beating for annoying her and in "The Parasite" where she kicks him in the shins than slams her locker door in his face for reading her diary (then gives him a kiss on the cheek for showing concern over her situation).
12** Downplayed with Gumball's relationship with Penny. While generally not abusive on either end, Gumball has never intentionally caused her physical harm (though he has gotten her hurt through idiocy), while Penny has been able make both implicit and explicit threats on Gumball that leave him genuinely terrified of her when angered without consequence. Like in "The Transformation", where she threatens to ''cut off his finger'' if he doesn't side with her.
13* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Joker beating Harley is treated with all the seriousness and gravity that DomesticAbuse would deserve, showing that for all his silly schemes and charisma, he's still a loathsome and disgusting person in small ways as well as big ways. Harley beating up the Joker is PlayedForLaughs by contrast, although the fact the one she's beating up is ''the Joker'', making it more like [[TheDogBitesBack justified karmic retribution]].
14* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', "Triumvirate of Terror!", shows this. [[spoiler:Lex Luthor, Cheetah and Joker decide to switch {{arch enem|y}}ies. Joker takes on Wonder Woman and subdues her using trickery and had earlier knocked out a heap of Amazons using laughing gas. Cheetah meanwhile takes on Superman and gives him a brutal beating. Joker is never seen hitting Wonder Woman and is stopped before he can, compared to Superman who is badly beaten and gets his costume torn in places. Wonder Woman is also the only one of the three heroes who is shown hitting Cheetah on screen.]]
15** Subverted in "Night of the Huntress!" where Batman punches Mrs. Manface, saying, "The hammer of Justice is unisex!" Though given that the character in question has... well... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a man's face]], the extent to which this is a subversion is debatable.
16* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'', it's revealed [[LovableRogue Kevin]] once got betrothed to a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Tetramand]] princess named Looma as part of an old deal. When she comes back looking for him, her method to have him marry her involves chasing him, beating him to a pulp and threatening to "break every single bone" of his body. Not only is this played for comedy, but Gwen, Kevin's ''[[OfficialCouple official girlfriend]]'', finds it "romantic".
17* ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania|2017}}''
18** Season 3 averts this hard with Hector and Lenore’s relationship. Lenore’s DisproportionateRetribution NoHoldsBarredBeatdown for Hector simply holding her throat while trying to escape from his cell, or her manipulating his trust and sexual attraction of her in order to trick him into enslaving his will to her, is not remotely funny being one massive KickTheDog moment.
19** Played straight in Season 4 where Hector [[EasilyForgiven forgives]] Lenore despite all her aforementioned actions [[spoiler: and her death in the sunlight is treated as a TearJerker moment]]. If it was a female character who been imprisoned, violently abused, used and manipulated by a male character having to cut her own finger off just to escape his control, forgiveness would’ve been completely out of the question. Especially jarring given the abuse Carmilla got from her male sire is comparatively treated as unambiguously bad while Lenore is treated sympathetically.
20** Played straighter in Season 2, when Carmilla kicks Godbrand down a staircase for him assuming that she wanted to sleep with him being PlayedForLaughs. The subversion is that they’re both evil vampires and getting kicked is the least Godbrand deserves.
21* The episode that introduced Numbah One's girlfriend Lizzy in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' involved her tricking him into putting on a helmet known as the "Yes Dear 9000", which turns the boyfriend into a slave to their whims. Subverted in that despite it being ''mass produced and the helmet's effects becoming permanent over time'', the use of it is ''not'' portrayed as okay, and after Numbah One gets angry enough for it to break on its own he very firmly tells her ''never'' to use one of them on him again. Though that's her only punishment, and he doesn't break up with her or even be upset with her for more than a few moments after breaking free.
22** It's also shown in another episode that the "Yes Dear 9000" can be modified to work on girls. Which is then used to full effect on [[LaserGuidedKarma Lizzie]] by her own aborrant admirer, and is portrayed with the exact same amount of horror as it was with Nigel.
23* [[OlderThanTheyThink This goes all the way back]] to Disney's WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoons. Whenever Donald and Daisy had any sort of argument, it would usually end in Daisy beating the living stuffing out of Donald. The worst he could ever do was insult or mock her, which usually just resulted in him getting more beatings.
24* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', the Eds are commonly beaten up by Ed's sister Sarah, plus all the times they've been possibly [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale raped by the Kankers]], who are the walking definitions of Do Not Want. Not only are the Kankers beasts, but the cul-de-sac is ''scared'' of them. Also, Sarah isn't portrayed as sympathetic most of the time. So while their [[AmusingInjuries treatment]] of the Eds and anyone who annoys them is usually played for laughs, it is clearly established that it ''is'' wrong and quite likely illegal, but those moments are never actually on screen and only inferred or alluded to. It's to the point that when they drag [[spoiler:Eddy's brother]] away for 'mouth to mouth', it's viewed as his ''comeuppance''. Granted, he [[spoiler: is a complete jerk who abuses Eddy,]] but ''still''...
25** In one episode, the Eds actually [[PayEvilUntoEvil turn their harassment against them]] in an effort to discourage them from doing it again. It starts to work and is both PlayedForLaughs and treated as justified, considering what the Kankers typically do to them. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, the Kankers realise their plan (thanks to Eddy) and turn it against them again]].
26* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', this is the case with Vicky's abuse of Timmy. While she's quite obviously a villain and many times her treatment of Timmy is PlayedForLaughs, it would probably not be as well received if it were a boy doing this to a girl. In addition, Vicky has stripped Timmy down to his underwear and many times she has forced him to wear a dress. Imagine a 16 year old boy doing this to a 10 year old girl.
27** One episode, "The Switch Glitch", features Timmy wishing Vicky into a five year old so ''he'' can bully her. Wanda shames him for just wanting to see a little girl cry. The ''intended'' lesson is "[[HeWhoFightsMonsters Don't fight bullying with bullying]]." Make of that what you will.
28* In the ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E6TheButterjunkEffect The Butterjunk Effect]]", Amy and Leela become Butterfly Derby athletes by doping up on "Nectar", which is space steroids. Fry and Kif are the victims of their subsequent 'roid rage: Kif mentions being hit with "various chairs", and Fry gets sexually assaulted by both of them while in the throes of their Nectar-induced madness. While it's not completely played for laughs, if the sexes were reversed this whole situation wouldn't be funny ''at all''.
29** Mom regularly beats on her sons Walt, Larry, and Igner. Granted, they are a parodic ThreeStoogesShoutOut, and really are pretty pathetic, but it's played as a lot more funny than if they had been daughters or Mom was a Dad.
30** Ndnd had displayed this kind of behavior towards her husband Lrrr as revealed in “Lrrrenconcilable Ndndifferences” as when she kicks Lrrr out of their palace for botching an invasion on Earth, she hits him on the head with a frying pan so hard that it sticks to his head. Although Leela sees Lrrr in this state when he comes to crash at the Planet Express building, she blows it off and still takes Ndnd’s side. She even contemplated hitting Lrrr with a frying pan herself. Nonetheless, Ndnd is never called out or punished for the domestic violence displayed in the episode.
31* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow''. Although it's PlayedForLaughs, the characters never act like it's okay that their friend is being beaten by his girlfriend or mock him about it, and the main plot of the episode is about trying to get her away from him.
32** Played straight in that Donna is regularly shown assaulting Cleveland for gags.
33** ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' did a similar episode, satirizing this.
34** If it's a Creator/SethMacFarlane show, its going to have this. ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' is also never above using violence from either sex against the other as comedic fodder, finding dark humor in it.
35** Shock value aside however, Lois and Meg are often portrayed far more sympathetically than the male cast, despite often being equally abusive and unhinged as they are, and tend to get dished Aesops about their callous treatment a lot less often. Though, Meg tends to be more justified, as she is subjected to [[ButtMonkey so much crap from her family]] that her abuses are often portrayed as her [[TheDogBitesBack snapping]], rather than some inherent right as a female.
36* Zig-Zagged in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold''. Helga regularly harasses characters in the series, especially Arnold and Brainy (who [[RunningGag has a tendency to appear behind her and get punched after he breathes down her neck]]). Averted when a psychiatrist ''does'' visit PS 118, spots her behaviour, and immediately wishes to assess it. By the end of the episode, when Helga asks if she can still punch Brainy, she's told, "No, that's the reason why you're here". Granted, it's not a punishment, but she ''did'' get repercussions for her bully tendencies. Plus her harassment is showing the audience that she has a problem, and played for drama more than it is for laughs.
37** Also, in "Girl Trouble", Arnold is fed up with Helga verbally abusing him in art class, and after she throws glue and feathers on him (and then laughs at him, shouting to the whole class "Arnold's a bird!"), he eventually retaliates by throwing a cup of paint on her (after she did so to him and refused to allow him to do any painting). The teacher, who never did ''anything'' when Helga abused him, is shocked at ''Arnold'' and gives him detention, and his grandparents are notified. [[KarmaHoudini Helga gets away with this]].
38* ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'': Brendon is trying to stop an older kid from beating him up, and gets him to turn placid and mellowed out. Melissa, who was harboring a crush on the guy, angrily beats up Brendon for changing him.
39* The way Gaz treats her older brother, Dib, on ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''. Early episodes just portrayed her as threatening him but never doing much, but by the second season she had been [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] into beating him savagely for minor deeds. Though Dib is only a year older than her and Gaz is ''clearly'' stronger than any normal child her age could be, the idea of her beating him in ways as bad or worse than an adult could are rarely played for anything but laughs. It also doesn't help that between their [[MissingMom lack of a mom]], [[DisappearedDad their dad being at the lab all the time and usually only communicating with his kids through a screen]], and [[AdultsAreUseless the authority figures at their school being worthless]], there really isn't anyone who seems willing to correct her behavior.
40* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'' runs into this trope with the protagonist Mark’s relationship with Amber who’s been revamped from the comics into a intelligent SassyBlackWoman. Mark frequently standing her up due to his [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife superhero commitments]] and Amber’s anger over it attempts to paint Mark as a lousy boyfriend and Amber’s revelation that she secretly knew he was a superhero but still won’t forgive him for lying to her, is treated as an empowering moment for her with Mark’s other friends Eve and William taking her side. Amber’s ControlFreak behaviour, wanting Mark to tell her everything even when they’ve only been dating for a short amount of time, and ripping into him for running away while they’re attacked by a supervillain at college (despite knowing he’s a hero) comes off as textbook emotional abuse - yet the show doesn’t once call Amber out on her cruelty and a few feminists critics have supported her treatment of Mark. There’s no getting past the fact were the genders reversed, if it was a super powered woman getting derided by her normal boyfriend who’s angry she’s saving world instead of spending time with him, the outcry would be '''massive'''.
41* Practically a RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' where the titular character is beaten up all the time by every girl he tries to woo in over the top ways. Pretty much the only females that did not beat the crap out of him were his own mother and little Suzy, who's too young for him. While yes, it's quite understandable why Johnny takes so many lumps due to his glib attempt at talking to multiple females, imagine how it would be portrayed if the main character was female taking just as many lumps from the guys.
42* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'':
43** Subverted in one episode when a man who invented a time machine is forced to deal with his verbally abusive wife, which eventually leads to his FaceHeelTurn and an eventual BadFuture. On the other hand, the episode ends with him [[spoiler:being trapped in a time loop reliving the same few minutes with said wife over and over again.]]
44** Averted as a whole with the entire series where battles are concerned. Female characters hitting male characters is depicted with all the gravity and seriousness you would expect when a potentially superpowered professional fighter hits someone else, and conversely the male characters have no qualms whatsoever about [[WouldHitAGirl swinging right back at full strength]].
45* Zigzagged on ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam''. Henry and June know that SlapstickKnowsNoGender, as both the male and female host regularly get AmusingInjuries thanks to ToonPhysics. That being said, Henry is far more of a ButtMonkey than June is, as June (accidentally or otherwise) ends up inflicting these injuries on Henry far more often than Henry inflicts them on June. While it's all PlayedForLaughs, June frequently gets away with things like accidentally crushing Henry or blowing him up, whereas Henry would be lucky to chip one of June's teeth without comment.
46* Averted in the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "Leanne's Saga". When Luanne's mother, Leanne, is released from jail, she stays with the Hills. She starts dating Bill. Things aren't too bad at first, even though she does show some gold digger tendencies, with her getting him to spend all his money for her, but after she succumbs to her alcoholism again, she starts to abuse Bill both physically and verbally. Even if the audience may be amused, the characters in the show are appalled by her behavior and treatment towards Bill. Leanne was also originally in jail for stabbing Luanne's father with a fork, and he subsequently got a job on an offshore oil rig to get as far away from her as possible. Hank even tells Bill that Luanne's father refuses to return to dry land until he gets a copy of Leanne's death certificate. (This was later {{Retcon}}ned to him being in jail too, but still applies to the episode in question.)
47* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
48** [[TheHeart Bolin]] starts a relationship with Korra's cousin [[EmotionlessGirl Eska]] in season two. At first it just seems like Eska is an IceQueen unsure how to deal with liking a dorky guy, but by the third episode it's unabashedly abusive on her end with Bolin as little more than a servant for [[HalfIdenticalTwins her and her twin brother]]. The relationship is played for laughs, with Bolin firmly in his role as the ButtMonkey of the group, and none of his friends and family take the situation seriously, telling him that he should simply stand up for himself, despite Bolin having made it very clear that Eska threatened him with death should he break up with her.
49** It's also mentioned that when Tenzin broke up with Lin Bei Fong, she was so heartbroken and angry over it that she used her bending to trash his home. Lin apparently remembers the memory fondly and as with Eska above, it's played for laughs.
50** In season 3 Korra and Asami laugh as the former levitates Mako with airbending. Granted, it was just a prank, but it could have gotten him seriously injured.
51** Season 4 started to wise up and subvert this. While the rift between Opal and Bolin is justifiable, her cold treatment towards him is not shown as being reasonable, though the conflict is still resolved in her favour. And in the last few episodes [[spoiler:Kuvira trying to kill her fiancé, Baatar Jr. in a ShootTheHostage sort of situation]] is clearly extremely traumatic for the latter.
52* Somewhat averted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' with Nathan's relationship with Rebecca. While her blatant verbal abuse seems to be PlayedForLaughs at first, the other band members quickly convince him to break up with her ([[RefugeInAudacity albeit by behaving even more violently toward him]]).
53* The pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' has Wilma use the reliable old gag of hitting Fred over the head with a frying pan at one point.
54* ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'': Piggy does this to Gonzo in almost every episode. When Gonzo sweet talks Piggy into liking him, she gets very mad and beats him up in the most hilarious ways imaginable.
55* Oddly played for laughs in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' when a {{supervillain}} is hit by a chair thrown by his wife, who then demands they go shopping for more "throwing chairs."
56* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' has shades of this. In general, most of the criminals they fight are male, usually having the Girls winning in the end (though not always).
57** In "Members Only", the Girls want to join a men-only club --- the Association of Worldwide Super Men (aka AWSM) --- and even though they pass, they are still denied their wishes simply because they're underage girls. Even though they try to convince them, the AWSM still reject them. When Mascumax comes to attack, and [[CurbStompBattle mercilessly defeat the AWSM]], the Powerpuff Girls initially refuse to help, but eventually do so, and [[CurbStompBattle easily turn the tables]]. When Mascumax is defeated, the AWSM are sheepishly remorseful for their former attitude toward the Girls. However, the Girls, still bitter,[[UngratefulBastard aren't very willing to forgive and forget]], and as a punishment, [[LaserGuidedKarma the AWSM have to give up their men-only policy, and dress up in Powerpuff Girl dresses as karma.]]
58** In "Equal Fights", the Powerpuff temporarily take the [[JerkassBall Jerkass Ball]] and start to act rude towards all the boys and men in Townsville [[AllCrimesAreEqual for minor infractions towards another woman or girl and even if the women and girls in question are not being oppressed by men or boys]], after Femme Fatale poisoned them their minds that "All men are misogynists". When Ms. Bellum and Ms. Keane decide to give an intervention to talk sense into the Puffs (which is only hours after the Puffs' actions take place), the Girls not only [[BluntYes admit to overreacting]], they also still justify their refusal to arrest Femme Fatale on the grounds that "girls gotta look out for each other". This irony hits harder when the female victims come in, revealing that Femme Fatale is [[{{Hypocrite}} only in it for herself]]. While the plot intends to show that the Girls show remorse and embarrassment, and Ms. Keane and Ms. Bellum do give girls motivating and motherly words that they should protect everyone (including Men and Boys), their misandry still went unaddressed, and the Girls proceed to punish her for her deceit against other women, [[SkewedPriorities even taking their time to teach her about Susan B. Anthony before apprehending Femme Fatale, nothing more than to satisfy their egos and one-up the villain of the week.]]
59** In "Gettin' Twiggy With It", Mitch tortures the school pet hamster Twiggy, and his behavior is seen as abusive. The Powerpuff Girls helps Twiggy torture Mitch back, and they're framed as the good guys. Ms. Keane even approves of the punishment, even disregarding that Mitch, unlike the Girls, does not have superpowers, and is therefore in more danger.
60** In "Powerprof.", the Professor, having been tired of the Girls' missions separating them from getting to spend time with him, decides to build a supersuit to help them fight crime. While it starts out well, [[AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents he proceeds to (unintentionally) embarrass them by doting on them, revealing embarrassing secrets, calling them pet-names, and even making them wear protective gear (helmets, elbow pads, and knee pads) in battle]]. So what do the Powerpuff Girls do to "remedy" the situation while "sparing" his feelings? [[DisproportionateRetribution They decide to hire Mojo Jojo to fight the Professor, and either have the Professor get defeated or exhausted so much that he would stop joining them on crimefighting]]. Not only does their plan succeed [[StatusQuoIsGod (at the cost of the Professor's characterization for the sake of plot)]]; they are also portrayed as in the right for planning this. Make of this what you will.
61* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'': Oscar is beaten up, sometimes twice an episode, and usually by his wife or mother. Most of the times it's because he flirts with other women, which is wrong, but if Trudy ever flirts with another man and Oscar says something about it, [[TheUnfairSex he is portrayed as overreacting.]] One particularly JustForFun/{{Egregious}} example: Trudy makes a joke about leaving Oscar for Creator/DenzelWashington. Everyone laughs. Oscar makes a joke about leaving her for Creator/HalleBerry. Trudy and Penny glare at him before Trudy drops his foot, which was bandaged after an earlier accident.
62* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' episode "Ren's Bitter Half" near the end Ren's evil side decides to replicate himself so that the world will be full of Evil Rens, the first clone turns out to be female and they fall in love, near the end after they get married they playfully get into a fight, you will notice that none of his punches are able to strike her and she is able to beat him up all she wants.
63* In ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', Rocko's encounters with Gladys the Hippo Lady almost always involve this.
64** Also, the ShowWithinAShow, ''Meet the Fatheads'' often features Mrs. Fathead bashing her HenpeckedHusband with a parking meter. (Though he sometimes hits her with parking meters, too.) The creator of the "series," Ralph Bighead, says that the characters were made as a TakeThat against his parents, who act like milder versions of the Fatheads. WordOfGod says that the only one that Ed Bighead is afraid of is his wife, Bev.
65* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. This is apparently so common, Springfield has a ''Men's'' Shelter. Bart and Lisa are a subversion, as the two of them have beaten up on each other repeatedly, and take as much as they dish out.
66** On the other hand Bart's physical abuse of Lisa is usually more petty and harmless, akin to playful bullying. When the two truly get physical, Lisa usually overpowers him easily.
67*** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E3TheGreatWifeHope The Great Wife Hope]]", Bart suggests Lisa enter the octagon to to settle their lifelong rivalry and she accepts. As they approach each other to throw a punch, Lisa easily punching Bart to the ground. Bart is unconscious and Lisa walks away satisfied. This is frightening, but Melissa and Randall Baker of TV Guide magazine said that the scene was a moment of "girl power."
68** Psychological and verbal abuse from Lisa to Bart is more frequent and severe than psychological and verbal abuse from him to her. Lisa also usually underestimates him and she even talks badly behind his back.
69** WordOfGod states that at one point writers suggested making a gag where Homer strangles Lisa, which was immediately rebuked, despite no one ever criticizing the often-used gag of him strangling Bart.
70** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E9StrongArmsOfTheMa Strong Arms of the Ma]]", Marge becomes a muscular body-builder. When Homer refuses to have sex with her because he'd rather go to sleep, she overpowers him and says "I wasn't asking". A GilliganCut then shows Homer walking funny the morning after. By the standard of the law, what Marge did was marital rape, yet it's played for comedy.
71** Averted in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E2HomerOfSeville Homer of Seville]]", where Homer becomes a popular opera singer, and has to fight off hordes of loving fans. Julia, a woman who rescues Homer from a mob of them, becomes his manager in an attempt to seduce him. She goes so far as to ''strip herself naked'' in front him. Homer, however, is disturbed by all this, and fires Julia. When Julia makes a threat on Homer's life, Chief Wiggum puts up a lot of security to protect him.
72* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
73** "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E5AnElephantMakesLoveToAPig An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig]]" revolves around Stan being beaten up and everyone being sympathetic toward him over it... until they find out that the one beating him up is his sister. Then they mock him and call him a pussy. This is despite the fact that Stan's sister is older and bigger than he is, and is also a violent sociopath. However, they ''were'' still sympathetic when asking if his mother was the one hitting him, so it at least seems that "adult on child" outweighs "female on male". Also, the double standard comes mostly from the characters InUniverse. While the abuse Stan suffers is PlayedForLaughs for the viewer, it is black comedy and him trying to stand up to her is portrayed as sympathetic.
74** Averted in "[[Recap/SouthParkS10E10MissTeacherBangsABoy Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy]]" when they find out Ike is sleeping with his kindergarten teacher. The obvious message of the episode is that regardless of what gender on what, statutory rape is statutory rape and always terrible. The adults in South Park, however, all subscribe to DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale and think Ike is the luckiest kid in the world for scoring with a hot blonde. When Kyle goes to the cops, they are all utterly baffled as to why he is reporting it to them since as far as they are concerned, no crime is even being committed. It's implied they ''might'' have been willing to arrest her [[AbhorrentAdmirer if she was ugly]], but they most likely still wouldn't go after her with as much gusto as they would a man.
75** Played with the [=McCormicks=]. While they are implied to both take as much as they dish out, only Carol is shown hitting Stuart onscreen. A preview for "[[Recap/SouthParkS10E8MakeLoveNotWarcraft Make Love, Not Warcraft]]" showed Stuart about to slug her but cuts off just beforehand. For the final episode, this was edited to Carol actually shown doing so to him.
76* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''. The Nightsisters' cruel abuse of the Nightbrothers, to the point of brainwashing and forcing one to ''murder his own brother'' is not portrayed as ok. Savage turns on Ventress rapidly for her abuse and tries to strangle her, and the whole scheme ends in [[spoiler: total failure and a subsequent vicious massacre of the Nightsisters by General Grievous]].
77* A subtle example in ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', though not used to excessively violent measures, the show took pleasure showing Rebecca kicking around Baloo, [[HugeGuyTinyGirl her comparatively large, hulking male employee]], for comical purposes. Though Baloo was at least sometimes savvy enough to get slapstick revenge via other methods (eg. setting a rambunctious boar on her), he never directly attacked her himself in the same manner as vice versa.
78* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': A hugely popular example is Raven and Beast Boy. Raven constantly smacks, slaps, and punches Beast Boy for making jokes or being inappropriate. Not only do fans accept this without question, but they think it's adorable and exaggerate it in fanworks.
79* Averted with ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': characters of both genders get their fair share of slapstick, and it's usually played off as cartoonishly non-lethal.
80* Occurred on ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', but ten times ''worse'' during ''[[SeasonalRot Total Drama Action]]'' as Courtney becomes the main antagonist in the second half of the season. She has kicked her love interest, Duncan, in the crotch numerous times just in order to win competitions, and sometimes just for flirting with her when she was in a bad mood. However, at the very least Courtney's behavior is portrayed as wrong and the viewer is supposed to sympathize with Duncan's pain.
81** Ironically, after [[spoiler:he cheated on her and she began to hate him]], she only kicked him in the crotch once and blanked him for the rest of the series.
82** One example occurs in ''Total Drama World Tour'', where Sierra lusts obsessively over Cody. This includes, among other things, stealing his underwear, stealing and using his toothbrush, repeated unwanted touching, hugging, and kissing, ''drugging him into a stupor'', and trying to trick him into inadvertently marrying her. Cody is naturally horrified by this and is portrayed sympathetically on the whole, but the one-sided relationship is largely PlayedForLaughs. It gets particularly bad when Cody upsets Sierra by unsuccessfully voting for her elimination from the game. Sierra becomes hysterical for much of the next episode. The rest of Cody’s team gets angry at ''him'' and demand he make it up to her so she’ll stop dragging the team down, rather than being angry at Sierra for pouting because a boy she was harassing rejected her.
83* Happens again in ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'' and to a much greater and more destructive extent, where Stephanie frequently bullies, abuses, and assaults her partner, Ryan, even for the most minor mistakes he makes.
84* In the animated adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/WaysideSchool'', Maurecia, an ActionGirl with a crush on OnlySaneMan (and ButtMonkey) Todd, hits her love interest with an unprovoked MegatonPunch every chance she gets. [[NeverMyFault She never gets in trouble for this, even when a teacher has seen what happened]] -- although ''Todd'' sometimes does. The punches are implied to be something like a sign of Maurecia's affection, or her confusion about her own feelings, and in either case, harmless. Although Todd always rebuffs Maurecia's romantic advances (the ''only'' way in which [[UnfortunateImplications he "provokes" the abuse]]), he still considers her a friend, spends a lot of time around her, and never, ''ever'' complains to a teacher about getting PunchedAcrossTheRoom. And this is all in a series aimed at children...
85* A fair number of older cartoon shorts featured large abusive wives taking things out on smaller and weaker husbands, including a man that discovered a way to make magical holes leading anywhere. When he tosses his wife into one at the end when finally fed up with her we find it leads to Hell as Satan tosses her back out. Daffy Duck and Pepe [=LePew=] are both also shown having horribly abusive wives (Daffy's in particular is shown brutally assaulting him over everything), most likely explaining why they behave like they do in every other cartoon (particularly Pepe wanting to find someone to actually love him instead of abuse him).

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