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| 11 | ->'''Phoebe:''' Should we stop this?!\ |
| 12 | '''Joey:''' What? Are you out of your mind? Let's throw some Jell-O on them! |
| 13 | -->-- ''Series/{{Friends}}'' |
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| 15 | A battle between two or more female combatants that differs from the DesignatedGirlFight only in that it's invoked for {{Fanservice}} and/or comedic purposes more than anything else. Though the label may be attached to any girl-fight, a true cat fight generally [[WimpFight lacks finesse/combat skill]]. The combatants may take the fight seriously, as usually they aren’t trying to titillate an audience or amuse each other, but for whatever reason, heavy blows, complex throws, and joint locks are generally not used. A telltale real life sign that a cat fight is about to ensue is if a woman [[HoldMyGlasses reaches up to take her earrings off before it actually starts]], and as such talking about taking one's earrings off [[DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff can be used as a verbal threat]]. Expect the combatants to seize and tear each other's {{clothing|damage}} and/or [[ByTheHair hair.]] A staple of the JiggleShow. Depictions that are PlayedForLaughs may be punctuated with [[ThatPoorCat a cat screech]] to drive the point home. |
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| 17 | The more brutal or dramatic the fight, the less likely it is to be considered a cat fight. A good rule of thumb is that if weapons are involved (except for their own fingernails and the occasional [[HandbagOfHurt handbag]]), it ain't this trope. A battle to the death between two women can be a cat fight if the framing makes it so, but that's exclusively the terrain of BlackComedy. On the other side of things, a cat fight can overlap with a WimpFight depending on the participants, but a cat fight is usually more vicious. If the fighters are more interested in hurting each other than staying out of harm's way, it's a cat fight. |
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| 19 | Compare DesignatedGirlFight, where females automatically square off in a combat situation that also involves males. In such cases, if only one male is involved, he will simply stand by and watch the two women beat each other senseless. If it's a more comedic series, several male characters may stop to watch the fight and PassThePopcorn; bonus points if said males are enemies. |
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| 21 | If two [[CatGirl catgirls]] get into a fight, this Trope may apply, in which the name becomes ''very'' literal. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | The less human the opponent is, of course, the less this trope applies. The CuteMonsterGirl still does, though. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | See also WouldntHitAGirl, GirlOnGirlIsHot, DesignatedGirlFight, FoeRomanceSubtext, FanserviceFauxFight, and especially InterplayOfSexAndViolence. Just Add Mud to get MudWrestling. Compare PantyFighter, where cat fights are the bread and butter, though they rarely degrade into "Rolling Around" pseudo-fights. Not related to the CockFight or the cartoon BigBallOfViolence. |
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| 27 | !!Examples: |
| 28 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 29 | |
| 30 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 31 | * Great taste, or less filling? Irrelevant, as the audience for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82BNBwck8Zs a Miller beer commercial]] is DistractedByTheSexy: two women wrestling in a fountain. Should be little taste, more outfit filling... |
| 32 | ** A later commercial [[SelfDeprecation poked fun at the previous one]], with two buff guys taking their shirts off... and then deciding to talk about it for a while. Cue SmashCut as we see two women in a bar talking about how ''that'' would make a great beer commercial, with their boyfriends rolling their eyes. |
| 33 | * Ditto for the Ginger-vs-Mary-Ann cat fight commercial for "The Real Gilligan's Island" that even adds in the same gag as above, but with pies. |
| 34 | [[/folder]] |
| 35 | |
| 36 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 37 | * Played with and subverted in ''Manga/AirMaster''. There are a few fancervicey fights, but in general male characters have no compunctions whatsoever about fighting Maki with all their strength (one or maybe two even succeed at knocking her out), and female-against-female battles end up [[FanDisservice very, very brutal and definitely not "sexy"]] more often than not. |
| 38 | * Averted at the end of the first Roberta arc in ''Manga/BlackLagoon''. Revy and Roberta agree to a fist fight after trying to kill each other with guns for the better part of the arc and being confronted by Balalaika. Dutch and Benny place bets on who will win the fight, since both women are consummate badasses and they know not to get between them; but Rock, who just ''thinks'' that this trope is happening, is completely aghast at what is going on and tries to talk them down, only to get an angry "STAY THE FUCK OUT OF THIS!" from both women. The fight in question is a vicious knock-down-drag-out brawl and goes on for some time, neither of them giving up or looking too good by the end of it. |
| 39 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': In a bizarre example that starts off [[SillyReasonForWar comedic]] but ends on a [[WhatYouAreInTheDark very serious note]], when [[MachoCamp Charlotte Cuulhorne]] fights [[TheDandy Yumichika Ayasegawa]], he keeps acting like they're having a cat fight. Yumichika is so far from amused by this that it's not even funny (for him, that is; for the reader, it's [[HilarityEnsued hilarious]]... at least until it [[MoodWhiplash gets serious]]). |
| 40 | -->'''Cuulhorne:''' Beautiful Charlotte Cuulhorne's final, holy, wonderful, pretty, super-magnum sexy, sexy, glamorous... cero!\ |
| 41 | '''Yumichika:''' That's just a normal cero! |
| 42 | * Happens often in ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' since there's a lot of female characters and the main character is a HotBlooded [[NunTooHoly Nun]]. She gets into fights with her superior, with [[FieryRedhead Satella]], with a DarkActionGirl... |
| 43 | * ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': |
| 44 | ** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' and ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' both featured fights between Angewomon and [=LadyDevimon=]. Despite being Ultimate-level Digimon who specialize in ranged attacks that draw on their respective holy and dark powers, their battles invariably devolve into slapping, hair-pulling catfights. |
| 45 | *** While Angewomon's HolyHandGrenade powers are supposed to give her a [[ElementalRockPaperScissors type advantage]] against [=LadyDevimon=], [=LadyDevimon=] manages to [[ScissorsCutsRock overpower Angewomon]] each time, partly by taunting Angewomon into engaging her in a reckless melee. |
| 46 | *** In fact, even though [=LadyDevimon=] catches Angewomon defenseless and from the behind several times, she chooses to continue [[JustToyingWithThem toying with Angewomon]] by kicking her into a cliff or swinging her around [[ByTheHair by her hair]]. |
| 47 | *** This requires [=AtlurKabuterimon=] to step in and save Angewomon, but Angewomon [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou rebukes him for interfering]]. She then uses [=AtlurKabuterimon=] as a launching pad from which she kicks off to shoot back towards [=LadyDevimon=], then BitchSlap her. This results in a protracted slapping match between the two, during which Angewomon's partner Hikari ''shouts at Angewomon to hit [=LadyDevimon=] harder''. |
| 48 | *** [=LadyDevimon=] eventually defeats Angewomon in this catfight by [[RoundhouseKick roundhouse kicking]] her into the ground. [=AtlurKabuterimon=] yet again saves Angewomon, but she scolds him and tells him to get out of her way. He even [[SorryIFellOnYourFist apologises]]. |
| 49 | *** The same pattern repeats itself in their second battle: The two again pull hair and slap each other; [=LadyDevimon=] once again overpowers Angewomon, this time by twisting Angewomon's arms painfully against her sides; Angeowmon's allies again arrive on the scene to save her before [=LadyDevimon=] can finish Angewomon off. |
| 50 | *** Izzy in the dub directly lampshades the Trope during their first battle: "I know I shouldn't be watching this, but [[GirlOnGirlIsHot I can't take my eyes off]]!" In the original Japanese and the Latin-American dub, he instead said "Women are something to be very afraid of, when they're angry!" |
| 51 | *** It should be noted that Angewomon digivolves from Tailmon, a cat Digimon. And if we consider the expanded canon, [=LadyDevimon=] can digivolve from the corrupted version, [=BlackTailmon=], making this an almost-literal case. |
| 52 | ** ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' averts the trope, having the female antagonist Nanami instead face off against [[TeenGenius genius]] / [[TheLancer lancer]] Touma in a battle of wits, while the female protagonist Yoshino (and her partner Lalamon) face off against Ivan, who has something of a crush on her. Both fights still had plenty of {{Fanservice}}, this being the ''Digimon'' series where they decided to kick the fanservice up a notch. |
| 53 | * In ''Manga/FairyTail'', villain Vithaldas deliberately creates one of these between Lucy and Juvia, by using his magic to seize control of Juvia's mind and force her to attack Lucy (despite the fact that he could control them both if he'd wanted). As you might imagine, he makes it as titillating as possible, although it's actually not bad from the reader's perspective. |
| 54 | ** Later, [[spoiler:after Erza and her Edolas counterpart exhaust all their magic, they end up in little more than underwear. Even so, they resort to hand-to-hand combat in a battle of wills and ideas, with Erza ultimately convincing her counterpart that magic isn't everything.]] |
| 55 | * The only fight where [[FauxActionGirl Mai Shiranui]] actually did well in ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' was against a female, Panni. Subverted in that, while it was a one-on-one girl duel and had quite the fanservice, [[spoiler: Mai not only wins, but ''BRUTALLY'' curb-stomps Panni and either kills or seriously wounds her.]] |
| 56 | * As all the combatants in ''Manga/{{Freezing}}'' are female...that said, despite there being plenty of ClothingDamage and {{Panty Shot}}s, it's rather disturbing seeing how downright ''brutal'' the fights are. Bodies tend to be shredded just as much as the clothes. |
| 57 | * ''Manga/GirlsBravo'': [[HandsomeLech Fukuyama]] deliberately invokes this by hosting his private underground "Girls Fight!" tournament, where the rules are simple: the competition is women only and combatants must wear [[BarelyThereSwimwear progressively smaller swimsuits]] as they advance in the rankings. He even made the semi-final bout between Kosame and Kirie a mudwrestling match, with each of them wearing string bikinis. |
| 58 | * ''Manga/HanaukyoMaidTeam La Verite'' episode 2. After Ryuuka and Mariel end up tied in their competition, they break the tie with a "swimsuit cavalry battle" in the mansion's indoor pool. Each of them rides three other people, and the one who has their head band taken away loses. |
| 59 | * ''Anime/HeavyMetalLGaim'': Amu and Leccee get into them constantly over Daba. Usually they use their fists but they are not reluctant to use ''mechas'' to settle it. One of them happened during a strategic meeting -with hair pulling included- as the leader of LaResistance just watched stunned. |
| 60 | * In ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'', after Akeno falls in love with Issei as well, she and her master (and [[HeterosexualLifePartners her best friend]]) Rias often get into quarrels over him, such as getting into fights with their demonic powers or arguing who Issei considers more attractive or likes more. |
| 61 | * Similarly, when women fight each other in ''Manga/IkkiTousen'', not only their clothes and panties end up either exposed or destroyed, but the girls beat the everloving '''shit''' out of each other, sometimes to almost lethal degrees. (i.e.: Ryoumou and Hakufu's fight -- especially when Hakufu's Dragon kicks in -- when Ryuubi gets possessed by her Dragon and said SuperpoweredEvilSide ''skewers'' Ryuubi's own friends Kan'u and Chouhi. and Ryoumou almost being slain by Ten'i and her arrows.) |
| 62 | * In episode 25 of ''Anime/JewelpetSunshine'', this trope happens figuratively and [[FunnyAnimal literally]] with Garnet and Diana fighting over Dian. |
| 63 | * ''Anime/KillLaKill'', interestingly enough, [[AvertedTrope averts this]], possible the one {{Fanservice}} trope it ''doesn't'' use, even with it's use of Weaponized ClothingDamage. All of the fights involving Female characters are intense, epic, and often brutal throwdowns that generally leave both sides scarred, bruised and bleeding, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown sometimes to disturbing degrees]]. |
| 64 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 65 | ** Nami tends to most often be paired off in fights against female opponents. The most famously {{Fanservice}}-y has to be her [[HoYay fight against Kalifa]] and, to a lesser extent, Miss Doublefinger. (For whatever reason, this trope seems not to apply to Robin, who was once TheDragon to [[BigBad Crocodile]] and has not only fought men but was once [[KickTheDog held captive and beaten]] by one.) Of course, ''any'' fight scene with Robin is rare, as her Hana Hana no Mi Devil Fruit power means it can only end quickly and one of two ways. (Either with the enemy's death by her breaking his neck, or her defeat when an enemy nullifies the power; [[StoryBreakerPower there really aren't many ways to expand on that]].) |
| 66 | ** For the record, Kalifa fights by fondling her opponent--she has soap-based powers, so she makes the opponent lose friction by applying her soap all over their body. This, of course, leads to scenes where Kalifa feels all over Nami, including up her skirt. |
| 67 | ** Tashigi most often fights men (except for when she faces Robin), and Vivi tends to fight both men and women (even though she typically can't do anything without the Straw Hats backing her up, and her opponents typically don't hit her- for example, Crocodile merely threatens to dry her up if she resists). |
| 68 | ** Bizarrely played with by [[DragQueen Ivankov]]. In order to fight Impel Down's chief guard, Sadi-chan, he used his [[AppliedPhlebotinum Devil Fruit powers]] to transform himself [[GenderBender into a woman]]. |
| 69 | * In ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation'', [[AlphaBitch Ai Ebihara]] slaps [[{{Tomboy}} Chie Satonaka]]. Their cat fight have them ''childishly pulling on each other's cheeks'', making this a rare overlap with WimpFight and almost completely PlayedForLaughs. |
| 70 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 71 | ** "[[Recap/PokemonS1E9TheSchoolOfHardKnocks The School of Hard Knocks]]" involved Misty and Giselle at each other's throats. Ash wanted to step in and calm them down, but Brock told him no, and that getting in the middle of a cat fight was not a good idea. |
| 72 | ** In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite'', the female lead [[ActionGirl Iris]] often gets into a fight with her rival [[{{Jerkass}} Georgia]] especially after her first appearance. They have spent the entire time at Don's tournament taunting each other and being at each other's throat. |
| 73 | * Surprisingly uncommon in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', given that it's a UnwantedHarem Anime about teenaged martial artists. |
| 74 | ** Parodied slightly in a chapter called "Women's battle [[HotSpringsEpisode at the open-air onsen]]!" [[GenderBender Ranma]] and [[GenderBender Herb]], both of whom are trapped in female form, do battle at the hot springs, while Ryouga and Mousse watch. Since neither combatant can really land a hit on the other, [[CombatCommentator Mousse]] deadpans that it's a very boring duel (Ryouga, [[{{Nosebleed}} on the other hand]], is more appreciative). |
| 75 | *** Probably because Mousse, as well as being BlindWithoutEm, can't even see that well WITH 'em. |
| 76 | * Eri and Yakumo from ''Manga/SchoolRumble'' fought over Harima at the school play. |
| 77 | ** Although the fight was actually because circumstances had resulted in [[ItMakesSenseInContext Yakumo playing the evil magician against Eri's prince with Harima as the sleeping princess.]] On the other hand, Eri got annoyed at Yakumo's refusal to lose like she should have. |
| 78 | * In the ''Manga/SoulEater'' manga and anime, the busty {{Catgirl}} Blair fights with a similarly chesty mouse witch. Despite both knowing powerful magic, onlookers are thrilled to no end to see that they simply wind up cat fighting anyway. Prelude includes them standing chest to chest with each other and going for gropes on said bosoms. |
| 79 | * Between Satsuki and Misuzu in chapter 58 of ''Manga/StrawberryOneHundredPercent''. |
| 80 | * Ayeka and Ryoko get into at least one Cat Fight in every piece of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' media. They start off with the superpowers but usually end with childish cheek pulling. |
| 81 | ** The fight between Ryoko and Ayeka in episode 4 of Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-ohki actually starts with Ayeka slapping Ryoko after she dared her to show off her body to Tenchi. Ryoko then slaps Ayeka twice. One a normal slap and the other a backhand. Then they fight with their powers. |
| 82 | * Yoko and Adiane's fight in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' (and Gainax cranked the fanservice up in the movie). |
| 83 | * There's a major one in ''Literature/{{Toradora}}''. It's not meant as {{Fanservice}} and it's a subverted case since the two opponents do their very best to beat each other into a bloody mess and wooden swords are used in the first half of the fight. It's still awesome to witness. The two fighters are [[spoiler:Taiga and class rep Sumire. Watch episode 16 for the fight]]. |
| 84 | * Mostly averted in ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam''. Allenby almost always fights male opponents, and ''the'' time she fights another ActionGirl, the duel itself is taken seriously in-story since [[spoiler: the other girl is Rain and she's fighting Allenby to ''[[DefusingTheTykebomb de-brainwash her]]''.]] |
| 85 | * In ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', Pro Heroines [[DressedLikeADominatrix Midnight]] and [[SizeShifter Mt. Lady]] get into one of these during an interview in a talk show, when the latter takes a jab at the former [[OldMaid due to her age]]. We don't get to see it, but Mineta, who is watching the program on TV, is ''very'' pleased. |
| 86 | * ''Anime/CrossAnge'': Episode 7 has one between Salia and Ange, when the former attacks the latter in the hotsprings due to [[DisproportionateRetribution Ange accidentally walking in on Salia when she's doing a secret cosplay routine]]. At one point, Salia attacks Ange by [[BreastAttack squeezing her breasts]], and when Ange tries to retalliate the same way, [[ACupAngst Salia's breasts are too small to be grabbed]]. |
| 87 | [[/folder]] |
| 88 | |
| 89 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 90 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Volume 2]] issue #175, features a gigantic battle between Wonder Woman's massive army of female heroes vs Circe's massive army of female villains. The massive battle took place all over Manhattan. Even the name of the issue is called "Girl Frenzy". |
| 91 | * ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} faces off largely against female enemies. Particularly ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}. |
| 92 | * The ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'' comic book was made of this, especially when Jim Balent was doing the art. |
| 93 | * ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel'': in issue #77, as the Joes depart the Cobra island after the Cobra Civil War, Lady Jaye and Zarana come to blows while men on both sides watch. |
| 94 | * ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': In ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 2005]]'' story arc ''ComicBook/GirlPower'', Kara got into several cat fights with ComicBook/PowerGirl, ComicBook/WonderGirl and even [[EnemyWithout a dark version of herself]]. |
| 95 | * It almost happens in ''ComicBook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan''. Lois Lane and Mary Jane Watson nearly get into one when MJ wrongly thinks that Lois is flirting with her boyfriend. Lois even tells her hide her claws. |
| 96 | * ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' had ComicBook/{{Elektra}} versus ComicBook/BlackCat. The issue was even titled ''Cat fight''. He even hangs a lampshade on it. As the fight goes on, he quickly grows less concerned with actually doing something or moral quandaries to simply stare for a moment or two. Stepping in gets him kicked off a building. |
| 97 | * ComicBook/WonderGirl and Arrowette's mothers beating each other up in ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' #7. Max Mercury (of all people) decides to just stick around and watch. |
| 98 | -->'''Max''': Dubbilex, when you've been around as long as I have, you know that the ''only'' worthwhile things you can bring to a cat fight are [[PassThePopcorn popcorn and a drink]]. |
| 99 | * ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' once had Bunnie Rabbot and Rouge the Bat get into a completely gratuitous fight. It wasn't even a side thing, it was the entire point of the story and even got featured on the issue's cover. |
| 100 | * Played with in ''ComicBook/NewAvengers The Reunion''; ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}} replies to the female Scientist Supreme of AIM's offer of WeCanRuleTogether with a headbutt to the nose (which was at least partially motivated as Mockingbird believed at the time that the Scientist Supreme just caused the death of her ex husband (who she still has feelings for) Ronin/ ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} /Clint). This leads to the following dialogue and lampshade. |
| 101 | -->'''Scientist Supreme:''' Please, Morse, are we not above cat fighting?\ |
| 102 | '''Mockingbird:''' This isn't a cat fight, this is me kicking your ass.\ |
| 103 | (''proceeds with ass kicking'') |
| 104 | * In the ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' comic #10, two mares crushing on Big Macintosh gets into a cat fight. They even hiss and even arch their backs like cats to intimidate each other. |
| 105 | * ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons:'' Subverted in an issue where Mr. Smithers becomes Homer's assistant. He and Marge get into increasingly petty arguments, and at one point it looks like Marge has start attacking him, complete with hissing... only they've been distracted by two actual cats fighting outside. |
| 106 | * In the typical BadGirlComic, fights between their DarkActionGirl characters are generally played for fanservice and rarely get into truly brutal territory as they do with the (usually non-human) {{mooks}} they face. You might see ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}, ComicBook/{{Purgatori}}, and ComicBook/LadyDeath swinging swords at each other, but you will not see them hacking each other's limbs off. |
| 107 | [[/folder]] |
| 108 | |
| 109 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 110 | * One story arc in ''ComicStrip/TerryAndThePirates'' features a cat fight between the two major {{Femme Fatale}}s Burma and the DragonLady. |
| 111 | [[/folder]] |
| 112 | |
| 113 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 114 | * Lampshaded in ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' fanfic ''Fanfic/AForceOfFour'', by Kara when she squares off to fight Badra. |
| 115 | -->'''Power Girl:''' I've never really met a woman who I could turn loose on. I mean, Mala and company are nice, if they're not going two-on-one against you. But there's really nothing like going up against somebody of your own sex. It's fairer. It's more invigorating. I haven't gone a round with Diana, except maybe for some arm-rassling, and I haven't even done that with Fury. But you and me? Why, I can just see us both pulling hair, punching faces, kickin' and scratchin' to beat the band. I'll bet the men would just love it. The first Kryptonian-Hatorian catfight. What do you say? |
| 116 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', everything is allowed in Supergirl/Satan Girl's final battle, even cat-fighting. |
| 117 | -->They tumbled away from the gravitational pull of the planet they had landed on, and kept fighting in the void. They smashed at each other, kicked, chopped, and catfought, and each of their blows would have torn the side out of a mountain. Both of them worked at speeds which would have made them a blur to an observer, had there been any. |
| 118 | * ''Fanfic/TheOneILoveIs'': Asuka and Rei had three, all of them were about Shinji and all of them happened off-screen: |
| 119 | ** The first of them happened in chapter 5, while Shinji -the POV character- was trapped into the Sea of Dirac -an alternate dimension-. Asuka wanted to mask her growing worry so she said things she did not mean, and Rei took offense. When Shinji returned, Rei's left cheek was badly bruised and Asuka had a black eye and a cut on her lower lip. |
| 120 | ** The next happened in chapter 7, during the month Shinji spent absorbed into his robot and it was narrated in the side-story "Friends or Rivals". Asuka went to Rei's apartment and they got into a fight. After beating the crap out of each other, ruining Rei's living room and being taken to NERV med bay they realized they had done something very stupid and made up. |
| 121 | ** The last happened a while before the epilogue. Rei was wasting her life and Asuka went to her house to have a serious talk with her. When Asuka came back to her and Shinji's apartment she brought Rei along, and both girls were bruised and exhausted. |
| 122 | * In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' story ''Fanfic/SupermanOf2499TheGreatConfrontation'', [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kath]] and Sybilla have a rather brutal fight over Alan Kent. |
| 123 | * ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': [[spoiler:[[TheBerserker Asuka]] and [[CreepyChild Rei]]]] got into a very violent one in chapter 14 when [[spoiler:Rei attempted to seduce Asuka's boyfriend Shinji.]] |
| 124 | * The entirety of the "Alien versus Time Traveler" arc of ''FanFic/YouGotHaruhiRolled'' is one big cat fight between Yuki and Mikuru. |
| 125 | * In the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheSomewhatCrackedMindOfUchihaItachi'' |
| 126 | ** In chapter thirty-six there is a (implied) Cat Fight between Anko and the nameless Hokage Secretary. Ebisu is ''supposed'' to be involved, but he's torn between running and watching. The rest just watch and comment. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as it IS a TournamentArc. |
| 127 | ** There was also one in chapter six, between the four main girls of the Konoha 12 plus one against nearly every other girl in the academy, after the former trounce the latter in a competition. |
| 128 | -->And thus the Future Kunoichi of Konoha Showdown became the Legendary Academy Girls Catfight of Doom. |
| 129 | * In ''Fanfic/HotspringSouls'', the Slayer of Demons and Garl Vinland routinely have these. The two are not only ''grown men'', but also {{knight|InShiningArmor}}s! |
| 130 | * ''Fanfic/GoingAnotherWay'' features one between Asuka and Rei of all people. Essentially, Shinji and Rei are already in the beginning stages of a relationship, but Asuka shows interest in Shinji as well while dismissing Rei. Things blow up after Asuka slaps Rei in front of the entire school. The fight itself is not shown, but the aftermath is quite impressive. |
| 131 | * ''Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn'': Every so often, Kara and her rival wrestlers resort to biting, scratching and hair-pulling. |
| 132 | -->When she faced Kara, Jasmine was all business. "I'm gonna knock you outta your panties, babe," she snarled as they circled.\ |
| 133 | "Glad somebody reminded you to wear yours," retorted Kara. That got to Jas. They closed and started pulling hair.\ |
| 134 | The catfight tactics turned the audience on, and the howls and foot-stomping were never higher. The girls rolled around on the mat, Jasmine trying to bite and scratch. Kara elbowed her hard under the chin. Jasmine fell back, grabbing at the place where she'd been hit. |
| 135 | * In ''Fanfic/OutOfTheAshes'', Aisha and Takana throw down a few times against one another. Considering the raw strength of a Ctarl-Ctarl and their aggressive, territorial personalities, it makes sense. |
| 136 | * At one point of ''Fanfic/TheUnfantasticAdventuresOfBizarroNo1'', Bizarro Wonder Woman and Bizarro Supergirl have a public cat fight outside of the [[BizarroUniverse "Green" House]]. |
| 137 | * ''Fanfic/MegaManReawakened'': Roll and Tron get into one in Arc 4, chapter 1. |
| 138 | * ''Fanfic/OneGirlWithTenBrothers:'' In "Loud vs. [=McBride=]", several of the Loud brothers' friends showed up to Linka and Claudia's kickboxing match just because they wanted to see two girls fighting each other. The brothers took advantage of this by charging their friends with money to attend. |
| 139 | -->'''Loki:''' When Lynn told us you were fighting Claudia, we literally had to call up our friends to watch with us. People love a good cat fight. |
| 140 | * Invoked in ''Fanfic/TheDarwinChronicles''. Jean and Emma have not fought -pysically- over Scott so far, to Logan's massive disappointment. |
| 141 | -->'''Logan:''' "I was waiting for them to start rolling around the floor clawing each other. Maybe ripping at each other's clothes." |
| 142 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/HereThereBeMonsters'', Beautia Sivana lunges at her sister Georgia and starts hair-pulling as soon as they meet. |
| 143 | -->It was Beautia who hurled herself forward first, claws out.\ |
| 144 | "You scum-sucking, bottom-feeding, buck-toothed little—!" she yelled at Georgia, just as she hit her. Sivana and Junior were agape as Beautia bore her half-sister to the floor and started pulling hair with her. |
| 145 | * ''Fanfic/StressRelief'': Averted with the fight between Agents Carolina and South Dakota. On two separate occasions, they get into fights. However, considering the two are [[SuperSoldier Freelancers]], their fights are portrayed as outright ''[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brawls]]''. The second time they fight is absolutely brutal, to the point of tables being knocked around and genuine murderous intent from both sides. Considering the fact that the second time Carolina was fighting South was because [[spoiler: she raped C.T.]], she was in no mood to hold back. The only person who [[PassThePopcorn takes any pleasure in watching it]] is Wyoming, and he enjoys watching people fight regardless. Everyone else is trying to stop them from murdering each other. 479-er does treat the first fight flippantly despite being fairly rough and only stops it because they have to strap in on their flight to the ''Mother of Invention''. |
| 146 | * ''Webcomic/NaruHinaChronicles'': |
| 147 | ** In one chapter, [[ClingyJealousGirl Hinata]] confronts Naruto about the compromising position she found [[AbhorrentAdmirer Nanami]] and him in. While Naruto manages to convince her it was not what she thought it was, she still states if Nanami were still present present, she would [[CurseCutShort "Jyuuken her skinny little a-" before she catches herself]]. |
| 148 | ** In a later volume, Nanami and Hinata finally have it out. Several of Nanami's strikes do severe damage to Hinata's dress, threatening to expose a few intimate parts to the public. |
| 149 | ** In one of the Mini-sodes, while at a lake, Sakura, Ino, and Tenten (who are all wearing swimsuits) have a fight that turn into a BigBallOfViolence over which one between them is the hottest. The guys look at them while this is happening and Naruto comments "I wanna look away... but I can't." |
| 150 | * ''Fanfic/TwosACrowd'': Once the argument the original Luz and ‘Luz’/Lus have in chapter 9 reaches a critical high they quickly start physically fighting each other. The narrative quickly points out that due to them being evenly matched 14-year-olds with no fighting experience it quickly devolves into an aggressive wrestling match. |
| 151 | [[/folder]] |
| 152 | |
| 153 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 154 | * Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/CatwomanHunted'' whenever the title character is confronted by a female supervillain with a feline motif. |
| 155 | --->'''Catwoman:''' I'm a jewel thief. I came here to steal the jewel.\ |
| 156 | '''Cheshire:''' And I'm a League of Shadow assassin. I came here to kill the jewel thief.\ |
| 157 | '''Catwoman:''' You came here to ''try''.\ |
| 158 | '''Cheshire:''' Cat fight?\ |
| 159 | '''Catwoman:''' [[BringIt Cat fight!]] ''(they fight)'' |
| 160 | ** Later when Barbara Minerva transforms into her more powerful Cheetah form... |
| 161 | --->'''Catwoman:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Cat fight?]]\ |
| 162 | '''Cheetah:''' ''(SlasherSmile)'' [[PantheraAwesome BIG]] catfight! |
| 163 | * Francesca and the Monster's Mate have one in ''WesternAnimation/MadMonsterParty''. Sounds of actual cats fighting play during it. |
| 164 | [[/folder]] |
| 165 | |
| 166 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 167 | |
| 168 | * Lampshaded in ''Film/EightWomen'': A cat fight between two members of the all-woman cast turns into an ambiguous homoerotic display. |
| 169 | * ''Film/AngelWithTheIronFists'' has the cat-fight between Lorna, the titular Angel, and Dolly (codenamed Dark Angel B1) in a hotel room, with plenty of hair-pulling and tugging at clothes from both women, as well as Dolly having a {{panty shot}} during the struggle. |
| 170 | * ''Film/{{Bandidas}}'': Maria (Creator/PenelopeCruz) and Sara (Creator/SalmaHayek) throw down in a church over the money they robbed, which Maria wants to use to help the poor, and Sara wants to keep because it belonged to her father. |
| 171 | * ''Film/BlackMamaWhiteMama'' has several cat fights between the two main characters, as well as with other inmates in the women's prison where the film starts. Being an ExploitationFilm remake of ''[[ChainedHeat The Defiant Ones]]'' [[JustForFun/RecycledINSPACE WITH WOMEN]], it's really not that surprising. After their escape things get more serious and they have to fight real enemies in a much more deadly manner. |
| 172 | * ''Film/TheBrainThatWouldntDie'': The two strippers argue over who gets Cortner, at which point he walks out. (He can't use either of their bodies, because either one would be a witness to the other's disappearance). When the first one complains about the second chasing him off, her retort leads to a wrestling match. Bonus points for the film actually showing a picture of two cats during the fight and for a "meow" during the shot! |
| 173 | * In ''Film/TheBroadwayMelody'', Hank gets into a hair-pulling fight with Flo, a rival chorus girl, which quickly becomes a hair-pulling brawl with all the other chorus girls. Hilarously, the film cuts to a shot of all their long, shapely legs as they fight each other. |
| 174 | * Horrifically subverted in ''Film/CabinFever: Patient Zero''. A bikini-clad protagonist and a female scientist do get into a brawl over control of the sole boat off the island, but as both of them are in the late stages of the flesh-eating virus being studied on said island and thus kind of falling apart, the result is bloody and gruesome FanDisservice. |
| 175 | * The rather sleazy, exploitative ''Film/CallHerSavage'' has a typical hair-pulling, clothes-rending Cat Fight between Clara Bow and Thelma Todd. |
| 176 | * In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', Black Widow asks to speak with T'Challa, but his female bodyguard threatens her. T'Challa, with a giant grin on his face, says that it would be fun to watch them fight, but he's willing to hear her out. |
| 177 | * Subverted in a film actually titled ''Film/{{Catfight}}''. The two main characters get into three separate all-out brawls in which they punch, kick, and use improvised bludgeoning weapons to inflict serious damage. |
| 178 | * The 1934 ''Film/{{Cleopatra|1934}}'' takes this literally. The burlesque dinner theater stage show Cleopatra stages for Antony has three hot slave girls, dressed as cats. Fighting. |
| 179 | * ''Film/{{Coffy}}'' has an (in)famous example where the title character (Creator/PamGrier) fights a room full of call girls at a party, while the men present watch and cheer them on. While Coffy is rather good at fighting (and fights dirty, with razor blades tied into her hair), the other women fight in typical cat fight style. And somehow all the women's [[FanService tops get torn off]] during the fight. |
| 180 | * In ''Film/DeepInTheValley'', Carl is locked up with two female prisoners who start wrestling with other: the fight being accompanied by the sound effect of cats fighting. As he is [[TrappedInTVLand trapped in a porn movie]], this turns into them pulling each others' tops off and [[GirlOnGirlIsHot making out]]. |
| 181 | * In the 1939 Western ''Film/DestryRidesAgain'', there is a long, rather rough cat fight between saloon singer Frenchy (Creator/MarleneDietrich) and Lily Belle, with scuffling, hair-pulling, dress-tearing, punching, wrestling, scratching, kicking and rolling on the floor. Destry eventually breaks the fight by pouring a bucket of water on them. |
| 182 | * In the 1950's Creator/GinaLollobrigida vehicle ''La Donna Piu' Bella Del Mondo'' (''Beautiful But Dangerous''), Lina furiously storms into the dressing room of her rival Manolita, who's hidden a razor blade in the makeup kit of Lina's partner Carmela and caused her to cut herself. Lina, [[LingerieScene still in her fancy showgirl lingerie]] attacks Manolita right in the middle of a photo session. |
| 183 | * Delightfully subverted in ''Film/{{Dredd}}'', where the female villain appears to have been brought along for this express purpose, but the heroine just [[BoomHeadshot headshots her]] without blinking. |
| 184 | * Dale and Aura in ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}''. On a bed, with pillows being used as weapons. |
| 185 | * In ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'', the second ''Film/JamesBond'' film, the hero is taken to a Gypsy settlement outside Istanbul, where he is invited to watch a judicial trial by cat fight between two [[HotGypsyWoman half-naked young ladies]] over the right to marry the Gypsy chief's son. Later, Bond sleeps with both girls in order to pacify them and end their feud. This has absolutely no relevance to the plot, by the way. The cat fight is signaled by the immortal line "It must be settled... the Gypsy Way." Averted in the original book, where this was a brutal, unarmed fight to the death between two women who are both vying for the affections of one man, with no titillation involved. That also involved both girls ripping each other's clothes off. |
| 186 | * ''Film/Funhouse2020'': Subverted. Ximena and Ula, two attractive young women, end up being forced to fight each other to the death after they've been sniping at each other for days. However, the fight between them is realistically brutal with no [[ClothingDamage stripping]] or hair-pulling as they are given battle axes and the light is turned off to make it more difficult. |
| 187 | * ''Film/TheGatlingGun'': When TheMole Leona tries to flee the camp, Martha chases after her and catches her. The two women tumble to ground: rolling over and over, hair pulling and wrestling. |
| 188 | * There is a surprisingly physical cat fight between Bill and Lola in ''Film/GoWestYoungLady''. |
| 189 | * French ''Film/JamesBond'' spoof ''Film/OSS117CairoNestOfSpies'' has Agent 117 nearly intervene in the fight, then pause to enjoy it after [[ClothingDamage clothes start coming off]]. |
| 190 | * Near the end of ''Film/JudgeDredd'' there's a brief cat fight between Judge Hershey and the villainous henchwoman Ilsa. Hershey is wearing her tight-fitting Judge's uniform and Ilsa is wearing black leggings. |
| 191 | * Subverted in ''Film/KillBill''. Despite the fact that the Bride mostly battles other women, none of her fights includes hair-pulling or scratching but rather full-on punches, kicks, head-butts, swords, knives and other serious implements of pain. In short, the fights are too convincing and too brutal to be seen as cat fights. |
| 192 | * Probably the most famous scene of ''Film/TheLegendOfFrenchieKing'', between Creator/BrigitteBardot and Creator/ClaudiaCardinale. Although unlike most examples, there's some serious punching and wrestling going on, almost no slapping and absolutely no hair-pulling. |
| 193 | * ''Film/TheLittleMermaid2023'': Less intense than most examples, but Ariel gets into a brief one with Vanessa when she arrives to Eric's ship to interrupt the wedding to try and take the seashell necklace from her and regain her voice. |
| 194 | * There's a truly masterful one in the 1934 SoBadItsGood sexploitation/horror film ''Film/{{Maniac|1934}}'' involving baseball bats and hypodermic needles. |
| 195 | * ''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'' has one among all of the Master's wives...[[LeaveTheCameraRunning and it goes on for a long, long]], '''[[LeaveTheCameraRunning long]]''' [[LeaveTheCameraRunning time]]. And a boring, nonsexy cat fight it was, too. |
| 196 | * ''Film/MeanGirls'' features one with animal noises dubbed over. |
| 197 | * In ''Film/MutinyOnTheBuses'', Olive gets into one with Nymphy Norah out of rage that she's been flirting with her husband, Arthur. When Olive is pulled off her, Mrs. Butler takes her place and tries to hit her with a metal tray: |
| 198 | -->'''Olive''': Oh, that slut, I'll kill 'er! |
| 199 | * ''Film/MysteryMen'' has a scene where two women dressed as Franchise/WonderWoman get into a fight that becomes this. This being ''Mystery Men'', its PlayedForLaughs. Anyways, it's {{down played|trope}} as we don't get to see it, nor them. |
| 200 | * ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC.'': Loana (Creator/RaquelWelch) gets into one with Nupondi (Creator/MartineBeswick), a female member of the Rock Tribe, in FurBikini, while the rest of the tribe (presumably standing in for much of the audience) stands around and cheers them on. |
| 201 | %%* ''[[Literature/{{Gor}} Outlaw of Gor]]''. Princess has to fight the Leather Women. |
| 202 | * In ''Film/OutlawWomen'', Ellen gets into a full blown hair-pulling, face-slapping, fingernail-scratching cat fight with the wife of the patrons after Ellen has taken him for everything he has. |
| 203 | * Subverted in Film/TheThreeStooges movie ''Film/TheOutlawsIsComing'', where [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Annie Oakley and Belle Starr]] get into a parodical old-west style knock-down-drag-out fistfight in the middle of the muddy street, rather than a stereotypical cat fight. The extreme, stereotypical ''masculinity'' of their fight is what made it funny, since they were both dressed in long gowns with petticoats. |
| 204 | * ''Film/TheParentTrap1961'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=751p5gyuP34 one]] between the two protagonists, as part of an escalating series of pranks they played on each other one of the girls cut a large hole in the back of the other's dress, exposing her underwear, and they get into a very messy, destructive, and comedic brawl. |
| 205 | * In ''Film/PoolOfLondon'', Maisie gets into a catfight with her sister Pamela when she finds Pamela wearing her dress and using her perfume. |
| 206 | * ''Film/RacketGirls''. Well, it's a film devoted to female wrestling, but they take it to a whole new level when two women ''dressed as cats'' wrestle! |
| 207 | * In ''Film/TheRamrodder'', Tuwana and Lucy get into a rolling-on-the-ground, hair-pulling catfight over Rick. |
| 208 | * In the Creator/PamGrier {{blaxploitation}} movie ''Film/ShebaBaby'', the protagonist infiltrates a cocktail party held by the main crime boss. She deliberately picks a fight with another female guest, which leads to a catfight with slapping, clawing, and tearing at clothes (true to the genre, Sheba pulls down the top of the other woman's dress, exposing her bra). The other guests are standing around, glasses in hand, cheering the combatants on. |
| 209 | * ''Film/{{Shrooms}}'': When tensions between Lisa and Holly boil over--undoubtedly helped along by the drugs--they get into a tussle of pushing, shoving and grappling each other, which results in them overbalancing and rolling down the side of the hill. The fight comes to an abrupt end when a PeekABooCorpse lands on top of Lisa. |
| 210 | * ''Film/SoClose'' has a somewhat playful example between the LovelyAngels SiblingTeam protagonists. Lynn (Creator/ShuQi) is [[BathtubScene having a relaxing bubble bath]] that is {{interrupted|bath}} by her younger sister Sue (Creator/ZhaoWei) who brought a camera with her, planning to film Lynn naked for {{blackmail}} material. Lynn answers by kicking the camera out of Sue's hands and starts catfight over possession of the camera, with plenty of SheFu while Lynn wears only a ModestyTowel for most of it (although Sue manages to [[StrippingSnag snag it off]] for a brief ToplessnessFromTheBack shot). |
| 211 | * Director Creator/StephenSommers is a big fan of cat fights. |
| 212 | ** ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' averts with the Scarlett vs. Baroness fight. Although the fight involves two hot women, one wearing a SpyCatsuit, it is ''brutal''. |
| 213 | ** Evie's flashback thing in the middle of ''Film/TheMummyReturns'', where she duels Anuk-sa-Namun. The point seems to have been that the winner would guard the pharaoh, and the loser would guard the bracelet. |
| 214 | ** The one in ''Film/VanHelsing'' between Anna Valerious and Aleera isn't quite as {{Fanservice}}y as the ''Mummy Returns'' fight, if only due to the participants wearing slightly more than gold bikinis. |
| 215 | * In ''Film/{{Swashbuckler}}'', there is a catfight between Jane and the wench Alice, when Jane discovers Alice is wearing her necklace (actually given to her by Captain Lynch). After much rolling on the floor, hair pulling, ClothingDamage, etc., Jane eventually ends the fight with a right hook to Alice's jaw. |
| 216 | * In ''Film/{{Tabu}}'', Reri and another island girl get into a hair-pulling fight by the river. Their sarongs get very wet and clingy. |
| 217 | * ''Film/TheBestMan'': The famous one between Candace "Candy" and Shelby in Holiday sequel. |
| 218 | * ''Film/TrueLies'' has a cat fight between Helen and Juno in a runaway limousine. |
| 219 | * ''Film/TwoDaysInTheValley'' features a fight between Creator/TeriHatcher and Creator/CharlizeTheron that was featured heavily in the advertising campaign. |
| 220 | * {{Parodied|Trope}} in ''Film/UndercoverBrother'': Once a cat fight breaks out between Sista Girl and White She Devil, Undercover Brother and two (male) {{Mooks}} are seen watching it... while (after a few cutaways) sitting in an armchair [[PassThePopcorn with popcorn and a drink]], enjoying themselves immensely. Angry cat noises are heard when the fight breaks out to further lampshade the trope. |
| 221 | * ''Film/Underworld2003'': {{Subverted|Trope}} in the second film when Selene (Creator/KateBeckinsale), a Death Dealer with literal centuries of experience, faces off against two recently-turned female vampires whose only seeming purpose is as "entertainment". The entire affair doesn't last more than ''[[CurbStompBattle ten seconds]]''. |
| 222 | * Miriam Aarons and Sylvia Fowler have one in ''Film/TheWomen'' when Sylvia learns that Miriam is the woman her husband has been seeing and going to marry after their divorce. Miriam walks away with a bite on her leg and her shorts pulled off, but Sylvia suffers a slight nervous breakdown and starts smashing anything she can get her hands on while screaming "I HATE EVERYONE!" |
| 223 | * In the 1923 silent film ''{{Film/Zaza}}'', Creator/GloriaSwanson gets into a couple of cat fights with her rival. In the second one, they tear off most of each other's clothes. Subverted on a third-occasion when Swanson's character chases down her rival... only to apologize for their previous encounter. |
| 224 | [[/folder]] |
| 225 | |
| 226 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 227 | * Creator/JTEdson, an English author of westerns, seemed to have a positive [[AuthorAppeal fetish for this trope]] and shoehorned it into a surprising number of his novels (and once included a collector who had paintings of cat fights that had occurred in previous novels). |
| 228 | * ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': Averted. A fight involving two females is not automatically a sexy catfight, which The Hunger Games proves especially intensely. |
| 229 | * Most female characters in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' have at one time or another had to repeatedly tell themselves that they are too mature to engage in such behavior. Most notably Elayne's reaction to Min's prophecy about having to share Rand with two other women and finding out that her friend Min is the second, her other friend Aviendha is the third. And that Aviendha has already slept with him. |
| 230 | * Parodied/[[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in ''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Thud!]]'', when Angua's nerves get the better of her and she attacks female vampire Sally in an underground tunnel. Sally points out that they are both female, naked, and covered in mud, so if they are going to fight, they should find some men and charge admission. |
| 231 | * Averted in Literature/TheSookieStackhouseMysteries, wherein most characters won't hesitate to hurt a woman if she's perceived to be dangerous and [[ActionGirl said women]] often give as good as they get. Played straight, however, in perhaps the only scene where [[BadassNormal the heroine]] is able to physically overpower her opponent. Both parties lacking functional weapons, the fight involves "wrestling and punching and hair pulling" before the protagonist is able to pin the other girl down. A male character who arrives on the scene initially declines to offer help in favour of watching the show. |
| 232 | * Literature/SisterhoodSeries by Creator/FernMichaels: The Vigilantes end up having this among themselves in the book ''Hide and Seek''. They were bitter and angry over everything. This was just what they needed to let it all out. Sure, they were sporting bruises afterward, but at least they were willing to work together again. |
| 233 | * ''[[Literature/PaladinOfShadows A Deeper Blue]]'' includes one between Britney, Greznya, and [[spoiler:an undercover]] Katya including a lot of ClothingDamage. [[spoiler:It was fake, used to help Greznya break contact with Katya after an information drop, to not reveal the mission.]] |
| 234 | * Example that is ''almost'' OlderThanPrint: Bradamante and Marfiza dishing it out in Literature/OrlandoFurioso. It began as jousting and ended with hair-pulling. |
| 235 | * Averted in ''Literature/LastSacrifice''. When Rose and Angeline (Dawes) of the Keepers get into a fight, it is depicted as prolonged and serious. Not used to turn on the male characters watching them. |
| 236 | * In the ''Literature/JessicaChrist'' series, [[GodIsFlawed God Himself]] turns out to be a big fan of these. Not only did He first take an interest in Jessica's mother [[AmazonChaser because He saw her beat up another woman,]] but when she gets into another fight over a decade later (with the same woman, no less), He strictly forbids Jessica from interfering. |
| 237 | -->'''Jessica:''' Should I try to break them up?\ |
| 238 | '''God:''' [[PassThePopcorn NAH. JUST ENJOY IT.]]\ |
| 239 | '''Jessica:''' I think I should break it up.\ |
| 240 | '''God:''' THOU SHALT NOT BREAK UP THIS MEGA HOT CATFIGHT! |
| 241 | [[/folder]] |
| 242 | |
| 243 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 244 | * Name any show by Creator/AaronSpelling. |
| 245 | ** One of the main draws of ''Series/Dynasty1981'', including a famous one where Alexis and Krystle are fighting in the mansion pond. |
| 246 | * ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' |
| 247 | ** In "The Living Dead", between Mrs. Peel and a female guard. There's also "The Murder Market" which has Peel fighting a female assassin with some feline movements from both parties in the initial stage. |
| 248 | ** Topping this, ''Series/TheNewAvengers'' episode "Angels Of Death" has Joanna Lumley's Purdey taking on not one but two gorgeous female opponents (played by Caroline Munro and Pamela Stephenson), after Gambit's basic decency prevents him hitting women and they beat the bejasus out of him. |
| 249 | * In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', Penny and new neighbor Alicia's rivalry over her leading Raj, Leonard, and Howard on culminates in a "What're you gonna do about it, bitch?" Somewhat Lampshaded by Wolowitz: |
| 250 | -->'''Howard:''' Oh, my God ...GIRLFIGHT! (''pins Leonard's arms behind his back'')\ |
| 251 | '''Leonard:''' What're you doing?\ |
| 252 | '''Howard:''' I know you, you're stupid enough to break it up! |
| 253 | * In the ''Series/BlakesSeven'' episode "[[Recap/BlakesSevenS2E11Gambit Gambit]]", Cally and Jenna stage a cat fight in a crowded bar to cause a distraction. The result is hilarious. |
| 254 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' |
| 255 | ** Parodied in the episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E7TheInitiative The Initiative]]", with possibly the only cat fight in the series, between [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Vampire]] [[DumbBlonde Harmony]] and [[NonActionGuy Xander]] -- at the time the only male member of the group (other than [[MentorArchetype Giles]]). The fight, in classic cat fight fashion, begins with a bitchslap and continues into shin kicking, name calling, and hair pulling. It finally ends in a stalemate and an agreement never to mention it to anyone. |
| 256 | --->'''Xander:''' Harmony, it's been great catching up. Really, I'm just gonna pick up the tattered shreds of my dignity and go home. |
| 257 | *** The Harmony-Xander fight is made even more awesome by the comedic use of slow motion and epic fight music. |
| 258 | ** The reason that Harmony vs. Xander is the only cat fight in the series is because girl-on-girl throwdowns in the series in general (and there are quite a few of them) are deadly serious affairs that feature little in the way of typical cat fight tactics. |
| 259 | ** Lampshaded in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E9WhatsMyLinePart1 What's My Line, Part 1]]" when Buffy and Kendra fight: |
| 260 | --->''[Struggling for control of an axe]''\ |
| 261 | '''Buffy:''' Don't make me do the chick fight thing.\ |
| 262 | '''Kendra:''' "Chick fight"?\ |
| 263 | '''Buffy:''' You know...\ |
| 264 | ''[Buffy digs her fingernails into Kendra's hand. Kendra yelps, and Buffy grabs Kendra's hair, and pulls her off balance]'' |
| 265 | *** Despite the lampshading, it's really a case of [[CombatPragmatist combat pragmatism]]; Buffy uses these tactics in conjunction with real fighting. |
| 266 | * In one episode of ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', two women vie for Woody's attention and start fighting. The others start chanting "Cat fight! Cat fight!", until the actual fighting turns out to be disappointing, at which point the chanting changes to "Kitten fight! Kitten fight!" |
| 267 | ** They got to see one in a later episode "One Hugs, The Other Doesn't" between Frasier's ex-wife Nanette and his current one, Lilith. |
| 268 | * The spy comedy ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' is notable for its DesignatedGirlFight, pitting the blonde, scantily clad Sarah against the many DarkActionGirl or the female VillainOfTheWeek. Sarah has fought in a variety of {{Fanservice}} costumes like a pseudo-Bavarian miniskirt with plunging neckline, a short satin robe with flesh colored underwear, revealing evening gowns, and a black catsuit. It's somewhat mitigated by the fact that some of these fights — especially the ones against Smooth Lau ("Chuck Versus the Best Friend"), Heather Chandler ("Chuck Versus the Cougars") and Sofia Stepanova ("[[Recap/ChuckS4E02ChuckVsTheSuitcase Chuck Vs The Suitcase]]) — end up ''incredibly'' brutal and avert BeautyIsNeverTarnished. |
| 269 | * A cat fight (or, as Brenda puts it a "bloody woman's fight") between Criquette and Brenda after the latter throws the former out of the house in the parody series ''Series/LeCoeurASesRaisons''. It then devolves into the parody of an epic fight complete with [[CallingYourAttacks attack names screamed left and right]] and epic sound effects. |
| 270 | -->'''Brenda''': "CAPILLAR ATTACK!"\ |
| 271 | '''Criquette''': "FULGUROSLAP!"\ |
| 272 | '''Brenda''': "ASTERO-SHOE!" |
| 273 | * ''Series/{{Community}}'' - as Annie and Britta compete raising money for oil-spill relief, their animosity toward each other's technique (and whole personality by association) comes to a head and they start wrestling in a puddle of oil. They make up with the common understanding that men are pigs, having raised far more money in the brief cat fight than in the rest of the campaign. |
| 274 | ** A new guy Buddy (Jack Black) insinuates himself into the study group and fondly recalls memories together, including Britta and Annie cat fighting in cheerleader outfits - which he admits may have been a daydream of his. |
| 275 | * ''Series/TheCrown2016''. President Kennedy gleefully tells his wife that some unguarded comments she made about the Queen and Buckingham Palace have gotten back to her Majesty, which will lead to trouble at their next FancyDinner with the Queen. "Catfight. I look forward to a full report." Jackie Kennedy however is devastated and arranged a private audience with the Queen to apologize. |
| 276 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 277 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E2GhostLight "Ghost Light"]]: Ace and her GirlOfTheWeek get into a couple of cat fights. In the second, the other girl literally tackles Ace onto a bed. The DVD special features mention several times how much the male cast and crew enjoyed watching all this. (Although Creator/SophieAldred mentioned that they apparently all missed the practice session where the other girl accidentally ''pulled Sophie's top off''.) |
| 278 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion "School Reunion"]] has current companion Rose and former companion Sarah Jane get into a purely verbal version. In the end, they come to a (very giggly) compromise when they start comparing the things about the Doctor that bug them, which in turn makes him wonder if them getting along isn't ''worse'' for him, since now they seem to be in conspiracy against him. In the words of Mickey Smith: |
| 279 | --->'''Mickey:''' Oh mate, {{the missus and the ex}}! Welcome to every man's worst nightmare. |
| 280 | * In the ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' episode "Purple Haze", Alison and Beverly (both under the influence of an [[HatePlague inhibition-lowering drug]]) get into it. The fight isn't over a man -- it's because Beverly blabbed professional confidences about Alison over the town's PA system. |
| 281 | %%* There was one in the short "Fox Soap Opera Generations". See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqJhp6fScQk here]]. |
| 282 | %%* ''Series/{{Fresno}}'' parodied the SoapOpera cat fight by making it like a barroom brawl instead. |
| 283 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': |
| 284 | ** Rachel and Monica in "The One After The Superbowl". Phoebe, who is a much more skilled fighter, manages to subdue both of them. |
| 285 | --->'''Phoebe:''' You know what, if we were in prison, you guys would be like my bitches. |
| 286 | ** Monica invites Joey's girlfriend Janine to "take this outside" after she insults Chandler. Unusually, the two men ''break it up'' before it can get started, but when the situation escalates again, they eagerly head off to watch. |
| 287 | ** Rachel gets into a fight with her younger sister Amy after Amy claims that baby Emma "isn't that cute". Joey and Phoebe's reaction provides the page quote, and after the fight breaks up Chandler reveals he wasn't immune to it either. |
| 288 | --->'''Chandler:''' ''(quietly)'' By the way, that fight was totally arousing. |
| 289 | * Subverted in the ''Series/GameShakers'' episode "The Girl Power Awards". The boys, who invented the awards, claimed in case of a tie, the girls would have to fight for it. Babe and Kenzie talk with the other two girls who tied with them and act as if they agreed to fight to the amazement and glee of the boys. Instead, they go after the boys. |
| 290 | * When ''Series/{{Glee}}'''s Santana gets sufficiently angry with another girl, one of these is sure to ensue. |
| 291 | ** Her first fight was with Mercedes in the first season, but was broken up before things got out of hand. But in the second season, she slaps the ''piss'' out of Quinn for exposing her breast surgery and the two go at it. |
| 292 | ** Averted in Season 2 when she tries this with Lauren, who is a star wrestler and a BrawnHilda. Lauren literally [[CurbStompBattle wipes the floor with her]]. |
| 293 | * ''[[Series/{{GLOW2017}} GLOW]]'': The ShowWithinAShow is centered on female wrestling and the titillation that it provides viewers. The director calls it "porn you can watch with your kids." In the first episode, an actual cat fight breaks out between two women in the ring, and the other wrestlers can't tell if it's real or not. |
| 294 | * ''Series/GossipGirl'' has Serena vs. Blair in season 2. Some clothes ripping included. |
| 295 | ** Also the one in Season 1. Straddling and hockey outfits included. |
| 296 | * Claire vs. Elle in ''Series/{{Heroes}}''. Unusually, this comes to a stalemate - Elle has Claire pinned to the ground under her electric blasts, but Claire's never going to succumb due to her healing power - that's broken by Sandra giving Elle a soaking. |
| 297 | * ''Series/HorribleHistories'': Not shown, but very much talked about in the Roman funeral sketch: |
| 298 | -->"My uncle Centillus had it written into his will that he wanted a fight to the death between two beautiful women... His funeral's in ten minutes."\ |
| 299 | "That's disgus... can I come?" |
| 300 | * Robin and Lily start to get into one of these in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' before Ted stops them. |
| 301 | -->'''Barney:''' ''Ted, no!'' You never break up a girl fight! ''NEVER!'' ''* [[PunchAWall punches hole in the wall]]* '' |
| 302 | ** BRO CODE ARTICLE 26: "A bro will, in a timely manner, alert his bro to the existence of a girl fight." |
| 303 | ** Subverted when one of Marshal's coworkers tells Lily that she kissed him, and Lily proceeds to administer a [[CurbStompBattle terrifying beatdown]] on the woman "trying to move in on her man." Marshal swears at that moment ''never'' to try and make his wife jealous again. |
| 304 | * The team for the reality show ''Impossible Heist'' staged a full-on shirt-ripping, hair-pulling cat fight in a casino, in order to distract a blackjack dealer. It allowed them to switch the cards for a rigged deck and cheat the house. |
| 305 | * ''Series/LasVegas'' features a verbal variation between Sam Marquez and Monica Mancuso when they first meet in the third season. Any ambiguity as to whether it's intended as one is dropped out the window when two cats screeching are heard over the soundtrack. The guys later remark that they really regret that they missed it, so it's also in-universe fanservice. |
| 306 | * In the second season opener of ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'' Cara and Triana have one. That Cara is naked and wet from her bath and Triana is in skin tight red leather and played by Charisma Carpenter pushes the {{Fanservice}} factor even further. |
| 307 | ** Actually, the fight between Cara and Triana was nothing compared to the cat fight between Kahlan and Cara in Season 2, Episode 16 "Desecrated". There is bitch slapping, shoving, hair pulling and in the end, they're both breathing hard...with Kahlan lying on the floor. Needless to say, there was also a lot of eyesex involved. |
| 308 | * Juliet and Kate had a semi-serious throwdown on ''Series/{{Lost}}''. In the mud, while handcuffed to each other. Not the show's proudest moment. |
| 309 | ** Not the show's proudest moment, but certainly one of the show's more alluring. |
| 310 | ** They fought earlier in the episode, but it was a one-sided [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp]] where Juliet knocked Kate on her ass despite Kate having the element of surprise. |
| 311 | * In ''Series/LostGirl'', Bo gets into one with ''Zeus'' of all things (yes, [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyFirstGenerationOlympians that Zeus]]). It's a cat fight because Zeus has possessed the body of a hot blonde while on Earth, both women are wearing gorgeous dresses including heels, and they duke it out in a decidedly unrefined style on the floor of Bo's home. The whole scene provides a pretty jarring contrast to the power and grace that Bo usually displays in hand-to-hand combat. |
| 312 | * ''Series/MadTV1995'' did it on a parody of NBC's remake of the ''Series/BionicWoman'' called "The Les-Bionic Woman" between Jane [Crista Flanagan] (as a [[ButchLesbian butch les-bionic woman]]) and Sarah [Nicole Parker] (as a [[LipstickLesbian lipstick les-bionic woman]]). Subverted when during the fight (which shows the two in many suggestive positions), Sarah tells Jane that the doctor who made her bionic was their enemy, and Jane grunts, "So why are we fighting each other?" and Sarah replies, "Fighting? I'm not fighting." |
| 313 | * A really ''weird'' one happens in ''Series/TheMiddleman'', when Wendy fights the villain of the week, who's [[GrandTheftMe stolen the body]] of the Middleman himself. Leading to a rare boy-girl cat fight. |
| 314 | * One two-part episode of ''Series/MissionImpossible'' required this trope for the mission to succeed. A guard had to be distracted at a critical moment during a prison escape so Cinnamon Carter and a guest-star agent spent the better part of two episodes [[InvokedTrope setting up]] their "rivalry." When they finally did start the cat fight the guard was primed to enjoy it and [[DistractedByTheSexy not notice what else was going on]]. |
| 315 | * ''Series/MyWorldAndWelcomeToIt'': The climax of "The Middle Years" shows John daydreaming that his wife Ellen and comely widow neighbor Mrs. Bessinger are engaging in a fiery battle over him. It’s sufficiently spirited that the two women are seen [[TrashTheSet zealously destroying John's living room doing so]]. |
| 316 | * ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': |
| 317 | ** The ''two'' fiancées of a now dead Marine. Tony points and shouts "Chick fight!" and [=McGee=] records the whole thing. [=McGee=] shows the video to [[LabRat Abby]] who says, "I can't believe I missed it!" |
| 318 | ** Abby and Ziva get into a brief slapfight over Ziva's seeming lack of concern for Gibbs' well-being, which thoroughly freaks out [=McGee=], who knows exactly what both women are capable of. |
| 319 | * ''Series/Nightwatch2015'': PlayedForDrama. Several episodes feature women getting into petty arguments which turn into physical fights. However, the injuries they receive can be severe; one woman's eye was hanging out of her skull. |
| 320 | * ''Series/{{NTSFSDSUV}}'': The resident female FairCop on the team fights a stripper on stage (since obviously, [[DesignatedGirlFight her male colleagues can't]], which gets a LampshadeHanging of its own). Both the crowd and her colleagues cheer. |
| 321 | * ''Series/{{Oz}}''. Prison guards Diane Wittlesey and Claire Howell get into a fight that puts both women in the hospital ward, after Howell placed a false sexual harassment charge against Unit Manager Tim [=McManus=] (who'd had affairs with both women). When Warden Glynn asks what they were fighting about, Tim just replies, "Me" earning him a "You've ''got'' to be kidding me" look from Glynn. |
| 322 | * At the end of ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' series 2, between Abby and Caroline, though both have genuine issues (Caroline was the FemmeFatale sent by Leek to use sweet and at that stage, naive, Connor to get into the ARC/ get info on the team and Abby was the protective best friend love interest. Connor tries to break this up and be the better man, while Leek is watching and enjoying and gets whacked in the face, much to Leek's amusement. Eventually Connor succeeds in breaking it up, and he retorts he didn't do it for Caroline (who had been pretending to be his girlfriend). This confirmed Abby and Connor's mutual attraction which was a long lasting plot point, making this possibly the worlds only plot crucial and fanservice cat fight. |
| 323 | ** The lack of skills part was averted - both Abby and Caroline had been shown to be proficient martial artists before, and their skills were on full display. |
| 324 | * ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' has a slap fight between Alison and Mona. Mona slaps first but Alison slaps her back, drawing blood. |
| 325 | * ''Series/ReplacingChefChico'': Discussed and subverted in the third episode. Upon realizing that they're serving a man's wife and his mistress on the same night, Wena thinks that they're going to have a catfight and promises to film the smackdown. However, the two women actually spend the night on good terms, and resolve to leave the man — they even stick him with the bill! |
| 326 | * ''Series/RelicHunter''. Sydney Fox (Creator/TiaCarrere) and the enemy agent (played by Roberta Angelica) have a cat fight. [[MudWrestling With mud]]. The two guys stop, watch, and comment. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when Sydney looks over and asks, "You boys enjoying the show?" |
| 327 | * In ''Series/RobinHood'' the rivalry between Isabella and Kate eventually culminates in what is possibly one of the worst cat fights ever to be taken seriously. Despite the fact that both women are armed with swords and daggers, they resort to slapping and hair-pulling, all whilst exchanging barbs on whom Robin loves the most. |
| 328 | * On an episode of ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'', an argument between Jackie and Roseanne (about Jackie wanting to be a cop, and Roseanne trying to dissuade her) turns into this. |
| 329 | -->'''Dan:''' Excuse me! Is this a sex thing? Because if it is, I'll go get my camera, and we can forget about those magazines. |
| 330 | ** He then proceeds to pretend to be a ringside announcer, until they both order him to leave. |
| 331 | * ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace''. Besides the ''genuine'' cat fights, usually in the ''Untucked'' lounge, the season 2 final challenge featured a staged and choreographed cat fight for the "Jealous of My Boogie" music video. First Jujubee got hit in the eye with a high heel, then Tyra got a bit too into it and "accidentally" pulled Raven's wig off. Twice. |
| 332 | * Averted with great force in ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' in the [[spoiler:truly brutal, and emotionally wrenching, fight to the death between Jesse and Riley.]] |
| 333 | ** And the one between Cameron and that other terminator who she twisted up like a pretzel. |
| 334 | * Brilliantly done in the "My Lucky Charm"/"My Hypocritical Oath" episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': Elliot Reid and Carla Espinosa get into a cat fight in the cafeteria. Then [[CasanovaWannabe the Todd]] interrupts, "Ladies! Please! Stop!"... then pulls up a chair, sits down and says "Continue." |
| 335 | ** And soon after, rips his shirt apart and yells "I'm going in!" |
| 336 | ** When Carla makes a "Rawr" noise in another episode, Todd eagerly bursts into the room and yells "Cat fight!?" Disappointed, he warns her to "be more careful about using that noise." |
| 337 | * Addressed and ultimately subverted in one ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode. Elaine's office is demolished by a female coworker, but no one believes her, even with a menacing message on her answering machine. In fact, all the men hearing about this are turned on by the idea of a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wrL9z3Kvww cat fight]] instead. By the end of the episode she emerges after having been beaten to a pulp offscreen in an only marginally-related cat fight, for which she receives even less sympathy after revealing that the aggressor was [[ItMakesSenseInContext Raquel Welch]]. |
| 338 | -->'''Elaine:''' What is so appealing to men about a cat fight?\ |
| 339 | '''Jerry:''' Because men think if women are grabbing and clawing at each other there's a chance they might somehow...kiss. |
| 340 | %%* The fight between Alex & Megan in ''Series/TheSentinel''. |
| 341 | * ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'': Veronica gets drugged into mindless order following in one episode which nearly leads to her killing one of her friends. Marguerite appears in the right moment and gets into a fight with her. It ends in MudWrestling as they land in the only mud pit around. Veronica wins the fight. |
| 342 | * In Season 3 of ''Series/ShamelessUS'', Veronica gets into a fight with Kevin's wife for not only being a bitch who made Kevin believe that her nephew could potentially be their son, but also so Veronica could get her to sign the divorce papers. |
| 343 | * in an episode of ''Series/SledgeHammer'', Sergeant Dori Doreau is dragged into a mud-fighting arena in a seedy bar to prevent Sledge getting the worst of it from two professional mud-fighting babes. Actress Anne-Marie Martin later reflected that at one point, every episode appeared to feature a cat-fight between Doreau and a female perp. |
| 344 | * Usually subverted on ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', in which even girl fights often turn out to be quite brutal, like the one with Lana vs. Chloe in [[spoiler:''Delete'']]. Tess and Comicbook/LoisLane get a straight one in [[spoiler:''Doomsday'']], though. |
| 345 | * ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}'': |
| 346 | ** One episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'' ends with a doofus-scientist character daydreaming about Carter and another woman fighting over him. Fantasy-Jack stops him from breaking it up. |
| 347 | ** ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': |
| 348 | *** The show has one with knives, ending in a surrender. |
| 349 | *** There's also a MALE version where [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Ronon and Teal'c]] are beating the shit out of each other with a massive crowd cheering at them. And yes, it IS played for fanservice; [[EatingTheEyeCandy fanservice for girls]] but still, the two most muscular guys of the franchise in tight workout clothing and positively dripping with sweat? Draws a lot of FemaleGaze. |
| 350 | * ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': In the MirrorUniverse episode "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E18InAMirrorDarkly In a Mirror, Darkly]]", a [[{{Stripperiffic}} scantily-clad]] T'Pol and Hoshi have a knife fight while exchanging snarky comments about each others' sex lives. |
| 351 | * ''Series/{{Survivor}}'': During a reward challenge on ''Heroes vs Villains'', Danielle and Amanda get into a fight over a clue to a hidden immunity idol. Cody, the lone male on the reward, enjoys the view with [[PassThePopcorn some popcorn.]] |
| 352 | %%* Maddie and London on ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody''. |
| 353 | * In the ''Series/That70sShow'' episode "Cat Fight Club" Jackie gets fed up with Laurie's insults and starts a fight with her. Fez suggests they should pour water on them. |
| 354 | ** In an earlier episode, Eric's female partner for a class project, Stacy, has an obvious crush on him, but Eric thinks Donna doesn't really pay attention to this. Kelso suggests early in the episode that Stacy and Donna should mud-wrestle for Eric. At first Eric responds, "Kelso, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." Then he thinks about it (a DreamSequence occurs) and then says, "Kelso, that's the smartest thing I've ever heard." |
| 355 | ** In the episode "Mother's Little Helper", Eric and Hyde say that girls can't play fight, because it always turns into a real one. Jackie and Donna try to prove them wrong, and end up proving them right. Hyde separates them and Eric calls him a spoilsport. |
| 356 | * In a deleted scene from the ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' specials, Robyn and Terri have a squabble... while Jamie chants "fight, fight, fight" and starts pushing their jackets off their shoulders. |
| 357 | * ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': One episode involved a reality show being filmed at Hollywood Arts. The protagonists learn that show is largely staged and are encouraged to act out in order to make the show more dramatic. As part of this, Jade and Tori pretend to have a cat fight. |
| 358 | * ''Series/WaterlooRoad'' is starting having roll-around-on-the-floor fights between two girls in school uniform about once every two episodes. |
| 359 | * ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'': In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75go-gBakqY a game of Dead Bodies]] [[note]]Two of the actors and an audience member play theatre actors who died during a play, so Colin manipulates their bodies because the show must go on[[/note]] in the theme of ''Series/CharliesAngels'' (Ryan is Bosley, Kathy Greenwood is an Angel and the audience member is a villainess torturing Bosley). |
| 360 | -->'''Kathy!Colin:''' You can't do that to Bosley without the Angels around! I'm going to fight you! Fight you fight you fight you! Using the martial arts I know so well!\ |
| 361 | '''Villainess:''' Well I am going to fight you!\ |
| 362 | '''Ryan!Colin:''' Yeah, hot! |
| 363 | * ''Series/WonderWoman1975'': Averted. There are several times in which Wonder Woman fights another woman ("The New, Original Wonder Woman", "Wonder Woman Meets Baroness von Gunther", and "Formicida" among others), but none of her fights have the hair pulling, eye scratching, and lack of skill associated with the trope. The show went out of its way to clearly show that Wonder Woman was the heroine and when she fought, it was to take down her opponent, man or woman. |
| 364 | [[/folder]] |
| 365 | |
| 366 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 367 | * The Dance Hall Crashers have a song called "Catfight" -- a subversion, in that it's about how stupid it is that men are entertained by female drama. |
| 368 | * "We bout to throw them blows/We bout to swang them thangs/It's about to be a what? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhBM7H-ggvY Girlfight]]" |
| 369 | * Though the song itself isn't about a Catfight, Or is it?, New Zealand band Kids of 88 has this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWm9v9Bh0b0&feature=autofb video]] and it's not just an awesome cat fight but it's an awesome cat fight in SLOW MO. But they still had to throw in a little HoYay while at it. |
| 370 | * JulieBrown's ''"Girl Fight Tonight!"'' |
| 371 | * Music/{{Pendulum|Band}}'s ''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6BKBIOtRXw Showdown]]"'' music video is about a cat fight. It's brutal though. |
| 372 | * [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] by the Groovecutters, a North London-based dance act. Filmed in a warehouse in Edgware, North London, the video can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn_i8FdKwww here]], given how this trope is used. A bit of shipping is used, but ''not'' for {{Fanservice}} purposes. However, the girls in the video, Talia Santo and Carly Harrop are MsFanservice, but with HiddenDepths; they are intelligent women, but this is a DownplayedTrope, given that {{Fanservice}} is the point. Also, NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity [[http://adland.tv/adnews/groovecutters-accuse-french-connectionbmb-ripping-video/1140204742 comes into play too]]. |
| 373 | * Also parodied in Mojo Nixon's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXLuSHx1fR0 video]] for "Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child." The titular Debbie has an unconvincing Jello-fight with Tiffany. |
| 374 | * Kathrine's "Catfight" is sung from the perspective of someone instigating one, so to it's a serious affair to ''her''. |
| 375 | * Notoriously averted [[http://youtu.be/oGFr_NcKyfo?t=6m10s in the music video]] for Music/MyleneFarmer's "Libertine": the fight features hitting a head with a bottle, swinging a firepoker and blood flying around. Bonus points for the video actually being highly erotically charged (unsurprisingly, if you know who [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertine libertines]] are). [[http://youtu.be/L0DwIefImuA?t=10m15s Same goes for]] "Pourvu Quelles Soient Douces", sequel to "Libertine" ([[MudWrestling despite even featuring some mud]]). |
| 376 | * Explicitly {{Defied}} in "Beautiful Liar" by Music/{{Beyonce}} and Music/{{Shakira}}, where the two women both agree that they shouldn't be fighting each other ("Let's not start a fight / It's not worth the drama") and that the guy who was two-timing them is to blame. |
| 377 | [[/folder]] |
| 378 | |
| 379 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 380 | * While the "Apartment Wrestling" circuit that cropped up in the 1950s ''did'' feature some legit amateur bouts, most of the matches were worked, as most pro wrestling was by that time, and "cat fights" were the best known, to the point Website/ThatOtherWiki uses "apartment wrestling" as a redirect to "cat fight". Incidentally, the phenomenon didn't ''start'' for the purpose of customer titillation but rather to cure the boredom of housewives who liked to imitate pro wrestlers they saw on television, similar to the even less respected phenomenon of BackyardWrestling. Then someone figured out they could make money selling pictures of theses "matches" and soon affluent fans were paying women to come to town for private apartment matches. The circuit's biggest "boom" period came in the 1970s when Wrestling/TheFabulousMoolah sold pictures of her students in apartment rooms for Bill Apter's magazines after Stanley Weston convinced Apter that SexSells. |
| 381 | * A staple of defunct ProfessionalWrestling federation Wrestling/{{ECW}} (pre-{{Revival}}), to the point that commentator Joel Gertner's shrieks of, "CATFIIIIIIIIIGHT!" became a catchphrase second only to Wrestling/JoeyStyles' wails of, [[BigOMG "OH MY GOD!"]] |
| 382 | * Wrestling/{{FMW}} had a few during its "World Entertainment Wrestling" era as the actual women's division it had been famed for shrunk in favor of valets and celebrity guests. It ended up calling on other promotions, [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore including ECW]] ironically, for women who could wrestle proper matches. |
| 383 | * Wrestling/JimCornette believes men make better managers than women because wimpy men tend to be more [[VeryPunchableMan punchable]] and that women who can't wrestle are best for this trope. That said, on shows he has anything resembling an authoritative position, such as Wrestling/{{SMW}}, Ohio Valley, [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] or Wrestling/RingOfHonor, he's made his preference for actual matches between trained women athletes than for cat fights visible. His lamentation being there are simply less of those athletes available since Fabulous Moolah stopped working as a trainer. |
| 384 | * Ring of Honor did feature some cat fights during its early years, mostly between The Lovely Lacey and Becky Bayless, representing rival splinters of Special K. Given Special K's [[TheGimmick gimmick]] was [[DrugsAreBad being too strung out to wrestle properly]], it fit them. Otherwise, even Allison Danger and Ariel from the exotico Christopher Street Connection had matches with joint locks, stiff strikes and hard impacts, even in the former's fan service heavy encounters with [[Wrestling/MickieJames Alexis Laree]]. Post Special K, Lacey herself had a violent feud with Wrestling/DaizeeHaze. |
| 385 | * Averted by the "Cathouse Brawl" Ohio Championship Wrestling booked between [[Wrestling/MadisonRayne Lexi Lane]] and Sassy Stephie, [[NonIndicativeName even though it was billed]] as a "cat fight". The two had hated each other for years, there were {{no holds barred|contest}}, and Lexi ended up legitimately injuring Stephie. |
| 386 | * Parodied at ''Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} Grit and Glory'', May 18, 2008. There was a mixed tag match with Sweet 'N' Sour Inc. (Wrestling/SaraDelRey and Bobby Dempsey)[[note]]Sweet 'N' Sour Inc. was Wrestling/LarrySweeney's Ring of Honor PowerStable[[/note]] vs. Wrestling/ChuckTaylor and Wrestling/DaizeeHaze, and it was the ''guys'' who got into a cat fight. |
| 387 | * Alicia and Lady Jaguar had a brutal, bloody feud in LLF during 2014 but it wasn't ''just'' brutal and bloody; they also had an [[MudWrestling oil fight]]. |
| 388 | * {{Subverted|Trope}} at the World Wrestling League's 2014 ''Navidad Corporativa'' event. It is common for talent in non wrestling roles to have these kind of "fights" with each other but "La Diosa" Habana was left on a stretcher after an altercation with Mistress Glenda Lee. |
| 389 | * Prior to the WWE Women's Evolution, it was pretty common for two or more women to have catfights on RAW and [=SmackDown=], especially when the women are fighting over a male Superstar. But now that the WWE Divas Division has been rebranded as the WWE Women's Division, the WWE has pretty much moved away from catfights and instead WWE's female talents are now allowed to have fights much like men's fights as rivalries now which mainly involved pure hatred for each other and not fighting over a guy. Even women being busted open is now more accepted than it was in the past. |
| 390 | [[/folder]] |
| 391 | |
| 392 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 393 | * Halfway through the first act of ''Kristina från Duvemåla'', Kristina and Ulrika have a ''cat fight song'' -- complete with tearing each others' clothes apart -- called "Löss" ("Lice") about which one of them brought lice onto the ship to America. The song fell flat in the English-translated concert version: although the lyrics were almost identical, the fanservice was removed. So yeah. |
| 394 | * In ''Theatre/TheWomen'', when word gets out that Miriam is about to marry Sylvia's ex-husband, the two women get into a vicious scuffle, culminating with Miriam kicking Sylvia in the shin and Sylvia biting Miriam on the arm. (Paulette Goddard, who played Miriam in the 1939 film version, was left a permanent scar from doing this scene.) Many productions have Crystal and Sylvia about to start another one at the very end of the show. |
| 395 | * There's one in ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' after [[spoiler: Fiyero leaves Glinda for Elphaba. Nessarose was just killed, and, far as Elphaba knows, Glinda was either somehow involved or too absent-minded to stop it.]] |
| 396 | * In ''Theatre/{{Thirteen}}'' Kendra and Lucy get into a fight after Lucy steals Kendra's boyfriend, Brett. Although Brett breaks it up. |
| 397 | * "Fight Over Me" from ''Theatre/NoNoNanette'', a number sadly omitted from revivals. |
| 398 | * ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'' has Helena and Hermia threatening one: "I am not yet so low But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes". |
| 399 | * One erupts between Sandra and Annie in ''Theatre/ThePlayThatGoesWrong'' when Sandra returns midway through Act 2 and attempts to take her part back from Annie. |
| 400 | [[/folder]] |
| 401 | |
| 402 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 403 | * In the various ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' media (especially the UDON comics) Chun-Li and Cammy have a surprisingly large amount of fights, and in the ''Capcom vs. SNK'' games Chun-Li usually winds up fighting Mai Shiranui quite frequently as well. |
| 404 | * Khelgar has quite an entertaining reaction to the threat of the two female wizard bullies trying to beat up their classmate, a sorceress (who, by definition, has an insanely high Charisma score and is thus really, really hot), with spells outside your character's uncle's inn in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2''. |
| 405 | * In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Tifa escapes from a gas chamber and runs on Junon's canon until she can't go any farther. Scarlett, who has her dead to rights and could have ordered her guards to shoot her, decides to slap Tifa. You're then tasked with slapping Scarlett more than she can slap you. |
| 406 | * ''VideoGame/BloodStorm'' would introduce a fight between two female characters with 'Catfight!'. |
| 407 | * ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' is a series with [[ImprobablyFemaleCast a predominantly female cast]] and is [[BestKnownForTheFanservice best known for its fanservice]]; especially given [[{{stripperiffic}} some of the costumes]] they wear. So pretty much '''''ANY''''' girl-girl match-up amounts to one. |
| 408 | * ''[[VideoGame/AdvancedVariableGeo Advanced V.G.]]'' is an all girl fighting game series about an MMA competition for [[FanserviceWithASmile combat waitresses.]] While there's no actual ClothingDamage in-game, the loser of each match is depicted having their uniform shredded to varying degrees, with their faces covered in bruises and scratch marks. |
| 409 | * The titular ''VideoGame/RumbleRoses'' duke it out in fetish wear and use fanservice ladden grapples and submission holds. ''XX'' upped the ante by including "Queen's Match" mode, where the winner gets to humiliate the loser either by making them dance, or spanking them in the ring. |
| 410 | %% zce* This is the ''name'' of the ''[[http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/catfight/index.html Catfight]]'' FightingGame. |
| 411 | * In a deleted scene of ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', there are two female characters who are attracted to a male player, and the one he has a lower Influence score with will attack the other on Malachor. |
| 412 | ** Mira also rebuffs any advances a male player makes by telling him she doesn't want to have to beat up Visas and the Handmaiden. |
| 413 | ** Gender-inverted, but the effect is the same, when it comes to Atton trying to kill Mical over a female Exile. |
| 414 | * Amusingly averted in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar'': Sylvia ''tries'' to initiate a cat fight with Fury over Levin's affections, but Fury doesn't seem very interested. |
| 415 | * The entire point of ''VideoGame/RoseAndCamellia'', about a common-born woman fighting for her claim to her late husband's estate by getting in bitch-slapping contests with her in-laws. |
| 416 | * ''Franchise/MassEffect'': |
| 417 | ** Referenced in the first ''VideoGame/MassEffect'', if Shepard romances both [[MildlyMilitary Ashley]] and [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Liara]]. A [[{{Troll}} Renegade]] response when they confront you over it is ''labeled'' "Catfight!" while the actual line is [[{{Troll}} "I love it when women fight over me"]], to which Ashley responds: |
| 418 | --->'''Ashley:''' Sorry, Commander, that fantasy's ''not'' gonna happen. |
| 419 | ** Also referenced in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. A scripted fight between Miranda and Jack breaks out during the second half of the game, and [[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]] is tasked with resolving it, one way or another.[[note]] Both women are powerful Biotics and Jack in particular has a bit of a temper problem. So, any sort of altercation between the two of them could turn messy ''real'' fast.[[/note]] |
| 420 | --->'''Joker:''' Commander, Jack and Miranda are in the middle of a... disagreement? Can you head it off before they tear out a bulkhead?\ |
| 421 | '''Shepard:''' I'll deal with it.\ |
| 422 | '''Joker:''' ''[as Shepard walks off]'' Take pictures! |
| 423 | * ''Franchise/DragonAge'': |
| 424 | ** If a male Grey Warden in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is brave/[[GuideDangIt unlucky]] enough to start a romance with both [[BettyAndVeronica Leliana and Morrigan]], he can expect them to spend most of their time together sniping at each other and coming ''just'' short of a fully on brawl. |
| 425 | ** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', there are at least two ''almost'' physical fights between Aveline and Isabela--one if you bring Isabela along for the Long Road quest, the other later on in the front room of the Hawke estate. Hawke breaks up both of them just in time. (And is especially hilarious about it if he/she is a smartass.) By saying "Are there any good seats left?", in one case. |
| 426 | * Of course the Cat Fights minigame in ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza 0}}'' play out like this, though they can get surprisingly vicious as fighters will occasionally break out some of Kiryu's Heat Actions, but with less crunchy sound effects and showers of hearts to downplay the brutality of the attacks. |
| 427 | [[/folder]] |
| 428 | |
| 429 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 430 | * ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy'' is an epic cat fight featuring [[Franchise/FinalFantasy Tifa, Rikku and Yuna]] versus [[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Hitomi, Ayane and Kasumi]]. Both sides get more help later. [[spoiler:And later it crosses rather drastically into FanDisservice, especially with what happened to Tifa.]] |
| 431 | * In the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' machinima PreGame Lobby, one of the protagonists and recurring antagonists get in one of these. After the fight, one of the bystanders says "Did anyone else have an orgasm watching that?" causing an achievement popup to appear saying "Got a tissue?". |
| 432 | * This Website/ScrewAttack ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' [[http://youtu.be/7muX233Jwzk match]] between [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Felicia]] and [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Taokaka]] takes it to its most literal degree. Both combatants are {{Catgirl}}s. |
| 433 | * Portica and Killdra from ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'' nearly get into a cat fight a couple times in "Beach Brawl". |
| 434 | ** Julie and Asia get into it in [='VRcade'=]. |
| 435 | [[/folder]] |
| 436 | |
| 437 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 438 | * Played with in ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}''. Vanka challenges Greir to a sex fight... they immediately set about wrestling and ripping each other's clothes off in a hilariously serious manner. |
| 439 | * Played to hilarious effect in ''Webcomic/PlanetZebeth''. When Kabs' programming error causes two Samii to appear with only one armor suit between them, they promptly enter into a missile-fueled cat fight over who gets to keep it. Kraid, reptilian perv that he is, takes great delight in watching. |
| 440 | * ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'' featured two cat fights. The first took place at the climax of the Surreptitious Machinations Arc, in which Ki and Trudy fight each other while trying to reach Nick first, [[spoiler: Ki so that she can reveal Trudy's schemes to him, and Trudy so she can stop Ki from doing so]]. Later on, Ki and Sharon got into an argument over a minor detail of a project, and became enraged and wrestled each other before overhearing Dwayne say to Nick that the project was cancelled. |
| 441 | %% * ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''. Promised early on, delivered some 500 comics later. |
| 442 | * Spoofed in an ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' poll, where the options for the question "who would win in a catfight?" were mostly anthropomorphic cats, like WesternAnimation/TopCat, but also included all the Catwoman actresses. |
| 443 | * ''Webcomic/FletcherApts'' takes the term "Catfight" to its most literal sense, as a battle rages between two crazy feline females, Becca and Zoe, as they fight tooth and claw to win the right to court the hulky rock-star heartthrob Bill. Bill, being strapped down to his bed during the debacle, doesn't appear to have much say in the matter. |
| 444 | * In ''Webcomic/{{DDG}}'' everyone is mostly too afraid of 'Netta to get into a cat fight with her, but Zip does manage it in [[http://www.sincomics.com/phpAlbum/main.php?cmd=imageview&var1=DDG%2FDDG28.jpg&var2=2 this strip]] |
| 445 | * ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': |
| 446 | ** In [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030210 a strip]] some guys actually complain that some women are having a cat fight without letting them get a good look at it. The fight itself isn't actually that [[{{Fanservice}} Fanservicey]], though. |
| 447 | ** Played straight in [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010204 another strip]], however, where Torg imagines Zoe, Sasha, and Oasis as characters from a FightingGame. |
| 448 | ** Sasha's method for infiltrating a meeting of baddies is to knock out and impersonate the only female baddie there. When her victim wakes up, [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/091125 this trope appears]] with a vengeance. And yes, the dudes do [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/091130 break out the popcorn]]. |
| 449 | %% * A repeat occurrence in ''Webcomic/NotQuiteDailyComic''. Examples: [[http://www.truefork.org/Art/comic/cindex.php?43 here]] and [[http://www.truefork.org/Art/comic/cindex.php?280 here]]. |
| 450 | %% * ''Webcomic/BittersweetCandyBowl'', {{Pun}}nily common. Possibly, [[http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c55/p31.html this]] is the only played straight example currently. |
| 451 | * Done thrice in ''Webcomic/DubiousCompany''. |
| 452 | ** [[{{Tsundere}} Tiren]] spends most of the [[HighSchoolAU arc]] [[CannotSpitItOut angsting]] over Walter being courted by [[TheBeautifulElite Sakura]]. Tiren finally manages to give him Valentine’s Day chocolate only to get immediately one-upped by Sakura. Tiren lunges at her and… [[spoiler:GilliganCut to Izor reprimanding everyone’s poor behavior.]] |
| 453 | ** In the Festival of Veils arc, Mary [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight suspects]] Raque has kidnapped Elly. Raque and Elly are about to turn the corner and bump into Mary and Sue. Raque hears them and shoves Elly into a nearby doorway. |
| 454 | ** Later in the Festival Arc, [[ClingyJealousGirl Mary]] gets into one with the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]]. Sue wonders where [[{{Catgirl}} Tiren]] is and then argues with [[ClarkKenting Elly]] over who should stop them. |
| 455 | --->'''Sue:''' You need to control your wife before those two kill each other.\ |
| 456 | '''Elly:''' ME? You stop your sister! I'm not getting in the middle of that! |
| 457 | * In ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'', two female characters caught by a Confusion spell -- which causes nonsensical behavior and sometimes forces victims to fight random targets -- get into a cat fight. One victim likes cats, and the other hates cats, and that's the "basis" of the fight. |
| 458 | * In [[http://www.treadingground.com/?p=1384 this]] strip of ''Webcomic/TreadingGround'' Arne has set up a kiddie pool full of gelatin desert believing that at some point during the day, some of the women at the party will voluntarily invoke this trope and have a jello cat fight, fourteen strips later he is proven right. |
| 459 | * ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'': A PTA meeting turns into a brawl between Adelie and another parent, complete with clothes coming off. |
| 460 | --> '''Bella''': Why do you come to our PTA meetings? You don't have a kid.\ |
| 461 | '''Izzy''': *munching popcorn* For this exact reason. |
| 462 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Rascals}}'', although one of them is a literal cat, Chrissy dukes it out with Amanda on the tennis court as seen at the start of this [[https://rascals.kemono.cafe/comic/520-eating-pavement/ page]] . |
| 463 | * In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', the in-universe Heterodyne Show "[[https://girlgenius.fandom.com/wiki/The_Heterodyne_Boys_and_the_Socket_Wench_of_Prague The Heterodyne Boys and the Socket Wench of Prague]]" apparently calls for [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051026 a Cat Fight in a Grease Vat]]. |
| 464 | [[/folder]] |
| 465 | |
| 466 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 467 | * In the ''WebVideo/TGWTGYearOneBrawl'', when [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick face off against Bennett the Sage and The Chick with the Goggles, Spoony suddenly switch places with the Chick so that he and Bennett can take pictures while the girls have a cat fight offscreen. In the audio commentary, Creator/DougWalker mentions that the girls wouldn't agree to the gag unless the fight happened offscreen. There was a planned male version where Spoony and Bennett would pillow fight while the girls took pictures, but it had to be cut because people couldn't stop laughing while filming it. |
| 468 | * ''WebVideo/CollegeSaga'' parodies this by having the female party-member and the female villain "bitch"-slap each other. In a turn-based battle. |
| 469 | * PlayedForLaughs by Creator/TessMasazza in the Italian Webseries ''Insopportabilmente Donna'', where she is shown engaging in hilarious fights with other girls who wrong her (mainly because they hit on the guy she is infatuated with). |
| 470 | * ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': Gender-inverted with Devil Boner and Benny in ''Cinderella: Old vs. New'', where they have a TestosteronePoisoning fight over Hyper's affections. It ends when they find out they both love ''Film/EverAfter''. |
| 471 | * Empress He and Empress Dong in ''Fanfic/FarceOfTheThreeKingdoms.'' |
| 472 | [[/folder]] |
| 473 | |
| 474 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 475 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', Cindy Vortex and GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe April the Gorlock get into a cat fight after Cindy sees April locking lips with Jimmy (granted, the alien was simply performing the "Gorlock seal of trust", a non-sexual battle bonding ritual from her home planet. Cindy did not know this - hence the ensuing claw-fest). [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the fact that Sheen screams out "Catfight! Catfight!" |
| 476 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPrinceAchmed'', Prince Achmed and his flying horse land in a castle occupied by five beautiful, apparently pretty horny women. They all kiss him, but when they start brawling with each other over Achmed's attention, he gets back on the horse and flies away. |
| 477 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "The Magnificent Steven", Roger manipulates Hayley and Francine into one-upping each other until a cat-fight inevitably breaks out, all so he can film it and win a t-shirt from a website devoted to mother-daughter cat-fights. |
| 478 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The closest this Y7-rated kids' show ever got to one was a short MudWrestling match between Katara and Toph in the third season, and both girls kept all their clothes on for it. Every other time, a fight between the female characters [[AvertedTrope were just plain fights]]. |
| 479 | * GenderInverted on ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''--ComicBook/BoosterGold, [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Guy Gardner]] and Comicbook/{{Aquaman}} get into a three-way battle, and [[PlayingWithFire Fire]] seems quite intrigued. |
| 480 | -->'''Fire:''' Ooh, guy fight. |
| 481 | -->'''[[AnIcePerson Ice]]:''' So immature. |
| 482 | * In ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'', it unsurprisingly happens when Cleo and Joan are forced to live in the same room. Gandhi and JFK decide to join in when they see them fighting in their underwear. |
| 483 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': The episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E8IAmPeterHearmeRoar I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar]]" has Peter sent to SensitivityTraining and coming back as some kind of bizarre hybrid of StrawFeminist and gossipy housewife. A cat fight between Lois and the sensitivity coach snaps him out of it. |
| 484 | * Played for laughs in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' a couple of times. For example, in the episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E7JurassicBark Jurassic Bark]]", Fry is motivated by a chance to resurrect his long-dead dog and he completely ignores Leela and Amy wrestling in skimpy outfits. A few other times, the men are quite happy to watch a cat fight. |
| 485 | * Lampshaded in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' episode "High Noon" when Elisa has a cat fight with Demona. |
| 486 | -->'''Coldstone:''' Well, this is diverting.\ |
| 487 | '''Macbeth:''' You don't know the half of it. |
| 488 | * In ''Franchise/{{GI Joe}}'' it got fairly silly with Scarlet, Lady Jaye and the Baroness, women who have throughout the show displayed advanced martial arts skills, whenever they fought each other... straight for the hair. |
| 489 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheHauntedWorldOfElSuperbeasto'' not only includes an extended cat fight scene, but a Hard 'N Phirm song (called Cat Fight, appropriately enough) to go along with it. |
| 490 | * ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'', unless it's a robotic or monstrous foe. |
| 491 | ** One episode features a lengthy, violent, conspicuously [[TheHitFlash HitFlash-free]] fight between Supergirl and her evil clone Galatea. Horribly brutal, yes, but considering they're both [[MostCommonSuperPower very well-built women]], it still tickles the inner corners of the viewers' minds. |
| 492 | ** However, this is later one-upped by the episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS3E9GrudgeMatch Grudge Match]]", the entire plot of which can be summed up as "We force gorgeous women to wrestle for half an hour." Featuring members like Black Canary (a.k.a. the Blonde Bombshell), Huntress, and Vixen, and culminating with a four-on-one match against Wonder Woman (who dominates), the fights are actually ''marketed'' as cat fights in-universe as a way to cash in through the "Glamor Slam". It even ends with Huntress and Black Canary (who had a physical and verbal altercation in a prior episode) about to fight again--just for the hell of it. |
| 493 | * On ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', Kim fights all her own battles, against male and female bad guys, as she's really the only combatant on her team. However, the only human opponent who ever even comes close to really landing a blow is the villainess Shego. The guys do ''[[WouldHitAGirl try]]'', but she's simply too good for them. These fights are generally played straight, but considering that one episode included the two ''mud wrestling'', it's safe to say that the powers that be are [[{{Fanservice}} aware of the appeal]]. TheMovie ''[[WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama So the Drama]]'' had them in evening gowns-- slit up the side for ease of movement. |
| 494 | * The '60s stop-motion MonsterMash ''WesternAnimation/MadMonsterParty'' has a cat fight between hot babe Francesca and The Monster's Mate Phyllis Diller-- complete with dubbed-in meows. |
| 495 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon "Never Kick a Woman", an athletic female self-defense instructor (modeled after Creator/MaeWest) puts the moves on Popeye and pummels Olive Oyl - who then downs a can of spinach and lays into her, first ''growing cat ears and whiskers and hissing angrily!'' |
| 496 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' had a notable one in "Something's a Ms." between [[SexySecretary Miss Bellum]] and [[TheVamp Sedusa]]. It ended with them falling into a swimming pool. |
| 497 | * Zigzagged in the ''WesternAnimation/Sealab2021'' episode "Splitsville": The two Debbies and Yumi end up getting in one over Quinn. However, while the bar patrons got a good view of the fight in universe, the viewers of the show didn't, thanks to an overturned table blocking their view. Still, the girls were very vocal about what happened, especially when their tops ripped off. |
| 498 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 499 | ** There is an arcade at the Kwik-E-Mart called "Catfight", with such moves as "hairpull". |
| 500 | ** Also mentioned in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E12TennisTheMenace Tennis the Menace]]" when Homer thinks that tennis is "the sport where chicks whale on each other" (which is foxy-boxing) and in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E8LisaOnIce Lisa on Ice]]" (the episode in which Lisa joins the hockey team after getting a notice stating that she's failing gym) where Homer tells Lisa that, [[AsTheGoodBookSays according to the Bible]], girls should stick to girl sports, such as hot-oil wrestling and foxy-boxing. |
| 501 | ** Marge and her old high school friend Chloe get into a cat fight in the backyard when Lisa becomes impressed with Chloe's success. Homer rushes out and announces that they don't have to fight over him, and Marge replies they're not. |
| 502 | * ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': |
| 503 | ** Played with in "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E16To18WorldsFinest World's Finest]]". Harley Quinn and Mercy have Hate-At-First-Sight moment. While there is torn clothing (and the occasional [[ThatPoorCat cat yelp]]) it's indicated to be a brutal fight. |
| 504 | ** And another aversion to the trope that unlike most male witnesses -- Lex Luthor and the Joker continue their negotiation, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight not paying an iota of attention to the carnage]]. [[FunnyBackgroundEvent The camera doesn't pay any attention to the girls either]]. |
| 505 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': |
| 506 | ** "[[Recap/TeenTitansS2E6DateWithDestiny Date with Destiny]]" features a classic cat fight between Starfire and [[MeaningfulName Kitten]] on the prom's dessert table. Tip: never date a guy with a girlfriend who can shoot lasers out of her eyes. |
| 507 | ** Raven and Terra's mud wrestling match. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZvXi_QL-Io Granted, they really were trying to kill each other.]] |
| 508 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': |
| 509 | ** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaHideAndBeSneaky Hide and Be Sneaky]]", DJ and Owen have to wait for the girls to finish up in the communal bathrooms before they can go. They hear a fight break out between Heather and Leshawna over a stunt Heather pulls on Gwen and at first it has all the hallmarks of cat fight. Heather tells Leshawna to get off of her, the violence is clearly limited to wrestling and slapping, and with the reason behind the fight being minimal, the two guys have no qualms being entertained by it. Then the sounds off glass breaking, wood cracking, and objects being thrown join the sonoric chaos and DJ and Owen decide to leave before anyone can declare them witnesses. |
| 510 | ** As tensions flare amid rising water in "[[Recap/TotalDramaMastersOfDisasters Masters of Disasters]]", Heather and Leshawna start slapping each other. Duncan quickly breaks it up. |
| 511 | ** In the evening of "[[Recap/TotalDrama2008ASpaceOwen 2008: A Space Owen]]", Beth and Courtney get into a huge fight in the girls' trailer over Beth taking the day's final challenge while Courtney wanted the both of them to refuse it. Duncan and Harold can hear everything while seated at the campfire, which prompts Duncan to state that he loves a good cat fight. Harold agrees, but specifies that his idea of a cat fight involves actual cats that wear tiny boxing gloves. Duncan doesn't know how to respond to that. |
| 512 | ** ''Celebrity Manhunt'''s co-host Josh is an unabashed cat fight enthusiast. In "[[Recap/TotalDramaCelebrityManhuntsTDAReunionShow Celebrity Manhunt's TDA Reunion Show]]", he gets to interview Gwen and Heather together at a time when they've been in an online war for weeks and professionally asks them if this is truly what they want their relation to be like. Both girls answer with an insult to the other and in seconds they're at each other's throats, much to Josh's delight. |
| 513 | ** Amy returns to the island in "[[Recap/TotalDramaABlastFromThePast A Blast From the Past]]" and is pissed that Samey got her eliminated. She seeks out her sister and twice gets into a fight with her that includes petty insults, screaming, hair-pulling, and wrestling. |
| 514 | * ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' had the fight of Bloom vs Diaspro. Though it wasn't played for ''{{Fanservice}}'', nor as a ''DesignatedGirlFight'' (as most combatants in the show are female), it did get more physical than the usual magic duels common to the series, and men did stand motionless enjoying the fight. |
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