Line #35 Main/MonsterMisogyny


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6	->''"You goddamn chauvinist pig ape!"''
7	-->-- '''Dwan''', ''Film/KingKong1976''
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9	The phenomenon in {{B Movie}}s from the 1950s to early 1960s in which rampaging monsters and serial killers seem to focus their "random" attacks mostly on women. Usually young, innocent, vulnerable women. Although such films may show a man or two as victims, [[DoubleStandard the real focus is on the ladies]]. For instance, if the movie includes a montage of attacks, expect every victim shown to be female.
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11	This seems to be a wide-scale application of the DisposableWoman concept, sans any significant connection to TheHero. Further, the deaths carry no more than the normal dramatic weight and do not motivate the Hero to action any more than would male deaths. All other things being more or less equal, the director will simply ''choose'' to populate his movie with female victims. And then, of course, there are plots in which the killer will ''specifically'' target females.
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13	One would assume, in this age of equal rights and feminism and all, that this would be a DiscreditedTrope or even a DeadHorseTrope. But no, the trope is alive and well. Apparently, the sight of women being terrorized on screen is just more... um... [[FanService titillating]]. Or a good way to show just how evil your monster is by [[KickTheDog attacking poor defenseless girls]]. Also, don't forget about IntimacyViaHorror. Either that, or it's because this is TruthInTelevision for some monsters of the human variety, as {{serial killer}}s target women much more often than men (especially when there's a [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence sexual component to their murders]]). Ted Bundy, Ed Kemper, Gary Ridgway, and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper killed women exclusively, or nearly so.
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15	This trope does carry some UnfortunateImplications about women's safety compared to men's. A very common real-life misconception about murder is that women are more likely to be murdered than men and that the world as a whole is more dangerous for women than men. In reality, whilst ''serial'' killers tend to target women, 70% of murder victims in general are ''male'' and out of the 30% of female victims, most are killed by someone she knows. Plus, serial killers are extremely rare compared to other types of murderers, despite some media suggesting otherwise.
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17	More UnfortunateImplications abound when you consider that the "monster" in these movies was frequently coded in a racialized way, intentionally or not. King Kong, for instance, is pretty easy to read as a metaphor for the fear of Black men assaulting White women, since Kong is a kidnapped African creature who shows a lustful (for the 30s) attitude towards the white Dawn.
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19	As a direct result of this trope, many {{slasher movie}}s have a FinalGirl (and one with no form of self-defense training at that), since audiences are somehow more likely to root for a young, nubile, defenseless ([[MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome and most often white]]) woman on the run from a psychopath who gutted her friends like fish, as opposed to a man in a similar position.
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21	If the women are abducted rather than killed, it's probably because MarsNeedsWomen. See also DamselInDistress, SlashersPreferBlondes, MonogenderMonsters, NaughtyTentacles, TouchOfTheMonster and DragonsPreferPrincesses. MenAreTheExpendableGender can either avert or invert this, depending on the hostility towards the gender -- though on a meta-level, that trope can contribute to the decision to use this trope if a creator makes the victims female so the attacks look more shocking. For a type of female monster that does this, see the LesbianVampire. For the inverse, see LiteralManeater.
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28	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
29	* In ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'' and [[Manga/{{Caterpillar}} its]] [[Manga/{{Blattodea}} sequels]], [[AllMenArePerverts most of the male characters]] are serial rapists with obsessions or supernatural mutations based on the traits of insects. Episodic trivia scenes will often remind readers that rape is that regular an occurence in the animal world. From the ending of ''Arachnid'' onwards, Japan is engulfed by a ZombieApocalypse of ant-like rapists and it's mostly the male infected who are shown attacking and violating women.
30	* In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', Wyald takes advantage of his role as an Apostle [[TheHedonist to enjoy himself to the fullest extent]], and while he finds plenty of joy in slaughtering men [[BadBoss (including his own followers)]], he seems to take a special pleasure in graphically raping and murdering any pretty young women who cross his path.
31	* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', Ichigo is confronted by a Hollow named Grand Fisher, named for the hook on his head which he can give the appearance of a small child to lure his victims, with [[MsExposition Rukia]] explaining that his favourite prey are women. He is also the hollow that killed [[MissingMom Ichigo's mother]].
32	* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Barry the Chopper attacked people regardless of gender. In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', however, he is mentioned as killing only young women.
33	* In ''Manga/ImmoralGuild'', it's been lampshaded that monsters only sexually assault women in order to get their mana, but they still try to kill and eat the men. That it wasn't the case before the series is a story plot point.
34	* In ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', the monstrous eight-headed Yamata-no-{{Orochi}} is an enormous pervert who likes to see women's underwear, naked women, and women in general. It also ''loves'' eating them. It even has taste buds for it. Men? They just taste bitter, they piss it off, and it kills them on sight. This is roughly based on the myth of the Yamata-no-Orochi, which demanded maiden sacrifices.
35	* ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'':
36	** Multiple arcs in the series have villains who drug lots and lots of women into becoming their mindless slaves. "The Psychogun" even has one who leaves a group of half-naked women paralyzed in place, posed like statues, via constant neurotoxin injections.
37	** Targrave is a grotesque plant-man who injects parasite seeds into women by tongue kissing them. He brainwashes dozens of innocent policewomen and strippers to force them to attack Cobra, who ruthlessly kills all of them in the ensuing chase scene.
38	** The "Lightning Planet" story is the one aversion of this trope in the entire series. Cobra infiltrates a museum staffed entirely by women, but there's no gratuitous slaughter of them by either their own robot dinosaurs or Cobra himself, and no villains are involved to kill them either. Cobra just steals the artifact he's looking for and escapes without any harm happening to the hostess-guards at all.
39	** The "Care for a Robot?" story involves a bunch of female beekeepers being killed after the bee-like robots they used are hijacked by a murderous A.I. The one woman who Cobra manages to help just gets uncerimoniously crushed by a rock in the following chase scene.
40	** In the Black Dragon King arc, a sports teacher tells Cobra that her students, who are all young women, went "swimming" outside the spaceship they are on. Cobra then apathetically points to the girls being devoured by space sharks, saying it's too late to do anything about it.
41	** The Hell Crusaders arc features a race of frog-like aliens that kidnap naked damsels to eat their brains. Then there's the Nazi-like Fuhrer Goldman, who decorates his EvilLair with severed female heads and scantily-clad corpses mounted on the walls because women in that planet have rubies growing out of their heads and he seeks the secret graveyard they are supernaturally drawn to die on. Cobra [[LampshadeHanging even calls it]] the most misogynistic thing ever.
42	* ''Manga/TerraforMars'' involves Martian cavemen who resemble humanoid cockroaches and are AlwaysChaoticEvil, with lots of ScaryBlackMan and TheIllegal imagery on their appearance and actions for good measure. It is noted that in situations where there are no threats to those monsters, they'll chase after any harmless human women nearby and gruesomely murder them for no apparent reason.
43	* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'':
44	** All of Furuta's named victims in the series have been women, and it doesn't seem to be entirely a coincidence. He dropped the steel beams on Rize, even though they knew each other as children. He seduced and brought Ami to the Ghoul Restaurant in order to see her murdered for his amusement. He belittled Matsumae's sense of honor and blinded her before finishing her off. And he states that Eto is just the kind of woman he likes, while [[VillainousCrush posing suggestively and commenting on her looks]]....and swears that he'll personally punish her for taunting him.
45	** Played straight and inverted, in ''Tokyo Ghoul:re''. The Ghoul SerialKiller [[ALoveToDismember Torso]] preys exclusively on women with scars, while [[GroinAttack Nutcracker]] is a FemmeFatale that enjoys preying on men. Both are considerable sources of FanDisservice, as a result of the horrifying violence, they visit on their preferred victims.
46	* ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'':
47	** In the first OAV, all of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Shinma of the week's]] victims were female: two schoolgirls, a college student, an OfficeLady, and a HouseWife. (And we actually witness the poor HouseWife's death; she's picking some silks in a store, the glass of the window suddenly cracks a little, and all of a sudden we see her dead on the floor.) ''Somewhat'' justified in that [[spoiler:Aiko, the girl "commanding" the Shinma, had her life "ended", therefore the Shinma believed it had to finish other female's lives as well since they had the lives that poor Aiko couldn't aspire to anymore.]]
48	** Also, more than one Shinma from the TV series and the manga preyed more on women than on men, or only on women. See the MadArtist Roh-Sa, to start, who captured vain and pretty women via the promise of making their beauty last forever. [[WaxMuseumMorgue Literally]].
49	* {{Justified\|Trope}} in ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}''. The I-Weapons usually go after women; women who just happen to have the Cloneblades of the Witchblade they are attracted to.
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53	* In ''ComicBook/SinCity'', male villains are nearly always some form of misogynistic scum bastard who murders and/or does truly awful things to women and girls, to the point that in ''A Dame to Kill For'', the second major story, [[spoiler:Ava, the titular FemmeFatale, plays on Dwight's [[TheDulcineaEffect violent protectiveness toward women]] by casting her perfectly innocent husband, Damien Lord, as one of these in her WoundedGazelleGambit]].
54	* Creator/ECComics' ''The Vault of Horror'' #35 comic titled "And All Through the House" features a homicidal maniac [[BadSanta dressed as Santa]] who only murders women. It's stated that he only attacks men if provoked and [[WouldntHurtAChild doesn't harm children]] but is obsessed with only killing women.
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58	* "Literature/PrinceLindworm" plays with the concept of dragon targeting women. The dragon in question (the titular Lindworm) killed countless maidens, but it turns out he wasn't looking for a meal -- he was looking for a bride. The final maiden, the one who actually stood up to him, is the one who marries him... and that's only ''after'' she discovers that his true form is a gorgeous human man.
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62	* The story goes that the memorable attack on the "Hitchcock woman" in ''Film/TheBirds'' was a result of Creator/AlfredHitchcock's [[CreatorBreakdown issues with that specific woman]].
63	* Chucky of the ''Franchise/ChildsPlay'' series is the Stephen King take on this trope: a seemingly inhuman monster (in this case, a SerialKiller doll) that turns out to be ''very'' human in its attitude and appetite. His very first onscreen victim in the first film is a woman he kills for being a "bitch" and he has a very violent (and memorable) misogynistic tirade in response to being threatened by the film's female protagonist. Later movies would only escalate this misogyny, from casually disparaging women drivers in the second film to getting a [[MadLove Joker and Harley Quinn-themed relationship]] in the post-trilogy films. ''Film/CurseOfChucky'' is definitely the worst, as it shows he [[spoiler:developed an obsessive "love" with one particular woman, kidnapped her and held her tied up for days, and then viciously stabbed her when she called the police, rendering the daughter she was pregnant with a paraplegic from birth]].
64	* ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'': The eponymous creature focuses its attention on the female protagonist apparently with sexual undertones. Notably, though, everyone the creature ''kills'' is a man.
65	* ''Death Car on the Freeway'': A MadeForTVMovie from the 1970s, in which a serial killer runs lone female motorists off the road and kills them.
66	* ''Film/{{Dragonslayer}}'', being a {{troperiffic}} dragony story, naturally has the whole VirginSacrifice thing. Particularly clear [[spoiler:when the princess is torn apart and eaten by baby dragons.]] Though note that the dragon is unintelligent and the lottery which leads to these sacrifices has been set up by the king; it's very possible the dragon couldn't care less who it was eating, and virginal young women were just considered the most expendable people in that medieval society.
67	* Inverted in ''Film/DudeBroPartyMassacre3''. The slasher is a female and her victims, with rare exception, are a bunch of fratboys.
68	* In ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'', the first to be taken by the monsters are the women in the group. And [[WhenTreesAttack the scene with the tree]]. This movie also inverts the FinalGirl trope, by having the one survivor be a guy.
69	* The maggot scene in ''Film/GalaxyOfTerror''. [[{{Squick}} We shall speak no more of it.]]
70	* In ''Film/Godzilla1954'', Godzilla was given sacrifices of girls tied to rafts and sent floating out to sea.
71	* ''Film/{{Horrific}}'': The giant killer eye in ''Terror Vision'' aims its attacks at Rita and Jane, with the men being almost collateral damage.
72	* ''Film/TheHorrorOfPartyBeach'': Twenty-four on-screen female deaths, not counting Victim Montages, compared to ''three'' killed males.
73	* ''Film/HumanoidsFromTheDeep'' takes everything the 1950s horror movie monsters hinted at [[MarsNeedsWomen when monsters kidnapped young women]], and updated it for 1980s exploitation sensibilities by [[{{Squick}} showing monster-on-girl rape scenes]]. Quite infamous for its misogyny, despite being directed by a woman. She claims producer Creator/RogerCorman added more explicit rape footage later; he confirmed this in an interview on The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs in 2021. Corman, for his part, felt that she had turned in footage far more tame than what she had originally agreed to shoot.
74	* Inverted in the spoof ''Film/MonsterInTheCloset'', in which the eponymous beast is smitten by and kidnaps the film's hero. (The monster's sex, if any, is never revealed...)
75	* ''Film/Scream1996'': Ghostface primarily targets and murders women with tons of [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything rape imagery]] attached.
76	* ''Film/ThisIslandEarth''. It's right on the [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_GIchwvJ-aNk/TMDaye49spI/AAAAAAAAVxQ/0oY5mRKbGZY/s800/this+island+earth+film+poster.jpg poster.]] For bonus points, the Mut-Ant has no role in the plot save a brief moment near the climax, and only to briefly scare the heroine.
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80	* Creator/DeanKoontz:
81	** In the novel ''Shadowfires'', a MadScientist-turned-monster stalks his ex-wife out of (at first) murderous intentions. But after slowly becoming more animalistic, and [[spoiler:raping and killing and eating an innocent bystander]], his desires towards his ex-wife turn more amorous and cannibalistic.
82	** Koontz does this a lot. ''Dark Rivers of the Heart'' was a particularly graphic example.
83	* In the ''Franchise/HannibalLecter'' series, all non-Lecter killers (Jacob Garrett Hobbes, Frances Dolarhyde, and Jame Gumb) specifically targeted women -- Dolarhyde killed whole families, but it was the mothers that interested him. Lecter himself was far too much of a MagnificentBastard to particularly care whom he killed, and it's implied that he had a fairly even split in terms of victims.
84	* ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'': The title monster feeds on men to survive, but the only new vampires he creates are women. Many critics note the [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence sexualized nature]] of the violence between men and women throughout the story, with blood-sucking and stalking being seen as metaphors for sex.
85	* Played straight with the Hunter in the ''Literature/ColdfireTrilogy'', but justified--he's made a study of human behavior and decided that targeting women is the most effective way to terrorize a society, and since [[EmotionEater he feeds on fear...]]
86	* Subverted in ''Literature/AChorusOfDragons''. The [[OurOrcsAreDifferent morgagge]] are known for going out of their way to target women when they attack human settlements, and conventional wisdom is that they're [[OneGenderRace all male]]. [[spoiler: As it turns out, the morgagge are ''matriarchal'' and haven't realized that most of the setting's human nations aren't; by targeting women, they think they're killing potential leaders. Morgagge women themselves are never seen outside of their homeland because they're considered too valuable to risk]].
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90	* Several monster/murder films seen on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', to the point where the [[LampshadeHanging guys would often wonder]] if the directors might have had "issues with women":
91	** ''Film/TheCrawlingHand'' features attacks on men as well as women, but the only such victim to actually die is a [[TheScourgeOfGod pill-popping, gun-happy, boozehound]] woman.
92	** ''Film/TheSinisterUrge'', which is about a killer who purposely targets young female porn-star wannabes.
93	** ''Film/TheIncrediblyStrangeCreatures''. The killer murders two couples during the course of the movie. However, in each case, his target was specifically the woman; the men were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
94	** ''Film/TheHorrorOfPartyBeach'' includes two male victims alongside its '''twenty-four''' girl deaths. And that figure doesn't take into account the film's Female Victim Montage. Adding to the misogyny count, many of those victims were holding a slumber party at the time. Cue "panty raid" jokes.
95	--->'''Mike:''' Do you think most guys who make movies have issues with women?
96	** ''Film/HorrorsOfSpiderIsland'', in which the entire victim pool is female. Except for one lecherous guy near the end. As the commentary said: "I wonder how this movie really feels about women." On the one hand, this is somewhat justified as the plot is a ClosedCircle (a troupe of dancers survived a plane crash and ended up on a desert island; their manager, the only man around, got turned into the monster). On the other, it also spends a lot of time focusing on scantily clad and/or (supposedly) naked women doing things like swimming, dancing, and fighting one another. And supposedly the original German version was more explicit.
97	** ''Film/TheCreepingTerror'', in which the monster swallows women whole on-screen, head first to allow the camera to focus on their legs. Mike & the bots even quip "you know, I think this is [[AuthorAppeal a weird little turn-on for the director]]."
98	** ''Film/ItLivesByNight'', in which only one of John's victims wasn't a young, attractive woman. Sgt. Ward doesn't quite count: he was killed by a swarm of bats.
99	* While they did attack all kinds of people, the monsters and other things in ''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker'' seemed to have a predilection for attractive young women who walk the streets alone at night.
100	* The Land Shark, a recurring sketch on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', described by the narrator as "the cleverest of all sharks. Unlike the Great White shark, which tends to inhabit the waters and harbors of recreational beach areas, the Land Shark may strike at any place, any time. It is capable of disguising its voice, and generally preys on young, single women." Usually, the skit would involve him fooling the female victim into opening the door to her apartment by claiming to be a plumber, a salesman, or claiming to deliver a candygram or flowers. (In one case where the victim was onto him, he claimed to be a dolphin, or in one case, outright [[SarcasticConfession admitted he was a Land Shark]]; clearly he only preys on ''stupid'' victims.)
101	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
102	** Vampires most often try to chow down on victims of the opposite sex.
103	** Warren Mears, an AxCrazy megalomaniac who actually was outright misogynistic.
104	** Caleb, the SinisterMinister in Season 7.
105	* In the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'' episode in which UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper turns out to be [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy an evil alien entity]], Spock says it focuses its attacks on women because "women are more easily and more deeply terrified, generating more sheer horror than the male of the species." Though the dialogue doesn't have this caveat (and hence lacks this implication), that actually makes sense in the context of Victorian England, where women were supposed to be delicate and helpless and this attitude was encouraged in them.
106	* On ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'', the demonic blackface minstrel Papa Lazarou goes after women to make into his "wives". In a bit of a twist, though, all of the women are over 50, and he's just as dangerous towards men if they come across his path. Also, due to the format of the show, almost all the women are played by men in drag.
107	* The titular serial killer in ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' is not an example, but many of his victims are. The Ice Truck Killer targets only women, and in particular prostitutes. This is similar to real serial killers, who (being primarily men) will target prostitutes under either some misguided "morals" that they have or simply because they feel [[DisposableSexWorker they won't really be missed]].
108	* ''Series/CriminalMinds'', being based on real-life serial killers, plays it straight in many episodes. It's {{Justified}} in that 70% of victims of serial killers are women, and the show does try to balance out this trope by having cases with omnivores, with -- usually -- the final victim that is rescued before any harm can be done to them being a woman.
109	* One MonsterOfTheWeek in ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' was a guy named Crumummy who only attacked the female members of Terra Venture, although, in his defense, that's what Trakeena ordered him to do, so he could steal their beauty and transfer it to her. In fact, that's part of why the plan was thwarted. Trakeena decided to come down to the colony in disguise to check on him, and when she was the only woman he didn't attack, Mike quickly got suspicious of her.
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113	* Music/FosterThePeople song "Music/{{Best Friend\|2014}}" featured a woman who could swallow people alive. However, rather than [[LiteralManeater eating men as one would expect from such a premise]], she instead only eats other women. This is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] because she is a supermodel and when she eats a woman she [[YouAreWhoYouEat absorbs some of her beauty]] so it makes sense that only women get eaten.
114	* ''Music/WithinTemptation'': the demonic SerialKiller from ''Angels'' only targeted young women such as the singer. He murdered them and buried their bodies in the desert.
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118	* [[DragonsPreferPrincesses Dragons]]. Many stories are told of dragons kidnapping maidens (usually virgins) and holding them captive before a knight comes in to rescue said maidens. With how much time tends to pass between the dragon kidnapping the maiden and the usual heroic quest, as well as the implied intentions of the dragon, one wonders why the dragons didn't just eat the maidens when they had the chance. On a somewhat darker level, some villagers were said to invoke this trope by [[HumanSacrifice sacrificing]] virgin maidens to dragons to appease said monster's appetites.
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122	* Prominently featured on the backglass art for ''Pinball/AttackFromMars''. In-game, all of the sound clips of Martian attacks on humans feature female victims.
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126	* ''Podcast/SickSadWorld'': Discussed in the Ed Kemper episode. He took much more pleasure in killing his mother and grandmother than he did in killing his grandfather. He also claimed he killed women because of his sexual inexperience.
127	** Also comes up in an unsolved murder of a woman. A stalker of the victim spent several years calling her mom to say "I've got her" or "I killed her". The one day the murder victim's father picked up, the stalker backed down and didn't call again.
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131	* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' campaign, the vampire Strahd von Zarovich, Darklord of Barovia, feeds on victims of both genders, but rarely ever creates male vampires. This has a lot to do with his eternal pining for Tatyana, his brother's betrothed whom he desired, and made a pact with some dark entity in order to possess, only to be cursed with vampirism forever, with Tatyana forever out of his reach.
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135	* Ride/UniversalStudios' ''[[Theatre/UniversalsHorrorMakeUpShow Horror Make-Up Show]]'' alludes to this, as the "volunteer" that one of the hosts will pick out from the audience is always a woman.
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139	* The Ogres in ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'' tend to target female pawns at top priority. Inverted by the Elder Ogre, which targets men first.
140	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
141	** The monsters in the Torna Canal section of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' only target females. If you pay attention, their attacks hint at TheReveal of [[SweetPollyOliver Faris]]' gender in the next chapter.
142	** The Orthros in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' will only appear if your party consists of your three female party members, Fran, Ashe, and Penelo. Granted, it will still attack male characters if you switch them in, but the monster seems to prefer attacking females.
143	* Pyramid Head from ''VideoGame/SilentHill2''. He is, among other things, a representation of the main character's masculinity issues, and is only seen to harm a single creature (excluding the protagonist) that isn't obviously female.
144	* [[ExaggeratedTrope Amped to 11 thousand]] in ''VideoGame/TheSuffering''. The Creeper in the second game is the incarnation of a pimp who abused, murdered, raped and did all sorts of unspeakable things to his hos. One line cut from the game was his: [[{{Squick}} "Blood makes the best lubricant."]]
145	* Justified in ''Franchise/DragonAge''; the darkspawn [[spoiler:reproduce by abducting humanoid women, gang-raping them and force-feeding them darkspawn flesh and their own relatives, and gradually transforming them into Broodmothers - towering, multi-breasted, betentacled horrors with nightmare faces who give birth to thousands more darkspawn.]]
146	* In some ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic'' games, there are monsters that attack the female members of your party in preference to others. (And a few that attack males in preference to others, a few that prefer to attack certain races or classes; the point is to encourage players to use a variety of characters.)
147	* ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' series:
148	** ''VideoGame/{{Koudelka}}'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts1'' have a monster called Inverse, which resembles [[OurMonstersAreWeird a revolver-totting upside-down man with additional heads growing from his face]]. For some reason, it almost always focuses on female party members (Koudelka herself, and Alice and Margaret), and FlavorText offers no explanation.
149	** Some monsters, such as {{Kappa}}s in ''Shadow Hearts'', are said to favor female targets, although it doesn't carry over to gameplay.
150	** ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts1'' also has Atman. In the bad ending path, it's fought with Alice [[DuelBoss alone]], and is [[HopelessBossFight impossible to defeat]]. However, if you go for the good ending, [[TheHero Yuri]] joins the battle, and it becomes possible to win. Still, Atman attacks Yuri only with "hit-all" attacks, and directs most of its attacks on Alice seemingly out of ''pure spite'', as one of its attacks is a vision of Alice's father's death.
151	* ''Monster Girl Quest'' is a case of [[GenderFlip Monster Misandry]]; since the game is about fighting off {{Cute Monster Girl}}s standing in for classic JRPG monsters, [[TheOneGuy and you're the only guy around]], naturally, those girls are going to go after you. Heck, even the ''tagline'' is "Lose, and the girls rape you" (and [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale despite what the tagline implies]], you really don't want to lose if you want to beat it).
152	* [[GenderFlip Inverted]] by Lady Anita in ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm''. Her signature attack is called “Art of Misandry.” If she uses it against one of your female party members, nothing happens… but if she uses it on a male, they get knocked out instantly. Since your party is 3/5 male at that point, and you have to send out four, it’s impossible to shield yourself by using only girls.[[/folder]]
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155	* [[spoiler:Wrecking Paul]] from ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'' is a serial killer who targets women. Including, if no one else is available, [[spoiler:his own partners]].
156	* ''Webcomic/ShreddedMoose'' is particularly horrible about this -- Brew, the "hero", kills or abuses women as a matter of fact; we are supposed to laugh at and approve of his acts.
157	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the French Aberration explicitly targeted women, and it's implied the CharmPerson ability only worked on those attracted to men (hence it not working on Nanase). This is actually a minor plot point, as its very nature was so fundamentally misogynistic that the stun hammers (which can normally only be summoned if a man does something offensive to a woman) could be freely used against it.
158	* ''Webcomic/TheGuyUpstairs'': [[SerialKiller Adam]] only targets fair skinned women with long, dark, flowing hair for some reason.
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162	* ''WebSite/{{Neopets}}'' once had something called the "Terror Mountain Ski Lodge", where members of the staff were picked off by the Ski Lodge Killer. The first victim was a male, but then the killer killed 8 female staff members in a row. Eventually the killer went back to male victims (as there were only two women left).
163	* The Website/SCPFoundation has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-847 SCP-847.]] Usually a normal-seeming (if damaged) female mannequin, it comes to life sporadically. If a man approaches it, it will try to entice him with moanings, and afterwards it will destruct parts of itself according to whatever comment it hears about "her" lacking something. If a woman approaches within 100 meters of it, [[MurderousMannequin it immediately attacks]] with a single-minded determination to murder the woman, after which it will use body parts from her victim to repair itself. Its only known weakness is [[TaserTagWeakness electricity]], which will temporarily render it dormant.
164	* GenderFlipped in the ''Monster Girl Encyclopedia'': As all of the monsters are women, their primary target is human males when they need to kill ([[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale or rape]]) something.
165	* James A. Janisse and Chelsea Rebecca of ''WebVideo/DeadMeat'' have discussed this on occasion, specifically the unique manner in which it sometimes crosses paths with its inverse, MenAreTheExpendableGender. James has noted that, in his experience watching horror films for ''WebVideo/TheKillCount'', the body count overall tends to lean towards men more often than not, but it's the women who usually get the most brutal and drawn-out death scenes.
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