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10[[quoteright:300:[[ComicBook/{{Futurama}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fryslapped_9.png]]]]
11[[caption-width-right:300:How dare you let her teenage self flirt with you!]]
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13->''"She beats everybody up for literally no reason. At least in some of these shows, there's a pretense, like, he may have accidentally peeked on her in the bathroom. There was no intent there, but he did peek on her in the bathroom. I'm not excusing that, but it was like in this show if they were walking down the same side of the street and she was like, 'Did you peek at me in the bathroom?!' and he would be like, 'Wh-who are you?!' "''
14-->-- '''Dave Riley''', ''Podcast/FastKarateForTheGentlemen'', [[https://daveandjoel.com/?p=809 Show #314: We Cracked the Case!]]
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16Closely related to -- and generally intended to follow -- the AccidentalPervert, the Unprovoked Pervert Payback is a violent maneuver in which an offended girl screams "PERVERT!" and pounds the crap out of a guy for... smiling at her, or any of a hundred other things that are ''meant'' to be accidental perviness, but just ''aren't''. Hell, chances are that ''nothing'' dirty happened, at all, or even close to it. Tough luck for that poor guy; he's suddenly an AccidentalPervert and ground-zero for the (self-righteous) bitchslap of his life!
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18'''Note:''' This staple of HaremSeries is closely related to PervertRevengeMode, but has the twist of being completely unwarranted, rather than just undeserved. This is where the producers intended to have an AccidentalPervert joke ''but failed to include anything remotely identifiable as perversion'' ([[ThanksForTheMammary boob grab]], [[FunbagAirbag getting a faceful of female chest]], etc.). Often this moment is so badly constructed that the slap comes after everyone concerned ''knows'' that nothing perverted happened.
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20This trope can also be {{Invoked|Trope}} by any girl causing the innocent man (generally quite some distance away and in full view) to get jumped and beaten up for no reason. {{Tsundere}}s who engage in this behavior too often are sometimes classified by fans as "failed tsunderes".
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22Not to be confused with FalseRapeAccusation, where no attempt of abuse (accidental or otherwise) was underway in the first place.
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24See also: AbominationAccusationAttack, NoSympathy, HyperspaceMallet, DoubleStandard, and DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale.
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26[[noreallife]]
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28!!Examples:
29[[index]]
30* UnprovokedPervertPayback/AnimeAndManga
31* UnprovokedPervertPayback/FanWorks
32* UnprovokedPervertPayback/VideoGames
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37[[folder:Advertising]]
38* There was a commercial not too long back in which, [[ItMakesSenseInContext through a convoluted series of misfortunes]], a man ends up falling out of his bedroom window, rolling down a hill, plowing through a hedge, and landing at the feet of a female jogger. She promptly sprays him with mace for absolutely no reason other than he was within range.
39* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RBYgEZqrJs One commercial]] had a guy with a map walk up to a woman waiting for the bus. He is about to ask for directions when she immediately maces him, emptying the entire can into his face. And then, while he is lying on the ground in agony, she blows a rape whistle while repeatedly tazering him. It was an ad for a hand held GPS.
40[[/folder]]
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42[[folder:Comic Books]]
43* In one issue of ''ComicBook/{{Futurama}}'' comics, Leela has been split into her baby, teen, and elderly selves. Her teen form gains a crush on Fry and starts flirting with him, causing Leela to hit him even though he's clearly uncomfortable with a teen flirting with him.
44* Played with in ''ComicBook/RedEars'' in a particular strip. A beautiful woman is eating at a bistro when a young man takes notice and asks her if he can offer her some coffee. She reacts incredibly outraged as if he treated her like a hooker, causing much embarrassment to the guy. She takes a few notes, then gets up and approaches him to apologize and explain that she's a student who was using him for a social experiment on shame in a public setting. He angrily shouts at her so everyone can hear him say "1000 bucks for an hour?! Are you flipping mental?!"
45** The same joke was used ca. 1980 by [[GermanHumour Dieter Hallervorden in the sketch show "Nonstop Nonsens"]].
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48[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
49* In ''Film/TheWizard'' (basically a feature-length Creator/{{Nintendo}} advertisement):
50** The girl is able to get rid of the private detective that has caught up to the runaway kids by pointing and screaming, loudly proclaiming that "He touched my breast!" The man is a good 30 feet away from her and currently engaged in a struggle with one of the boys (why no-one bats an eye at that is anyone's guess). He obviously hasn't touched her, but [[HumiliationConga two security guards grab him, beat him into submission, throw handcuffs on him and carry him off]]. They don't even detain the kids to find out what he supposedly did to her or who they are.
51** Followed by a bunch of truckers who just happened to [[OhCrap show up outside the city limits]]...
52--->'''[[BigScaryBlackMan Big Lead Trucker]]:''' So you touched her breast, huh?
53::: Cue CurbStompBattle.
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56[[folder:Jokes]]
57* A train is taking a general, a private, an old lady and a very comely young lady somewhere. The train goes into a tunnel where it gets pitch black for a few seconds. There is a loud scream, an obvious slap, and when the train comes out of the darkness, the general has a hand-shaped red mark on his face. The old lady is thinking "It was good that young woman showed that she doesn't allow herself to be felt up." The young lady is wondering why the general felt up the old lady. The general is thinking how it's a damn shame that private felt up the young lady, and he got slapped for it. The private is thinking how it's perfect: he screams like a girl, gets to slap a general and got away with it.
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60[[folder:Literature]]
61* A PlayedForDrama version in the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' novel ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresOriginalSin Original Sin]]'', when a HatePlague leads to a woman beating a man to death because he accidentally brushed against her while practicing tai chi.
62* Creator/PGWodehouse's short story "A Sea of Troubles" features austere secretary Miss Pillenger, always ready to swing a fist at any man who might try anything--despite, of course, the fact that no man ever has. When her employer--who, unbeknownst to her, is about to commit suicide--gives her a kiss goodbye on the forehead, she nearly knocks him unconscious.
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65[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
66* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' had a case of this, where after a break-in Rose doesn't feel safe or secure anymore. It reaches a pitch when a strange man comes running after her in the parking lot and she kicks him in the groin, re-establishing her confidence and sense of security. Dorothy and Blanche are initially happy for her... until she sheepishly reveals the guy was only running after her because she had dropped her purse and [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome is probably going to file an assault charge.]]
67* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' used this in one of their sketches - a shy beachgoer (Terry Jones) trying to find a private place to change into his swimsuit assumes a man standing behind his changing booth (Michael Palin) is peeping. So he leaves and kicks Palin's character in the bum, only to learn that he was just trying to find a place shielded from the wind to light his cigarette.
68* Used in ''Series/NewsRadio'' when Lisa loses her shirt in the office and slaps Bill as she's walking to get it back.
69-->'''Bill:''' What was that for?! I didn't say anything!\
70'''Lisa:''' [[ThoughtCrime You were thinking it.]]\
71'''Bill:''' ''[[{{beat}} lecherous grin]]'' Fair enough.
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74[[folder:Web Animation]]
75* ''WebAnimation/FreedomToons'': In "Ben Shapiro REKS Ocasio-Cortez", AOC accuses Ben Shapiro of cat-calling and even attacks him with mace after he takes her up on her claim that Republicans aren't willing to debate her ideas by offering her money for a public debate. Ben responds that she's just proving his point without costing him a dime. And gives her the EyeBeams treatment.
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78[[folder:Web Video]]
79* In WebVideo/ProZD's skit "when an anime is clearly padding for filler time", one of the techniques the anime uses to drag the episode out is to have Tomoko slap Sosuke Bosuke for supposedly looking up her skirt even though he clearly didn't.
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82[[folder:Webcomics]]
83* In ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'', [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2010/09/25/nonstop-flight-to-pain/ Nin Wah thinks CK is trying to cop a feel and promptly headbutts him into unconsciousness.]] In a rare event for this trope, [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2010/10/03/5-ccs-of-chewy-gum-stat/ she's immediately apologetic once she realizes her mistake.]]
84* ''Webcomic/DragonMango'': Dr. Yong-Yi [[UndressingTheUnconscious changes the clothes of an injured and unconscious Mango]] to [[AfterActionHealingDrama treat her wounds]]. When she [[http://dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter07/dm07-26.htm realizes this]] much later, she has a [[DelayedReaction delayed]] NakedFreakOut and doesn't accept his insistence that he's a doctor as an excuse and enters PervertRevengeMode, sending him flying out of the building.
85-->'''Dr. Yong-Yi:''' ''[landing outside his clinic]'' I don't feel I deserved that.
86* ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'':
87** Invoked with Ping. As a RobotGirl designed for non-H {{Dating Sim}}s, she is programmed to attack undressed men if they don't put their clothes on within 270 seconds.
88--->'''Ping:''' Piro-kun, I have to keep my eyes closed while I try to hit him. You should move.
89** Junko beating up the L33t Gamer when she thinks he looked up her skirt is arguably justified. [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/777 Her smacking him simply for blearily muttering "Pink...Li'l polka dots..."]] isn't, especially since she was sitting next to him at the time, making it impossible for him to see up her skirt. Making the situation even worse, he'd also just collapsed from chest pain and had to take medicine, leaving him clearly incoherent. [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/778 The situation]] is followed up with the reveal that he couldn't possibly have been perving on her (she realizes that her underpants were striped, not spotted), and Largo expresses confusion over why she attacked someone who had only been trying to help her in beating an arcade game.
90* ''Webcomic/MobPsycho100'': This is PlayedForDrama when [[JapaneseDelinquents local gang leader Tenga Onigawara]] is shamed and verbally assaulted for stealing the mouthpieces off of girls' recorders to sniff and lick in private... except that Tenga is innocent, and the whole thing was a FrameUp by a pair of Student Council members as the first order of business to rid the school of undesirables such as his delinquent gang.
91* One artist [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2128753 parodied the whole affair]] (warning: NSFW site) by having the boy launch into a tirade about the girl not locking the door and blaming him for it, [[AllMenArePerverts thinking he would have perverted feelings for her.]] When she asks what she could do to make it up to him for the payback, [[spoiler:[[ImmediateSelfContradiction he bluntly demands she have sex with him.]]]]
92* A verbal variant: In ''The Starship Destiny'' by Squidi, the captain hires a female engineer and tells her he can't wait to get her back to the ship to see what she can do. She immediately laments how this happens every time, but since she's a cyborg and contractually bound, she can't refuse an order. He's ''horrified'' and hurriedly clarifies that he meant for her to ''fix'' his ''ship''.
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95[[folder:Western Animation]]
96* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Brian asks a woman in the college class he's taking if he's in the right room, and she immediately freaks out and hoses him down with pepper spray. When he calls her out on this, she apologizes and says she's on edge due to a date rape seminar she'd attended earlier.
97* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'', there was a RareMaleExample. Mr. Cat [[BatterUp hits Stumpy with a baseball bat]] and accuses him of voyeurism just for being outside the door when he was in the bathroom.
98* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' had an extremely rare ''male'' case of this. An over-protective, coddling Scoutmaster (voiced by Andy Richter) was walking down the driveway to his car when Bill, Dale, and Boomhauer needed to distract him. They walk up to claim their car broke down, but before they can even get out the first sentence, he maces them. Repeatedly.
99* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment", a new prohibition law is enacted in Springfield, and a "dry" mob is aghast to find their own police chief blatantly disregarding the law and partying at Moe's Tavern. Wiggum's response to getting caught [[DiggingYourselfDeeper only makes things look worse for him]].
100-->'''Chief Wiggum:''' Aw, jeez. This looks bad. Better turn on the old Wiggum charm.
101-->''(he struts toward the ladies with a forced grin while humming; it's obvious he's had a few drinks beforehand)''
102-->'''Helen:''' ''(gasps, then shrieks)'' '''''PERVEEEERT!!!'''''
103-->'''Chief Wiggum:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oh, boy. That sounded bad.]]
104[[/folder]]

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