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11	WouldHitAGirl in {{Video Game}}s.
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14	* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'': Of course, this would normally qualify the game as an unremarkable example, except for one thing: when the vast majority of the male characters do it, it seems to be mostly born of pragmatism, and in fact, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Ragna]] and [[GentleGiant Tager]] both openly say that [[EverybodyHasStandards they have moral compunctions about hitting women]]. The sole exception is [[BigBad Hazama]], who actually seems to ''enjoy hurting women in particular'', physically if not [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech psychologically]] as well. [[KickTheDog Of course, this is intended to make us hate him all the more]]. And there's also [[{{Jerkass}} Jin]], who is perfectly fine with attacking a woman, ''especially'' if her name is "Noel Vermillion".
15	* In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters XIII'', [[BloodKnight Shen Woo]] openly states that one of his good points as a fighter is that he doesn't hesitate to strike a woman in a match. His in-story attitude confirms this: he's rather fastidiated when he has to fight a woman but never throws the towel, and not to mention the female opponents refuse to put up with his complains (which go more for the "damn, you women [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl shriek a lot when I hit you in battle]]" rather than the [[StayInTheKitchen "ew women, so weak"]]). In fact, when Shen encounters a DarkActionGirl opponent like [[spoiler: Mature or Vice]], he openly says [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence that "crazy women" turn him on.]]
16	%%* ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom'': Polimar has no qualms of hitting women, as seen in his winning quotes.
17	* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 5'': In a cutscene during Story Mode, as [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Feng Wei]] prepares to fight Asuka Kazama, she protests that not applying WouldntHitAGirl would be a disrespect. He answers that, as fighters, if he held back, ''that'' would be disrespect.
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20	* [[PlayerCharacter The Hunter]] from ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' wouldn't question about gender when it comes to hunting beasts and hostile Hunters. [[spoiler: Aside from those who turned into beasts, given how AxCrazy [[ReligionOfEvil Choir Hunters]] are, and the need of [[WouldHurtAChild Umbilical Cords]] for conquering the [[EldritchAbomination Great Ones]], the Hunter has no problem killing ''pregnants''. Also, when the females you hit in questions are ''Great Ones'', given how dangerous they are, pulling chivalry wouldn't do any good to the hunt.]]
21	* PlayedForLaughs in ''VideoGame/BraveFencerMusashi'' with the hero himself. Topo of [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Leader's Force]] challenges him to a fight, and he is more than eager to lay a beating on her. Then she ''[[WhatTheHellHero chastises him]] for being willing to hit a girl'', and demands that their "fight" be a RhythmGame instead.
22	* ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}''. If you want, you can punch any random girl in the face, but doing so instantly maxes out your WantedMeter and causes prefects to spawn out of nowhere to bust you. As such, most players WouldntHitAGirl, if only for practical reasons.
23	* ''VideoGame/TheCombatribes'' had Martha Splatterhead, the BigBad of the game and cyborged-up final boss. She asked Berserker, "You wouldn't hit a lady, would you?" Cue her getting trashed by Berserker, who says "CYBORGS AIN'T LADIES!"
24	* ''VideoGame/ADanceWithRogues'' includes characters who are perfectly fine with or creepily enthusiastic about abusing women, but the most prominent is [[TokenEvilTeammate Vico]].
25	* Since ''VideoGame/{{Echocalypse}}'' involves one or so warzones where girls can attack him at anytime, the male protagonist will not hesitate to fight back against his aggressors.
26	* ''VideoGame/FableII'' The bully terrorizing the dog at the beginning, though instead of punching your sister, he headbutts her.
27	** Which might actually be ''worse'' if you think about it.
28	*** And if you're playing as a female character, expect no special treatment, because you won't get any.
29	* The ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' series has the Lady Killer perk, which aside from [[TheCasanova extra dialog options]] means the (male) player does extra damage to women. There is of course a DistaffCounterpart for female characters.
30	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
31	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Leaving out the erm, [[PlotlineDeath obvious example]], Cloud inflicts a misplaced beating on Aerith when he gets possessed by Sephiroth. He's very sorry for it when he comes to later. Tseng also backhands Aerith early on in Disc One; this becomes even more of a KickTheDog moment with a later reveal that he has a VillainousCrush on her.
32	** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', the closest to someone who wouldn't is Zidane Tribal, the ChivalrousPervert who has an ability called 'Protect Girls', and in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' says when up against [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Terra]] 'A girl? This'll be tricky...' but with no effects on gameplay. However, in his own game he has no compunctions about fighting and killing the Alexandrian soldiers when they're invading Cleyra or trying to stop him from rescuing Dagger.
33	** ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' lets us know that [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Garland]] has no trouble "knocking down" [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Terra]], despite being a former knight. (Keyword: former.)
34	--->'''Garland''':"Expect no chivalry here, woman!"
35	* In ''VideoGame/TheGodfather'' games, while there are no onscreen female mobsters, several store owners are female and it is perfectly possible to visit the same "negotiation" techniques on them as on their male counterparts.
36	* Although female antagonists are far and few in between, the playable character in the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' games have no trouble hurting and killing women. Claude in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'' hunts down and kills Catalina due to her betraying him at the bank robbery by shooting him, taking the money, and leaving him for dead. You can also create a female character for the online mode of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' and enemies will attack you regardless of your gender.
37	* ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'' has the player play as an 18 year old petite girl who is implied to be suffering from conditions that would hinder her more than usual in her ability to fight back. This doesn't stop any of her stalkers (3 male and 1 female) from slapping her around, crushing her ribs, strangling her, or even suck her life away by touching her between her life with Azoth. Oh, and mostly everything that happens to her is specifically because she is a girl.
38	* In ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheEmperorsTomb'' [[spoiler: When Jones is in the Black Dragon Fortress to save Mei Yin, the Feng Twins get in his way. During the fight Jones specifically says "I don't hit women, but in your case, I'll make an exception!"]].
39	* In ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'' human (male) enemies and the infected will gladly beat Ellie to death with their own hands if she approaches them while you are controlling her. Also, Joel [[spoiler: has no problem blowing Marlene´s brain out at the end of the game, albeit he does not "hit" her]]
40	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series. Ganondorf not only kidnaps and imprisons Zelda repeatedly, he is indeed willing to backhand her.
41	** Conversely, Link is willing to hit girls in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' ...specifically, the Gerudo warriors, who are more than capable of hitting back, and will take him down quickly if he doesn't take them down first.
42	* The ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'' series has a general rule against its protagonists fighting women, ''especially'' in regards to leading man Kazuma Kiryu. This makes it notable when this philosophy is waived:
43	** Tanimura, one of the new protagonists of ''VideoGame/Yakuza4'', is the first to show no compunctions with fighting against women, and features the first battle against a woman when he spars with his training master Nair[[note]]well, first battle excluding the DisguisedInDrag woman from a ''Yakuza 1'' substory that still used a male model[[/note]]. Him being one of the youngest protagonists, and not honor-bound to traditional values such as with the ex-yakuza member Kiryu, may be the reason for his differing ideals.
44	** ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' came out in 2020 and featured the first playable women in the mainline series to engage in combat alongside their male peers. Perhaps as a reflection of the more modernized setting, the game is a little less stringent with the idea that hitting a woman under any circumstance is a big no-no, with multiple protagonists (including a few from previous entries) having no problem with attacking your female party members when they need to.
45	* VideoGame/MaxPayne. At one part in the first game he meets Rico Muerte (a hitman) and Candy Dawn (a hooker) in the tenement building bar. A fight starts, and both Rico and Candy pull a gun. In the ensuing firefight, Max takes them both out. The BigBad is also a woman, called Nicole Horne.
46	* The ''VideoGame/MeatBoy'' series Dr Fetus who loves to do that on regular basis.
47	* Mega Man presumably has no compunctions against this, as he fought Splash Woman in ''VideoGame/MegaMan9'' without any more concern than for the other 7. Every boss does this if you play as Roll in ''VideoGame/MegaManPoweredUp'' (Though Cut Man's reason for attacking her is that he's outright terrified of what Roll will do to him if he doesn't defend himself).
48	** Zero is also an equal-opportunity killer in his own series, though the one girl he fights during the ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series happens to have been his girlfriend and thus causes serious BSOD when he is forced to kill her.
49	* The ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' series has plenty of female bosses. In ''[=MGS4=]'', four of the six human bosses are female, as are the FROG troops. It's wonderfully subverted in ''[=MGS2=]'' with Fortune -- [[spoiler:Snake and Raiden would ''like'' to hit her but can't because of her forcefield]].
50	** The first boss of ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 2\|SonsOfLiberty}}'' is Olga Gurlukovich, [[spoiler:who both the player and Snake know is pregnant]]. Snake tranqs her, but solely because he doesn't have a more lethal weapon handy. Even though he takes her gun after the battle, he doesn't have any ammunition for it and ''can't'' shoot her.
51	** Volgin in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 3\|SnakeEater}}'' is a villainous example, hitting anyone he wants any time he feels like it. Poor Tatyana seems to literally be [[DepravedBisexual his latest punch toy]].
52	** ''[=MGS3=]'' has the several times Big Boss/Naked Snake fights [[spoiler:the Boss, his former mentor.]] The first few times they tangle, he fails to land a single punch -- not ''just'' because he's deliberately holding back, but because (as he acknowledges) she is simply much better than he is; in their first encounter, she just casually breaks his arm without looking like she's even trying. And his reluctance to face her in the end has nothing to do with her gender and everything to do with [[spoiler:his love and respect for her]]. She's portrayed throughout the game as about as badass as it gets, never as someone who needs your chivalry. [[spoiler: By the end of the game, she's actually ready to die, and Snake is actually committed to killing her, and he wins as a result.]]
53	* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'': The antagonists are a Criminal Leauge Of Naughty Critters, or [[FunWithAcronyms C.L.O.N.C.]] They are evil, but not sexist, and have abused just as many female characters as males.
54	* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'': This is discussed via Travis Touchdown. Although he is hesitant to kill women, he sees no problem hitting them. He battles five female assassins and kills three of them. ''However'', he didn't kill the first he fought; the second was the one who chastised him for not killing her, calling it weakness, not mercy, before killing herself. There were some form of circumstances with the other three as well [[spoiler:the first killed his master in front of him, the second bled out after making ''him'' admit defeat, and for the last, "ItsPersonal"]].
55	* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'': Travis goes on to fight even more women in this game than in the first, killing a total of 27 and knocking one out because she was just a teenager. Also of note is that 24 of them transformed into a HumongousMecha being piloted by a man, and were the only female mooks in the series. After the fight he comments "I gotta admit though, this leaves a bad aftertaste. I mean, ripping through a bunch of mostly harmless cheerleaders?", though at the prospect of his victory being nullified, he says "Whoah, wait! I mean, they weren't that harmless. You can tear some shit up with a pompom."
56	* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII'': Travis once again goes on to face female opponents, one of which is [[spoiler:Kimmy from the second game]]. He does feel bad for killing her, swearing not to kill any other woman... but he does so anyway with Velvet Chair Girl (Rank 6), in this case by necessity due to the unique rules of that confrontation. He gets to spare Midori (Rank 5), since she is [[spoiler:Uehara's girlfriend]].
57	* ''VideoGame/NHLHockey'': Now possible, with the inclusion of female created players in ''NHL '12''.
58	* By far the most repulsive StarterVillain in ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'' is Helgenish, from [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Primrose]]'s story, a thoroughly unpleasant [[DirtyOldMan dirty old tavern owner]] who enslaved Primrose long before the story began. He repeatedly abuses his girls and strikes them for any slight, real or imagined. It is said that girls who ''really'' get on his bad side wind up beaten half to death in the street and left for dead. In the finale of the Primrose prologue story, [[spoiler:he tortures Yusufa to get information on Prim and then he brings her along to the ambush, stabs Yusufa in the back and tosses her over the cliff at Prim's feet, and then he even heartlessly mocks her as she dies.]] You can bet a lot of players really enjoyed beating the tar out of him in the ensuing boss fight.
59	* ''VideoGame/Onmyoji2016'': The nice and kind-hearted hero Seimei never hesitates to battle women aside from his female friends (but he usually becomes friendly to them after that). He sometimes even resorts to more forceful means, like sealing the more stubborn of them up so that they could just ''shut up and listen'', or at one point [[spoiler: outright ''kills'' one in order to prevent her from making a friendship between two guys even worse than it already is.]]
60	* ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'' has both female robbers (players) and the rare female FBI agent (enemies) and both have no qualms with shooting each other regardless of the other's gender. This also rings true for melee strikes.
61	* In ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'' you are playing as a woman, and your enemies are perfectly willing to shoot or punch you. This is only fair, given you're trying to kill them as well. It would also be a pretty boring game if they didn't.
62	* In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' Arthur believes that all people are all equally capable of doing harm, so he'd kill a women if he has to. He does respect women and supports them, such as their right to vote or going out of his way to help a woman who is being harassed or held hostage in some guy's room while proceeding to defeat the man for even attempting to try to harm the woman in the first place. That said although less canonical, he can also go around punching and beating up women, have them in a choke hold, hog-tie them to alligators, shove them around, tie them to a train, or shoot them point-blank in the face, no different than he does to men. Like that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPYAM9AfRHo one time he infamously knocks out a woman square in the jaw who was protesting her claim in the Suffrage]]. If he does this enough, he'll eventually talk to one of the ladies at his camp that he just [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential can't stop going around hurting innocent women who have done nothing to him for whatever reason, as if he's on some kind of rampage that he can't control]]. John Marston is also capable of this too.
63	* ''VideoGame/{{Slammer}}'': If you choose to play as a female PC, most of your opponents will be gender-swapped to female as well. However, if you choose to [[spoiler:refuse Paul Prototype's deal and go for the championship instead of settling things with your rival, the final fight will be against either the reigning champion Solitary or Prototype himself, both of whom are always male, and they will not hold back on account of the PC's gender.]]
64	* Each game in the ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'' series has a female villain who is required to be fought to advance the story. In fact, [[spoiler:the BigBad for [[VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves the second game]] is Neyla, who is fought twice in the game; by the end, she has even become an immortal beast who runs on [[ThePowerOfHate hatred]]]].
65	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
66	** Played with in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''. Knuckles has no problem attacking a woman if she attempts to steal the Master Emerald. Following Knuckles' battle with Rouge, she shames him for [[HypocriticalHumour attacking a lady]]. However, [[spoiler:she slips and almost falls into a vat of lava, from which he rescues her and {{apolog\|eticAttacker}}ises -- reluctantly -- for hurting her]].
67	*** Of course Rouge had been attacking him just as much, so it might qualify for a case of self-defense. Not to mention [[spoiler: he apologized to Rouge, ''after'' she gave Knuckles back his Master Emerald pieces to thank him for saving her, even if she doesn't openly admit it.]]
68	** Sonic himself gets into fights with various female characters. He's fully willing to engage in a fight against Blaze in ''VideoGame/SonicRush'' when Blaze picks one with him. He fought Amy, Cream, and Rouge in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes''.[[note]]Although it was possibly self-defense as well, seeing how the other teams were attacking him and his teammates too[[/note]] And in ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight'', he also had no compunctions about attacking [[spoiler:Merlina when she revealed her plans as the Dark Queen.]]
69	** ''VideoGame/SonicBattle'' has all the Sonic characters, male and female, beating each other up. In one scene when Sonic encounters Rouge, he outright tells her he has no time for nicities and fights her right then and there.
70	** ''VideoGame/MarioAndSonicAtTheOlympicGames'': The Rio 2016 game has the boxing event, in which you can have a male character go up against a female character to your liking. So there'll be some instances in which Sonic goes against Amy, or Luigi against Peach, Shadow against Blaze, etc. ''Tokyo 2020'' has a karate event and the same can be done.
71	* ''VideoGame/SplinterCell: Conviction'': In the story, Sam Fisher needs to punch Anna Grimsdottir, in order to maintain her cover with the group she's with, to convince them that Sam overpowered her and escaped. Sam, considering her a friend, refuses. So Grim tells him that [[spoiler: she faked the death of his daughter to make him less distracted]]. Sam delivers a ''vicious'' punch to the face. She recovers fairly quickly and starts to talk about the next step of the plan, and Sam ''punches her again'', '''''harder'''''. She admits that she probably deserved that. Sam tells her that she deserves ''more'', but there's a job to be done.
72	* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles''
73	** ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters'': The SNES Version of the game has Aska as a playable character and Kirai as the final boss. The Genesis version subtracts Aska, but adds April O'Neil.
74	** ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesShreddersRevenge'' has April as a playable character. The enemies will try to hit her just as often as they'll try to hit anyone else. The "Dimension Shellshock" DLC adds Karai.
75	%%* The game version of ''[[VideoGame/UltimateSpiderMan2005 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' is played straight with the titular character and Venom's boss fights with ComicBook/SilverSable.
76	* ''VideoGame/TheWarriors'', (See ''Film'' for more details)
77	* In the ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings'' you have a chance to take place in a tournament, generally beating up the strongest soldiers in the army camp you're currently staying in. After defeating a couple of opponents one of your female allies will ask to fight you. She'll comment on how she's glad you didn't go easy on her and then sexy times await.
78	* This can't be avoided in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', seeing as most villains in the game are EqualOpportunityEvil when it comes to henchmen and mooks. In the novel, ''Literature/TidesOfWar'', Garrosh backhands Kelantir Bloodblade, a female Blood Elf paladin. This is portrayed as a KickTheDog moment, not because [[ActionGirl Kelantir]] is defenseless, but because all she did was meet with like-minded individuals to discuss her concerns over Garrosh's actions.
79	* Through at least its 2011 release, most of the WWE's video game releases allowed men to fight against women, with -- save for match types specifically for women -- no restrictions were placed on the match type or stipulations. This means a player could (for example) set the game to have The Great Khali battle Kelly Kelly in a no-disqualification, first blood match; Beth Phoenix take on The Big Show in Hell in a Cell (a modified steel cage match); or Kane vs. AJ and Kaitlyn in a handicap Ambulance match (a match similar to the stretcher match, where the objective is to injure your opponent to the point where they are taken from the arena in an ambulance). It is unclear exactly why the more recent WWE video games have disabled the option of "man vs. woman" matches, though WWE has rarely promoted intergender wrestling since they changed the rating of their main television programming to TV-PG in 2008.

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