'''Basic Trope''': Chivalrous man defends women from men who hit them.
* '''Straight''': When Bob hits Alice, Charles steps in to defend her.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** When Bob hits Alice, Charles inflicts ColdBloodedTorture on him.
** Charles is a SerialKiller who targets wife beaters.
** When Bob, a scrawny little boy, kicks ActionGirl Alice in the shin, Charlie gruesomely murders Bob.
* '''Downplayed''': When Bob hits Alice, Charles asks him WhatTheHellHero.
* '''Justified''':
** Charles is TheFettered following a code of honor and chivalry.
** Charles is [[BigBrotherInstinct Alice's older brother.]] Woe betide the man who messes with Alice.
** Charles grew up seeing his [[DomesticAbuse father]] beat and abuse his mother, and vowed to never become that kind of man.
** Alternatively, Charles grew up seeing his [[DomesticAbuse father]] beat and abuse his mother multiple times before his [[CoolBigBro older brother]] beat [[AssholeVictim their father to death]] [[TheDogBitesBack after one particular bad incident]]. Charles therefore thinks beating up the perpetrator is the best way to solve the issue.
* '''Inverted''': When Bob hits Alice, Charles steps in to cheer for him... Or even [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown join "the fun"!]]
* '''Gender Inverted''':
** When Alice hits Bob, Charles steps in to defend him.
** When Charles hits Bob, Dan steps in to defend him.
** When Alice hits Bob, Claire steps in to defend him.
** When Bob hits Alice, Diana steps in to defend her.
** When Claire hits Alice, Bob steps in to defend her.
* '''Subverted''': Bob hits Alice. We see Charles HulkingOut, raising his fist... [[BlackComedy and then joining Bob in beating Alice.]]
* '''Double Subverted''': He pretends to hit Alice. He's actually setting up for AssKicksYou.
* '''Parodied''':
** Charles beats up people for ''wearing'' wife-beaters. (aka. [[Main/SleevesAreForWimps sleeveless shirts]])
*** Alternatively, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Charles']] weapon against wife-beaters ''[[LaserGuidedKarma is]]'' [[{{Irony}} wife]]-[[ImprobableWeaponUser beaters]].
** [[DisproportionateRetribution Charles relentlessly beats up Bob after he pokes Alice in the arm to get her attention.]]
** Bob swats a female mosquito on his arm that is sucking up his blood. Charles gives him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown for this.
** Bob beats Alice at tabletop football, so Charles beats him at the game.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice and Bob are fighting, and Charles joins in the fight, first hitting Bob, then hitting Alice, and then trying to break it up.
* '''Averted''':
** Bob does not hit Alice.
** Bob hits Alice, but nobody defends her.
** Bob hits Alice, and she defends herself.
* '''Enforced''': Used to show that Charles respects women so that the female audience will like him.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Hitting a woman in front of me? Bad idea."
* '''Invoked''': Alice makes friends with some strong men who can protect her from people who try to hit her.
* '''Exploited''':
** Alice goads Bob into abusing her in front of Charles, so that Bob will finally suffer repercussions for his mistreatment of her.
** [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale Alice freely abuses Bob knowing he can’t fight back for fear of Charles’s wrath.]]
* '''Defied''': Bob only abuses Alice when the two of them are alone.
* '''Discussed''': “Alice, I don’t want your little boyfriend coming to hit me, so I’ll just take us somewhere else, okay?”
* '''Conversed''': “It seems like some people get so defensive when a woman is hit.”
* '''Deconstructed''':
** [[TheVamp A]][[FemmeFatale l]][[DarkMistress i]][[DarkActionGirl c]][[TheBaroness e]] is fully aware of this trope's existence and [[ExploitedTrope uses it as a crutch for her]] KarmaHoudini.
** Charles sees Bob pull Alice over his knee and spank her, so he jumps in and hits Bob... [[AbuseMistake before the distraught Alice can explain that what was really going on was a]] SafeSaneAndConsensual SM scene.
** Charles sees Bob and Alice brawling, and jumps in to defend Alice... but it turns out, Alice is both a black belt in taekwondo, and [[WoundedGazelleGambit was the one abusing]] ''Bob'', who was just trying to get away.
** Turns out one beating won't stop an abuser- after Charles leaves, Bob simply continues, maybe even worse due to the humiliation of being attacked.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** The Husband Exploiter Basher, Claire, bashes Alice for [[RedundancyDepartmentOfRedundancy exploiting her husband]].
** Charles understands the difference between BDSM and abuse, and only goes after Doms who don't play SafeSaneAndConsensual.
** Charles decides that he will defend victims from abusers, no matter the gender.
** Charles cripples Bob. That's it, no more abusing from him anymore. (Of course, this opens up a whole other plethora of problems, but we shouldn't be worrying about THAT now, should we?)
* '''Played For Laughs''':
** Bob calls Alice a rude name and Charles steps in to defend her.
** Charles, who is 100 pounds of skin and bone, steps in to protect Alice, who is 200 pounds of sheer muscle and a hand-to-hand combat expert to boot.
* '''Played For Drama''': Charles is much weaker or less well-armed than Bob, and if he helps Alice, his childhood friend, he risks getting beat up by Bob too.
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[[WifeBasherBasher What!? You hit your own damn wife!? Why, YOU!!]]
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