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Double Standard Abuse Female On Male: Videogames
  • Final Fight is known for replacing female antagonists (such as Poison and Roxy) with males in the console adaptations of the arcade games. Because... well, you know. It's not right for a man to abuse a woman and all that stuff. Made even more egregious when both the second and third sequels featured a female protagonist. It's also perfectly O.K. to beat up transsexuals and men in drag, as Poison's identity as a "newhalf" started with Capcom trying to get around not being able to show women being beat up by claiming Roxy and Poison weren't really women.
  • Contrast to the aversion in Double Dragon, where the "Linda"-class enemies show no mercy, and expect none. Linda is depicted as a mannish-muscular woman with a mohawk in the NES and Arcade Sequel, which raises its own set of unfortunate implications.
    • And averted in the Battletoads/Double Dragon crossovers. In this one, Linda's a buxom long-haired blonde in camo pants and a tight shirt - and the Toads and Dragons hold her up in the air by her hair and punch her in the stomach repeatedly.
  • Averted in The Sims 2. When a Sim has an affair, the cheated-on-Sim will slap the cheater regardless of either sims' gender. However, there was a thread on the official site's forum that scolded the game producers for allowing male sims to slap females. The poster didn't mention women slapping men at all.
  • Apparently murder is okay if it's female on male in the Dead or Alive world, as an Accidental Pervert is thrown off a fast moving train in one of the endings.
  • The game Hey Baby is a complex case (the targets are not innocent and the setting isn't normalising the violence in the way that many entries in this list are), but the idea that violent reactions are more acceptable if they're aimed by women at men does appear to be at work.
    • What makes it complex, though still valid, is that the men are portrayed as "deserving it", suggesting that violence against men is more acceptable because men are assholes who deserve brutality.
  • Tekken 3's ending for Mokujin has his wife gives him a Megaton Punch both in the beginning and the end of the scene.
    • In Asuka's Tekken 5 ending, Jin transforms from being Devil Jin, and accidentally lands on her breasts. They're still for about 8 seconds, then she get's pissed off. Jin's response? What's going on? Where am I? Her response? YOU PERVERT!
  • The web-game The Boyfriend Trainer, where you play as a girl who abuses her boyfriend so that he can become the "perfect boyfriend."
  • In Persona 3, Ryoji and Junpei joke around about staying in the hot springs past the allotted time for men, even though they actually panic when girls start coming in for real. When they hear Mitsuru come in also, Akihiko all but freaks out, saying that she'd give them all a Fate Worse Than Death if she catches them in the hot spring —the same Akihiko that is otherwise fearless (bordering on Blood Knight) when facing Eldritch Abominations in an Eldritch Location every night and has been Mitsuru's best and oldest friend for years. When Junpei says that they'd just explain and apologize to the girls, Akihiko insists that it wouldn't matter to Mitsuru, she would "execute them" anyway. And indeed, if you fail to escape after a stealth-action minigame ensues, the girls are righteously enraged by the guys' presence and Mitsuru follows through with this "execution" that reduces all men to quivering wrecks by the next day, and has the girls either berating them or giving them the silent treatment for at least the following week.
  • Persona 4 had a few scenes of this:
    • In the first class trip, a camping trip in the country, Yosuke proposes going swimming at the river because he wants to see the girls (Chie and Yukiko) in bathing suits. They refuse, but reluctantly agree when he shows he brought suits for everyone. At this point, the Main Character can compliment one, the other, or both girls, and they'll respond favorably to this. When Yosuke compliments them and Kanji suffers a subtle nosebleed, they push all three guys off a cliff and into the river below (a river that is only waist-deep.) Lucky for them the Soft Water, and not the riverbed, broke their fall. Unluckily for them, their Sadist Teacher was up in the waterfall above, puking on the water, therefore the girls were glad they didn't jump in, and the boys felt like a thousand of showers will never make them clean...
    • Another incident with a hot spring happens when the gang relaxes at the Amagi Inn. The guys go to take a bath at the spa and get assaulted by the girls, who are currently inside and think the guys have showed up to peep. It later turns out the girls showed up during the men's hours and were completely in the wrong, but later laugh off their assault on the guys.
    • While Chie beats up Yosuke only twice in the video game (she kicks him in the crotch for breaking her "Trial of the Dragon" DVD and throwing a rope to him when he and the Protagonist return from the TV world with their Personas), she does it in the anime, even over the smallest insults.
  • Catherine features a scene wherein Catherine seriously beats up Vincent and all his friends laugh it off and ignore it. It's actually subverted once it's revealed that they can't see Catherine and as far as they knew Vincent was alone and making weird noises.
    • Katherine, however seems to get away with Financial Abuse and lying to Vincent that she knew the whole time he was cheating and getting no real consequences for it enough to fall into this trope.
  • Played straight with Rita in Tales Of Vesperia, who will repeatedly hit Raven or Karol. This is usually just treated as a quirk of her personality, rather than a serious flaw. While Raven arguably deserves it for some of his more lecherous comments, sometimes she hits him/uses magic on him just because he's annoying her, and her abuse of Karol is almost completely unprovoked.
  • In Never Dead Bryce's accomplis, Arcadia, shoots him several times throughout the game, and always played for comedy. However, Bryce is fully immortal and is very difficult to motivate, so threats of physical violence seem to be the only disciplinary measure that works on him.
  • In Azure Dreams, Nico will wake the protagonist Koh with a drop kick.
  • This is Franziska von Karma's character in the Ace Attorney series. She is the prosecutor that whips anyone that irritates her even slightly. This includes lawyers, witnesses, the judge, and the police. The most someone seems to do about it is ask her to stop, to which her reply is another whip to the head. There is also some possible Unfortunate Implications if you compare her to the other (male) prosecutors. They seem to either have the respect of the police and judge through their talents (Edgeworth and Klavier) or they intimidate through sheer presence (Manfred, and to a lesser extent, Godot). Franziska comes off as having neither, and instead works through threatening people with abuse, and she herself is quick to back off whenever it looks like someone won't put up with her antics (see Godot in the third game, who is one of the few male characters to not be whipped).
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