Moments where somebody complains "I Was Beaten by a Girl" in Live-Action TV series.
- This comes up several times in Agent Carter, as in The '40s villains are understandably reluctant to admit they were beaten up by a gorgeous dame.Thug: He didn't come by himself! He brought a girl! (beat) A-and five guys! Or six! Yeah, six or seven guys!
- On All That a dummy of a character would often be used to indicate he or she was being tossed around. In an old west sketch Nasty Nancy (Kenan Thompson) and Dusty Pants (Josh Server) fought the Slappy Brothers (Kel Mitchell and Leon Frierson). Kenan hits them with a dummy of Christy Knowings. Leon remarked that he can't believe they were beat by a woman. Kel notes they weren't just beat by a woman, but beat "with" a woman.
- On The Amazing Race 17, men from two different teams made a number of comments about how they felt of the possibility of losing to either of the female teams, Nat & Kat or Brook & Clair. Thomas, who finished third behind the two female teams in the finale, averted this, as he admitted that the female teams were the two best teams.
- Harlem Globetrotters Flight Time & Big Easy begrudgingly acknowledged sisters Kisha & Jen's racing skills in the Season 18 finale, though their hyper-competitiveness meant they probably would have had this reaction to any team beating them.
- Chip (Season 5) had this reaction after getting smoked by the Bowling Moms in what he described as "putting together a car", but was really just decorating it by attaching a bunch of pieces to it.
- Angel. In "Five By Five", Wesley is kidnapped and tortured by rogue vampire slayer Faith. In the following episode Cordelia examines his injuries and says, "If it's any consolation, it really does look like you were tortured by a much larger woman."
- Blake's 7. In "City at the Edge of the World", our heroes capture Bayban the Butcher, a criminal obsessed with his own notoriety. He tells Avon to Get It Over With as he'll go down in history as "The man who killed Bayban!" Cally promptly offers to shoot him instead. "I'd like to be famous too. How about the woman who killed Bayban?" The younger Dayna chimes in with: "Or better still, the girl who killed Bayban."
- Bones: In "The Man with the Bone," Brennan slaps a billionaire to prove his proclaimed history with the Army Special Forces is faked, and therefore rule him out as a murder suspect. To do this, she slaps him—twice. Both times, he doesn't resist, which proves it to Booth (who is a former military sniper). The man's lawyer is outraged and demands Brennan be arrested on assault charges, only to have the man shoo him out of the room and hisses "Do you think I want it all over the news that I'm taking a woman to court for slapping me?!"
- An episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer had Xander react with annoyance when Buffy rescued him from a school bully, which is distinctly different and more ego-deflating than the times she saves him from demons.
- On Cold Case, Scotty and Lily are transporting a prisoner wanted for the presumed murder of a woman who disappeared several months earlier. Scotty taunts him about the fact that it was HIS blood found at the scene rather than the victim's, meaning that she'd managed to put up a decent fight—"You get your ass handed to you by a woman, Johnny-boy?"
- One episode of Cybergirl had a bully who had the misfortune of encountering Cy. Jackson later used this for Shaming the Mob — particularly Emerald and Sapphire Buxton.
- Doctor Who: In "Utopia", the Master utters his anger at having been fatally wounded by Chantho. His next self is killed in a similar fashion by Lucy in "Last of the Time Lords" and jokes that women often do that. To add insult to injury, the Master is then brought back from the dead only to die from a literal backstabbing from his future self who has regenerated as a woman. That time, at least, he actually compliments her on the skillful murder, relieved to see his future self has still got it. Averted with the Master after that, in which he gets defeated by The Doctor (a woman in this regeneration) but never comments on it.
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: In "The Star-Spangled Man", Sam Wilson makes fun of Bucky Barnes when he loses to Karli Morgenthau in a fight, saying, "The girl whooped your ass!"
- John Crichton of Farscape, so very much. The first episode features him getting his ass handed to him by Aeryn; it doesn't really stop. Doubly amusing as John's a pretty buff guy, all things considered.
- In The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, everyone mocks Will after he loses a fight against a female boxing trainer. When he decides to arrange a rematch, Hilary is shocked that he Would Hit a Girl. A similar case happens in an earlier episode, when Will is made fun of because his martial arts-trained girlfriend defended him from a man who attacked him.
- Game of Thrones:
- King Robert shows his contempt when his son Joffrey has his sword taken off him and thrown into the river by Arya Stark. "You let that slip of a girl disarm you?" Of course, it has just as much to do with the fact Joffrey is much older, larger, and has had years of formal sword training, unlike Arya who could only secretly spar with friends.
- Brienne of Tarth can't resist trolling Jaime Lannister about this in their Snark-to-Snark Combat after their Sword Fight.
- The Hound has a morbid chuckle at the realization he's been fatally injured by a woman (also Brienne of Tarth). In a further irony, it's Arya Stark that he asks to finish him off.
- After a fight with the Sand Snakes, Bronn claims that it's against his code to hurt a woman. Obara Sand snarks back, "It's amazing how many men we beat seem to have this code."
- In Horrible Histories' Boudicca song, a Roman soldier says this.
- Law & Order. Detective Ed Green is thoroughly impressed when his partner Nina Cassady is the one to beat up a combative suspect and taunts the guy about it afterwards.
- An early episode of Leave It to Beaver has 8-year-old Beaver come home from school with a black eye. When Ward finds out he didn't fight back, he's horrified and insists on giving Beaver boxing lessons. He even goes so far as to tell Beaver he should go and find the kid who gave him the black eye and instigate a fight to show them he can't be pushed around. Hilarity Ensues when Ward finds out that Beaver's black eye came from a girl in his class, just after June informs him that Beaver has left for her house. Ward and the girl's father chase the kids all over town, convinced through Gossip Evolution that they're in some sort of fight to the death. In reality, Beaver asked if Violet wanted to fight, she said she didn't, and they found other things to do.
- Legends of Tomorrow: Nate's father Hank finds it hilarious when Nate gets punched by Charlie. Unfortunately for him, he brings this up in front of Sarah Lance, the biggest Badass Normal in the world.Hank: I'm not the one who got sucker-punched by a girl.
Sarah: [amused] Have you ever been hit by a woman, Hank?
Hank: [suddenly worried] ...no, ma'am. - Lucifer. When Lucifer is being throttled to death by a Brawn Hilda wielding a fire poker, his (almost) last words are "Don't...tell anyone...I died like this!" After Chloe saves his ass, she makes it clear she's going to get payback for all the snarky comments Lucifer has been making about her.Lucifer: I'm never going to live this down, aren't I?
Chloe: Not if I have anything to say about it. - In Malcolm in the Middle, Reese gets his ass kicked by a female wrestler in a match (though this was mainly due to him not wanting to hit a girl), which demoralizes him and causes him to try and be nice, which in turn creates the bully power vacuum that later arises.
- Married... with Children. After Peggy beats Al at bowling, not only beating his score, but bowling a perfect game, Al is seen curled up on a bench in the Troubled Fetal Position in a total Heroic BSoD. In another episode, he's thoroughly humiliated when Peggy rescues him from a mugger.
- Prince Arthur from Merlin really doesn't want to fight Morgause but can't back out without losing face. He ends up incredibly embarrassed anyway when she beats him. Arthur rationalizes the situation to himself by saying that he let her win because she's a woman; Merlin is unconvinced.
- In an episode of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Mose beats Ned in gym during a martial arts class, causing the local bullies to give him grief that he was beaten up by a girl. Ned seeks the help of Gordy, who simply tells him fighting a girl is a no win situation, as if you lose, you just got beat by a girl, and if you win, you just beat up a girl. In the end, this is resolved by Ned and Mose flipping said bullies to show them how wrong they are.
- In Power Rangers Ninja Storm, Cam travels to the past and learns that his parents met when his mom defeated his dad, who was the best student of the Wind Ninja Academy at the time, in single combat. Cam's father was pretty upset at losing to a girl, even bringing up that the academy did not allow women, but their sensei declared she'd won fair and square and thus was admitted.
- The Punisher (2017). After Special Agent Dinah Midani accidentally shoots NYPD cop Brett Mahoney (fortunately she only hits his Bulletproof Vest) he threatens to report her. Madani dares him to go ahead as all his friends in the NYPD will have a good laugh over it.
- Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung: When Prince Dowon fails to make a bullseye in archery, he challenges Hae-ryung to do better. She gets a bullseye on her first try, to the amusement of the crown prince and the other female historian there.
- Exploited in an episode of Roseanne when DJ's answer to a bully at school is to hire a bigger, female bully to protect him.
- The Sontaran Kaagh from series 2 of The Sarah Jane Adventures is humiliated at being beaten by "a female and half-forms". He survives his first appearance, but feels unable to return to Sontar out of shame, and ends up working for the main villain in the series finale.
- Stargate SG-1: A tribal chieftain, Turghan, gets owned by Carter. And she had a much smaller knife, too.
- Supernatural: The Winchesters are hunting a monster who assumes the form of its victim's idol. Its most recent victim was a teenage girl. The fight ends with Sam cutting its head off and a beat-up Dean on the ground.
- The whole basis for the "Battle of the Sexists" episode from season 1 of That '70s Show is that Eric can't take being worse at sports than Donna. Jackie even tries pressuring Donna into letting Eric win because her beating him could potentially cause their break up.
- The West Wing: An intellectual version — When facing off on Sunday morning talk-show "Capitol Beat", Blonde Republican Sex Kitten Ainsley Hayes takes Sam Seaborn apart rhetorically.Josh: Toby, come quick! Sam's getting his ass kicked by a girl!
Toby: Ginger, get the popcorn! - In an episode of Wonder Woman (1975), Diana's younger sister Drusilla (Debra Winger) befriends a shell-shocked soldier; during their date at a diner, she sees the soldier being pushed around by two punks; she immediately "does the twirl" and in her own Amazon guise beats the crap out of the two punks (it should be pointed out that Drusilla is half Diana's size and weighs in at about 80 pounds) leaving them to moan, "Man, we just got made... by a CHICK!!"
