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* MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial: Maleness is seen as the default, with women being a special case. This may be a huge contributing factor as to why this trope alone is a thing.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney The Hunchback Of Notre Dame]]'': Judge Claude Frollo tried to kill Esmeralda not just because she's a Romani (or more derogatorily, a "gypsy"), but also because his lust for her overwhelms him, [[BlamingTheVictim thinking that it's her fault]] that he was in that state. Fortunately for her, she survived from him because his own life was then ''taken away'' from him [[DidntThinkThisThrough thanks to his own constant sinning]] (in which a broken gargoyle is technically caused by ''[[HoistByHisOwnPetard his own]]'' '''''[[HairTriggerTemper passionate wrath]]''''').

A female character can ''lose'' some or even all of the audience's sympathy if they are [[CloserToEarth manipulative]], [[IncorruptiblePurePureness somehow "immoral"]], [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished ugly]], [[WomenAreDelicate violent]] or just plain evil. Male characters, on the other hand, have to ''earn'' the audience's sympathy by [[MenActWomenAre entertaining or interesting us with their actions]]. If [[NonActionGuy they don't]], we either don't care what happens to them or want them to suffer for failing to entertain/interest us. A LovableCoward male character is not an exception since we find them entertaining.

A DoubleStandard in media whereby [[MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial women automatically have the audience's sympathy and men don't]]. Comes in large part for the need for hordes of non-faceless {{Mooks}} [[WhatMeasureIsAMook whose suffering and death we won't lose much sleep over in all sorts of media]].

* MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial: Maleness is seen as the default, with women being a special case.

* ''Film/HerbieFullyLoaded'': During the final race, the [[JerkJock snobbish racer]] Trip Murphy has '''''no shame''''' if the life of Maggie Peyton is significantly affected by a car crash he's willing to commit. Thankfully, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard this backfired on him]], and that it's HIMSELF who was affected by such type of calamity.

* The first death in ''[[Film/EatenAlive]]'' is female. It is also the only female death in the film out of 5. [[spoiler:Of the 4 characters who meet the villain and survive, all are female.]]

* ''Franchise/ToyStory'': Among the film series' primary toy villains, Gabby Gabby is, by far, '''the most''' sympathetic among them, as opposed to [[spoiler:both Stinky Pete and Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear (or "Lotso"), which is why her own fate has been treated ''a lot'' more tamely compared to those from the other two BigBad toys before her. Although in supplementary material, Stinky Pete does get his own happy ending, though he was more sympathetic than Lotso.]]