Sandbox / Would Hit A Girl Wick Check

The Would Hit a Girl trope appears to get a lot of People Sit on Chairs use, conveying nothing meaningful. As Everdream mentioned on its Discussion page, it's less relevant in modern works due to the increased prevalence of Action Girls - while attacking a defenceless woman is a big deal, fighting a woman who can clearly fight back doesn't say much about a character. This check is to find just how many meaningful examples there are versus meaningless ones.

76 out of 5749 wicks will be checked.

Wicks checked: 76/76

Notable Correct Use (22/76, 28.9%)

1. Characters.Crime And Punishment: Svidrigailov whipped his wife during domestic disputes and possibly even killed her by poison. Not to mention that he engages in sexual violence towards innocent young girls as well. Explicitly characterises him as an abuser and a sexual predator.
2. Characters.Dragon Ball Z Villains: While grateful for Idasa and Ikose's mother for her information regarding Trunks' home (Capsule Corporation), he was so irritated having to listen to her shrill that he threatens to blow her head off if he ever has to hear her voice again. Earlier in the anime, he spitefully teleported a poor cake shop employee (during Buu's first sweet tooth excursion) onto a flagpole where she is last seen hanging on for dear life and threatens to do the same to another if she doesn't leave him alone. Used to show how brutal Babidi is.
3. Characters.The Green Mile: One of his victims in his armed robbery was a pregnant woman. Shows how little he cares who his crimes hurt.
4. Characters.No More Heroes 2 Desperate Struggle: His intro cutscene is him throwing both of his women at Travis and then attacking Travis as he slices up the woman to defend himself, reducing both to mush once the attack rush is done. Shows how little he cares for the lives of those who appreciate him.
5. Characters.The Walking Dead Prison Survivors: He was sent to prison for stabbing and dismembering his wife. He also tries to kill Andrea and Patricia in the prison. Notable as a Serial Killer who prefers to murder women.
6. Fanfic.The Champ: The relationship started because Francisco wanted to punch Lynn after enduring years of her hits Significant because it earns Francisco Lynn's respect by showing he's able to stand up to her when needed.
7. Film.Anchorman 2 The Legend Continues: * Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: A couple get thrown around before the news team fight starts. Some notable examples:
   Wesley Jackson: The most requested video of the day: a new band called "Burgundy's Sucking Chest Wound"!
   Jeff Bullington: Jeff Bullington, ESPN All-Sports. Tonight's play of the game is me, extracting your spine from your dead body.
   Gen. Stonewall Jackson's Ghost: May the Lord anoint this hallowed field of battle.
   • Entertainment News gets the lion's share though:
     Wendy Van Peel: Who are you wearing today? Oh look, it's your own BLOOD!
     Jill Jansen: Today's celebrity birthdays: none! Today's celebrity deaths: all you dick-licks.
     Brian: I like the way they're put together.
     Champ: I like fighting girls.
     Jill: I like to cunt-punt cowboys.
     Wendy: You eat pussy?
     Jill: You're gonna.

     Potholed in a quote in another example. Champ notably says he enjoys fighting girls in particular.

8. Film.Drive A Crooked Road: Steve has no compunctions about slapping Barbara around when she develops a conscience about what is going to happen to Eddie. Used to convey Steve's ruthlessness.
9. Film.A Fish Called Wanda: * Shout-Out: John Cleese's character is called Archie Leach, which was Cary Grant's real name. A scene with Otto and Wanda borrows one iconic moment from a fight between Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story, in which the man shoves the woman on the face with his hand. Potholed in another example. Specifically references a notable example, so is notable itself.
10. Film.A Gunfight: Will slaps his wife Nora when she calls him a liar. Shows how much Will hates being accused of lying.
11. Film.Le Doulos: Silien has no qualms in hitting Therese so that she tells him where the robbery is to take place. Shows how far Silien is willing to go to find the robbery's location, even if it means beating up a woman who can't fight back.
12. Film.Sleeping With The Enemy: Martin frequently beats Laura when she does something that merely annoys him. Used to portray Martin as an abusive lover.
13. Film.True Romance: Virgil ruthlessly and unscrupulously beats and tortures Alabama. Despite expressing admiration for her 'heart', he is also shown prepared to shoot her, but she eventually manages to kill him. Used to show how unscrupulous Virgil is in harming a mostly-defenceless woman.
14. Funny.Boston Public: * Danny and Marla's fistfight in "Chapter Forty-Seven."
    • It's topped off with Steven's reaction to the whole farce. First, he kvetches at Marla for starting the fight, then at Danny for punching for a woman, THEN he lets loose with a marvelous tirade. Potholed in another example. Specifically called out by Steven as poor behaviour.
15. KnightInSourArmor.Video Games: * This is probably the defining characteristic of Geralt of Rivia from The Witcher. As a mutant monster hunter, Geralt is hated by almost everyone and knows it since they mock him, spit on him and violently attack him just for being what he is. As a witcher, he is solely supposed to work for money killing monsters. That said, he is an actual knight, just one who barely uses the title if at all. Despite always telling himself and others that he only works for money and doesn't want to get involved with normal people or politics, Geralt seems to have one of the worst cases of Chronic Hero Syndrome of any character anywhere, constantly putting his life on the line for people who don't care if he lives or dies. This exchange from the third game solidifies it:
    Thug: You pay on time, you get protection. If you don't... [slaps the woman he's intimidating] Or are you expecting a Knight in Shining Armor?
    Geralt: Close enough.

    Potholed in a quote in another example. Shows how brutal the thug is, and provides characterisation for Geralt when he steps in to protect the woman.

16. Literature.Midnight Tides: Trull Sengar, when he asks for a demon to be healed and the healer refuses on the grounds of demons being disposable, slaps her hard enough to draw blood. While he is shocked at this himself, he does not feel remorse as he considers his reasoning justified; anyone who fought should be worthy of healing, demon or not. A characterisation moment that startles Trull himself at how far he's willing to go to stand up for a demon.
17. Literature.The Way To Dusty Death: When Harlow meets the Femme Fatale of the book, he pistol whips her, adding 'Never confuse that murdering bitch with a lady' to an astonished Rory MacAlpine. A notable moment in-universe, showing how lowly Harlow thinks of that particular woman.
18. Memes.Capcom Vs: * I'M SHORYUCAN'T TOUCH THIS SKILL! ^note  A So Bad, It's Good rap for the training stage (unfortunately, it's only in the JPN version), featuring a punny hook based on the Shoryuken.
    • Rise like a dragon! Punch a woman! ^note  Another "line" from the rap. The above link also features images to go along with the lyrics. Guess what one of those stills depicts. The actual line is "Punch 'em, won't miss 'em", but the next, longer line "It's a hurrricane force kick, got the twister, I'll twist em" interrupts it, making the first line sound like "Punch a woman." Which you can do in the game anyway, so it's kind of a moot point. Potholed in another example. About hitting women specifically, so seems relatively appropriate.
19. Recap.Lost S 05 E 01 Because You Left: Played for Laughs. When Charlotte gets mad at Sawyer for hitting Daniel, he tells her to shut it, or she'll be getting one too. Used as a subversion of expectations for comedy, though could possibly be clarified more.
20. Recap.Star Trek S 2 E 11 Fridays Child: After Eleen bitch-slaps him twice, Bones returns with a slap of his own. He later calls it a "right cross". While it wasn't that violent, it did garner some respect from his hitherto reluctant patient. Maybe that's why he did it in the first place. Shows McCoy's willingness to get tough with patients when necessary, earning Eleen's respect.
21. Recap.The Twilight Zone 1985 S 1 E 22: Implied.
    Heckler: Come on! Tell us about the time you put the girl in the hospital!
    Billy: (Uncomfortably) Hey, look, this is a show, you know, entertainment! You don't wanna hear about me beatin' up a hooker!
    (audience finally begins laughing)

    Used to show what an awful person Billy was in life and why he earned the afterlife he's in.

22. Theatre.The Taming Of The Shrew: Petruchio's "I swear I'll cuff you if you strike again." (Kate counters by telling him he'll be no gentleman if he does so, and it's never brought up again, as they just continue their punning^note Of course, the threat could also be interpreted as her threatening to cut his arms off.) Specifically noted as ungentlemanly by the standards of the time.

"People Sit on Chairs" Use (25/76, 32.9%)

1. Awesome.Rebuild Of Evangelion: Shinji, sitting in Unit-13 for the first time (and otherwise being more or less a complete rookie), goes up against Asuka in her Unit-02'. Asuka has over a decade-and-a-half of piloting experience...and Shinji still No Sells everything she throws at him until she runs out of power. Even then, Asuka seems more pissed over him actually hitting her than about him completely kicking her ass. Potholed in another example, and feels shoehorned in; Asuka is clearly a combatant and should expect to get attacked.
2. Characters.Crash Bandicoot Heroes: He's sparred with Nina several times now, albeit naturally in self defense. Fighting back against a combat-capable woman isn't notable.
3. Characters.Da 5 Bloods: Shoots a female Vietcong who tries to sneak up on him and Norman. Said woman is a hostile combatant, so fighting her is only to be expected.
4. Characters.DCAU Terry Mc Ginnis: Downplayed. Almost all the time he meets female supervillains, he will instead choose more indirext approaches instead of actually striking them. For example, in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker; when he fights the Dee Dee Twins, though he may just have been having fun making them knock each other out as his grin seems to imply. Fighting female supervillains is only to be expected since they're, well, supervillains.
5. Characters.Epithet Erased Supporting Characters: Had no problem attacking three female Banzai Blasters once they directly interfered with his work. The female Banzai Blasters aren't treated differently from the males in-universe, so fighting them isn't notable.
6. Characters.Jackie Chan Adventures The Ice Gang: He takes down the two females of Drago's possible recruits. Those women were specifically applying as combat-capable minions, so fighting them is nothing exceptional.
7. Characters.Like A Dragon: Surprisingly, Like a Dragon shows that like Majima he's perfectly fine with getting into fisticuffs with the women in Ichiban's party. The women in the party are capable combatants, so Saejima fighting them isn't remarkable.
8. Characters.Paradise Police Department: If she's evil, at least; in the first episode, he hits Mrs. Two-Toes with a ceramic rooster. Granted, this was out of self-defense as she was trying to kill him. With a chainsaw. Explicitly self-defence against an armed attacker, so it says nothing about him except that he has survival instincts.
9. Characters.Pastamonsters Beings Of The Universe: When he shoves Clockwork to the ground, he apologizes by saying it would've been sexist of him not to hit her, as he would've done the same if she was a guy. Considering Clockwork is a violent murderer, this is more notable as an aversion of Wouldn't Hit a Girl.
10. Characters.Shaman King: Once Jun's spell on him had been broken and Lee realized what had happened to him, he turned on Jun in a fit of Unstoppable Rage. The fact that she's a woman didn't stay his hand in the slightest. Jun is a capable fighter and magic-user who can clearly defend herself.
11. Characters.Star Vs The Forces Of Evil Forces Of Evil: Most of the victims of his punishment for lying are girls and he has no qualms about it. Seems more just incidentally punishing girls and boys the same, rather than anything meaningful.
12. Characters.The Testament Of Sister New Devil Demon Council: Has no qualms in hitting a girl, especially Mio. Mio is an Action Girl, so being willing to fight her isn't that remarkable. Might be relevant in other cases, but no specific ones are mentioned.
13. Characters.Tiger Cage: Huang strikes Shirley in two separate scenes:
    • The first is when she goes to confront him after Amy's death. He knocks the gun out of her hand and then strikes her across her face.
    • The second is when, in the climax, he knocks her back and then takes her as a Hostage Shirley is a police officer and thus expected to get into violent situations.
14. DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale.Anime And Manga: * Being a Genre Deconstruction of the Fighting Series Played for Laughs, Ramen Fighter Miki has males Kankuro and Akihiko get routinely beaten by females Miki and Megumi. Akihiko, as an adult, Wouldn't Hit a Girl, but Kankuro as an Adult Child definitely Would Hit a Girl… if only he could, but he Can't Catch Up with Miki. All of them are presented as Adult Children that only an idiot would try to imitate. Potholed in another example. Since the women in question are fighters, fighting back against them isn't really meaningful.
15. FullmetalAlchemist.Tropes Q To Z: * Wouldn't Hit a Girl:
    • Averted with Edward.
    Edward: I'm gonna kick her butt!!
    Alphonse: Kick her butt? I mean, if it was a guy that would be one thing, but...You're gonna beat up a girl?
    Edward: I'm not sexist!
    • Greed plays it straight.
      • He first tries this on Izumi, and is immediately shown why it's an awful idea, as Izumi proceeds to figure out how to break his Ultimate Shield — which took Ed a whole fight and a lot of injury — and Curb Stomp him in about two seconds. Potholed into an example of Wouldn't Hit a Girl, whose aversion seems more applicable in this case.
16. Honor-Related Abuse: * In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Tara's family is like this. They abuse her emotionally and lie to her to make her hate herself, fooling her to believe that she is less than human. When she breaks free to make a life of her own, they start threatening to move on to physical abuse, and would most likely have made good on their threats if it wasn't for almost the entire cast closing ranks around her and telling them that they would have to go through them to get to her. Except Spike. Spike does help, in his own unique fashion: he hits Tara in the face. Since it triggers his Morality Chip, thus proving she's entirely human, it does help her...by hurting her. And him. Potholed in another example in a shoehorned-feeling way. The important thing story-wise is that she's human, not that she's a girl.
17. Literature.The Bad Unicorn Trilogy: Ricky is definitely willing to fight Sarah, though he doesn't actually hurt her because she fights back. Not notable since the woman in question is explicitly combat-capable.
18. Recap.Ben 10 S 2 E 4 Gwen 10: Gwen tries to appeal to Vilgax's conscience by asking if he would really hurt a girl. Vilgax says he has "something much worse" in mind for her. More a subversion of Wouldn't Hit a Girl given that Gwen's powers in the episode make her perfectly capable of defending herself.
19. Recap.Criminal Minds S 9 E 8 The Return: Morgan shoots one of the UnSub's child soldiers to stop her from suicide bombing police headquarters. Said girl is a clear and present danger, and her being a child is more significant than her being female.
20. Sandbox.Game Of Thrones Bronn: Bronn admits that the first person he killed was a woman, though it was self-defense—she attacked him with an axe. Shae still doesn't approve. Although, this trope only seems to apply in situations where it would be impractical not to do so (read: woman attacking you with a weapon.) He's noticeably disdainful of Ser Meryn Trant, which probably indicates that violence toward unarmed women isn't a hobby of his.
    • He landed a few blows against Tyene Sand while attempting to rescue Myrcella from Dorne. Then again, she had twin blades at the time. He does seem a bit apologetic about it, and remarks later it's "against his code", meaning he'll do it if he has to, but unlike some, he doesn't enjoy it. Since it only applies "in situations where it would be impractical not to do so", it doesn't say much about him.
21. Series.Kickin It: Counts for every single guy (usually a Black Dragon or thug) that tries to fight Kim. They aren't exactly picking on the helpless. Nothing notable; just a female fighter sometimes facing male opponents.
22. VideoGame.Arc Style Baseball 3 D: You can hit a female batter in the face with a pitch, if you want. Let's see if you feel good after seeing her hurt face complete with a scream, You Monster! Not notably different from hitting a male batter in-game, and what meaning it has depends entirely on the player.
23. VideoGame.WWE Video Games: For most of the series, you could put divas in the ring against the men. Many pre-SvR games could even extend the female characters' rights by making them either male or genderless. WWF SmackDown: Shut Your Mouth, in turn, had no other option of putting a female CAW into the Career Mode rather than choosing the second option. As of SvR 2010, there is no more intergender competition other than Mixed Tag Team matches, and in those attacking a female wrestler with a male one is an instant disqualification (and DQs cannot be turned off in this match). The reasoning behind this is officially part of WWE's post-2008 efforts to clean up the company's image, which included banning male-on-female violence. There's also persistent speculation that some executive somewhere thought that the possibility of the girls beating the guys devalued the guys and removed it for that reason. "Intergender matches happen" isn't that notable, and their removal is the more important part.
24. Wrestling.Adam Cole: Put Michael Elgin's wife, MsChif, into a figure four leglock during the previously mentioned haircut. Has fought Candice LeRae as well. Both of those women are wrestlers, so going up against them isn't notable.
25. Wrestling.Celtic Championship Wrestling: As intergender matches happen, the CCW males often have to hit their opponents. Roughshod was reluctant to hit Raven Creed - until she socked him first. Just a thing that happens. Roughshod is only notable as a subversion of Wouldn't Hit a Girl.

Misuse (3/76, 3.9%)

1. Film.Taxi 1932: Matt has saved $100 for his brother’s tombstone. As it turns out, Sue gave the money to Buck’s girl so he could escape from the country. The reason being that if Buck is out of the country, Matt can’t kill him and become a convicted murderer. Wrong trope. There's no sign of any woman getting hit here.
2. WebAnimation.Mortal Kombat Vs Street Fighter: While neither Ryu nor Ken are too shy about hitting women (they are fighters, after all), Raiden's treatment of the women of the SF universe is very much the evil version. Mix of ZCE and chairs: Ryu and Ken fighting female opponents sometimes is just something that happens, and no context is given for how Raiden treats the Street Fighter women or how it's "the evil version".
3. WesternAnimation.Mickey Donald Goofy The Three Musketeers: Two separate examples, both misuse.
   • Mickey, Donald and Goofy pile on Daisy Duck, mistaking her for a bad guy. Since they don't know it's her, it says nothing about their willingness to hit girls in general.
   • In the comics adaptation, an earlier scene has Mickey tell Donald about recent threats to the kingdom. It seems "Prince Gimlet" was murdered by a royal waitress with an hors d'oeuvres knife. Hapless Daisy appears to be about to pull off a similar crime. No female characters get attacked - rather, it's the other way around.

ZCE (7/76, 9.2%)

1. Characters.The Legend Of The Legendary Heroes Main Characters: %%* WouldHitAGirl Commented-out zero-context example.
2. Characters.Twenty Four Juma Regime: Even if said girl is the President of the United States. Zero-context example.
3. Fanfic.Lost Souls Theunhappytwins: %% * Would Hit a Girl: And attempt to kill her, too. Commented-out zero-context example.
4. Film.Laser Mission: Kalashnikov would do a lot more than hit a girl. Zero-context example.
5. Film.Road House 1989: When Dalton goes over to Wesley's mansion, he sees Wesley's moll, Denise, with bruises on her face, which she ashamedly tries to hide. Partial-context implied case.
6. Recap.Psych S 05 E 06 Viagra Falls: And do much worse; Otto uses the dancers from his club – the Dollhouse – as drug mules, and doesn’t let them leave unless they find someone else to take their place. At the end, Otto’s employer, Randy, takes Saralyn hostage, and probably intends to kill her anyway as soon as the police leave. Partial-context example.
7. Sandbox.Excessive Menace 2: * Portfolio: Ridiculous-Looking Combat Gear, Chainsaws, Our Zombies Are Different, Butt-Monkey, Amusing Injuries, Would Hit and Chainsaw a Girl if Necessary, Real Men Wear Pink, Explosive Overclocking Potholed in another example without explaining how it applies.

Unclear/Other (19/76, 25%)

1. Characters.American Mc Gees Alice: Two separate wicks:
   • Action Girl: Hell yeah! But only in Wonderland. Combat is non-existent in the London segments in the sequel. In one cutscene in Madness Returns, she gets knocked out by a pimp. Potholed in another example; seems unnecessarily shoehorned in.
   • Would Hit a Girl: He killed Lizzie after raping her. Meaningful; shows that he treats girls as disposable objects.
2. Characters.Cliffhanger: Had socked Jessie in the scuffle (even the second time in the uncut version). Conveys that he doesn't really care who he hurts, though could use a bit more context on that.
3. Characters.Cyberpunk 2077 Main Characters And Allies: He pistol-whips V when they break into his house regardless of their gender (though he mostly does that because Johnny's in control of their body and acts in a very caring way when V gets the control back). In a more straight example, he has no problems with violent threats against Us Cracks and waving a gun in front of their faces. Mix of meaningful and chairs. Threatening Us Cracks is notable since they're nonviolent singers, but female V is an Action Girl who's seen her share of fights.
4. Characters.Danganronpa F Shattered Hope: * "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives one to Cross for his callous and distrusting attitude after Corza is punished for saving their lives , even calling him out on suspecting the worst about Corza and her without solid proof and that he's only serving to make everyone's paranoia worse. This actually causes him to suffer a minor breakdown and slap her when she places a hand on him. Potholed in another example. Cross striking Rox is definitely a characterisation moment, showing he's blindly lashing out, but I don't know how relevant Rox being a girl is in context.
5. Characters.Durarara Anime Supporting Season 2: Two separate examples, one in Shu Aozaki's folder and one in Kisuke Abadashi's folder:
   • Would Hit a Girl: According to Kine. ZCE.
   • Would Hit a Girl: Kicks down Anri and tries to run over Ruri with a truck. Possibly relevant to show how dangerously obsessed he is, but a bit short on clarification.
6. Characters.Hack Slash: * Hidden Villain: His offscreen appearance in Super Sidekick Sleepover Slaughter, where he is the one who knocks out Lisa and copies the Hack/Slash, Inc. files. Potholed into another example. Unclear how relevant it is; I don't know enough about the work to know if he just happens to target women sometimes or has some specific reason for doing so.
7. Characters.Highlander The Series: Several separate examples: One in Methos's folder; one in Alfred Cahill's; one in Drakov/Arthur Drake's; one in John Durgan/Armand Thorne's; and one in Andrew Cord's. These examples are listed in that order.
   • Would Hit a Girl: He was alive for thousands of years before the idea of chivalry came along. And while he rarely gets involved in violence if he can help it, he shows no more qualms about fighting a woman than he does a man. Seems to be chairs - if Methos only fights when necessary, it doesn't matter if his opponent is a woman or man for his characterisation.
   • Would Hit a Girl: Smacks a prostitute around and she stabs him to death in return, triggering his Immortality. Meaningful; shows Alfred Cahill's fanatical hatred of prostitutes and other "sinners".
   • Would Hit a Girl: He is willing to kill whole families if it suits his purposes. He tries to have the Abramovs executed during the Russian revolution, and later murdered Eli Jarmel's wife and child to punish him for resisting Soviet rule in Romania. Meaningful; shows how brutal and tyrannical Drakov is, unwilling to spare any innocents.
   • Would Hit a Girl: In 1817, he strangled a kindly schoolteacher to steal her money. In the present day he murders Lauren Gale, an art historian and Joe Dawson's girlfriend, to prevent her from revealing that several of the pieces in his collection were stolen. Meaningful; shows what a ruthless criminal John Durgan is.
   • Would Hit a Girl: Besides murdering Mara, Cord shoots a woman his soldier raped in Vietnam when she won't allow him to pay her off. Meaningful; shows how horribly far Andrew Cord is willing to go for his men.
8. Characters.Ultra Series Other Ultras: Or rather shoot. He killed Riko Saida in cold blood. Characterises Mizorogi/Dark Mephisto as cold and ruthless, but also unclear just how relevant it is that the victim is female.
9. Fanfic.My Brave Pony Starfleet Magic: * Humiliation Conga: In Seasons II and III, Ace Ray experiences this. He loses his friends, gets kicked out of the Wonderbolts, and does so poorly during a fight with a changeling that he "would have [gotten] seriously hurt" if Rainbow Dash hadn't interfered. In a later chapter, a couple robots hold Ace and his sister Skye hostage, with one of them knocking him out. He also tries to persuade other characters that Starfleet sucks, but most of them don't even listen to him. The narration even suggests Starfleet's defenders regularly called him a "failure" and he was even suggested to get help. Also, he and a mob he gathered try to protest at a cafe. However, not only does everyone originally ignore them, Skye (who he hates) eventually starts trying to get him to quit his protest. When Ace starts assaulting her, Lightning Dawn (who he loathes) stops him from doing so. He additionally Curb-Stomps Ace, No-Sells his attacks, and arrests him. In court, Ace gets insulted by Captain Spitfire and he tries to blame Starfleet for everything, which everyone ignores. He also tries to assault the judge, to which Twilight prevents via surrounding him with a shield. Eventually, the court finds him guilty and he gets sentenced to Xandra, an inescapable planet with numerous asylums.^note In the original version, Ace gets put into a magical fantasy which causes him to start supporting Starfleet. While he's dragged away there, he still tries to blame Starfleet, only to be ignored again. There, he keeps trying to tell the staff he isn't unstable, and the medical staff respond by restraining and sedating him. Potholed in another example. Used to show just how much Ace Ray hates Starfleet, though the real notable thing seems to be that she's specifically his sister.
10. Film.Demon Knight: The loathsome Roach slaps his girlfriend Cordelia round. Shows Roach as an unpleasant person, though might be better described as specifically domestic abuse.
11. Film.Firestorm 1998: Twice Shaye backhands Jennifer across the face, hitting her hard enough to knock her to the ground. Might or might not be meaningful, but it's hard to tell without more context.
12. Film.The Panic In Needle Park: Bobby seems to genuinely care for Helen but he's also a heroin addict, which is why he hits her when she steals his stash. Used to characterise just how bad Bobby's addiction is, but who the specific woman is seems more important than just the fact that she's a woman.
13. Film.Primeval: One of the watch guards before getting fucked up by Gustave knocks around Aviva and tries to rape her. Also the other guard includes her in the attempted execution.
    • Little Gustave uses his cigar to burn Aviva on the arm and knocks her to ground before putting his boot on her neck, threatening to kill her if Tim doesn’t tell them where the tape is.
    • Little Gustave’s men execute the Shaman’s wife and tries to kill Aviva.
    • Gustave’s murder of the scientist at the beginning of film counts as well. Mix of legitimate examples and chairs. Helps characterise the human antagonists as thoroughly ruthless and treating women like objects, but Gustave is an animal that wouldn't know or care about human gender roles, and thus isn't notable. Could use a rewrite.
14. Film.Road House 1948: Jefty hits Lily across the face, and then shoots Susie in the arm. Characterises Jefty as dangerous to women, though could use more context for that part.
15. Film.Road To Hell: In the trailer, Cody slaps Caitlin across the face. Likely notable, but the exact meaning isn't clear without more context.
16. Film.Spider Man Far From Home: During the final showdown, Beck torments Spider-Man with a series of elaborate illusions, including a frightening scene where — after growing to giant size and donning a suit of armor — he grabs MJ by the neck, chokes her, and throws her to her death. Characterises Beck as cruel, tormenting Spidey by threatening an innocent woman, but he doesn't actually harm her and it's also specifically a threat against a love interest.
17. Recap.Black Mirror Be Right Back: * Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Averted. Martha tells the fake Ash that while the real Ash never beat her, she thinks that if she'd started hitting him, he might have hit her back. Potholed in another example. Specifically about striking back against a woman who beats him; unsure if that counts as notable.
18. Series.Degrassi The Next Generation: Two separate wicks, one with three sub-examples.
    • Even Evil Has Standards: "Put the lighter away, fliphead."
      • Alex initially threatens to publically out Marco to win the class president election. Marco tries to talk her out of it before their debate assembly. During her speech at the last minute she decides to not use that particular smear.
      • Johnny DiMarco, being one of the Lakehurst gang that initiated the war on Degrassi, can be a pretty ruthless bully, but he’s in complete shock when his friend fatally stabs J.T. in the back in cold blood. While that doesn’t get him to tone down his bullying, it initially lead to him offering a peace treaty to Toby (which Toby dismissed and retaliated) when the schools merged, being genuinely sorry J.T. was killed. At the Brat Camp with Darcy and Peter, he admitted that J.T.’s death traumatized him, leading him to act out more.
      • Also Bruce The Moose, who's one of the biggest bullies in the show and basically his fellow bully Johnny without any Jerk with a Heart of Gold or Hidden Depths moments, walks out of the gym when he sees video of The Shep calling Clare a bitch. Potholed into another example; no explanation of how it applies.
    • Would Hit a Girl:
      • That valiant theater nerd, Rick? He hits girls. Zero-context example.
      • Fiona's boyfriend Bobby at prep school, who gives her a black eye and throws her down a flight of stairs. She flees New York to return to Degrassi and eventually presses charges. Notable; shows Bobby as abusive, and makes it clear why Fiona leaves him.
      • Alli dates and briefly marries Leo whom she meets in France. He has no problem frequently injuring her to the point she could convincably lie to those that didn't know about him that she was mugged on the street. Probably notable; shows Leo as violently abusive and a poor match for Alli.
19. YMMV.Taste The Blood Of Dracula: * Moral Event Horizon: If he wasn't already past it, William Hargood goes over when he tries to personally whip his daughter for the heinous crime of getting engaged. Potholed in another example. Used to show Hargood as an abusive parent, but a large part of the notability is that she's specifically his own daughter.