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** "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E5AnElephantMakesLoveToAPig An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig]]" revolves around Stan being beaten up and everyone being sympathetic toward him over it... until they find out that the one beating him up is his sister. Then they mock him and call him a pussy. This is despite the fact that Stan's sister is older and bigger than he is, and is also a violent sociopath. However, they ''were'' still sympathetic when asking if his mother was the one hitting him, so it at least seems that "adult on child" outweighs "female on male".
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** "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E5AnElephantMakesLoveToAPig An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig]]" revolves around Stan being beaten up and everyone being sympathetic toward him over it... until they find out that the one beating him up is his sister. Then they mock him and call him a pussy. This is despite the fact that Stan's sister is older and bigger than he is, and is also a violent sociopath. However, they ''were'' still sympathetic when asking if his mother was the one hitting him, so it at least seems that "adult on child" outweighs "female on male". Also, the double standard comes mostly from the characters InUniverse. While the abuse Stan suffers is PlayedForLaughs for the viewer, it is black comedy and him trying to stand up to her is portrayed as sympathetic.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Down played with Nicole Watterson. She is generally a loving, if imperfect wife and mother about Richard and her children, and some fans do think her parenting could be dysfunctional. When does Double Standard come in? She does however threaten her family from time to time, such as in episodes like, The Egg, The Limit, or any other times she's seen threatening or being extra strict to Richard or her kids. She may be seen as much more abusive if not for the fact she's a women ([[{{YMMV}} and some fans argue it doesn't help that much]]), considering how rude she can be to Richard and Gumball (fathers in animation can only get away with being extra stern to their daughters, most often they won't dish it out on them as much as they do to their sons, or their wives do) that's saying a lot.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Down played with Nicole Watterson. She is generally a loving, if imperfect wife and mother about Richard and her children, and some fans do think her parenting could be dysfunctional. When does Double Standard come in? She does however threaten her family from time to time, such as in episodes like, The Egg, The Limit, or any other times she's seen threatening or being extra strict to Richard or her kids. She may be seen as much more abusive if not for the fact she's a women ([[{{YMMV}} and (and some fans argue it doesn't help that much]]), much), considering how rude she can be to Richard and Gumball (fathers in animation can only get away with being extra stern to their daughters, most often they won't dish it out on them as much as they do to their sons, or their wives do) that's saying a lot.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Down played with Nicole Watterson. She is generally a loving, if imperfect wife and mother about Richard and her children, and some fans do think her parenting could be dysfunctional. When does Double Standard come in? She does however threaten her family from time to time, such as in episodes like, The Egg, The Limit, or any other times she's seen threatening or being extra strict to Richard or her kids. She may be seen as much more abusive if not for the fact she's a women ([[YourMileageMayVary and some fans argue it doesn't help that much]]), considering how rude she can be to Richard and Gumball (fathers in animation can only get away with being extra stern to their daughters, most often they won't dish it out on them as much as they do to their sons, or their wives do) that's saying a lot.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Down played with Nicole Watterson. She is generally a loving, if imperfect wife and mother about Richard and her children, and some fans do think her parenting could be dysfunctional. When does Double Standard come in? She does however threaten her family from time to time, such as in episodes like, The Egg, The Limit, or any other times she's seen threatening or being extra strict to Richard or her kids. She may be seen as much more abusive if not for the fact she's a women ([[YourMileageMayVary ([[{{YMMV}} and some fans argue it doesn't help that much]]), considering how rude she can be to Richard and Gumball (fathers in animation can only get away with being extra stern to their daughters, most often they won't dish it out on them as much as they do to their sons, or their wives do) that's saying a lot.
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** Downplayed with Gumball's relationship with Penny. While generally not abusive on either end, Gumball has never intentionally caused her physical harm (though he has gotten her hurt through idiocy), while Penny has been able make both implicit and explicit threats on Gumball that leave him genuinely terrified of her when angered without being called out. Like in "The Transformation", where she threatens to ''cut off his finger'' if he doesn't side with her.
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** Downplayed with Gumball's relationship with Penny. While generally not abusive on either end, Gumball has never intentionally caused her physical harm (though he has gotten her hurt through idiocy), while Penny has been able make both implicit and explicit threats on Gumball that leave him genuinely terrified of her when angered without being called out.consequence. Like in "The Transformation", where she threatens to ''cut off his finger'' if he doesn't side with her.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Slightly Played with Nicole Watterson. She does care about Richard and her children, and some fans do think her parenting could be dysfunctional. When does Double Standard come in? She however does threaten her family, and only gets away with this because she's a woman. If episodes (like The Egg, The Limit, or any other times she's seen threatening or being extra strict to Richard or her kids) played: it would be seen as much more abusive and considering how rude she can be to Richard and Gumball (fathers in animation can only get away with being extra stern to their daughters, most often they won't dish it out on them as much as they do to their sons, or their wives do) that's saying alot.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' has a strange inversion of this with "Arthur's Big Hit". In that episode, DW wrecks Arthur's model airplane even after she was told very clearly not to touch it, which prompts Arthur to give her a hard punch on the shoulder. He gets punished instantly after that, and the episode tries to portray DW in a sympathetic limelight. But when Arthur himself gets punched on the shoulder by Binky, it's treated more like LaserGuidedKarma on his part. Just imagine how this episode would be written had the two swapped genders.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' has a strange inversion of this with "Arthur's Big Hit". In that episode, DW wrecks Arthur's model airplane even after she was told very clearly not to touch it, which prompts Arthur to give her a hard punch on the shoulder. He gets punished instantly after that, and the episode tries to portray DW in a sympathetic limelight. But when Arthur himself gets punched on the shoulder by Binky, it's treated more like LaserGuidedKarma on his part. Just imagine how this episode would be written had the two swapped genders.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Slightly Played Down played with Nicole Watterson. She does care is generally a loving, if imperfect wife and mother about Richard and her children, and some fans do think her parenting could be dysfunctional. When does Double Standard come in? She does however does threaten her family, and only gets away with this because she's a woman. If family from time to time, such as in episodes (like like, The Egg, The Limit, or any other times she's seen threatening or being extra strict to Richard or her kids) played: it would kids. She may be seen as much more abusive if not for the fact she's a women ([[YourMileageMayVary and some fans argue it doesn't help that much]]), considering how rude she can be to Richard and Gumball (fathers in animation can only get away with being extra stern to their daughters, most often they won't dish it out on them as much as they do to their sons, or their wives do) that's saying alot.
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** PlayedStraight with Anais. While she and Gumball can both be pretty big jerks to each other ([[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther even if they do still care about each other]]) and Gumball can even be a BigBrotherBully to Anais at times (such as in "Halloween"), Gumball has never (intentionally) physically harmed Anais, while she has physically harmed him several times in the series, such as in the "The Secret" where she gives him an offscreen beating for annoying her and in "The Parasite" where she kicks him in the shins than slams her locker door in his face for reading her diary (then gives him a kiss on the cheek for showing concern over her situation).
** Downplayed with Gumball's relationship with Penny. While generally not abusive on either end, Gumball has never intentionally caused her physical harm (though he has gotten her hurt through idiocy), while Penny has been able make both implicit and explicit threats on Gumball that leave him genuinely terrified of her when angered without being called out. Like in "The Transformation", where she threatens to ''cut off his finger'' if he doesn't side with her.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''has a strange inversion of plays this with mostly straight in "Arthur's Big Hit". In that episode, DW wrecks Arthur's model airplane even after she was told very clearly not to touch it, which prompts Arthur to give her a hard punch on the shoulder. He gets punished instantly after that, and the episode tries to portray DW in a sympathetic limelight. But when Arthur himself gets punched on the shoulder by Binky, it's treated more like LaserGuidedKarma on his part. Just imagine how this episode would be written had the two swapped genders.
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** PlayedStraight with Anais. While she and Gumball can both be pretty big jerks to each other ([[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther even if they do still care about each other]]) and Gumball can even be a BigBrotherBully to Anais at times (such as in "Halloween"), Gumball has never (intentionally) physically harmed Anais, while she has physically harmed him several times in the series, such as in the "The Secret" where she gives him an offscreen beating for annoying her and in "The Parasite" where she kicks him in the shins than slams her locker door in his face for reading her diary (then gives him a kiss on the cheek for showing concern over her situation).
** Downplayed with Gumball's relationship with Penny. While generally not abusive on either end, Gumball has never intentionally caused her physical harm (though he has gotten her hurt through idiocy), while Penny has been able make both implicit and explicit threats on Gumball that leave him genuinely terrified of her when angered without being called out. Like in "The Transformation", where she threatens to ''cut off his finger'' if he doesn't side with her.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}''
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* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', the Eds are commonly beaten up by Ed's sister Sarah, plus all the times they've been possibly [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale raped by the Kankers]], who are the walking definitions of Do Not Want. Not only are the Kankers beasts, but the cul-de-sac is ''scared'' of them. So while their [[AmusingInjuries treatment]] of the Eds and anyone who annoys them is usually played for laughs, there are times that it ''is'' wrong and quite likely illegal, but those moments are never actually on screen and only inferred or alluded to. It's to the point that when they drag [[spoiler:Eddy's brother]] away for 'mouth to mouth', it's viewed as his ''comeuppance''. Granted, he [[spoiler: is a complete jerk who abuses Eddy,]] but ''still''...
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* In ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', the Eds are commonly beaten up by Ed's sister Sarah, plus all the times they've been possibly [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale raped by the Kankers]], who are the walking definitions of Do Not Want. Not only are the Kankers beasts, but the cul-de-sac is ''scared'' of them. Also, Sarah isn't portrayed as sympathetic most of the time. So while their [[AmusingInjuries treatment]] of the Eds and anyone who annoys them is usually played for laughs, there are times it is clearly established that it ''is'' wrong and quite likely illegal, but those moments are never actually on screen and only inferred or alluded to. It's to the point that when they drag [[spoiler:Eddy's brother]] away for 'mouth to mouth', it's viewed as his ''comeuppance''. Granted, he [[spoiler: is a complete jerk who abuses Eddy,]] but ''still''...
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** One episode features Timmy wishing Vicky into a five year old so ''he'' can bully her. Wanda shames him for just wanting to see a little girl cry. The ''intended'' lesson is "[[HeWhoFightsMonsters Don't fight bullying with bullying]]." Make of that what you will.
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** One episode episode, "The Switch Glitch", features Timmy wishing Vicky into a five year old so ''he'' can bully her. Wanda shames him for just wanting to see a little girl cry. The ''intended'' lesson is "[[HeWhoFightsMonsters Don't fight bullying with bullying]]." Make of that what you will.
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** Also, in one episode Arnold is fed up with Helga verbally abusing him in art class, and after she throws glue and feathers on him (and then laughs at him, shouting to the whole class "Arnold's a bird!"), he eventually retaliates by throwing a cup of paint on her (after she did so to him and refused to allow him to do any painting). The teacher, who never did ''anything'' when Helga abused him, is shocked at ''Arnold'' and gives him detention, and his grandparents are notified. [[KarmaHoudini Helga gets away with this]].
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** Also, in one episode "Girl Trouble", Arnold is fed up with Helga verbally abusing him in art class, and after she throws glue and feathers on him (and then laughs at him, shouting to the whole class "Arnold's a bird!"), he eventually retaliates by throwing a cup of paint on her (after she did so to him and refused to allow him to do any painting). The teacher, who never did ''anything'' when Helga abused him, is shocked at ''Arnold'' and gives him detention, and his grandparents are notified. [[KarmaHoudini Helga gets away with this]].
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* Happens again in ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'' where Josee would sometimes be physically abusive to Jacques not to mention constantly verbally abusive. Jacques never retaliates, but [[spoiler: he instead threatens to break off their partnership when he gets annoyed at her for not listening to him. Priorities.]]
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* Happens again in ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'' and to a much greater and more destructive extent, where Josee would sometimes be physically abusive to Jacques not to mention constantly verbally abusive. Jacques never retaliates, but [[spoiler: he instead threatens to break off their partnership when he gets annoyed at Stephanie frequently bullies, abuses, and assaults her partner, Ryan, even for not listening to him. Priorities.]]the most minor mistakes he makes.
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* The way Gaz treats her older brother, Dib, on ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''. Early episodes just portrayed her as threatening him but never doing much, but by the second season she had been [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] into beating him savagely for minor deeds. Though Dib is only a year older than her and Gaz is ''clearly'' stronger than any normal child her age could be, the idea of her beating him in ways as bad or worse than an adult could are rarely played for anything but laughs. There is a small but vocal {{Hatedom}} of Gaz for this very reason, which often produce a genre of {{Fix Fic}}s where Gaz suffers in some way for her actions. It also doesn't help that between their [[MissingMom lack of a mom]], [[DisappearedDad their dad being at the lab all the time and usually only communicating with his kids through a screen]], and [[AdultsAreUseless the authority figures at their school being worthless]], there really isn't anyone who seems willing to correct her behavior.
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* The way Gaz treats her older brother, Dib, on ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''. Early episodes just portrayed her as threatening him but never doing much, but by the second season she had been [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] into beating him savagely for minor deeds. Though Dib is only a year older than her and Gaz is ''clearly'' stronger than any normal child her age could be, the idea of her beating him in ways as bad or worse than an adult could are rarely played for anything but laughs. There is a small but vocal {{Hatedom}} of Gaz for this very reason, which often produce a genre of {{Fix Fic}}s where Gaz suffers in some way for her actions. It also doesn't help that between their [[MissingMom lack of a mom]], [[DisappearedDad their dad being at the lab all the time and usually only communicating with his kids through a screen]], and [[AdultsAreUseless the authority figures at their school being worthless]], there really isn't anyone who seems willing to correct her behavior.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'' runs into this trope with the protagonist Mark’s relationship with Amber who’s been revamped from the comics into a intelligent SassyBlackWoman. Mark frequently standing her up due to his [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife superhero commitments]] and Amber’s anger over it attempts to paint Mark as a lousy boyfriend and Amber’s revelation that she secretly knew he was a superhero but still won’t forgive him for lying to her, is treated as an empowering moment for her with Mark’s other friends Eve and William taking her side. Amber’s ControlFreak behaviour, wanting Mark to tell her everything even when they’ve only been dating for a short amount of time, and ripping into him for running away while they’re attacked by a supervillain at college (despite knowing he’s a hero) comes off as textbook emotional abuse - yet the show doesn’t once call Amber out on her cruelty and a few feminists critics have supported her treatment of Mark. There’s no getting past the fact were the genders reversed, if it was a super powered woman getting derided by her normal boyfriend who’s angry she’s saving world instead spending time with him, the outcry would be '''massive'''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'' runs into this trope with the protagonist Mark’s relationship with Amber who’s been revamped from the comics into a intelligent SassyBlackWoman. Mark frequently standing her up due to his [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife superhero commitments]] and Amber’s anger over it attempts to paint Mark as a lousy boyfriend and Amber’s revelation that she secretly knew he was a superhero but still won’t forgive him for lying to her, is treated as an empowering moment for her with Mark’s other friends Eve and William taking her side. Amber’s ControlFreak behaviour, wanting Mark to tell her everything even when they’ve only been dating for a short amount of time, and ripping into him for running away while they’re attacked by a supervillain at college (despite knowing he’s a hero) comes off as textbook emotional abuse - yet the show doesn’t once call Amber out on her cruelty and a few feminists critics have supported her treatment of Mark. There’s no getting past the fact were the genders reversed, if it was a super powered woman getting derided by her normal boyfriend who’s angry she’s saving world instead of spending time with him, the outcry would be '''massive'''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'' runs into this trope with the protagonist Mark’s relationship with Amber who’s been revamped from the comics into a intelligent SassyBlackWoman. Mark frequently standing her up due to his [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife superhero commitments]] and Amber’s anger over it attempts to paint Mark as a lousy boyfriend and Amber’s revelation that she secretly knew he was a superhero but still won’t forgive him for lying to her, is treated as an empowering moment for her with Mark’s other friends Eve and William taking her side. Amber’s ControlFreak behaviour, wanting Mark to tell everything even when they’ve only been dating for a short amount of time, and ripping into him for running away while they’re attacked by a supervillain at college (despite knowing he’s a hero) comes off as textbook emotional abuse - yet the show doesn’t once call Amber out on her cruelty and a few feminists critics have supported her treatment of Mark. There’s no getting past the fact were the genders reversed, if it was a super powered woman getting derided by her normal boyfriend who’s angry she’s saving world instead spending time with him, the outcry would be '''massive'''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'' runs into this trope with the protagonist Mark’s relationship with Amber who’s been revamped from the comics into a intelligent SassyBlackWoman. Mark frequently standing her up due to his [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife superhero commitments]] and Amber’s anger over it attempts to paint Mark as a lousy boyfriend and Amber’s revelation that she secretly knew he was a superhero but still won’t forgive him for lying to her, is treated as an empowering moment for her with Mark’s other friends Eve and William taking her side. Amber’s ControlFreak behaviour, wanting Mark to tell her everything even when they’ve only been dating for a short amount of time, and ripping into him for running away while they’re attacked by a supervillain at college (despite knowing he’s a hero) comes off as textbook emotional abuse - yet the show doesn’t once call Amber out on her cruelty and a few feminists critics have supported her treatment of Mark. There’s no getting past the fact were the genders reversed, if it was a super powered woman getting derided by her normal boyfriend who’s angry she’s saving world instead spending time with him, the outcry would be '''massive'''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'' runs into this trope with the protagonist Mark’s relationship with Amber who’s been revamped from the comics into a intelligent SassyBlackWoman. Mark frequently standing her up due to his [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife superhero commitments]] and Amber’s anger over it attempts to paint Mark as a lousy boyfriend and Amber’s revelation that she secretly knew he was a superhero but still won’t forgive him for lying to her is treated as an empowering moment for her with Mark’s other friends Eve and William taking her side. Amber’s ControlFreak behaviour, wanting Mark to tell everything even when they’ve only been dating for a short amount of time, and ripping into him for running away while they’re attacked by a supervillain at college (despite knowing he’s a hero) comes off as textbook emotional abuse - yet the show doesn’t once call Amber out on her cruelty and a few feminists critics have supported her treatment of Mark. There’s no getting past the fact were the genders reversed, if it was a super powered woman getting derided by her normal boyfriend who’s angry she’s saving world instead spending time with him, the outcry would be '''massive'''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'' runs into this trope with the protagonist Mark’s relationship with Amber who’s been revamped from the comics into a intelligent SassyBlackWoman. Mark frequently standing her up due to his [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife superhero commitments]] and Amber’s anger over it attempts to paint Mark as a lousy boyfriend and Amber’s revelation that she secretly knew he was a superhero but still won’t forgive him for lying to her her, is treated as an empowering moment for her with Mark’s other friends Eve and William taking her side. Amber’s ControlFreak behaviour, wanting Mark to tell everything even when they’ve only been dating for a short amount of time, and ripping into him for running away while they’re attacked by a supervillain at college (despite knowing he’s a hero) comes off as textbook emotional abuse - yet the show doesn’t once call Amber out on her cruelty and a few feminists critics have supported her treatment of Mark. There’s no getting past the fact were the genders reversed, if it was a super powered woman getting derided by her normal boyfriend who’s angry she’s saving world instead spending time with him, the outcry would be '''massive'''.
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** Played straight in Season 4 where Hector [[EasilyForgiven forgives]] Lenore despite all her aforementioned actions [[spoiler: and her death in sunlight is treated as TearJerker moment]]. If it was a female character who been imprisoned, violently abused, used and manipulated by a male character having to cut her own finger off just to escape his control, forgiveness would’ve been completely out of the question. Especially jarring given the abuse Carmilla got from her male sire is comparatively treated as unambiguously bad while Lenore is treated sympathetically.
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** Played straight in Season 4 where Hector [[EasilyForgiven forgives]] Lenore despite all her aforementioned actions [[spoiler: and her death in the sunlight is treated as a TearJerker moment]]. If it was a female character who been imprisoned, violently abused, used and manipulated by a male character having to cut her own finger off just to escape his control, forgiveness would’ve been completely out of the question. Especially jarring given the abuse Carmilla got from her male sire is comparatively treated as unambiguously bad while Lenore is treated sympathetically.
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** Played straight in Season 4 where Hector [[EasilyForgives forgives]] Lenore despite all her aforementioned actions [[spoiler: and her death in sunlight is treated as TearJerker moment]]. If it was a female character who been imprisoned, violently abused, used and manipulated by a male character having to cut her own finger off just to escape his control, forgiveness would’ve been completely out of the question. Especially jarring given the abuse Carmilla got from her male sire is comparatively treated as unambiguously bad while Lenore is treated sympathetically.
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** Played straight in Season 4 where Hector [[EasilyForgives [[EasilyForgiven forgives]] Lenore despite all her aforementioned actions [[spoiler: and her death in sunlight is treated as TearJerker moment]]. If it was a female character who been imprisoned, violently abused, used and manipulated by a male character having to cut her own finger off just to escape his control, forgiveness would’ve been completely out of the question. Especially jarring given the abuse Carmilla got from her male sire is comparatively treated as unambiguously bad while Lenore is treated sympathetically.
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** Played straight in Season 4 where Hector [[Easily Foforgives Lenore despite all her aforementioned actions [[spoiler: and her death in sunlight is treated as TearJerker moment]]. If it was a female character who been imprisoned, violently abused, used and manipulated by a male character having to cut her own finger off just to escape his control, forgiveness would’ve been completely out of the question. Especially jarring given the abuse Carmilla got from her male sire is comparatively treated as unambiguously bad while Lenore is treated sympathetically.
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** Played straight in Season 4 where Hector [[Easily Foforgives [[EasilyForgives forgives]] Lenore despite all her aforementioned actions [[spoiler: and her death in sunlight is treated as TearJerker moment]]. If it was a female character who been imprisoned, violently abused, used and manipulated by a male character having to cut her own finger off just to escape his control, forgiveness would’ve been completely out of the question. Especially jarring given the abuse Carmilla got from her male sire is comparatively treated as unambiguously bad while Lenore is treated sympathetically.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania}}'' Season 3 averts this hard with Hector and Lenore’s relationship. Lenore’s DisproportionateRetribution NoHoldsBarredBeatdown for Hector simply holding her throat while trying to escape from his cell, or her manipulating his trust and sexual attraction of her in order to trick him into enslaving his will to her, is not remotely funny being one massive KickTheDog moment.
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** Season 3 averts this hard with Hector and Lenore’s relationship. Lenore’s DisproportionateRetribution NoHoldsBarredBeatdown for Hector simply holding her throat while trying to escape from his cell, or her manipulating his trust and sexual attraction of her in order to trick him into enslaving his will to her, is not remotely funny being one massive KickTheDog moment.
** Played straight in Season 4 where Hector [[Easily Foforgives Lenore despite all her aforementioned actions [[spoiler: and her death in sunlight is treated as TearJerker moment]]. If it was a female character who been imprisoned, violently abused, used and manipulated by a male character having to cut her own finger off just to escape his control, forgiveness would’ve been completely out of the question. Especially jarring given the abuse Carmilla got from her male sire is comparatively treated as unambiguously bad while Lenore is treated sympathetically.
** Season 3 averts this hard with Hector and Lenore’s relationship. Lenore’s DisproportionateRetribution NoHoldsBarredBeatdown for Hector simply holding her throat while trying to escape from his cell, or her manipulating his trust and sexual attraction of her in order to trick him into enslaving his will to her, is not remotely funny being one massive KickTheDog moment.
** Played straight in Season 4 where Hector [[Easily Foforgives Lenore despite all her aforementioned actions [[spoiler: and her death in sunlight is treated as TearJerker moment]]. If it was a female character who been imprisoned, violently abused, used and manipulated by a male character having to cut her own finger off just to escape his control, forgiveness would’ve been completely out of the question. Especially jarring given the abuse Carmilla got from her male sire is comparatively treated as unambiguously bad while Lenore is treated sympathetically.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Invincible2021'' runs into this trope with the protagonist Mark’s relationship with Amber who’s been revamped from the comics into a intelligent SassyBlackWoman. Mark frequently standing her up due to his [[TheMasqueradeWillKillYourDatingLife superhero commitments]] and Amber’s anger over it attempts to paint Mark as a lousy boyfriend and Amber’s revelation that she secretly knew he was a superhero but still won’t forgive him for lying to her is treated as an empowering moment for her with Mark’s other friends Eve and William taking her side. Amber’s ControlFreak behaviour, wanting Mark to tell everything even when they’ve only been dating for a short amount of time, and ripping into him for running away while they’re attacked by a supervillain at college (despite knowing he’s a hero) comes off as textbook emotional abuse - yet the show doesn’t once call Amber out on her cruelty and a few feminists critics have supported her treatment of Mark. There’s no getting past the fact were the genders reversed, if it was a super powered woman getting derided by her normal boyfriend who’s angry she’s saving world instead spending time with him, the outcry would be '''massive'''.
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"Mai never listens to Zuko when he opens up to her" she tries to joke with him once and it walls flat. Later in Nightmares and Daydreams she encourages him to talk and spends an entire episode trying to cheer him up and relieve his anxiety. "Puts him down," That's one way say "calls him out on shitty behavior," but okay. "calls him names," when? She calls him a jerk in the saving the jerk who dumped me line but yeah this is a reach. "and rejects him constantly." She breaks up with him after he gets massively jealous and controlling and only gets back together with him after he apologizes. He throws a boy into a wall for talking to her, and blows up at her for objecting, and then calls her names and is nasty to her. She forgives him, and they work on their relationship. "Most of his efforts to make her happy and please her result in Mai throwing things at him belittling him, and mocking his abuse." What? She throws one thing at him, a piece of paper. Specifically the letter he leaves to break up with her. A measured response all things considered. She rejects gifts she doesn't want, and is displeased when he drops a snow cone on his lap. It's not long after this he throws a guy into a wall for talking to her. She does not mock the abuse he suffered, but he mocks the abuse and neglect she suffered! "In their last scene together at the end of the series she threatens him to never break up with her again." She says "Never break up with me again" as a clear call back to the last time he broke up with him, where she punished him, by... Saving his life and the life of his friends, by standing up to her abuser and committing treason. How abusive. How horrible. "She helps her father hide his attempts to murder Zuko and his family, lies to Zuko when he asks if her father is involved in the assassination attempts, and when later caught, she gaslights Zuko into apologizing." 1) they're not dating at this point. They don't have a relationship. 2) she works against her father as wel. She has majorly conflicted feelings about a situation that could lead to Zuko dying or her family dying for treason. 3) Does anybody want to get into the terrible things Zuko did while trying to please his father? This third point is what Mai brings up to "gaslight him." That's not gaslighting. That's reminding him that he's been in a similar situation and did not act with grace. "If the genders were reversed, this would be pretty disturbing." If Zuko weren't a fan favorite who a lot of people identify with/have a crush on, and Mai weren't such a minor character who stands in the way of a fan favorite ship, and if we didn't have this whole idea that the perfect girl could love Zuko to recovery, and that this relationship should be judged entirely on jow well she pleases Zuko, more people might be open to seeing how both Mai and Zuko are damaged traumatized teenagers, fumbling around, behaving badly, and hurting each other and themselves as they work their way to becoming better people.
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Let's go through this one by one: "Mai never listens to Zuko when he opens up to her, puts him down, calls him names, and rejects him constantly. Most of his efforts to make her happy and please her result in Mai throwing things at him, belittling him, and mocking his abuse. In their last scene together at the end of the series she threatens him to never break up with her again. In the comics, she helps her father hide his attempts to murder Zuko and his family, lies to Zuko when he asks if her father is involved in the assassination attempts, and when later caught, she gaslights Zuko into apologizing. If the genders were reversed, this would be pretty disturbing.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Played straight with Mai and Zuko. Mai never listens to Zuko when he opens up to her, puts him down, calls him names, and rejects him constantly. Most of his efforts to make her happy and please her result in Mai throwing things at him, belittling him, and mocking his abuse. In their last scene together at the end of the series she threatens him to never break up with her again. [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSmokeAndShadow In the comics]], she helps her father hide his attempts to murder Zuko and his family, lies to Zuko when he asks if her father is involved in the assassination attempts, and when later caught, she gaslights Zuko into apologizing.]] If the genders were reversed, this would be pretty disturbing.
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* A fair number of older cartoon shorts featured large abusive wives taking things out on smaller and weaker husbands, including a man that discovered a way to make magical holes leading anywhere. When he tosses his wife into one at the end when finally fed up with her we find it leads to Hell as Satan tosses her back out. Daffy Duck and Pepe LePew are both also shown having horribly abusive wives (Daffy's in particular is shown brutally assaulting him over everything), most likely explaining why they behave like they do in every other cartoon (particularly Pepe wanting to find someone to actually love him instead of abuse him).
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* A fair number of older cartoon shorts featured large abusive wives taking things out on smaller and weaker husbands, including a man that discovered a way to make magical holes leading anywhere. When he tosses his wife into one at the end when finally fed up with her we find it leads to Hell as Satan tosses her back out. Daffy Duck and Pepe LePew [=LePew=] are both also shown having horribly abusive wives (Daffy's in particular is shown brutally assaulting him over everything), most likely explaining why they behave like they do in every other cartoon (particularly Pepe wanting to find someone to actually love him instead of abuse him).
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Played straight with Mai and Zuko. Mai never listens to Zuko when he opens up to her, puts him down, calls him names, and rejects him constantly. Most of his efforts to make her happy and please her result in Mai throwing things at him, belittling him, and mocking his abuse. In their last scene together at the end of the series she threatens him to never break up with her again. [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSmokeAndShadow In the comics]], she helps her father hide his attempts to murder Zuko and his family, lies to Zuko when he asks if her father is involved in the assassination attempts, and when later caught, she gaslights Zuko into apologizing.]] If the genders were reversed, this would be pretty disturbing.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Played straight with Mai and Zuko. Mai never listens to Zuko when he opens up to her, puts him down, calls him names, and rejects him constantly. Most of his efforts to make her happy and please her result in Mai throwing things at him, belittling him, and mocking his abuse. In their last scene together at the end of the series she threatens him to never break up with her again. [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSmokeAndShadow In the comics]], she helps her father hide his attempts to murder Zuko and his family, lies to Zuko when he asks if her father is involved in the assassination attempts, and when later caught, she gaslights Zuko into apologizing.]] If the genders were reversed, this would be pretty disturbing.
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** An even worse example occurs in ''Total Drama World Tour'', where Sierra lusts obsessively over Cody. This includes, among other things, stealing his underwear, stealing and using his toothbrush, repeated unwanted touching, hugging, and kissing, ''drugging him into a stupor'', and trying to trick him into inadvertently marrying her. Cody is naturally horrified by this and is portrayed sympathetically on the whole, but the one-sided relationship is largely PlayedForLaughs. It gets particularly bad when Cody upsets Sierra by unsuccessfully voting for her elimination from the game. Sierra becomes hysterical for much of the next episode. The rest of Cody’s team gets angry at ''him'' and demand he make it up to her so she’ll stop dragging the team down, rather than being angry at Sierra for pouting because a boy she was harassing rejected her.
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** An even worse One example occurs in ''Total Drama World Tour'', where Sierra lusts obsessively over Cody. This includes, among other things, stealing his underwear, stealing and using his toothbrush, repeated unwanted touching, hugging, and kissing, ''drugging him into a stupor'', and trying to trick him into inadvertently marrying her. Cody is naturally horrified by this and is portrayed sympathetically on the whole, but the one-sided relationship is largely PlayedForLaughs. It gets particularly bad when Cody upsets Sierra by unsuccessfully voting for her elimination from the game. Sierra becomes hysterical for much of the next episode. The rest of Cody’s team gets angry at ''him'' and demand he make it up to her so she’ll stop dragging the team down, rather than being angry at Sierra for pouting because a boy she was harassing rejected her.
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** An even worse example occurs in ''Total Drama World Tour'', where Sierra lusts obsessively over Cody. This includes, among other things, stealing his underwear, stealing and using his toothbrush, repeated unwanted touching, hugging, and kissing, ''drugging him into a stupor'', and trying to trick him into inadvertently marrying her. Cody is naturally horrified by this and is portrayed sympathetically on the whole, but the one-sided relationship is largely PlayedForLaughs. It gets particularly bad when Cody upsets Sierra by unsuccessfully voting for her elimination from the game. Sierra becomes hysterical for much of the next episode. The rest of Cody’s team gets angry at ''him'' and demand he make it up to her so she’ll stop dragging the team down, rather than being angry at Sierra for pouting because a boy she was harassing rejected her.
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** Mom beats on her sons, Walt, Larry and Igner regularly. Granted, they are a parodic ThreeStoogesShoutOut, and really are pretty pathetic, but it's played as a lot more funny than if they had been daughters or Mom was a Dad.
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** Mom regularly beats on her sons, sons Walt, Larry Larry, and Igner regularly.Igner. Granted, they are a parodic ThreeStoogesShoutOut, and really are pretty pathetic, but it's played as a lot more funny than if they had been daughters or Mom was a Dad.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'': Oscar is beaten up, sometimes twice an episode, and usually by his wife or mother. Most of the times it's because he flirts with other women, which is wrong, but if Trudy ever flirts with another man and Oscar says something about it, [[TheUnfairSex he is portrayed as over-reacting.]] One particularly JustForFun/{{Egregious}} example: Trudy makes a joke about leaving Oscar for Creator/DenzelWashington. Everyone laughs. Oscar makes a joke about leaving her for Creator/HalleBerry. Trudy and Penny glare at him before Trudy drops his foot, which was bandaged after an earlier accident.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'': Oscar is beaten up, sometimes twice an episode, and usually by his wife or mother. Most of the times it's because he flirts with other women, which is wrong, but if Trudy ever flirts with another man and Oscar says something about it, [[TheUnfairSex he is portrayed as over-reacting.overreacting.]] One particularly JustForFun/{{Egregious}} example: Trudy makes a joke about leaving Oscar for Creator/DenzelWashington. Everyone laughs. Oscar makes a joke about leaving her for Creator/HalleBerry. Trudy and Penny glare at him before Trudy drops his foot, which was bandaged after an earlier accident.
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*** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E3TheGreatWhiteHope The Great Wife Hope]]", Bart suggests to Lisa to enter the octagon to to settle their lifelong rivalry and she accepts. As they approach each other to throw a punch, Lisa easily punching Bart to the ground. Bart is unconscious and Lisa walks away satisfied. This is frightening but Melissa and Randall Baker of TV Guide magazine said that the scene was a moment of "girl power."
** Psychological and verbal abuse from Lisa to Bart is more frequent and severe than psychological and verbal abuse from him to her. Lisa also usually underestimate him and she even talks badly behind his back.
** WordOfGod states that at one point writers suggested making a gag where Homer strangles Lisa, which was immediately rebuked, despite no one ever criticizing the often used gag of him strangling Bart.
** A scene where Marge rapes Homer is played for laughs. No, seriously. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E9TheStrongArmsOfTheMa The Strong Arms of the Ma]]", Marge becomes a muscular body-builder. When Homer refuses to have sex with her because he'd rather go to sleep, she over-powers him and says "I wasn't asking". A GilliganCut then shows Homer walking funny the morning after. Ha.
** Averted in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E2TheHomerOfSeville Homer of Seville]]", where Homer becomes a popular opera singer, and has to fight off hoards of loving fans. Julia, a woman who rescues Homer from a mob of them, becomes his manager in an attempt to seduce him. She goes so far as to ''strip herself naked'' in front him. Homer, however, is disturbed by all this, and fires Julia. When Julia makes a threat on Homer's life, Chief Wiggum puts up a lot of security to protect him.
** Psychological and verbal abuse from Lisa to Bart is more frequent and severe than psychological and verbal abuse from him to her. Lisa also usually underestimate him and she even talks badly behind his back.
** WordOfGod states that at one point writers suggested making a gag where Homer strangles Lisa, which was immediately rebuked, despite no one ever criticizing the often used gag of him strangling Bart.
** A scene where Marge rapes Homer is played for laughs. No, seriously. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E9TheStrongArmsOfTheMa The Strong Arms of the Ma]]", Marge becomes a muscular body-builder. When Homer refuses to have sex with her because he'd rather go to sleep, she over-powers him and says "I wasn't asking". A GilliganCut then shows Homer walking funny the morning after. Ha.
** Averted in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E2TheHomerOfSeville Homer of Seville]]", where Homer becomes a popular opera singer, and has to fight off hoards of loving fans. Julia, a woman who rescues Homer from a mob of them, becomes his manager in an attempt to seduce him. She goes so far as to ''strip herself naked'' in front him. Homer, however, is disturbed by all this, and fires Julia. When Julia makes a threat on Homer's life, Chief Wiggum puts up a lot of security to protect him.
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*** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E3TheGreatWhiteHope The Great Wife Hope]]", Bart suggests to Lisa to enter the octagon to to settle their lifelong rivalry and she accepts. As they approach each other to throw a punch, Lisa easily punching Bart to the ground. Bart is unconscious and Lisa walks away satisfied. This is frightening frightening, but Melissa and Randall Baker of TV Guide magazine said that the scene was a moment of "girl power."
** Psychological and verbal abuse from Lisa to Bart is more frequent and severe than psychological and verbal abuse from him to her. Lisa also usuallyunderestimate underestimates him and she even talks badly behind his back.
** WordOfGod states that at one point writers suggested making a gag where Homer strangles Lisa, which was immediately rebuked, despite no one ever criticizing theoften used often-used gag of him strangling Bart.
** A scene where Marge rapes Homer is played for laughs. No, seriously. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E9TheStrongArmsOfTheMa The Strong Arms of the Ma]]", Marge becomes a muscular body-builder. When Homer refuses to have sex with her because he'd rather go to sleep, sheover-powers overpowers him and says "I wasn't asking". A GilliganCut then shows Homer walking funny the morning after. Ha.
** Averted in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E2TheHomerOfSeville Homer of Seville]]", where Homer becomes a popular opera singer, and has to fight offhoards hordes of loving fans. Julia, a woman who rescues Homer from a mob of them, becomes his manager in an attempt to seduce him. She goes so far as to ''strip herself naked'' in front him. Homer, however, is disturbed by all this, and fires Julia. When Julia makes a threat on Homer's life, Chief Wiggum puts up a lot of security to protect him.
** Psychological and verbal abuse from Lisa to Bart is more frequent and severe than psychological and verbal abuse from him to her. Lisa also usually
** WordOfGod states that at one point writers suggested making a gag where Homer strangles Lisa, which was immediately rebuked, despite no one ever criticizing the
** A scene where Marge rapes Homer is played for laughs. No, seriously. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E9TheStrongArmsOfTheMa The Strong Arms of the Ma]]", Marge becomes a muscular body-builder. When Homer refuses to have sex with her because he'd rather go to sleep, she
** Averted in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E2TheHomerOfSeville Homer of Seville]]", where Homer becomes a popular opera singer, and has to fight off
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' has a strange inversion of this with "Arthur's Big Hit". In that episode, DW wrecks Arthur's model airplane even after she was told very clearly not to touch it, which prompts Arthur to give her a hard punch on the shoulder. He gets punished instantly after that, and the episode tries to portray DW in a sympathetic limelight. But when Arthur himself gets punched on the shoulder by Binky, it's treated more like LaserGuidedKarma on his part. Just imagine how this episode would be written had the two swapped genders.
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2) You left out the part where she shot down Zuko while he was trying to open to her, the part where she trows various objects to his head (The Boiling Rock part 2), and her constantly comparing him to his abusive father
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1) You didn't even bother to justify her actions in the comics
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* [[OlderThanTheyThink This goes all the way back]] to Disney's DonaldDuck cartoons. Whenever Donald and Daisy had any sort of argument, it would usually end in Daisy beating the living stuffing out of Donald. The worst he could ever do was insult or mock her, which usually just resulted in him getting more beatings.
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* [[OlderThanTheyThink This goes all the way back]] to Disney's DonaldDuck WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoons. Whenever Donald and Daisy had any sort of argument, it would usually end in Daisy beating the living stuffing out of Donald. The worst he could ever do was insult or mock her, which usually just resulted in him getting more beatings.
