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* Archie's ''Comicbook/SonicTheHedgehog'' comic book once had Bunnie Rabbot and [[MsFanservice Rouge the Bat]] get into a fight for no reason. Even the cover showed the two beating the snot out of each other.

* In ''[[Anime/{{Persona 4}} Persona 4: The Animation]]'', [[AlphaBitch Ai Ebihara]] slaps [[{{Tomboy}} Chie Satonaka]]. Their cat fight ha them ''childishly pulling on each other's cheeks''.

A battle between two or more female combatants that differs from the DesignatedGirlFight only in that it's invoked for PerverseSexualLust purposes more than anything else. Though the label may be attached to any girl-fight, a true Catfight generally [[WimpFight lacks finesse/combat skill]], and is more likely than not intended to titillate. Expect the combatants to seize and tear each other's {{clothing|Damage}} and/or hair. A staple of the JiggleShow. More [[PlayedForLaughs humorous]] depictions may be punctuated with a cat screech to drive the point home.

See also WouldntHitAGirl, GirlOnGirlIsHot, DesignatedGirlFight, FoeYay and especially InterplayOfSexAndViolence. Just Add Mud to get MudWrestling. Compare: Panty Fighter, where [=Catfights=] are the bread and butter, but they rarely degrade into "Rolling Around" pseudo-fights. Not related to the CockFight or the cartoon BigBallOfViolence.

See also WouldntHitAGirl, GirlOnGirlIsHot, DesignatedGirlFight, FoeYay and especially InterplayOfSexAndViolence. Just Add Mud to get MudWrestling. Compare: PantyFighter, where Catfights are the bread and butter, but they rarely degrade into "Rolling Around" pseudo-fights. Not related to the CockFight or the cartoon BigBallOfViolence.

** Later in the Festival Arc, [[ClingyJealousGirl Mary]] gets into one with the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]]. Sue wonders where Tiren is and then argues with [[ClarkKenting Elly]] over who should stop them.

* In the ''Manga/SoulEater'' manga and anime, the busty [=Catgirl=] Blair fights with a similarly chesty witch. Despite both knowing powerful magic, onlookers are thrilled to no end to see that they simply wind up catfighting anyway.

* Averted in an episode of the 2007 ''GegegeNoKitaro'' series; Neko Musume and a female kappa are paired off in a sumo match, but before the match even starts, the perverted actions of the judge cause both of them to hit him, disqualifying both of them at the same time. Also averted in the fact that Neko Musume had been designated to fight a male kappa opponent before the female owing to Medama-Oyaji losing his match, though she scared the kappa off before the fight got anywhere. Neko Musume is a [=Catgirl=].

* ''BittersweetCandyBowl'', [[IncrediblyLamePun punnily]] common. Possibly, [[http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c55/p31.html this]] is the only played straight example currently.
* LasLindas. Mora and Rachael [[http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=503 get into one]] after Mora catches Rachael kissing her boyfriend Minos. Bonus points for Rachael being a [=Catgirl=].

* This ScrewAttack [[http://youtu.be/7muX233Jwzk death]] [[DeathBattle match]] between [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Felicia]] and [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Taokaka]] takes it to its most literal degree. Both combatants are [=catgirl=]s.

* In the ''Manga/SoulEater'' manga and anime, the busty {{catgirl}} Blair fights with a similarly chesty witch. Despite both knowing powerful magic, onlookers are thrilled to no end to see that they simply wind up catfighting anyway.

* LasLindas. Mora and Rachael [[http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=503 get into one]] after Mora catches Rachael kissing her boyfriend Minos. Bonus points for Rachael being a CatGirl.

** Later in the Festival Arc, [[ClingyJealousGirl Mary]] gets into one with the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen]]. Sue wonders where [[CatGirl Tiren]] is and then argues with [[ClarkKenting Elly]] over who should stop them.

* This ScrewAttack [[http://youtu.be/7muX233Jwzk death]] [[DeathBattle match]] between [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Felicia]] and [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Taokaka]] takes it to it's most literal degree. Both combatants are {{catgirl}}s.

If two [[CatGirl Cat Girls]] get into a fight, this Trope may apply, in which the name becomes ''very'' literal.

* Averted in an episode of the 2007 ''GegegeNoKitaro'' series; Neko Musume and a female kappa are paired off in a sumo match, but before the match even starts, the perverted actions of the judge cause both of them to hit him, disqualifying both of them at the same time. Also averted in the fact that Neko Musume had been designated to fight a male kappa opponent before the female owing to Medama-Oyaji losing his match, though she scared the kappa off before the fight got anywhere. Neko Musume is a CatGirl.

* In the classic western, ''DestryRidesAgain'', there is a long, rough catfight involving Marlene Dietrich.

* In the classic western, ''DestryRidesAgain'', there is a long, rough catfight involving Creator/MarleneDietrich.

* There's a major catfight in ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}''. It's not meant as Fanservice. It's still awesome because the two opponents do their very best to beat each other into a bloody mess. The two fighters are [[spoiler:Taiga and class rep Sumire. Watch episode 16 for the fight]].

* Usually subverted on ''{{Smallville}}'', in which even girl fights often turn out to be quite brutal, like the one with Lana vs. Chloe in [[spoiler:''Delete'']]. Tess and Lois get a straight one in [[spoiler:''Doomsday'']], though.
* The spy comedy ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' is notable for pitting the blonde, scantily clad Sarah against the female antagonist of the week. Sarah has fought in a variety of FanService costumes like a pseudo-Bavarian miniskirt with plunging neckline, a short satin robe with flesh colored underwear, revealing evening gowns, and a black catsuit.

* In the second season opener of ''LegendOfTheSeeker'' Cara and Triana have one. That Cara is naked and wet from her bath and Triana is in skin tight red leather and played by Charisma Carpenter pushes the FanService factor UpToEleven.

* On ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', Kim fights all her own battles, against male and female bad guys, as she's really the only combatant on her team. However, the only human opponent who ever even comes close to really landing a blow is the villainess Shego. The guys do ''try'', but she's simply too good for them. These fights are generally played straight, but considering that one episode included the two ''mud wrestling'', it's safe to say that the powers that be are [[FanService aware of the appeal]]. One of {{the movie}}s had them in evening gowns-- slit up the side for ease of movement.

** ''Anime/DigimonSavers'' averts the trope, having the female antagonist Nanami instead face off against [[TeenGenius genius]] / [[TheLancer lancer]] Touma in a battle of wits, while the female protagonist Yoshino (and her partner Lalamon) face off against Ivan, who has something of a crush on her. Both fights still had plenty of {{fanservice}}, this being the ''Digimon'' series where they decided to [[UpToEleven kick the fanservice up a notch]].

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Nami tends to most often be paired off in fights against female opponents. The most famously [[FanService fanservice-y]] has to be her [[LesYay fight against Kalifa]] and, to a lesser extent, Miss Doublefinger. (For whatever reason, this trope seems not to apply to Robin, who was once TheDragon to [[BigBad Crocodile]] and has not only fought men but was once [[KickTheDog held captive and beaten]] by one.)

** Director Steve Sommers is a big fan of cat fights. The one in ''Film/VanHelsing'' between Anna Valerious and Aleera isn't quite as {{fanservice}}y as the ''Mummy Returns'' fight, if only due to the participants wearing slightly more than gold bikinis.

** In a bizarre example that starts off [[SillyReasonForWar comedic]] but ends on a [[WhatYouAreInTheDark very serious note]], when [[MachoCamp Charlotte Cuulhorne]] fights [[TheDandy Yumichika Ayasegawa]], he keeps acting like they're having a CatFight. Yumichika is so far from amused by this that it's not even funny (for him, that is; for the reader, it's [[HilarityEnsued hilarious]]... at least until it [[MoodWhiplash gets serious]]).

* Near the end of ''Film/JudgeDredd'' there's a brief CatFight between Judge Hershey and the villainous henchwoman Ilsa. Hershey is wearing her tight-fitting Judge's uniform and Ilsa is wearing black leggings.
* Completely subverted in ''KillBill''. Despite the fact that the Bride mostly battles other women, none of her fights includes hair-pulling or scratching but rather full-on punches, kicks, head-butts, swords, knives and other serious implements of pain. In short, the fights are too convincing and too brutal to be seen as [[CatFight Cat Fights]].

* Pendulum's ''"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6BKBIOtRXw Showdown]]"'' music video is about a CatFight. It's brutal though.

* In [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030210 this]] ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' strip some guys actually complain that some women are having a CatFight without letting them get a good look at it. The fight itself isn't actually that [[{{Fanservice}} Fanservicey]], though.

* In OurLittleAdventure, two female characters caught by a Confusion spell - which causes nonsensical behavior and sometimes forces victims to fight random targets - get into a CatFight. One victim likes cats, and the other hates cats, and that's the "basis" of the fight.

* ''DeadFantasy'' is an epic CatFight featuring [[Franchise/FinalFantasy Tifa, Rikku and Yuna]] versus [[DeadOrAlive Hitomi, Ayane and Kasumi]]. Both sides get more help later. [[spoiler:And later it crosses rather drastically into FanDisservice, especially with what happened to Tifa.]]

* Portica and Killdra from ''DSBTInsaniT'' nearly get into a CatFight a couple times in 'Beach Brawl'.

** However, this was later one-upped by the episode "Grudge Match," whose entire plot can be summed up as [[CatFight "We force gorgeous women to wrestle for half an hour."]] Featuring members like Black Canary (aka The Blonde Bombshell), Huntress, and Vixen, and culminating with a four-on-one match against Wonder Woman (who dominates), the fights were actually ''marketed'' as cat fights in-universe as a way to cash in through the "Glamor Slam". It even ends with Huntress and Black Canary (who had a physical and verbal altercation in a prior episode) about to fight again--just for the hell of it.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': A training session shortly turns into a mud-wrestling match between Katara (water) and Toph (earth -- earth+water=mud). At this point, the creators have all but abandoned any subtlety with regards to FanService, having moved the characters to adopt local disguises that show a bit more skin (okay, more arm -- it is a kids' show). "The Boiling Rock" also provides a classic ActionGirl vs. DarkActionGirl ([[spoiler:Suki vs. Ty Lee]]) CatFight.

* Played with in Oglaf. Vanka challenges Greir to a sex fight... they immediately set about wrestling and ripping each other's clothes off in a hilariously serious manner.

* Hermione Granger and Millicent Bulstrode in ''HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets''. Probably not intended to titillate considering both were twelve at the time. Millicent is a pre-teen BrawnHilda.

In a combat situation involving both male and female participants, [[DesignatedGirlFight the females will automatically square off with each other]]. If only one male is involved, he will simply stand by and watch the two women beat each other senseless. If it's a more comedic series, several male characters may stop to watch the fight and PassThePopcorn.

See also WouldntHitAGirl, GirlOnGirlIsHot, DesignatedGirlFight, FoeYay. Just Add Mud to get MudWrestling. Compare: PantyFighter, where Catfights are the bread and butter, but they rarely degrade into "Rolling Around" pseudo-fights. Not related to the CockFight or the cartoon BigBallOfViolence.

* Played with in ''The Batman Superman Movie''. Harley Quinn and Mercy have Hate At First Sight. Their fight (or at least what we can see of it) can be found [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2pBJSh4J2Y here]]. While there is torn clothing (and the occasional [[ThatPoorCat cat yelp]]) it's indicated to be a brutal fight.

** Sommers' later film ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' averts this hard with the Scarlett vs. Baroness fight. Although the fight involves two hot women, one wearing a SpyCatsuit, it is ''brutal''.

* In one of the final episodes of ''DigimonAdventure'', Angewomon's fight with Ladydevimon starts as an actually fight, until LadyDevimon starts swinging her around by her hair. It then devolves into a heated slapping match. Izzy didn't know why he couldn't look away (the other males were similarly mesmerized), and Kari was enjoying the fight a little ''too'' much.