History Main / GloveSlap

* In the {{Goofy}} short "The Art of Self-Defense", a history of fighting includes a scene of two 17th Century gentlemen slapping each other repeatedly. One sneaks his snuff box inside his glove during a break.

* Parodied in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3luD3qdbfI&feature=channel_page Porky Pig's Feat]]," Porky and Daffy from the 1940's, where Daffy, after being slapped and challenged by another character ("You have insulted me! We meet on the field of honor! MyCard."), he returns suit ("You have insult me! We meet on the field of onion!") and slaps back with a horseshoe-stuffed glove, and then slaps him in the face with flypaper ("My Card, you cad!").

* People do this frequently in ''Film/{{Scaramouche}}''. Given that they're usually challenging [[BadAss Andre]], it doesn't go well for them.

* In one of the ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' movies, Albert goes to challenge the Count to a duel, but is so agitated he can't remove his glove. The Count, watching with DissonantSerenity, tells Albert that he'll consider the glove thrown.

-->--'''Music/TheB52s''', on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

* ''Series/FullHouse'': Fernando challenges Matt to a duel, by slapping him with a dishwashing glove.

Compare with ThrowingDownTheGauntlet (this trope's RealLife predecessor).

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In a society where people, by and large, agree not to engage in random acts of violence with each other, a story can be restricted by the fact that, well, everybody's kind of agreed not to engage in random acts of violence with each other. The Glove Slap is an end-run around this. The process of slapping someone with a white, preferably lacy glove is in itself so polite and dignified that it somehow seems socially acceptable that the natural outcome of the slap is a DuelToTheDeath.

Compare with ThrowingDownTheGauntlet, this trope's RealLife predecessor. Not to be confused with GloveSnap.

* ''MahouSenseiNegima'', Tsukuyomi challenges Setsuna to a match of swords by removing her Victorian-style glove and tossing it almost playfully at Setsuna. Setsuna merely snatches it out of the air. Later [[ClassRepresentative Ayaka]] uses this on Kuu Fei.

* In ''UruseiYatsura'', when the election for class president result in a tie-vote for Ataru and Mendo, Mendo decides to settle it with a dueling method passed down through the Mendo Clan for generations...using cannons to blast an apple off of the duelists heads. Wanting to make an official challenge, Mendo prepares to throw a white glove at Ataru, who flees. Mendo proceeds to chase Ataru all over school grounds, ultimately hit Lum, who fries him.
* ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi''. [[spoiler: Beatrice crashes Erika and Battler's wedding to challenge Erika to a duel like this. Erika's refusal would forever mark her a coward in the eyes of the entire magical community.]]

--> '''Jena''': He was challenging you to a duel!
--> '''Nikolai''': [[DeadpanSnarker Yeah, well he lost.]]
* ''CarlBarks'' had Flintheart Glomgold hitting [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Scrooge McDuck]] with a glove in "The Money Champ". Before Glomgold had a chance to explain the kind of challenge, Scrooge started physically fighting him.

'''Lord Illingworth''': [[TheLoveSlapOfEpiphany Fall in love with her, probably.]]\\

* In ''TheDragonKnight'' by Creator/GordonRDickson, the main character experiences the glove slap firsthand. Then mentions that it was an armored gauntlet, and it really, ''really'' hurt.

* In an early episode of ''FamilyMatters'', Urkel challenges a bully to a boxing match by hitting him in the face with a big leather mitten. (It was winter.) It made a satisfying ''thump''.
* In an episode of ''NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' Seth Powers is upset that Moze is dating Faymen. Even though they have broken up, he calls it off as "taking time off from each other." Faymen comes in, Seth challenges him for Moze's heart and honor(or something), pulls out a white glove and slaps him with it. Faymen follows suit.

* On ''DrakeAndJosh'', Josh (disguised as a doctor) does this to Drake before he is about to perform surgery because the staff believes he is a famous doctor (which is inevitably proven wrong in the end of the episode).

* ''CyranoDeBergerac'': Invoked by Christian and Cyrano, but neither of them plays it straight:

* In the ''MarioParty'' games, there is a white glove item that, when used, triggers a duel with any of the other players on the board.

* The B-plot of one ''KappaMikey'' episode has Ozu force [[AlphaBitch Lily]] and [[CloudCuckoolander Gonard]] into a fake relationship for publicity, than have [[TeamPet Guano]] 'cut in' for added drama. This results in the two 'rivals' slapping each other with progressively bigger white gloves.

* On ''TheMarvelousMisAdventuresOfFlapjack'', Captain K'nuckles receives this by a feudal lord after he insults him by not referring him as "Your Lordship." A rather shameful duel ensues, which surprisingly ends in a draw.

* In ''PumpkinScissors'', Alice challenges a corrupt Lord to a duel by throwing her glove at him across a crowded ballroom.

* Subverted in an early ''NikolaiDante'' story. One of the [[ButtMonkey Arbatovs]] challenges Nikolai to a duel this way. Nikolai simply [[CombatPragmatist kicks him]] [[GroinAttack in the nuts]].

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Knights Must Fall]]'', Characters/BugsBunny reacted to such a challenge from a knight by yanking the knight's steel gauntlet off and smacking him with ''that''.

* ''CarlBarks'' had Flintheart Glomgold hitting ScroogeMcDuck with a glove in "The Money Champ". Before Glomgold had a chance to explain the kind of challenge, Scrooge started physically fighting him.

* In the {{Steampunk}} short, ''WesternAnimation/AGentlemansDuel'', the Englishman delivers one to his opposing French suitor, damaging his mustache.

* The page image comes from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E5EIEIAnnoyedGrunt E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)]]", where Homer is inspired to do it by a ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}'' movie and keeps it up once he realizes people will just give him what he wants because they don't want to duel. He receives his comeuppance ([[HalfwayPlotSwitch and the rest of the episode's premise]]) when he slaps an actual SouthernGentleman in the course of slapping a long line of people.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''- Homer is inspired to do it by a ''{{Zorro}}'' movie and keeps it up once he realizes people will just give him what he wants because they don't want to duel. He receives his comeuppance ([[HalfwayPlotSwitch and the rest of the episode's premise]]) when he slaps an actual SouthernGentleman in the course of slapping a long line of people.

* Parodied in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3luD3qdbfI&feature=channel_page Porky Pig's Feat]]," Porky and Daffy from the 1940's, where Daffy, after being slapped and challenged by another character ("You have insulted me! We meet on the field of honor! MyCard."), he returns suit ("You have insult me! We meet on the field of onion!")and slaps back with a horseshoe-stuffed glove, and then slaps him in the face with flypaper ("My Card, you cad!").