History Main / IWasBeatenByAGirl

--->'''Cosmic Boy:''' ''"You lost out on your first task... and to a '''[[BoldInflation girl]]'''! Is this the great '''Superboy''' we learned about in school? What's your excuse?"''

** ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfLuthor'': Luthor's ego does not take well the fact that he has been both beaten and saved by a girl. He picks a machine-gun and -uselessly- fires at Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}}, yelling she has turned him into the underworld's laughingstock.

* In Myth/NorseMythology, Thor once lost a wrestling match to an elderly woman, and everybody makes fun of him. Learning that she was Elli, the AnthropomorphicPersonification of Old Age, who cannot be defeated because nothing is immune to aging, not even the Gods, doesn't cheer him up. (In some versions of the story it's made clear that some of the audience's amusement at Thor and his companions - who have been shown up all evening in a variety of equally deceptive contests - was all in his mind, and in fact his hosts were ''awed'' that he very nearly won that match. Still doesn't cheer him up.)

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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'', the Amazon's "Bad Stuff" says: "You have had your butt kicked by a woman. Your macho pride is lost." (They won't attack female players.)

TruthInTelevision: there are some men that really feel this, especially considering the societal gender belief about men being stronger than women.

->"''Nooooooooo! Impossible! I can't be beaten by a little girl! I'm a warrior!"''

** In the ''ComicBook/TheLegionOfSuperHeroes'' story, which introduced the [[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes homonymous super-team]], Superboy's first task in order to join the team is to compete against Saturn Girl (part of the main PowerTrio of the Legion) in retrieving a sunken statue from the ocean. However, Superboy is just barely on his way when he gets sidetracked by a crisis involving the local school's robot Superboy. By the time he resolves it, Saturn Girl has completed the task. When both returned to the clubhouse, Cosmic Boy takes the opportunity to rub it in (Although this was part of a SecretTestOfCharacter to see how Superboy would react to losing):

* {{Discussed}} in ''Film/SWAT2003''. Female patrol officer Chris Sanchez has passed the SWATTeam qualifications three times but been rejected by the sexist Captain Fuller, with her number of [[PoliceBrutality excessive force complaints]] used as an excuse. When queried on this by Hondo, she blows the complaints off as male suspects who resisted arrest and then were embarrassed at being beaten by a girl.

* After Ken Oka lost the SGP title belt to Mio Shirai as Wrestling/DramaticDreamTeam was {{reviv|al}}ing Union Pro, primarily as a Joshi(read:women's) fed, he fought the DDT wrestlers for the right to join Union himself, defeating Masao Orihara but then failing to win the belt back from Shirai in the rematch. Mio herself went on to lose it to Cherry, meaning he was defeated by a girl indirectly too and proved it wasn't just about the belt as he continued to face and lose to Shirai, though by the anniversary show they [[FireForgedFriends had formed]] a TagTeam, one good enough to defeat the Evil Russians [=KGB48=] (Ivan Markov and Bonnie). He'd eventually manage to beat Shirai toward the end of the next year but then continued to lose to her.

* In Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}}, this was a major element in Claudio Castagnoli's departure. He was leading the [[Wrestling/DieBruderschaftDesKreuzes BDK]], and was one half of the Tag Team Champions with Ares. His stablemate Wrestling/{{Sara Del Rey}}, teaming with Wrestling/{{Daizee Haze}} as Death Haze, won three points to challenge for the titles, and Claudio began to be intimidated by her rise up the card and refused to let Death Haze cash in their shot. Death Haze would lose a tag match and as such all their points and their contendership. This caused Del Rey to challenge Claudio, who responded by kicking Death Haze out of the BDK and injuring Daizee, which caused SDR to do what Claudio had been worried about all the time and ''kick his ass''. A subsequent loss to Icarus caused Claudio to ragequit Chikara and join Wrestling/{{WWE}} as Antonio Cesaro.

* During a storyline, Characters/{{The Punisher|FrankCastle}} went after the ''{{ComicBook/Runaways}}'' after [[Characters/MarvelComicsTheKingpin The Kingpin]] hired them to steal a hyperdrive device. This ended up as one of the most humiliating moments in Castle's life, as Molly "Princess Powerful" Hayes defeated him with a single punch.

This trope doesn't cover all situations where the girl wins the fight -- the guy has to feel a particular injury to his pride because of the situation, especially if it bothers him above and beyond simply [[MuggingTheMonster gets his ass kicked by a supposedly weaker foe]]. Sometimes may be {{invoked|Trope}} by an [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogant Kung-Fu Girl]] who ''really'' wants to twist that knife (i.e. "How strong are you really if ''I'' could beat you?").

This trope doesn't cover all situations where the girl wins the fight -- the guy has to feel a particular injury to his pride because of the situation, especially if it bothers him above and beyond simply [[MuggingTheMonster gets his ass kicked by a supposedly weaker foe]]. Sometimes may be invoked by an ArrogantKungFuGirl if she wants to insult him (i.e. "How strong are you really if ''I'' could beat you?").

Rationale for NoGuyWantsAnAmazon. WaifFu may be in evidence. Related to SamusIsAGirl, if the man wasn't aware his opponent was female before losing. May be the punishment of the StrawMisogynist, whose sole purpose is to be beaten by the woman. Also expect this to be said by a HeManWomanHater before an aesop about [[YouGoGirl girls being as good as boys]].