History Main / ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend

Compare to UnderstandingBoyfriend for the [[InvertedTrope inverted variant]]. See also ActionGirlfriend and BodyGuardCrush.

* ''BlackLagoon'': As far as [[{{HeroicSociopath}} Revy]] is concerned, harming Rock in any manner is punishable by a disproportionate beat down for a first offense, and death for a second (or even for a first if it's severe enough). When [[spoiler: Chaka]] wants to goad her into a gunfight, he does so by [[spoiler: wantonly beating Rock]] -- and, later on, he gets [[spoiler: what he had coming for it, as Revy trashes him for a bit and then leaves him at the mercy of his ''other'' victim's bodyguard: [[BadAss Ginji Matsuzaki]], who is quick to give him a particularly horrible CruelAndUnusualDeath for the shit he pulled on his charge, YakuzaPrincess Yukio.]]
* ''{{Omamori Himari}}'''s titular character inovkes this when she sees Amakawa Yuuto take a hit for her. Note that she's supposed to be his bodyguard. Violence ensues, and ends with a PillarOfLight.

** Then, because simply killing someone who attacked her husband's reputation was not enough, she and her lawyer [[MagnificientBastard took advantage]] of the [[DoubleStandard existing stereotypes]] of the time, pleaded the unpremedited crime of passion despite the fact that premeditation was glaringly obvious, and eventually was [[KarmaHoudini acquitted]] mere four months after the murder, before starting a carriere as an art historian while her husband stayed in politics until 1940.

* Then, because simply killing someone who attacked her husband's reputation was not enough, she and her lawyer [[MagnificientBastard took advantage]] of the [[DoubleStandard existing stereotypes]] of the time, pleaded the unpremedited crime of passion despite the fact that premeditation was glaringly obvious, and eventually was [[KarmaHoudini acquitted]] mere four months after the murder, before starting a carriere as an art historian while her husband stayed in politics until 1940.

* Although she's not his girlfriend anywhere but in her own mind (where she believes they are engaged) {{One Piece}}'s Boa Hancock gets VERY upset when someone threatens Luffy. When Smoker attacked Luffy, she threatened to rip him to pieces and feed him to wild dogs. Take in consideration that this woman is most likely the most powerful ActionGirl in the '''whole''' OnePiece universe, as a KickChick LadyOfWar, and...
** Confirmed! [[BerserkButton She snaps]] when she sees [[http://read.mangashare.com/One-Piece/chapter-559/page013.html Luffy being attacked by Smoker.]]

* Aki reminds Jack of this trope when Yusei is kidnapped on ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}}''.

* Considering that NiceGuy Kokuto Mikiya from ''KaraNoKyoukai'' is the LoveInterest and MoralityPet to {{Tsundere}} {{Yangire}} BadassAbnormal KnifeNut RealityWarper [[EvilEye with-eyes-capable-of-seeing-]][[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu how-to-kill-even-Cthulhu]] Ryougi Shiki, [[TooDumbToLive harming him is]] [[{{Understatement}} generally '''NOT''' a good idea.]]

* Considering that NiceGuy Kokuto Mikiya from ''KaraNoKyoukai'' is the LoveInterest and MoralityPet to {{Tsundere}} {{Yangire}} BadassAbnormal KnifeNut RealityWarper [[EvilEye with-eyes-capable-of-seeing-]][[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu how-to-kill-even-Cthulhu]] Ryougi Shiki, [[TooDumbTooLive harming him is]] [[Understatement generally '''NOT''' a good idea.]]

** [[spoiler:She then went on a two year hunt to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge kill the Shadow Broker]] for even trying to [[BerserkButton lay a hand on Shepard]].]] [[{{Understatement}} She's definitely devoted]] [[UndyingLoyalty to him/her]].

* Dana Scully of {{The X-Files}} does not take kindly to anyone hurting her partner. She may be petite, but she's smart as a whip and has great aim. In "Beyond the Sea", after Mulder is shot:
---> '''Scully''':This was a trap for Mulder because he helped put you away. Well, I came here to tell you that if he dies
--->because of what you’ve done, four days from now, no one will be able to stop me from being the one that will throw the
--->switch and gas you out of this life for good, you son of a bitch!

* Trinty from ''TheMatrix''.

* Katara and Mai of ''AvatarTheLastAirBender'': Harming Aang was a major BerserkButton for Katara, as characters like Zuko and Hama learned the hard way, and this was part of Mai's motivation for [[spoiler:her HeelFaceTurn in "The Boiling Rock."]]

* Trinty from [[TheMatrix]]

** HoYay version: in the [[HetaliaBloodbath2010 Christmas/New Years 2010 Special]], Finland snapped when his partner Sweden (who refers to him as "his wife") was hit with TheWorfEffect and managed to put up a fight afainst his attacker. [[spoiler: Too bad he got caught too.]]

* Miyako from ''BambooBlade'' is overly protective of Dan...although it's at least in part because [[{{Yangire}} she just having a reason to hurt people]].

* Don't threaten (or even speak ill of) Keiichi from''OhMyGoddess'' lest you incure the wrath of his Goddess girlfriend. Several characters comment that Belldandy is terrifying when something threatens (or demeans) her boyfriend and the art work depicts her as looking unusually threatening (for her) when this happens.

* GeorgeHarrison's wife Olivia saved him from being murdered by an insane intruder in 1999.

A violently protective girlfriend essentially acts like a much younger MamaBear, except her {{berserk button}} is harm to her mate rather than to the kids. This is common with an ActionGirl, HotAmazon, CuteBruiser or LadyOfWar. Personalities associated with it include {{Tsundere}} and {{Yandere}}. A NonActionGuy or dudes otherwise incompetent in combat seem to attract these women.

Compare to UnderstandingBoyfriend for the [[InvertedTrope inverted variant]]. See also, ActionGirlfriend and BodyGuardCrush.

* ''BlackLagoon'': As far as [[{{HeroicSociopath}} Revy]] is concerned, harming Rock in any manner is punishable by a disproportionate beat down for a first offense, and death for a second (or even for a first if it's severe enough). When [[spoiler: Chaka]] wants to goad her into a gunfight, he does so by [[spoiler: wantonly beating Rock]]---and, later on, he gets [[spoiler: what he had coming for it, as Revy trashes him for a bit and then leaves him at the mercy of his ''other'' victim's bodyguard: [[BadAss Ginji Matsuzaki]]. Who is quick to give him a particularly horrible CruelAndUnusualDeath for the shit he pulled on his charge, YakuzaPrincess Yukio.]]

* LesYay version: Setsuna from ''MahouSenseiNegima''. At the beginning of the Kyoto arc she is deadlocked against that arc's big bad swords(wo)man defender, if not being beaten back and forth, when the big bad tells the group her devious plans with Setsuna's childhood friend Konoka (which the manga puts very close to the romantic interest at several points) Setsuna freaks, beats the partner jumps into the air and goes wild all over the BigBad along with Negi. [[spoiler: After entering a Pactio with Konoka, she's even more of the Real Deal, and they become a BattleCouple.]]

* Sally Kimball of ''EncyclopediaBrown'' fame.

** And this totally works in reverse, as well. Mulder and Scully are each other's [[BerserkButton Berserk Button]].

* In the version of the folk song Stagger Lee recorded by the GratefulDead, Stagger Lee murders Billy DeLion, and the police are too afraid of him to do anything about it. Then, along comes Billy's girlfriend Delia, who shoots Stagger Lee herself. [[{{Groin Attack}} In the balls.]]

* One sided example in ''SonicTheHedgehog'' with Amy Rose when Silver tried to kill Sonic. Becomes her CrowningMomentOfAwesome and a pic of her DeathGlare during this scene is a good pic candidate.

* Although she didn't like Oswald at first, [[{{OdinSphere}} Gwendolyn]] shows that she is capable of wrecking all sorts of havoc when he's in danger. One of the game's major NiceJobBreakingItHero incidents revolves around this trope.

** A female Shepherd can become this depending on the player.

* In ''KingdomHearts2'', Kaira's only fight scene thus far in the series, was in response to seeing Sora get ambushed by Heartless.

[[caption-width-right:300:Go ahead, try kicking down his sand castle. You'll be walking home with your head up your ass.]]

* Although she's not his girlfriend anywhere but in her own mind (where she believes they are engaged) {{One Piece}}'s Boa Hancock gets VERY upset when someone threatens Luffy. When Smoker attacked Luffy, she threatened to rip him to pieces and feed him to wild dogs. Take in consideration that this woman is most likely the most poweful ActionGirl in the '''whole''' OnePiece universe, as a KickChick LadyofWar, and...
* Senjougahara of {{Bakemonogatari}} swore that if Araragi was killed she would go on a [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge do everything in her power to destroy his killer]].

-->'''Ally''': Listen hard, you cradle-rapin' [[PrecisionFStrike fuck!]] Hit "Undo" or I'm shovin' bone splinters from y'r nose straignt into y'r precious brain!

* In the version of the folk song Stagger Lee recorded by the GratefulDead, Stagger Lee murders Billy DeLion, and the police are too afraid of him to do anything about it. Then, along comes Billy's girlfriend Delia, who shoots Stagger Lee herself. [[{{GroinAttack}} In the balls.]]

* Within Temptation's "The Promise" is about a woman who copes with her lover's death by hunting down and murdering the ones who killed him.