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-> '''Alberto (before punching Mr Ricci's son in the face)''': ''And if I ever see you harassing Luca again I’ll [[PresicionFStrike fucking]] break that stupid face of yours!''

* Rem from ''Literature/ReZero'' is polite, nice and calm. But if someone poses a serious threat to Subaru, she immediately beats the shit out of them, and will even kill them unless told not to do so by Subaru. As a superhumanly strong [[{{Oni}} oni]], you shouldn't underestimate her.

* ''Film/{{Piranhaconda}}'': Jamie spends most of the movie just lounging on the beach, and eventually wondering where her boyfriend disappeared to. Once she gets it through her head that it was killed by the titular monster, and has stumbled across its nesting area she starts furiously smashing the creature's eggs, regardless of the BullyingADragon risk

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Although she's not his girlfriend anywhere but in her own mind (where she believes they are engaged), Boa Hancock gets VERY upset when someone threatens Luffy. When Smoker attacks Luffy, she threatens to rip him to pieces and feed him to wild dogs. Take into consideration that this woman is most likely one of the most powerful ActionGirl(s) in the '''whole''' ''[[WorldOfBadass One Piece universe]]'', as a KickChick LadyOfWar who ''also'' has TakenForGranite powers and more.

* Rem from ''Literature/ReZero'' is polite, nice and calm. But if someone poses a serious threat to Subaru, she immediately beats the shit out of them, even kill unless told not to do so by Subaru. As a superhumanly strong [[{{Oni}} oni]], you shouldn't underestimate her.

* ''Series/VeronicaMars'': Logan Echolls is a gender-flipped version; in the season 3 episode "Spit and Eggs", even after he and Veronica have (temporarily) broken up, [[spoiler:when he finds out Mercer is the campus rapist - even though Logan had tried telling Veronica Mercer coudn't have been responsible for the rapes - Logan deliberately breaks the windshield of a deputy sheriff's car so he can get thrown into jail after Mercer and Moe (his partner) get arrested, and from the look on Logan's face, you know he's going to inflict pain on both of them]].

Keep your damn hands off my dixie boy''

** Throughout the second season, Asuna is "merely" a DefiantCaptive who spends her time mocking Sugou and [[CardboardPrison repeatedly escaping]] her birdcage so she can [[MookHorrorShow terrorize his minions]]. But when Sugou makes the mistake of threatening Kirito, Asuna delivers such a [[https://youtu.be/2wkvg_uWOc4?t=806 vicious threat]] that he suffers a minor VillainousBreakdown, despite the fact that his GM powers mean Asuna is incapble of harming him.

** No X-Lady plays this trope better than Rogue, the physically strongest female X-Men member, in regards to her boyfriend-now husband Gambit whom she is very protective of, probably because he isn’t a FlyingBrick like her. Dialed [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]] in ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' when ComicBook/IronMan [[ChestBlaster blasts]] Gambit and Rogue [[http://i.imgur.com/gpmq0Sm.jpg goes berserk]], having [[PowerParasite absorbed]] ComicBook/SheHulk’s SuperStrength and [[UnstoppableRage temperament]].
--->'''Hulk Rogue''': HE HURT REMY. MAKE HIM PAY.

** In ''Teen Titans #21'', the Teen Titans are facing off against the [[BrainInAJar Brain]], a recurring foe of the Comicbook/DoomPatrol. When the Brain fires a painful laser blast at Tim, Cassie is beyond enraged and attempts to ''murder'' the Brain in response.

*** Katara is extremely protective of Aang. She normally just tries to show compassion and support to him, but he is not shy to threaten anyone who MIGHT even harm him..

* Although Callum and Rayla only become true lovers in the third season in ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'', she has already protected him on various occasions. Anyone who becomes dangerous for Callum quickly gets into trouble with Rayla.

* ''Manga/CallOfTheNight'': When Seri is about to bite Yamori's neck, Nazuna flies in and [[AnArmAndALeg rips off her arm]] before anyone even knows she's there.

* {{Fanfic/CONSEQUENCES|MiraculousLadybug}}: Two of the stories, ''SUN'S WRATH'' and ''CAGED'', each show Adrien and Luka as the same-sex variant to each other, especially as [[FaceMonsterTurn Akumas]].
** In ''SUN'S WRATH'', after Lila pushes Luka into a moving car that's puts him into a coma, then Gabriel forces Adrien to leave Luka's side, the [[BewareTheNiceOnes normally-sunny boy gets turned into the fire-powered Helios] ], planning to burn alive the culprit behind the attack on his boyfriend's comatose.

* [[spoiler:Elizabeth "Lizzie" Middleford]] in the ''Manga/BlackButler'' manga decides to stop hiding her LadyOfWar side when she and [[spoiler: her fiance Ciel]] were rodeated by zombies and he was unable to protect her. When this took place, the girl tearfully and fearlessly jumped to the guy's defense [[DualWielding with two rapiers in hand]]...
-->(paraphrased) "I will become the wife of [[spoiler: The Queen's Watchdog]]! BACK OFF HIM!"

** NO ONE shall harm/beat up/capture/[[spoiler:put inside a DeathTrap]]/etc. [[ActionSurvivor Wataru Takagi]]. Because [[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy his]] ActionGirlfriend and police partner just ''happens'' to be Miwako Sato, one of the most powerful {{Action Girl}}s in the cast [[spoiler: and who once lost her FirstLove/former partner Matsuda to terrorists]], so she will '''NOT''' tolerate anyone putting ''her'' Takagi in danger. [[spoiler: She has been on the verge of losing her SecondLove at least ''thrice'', and obviously was VERY unhappy about that]].

* In ''Franchise/DragonBall'' most female fighters are overshadowed by their male partners... '''except''' for [[RobotGirl Android 18]] who is much, much stronger than her husband Krillin and is fiercely protective of him. This was best shown in ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' when her BrainwashedAndCrazy brother 17 killed Krillin ([[TheyKilledKennyAgain again]]) right in front of her, 18's tears of grief turn to BerserkerTears as she delivers a glorious ExtremeMeleeRevenge to her brother. [[spoiler: Later on 18 even joins Goku in destroying Super 17 to avenge Krillin.]]

* Considering that NiceGuy Kokuto Mikiya from ''Literature/TheGardenOfSinners'' is the {{Love Interest|s}} and MoralityPet to {{Tsundere}} CuteAndPsycho PsychoKnifeNut RealityWarper [[MagicalEye with-eyes-capable-of-seeing-]][[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu how-to-kill-even-Cthulhu]] Ryougi Shiki, harming him is generally '''NOT''' [[TooDumbToLive a good idea]]. In the final film, [[spoiler: Lio Shirazumi]] was under the impression that if he [[MurderTheHypotenuse got rid of him]], she'd revert to her innate murderous nature and be just as crazy as he was. [[spoiler:He was only right insofar as she would resolve to kill him after [[AnArmAndALeg severing all his limbs]].]]

* Seras Victoria from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' and ''Hellsing Ultimate'' OVA is most of time much more cheerful and human than her [[TheMentor Mentor]] [[SociopathicHero Alucard]] and slightly unwilling to accept that she is a vampire. When her {{Love Interest|s}} [[TheCaptain Pip]] [[EyepatchOfPower Bernadotte]] [[spoiler:is murdered ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath in a very unpleasant and terrible way]]'' ]] in front of her, however, the result was enough to scare the crap out of ''vampire Nazis''. And let's not even talk about [[TheKillerBecomesTheKilled what she did]] [[spoiler: [[{{Gorn}} with Pip's murderer]]...]]

** HoYay version: in the [[Manga/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 quite a fight against his attacker. [[spoiler: Too bad he got caught too.]]

* An extremely rare gay case is Shion from ''Literature/No6''. His boyfriend Nezumi is completely off-limits. This is rather interesting because Shion is a [[NiceGuy overwhelmingly pleasant and friendly person]] and is the more passive, non-violent, and less physically threatening of the couple, while Nezumi is pretty much an experienced assassin and cold killer. These are also the only scenarios where he shows his {{Yandere}} side and even simple insults towards Nezumi can get him violent. [[spoiler: This hits an extreme when Nezumi is non-fatally shot, causing Shion to coldly shoot the attacker in the leg, slowly approach him while creepily muttering ''how dare you hurt him'' and blast his brains out point-blank. Nezumi is understandably horrified by this and begs Shion to stop. When Nezumi finally asks him why, Shion responds it was ''punishment'' for hurting him. [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness This so out of the blue]] for Shion that he has a [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone small breakdown]] when he comes to his senses.]]

** Cruelly {{subverted|Trope}} ''twice'' in the finale of ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'': Minako becomes Sailor V and prepares to open a goddess-sized can of whoop-ass on the youma apparently threatening her love interest Ace... Except the youma informs her that she [[spoiler: ''works'' for Ace]] and thinks that ''she'' is this trope... At which point [[spoiler: ''Ace wounds her'', giving Sailor V the opening she needed to kill her]]. Ace then dies [[spoiler: at Sailor V's hands]].
* The titular HumanAliens of ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'' are this by default, being fiercely protective of their human partners. It's entirely justified, since [[spoiler: killing the Ashikabi will terminate all their Sekirei]] and most Ashikabi are simply PunyEarthlings caught up in battles between superhuman {{Action Girl}}s. The notable exception is Yukari Sahashi, who responds [[GroinAttack violently]] to anyone that dares to threaten her beloved {{Bishonen}}, Shiina. Her tendency to hospitalize rival Ashikabi results in her becoming TheDreaded, while Shiina [[ShareTheMalePain winces]] in the background.

* When ''Manga/TheVoynichHotel's'' [[spoiler: Elena]] learns that two {{Serial Killer}}s have been tasked with killing her UnderstandingBoyfriend [[spoiler: Taizou Kuzuki]], she confronts one of them. [[spoiler: Said serial killer ends up with [[OffWithHisHead her head]] [[DeadGuyOnDisplay impaled at the top of the building]]. The other is [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe chopped in several pieces]] by someone else, escaping with her life ''only'' because Elena's fellow maid Beluna finds her dying body and stitches her back out of pity.]]
** Towards the end, when [[spoiler: Elena]] isn't around, the guy is targeted again and subjected to massive doses of ColdBloodedTorture, [[spoiler: this time by {{yakuza}} from his DarkAndTroubledPast]]. When she comes back, walks into the bloody scene and sees him more dead than alive... [[LudicrousGibs eh, the attackers don't live for too long either.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'': Atom Eve is this towards Mark. Despite him being far stronger than her, Eve simply won't tolerate Mark getting hurt in any way when she has the power to stop it. She's even unleashed her EleventhHourSuperpower when Conquest was about to kill Mark, frying Conquest's skin off in the process. There's also the time Anissa [[spoiler: the Viltrimite woman who raped Mark]] came uninvited to their house looking for Mark, and Eve tried to crush Anissa on the spot before Mark calmed her down.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'': Carol Danvers. While she and Harry aren't dating (though not for lack of epic ShipTease [[spoiler: until chapter 46 of the sequel, when they finally get the long-awaited RelationshipUpgrade]]), and Harry is generally more than capable of taking care of himself... well. Let's just say that threatening/looking like you might upset him is a very good way to get (at best) a DeathGlare or (at worst) a lot of constructively applied violence. Actually hurting him? That's ''much'' worse. As in, after it's revealed that Yelena Belova [[spoiler: molested Harry while he was the Red Son]], her response is to say, [[TranquilFury with eerie calm]], that she's going to "tear that fucking bitch limb from limb." This cuts both ways, of course, with protecting her [[spoiler: or resurrecting her if she dies]] being the one circumstance in which Harry would willingly break his personal GodzillaThreshold and [[spoiler: become the Dark Phoenix again]].
** Another example of this trope is Harry Dresden and Wanda Maximoff, who warns ''Magneto'' to back off when he looks like he's about to do an IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer speech to Dresden (Dresden actually tries to hide behind her. Since he's 6'9', and she's 5'6' ''at best'', this fails miserably). Mind you, she is his daughter. Additionally, when [[spoiler: Voldemort]] nearly kills Dresden, Wanda steps in and sends him running for his life.

* In the ''Fanfic/{{Uplifted}}'' series, Hanala'Jarva having several... incidents. Most of them justified. The last incident involving [[spoiler: Hanala unloading a whole MP-40 clip into a starving runaway Jewish woman who was to be Joachim Hoch's sisters-in-law after he startles her into shooting him in the face.]] is more questionable.

* [[BewareTheNiceOnes Nutsy]] from ''[[WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill The Adventures of Blinky Bill]]'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7782580/1/Scars_Are_Forever Scars Are Forever]]'' is extremely protective of Shifty Dingo. When she finds out Jeromy [[spoiler: tortured him and he's in a coma in the hospital, she pulls a LeeroyJenkins on Jeromy and gets kidnapped but [[BigDamnHeroes Danny Dingo saves her just as she is about to get raped by him]] by shooting Jeromy in the head. Nutsy then goes ExtremeMeleeRevenge on Jeromy's corpse, beheading it, dismembering it, disemboweling it and tearing its eyes out before dousing it with gasoline and setting it on fire.]], hurting Shifty will always make Nutsy's incredibly mad in any of CanzetYote's ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill'' fics.
* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fic ''Fanfic/GodsOfThisNewWorld'' [[spoiler: Mello]] [[NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow stabs Misa in the chest with a sword]]. When he threatens her Light, [[{{Determinator}} Misa gets back up]] and keeps fighting him anyway.

* While Jack isn't her boyfriend (at this point in the story) in the ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8751000/1/Guardian-of-Light Guardian of Light]]'', Helen still shows this towards him and [[spoiler: almost kills her own father when said father almost kills Jack]].

* ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': At the end of episode 33, a news report mentions that Queen Bee has been absent from public events for several weeks. Paul starts to theorize what may be the cause, only for [[PlayingWithFire Danni]] to offhandedly mention that she's probably waiting for her burns to heal.[[spoiler: As Queen Bee [[SparedByTheAdaptation murdered Danni's current girlfriend]] around this time in canon...]]

** The ''Film/IronMan'' franchise has [[Characters/IronManHeroes Pepper Potts]], Tony Stark's secretary who eventually becomes his girlfriend. She's sweet, she's professional, she gets things done, and most of the time she's what keeps Tony from doing stupid things. [[spoiler: In the [[Film/IronMan3 third movie]], she ends up injected with the Extremis virus by the main villain, who hopes to keep her as a trophy to get back at Tony. As you can imagine, this ends badly for the villain when he threatens Tony, and ends up being taken down by an angry, super-powered Pepper with a combination of her new powers and Tony's armour. Let's just say the villain won't be bothering anyone again.]]

* In ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', Godzilla and Mothra share [[InterspeciesRomance an ancient, symbiotic relationship]] and Mothra is a PintSizedPowerhouse more than capable of fighting other Kaiju alongside Godzilla. When [[spoiler: Ghidorah bears down on a badly injured Godzilla]], Mothra, despite being heavily injured herself, [[GoThroughMe stands between]] [[spoiler: Ghidorah]] and Godzilla and charges onward, fully prepared to give her life to protect Godzilla.

* In the third book of ''Literature/TheImmortals'', Daine [[spoiler: believes Numair has been executed by the Carthakis and proceeds to go on a rampage, reanimating a bunch of dinosaur skeletons, and razing the ''entire Imperial Palace'']]. When confronted later, she says "I thought you were dead. I lost my temper." To be fair, they weren't ''technically'' dating back then, but that's the first major reveal on DAINE'S side of their feelings for each other.

* ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'': Annabeth towards Percy. She enters the series wielding a dagger, demanding to know who's kidnapped him and is scary enough that Jason thinks she might actually kill someone. Crosses into the HypocriticalHumor type, as [[spoiler: when she finds Percy again she responds by judo-flipping him for leaving her. Naturally [[UnderstandingBoyfriend Percy]] laughs and says he missed her too]]. Being a badass of his own, they also double as a BattleCouple.

** In ''Skin Game'' this leads to tragedy when [[spoiler: Nicodemus manipulates her into a SadisticChoice of attacking him with the Sword of Faith (thereby unmaking it) or [[ForcedToWatch watching Harry die right in front of her.]] Though it gets better later, it's still an absolutely awful choice]].

* In ''Literature/TheGoblinEmperor'', [[spoiler: Csethiro ]] does not take any action, but she does write a letter asserting that she would duel the person who wronged her fiancé if that person knew how to fight a duel.

** Several people comment on how quick Tiza is to jump to Nolien's defense, be it combat or a more social situation. Her response is always something like, "[[{{Tsundere}} I don't like him! I'm just doing my job!"]] [[spoiler: until she officially becomes his girlfriend]].

** Three occasions confirm this. In "The Wannabe in the Weeds", when a psycho stalker aims a gun at Brennan, Booth takes the bullet for her. Brennan's response is to, in one fluid motion, grab Booth's gun and shoot the stalker dead. And in "The Hero in the Hold", [[spoiler: when they confirm that Heather Taffet is the Gravedigger, a serial killer who had trapped Booth on a Naval vessel slated for demolition, before rushing to Booth's rescue, Brennan whacks her upside the head with a metal briefcase, hard enough to knock over her and the chair to which she is handcuffed]]. Then in “The Recluse in the Recliner”, Brennan had been told by Booth to leave so he wouldn’t worry about her when the Delta Force agents showed up. But after they open fire and wound Booth, Brennan returns and wounds one of the agents with her gun before he can kill Booth, giving Booth the opportunity he needs to take them out.

** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10Hush Hush]]", a rioter is about to attack Riley from behind with a lead pipe. Buffy coldly breaks the man's wrist [[OffhandBackhand without even looking at him]]. A darker, perhaps even {{Yandere}}-esque example happens in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E10IntoTheWoods Into the Woods]]" once she finds out that [[spoiler: Riley had been going to what amounts to a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything vampire prostitution den to get his blood sucked]]]]. She ''burns the place to the ground'' and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impales]] the vampire who'd drank from him.
** While not ''technically'' dating at the time, she was pretty pissed off to find out that [[spoiler: Robin Wood and Giles had conspired to kill Spike behind her back. While she never has to get violent, as Spike manages to subdue Robin non-fatally before she gets there, she does warn Robin that she would not stop Spike from killing him in self-defense if he ever tried anything again]]. Considering Buffy has always held a ''very'' firm stance against both herself and her friends killing humans even when they're hostile, [[note]]To the point where she even tried to prevent Dark Willow from killing [[HeManWomanHater Warren]] after he murdered Tara and nearly murdered Buffy herself [[/note]] it's rather significant that one of the only times she rolls back on that stance was because one of her boyfriends was the target of said human.

** She also once [[spoiler: ''destroyed time'' to stop him from dying]].

* Iris West-Allen on ''[[Series/TheFlash2014 The Flash]]'' is a kind and loving person, but if Barry is in danger she will not hesitate to use her extensive knowledge and dead aim with guns, as well as her BadassNormal combat prowesses that her father had taught her to defend him, [[spoiler: and in Savitar's case kill for him]].

* In ''Series/HotelDelLuna'', Man-wol is this for Chan-sung, even before they officially became a couple, and for good reason, as Chan-sung is a normal human and naturally defenseless against supernatural attacks. When a ghost, who happened to be Chan-sung's old university classmate [[spoiler: and a serial killer]], threatens to hurt Chan-sung, Man-wol attacks the ghost first and would have destroyed him if not the ghost [[spoiler: receiving strength from his online followers]].

* Parker on ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' occasionally gets this way with Hardison. In the Grave Danger Job she draws fire from an Uzi and during the Experimental Job she [[spoiler: delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown against the members of the secret society that had captured Hardison]].

* Amanita from ''Series/{{Sense8}}'', towards her girlfriend Nomi. One flashback shows her threatening to lay a smackdown on the TERF (Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist) who insulted and made transphobic remarks at Nomi. She also states that she would ''burn an entire hospital to the ground'' in order to rescue Nomi from being forcibly lobotomized. [[spoiler: She did in fact set fire to a room on the floor Nomi was in to delay the operation.]]

* Tifa Lockhart from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' to Cloud Strife her [[ChildhoodFriendRomance childhood sweetheart]]. Even though he’s a badass [[SuperSoldier 1st Class SOLDIER]] wielding a {{BFS}}, she’ll look after him as a ActionGirlfriend with her own SuperStrength. It’s especially shown in the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake remake]] where after fighting Rufus, Cloud is [[HangingByTheFingers dangling from a girder]] and about to fall but Tifa runs in, pulls off a badass slide and catches Cloud with one arm just in time. [[spoiler: In the FinalBattle Tifa can protect Cloud from BigBad Sephiroth, destroying a massive chunk of building telekinetically thrown at him with one flip kick. Or if she’s after Aerith, Tifa rescues Cloud from Sephiroth (who’s bound his rival to the ground and about to stab him), by straight up [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kicking Sephiroth]] [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom flying]].]]

** [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Liara]] apparently subscribes to this trope. [[spoiler: After Shepard was killed at the start of the second game and spent two years in a coma, she went on a one-woman crusade to recover the Commander's body from both the Shadow Broker and even the Collectors.]] She then went on a two-year quest for revenge on the Shadow Broker (one of the most powerful individuals in the galaxy) for even THINKING about causing harm to him/her.
** [[ActionGirl Ashley Williams]] also skirts this line during the first game, [[spoiler: if you're unable to prevent Wrex from his FaceHeelTurn, she will kill him to prevent him from harming Shepard]]. Play your cards right in dialogue and this will be invoked by Ash herself.

** Another hint of this from Tali shows up at the conclusion of the Rannoch arc, if Shepard is unable to broker peace and chooses the quarians over the geth. [[spoiler: Legion goes berserk, performs a NeckLift on Shepard, and holds him over the edge of a cliff while threatening to toss him off. Before Legion can make good on that threat, Tali pulls a knife out of her boot and violently stabs Legion to death.]] Tali still potentially does this if Shepard's not romancing her, but in that case, it doesn't qualify as this trope.

* ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'': Although she didn't like Oswald at first, Princess Gwendolyn shows that she is capable of wreaking all sorts of havoc when he's in danger. One of the game's major NiceJobBreakingItHero incidents revolves around this trope: Gwendolyn rescues her husband from Odette, the Queen of the Dead... [[spoiler: and by killing [[BarrierMaiden her]], she inadvertently sets free an insane, nearly-unstoppable undead monster to take control of the Underworld and attack the world of the living.]]

* In ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed II'', hurting or threatening Juno Eclipse will get Starkiller really mad, but it works in reverse as well. [[spoiler: When Darth Vader tries to turn Starkiller to the Dark Side, Juno grabs one of Starkiller's lightsabers and attacks Vader herself!]]

** [[spoiler:Peko Pekoyama]] in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', who will do anything to protect [[spoiler:Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu]]. This includes murder, but he is horrified when she actually goes through it because he never wanted her to kill on his behalf, [[spoiler: and she goes to her death knowing she murdered a classmate pointlessly and failed to get Fuyuhiko out of the killing game. Monokuma even allows Fuyuhiko to attempt to intercept her execution, just so Peko ends up accidentally injuring the person she swore to protect just before she is stabbed to death]].
** In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', we have Maki, who starts out the game aloof and rude towards her classmates, but thanks to the efforts of Kaito and Shuichi, she becomes a DefrostingIceQueen and begins opening up more. When Kaito is kidnapped in Chapter Five, Maki immediately goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge… [[spoiler: which forces Kaito to kill Kokichi, who Maki shot with a poisoned arrow, in order to stop her being executed as the blackened. Then Maki discovers that Kaito was SecretlyDying the entire time and all her efforts to protect him were pointless. ''Then'' the knife is even further twisted when Tsumugi reveals Maki was deliberately implanted to grow feelings for Kaito to boost the show's ratings, and that she gave Kaito the terminal disease that killed him to make the show "more interesting". Ouch.]]
*** Tenko Chabashira from the same game is played somewhat more straight, despite being AmbiguouslyBi. Her DoesNotLikeMen attitude is played for laughs for the most part, but when she finds out people start accusing Himiko of murder in Case 2, she's quick to lash out at anyone who even dares to accuse Himiko, and often suggests beating up all the boys who look at the girls funny. [[spoiler: It comes full circle in Chapter 3 when Tenko is murdered by Korekiyo, and all Himiko can think of is "Who did it?" even calling Kiyo "disgusting". While the romance was fairly one-sided at the start, Himiko is willing to [[YouAreWorthHell go through hell and back]] if it means avenging Tenko and Angie's deaths, since they seemed to share a sort of love triangle. And then Himiko learns Tenko's love for her and hate for men was apparently implanted by Tsumugi and other writers of Team Danganronpa to boost ratings just like Kaito and Maki above.]]

** Mia Fey is a rather unusual example in that she's BadassPacifist rather than ActionGirl. Nevertheless, Dahlia learned the hard way that poisoning her boyfriend [[spoiler: Diego Armando]] is ''very bad idea'' when [[spoiler: Mia got Dahlia's ''death sentence'' for it]].
** Implied for Iris who, while never had a ''chance'' to actually violently protect her boyfriend, claims that [[spoiler: if she knew about her sister Dahlia's plan to poison him she'd do ''anything'' to stop her, including killing her]]. Considering that Iris is generally described as being incapable of violence, it says a ''lot'' about how much she cares about him.
* Akane Kurashiki did not have much chance to show this particular side of her in ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'' but she makes up in ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma''. Whenever [[spoiler: Carlos kills Junpei]] or she thinks he did, she'll proceed to attack him with whatever she can get hold of, ranging from fire extinguisher to [[GirlWithPsychoWeapon chainsaw]].
* All the potential boyfriends in ''VisualNovel/ShallWeDateNinjaShadow'' are excellent fighters, but that won't stop the ActionSurvivor protagonist Saori Shishido from doing her best to protect them if they need it - even from ''before'' the official RelationshipUpgrade. i.e., when [[GuileHero Sakamoto]] is attacked by [[spoiler: Hijikata]] in his own route, she refuses to leave him alone even when their opponent is a MasterSwordsman and Sakamoto explicitly tells him to get away since he's looking for ''him'' and not for her.
* Gender-flipped with [[spoiler: Mikado]] in ''VisualNovel/CafeEnchante'' as he becomes furious when he discovers that his girlfriend [[spoiler: Rindo's younger sister]] was [[spoiler: forcibly transformed into a non-human by the upper management of GPM to keep her silent]] and he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against those responsible.

** In Okazaki's route, she would [[spoiler: push him out of the way and [[TakingTheBullet take the bullet]] for him.]]
** In Sasazuka's route, when an unstable [[spoiler: Souda]] points a gun at him with the intent to hurt or kill, Ichika immediately takes out her gun and shoots at him to protect Sasazuka.
** In one Bad Ending for Enomoto, when [[spoiler: Ogata]] attacks and injuries Enomoto, Ichika [[spoiler: shoots him in the chest and kills him]].
** When [[spoiler: Zero/Saeki]] starts hurting Shiraishi via [[spoiler: his mind-controlling device]], Ichika [[spoiler: proceeds to ''kill'' Zero.]]
** When confronting [[spoiler: Zero/Saeki after discovering who he is]], the former casually threatens to kill Ichika's loved ones to make a point, starting with Yanagi. She nearly loses her composure and one of the possible actions is take out her gun to shoot them.

* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' - NEVER threaten Leslie while Robin is around - even if you're ''functionally immortal''. She'll just [[spoiler: cut you up and throw your remains into over a dozen dead universes before you can regenerate]].

* ''Webcomic/ImTheGrimReaper'': Even though Scarlet isn't dating Chase, she does exhibit some of these traits, such as when upon meeting Liam he starts shaking Chase, she bodyslams him to the floor and tells him not to touch him. In general, try to hurt Chase, and it likely won't end well. [[spoiler: This trait only grows more after she was stuck in the 9th Circle for 25 years. She will not tolerate any potential threat to Chase's safety, and nearly kills a man who threatened him with her demon coming out. Only Brook and his demon could stop her.]]

** The titular Carmilla. A badass lesbian [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vampire]] who normally is brooding and has earned the fan nickname "useless lesbian vampire" will punch you out or even [[spoiler: dive into an underwater cavern to retrieve a very dangerous sword]] to save her girlfriend Laura.

*** [[spoiler: It seems that Korra & Asami have become ''each other's'' Violently Protective Girlfriends, [[http://korrasami.tumblr.com/post/106741720540/an-interesting-development-seeing-the-ladies-at as pointed out by a fan.]]]]

* On ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'', while Sprx and Nova never officially hook up [[spoiler: until the very end of the series]], they're clearly in love, and if he's ever hurt or endangered, she's the first to step up and protect him.

** While not in a relationship with Grey, threatening his well-being is a bad idea. When a foe who was fighting her proclaimed she was gonna kill him (due to mistakenly believing he killed her mother), Juvia became ''[[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ce/67/42/ce674227cdffc45e06bf8e32a16db95e.jpg absolutely '''scary''']]''. Note that she's so pissed that '''[[MemeticBadass Erza Scarlet]]''' is ''visibly frightened'' by it.

* In ''VisualNovel/CollarXMalice'', the normally kind and pacifistic Ichika can become fiercely protective of the love interests on certain routes.

** In one Bad Ending for Enomoto, when [[spoiler: Ogata]] attacks and injuries Enomoto, Ichika shoots them dead.

* ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'': Atom Eve is this towards Mark. Despite him being far stronger than her, Eve simply won’t tolerate Mark getting hurt in any way when she has the power to stop it. She’s even unleashed her EleventhHourSuperpower when Conquest was about to kill Mark, frying Conquest’s skin off in the process. There’s also the time Anissa [[spoiler: the Viltrimite woman who raped Mark]] came uninvited to their house looking for Mark, and Eve tried to crush Anissa on the spot before Mark calmed her down.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'': Hurting Prince Eric in front of Ariel is not a good idea, as Ursula soon discovered. Bonus points for being the ''first Disney Princess'' to '''save her male love interest''' in the history of Disney animation (more than once, to top it all).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Helen, a.k.a. Elastigirl to her husband Bob, a.k.a. Mr. Incredible. Even though he's stronger than her and can usually look after himself, she'll still break into an ElaborateUndergroundBase and take on army of armed goons as a [[OneManArmy One-Woman Army]] to save him. In the [[WesternAnimation/Incredibles2 sequel]], when a BrawnHilda starts overpowering him, Elastigirl immediately [[RubberMan wraps around her from behind]], allowing Bob to get the upperhand.

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': [[spoiler:[[ArmCannon Jacqui]] [[CuteBruiser Briggs]] for [[WhipItGood Takahashi]] [[{{Bishonen}} Takeda]] and [[ActionGirl Sonya]] [[{{Tsundere}} Blade]] for [[CoolShades Joh]][[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass nny]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Cage]]]].

* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6551183/1/None-So-Blind-Mature-Version None So Blind]]", while Cam Mitchell and Vala mal Doran have been having sex for a few weeks, Cam only realises that he's actually in love with Vala when he finds her being attacked in a manner that makes it clear the man intended to rape her and he nearly beats her would-be rapist to death before the rest of SG-1 arrive and pull Cam off the attacker.