History Main / WouldHitAGirl

** No hes not.He only hits a woman while fighting for his life and after he realizes that violet has betrayed him, ruined his life and set him up to probably be hunted down and killed by the mob

* Used to great effect in an EstablishingCharacterMomentin ''{{Film/interMission}}'' - Colin Farrell's character is charmingly flirting with a shop girl when entirely out of the blue, he brutally punches her to the ground and robs the till.

* JamesBond.

* [[Watchmen The Comedian]] - of course, he's often the one who ''started'' the fight.

* In the ''BambooBlade'' manga, Tomaya likes to KickTheDog by beating up on new kendo club members, and Kirino mentions "Boys or girls, it doesn't matter to him. In fact, I think he picks on the girls ''even more''." Of course, this makes the reader cheer that much harder when Tamaki beats his arse.

* Completely averted in ''KimPossible'' where not a single male is above hitting a hostile female if given the chance. Not that any of them are good enough to actually ''land'' a hit on either [[ActionGirl Kim]] or [[DarkActionGirl Shego]]...

* Also completely averted in ''ThePowerpuffGirls'' where every single villain has no problem not only attacking three girls but three ''[[CuteBruiser kindergarten-aged girls]]''.

No hes not.He only hits a woman while fighting for his life and after he realizes that violet has betrayed him, ruined his life and set him up to probably be hunted down and killed by the mob

* Done in the first chapter of HighSchoolOfTheDead by TheHero.

* Deadpool. Street Fighter. Shadowcat all up in his face. Do the math. http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1189137.html?#cutid1

* In the Conviction story of SplinterCell, Sam Fisher promptly smacks his old comrade Anna upon her contacting him while in seclusion.
* Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal and Heartgold/Soulsilver have Rival Silver, a mean kid abusing his Pokemon and most of the time pushing the player out of the way and even seemingly even kicking one in the butt. You can play this as either boy or girl in Crystal, Heartgold/Soulsilver.
* Travis touchdown, the protagonist of No More Heroes battles five female assassins and kills all but one of them (only slicing off her hand). Although he is hesitant to kill women, he sees no problem hitting them. He goes on to fight even more women in the sequel, killing a total of 27 and knocking one out because she was just a teenager. (Also of note that 24 of them were inside of a mech being piloted by a man. After the fight he comments "I gotta admit though, this leaves a bad aftertaste. I mean, ripping through a bunch of mostly harmless cheerleaders?", though at the prospect of his victory being nullified, he says "Whoah, wait! I mean, they weren't that harmless. You can tear some shit up with a pompom.")

** You're only NOW being surprised at LeChuck expecting he can win Elaine's love?

* Pretty much everyone in FinalFantasy. The closest thing we have to someone who wouldn't is [[FinalFantasyIX Zidane Tribal]], the ChivalrousPervert who has an ability called 'Protect Girls', and in Dissidia says when up against [[FinalFantasyVI Terra]] 'A girl? This will be tricky...'

* Young Goku shows in ''DragonBall'' that he does not hold back against men or women when he knocks out Lunch, who is in her violent Kushami mode, after she tries to shoot him for sharing a futon with her.

* Travis touchdown, the protagonist of No More Heroes battles five female assassins and kills all but one of them (only slicing off her hand). Although he is hesitant to kill women, he sees no problem hitting them. He goes on to fight even more women in the sequel, killing a total of 27 and knocking one out because she was just a teenager. (Also of not that 24 of them were inside of a mech being piloted by a man. After the fight he comments "I gotta admit though, this leaves a bad aftertaste. I mean, ripping through a bunch of mostly harmless cheerleaders?", though at the prospect of his victory being nullified, he says "Whoah, wait! I mean, they weren't that harmless. You can tear some shit up with a pompom.")

The aversion and occasional subversion of WouldntHitAGirl: a guy (good ''or'' evil) has no problems with violence against women. If he's good, it's either because he's just not sexist, and believes in beating people up equally, or because [[GenreSavvy he knows]] that holding back against female opponents is a good way to get his ass kicked or killed. If he's evil, it's because... well, he's evil. And [[KickTheDog all evil people are wife beaters]].