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'''Joey:''' What? Are you out of your mind? Let's throw some [[Mud Wrestling|Jell-O]] on them!
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A battle between two or more female combatants that differs from the [[Designated Girl Fight]] only in that it's invoked for [[Perverse Sexual Lust]] purposes more than anything else. Though the label may be attached to any girl-fight, a true [[Catfight]] generally [[Wimp Fight|lacks finesse/combat skill]] and is more likely than not intended to titillate. Expect the combatants to seize and tear each other's [[Clothing Damage|clothing]] and/or hair. A staple of the [[Jiggle Show]]. More [[Played for Laughs|humorous]] depictions may be punctuated with a cat screech to drive the point home.
The more brutal or dramatic the fight, the less likely it is to be considered a catfight. A battle to the death between two women is ''never'' a catfight.
In a combat situation involving both male and female participants, [[Designated Girl Fight|the females will automatically square off with each other]]. If only one male is involved, he will simply stand by and watch the two women beat each other senseless. If it's a more comedic series, several male characters may stop to watch the fight and [[Pass the Popcorn]].
In this day and age of sensitivity towards domestic violence, it's [[Dude, Not Funny|taboo]] to show men [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|beating up women]]. In the [[Would Hit a Girl|rare case this does occur]], either the tables are turned and the man ends up at the short end of the beating; the man hits the woman once and the fight is over; the man abuses the woman in a way that's more humiliating than violent, such as [[Spank the Cutie]]; or the man is a [[Complete Monster]] who dominates the woman so completely that he bloodies her and continues to go at her long after it's become clear to everyone else that she can't defend herelf, thus depriving himself of ''any'' possible audience sympathy and leaching the scene of any potential comedy.
The less human the opponent is, of course, the less this trope applies. The [[Cute Monster Girl]] still does, though.
See also [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]], [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]], [[Designated Girl Fight]]. Just Add Mud to get [[Mud Wrestling]]. Compare: [[Panty Fighter]], where Catfights are the bread and butter, but they rarely degrade into "Rolling Around" pseudo-fights. Not related to the [[Cock Fight]].
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== Advertising ==
* Great taste, or less filling? Irrelevant, as the audience for a beer commercial is [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: two women wrestling in a fountain. Should be little taste, more outfit filling...
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== Anime
* This is pretty much the entire reason for the existence of ''[[Ikki Tousen]]''.
* Yoko and Adiane's fight in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' (and Gainax cranked the fanservice up in the movie).
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', despite the Chuunin exams having randomized partners, and despite males greatly outnumbering females, only two of the six girls in the tournament fight male opponents. The others square off against each other.
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* ''[[Bleach]]'' as a few examples:
** Putting aside the fact that one has a literal cat form, the battle between Soi Fon and Yoruichi. Both their special attacks just ''happened'' to need to [[Clothing Damage|blow away clothing]] and being the only two characters with no ranged attacks. However, it's also subverted, in that while it has its shade of fanservice, it's actually a ''very'' brutal fight.
** In a bizarre example that starts off [[Silly Reason for War|comedic]] but ends on a [[What You Are in the Dark|very serious note]], when [[Macho Camp|Charlotte Cuulhorne]] fights [[The Dandy|Yumichika Ayasegawa]], he keeps acting like they're having a
{{quote|'''Cuulhorne:''' 'Beautiful Charlotte Cuulhorne's final, holy, wonderful, pretty, super-magnum sexy, sexy, glamorous... cero!'
'''Yumichika:''' 'That's just a normal cero!' }}
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** Most recently {{spoiler|After Erza and her Edoras counterpart exhaust all their magic, end up in little more than underwear. Even so, they resort to hand-to-hand combat in a battle of wills and ideas, with Erza ultimately convincing her counterpart that magic isn't everything.}}
* A [[Long Runner|very]] early episode of the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime involved Misty and Giselle at each other's throats. Ash wanted to step in and calm them down, but Brock told him no, and that getting in the middle of a cat fight was not a good idea.
** In ''Best Wishes'' the new female lead [[Action Girl|Iris]] often gets into a fight with her rival [[Jerkass|Georgia]] especially after her first appearance. So far, they have spent the entire time at Don's tournament taunting each other and being each other's throat.
* Played with and subverted in ''[[Airmaster]]''. There are a few fancervicey fights, but in general male characters have no compunctions whatsoever about fighting Maki with all their strength (one or maybe two even succeed at knocking her out), and female-against-female battles end up [[Fan Disservice|very, very brutal and definitely not "sexy"]] more often than not.
* Done twice in ''[[King Gainer]]'', largely as comic relief.
* Averted in an episode of the 2007 ''[[GeGeGe no Kitaro]]'' series; Neko Musume and a female kappa are paired off in a sumo match, but before the match even starts, the perverted actions of the judge cause both of them to hit him, disqualifying both of them at the same time. Also averted in the fact that Neko Musume had been designated to fight a male kappa opponent before the female owing to Medama-Oyaji losing his match, though she scared the kappa off before the fight got anywhere.
** Note that Neko Musume is a [[Catgirl]].
* There's a major catfight in ''[[Toradora!]]''. It's not meant as Fanservice. It's still awesome because the two opponents do their very best to beat each other into a bloody mess. The two fighters are {{spoiler|Taiga and class rep Sumire. Watch episode 16 for the fight.}}
* As all the combatants in ''[[Freezing]]'' are female...that said, despite there being plenty of [[Clothing Damage]] and [[Panty Shot
* Similarly, when women fight each other in [[Ikki Tousen]], not only their clothes and panties end up either exposed or destroyed, but the girls beat the everloving '''shit''' out of each other, sometimes to almost lethal degrees. (i.e.: Ryoumou and Hakufu's fight - specially when Hakufu's Dragon kicks in -, when Ryuubi gets possessed by her Dragon and said [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] ''skewers'' Ryuubi's own friends Kan'u and Chouhi. and Ryoumou almost being slain by Ten'i and her arrows.)
* ''[[Hanaukyo Maid Tai]] La Verite'' episode 2. After Ryuuka and Mariel end up tied in their competition, they break the tie with a "swimsuit cavalry battle" in the mansion's indoor pool. Each of them rides three other people, and the one who has their head band taken away loses.
* In ''[[Persona 4: The Animation]]'', [[Alpha Bitch|Ai Ebihara]] slaps [[Tomboy|Chie Satonaka]]. Their cat fight ha them ''childishly pulling on each other's cheeks''.
* Ayeka and Ryoko get into at least one Cat Fight in every piece of ''[[Tenchi Muyo!|Tenchi Muyo]]'' media. They start off with the superpowers but usually end with childish cheek pulling.
== Comic Books ==
* Any female superheroine will have female supervillains. Thus, this trope is likely to be invoked or lampshaded eventually.
* ''[[Batman]]'' has his [[Distaff Counterpart]] Batgirl face off largely against female enemies. Particularly Catwoman.
* ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' had Elektra versus Black Cat. The issue was even titled ''Catfight''.
** He even hangs a lampshade on it. As the fight goes on, he quickly grows less concerned with actually doing something or moral quandaries to simply stare for a moment or two. Stepping in, of course, gets him kicked off a building.
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* Archie's ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comic book once had Bunnie Rabbot and [[Ms. Fanservice|Rouge the Bat]] get into a fight for pretty much no reason. Even the cover showed the two beating the snot out of each other.
== Fan
* Both of Sakura's fights with Taliana in ''[[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]''. The first time, they're [[Mud Wrestling|rolling around in a pit of mud]] created by vaginal secretions, while arguing over who deserves Ronan more. The second time, {{spoiler|after Ronan has been shot and temporarily killed}}, they do it in another mud pit, and Sakura gives Taliana <ref>who, as he was breaking up with the girlfriend he based her off of, had fallen out of favor with him</ref> a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]].
== Film ==
* ''[[Racket Girls]]''. Well, it's a film devoted to female wrestling, but they take it to a whole new level when two women ''dressed as cats'' wrestle!
* Parodied in ''[[Undercover Brother]]'': Once a catfight breaks out, Undercover Brother and two (male) mooks are seen watching it... while (after a few cutaways) sitting in an armchair [[Pass the Popcorn|with popcorn and a drink]], enjoying themselves immensely.
* In the [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] film ''[[From Russia with Love]]'', Bond is taken to visit some Gypsies, who proceed to stage a formal catfight between two half-naked young ladies over a man for his benefit. Later, he apparently sleeps with both of them. This has absolutely no relevance to the plot, by the way.
** It is signaled by the immortal line "It must be settled ... the Gypsy Way."
** Averted in the original book, where this was a brutal, unarmed fight to the death between two women who are both vying for the affections of one man, with no titillation involved.
*** That also involved both girls ripping each other's clothes off.
* ''Brutally'' subverted in ''[[The Hunger Games (film)|The Hunger Games]]'' with the fight between Katniss and Clove. Two teenage girls in tight-fitting clothing might be sexy if the setting wasn't one where they're out to kill each other. It's wince-worthy to watch them do everything short of knock each other's teeth out trying to gain the upper hand.
* Near the end of ''[[Judge Dredd (film)|Judge Dredd]]'' there's a brief
* Completely subverted in ''[[Kill Bill]]''. Despite the fact that the Bride mostly battles other women, none of her fights includes hair-pulling or scratching but rather full-on punches, kicks, head-butts, swords, knives and other serious implements of pain. In short, the fights are too convincing and too brutal to be seen as
* In ''[[Total Recall]]'' the heroine Melina fights it out with the villainous henchwoman Lori. Both acquit themselves quite well, although the male protagonist eventually has to come to Melina's rescue.
* Evie's flashback thing in the middle of ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy Returns]]'', where she duels Anck-su-namun. The point seems to have been that the winner would guard the pharaoh, and the loser would guard the bracelet.
** Director Steve Sommers is a big fan of cat fights. The one in ''[[Van Helsing]]'' between Anna Valerious and Aleera isn't quite as [[Fan Service|fanservicey]] as the Mummy Returns fight, if only to to the participants wearing slightly more than gold bikinis.
** Sommers' later film ''[[G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra|G.I. Joe the Rise of Cobra]]'' averts this hard with the Scarlett vs. Baroness fight. Although the fight involves two hot women, one wearing a [[Spy Catsuit]], it is ''brutal''.
* ''[[Black Mama White Mama]]''. Being an Exploitation Movie remake of ''[[Chained Heat|The Defiant Ones]]'' [1[[Recycled in Space|with women!]]-], it's really not that surprising.
* ''[[Manos: The Hands of Fate]]'' has one among all of the Master's wives...[[Leave the Camera Running|and it goes on for a long, long,
** And a boring, nonsexy catfight it was, too.
* In the classic western, ''[[Destry Rides Again]]'', there is a long, rough catfight involving [[Marlene Dietrich]].
* ''[[Mortal Kombat (film)|Mortal Kombat: Annihilation]]'' has Mileena and Sonya [[Mud Wrestling]].
* ''[[True Lies]]'' has a catfight between Helen and Juno in a runaway limousine.
* The sole reason the ''otherwise'' entirely worthless movie ''[[Bandidas]]'' was ever made was to show a five-minute catfight between [[
* ''[[The Brain That Wouldn't Die]]''
* ''[[Mystery Men]]'' has a scene where two women dressed as [[Wonder Woman]] get into a fight that becomes this.
** This being ''[[Mystery Men]]'', its played for laughs. Anyways, subverted as we don't get to see it, nor them.
* Lampshaded in ''[[
* ''[[Gor|Outlaw of Gor]]''. Princess has to fight the Leather Women.
* ''[[One Million Years BC|One Million Years B.C.]]'': Raquel Welch and Martine Beswick, in animal-skin bikinis.
* French ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' spoof ''[[OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies|OSS 117 Cairo Nest of Spies]]'' has Agent 117 nearly intervene in the fight, then pause to enjoy it after [[Clothing Damage|clothes start coming off]].
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* Most female characters in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' have at one time or another had to repeatedly tell themselves that they are too mature to engage in such behavior. Most notably Elayne's reaction to Min's prophecy about having to share Rand with two other women and finding out that her friend Min is the second, her other friend Aviendha is the third. And that Aviendha has already slept with him.
* Parodied/[[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in ''[[Discworld|Thud!]]'', when Angua's nerves get the better of her and she attacks female vampire Sally in an underground tunnel. Sally points out that they are both female, naked, and covered in mud, so if they are going to fight, they should find some men and charge admission.
* Hermione Granger and Millicent Bulstrode in ''[[Harry Potter and
* Averted in ''[[The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries]]'', wherein most characters won't hesitate to hurt a woman if she's perceived to be dangerous and [[Action Girl|said women]] often give as good as they get. Played straight, however, in perhaps the only scene where [[Badass Normal|the heroine]] is able to physically overpower her opponent. Both parties lacking functional weapons, the fight involves "wrestling and punching and hair pulling" before the protagonist is able to pin the other girl down. A male character who arrives on the scene initially declines to offer help in favour of [[Pass the Popcorn|watching the show]].
* ''Sisterhood'' series by [[Fern Michaels]]: The Vigilantes end up having this among themselves in the book ''Hide And Seek''. They were bitter and angry over just about everything. This was just what they needed to let it all out. Sure, they were sporting bruises afterward, but at least they were willing to work together again.
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== Live Action TV ==
* The spy comedy ''[[Chuck]]'' is notable for pitting the blonde, scantily clad Sarah against the female antagonist of the week. Sarah has fought in a variety of [[Fan Service]] costumes like a pseudo-Bavarian miniskirt with plunging neckline, a short satin robe with flesh colored underwear, revealing evening gowns, and a black catsuit.
* One two-part episode of ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' required this trope for the mission to succeed. A guard had to be distracted at a critical moment during a prison escape so Cinnamon Carter and a guest-star agent spent the better part of two episodes setting up their "rivalry." When they finally did start the catfight the guard was primed to enjoy it and not notice what else was going on.
* Brilliantly done in one episode of ''[[Scrubs]]'': Elliot and Carla get into a catfight in the cafeteria. Then [[Casanova Wannabe|the Todd]] interrupts, "Ladies! Please! Stop!"... [[Crowning Moment of Funny|then pulls up a chair, sits down and says "Continue."]]
** And soon after, rips his shirt apart and yells "I'm going in!"
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** They fought earlier in the episode, but it was a one-sided [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb stomp]] where Juliet knocked Kate on her ass despite Kate having the element of surprise.
* Maddie and London on ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]''.
* In the ''[[Eureka]]'' episode "Purple Haze," Alison and Beverly (both under the influence of an [[Hate Plague|inhibition-lowering drug]]) get into it. The fight isn't over a
* Parodied in the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "The Initiative", with possibly the only catfight in the series, between [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|Vampire]] [[Dumb Blonde|Harmony]] and [[Non-Action Guy|Xander]]
{{quote|'''Xander:''' Harmony, it's been great catching up. Really, I'm just gonna pick up the tattered shreds of my dignity and go home.}}
** The Harmony-Xander fight is made even more awesome by the comedic use of slow motion and epic fight music.
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* ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' episode "The Living Dead", between Mrs. Peel and a female guard.
** Topping this, ''[[The New Avengers]]'' episode "Angels Of Death" has Joanna Lumley's Purdey taking on not one but two gorgeous female opponents (played by Caroline Munro and Pamela Stephenson), after Gambit's basic decency prevents him hitting women and they beat the bejasus out of him.
* In the ''[[That '70s Show]]'' episode "Cat Fight Club" Jackie gets fed up with Laurie's insults and starts a fight with her. Fez suggests they should pour water on them.
** In an earlier episode, Eric's female partner for a class project, Stacy, has an obvious crush on him, but Eric thinks Donna doesn't really pay attention to this. Kelso suggests early in the episode that Stacy and Donna should mud wrestle for Eric. At first Eric responds, "Kelso, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." Then he thinks about it (a [[Dream Sequence]] occurs) and then says, "Kelso, that's the smartest thing I've ever heard."
** In the episode "Mother's Little Helper", Eric and Hyde say that girls can't play fight, because it always turns into a real one. Jackie and Donna try to prove them wrong, and end up proving them right.
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* ''[[Waterloo Road]]'' is starting having roll-around-on-the-floor fights between two girls in school uniform about once every two episodes.
* ''[[Relic Hunter]]''. Sydney Fox (Tia Carrere) and the enemy agent (played by Roberta Angelica) have a cat fight. With mud. The two guys stop, watch, and even comment. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] when Sydney looks over and asks, "You boys enjoying the show?"
* In ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'' the rivalry between Isabella and Kate eventually culminates in what is possibly one of the worst catfights ever to be taken seriously. Despite the fact that both women are armed with swords and daggers, they resort to slapping and hair-pulling, all whilst exchanging barbs on whom Robin loves the most.
* In a deleted scene from the ''[[The Thick of It]]'' specials, Robyn and Terri have a squabble... while Jamie chants "fight, fight, fight" and starts pushing their jackets off their shoulders.
* In an episode of ''[[Blake's
* The fight between Alex & Megan in ''[[The Sentinel (TV series)|The Sentinel]]''.
* When ''[[Glee]]'''s Santana gets sufficiently angry with another girl, one of these is sure to ensue.
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== Music ==
* The Dance Hall Crashers have a song called "Catfight"
* "We bout to throw them blows/We bout to swang them thangs/It's about to be a what? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhBM7H-ggvY Girlfight]"
* Though the song itself isn't about a Catfight, Or is it?. New Zealand band Kids of 88 has this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWm9v9Bh0b0&feature=autofb video] and it's not just an awesome catfight but it's an awesome cat fight in SLOW MO. But they still had to throw in a little [[Ho Yay]] while at it.
* [[Julie Brown]]'s ''"Girl Fight Tonight!"''
* Pendulum's ''"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6BKBIOtRXw Showdown]"'' music video is about a
* The Stray Cats have a trope-filled tune, "Cat Fight (Over a Dog Like Me)".
== New Media ==
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* One story arc in ''[[Terry and the Pirates]]'' featured a cat fight between the two major [[Femme Fatale
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* There's one in ''[[Wicked (theatre)|Wicked]]'' after {{spoiler|Fiyero leaves Glinda for Elphaba.}}
** Not to mention {{spoiler|Nessarose was just killed, and, far as Elphaba knows, Glinda was either somehow involved or too absent-minded to stop it.}}
* In ''[[
* "Fight Over Me" from ''[[No No Nanette]]'', a number sadly omitted from revivals.
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** "Catfight" probably isn't the right term. They're both powerful biotics, which means there was a very real chance they might ''blow a hole in the hull and kill half the crew.''
* If a male Grey Warden in ''[[Dragon Age]]'' is brave/[[Guide Dang It|unlucky]] enough to start a romance with both [[Betty and Veronica|Leliana and Morrigan]], he can expect them to spend most of their time together sniping at each other and coming ''just'' short of a fully on brawl.
** In ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', there's at least two ''almost'' physical fights between Aveline and
*** By saying [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"Are there any good seats left?"]], in one case.
== Webcomics ==
* A cat fight breaks out between high school girls Beth and Tegan in [
* Played with in Oglaf. Vanka challenges Greir to a sex fight... they immediately set about wrestling and ripping each other's clothes off in a hilariously serious manner.
* ''[[Its Walky|It's Walky!]]'' has a nice example. It starts [https://web.archive.org/web/20131011030053/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20030917.html here] and has a [[Lampshade Hanging]] right around [https://web.archive.org/web/20131011030104/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20030919.html here.]
* [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-10-29 This] ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' strip shows a cat fight's typical appearance...except for that fact that it's a girl and a boy. Though maybe Tedd ''is'' [[Running Gag|just that girly]]. Ellen also <s>[[Lampshaded]]</s> [[Deadpan Snarker|commented]] a [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2004-04-02 literal one].
* And [http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-3-is-totally-gay/02-wikimania/prayer/ this] ''[[Shortpacked]]'' strip goes a step further, inverting the genders across the board. It goes on like that for a bit, actually, getting [http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-3-is-totally-gay/02-wikimania/pants-2/ pretty ridiculous by the time someone breaks it up].
** A [http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-7/10-palin-comparison/clothesline/ later strip] subverts the trope by having a side shot away from a fight between two women ([[Genki Girl|Robin deSanto]] and [[Strawman Political|Sarah Palin]]) showing clothes flying away from them - then showing that it is from a clothes rack that is standing between them, which Robin is stripping the clothes off of in order to get at Palin.
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20101213194424/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/290 this] ''[[Loserz]]'' strip. With the popcorn bit, too.
* ''[[Misfile]]'' has one between [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=667 Cassiel and Jenny the Second].
* ''[[The Wotch]]'' takes this trope to literal extremes in [http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2004-09-20 this strip].
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* ''[[Questionable Content]]''. Promised early on, delivered some 500 comics later.
* Spoofed in an ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' poll, where the options for the question "who would win in a catfight?" were mostly anthropomorphic cats, like [[Top Cat]], but also included all the Catwoman actresses.
* ''[[Fletcher Apts]]'' takes the term "Catfight" to its most literal sense, as a battle rages between two crazy feline females, Becca and Zoe, as they fight tooth and claw to win the right to court the hulky rock-star heartthrob Bill (although Bill, being strapped down to his bed during the debacle, doesn't appear to have much say in the matter). The battle is referred to in the storyline as [
* In ''[[DDG]]'' everyone is mostly too afraid of 'Netta to get into a catfight with her, but Zip does manage it in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120128164612/http://www.sincomics.com/phpAlbum/main.php?cmd=imageview&var1=DDG%2FDDG28.jpg&var2=2 this strip]
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20160603192407/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030210 this] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' strip some guys actually complain that some women are having a
** Played straight in [https://web.archive.org/web/20150426020037/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010204 this] strip, however, where Torg imagines Zoe, Sasha, and Oasis as characters from a [[Fighting Game]].
** Sasha's method for infiltrating a meeting of baddies is to knock out and impersonate the only female baddie there. When her victim wakes up, [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/091125 this trope appears] with a vengeance. And yes, the dudes do [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/091130 break out the popcorn].
* A repeat occurence in ''[[Not Quite Daily Comic]]''. Examples: [http://www.truefork.org/Art/comic/cindex.php?43 here] and [http://www.truefork.org/Art/comic/cindex.php?280 here].
* ''[[Sinfest]]'': [
* Gender switched in [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100428 this] ''[[Girl Genius]]''.
* ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]'', [[Incredibly Lame Pun|punnily]] common. Possibly, [http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c55/p31.html this] is the only played straight example currently.
* [[Las Lindas]]. Mora and Rachael [http://laslindas.katbox.net/?p=503 get into one] after Mora catches Rachael kissing her boyfriend Minos. Bonus points for Rachael being a [[Catgirl]].
* Done thrice in [[Dubious Company]].
** [[Tsundere|Tiren]] spends most of the [[High School AU|arc]] [[Cannot Spit It Out|angsting]] over Walter being courted by [[The Beautiful Elite|Sakura]]. Tiren finally manages to give him Valentine’s Day chocolate only to get immediately one-upped by Sakura. Tiren lunges at her and… {{spoiler|[[Gilligan Cut]] to Izor reprimanding everyone’s poor behavior.}}
** In the Festival of Veils arc, Mary [[The Cuckoolander Was Right|suspects]] Raque has kidnapped Elly. Raque and Elly are about to turn the corner and bump into Mary and Sue. Raque hears them and shoves Elly into a nearby doorway.
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* In the [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]] between the [[That Guy With The Glasses]] contributors and [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]], when [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony]] and [[The Nostalgia Chick]] face off against Bennett the Sage and The Chick With The Goggles, Spoony suddenly switch places with the Chick so that he and Bennett can take pictures while the girls have a catfight offscreen.
** In the audio commentary, Doug Walker mentions that the girls wouldn't agree to the gag unless the fight happened offscreen.
* ''[[Dead Fantasy]]'' is an epic
* In the ''[[Halo]]'' machinima [[Pre Game]] Lobby, one of the protagonists and recurring antagonists get in one of these. After the fight, one of the bystanders says "Did anyone else have an orgasm watching that?" causing an achievement popup to appear saying "Got a tissue?".
* This [[
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** And another aversion to the trope that unlike most male witnesses - [[Lex Luthor]] and [[The Joker]] continue their negotiation, [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight|not paying an iota of attention to the carnage]].
* ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League Unlimited]]'' unless it's a robotic or monstrous foe.
** One episode featured a lengthy, violent, conspicuously [[The Hit Flash|HitFlash-free]] fight between Supergirl and her evil clone
**
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'': "Date With Destiny" featured a classic cat fight between Starfire and [[Meaningful Name|Kitten]] on the prom's dessert table. Tip: Never date a guy with a girlfriend who can shoot lasers out of her eyes.
▲** However, this was later one-upped by the episode "Grudge Match," whose entire plot can be summed up as [[Cat Fight|"We force gorgeous women to wrestle for half an hour."]] Featuring members like Black Canary (aka The Blonde Bombshell), Huntress, and Vixen, and culminating with a four-on-one match against Wonder Woman (who, of course, dominates), the fights were actually ''marketed'' as cat fights in-universe as a way to cash in through the "Glamor Slam". It even ends with Huntress and Black Canary (who had a physical and verbal altercation in a prior episode) about to fight again--just for the hell of it. And to think they say these shows aren't made for the fanboys.
** Don't forget
▲* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'': "Date With Destiny" featured a classic cat fight between Starfire and [[Meaningful Name|Kitten]] on the prom's dessert table. Tip: Never date a guy with a girlfriend who can shoot lasers out of her eyes.
▲** Don't forget Raven and Terra's mud wrestling match. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZvXi_QL-Io Granted, they really were trying to kill each other.]
* On ''[[Kim Possible]]'', Kim fights all her own battles, against male and female bad guys, as she's really the only combatant on her team. However, the only human opponent who ever even comes close to really landing a blow is the villainess Shego. The guys do ''try'', but she's simply too good for them. These fights are generally played straight, but considering that one episode included the two ''mud wrestling'', it's safe to say that the powers that be are [[Fan Service|aware of the appeal]].
** One of [[The Movie|the movies]] had them in evening gowns
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': A training session shortly turns into a mud-wrestling match between Katara (water) and Toph (
* On ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', there is an arcade at the Kwik-E-Mart called "Catfight", with such moves as "hairpull".
** Also mentioned on "Tennis the Menace" where Homer thinks that tennis is "the sport where chicks whale on each other" (which is foxy-boxing) and in "Lisa on Ice" (the episode where Lisa joins the hockey team after getting a notice stating that she's failing gym) where Homer tells Lisa that, [[As the Good Book Says...|according to the Bible]], girls should stick to girl sports, such as hot-oil wrestling and foxy-boxing.
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* In ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius|The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'', Cindy Vortex and [[Green-Skinned Space Babe]] April the Gorlock get into a catfight after Cindy sees April locking lips with Jimmy (granted, the alien was simply performing the "Gorlock seal of trust", a non-sexual battle bonding ritual from her home planet. Cindy of course did not know this - hence the ensuing claw-fest). [[Lampshaded]] by the fact that Sheen screams out "Catfight! Catfight!"
* In ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' it got fairly silly with Scarlet, Lady Jaye and the Baroness, women who have throughout the show displayed advanced martial arts skills, whenever they fought each other... straight for the hair.
* ''[[The Haunted World of El Superbeasto]]'' not only includes an extended cat fight scene, but a Hard 'N Phirm song (called Cat Fight, appropriately enough) to go along with it.
* ''[[Winx Club]]'' had the fight of Bloom vs Diasporo. And even though it wasn't played for ''[[Fan Service]]'', nor as a ''[[Designated Girl Fight]]'' (as most combatants in the show are female), it did get more physical than the usual magic duels common to the series, and men did stand motionless enjoying the fight.
* The '60s stop-motion [[Monster Mash]] ''[[Mad Monster Party]]'' has a catfight between hot babe Francesca and The Monster's Mate Phyllis
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' had a notable one in "Something's a Ms." between [[Sexy Secretary|Miss Bellum]] and [[The Vamp|Sedusa]]. It ended with them falling into a swimming pool.
* In an episode of ''[[American Dad]]'', Roger manipulates Hayley and Francine into one-upping each other until a cat-fight inevitably breaks out, all so he can film it and win a t-shirt from a website devoted to mother-daughter cat-fights.
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* A literal example happens at the end of the Disney [[Direct to Video]] animated film [[The Lion King|''The Lion King II: Simba's Pride'']]. During the climax of the film, if you look very closely, you can actually see Nala (Simba's wife and Kiara's mother) fighting Vitani (Kovu's adoptive sister and Zira's daughter).
* The Japanese opening for ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' showed Arcee and Blackarachnia fighting each other at one point. Ironically, the two characters actually never saw each other in the actual show at all!
* [[Gender Inverted]] on ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]''--[[Booster Gold]], [[Green Lantern|Guy Gardner]] and [[Aquaman]] get into a three-way battle, and [[Playing with Fire|Fire]] seems quite intrigued.
{{quote|'''Fire:''' Ooh, guy fight.
'''[[An Ice Person|Ice]]:''' So immature. }}
* Deconstructed in ''[[Disenchantment]]'', when Oona picks a fight with Dagmar. While most of the crowd is cheering them on, Zog (Dagmar's former husband and Oona's current one) says "I'm far more embarrassed than I am aroused."
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