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{{quote|'''Phoebe:''' Should we stop this?!
'''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
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
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== Advertising ==
* Great taste, or less filling? Irrelevant, as the audience for a beer commercial is [[Distracted
* Ditto for the Ginger-vs-Mary-Ann catfight commercial for "The Real Gilligan's Island" that even adds in the same gag as above, but with pies.
== 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.
* ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' and ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' both featured fights between Angewomon and (two different) LadyDevimon near their respective climaxes. Much hairpulling and slapping ensued.
** The dub lampshades it: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLFgMKuiVDA "I feel like I shouldn't be watching this..."] In the original Japanese and the Latin-American dub, he instead said "Women are something to be very afraid of, when they're scared!"
** During the first cat fight, Angewomon angrily rebukes AtlurKabuterimon for trying to help her or catching her when she got thrown around (for which [[Sorry I Fell
** ''[[Digimon Savers]]'' averts the trope, having the female antagonist Nanami instead face off against [[Teen Genius|genius]]/[[The Lancer|lancer]] Touma in a battle of wits, while the female protagonist Yoshino (and her partner Lalamon) face off against Ivan, who has something of a crush on her. Both fights still had plenty of [[Fan Service]], this being the ''Digimon'' series where they decided to [[Up to Eleven|kick the fanservice up a notch]].
* ''[[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
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'''Yumichika:''' 'That's just a normal cero!' }}
* The only fight where [[Faux Action Girl|Mai Shiranui]] actually did well in ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' was against a female, [[Dark Chick|Panni]]. Slight subversion in that, while it was a one-on-one girl duel and had quite the fanservice, {{spoiler|Mai not only wins, but ''BRUTALLY'' curb-stomps Panni and kills her.}}
* In ''[[
** Tashigi most often fights men (except for when she faces Robin), and Vivi tends to fight both men and women (even though she typically can't do anything without the Straw Hats backing her up, and her opponents typically don't hit her- for example, Crocodile merely threatens to dry her up if she resists).
** Bizarrely played with by [[Drag Queen|Ivankov]]. In order to fight Impel Down's chief guard, Sadi-chan, he used his [[Applied Phlebotinum|Devil Fruit powers]] to transform himself [[Gender Bender|into a woman]].
* In the ''[[Soul Eater]]'' manga and anime, the busty [[Catgirl]] Blair fights with a similarly chesty witch. Despite both knowing powerful magic, onlookers are thrilled to no end to see that they simply wind up catfighting anyway.
* Surprisingly uncommon in ''[[Ranma
** Parodied slightly in a chapter called "Women's battle [[Hot Springs Episode|at the open-air onsen]]!" [[Gender Bender|Ranma]] and [[Gender Bender|Herb]], both of whom are trapped in female form, do battle at the hot springs, while Ryouga and Mousse watch. Since neither combatant can really land a hit on the other, [[Combat Commentator|Mousse]] deadpans that it's a very boring duel (Ryouga, [[Nosebleed|on the other hand]], is more appreciative).
*** Probably because Mousse, as well as being [[Blind Without'Em]], can't even see that well WITH 'em.
* Happens often in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' since there's a lot of female characters and the main character is a [[Hot
* ''[[School Rumble]]'s'' Eri and Yakumo fought over Harima at the school play.
** Although the fight was actually because circumstances had resulted in [[It Makes Sense in Context|Yakumo playing the evil magician against Eri's prince with Harima as the sleeping princess.]] On the other hand, Eri got annoyed at Yakumo's refusal to lose like she should have.
* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', villain Vithaldas deliberately creates one of these between Lucy and Juvia, by using his magic to seize control of Lluvia's mind and force her to attack Lucy (despite the fact that he could control them both if he'd wanted). As you might imagine, he makes it as titillating as possible, although it's actually not bad from the reader's perspective.
** 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 (
** 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 ''[[
* Done twice in ''[[King Gainer]]'', largely as comic relief.
* Averted in an episode of the 2007 ''[[
** Note that Neko Musume is a [[Catgirl]].
* There's a major catfight in ''[[Toradora
* 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.)
* ''[[
* In ''[[
* Ayeka and Ryoko get into at least one Cat Fight in every piece of ''[[Tenchi Muyo!
== 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.
* ''[[
** 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.
* The ''[[Catwoman (
** Let's be fair here. Although Selina ''was'' sometimes exploited for [[Fan Service]] [[Hot Amazon|(and even then she managed to look powerful)]], most of her opponents that I can remember were men.
* [[Wonder Woman|Wonder Girl]] and Arrowette's mothers beating each other up in ''[[Young Justice (
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* Archie's ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (
== Fan
* Both of Sakura's fights with Taliana in ''[[
== 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 (
** 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 (
* Near the end of ''[[Judge Dredd (
* 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 ''[[
* 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:
* ''[[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:
** 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 (
* ''[[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 (
* There's a truly masterful one in the 1934 [[So Bad It's Good]] sexploitation/horror film ''[[Maniac]]'' involving baseball bats and hypodermic needles.
* Francesca and the Monster's Mate have one in ''[[
* Subverted in the ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' movie "The Outlaws Is Coming", where [[Historical Domain Character|Annie Oakley and Belle Starr]] get into a parodical old-west style knock-down-drag-out fistfight in the middle of the muddy street, rather than a stereotypical catfight. The extreme, stereotypical ''masculinity'' of their fight is what made it funny, since they were both dressed in long gowns with petticoats.
* In a 1935 French adult film, ''Trois Goutte de la Rosee'', the two women get in a cat fight, in which most clothing is torn off.
* ''[[Underworld (
== Literature ==
* [[
* Most female characters in ''[[
* 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 ''[[
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** The Harmony-Xander fight is made even more awesome by the comedic use of slow motion and epic fight music.
** Lampshaded in "What's My Line, Pt. 1" when Buffy and Kendra fight:
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'''Buffy:''' Don't make me do the chick fight thing.
'''Kendra:''' "Chick fight"?
'''Buffy:''' You know...
(Buffy digs her fingernails into Kendra's hand. Kendra yelps, and Buffy grabs Kendra's hair, and pulls her off balance.) }}
** The reason that Harmony vs. Xander is the only catfight in the series is because girl-on-girl throwdowns in the series in general (and there are quite a few of them) are deadly serious affairs that feature little in the way of typical catfight tactics.
** In "School Hard" Angel and Xander take on Spike's vampire mooks. Angel slugs it out with the men while Xander takes on the only female vampire in the group. Even then Angel has to intervene to save him.
* The ''two'' fiancees of a now dead Marine on ''[[
** In another episode, Ziva fights an evil stewardess played by Victoria Pratt.
** And in another, Abby and Ziva get into a brief slapfight over Ziva's seeming lack of concern for Gibbs' wellbeing, which thoroughly freaks out McGee.
* In ''[[
* One episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' ends with a doofus-scientist character daydreaming about Carter and another woman fighting over him. Fantasy-Jack joins him in cheerfully watching. [[Pass the Popcorn|They make popcorn.]]
* In ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', Penny and new neighbor Alicia's rivalry over her leading Raj, Leonard, and Howard on culminates in a "What're you gonna do about it, bitch?"
** Somewhat Lampshaded by Wolowitz:
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'''Leonard:''' What're you doing?
'''Howard:''' I know you, you're stupid enough to break it up! }}
* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' has one with [[Knife Nut|knives]], ending in a surrender.
** There's also a MALE version where [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Ronon and Teal'c]] are beating the shit out of each other with a massive crowd cheering at them. And yes, it IS played for fanservice; [[Eating the Eye Candy|fanservice for girls]] but still, the two most muscular guys of the franchise in tight workout clothing and positively dripping with sweat? Draws a helluva lot of [[Female Gaze]].
* Robin and Lily start to get into one of these in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' before Ted stops them.
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** BRO CODE ARTICLE 26: "A bro will, in a timely manner, alert his bro to the existence of a girl fight."
** Subverted when one of Marshal's coworkers tells Lily that she kissed him, and Lily proceeds to administer a [[Curb Stomp Battle|terrifying beatdown]] on the woman "trying to move in on her man." Marshal swears at that moment ''never'' to try and make his wife jealous again.
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* Averted with great force in ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' in the {{spoiler|truly brutal, and emotionally wrenching, fight to the death between Jesse and Riley.}}
** And the one between Cameron and that other terminator who she twisted up like a pretzel.
* ''[[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
** 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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* ''[[Mad TV]]'' did it on a parody of NBC's remake of "The [[Bionic Woman]]" called "The Les-Bionic Woman" between Jane [Crista Flanagan] (as a [[Butch Lesbian|butch les-bionic woman]]) and Sarah [Nicole Parker] (as a [[Lipstick Lesbian|lipstick les-bionic woman]]). Subverted when during the fight (which shows the two in many suggestive positions), Sarah tells Jane that the doctor who made her bionic was their enemy, and Jane grunts, "So why are we fighting each other?" and Sarah replies, "Fighting? I'm not fighting."
* ''[[Oz]]''. Prison guards Diane Wittlesey and Claire Howell get into a fight that puts both women in the hospital ward, after Howell placed a false sexual harassment charge against Unit Manager Tim McManus (who'd had affairs with both women). When Warden Glynn asks what they were fighting about, Tim just replies, "Me" earning him a "You've ''got'' to be kidding me" look from Glynn.
* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''. In the [[Mirror Universe]] episode, a [[Bare Your Midriff|scantily-clad]] T'Pol and Hoshi have a knife fight while exchanging snarky comments about each others' sex lives.
* In the second season opener of ''[[Legend of the Seeker]]'' Cara and Triana have one. That Cara is naked and wet from her bath and Triana is in skin tight red leather and played by Charisma Carpenter pushes the [[Fan Service]] factor [[Up to Eleven]].
** Actually, the fight between Cara and Triana was nothing compared to the cat fight between Kahlan and Cara in Season 2, Episode 16 "Desecrated". There is bitch slapping, shoving, hair pulling and in the end, they're both breathing hard...with Kahlan lying on the floor. Needless to say, there was also a lot of eyesex involved.
* ''[[Waterloo Road]]'' is starting having roll-around-on-the-floor fights between two girls in school uniform about once every two episodes.
* ''[[
* 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.
** Her first fight was with Mercedes in the first season, but was broken up before things got out of hand. But in the second season, she slaps the ''piss'' out of Quinn for exposing her breast surgery and the two go at it.
* The team for the reality show ''[[Impossible Heist]]'' staged a full-on shirt-ripping, hair-pulling catfight in a casino, in order to distract a blackjack dealer. It allowed them to switch the cards for a rigged deck and cheat the house.
* ''[[Sir Arthur Conan
* Claire vs. Elle in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''. {{spoiler|Since the latter gives off electric blasts while the former is immortal, the perpetual eternal stalemate is broken by Sandra giving Elle a soaking.}}
== 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
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* Halfway through the first act of ''Kristina från Duvemåla'', Kristina and Ulrika have a ''catfight song'' - complete with tearing each others' clothes apart - called "Löss" ("Lice") about which one of them brought lice onto the ship to America. The song fell flat in the English-translated concert version: although the lyrics were almost identical, the fanservice was removed. So yeah.
* In ''[[The Women]]'', when word gets out that Miriam is about to marry Sylvia's ex-husband, the two women get into a vicious scuffle, culminating with Miriam kicking Sylvia in the shin and Sylvia biting Miriam on the arm. (Paulette Goddard, who played Miriam in the 1939 film version, was left a permanent scar from doing this scene.)
* In ''[[
** Debatable, since Carmen [[Knife Nut|used a knife]] and cut her up badly enough to ''get arrested.''
* There's one in ''[[Wicked (
** 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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** Subverted in the animated movie, where right after her famous shower scene Chun-Li fights [[McNinja|Vega]] - and wins, though she's so severely injured that she almost dies later.
* Khelgar has quite an entertaining reaction to the threat of the two female wizard bullies trying to beat up their classmate, a sorceress (who, by definition, has an insanely high Charisma score and is thus really, really hot), with spells outside your character's uncle's inn in ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]''.
* After Tifa escapes from a [[Death Trap]] In ''[[
** Tifa is a high-level [[Bare-Fisted Monk|Blackbelt]] able to [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|fight One Winged Angels with her bare hands]], so it would be easy to knock [[Fan Nickname|Kyajaja]] out with a single punch. Still, [[Karmic Death|this is more satisfying]].
*** This is partly retaliation for Scarlett's parting slap after putting her in the gas chamber.
* The somewhat obscure [[Fighting Game]] ''[[Blood Storm]]'' would introduce a fight between two female characters with 'Catfight!'.
* In ''[[Dead or Alive]]'' every girl-girl fight is a catfight given the amount of [[Jiggle Physics]].
* In ''[[
* This is the entire point of the ''[[Rumble Roses]]'' series.
* This is the ''name'' of the ''[http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/catfight/index.html Catfight]'' [[Fighting Game]].
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* The entire point of ''[[Rose and Camellia]]'', taken to the ultimate power.
* ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'': A scripted fight between Miranda and Jack breaks out during the second half of the game, and [[Player Character|Commander Shepard]] is tasked with resolving it, one way or another.
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'''Shepard:''' I'll look into it.
'''Joker:''' (as Shepard walks off) Take pictures! }}
** "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] ''[[
* And [http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-3-is-totally-gay/02-wikimania/prayer/ this] ''[[
** 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.
** Later in the Festival Arc, [[Clingy Jealous Girl|Mary]] gets into one with the [[God Save Us From the Queen|Queen]]. Sue wonders where [[Catgirl|Tiren]] is and then argues with [[Clark Kenting|Elly]] over who should stop them.
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Elly: ME? You stop your sister! I'm not getting in the middle of that! }}
== Web Original ==
* In the [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]] between the [[That Guy With
** 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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* ''[[The Batman Superman Movie]]''. As seen in the [[Trope Image]], Harley Quinn and Mercy have Hate At First Sight. Their fight (or at least what we can see of it) can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxpTYTxjr8U here].
** 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
** One episode featured a lengthy, violent, conspicuously [[The Hit Flash|HitFlash-free]] fight between Supergirl and her evil clone
**
* ''[[Teen Titans (
▲** 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.
* On ''[[
▲** 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.]
** One of [[The Movie|the movies]] had them in evening gowns
▲* On ''[[Kim Possible (Animation)|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-- slit up the side for ease of movement, of course.
* On ''[[The Simpsons (
▲* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': A training session shortly turns into a mud-wrestling match between Katara (water) and Toph (earth -- earth+water=mud). At this point, the creators have all but abandoned any subtlety with regards to [[Fan Service]], having moved the characters to adopt local disguises that show a bit more skin (okay, more arm -- it is a kids' show). "The Boiling Rock" also provides a classic [[Action Girl]] vs. [[Dark Action Girl]] ({{spoiler|Suki vs. Ty Lee}}) [[Cat Fight]].
** 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.▼
* Lampshaded in the ''[[
▲* 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.
▲* Lampshaded in the ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'' episode "High Noon" when Elisa has a catfight with Demona.
▲{{quote| '''Coldstone:''' Well, this is diverting.<br />
'''Macbeth:''' You don't know the half of it. }}
* In ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron:
* 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.
* ''[[
* The '60s stop-motion [[Monster Mash]] ''[[
* ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' The episode, "I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar" had Peter believing he's a woman after undergoing feminist sensitivity training. It's a cat fight between Lois and the feminist lawyer featured in the episode that finally snaps him out of it.
* 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:
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'''[[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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