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'''Joey:''' What? Are you out of your mind? Let's throw some [[Mud Wrestling|Jell-O]] on them!|''[[Friends]]''}}

 

** 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 [[Cat Fight]]. Yumichika is so far from amused by this that it's not even funny (for him, that is; for the reader, it's [[Hilarity Ensued|hilarious]]... at least until it [[Mood Whiplash|gets serious]]).

'''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.}}

** 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 (comics)|Young Justice]]'' #7. Hell, Max Mercury (of all people) decides to just stick around and watch.

* 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.

 

* 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 man -- it's because Beverly blabbed professional confidences about Alison over the town's PA system.

* 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]] -- at the time the only male member of the group (other than [[Mentor Archetype|Giles]]). The fight, in classic catfight fashion, begins with a bitchslap and continues into shin kicking, name calling, and hair pulling. It finally ends in a stalemate and an agreement never to mention it to anyone.

** 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:

(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 ''[[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:

'''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.

** 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.

* 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.

'''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.''

** 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.

Elly: ME? You stop your sister! I'm not getting in the middle of that! }}

 

** 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]]'' episode "High Noon" when Elisa has a catfight with Demona.

'''Macbeth:''' You don't know the half of it. }}

* 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!"

* 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.

'''[[An Ice Person|Ice]]:''' So immature. }}