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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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* Surprisingly uncommon in ''[[Ranma One Half]]'', given that it's a [[Unwanted Harem]] Anime about teenaged martial artists.
** 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
* Happens often in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' since there's a lot of female characters and the main character is a [[Hot Blooded]] [[Nun
* ''[[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.
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* There's a major catfight in ''[[Toradora (Light Novel)|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|Panty Shots]], it's rather disturbing seeing how downright ''brutal'' the fights are. Bodies tend to be shredded just as much as the clothes.
* 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
* ''[[Hanaukyo Maid Tai (Anime)|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 (Anime)|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! (Anime)|Tenchi Muyo]]'' media. They start off with the superpowers but usually end with childish cheek pulling.
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* ''[[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 (Film)|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]].
* There's a truly masterful one in the 1934 [[So Bad
* Francesca and the Monster's Mate have one in ''[[Mad Monster Party (Animation)|Mad Monster Party]]'' sounds of actual cats fighting play during it.
* 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.
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* At the end of ''[[Primeval]]'' series 2, between Abby and Caroline, though both have genuine issues (Caroline was the [[Femme Fatale]] sent by Leek to use [[Adorkable]] and at that stage, naive, Connor to get into the ARC/ get info on the team and Abby was the protective best friend love interest. Connor tries to break this up and be the better man, while Leek is watching and enjoying and gets whacked in the face, much to Leek's amusement. Eventually Connor succeeds in breaking it up, and he retorts he didn't do it for Caroline (who had been pretending to be his girlfriend). This basically confirmed Abby and Connor's mutual attraction which was a long lasting plot point, making this possibly the worlds only plot crucial and fanservice cat fight.
** The lack of skills part was averted - both Abby and Caroline had been shown to be proficient martial artists before, and their skills were on full display.
* Addressed and ultimately subverted in one ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode. Elaine is attacked by a female coworker, but no one believes her, [[What an Idiot!|even with a menacing message on her answering machine]]. In fact, all the men hearing about this are turned on by the idea of a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wrL9z3Kvww catfight] instead.
* Juliet and Kate had a semi-serious throwdown on ''[[Lost]]''. In the mud, while handcuffed to each other. Not the show's proudest moment.
** Not the show's proudest moment, but certainly one of the show's more alluring.
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* 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 man -- it's because Beverly blabbed professional confidences about Alison over the town's PA system.
* Parodied in the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|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
{{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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* In ''[[Robin Hood (TV)|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 ''[[
* The fight between Alex & Megan in ''[[The Sentinel (TV)|The Sentinel]]''.
* When ''[[Glee]]'''s Santana gets sufficiently angry with another girl, one of these is sure to ensue.
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* 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 ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'', [[The Vamp|Scarlett]] was ''waiting for her'' on top of a cannon. Did she pull a gun out? no. Did she click a remote and bring in a giant bot to squish her? No. She proceeds to slap Tifa, and you get into a bitch-slapping mini-game in which the goal is for Tifa to slap her more often.
** Tifa is a high-level [[Bare
*** 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!'.
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{{quote| '''Coldstone:''' Well, this is diverting.<br />
'''Macbeth:''' You don't know the half of it. }}
* In ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron (Animation)|The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'', Cindy Vortex and [[Green
* 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.
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