Designated Girl Fight: Difference between revisions

** The men are sent off to Shishio's lair, while the rest of the gang stays behind - and are subsequently attacked by the rest of the Ten Swords. Since the show lacks a variety of villainesses, Kaoru and Misao get their first and pretty much only real fight against Kamatari... a crossdresser.

** Weirdly, the trope was almost not-followed-by-the-letter back then. Okina's division of enemies at first had Kaoru and Yahiko assigned to face Hen-ya, and Misao would face Kamatari alone. But then some insults from both parties reassembled them to what it ended up as. In fact, the original division would've made far more sense, as letting a novice swordsman such as Yahiko to fight by himself is not a good idea in any way, [[Chickification|but that's a whole other can of worms]].

* In ''[[Naruto]]'': out of twenty competitors in the Chuunin exams, six were female. Sakura and Ino, past rivals, fought each other, as did [[Satellite Character|Tenten]] and [[Blow You Away|Temari.]] Averted with Kin and Hinata. Also averted in Part II outside of fillers.

** The ''Naruto'' movies seem to avert this, especially the early ones. In the first one, Sakura and Sasuke collaborated into blowing up a female-male duo, while in the second movie, Naruto, Sakura, Shikamaru, Kankuro and Gaara faced three female villains (whom they killed.. quite gruesomely).

** {{spoiler|Well, Pip did deliver the final blow, but that's it. Unless guiding Seras during her duel with the captain counted as doing something.}}

* Semi-averted in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. Riza Hawkeye is the only female member of Mustang's team and Lust is Father's only daughter, so naturally an altercation between the two occurs. However, this isn't really a fight so much as Hawkeye redundantly shooting Lust repeatedly until Mustang comes along to finish things.

 

== Comic Books ==

* The Marvel vs. DC/DC vs. Marvel miniseries had [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Storm]] fighting [[Wonder Woman]] and while Electra fighting Catwoman, the former being the most popular superheroines in their respective universes, while the latter both fit the [[Femme Fatale]] image. It's averted, however, when teen heroes Robin and Jubilee are paired off.

* In the early issues of [[Spider-Man|Maximum Carnage]], Black Cat immediately went for Shriek when Team Venom found Team Carnage.

 

== Film ==

* In ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]'' the movie, Poison Ivy was reserved for Batgirl. The men just had no effect on her. Justified somewhat, in that Ivy had her special pheromone that causes men to become insatiably attracted to her (not that [[Uma Thurman]] needs help in that department, mind you...).

* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]'' has a Designated Kid Fight when Short Round takes on {{spoiler|the Maharajah}}.

* ''[[Dragonball Evolution]]'':

** Goku fights Piccolo alone while Bulma and Yamcha run to safety. Then, Yamcha disappears inexplicably while Bulma fights Piccolo's female minion Mai. This may be because there's no way Bulma could help Goku fight Piccolo, but there's also no way she'd stand a chance against Mai either ... at least, not the way [[Faux Action Girl|she's been portrayed]].

* ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)|Mission Impossible]]'', in which token heroine Jane Carter squares off with token sexy female assassin Sabine Moreau.

* Averted in ''[[Deadpool (film)|Deadpool]]'' -- Colossus, not Negasonic Teenage Warhead -- takes on Angel Dust (AKA "Less Angry Rosie O'Donnell").

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Faye and Toshiko's battle in ''[[The Grimnoir Chronicles|Hard Magic]]''. Subverted in that it's the most impressive and spectacular throwdown in a novel chock-full of them.

 

* Literally [[Once an Episode]] for ''[[Waterloo Road]]''.

* Olivia Benson from ''[[Law and Order SVU]]''

* ''[[Power Rangers]]'':

** It seems to have rules for how this is done, actually ''not'' taking it easier on girls than more "adult" series:

** Done very frustratingly when ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'' crossed over, where the mind controlled Ninja Rangers team squared off against the Dino Rangers, but unlike almost every such inter-ranger battle, it wasn't by color, or by power, but by gender; with the Blue Ninja Ranger fighting the Yellow Dino Ranger and vice-versa.

** Generally with all crossovers, the girls usually fight the other girls with bits of fanservice (as in humor fanservice) wrapped around it.

* Particularly in Season 3 of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': [[Action Girl|Buffy]] vs. [[Dark Action Girl|Faith]]. We get a rehash when Faith pulls an [[Unexplained Recovery]] in Season 4.

* Similarly, in ''[[Firefly]]'', [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold|Inara]] heads off on her own to try to stop [[The Vamp|Saffron's]] plans twice. The first time, Inara loses a martial arts catfight to Saffron, who doesn't get away for long. The second time, Inara gets the upper hand by watching the end of the crew's impressive Gambit.

** In the episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion", Kirk, Chekov, and Uhura face two male and two female gladiators. Kirk and Chekov take one male each, while Uhura has to fight ''both'' women.

* Used in the ''[[Sliders]]'' episode "Data World". A villain sends a male and a female [[Mook]] after the Sliders. When the male shows up, the three guys fight him while Maggie (the team's [[Action Girl]]) simply runs and hides. When the female arrives, ''then'' Maggie steps up and declares, "This one is ''mine''!"

 

== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

* Very common in [[Professional Wrestling]] during random two guys + one chicks tag match. When the female wrestler from one side tags in, the one on the other team will inevitably do the same in a matters of seconds. Often it's actually in the rules that they must tag in. In fact, this is given its own name. Frequently they'll mention the difference between a "Men fight Men, Women fight Women" match and an "All Bets are Off" match. One is an "Intergender Tag Team Match" the other is a "Mixed Tag Match." The [[WWE]] only has men fighting men and women fighting women.

 

== Toys ==

* ''[[Bionicle]]'' had a lot of these [[The Smurfette Principle|on the rare occasion that a female antagonist turned up]] - Helryx vs Tuyet and Gali vs Gorast come to mind.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Mostly averted in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' as males in the comic are willing (and in some cases, [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|more than willing]]) to take on female opponents (Belkar vs Hag, Roy vs Sabine, Roy vs Miko, Belkar vs Miko, Hinjo vs Miko, Redcloak vs Miko, everyone vs Miko, [[Running Gag|notice a pattern here?]]). However, Haley has [[Lampshade Hanging|noted]] that she has a tendency to end up fighting flying, murderous skanks. She even cracks a line that Leeky's Animal Companion was likely some sort of bird-hussy.

* ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'': Hysterical Dame and Nervous Broad are the ones who fight and defeat Madame Murel; all three are the [[Distaff Counterpart]]s of Problem Sleuth, Pickle Inspector and Mobster Kingpin.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* In the [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/6719-1-year-anniversary-video TGWTG Team Brawl] Spoony made [[The Nostalgia Chick]] fight That Chick with the Goggles while he would take Bennet the Sage. As Nostalgia Chick and That Chick with the Goggles fight Spoony and Bennet simply grabbed their cellphones and started taking pictures.

* Completely averted in ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', where ''all'' of [[Action Girl|Tex's]] battles have been against men.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* The [[Pac-Man]] cartoon had Pac-Man and Ms Pac-Man as the good guys, and four male ghosts and one female ghost as the bad guys. Guess who fought whom?

* Because [[Popeye]] [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl|won't hit a woman,]] he's always a bit helpless against a female antagonist. Olive is perfectly willing to step in and clobber them, though, with a little spinach boost.

 

== Real Life ==