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See also [[Values Dissonance]] and [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)]].
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== Advertising ==
* Example with the [[Double Standard]]: in a commercial for a certain mattress company, a wife gets fed up with her husband's constant tossing and turning, and clubs him unconscious with a frying pan. This is [[Hilarity Ensues|supposed to be funny]].
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* In the English dub of the anime ''[[Crayon Shin-chan]]'', Penny Milfer's father is portrayed as physically abusive toward his daughter and his wife. Apparently the abuse is so bad that it drove Penny's mother to hatch a (failed) plan to escape and live the rest of her life as a prostitute. The abuse is presented as the reason Penny and her mother are so aggressive and express their anger by punching stuffed bunnies, and it's also [[Gallows Humor|played entirely for laughs]]. In the original Japanese version of the anime, Nene's (Penny) father isn't abusive at all, and is merely a workaholic businessman. In the Japanese version, Nene and her mother beat up their stuffed animals simply because they have hereditary anger management problems, rather than it being a result of abuse. The dub also purposely skipped over episodes that Nene's father appeared in for the dub to retain the dub consistency, save for one where they censored his appearance. [[FUNimation]] also added [[Dead Baby Comedy]] in making references to Penny having a little sister who "lives in the lake".
** In one episode where the family is staying in an apartment, they hear a male and female voice yelling at each other and then the woman screaming. Convinced that the woman is being beaten by her boyfriend/husband, Hiro breaks down the door to stop what's going on, only to find out that it's a crossdressing actor.
* Genma Saotome, of ''[[Ranma ½]]'', once used a [[Martial Arts and Crafts|"martial arts move"]] based off of [[Flipping the Table]]. Not only did he use it against his own ''wife'', the [[Hot Shonen Mom]] Nodoka Saotome, he did it in order to get his hands on a medal worth 20 yen. For added measure, the technique's [[Calling Your Attacks|name]] is "Angry Dad Attack/Wrath of the Father". Then again, this is the same guy who was outright horrified to find his son's skills as a martial artist had progressed to the point where he could no longer [[Abusive Parents|beat his son up and steal his food, the way he did when his son was a little boy... and who reacted by practically disowning said son.]] [[Jerkass|So is it really any surprise?]]
** An arc had Ranma attempting to get Ukyo to break their suddenly more serious engagement by practicing this — flipping tables on her, feigning drunkenness and claiming he was having an affair. All of it backfires.
* Why not just say anyone in a [[Takahashi Couple]]? Speaking of [[Rumiko Takahashi|the woman]], is there any of her comedy works that doesn't include the female [[Tsundere]] beating the male [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]? I'm not including some of her more serious or darker works.
** [[RIN-NE]] is probably the only one that's not one of her darker world. It might be that she's tired of it, actually.
** Not between the main couple, but ''The Mermaid Saga'' has a pair of siblings who are the children of a wealthy family. The son is a complete sociopath who is only protected because of the love of his sister. He shows his gratitude by emotionally and implicitly physically attacking her, as well as poisoning her fiance so she won't leave and stop protecting him. {{spoiler|After they both "die" from eating mermaid flesh, he continues to abuse her, stealing an eye from her unrotting corpse and then cutting off the head so she'll stop "haunting" him. He also picks up the [[Nightmare Fuel|charming]] habit of dating girls that look like his sister, only to murder them.}}
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** Disturbingly, Saito fans seem to selectively ignore major gaffs on Saito's part in favor of ragging on Louise for reacting to them with equal abuse. For example, it is frequently noted how Louise upgrades to beating Saito with a real whip in the second [[Light Novel]] rather than her usual riding crop; less often is it mentioned that this was provoked by Saito ''trying to undress Louise in her sleep''.
* Yaoi anime ''[[Kizuna]]'' plays this for laughs. The [[Clingy Jealous Girl|extremely jealous Uke]] (Ranmaru) punches his boyfriend and Seme (Kei) so that he flies across the room, yet no one thinks twice about it.
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* ''[[Andy Capp]]'' used to qualify. In one of Britain's longest-running newspaper comics, things are getting steadily better. Andy Capp used to give Flo black eyes on a regular basis. Later, she was more and more often shown winning the fights, sending Andy tumbling out of the house and into the gutter. In fact, Andy looked like he was becoming an abused husband for a while. Now, however, they almost never resort to violence and attend marriage guidance meetings. He's [[Jumped the Shark|stopped smoking]], too.▼
* The newspaper comic ''[[Bringing Up Father]]'' used to ''own'' this trope, at least until the sixties. Jiggs' wife Maggie was notoriously violent, and her rolling pin became a trademark of the comic.▼
** Lampshaded in a [http://therainer.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html vintage issue] of ''[[Mad Magazine]]'', where [[Darker and Edgier|Jiggs' injuries]] are shown in a [http://tinyurl.com/6k46y6 fairly gruesome realistic style]. This satire on domestic abuse ran in Mad #17, 1954.▼
* ''[[The Lockhorns]]'' is an American strip that thinks a [[So Unfunny It's Funny|hateful marriage is comedy]]. While it has never featured physical abuse, some of the hurtful remarks the two of them make about each other borders on psychological abuse.▼
* [[Ultimate Universe|Ultimate]] Hank Pym is terribly abusive to his wife. This is a carry over of the original Pym's [[Never Live It Down|defining moment]] of slapping his wife one time in the middle of a nervous breakdown induced by a supervillain.▼
** Leading to a very satisfying moment when Captain America beat the crap out of him while he was 10 stories high.▼
* This plays into the very first ''[[Superman]]'' comic, where Clark Kent somehow gets involved in a domestic abuse case, leading to Superman intervening with the line, "[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|YOU'RE NOT FIGHTING A WOMAN ANYMORE!]]"
* In ''[[Batman]]'', seeing a man beat his wife or girlfriend is a major [[Berserk Button]] for Jason Todd. He once killed a man for beating his girlfriend so badly {{spoiler|that it caused her to commit suicide - the boyfriend got away scot-free because he was the son of a diplomat, and this drove Jason to take matters into his own hands}}.
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* ''[[Luminosity]]'' [[Deconstructed Trope|deconstructs]] the mate bond in ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'', ending up with this. Vampires assume their mates love them back—that's how the magic works. The mate bonds, however, do not work on half-vampires, and since they're not human, they can't be turned into vampires to make the bond mutual. Enter Demitri, who is mated with Allirea, who hates him. Her power is hiding, but his power is finding things. Cue repeated kidnapping.
* [[iCarly|Sam Puckett]] can have a relationship with Freddie like this. Weirdly, this can be done for Sam/Freddie and Carly/Freddie, with the latter generally being a [[Hurt/Comfort Fic]] whilst the former generally has Sam trying to overcome her [[Freudian Excuse]].
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▲* ''[[Andy Capp]]'' used to qualify. In one of Britain's longest-running newspaper comics, things are getting steadily better. Andy Capp used to give Flo black eyes on a regular basis. Later, she was more and more often shown winning the fights, sending Andy tumbling out of the house and into the gutter. In fact, Andy looked like he was becoming an abused husband for a while. Now, however, they almost never resort to violence and attend marriage guidance meetings. He's [[Jumped the Shark|stopped smoking]], too.
▲* The newspaper comic ''[[Bringing Up Father]]'' used to ''own'' this trope, at least until the sixties. Jiggs' wife Maggie was notoriously violent, and her rolling pin became a trademark of the comic.
▲** Lampshaded in a [http://therainer.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html vintage issue] of ''[[Mad Magazine]]'', where [[Darker and Edgier|Jiggs' injuries]] are shown in a [http://tinyurl.com/6k46y6 fairly gruesome realistic style]. This satire on domestic abuse ran in Mad #17, 1954.
▲* ''[[The Lockhorns]]'' is an American strip that thinks a [[So Unfunny It's Funny|hateful marriage is comedy]]. While it has never featured physical abuse, some of the hurtful remarks the two of them make about each other borders on psychological abuse.
▲* [[Ultimate Universe|Ultimate]] Hank Pym is terribly abusive to his wife. This is a carry over of the original Pym's [[Never Live It Down|defining moment]] of slapping his wife one time in the middle of a nervous breakdown induced by a supervillain.
▲** Leading to a very satisfying moment when Captain America beat the crap out of him while he was 10 stories high.
== Puppet Shows ==
* Example [[Older Than Steam|too venerable]] [[Grandfather Clause|to stop soon]]: it seems unlikely that Mr. Punch will stop clubbing Judy.
== Theatre ==
* ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''
* ''[[
* In [[Moliere]]'s ''[[The Doctor in Spite of Himself]]'' (a.k.a. ''Le Médecin Malgré Lui'' or ''The Unwitting Doctor''), the whole plot starts when Martine decides to get even with [[Lazy Husband|Sganarelle]] for beating her up.
* During the short play ''Trifles'' by Susan Glaspell it becomes obvious that the relationship between Mrs. Wright and her husband is a textbook case of Domestic Abuse, with the apparent tipping point that led her to kill him being when he killed her canary, who was her soul companion and source of joy.
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* ''[[Silent Hill: Shattered Memories]]'' has the [[Multiple Endings|Wicked and Weak ending]] which shows {{spoiler|a woman verbally and physically abusing a man without being [[Played for Laughs]]}}. [[It Got Worse|What's worse]], {{spoiler|the entire incident is seen ''and filmed'' by their seven-year-old daughter, who was wandering around the house with a video camera}}.
* ''[[In the 1st Degree]]'' strongly indicates that this occurred between James Tobin and his girlfriend Ruby Garcia. She is said to be completely under Tobin's thumb, and they did get into a fight over a love letter Zachery Barnes sent to her. Played completely straight.
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* In ''[[Something*Positive]]'', Davan comes home to find his girlfriend Eva cheating on him with her abusive ex-boyfriend. She later marries him, although it seems to be implied that the abuse has stopped at that point, and later, ''she'' is shown being arrested for abusing ''him''.
* In ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]'', there's a lot of this in Abbey's past. The author began writing [http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/art/graveyard/unfinishedabbeychapter.png a chapter about it], but cancelled it lest it become too disturbing.
* [
* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'', because [[Love Makes You Crazy]], [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/02-38.html the Beast accuses Perrault of mistreating his other mistress -- being, in fact, wrong both about the mistress and how November acquired the bruise.]
* In ''[[Sakana]]'', this is the reason why {{spoiler|[[Grumpy Bear|Yuudai]]}} is so deeply angry. {{spoiler|His ex-boyfriend Arata put him through hell for the five years they've been dating. The crowning moment was when he [[Moral Event Horizon|slammed a bottle in his face]] (the reason why he has his trademark scar), [[Reality Ensues|evidently]] ending up their relationship.}} [[Jerkass|A]] [[Tsunshun|lot]] [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!|of]] [[Hates Everyone Equally|his]] [[Deadpan Snarker|behavior]] is clearly a [[Jerkass Facade|defense mechanism]] so as to [[Never Be Hurt Again|not be hurt like that again]].
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== Real Life ==
* Still a huge problem around the world, but at least it's not ''acceptable'' behavior in many countries anymore. And then, in some it is. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8375291.stm
* In Spain, if you are a woman and you beat your husband [[Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male)|you get
* [[Chris Brown]]. Although in that case, it might have been the [[Masochism Tango]], as Rhianna was reputedly the type to go blow-for-blow with him.
* This is subverted in a fashion in Russia. The fine for being found guilty of wife beating was $200. The fine for wrestling with a bear was $1000.
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