Double Standard Abuse (Female on Male): Difference between revisions

** Averted in the "Ogress" backstory arc, where the abuse is ''very'' much not intended to be funny.

** Also, one of the characters the Sket Dan help, [[Huge Schoolgirl|Koma-chan]], has a tendency to violently shove or throw people when she's embarrassed. Considering she's [[Charles Atlas Superpower|insanely strong]], this can have painful results, so much so that the group start referring to it as the "Koma-Cannon". Guess who's always on the receiving end? You guessed it, [[Butt Monkey|Bossun]].

** The manga's a bit better about this, where Naru especially is actually called on her behavior at least once, Keitaro eventually learns to avoid these attacks, and the girls stop doing them eventually.

** Ken Akamatsu seems to have largely outgrown this trope during the course of his [[Long Runner]] ''[[Negima]].'' Mind you, considering Negi's only about 10 years old and the girls are fifteen, he probably thought it would look like child abuse, though in one storyarc where Negi was aged up to 15 or so, he suffered a few Keitaro-esque smacks in the face himself. Later, when Anya, Negi's best friend from home, comes to visit him, she's able to beat him up as much as she wants (with flaming punches and kicks, no less) since they're the same age.

** Index is known for biting Touma.

** Then there is Mikoto, who could probably take on an entire army by herself and uses every single bit of that power on him. Was it not for his absurd reflexes and his [[Power Nullifier]] ability he would have been fried alive in more than one occasion, and they both seem to know it. She ''was'' shown to be horrified the one time she actually hit him when {{spoiler|he was trying to stop her from getting herself killed by Accelerator}}

* Misa Amane and Light Yagami of ''[[Death Note]]'' have a very unhealthy "relationship" if it can be called that at all. Misa [[Stalking Is Love|stalks Light]] and [[Yandere|forces a relationship with him.]] It is shown time and again that he appears to have no sexual interest in her and only tolerates her presence because he needs her for her powers and to keep her close [[Secret Keeper|to keep her from spilling his secrets]]. If he refuses her she could kill him. However after her initial appearance enraged Misa '''isn't taken seriously''' despite the fact that she could just as easily kill him as he could kill her. The "men are [[Made of Iron]] and women are [[Made of Plasticine]]" idea doesn't matter much when you can kill someone [[Artifact of Doom|by writing on a piece of paper]]. Her slapping him around is [[Played for Laughs]] and is seen as allegedly "deserving" of being hit when he admits he doesn't feel the same way about her. She only gets away with her pushy and sometimes violent behavior because of the [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl|male characters' chivalry.]]

** Aizawa is also a possible victim of this, coming into work with a bandaged head one day. When asked about it, he says he and his wife were in a fight, and the other men barely register that he's been physically injured by his wife.

* ''[[Tokyo Zombie]]'' includes a scene in which a meek abused man buries his mother in a giant mountain of trash and corpses at his girlfriend's instance (specifically, when threatened with sex deprivation). Not content with that the girl proceeds to ''kick her head into orbit'' while still belittling her boyfriend.

* ''[[The War of the Roses (film)|The War of the Roses]]'' plays with this trope slightly. The film revolves around an exagerratively brutal [[Escalating War]] between two bitter divorcies. While neither are portrayed as particularly sympathetic, Barbara is established pretty much from the get go as being more swift and vindictive than Oliver, and generally endures a lot less pain and humiliation than she dishes out. {{spoiler|Of course, given that they wind up ''literally'' killing each other...}}

* Played straight in ''Birthday Girl''. Sophia participates in the beating, robbery, torture, and kidnapping of her husband John. She gets angry at her co-conspirators later and decides to free John, but never so much as apologizes for her actions - and the fool nonetheless sticks with her and they live (happily?) ever after together. There are even disturbing intimations that John deserves to be victimized because he is a fan of bondage porn, although he never even hints at acting out his fantasies on Sophia, and he is mortally embarrassed when he realizes that she knows about his tastes, even though she implies that she regards them as harmless.

* Averted in both the film and the novel of ''[[The Dead Zone]]''. Frank Dodd's lifelong abuse at the hands of his mother is portrayed as horrific, and as the main if not the only reason he has become a [[Complete Monster]].

* An early episode of ''[[South Park]]'' revolves around Stan being beaten and everyone being sympathetic toward him over it...until they find out that the one beating him up is his sister. Then they mock him and call him a pussy. This is despite the fact that Stan's sister is older and bigger than he is, and is also a violent sociopath.

** Majorly averted though when they find out Ike is sleeping with his teacher. The obvious message of the episode is that it's statutory rape and still terrible. Of course, the adults in South Park are oblivious, and seem pretty much ok with it, subscribing [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)]]. A ''policeman'' even said it wasn't a crime because "she's hot".

* Played with in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''. This is apparently so common, Springfield has a ''Men's'' Shelter. Bart and Lisa are a subversion, as the two of them have beaten up on each other repeatedly, and take as much as they dish out.

* In ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'', the Eds are commonly beaten up by Ed's sister Sarah, not to mention all the times they've been possibly [[Double Standard Rape (Female on Male)|raped by the Kankers]], who are the walking definitions of Do Not Want. Not only are the Kankers beasts, but the entire cul-de-sac is ''scared'' of them. So while their [[Amusing Injuries|treatment]] of the Eds and anyone who annoys them is usually played for laughs, there are times that it ''is'' wrong and quite likely illegal, but those moments are never actually on screen and only inferred or alluded to. It's to the point that when they drag {{spoiler|Eddy's brother}} away for 'mouth to mouth', it's viewed as his ''comeuppance''. Granted, he's a {{spoiler|[[Complete Monster]] that abuses Eddy}} but ''still''...

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