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{{trope}}
[[File:slapindaface 9383.png|link=The Simpsons (animation)|frame|You, Sir, have offended me!]]
{{quote|''"A glove slap in a little old face will
''Get you satisfaction.
''Glove slap ba-a-beee
''Glove slap, baby, glove slap!"''|'''[[The B-52's
In a society where people, by and large, agree not to engage in random acts of violence with each other, a story can be restricted by the fact that, well, everybody's kind of agreed not to engage in random acts of violence with each other. The Glove Slap is an end-run around this. The process of slapping someone with a white, preferably lacy glove is in itself so polite and dignified that it somehow seems socially acceptable that the natural outcome of the slap is a [[Duel to the Death]].
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{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', Tsukuyomi challenges Setsuna to a match of swords by removing her Victorian-style glove and tossing it almost playfully at Setsuna. Setsuna merely snatches it out of the air. Later [[Class Representative|Ayaka]] uses this on Kuu Fei.
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{{quote|"Why oh why did I slap a man who says 'suh'?!"}}
** Later in the episode, the Simpsons have fled their home to avoid the duel and come across [[Jimmy Carter]] working on Habitat for Humanity. Homer, obviously not having learned anything, tries to needle him into building him a house; Carter pulls out a glove and Homer screams and drives away as fast as he can.
* ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'', episode ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5jvZ4zoXoU Duel Personality]''{{broken link}} - Jerry gets sick of the chase in one episode, somehow lands inside a glove drawer, motions Tom to stop and proceeds with the glove slap after which they seem to agree to a series of organized feuds involving cannons and slingshots. After the battles are over and Tom is again chasing Jerry in the same way as before, Jerry glove slaps Tom again, except this time Tom takes the glove and slaps Jerry over and over when chasing him.
* In ''[[Looney Tunes|Knights Must Fall]]'', [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] reacted to such a challenge from a knight by yanking the knight's steel gauntlet off and smacking him with ''that''.
** A similar gag in a Bugs Bunny cartoon has Bugs load his glove with a brick for the return slap..
* Parodied in "[
* Played with in one of the Max Fleischer ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoons, "Choose Yer Weppin," when an upper class gentleman slaps Popeye in the face with his white gloves. Popeye then takes the gloves out of the man's pocket, puts it on his hand, and then punches him square in the jaw with it.
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'': In "Date With Destiny" Starfire does this to Kitten.
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* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', Jimmy does this to accept a challenge from Lucius because he [[Saw It in a Movie Once]]. Lucius responds by slapping him with a concrete hand.
* On ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'', Captain K'nuckles recieves this by a feutal lord after he insults him by not referring him as "Your Lordship." A rather shameful duel insues, which surprisingly ends in a draw.
== Real Life ==
* [[Truth in Television]], sort of: [[Crazy Awesome|Sen. Zell Miller]] of Georgia admitted he would've liked to have done this to pundit Chris Matthews on the latter's show. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuBnlNjZq24 No, really!] (Conan O'Brien had a field day with that one.)
* Another possible origin of this is seen in the 1777 Code Duello. If one person insulted another but then apologized, then fighting a duel was dishonourable. But if one gentleman struck another, then no verbal apology would be sufficient, and a duel would be necessary. Therefore, striking a person with your glove was a way to ''demand'' the other person duel you.
* These gloves, https://web.archive.org/web/20120817063323/http://budk.com/Apparel/Leather-Sap-Gloves, are made so that doing this will be adding injury to insult.
{{reflist}}
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[[Category:Glove Tropes]]
[[Category:Violence Tropes]]
[[Category:Glove Slap]]
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