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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"A glove slap in a little old face will<br />▼
 
''Get you satisfaction.<br />▼
▲{{quote|''"A glove slap in a little old face will<br />
''Glove slap ba-a-beee<br />▼
▲Get you satisfaction.<br />
''Glove slap, baby, glove slap!"''|'''[[The B-52's|The B 52s]]''', on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}▼
▲Glove slap ba-a-beee<br />
▲Glove slap, baby, glove slap!"''|'''[[The B-52's|The B 52s]]''', on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}
 
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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* ''[[El Cid]]'' plays it straight
* Woody Allen's ''[[Love and Death]]'':
{{quote| Hey, what is this? Slap Boris Day?}}
* Parodied in ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]''. The Sheriff of Rottingham does this to Robin to challenge him to a duel, and Robin responds by slapping him back... with a metal gauntlet.
** Except the Sheriff had no intention of fighting fair.
{{quote| '''Mervin, the Sheriff of Rottingham''': A fight to the death, mano a mano, man to man, just you and me and my GUARDS!}}
* In ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'', Colonel Vogel slaps Henry several times with his glove until Henry grabs his wrist stopping him.
* In ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', Lumiere does this to Cogsworth at the end of the movie.
* [[Buster Keaton]] does this in ''[[Hard Luck]]'' -- in—in an attempt to coax his opponent into range of a shotgun with a string tied to the trigger.
* In ''[[Casanova (film)|Casanova]]'', Giovanni tries to challenge Casanova this way but for a variety of reasons, Casanova isn't keen on the idea... until his servant forces his hand by slapping Giovanni back.
* A variant in ''[[Metropolis]]'': when the Thin Man tries to bribe Josaphat into leaving his apartment (and letting the Thin Man meet Frieder in Josaphat's place), Josaphat picks up the bribe money and slaps the Thin Man in the face with it.
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* On ''[[Drake and Josh]]'', Josh (disguised as a doctor) does this to Drake before he is about to perform surgery because the staff believes he is a famous doctor (which is inevitably proven wrong in the end of the episode).
* On ''[[Chapelles Show]]'' Charlie Murphy tells the story of when Rick James(played in flashback by Dave Chapelle) slapped in a nightclub. An incensed Charlie explains why it :
{{quote| ''First of all you don't slap a man! Even when slapping was fashionable. They did it in Paris, a guy would come up they'd be like 'whap-pap' "I challenge you to a duel!" They would have a gunfight after that! Someone had to '''go'''!''}}
 
 
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* ''[[Cyrano De Bergerac]]'': Invoked by Christian and Cyrano, but neither of them plays it straight:
** At Act I scene III, Christian wishes to throw his glove at De Valvert, but then he has a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]:
{{quote| '''Christian''' (who is watching and listening, starts on hearing this name): The Viscount! Ah! I will throw full in his face my. . . <br />
(He puts his hand in his pocket, and finds there the hand of a pickpocket who is about to rob him)<br />
Hey? }}
** At Act I scene IV, Cyrano talks about it to provoke De Valvert… and also because [[Impoverished Patrician|Cyrano is so poor he doesn’t have gloves.]]
{{quote| '''Cyrano''': I wear no gloves? And what of that? <br />
I had one,. . .remnant of an old worn pair, <br />
And, knowing not what else to do with it, <br />
I threw it in the face of. . .some young fool. }}
 
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''- Homer is inspired to do it by a ''[[Zorro]]'' movie and keeps it up once he realizes people will just give him what he wants because they don't want to duel. He receives his comeuppance ([[Halfway Plot Switch|and the rest of the episode's premise]]) when he slaps an actual [[Southern Gentleman]] in the course of slapping a long line of people.
{{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 "[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20180901141537/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3luD3qdbfI&feature=channel_page Porky Pig's Feat]," Porky and Daffy from the 1940's, where Daffy, after being slapped and challenged by another character ("You have insulted me! We meet on the field of honor! [[My Card]]."), he returns suit ("You have insult me! We meet on the field of onion!")and slaps back with a horseshoe-stuffed glove, and then slaps him in the face with flypaper ("My Card, you cad!").
* 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.
 
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[[Category:Violence Tropes]]
[[Category:Costume Tropes]]
[[Category:Glove Slap]]
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