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{{trope}}
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Get you satisfaction.<br />
Glove slap ba-a-beee<br />
Glove slap, baby, glove slap!"''|'''[[The B
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
Well, that's the theory anyway. A long time ago, the trope might have been used like this. But these days it's [[Dead Horse Trope|only the stuff of laughter and parody]]. Chiefly, no doubt, because the chances that the duel will actually be fought are low.
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* In ''[[Pumpkin Scissors]]'', Alice challenges a corrupt Lord to a duel by throwing her glove at him across a crowded ballroom.
* In ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'', when the election for class president result in a tie-vote for Ataru and Mendo, Mendo decides to settle it with a dueling method passed down through the Mendo Clan for generations...using cannons to blast an apple off of the duelists heads. Wanting to make an official challenge, Mendo prepares to throw a white glove at Ataru, who flees. Mendo proceeds to chase Ataru all over school grounds, ultimately hit Lum, who fries him.
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
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* 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
* In ''[[Beauty and
* [[Buster Keaton]] does this in ''[[Hard Luck]]'' -- in an attempt to coax his opponent into range of a shotgun with a string tied to the trigger.
* In ''[[Casanova (
* 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.
* People do this frequently in ''[[Scaramouche (
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* In [[David Eddings]]' ''[[Malloreon]]'', one of the protagonists, Sir Mandorallen (a knight, as his title implies), challenges a man who insulted his friend to a duel by throwing down his gauntlet. Well, throwing? He misses and hits the guy straight in the face. With a steel gauntlet. Ouch.
* This is how [[Erast Fandorin]] is often manipulated into duels. "Manipulated" because he never accepts challenges otherwise, as he [[Born Lucky|always wins them]].
* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[
* In ''[[The Dragon Knight]]'' by [[Gordon R. Dickson]], the main character experiences the glove slap firsthand. Then mentions that it was an armored gauntlet, and it really, ''really'' hurt.
* Played straight in ''[[Tortall Universe|Squire]]'' as a challenge to a jousting match, and treated as a grievous insult, so that Kel feels sufficiently provoked to take the guy up on it when she'd said she wasn't going to compete unless she had to.
* Used in ''[[Scaramouche]]'' the novel as well as the film.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[['Allo 'Allo
* Done by "[[Significant Anagram|Sir Gilles Estram]]" in the ''[[
* ''[[Star Trek:
* In an early episode of ''[[Family Matters]]'', Urkel challenges a bully to a boxing match by hitting him in the face with a big leather mitten. (It was winter.) It made a satisfying ''thump''.
* In an episode of ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'' Seth Powers is upset that Moze is dating Faymen. Even though they have broken up, he calls it off as "taking time off from each other." Faymen comes in, Seth challenges him for Moze's heart and honor(or something), pulls out a white glove and slaps him with it. Faymen follows suit.
* ''[[
* 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 :
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== Video Games ==
* A solution to a puzzle in ''[[
** And he'll only accept that you are one if you can take him in a duel. And he won't duel you until you serve him with the proper insult (and apparently just calling him a [[Big Stupid Doodoo Head|doody-head]] isn't insulting enough).
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (
{{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.
* ''[[
* 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 "[http://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 (
** ''[[Beyond the Impossible|Through a TV screen.]]''
* In the [[Steampunk]] short, ''[[A Gentlemans Duel]]'', the Englishman delivers one to his opposing French suitor, damaging his mustache.
* The B-plot of one ''[[Kappa Mikey]]'' episode has Ozu force [[Alpha Bitch|Lily]] and [[Cloudcuckoolander|Gonard]] into a fake relationship for publicity, than have [[Team Pet|Guano]] 'cut in' for added drama. This results in the two 'rivals' slapping each other with progressively bigger white gloves.
* In the [[Goofy]] short "The Art of Self-Defense", a history of fighting includes a scene of two 17th Century gentlemen slapping each other repeatedly. One sneaks his snuff box inside his glove during a break.
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', Jimmy does this to accept a challenge from Lucius because he [[Saw It in
* 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.
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