Groin Attack/Literature: Difference between revisions

** To Cohen the Barbarian and his Silver Horde, psychological warfare consists of spending the night before a big battle intimidating the enemy with chants of: "We're going to ''cut'' your ''[[Unusual Euphemism|tonkers]]'' off". Performing this operation on your worst enemy and then offering it as a present is likewise their idea of how to impress a woman.

** In ''[[Discworld/Guards Guards|Guards Guards]]'', [[Butt Monkey|Corporal Nobbs]] kicks Detritus the Troll in the stones, and nearly breaks his foot.

"Stands to reason." }}

** Also from ''[[Discworld/Guards Guards|Guards Guards]]'': Sergent Colon to Nobby Nobbs. "You know all about 'voonerables', Nobby. I've watched you fight."

* This is one of Richard Sharpe's favorite attacks in his adventures, but isn't limited to him alone - a Portuguese soldier bayonets a French soldier in the groin in one of the books.

** Probably the best example is when Sharpe is being tortured by a French [[Torture Technician]] who has 'always wanted an Englishman to experiment on' after Sharpe's beloved telescope (a present from [[The Duke of Wellington]]) has been smashed by the sadistic villain Ducos. Sharpe manages to grab the splintered end of the telescope barrel and ''stab the torturer in the crotch with it''.

* Played straight in ''[[Inheritance Trilogy|Eragon]]'' in a story to tell how [[The Empire]] came to exist.

** Yes, the fall of the Riders, the rise of the immortal tyrant Galbatorix, the near-genocide of the dragons, and the millions of lives lost to senseless war were a direct result of Vreal taking a kick to the nuts.

* Joseph Wambaugh's ''[[The Choirboys]]'' includes an incident of a [[Rabid Cop|cop with an exaggerated sense of his own toughness]] trying to stop a fight by intimidating both combatants. It doesn't work out too well, resulting in what he describes later as "The Night My Balls Blew Up." He isn't able to get an erection for the next three weeks, and his wife tells a neighbor she's never had it so good.

* One of the therapy methods of Brazilian character O Analista de Bag?The Bag?nalyst) is the ''joelha?'', which consists on hitting the patient's groin with his knee. Example of how it works:

'''Analyst''': Is it worse than a joelha? }}

* In one of [[John Gardner]]'s [[James Bond (novel)|James Bond]] novels, Bond attacks a fellow [[MI 6]] agent, a woman, who is {{spoiler|the double agent he has been looking for, who betrayed and destroyed the spy ring she was part of.}} The fight begins with Bond kneeing her in the crotch. In the text, Gardner does point out that such an attack is painful for women as well as men.

* In both of [[Aaron Allston]]'s books in the [[New Jedi Order]], it's seen that while Vong wear armored skirts, they apparently don't have any protection beneath them. Lando shoots one, and this is apparently more pain than even a Vong can endure, because it's easily dispatched by his [[Fan Nickname|terminator]]. Out on Coruscant, Mara encounters another. The viewpoint character glances away for a moment and looks back to find that the warrior...

* The image of such an attack is invoked in [[Heralds of Valdemar|Winds of Fate]] by Princess Elspeth. She follows a practice of her mentor Herald Captain Kerowyn: standing on the saddle of her <s>horse</s> Companion, she drops straight down into her saddle. It always makes the boys wince or cringe. It seems, though, that [[Fridge Logic|the impact is too low for the testicles.]]

* In the ''[[Posleen War Series]]'', there are several applications of this trope:

* Played nightmarishly humorous in [[Dan Savage]]'s book ''Skipping Towards Gammorrah'', where he committs all [[Seven Deadly Sins]] in a grandiose manner. For Avarice, he goes on a nature retreat for rich people. It includes a very strenuous hike; he went commando because his underwear got soaked in sweat, but then his thighs started to rub together and chafe, then the rash started to bleed, [[It Got Worse|then the sweat from his balls made it sting]]. So after a couple miles of misery, he shamelessly held onto his junk for the remainder of the hike. Sounds like the groin did the attacking in this case.

* Among the unorthodox methods of the Analyst of Bagé (an [[Testosterone Poisoning|overtly manly]] psychoanalyst created by Brazilian writer [[Luis Fernando Verissimo]]) is the ''joelhaço'', a groin attack done with the knees (which the Analyst says he only does with men "because you only beat up women to discharge energy!").

'''Analyst'''-Worst than joelhaço? }}