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{{quote|'''Mal:''' What in the hell happened back there?
'''Wash:''' Start with the part where Jayne gets knocked out by a 90-pound girl 'cause... I don't think that's ever getting old.
|''[[Serenity]]''}}
[[Testosterone Poisoning|Misguided masculinity]] says that a man cannot be beaten by a woman. Of course, any such man who is beaten by a woman is pretty unhappy.
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
* Averted in ''[[
▲== Anime and Manga ==
▲* Averted in ''[[Dragon Ball|Dragon Ball Z]]'' when [[Hot-Blooded|Vegeta]] is thoroughly defeated by [[Action Girl|Android 18]] - Vegeta was more concerned with the fact that he could be beaten at all despite finally becoming a Super Saiyan. He was actually angrier that it was a "machine" that did it than a girl.
* One episode of ''[[Lucky Star]]'' happens in an arcade, where Konata beats several people in succession. When her opponents try to see who it is that beat them and realize it's a [[Older Than They Look|very young-looking]] girl, they quickly leave.
* After Viral find out about {{spoiler|Kamina's death}} in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', he's horrified that he's lost the several intervening battles to {{spoiler|Simon and Yoko}}.
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* In ''[[Codename: Sailor V]]'' Takurō Ōtaku refuses to believe his high scores have been trounced by a girl, even accusing Minako of being a man in disguise.
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* In the ''[[Superboy]]'' story introducing the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]], Superboy's first task in order to join the team is to compete against Saturn Girl (part of the main [[Power Trio]] of the Legion) in retrieving a sunken statue from the ocean. However, Superboy is just barely on his way when he gets sidetracked by a crisis involving the local school's robot Superboy. By the time he resolves it, Saturn Girl has completed the task. When both returned to the clubhouse, Cosmic Boy takes the opportunity to rub it in:
{{quote|'''Cosmic Boy:''' You lost out on your first task... and to a '''[[Bold Inflation|girl]]'''! Is this the great '''Superboy''' we learned about in school? What's your excuse?}}
== [[Fan
* ''[[A Very Potter Musical
* An all too common a way to demonstrate how "awesome" a [[Jerk Sue]] is allowing her to beat up [[Ron the Death Eater]].
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{{quote|'''Dr. Cockroach:''' Poor Link. After all that tough talk, you were out-monstered by a girl. No wonder you're depressed.}}
* When the [[The Dragon|Dragon]]/[[The Brute|Brute]] from ''[[Dragonheart]]'' is mortally wounded by an [[Action Girl]], his response is to incredulously repeat "A ''girl?!''" several times before dying.
* ''[[The Lion King]]'': Simba gets pinned by his girlfriend Nala on three separate occasions.
== [[Literature]] ==
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* Gerald Tarrand, [[Villain Protagonist]] of ''[[Coldfire Trilogy]]'' is not remotely pleased to learn that the [[Evil Sorcerer]] who defeated him in the first book is actually a woman using a masculine title. Of course, the fact that he's a vampire who normally prefers to feed on young women makes it a particularly galling role reversal for him.
* In the ''[[Encyclopedia Brown]]'' series it is a constant source of embarrassment for [[The Bully|Bugs Meany]] that he got beat up by [[Cute Bruiser|Sally Kimball.]]
* [[Older Than Feudalism]] example, from ''[[The Bible]]'' no less, Judges 9:23-27. Short version, Gideon had a son named Abimelek who decided to murder his siblings [[Serial Killer| (all 70 of them)]] in order to be ruler of Israel, but one of them, Jotham, escaped. The [[Cain and Abel|two brothers fought for control]] of Israel, Abimelek ultimately winning. Which God did not like at all.
== [[Live
* At the end of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Utopia", the Master utters his anger at having been fatally wounded by {{spoiler|Chantho}}. His [[The Nth Doctor|next self]] is killed in a similar fashion by {{spoiler|Lucy}} in "Last of the Time Lords" and jokes that women often do that.
* The Sontaran Kaagh from series 2 of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' has a similar reaction to being beaten by "a female and half-forms". He survives his first appearance, but feels unable to return to Sontar out of shame, and ends up working for the main villain in the series finale.
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* One of the pre-recorded taunts in ''[[Age of Empires II]]'' is "Oh, you just got beaten by a girl."
== [[Toys]] ==
* In ''[[Bionicle]]'' Hakann gets beaten by lariska (much to his surprise)
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* In ''[[The Antithesis]]'', the first episode of the story (I. The Encounter) recounts Alezair Czynri nearly getting killed by Leid Koseling in the battle of Jerusalem circa 1180. Alezair's ego is significantly damaged by this, and this initiates the entire story, making him want to pursue her and perhaps fight her again. Later in Decus, Qaira Eltruan gets his ass beat by Leid on numerous occasions after losing his temper (or after she makes him lose his temper), and often he becomes so impossible to deal with that she must smack some sense into him. This is also ego-damaging to Qaira, since he is what we would deem a "manly-man", also a chauvinist, and also a misogynist. Although the readers find Qaira's beat-downs rather funny, Qaira, in fact, does not.
* In the ''[[Whateley Universe]]'', huge Montana (who looks like a Sasquatch) gets challenged to a fight by petite [[Sassy Black Girl]] Chaka, who proceeds to utterly pwn him. In front of a big portion of the school. This does eventually lower his jerk quotient.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* In ''[[South Park]]'', Cartman gets beaten up by Wendy, which causes Cartman to despair that the other kids won't think he's cool anymore. All the other kids tell him that it's OK...they ''never'' thought he was cool to begin with!
* Imagine the shame of being a muscle-bound henchmen who just got your butt handed to you by a cheerleader, even [[Kim Possible]].
* ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
* This also happens in an episode of ''[[Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]'' in which Princess Calla defeats every man in a tournament before losing to a masked challenger... who turns out to be a girl as well.
* While this could qualify for any villain beaten by [[The Powerpuff Girls]], this explicitly comes up in "Members Only". The girls are not allowed to join the Association of World Super Men because they're girls despite besting the heroes at all the initiation tests. "Mascumax" then pummels the heroes, but the girls defeat him. He leaves crying that he lost to little girls. The association members state that the girls are now their heroes.
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