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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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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
* Averted in ''[[
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* One episode of ''[[
▲* Averted in ''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|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.
* After Viral find out about {{spoiler|Kamina's death}} in ''[[
▲* One episode of ''[[Lucky Star (Manga)|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 (Anime)|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', he's horrified that he's lost the several intervening battles to {{spoiler|Simon and Yoko}}.
** Debatable whether this is an example of this trope. {{spoiler|He seems more upset to have lost to a kid than to a woman.}} Viral doesn't seem to have much of a misogynistic streak if his respect/fear towards Adine is anything to go by.
* The latest chapter of ''[[
* In ''[[Codename
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* In the ''[[Superboy]]'' story introducing the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (
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== [[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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* Uttered (in almost exactly same words, no less) by one of the heroes of Polish cult sci-fi film ''Sex Mission'', after, well... It (like many other quotes from this film) has since entered [[Memetic Mutation]].
* Not beaten by a girl, but The Missing Link from ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'' isn't too happy that Susan beat the giant robot practically all by herself while he laid unconscious the whole time.
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* 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]] ==
* ''[[
* Averted in ''A Scandal In Bohemia'', [[Sherlock Holmes]], who [[Does Not Like Women]], finds out that the adversary who managed to tail him home, then escape from him, is a woman named Irene Adler. He is greatly impressed and a little bit smitten.
* In ''[[Edward Eager|Half Magic]]'', Katharine wishes to beat Sir Lancelot in a joust, and then has to unwish it when Lancelot is mocked by the other knights because he was beaten by a girl.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* When Margo and Malcolm spar in ''[[
* The reason why [[Mistborn|Elend]] refuses to spar with [[Action Girl|Vin]]. Though this has less to do with Elend being macho (he's not, particularly) and more to do with the fact that he's king and Vin is ''tiny''. Knowing full well that she'd beat him, he'd rather not get curbstomped in front of his subjects by someone who's barely five feet... ''and'' his girlfriend.
* 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 ''[[
* [[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. So He sent a “spirit of ill will” to convince everyone in the city to revolt against Abimelak. He slaughtered all but a thousand of these revolutionaries, the survivors taking refuge in a tower, and when Abimelak found them, he had his men set fire to it. But [[Defiant to the End|as a final act of defiance]], a woman at the top of the tower [[Undignified Death|dropped a stone that fell on Abimelak]], [[Karma Houdini Warranty|mortally wounding him]]. Realizing he was dying, he ordered a soldier nearby to kill him, as he refused to let the records show that he had been killed by a woman. Of course, if one takes the Book of Judges to be a reliable account, this attempt to preserve his legacy failed.
== [[Live
* At the end of the ''[[
* The Sontaran Kaagh from series 2 of ''[[
* In ''[[Malcolm in
* ''[[The West Wing]]'': An intellectual version- When facing off on Sunday morning talk-show "Capitol Beat", [[Blonde Republican Sex Kitten]] Ainsley Hayes takes Sam Seaborn apart rhetorically.
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'''Toby:''' Ginger, get the popcorn! }}
* ''[[
* The whole basis for the "Battle of The Sexists" episode from season 1 of ''[[That
* Prince Arthur from ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' is not at all happy to find that the masked figure who bested him in battle was actually Morgause in disguise. He instructs Merlin to spread the word that he purposefully threw the fight because he knew she was a woman.
* An episode of ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[
* In ''[[Horrible Histories (TV series)|Horrible Histories]]''' Boudicca song, a Roman soldier says this.
* On ''[[The Amazing Race]]'' 17, men from two different teams made a number of comments about how they felt of the possibility of losing to either of the female teams, Nat & Kat or Brook & Clair. Thomas, who finished third behind the two female teams in the finale, averted this, as he admitted that the female teams were the two best teams.
** Harlem Globetrotters Flight Time & Big Easy begrudgingly acknowledged sisters Kisha & Jen's racing skills in the Season 18 finale, though their hyper-competitiveness meant they probably would have had this reaction to any team beating them.
** Chip (Season 5) had this reaction after getting smoked by the Bowling Moms in what he described as "putting together a car," but was really just decorating it by attaching a bunch of pieces to it.
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' - The Winchesters are hunting a monster who assumes the form of its victim's idol. Its most recent victim was a teenage girl. The fight ends with Sam cutting its head off and a beat-up Dean on the ground.
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'''Sam:''' Dude. You just got ''whaled on'' by [[Paris Hilton]].
'''Dean:'''...Shut up. }}
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* While not a girl, the principle's the same. [[Kurt Angle]] was pinned in his first match against [[Rey Mysterio, Jr.]]. After the match, a dumbfounded Angle can only mumble, "I was just pinned by a 12-year-old."
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Nintendo Wars|Advance Wars]]'', Eagle expresses his surprise when Sami, who has just beaten his whole army, turns out to be female.
* ''[[Castlevania]]: The Dracula X Chronicles'':
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* Seedle from ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'' was a famous samurai in life, and died when a woman stabbed him {{spoiler|while he was trying to rape her}}. He ''really'' hasn't gotten over it, {{spoiler|especially since said woman was burned as a witch for killing him and ended up in the Netherworld alongside him, eventually becoming one of his rivals.}}
* One of the pre-recorded taunts in ''[[
==
* In ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (
== [[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]] ==
* This happens in an episode of ''[[
** And then he ends up [[Hot Amazon|dating one of them.]]
* Duncan from ''[[
* Inverted in ''[[
* In ''[[Hey Arnold
* In ''[[
* Imagine the shame of being a muscle-bound henchmen who just got your butt handed to you by a cheerleader, even [[
* ''[[He
* This also happens in an episode of ''[[
* While this could qualify for any villain beaten by [[
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