Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Difference between revisions

* On the other hand, in recent years it became common for some male wrestlers to rough up obviously weak or non-wrestler women just to show what [[Complete Monster|Bastards]], [[Badass|Badasses]] and/or [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]] they are. Usually the assailant will be a heel. Once, just to be a dick, Armando Alejandro Estrada got his wrestler Umaga booked to fight the tiny Maria Kanellis. [[Captain Obvious|(Maria lost.)]] Then Charlie Haas and Viscera got into a feud over who would date ring announcer Lilian Garcia: after Haas raked Viscera's eyes, the giant, temporarily blinded, grabbed Garcia apparently mistaking her for Haas (absurd, Haas weighed twice as much) and Samoan Dropped her, nearly breaking her neck. At first Viscera appeared to feel chagrin of the [[My God, What Have I Done?]] variety, but then both he and Haas laughed and explained that they'd set it up as a "hilarious" joke at Garcia's expense. But one incident with particularly [[Unfortunate Implications]] had [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]] (a face at the time) hit Stacy Keibler (also a face) in a skit that was supposed to be ''funny''. Austin kicked Keibler in the stomach and then knocked her out [[Disproportionate Retribution|because she had declined his offer of a beer!]] [[Dude, Not Funny|(There are some things you just can't do, and beating up a woman half your size for comedy is one of them.)]] Keibler later was the victim of a similar assault (an RKO) from then-boyfriend [[Randy Orton]], but that was meant to show that the face Orton was turning heel.

* During the WWF's kayfabe era, this trope's most frequent use centered on Miss Elizabeth, the valet of [[Randy Savage]]. During Savage's heel run in 1985-1987, particularly when he was wrestling [[Hulk Hogan]], Savage would pull Elizabeth in front of him, using her as a shield while he had a chance to regroup; Hogan would simply pick Elizabeth and gently move her out of the way, giving Savage ample opportunity to blindside Hogan. Also during Savage's heel run, he came close several times to striking Elizabeth himself (usually when he perceived her to be paying too much attention to an opponent, not opening the ropes or folding his robe correctly or some other minor misdeed) but always stopped short of actually striking her. Apparently, Savage (and the WWF) agreed that they wanted him to be a heel, but not such an outwardly despicable one.

 

* This was averted in the [[Attitude Era]] and Ruthless Aggression Era in a few intergender tag matches where men and women on