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{{quote|"I've got Balls of Steel!"|'''[[Duke Nukem]]'''}}
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To add extra humour, the person doing the attack may actually hurt ''themselves'' attempting the [[Groin Attack]]. Cue several seconds of cursing and clutching at the affected area - long enough for the attacked to retaliate.
Not to be confused with [[Brass Balls]], nor [[wikipedia:
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== [[Film]] ==
* Done most famously in ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]],'' where [[Indiana Jones|Indy]] is challenged by a hopelessly larger fighter; Indy kicks him the groin in
* In ''[[You Only Live Twice]]'', a martial artist is hit in the testicles, but it's revealed he had drawn them into his body.
** In ''[[Moonraker]]'', [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] knees Jaws in the groin while fighting him in the space station. There's a "clang" sound when Bond does so, indicating that Jaws has Balls of Steel, just like his teeth.
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* In ''[[The Jerk]]'', [[Steve Martin]]'s character makes the mistake of kicking the crotch of [[Meaningful Name|"Iron Balls" McGinty]].
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Played with]] in ''[[She's the Man]]''. Viola gets hit in the crotch with a soccer ball and belatedly remembers to cry in agony, making it momentarily appear that "he" has balls of steel.
* In ''[[Wild Wild West (film)|Wild Wild West]]'', Jim West tries to take on a bad guy with metal plating all over his body. When he tries a kick to the groin, all he gets is a bell-ringing noise, to which he utters a horrified ''No!'' in stunned
* In ''[[Freddy vs. Jason]]'', during the final battle, Freddy tries one of these on Jason when no amount of savage beating on him works. Jason is pretty much impervious to all pain, and Freddy curses as he clutches his broken foot.
* Although he is not completely unaffected by the experience, there is a clang when Marty punches Griff in the groin in ''[[Back to the Future (film)|Back to The Future]] II''. This was also after a mention that Griff had bionics.
* In the first ''[[X-Men 1]]'', during a cage fight, Wolverine's opponent is told, "Don't hit him in the balls. It'll just make him angry." Sure enough, the poor fool tries
* In ''[[RoboCop]]'', a villain resists arrest in a way that shows Murphy's fatal accident cost him more than just an arm and a leg.
* One of the fighters in ''[[Master of the Flying Guillotine]]'' is completely immune to repeated groin attacks. His weak spots are his eyes.
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* In ''[[Get Smart (film)|Get Smart]]'', during the free-fall scene, Max tries a groin attack on Dalip, followed by Agent 99 trying the same thing, only to receive a dark chuckle in return.
* Owen Wilson in ''[[I Spy]]'' takes several groin shots from Famke Janssen, but in the very last scene he thwarts her by wearing a cup.
* [[Johnny English]] gains
* Similar to the ''MIB'' example above, in ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country]]'', Kirk is forced into a prison yard fight against an alien twice his size. He repeatedly tries to kick the creature in the groin, resulting in a [[No Sell]] each time. After it knocks him to the ground, he strikes the creature in the knees...and it immediately drops like a sack of bricks.
{{quote|'''Marta:''' Not everybody keeps their genitals in the same place, Captain.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** ''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'' - our heroine [[Sweet Polly Oliver|Polly "Oliver" Perks]] is bitten in the crotch by a horse when disguised as a man, and only the horrified reaction of a male onlooker makes her realise she should be bent double in agony.
** In ''[[Discworld/Guards Guards|Guards Guards]]'', Carrot was given a codpiece as a parting gift from the friend who suggested he join the Watch. It proved to be useful throughout the book, as roughly half his enemies attempted [[Groin Attack
* In the [[Tortall Universe|Beka Cooper]] series, a criminal tries for the standard subversion, and has some confidence due to it. Sadly, his armor, rather than protecting him, ''crumples''.
* In ''Promised Land'' [[Spenser]] takes a shot to the groin from a female martial artist, and though, as he points out, ''it still hurts like hell'' he manages to power through it, knock her on her ass and explain to her that it's not the fool proof trick she thinks it is, especially when a guy's been kicked there before and knows how to deal with it.
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== Real Life ==
* Truth in television. Shaolin monks often perfect the method of drawing their testicles inside their bodies to prevent [[Groin Attack
** And a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VP9M4iR8TQ video] for those curious few.
* There's also [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a86cQobU-n4 this] famous clip. He might not have literal
** Before he was on that show, the man in question and several of his students were also on ''Ripley's Believe it or Not!" when one of his students took a shot in the crotch from an NFL placekicker.
* [http://www.garagetv.be/video-galerij/ashleyil/Miss_Norway_knees_guy_in_the_balls_mp4.aspx This guy] doesn't mind letting Miss Norway practice on him.
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