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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"A little fight in ya...I like that."''
|[[The Joker]]|''[[The Dark Knight]]''.}}
In fiction, most villains are used to dealing with the [[Damsel in Distress]]. They scream, they're easily subdued by grasping their [[Standard Female Grab Area]], they're generally easy to dominate. This can get rather dull if it goes on for long enough.
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For the non-rapey version, please see "[[I Love You Because I Can't Control You]]". "You Got Spunk" is more "''I '''will''' love you because it is hard to control you''", and [[Captain Obvious|unsurprisingly]], has the [[Unfortunate Implications|less pleasant implications]]. Compare [[Will Not Be a Victim]] (for the [[Action Girl]]'s perspective) and [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]] (for the villain's perspective). Contrast [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]] and [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased]].
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== Anime
* Shikamaru in ''[[Naruto]]'' when commenting on Temari: "I forgot: this girl is a spunky one. I ''hate'' spunky."
* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'': Shmion to Rika: "Oh you still got some strength left? Well, it would be no fun if you didn't!"
* At some point late in the ''[[Gravitation]]'' manga, Mr. K says to [[Yaoi Fangirl]] Rage as they have each other at gunpoint: "Heh. I like your spirit... '''spattered across the pavement!'''" His wife stops him from hurting anybody by hurting him. She's that kind of woman.
* The [[Hentai]] series ''[[Spunky Knight]]'' manages to use ''both'' definitions of spunky for its main character.
* ''[[Ranma
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* ''[[The Dark Knight]]''
** [[The Joker]]. "A little fight in ya... I like that." (Followed by "[[Stealth Hi Bye|Then you're gonna love me]].")
** A bit of a variation occurs with [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030003608/http://www.leahy.senate.gov/biography/ U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy] who stands up to him: "You know, you remind me of my father. I ''hated'' my father!"
* In ''[[Batman Begins]]'', a young Bruce Wayne was told this by mob boss Falcone.
* Happens near the end of ''[[Leprechaun (film)|Leprechaun]]: Back 2 tha Hood''; while trapped in an elevator with the Leprechaun the [[Final Girl]] smashes him with a dislodged light fixture and proceeds to electrocute him with one of the cables. Afterward the Leprechaun, pretty much unfazed, states "I like her" while she flees the scene.
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* In ''[[Stuart Little]] 2'':
{{quote|'''Snowbell:''' ''(to Stuart)'' You've got guts, kid! Guts, and... and ''spunk''! Not to mention moxy! You got guts, spunk and moxy!}}
* ''[[Ever After (film)|Ever After]]'': Le Peu, as he tells Danielle more than once, likes a girl with spirit.
* In ''[[The Sting]]'' Kid Twist is interviewing people to be in on the con that they are pulling when the guy he talking to is one that he saw get beat up by a cop for keeping his mouth shut. Twist asks him if he got the banged-up nose from the cop, when he says yes, Twist says, "You got Moxie, Kid" and hires him.
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