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== Film ==
* Some ''[[Lifetime Movie of the Week]]'' movies.
* Played with in ''[[My Super Ex-Girlfriend]]'' a romantic comedy about a guy, who in response to him leaving his super-powered girlfriend for being crazy, she proceeds to do all sorts of vicious things, ranging from throwing his car ontointo the moonorbit, getgetting him fired by using her powers to strip him naked in the office, and throwing a shark at him. Though it's played for laughs, we still seem intended to sympathize with the guy. Once people realize both that it's G-Girl who's after him and that she's angry over the breakup rather than trying to capture him for some undisclosed crime, they get a lot more upset with her, and she wasn't quite a [[Karma Houdini]] either, she is briefly [[Brought Down to Normal]] in a plot to stop her tirade, when she refuses to let it go even after that, the guy's current (much less unhinged) girlfriend uses her new found powers to beat some sense into her.
* [[Played With]] in ''[[The Hangover]]'': Stu Price is dating a nagging, controlling woman who cheated on him with a bartender and who beats him. "That was only twice!" defends Stu desperately to [[What Measure Is a Non-Badass?|keep his Manliness]]; he even goes so far as to claim that one of her beatings of him was [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|actually justified]]. It's completely [[Played for Laughs]] in the beginning, but his friend Phil constantly reminds Stu of how horrible Melissa is and tells him to break up with her. Stu later wises up at the end of the movie, then [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|breaks up with her at the wedding]].
* Played straight in ''[[Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist]]'' when the titular characters are arguing and Norah gets so upset that she hits Nick in the throat. The double standard is particularly striking, considering that [[Michael Cera]] (Nick) has the build of a twelve year old girl, making Kat Dennings (Nora) looks like an Olympic powerlifter compared to him. There's also the fact that Nick was getting over a break-up with Tris, who emotionally abuses him.
* Subverted in ''[[Film/Kingpin|Kingpin]]'' where the main characters, a man and woman, get into a fist fight. While it's played for laughs when the woman does a few [[Groin Attack|groin attacks]]s it's viewed as equally hilarious when the man responds by [[Breast Attack|using her breasts like punching bags]].
* Played straight and averted in ''[[Kung Fu Hustle]]''. The landlady always hits her lecherous husband, even tossing him out the window in comical effort at one point. {{spoiler|However, both of them are highly trained martial artists and the landlord could have easily dodged the landlady's hits if he wanted to. And the landlady could have easily hit '''a lot''' harder if she wanted to.}}
* Korean [[Rom Com]] ''[[My Sassy Girl]]'' is pretty much two straight hours of this trope as an excuse for slapstick.
* ''[[Tokyo Zombie]]'' includes a scene in which a meek abused man buries his mother in a giant mountain of trash and corpses at his girlfriend's instance (specifically, when threatened with sex deprivation). Not content with that the girl proceeds to ''kick her head into orbit'' while still belittling her boyfriend.
* ''[[The War of the Roses (film)|The War of the Roses]]'' plays with this trope slightly. The film revolves around an exagerrativelyexaggeratedly brutal [[Escalating War]] between two bitter divorciesdivorcées. While neither are portrayed as particularly sympathetic, Barbara is established pretty much from the get go as being more swift and vindictive than Oliver, and generally endures a lot less pain and humiliation than she dishes out. {{spoiler|Of course, given that they wind up ''literally'' killing each other...}}
* In the original ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)||Parent Trap]]'', in a fit of anger at one point Maggie socks her ex-husband Mitch in the eye. His dialogue seems to imply she'd done stuff like that back when they were married: "Why do you have to get so physical? Can't even talk to you about anything, you're always trying to belt me with something." The movie tries to make the whole situation seem cutesy by the awkward and girly way in which she throws the punch, but for the [[Values Dissonance|modern viewer]] it casts an ominous tone over their eventual reconciliation.
* Played straight in ''Birthday Girl''. Sophia participates in the beating, robbery, torture, and kidnapping of her husband John. She gets angry at her co-conspirators later and decides to free John, but never so much as apologizes for her actions - and the fool nonetheless sticks with her and they live (happily?) ever after together. There are even disturbing intimations that John deserves to be victimized because he is a fan of bondage porn, although he never even hints at acting out his fantasies on Sophia, and he is mortally embarrassed when he realizes that she knows about his tastes, even though she implies that she regards them as harmless.
* Averted in both the film and the novel of ''[[The Dead Zone]]''. Frank Dodd's lifelong abuse at the hands of his mother is portrayed as horrific, and as the main if not the only reason he has become a [[Complete Monster]].
* Played straight in ''Troll2[[Troll 2]]'': Holly and Elliot's relationship would probably have been handled differently if the roles had been reversed.
* More or less played straight in ''[[Baby Boy]]''. Yvette (Taraji Henson's character), in a fit of rage, starts swinging her hands toward her boyfriend Jody (Tyrese's character). While one could certainly understand why Yvette's upset, what with Jody's constant cheating and lying, that does not excuse her violently wailing at him to the point of punching him in the ''eye'' really hard. So when Jody fought back after failing to restrain Yvette, he smacks her in self-defense, which anyone has the right to do. Of course, the movie unfairly paints Jody's actions as a [[Kick The Dog/Moral Event Horizon|Moral Event Horizon]] moment.
* Discussed in ''[[In Bruges]]'', (overlapping with [[Would Not Hit a Girl]]). Ray mentions the phenomenon, and notes that he himself would not attack a woman in self-defense if she attacked him first, unless she was armed. [[Chekhov's Gun|This later becomes relevant to the plot.]]
 
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