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{{quote|''"Didn't you know that you don't hit a woman? [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|You. Will. See.]]"'' [[Dynamic Entry|*THUD*]]

 

 

More often than not, these men are [[Gentle Giant]]s and/or mild mannered [[Nice Guy]]s who either are raised with traditional values of kindness and chivalry, or are scarred by childhoods of watching their mothers being beaten or worse.

 

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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js9vG9rC1YU This] somewhat controversial anti-domestic violence ad aired in Australia in 2006. It features Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read, a notorious ex-criminal and minor celebrity, talking in an overtly threatening manner about [[Even Evil Has Standards|what he thinks of rapists and men who beat women]] and [[Prison Rape|what they can look forward to when they end up behind bars.]]

{{quote|'''Chopper:''' If you bashed a woman, well you're a weak, gutless individual! If you come to jail for bashing a woman or raping a woman, you will get dealt with. You will suffer. We will break your neck. ''You low, gutless, weak mice.''}}

 

* Quoted above: Takeshi Momoshiro from ''[[Prince of Tennis]]'' catches a [[Jerk Jock]] bullying [[Fragile Flower]] Sakuno ''and'' [[Kick the Dog|pushing]] [[Cool Big Sis]] An [[Kick the Dog|to the ground for defending her]], and before even introducing himself he's laying the smackdown on said jerk, physically and verbally.

* Miyagi Ryota of ''[[Slam Dunk]]'', upon witnessing a delinquent backhand his long-time crush Ayako, leapt upon the significantly taller brute and beats him until he is disfigured and unconscious.

* In ''[[Durarara!!]]'', one of the few things that can set off the otherwise cool-headed Rokujou Chikage is hurting a woman in his presence.

* Guts from ''[[Berserk]]'' could count for this one. Sure, [[Took a Level in Jerkass|he's changed a lot]] since the Eclipse—some would say for [[He Who Fights Monsters|the worse]]—but Guts is still too decent of a guy to just standby and watch a full-grown man beat a little girl senseless. He usually dispatches them in his rare [[Tranquil Fury]] mode, but if he ever sees a woman in danger of sexual assault—which reminds him all too well of [[Love Interest|the person]] [[My Greatest Failure|whom he failed to protect]]—well, [[Berserk Button|it's not going to end pretty]] for whoever (or ''what''ever) is doing it.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* ''[[Diabolik]]'' has a strange case: the titular protagonist is disgusted by wife-bashers but doesn't care enough to punish them, but Eva does, and he'll gladly help her robbing them blind and closing them in their own secret vault (just to quote the most recent case at the time of the writing).

 

* Bud White of ''[[L.A. Confidential]]''. He literally rips AN OAK CHAIR in two with his bare hands out of rage after hearing a suspect's description of a sexual assault of a kidnapped girl. Then, to scare the location of a kidnapped girl out of the rapist, he plays a very non-consensual game of Russian roulette with the guy's face. Needless to say the sniveling little bastard immediately complied.

* Cyrus "the Virus" Grissom, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Con Air]]'' and a mass murderer who claims to have killed more men than cancer threatened to throw "Johnny 23," a convicted serial rapist, out of the title plane if he dared to try to rape the hijacked plane's only female officer. Cyrus says he normally despises rapists, but will make an exception in this case, then delivers his ultimatum.

* In ''[[Goodfellas]],'' when Henry finds out his then-girlfriend-future-wife Karen was sexually assaulted by one of her neighbors, he promptly walks to his house and pistol-whips him in broad daylight (as well as threatens to murder him). This action likely had a hand in causing Karen to marry him, as she admits in her narration that it turned her on.

 

* In ''[[Honor Harrington]]'', much of the male population of the planet Grayson is this to a degree, due to their very conservative culture, almost in contrast to the open misogyny that many Graysons were portrayed as having in their earliest appearances. Many of them were raised to see women as helpless in a man's world (though their dealings with the far more egalitarian Manticorans do much to change those attitudes) and thus, any man who is revealed to have injured or killed a woman (or a child) is not looked upon with very much favor.

** Honor herself is one, in a manner. In the second book, upon finding out [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|what Masadans do to female prisoners]], she [[Tranquil Fury|approaches]] the captured Masadan base commander, [[Dramatic Gun Cock|draws and unsafeties her sidearm]], and has to be [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him|physically restrained by the officers under her]] from putting a pulse dart in the man's head.

* In ''[[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]]'' the narrator proudly declares that on the Moon attacking a woman is a literal death sentence, as any male in the area will gladly kill you in the most painful way he can think of. The Earther Stuart René LaJoie nearly gets killed because his Earth-style flirt was too aggressive for the Moon (he survives because the boys who caught him decided to give him a trial, and the protagonist, acting as a judge, realizes he was just ignorant. Stuart learned his lesson well), while the Moon revolution is triggered by Earth Peace Dragoons raping and killing a woman and their boss preventing the chief of the guards from having them hanged.

 

* An interesting variation occurs in the [[Very Special Episode]] of ''[[A Different World]]'' about domestic abuse. When the abuser is confronted about the rumors by one of his friends, he tells a story of a time when he tried to save a woman who was being slapped by her boyfriend in the street... and '''she called the cops on him'''. He says he learned two things that day: that every man can lose it sometimes and that whatever happens between a man and a woman is no one else's business. It is truly chilling that the [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]] lesson he learned from the incident seems to be part of his justification for abusing his girlfriend.

** Fortunately his friend decides to make it his business and calls the cops on him.

* A variation in the fifth season of ''[[Dexter]]'': The Child Basher Basher. When Dexter discovers that a friend of his stepdaughter is being abused by her mother's boyfriend, he immediately takes action. He finds the guy and gives him an in-depth lesson on what hitting different parts of the body does to the victim, while hitting him in those locations. He then tells him to get out, STAT, and never come back. Appropriately, of course, Dexter is a [[Serial Killer Killer]].

 

* The narrator from [[Nickelback]]'s ''Never Again.'' All the more wrenching because it's implied the narrator is the man's son, who is too young to do anything about it.

{{quote|Father's a name you haven't earned yet

{{quote|Should I sit here on these hands of mine one more time?

Or should I use them on him the way he does on you? }}

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Near the end of ''[[Mafia II]]'''s story, Vito gets a call from his hysterical sister that her husband hasn't come home. Vito tracks him down (in the middle of banging a hooker at a party) and beats the snot out of him, threatening to kill him if he hurts his sister or is anything less than a stellar husband. It comes back to bite Vito when she tells him she wants nothing to do with him anymore.

 

* In ''[[Suicide for Hire]]'', Arcturus is normally (more or less) the [[Only Sane Man]]; he tries to dissuade their "clientele" and doesn't usually enjoy the killing as much as his partner Hunter. When a man who beat his wife to the point where she sought the pair out and utilized their services comes in...he changes his tune and participates enthusiastically in the [[Karmic Death]].

 

 

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[[Category:Morality Tropes]]