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=== Played for Comedy ===

 

** Sam Vimes is familiar with giving and receiving, for one. Also from the Watch books, Carrot Ironfoundersson received a [[Balls of Steel|codpiece]] as a going-away gift from a friend of his (adopted) father, though he was initially naive enough to think no one would dare strike someone else there.

** One dwarven saying is, "When their hands are above your head, your teeth are level with their crotch." The implications water the eyes.

** To Cohen the Barbarian and his Silver Horde, psychological warfare consists of spending the night before a big battle intimidating the enemy with chants of: "We're going to ''cut'' your ''[[Unusual Euphemism|tonkers]]'' off". Performing this operation on your worst enemy and then offering it as a present is likewise their idea of how to impress a woman.

{{quote| "Have trolls got stones?"<br />

"Stands to reason." }}

** Mort gets one from {{spoiler|Death himself}}.

** Arnold Sideways of the Canting Crew, a band of near-legendary Ankh-Morpork beggars, is considered a useful asset in a fight despite having no legs because "a man with good teeth at groin height has things his own way". He also has a boot on the end of a stick, meaning that many thieves desperate enough to attack the beggars would find themselves kicked in the head by a man four feet high.

** In Ankh-Morpork, this is generally preceded by the phrase "Kick him 'inna fork!"

** "''This'' is how you win a dogfight!" -- Gaspode the Wonder Dog's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

** In the short story ''Heorot'', Harry is up against a grendelkin, who's immune to Harry's magic. When the monster corners him, Harry gets some breathing room by winding up with his staff and getting him in [[Unusual Euphemism|the fire]]-[[Gag Penis|extinguisher]].

** In an earlier novel, "Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers," a hologram attempts to thump a desk in frustration, only for his hand to pass clean through it and slam painfully into his groin.

** In "Backwards" Lister earns a shard of glass through his crotch during a Virtual Reality gaming session.

* Played straight in ''[[Inheritance Trilogy|Eragon]]'' in a story to tell how [[The Empire]] came to exist.

** Yes, the fall of the Riders, the rise of the immortal tyrant Galbatorix, the near-genocide of the dragons, and the millions of lives lost to senseless war were a direct result of Vreal taking a kick to the nuts.

* In ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' Scout accidentally kicks a man in the groin when he is picking on Jem. The quote goes something like "I aimed for his knee but I kicked too high."

* This occurs sometimes to private detective [[Spenser]], in Robert B. Parker's series of novels. It is rarely effective because, as he points out to one female martial artist who tries it on him, it's a) not as painful as the media portrays and b) if you've been through enough other sorts of pain, you can work through it.

{{quote| '''Patient''': I only know that I'm depressed, and it is terrible!<br />

'''Analyst''': Is it worse than a joelha? }}

* In both of [[Aaron Allston]]'s books in the [[New Jedi Order]], it's seen that while Vong wear armored skirts, they apparently don't have any protection beneath them. Lando shoots one, and this is apparently more pain than even a Vong can endure, because it's easily dispatched by his [[Fan Nickname|terminator]]. Out on Coruscant, Mara encounters another. The viewpoint character glances away for a moment and looks back to find that the warrior...

{{quote| [...] in the middle of a quite elegant snap-kick against Mara, was receiving her lightsaber thrust up and under his skirt plates.}}

* [[Richard Marcinko]] enjoys writing these into his Seal Team Six books. Stands to reason, since it's a highly efficient way of getting an advantage in a life or death fistfight. Despite these books being mostly [[Self-Insert Fic]], with himself as [[The Captain]], he is not afraid to describe himself on the receiving end of a crotch shot.

** In one, he has to take a bunch of office-bound engineers and teach them how to play paintball. The dweebs learn quickly, and one deliberately aims for his crotch at point blank range.

* In ''[[The Kingdom Keepers]]'' this is how Philby's mother escapes from [[The Bully|Luowski]]. "His mother bent her knee and drove the ball of her heel up and into a spot between the boy's legs that made Luowski's eyes squint shut as he screamed."

* Played nightmarishly humorous in [[Dan Savage]]'s book ''Skipping Towards Gammorrah'', where he committs all [[Seven Deadly Sins]] in a grandiose manner. For Avarice, he goes on a nature retreat for rich people. It includes a very strenuous hike; he went commando because his underwear got soaked in sweat, but then his thighs started to rub together and chafe, then the rash started to bleed, [[It Got Worse|then the sweat from his balls made it sting]]. So after a couple miles of misery, he shamelessly held onto his junk for the remainder of the hike. Sounds like the groin did the attacking in this case.

* In the [[Dean Koontz]] novel ''Life Expectancy'', protagonist Jimmy uses a nail file to the groin to disable Punchinello long enough to get himself and Lorrie clear of both their armed captor and the bombs he's placed. (This event also figures to an extent in later plot.)

* In the ''[[Inheritance Trilogy]]'', said to have been used in a duel by [[Big Bad|Galbatorix]] taking place a long time before the events of the book. The act was deemed "dishonorable," or something to that effect. Doesn't help that the story describes it with double-take language: the guy gets struck "in the fork of his legs".

* [[Stephen King]] apparently has some fascination with this trope.

** In ''[[The Dark Half]]'', villain George Stark combines an old fashioned straight razor, an upward slashing attack, and the groin of an unfortunate cop. All described with typical King [[Squick|skill]]. Did you just wince? Imagine reading it.

** In ''Dreamcatcher'', one character meets his death at the teeth of one of the weasels, which first attacks the soon-to-be-deceased's groin.

** In ''[[Needful Things]]'', a police officer trying to break up a riot is shot in the groin.

** In ''Chattery Teeth'' (a short story in ''Nightmares and Dreamscapes'') the eponymous wind-up novelty toy ends up biting a carjacker to death. Guess whether it goes for the balls.

** Played straight in the same novel when King Troas attempts to have his way with Ardatha Demonhand. She's not having any of it, and retaliates with a scalding-hot application of [[Red Right Hand|her namesake]], directly to his scrotum.

* Jack Fleming from ''[[The Vampire Files]]'' can usually wipe the floor with gangsters in a brawl, but being held down by a bunch of them while another moves to '''stomp''' on his privates is terrifying enough to force even him into [[Super Smoke]] form.

* A villain in the [[NUMA Series]] novel ''Inca Gold'' deservingly gets one. He has the female lead hostage and [[Complete Monster|details the sexual tortures he's planning to subject her to.]] At that point, Dirk Pitt sneaks up, jams a gun into the guy's pants, and pulls the trigger.

* ''[[Black Hawk Down]]'': In the novel written by Mark Bowden, when the Somalis capture Mike Durant after his Black Hawk helicopter is taken down, one of the Somali women goes towards him as he is being carried away and "yanks" at his penis and testicles.

* ''The King of the Crags'' by Stephen Deas has a... memorable example. With a ''crossbow''.

* ''[[In Death]]'': This trope has popped up a few times. Eve Dallas takes down the murderer in ''Visions In Death'' hard this way.

* There's a book, can't remember its name or even what it was about, whose cover shows a woman's stiletto heel coming down on a walnut. The imagery is...striking to say the least.