Wife-Basher Basher/Playing With

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Basic Trope: Chivalrous man defends women from men who hit them.

  • Straight: When Bob hits Alice, Charlie steps in to defend her.
  • Exaggerated: When Bob hits Alice, Charlie inflicts Cold-Blooded Torture on him.
  • Downplayed: When Bob hits Alice, Charlie asks him What the Hell, Hero?.
  • Justified: Charlie is The Fettered following a code of honor and chivalry.
  • Inverted: When Alice hits Bob, Charlie steps in to defend him.
  • Subverted: Bob hits Alice. We see Charlie Hulking Out, raising his fist...and then joining Bob in beating Alice.
  • Double Subverted: He pretends to hit Alice. He's actually setting up for Ass Kicks You.
  • Parodied: Charlie beats up people for wearing wife-beaters.
  • Zig Zagged: Alice and Bob are fighting, and Charlie joins in the fight, first hitting Bob, then hitting Alice, and then trying to break it up.
  • Averted: Bob does not hit Alice.
    • Bob hits Alice, but nobody defends her.
    • Bob hits Alice, and she defends herself.
  • Enforced: Used to show that Charlie respects women, so that the female audience will like him.
  • Lampshaded: "Hitting a woman in front of me? Bad idea."
  • Invoked: Alice makes friends with some strong men who can protect her from people who try to hit her.
  • Exploited: Alice goads Bob into abusing her in front of Charlie, so that Bob will finally suffer repercussions for his mistreatment of her.
  • Defied: Bob only abuses Alice when the two of them are alone.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
  • Deconstructed: Charlie sees Bob pull Alice over his knee and spank her, so he jumps in and hits Bob...before the distraught Alice can explain that what was really going on was a Safe, Sane, and Consensual SM scene.
    • Charlie sees Bob and Alice brawling, and jumps in to defend Alice...but it turns out, Alice is both a black belt in taekwondo, and was the one abusing Bob, who was just trying to get away.
  • Reconstructed: Charlie understands the difference between BDSM and abuse, and only goes after Doms who don't play Safe, Sane, and Consensual.
    • Charlie decides that he will defend victims from abusers, no matter the gender.
  • Played For Laughs: Bob calls Alice a rude name and Charlie steps in to defend her.
  • Played For Drama: Charlie is much weaker or less well-armed than Bob, and if he helps Alice, his childhood friend, he risks getting beat up by Bob too.

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