Wife-Basher Basher/Playing With

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.
  • Charlie is Alice's older brother. Woe betide the man who messes with Alice.
• 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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