History Main / BallsOfSteel

* {{DoubleSubverted|Trope}} in ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie'' in one of the funniest scenes. Johnny Cage challenges Goro to Mortal Kombat, and as Goro raises his arms to roar in triumph, Cage instantly drops into his infamous [[GroinAttack Split Punch]] from the games. And it ''works''; Goro clutches himself and moans in pain, giving Cage the chance to flee from the ring, and when he's out of view he shakes out the fist he punched with. Whatever Goro was packing down there hurt ''him''!

** In ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'', Bond makes Renard fall groin first onto a pipe, but since Renard has FeelNoPain, it doesn't affect him. He just looks down in surprise, then gets up.

*** Speaking of which, [[spoiler:that painful torture didn't render him infertile, as he fathered a daughter years later in ''Film/NoTimeToDie''.]]

* ComicBook/ThePunisher once tried to hit ComicBook/LukeCage in the crotch, which did absolutely nothing because...well, it's [[SuperToughness Luke Cage]].

* One issue of ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'' had the Academy kids facing off against the Young ComicBook/XMen, [[https://shadowandflamewithmagik.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/avengers-academy-38-kitty-hazmat-kick-rockslide-in-the-would-be-nuts.jpg leading Hazmat to try and kick Rockslide in the crotch.]] Rockslide, as the name suggests, is a mutant whose power destroyed his original body but lets him animate stone, so that he's now a walking pile of rocks. Cut to her gripping her foot in pain. In the ensuing conversation about girlfriend difficulties with Mettle (another Avengers Academy student whose body responded to trauma by replacing his skin with a red metallic covering with little sense of touch), Rockslide points out that maybe people whose power makes their genitals less sensitive shouldn't expect a great deal of pity from people whose power means they have no genitals at all.
* In one issue of ''ComicBook/TheBadger'', Badger was fighting a jump-rope wielding BloodKnight named Dominance in an alternate dimension. At one point in the fight, Badger get in a groin attack against him, and Dominance instantly responds with a counter that sends Badger flying. Dominance then grins and declares "I had my gonads removed, jokes on you!" Ham, who's scrying the fight from earth comments, "He had his gonads removed and he thinks the jokes on Badger." Which was almost exactly what badger said when the POV shifted back to him.
* In the ComicBook/BlackCanary/ComicBook/GreenArrow wedding issue, Canary manages to land a kick on ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}, but this trope is used as he angrily says that he's wearing over 50 pounds of body armor, so of ''course'' he's wearing a cup.
* During the ''[[ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Season 8]]'' comics, Faith goes for the groin attack against the {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le Twilight. His response? "What makes you think "invulnerable" isn't all over?" Subverted when he sees Buffy going for them with the scythe like she did with Caleb. Thinking better than to risk it, he avoids the blow. [[spoiler: Makes sense, since he's Angel and actually saw what that move did.]]
* In ''ComicBook/JustAPilgrim'', the titular Pilgrim kicks SkyPirate captain Castenado in the groin, only for him to cheerfully remark that there is "Nothin' there!"
* At one point Sasha Bordeaux tried to give a GroinAttack to ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, but found out he wore a cup.

* In the ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' comics, Ragdoll is at one point the victim of a GroinAttack, but he simply takes it and replies, "I had those removed for getting in the way." Catman compliments him on how devoted he is to being a freak.
* During Creator/WarrenEllis' run on ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'', Doc Samson shrugs off a hit to the groin from Moonstone, quipping "Oh, trust me. It's ALL gamma-enhanced."
* One of DC's D-List characters, "Wild Dog," takes a shot to the crotch from a female reporter that drops him to the ground. One or two issues later, circumstances repeat, but Wild Dog informs the reporter that he now wears a metal cup. Apparently, none of Wild Dog's male criminal targets would even think of using this maneuver, so he never thought of incorporating that piece of protective gear before.

* During the first battle with the Briarwoods in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'', Grog tries to "ball tag" Sylas Briarwood. As Sylas is a vampire with innate resistance to non-magical bludgeoning damage, the attack does nothing.

* [[ThePeepingTom Absalom]] has these in ''Fanfic/ThisBites, unfortunately enough. Turns out even a GroinAttack from a PintSizedPowerhouse can be {{No Sell}}ed if you can [[FeelNoPain completely turn off your sense of pain]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', the eponymous ogre hits a bump while [[BannisterSlide sliding down a stone railing]] with Donkey and Fiona, but shrugs it off pretty quickly.

-->-- '''Alucard''' to Trevor Belmont, [[CombatPragmatist who responds by headbutting him]], ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017''

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' episode "Buff 'N Stuff", Coach Buzzcut tells Butt-Head to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p0YEc1VDSY Kick me in the Jimmy]]". The only reaction to Butt-Head doing so (twice) is his face turning red while he goes "YYYESSS!"
* At the end of the first season of ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'', [[HunterOfMonsters Trevor Belmont]] is fighting [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Alucard]]. To try to break a BladeLock, he knees Alucard in the groin to no effect.

* Painfully {{subverted|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'', where Mayor Bledsoe, whilst doing a number of macho exercises, dares Mr. Klimer to hit him in the testicles with his golf club. Once the blow is made, the mayor stands perfectly still before saying, in an even voice, "That hurts more than I thought it would."

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Bart Star", Bart joins a pee-wee ({{heh|HehYouSaidX}}) football team; when Marge buys equipment for him, including a cup, Bart tells Milhouse to test the cup, [[GroinAttack which he does]]. Bart doesn't feel a thing, so he tells Milhouse to try again, [[TemptingFate and then again]], at which point Marge yells at him to stop.
* Used somewhat [[{{Pun}} literally]] in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': [[TheFool Michelangelo]] attempts to take down Metalhead (who of course is a robot) with a GroinAttack and predictably hurts himself.