History Main / GloveSlap

* This is the custom in ''LightNovel/AkashicRecordsOfBastardMagicInstructor'' for a magician to challenge another to a duel. It is specifically done with the left glove, as the left hand is better for casting magic (being closer to the heart). The light novels clarify that this is seen as an outdated tradition even in the setting, with alternative methods of resolving conflict being preferred.

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5jvZ4zoXoU Duel Personality]]'' - Jerry gets sick of the chase in one episode, somehow lands inside a glove drawer, motions Tom to stop and proceeds with the glove slap after which they seem to agree to a series of organized feuds involving cannons and slingshots. After the battles are over and Tom is again chasing Jerry in the same way as before, Jerry glove slaps Tom again, [[WereNotGoingThroughThatAgain except this time Tom takes the glove and slaps Jerry over and over when chasing him.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', episode ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5jvZ4zoXoU Duel Personality]]'' - Jerry gets sick of the chase in one episode, somehow lands inside a glove drawer, motions Tom to stop and proceeds with the glove slap after which they seem to agree to a series of organized feuds involving cannons and slingshots. After the battles are over and Tom is again chasing Jerry in the same way as before, Jerry glove slaps Tom again, except this time Tom takes the glove and slaps Jerry over and over when chasing him.

* In ''Anime/PumpkinScissors'', Alice challenges a corrupt Lord to a duel by throwing her glove at him across a crowded ballroom.

** A similar gag in another Bugs Bunny cartoon, this one with Yosemite Sam, has Bugs load his glove with a brick for the return slap he gives to Sam.

Compare with ThrowingDownTheGauntlet (this trope's RealLife predecessor). Can be played for injurious laughs in a cartoon by using WeightedGloves.

* In the {{Steampunk}} short, ''WesternAnimation/AGentlemansDuel'', the Englishman delivers one to his opposing French suitor, damaging his mustache. This is nothing, however, to what he inadvertently does to the lady of his affections when struggling to ''remove'' the glove.

* In ''Please Don't Eat the Daisies'', stage actress Deborah Vaughn (Janis Paige) finds Larry Mackay in Sardi's and slaps him across the face with her right glove in revenge for the bad review he gave her. A photograph of the slap gets into the New York Dispatch.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', Tsukuyomi challenges Setsuna to a match of swords by removing her Victorian-style glove and tossing it almost playfully at Setsuna. Setsuna merely snatches it out of the air. Later [[ClassRepresentative Ayaka]] uses this on Kuu Fei.

** '''Robin''': I accept.

** ''Robin'': I accept.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':

** And he'll only accept that you are one if you can take him in a duel. And he won't duel you until you serve him with the proper insult (and apparently just calling him a [[BigStupidDoodooHead doody-head]] isn't insulting enough).

* People do this frequently in ''Film/{{Scaramouche}}''. Given that they're usually challenging Andre, it doesn't go well for them.

* Used in ''Literature/{{Scaramouche}}''.

* TruthInTelevision, sort of: [[CrazyAwesome Sen. Zell Miller]] of Georgia admitted he would've liked to have done this to pundit Chris Matthews on the latter's show. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuBnlNjZq24 No, really!]] (Conan O'Brien had a field day with that one.)

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-->Hey, what is this? Slap Boris Day?

* In ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Lumiere does this to Cogsworth at the end of the movie.

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---> '''Christian''' (who is watching and listening, starts on hearing this name): The Viscount! Ah! I will throw full in his face my. . . \\
---> (He puts his hand in his pocket, and finds there the hand of a pickpocket who is about to rob him)
---> Hey?
** At Act I scene IV, Cyrano talks about it to provoke De Valvert… and also because [[ImpoverishedPatrician Cyrano is so poor he doesn’t have gloves.]]
---> '''Cyrano''': I wear no gloves? And what of that? \\
I had one,. . .remnant of an old worn pair, \\

I threw it in the face of. . .some young fool.

-->'''Mrs Allonby''': Miss Worsley would not let you kiss her.\\
'''Lord Illingworth''': Are you sure?\\
'''Mrs Allonby''': Quite.\\
'''Lord Illingworth''': What do you think she'd do if I kissed her?\\
'''Mrs Allonby''': Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove?\\
'''Lord Illingworth''': [[SlapSlapKiss Fall in love with her, probably.]]\\
'''Mrs Allonby''': Then it is lucky you are not going to kiss her!\\
'''Lord Illingworth''': Is that a challenge?

* The trope image comes from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E5EIEIAnnoyedGrunt E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)]]", where Homer is inspired to do it by a ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}'' movie and keeps it up once he realizes people will just give him what he wants because they don't want to duel. He receives his comeuppance ([[HalfwayPlotSwitch and the rest of the episode's premise]]) when he slaps an actual SouthernGentleman in the course of slapping a long line of people.
-->"Why oh why did I slap a man who says 'suh'?!"

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Knights Must Fall]]'', WesternAnimation/BugsBunny reacted to such a challenge from a knight by yanking the knight's steel gauntlet off and smacking him with ''that''.

** Parodied in "WesternAnimation/PorkyPigsFeat," [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3luD3qdbfI Porky and Daffy from the 1940s]], where Daffy, after being slapped and challenged by the manager of the Broken Arms Hotel ("You have insulted me! We meet on the field of honor! MyCard."), he returns suit ("You have insult me! We meet on the field of onion!") and slaps back with a horseshoe-stuffed glove, and then slaps him in the face with flypaper ("My Card, you cad!").