History Main / NotInTheFace

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':

* ''WesternAnimation/CatwomanHunted'' has the title character using her attractiveness to advantage, so when Cheetah clashes Selina with her claws she tells her off for harming her second-best earner.

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. When Team TARDIS confront [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Jack Robertson]], he thinks he's being mugged and tells them to take his car but leave his face intact.

* ''Webcomic/Unsounded}}'': After Duane cuts Ephsephin's cheek in their first encounter Ephsephin tries to protect his fact from further harm. He's therefore furious when Sette manages to add another slash to the same cheek:

* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. Doyle enters a BadGuyBar and hauls a customer into the storeroom. Turns out he's an undercover cop and the two of them start knocking things off the shelves to make it sound like Doyle is beating him up. When it's time to leave, Doyle goes to inflict the required facial injury, and the cop tells him not to hit his good side as he's got a date tonight.

* ''TabletopGame/Starfinder'': The envoy class has this as an improvisation they can take, making it harder for enemies to hit them.

* In ''Webcomic/StarImpact'', this is one of [[GirlyBruiser Lily]]'s big drawbacks as a boxer. She values her IdolSinger career more than her boxing career, so she'll throw in the towel if she thinks that her face is sustaining too much damage. [[TheHero Aster]] plans on [[ExploitedTrope exploiting]] this to force an early win.

* Arthur's battlecry on ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', as mentioning above.

* ''Super VideoGame/PunchOut: Narcis Prince'' is, as his name suggests, overly protective of his beautiful face. Punching him there pushes his BerserkButton -- he TurnsRed and becomes very aggressive, while at the same time dropping his defenses and becoming much easier to fight. It’s not temporary, as his cornerman is able to get him to calm down after enough time has passed or he gets knocked down, but you can send him right back into with another shot in the chops.

* ''Super VideoGame/PunchOut: Narcis Prince'' is, as his name suggests, overly protective of his beautiful face. Punching him there pushes his BerserkButton -- he TurnsRed and becomes very aggressive, while at the same time dropping his defenses and becoming much easier to fight.

* Chris Nowinski wore a plastic face mask claiming his reconstructive surgery (or something) was too expensive to be hit in the face. Naturally, Wrestling/ScottSteiner hit him in the face on every opportunity he had, which made Chris get a metal face mask which he used as a weapon. (Too bad Wrestling/{{the Dudley|boys}}s were on its receiving end [[MisplacedRetribution instead of Scott]])

* "Dashing" Wrestling/CodyRhodes, who plays a slightly toned down GorgeousGeorge gimmick, started doing this in a team elimination match in Survivor Series (2010) after getting slapped in the face. He leaves the ring to make sure it didn't leave a mark and even starts crying. Then Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr broke his nose. Cody Rhodes [[UnstoppableRage did not react well.]]

* Wrestling/WorldWonderRingSTARDOM ruled that any punch in the face would draw an immediate match ending disqualification following the February 22 2015 Korkuen Hall main event gaining infamy as "[[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown The Seisan Matchi]]" for leaving budding draw Act Yasukawa hospitalized with three facial fractures a mere two months after her return from cataract surgery.

** when Puck tries to recruit more people into glee by telling his football teammates how cool it is, they decide he needs to be beaten up like all the other nerds, and he yells for them not to damage his pretty face.

* ''Film/{{Head}}'': In an old movie parody, Davy Jones plays the sensitive violinist from the slums who becomes a prizefighter. In a casting session he looks over a line of boxers and chooses Sonny Liston (sort of the Mike Tyson of his time). He good-naturedly banters "You won't hurt the face, will you? Million-dollar face, this is." This is intercut with ringside footage of Liston beating Jones' face to a swollen bloody pulp.

* ''Film/{{Leatherheads}}'' inverts this during a fight between Carter and Dodge. After discussing numerous places not to hit they agree to stick only to hitting each other in the face.

* In ''Webcomic/StarImpact'', this is one of [[GirlyBruiser Lily]]'s big drawbacks as a boxer. She values her IdolSinger career more than her boxing career, so she'll throw in the towel if she thinks that her face is sustaining too much damage.

* On ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "[[Recap/TheSopranosS2E13Funhouse Funhouse]]", [[spoiler:Pussy]] makes this request (which is granted) just before being shot by Tony and the others for being a stooge.

* On ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "[[Recap/TheSopranosS2E13Funhouse Funhouse]]", [[spoiler:Pussy]] makes this request just before being shot by Tony and the others for being a stooge.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. Roy Harper is captured by the ComicBook/BlackCanary who starts whacking him in the face with her bo staff. Apart from fear of damaging his handsome looks, Roy isn't happy because he had told his girlfriend Thea that he'd given up his vigilante activities, so can't afford unexplained bruises.

* ''Series/ThePunisher2017''. When Frank Castle is about to shoot Nikolai Poloznev with a SawnOffShotgun, the Russian oligarch decides to FaceDeathWithDignity, his LastRequest that Frank not shoot him in the face for the [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes sake of his wife and daughter]] who'll be looking at his body in the coffin. Frank decides to spare his life, though ironically he's killed shortly afterwards by Pilgrim, who shoots him in the face.

* On ''Series/TheSopranos'', [[spoiler:Pussy]] makes this request just before being shot by Tony and the others for being a stooge.

* Played with in ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'' episode "The Girl Who Was Death" as Number Six is pulled into a boxing match with a typical hulking bruiser who tells him between punches "'Ey, take it easy, me face is me fortune, you might knock it back into shape!"