Quotes / Wouldn't Hit a Girl

Zeff: Men aren't meant to kick women, you twat! That's an ironclad rule of this universe since before the time of the dinosaurs! Listen, I don't care how many times you screw up as a human being, but if you ever screw up as a man... If that day comes, I'll be there to personally slice your balls off! Hell, I'll even slice my own throat while I'm at it!
Sanji: What?! Why would you go that far?!
Zeff: It's my duty... It's what it means to be your damn parent! So don't you dare grow into some asshole I'll come to despise, you fool! Now hurry up and get back to work!

— Sanji is taught not to hit women, One Piece

"I-I cannot hit a lady! It's not what a gentleman does! Please do not make me hurt you!"

— Jonathan Joestar, Jonathan Joestar, The First JoJo

[lifts up Tuffnut, preparing to hit him in anger, freezes] You're the guy, right?

— Snoutlout, Dragons: Riders of Berk, "Viking For Hire"

Scott: "I don't hit girls."
Roxie: "You're just a pussy, Pilgrim!"

— Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together

Tammy: You wouldn't hit a girl, would ya, Heathcliff?
Heathcliff: Uh, no. No, I...I guess not.
Tammy: Good! 'Cause I LOVE to hit boys!

—Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats, "Terrible Tammy"

If she had been a man who dared lay hands on him, Erik would have dropped her where she stood. But alas, she was only a woman.

—Erik The Vampire Hunter, an AU retelling of The Phantom of the Opera

Fooker (in a flashback) My, aren't we pushy! Whatta ya gonna do, sweetheart? Beat me up?
(Switches back to the present)
Nick: You mean you really did beat him up? (Ki grins)
Fooker: It's not fair. Guys should be allowed to hit girls in self-defense.

— General Protection Fault, January 6, 2001

Bronn: It's against my code to hurt a woman.

Obara: It's amazing how many men we beat seem to have this code.

— Game of Thrones, "The Gift"

Morph: [strangling the Hulk with shapeshifted chains] You hit a girl, you insensitive bucket of crap! I don't care how how big and stupid and ferocious and infused with deadly radiation you are, we DON'T hit chicks!

[The Hulk grabs the chains and flips Morph over his head]

Morph: OW! OOWW! EASY! EASY! Okay - exception made - you can hit ladies - just bigger ones! OOWW!

The Hulk: RUBBER THING WILL STOP TALKING!

— Exiles #5: Up North And In The Green Part 1

Washington: Why not just attack her [Sister] and win then? It would take about ten seconds.

Sarge: That's the problem! I can't attack a girl. So we're locked, in an epic stalemate.

— Red vs. Blue

Wendy: You sat there and took it... when you could've taken my gun away from me any time you wanted to...
Marv: Sure, but I thought I might be able to talk some sense into you. And I probably would've had to paste you one getting the gun. And I don't hurt girls.

—Sin City

Someone make her a dude so I can punch her.

— Troy Barnes, Community

"I don't think I can hit a girl. They're soft."

—Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

"Don't ever hit a girl. My grandma always told me that."

—Travis Touchdown, No More Heroes III, just after he killed Kimmy Love aka Kimmy Howell

"I would never...EEEEEVVVER...hit a woman, but you are not a woman!"

—Chris Jericho, in a subversion of the trope.

"How do you want to fight? I can't use my fists on a girl!"

— Batman, The Supergirl-Batgirl Plot

Black Manta: Heard you don't kill women or children.
Captain Cold: You could learn from the Rogues' code.
Black Manta: I don't leave witnesses.

Hellboy: Lady, I really don't wanna do this.
Vixen: You think I can't be a predator?
Hellboy: Well in that case, let's do this.

Red Hood: Even I have limits.
Joker: Let's hear what you got.
Red Hood: No women and children. That's the rule.

—Injustice 2

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