Wimp Fight / Western Animation

• The Amazing World of Gumball:
  • In the episode "The Copycats", when the Wattersons fight their rip-offs (with identical abilities to theirs), only Nicole fought her copycat seriously. Gumball and Chi-Chi were too cowardly too fight each other, Darwin and Ribbit slapped each other and then regretted it and cherished each other, Richard and his unnamed rip-off were too lazy and fell on the ground before starting to fight, and Anais didn't have a rip-off to begin with.
  • In "The Loophole", Larry and Mr. Small bickering over how to pronounce the word "quinoa" devolves into them having a pathetic slap fight.
• The Angry Beavers: Norb and Dag can be seen doing this in the intro.
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Bat-Mite versus Joker-Mite in "Emperor Joker!".
• Beavis and Butt-Head: In the episode "Manners Suck", the motivational speaker for the class, Mr. Manners, gets angry enough that he physically begins to threaten Beavis after being falsely accused of molestation. After that, Van Driessen enters into the room to break things up and before long, Van Driessen and Mr. Manners get into a big slapfight after Mr. Manners tries to attack Beavis again.
• Beetlejuice: The episode "Moby Richard" ends with Beetlejuice and the episode's titular character ineffectually trying to hit each other.
• Bunsen Is a Beast: Amanda and a security guard with braces ineffectually slap each other in the episode "Fright at the Museum".
• Celebrity Deathmatch:
  • The main event fight between Jerry Seinfeld and Tim Allen. The "fight" devolves into purple nurples, at which point the announcers and audience are happy when the cast of Seinfeld interferes to kill Jerry for canceling the show.
  • This happens in a few matches where two comedic actors are placed against each other (matches with only one usually lead to a Curbstomp Battle), with them exchanging childish blows until the referee threatens to off them both unless one of them kills the other. Ben Stiller vs. Adam Sandler is another standout example.
• DC Super Hero Girls:
  • "#SweetJustice": The battle on the Amazon ship starts out properly superheroic, but it quickly devolves into slapstick, with Zatanna in the typical blind-slaps duel, Green Lantern and an Amazon pushing each other's faces, and the minute Bumblebee receiving a noogie. Supergirl, meanwhile, is too busy arm-wrestling to help them.
  • In episode "#SuperWho?", after a few minutes of punching each other through buildings, Superman and Supergirl's fight degenerates into this.
• Dexter's Laboratory: Whenever Dexter and Mandark engage in unarmed hand-to-hand combat, they primarily stand there slapping ineffectually at each other.
  • In the episode "If Memory Serves", it takes both Dexter and Mandark a moment to realize they're merely slapping aimlessly at the air with their eyes closed during their fight, thus they simultaneously take a step closer to each other and end up knocking each other's glasses off. The two then wander around aimlessly and end up destroying a lamp and a potted plant respectively, thinking those objects are their opponent.
  • This comes to a head in the movie Ego Trip, when a climactic fight breaks out between several Dexters and Mandarks from various points in time. Number 12 outright curb-stomps Executive Mandark, and Action Dexter and Overlord Mandark engage in a dramatic action hero fight, while the present Dexter and Mandark just flail awkwardly at each other. Plus, Old Man Dexter and Braindark merely hurl insults at each other until Braindark beats Old Man Dexter by simply falling over on him.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy:
  • In "A Fistful of Ed", Edd and Jimmy plan to fake a fight so that Jimmy will "win" and Edd will stop being seen as the school bully after the number of embarrassing accidents he's caused. However, neither boy is willing to throw the first punch so both of them slap at each other until Eddy provokes Jimmy to the point of snapping and he gives Edd a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
  • In "Little Ed Blue", Edd and Eddy get into a slapping match after both fail to calm Ed down.
• In The Fairly OddParents! episode "Sleepover and Over", Chester and AJ get into a fight over which superhero is better and engage in a slap fight until they both fall out of Timmy's treehouse.
• Family Guy:
  • The fight in the episode "German Guy" between Herbert the elderly pedophile and a Nazi he knew named Franz Gutentag, who was holding Chris hostage, results in an Overly Long Gag because they're both quite weak and elderly, and at one point they stop to take their medications.
  • A Cutaway Gag in another episode has Peter musing on how the Founding Fathers would have solved their problems had guns not existed. Cue this trope.
  • The fights between Peter and Ernie the Giant Chicken have been parodied twice with this trope:
    • In the "Family Guy Viewer Mail #2" episode "Chap of the Manor", Neville (British Peter) gets into one of these with the Giant Pheasant (British Ernie) and then exchange pleasantries with good sportsmanship. This contrasts to the normally colossal destruction the American Peter and Ernie cause.
    • In "Follow the Money", Lois has her own chicken fight against Ernie's wife Nicole, which only amounts to a brief slap fight that causes minor damage and dislocate recurring character RJ's) arm.
  • When Stewie engages in an epic dog fight with Bertram in "Sibling Rivalry", their entire army and their own fighter crafts explode, leading them to parachute right next to each other. They slap-fight until they land in a tree.
  • Another cutaway has Mort join a Jewish Fight Club. The first rule being that the fight ends when someone says "ow".
• Gravity Falls:
  • In "The Hand that Rocks the Mabel", Dipper and Li'l Gideon manage to have a slap-fight while falling off a cliff.
  • Dipper ends up provoking one among his doppelgangers in "Double Dipper": "CLONE FIGHT!"
• In The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, there is an episode that sees elves and dwarves go to war over food branding (the dwarves are pretty pissed that elves get good publicity from being cookie mascot while they're stuck with mushrooms), but we never see the actual battle because a cartoonized version of R. Lee Ermey informs us that it's too violent. When the battle is over, we cut back to the battle to see the leaders of the dwarves and elves engaging in one of these when everyone else is downed around them.
• Kaeloo: In Episode 79, all the characters are pirates. Kaeloo and Quack Quack find a treasure, but realizing that only one of them can claim the treasure, they start a slap fight with their eyes closed.
• Kim Possible: Fights between Ron Stoppable and Dr. Drakken generally devolve into ineffectual fumbling, while Kim and Shego are engaging in a much more serious and skilled battle. Of course, since both have taken a level in badass, that may no longer be the case.
• The Legend of Vox Machina: In "Spark of Rebellion", Vax and Scanlan argues over their baffling (and hilarious) struggle at brute-forcing a simple locked wooden door, of all things, resulting in a wimp fight between the two.
• In The Life and Times of Juniper Lee Egg-tastic Easter Special, the "war" between the chickens and rabbits quickly degenerates a series of multiple one-on-one Wimp Fights, including the requisite "sissy slap fight".
• Most fights between Andy and Kevin in Mission Hill dissolve rather quickly into a wimp fight. One even has Kevin dressed as a Jedi with a toy lightsaber and Andy 'dressed' as Darth Vader with a plastic candy cane set to epic music. Hilarity Ensues.
• Justified whenever we see characters in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fight. Typically they do so by rearing up and slapping each other with their hooves, even in the otherwise dark Bad Future scenes of "The Cutie Re-Mark – Part 1" that feature an entire battlefield of Royal Guards and Crystal Soldiers having slap fights in Big Balls Of Violence. Rearing up and striking with their hooves in slapping motions is actually how real-life horses fight, and while it looks silly and wimpy the power behind those rock-hard (and often sharp) hooves is no joke.
• Rick and Morty: A wannabe supervillain called Pissmaster tries to goad Rick into a fight. He doesn't take the bait, but Jerry does. What follows next is an outright pathetic brawl as Jerry uses some of the lamest moves imaginable while Pissmaster is so pathetic he actually cowers from Jerry.
• South Park:
  • In "Tweek vs. Craig", the boys engineer a brawl between Tweek and Craig, but are disappointed when the boys hopelessly slap and push each other, having no idea how to fight. The bout is postponed so the combatants can train.
  • In "It's Christmas In Canada", Cartman challenges Kyle to a fist-fight for "ruining Christmas". Kyle lightly taps Cartman on the nose, and he begins crying.
  • And then the EPIC SHOWDOWN in "Cartoon Wars, Part 1" ends with a teaser for a truly epic mano-a-mano fight. What we actually got... was a bitch-slapping contest that took a minute and a half before they became exhausted. But they still manage to crash through walls. Featuring such gems of badass dialogue as "Time out! Time out! ...Time in!" and "No hitting in the balls!"
  • This was subverted in "Breast Cancer Show Ever", where the entire episode led up to a fight between Wendy and Cartman, which was expected to be a Wimp Fight. Instead, Wendy beats Cartman down in a parody of the climatic boxing scene from Snatch..
  • Also subverted in the eponymous scene in "Cripple Fight", which turns into a shot-for-shot remake of a scene from They Live!.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • Parodied and Played for Laughs in the episode "Student Starfish": Patrick and SpongeBob start a fight as a chanting crowd gathers around them. They soon stop chanting and disperse as the shot changes to show that the two are not even standing close enough to make contact.
    Onlooker: [walking away] This is embarrassing...
  • Mermaid Man and his past counterpart in "Back to the Past" engage in one of these to prevent Patrick from screwing up history. They first try punching each other (which result in slowpoke punches) before getting into what the trope says.
• Steven Universe: After she regenerates without her limb enhancers, Peridot is reduced to ineffectual slapping when she tries to attack Steven. When she actually throws a punch, Steven just sidesteps and she falls flat on her face.
• Time Squad had Otto and his past self deciding to fight since their friends are fighting. They looked at each other, shrugged, and started slapping each other.
• Total Drama:
  • Leshawna and Heather have a slap fight in the intro sequence of Island. Their fight takes place in a small rubber boat and distracts them from the fact that they're heading towards a waterfall. Once they go over it, the fight comes to an end.
  • Courtney accidentally votes off Leshawna just by saying her name in "Haute Camp-ture". Harold accuses her of doing it on purpose to get back at him. He pushes her, they weakly slap each other, and they both tumble into the pool.
  • Harold and Heather get into a slap fight over who gets to work on getting the vault open in "Ocean's Eight - Or Nine". It devolves into weak wrestling and lip-pulling until they fall over and resume the slap fight on the floor.
  • In "Aftermath I: Bridgette Over Troubled Waters", Beth, Katie, and Sadie snap-transition from screaming over the Drama Brothers' performance to slapping each other Mêlée à Trois-style over it. A concerned Geoff considers calling security, but leaves it be.
  • Chris insists in "Rapa-Phooey!" that he gets to fly the Total Drama Jumbo Jet at least once because it's his plane and he wants to. When he reaches for the buttons, Chef answers by slapping at him. Chris slaps back, but he's in over his head and he hurts his pinky.
  • The middle part of the finale in "Lies, Cries, and One Big Prize" requires one of each finalist-helper duo to take the other on their shoulders and wade through a deep mud pool. Shawn gets on Jasmine's shoulders and Dave on Sky's, and while initially Shawn and Jasmine have the lead, Jasmine gets disorientated. The two teams collide and Shawn and Dave get into a mud splash and slap fight that stops only because Chris sics a bear robot on them.
• Dudley and Kitty's occasional fights with each other in T.U.F.F. Puppy.
• In the Deadpool episode of Ultimate Spider-Man, Spider-Man and Deadpool have a brief slap fight in mid-air.
• In The Venture Bros., Dean attacks Dermott for insultingly hitting-on his would-be love interest Triana. Dean fights like a total sissy, with tears in his eyes and snot coming out of his nose, ineffectually punching with his tiny little fists... and wins. Dermott may talk a big game, but he sure as hell can't back it up. He later claims the only reason he won was because he was sick.
• At the end of the Wander over Yonder episode "The Enemies", Lord Hater and Brad Starlight's episode-long bickering eventually degenerates into a slap fight after they break the pieces of the Dismantled Macguffin they had been arguing over.
• Your Friend the Rat has a Norway rat involved in a slap fight with a black rat when the former's kind arrived in America during the American Revolutionary War. The Norway rat ends up winning.

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