History CurbStompBattle / ComicBooks

* ComicBook/SquirrelGirl is a champion at this trope. Her most famous victories occurred off-panel, but in the ''Deadpool/GLI Summer Spectacular'', we see her give {{Deadpool}} the beating of his life in the space of a single page.

--->'''Thor''': "Mayhap, woman. When icicles doth grace Surter's fiery realm." He then punches her so hard she is knocked out of sight over the horizon.

* In ''ComicBook/MightyMorphinPowerRangersShatteredGrid'', battles against Lord Drakkon's army and the various Ranger teams goes in Drakkon's forces' favor because they have Dragon Cannons, which end up severing their connection to the Morphin' Grid. Only team that's safe against them is the RPM team due to Dr. K studying a Dragon Cannon and fixing the Ranger Operators' powers.

** [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Damian and Tim]] have had a strained relationship ever since the former was introduced, sucker punching Drake out of jealousy. After years of teasing the hostility between the two, they finally had it out in ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Red Robin]]'' #13 and Damian got the ever loving crap beaten out of him.
--> '''Damian:''' I will not lose to you.
--> '''Tim:''' [[BadassBoast You lost the second I started]] ''[[BadassBoast trying]]''.
** Subverted in Batman and Robin; if you`ve read some of the confrontation between Tim and Damian leading up to this this one you probably expect another Curb Stomp Battle, but Damian actually seems to win during the first half of the fight before Tim gains the upper hand again.

* At the start of ''ComicBook/{{The Death of Superman}}'', the monster Doomsday is attacked by the entire Justice League (sans Superman). When Supes showed up, the League was shattered.

** In fact, if Spider-Man's history has proven anything, when he stops making jokes and gets genuinely angry, that's a ''very'' good sign this sort of battle is going to happen, and the villain is going to be on the receiving end.

** Speaking of Darkseid, when Doomsday fought Darkseid in ''Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey'', the beast {{No Sell}}s Darkseid's Omega Beams, then brings the despot to the brink of death.

** Superman vs the Auth.. erm vs the Elite. To educate the Elite, a new group of violent and cynical superheroes who want to kill him, Superman gives them such an insane beating that the last one standing really believes Superman has crossed his sacred line and killed all of his teammates. Then Supes proceeds to show said last man standing exactly how powerless normal people feel when reckless metahumans treat them as their playthings. [[spoiler:Supes doesn't actually kill ''any'' of them, but rather knocks them out using various methods, meaning that while taking all of them down seemingly effortlessly, ''he was still holding back''.]]

** AoA!Sinister, who Nate ultimately laminated to the floor after Sinister killed his foster father, Forge.

** AoA!Apocalypse, who Nate [[LaserGuidedTykeBomb was created by Sinister to kill]], and who Nate kicked seven shades of crap out of, before leaving him on a platter for Magneto to rip in half.

** Exodus, albeit weakened and reduced to being a PsychicVampire by a brutal fight with Holocaust on Avalon, attracted by Nate and Cable's fight. Exodus had the upper hand... then Nate sensed his connection to Apocalypse. One bout of UnstoppableRage later, Exodus was at the bottom of a very large crevasse.

** Another Spider-Man example: he goes up against one of Galactus' former Heralds, Firelord, and it seems that Firelord has the upper hand, because Spidey has self-doubts about his skills. Once Spider-Man gets pissed, Firelord is taken out in less than five panels. Of course, it was after Firelord had just hurt a child and Spidey pretty much went berserk. And quite frankly, every time a villain hurts a child in Spider-Man's presence, Spidey will utterly devastate him, the only exception being [[spoiler:Lizard, who had evolved and developed new powers, which stopped Spider-Man from trashing him]].

** The "Hulk vs." battles in the main title fit the description as well -- a [[HopeSpot brief moment where it looks like someone might actually take Hulk out]], followed immediately by an asskicking. Only the Sentry gave him anything close to a run for his money.

** In ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' Supergirl faces up to Comicbook/{{Lobo}}, who can usually fight toe to toe with Superman. Kara goes berserker and beats him up so brutally that Lobo decides to play possum.

* During the first ''ComicBook/{{Batman}} Vs. Film/{{Predator}}'' mini-series, Batman's first encounter with the alien hunter is so lopsided that the only thing that saved Bruce from being the creature's next trophy was the Batmobile.

*** Also from ''Secret Wars''. To wit, Titania, the new villainess of the comic, has just come out of inflicting a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown nightmarish group beatdown]] on She-Hulk that very nearly killed her and is buzzing to go out to find the other superheroes. She bumps into Spider-Man, who is alone, much smaller and weaker than her... but he is much faster than her, and more, he's [[TranquilFury in absolutely]] ''[[TranquilFury no mood]]'' to play around with her after what she did. Titania never landed a single hit on Spidey and was eventually reduced to panicked pleading for him to stop before being [[DestinationDefenestration defenestrated through a concrete wall]]. For ''years'' afterwards, Titania had a ''crippling phobia'' of him.

** Howewer it should be noted that Bullseye was paralyzed.

* ComicBook/{{Magneto}}'s first two battles with the "new" X-Men (the 1975 team) were long enough to be interesting, but with two of the X-Men helpless against him (Colossus and Wolverine are both very metallic), they still get thoroughly stomped. They carefully plan their third battle; one might argue they have the upper hand when the game is called on account of volcano, but it's still a close one.

** Superman vs the Auth.. erm vs the Elite. To educate the Elite, a new group of violent and cynical superheroes who want to kill him, Superman gives them such an insane beating that the last one standing really believes Superman has crossed his sacred line and killed all of his teammates. Then Supes proceeds to show said last man standing exactly how powerless normal people feel when reckless metahumans treat them as their playthings. [[spoiler:Supes doesn't actually kill ''any'' of them, but rather knocked them out using various methods, meaning that while taking all of them down seemingly effortlessly, ''he was still holding back''.]]

** Superman vs the Auth.. erm vs the Elite. To educate the Elite, a new group of violent and cynical superheroes who want to kill him, Superman gives them such an insane beating that the last one standing really believes Superman has crossed his sacred line and killed all of his teammates. Then Supes proceeds to show said last man standing exactly how powerless normal people feel when reckless metahumans treat them as their playthings. [[spoiler:It's worth noting that Supes didn't actually kill ''any'' of them, but rather knocked them out using various methods, meaning that while taking all of them down seemingly effortlessly, ''he was still holding back''.]]

*** Averted in Batman and Robin; if you`ve read some of the confrontation between Tim and Damian leading up to this this one you probably expect another Curb Stomp Battle, but Damian actually seems to win during the first half of the fight before Tim gains the upper hand again.

*** Averted in Batman and Robin , if you`ve read some of the confrontation between Tim and Damian leading up to this this one you probably expect another Curb Stomp battle , but Damian actually seems to win during the first half of the fight before Tim gains the upper hand again.

** [[ContinuityNod Brought back]] in ''GreenLantern: Rebirth'' when the recently reincarnated Hal Jordan floors the Dark Knight with, as Gardner exclaims with glee: "One punch! ONE PUNCH!"

** Not to mention all the "Superman turning slightly evil by Polka Dot Kryptonite" incidents. Did Green Fury (now "Fire"), the Brazilian superheroine, hope on WouldntHitAGirl? Not on Polka Dot Kryptonite, m'am! She got stomped like the Brazilian soccer team 2014...

** ''AnnihilationConquest'' has Ultron doing the same to Moondragon, who was a giant dragon at the time.

** There was an Danger Room battle between Scott and a ''depowered'' Ororo in which Ororo manages to dodge optic blasts and otherwise win the battle.

* ''ComicBook/Galactus'':

* In ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'', The Captain tells Elsa Bloodstone about his first meeting with ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. Made the mistake of telling him his full code name. He was beat seven shades of blue, left in a dumpster with a bar of soap stuck in his mouth.

** Frank ends up on the receiving end of one of these in the Creator/JossWhedon written arc of ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}''. He's about to kill the kids for working with the Kingpin [[spoiler:only for Molly and her SuperStrength give him the single most painful [[GroinAttack nutshot]] of all time]]. Frank's role for the rest of the arc when he appears is to hold his ground, trying desperately not to pass out, hilariously.
* ComicBook/RedHulk, feeling cocky after defeating the ComicBook/SilverSurfer and stealing the power cosmic from him, decides he was able to stand face-to-face with ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, Devourer of Worlds. [[http://imageshack.us/a/img39/1955/galactus.jpg Galactus quickly shows Red Hulk why that was a terrible, terrible idea.]]
* Comicbook/SecretWars opening issues had The Beyonder deliver one of these to Galactus and Doom.
** The newly resurrected Ultron begins wrecking shit, until he tried to attack Galactus. Three panels of Ultron futilely attacking Galactus, and one panel of Galactus destroying him

** She-Hulk delivered one to the Enchantress, putting her in a coma with few hits. Good thign there were healing machines nearby

* Mr. X vs ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} in the ''[[ComicBook/DarkReign Siege]]'' finale. Mr. X (a {{Wolverine}} villain) discovers that his particular schtick - reading his opponent's mind so that he knows exactly what move said opponent is about to make - is completely useless against someone who can move at the speed of sound. He knows what Quicksilver is about to do - namely break every bone in his body with a chunk of metal debris - but he can't possibly react fast enough to prevent it.

*** Also from ''Secret Wars''. To wit, Titania, the new villainess of the comic, has just come out of inflicting a [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown nightmarish group beatdown]] on She-Hulk that very nearly killed her and is buzzing to go out to find the other superheroes. She bumps into Spiderman, who is alone, much smaller and weaker than her... but he is much faster than her, and more, he's [[TranquilFury in absolutely]] ''[[TranquilFury no mood]]'' to play around with her after what she did. Titania never landed a single hit on Spidey and was eventually reduced to panicked pleading for him to stop before being [[DestinationDefenestration defenestrated through a concrete wall]]. For ''years'' afterwards, Titania had a ''crippling phobia'' of him.
** Another Spider-Man example: he goes up against one of Galactus' former Heralds, Firelord, and it seems that Firelord has the upper hand, because Spidey has self-doubts about his skills. Once Spider-Man gets pissed, Firelord is taken out in less than five panels. Of course, it was after Firelord has just hurt a child and Spidey pretty much went berserk. And quite frankly, every time villain hurts a child in Spider-Man's presence, Spidey will utterly devastate him, the only exception being [[spoiler:Lizard, who had evolved and developed new powers, which stopped Spider-Man from trashing him]].

** Spider-Man got into another two in ''ComicBook/BrandNewDay'', during "The Gauntlet" arc, first being on receiving end, when Mr. Negative threw him several streets away with one punch and then and delivering, once he found out the Kravinoffs have [[spoiler: killed his clone Kaine to resurrect Kraven The Hunter]] - he goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and the people that almost killed him suddenly go down like flies.

*** And there is also Rhino vs New Rhino, which has a large buildup culminating with [[spoiler: Old Rhino breaking new one in matter of seconds, and then killing him.]]
** In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'' Kraven the Hunter makes this big show of how he's going to hunt Spider-man, and after multiple issues gets the chance while he's fighting Doctor Octopus. Spidey dodges him a for about a page, then slams him to the pavement.

* ''ComicBook/TheThanosImperative'' has ComicBook/{{Nova}} and Comicbook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy with Thanos single-handely defeating the Avengers and Defenders' [[EvilTwin evil counterparts]] respectively.

* In ''Comicbook/Thunderbolts'', Bullseye was on the receiving end of an ''absolutely epic'' one of these when he recklessly tried to kill American Eagle, a super-powered Native American who really wasn't in a good mood at the time. After pointing out to Bullseye that there's a big difference between going after unpowered normal types like Daredevil and someone like him, who both has super strength and doesn't hold back when using it, and has no problem fighting dirty either, American Eagle proceeds to ''beat the complete and total shit'' out of Bullseye. It's a miracle he survived. Bullseye has since given American Eagle a very wide berth.
** Howewer is noted that Bullseye was paralyzed.

** The Wife beating itself had started off as an argument that dissolved into mutual combat which quickly became one of these, and that was [[FromBadToWorse before Hank called the ants]].
* When ComicBook/{{Venom}} first broke out of prison following his first defeat, he headed for ComicBook/SpiderMan's apartment, not knowing he and Mary Jane had been evicted. Dropping in for a visit was the Black Cat, also looking to meet up with Peter. However, when the two meet, Venom demands to know where Spidey is and when Black Cat doesn't give him an answer, he's quick to attack. Despite dropping a chandelier on top of him, Venom wipes the floor with the Black Cat, tearing up the apartment and leaving her with a broken nose... and the revelation that Peter's married.

** Apollo gets his revenge two issues later, when he rips apart entire army of marvel-powerups parodies, including those two that got him earlier. Manwhile Jack and Doctor curbstomps other villainous versions of Marvel superheroes, with former making city of Paris eat his opponents alive and Doctor turning his opponents bones into cologne.
** Later, in issue #22, [[PsychoForHire Seth]] (the Six Billion Dollar Bastard) curbstomps the entire team. He takes down Apollo with one blast, doesn't give Midnighter a chance to land a single blow, beats the Doctor between panels, takes Swift out before she can even enter the room, steals the Engineer's nanomachines after harmlessly deflecting her bullets, then teleports to Jack Hawksmoor and seemingly swallows him. This would have taken less than the five pages it did if he hadn't taken time to give exposition and make taunts.
* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] and PlayedForLaughs in ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' ''2017 Annual'', a handful of the Beano Stars are brought to the seaside by their parents while Bananaman fights an octopus monster. He finally wins, only for the monster to grab him and an ice cream van. The latter [[BerserkButton COMPLETELY ticks off]] the stars who were at the seaside at the time, causing all of them (Yes, including [[ButtMonkey Calamity James]].) to beat the monster and get the ice cream van back in [[spoiler: FOUR MINUTES.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'': Averted in a badass manner. During the most-beloved ''Dangerous Habits'' storyline, John Constantine was dying of cancer and when things can't get any worse, gets the wrath of Satan aka The First of the Fallen (who was by the way omnipotent). When the First was already going to collect his soul in the eve of his death, and to be tortured so brutally by none before, John suprises him by revealing he has sold his souls to two other Devils. He then gives the First the bird.
* In ''Comicbook/{{Miracleman}}'' #3, the eponymous FlyingBrick is attacked by a super-strong opponent, calling himself "Big Ben". Miracleman impassively waits to see what his new opponent can do, never attempting to defend himself. All of Ben's flying kicks and punches fail to have an impact. Ben next resorts to throwing boulders at Miracleman, and then uproots a tree and uses it as a club... to no effect. Noticing that Miracleman has yet to move, Ben calls for him to fight like a man. In response, a single slap by Miracleman has the effect of [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom Punching Ben Across the Room]] and to a nearby forest, where his landing leaves an impact crater on the ground. Ending the "fight", and knocking Ben out for an hour (the exact time between the knockout slap and the point he wakes up is recorded for the reader's convenience). When he does wake up, the [[SuperToughness Super Tough]] Ben discovers he lost several teeth and now sports a swollen eye.

* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman: Season of Mists'', Azazel attempts to devour Dream. Unfortunately for him, Dream is one of the most powerful beings in creation and they're in ''his'' realm, where everything bends to his will. Azazel ends up in trapped in a jar in no time at all.
* ComicBook/ScottPilgrim's fights with evil Ex 2 and 3 turned into this, with Scott being entirely outmatched for the both fights. [[spoiler: Lucas Lee (2) was destroyed doing a highly impossible skateboard stunt, and Todd Ingram (3) couldn't be defeated till he lost the rights to his Vegan powers.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'' Averts the traditional bloodless superhero fights by depicting ''literal'' curb stomp battles between normal human soldiers and the titular Nazi superhumans. The "tank"-class Ubers bloodily rip ordinary soldiers and even ''tanks'' apart with their bare hands; the "battleship"-class Ubers annihilate entire armies in seconds. When the Allied forces get their own superhumans, several Nazi Ubers are literally stomped to death in gory fistfights, but the first Allied "battleship", Colossus, is eviscerated in seconds by the much more powerful German Uber Sieglinde.