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* ''Film/DunePartTwo'': The entire FinalBattle is a one-sided affair and gets portrayed almost as an afterthought or foregone conclusion - Paul Atreides/Muad'Dib's fanaticized Fremen forces effortlessly steamroll the Harkonnen and Sardaukar forces (who can't do anything against the weaponized {{sand worm}}s) in only a few minutes of screentime.
** Once Gurney Halleck manages to catch up to Rabban during the final battle, he swiftly overwhelms his Harkonnen nemesis in a brief exchange of blows before fatally running him through.

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** ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'': [[spoiler: The resurrected Kal-El vs the Justice League, Superman wins, also his fight against Steppenwolf.]]

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** ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'': ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'': [[spoiler: The resurrected Kal-El vs the Justice League, Superman wins, also his fight against Steppenwolf.]]]]
-->'''Superman:''' Not impressed...
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* ''Film/Battlefield Earth" doesn't actually show the alien invasion, but it is said that earth's militaries only lasted nine minutes against the "gas drones" that the Psyklos unleashead.

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* ''Film/Battlefield Earth" ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'' doesn't actually show the alien invasion, but it is said that earth's militaries only lasted nine minutes against the "gas drones" that the Psyklos unleashead.unleashed.
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* ''Film/Battlefield Earth" doesn't actually show the alien invasion, but it is said that earth's militaries only lasted nine minutes against the "gas drones" that the Psyklos unleashead.

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* In the sequel ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'', Genie Jafar utterly curbstomps the weakened Genie -- during his VillainSong no less!

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* In the sequel ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'', Genie Jafar utterly curbstomps curb-stomps the weakened Genie -- during his VillainSong no less!less!
** Sa'luk in ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'' dishes out one during his own VillainSong. When he returns to the 40 Thieves' lair after selling them out and tries to manipulate the handful who avoided arrest, they initially refuse and attack him, but he casually decimates all of them with his bare hands. [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership This, plus the song, rallies the remaining thieves to his side.]]



** ''Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies'', Galadriel vs. some random Orc jailor who was torturing poor Gandalf. Calling it a fight at all is being extremely charitable for the poor schmuck, she basically waves at him [[LudicrousGibs and his mates could bury him in a mop bucket]]. Galadriel vs. [[spoiler:Sauron]] and Elrond and Saruman vs. [[spoiler:the Nine Ringwraiths]] are also similarly one-sided affairs, seeing as its Middle-Earth's oldest and biggest badasses all fighting together.
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** ''Film/TheHobbitTheBattleOfTheFiveArmies'', Galadriel vs. some random Orc jailor who was torturing poor Gandalf. Calling it a fight at all is being extremely charitable for the poor schmuck, she basically waves at him [[LudicrousGibs and his mates could bury him in a mop bucket]]. Galadriel vs. [[spoiler:Sauron]] and Elrond and Saruman vs. [[spoiler:the Nine Ringwraiths]] are also similarly one-sided affairs, seeing as its Middle-Earth's oldest and biggest badasses all fighting together.

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* PlayedForHorror in ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish''. At the beginning of the film, Puss meets a wolf who is a bounty hunter, whom he starts to fight. The wolf defeats him with ease, as he’s able to effortlessly dodge all of Puss’s attacks, knocks his sword out of his hand multiple times, and even comes close to killing Puss, with his one of his sickles coming into contact with his head. Puss escapes, but this loss traumatizes him for most of the movie. He runs into the wolf a few times, with which he immediately tries to run away from him. [[spoiler: What makes this even scarier is that the wolf is actually [[TheGrimReaper Death]], and he wants to kill Puss personally for [[CatsHaveNineLives recklessly wasting all of his previous lives]]. After Puss’s CharacterDevelopment, however, he’s able to confront Death once again, only this time, he actually puts up a fight.]]

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* PlayedForHorror in ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish''. At the beginning of the film, Puss meets a wolf who is a bounty hunter, whom he starts to fight. The wolf defeats him with ease, as he’s he's able to effortlessly dodge all of Puss’s Puss's attacks, knocks his sword out of his hand multiple times, and even comes close to killing Puss, with his one of his sickles coming into contact with his head. Puss escapes, but this loss traumatizes him for most of the movie. He runs into the wolf a few times, with which he immediately tries to run away from him. [[spoiler: What makes this even scarier is that the wolf is actually [[TheGrimReaper Death]], and he wants to kill Puss personally for [[CatsHaveNineLives recklessly wasting all of his previous lives]]. After Puss’s CharacterDevelopment, however, he’s he's able to confront Death once again, only this time, he actually puts up a fight.]]



* Done comedically with ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'' when Fiona single handedly defeats Robin Hood and his band of merry men. It comes off as a surprise for Shrek, who didn't expect her to put up a fight considering the norms of the fairy tale formula the movie was parodying.

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* Done comedically *'WesternAnimation/Shrek1'':
** Shrek beats dozens of Lord Farquaad's knights in about a minute
with ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'' when almost no help.
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Fiona single handedly single-handedly defeats Robin Hood and his band of merry men. It comes off as a surprise for Shrek, who didn't expect her to put up a fight considering the norms of the fairy tale formula the movie was parodying.
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** The climactic single combat between Hector and Achilles is a rather contemptuously easy victory for Achilles, who has the advantage from the very start of the fight and immediately forces Hector into desperation mode.
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* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' River defeats both a room of thugs in a BadGuyBar as well as a horde of reavers with barely a scratch on her.

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* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' ''Film/Serenity2005'': River defeats both a room of thugs in a BadGuyBar as well as a horde of reavers with barely a scratch on her.
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* In ''Film/TheTerminator'', when the T-800 tracks down Sarah to the police station, the desk sergeant tells him that she is not available to talk to anyone, and the T-800 promises [[CatchPhrase "I'll be back."]] He crashes his car into the lobby of the station, and despite the station's personnel firing everything at the T-800, from snub nosed revolvers, twelve gage shotguns, and automatic rifles, the T-800 just uses his [[CoolGuns AR-15 and SPAS]] to [[NoSell massacre seventeen police officers without missing a beat.]]

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* In ''Film/TheTerminator'', when the T-800 tracks down Sarah to the police station, the desk sergeant tells him that she is not available to talk to anyone, and the T-800 promises [[CatchPhrase "I'll be back."]] He crashes his car into the lobby of the station, and despite the station's personnel firing everything at the T-800, from snub nosed revolvers, twelve gage shotguns, and automatic rifles, the T-800 just uses his [[CoolGuns AR-15 and SPAS]] SPAS to [[NoSell massacre seventeen police officers without missing a beat.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheWarToEndAllWarsTheMovie'': The "Dreadnought" segment depicts the fatal encounter between the armored cruiser HMS ''Black Prince'' and a battleship squadron of the German High Seas fleet on the morning of the Battle of Jutland. ''Black Prince'' opens fire while trying to flee, but is ludicrously outgunned and goes down with all hands with barely any effort on the Germans' part.
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* The final fight between [[CoolLoser the three protagonists]] and [[JerkJock Sam]] at the end of ''Film/{{Kidulthood}}''. Sam spends a few minutes beating the hell out of Trife, when he gets attacked from behind by Jay, who is thrown on the floor and beaten down in ''under a minute'', before Sam shoves the third protagonist aside with little effort. The other twenty or so people present are too scared to anything. Although, when Sam [[WouldHitAGirl attacks Alisa]], Trife [[UnstoppableRage Curbstomps him back]].

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* The final fight between [[CoolLoser the three protagonists]] protagonists and [[JerkJock Sam]] at the end of ''Film/{{Kidulthood}}''. Sam spends a few minutes beating the hell out of Trife, when he gets attacked from behind by Jay, who is thrown on the floor and beaten down in ''under a minute'', before Sam shoves the third protagonist aside with little effort. The other twenty or so people present are too scared to anything. Although, when Sam [[WouldHitAGirl attacks Alisa]], Trife [[UnstoppableRage Curbstomps him back]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'':
** The beginning features the penguins throwing snowballs at Bowser and his Koopa army, but only one big snowball knocks out a single Koopa. Kamek easily tosses them aside with his magic and Bowser unleashes a fire breath to level the penguins' castle.
** Mario does not fare well against Donkey Kong who manages to do a PunchCatch on Mario and puts Mario on the run. [[spoiler:That is, until Mario gets the Super Bell, allowing him to return the favor to the Kong and win the match]].
** At the very end, [[spoiler:Mario is forced to bear the brunt of Bowser's wrath, the Koopa King now in full VillainousBreakdown mode, not even getting the chance to fight back and getting real injuries for the first time in the movie. Peach, Donkey Kong and Toad all try to cover him while he's down, but none of them fare any better, if at all. However, once Mario and Luigi get the Super Star, they turn the tables on the enemy and easily destroys Bowser's legions and trounce Bowser without breaking a sweat.]]

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