History CurbStompBattle / MarvelUniverse

** Spider-Man vs. Kingpin near the end of the ''Back in Black'' arc, and the Kingpin has no-one to blame but himself. He ''dared'' Spider-Man to fight him after having his aunt shot just to prove to everyone he is still in charge. The angry hero beat him within an inch of his life in front of the whole prison population, utterly humiliating him.

*** 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 what is not immediately obvious to Titania is that he has a ''huge'' advantage in speed, agility, reflexes, and fighting experience, 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.
*** To add insult to injury, ''not a single one'' of her villainous teammates were the least bit surprised that Spider-Man thoroughly kicked her ass.

* 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, and left in a dumpster with a bar of soap stuck in his mouth.

* [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'s "fight" with ComicBook/IronMan post-''ComicBook/CivilWar''. Elapsed storytelling space: four pages. Elapsed time: 1m 15s. And note that it only lasted so long because Thor [[BadassBoast took the time to explain]] [[StoryboardingTheApocalypse what he'd do if the government didn't leave him alone]].

* ''ComicBook/JudgmentDay:'' Uranos, Thanos's grandfather, is sent by Druig to take care of the Mutants on Mars, almost all of whom are supposedly Omega Level Mutants. He's given an hour, which Druig thinks is enough time to prevent his grand-uncle from causing trouble. The total fight time lasts twenty minutes. Uranos spends the remaining forty getting artistic with the remains of his victims.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'', they spend two or three pages building up a fight between Mimic and an [[EvilTwin alternate universe double]] of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. The fight is for the Skrull Gladiator Championship, which is the Skrull equivalent of the Super Bowl. The actual fight lasts for two panels, with Mimic, [[ComboPlatterPowers a Swiss Army Knife of mutant powers]], unleashing the optic blasts that he borrowed from Cyclops. Mimic then flips the crowd the bird, and walks out of the arena.

** Galactus vs Bone-claw Wolverine: The planet eater did not even notice the midget scraping away at him without any effect.

* ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk: X-Men'' is basically the Hulk handing one of these out to every X-Men team over the course of three issues. Until he runs into a fully powered Juggernaut, the most they can do is slow him down, and even then not for very long. Unfortunately, the Hulk was madder than he'd ever been before, which made him strong enough to stop [[TheJuggernaut the unstoppable Juggernaut]]. The only thing that finally stopped him? Mercury giving him a WhatTheHellHero about all of the mutant children slaughtered in the aftermath of [[ComicBook/HouseOfM Decimation]] and Hulk realizing Xavier had already suffered enough.

** She trades them with Lady Deathstrike during ''Messiah Complex''. X-Force encounters a battle between the Reavers and Cable while the latter is attempting to defend baby Hope. Laura, ''extremely'' [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend pissed off over Deathstrike nearly killing Hellion]], engages her in a fight which at first appears to go terribly against her. Deathstrike tears her apart and Laura is barely able to land a hit... until Deathstrike opens herself up for a surgical strike to her cybernetics. [[DeliberateInjuryGambit Exactly as Laura planned.]] It takes X ''seconds'' to finish her off.

** ''ComicBook/ChaosWar'' was full of those - Chaos King killing Nightmare, Impossible Man, [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]], Ares, Pluto, Zeus, and Hera with no effort, Zeus curb stomping Thor and Galactus and Chaos King curb stomping [[spoiler:every single pantheon on Earth.]] The epilogue in ComicBook/IncredibleHulk featured [[spoiler:Zeus giving Hulk one of the biggest beatdowns of his life.]]

** Naturally UpToEleven for teh lulz in "Marvel What The": Galactus vs. The Atom!

* ''ComicBook/SecretWars''' opening issues had The Beyonder deliver one of these to Galactus and Doom.

** Speaking of Spider-Man, when he has to face off against the X-Men in ''ComicBook/SecretWars'', he curb-stomps the entire roster that has come after him, which includes one of maybe three fights between Spidey and Wolverine that are portrayed accurately (here's a hint: Spidey can ignore Wolverine). Wolverine ''himself'' states after the fight that Spidey makes the X-Men look like amateurs.

** ''ComicBook/ChaosWar'' was full of those - Chaos King killing Nightmare, Impossible Man, [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]], Ares, Pluto, Zeus, and Hera with no effort, Zeus curb stomping Thor and Galactus and Chaos King curb stomping [[spoiler:every single pantheon on Earth]]. The epilogue in ComicBook/IncredibleHulk featured [[spoiler:Zeus giving Hulk one of the biggest beatdowns of his life.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Annihilation}}'' has Drax vs Thanos, which lasted one panel - enough time for Drax to rip his opponent's heart's out and for Thanos to find it interesting.

* The entirety of the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' portion of the ''ComicBook/ActsOfVengeance'' storyline had a lot of C- and D-list villains attacking them randomly, thanks to a device [[spoiler: ComicBook/DoctorDoom ([[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou who else]]?)]] made that induced them to attack the FF. It only mildly irritated them when the device followed them to a Congressional committee meeting due to the interruptions it caused and the poor quality of villains it drew.

** ''ComicBook/ChaosWar'' was full of those - Chaos King killing Nightmare, Impossible Man, [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]], Ares, Pluto, Zeus and Hera with no effort, Zeus curb stomping Thor and Galactus and Chaos King curb stomping [[spoiler: every single pantheon on Earth]]. The epilogue in ComicBook/IncredibleHulk featured [[spoiler: Zeus giving Hulk one of the biggest beatdowns of his life]].

** In one story arc, he's on a covert mission to Russia for Nick Fury (long story) and eventually comes across a martial artist half his size who curb-stomps him. But [[spoiler:when the same guy then threatens the life of a little girl Frank swore to protect, Frank gets up off the floor and curb-stomps ''him'', to the point where he has to force himself to stop because he's frightening the girl. Frank was able to get his second wind because the girl reminded him for a brief moment of his long-deceased daughter]].
** Also, in the tale of how Frank infiltrated Riker's Island Prison to kill the Mafia criminals responsible for the murder of his family, [[spoiler:he takes a truncheon to one of them and repeatedly bashes him in the head over and over and over]]. It's not pretty.

** Her partners didn't fare better as Frank [[spoiler: had one drugged and waking up with his guts tied to a tree before knowing the Punisher was after him and the other is knocked after Frank pushes his BerserkButton, then he sets him on fire.]]

** Takes another one at the hands of Daken in ComicBook/DarkReign, [[spoiler: this time fatally]]. For all his expertise in explosives, firearms and CQB techniques, Frank is ''still'' a baseline human, and Daken has his father's HealingFactor and was ''bred'' to be a weapon. Interestingly, there's a quite a bit of ''fighting'', but nothing Frank does [[NoSell works]], and just results in Daken mocking him harder. Once the fight [[CombatBreakdown devolves]] into Daken's blades versus Frank's Kabar, it's a matter of seconds until [[spoiler: he's hacked to pieces and tipped into an alley like garbage]].

** Nigh-omnipotent Molecule Man in full control of his powers vs Bulldozer and Doctor Octopus on separate occasions. Guess who wins.

--->'''Titania''': "Everyone will be talking about me! Titania! The woman who killed Thor!"
--->'''Thor''': "Mayhap, woman. When icicles doth grace Surter's fiery realm."

* Mr. X vs ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} in the ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}'' finale. Mr. X (a ComicBook/{{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.

** Ares vs Sentry in the same event with Sentry [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe ripping Ares in half]].

** Another Spider-Man example (one of the more absurd ones): 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]].

** ''ComicBook/SpiderManSpidersShadow''

*** The Sinister Six coordinate a battle plan in an attempt to kill Spider-Man, only for it to backfire spectacularly, with the wall-crawler slaughtering Mysterio, Rhino, and Electro and seriously wounding [[spoiler:Eddie Brock]]. Only Kraven and a Spider-Slayer wielding Jameson are left in the fight and barely manage to get the symbiote off of Spider-Man by [[KryptoniteFactor forcing him into a]] [[KillItWithFire burning barn]].
** Spider-Man got into another two in ''ComicBook/BrandNewDay'', during "The Gauntlet" arc, first being on the receiving end, when Mr. Negative threw him several streets away with one punch, and then delivering, once he found out the Kravinoffs had [[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 the new one in a matter of seconds, and then killing him.]]

* [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'s "fight" with ComicBook/IronMan post-''ComicBook/CivilWar''. Elapsed storytelling space: four pages. Elapsed time: 1m 15s. And note that it only lasted so long because Thor [[BadassBoast took the time to explain]] [[StoryboardingTheApocalypse what he'd do ifthe government didn't leave him alone]].

** And the whole fight is summed up with one quote from Thor: “Give your orders and ultimatums to those who choose to obey, or are too cowardly to fight. NOT TO ME. Or learn again the difference between a god of thunder and a mortal man in a metal suit!”

** She trades them with Lady Deathstrike during ''Messiah Complex''. X-Force encounters a battle between the Reavers and Cable while the latter is attempting to defend baby Hope. Laura, ''extremely'' [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend pissed off over Deathstrike nearly killing Hellion]], engages her in a fight which at first appears to go terribly against her. Deathstrike tears her apart and Laura is barely able to land a hit...until Deathstrike opens herself up for a surgical strike to her cybernetics. [[DeliberateInjuryGambit Exactly as Laura planned.]] It takes X ''seconds'' to finish her off.

* ComicBook/SecretWars' opening issues had The Beyonder deliver one of these to Galactus and Doom.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'', they spend two or three pages building up a fight between Mimic and an [[EvilTwin alternate universe double]] of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. The fight is for the Skrull Gladiator Championship, which is the Skrull equivalent of the Superbowl. The actual fight lasts for two panels, with Mimic, [[ComboPlatterPowers a Swiss Army Knife of mutant powers]], unleashing the optic blasts that he borrowed from Cyclops. Mimic then flips the crowd the bird, and walks out of the arena.

* Scott Lang (Antman) gives an absolutely brutal one to Doctor Doom in FF [[spoiler: as revenge for killing his daughter]] while giving an equally brutal "TheReasonYouSuck"Speech

* Mr. X vs ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} in the ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}'' finale. Mr. X (a Franchise/{{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.