History DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu / Literature

*** In the next book of his personal storyline, it turns out that while he did drive off its attempt to possess him, it was so impressed that now it just casually hangs around him and gives him little boosts like being able to see in pitch-black darkness.

* ''Literature/ThirdTimeLuckyAndOtherStoresOfTheMostPowerfulWizardInTheWorld'': In "And Who Is Joah?" Zayd takes down a demon prince with an ivory knife, as it turns out [[WeaksauceWeakness demons are vulnerable to ivory]], though it isn't fatal.

* ''Literature/ThirdTimeLuckyAndOtherStoresOfTheMostPowerfulWizardInTheWorld'': Zayd takes down a demon prince with an ivory knife, as it turns out [[WeaksauceWeakness demons are vulnerable to ivory]], though it isn't fatal.

** Rincewind has done this at least three times. Most of the time, Rincewind is [[CowardlyLion just as surprised as anybody else]] that he's capable of it.

** Eskarina Smith kicked her way through the Literature/{{Discworld}} Dungeon Dimension creatures in ''Literature/EqualRites''. Mind you, Literature/{{Discworld}} Dungeon Dimension creatures are described as being very weak against purely physical threats -- they do, however, eat magic that is used against them to become ''much'' stronger.

*** In ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}'', he challenges the most powerful magic user on the planet, who himself had just magicked away all the gods. His weapon of choice? [[ImprovisedWeapon A brick in a sock.]] By the time he got to the Dungeon Dimensions all he had was sand. Luckily, socks come in pairs. This is justified in-story because a real object, like a brick, has an edge against a magical thing. So when the Cthulhus of the Dungeon Dimensions attack him, being creatures of pure magic, sand in a sock is a deadly thing to them.
*** In a BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu subversion, when Rincewind whacks away Coin's staff with the half brick in a sock, the staff flies off the edge of the tower, then levitates back up, speeds forward and injures him on the side of the head. The subversion is that Rincewind simply gets back up and continues the fight, eventually succeeding.
** In ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'', one of Discworld's immortal vampires (can even come back from staking, sunlight, etc.) is accidentally thwarted by one witch with a window shutter, accidentally again by another witch with a garlic sausage, and finally deliberately eaten (in bat form) by [[CatsAreMean Greebo,]] Nanny Ogg's cat.
--->''Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.''

** When [[AlphaBitch Annagramma Hawkin]] fireballs the titular antagonist of ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}'', the Disc's SentientCosmicForce of Winter (one of the Winters, anyway), and ''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments succeeds in temporarily melting him]]''. Why? [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Because he was harassing Tiffany]].

* The ''Literature/YoungWizards'' series is about teenagers fighting an undefeatable being who is basically Satan. Naturally, [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Punching out Cthulhu]] and [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome crowning moments of awesome]] happen on a regular basis.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':

* The main conflict in ''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'' is between Kyousuke and the White Queen, the latter being an EldritchAbomination who is by far the most powerful being in the setting. At the end of each volume (except the fifth), Kyousuke manages to find some way to defeat her, or at least thwart her plans. However, the ''only'' reason he's able to do this is because the White Queen is madly in love with him, and considers it just as enjoyable to let him win.

* ''Literature/{{Railhead}}'': [[spoiler:By 'killing' the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Railmaker]] with a computer virus, [[DeusEstMachina the Guardians]] managed to take down a ([[BenevolentAbomination friendly]]) DigitalAbomination that was ''[[UsefulNotes/AbusingTheKardashevScaleForFunAndProfit a strong type II on the Kardashev Scale]]'', while the Guardians hailed from Earth, TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. It's strongly suggested that this staggering feat was ''only'' possible because the Railmaker was an ActualPacifist which didn't see the need for any kind of weapons or defences]].

* Rachel Elizabeth Dare, who throws her hairbrush at the Kronos' host, hitting the Titan King in the eye. Not only does this give the good guys enough time to get away, it is her [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome crowning moment of awesome]], at least until [[spoiler:she becomes the Oracle of Delphi]].
*** As a result of this, blue plastic hairbrushes have become ''the'' inside joke of the Percy Jackson fandom.
Except for dams. Are y'all talking about that dam hairbrush again?

* [[spoiler:The defeat of Typhon the Storm Giant]] from ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', though this is an interesting case, as it was [[spoiler: the ''gods themselves'']] who defeated him. Though that just goes to show how monstrously strong he was.
** Percy in The Lightning Thief when he [[spoiler:beats the god of war in a sword fight.]]
* The ''Literature/{{Percy Jackson and the Olympians}}'' has Rachel Elizabeth Dare, who throws her hairbrush at the bad guy's host, hitting him in the eye. Not only does this give the good guys enough time to get away, it is her [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome crowning moment of awesome]], at least until [[spoiler:she becomes the Oracle of Delphi]].
** As a result of this, blue plastic hairbrushes have become ''the'' inside joke of the Percy Jackson fandom.
*** Except for dams.
*** Are y'all talking about that dam hairbrush again?

** Samwise Gamgee successfully fights off an EldritchAbomination in GiantSpider form with nothing but a couple of swords, an elf-light, and ThePowerOfFriendship. Standing up to her successfully was so impressive that when the orcs discovered the aftermath, they concluded a fierce Elf warrior was on the loose.