History DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu / VideoGames

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** The best fighter against Onslaught is the [[JokeCharacter robot girl]]--not woman, girl--whose day job is maid. That's right, ''Game/MegaMan's'' sister Roll. It's fun to take her in against Onslaught and wipe the floor with him.

*** And then you punched out Deathwing for the count, and unlike the Lich King you actually didn't [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu broke you arm]].

*** One could argue the interpretation [[spoiler:is that the remaining god is in fact recovering to overtake earth. The game in fact explains only the corpse god Mantorok is still alive, "festering in its tomb... plotting".]]

** Played with in ''{{Skyrim}}''. [[Spoiler:Yes, Alduin ''is'' the bringer of the end and he was powerful enough that a previous set of heroes could only send him through time. Yes, the player ''does'' manage to kill him (quite easily if Dragonrend is used). However, one of his contemporaries (his former {{Dragon}}, no less) snarks that he's not really all he claims to be.]]

* The fight against the mighty Nihilanth at the end of the first ''{{Half-Life}}''. A giant bio-mechanical psychic being of unimaginable power that controls an entire dimension's worth of aliens... taken out by a scientist wearing a fancy suit.

** Both of those are nothing compared to the beginning of ''Half-Life 2: Episode One'', when the previously unstoppable [=GMan=], capable of casually manipulating time and space to his (its?) whims, is completely owned by a group of Vortigaunts (the face he makes is priceless, by the way).

** ''FinalFantasyIII'': The Cloud of Darkness is an actual God which manifests as a roughly female avatar from a swirling, multicolored fog. It has no purpose, no reason, other than to consume all the reality of the World of Light itself. It's beaten back by four kids with a penchant for onions.
** ''FinalFantasyIV'': Zeromus is a grotesque, shapeless ''thing'' with a vaguely crustacean appearance, and the embodiment of the primal force of Hatred itself. Although Cecil and company defeat it, it claims to be eternal, or, at least, that [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil it will exist as long as humanity does]].

** [[BigBad Chaos]], the FinalBoss of the original ''[[FinalFantasyI Final Fantasy]]'', can be killed in a [[OneHitKill single punch]] by a high level [[BareFistedMonk monk]], making this a ''literal'' example of this trope.

* In the ''{{Pokemon}}'' games, you are able to capture legendary one-of-a-kind (per game) {{Mons}} that are often forces of nature. The [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl fourth generation]] of games contains Arceus, who apparently ''created the universe''.

* One of the added sprites of RPG Maker VX Ace features a sprite labeled "God". It has a labeled damaged sprite, making such Cthulhu punches possible.

* One of the monsters lurking in Fernswarthy's Basement in the KingdomOfLoathing is an ''n''th dimensional horror. It starts a being four dimensional and goes from there. And while it gets stronger as you go down, the 4th Dimensional Horror can be beaten by someone who is having trouble with the Bonerdagon.

** Metal Sonic becomes nearly as powerful in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', absorbing Chaos's and all the heroes's lifeform data. Super Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles take him out with ease [[DarthWiki/{{Narm}} because they're SONIC HEROES!]]

* In ''TalesOfLegendia'', the heroes beat [[spoiler:Schwartz]], supposedly a destroyer of universes. To be fair, she [[spoiler:needed the negative energies of people to power up, and was weakened by positive energy, ala ''Earthbound''.]] So her status might have been * very* exaggerated. Or she was just an avatar of the real one.

** Again in ''TalesOfSymphonia'', the heroes defeated [[spoiler:Mithos Yggdrasiil]]. This person SPLIT A WORLD IN HALF, and in the first battle you fight against him, he punches you out with a healthy serving of BeamSpam. The second, third and fourth times you fight him, however, it is essentially a CurbStompBattle in your favor, making the BigBad look like a SquishyWizard.
** ''TalesOfEternia'' goes one further and gives you a final battle against ''[[spoiler:{{Satan}}]]''. Well, his fantasy counterpart, but it's still impressive.

* [[MassEffect Commander Shepard]] has punched out a few Cthulhu. The final confrontation of ''MassEffect'' pretty much consists of [[spoiler:exposing the resident EldritchAbomination, the Reaper ''Sovereign'', and letting the Human Systems Alliance shoot the bajeesus out of it]]. However, given that [[spoiler:it was only ONE of a race of Eldritch Horrors, and it was being attacked by the combined forces of half the space-faring species in the galaxy, and even then it only barely worked]], it's relatively justified.

** ''{{Mass Effect 2}}'' on the other hand, [[spoiler: ends with your three-man team fighting a Reaper, albeit an unfinished one, ''on foot''. It was '''EPIC!'']]

*** ''{{Mass Effect 3}}'' is set to be doing this throughout the entire gameplay. And we're talking about well over ''[[CurbStompBattle seven]]-[[EldritchAbomination freaking]]-[[BeyondTheImpossible hundred]]'' of these cursed things! [[GonnaNeedMoreTrope We're gonna need a bigger fist.]]

* In the ''{{Pokemon}}'' games, you are able to capture legendary one-of-a-kind (per game) {{Mons}} that are often forces of nature. The [[PokemonDiamondAndPearl fourth generation]] of games contains Arceus, who apparently ''created the universe''.

* The final chapter of ''{{F-Zero}} GX'''s Story Mode is the driving equivalent of this trope. Not only does Captain Falcon lap [[GodOfEvil The Creators]] in a race where [[YourSoulIsMine his soul is on the line]], ''[[BadassBoast he smack-talks them for even having the audacity to challenge him in the first place.]]'' Did You Just Outrace Cthulhu? [[CurbstompBattle Yeah, pretty much.]]

* Pales in comparison with ''PokemonMysteryDungeon''. It has the ''Pokémon'' equivalent of kids beating up legendaries, and in the second game, [[spoiler:a corrupted god and nightmare incarnate!]].

** In ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', you can have [[BadassNormal guys such as]] [[FinalFight Haggar]] and [[ResidentEvil Chris Redfield]] go up against {{Physical God}}s like the aforementioned [[DoctorStrange Shuma]], [[DoctorStrange Dormammu]], and [[{{X-Men}} Phoenix]] ''and win''. Even better; the FinalBoss is [[spoiler:'''{{Galactus}}''']].

* ''DantesInferno'' begins with Dante punching out TheGrimReaper. He then slaughters his way through Hell, killing several major demons and eventually beats down Lucifer himself.

* The final battle of SeriousSam The First Encounter. Sam Stone, an average human, has just fought his way through [[ZergRush THOUSANDS]] of super-natural or alien monsters only to find something horrible teleport in behind him: Ugh Zan III, a 350 foot tall, lightning shooting, MadeOfIron, fireball throwing alien warlock of near godlike power. It's actually somewhat justified, since for the first part of the fight you just run away, the second part you injure him heavily with some [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon semi automatic rocket launchers and uranium cannonballs]], but still not kill him, whereas the final part has you trying to hit with a beam from the sky that's implied to be supernatural in origin (since its coming from a Sirian spaceship and the Sirians use "technomagical" weaponry). If you don't do that, he'll just regenerate his health, making him effectively invincible. To add insult to injury, [=NETRSICA=] describes Ugh Zan III as an ancient deity and one of the most powerful beings in the universe.

* In ''Ultimate [=~Ghosts 'n Goblins~=]'', the TrueFinalBoss is [[spoiler:Hades]] whom Arthur destroys simply by tossing weapons at him until he explodes and takes all of Hell with him.
* The final boss of the ''[=~Another Century's Episode~=]'' trilogy is [[spoiler:Shin Dragon, from the ''GetterRobo'' series, which is capable of obliterating celestial bodies like Jupiter's moons with ease and can punch holes in reality.]] You can potentially beat it with anything in the game, from [[GetterRobo Shin Getter]] all the way down to [[MobileSuitGundam the RX-78 Gundam]] or [[SuperDimensionFortressMacross a VF-1 Valkyrie]].
* In ''[=~Baldur's Gate~=] II: Throne of Bhaal'', the final battle pits the epic-level protagonist and his party against [[spoiler:Amellisan, traitorous priestess of Bhaal,]] charged up with about 99% of Bhaal's power. Your protagonist has the remaining 1%. You win.

** Averted in ''[=~The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind~=]''. The plan ends up not being about killing Dagoth Ur, which would never work according to others, but severing him from the source of his power - the heart of the dead god Lorkhan; cut off from his power source, his once-again mortal body dies.

** Averted nicely in ''[=~The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion~=]'' when the player finally confronts the BigBad, Mehrunes Dagon. As you're up against an evil god who just tore reality a new one, the actual fighting is left to your companion, the descendent of a god himself. The best your character can do is stagger Dagon for a few seconds to buy time for [[spoiler:Martin]] to complete his transformation. Unless, of course you hit him with some special attack or your custom-made [[InfinityPlusOneSword sword of mob destruction]].

** In episode 5 of ''[=~Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People~=]'', [[spoiler: Strong Bad actually does defeat Trogdor by hitting his weak spots, which Rather Dashing failed to notice. Sure, Strong Bad transforms into a big, muscular version of himself with a gigantic knife (displayed in ridiculously awesome next-gen graphics) to accomplish this, but he's still just hitting him... And then it turns out that it was all a dream and Trogdor is still destroying the countryside.]]

* The otherwise excellent ''[=~Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age~=]'', which is set during the events of the movies but tells a distinct story, JumpTheShark at the last minute when [[spoiler:the party is instantly transported to the top of Barad-dur, where they fight spotlight-eye Sauron (who is a lesser god, remember), and beat him into submission using swords, spears, and arrows.]] Why?

* ''[=~Dante's Inferno~=]'' begins with Dante punching out TheGrimReaper. He then slaughters his way through Hell, killing several major demons and eventually beats down Lucifer himself.

** Metal Sonic becomes nearly as powerful in ''SonicHeroes'', absorbing Chaos's and all the heroes's lifeform data. Super Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles take him out with ease [[DarthWiki/{{Narm}} because they're SONIC HEROES!]]

** Before that (but after ''Marvel vs. Capcom 2''), ''[[TatsunokoVsCapcom Tatsunoko vs. Capcom]]'' allows you to punch out [[spoiler:[[{{Okami}} Yami]]]]. ''Nice''.

* According to ''DevilMayCry'' lore, The Legendary Dark Knight Sparda did this on at least two occasions--[[PhysicalGod demon kings]] Mundus and Argosax the Chaos. In the first and [[{{Discontinuity}} second]] games, Dante follows in his dad's footsteps. While Dante needed some help from his dad (or more specifically, his father's [[SealedBadassInACan sword]]) and Trish to defeat (and [[SealedEvilInACan seal away]]) Mundus, the latter fight was a CurbstompBattle ''from start to finish''. He also takes down the BigBad of ''3'' (who was drawing on Sparda's power) alongside [[EvilTwin his twin brother Vergil]], and defeated a demon of similar caliber in the [[DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries anime]].