History DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu / VideoGames

*** In the finale of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' AVLANCHE fight and defeat Whisper Harbinger the physical [[AnthropomorphicPersonification embodiment]] of [[YouCantFightFate fate]] itself, who keeps {{railroading}} the narrative to follow the original canon and what’s more it’s heavily implied even this god-like entity is '''weaker''' than Sephiroth himself.

** At the end of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', the heroes slay [[spoiler:a massive, supernatural entity that is that physical manifestation of destiny itself that up to this point has been [[{{Railroading}} enforcing the plot to follow the original game]] to ensure the survival of the Planet.]]

** The elite warriors of ThePrecursors (Ringed Knights)

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' ends with the protagonists slaying the incarnation of one of the two titans they had lived on since the beginning of their race, and who had wiped out said race countless times to prevent them from becoming too advanced. Said incarnation also happened to be the originator of that world after first existing in our universe.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' games, you are able to capture legendary one-of-a-kind (per game) {{Mons}} that are often forces of nature. ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' of games contains Arceus, who apparently ''created the universe''. In order to capture Pokémon, you have to attack them, lower their [[HitPoints health]], and give them [[StandardStatusEffects status effects]] before you can do so, which is what makes it this trope.

** A monstrous spider heavily implied to be the reincarnation of Seath the Scaleless (The Duke's Dear Freja

** The elite warriors of ThePrecursors

** An EldrichAbomination responsible for the spread of the [[DarkIsEvil Abyss]] (Manus, Father of the Abyss)

* By the end of ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' you'll have torn your way through every previously establish bad ass, including several demigods, at least one dragon, huge demons, and multiple outright gods. The in-game justification is that [[WorfHadTheFlu none of them are at full strength anymore]]. [[spoiler:The player character is also the inheritor of a unique Lord Soul, the Dark Soul, making him/her just as much a god as any of the others. Possibly more so, since his/her Lord Soul is at full strength.]]

* ''Videogame/{{Bloodborne}}'': As the game progresses, the [[PlayerCharacter Hunter's]] job slowly goes from simply taking out mutated werebeasts to slaughtering the various eldritch creatures that are running the whole show that is the Hunter's Dream. It's often mentioned that other Hunters out there have done their own share of cosmic horror population control as well.

* By the end of ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' you'll have torn your way through every previously establish bad ass, including several demigods, at least one dragon, huge demons, and multiple outright gods. The in-game justification is that none of them are at full strength anymore. [[spoiler:The player character is also the inheritor of a unique Lord Soul, the Dark Soul, making him/her just as much a god as any of the others. Possibly more so, since his/her Lord Soul is at full strength.]]

** Then VideoGame/BravelySecond ups the ante with Providence, an embodiment of despair who has been shaping Ba'als to attack Luxendarc [[spoiler: using the sorrow from Vega's memories]] and is even [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou aware of the player's action and can act against them]]. Again, nothing stops you from punching it, even literally so if you brought Monks to the mix.

* PlayedWith in ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'' the protagonist Zagreus does eventually face his eponymous PhysicalGod BigBad father and kills him to escape the underworld. But it’s subverted on two regards: 1) [[DeathIsCheap death is generally a minor inconvenience]] in the Underworld so Zagreus technically just momentarily defeated his father, who came back straight away to keep fulfilling his job and 2) it’s treated less like epic victory over a literal deific foe and more like a rebellious son finally breaking free of his domineering father’s influence.

*** "CRUD! You dumb video-game heroes ALWAYS pull this stuff! It's RIDICULOUS!"

--> '''Akuma''': I have killed a god with my fists!

* Franchise/MassEffect features many examples of this. [[{{Deconstruction}} Beings that would be considered incomprehensible gods in lesser settings are QUITE comprehensible and killable to the ludicrously advanced civilizations of the 22nd century]] (the kind that would make [[Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness the Elder Things]] look like cavemen).

* ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'': The last quest, "At Journey's End." The dark god Galdera is revived thanks to Lyblac's interventions, but the eight party members take him on, defeat him, and send him right back into the darkness from whence he came.

* In the backstory of ''Tsukihime'', the mage Zelretch is famous for being a True Sorceror, known for travelling between realities at a whim... and for killing Brunestud of the Crimson Moon, also known as [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Type Moon]], the Moon's Ultimate Being, the greatest life form created by the Moon with the total power of that celestial body behind him. The details aren't explained, but apparently it involved ''dropping the Moon on Brunestud's head''. [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu He might have gotten turned into a vampire for his trouble, but he still defeated one of the most powerful beings in the universe, by himself, using only raw power]]. For contrast, Type Mercury, known as ORT, is a giant crystal spider, powerful enough to override reality with its own internal MentalWorld and obliterate vampire kings in an instant. It is also explicitly the most powerful being in the present {{Franchise/Nasuverse}} timeline. Types are also [[EldritchAbomination alien]] enough that even Shiki, that Cthulhu-puncher extraordinaire, would be unable to kill them, because their concepts of death are so unrelatable to Gaia; the only way to kill ORT is by pure force, which ''nobody'' in the Nasuverse can currently bring forward.

* VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}} ends with the protagonists slaying the incarnation of one of the two titans they had lived on since the beginning of their race, and who had wiped out said race countless times to prevent them from becoming too advanced. Said incarnation also happened to be the originator of that world after first existing in our universe.

* PlayedForLaughs as an EasterEgg in ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesGardenWarfare'', where a [[ManEatingPlant Chomper]] can be seen eating ''[[Franchise/TheSlendermanMythos Slenderman]]''.

* Pretty much every fighting game based on a popular anime falls under this where the BigBad or TheHero can be defeated by a character they would Curbstomp in the actual series. The most extreme cases are in the Dragon Ball Z fighting games that have Mr. Satan in him.

** The final boss of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesZeroNoKiseki Trails to Azure]]'' is the Azure Demiourgos, an artificial Sept-Terrion that's actually stated to be MORE powerful than the original Sept-Terrion of Mirage it's based on, and it shows: take too long in fighting it, and it will distort space itself, automatically killing your entire party without fail.

** The final boss of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesZeroNoKiseki Ao no Kiseki]]'', is the Azure Demiurgos, an artificial Sept-Terrion that's actually stated to be MORE powerful than the original Sept-Terrion of Mirage it's based on, and it shows: take too long in fighting it, and it will distort space itself, automatically killing your entire party without fail.

** The final battle of ''VideoGame/TrailsInTheSky'' ''SC'' has Estelle and group defeating Angel Weissman, a [[BigBad Weissman]] who fused with the power of the Aureole, a Sept-terrion with power over space itself that was gifted to humanity by the Goddess.
** The final boss of ''Ao no Kiseki'', the sequel to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesZeroNoKiseki'', is the Azure Demiurgos, an aritificial Sept-terrion that's actually stated to be MORE powerful than the original Sept-terrion of Mirage it's based on, and it shows: take too long in fighting it, and it will distort space itself, automatically killing your entire party without fail.
** ''VideoGame/TrailsOfColdSteel III'' has [[spoiler:[[TheHero Rean Schwarzer]] killing the corrupted Holy Beast sent by Aidios to guard one of her seven Sept-terrions. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero This ends up being a bad thing]] as it ends up spreading the curse of Erebonia all over the continent.]]
** ''VideoGame/TrailsOfColdSteel IV'' [[spoiler: Rean, Class VII and allies manage to defeat and ultimately destroy Ishmelga, the embodiment of the curse of Erebonia and the fusion of two Sept-terrions.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and its derivative works, Servants are [[HumanoidAbomination Humanoid Abominations]] and are not only nigh impossible for modern humans to fight and defeat, but [[NoSell human weaponry will flat out not work on them]] unless magically crafted or enchanted. Despite this, in ''Unlimited Blade Works,'' the visual novel's second route, [[TheHero Shirou]] takes on [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Gilgamesh]], the strongest Servant to ever exist (with the ''possible'' exception of [[Literature/TheMahabharata Karna]] from ''LightNovel/FateApocrypha''), in a one-on-one duel, and come out the victor. His ability to do so is sheer coincidence, and Shirou acknowledges that if he were up against any other Heroic Spirit, he would most likely lose, as they are masters of their weapons whereas he is merely an "owner" of weapons, but as Gilgamesh was himself more of an "owner," it leveled the playing field. Even so, he still managed to win a fight against a demigod and humanity's oldest recorded hero. There is a bit of WorfHadTheFlu involved though, as not only did Shirou technically not defeat Gilgamesh ( her ran out of energy shortly before landing the killing blow and was at Gil's mercy) but Gil was also holding back his greatest weapons the entire time, feeling a mongrel like Shirou isn't worthy of facing them. Even so Shirou still crippled Gilgamesh, but it still took the Holy Grail itself ''and'' Archer interfering to put down Gil for good.

* 10tons's ''Tesla versus Lovecraft'' will have Nikolai Tesla defeating Lovecraft deities and their servitors with shotguns, tommy guns, a MiniMecha and plenty of WeirdScience TeslaTechTimeline gadgets.

** The climax of the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake remake]] of ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 RE2]]'' has Leon or Claire (who are respectively a rookie cop and a civilian college student) take down G-Creature who looks like a mobile Sarlacc Pit by running it [[EyeScream through the eye with a broken pipe]]. Granted, the train exploding did the rest of the job.

* ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'': It's a MultiplayerOnlineBattleArena where Gods fight against Gods, but amongst them, there are also super powerful humans or demigods like Hercules, Achilles or even King Arthur and Mulan. They can punch out these godly creatures multiple times in one go within the rules of a MOBA. Even better, eventually ''Cthulhu himself'' joins the roster, meaning that he's just as punchable as every other Gods there are (But good luck, he's one of the tankiest Gods to take down, hope you don't [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu run out of resources just to punch out Cthulhu]]).

* In ''VideoGame/{{Strife}}'', your struggle against the EvilEmpire {{Cult}} called the Order eventually ends with you killing their god, the Entity.

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/PeasantsQuest'': [[spoiler:"beating" the game consists of the protagonist getting closer than any hero ever has to killing Trogdor - deflecting one gout of flame, stabbing your sword an inch or two into Trogdor's nigh-impenetrable hide, ''hearing The Burninator speak'', and finally being almost effortlessly burninated. A really cool monument is built to honor this feat.]]

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'': It's not clear exactly what Necron is, since he appears a bit as a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere, but in the English version he claims to be Death itself. (And, of course, he gets obliterated by our heroes because they don't like his "destroy all existence" plan.)