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** One issue of Batman Confidential had him fighting several members of the proto-Justice League. He took down WonderWoman, TheFlash, Comicbook/GreenLantern, and Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}. This was their first meeting, and he didn't know what any of their abilities were when the fight started. It helped that neither did the writer. Let's see... throwing a smoke bomb in front of The Flash is yet another example of writers forgetting that 1. He has SuperReflexes and even so wouldn't immediately crash into a wall if blinded 2. If you're in a small room with The Flash, there is no time to throw something before he reaches you. There's not time for a human to do ''anything'' before he reaches you. Wonder Woman cannot be taken out by kicking her in the stomach with human strength. At a best case scenario it's ineffective. Worse case, you break your foot. The same goes for MartianManhunter. Batman's ability to manhandle Aquaman or utterly incapacitate Comicbook/GreenLantern with a batrope is also just slightly dubious (Aquaman has Wonder Eoman levels of SuperStrength and Green Lantern can make literally anything with his ring).
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** One issue of Batman Confidential had him fighting several members of the proto-Justice League. He took down WonderWoman, TheFlash, Comicbook/GreenLantern, and Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}. This was their first meeting, and he didn't know what any of their abilities were when the fight started. It helped that neither did the writer. Let's see... throwing a smoke bomb in front of The Flash is yet another example of writers forgetting that 1. He has SuperReflexes and even so wouldn't immediately crash into a wall if blinded 2. If you're in a small room with The Flash, there is no time to throw something before he reaches you. There's not time for a human to do ''anything'' before he reaches you. Wonder Woman cannot be taken out by kicking her in the stomach with human strength. At a best case scenario it's ineffective. Worse case, you break your foot. The same goes for MartianManhunter. Batman's ability to manhandle Aquaman or utterly incapacitate Comicbook/GreenLantern with a batrope is also just slightly dubious (Aquaman has Wonder Eoman Woman levels of SuperStrength and Green Lantern can make literally anything he can think of with his ring).
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* Deathstroke is an incredibly popular villain. So of course, writers have to amp up his badassery from reasonable to absurd. The man has enhanced reflexes, speed, strength and intelligence, but not too incredible degrees. He took out an entire Justice League roster. He stops Black Canary from using her Canary Cry via a bag over her head. Green Lantern Kyle Rayner can't use his ring because ''Deathstroke grabs his hand, and uses his own willpower to overpower Kyle's''. GL Rings ''do not work that way''. Oh, but at least in those cases, he out a degree of effort in. Against the Flash, Wally West basically ran into Deathstroke's sword.
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* Deathstroke is an incredibly popular villain. So of course, writers have to amp up his badassery from reasonable to absurd. The man has enhanced reflexes, speed, strength and intelligence, but not too incredible degrees. He took out an entire Justice League roster. He stops Black Canary from using her Canary Cry via a bag over her head. That scream of hers can rip through steel. Green Lantern Kyle Rayner can't use his ring because ''Deathstroke grabs his hand, and uses his own willpower to overpower Kyle's''. GL Rings ''do not work that way''. Oh, but at least in those cases, he out put a degree of effort in. Against the Flash, Wally West basically ran into Deathstroke's sword. Wally's SuperSpeed included super reflexes, which make Deathstroke's enhanced reflexes look like nothing.
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** One issue of Batman Confidential had him fighting several members of the proto-Justice League. He took down WonderWoman, TheFlash, Comicbook/GreenLantern, and Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}. This was their first meeting, and he didn't know what any of their abilities were when the fight started. It helped that neither did the writer. Let's see... throwing a smoke bomb in front of The Flash is yet another example of writers forgetting that 1. He has SuperReflexes and even so wouldn't immediately crash into a wall if blinded 2. If you're in a small room with The Flash, there is no time to throw something before he reaches you. There's not time for a human to do ''anything'' before he reaches you. Wonder Woman cannot be taken out by kicking her in the stomach with human strength. At a best case scenario it's ineffective. Worse case, you break your foot. The same goes for MartianManhunter. Batman's ability to manhandle Aquaman or utterly incapacitate Comicbook/GreenLantern with a batrope is also just slightly dubious.
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** One issue of Batman Confidential had him fighting several members of the proto-Justice League. He took down WonderWoman, TheFlash, Comicbook/GreenLantern, and Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}. This was their first meeting, and he didn't know what any of their abilities were when the fight started. It helped that neither did the writer. Let's see... throwing a smoke bomb in front of The Flash is yet another example of writers forgetting that 1. He has SuperReflexes and even so wouldn't immediately crash into a wall if blinded 2. If you're in a small room with The Flash, there is no time to throw something before he reaches you. There's not time for a human to do ''anything'' before he reaches you. Wonder Woman cannot be taken out by kicking her in the stomach with human strength. At a best case scenario it's ineffective. Worse case, you break your foot. The same goes for MartianManhunter. Batman's ability to manhandle Aquaman or utterly incapacitate Comicbook/GreenLantern with a batrope is also just slightly dubious.dubious (Aquaman has Wonder Eoman levels of SuperStrength and Green Lantern can make literally anything with his ring).
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** The same series also had Wolverine's X-Men teammate Storm hand a smack-down to WonderWoman, which seemed more than a little unlikely to many objective observers; however, ''X-Men'' were selling better than Wonder Woman at the time.
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* Deathstroke is an incredibly popular villain. So of course, writers have to amp up his badassery from reasonable to absurd. The man has enhanced reflexes, speed, strength and intelligence, but not too incredible degrees. He took out an entire Justice League roster. He stops Black Canary from using her Canary Cry via a bag over her head. Green Lantern Kyle Rayner can't use his ring because ''Deathstroke grabs his hand, and uses his own willpower to overpower Kyle's''. GL Rings ''do not work that way''. Oh, but at least in those cases, he out a degree of effort in. Against the Flash, Wally West basically ran into Deathstroke's sword.
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* If a heel gets popular enough they may make a HeelFaceTurn (which tends to curb said popularity, making them do a FaceHeelTurn and so on and so forth). The most notable example in recent years is Wrestling/RandyOrton. Every time he attacked someone, people cheered him on, even when said person was attacked was a highly popular face. It eventually reached a point that they had no choice but to turn Orton face. The dissolution of Legacy was originally have Wrestling/TedDibiaseJr as the face and Randy and Wrestling/CodyRhodes as the heels. However, Randy's popular made it so they had to rewrite the storyline to make him the face. And his popularity continued to the point that he stayed face for three years and was only able to turn heel against the massively over Wrestling/DanielBryan, seeing as (with the exception of Punk), attacking anyone else would have still gotten him cheered.
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* If a heel gets popular enough they may make a HeelFaceTurn (which tends to curb said popularity, making them do a FaceHeelTurn and so on and so forth). The most notable example in recent years is Wrestling/RandyOrton. Every time he attacked someone, people cheered him on, even when said person that was attacked was a highly popular face. It eventually reached a point that they had no choice but to turn Orton face. The dissolution of Legacy was originally have Wrestling/TedDibiaseJr as the face and Randy and Wrestling/CodyRhodes as the heels. However, Randy's popular made it so they had to rewrite the storyline to make him the face. And his popularity continued to the point that he stayed face for three years and was only able to turn heel against the massively over Wrestling/DanielBryan, seeing as (with the exception of Punk), attacking anyone else would have still gotten him cheered.
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* If a heel gets popular enough they may make a HeelFaceTurn (which tends to curb said popularity, making them do a FaceHeelTurn and so on and so forth). The most notable example in recent years is Wrestling/RandyOrton. Every time he attacked someone, people cheered him on, even when said person was attacked was a highly popular face. It eventually reached a point that they had no choice but to turn Orton face. The dissolution of Legacy was originally have Wrestling/TedDibiaseJr as the face and Randy and Wrestling/CodyRhodes as the heels. However, Randy's popular made it so they had to rewrite the storyline to make him the face. And his popularity continued to the point that he stayed face for three years and was only able to turn heel against the massively over Wrestling/DanielBryan, seeing as (with the exception of Punk), attacking anyone else would have still gotten him cheered.
** It should be noted that the only thing that changed about Randy's character was who he attacked. Otherwise he was still the same sadistic psychopath he's always been.
** It should be noted that the only thing that changed about Randy's character was who he attacked. Otherwise he was still the same sadistic psychopath he's always been.
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*** Civil War is also one of the times that Captain America defeated Spider-man. This time Spidey offers a meager justification for it: "There is no 'next move' to read, for him, it's all one long move from start to finish, he has it all planed out in advance while you're still trying to react to his last blow.", which of course ignores quite a number of things about Spidey and Marvel in general but there you have it.
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*** Civil War is also one of the times that Captain America defeated Spider-man.Spider-Man. This time Spidey offers a meager justification for it: "There is no 'next move' to read, for him, it's all one long move from start to finish, he has it all planed out in advance while you're still trying to react to his last blow.", which of course ignores quite a number of things about Spidey and Marvel in general but there you have it.
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** The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' RPG from FASA clearly assumed that not only was the Enterprise the most successful ship of its class in service, but that every position on the ship was filled by the single most competent individual in that field to be found in Starfleet. One must feel sorry for the security chief of any other vessel by comparison...[[hottip:*:there's a real-world parallel when a special operations unit would be formed and supposed to be staffed by the best of the best... which would necessarily at the expense of those troops' parent units who would lose them! For example, it's one of the reasons that the US Marine Corps went fifteen years without joining/contributing directly to US Special Operations Command -- they didn't want to give up Force Reconnaissance.]]
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* TheIncredibleHulk has been this for years and years, but it became most apparent in WorldWarHulk where he easily defeats people he has no business defeating, like Comicbook/DoctorStrange.
** Doc Strange was {{justified|Trope}}, however poorly, mainly due to exploiting the fact that the characters are friends instead of a set of powers to be thrown against each other (Banner disabled Strange before the fight by tricking him and playing on his emotions). Aside from Strange, Hulk beating everyone else he beats in WorldWarHulk is completely reasonable.
** There seem to be two competing ideas about how the Hulk should be used; one sticks closer to his original conception as "the strongest one there is" with a few exceptions. The other sees him as a perfect candidate for TheWorfEffect and not much else.
* Franchise/{{Batman}} has become a walking DeusExMachina in comic books and "versus debates" thanks to the words [[CrazyPrepared "with prep time"]]. Given enough prep time, [[MemeticBadass he is speculated to be able to defeat]]: {{Superman}}, {{Galactus}}, {{Darkseid}}, [[ComicBook/TheSandman Death]], Taxes, Tofu, and Jelly Beans. The sheer amount of times he's faced Superman and lived would qualify him here even if nothing else would.
** The 'Batman smacks down Superman' issue was subverted in ''[[ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier The New Frontier]]''; initially, it appears that Batman handed Superman his cape after Superman attempted to arrest Batman, who was refusing to [[SuperRegistrationAct register or resign as a superhero]]. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that the two men staged it as a protest against [=McCarthyism=] and the witch-hunts of the 1950s. At Superman's urging, no less.]]
** More concretely, he made contingency plans in one arc to take each member of the ''JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' down should they go crazy. Of course, they [[GoneHorriblyWrong fall into the wrong hands]], and work remarkably well on all the heroes.
** Even those plans are sometimes criticized by readers. The plan against Flash, for example, relies on him vibrating through a special bullet, instead of just, y'know, moving out of the way.
** In several stories, it's later expanded to note that every single one of the Justice League members have at least some vague plan to take out their team-members in case any one of them goes rogue. They vary in effectiveness, though. [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Hal Jordan's]] contingency plan shows one of his own moments of PopularityPower - his plan to defeat Batman was to create a jetpack, strap it to him, and shoot him as far away as possible to be sure. Despite certain obvious flaws, his plan ''worked''(even if it was entirely unnecessary for a guy that can casually exceed the speed of light and destroy planets without trying).
** The entire issue is parodied in [[http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000745.html this]] ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'' strip.
** In one alternate universe, after Jason Todd was killed Batman went ...a ''little'' more nuts than normal...and ''killed every single villain on Earth'', resulting in a utopia. ''No one thought this was unlikely.''
** Fortunately AlanMoore seems to be immune to PopularityPower. During Moore's run on Comicbook/SwampThing Batman takes on the much more powerful title character with plenty of prep time after making careful preparations, including putting wood cutting buzz-saws on the Batmobile and bringing a herbicide thrower. Comicbook/SwampThing wipes the floor with him.
*** There are a few crossovers where Batman isn't shown as an all-around invincible badass. In one crossover between Spider-Man and Batman, they got into a brief scuffle and Peter grabbed Bats, tossed him half-way across the building. The priceless look on Bruce's face said it all as he was being thrown so easily.
** And sometimes, even [[CrazyPrepared "with prep time"]] is unnecessary. Like putting down Cheetah, who is a recurrent Wonder Woman villain, at times able to take a punch from Superman (who, for the uninitiated, has SuperStrength and SuperSpeed, which Batman lacks), with a single punch, running with three adults on his back, and sucking enough bullets to sink a frigate. And apparently, [[TripleShifter doesn't need to sleep]].
** One issue of Batman Confidential had him fighting several members of the proto-Justice League. He took down WonderWoman, TheFlash, Comicbook/GreenLantern, and Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}. This was their first meeting, and he didn't know what any of their abilities were when the fight started. It helped that neither did the writer. Let's see... throwing a smoke bomb in front of The Flash is yet another example of writers forgetting that 1. He has SuperReflexes and even so wouldn't immediately crash into a wall if blinded 2. If you're in a small room with The Flash, there is no time to throw something before he reaches you. There's not time for a human to do ''anything'' before he reaches you. Wonder Woman cannot be taken out by kicking her in the stomach with human strength. At a best case scenario it's ineffective. Worse case, you break your foot. The same goes for MartianManhunter. Batman's ability to manhandle Aquaman or utterly incapacitate Comicbook/GreenLantern with a batrope is also just slightly dubious.
** FrankMiller's Batman/Spawn crossover actually has their fight be even, ''to a degree.'' Batman beats down Spawn, but when Spawn turns the tables the rest of the fight is conviently '''off panel.'''
** Wonder Woman beat down Batman in one of her issues. A criminal Batman was after sought sanctuary in Wonder Woman's headquarters, and Batman demanded she turn her over. Wondy said no. With her foot. In fact, WonderWoman is a good case of RealityEnsues, as his track record against her has been slightly against him. She's a FlyingBrick with no obvious weaknesses who often sees through his ruses.
* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker has been such a popular villain in all of his incarnations (both in comic books and onscreen) over the past 70+ years that he [[TropeNamer named]] a [[JokerImmunity related trope]].
* Despite allegedly being [[BadassNormal just a hair above maximum human potential]], some of CaptainAmerica's feats have gone seemingly far beyond what he "should" be able to do. Any average human superhero or villain who goes up against him is sure to lose. Even superpowered denizens like {{Spider-Man}} and Wolverine fold before the Cap. And if that weren't enough, Captain America has actually gone rounds against Namor, Hulk, and the other super heavyweights of the MarvelUniverse and STILL come out on top (or at the very least, fought these beings to a draw). Why? Because he's popular. Because he wears the red, white, and blue. And to top it all off, Marvel loves him so much that they'll never have the guy lose, just like DC is never going to have Batman lose.
** This is made especially ridiculous in the animated movie, ''UltimateAvengers'', which has the team fight The Hulk in the finale and has Cap last better than any others who engage him in a direct fight. Notably, The Hulk takes down TheMightyThor (an ACTUAL GOD) in two blows. Cap gets thrown all over the place and manages to endure around/over FOUR. Sure, he's bleeding and disoriented afterwards, but logically he shouldn't even be conscious.
** Although there are a few well-known instances of Captain America subverting this trope. There are plenty of battles where he shows up, makes an inspirational speech about determination over power, then gets his ass handed to him (most famously against Korvac, Thanos, and the Masters of Evil).
** It should be noted that Cap's shield is often described as playing merry havoc with the laws of physics. For example, it's not just indestructible (it can shrug off a direct hit from everything short of Thor with the power of Odin), but it also arrests most (if not all) of the momentum directed at it, too. One imagines that works in reverse when used as a weapon. But still, all it should take is one shot from most people listed here and Cap is down for the count.
*** In a ComicBook/FantasticFour story, Cap's shield takes Gladiator ({{Superman}}'s CaptainErsatz) at bay for minutes. Heat vision ("The heart of a star") and lighting-fast, moon-blasting punches don't even ''ruin the painting'' of the shield. Maybe it's not even CaptainAmerica PopularityPower in action - the Star and Strips logo must be a reality breaker.
*** During the 90s, Cap had an encounter with a few of the X-Men in a scuffle which saw him getting frozen from the waist down by Iceman. The move did ''not'' stop Captain America on his tracks. He then somersaulted across the air and knocked Iceman out ''while his entire lower body was frozen'', meaning that he shouldn't even have the kind of momentum to pull off such a move. Not only that, he effortlessly beat the crap out of Beast. To make things clear, Hank [=McCoy=] is no Hulk or Thor, but he's still a highly dangerous mutant who possesses strength, speed, and agility far better than the best of Olympic athletes AND he can lift well over thirty tons. That didn't stop the Cap from making short work of him. [[FromBadToWorse It got worse]] in the X-Men vs Avengers storyline when Cap went up against Gambit. During the fight, Gambit used his kinetic powers to charge up Cap's suit and levelled him with an explosion that should have reduced any human or peak human fighter to a charred skeleton. Immediately after the explosion, Cap emerged from the blast with no injuries and proceeded to punch Gambit out like nothing happened to him.
** Cap himself puts it best in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2:
-->"I wear the flag. That means I don't lose."
** ComicBook/CivilWar at least is fair about about it. ComicBook/IronMan always wipes the floor with Cap in their various duels, causing him to need rescue by more powerful allies, unless Cap cheats by shorting out his armor in which case ComicBook/IronMan is basically helpless to do anything but lie there and eat shield, not really making Cap look all that powerful.
*** Civil War is also one of the times that Captain America defeated Spider-man. This time Spidey offers a meager justification for it: "There is no 'next move' to read, for him, it's all one long move from start to finish, he has it all planed out in advance while you're still trying to react to his last blow.", which of course ignores quite a number of things about Spidey and Marvel in general but there you have it.
** Deadpool has been shown as possibly being Cap's superior. In their first meeting, Deadpool takes out the (mind-controlled) Captain with [[http://www.4thletter.net/gavok/deadpool/9.jpg a solid hit to the junk]]. In a recent team-up, an enraged Deadpool got into a heated battle with Steve Rogers, now Super Soldier. In that battle, Deadpool managed to put a really good hurting on the former Captain America. Just when it seemed that Deadpool was finally overpowering Rogers, he was shot in the back with several tranquilizer darts to end the battle and even then Deadpool was the one still standing while Cap was the one on his knees who looked worse for wear. Considering how Captain America usually shows up other superheroes like Wolverine and Spider-Man in their own comic books, it's quite amazing that Deadpool managed to come off looking really strong against Captain America with the implication that he might have won their interrupted battle if he were to continue going all-out.
* Heroes aren't the only ones with PopularityPower. DrDoom has become a villainous equivalent of Batman who can defeat anyone (given enough "prep time" (admittedly a FAR more stable claim than Batman, but still quite ridiculous)). Despite being the villain of the story, the good doctor has gained [[DracoInLeatherPants an immense following of fans]] who believe he's capable of defeating anyone and anything, including the most powerful beings in the comic books multiverse. Given enough time to study opponents, it is said that Doom could defeat Thanos, Galactus, Magneto, Hulk, Thor, Darkseid, Superman, Batman, Silver Surfer, Jesus, and even the almighty Rubik's Cube. It really is an almost endless list.
** A really ridiculous example of Doom oozing [[GodModeSue God Mode Suedom]] was during an arc where he teamed up with Dr. Voodoo and battled their way across hordes of demons. Dr. Voodoo got taken down by Ghost Rider but before Ghost Rider could finish Voodoo, Doom came in and took Ghost Rider out with one punch. This is a highly dubious feat considering Ghost Rider has been shown to be able to fight toe to toe with Dr. Strange before, take some of his best attacks, and even defeat the Sorcerer Supreme after a brutal mystical fight. And of course, Doom's powers are only second best compared to Strange. Apparently, the message that the writers want to drive home is that one punch from Doom is greater than the sum of two Sorcerer Supremes put together.
* In the ''Suicide Kings'' {{Deadpool}} storyline, the Punisher beats Deadpool up to the point where he needs rescuing by Outlaw and [[spoiler: Daredevil]]. ''With a sword''. This is despite the Punisher being an ordinary human and Deadpool being a guy in peak physical fitness who heals all injuries, never gets tired and is almost definitely the best swordfighter in the Marvel Universe - plus, it's ''his book!'' In fact, any fight between someone with a HealingFactor and someone without is only going to end one way - that would be why they apparently put DP's factor on a major go-slow for this series.
** Punisher was on the receiving end in a Punisher/Batman crossover. Bats beat him in about two panels and described his fighting style as that of a bar brawler, which given Frank Castle's rather extensive training includes SEAL training and one particular writer went into detail on his martial arts techniques....But mostly, that crossover is also another case of Batman's own PopularityPower at work.
* That time Spidey took down Firelord, a former Herald of Galactus. We're talking Silver Surfer-level power. Granted, Firelord swore he would fight Spider-Man in [[CombatByChampion single combat]] (and not just, you know, OBLITERATE NEW YORK STATE WITH A THOUGHT). Spidey beat him after throwing him in the East River, tricking him into a building in the process of being demolished, and exploding a gas station on him, but come on. This guy flies through stars!
** To further explain how batshit insane this is: Heralds of Galactus are high order {{Reality Warper}}s capable of exceeding the speed of light several thousand times over and demolishing planets without trying.
** And in the storyline immediately ''after'' the Firelord/Spidey fight -- and we mean immediately after, as in the very same day -- Firelord got smacked by the full power of the Sanctuary II battlestation, which had just finished spanking ''the entire Skrull Armada''. Firelord was blasted all the way across the solar system and headfirst into a moon at relativistic velocities... and ''got up out of the smoking crater, staggered a short way, and only then collapsed unconscious''. So, Spidey's fist > Death Star level firepower and near-lightspeed collisions with celestial bodies.
** Said incident was even mocked by Spidey himself in ''MarvelUltimateAlliance 2'', assuming you play as him during the endgame.
-->"Did I mention I beat up Firelord once? No, seriously. Firelord."
* For {{Wolverine}}, take for example ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_vs_DC Marvel vs. DC/DC vs. Marvel]]'' comics, which was literally one big popularity contest. One issue had a scene in which Wolverine is able to make short work of Lobo, an alien being that gave Superman a run for his money and destroyed an entire planet, in less than four panels, simply because polls showed that his stats were higher that week. Moreover, both of them have regenerative healing, but Lobo is able to regenerate his entire body FromASingleCell if his entire body is destroyed. The best part? The final blow of the fight [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome took place off-panel]], because, apparently, ''even the writers'' couldn't figure out how Wolverine could possibly win.
** According to Stan Lee the "single panel" part is a CoconutSuperpowers moment...the polls were held close enough to the publication of the DC vs. Marvel volumes that most of the comics had to be drawn before the polls were finished. The result was drawing all the fights such that they could easily go either way until the very end.
*** And the artist had drawn an alternate ending depicting Lobo's victory (in fact, only the three final panels were different, where instead of Wolvie, it was Lobo raising his hand, picking the cigar from the counter and smoking it).
** A later issue of Lobo's own comic implied that he was ''paid'' to throw the fight regardless, which ''is'' in-character for him while also nicely avoiding an outright denial.
** The same series also had Wolverine's X-Men teammate Storm hand a smack-down to WonderWoman, which seemed more than a little unlikely to many objective observers; however, ''X-Men'' were selling better than Wonder Woman at the time.
*** Context on the above fight; Storm did not win by keeping the fight at range and spamming typhoons at Diana until she fell over, which would have at least made some kind of sense. Diana was able to make it to melee range and successfully connect with a kick to Storm's head, ''and Storm still stayed conscious''.
** In his "Brainwashed by Hydra" arc, Wolverine takes on the like of Namor, the ComicBook/FantasticFour, and StanLee knows [[WolverinePublicity how many others]], without getting beaten or captured once.
*** Somehow, Wolverine also managed to defeat Hercules with little difficulty. The same guy who's fought evenly with Heralds of Galactus and Thor.
*** A "[[{{Elseworld}} What If...?]]" of this storyline saw Wolverine practically ''wipe out the entire MarvelUniverse''. This was especially headachey because it had Magneto, who canonically pulled the metal from Wolvy's bones and left him for dead in the original, shanked. It did, however, have Kitty prove why phasing is awesome.
* Parodied by the Marvel character of SquirrelGirl, who manages to hand some of the most powerful, godlike villains in the MarvelUniverse a humiliating defeat despite having not particularly impressive superpowers.
** It's reached the point where other people are starting to recognize her tendency to beat nearly godlike beings, with {{Deadpool}} gaining extra recognition for being powerful enough to be defeated by Squirrel Girl.
*** Twice.
** This is helped along by those writers who dislike the idea of a joke character winning against people who outclass her. Those writers invent {{Ret Con}}s or HandWave the victory away... and the rest of the writers have her beat up someone bigger instead.
** As her squirrel companion Tippy-Toe once pointed out in a BreakingTheFourthWall address to fans who reacted more humorlessly to her tendency to defeat Dr. Doom:
--> "Yeah, that's right. Squirrel Girl totally pwns Doc Doom. Know why? '[[ArmedWithCanon Cause of somethin' that happened in a story by]] '''Steve-freakin'-Ditko'''! That's ''so'' in continuity. [[TakeThat So just deal with it, fanboy]]."
* A notable aversion came in one of the DC/Marvel crossovers, when the JLA went up against the X-Men. Batman, the most popularity-powered character of them all, sprang a surprise attack on Cyclops who, while he has plenty of fans, also attracts more hate than probably any other X-Man (with the possible exception of Gambit). Guess which one got taken down.
* In ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}'' this is one speculated source of the eponymous Fables' powers. The more popular the story about a Fable is, the more powerful they are. For example, Snow White recovered from a sniper's bullet to the skull--her sister Rose Red might not have survived since most people have forgotten her part of the fairytale-- Frau Totenkinder is one of the most powerful Fables in existence because she is every anonymous witch in folklore, and Goldilocks raises this to a level bordering on BlessedWithSuck when she discovers she can't heal any faster than the fish are eating her.
** Jack Horner, who is every Jack in fairy tales (except Jack Sprat), exploited this by going to Hollywood and making a trilogy of movies about him. He's now effectively immortal, but [[GoodThingYouCanHeal not invincible]].
** The series has actually avoided directly answering the question on whether PopularityPower is actually in effect. Frau Totenkinder for her part actually expresses doubt on whether it is or not.
* {{Deadpool}} once realized that this was the reason that he can never die, so [[DeathSeeker in order to die]] he decided to [[spoiler: go out and [[TakeThat kill]] [[NoFourthWall all of his fans]]]].
** Does the same in ''Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe''. He also gives an interesting speech to Wolverine about his healing factor. He states that it's incredibly fitting: the popular character has a power that makes him immune to death. Wolverine doesn't live because of his skills, but because the fans love him.
* Back in 2000, Creator/KurtBusiek and Stuart Immonen wrote a short graphic novel, ''Superstar'', about a hero who was powered by popularity. Kind of. The hero of the story gained superpowers as long as he had the energy to spare, but it was limited and did run out. His father ended up merchandising him to hell and back (even against his express wishes sometimes) with toy lines, live shows, televising his battles, etc. Part of the cost to watch the shows or buying the merch? A small energy donation, not even enough to make you wheeze from tiredness. Of course, being really popular and taking energy donations from millions of fans, he was actually rather powerful.
* The Marvel villain Arcade has to date, been 100% unsuccessful at killing any superheroes or villains that feature in his appearances. It's assumed that all of his success with Murderworld assassinations occur offscreen. Killing overweight and out of shape buisnessmen is one thing. But he is clearly out of his league with superpowered characters. But his offbeat characterization (not too unlike SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker) is probably why he gets to stay around for the occasional guest appearance, and trying to TakeALevelInBadass in the pages of the BattleRoyale inspired Avengers Academy arc.
* In the early days, SpiderMan was the hero at Marvel that benefited most from this. His early altercations with [[LetsYouAndHimFight other heroes]] would frequently see Spider-Man out maneuvering or outclassing all of them. This includes when he fought handicap fights against the ComicBook/FantasticFour and ComicBook/TheAvengers. He outright ''beat'' the ComicBook/{{X-Men}} all by himself during the SecretWars. In more recent years however, there has been a reverse of the trend; writers preferring to betray Spider-Man as a perpetual underdog.
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* TheIncredibleHulk has been this for years and years, but it became most apparent in WorldWarHulk where he easily defeats people he has no business defeating, like Comicbook/DoctorStrange.
** Doc Strange was {{justified|Trope}}, however poorly, mainly due to exploiting the fact that the characters are friends instead of a set of powers to be thrown against each other (Banner disabled Strange before the fight by tricking him and playing on his emotions). Aside from Strange, Hulk beating everyone else he beats in WorldWarHulk is completely reasonable.
** There seem to be two competing ideas about how the Hulk should be used; one sticks closer to his original conception as "the strongest one there is" with a few exceptions. The other sees him as a perfect candidate for TheWorfEffect and not much else.
* Franchise/{{Batman}} has become a walking DeusExMachina in comic books and "versus debates" thanks to the words [[CrazyPrepared "with prep time"]]. Given enough prep time, [[MemeticBadass he is speculated to be able to defeat]]: {{Superman}}, {{Galactus}}, {{Darkseid}}, [[ComicBook/TheSandman Death]], Taxes, Tofu, and Jelly Beans. The sheer amount of times he's faced Superman and lived would qualify him here even if nothing else would.
** The 'Batman smacks down Superman' issue was subverted in ''[[ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier The New Frontier]]''; initially, it appears that Batman handed Superman his cape after Superman attempted to arrest Batman, who was refusing to [[SuperRegistrationAct register or resign as a superhero]]. [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that the two men staged it as a protest against [=McCarthyism=] and the witch-hunts of the 1950s. At Superman's urging, no less.]]
** More concretely, he made contingency plans in one arc to take each member of the ''JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' down should they go crazy. Of course, they [[GoneHorriblyWrong fall into the wrong hands]], and work remarkably well on all the heroes.
** Even those plans are sometimes criticized by readers. The plan against Flash, for example, relies on him vibrating through a special bullet, instead of just, y'know, moving out of the way.
** In several stories, it's later expanded to note that every single one of the Justice League members have at least some vague plan to take out their team-members in case any one of them goes rogue. They vary in effectiveness, though. [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Hal Jordan's]] contingency plan shows one of his own moments of PopularityPower - his plan to defeat Batman was to create a jetpack, strap it to him, and shoot him as far away as possible to be sure. Despite certain obvious flaws, his plan ''worked''(even if it was entirely unnecessary for a guy that can casually exceed the speed of light and destroy planets without trying).
** The entire issue is parodied in [[http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000745.html this]] ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'' strip.
** In one alternate universe, after Jason Todd was killed Batman went ...a ''little'' more nuts than normal...and ''killed every single villain on Earth'', resulting in a utopia. ''No one thought this was unlikely.''
** Fortunately AlanMoore seems to be immune to PopularityPower. During Moore's run on Comicbook/SwampThing Batman takes on the much more powerful title character with plenty of prep time after making careful preparations, including putting wood cutting buzz-saws on the Batmobile and bringing a herbicide thrower. Comicbook/SwampThing wipes the floor with him.
*** There are a few crossovers where Batman isn't shown as an all-around invincible badass. In one crossover between Spider-Man and Batman, they got into a brief scuffle and Peter grabbed Bats, tossed him half-way across the building. The priceless look on Bruce's face said it all as he was being thrown so easily.
** And sometimes, even [[CrazyPrepared "with prep time"]] is unnecessary. Like putting down Cheetah, who is a recurrent Wonder Woman villain, at times able to take a punch from Superman (who, for the uninitiated, has SuperStrength and SuperSpeed, which Batman lacks), with a single punch, running with three adults on his back, and sucking enough bullets to sink a frigate. And apparently, [[TripleShifter doesn't need to sleep]].
** One issue of Batman Confidential had him fighting several members of the proto-Justice League. He took down WonderWoman, TheFlash, Comicbook/GreenLantern, and Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}. This was their first meeting, and he didn't know what any of their abilities were when the fight started. It helped that neither did the writer. Let's see... throwing a smoke bomb in front of The Flash is yet another example of writers forgetting that 1. He has SuperReflexes and even so wouldn't immediately crash into a wall if blinded 2. If you're in a small room with The Flash, there is no time to throw something before he reaches you. There's not time for a human to do ''anything'' before he reaches you. Wonder Woman cannot be taken out by kicking her in the stomach with human strength. At a best case scenario it's ineffective. Worse case, you break your foot. The same goes for MartianManhunter. Batman's ability to manhandle Aquaman or utterly incapacitate Comicbook/GreenLantern with a batrope is also just slightly dubious.
** FrankMiller's Batman/Spawn crossover actually has their fight be even, ''to a degree.'' Batman beats down Spawn, but when Spawn turns the tables the rest of the fight is conviently '''off panel.'''
** Wonder Woman beat down Batman in one of her issues. A criminal Batman was after sought sanctuary in Wonder Woman's headquarters, and Batman demanded she turn her over. Wondy said no. With her foot. In fact, WonderWoman is a good case of RealityEnsues, as his track record against her has been slightly against him. She's a FlyingBrick with no obvious weaknesses who often sees through his ruses.
* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker has been such a popular villain in all of his incarnations (both in comic books and onscreen) over the past 70+ years that he [[TropeNamer named]] a [[JokerImmunity related trope]].
* Despite allegedly being [[BadassNormal just a hair above maximum human potential]], some of CaptainAmerica's feats have gone seemingly far beyond what he "should" be able to do. Any average human superhero or villain who goes up against him is sure to lose. Even superpowered denizens like {{Spider-Man}} and Wolverine fold before the Cap. And if that weren't enough, Captain America has actually gone rounds against Namor, Hulk, and the other super heavyweights of the MarvelUniverse and STILL come out on top (or at the very least, fought these beings to a draw). Why? Because he's popular. Because he wears the red, white, and blue. And to top it all off, Marvel loves him so much that they'll never have the guy lose, just like DC is never going to have Batman lose.
** This is made especially ridiculous in the animated movie, ''UltimateAvengers'', which has the team fight The Hulk in the finale and has Cap last better than any others who engage him in a direct fight. Notably, The Hulk takes down TheMightyThor (an ACTUAL GOD) in two blows. Cap gets thrown all over the place and manages to endure around/over FOUR. Sure, he's bleeding and disoriented afterwards, but logically he shouldn't even be conscious.
** Although there are a few well-known instances of Captain America subverting this trope. There are plenty of battles where he shows up, makes an inspirational speech about determination over power, then gets his ass handed to him (most famously against Korvac, Thanos, and the Masters of Evil).
** It should be noted that Cap's shield is often described as playing merry havoc with the laws of physics. For example, it's not just indestructible (it can shrug off a direct hit from everything short of Thor with the power of Odin), but it also arrests most (if not all) of the momentum directed at it, too. One imagines that works in reverse when used as a weapon. But still, all it should take is one shot from most people listed here and Cap is down for the count.
*** In a ComicBook/FantasticFour story, Cap's shield takes Gladiator ({{Superman}}'s CaptainErsatz) at bay for minutes. Heat vision ("The heart of a star") and lighting-fast, moon-blasting punches don't even ''ruin the painting'' of the shield. Maybe it's not even CaptainAmerica PopularityPower in action - the Star and Strips logo must be a reality breaker.
*** During the 90s, Cap had an encounter with a few of the X-Men in a scuffle which saw him getting frozen from the waist down by Iceman. The move did ''not'' stop Captain America on his tracks. He then somersaulted across the air and knocked Iceman out ''while his entire lower body was frozen'', meaning that he shouldn't even have the kind of momentum to pull off such a move. Not only that, he effortlessly beat the crap out of Beast. To make things clear, Hank [=McCoy=] is no Hulk or Thor, but he's still a highly dangerous mutant who possesses strength, speed, and agility far better than the best of Olympic athletes AND he can lift well over thirty tons. That didn't stop the Cap from making short work of him. [[FromBadToWorse It got worse]] in the X-Men vs Avengers storyline when Cap went up against Gambit. During the fight, Gambit used his kinetic powers to charge up Cap's suit and levelled him with an explosion that should have reduced any human or peak human fighter to a charred skeleton. Immediately after the explosion, Cap emerged from the blast with no injuries and proceeded to punch Gambit out like nothing happened to him.
** Cap himself puts it best in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2:
-->"I wear the flag. That means I don't lose."
** ComicBook/CivilWar at least is fair about about it. ComicBook/IronMan always wipes the floor with Cap in their various duels, causing him to need rescue by more powerful allies, unless Cap cheats by shorting out his armor in which case ComicBook/IronMan is basically helpless to do anything but lie there and eat shield, not really making Cap look all that powerful.
*** Civil War is also one of the times that Captain America defeated Spider-man. This time Spidey offers a meager justification for it: "There is no 'next move' to read, for him, it's all one long move from start to finish, he has it all planed out in advance while you're still trying to react to his last blow.", which of course ignores quite a number of things about Spidey and Marvel in general but there you have it.
** Deadpool has been shown as possibly being Cap's superior. In their first meeting, Deadpool takes out the (mind-controlled) Captain with [[http://www.4thletter.net/gavok/deadpool/9.jpg a solid hit to the junk]]. In a recent team-up, an enraged Deadpool got into a heated battle with Steve Rogers, now Super Soldier. In that battle, Deadpool managed to put a really good hurting on the former Captain America. Just when it seemed that Deadpool was finally overpowering Rogers, he was shot in the back with several tranquilizer darts to end the battle and even then Deadpool was the one still standing while Cap was the one on his knees who looked worse for wear. Considering how Captain America usually shows up other superheroes like Wolverine and Spider-Man in their own comic books, it's quite amazing that Deadpool managed to come off looking really strong against Captain America with the implication that he might have won their interrupted battle if he were to continue going all-out.
* Heroes aren't the only ones with PopularityPower. DrDoom has become a villainous equivalent of Batman who can defeat anyone (given enough "prep time" (admittedly a FAR more stable claim than Batman, but still quite ridiculous)). Despite being the villain of the story, the good doctor has gained [[DracoInLeatherPants an immense following of fans]] who believe he's capable of defeating anyone and anything, including the most powerful beings in the comic books multiverse. Given enough time to study opponents, it is said that Doom could defeat Thanos, Galactus, Magneto, Hulk, Thor, Darkseid, Superman, Batman, Silver Surfer, Jesus, and even the almighty Rubik's Cube. It really is an almost endless list.
** A really ridiculous example of Doom oozing [[GodModeSue God Mode Suedom]] was during an arc where he teamed up with Dr. Voodoo and battled their way across hordes of demons. Dr. Voodoo got taken down by Ghost Rider but before Ghost Rider could finish Voodoo, Doom came in and took Ghost Rider out with one punch. This is a highly dubious feat considering Ghost Rider has been shown to be able to fight toe to toe with Dr. Strange before, take some of his best attacks, and even defeat the Sorcerer Supreme after a brutal mystical fight. And of course, Doom's powers are only second best compared to Strange. Apparently, the message that the writers want to drive home is that one punch from Doom is greater than the sum of two Sorcerer Supremes put together.
* In the ''Suicide Kings'' {{Deadpool}} storyline, the Punisher beats Deadpool up to the point where he needs rescuing by Outlaw and [[spoiler: Daredevil]]. ''With a sword''. This is despite the Punisher being an ordinary human and Deadpool being a guy in peak physical fitness who heals all injuries, never gets tired and is almost definitely the best swordfighter in the Marvel Universe - plus, it's ''his book!'' In fact, any fight between someone with a HealingFactor and someone without is only going to end one way - that would be why they apparently put DP's factor on a major go-slow for this series.
** Punisher was on the receiving end in a Punisher/Batman crossover. Bats beat him in about two panels and described his fighting style as that of a bar brawler, which given Frank Castle's rather extensive training includes SEAL training and one particular writer went into detail on his martial arts techniques....But mostly, that crossover is also another case of Batman's own PopularityPower at work.
* That time Spidey took down Firelord, a former Herald of Galactus. We're talking Silver Surfer-level power. Granted, Firelord swore he would fight Spider-Man in [[CombatByChampion single combat]] (and not just, you know, OBLITERATE NEW YORK STATE WITH A THOUGHT). Spidey beat him after throwing him in the East River, tricking him into a building in the process of being demolished, and exploding a gas station on him, but come on. This guy flies through stars!
** To further explain how batshit insane this is: Heralds of Galactus are high order {{Reality Warper}}s capable of exceeding the speed of light several thousand times over and demolishing planets without trying.
** And in the storyline immediately ''after'' the Firelord/Spidey fight -- and we mean immediately after, as in the very same day -- Firelord got smacked by the full power of the Sanctuary II battlestation, which had just finished spanking ''the entire Skrull Armada''. Firelord was blasted all the way across the solar system and headfirst into a moon at relativistic velocities... and ''got up out of the smoking crater, staggered a short way, and only then collapsed unconscious''. So, Spidey's fist > Death Star level firepower and near-lightspeed collisions with celestial bodies.
** Said incident was even mocked by Spidey himself in ''MarvelUltimateAlliance 2'', assuming you play as him during the endgame.
-->"Did I mention I beat up Firelord once? No, seriously. Firelord."
* For {{Wolverine}}, take for example ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_vs_DC Marvel vs. DC/DC vs. Marvel]]'' comics, which was literally one big popularity contest. One issue had a scene in which Wolverine is able to make short work of Lobo, an alien being that gave Superman a run for his money and destroyed an entire planet, in less than four panels, simply because polls showed that his stats were higher that week. Moreover, both of them have regenerative healing, but Lobo is able to regenerate his entire body FromASingleCell if his entire body is destroyed. The best part? The final blow of the fight [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome took place off-panel]], because, apparently, ''even the writers'' couldn't figure out how Wolverine could possibly win.
** According to Stan Lee the "single panel" part is a CoconutSuperpowers moment...the polls were held close enough to the publication of the DC vs. Marvel volumes that most of the comics had to be drawn before the polls were finished. The result was drawing all the fights such that they could easily go either way until the very end.
*** And the artist had drawn an alternate ending depicting Lobo's victory (in fact, only the three final panels were different, where instead of Wolvie, it was Lobo raising his hand, picking the cigar from the counter and smoking it).
** A later issue of Lobo's own comic implied that he was ''paid'' to throw the fight regardless, which ''is'' in-character for him while also nicely avoiding an outright denial.
** The same series also had Wolverine's X-Men teammate Storm hand a smack-down to WonderWoman, which seemed more than a little unlikely to many objective observers; however, ''X-Men'' were selling better than Wonder Woman at the time.
*** Context on the above fight; Storm did not win by keeping the fight at range and spamming typhoons at Diana until she fell over, which would have at least made some kind of sense. Diana was able to make it to melee range and successfully connect with a kick to Storm's head, ''and Storm still stayed conscious''.
** In his "Brainwashed by Hydra" arc, Wolverine takes on the like of Namor, the ComicBook/FantasticFour, and StanLee knows [[WolverinePublicity how many others]], without getting beaten or captured once.
*** Somehow, Wolverine also managed to defeat Hercules with little difficulty. The same guy who's fought evenly with Heralds of Galactus and Thor.
*** A "[[{{Elseworld}} What If...?]]" of this storyline saw Wolverine practically ''wipe out the entire MarvelUniverse''. This was especially headachey because it had Magneto, who canonically pulled the metal from Wolvy's bones and left him for dead in the original, shanked. It did, however, have Kitty prove why phasing is awesome.
* Parodied by the Marvel character of SquirrelGirl, who manages to hand some of the most powerful, godlike villains in the MarvelUniverse a humiliating defeat despite having not particularly impressive superpowers.
** It's reached the point where other people are starting to recognize her tendency to beat nearly godlike beings, with {{Deadpool}} gaining extra recognition for being powerful enough to be defeated by Squirrel Girl.
*** Twice.
** This is helped along by those writers who dislike the idea of a joke character winning against people who outclass her. Those writers invent {{Ret Con}}s or HandWave the victory away... and the rest of the writers have her beat up someone bigger instead.
** As her squirrel companion Tippy-Toe once pointed out in a BreakingTheFourthWall address to fans who reacted more humorlessly to her tendency to defeat Dr. Doom:
--> "Yeah, that's right. Squirrel Girl totally pwns Doc Doom. Know why? '[[ArmedWithCanon Cause of somethin' that happened in a story by]] '''Steve-freakin'-Ditko'''! That's ''so'' in continuity. [[TakeThat So just deal with it, fanboy]]."
* A notable aversion came in one of the DC/Marvel crossovers, when the JLA went up against the X-Men. Batman, the most popularity-powered character of them all, sprang a surprise attack on Cyclops who, while he has plenty of fans, also attracts more hate than probably any other X-Man (with the possible exception of Gambit). Guess which one got taken down.
* In ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}'' this is one speculated source of the eponymous Fables' powers. The more popular the story about a Fable is, the more powerful they are. For example, Snow White recovered from a sniper's bullet to the skull--her sister Rose Red might not have survived since most people have forgotten her part of the fairytale-- Frau Totenkinder is one of the most powerful Fables in existence because she is every anonymous witch in folklore, and Goldilocks raises this to a level bordering on BlessedWithSuck when she discovers she can't heal any faster than the fish are eating her.
** Jack Horner, who is every Jack in fairy tales (except Jack Sprat), exploited this by going to Hollywood and making a trilogy of movies about him. He's now effectively immortal, but [[GoodThingYouCanHeal not invincible]].
** The series has actually avoided directly answering the question on whether PopularityPower is actually in effect. Frau Totenkinder for her part actually expresses doubt on whether it is or not.
* {{Deadpool}} once realized that this was the reason that he can never die, so [[DeathSeeker in order to die]] he decided to [[spoiler: go out and [[TakeThat kill]] [[NoFourthWall all of his fans]]]].
** Does the same in ''Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe''. He also gives an interesting speech to Wolverine about his healing factor. He states that it's incredibly fitting: the popular character has a power that makes him immune to death. Wolverine doesn't live because of his skills, but because the fans love him.
* Back in 2000, Creator/KurtBusiek and Stuart Immonen wrote a short graphic novel, ''Superstar'', about a hero who was powered by popularity. Kind of. The hero of the story gained superpowers as long as he had the energy to spare, but it was limited and did run out. His father ended up merchandising him to hell and back (even against his express wishes sometimes) with toy lines, live shows, televising his battles, etc. Part of the cost to watch the shows or buying the merch? A small energy donation, not even enough to make you wheeze from tiredness. Of course, being really popular and taking energy donations from millions of fans, he was actually rather powerful.
* The Marvel villain Arcade has to date, been 100% unsuccessful at killing any superheroes or villains that feature in his appearances. It's assumed that all of his success with Murderworld assassinations occur offscreen. Killing overweight and out of shape buisnessmen is one thing. But he is clearly out of his league with superpowered characters. But his offbeat characterization (not too unlike SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker) is probably why he gets to stay around for the occasional guest appearance, and trying to TakeALevelInBadass in the pages of the BattleRoyale inspired Avengers Academy arc.
* In the early days, SpiderMan was the hero at Marvel that benefited most from this. His early altercations with [[LetsYouAndHimFight other heroes]] would frequently see Spider-Man out maneuvering or outclassing all of them. This includes when he fought handicap fights against the ComicBook/FantasticFour and ComicBook/TheAvengers. He outright ''beat'' the ComicBook/{{X-Men}} all by himself during the SecretWars. In more recent years however, there has been a reverse of the trend; writers preferring to betray Spider-Man as a perpetual underdog.
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* Agent Coulson of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse was a fairly minor character in ''[[Film/IronMan1 Iron Man]]'' before he became a recurring character throughout the series. At the peak of his popularity and once [[TheComicallySerious his characterization]] [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee had developed]], he was suddenly killed in ''Film/TheAvengers''. Upon hearing of this, Website/{{Twitter}} and Website/{{Tumblr}} '''exploded''' with support for him to come back, campaigning the slogan [=#CoulsonLives=]. Their attempts were so successful that not only did Marvel bring Coulson BackFromTheDead ''AND'' make him the star of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', [[AscendedMeme they even made tweeting #CoulsonLives unlock a trailer]] for the TV show.
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* Agent Coulson of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse was a fairly minor character in ''[[Film/IronMan1 Iron Man]]'' before he became a recurring character throughout the series. At the peak of his popularity popularity, and once [[TheComicallySerious his characterization]] [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee had developed]], he was suddenly killed in ''Film/TheAvengers''. Upon hearing of this, Website/{{Twitter}} and Website/{{Tumblr}} '''exploded''' ''exploded'' with support for him to come back, campaigning the slogan [=#CoulsonLives=]. Their attempts were so successful that not only did Marvel bring Coulson BackFromTheDead ''AND'' ''and'' make him the star of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', [[AscendedMeme they even made tweeting #CoulsonLives unlock a trailer]] for the TV show.
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* In [[BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Batman: The Brave and the Bold]], Batman gets this in spades, taking direct punches from beings like Mongul, Kalibak, and Darkseid, and... surviving them. Somewhat subverted in that there are a few episodes that show Batman dying, but each and every time he's resurrected through mystical means. While he wasn't hit by Darkseid's Omega Beam, the effort he needed to exert to actually deal with it obviously exhausted him...[[IAmNotLeftHanded and then Darkseid began hand to hand combat.]]
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* In [[BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Batman: The Brave and the Bold]], ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', Batman gets this in spades, taking direct punches from beings like Mongul, Kalibak, and Darkseid, and... surviving them. Somewhat subverted in that there are a few episodes that show Batman dying, but each and every time he's resurrected through mystical means. While he wasn't hit by Darkseid's Omega Beam, the effort he needed to exert to actually deal with it obviously exhausted him...[[IAmNotLeftHanded and then Darkseid began hand to hand combat.]]
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** One of the most well-known subversions was {{WCW}} wrestler Bill {{Goldberg}}, who, in his first match, got the standard {{Jobber}} treatment -- no music, no televised entrance, no flashy costume, just a quick announcement of name and hometown during his opponent's much flashier entrance. And then he won that match. And then 171 more. By the end of that streak, he had his own Popularity Power going.
** Another storyline involved a [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] {{Jobber}} losing a few matches to better-known wrestlers under names like "The Cannonball Kid", "The Good Luck Kid", "The Kamikaze Kid", etc. until finally, now simply known as "The Kid", he scored an upset victory over [[ScottHall Razor Ramon]]. This earned him the name "The 1-2-3 Kid", as his entire gimmick was that he started getting upset victories, winning 2 more times against Razor Ramon, then beating other top heels as they came out of the woodwork to put the kid "in his place". Razor actually made a HeelFaceTurn simply by taking his losses in good humor and taking the kid under his wing. Eventually. As a side note, said kid was Sean Waltman, the wrestler later known as Syxx (in the [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder nWo]]) and [[XPacHeat X-Pac]] (in [[Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}} [=DeGeneration=] X.)
** Another storyline involved a [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] {{Jobber}} losing a few matches to better-known wrestlers under names like "The Cannonball Kid", "The Good Luck Kid", "The Kamikaze Kid", etc. until finally, now simply known as "The Kid", he scored an upset victory over [[ScottHall Razor Ramon]]. This earned him the name "The 1-2-3 Kid", as his entire gimmick was that he started getting upset victories, winning 2 more times against Razor Ramon, then beating other top heels as they came out of the woodwork to put the kid "in his place". Razor actually made a HeelFaceTurn simply by taking his losses in good humor and taking the kid under his wing. Eventually. As a side note, said kid was Sean Waltman, the wrestler later known as Syxx (in the [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder nWo]]) and [[XPacHeat X-Pac]] (in [[Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}} [=DeGeneration=] X.)
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** One of the most well-known subversions was {{WCW}} Wrestling/{{WCW}} wrestler Bill {{Goldberg}}, Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}, who, in his first match, got the standard {{Jobber}} treatment -- no music, no televised entrance, no flashy costume, just a quick announcement of name and hometown during his opponent's much flashier entrance. And then he won that match. And then 171 more. By the end of that streak, he had his own Popularity Power going.
** Another storyline involved a [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] {{Jobber}} losing a few matches to better-known wrestlers under names like "The Cannonball Kid", "The Good Luck Kid", "The Kamikaze Kid", etc. until finally, now simply known as "The Kid", he scored an upset victory over[[ScottHall [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]]. This earned him the name "The 1-2-3 Kid", as his entire gimmick was that he started getting upset victories, winning 2 more times against Razor Ramon, then beating other top heels as they came out of the woodwork to put the kid "in his place". Razor actually made a HeelFaceTurn simply by taking his losses in good humor and taking the kid under his wing. Eventually. As a side note, said kid was Sean Waltman, Wrestling/SeanWaltman, the wrestler later known as Syxx (in the [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder nWo]]) and [[XPacHeat X-Pac]] (in [[Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}} [=DeGeneration=] X.))
*** Subverted once he became the {{Trope Namer|s}} for XPacHeat.
** Another storyline involved a [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] {{Jobber}} losing a few matches to better-known wrestlers under names like "The Cannonball Kid", "The Good Luck Kid", "The Kamikaze Kid", etc. until finally, now simply known as "The Kid", he scored an upset victory over
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** ECW did this with a guy by the name of Wrestling/MikeyWhipwreck, who would take vicious beatings in the ring without getting in a lick of offense. Eventually, the fans started sympathizing with him, and started to root for Mikey to win -- and when, as a surprise substitute for Terry Funk in a match for the ECW Tag Team Championship (with tag team partner [[Wrestling/MickFoley Cactus Jack]]), Mikey not only landed an offensive maneuver against his opponents ([[Wrestling/{{TPE}} The Public Enemy]]), but managed to get the pinfall and win the match, making him even more beloved amongst the fans.
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** ECW Wrestling/{{ECW}} did this with a guy by the name of Wrestling/MikeyWhipwreck, who would take vicious beatings in the ring without getting in a lick of offense. Eventually, the fans started sympathizing with him, and started to root for Mikey to win -- and when, as a surprise substitute for Terry Funk in a match for the ECW Tag Team Championship (with tag team partner [[Wrestling/MickFoley Cactus Jack]]), Mikey not only landed an offensive maneuver against his opponents ([[Wrestling/{{TPE}} The Public Enemy]]), but managed to get the pinfall and win the match, making him even more beloved amongst the fans.
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* In a Meta Example during the 1990s, Wrestling/TheUndertaker had his [[AmplifierArtifact urn]] stolen and melted down by TedDiBiase's henchman, Kama Mustafa. Taker turned to [[FanCommunityNicknames his Creatures Of The Night]] to [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve give him the strength]] to beat Kama in a casket match. Being one of the most popular wrestlers in the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]], he had no trouble getting enough.
* You can always tell when a FauxActionGirl face Diva is starting to get really popular with the fans: she'll start getting out-of-nowhere victories over heel Divas who are bigger and/or a great deal more athletic. Sometimes this will be due to [[MoralDissonance other face wrestlers helping the good girl out]] [[DoubleStandard (which is, of course, "cheating" when done by the heels)]], but at other times it's just due to the heel Diva's [[StupidEvil stupidity]] and/or [[BreakTheHaughty overconfidence]]. Which is how Wrestling/StacyKeibler, Maria Kanellis, and Wrestling/KellyKelly were able to gain victories over Molly Holly, Melina Perez, and BethPhoenix, respectively, despite having none of their ability.
** And that is WWE's problem: they keep trying to replay the Trish Formula. Trish Stratus spent her first year in WWE as a valet, then a stint as Vince's girlfriend before turning face and starting to wrestle regularly. When she defeated Ivory in a match, fans began to take her seriously as a wrestler instead of being just a model (some fans still think she was all-hype, though). In the subsequent times they've tried this, the fans saw through it and called WWE out for it. When Kelly Kelly became Divas Champion and went over on Beth Phoenix twice, fans chanted "BULL-SHIT!!" at her.
* You can always tell when a FauxActionGirl face Diva is starting to get really popular with the fans: she'll start getting out-of-nowhere victories over heel Divas who are bigger and/or a great deal more athletic. Sometimes this will be due to [[MoralDissonance other face wrestlers helping the good girl out]] [[DoubleStandard (which is, of course, "cheating" when done by the heels)]], but at other times it's just due to the heel Diva's [[StupidEvil stupidity]] and/or [[BreakTheHaughty overconfidence]]. Which is how Wrestling/StacyKeibler, Maria Kanellis, and Wrestling/KellyKelly were able to gain victories over Molly Holly, Melina Perez, and BethPhoenix, respectively, despite having none of their ability.
** And that is WWE's problem: they keep trying to replay the Trish Formula. Trish Stratus spent her first year in WWE as a valet, then a stint as Vince's girlfriend before turning face and starting to wrestle regularly. When she defeated Ivory in a match, fans began to take her seriously as a wrestler instead of being just a model (some fans still think she was all-hype, though). In the subsequent times they've tried this, the fans saw through it and called WWE out for it. When Kelly Kelly became Divas Champion and went over on Beth Phoenix twice, fans chanted "BULL-SHIT!!" at her.
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* In a Meta Example during the 1990s, Wrestling/TheUndertaker had his [[AmplifierArtifact urn]] stolen and melted down by TedDiBiase's [[Wrestling/TedDiBiase Ted [=DiBiase=]]]'s henchman, Kama Mustafa. Taker turned to [[FanCommunityNicknames his Creatures Of The Night]] to [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve give him the strength]] to beat Kama in a casket match. Being one of the most popular wrestlers in the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]], he had no trouble getting enough.
* You can always tell when a FauxActionGirl face Diva is starting to get really popular with the fans: she'll start getting out-of-nowhere victories over heel Divas who are bigger and/or a great deal more athletic. Sometimes this will be due to [[MoralDissonance other face wrestlers helping the good girl out]] [[DoubleStandard (which is, of course, "cheating" when done by the heels)]], but at other times it's just due to the heel Diva's [[StupidEvil stupidity]] and/or [[BreakTheHaughty overconfidence]]. Which is how Wrestling/StacyKeibler, Maria Kanellis, and Wrestling/KellyKelly were able to gain victories overMolly Holly, Wrestling/MollyHolly, [[Wrestling/{{Melina}} Melina Perez, Perez]], and BethPhoenix, Wrestling/BethPhoenix, respectively, despite having none of their ability.
** And that is WWE's problem: they keep trying to replay the Trish Formula.Trish Stratus Wrestling/TrishStratus spent her first year in WWE as a valet, then a stint as Vince's girlfriend before turning face and starting to wrestle regularly. When she defeated Ivory in a match, fans began to take her seriously as a wrestler instead of being just a model (some fans still think she was all-hype, though). In the subsequent times they've tried this, the fans saw through it and called WWE out for it. When Kelly Kelly became Divas Champion and went over on Beth Phoenix twice, fans chanted "BULL-SHIT!!" at her.
* You can always tell when a FauxActionGirl face Diva is starting to get really popular with the fans: she'll start getting out-of-nowhere victories over heel Divas who are bigger and/or a great deal more athletic. Sometimes this will be due to [[MoralDissonance other face wrestlers helping the good girl out]] [[DoubleStandard (which is, of course, "cheating" when done by the heels)]], but at other times it's just due to the heel Diva's [[StupidEvil stupidity]] and/or [[BreakTheHaughty overconfidence]]. Which is how Wrestling/StacyKeibler, Maria Kanellis, and Wrestling/KellyKelly were able to gain victories over
** And that is WWE's problem: they keep trying to replay the Trish Formula.
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** Subverted with the debut of Brie Bella on ''[=SmackDown=]'', who was immediately put into a match against former Women's Champion Victoria. Brie at first played the part of a LovableCoward, hiding from Victoria under the ring only to magically reappear from out from the under the other side of the ring, slip behind Victoria, and roll her up for a pin. Yes, in her very first match! Then it was eventually revealed that the girl who'd pinned Victoria was Brie's twin sister, Nikki, who had switched places with her in the middle of the match. (And then, double-subverted in that both of the BellaTwins remained faces for a time).
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** Subverted with the debut of [[Wrestling/BellaTwins Brie Bella Bella]] on ''[=SmackDown=]'', who was immediately put into a match against former Women's Champion Victoria.[[Characters/WWEDivas Victoria]]. Brie at first played the part of a LovableCoward, hiding from Victoria under the ring only to magically reappear from out from the under the other side of the ring, slip behind Victoria, and roll her up for a pin. Yes, in her very first match! Then it was eventually revealed that the girl who'd pinned Victoria was Brie's twin sister, Nikki, who had switched places with her in the middle of the match. (And then, double-subverted in that both of the BellaTwins Bella Twins remained faces for a time).time).
* [[Wrestling/GeorgeSteele George "The Animal" Steele]] has said since that his feud with [[Wrestling/RandySavage Randy "Macho Man" Savage]] wasn't intended to last as long as it did but it got so over that they ran with it.
* [[Wrestling/GeorgeSteele George "The Animal" Steele]] has said since that his feud with [[Wrestling/RandySavage Randy "Macho Man" Savage]] wasn't intended to last as long as it did but it got so over that they ran with it.
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** And now sister site Gamespot is doing [[http://uk.gamespot.com/greatest-video-game-hero/standings/index.html the same]]. Though it has become a subversion of itself with heavy interference, first from 4chan who managed to have the ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'' beat [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Master Chief]] and SonicTheHedgehog before bowing down to Samus, and later from '''Valve themselves''', who pushed a massive rally call for [[{{Half-Life}} Gordon Freeman]], which went to... well, it allowed Valve to proclaim [[http://store.steamgames.com/news/2959/ this]]: "[[KanyeWest There are other great game heroes, and we're gonna let you play with them, but Gordon Freeman is THE BEST GAME HERO OF ALL TIME"]]
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** And now sister site Gamespot is doing [[http://uk.gamespot.com/greatest-video-game-hero/standings/index.html the same]]. Though it has become a subversion of itself with heavy interference, first from 4chan who managed to have the ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'' beat [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Master Chief]] and SonicTheHedgehog before bowing down to Samus, and later from '''Valve themselves''', who pushed a massive rally call for [[{{Half-Life}} [[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]], which went to... well, it allowed Valve to proclaim [[http://store.steamgames.com/news/2959/ this]]: "[[KanyeWest There are other great game heroes, and we're gonna let you play with them, but Gordon Freeman is THE BEST GAME HERO OF ALL TIME"]]
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** "The Brooklyn Brawler" Steve Lombardi, a man whose name has become synonymous with {{Jobber}}, holds a victory over Wrestling/TripleH.
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** Another storyline involved a [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] {{Jobber}} losing a few matches to better-known wrestlers under names like "The Cannonball Kid", "The Good Luck Kid", "The Kamikaze Kid", etc. until finally, now simply known as "The Kid", he scored an upset victory over [[ScottHall Razor Ramon]]. This earned him the name "The 1-2-3 Kid", as his entire gimmick was that he started getting upset victories, winning 2 more times against Razor Ramon, then beating other top heels as they came out of the woodwork to put the kid "in his place". Razor actually made a HeelFaceTurn simply by taking his losses in good humor and taking the kid under his wing. Eventually. As a side note, said kid was Sean Waltman, the wrestler later known as Syxx (in the [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder nWo]]) and [[XPacHeat X-Pac]] (in DGenerationX)
** And then there was the famous Barry Horowitz, whose 800-strong losing streak came to an abrupt end when he beat Skip of the Bodydonnas, rolling Skip up for a pinfall when he stopped to do push-ups in the middle of the match. He'd go on to get two more wins, one more against Skip and one against Hakushi, and again Hakushi was able to turn face by taking his loss in good spirits (of course, Hakushi's face turn was somewhat less successful than Razor's, as he went from the enigmatic {{Badass}} "White Angel of Death" to a FunnyForeigner).
** And then there was the famous Barry Horowitz, whose 800-strong losing streak came to an abrupt end when he beat Skip of the Bodydonnas, rolling Skip up for a pinfall when he stopped to do push-ups in the middle of the match. He'd go on to get two more wins, one more against Skip and one against Hakushi, and again Hakushi was able to turn face by taking his loss in good spirits (of course, Hakushi's face turn was somewhat less successful than Razor's, as he went from the enigmatic {{Badass}} "White Angel of Death" to a FunnyForeigner).
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** Another storyline involved a [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] {{Jobber}} losing a few matches to better-known wrestlers under names like "The Cannonball Kid", "The Good Luck Kid", "The Kamikaze Kid", etc. until finally, now simply known as "The Kid", he scored an upset victory over [[ScottHall Razor Ramon]]. This earned him the name "The 1-2-3 Kid", as his entire gimmick was that he started getting upset victories, winning 2 more times against Razor Ramon, then beating other top heels as they came out of the woodwork to put the kid "in his place". Razor actually made a HeelFaceTurn simply by taking his losses in good humor and taking the kid under his wing. Eventually. As a side note, said kid was Sean Waltman, the wrestler later known as Syxx (in the [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder nWo]]) and [[XPacHeat X-Pac]] (in DGenerationX)
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** And then there was the famousBarry Horowitz, Wrestling/BarryHorowitz, whose 800-strong losing streak came to an abrupt end when he beat Skip of the Bodydonnas, rolling Skip up for a pinfall when he stopped to do push-ups in the middle of the match. He'd go on to get two more wins, one more against Skip and one against Hakushi, and again Hakushi was able to turn face by taking his loss in good spirits (of course, Hakushi's face turn was somewhat less successful than Razor's, as he went from the enigmatic {{Badass}} "White Angel of Death" to a FunnyForeigner).
** And then there was the famous
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** Many times the show completely subverts the trope as Batman often needs the episode's guest hero to save him, and has a times been utterly destroyed when he hasn't had any help, aside from the above with Darksied, Lex Luthor also once broke into the Batcave while armed with a suit he built to take on Superman, [[RealityEnsues and proceeds to flatten Batman while]] [[NoSell NoSelling]] [[CurbStompBattle every weapon thrown at him]].
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** Another storyline involved a [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] {{Jobber}} losing a few matches to better-known wrestlers under names like "The Cannonball Kid", "The Good Luck Kid", "The Kamikaze Kid", etc. until finally, now simply known as "The Kid", he scored an upset victory over [[ScottHall Razor Ramon]]. This earned him the name "The 1-2-3 Kid", as his entire gimmick was that he started getting upset victories, winning 2 more times against Razor Ramon, then beating other top heels as they came out of the woodwork to put the kid "in his place". Razor actually made a HeelFaceTurn simply by taking his losses in good humor and taking the kid under his wing. Eventually. As a side note, said kid was Sean Waltman, the wrestler later known as Syxx (in the [[NewWorldOrder nWo]]) and [[XPacHeat X-Pac]] (in DGenerationX)
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** Another storyline involved a [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] {{Jobber}} losing a few matches to better-known wrestlers under names like "The Cannonball Kid", "The Good Luck Kid", "The Kamikaze Kid", etc. until finally, now simply known as "The Kid", he scored an upset victory over [[ScottHall Razor Ramon]]. This earned him the name "The 1-2-3 Kid", as his entire gimmick was that he started getting upset victories, winning 2 more times against Razor Ramon, then beating other top heels as they came out of the woodwork to put the kid "in his place". Razor actually made a HeelFaceTurn simply by taking his losses in good humor and taking the kid under his wing. Eventually. As a side note, said kid was Sean Waltman, the wrestler later known as Syxx (in the [[NewWorldOrder [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder nWo]]) and [[XPacHeat X-Pac]] (in DGenerationX)
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** ECW did this with a guy by the name of Mikey Whipwreck, who would take vicious beatings in the ring without getting in a lick of offense. Eventually, the fans started sympathizing with him, and started to root for Mikey to win -- and when, as a surprise substitute for Terry Funk in a match for the ECW Tag Team Championship (with tag team partner [[Wrestling/MickFoley Cactus Jack]]), Mikey not only landed an offensive maneuver against his opponents ([[Wrestling/{{TPE}} The Public Enemy]]), but managed to get the pinfall and win the match, making him even more beloved amongst the fans.
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** ECW did this with a guy by the name of Mikey Whipwreck, Wrestling/MikeyWhipwreck, who would take vicious beatings in the ring without getting in a lick of offense. Eventually, the fans started sympathizing with him, and started to root for Mikey to win -- and when, as a surprise substitute for Terry Funk in a match for the ECW Tag Team Championship (with tag team partner [[Wrestling/MickFoley Cactus Jack]]), Mikey not only landed an offensive maneuver against his opponents ([[Wrestling/{{TPE}} The Public Enemy]]), but managed to get the pinfall and win the match, making him even more beloved amongst the fans.
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* On the non-subverted side of the fence, there's HulkHogan. And HulkHogan always, always won, thanks to "the power of the Hulkamaniacs", even when faced with somebody who was bigger, badder, or just plain better. This went on for most of the '80s, and the beginning of the '90s, across two different wrestling promotions, before it got stale enough for a FaceHeelTurn to even be considered.
** There's the half-straight / half-inverted example of JohnCena, particularly from his WWE Championship win in 2005 until his return from an injury in 2008. The vast majority of the crowd (i.e. the men) absolutely loathed Cena and would call for his head at every turn... but due to Cena's popularity with women and children, he went on to ''constantly'' overcome the odds of more popular {{Heel}}s en route to one title run that lasted just three months shy of a year (and with only a three week break between his next one that lasted another five months) and one that went just over a month past a full year and even that was only ended due to aforementioned injury.
* In a Meta Example during the 1990s, TheUndertaker had his [[AmplifierArtifact urn]] stolen and melted down by TedDiBiase's henchman, Kama Mustafa. Taker turned to [[FanCommunityNicknames his Creatures Of The Night]] to [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve give him the strength]] to beat Kama in a casket match. Being one of the most popular wrestlers in the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]], he had no trouble getting enough.
* You can always tell when a FauxActionGirl face Diva is starting to get really popular with the fans: she'll start getting out-of-nowhere victories over heel Divas who are bigger and/or a great deal more athletic. Sometimes this will be due to [[MoralDissonance other face wrestlers helping the good girl out]] [[DoubleStandard (which is, of course, "cheating" when done by the heels)]], but at other times it's just due to the heel Diva's [[StupidEvil stupidity]] and/or [[BreakTheHaughty overconfidence]]. Which is how Wrestling/StacyKeibler, Maria Kanellis, and KellyKelly were able to gain victories over Molly Holly, Melina Perez, and BethPhoenix, respectively, despite having none of their ability.
** There's the half-straight / half-inverted example of JohnCena, particularly from his WWE Championship win in 2005 until his return from an injury in 2008. The vast majority of the crowd (i.e. the men) absolutely loathed Cena and would call for his head at every turn... but due to Cena's popularity with women and children, he went on to ''constantly'' overcome the odds of more popular {{Heel}}s en route to one title run that lasted just three months shy of a year (and with only a three week break between his next one that lasted another five months) and one that went just over a month past a full year and even that was only ended due to aforementioned injury.
* In a Meta Example during the 1990s, TheUndertaker had his [[AmplifierArtifact urn]] stolen and melted down by TedDiBiase's henchman, Kama Mustafa. Taker turned to [[FanCommunityNicknames his Creatures Of The Night]] to [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve give him the strength]] to beat Kama in a casket match. Being one of the most popular wrestlers in the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]], he had no trouble getting enough.
* You can always tell when a FauxActionGirl face Diva is starting to get really popular with the fans: she'll start getting out-of-nowhere victories over heel Divas who are bigger and/or a great deal more athletic. Sometimes this will be due to [[MoralDissonance other face wrestlers helping the good girl out]] [[DoubleStandard (which is, of course, "cheating" when done by the heels)]], but at other times it's just due to the heel Diva's [[StupidEvil stupidity]] and/or [[BreakTheHaughty overconfidence]]. Which is how Wrestling/StacyKeibler, Maria Kanellis, and KellyKelly were able to gain victories over Molly Holly, Melina Perez, and BethPhoenix, respectively, despite having none of their ability.
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* On the non-subverted side of the fence, there's HulkHogan. Wrestling/HulkHogan. And HulkHogan Hulk Hogan always, always won, thanks to "the power of the Hulkamaniacs", even when faced with somebody who was bigger, badder, or just plain better. This went on for most of the '80s, and the beginning of the '90s, across two different wrestling promotions, before it got stale enough for a FaceHeelTurn to even be considered.
** There's the half-straight / half-inverted example ofJohnCena, Wrestling/JohnCena, particularly from his WWE Championship win in 2005 until his return from an injury in 2008. The vast majority of the crowd (i.e. the men) absolutely loathed Cena and would call for his head at every turn... but due to Cena's popularity with women and children, he went on to ''constantly'' overcome the odds of more popular {{Heel}}s en route to one title run that lasted just three months shy of a year (and with only a three week break between his next one that lasted another five months) and one that went just over a month past a full year and even that was only ended due to aforementioned injury.
* In a Meta Example during the 1990s,TheUndertaker Wrestling/TheUndertaker had his [[AmplifierArtifact urn]] stolen and melted down by TedDiBiase's henchman, Kama Mustafa. Taker turned to [[FanCommunityNicknames his Creatures Of The Night]] to [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve give him the strength]] to beat Kama in a casket match. Being one of the most popular wrestlers in the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]], he had no trouble getting enough.
* You can always tell when a FauxActionGirl face Diva is starting to get really popular with the fans: she'll start getting out-of-nowhere victories over heel Divas who are bigger and/or a great deal more athletic. Sometimes this will be due to [[MoralDissonance other face wrestlers helping the good girl out]] [[DoubleStandard (which is, of course, "cheating" when done by the heels)]], but at other times it's just due to the heel Diva's [[StupidEvil stupidity]] and/or [[BreakTheHaughty overconfidence]]. Which is how Wrestling/StacyKeibler, Maria Kanellis, andKellyKelly Wrestling/KellyKelly were able to gain victories over Molly Holly, Melina Perez, and BethPhoenix, respectively, despite having none of their ability.
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* In a Meta Example during the 1990s,
* You can always tell when a FauxActionGirl face Diva is starting to get really popular with the fans: she'll start getting out-of-nowhere victories over heel Divas who are bigger and/or a great deal more athletic. Sometimes this will be due to [[MoralDissonance other face wrestlers helping the good girl out]] [[DoubleStandard (which is, of course, "cheating" when done by the heels)]], but at other times it's just due to the heel Diva's [[StupidEvil stupidity]] and/or [[BreakTheHaughty overconfidence]]. Which is how Wrestling/StacyKeibler, Maria Kanellis, and
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* In the DCAU, {{Darkseid}} fired his [[AlwaysAccurateAttack Omega Beam]] at {{Batman}}...''and missed.''
** Well, more of a "forced Batman to run all over the place before finally positioning a Mook into it and let it die instead." Still counts, though.
*** On the other hand, Batman's actual ''attacks'' were at best distractions for Superman to capitalize on and at worst mere annoyances.
** Well, more of a "forced Batman to run all over the place before finally positioning a Mook into it and let it die instead." Still counts, though.
*** On the other hand, Batman's actual ''attacks'' were at best distractions for Superman to capitalize on and at worst mere annoyances.
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* In the DCAU, {{Darkseid}} fired his [[AlwaysAccurateAttack Omega Beam]] at {{Batman}}...Franchise/{{Batman}}...''and missed.''
** Well, more of a "forced Batman to run all over the place before finally positioning a Mook into it and let it die instead." Still counts,though.
***though. On the other hand, Batman's actual ''attacks'' were at best distractions for Superman to capitalize on and at worst mere annoyances.
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** The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' RPG from FASA clearly assumed that not only was the Enterprise the most successful ship of its class in service, but that every position on the ship was filled by the single most competent individual in that field to be found in Starfleet. One must feel sorry for the security chief of any other vessel by comparison ...
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** The ''Franchise/StarTrek'' RPG from FASA clearly assumed that not only was the Enterprise the most successful ship of its class in service, but that every position on the ship was filled by the single most competent individual in that field to be found in Starfleet. One must feel sorry for the security chief of any other vessel by comparison ...comparison...[[hottip:*:there's a real-world parallel when a special operations unit would be formed and supposed to be staffed by the best of the best... which would necessarily at the expense of those troops' parent units who would lose them! For example, it's one of the reasons that the US Marine Corps went fifteen years without joining/contributing directly to US Special Operations Command -- they didn't want to give up Force Reconnaissance.]]
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** Well, more of a "maneuvered a foe into it and let it die instead." Still counts, though.
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* In [[BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Batman: The Brave and the Bold]], Batman gets this in spades, taking direct punches from beings like Mongul, Kalibak, and Darkseid, and... surviving them. Somewhat subverted in that there are a few episodes that show Batman dying, but each and every time he's resurrected through mystical means.
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* In [[BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Batman: The Brave and the Bold]], Batman gets this in spades, taking direct punches from beings like Mongul, Kalibak, and Darkseid, and... surviving them. Somewhat subverted in that there are a few episodes that show Batman dying, but each and every time he's resurrected through mystical means. \n While he wasn't hit by Darkseid's Omega Beam, the effort he needed to exert to actually deal with it obviously exhausted him...[[IAmNotLeftHanded and then Darkseid began hand to hand combat.]]
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* In [[BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Batman: The Brave and the Bold]], Batman gets this in spades, taking direct punches from beings like Mongul, Kalibak, and Darkseid, and... surviving them. Somewhat subverted in that there are a few episodes that show Batman dying, but each and every time he's resurrected through mystical means.
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*Xena from [[XenaWarriorPrincess Xena: Warrior Princess]] was a beneficiary of this, having grown popular enough to have her own spinoff show after appearing on Hercules. Even though she's a [[BadassNormal mortal warrior]], Xena has gone on to beat people far above her weight class and accomplish other feats that one would think is impossible for someone who isn't a god or demi-god. In short, she's slain multiple deities from Greece and from other lands, single-handedly fought off entire armies, killed off almost all of the Olympians, fought off arch-angels, and defeated not one but TWO incarnations of the Judeo-Christian Devil. Admittedly, she does gain the ability to kill gods but even then, it's questionable if she should even be able to exercise that ability against gods as powerful and as experienced as Artemis and Athena.
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* The web series, ''Super Power Beat Down'', involves characters from various comic books, video games and films, meeting and fighting each other. The winner of each outcome, is decided purely on whichever character gets the most votes from fans.
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** It gets even better, in another one he ''shoots his way out'' of the sarlacc like some sort of FPS player character, said sarlacc is nearly dead now.
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** It gets even better, in another one he ''shoots his way out'' of the sarlacc like some sort of FPS player character, character; said sarlacc is nearly dead now.
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** Pretty much most of the focus of the Angel series was that he was well-known and going to be a popular player in the apocalypse. But on whose side? Turns out [[spoiler: he was well in the midst of it already, who said the apocalypse couldn't drag out over decades?]].
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** Pretty much most of the focus of the Angel ''Angel'' series was that he was well-known and going to be a popular player in the apocalypse. But on whose side? Turns out [[spoiler: he was well in the midst of it already, already; who said the apocalypse couldn't drag out over decades?]].
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** Mordenkainen, Tenser and other characters got this treatment in the {{Greyhawk}} setting.
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* Agent Coulson of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse was a fairly minor character in ''[[Film/IronMan1 Iron Man]]'' before he became a recurring character throughout the series. At the peak of his popularity and once [[TheComicallySerious his characterization]] [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee had developed]], he was suddenly killed in ''Film/TheAvengers''. Upon hearing of this, Website/{{Twitter}} and Website/{{Tumblr}} '''exploded''' with support for him to come back, campaigning the slogan [=#CoulsonLives=]. Their attempts were so successful that not only did Marvel bring Coulson BackFromTheDead ''AND'' make him the star of ''Film/TheAvengers'', [[AscendedMeme they even made tweeting #CoulsonLives unlock a trailer]] for the TV show.
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* Agent Coulson of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse was a fairly minor character in ''[[Film/IronMan1 Iron Man]]'' before he became a recurring character throughout the series. At the peak of his popularity and once [[TheComicallySerious his characterization]] [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee had developed]], he was suddenly killed in ''Film/TheAvengers''. Upon hearing of this, Website/{{Twitter}} and Website/{{Tumblr}} '''exploded''' with support for him to come back, campaigning the slogan [=#CoulsonLives=]. Their attempts were so successful that not only did Marvel bring Coulson BackFromTheDead ''AND'' make him the star of ''Film/TheAvengers'', ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', [[AscendedMeme they even made tweeting #CoulsonLives unlock a trailer]] for the TV show.
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* Agent Coulson of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse was a fairly minor character in ''[[Film/IronMan1 Iron Man]]'' before he became a recurring character throughout the series. At the peak of his popularity and once [[TheComicallySerious his characterization]] [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee had developed]], he was suddenly killed in ''Film/TheAvengers''. Upon hearing of this, {{Website/Twitter}} and {{Website/Tumblr}} '''exploded''' with support for him to come back, campaigning the slogan [=#CoulsonLives=]. Their attempts were so successful that not only did Marvel bring Coulson BackFromTheDead ''AND'' make him the star of ''{{Series/SHIELD}}'', [[AscendedMeme they even made tweeting #CoulsonLives unlock a trailer]] for the TV show.
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* Agent Coulson of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse was a fairly minor character in ''[[Film/IronMan1 Iron Man]]'' before he became a recurring character throughout the series. At the peak of his popularity and once [[TheComicallySerious his characterization]] [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee had developed]], he was suddenly killed in ''Film/TheAvengers''. Upon hearing of this, {{Website/Twitter}} Website/{{Twitter}} and {{Website/Tumblr}} Website/{{Tumblr}} '''exploded''' with support for him to come back, campaigning the slogan [=#CoulsonLives=]. Their attempts were so successful that not only did Marvel bring Coulson BackFromTheDead ''AND'' make him the star of ''{{Series/SHIELD}}'', ''Film/TheAvengers'', [[AscendedMeme they even made tweeting #CoulsonLives unlock a trailer]] for the TV show.
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* ''Film/TheGreenHornet'': Kato being revamped into HyperCompetentSidekick taken UpToEleven was obviously inspired by Bruce Lee's increased popularity since playing the character.
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* ''Film/TheGreenHornet'': Kato being revamped into HyperCompetentSidekick taken UpToEleven was obviously inspired by Bruce Lee's Creator/BruceLee's increased popularity since playing the character.
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* ''Film/TheGreenHornet'': Kato being revamped into HyperCompetentSideKick taken UpToEleven was obviously inspired by Bruce Lee's increased popularity since playing the character.
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* ''Film/TheGreenHornet'': Kato being revamped into HyperCompetentSideKick HyperCompetentSidekick taken UpToEleven was obviously inspired by Bruce Lee's increased popularity since playing the character.
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* Agent Coulson of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse was a fairly minor character in ''[[Film/IronMan1 Iron Man]]'' before he became a recurring character throughout the series. At the peak of his popularity and once [[TheComicallySerious his characterization]] [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee had developed]], he was suddenly killed in ''Film/TheAvengers''. Upon hearing of this, {{Website/Twitter}} and {{Website/Tumblr}} '''exploded''' with support for him to come back, campaigning the slogan [=#CoulsonLives=]. Their attempts were so successful that not only did Marvel bring Coulson BackFromTheDead ''AND'' make him the star of ''{{Series/SHIELD}}'', [[AscendedMeme they even made tweeting #CoulsonLives unlock a trailer]] for the TV show
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* Agent Coulson of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse was a fairly minor character in ''[[Film/IronMan1 Iron Man]]'' before he became a recurring character throughout the series. At the peak of his popularity and once [[TheComicallySerious his characterization]] [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee had developed]], he was suddenly killed in ''Film/TheAvengers''. Upon hearing of this, {{Website/Twitter}} and {{Website/Tumblr}} '''exploded''' with support for him to come back, campaigning the slogan [=#CoulsonLives=]. Their attempts were so successful that not only did Marvel bring Coulson BackFromTheDead ''AND'' make him the star of ''{{Series/SHIELD}}'', [[AscendedMeme they even made tweeting #CoulsonLives unlock a trailer]] for the TV showshow.
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* Go back and watch ''ReturnOfTheJedi'', before Boba Fett's popularity rocketed. Boba has his gun taken out and then gets knocked over like a wuss by a rookie Jedi. He is then propelled into the side of Jabba's sailbarge when a blind man set off his jetpack. By accident. He then rolls right into the Sarlacc's mouth. The final humiliation is granted by the Sarlacc letting out a satisfied belch after swallowing him. Now compare him to the man who, among other things, went head to head with Darth Vader in a Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse story and came out of it alive.
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** Taken to extremes in the pre-Empire novels, where he actually almost killed Mace Windu (aka [[SamuelLJackson Samuel-Motherfucking -Jackson]]) in revenge for his dad's death in AttackOfTheClones, when he was no older than thirteen years old.
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** Taken to extremes in the pre-Empire novels, where he actually almost killed Mace Windu (aka [[SamuelLJackson [[Creator/SamuelLJackson Samuel-Motherfucking -Jackson]]) in revenge for his dad's death in AttackOfTheClones, ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', when he was no older than thirteen years old.
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* Agent Coulson of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse was a fairly minor character in ''[[Film/IronMan1 Iron Man]]'' before he became a recurring character throughout the series. At the peak of his popularity and once [[TheComicallySerious his characterization]] [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee had developed]], he was suddenly killed in ''Film/TheAvengers''. Upon hearing of this, {{Website/Twitter}} and {{Website/Tumblr}} '''exploded''' with support for him to come back, campaigning the slogan [=#CoulsonLives=]. Their attempts were so successful that not only did Marvel bring Coulson BackFromTheDead ''AND'' make him the star of ''{{Series/SHIELD}}'', [[AscendedMeme they even made tweeting #CoulsonLives unlock a trailer]] for the TV show
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