History NoHoldsBarredBeatdown / Literature

* During ''[[Literature/CircleOfMagic The Will Of The Empress]]'', Berenene decides that she wants Sandry- and her wealth- to stay in Namorn, and Sandry's foster-siblings (who are all powerful mages) to stay as well and serve her. After [[spoiler: Sandry is abducted by a guy who wanted to marry her without her consent]], all of the siblings tell Berenene to fuck off, at which point Berenene decides that they're only being so bold because they have Tris, who is one of, if not ''the'' most powerful mages on the planet, and who has incredibly rare ambient weather magic. Berenene's solution is to ask her curse-wielding second-in-command to make one for Tris. It knocks her down a flight of stairs, sending her bouncing and cartwheeling instead of sliding or tumbling, and breaks or fractures nearly every bone in her body, but doesn't kill or permanently disable her. [[spoiler: And it only makes the four even more pissed off.]]

** In ''Turn Coat'', book 11, [[spoiler:Wizard Listens-To-Wind delivers one of these to a Skinwalker, which is a nigh immortal, semidivine shapeshifter that feeds on magic. He does so in a Shapeshifting duel, eventually making the Skinwalker turn into a minor EldritchAbomination and fly away screaming.]]

** Harry Dresden himself is not a stranger to being on the receiving end of these. During ''Grave Peril'', where he experiences that being captured by [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Red Court]] Vampires isn't fun.
** Harry tends to inspire this kind of feeling in most of his enemies, even as it's mutual. In ''Dead Beat'', [[spoiler:Cassius]] repays a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Harry gave him with ''brutal'' murderous intent. It could easily be the [[DarkestHour Darkest Hour]] of the book, since [[spoiler: Cassius]] explicitly said he would kill him slowly and ''very painfully''. [[spoiler: He gets pretty far, too.]]

* In the start of ''Literature/TheWarGods'' series, Bahzell walks in on [[TheEvilPrince Harnak]] beating and raping a palace servant. Since his kind particularly believe that RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil, Bahzell leaves him with two open fractures in his ribs, nine teeth gone and four more broken enough to need pulling out, one eye swollen shut, broken nose and a lump the size of an egg in his forehead.

* [[VillainProtagonist Heathcliff]] does this to [[TheResenter Hindley]] midway through ''Literature/WutheringHeights'', shortly after [[spoiler: Catherine's death]]. Of course, earlier in their lives Hindley had plenty of times the opportunity to do this to Heathcliff, at least once using a whip.