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** Bob is [[TwinkleInTheSky sent flying with one hit.]]

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** Bob is [[TwinkleInTheSky [[ATwinkleInTheSky sent flying with one hit.]]
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** NoHoldsBarredBeatdown
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** Bob is [[TwinkleInTheSkysent flying with one hit.]]

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** Bob is [[TwinkleInTheSkysent [[TwinkleInTheSky sent flying with one hit.]]
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**Bob is [[TwinkleInTheSkysent flying with one hit.]]

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* '''Justified''': Bob is too weak or too unprepared for the fight with Drake.

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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
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Bob is too weak or too unprepared for the fight with Drake.Drake.
** Drake had took TookALevelInBadass, and [[TheBully Bob]] didn't know this and found out the hard way.
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** [[RetGone Bob is erased from existence after his defeat]].
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** Drake beats Bob in about a microsecond.

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** Drake beats Bob in about a microsecond.
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** Drake beats Bob in about a single second.

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** Drake beats Bob in about a single second.microsecond.

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* '''Downplayed''': Bob and Drake fight, Bob can't possibly hope to damage Drake because he has no way of getting past the energy shield, but Bob proves to be about on the same skill level as Drake, it's just that the energy shield means Bob can't win yet.

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* '''Downplayed''': '''Downplayed''':
** CurbStompCushion.
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Bob and Drake fight, Bob can't possibly hope to damage Drake because he has no way of getting past the energy shield, but Bob proves to be about on the same skill level as Drake, it's just that the energy shield means Bob can't win yet.
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* '''Implied''': The GilliganCut between Drake and Bob facing off and Bob [[AmbulanceCut being loaded into an ambulance looking like a train ran him over]] turns out to have skipped over ten InUniverse seconds.


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* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob the {{Jerkass}} [[BullyingTheDragon bullies Drake not knowing how bad an idea this is]]. The resulting "fight" is resolved by Drake administering a [[MegatonPunch Megaton]] DopeSlap.
* '''Played For Drama''': Bob faces off against Drake praying that [[YouShallNotPass he can buy enough time for his girlfriend to run away]]. He buys her [[SenselessSacrifice precisely two seconds]].
* '''Played For Horror''': Bob is the point-of-view character of Drake's MookHorrorShow, in which he slaughters Bob's entire platoon in an offensively casual manner.
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** Drake was designed to be a badass, and the writer decided to use a curbstomp battle to try and make it more clear. [[TropesAreTools It worked out pretty well.]]

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** Drake was designed to be a badass, and the writer decided to use a curbstomp battle to try and make it more clear. [[TropesAreTools [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools It worked out pretty well.]]
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* '''Implied''': Bob getting stomped into the curb happens over a GilliganCut.
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** Bob explicitly aims to [[CurbStompCushion annoy the living hell out of Drake before going down rather than actual victory]]. Drake's own psychological issues find this even more enraging than actually being hurt, and eventually pulls a RageQuit.

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* '''Defied''': Bob is not yet skilled enough to fight Drake. He pulls out that item that allows him to instantly win any battle that was TooAwesomeToUse before.

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* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
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Bob is not yet skilled enough to fight Drake. He pulls out that item that allows him to instantly win any battle that was TooAwesomeToUse before.before.
** Bob is not yet skilled enough to fight Drake. He runs like hell.

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* '''Enforced''': Drake was designed to be a badass, and the writer decided to use a curbstomp battle to try and make it more clear. [[TropesAreTools It worked out pretty well.]]

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* '''Enforced''': '''Enforced''':
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Drake was designed to be a badass, and the writer decided to use a curbstomp battle to try and make it more clear. [[TropesAreTools It worked out pretty well.]]]]
** The story is aimed at an audience that prefers one-sided fights over close fights.
** The budget or time remaining is running low, and the production team cannot afford to depict any other kind of battle.
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** Bob is a ButtMonkey and encounters Drake, a LightningBruiser who literally tears him into his component molecules.

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** Bob is a ButtMonkey MasterOfNone and encounters Drake, a LightningBruiser MasterOfAll who literally tears him into his component molecules.
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** {{The Juggernaut}}

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** {{The Juggernaut}}TheJuggernaut
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** [[RuleOfThree Alternatively alternatively alternatively]], [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Drake backhands Bob while eating a sandwich and stomps him on the curb.]]

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** [[RuleOfThree Alternatively alternatively alternatively]], [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Drake backhands Bob without noticing him while eating a sandwich and stomps him on the curb.curb when he does notice.]]

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* '''Double Subverted''': ...but that was just a HopeSpot.

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* '''Double Subverted''': ...Subverted''':
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but that was just a HopeSpot.HopeSpot.
** Or Bob's HeroicSecondWind is so powerful that the fight turns into a CurbStompBattle in ''Bob's'' favor.

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* '''Invoked''': The MacGuffin that Drake was going for was to greatly enhance his superior abilities, thus making every battle end like this.

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* '''Invoked''': '''Invoked''':
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The MacGuffin that Drake was going for was to greatly enhance his superior abilities, thus making every battle end like this.this.
** {{The Juggernaut}}
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** [[RuleOfThree Alternatively alternatively alternatively]], [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Drake backhands Bob while eating a sandwich and stomping him on the curb.]]

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** [[RuleOfThree Alternatively alternatively alternatively]], [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Drake backhands Bob while eating a sandwich and stomping stomps him on the curb.]]

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** Or Drake beats Bob while [[ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask eating a sandwich]].
** Drake just [[OffhandBackhand backhands]] Bob without notice him.

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** Or Alternatively, Drake beats Bob while [[ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask eating a sandwich]].
** [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Alternatively alternatively,]] Drake just [[OffhandBackhand backhands]] Bob without notice him.him.
** [[RuleOfThree Alternatively alternatively alternatively]], [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Drake backhands Bob while eating a sandwich and stomping him on the curb.]]
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** Bob
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** Drake just [[OffhandBackhand backhands]] on reflex.

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** Drake just [[OffhandBackhand backhands]] on reflex.Bob without notice him.
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** Drake just [[OffhandBackhand backhands]] on reflex.

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