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17->''"Well, that was unexpected..."''
18-->-- The LastWords of '''Chaos Warmaster [[Literature/CiaphasCain Varan]] [[TemptingFate The Undefeatable]]''', ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
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20A regular scourge in the ring: a character so powerful, so unstoppable, that not even the greatest of fighters can overcome his wrath. Be it TheBrute, TheDragon, an ArrogantKungFuGuy, or TheBigGuy with a mean streak, this character is an unbeatable scourge that other fighters either dread facing or anticipate fighting in order to gain fame for being the first to beat him. However, they all fail. But nothing lasts forever...
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22Basically, this is a character who is introduced as and/or is famous for being brutally unstoppable, and, for a long time, they continue to be so, until that one hero (or villain) can finally show the world what he's made of by defeating him. These characters appear in varied roles: they can be a BigBad, TheDragon, or, sometimes, just some seemingly unobtainable goal. Often, such a character will also be either a {{Jerkass}} or somewhat intimidating to give the hero even more reason for beating him, but not always. This character may also play a role of the ''[[DavidVersusGoliath Goliath]]'' if the one who beats him looks to be totally outmatched at first glance.
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24Said undefeatable nature may come in the form of an ImplacableMan or HeroKiller.
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26Depending on the character, the fighter can still stay as powerful as they were after being beaten, but, occasionally, once beaten, they lose their power and become a regular fighter just like the rest. See TooPowerfulToLive, LordBritishPostulate, and DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu.
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28Compare TheWorfEffect. NotSoInvincibleAfterAll is the SuperTrope. SubTrope to BrokenWinLossStreak.
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30!!As this is a [[VictoryAndDefeat Defeat Trope]], [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].
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36* It is a common staple of sports themed manga/anime (usually set in high school) to have a team that has dominated the national circuit and is always touted as the team to beat for the protagonist team. Examples are:
37** ''Manga/Eyeshield21'' has the perennial Kanto representative the Shinryuuji Naga, who had dominated the Kanto region for the longest time. They, however, pale in comparison to the Teikoku Alexanders, who have won the Christmas Bowl ''since the establishment of American Football in Japan''.
38** ''Manga/{{Saki}}'' has Shiraitodai Girls School, the two time champion in high school team mahjong. Its ace player, Teru Miyanaga, is touted as the best individual mahjong player in the high school circuit, and is the sister of the title character.
39** ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' has Kuromorimine Women's College, which have won the high school sensha-do (tankery) championship for 9 years. Their loss in the year before the storyline was not because of a better team, but because the commander of their flag tank abandoned her position to save a friendly tank that had fallen into a river.
40** ''Manga/SlamDunk'' has the Sannoh Industry Affiliated High School basketball team. They have been the defending national champions for three years running and are ranked as an AA team. To give an idea of how powerful they are, the year prior to the start of the story they defeated Kainan, who are Kanagawa's top team for 16 years straight, by ''30'' points of difference, and since their current senior players joined, they haven't lost a single game. Shohoku faces them in the second round of the nationals [[spoiler:barely winning by ''one'' point in the last second.]]
41* Kazu from ''Manga/AirGear'' was already getting some serious badass cred from his fight with Sleipnir, but he finally proves, once and for all, that he's no longer the little bitch who needs [[TheHero Ikki]] to fight for him when he [[spoiler:takes out Nike, a ridiculously powerful HeroKiller who's [[ImplacableMan never lost a fight]]]]. Sure, he had help, but he still stood alone for most of the battle.
42* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'': Half of the plot is that Korosensei is determined to cultivate Kunigigaoka's E Class, the class of outcasts and ne'er-do-wells, into students knowledgeable enough to take out the A Class, the all-stars with the highest grades, with Principal Asano's son as the school's #1 student.
43* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': Eren manages this during the battle with [[spoiler:Reiner]]. At least, [[spoiler:until he puts out a DistressCall and Bertolt [[DeathFromAbove falls on them]]]].
44* Downplayed in ''Anime/BeybladeBurst'', but Valt becomes the first person to burst Spryzen in episode 15, even though he didn't win the match. On a more straight note, Lui defeating Free after 7 rounds to knock the world champion off his perch. Lui later proceeded to be on the receiving end of this courtesy of the same Free he had beaten before.
45* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': When Ichigo goes into a RoaringRampageOfRescue across Soul Society in order to stop Rukia's execution, he encounters and defeats Kenpachi Zaraki and Byakuya Kuchiki, both of whom are considered among the strongest Captains in the history of the Gotei 13.
46* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
47** Accelerator. The most powerful esper in Academy City, no one has ever managed to land so much as a single blow on him. Then [[UnSorcerer Touma Kamijou]] comes along, manages to [[PowerNullifier negate Accelerator's power]], and defeats him in combat by punching his lights out. Touma has a tendency to do this to other people as well, all thanks to [[AntiMagic his power to nullify anything]].
48** Shizuri Mugino was ranked the fourth most powerful esper in Academy City. Then Shiage Hamazura, a guy with no powers at all, tricks her into blowing herself up. All thanks to his ingenuity and determination, he beats her in both rematches as well.
49* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' has the Twelve Kizuki. A group of the twelve strongest demons in existence, second only to the BigBad himself. The Twelve Kizuki are divided into the Upper and Lower Ranks, with Lower-Six being the weakest, and Upper-One being the strongest. The Lower Ranks are formidable opponents in their own right; The Lower-Five, Rui, subjected the Main Character to a brutal CurbStompBattle. But the Upper Ranks are on a completely different level. Muzan, the BigBad, mentions in one episode that while countless Lower Ranks have been killed by Demon Slayers over the years, the Upper Ranks have gone largely unchanged for centuries. This is because no one, not even the most elite Demon Slayers, has been able to kill them. Obviously, it's the goal of this generation of Demon Slayers to be those killers. [[spoiler:And by the end, though not without heavy costs, not only are all the Upper Ranks dead but even Muzan himself.]]
50* Three villains in ''Manga/DragonBall'' and ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' (King Piccolo, Frieza, and Buu) were known to be nearly unstoppable and had been terrorizing the world/galaxy/universe for ages; eventually all three of them were defeated by Goku.
51** Frieza in particular was referred to by every character who knew him as the undisputed strongest being in the universe, such that he has (at least by his claim) never had to use anything close to his maximum power to defeat an opponent before he faces the Z-fighters, and even the arrogant Vegeta didn't want to fight him without the power of ''immortality'' on his side.
52** Broly's unique form of Super Saiyan is apparently ''the'' Super Saiyan of legend, which renders Vegeta (usually beyond stubborn) near-catatonic in his presence. In the original story, it takes the combined energy of the heroes channelled into Goku to defeat him. All of this is after a hellacious beating of all our heroes (that's Super Saiyan Gohan, Vegeta, Trunks, Goku, and Kami-Fused Piccolo for those wondering).
53** Cell is a unique case of [[FromNobodyToNightmare a villain who goes from being a simple minded man-eating monster to the closest thing to a god at that point at the time]] and he was also stronger than Goku at the time. In fact, he is this until Gohan kills him.
54** The role is reversed with Beerus, the BigBad of the 14th movie and the universe's designated God of Destruction. Not even Goku can defeat him, even after he briefly becomes a Super Saiyan God. To top it off, not only is his attendant Whis actually his trainer, but he reveals that the other universes have warriors stronger than him or Goku.
55** In the Tournament of Power arc in ''Manga/DragonBallSuper'', Jiren is presented as one of, if not the strongest mortals ever, and his power is said to exceed that of a God of Destruction. A team effort from Goku, Android 17, and Freeza eventually takes him down. The hype he got earlier decayed a bit though, when Beerus was retconned to be stronger than him all along.
56* Both of the main villains of ''Manga/FairyTail'' have this reputation.
57** Zeref is feared throughout the world as the immortal Black Wizard who created multiple potential world-ending dark magics and demonic beings. Zeref himself [[DeathSeeker very much wishes this wasn't true]] due to his gods-given curse, and quite a few of those magics and demons were made in the hopes of killing ''himself'', [[spoiler:with him even going so far as to turn his resurrected little brother into the most powerful demon of all in the hopes of being killed.]] Ultimately, it took Natsu [[spoiler:the brother/demon in question]] everything he had plus the support of his friends keeping him alive to finally take him down [[spoiler:and it took the similarly cursed Mavis Vermillion to finally achieve a MutualKill with him.]]
58** Acnologia is the Black Dragon of the Apocalypse and the Dragon King, so named because he wiped out the dragon race, the mightiest beings in all of Earthland. He's so powerful thanks to both his dragon physiology [[spoiler:and the fact that [[AntiMagic no magic in existence hurts him]]]] that not even ''Zeref'' can beat him, and in one BadFuture even took over the world. Ultimately, it took the direct or indirect aid of ''every wizard on the continent'' to finally take him down.
59* ''Manga/FoodWars'': This is a cooking manga, but this is still a recurring theme.
60** The [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil Council of Ten Masters]] are considered the top chefs of the Tootsuki Academy. During the Central Arc, Soma and his friends make it their goal to defeat them so as to take over the council seats and overrun the expulsion of many students.
61** During the BLUE arc, Soma's main goal is to defeat Asahi [[spoiler:Saiba]], who aside from never suffering one single defeat in his entire career, was the first known person to inflict a devastating defeat on [[spoiler:Soma's father Joichiro.]]
62* In the ''Franchise/DotHack'' franchise, just about anything created by Morganna might count: the Dawn Wanderers (aka "Guardians") went undefeated throughout ''Anime/DotHackSign'', except at the end, where ''one'' was taken down by a large team of players (that included one of the most powerful players in the game, bar none). The eight Phases (Skeith in particular) also wreaked havoc throughout The World, being completely unstoppable by way of having infinite HitPoints.
63** The backstory also provides another example in The One Sin, a boss monster of the original World so powerful no player could beat it. Doing so is what earned Balmung of the Azure Sky and Orca of the Azure Sea their status as legendary players.
64*** Aaaaaaand then G.U. brings it back as a {{Superboss}}, alongside giving it a OneWingedAngel form, the God Eater, and a third incarnation known as The One Death.
65* ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo'':
66** WBA Featherweight Champion Ricardo Martinez, the "living legend", who is just ''made'' of this trope. Point. by. point. [[spoiler:Eiji Date, the former Japanese champion, local RetiredBadass and the only Japanese boxer to defeat Ippo in an official fight was defeated ''twice'' by him.]]
67** Takamura, one of the ''protagonists'', is this trope to all of his opponents. He ''has'' the reputation of being unbeatable and his opponents do fear and respect his strength. In fact, WordOfGod outright says he is the best boxer in the entire series, above even the aforementioned Ricardo.
68* In ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'', [[StarterVillain Raiser Phenex]] was supposed to be undefeatable because of his HealingFactor, but Issei defeats him with holy water and a Christian cross, both are devil weaknesses. It helps that Issei has a dragon arm that makes him partially immune against those weaknesses.
69* At the start of ''Manga/InitialD'', the Akagi Red Suns were undefeated in the world of street racing, even as they went around Japan challenging other racing teams on their home turf. This all changed when they challenged [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Takumi and his Toyota Trueno AE86]] in a downhill race on Akina. On the flipside, Project D has yet to be defeated legitimately (Takumi got defeated a few times, but most of his defeats are technical).
70* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': This is the main focus of each FinalBattle throughout every StoryArc. The main [=JoJo=] protagonist and their allies battle against a BigBad who possesses an [[StoryBreakerPower ability]] that surpasses all of those used by fought [[MonsterOfTheWeek adversaries]], making them virtually invincible. The heroes would engage in [[BattleOfWits an intricate fight]] using their [[FightingSpirit Stand]] (introduced in Part 3) to circumvent their opponent's ability until they've finally delivered the finishing attack to defeat them.
71* ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'': Satoru Gojo is the greatest sorcerer alive in the current era. Born with Infinity technique and the Six Eyes ocular enhancement, he has unparalleled speed, an impenetrable offense, and his attacks make even the elite of the elite double over in pain; every other sorcerer who's said to have the greatest aspect to their abilities(Naobito's speed, Mei Mei's offensive power) is only said to be the best ''after'' Satoru Gojo. [[spoiler: Then Sukuna kills him]].
72* ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'': Prince Kamehame is the one of the few persons to defeat Kinnikuman in the series and what's particularly memorable is the speed in which he did it: 7 ''seconds''.
73* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha''
74** ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'' has [[WorldsBestWarrior Sieglinde Jeremiah]], a tournament veteran who had never been defeated in battle, and whose single loss was due to her not appearing for her match. [[spoiler:Einhart]] gets a shot at breaking her streak [[spoiler:and eventually fails.]]
75** Subverted in ''Anime/VividStrike''. Rinne Berlinetta was originally set up like this, only for it to be revealed that Vivio has already beaten her in the past. That said, Rinne's only lost was in points and she hadn't been defeated via knockout yet [[spoiler:until her second loss to Vivio.]]
76** Sieglinde's invincibility comes up again in the third ''[=ViVid=] Strike!'' OVA [[spoiler:when Victoria finally manages to defeat her. Much like Vivio's first victory over Rinne, it was only by points.]]
77* ''Manga/MedakaBox'': Kurokami Medaka is specifically referred to by Ajimu Najimi as a "Main Character", an existence that even the obscenely overpowered Najimi herself couldn't truly win against. Though Medaka herself feels she's being ridiculously overhyped, it is a fact that she had never truly lost at anything the entire story; even in the previous arc, she managed to truly win in a way that let the perpetual loser Kumagawa have a meaningful defeat for once. [[spoiler:This soon becomes an actual problem that needs to be confronted in order for Medaka to start growing as a person, and Najimi arranges things to make Medaka's childhood friend Hitoyoshi Zenkichi a Main Character to beat her. And, much to Najimi's own great surprise... [[SpringtimeForHitler it worked]]. In the ensuing Student Council elections, Zenkichi defeated Medaka in a landslide. And all he needed was a Skill that prevented interfering whims of fate and the chance to convince the voters to help free Medaka from her self-imposed role.]]
78** Shishime Iihiko, an ancient Main Character who saved the world 5000 years ago, unexpectedly appears in modern times, preserved by the Shiranui clan as a monster that lives only to keep living. This man was the first human being that Ajimu Najimi couldn't defeat; she'd lost to him over one hundred million times. Anything he destroyed could never be healed, and even Skills that could warp reality itself didn't work on him. If he himself didn't recognize an attack or ability, it wouldn't reach him. He smashed through all of Najimi's Protagonist Skills and bisected her WITH A RUBBER BAND. But Medaka's friend Shiranui Hansode was in danger of being this man's next host, so even with an irreversibly broken arm, she decided she needed to defeat him "before the day was out". [[spoiler:By acquiring a Style, the ability to communicate her attacks to make him recognize them, she succeeded in bringing him down by the skin of her teeth... only for him to hop to his next host Hansode on the spot and sucker punch her through the torso. But then, despite the new body, he lost for real... against the entirely ordinary Hitoyoshi Zenkichi armed with nothing but a very temporary probability-inverting Style and a deep bond with Hansode, who found just the opening she needed to make Iihiko irreversibly destroy HIMSELF.]]
79* ''Anime/MegaloBox'':
80** In Season 1, Yuri is the world Megalo Box champion and touted as the finest boxer this generation on top of his top-of-the-line [[PowerFist integrated Gear]] (though given the sport is only a few years old and Megalonia is the first attempt at making tournament, it's slightly downplayed). He lays out Junk Dog in minutes during his FinalBossPreview and treats second-ranker Pepe Iglesias as little more than a speed-bump. [[spoiler:It's only in TheStinger of the final episode we learn Joe actually won their final match, and even then it took Yuri removing his gear and boxing with severe health issues, plus thirteen rounds of slugging it out, for Joe to win.]]
81** During the TimeSkip between Seasons 1 and 2, "Gearless" Joe was on the receiving end of this trope at the hands of Edison Liu, an up-and-coming Megalo Boxer and Yuri's pupil. [[spoiler:Joe had only come out of retirement for an exhibition and was suffering an emotional breakdown due to Nanbu's death at the time. This ends up annoying Liu, because although he's considered the man who defeated Joe [[ChallengeSeeker he doesn't view the win as legitimate]].]]
82** During Season 2, Liu has become the undefeated champion of Megalonia for five years, having first won the title and defended it twice with no losses on his record. [[spoiler:In Episode 8 he ends up another example, defeated by Mac Rosario and is hospitalized by a brutal series of punches to the head, though strictly speaking he didn't lose to Mac so much as to the implants controlling Mac's body at the time.]]
83* The East is burning red! Master Asia's first appearance on screen in ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' involves destroying 3 giant robots with his bare hands by catching and returning artillery shells, picking up the ground one was standing on, and tearing one to pieces with a headband. He is in fact explicitly titled "The Undefeated of the East"
84* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'':
85** [[TheManBehindTheMan All For One]], the BigBad of the series, has been terrorising the world for years and [[TheDreaded everyone fears him]]. Enter [[BigGood All Might]], who defeats him, not once, but ''[[BeyondTheImpossible twice]]'', restoring peace in the world and becoming the [[TheParagon Symbol of Peace]]. Although, both victories came at [[PyrrhicVictory great personal cost]], All For One himself is [[DarkLordOnLifeSupport crippled]] and [[WoundThatWillNotHeal handicapped]], to the point that when he faced All Might the second time, he flat out asked him if he is there "to kill me again".
86** [[AxCrazy Muscular]] is widely reviled as a HeroKiller who has managed to escape multiple attempts by the heroes to stop him. Then [[TheHero Izuku Midoriya]] steps up to protect the son of two heroes Muscular murdered, and he manages to smash his face into a mountain and knock him out at the cost of breaking both arms. When they meet again months later, Izuku [[CurbStompBattle destroys him without getting touched once]].
87* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', Gaara had never been injured before his fight with Lee, and Naruto defeated him for the first time. Pain also never lost a battle, even against the leader of the Rain Village, one of the strongest ninja in the world who defeated the three Sannin, [[spoiler:until he loses to Naruto.]]
88* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
89** Fans theorized that this was why Whitebeard was called "[[WorldsStrongestMan the World's Strongest Man]]". Obviously, someone's going to rise to his level and beat him in battle, most likely the main character or a future BigBad. [[spoiler:It actually took an entire army, including all three [[OneManArmy Admirals]] and five of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, a regretted ambush from one of Whitebeard's allies, and Blackbeard's entire crew to [[RasputinianDeath kill him]].]]
90** PsychoElectro Eneru was this in the Skypiea arc; his abilities as a lightning Logia made him untouchable and all-powerful. Even when [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Wiper]] managed to blindside him with a PowerNullifier and land a fatal blow on him, his powers restarted his heart. The only reason that Eneru didn't succeed in his planned genocide is that Luffy, as a RubberMan, [[ElementalRockPaperScissors is completely unaffected by lightning]].
91** Another example is when the Straw Hat Pirates raided Enies Lobby and defeated [=CP9=], who have never failed a mission, [[ShroudedInMyth exist only in rumor]], and as far as Marines were concerned, were the reason Enies Lobby had never fallen to anyone. In fact, this generation of [=CP9=] were the strongest in its history. More specifically, Monkey D. Luffy defeating Rob Lucci, the strongest ''individual'' in [=CP9=]'s history, who had such a reputation that the Marines leading the Buster Call were more than willing to bet that he would win for sure. Only for him to be put in a coma by Luffy. Even Bartholomew Kuma did not see coming that Lucci would be defeated ''at all'', let alone by Luffy.
92** Crocodile definitely counts. He's introduced to us as the first BigBad of the Grand Line, belonging to the same group as Mihawk (who had curb-stomped Zoro a while earlier). Luffy challenges him... and almost gets killed for it. Crocodile proceeds with his plan, but Luffy turns up again, now knowing Crocodile's weakness... and he almost gets killed again. The third time, Luffy finally manages to defeat the sand-man -- who had fought with a poisoned hook. If it weren't for Robin, Luffy would've died anyway.
93** Which makes the one guy of this type that remains all the more awesome: Mihawk. He is always referred to as "the World's Greatest Swordsman", has never been defeated and used to spar with Shanks until Shanks lost his left arm, after which he didn't see enough of a challenge in him. Just a reminder, Shanks is one of the four guys that the entire Navy is supposed to counteract.
94** Beating one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea or the Four Emperors in general is this trope. The Warlords rely on their reputation just to help cull the pirate population, while the Emperors have been stated to be the four most powerful pirates in the world. Defeating any one of them could throw the balance of the Three Great Powers off-kilter.
95** If you tangle with the Four Emperors and get any sort of victory at all, it's already a massive credit to your strength.
96*** [[spoiler:Defeating [[TheDragon the single most powerful subordinate]] one of the Emperors has, one so idolized not even his colleagues and siblings thought he could ever be defeated and thought of him as pretty much perfection incarnate, definitely qualifies as this. And yet Luffy tangled with Big Mom, and took down [[TheAce Katakuri]], a billion-plus-Belli-bounty [[LightningBruiser nightmare]], and ''none'' of the Big Mom Pirates could believe it, not even the ones that directly witnessed it. Ironically, the only person who even accepted the fact he could be and did get defeated was [[GracefulLoser Katakuri himself]], who found Luffy to be the WorthyOpponent he never realized he needed.]]
97*** [[spoiler:While Big Mom wouldn't be defeated in the Whole Cake Island arc, she would find herself ultimately losing against [[TeethClenchedTeamwork the teamup of Eustass Kid and Trafalgar Law]] in the following Land of Wano arc, which was then followed by Luffy defeating another Emperor, Kaidou, who for very good reasons is called "[[WorldsStrongestMan the World's Strongest Creature]]".]]
98** Luffy is not the only one who has been taking down adversaries thought invincible -- the entire ''One Piece'' world has been greatly shaken up by incidents like these from various other people as well. Due to their unprecedented wide-scale disruption and being seemingly unstoppable, Luffy and ten other pirates active at the same time as him (one of which is on his crew) have been collectively deemed the "Worst Generation."
99* In ''Manga/OnePunchMan'', Boros had this reputation, having apparently never lost a fight, until he came up against someone [[InvincibleHero even more unbeatable than him]].
100* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
101** The Elite Four, as well as several other characters, including the infamous Legendary spammer Tobias. While Ash fails to win the match against him, even defeating his Darkrai counts since it's a feat no one else accomplished. The fact he manages to also take out his Latios is icing on the cake.
102** The Champions especially so. Not even the Elite Four stand a chance in a battle against a Champion. While the battle was never finished, Ash's second battle against Diantha was the very first instance of another trainer actually gaining the upper hand against a Champion. [[spoiler:By the time Ash actually defeats a Champion (Iris, one of his former companions) in battle, Ash had already became a Champion himself.]]
103** During ''Sun and Moon'' Ash's matches against Tapu Koko (one of the region's deities) have the same effect. [[spoiler:At the end of the Alola League, he manages to defeat it with a clash of their {{Limit Break}}s.]]
104** Despite having only a small amount of screen time, Guzma claims to have never been defeated in a battle ([[spoiler:[[SecondPlaceIsForLosers he's lying to save face in front of his Team Skull lackeys]]]]). His luck runs out in the Alola League, where Ash defeats him in front of everyone.
105** Cynthia never loses a single battle on-screen throughout the series [[spoiler:until Ash beats her in the semifinals of the World Coronation Series Masters Tournament, finally putting an end to her streak]]. This serves as a double example, [[spoiler:as Cynthia's Garchomp similarly never lost an on-screen battle until her defeat at the hands of Ash's Lucario.]]
106** Just like in the games, [[spoiler:Ash manages to defeat the undefeated Leon in the finals of the Masters 8.]] This one also serves as a double example, [[spoiler:as Leon's Charizard is also stated to be undefeated until it is finally brought down by Pikachu.]]
107* [[FieryRedhead Lina]] [[DestructiveSavior Inverse]] and her TrueCompanions are finally called ''{{Literature/Slayers}}'' at the end of Evolution-R, after [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu killing]] (part of) [[GodOfEvil Ruby-Eye Shabranigdu]].
108* In ''Manga/SpecialA'', Hikari's goal is to beat her rival/LoveInterest, Kei at something. ''Anything''. Unfortunately, Kei's TheAce and is undefeatable at ''everything''. The only person to ever beat him is BigBad Yahiro, who cheated.
109* In ''Anime/SummerWars'', Kenji hacks into OZ's previously unhackable systems because he thought the numbers he was sent that night was a mathematical equation.
110%%* Happens [[spoiler:twice]] in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', once when Simon defeats Lordgenome, [[spoiler:and again when Team Dai-Gurren overcomes the Anti-Spiral]].
111* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'':
112** Kishou Arima has such nicknames as "The Undefeated Ghoul Investigator" and "{{Shinigami}}". During the finale of the first series, Kaneki finds himself facing off against him. [[spoiler: ......and is mercilessly subjected to a CurbStompBattle that leaves him on the verge of death. But in the process of going down, he manages to damage Arima's weapon and even ''nick'' him. It seems this impressed Arima enough that the sequel shows he's taken an amnesiac Kaneki as his [[MoralityPet protege]] and serves as a ParentalSubstitute to him]].
113** In the sequel, the Quinx and Itou Squads find themselves facing [[ImplacableMan Noro]], a ghoul infamous for being a nigh-invulnerable horror. They manage to bring the creature down, but at a terrible cost: [[spoiler: Shirazu and the majority of Itou Squad are killed in the process, with Kuramoto and Mutsuki both suffering serious injuries]].
114** The sequel also sees a rematch between Kaneki and Arima. [[spoiler: Though initially overwhelmed and fully intending to commit SuicideByCop, Kaneki eventually regains his will to live and defeats Arima in battle. Afterwards, Arima ponders having remained unchallenged for his entire 18 year career.....and then slashes his own throat, dying in Kaneki's arms while confessing his secrets. As a dying request, he asks Kaneki to take credit for his death and promises the reason will become clear soon]].
115* ''Manga/TomorrowsJoe'': Jose Mendoza is the world bantamweight champion and undefeated in the ring. He ends up [[spoiler:permanently retiring Carlos Rivera (who seemed to have been set up as the final opponent, and while ranked #5 was said to be so strong the higher-ranked boxers didn't want to face him) in ''one round'' by giving him punch-drunk syndrome]], and in the anime unifies the bantamweight championship in a match that ''kills'' the other champion, and is set up as Joe's final challenge when Joe finally gets a title shot against him. [[spoiler:The end match ends up being something of a downplayed subversion: Mendoza wins by points but Joe is the first to go the distance against him ([[CasualtyInTheRing though it's strongly implied he died shortly afterwards]]) and [[FreakOut traumatizes Mendoza]] due to his inability to stay down no matter how many times Mendoza knocks him down.]]
116* Every fights against black trigger holders in ''Manga/WorldTrigger'' are this. Black triggers are so broken but rare that a country's power is measured by how many black triggers it possesses in universe. Having 11 black triggers is enough to become a superpower country in the universe. When Aftokrator attacked earth, it brought 4 black trigger holders with broken abilities. Border had to expend enormous effort and numbers to defeat and exhaust them.
117** [[SuperSmoke Vorvoros]] can turn its user into solid or gas or liquid. The gas can solidify to pierce the innards of the unknowing enemy that breathe it in. [[spoiler: Its user also cannot be killed through decapitation, so the only way to kill its user is by piercing its trion core. To make it harder, it creates numerous dummy cores to conceal the real one.]]
118** [[InstantDeathRadius Organon]] creates multiple rings that cut through anything instantly with a ridiculous radius. It can cut through city blocks like butter in one go.
119** [[AntiMagic Alektor]] creates animal-shaped bullets that turn every trion they touch into trion cubes, including blades, bullets, and shields. They can also turn enemy fighters in trion bodies into trion cubes, rendering them useless and trapping them. [[spoiler: To top it off, the trigger also can heal its user with the trion cubes produced.]]
120** [[WeaponizedTeleportation Speiraskia]] creates windows to teleport enemies in and out. It can also teleport and redirect bullets. [[spoiler: Smaller windows can also be produced to cut or pierce through people.]]
121* The ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' franchise's protagonists tend to make a habit of this, starting with a duel against Seto Kaiba.
122** ''Anime/YuGiOh'': Yami Yugi's losses could be counted on one hand, and even then they were always the result of the opponent cheating or manipulating the duel in some way [[spoiler:until the end of the series when he loses fairly in a duel with Yugi.]]
123** ''Manga/YuGiOhGX'': Played with in the manga version. Judai keeps the habit early on, including a 2-on-1 victory against Manjoume (because the latter refused to work with his spirit card, whereas Judai and Winged Kuriboh are inseperable). [[spoiler: Manjoume then returns the favor in the TournamentArc... only to be defeated by the much more [[AlwaysABiggerFish undefeatable Marufuji Ryo]].]]
124** ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'': When Team Taiyo managed to summon [[AwesomeButImpractical Zushin the Sleeping Giant]], a card with a ridiculously hard summoning condition but extremely overpowered effects, everyone acted like the duel was over, as they couldn't see how Yusei could counter it. Being that it was immune to card effects, automatically negated the effects of every monster it battled with, and its ATK would [[StrongAsTheyNeedToBe always be 1000 points higher than whatever monster it was battling]], this was understandable. However, Yusei shocked everyone by finding a way to defeat it anyway, by granting his Stardust Dragon an effect from a different card, that couldn't be negated by Zushin.
125** ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'':
126*** Kaito/Kite had this attitude during his duel with V/Quinton. (Of course, while V's card, Number 9: Dyson Sphere, was a ''very'' powerful card that sure ''seemed'' undefeatable, V's claim that it was never defeated [[FridgeLogic had an obvious flaw:]] he clearly could not have used it more than once or twice in the past, seeing as a duel using a Duel Monster the size of the sun would likely have been witnessed. So his boast that it had "never been defeated" was probably meaningless. Unless one considers the possibility of V using this card in Duels not involving realistic holograms, but seeing how the series treats Duels, Especially ones involving Numbers, as SeriousBusiness with RuleOfCool, it's improbable.)
127*** ''Definitely'' meaningless. In a later duel, Kaito used Number 9 against Tron, and Tron defeated it with a Monster that was not even his strongest card. Clearly, there are far stronger Numbers than Number 9, and V's claim was complete BS.
128*** Or... Tron was the person who taught V how to fight, considering this was his father who was also a more experienced duelist than he was.
129*** Speaking of Kaito, Kaito himself ends up defeated by the hands of Tron, something that no characters has ever done since the beginning of the series and no other character would defeat Kaito in all subsequent duels.
130** ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' had two examples with Yuya's victories over [[AlternateSelf Jack Atlas]] and [[TheDreaded Yuri]].
131*** In Season 2, Jack was undefeated for three years before the Lancers arrived in the City and he personally proved it by crushing Yuya in their first match and beating Sergey who was using a deck especially made to counter Synchro and Fusion monsters.
132*** Yuri was TheDreaded for the longest time and anyone that met him reacted with fear or distain. Yuri finally proved it when he took down 6 of the series' strongest duelists in Season 3 before Yuya was able to barely beat him.
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136* ''Animation/{{Mechamato}}'': Amato and [=MechaBot=] are initially reluctant to take on Janitoor since he was the undefeated champion of the space arena for 5 consecutive years up until the competition was decommissioned. However, after Mechamato mechanises with Pian's gym equipment, they become strong enough to defeat him.
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140* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour:'' Earth's superheroes come to the attention of the Kree Empire when the Fantastic Four become the first people to ever defeat a Kree Sentry. They'd all but outright forgotten the planet entirely, and were quite surprised when an old piece of tech called in, and less than twenty-four hours later got destroyed. So the Supreme Intelligence sends Ronan the Accuser to find out just what happened.
141* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': In ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'', one BadFuture depicts the Hulk (now a conduit of the One Below All) having wiped out all life in the universe, so as to be able to survive into the next. The last thing he killed? Mr. Immortal, the guy whose entire power is ResurrectiveImmortality, and who was given his powers specifically so that he could survive to the NaturalEndOfTime. How he did this is unseen (it's implied he ate his soul in some fashion), but it's quite a chilling note on just how horrifyingly powerful he's become.
142* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': In ''ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga'', the Legion manages to defeat ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}. Even though he wasn't destroyed for good, the mere fact that he was beaten and forced to retreat is impressive.
143-->'''Darkseid:''' It seems there is more to you than I dreamed, youths. You have done that which is beyond imagining. You have shattered the dream of a god.
144* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': The Champion of the Universe. He goes around the universe challenging people to boxing matches and was undefeated until [[ComicBook/FantasticFour The Thing]] stood up to him. Not that Thing beat him physically; Thing was just too stubborn to stay down after getting knocked out, so the Champion conceded. More recently ComicBook/SheHulk beat him too.
145** Champion of the Universe is considered by many fans to be a subversion (or very bad example) of this as he has pretty much never defeated ''anyone'' with a name.
146*** He has defeated Adam Warlock, Beta Ray Bill, Drax the Destroyer, the Silver Surfer and ''Gladiator''. He handily beat She-Hulk as well; however, she then spent a month working her ass off (in human form) and bulked up impressively...and realized the Infinity Gem he was using could be counted as a "weapon" -- and was therefore against the rules -- and beat the tar out of him. With the Gem, he is ''undefeatable''. Without it, he's tough, but not impossibly so. Gladiator is quick to note that any of them could have beaten him at that point, to which She-Hulk responds by... saying something outrageously sexist.
147*** He is apparently defeated for good when Titania, armed with the Gem, picked up a mountain and squashed him under it. He's immortal, but without the Gem, [[AndIMustScream he's not strong enough to free himself]].
148* ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015''
149** In the prelude to the event, the Punisher is somehow able to kill the Scorpion, the Lizard, and the Sandman with bullets, something all three have previously been immune to.
150** In order to make Battleworld, Doom killed the Beyonders, who were able to kill every cosmic entity in every universe.
151* ''ComicBook/SinCity'': Manute was TheJuggernaut of the series. At the end of ''A Dame To Kill For'', Dwight had to resort to shooting Manute several times, kicking him off a roof, and then having Miho pin him to the pavement by shoving swords into his arms. This did not kill him, nor did it even knock him out. It got him out of the way nonetheless. He's killed in a hail of gunfire in the next volume, ''The Big Fat Kill''. In the extended cut of the movie, this was changed to being bisected by Miho.
152* ''ComicBook/SquirrelGirl'': Defeating characters who are considered impossible to beat is Squirrel Girl's shtick.
153* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
154** ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'': Superman had endured Mr. Mxyzptlk's antics for decades, well aware that [[PhysicalGod Mxy]] could simply wish him out of existence... until Mxyzptlk decides to kill him, and Superman has to come up with a way to kill Mxy first, using a PhantomZone Projector and trickery.
155** ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman1961'': Lex Luthor manages to kill his nemesis Superman.
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159* ''Fanfic/AChampionInEarthBet'': The Avatar, a superhero from another world, the leader of its Global Champions SuperTeam, and a literal PhysicalGod, shows his chops when he is transported into Earth-Bet. On his very first day, he, alongside the resident heroes, [[spoiler: slays Leviathan, one of the three Endbringers, until then thought of as unbeatable and indestructible]].
160** And later on, he does the same to [[spoiler: the Simurgh, this time by himself in a pitched battle]].
161* In ''Fanfic/CodeGeassThePreparedRebellion'', Zero hands Cornelia her first defeat at the Battle of Saitama Ghetto.
162* ''Fanfic/CodeGeassPaladinsOfVoltron''
163** In Chapter 23, Lelouch and Voltron successfully defeat Cornelia, the Goddess of Victory, marking the first time she has ever been defeated.
164** Doubled down in Chapter 26, where [[spoiler: Lelouch defeats Schneizel, something he ''never'' managed to do in canon (at least in a fair fight)]].
165* ''Fanfic/CodePrime'': Chapter 8 of ''R1'' sees Cornelia suffer her first defeat at the Battle of Saitama, where the Autobots manage to save the Yamato Alliance and the civilians of Saitama, and Optimus Prime is able to [[CurbStompBattle handily defeat]] Cornelia in a duel.
166** Throughout ''R1'', while the Autobots and Black Knights would often get one over on the Decepticons during small fights for weapons or Energon deposits, a full-scale battle would often end in the Decepticons' favor, especially during the Black Rebellion, when the Cons overthrow Britannia and name themselves the new rulers of Earth. In ''R2'' however, the heroes are finally able to hand the Decepticons their first irrefutable loss when they manage to launch the Ark and save it from being destroyed, cripple and sink the Nemesis, and kill several high-ranking Cons.
167* In ''[[https://www.mediaminer.org/fanfic/s/legend-of-zelda-fan-fiction/the-legend-of-link-lucky-number-13/19769 The Legend of Link: Lucky Number 13]]'' the [[LegionsOfHell Originals]] and [[WarGod Hadrian]] are considered by [[TopGod Fate and Destiny themselves]] to be impossible to kill. [[spoiler:Link, after becoming the God of Fear, kills them all.]]
168* Viktor was the undisputed champion of men's figure skating with no one trying to challenge him until Yuuri showed up in the ''FanFic/RivalsSeries''. Yuuri is the only one that can truly challenge Viktor, and he finally proves himself when he beats Viktor at the Winter Olympics and the following Worlds Championships.
169* In ''Fanfic/AFightingChance'', the Minbari were considered invincible in open battle until the Battle of Jericho, when Earthforce ''defeated and routed the Minbari in open battle''.
170* ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'': At the height of the Apokoliptian War, ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} has crushed an army made up for heroes of five parallel dimensions, and stomped over every hero who has dared to engage him, including [[PhysicalGod Pre-Crisis]] Franchise/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}. Then his son Orion turns up and blasts Darkseid's body to atoms.
171* ''FanFic/HaloChimeraRising'': [=McBride=] is ordered to find a way to kill or at least maim a Spartan. He succeeds.
172* ''Fanfic/KwamiMagiHomuraMagica'' has [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Walpurgisnacht]], the ultimate witch and a living disaster. Homura believes that [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Cat Noir]] could defeat it, but after dozens of attempts she is adamant to just do it herself via the Miraculous wish. [[spoiler: However what Homura missed is that Cat Noir ''had in fact'' defeated the witch in a timeline about ten timelines ago, and Mami had done the same in an earlier timeline when under the effect of the Eagle Miraculous. She simply missed these do to circumstances and only saw the resulting lucky charm which told her to go back in time again just as in outright defeats. She would later witness a Cat Noir defeat Walpurgisnacht in a completely unconnected timeline.]]
173* In ''Fanfic/TheLastDaughter'', the Endbringers, who had been considered impossible to destroy for over three decades, meet their end at the hands of Kryptonian Taylor Hebert.
174* In ''Fanfic/MyIronGiant'', [[spoiler:All Might is killed by the combined efforts of Kurogiri and a [[{{Kaiju}} special]] Nomu named Diablo]]. It is lampshaded later how the Nomu accomplished this and was felled itself.
175* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': [[spoiler:[[LightningBruiser Sir]] [[OneManArmy Kyril]] [[TheDreaded the]] [[HumanoidAbomination Bloody]], who has yet to experience defeat or demise, experiences his [[ResurrectiveImmortality first death]] at the hands of an assassin of House Mandeville, who shoots him from a distance. [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu Said assassin pays dearly for this]].]]
176* ''Fanfic/NightmareInArkham'': The Joker does what so many have tried and failed to do, and permanently kills Freddy Krueger. When the Joker battles Freddy in the dream world, Freddy's powers don't work on him -- as the Joker explains, he is the complete embodiment of pure insanity, which is actually way worse than the embodiment of fear that Freddy is. With absolutely nothing to exploit from the Joker, Freddy's power of fear is rendered completely useless against the Joker's chaotic, twisted mind. This gives the Joker all the edge that he needs to beat Freddy in battle.
177* A couple of times throughout ''Fanfic/TheNumbershots'', a ''Anime/YuGiOhZexal'' fanfic's continuity:
178** Deckshibition Chapter 3 introduces a duelist known as Captain White-Eye, a {{pirate}}-themed pro duelist who in-universe had a 200+ winning streak, and had never lost before. [[spoiler:His first loss is handed to him in this chapter by Takashi Todoroki]].
179** Numbershot 1 has this in two varieties:
180*** The first one is the defeat of Marizu. The entire storyline had built her up by having her win all of her duels without losing a single life point, making this trope's "undefeated opponent" status being exaggerated by her ParodySue traits. [[spoiler:Her hot streak comes to an end when she squares off against Yuma in the finals]].
181*** The second one comes in the final opponent after winning the tournament, Ace, the host of the tournament. Prior to the events of the story, Ace had scored plenty of championship wins, [[StartMyOwn deciding to host his own tournament]] to find the perfect opponent. [[spoiler:Much like Marizu, his defeat comes at the hands of Yuma]].
182* ''Fanfic/SenkiZesshouSymphogearWXDUnlimited'' has [[Anime/{{Symphogear}} Genjuro]] [[BadassNormal Kazanari]] defeat [[Literature/{{Worm}} Lung]] in single combat, beating the Dragon of Kyushu to within an inch of his life. Considering that Lung was able to go one on one with [[EldritchAbomination Leviathan]], this trope is in full effect.
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186* The 2003 German film ''Film/DasWunderVonBern'', [[BasedOnATrueStory based on the 1954 "Miracle of Berne"]] described under Real Life.
187* ''Film/GameOfDeath'': The guardians of the pagoda in the original version have exceptional skills and are thought to be undefeatable. Bruce Lee disproves this.
188* Tai Lung in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1''. So powerful that not even an army of rhinos, the Furious Five, or ''his own master'' could stop him. Po defeating him is what finally secures his status as [[TheChosenOne the Dragon Warrior]]. Even Po wins primarily by chance; as a number of commentators have noted, the way he's built as a fighter makes him exactly the wrong person for Tai Lung to fight. For instance, [[spoiler: Tai Lung heavily favors nerve strikes that even masters find very difficult to counter, and Po is fat enough to be completely immune to them]]. Even then, it's demonstrated that Tai Lung is entirely focused on getting the Dragon Scroll, and takes a significant pummelling in the process. When he actually bothers to focus on Po in earnest, he flattens him... until he finds out the truth about the Dragon Scroll.
189** It's specifically mentioned that the only other person who can defeat Tai Lung (Shifu's own teacher, Master Oogway) has just [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascended to a higher plane]]. It's possible that Shifu himself could have defeated Tai Lung using Oogway's technique, but he likely hasn't mastered it yet, and there's still the guilt he has over Tai Lung's StartOfDarkness. Basically, Shifu deciding to stay and fight Tai Lung is even stated to be a DelayingAction, while Po and the Furious Five help evacuate the valley.
190* ''Film/{{Miracle}}'', which is [[BasedOnATrueStory based on the "Miracle on Ice"]] hockey game described under Real Life.
191* ''Film/NoHoldsBarred'': Zeus (Creator/TomLister), an ex-con who acts as the muscle of Mr. Brell, the corrupt [=CEO=] of a television network who wishes to get rival wrestler Rip (Wrestling/HulkHogan) under his command. Expanded upon with a bar fight scene, a fight at a steel plant and on television several times. Eventually, Zeus goes too far and beats up Rip's brother, Randy... and after Rip has his initial difficulties is able to get the best of him in a fight.
192* Played with in ''Film/RealSteel'' where Zeus is a robot fighter that has won every match he fought by knockouts on the first round. That changes in the fight against Atom, where the latter gets up after a vicious beating right before the first round ends. [[spoiler:Ultimately, Atom is not able to inflict a knockout, but neither is Zeus, and although Zeus ends up winning by split decision, the audience of the match considers Atom the true winner because he came close to actually knocking out Zeus]].
193* Combined with SerialEscalation in the ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' series:
194** ''Film/{{Rocky}}'': Rocky is a nobody boxer given a chance against Apollo Creed, an unstoppable champion who wins every single fight via knockout. Subverted in that Rocky doesn't actually ''beat'' Apollo. However...
195** ''Film/RockyII'': Because the Rocky/Apollo fight was so close, a rematch is demanded, only this time Apollo has trained to become even ''more'' Undefeatable. This time around Rocky does beat him, but barely.
196** ''Film/RockyIII'': Rocky has become complacent as the World Heavyweight Champion, fighting a string of no-hopers arranged by Mickey to keep Rocky from losing his title. Then the monstrous Clubber Lang demands a bout with Rocky, beating him soundly and knocking him off his pedestal until he returns for a successful rematch, courtesy of some training from [[DefeatEqualsFriendship former rival]] Apollo Creed.
197** ''Film/RockyIV'': Rocky goes into retirement. The Soviets unveil their steroid-pumped ''machine'' of a boxer, Ivan Drago. Not even Apollo Creed can beat him, so Rocky [[TenMinuteRetirement comes out of retirement]], flies to Russia, trains by jogging in the snow and chopping trees instead of using fancy machines, beats Drago, and single-handedly ends the Cold War.
198** ''Film/RockyV'': Rocky, unable to fight himself due to old age and a brain injury, goes into retirement, but agrees to train and manage the [[RecklessSidekick impetuous, street-fighting]] Tommy "The Machine" Gunn. However, Gunn's arrogance and bad temper culminates in a streetfight against his [[RageAgainstTheMentor former mentor]] Rocky. Guess what? Rocky beats him, though the original script ended with his death shortly afterwards.
199** ''Film/RockyBalboa'': Rocky [[RuleOfThree is in retirement]], but finds his that his life is unfulfilled and he's caught dealing with unsatisfied anger issues. Thus despite being in his 60s, he [[TenMinuteRetirement wants to climb back into the ring]] and vent some of those bad feelings. He does so just in time to, just like in the first movie, fight to a close loss against the dominating and unbeaten world champion, Mason "The Line" Dixon. In [[Film/Creed2015 the next film]], his retirement finally sticks, and he acts as a mentor to Apollo Creed's son, Adonis.
200* In ''Franchise/StarWars'', Darth Vader is generally seen as an unstoppable Juggernaut. As a result, even doing well against him, as Ahsoka does in ''Twilight of the Apprentice'' is considered impressive. In ''Film/StarWarsReturnOfTheJedi'' Luke finally defeats Darth Vader in a lightsaber duel - and while it's debatable how much Vader really wanted that fight, he was an immensely powerful Sith Lord who had personally defeated and killed countless Jedi who were far more experienced than Luke. Vader is completely caught off guard [[spoiler: and decides to return to the light side of the Force when Luke then spares his life rather than kill his own father]].
201** Perhaps more startling is the example of Obi-Wan Kenobi, who faced Vader in his prime, with the latter having absolutely no qualms about destroying him - and unlike Luke, despite his own considerable strength in the Force, he was ''not'' on Vader's level. And Vader, even when Obi-Wan first faces him, is a MasterSwordsman honed by considerable experience in the Clone Wars. Obi-Wan, however, is better. As a result, he doesn't just beat Vader at his best, he does it ''twice'' - the first time on Mustafar, when he lured Vader into a critical mistake, dismembered him with a single strike, and left him aburning, limbless ruin, the second time at the end of ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' after his HeroicSecondWind when he [[spoiler: bludgeoned Vader with a hailstorm of rocks, danced rings around him, crippled his respirator, forcing him to his knees as he sliced open his faceplate, then left him a wheezing, crippled ruin that was impotently screaming his name]].
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205* ''Literature/CiaphasCain'':
206** As mentioned in the page quote, Varan the Undefeatable from ''Cain's Last Stand'', whose reputation largely stemmed from [[spoiler:his use of a Warp-derived CompellingVoice to force his opponents to defect to his cause]]. This being a Ciaphas Cain novel, you get no points for guessing who wins the inevitable confrontation between the two.
207** Interestingly, this only works the first time the quote is seen as a NoodleIncident chapter heading. Once we see the actual battle happening, they take an entirely different context: Varan is [[spoiler:screaming them gloatingly because Cain's just discovered Varan is a mutant with natural body armor and FemmeFatalons.]]
208* ''Literature/TheCulture'':
209** Although not the most powerful civilization in their home galaxy, the titular Culture is known to be effectively untouchable by more primitive races lacking 'equiv-tech', and for good reason. Their vessels are controlled by supercomputers [[DeusEstMachina billions of times]] more intelligent than humans, their weapons can easily [[StarKilling destroy entire star systems]] and [[InterstellarWeapon strike from light-years away]], their effectors can [[HollywoodHacking remotely take control of other technology]] at such ranges as well, they can [[SuperSpeed fight]] and [[SuperReflexes react]] at trillions of times the speed of light and move through [[MoreThanThreeDimensions four spatial dimensions]], their [[DeflectorShields shields]] can shrug off anything up to (and sometimes including) a supernova, and they're even capable of shunting all of the energy from a nuke going off inside the ship to hyperspace so quickly that it wouldn't even be noticeable. Yet, in ''The Hydrogen Sonata'', a Culture LCU (a small, but still powerful, Culture warship) was engaged and destroyed by a much more primitive group of Liseiden scavengers, who could only think and react at human speeds and had weapons limited to slower-than-light, realspace missiles and lasers.
210* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
211** Parodied in ''Literature/SoulMusic'', where an up-and-coming BarbarianHero decides to call himself Vincent the Invulnerable, [[TemptingFate goes into the Mended Drum to announce this]], and lasts about twenty seconds. In fact, [[TooDumbToLive terminal stupidity of this type]] is [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch quasi-officially designated as "suicide" by the Watch]], suggesting that this happens ''a lot''.
212** There's also a remark concerning magic armor in ''Literature/InterestingTimes'' where Rincewind thinks to himself that many a dark lord's last words were "You can't kill me because I've got magic ''[[KilledMidSentence aaaaaargh!]]''"
213* In ''Literature/TheExcaliburAlternative'', there is surprise all around when a hitherto untouchable [[spoiler: Federation battle squadron gets utterly {{Curb Stomp| Battle}}ed by Avalon Empire forces.]]
214* Albus Dumbledore, the resident WorldsStrongestMan, WorldsBestWarrior, and the best of the Archmage in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' proves his worth to be considered the greatest wizard in history by being the only person capable of defeating the two infamously nigh-unstoppable Dark Lords in a fair fight.
215** He first defeats Gellert Grindelwald, the first Dark Lord, who was later revealed to be wielding the Elder Wand, meaning he was supposed to be unbeatable directly, but Dumbledore did it anyway, in a legendary duel that ended the war Grindelwald had been winning all over the world. It should be noted that not even ''armies of Aurors'' were of any threat to Grindelwald at all.
216** Even more than a hundred years old, he is also the only one who could beat Lord Voldemort, the next Dark Lord, in a direct fight. While he doesn't finish him off due to not being the Chosen One of the story, he still hands Voldemort his ass rather thoroughly in their one fight, and that's a feat no one, not even the combined efforts of three exceptional wizards and witches, could do, with the main protagonist and the actual Chosen One only defeating Voldemort due to having the advantage of the Power of Love and Voldemort never seeing him as a true threat. To be fair, he ''does'' have the Elder Wand, but at the same time, it must be noted that due to his determination to keep the Elder Wand a secret, he was most likely not using it's true powers, and even Voldemort frustratedly rants that Dumbledore had been holding back in their fight the entire time. Not only that, an off-handed comment from both Dumbledore and Snape confirms he ''still'' isn't in his glory days even with the Elder Wand, meaning even Dumbledore past his prime where he could beat an Elder-Wand wielding Grindelwald was still more than a match for Voldemort. The fight shook Voldemort badly enough that he decided to screw trying to fight him again, and it's indicated that while it may be a punishment, part of the reason why he assigns Draco the task of killing Dumbledore is because he knows no one has a chance against Dumbledore in a one-on-one fight, so he had to attempt to manipulate Dumbledore's feelings, knowing he would be hesistant to kill Draco even though he could do it with zero effort in a fight if he wanted to.
217* Amongst thousands of challengers, Karsa Orlong from ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' is the fist to manage killing [[spoiler:the Emperor of a Thousand Deaths]] who was supposed to be unkillable. Though he had help figuring out what the problem was, and Samar Dev at hand, who [[spoiler:had the souls trapped in her knife help transport him to the Warren where he could kill Rhulad before he was revived by his sword again]].
218* In ''Literature/TheMentalState'', Big Billy Crane is the biggest and strongest inmate serving time at the prison. His brother, Little Mickey, frequently uses him to threaten others into joining his gang. Zack, the protagonist, realises that he can cripple Mickey's control over the other inmates by beating Billy in one-on-one combat. [[spoiler:He ultimately succeeds using deeply underhanded tactics to cripple his opponent]].
219* In ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'' the Lord Ruler's most feared enforcers are the Steel Inquisitors, mysterious figures with steel spikes driven through their eyes and protruding from the back of the skulls, and believed to be invincible. That Kelsier manages to kill one, pinning it to a wall by its own eyespikes and decapitating it, goes a long way to convincing people that the Lord Ruler is capable of being defeated at all. [[spoiler: The rest of them in the city are killed the easy way, when an infiltrator discovers their AchillesHeel and uses it to destroy them as they sleep.]]
220* Arra Sails, one of the few women among the ProudWarriorRaceGuy vampires in ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'', is this in the combat halls of Vampire Mountain. [[spoiler: She is defeated by Kurda Smahlt, a [[ActualPacifist peaceful]] person but an [[MinoredInAsskicking unexpectedly good fighter]], [[UnderestimatingBadassery because she underestimated]].]]
221* ''Literature/SchooledInMagic'': Necromancers are seen as unbeatable in a WizardDuel by any non-necromancer, due to the immense power they harvest from death; the usual way to destroy one is to assassinate them with poison (which gets kudos but is not this trope). When Emily takes one down at the end of the first book, she earns the title "Necromancer's Bane," and people are divided between whether she used poison, some kind of magical cheat, or is a necromancer herself. [[spoiler: For the record, she cheated.]] After bringing down her ''second'' necromancer, she becomes a living legend.
222* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Robb Stark never lost a battle in the War of the Five Kings. [[spoiler: He still ended up losing the war (and his life) because treacherous allies turn on him and join his enemies. Together, they hatch a plan that becomes the backbreaking and traumatic Red Wedding.]]
223* In ''Literature/TimeScout'', ''Wagers of Sin'', Skeeter Jackson steals a small fortune from an undefeated champion of the Roman arena. Guess who Skeeter ends up facing there? Guess who wins?
224* A folk tale or legend is used by the trainer of Warders in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', as a warning not to get cocky. He asks his class who the greatest swordsman of all time was. They all respond immediately and in unison. He then asks who handed him his only defeat. They are silent. "A farmer with a quarterstaff!" This particular lesson was delivered after Mat Cauthon, a farmer with a quarterstaff, had just defeated Gawyn and Galad, two of the best students in the group. At the same time. While recovering from an injury.
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228* ''Series/BattleBots'':
229** T-Minus defeated Hazard... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHSAH8U0fL4 in the quarter finals]]. For those of you who don't know, Hazard was previously undefeated for 3 tournaments and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeoJCYz10go obliterated almost everything it fought]].
230** Bite Force had a 7-0 record going into its match against Chomp in 2016. Chomp was predicted by fans and other competitors alike as more fodder for Bite Force due to its hammer being so powerful and unstable that the robot would fall over on its side every time it swung its weapon. Not long after the match began, however, Chomp swung its hammer and pecked through a ventilation hole on Bite Force, striking Bite Force's weapon drive chain and instantly rendering Bite Force's weapon useless. As of 2021, Chomp would remain the only robot to have defeated Bite Force, the latter having since expanded its record to 26-1.
231* ''Series/DoctorWho'': General Staal of the 10th Sontaran Battle Fleet, known as "Staal the Undefeated", from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem "The Sontaran Stratagem"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E5ThePoisonSky "The Poison Sky"]]. The Doctor addresses the lack of foresight such a name shows.
232-->'''The Doctor:''' That's not a very good nickname. What if you do get defeated? "Staal the Not Quite So Undefeated Any More But Never Mind"?
233* Lancelot defeats the unbeaten Arthur in ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' by feigning defeat and then taking him by surprise.
234* ''Series/PennAndTellerFoolUs'' is about magicians of different trades and styles trying their best to trick and fool two of the best and most learned magicians in the world: Penn and Teller. Those who can perform a magic trick great enough to make them not see through it earn a cute trophy and to open the duo's show in Vegas. Of the two hundred plus people who have gone onto the show, less than one quarter actually fool them. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Farquhar Contestant Shawn Farquhar]] was able to fool them twice in different seasons.
235* Across the pond on ''Series/RobotWars'' there was the ultimate house robot, Mr. Psycho. 750kg of heavily-armed, heavily armoured hell on tank treads. Some roboteers mess with the house robots from time to time, but Mr. Psycho was the exception because even ''attempting'' to attack him was basically futile. Unfortunately for Mr. Psycho, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7nyYaKxJgI#t=5m50s nobody told Team Firestorm the meaning of "futile"]].
236** Fellow house robot Shunt would find itself humiliated further, getting itself knocked out by Tentoumushi, which sawed off Shunt's weapon and rendered it unable to move. It is thus far the only house robot to fall to a competitor lighter than the heavyweight class.
237** Sir Killalot was also treated as the strongest house robot, being described as invincible and having no weaknesses. However, in one of the 'Robot Rebellion' events, it turned out that this wasn't quite true, as while he was using his pike to impale and pick up another robot, his center of gravity became slightly off-balance, and a well-timed ram from Tricerabot caused him to fall into the pit and become immobilized. However, since he was too big to fit entirely into the pit, the hosts didn't consider it a true loss.
238** Razer, with its huge crushing beak and fearsome design, is one of the most impressive robots to have ever appeared on the show and had a win/loss record to match: ''40 victories'' against 6 losses, four off which were immobilisation by technical issues and one being a controversial judges decision. Razer has, however, been beaten by knockout ''twice'' by the same robot: Pussycat. [[spoiler:And a third time by Pussycat's [[{{Expy}} successor]] Kill-E-Crank-E in the 2016 reboot. [[TakingYouWithMe Well, sorta]].]]
239** After Series 9, horizontal spinner and reigning champion Carbide had redefined 'TheDreaded' for robot combat, absolutely ''[[CurbStompBattle annihilating]]'' every opponent it had faced with none lasting a round against it, and only runner-up Eruption even managing to last longer than ''a minute'' before being crippled. In the Series 10 Grand Final episode, however, an unexpected new challenger arose in the form of [[LethalJokeCharacter Nuts 2]], whose whirling chain flails managed to land a precision blow on Carbide's weapon chain, disabling it and leaving the champion helpless! Nuts 2 wasn't able to disable Carbide completely, but easily won the judges decision, giving the champion their first setback since the start of Series 9. Carbide won the rematch against Nuts 2 by [[RemovedAchillesHeel armouring up their weapon chain]] to make it back to the Grand Final match, [[spoiler:but this time their old enemies Eruption managed to ''finally'' outlast them on their third attempt and beat them by decision for the championship]].
240* [[TheDreaded Theokoles]], [[RedBaron the Shadow of Death]], from ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'', an undefeated gladiator who once killed ''[[OneManArmy one-hundred]]'' opponents at once. Oenomaus was the only opponent who ''survived'' a match, and that was only because he lasted so long that the crowd called for him to live. Spartacus and Crixus managing to defeat him is considered an in-universe SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
241** This example works on both sides, as Theokoles's sole reason to accept the fight in the first place was for the glory of beating Crixus, [[RedBaron The Undefeated Gaul]].
242* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': The fifth season episode "Warriors", where a criminal steals a genetic healing formula from a scientist (who was perfecting it for the benefit of good), and then uses it to develop a prototype muscleman that couldn't be stopped. Walker and Trivette find out firsthand how brutal this man-mountain is when nothing they do can so much as faze him. Eventually, during a final confrontation where the muscleman has Walker beaten to a pulp, the scientist comes to his aid after her captors are arrested and throws flammable liquid and a blowtorch in his face, and Walker is able to finally kick the stunned muscleman to his doom.
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246* An important figure in the story of the Japanese hero Minamoto no Yoshitsune's life was the warrior-monk Benkei. His goal was to defeat a thousand warriors, but after 999 victories, his thousanth opponent was Yoshitsune, who bested him. Benkei [[DefeatMeansFriendship swore loyalty to Yoshitsune]], serving as his retainer and companion for two years, at which point Yoshitsune was betrayed, [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled and committed]] {{Seppuku}}. Benkei [[HeroicSacrifice died defending him]] from enemy soldiers while he did so, and [[DiedStandingUp was still standing]] and [[DefiantToTheEnd holding his weapon]] long after he had actually died from the onslaught of arrows. (Many of his foes actually thought he was a ''[[TheDreaded demon from hell.]]'', he was such a terror in battle.)
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250* This is a common angle in ProfessionalWrestling, where a wrestler is famous for being unbeatable, and is known as the most powerful wrestler of them all until that one {{Face}} can eventually defeat them.
251** An old and famous example of this type of [[TheGimmick gimmick]] is Wrestling/AndreTheGiant (whose final "beaten" angle closed out his long career), and a few newer wrestlers who got their start this way are Wrestling/TheUndertaker, Wrestling/{{Boogeyman}}, and Wrestling/TheGreatKhali (who is still relatively unstoppable even after being defeated). An older example would be Wrestling/HaystacksCalhoun, who does have a losing record against a handful of wrestlers, as far as the recovered records show, but for the most part had TheGimmick of a traveling baby face enforcer who'd draw some interest to the territory, win some matches and be on his way.
252** Nearly every Japanese promotion has one such "undefeatable" wrestler, referred to as the "ace." Aces range in {{Kayfabe}} ability from the relatively beatable Wrestling/ManamiToyota of [[Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling Zenjo]] or Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi of Wrestling/{{N|ewJapanProWrestling}}JPW; to Wrestling/{{Rikidozan}}l who almost never loses one on one in his home promotion, but does pick up some time limit draws and TagTeam losses; to the staggering, unbeatable might of [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH NOAH]]'s Wrestling/KentaKobashi. Wrestling/{{All Japan|ProWrestling}}'s then NOAH's Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa was probably Japan's most consistently unbeatable wrestler-- during any given year, Misawa's pinfall losses could be counted on one hand.
253** This trope was particularly noticeable in 80s WWF, where every new big bad {{heel}} destroyed everyone in his path until they finally got a shot at Wrestling/HulkHogan who took them down with his {{Five Moves Of Doom}}. Hercules Hernandez, Wrestling/KingKongBundy, and [[Film/NoHoldsBarred Zeus]] come to mind, but there were definitely others.
254*** Wrestling/{{Vader}} was also an example of this in early '90s Wrestling/{{WCW}}, with faces lining up to take him down-- and all failing, until Wrestling/{{Sting}} came along.
255** Wrestling/TheUndertaker had a perfect 21-0 winning Streak at ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}}'', and his then-upcoming Wrestlemania opponents (ending with Wrestling/CMPunk) would often [[TemptingFate talk about how they would become legends by ending said Streak]]; [[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]] once mentioned (prior to losing the opportunity to even face Taker) that ending the Streak would be a bigger accomplishment than winning a world title. Then came Wrestlemania XXX, and the Streak finally ended at the hands of Wrestling/BrockLesnar, thus leaving the record at 21-''1''.
256*** Even with the loss, defeating the Undertaker at 'Mania was still considered to be a big deal. Taker continued to win two more times at the showcase of the immortals until Wrestlemania XXXIII when he lost to Wrestling/RomanReigns in what seemed to be his retirement match. However, he then won two more times at 'Mania before retiring for real.
257*** Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} was also given one of the biggest streaks in Wrestling/{{WCW}} history, starting from his introductory match as an apparent {{Jobber}} against [[Wrestling/BillDeMott Hugh Morrus]], going all the way to defeating [[Wrestling/HulkHogan Hollywood Hogan]] for the title. His ''173 match'' winning streak [[note]] According to [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] it was a 155 win streak that was exaggerated to 173. [[/note]] was finally ended by Wrestling/KevinNash, with the aid of [[ExecutiveMeddling his newly obtained booking superpowers]] and a taser by Wrestling/ScottHall.
258*** Wrestling/SamoaJoe's twenty one month reign as Wrestling/RingOfHonor Champion where he traveled around in between his obligated ROH dates challenging anyone to try and take to the belt so he could use their defeats to justify calling it a world title. He was eventually toppled by Wrestling/AustinAries of Generation Next. Joe would later go on a much less dramatic 18 month undefeated streak that nonetheless produced [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]]'s most financially successful program ever when it was broken by Wrestling/KurtAngle.
259*** Nothing could beat Wrestling/{{Umaga}}. Not Viscera, not Wrestling/JohnCena, not Wrestling/JeffHardy, not Wrestling/{{Kane}}, not even [[Wrestling/{{DGenerationX}} [=DeGeneration=] X]]. It got to the point his manager, Armando Estrada, began to refer to Umaga as "The Undefeated". It finally took having Wrestling/JohnCena using a [[FinishingMove STFU]] with the detached ''ring ropes'' to defeat him.
260** Wrestling/MsChif's best known for her two year reign with both the Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA World Women's and Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} Title belts. Particularly when Madison Eagles beating her for the latter resulted in Eagles being the first woman not working for a major ''and'' the first not based in North America to place on top of Pro Wrestling Illustrated's top fifty.
261** Wrestling/TheShield were never pinned/submitted in trios matches for seven months until finally bested by Wrestling/TeamHellNo and Wrestling/RandyOrton in June 2013, upon which Lilian Garcia announced their first ever clean loss on the microphone.
262** [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka]] went undefeated for her entire time in Wrestling/{{WWENXT}} and well into her main roster run, even surpassing Goldberg's streak.
263** Wrestling/BrayWyatt eventually developed a split personality called [[MonsterClown The Fiend]] and would alternate personas. As himself, he was defeatable, but the Fiend [[ImplacableMan was pretty much unstoppable]]. He would NoSell everything and almost always kick out at one. He was only ever defeated by Goldberg, Roman Reigns (in a Triple Threat Match where he pinned Wrestling/BraunStrowman instead), and Randy Orton twice (the first time by setting Fiend on fire).
264* Not at all an unheard story in [[UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts MMA]], although all-around badass Fedor Emelianenko has had the most success at remaining undefeated, with a record of 31-1-1, the loss coming from a controversial stoppage due to a cut on his head and the no-contest from an accidental headbutt.
265** Unfortunately, the other side is that in a rematch the former "undefeatable" may show that the loss or draw was actually a fluke, leading to an unfortunate CurbStompBattle. Cases in point: Matt Serra against Georges St-Pierre, Tsuyoshi Kousaka against Fedor (the cut loss), and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (the accidental headbutt no contest).
266** Pretty much Mauricio "Shogun" Rua's claim to fame in the modern UFC: after two poor first performances in the company, he showed renewed form in knocking down Chuck Liddell and slugging him out in the first round, then gave the ''performance of a lifetime'' against legend-in-the-making UFC light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida, only to lose the highly controversial decision that almost everyone except the judges thought was Shogun's. [[spoiler:He then goes on to knock out Machida in the first round in their rematch, winning the Light-Heavyweight title.]]
267** Frankie "The Answer" Edgar took the UFC lightweight belt from the previously considered "unbeatable" B.J. Penn at UFC 112. Penn hadn't lost in the lightweight division in ''eight years'', but Edgar managed to upset the champ with a set gameplan; mixing up his offense, and pushing the pace with his speed.
268** It eventually happened to aforementioned Fedor Emelianenko after he received his first legitimate loss to Fabricio Werdum. Werdum was understandably excited.
269*** It happened again the fight after that, with Antonio "bigfoot" Silva dominating him and beating him by TKO.
270** Most recently, Chris Weidman knocking out [[InvincibleHero Anderson Silva]], who had a 17 fight winning streak, with his last loss being a DQ.
271** It happened again in May of 2014: UFC Bantamweight Champion Renan Barao had not lost a professional fight since his very first one in 2005 and had been either Interim or Undisputed Bantamweight Champion since July of 2012. Then came unheralded underdog TJ Dillashaw, who proceeded to not only defeat Barao but thoroughly dominate him through the first four rounds before TKOing him in the fifth to take the title.
272** UFC 193 on November 14, 2015 saw what most fans and experts considered the impossible: The defeat of "Rowdy" Creator/RondaRousey. 20-1 underdog and former pro boxer Holly Holm would shock the world by dominating Rousey en route to a shocking second round KO, becoming only the second person to win the UFC Women's Bantamweight Championship and handing Rousey her first MMA loss.
273** UFC 194 just under a month later possibly topped Rousey's loss with the long-awaited Featherweight title unification bout between Jose Aldo and UsefulNotes/ConorMcGregor. The fight had five months of hype behind it, it had an added stipulation that the winner would join Ronda Rousey on the box for the next game, and both men had long, ostentatious entrances. The fight? It lasted ''thirteen seconds'', with [=McGregor=] knocking Aldo out with the first punch of the fight.
274** Unfortunately for [=McGregor=], it happened to him as well: at UFC 196, he moved up to welterweight for a short-notice, non-title fight against Nate Diaz. [=McGregor=] did well enough in the first round but suddenly tired in the second, allowing major underdog Diaz to force him to tap out to a rear naked choke, handing [=McGregor=] his first loss in some time and first in the UFC. Earlier, the aforementioned Holly Holm suffered her first pro loss at the hands of another massive underdog: two-time Rousey victim Miesha Tate, who choked Holm out to win the Women's Bantamweight title.
275** Luke Rockhold had not lost in the UFC since his debut against a PED-aided Vitor Belfort. Since then, he had gone on a tear, finishing opponent after opponent, including taking the Middleweight belt from the aforementioned Chris Weidman in 2015, prompting many to proclaim him the true successor to Anderson Silva atop the divisional throne.. His first title defense was against short notice replacement Michael "The Count" Bisping, who had been submitted by Rockhold almost two years earlier. The heavy underdog Bisping would exact his revenge by KOing Rockhold to win the title in the first round.
276** Joanna Jędrzejczyk had dominated the Women's Strawweight division with an iron fist, with many experts wondering if she would do what Ronda Rousey couldn't and retire as champion. Few gave her UFC 217 opponent, Rose Namajunas, a chance of pulling off the upset despite Namajunas' skills growing by leaps and bounds during her time in the UFC. But pull it off she did, TKOing Jędrzejczyk in the very first round to capture the championship.
277** Demetrious Johnson had been the only champion the UFC's Men's Flyweight division had ever known since winning the belt in 2012, reeling off a record eleven consecutive title defenses, including a knockout of Olympic gold medal wrestler Henry Cejudo. But when the two rematched at UFC 227, "Mighty Mouse" was finally toppled from his throne via a hard-fought split decision. The man who did so? ''Henry Cejudo.''
278** After losing her first pro fight in 2005, Cristiane [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "Cris Cyborg"]] Justino became an unholy terror in the Women's Featherweight divisions of Strikeforce, Invicta, and the UFC, winning titles in all three organizations. At UFC 232, she defended her championship against UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion (and the woman who retired Ronda Rousey) Amanda Nunes, but despite being the overwhelming favorite, she fell to Nunes via knockout in a staggering ''fifty-one seconds.''
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282* ''Roleplay/DestroyTheGodmodder'': The godmodder is well defined here, despite being able to take down things like massive battle fleets and Chuck Norris himself with minimal effort, the godmodder has already been defeated twice.
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286* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'': Though very, ''very'' difficult, it is possible for a Changeling to permanently kill their Keeper in Arcadia. Tricking a True Fae into breaking an oath sworn on their TrueName is the most sure-fire way to do this, as their true name is effectively their vow to exist and losing it renders them DeaderThanDead.
287* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' is all about doing this to the extremely powerful people you don't like. You can even do this to The Unconquered Sun. Unconquered does not mean Unconquerable.
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291* The ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series (especially the original trilogy), being based largely on the heavily prosecution-biased Japanese legal system, has several prosecutors with perfect win records... until they meet Phoenix.
292** The first is Miles "Demon Prosecutor" Edgeworth, who never lost a case until Phoenix successfully defended Maya Fay over the murder of her sister Mia[[labelnote:note- spoilers!]]although the 3rd game reveals his first case, while not technically a loss for him, finished without a verdict and had been going in favour of the defence, so it definitely wasn't a win for him either[[/labelnote]]. After his HeelFaceTurn, he turns it around as one of two prosecutors (the other being Klavier Gavin, [[spoiler: who was an UnwittingPawn in a plot to frame Phoenix]]) to defeat Phoenix Wright in court.
293** Franziska von Karma is Miles' adopted little sister, and she's never lost a case since she began prosecuting at age ''13''. Until Phoenix once again gets Maya acquitted for murder.
294** Manfred von Karma is the gold standard for this, as he's the reason both Edgeworth (his adopted son) and Franziska (his daughhter) are so obssessed with perfect prosecution records. He maintained his spotless record for 40 years before facing Phoenix in case 1-4, and it's ultimately that case that [[spoiler: gets him busted for murdering the one defense lawyer to ever give him a penalty- Edgewoth's real father.]]
295** Subverted one time, when Godot announces that he's never lost a case... and then reveals that that's because he's never prosecuted a case before.
296** ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'' subverts it again with Barok van Zieks. Ryunosuke is told that no one can save a defendant from the Reaper of the Old Bailey shortly before he wins an acquittal against him. [[spoiler:The next day, Ryunosuke learns his client is dead, and Inspector Gregson sets him straight. Plenty of defendants have won a case prosecuted by the Reaper. None of them were ''[[ExactWords saved]]'' because they all died in mysterious circumstances shortly after him- which is what happens to Ryunnosuke's client (thankfully an AssholeVictim).]]
297* ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': [[HumanoidAbomination Amok]] is described as a supernatural being of mass destruction that can unleash devastation, possessing immense power that makes her untouchable. The PostFinalBoss has [[ActionGirl Ann]] battling Amok and finally defeating her to forever seal her away.
298* ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'':
299** Nineball is known for having held the position of #1 pilot the longest, thus those who can beat him are famed as "Ninebreakers".
300** Ace, the arena champion from ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore3'', reached his position without suffering a single loss.
301* In ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'', the Seven Deities are repeatedly described as undefeatable gods. Well, Asura puts them to the test on his RoaringRampageOfRevenge....and finds them wanting. Shortly afterward, he goes up against [[spoiler: Ghoma Vlitra]], which is described as a force so powerful it cannot be killed, only subdued temporarily. No prizes for guessing what Asura does to it. Finally, the game's last, DLC-specific chapters, culminate in Asura fighting [[spoiler: Chakravatin, who is effectively {{God}}, and is so powerful that his supreme fortress is literally larger than entire galaxies and he uses stars and planets as projectiles.]] Three guesses [[BeyondTheImpossible what happens]] to ''that'' theoretically indestructable asshole.
302* ''Videogame/BioShockInfinite'' goes to a great deal of effort to emphasize how invincible Songbird is. Elizabeth refuses to even let Booker fight him, insisting that it would be a completely hopeless fight. In the end, [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope she's right]]. It's a deconstruction of the standard player expectations when hearing about an invincible enemy. When Elizabeth says "You can't beat Songbird," the game isn't setting up an awesome boss fight, it's setting up the fact that ''you can't beat Songbird''. Elizabeth does eventually kill him in a cutscene though, but only after her PowerLimiter has been destroyed and she's basically a PhysicalGod]].
303* In ''Franchise/BlazBlue'', we have an interesting variation of this trope: How do you beat a supercomputer with three omniscient minds that has manipulated the countless {{Groundhog Day Loop}}s the world has gone through to its own perfectionistic ends in [[XanatosSpeedChess a game]] [[CosmicChessGame of chess]]? Believe it or not, [[FauxAffablyEvil Hazama]][=/=][[EvilGenius Terumi]] [[CrazyPrepared Yuuki]] knew how to cheat his way to victory, and we, the players, are left to ask ourselves: Why him? Why, of all people, ''him''? Why, of all the possible outcomes, did ''[[BigBad HE]]'', [[SatanicArchetype the embodiment]] of the [[OmnicidalManiac worst possible outcome]], have to win the Continuum Shift? Why? Because he ensured that there was no other possible outcome aside from his victory.
304* The ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series:
305** [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Crawmerax the Invincible]] from ''VideoGame/Borderlands1''. The mission for beating him is called [[LampshadeHanging "You. Will. Die."]] and the achievement earned for putting him down is called "Vincible". ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' and ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' keep up the ThemeNaming for their raid bosses, including [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment the Invincible Son of Crawmerax the Invincible]].
306** In ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' everyone is really impressed when you go toe-to-toe with Jack's [[TheBrute Brute]], Wilhelm, and come out not just alive but victorious, possibly solo, given that Wilhelm had previously taken on the four original Vault Hunters and forced them to RunOrDie. [[spoiler:In cut audio, it turns out he went down so easily because Jack poisoned him as part of a greater plan.]]
307* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'' starts with Dante being {{curbstomp|Battle}}ed by a new Demon King named [[BigBad Urizen]], after which Nero is forced to flee and find a way to at least get on his level if he wants to make a difference.
308-->'''Morrison:''' [[ThisCannotBe This can't be happening...]] Dante ''lost?''
309* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
310** Throughout the series, the main quest BigBad (as well as the Big Bads of the major expansions) tend to be something along these lines. ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' and its to expansions have you killing two outright {{Physical God}}s[[note]]One of whom is actually ''invincible'' and cannot be killed directly...you have to destroy his ''power source''[[/note]] and the aspect of a [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]]. ''Oblivion'' and its expansions force you to defeat ''two'' Daedric Princes (the main quest one being a DestroyerDeity) and an ancient [[MagicKnight Sorcerer-King]] of the AbusivePrecursors who is empowered by a third Daedric Prince. ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' and its expansions pit you up against the [[DragonsAreDemonic draconic]] BeastOfTheApocalypse (with several characters outright stating that [[YouCantFightFate it may not be "right"]] to stop him [[AboveGoodAndEvil given his duty]]), an ancient [[MonsterLord Vampire Lord]], and your own EvilCounterpart (the ''First'' Dragonborn) who serves as the champion of a Daedric Prince.
311** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'''s "Imperial Arena" faction questline, you can engage in a series of {{Gladiator Subquest}}s, working your way up the ranks against stronger and stronger competition. At the end, you must defeat the Gray Prince, the undefeated Grand Champion of the Arena. (However, there is also a sidequest that allows you to kill him without any fight and claim the title, Subverting the trope...)
312* In ''VideoGame/EmeraldCityConfidential'', Petra defeats Mombi, the resident champion of the wizard arena. Mombi, who is a SoreLoser, calls Petra out after the match for using parlor tricks rather than just magic to win.
313* Falling somewhere between VideoGames and RealLife is the defeat of Kerafyrm the Sleeper in ''VideoGame/EverQuest''. Having never intended gamers to challenge it, the programmers gave Kerafyrm 10 billion HP (for reference, a standard dragon has 100 thousand and gods top out at 2 million). It took almost 200 of the best players in the game over four hours to kill it. On the second try.
314** The first try ended at 27% life when Kerafyrm disappeared. Sony reset the entire scenario. According to them, they thought the scenario was bugged because Kerafyrm wasn't supposed to be that close to death ever. Gamers called them out for their repeated lies.
315* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': In the Seventh Lostbelt, the game's heroes find themselves faced with one of the most powerful known beings in the ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'': [[spoiler:ORT, the Ultimate One of the Oort Cloud]]. A huge amount of emphasis is placed on just how undefeatable it is, which nearly drives them to despair over the fact they now have to fight it. [[WordOfGod Nasu himself]] compared the heroes trying to fight this thing to a group of early game characters in an RPG trying to take on a post-game {{Superboss}}. [[spoiler:Despite putting up a truly stunning battle against ORT, and only managing ''that'' through multiple DeusExMachina, tremendous sacrifice, and a metric ton of pure luck, ORT is simply too powerful to be truly killed. In the end, it has to essentially be forced to commit suicide, as the only thing powerful enough to kill it is itself.]]
316* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' has a meta example. The game's version of HarderThanHard, "4[=/=]20 Mode" (accessed by using [[LevelEditor Custom Night]] to set all animatronics to their highest difficulty), is [[NintendoHard extremely brutal]] to the point where Scott Cawthon, the developer, thought it was flat-out impossible. Then Let's Player [=BigBug=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5E4ZJQoNrA went and beat it]]. As of now, 27 people have done so and been able to prove it. This has since become series tradition, with players completing the games at the hardest possible difficulties, though usually without Scott specifically believing it was impossible up until he was all but certain ''VideoGame/UltimateCustomNight'' was impossible at those settings. Then some players conquered that one too.
317* From ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'', Annihilator Iosa, who is known as "Iosa the Invincible" for surviving a [[ApocalypseHow Planetary Extinction event]].
318* The Ravager is the undisputed champion of the arena in ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire''... he gets a lot of hype, and it's all freaking justified. The bastard is the second/third hardest fight in the game.
319* In the original ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', you can rise all the way up in the gladiatorial ladder on Taris, eventually, defeating and killing the undefeated champion who killed every challenger in the last decades, so that nobody dares to challenge him any more.
320* ''Franchise/MassEffect'' presents [[OmnicidalManiac the Reapers]] as undefeatable. They've spent countless millions of years wiping out all advanced organic life in the galaxy [[ViciousCycle every 50,000 years]]. Finally, [[spoiler: at the end of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]] ends their reign [[MultipleEndings potentially]] [[PyrrhicVictory at great cost]], depending on the strength of their forces.]]
321* This is a large part of the main plot of the first ''Franchise/MortalKombat game''. Goro had dominated the competition for centuries prior, and was a seemingly unstoppable force, and defeating him was a vital step in paving the way for Shao Kahn's defeat. Ultimately, his defeat came at the hands of Liu Kang.
322* The Elite Four fill this role in every ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' game (as well as the anime), while Red, the protagonist from the first game, fills this role somewhat in the game in which he appeared as a boss.
323** Giovanni from the Special Manga fits this trope extremely well, as it is said that no one has ever defeated him in his time as a gym leader. The Elite Four in the Kanto Arc also fit this trope as they are constantly called undefeated more so than in the games. The Legendary Pokemon in the anime and games are constantly implied to be undefeated as well. And then we have Pikachu. Giovanni is even ''stronger'' in the ''Anime/PokemonOrigins'' special. How strong is he? In their first battle, his Nidoqueen (not his most powerful Pokemon) trounces Red's Charizard with barely an effort. In the following battle at the gym, [[spoiler: Giovanni decides to use his two strongest Pokemon against Red's team made specifically to take on the invincible Ground-type gym leader, and ''the first one, Rhyhorn takes down four of them before being eliminated in a DoubleKnockout'' (said opponents were a Victreebel, a Kabutops, a Snorlax, a Jolteon ([[{{Irony}} taken down by a single electric attack]]), and an Hitmonlee). Then Charizard, now stronger, faced Rhydon, and managed to scrape a victory]].
324** Volkner has this reputation as a gym leader. It translates to the anime as well, where he eventually got bored of crushing everyone's dreams and started giving away his badges for free.
325** This is the main objective of any trainer who enters the Galar league in''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' as Leon, the current Champion, has never lost a single match since he started his own journey.
326** This is the main plot of the "Victory Road" storyline in ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet''. Nemona easily wins every fight she finds and is trying to find someone who can at least match her. When she realizes the potential in the player, she begins acting as a mentor to nuture that potential so she can get a good battle.
327** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in the ''Scarlet and Violet'' DLC "The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero" as Kieran constantly loses to the player, not only in battle, but also in befriending Ogerpon, and goes off the deep end. His efforts to defeat you lead to him almost accidentially destroying the Paledea region when he loses control of Terapagos after Terastalizing him.
328* ''VideoGame/PonyIsland'': Asmodeus.exe boasts that he has never lost his mind-bending quiz game. Should you manage to see through his tricks, you become the first one to beat Asmodeus at his own game.
329* ''VideoGame/PunchOut'': The final fight in the series is about defeating the undefeatable.
330** ''Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!'' on the NES does this by making the final opponent Mike Tyson, who was undefeated at the time the game was made. Same with Tyson's replacement Mr. Dream in ''Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream''.
331** In ''Super Punch-Out!!'', Nick Bruiser has a 42-0 record before losing against you. [[HumiliationConga To add insult to injury]], according to Official Nintendo Magazine, he then lost ''again''. To '''''[[WarmUpBoss Glass Joe]]'''''. His twin brother Rick is almost undefeated, having lost to Nick.
332** ''Punch-Out'' for the Wii does this for the FinalBoss Mr. Sandman. Not only does he have a whopping 31 wins - 0 losses record, but his introduction cutscene shows him knocking out every other boxer in the game like it was nothing. But of course, Little Mac goes on to claim the championship from him.
333* ''Punch-Out!!'' clone ''Super KO Boxing 2'' makes KO Kid fight the Executioner, a menacing fighter out of Portugal, who has a 1000-0 record. Only one managed to escape his [=KOing=] wrath. For reference, Executioner single-handedly dwarfs the experience and win record of all 16 boxers in the SNES ''Super Punch-Out!!'' combined.
334* In ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games, this happens ''a lot'', as you will be seeing yourself defeating many seemingly undefeatable creatures in various myths and religion. Your enemy in this game can range from a simple fairy to out-and-out '''[[TheOmnipotent OMNIPOTENT]] [[EvenMoreOmnipotent GODS]]''', and you can win against them, storyline and gameplay-wise. The games go to great lengths [[NintendoHard to make sure you will be defeated a lot, though]], and some games do not permit this.
335* In ''[[VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed Star Wars: The Force Unleashed]]'', by the end of the game [[TheDogBitesBack Starkiller]], in the canonical Light Side Ending, becomes the only character in the entire Star Wars franchise to take on, physically overpower and defeat both Dark Lords of the Sith, [[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon Darth Vader]] and [[BigBad Darth Sidious]] respectively in a climactic ThroneRoomThrowdown aboard the first Death Star. Justified, in that as a powerful Sith Apprentice he was directly trained in a grueling manner in the Dark Side and Sith arts [[TykeBomb since childhood]] by Darth Vader, for the purpose of assassinating Vader's enemies, including remnant Jedi, as well as to help him overthrow the Emperor. Furthermore, during the battle on the Death Star [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder both Sidious and Vader]] are evidently hoping to use Starkiller to kill and replace the other Sith Lord, thus [[DividedWeFall not both facing him at the same time]], in which case they almost certainly would have beaten him.
336* In ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', this role is filled by Sagat in [[VideoGame/StreetFighterI the first game]], The King of Muay Thai (alternatively, the God or Emperor of Muay Thai), who, at the end of the game, is eventually defeated by Ryu, and, afterwards, loses his entire reputation, joins the BigBad's organization, and, after a little soul searching, does a HeelFaceTurn and focuses on becoming stronger. Storyline-wise, he's still one of the most powerful characters in the game, and he's only lost three times, and each time he technically didn't lose giving his all (the first time, Ryu was consumed by his desire to win, [[TheCorruption briefly losing himself to]] [[TheDarkSide Satsui no Hadou]] and sucker punching Sagat with a [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Metsu Shoryuken]], which is how Sagat has that scar across his chest, and the other two times he either was too distraught to give his all [[note]]his fight against his former disciple Adon; Sagat, despite losing, was in such a blind rage that he put Adon in traction for ''several months''[[/note]], or let the opponent win [[note]]his fight against Dan; Dan's desire to [[YouKilledMyFather avenge his father Go's death years ago at Sagat's hands]] was a big factor in Sagat's HeelRealization and eventual HeelFaceTurn[[/note]]).
337** Gameplay wise, he has consistently been top tier in every appearance, to the point that many fans have labeled it either a "tradition" or a "running gag" for Capcom.
338** Akuma has also only been "defeated" once, by Gouken in his youth. He would later turn up for a rematch in which he killed Gouken ([[ConvenientComa well, not quite]]), and hasn't outright lost a match since (he has, however, forfeited against people who have potential to get stronger if he leaves them alive, since his honour code won't let him fight people who aren't at their strongest).
339*** Speculation has it that Akuma ''did'' lose to a NotQuiteDead Gouken upon their reunion in ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV IV]]'' (given that Gouken ''[[NoSell No Sold]]'' the [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Shun Goku Satsu]] with the Power of Nothingness), which is why he no longer hounds Ryu by the time of ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterIII III]]''.
340* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' essentially puts Gill in this place. While there are [[OptionalBoss Shin Akuma and Q]] depending on which game you play Gill is portrayed as this in all games. In the comics Gill is able to put not only the majority of the cast but even Evil Ryu and Oni in their place all at the same time, only being initially defeated by Alex with the help of Urien.
341* In ''Manga/WanganMidnight Maximum Tune'', you get special titles for defeating a player with a long-enough win streak.
342* The Gear fighting champion Rico in ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}''.
343** In addition, the whole point of the game is to kill [[spoiler: ''God.'' Well, ''technically,'' [[MindScrew it's a superpowered war machine that happens to fulfill the typical purposes of 'God' for the planet the game takes place on....]] yeah, it's a little confusing. Still, the fact that it's not ''technically'' a god doesn't make the task any easier.]]
344* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': Raibaru Fumetsu was the former leader of the Martial Arts club and had a 100 win streak, thanks to overconfident rivals mistaking her cute exterior for weakness. She's actually ''relieved'' when Budo Masuda unexpectedly defeated her, since she had wanted to retire from martial arts to pursue other interests, but felt obligated to stay on as club leader because of her Indestructable Rival reputation. She promptly resigns, hands leadership to Budo, and makes friends with the first rival Osana.
345* In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhCapsuleMonsterColiseum'', losing to Yugi's friends makes them incredulous that they actually won.
346-->'''Tea:''' I won! I can’t believe it! ''I actually beat Yugi!''\
347'''Joey:''' Yugi, I won, but I’m sure it was just luck. A miracle, even.
348* In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhDuelLinks'', Yami Yugi and Kaiba can lose to anyone in the game, leaving their opponents incredulous that they won.
349* ''VideoGame/ZeusMasterOfOlympus'': When a monster comes to town, you're allowed to build a hall for the appropriate hero, who will come once the necessary conditions are met (which is far easier said than done, as some requirements seriously interfere with your city plans or your ability to even complete the mission) and instantly slay the monster. Or, you could send a unit or two of basic combat units at the monster, [[HighTurnoverRate who replenish over time]] and will eventually kill the beast after several in-game years and countless deaths. They don't react to this, unfortunately.
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353* Old Man Death in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', a BadassNormal human [[RetiredBadass who used to ride]] with the BloodKnight [[SuperSoldier Jagers]] and never lost a fight. Due to his reputation, Jagers constantly try to defeat him for his hat, but never managed to do it even in his old age. He finally lost the hat when Maxim challenged him for it, and even then, Maxim only succeeded by being "sottle", [[spoiler:ordering a hat sandwich to go, forcing Old Man Death to prepare the hat and hand it to Maxim lest the old man risk his reputation as the SupremeChef of his gourmet sandwich shop]].
354* ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': GodEmperor Solomon David holds a fighting tournament known as the Ring of Power every five years, where the champion gets to face Solomon himself in a one-on-one duel. In the centuries he has held the tournament Solomon has never lost a final bout despite the rules being VictoryByFirstBlood for his opponent while Solomon can 'only' win by ring-out, submission or the opponent being unable to fight. [[spoiler:This ends up backfiring on Solomon, as his duel with 82 White Chain ends with the audience of the tournament [[ConvictedByPublicOpinion proclaiming her the victor simply for landing a blow on Solomon]] even though she fails to actually make him bleed. Forced between falsely proclaiming his opponent the victor or looking like a [[EvilIsPetty petulant]] RulesLawyer in front of his nation, Solomon chooses the former and forfeits.]]
355* The Arena Champion in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', who has a perfect win record and has killed 37 gladiators in a row, including a stone giant with PC Class Levels. Naturally, Roy has to try to beat him in a death match, [[spoiler:a chance that he looks forward to when he learns that the Arena Champion is [[PsychopathicManchild Thog]]]].
356* Bun-Bun is like this throughout ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''. The main characters seem confident he can beat just about anyone or anything, including immortal assassins and world-destroying demons. He gets beaten a few times over the comic's run, however.
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361** In one death battle, there's a case for ''[[ComicBook/WallyWest Flash (Wally West)]] vs. [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Archie Sonic]]'' where [[spoiler: Wally manages to defeat Sonic, something that was deemed impossible by Sonic's foes and who Fate practically bends it's back over to ensure his victories. Turns out the only way to defeat someone as [[StoryBreakerPower overpowered]] as Sonic in the here and now is to be just as overpowered as he is, and the hosts note in the after-analysis even admit they were so matched in most circumstances the fight would effectively be a coin flip.]]
362** A second instance of this occurs in [[Webcomic/OnePunchMan Saitama]] vs. [[Franchise/{{Popeye}} Popeye]] where TWO undefeatable individuals duke it out. [[spoiler: Popeye ends up winning, primarily because while Saitama was unbelievably strong his power could still be measured while Popeye's abilities [[OffTheChart couldn't be measured at all]] putting the sailor on a whole different level of ridiculousness.]]
363* In ''WebAnimation/PokemonGoldFanmade'', Whitney has a well-deserved reputation for being an unbeatable Gym Leader. Whether Trainers are challenging her for their first badge or their eighth, she [[CurbStompBattle flattens all challengers]] with teams built around her freakishly strong Miltanks, with Gold losing to her almost a dozen times while attempting to get his third badge. It's not until Gold takes the time to study Whitney's tactics and build a team specifically to counter them that he finally emerges victorious, and even then, her Miltank still took down five of his six Pokémon before being defeated.
364* One episode of The Rap Battle Parody has the supposedly unbeatable Supa Hot Fire experiencing his first and only loss at the hands of ''Music/SouljaBoy''. However, in a later episode, one of Supa's rhymes is considered so good that it [[{{Retcon}} erases his previous loss]].
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368* ''WesternAnimation/Ben102016''
369** [[Characters/Ben10BenTennyson Ben Tennyson]]
370*** Downplayed: both the first two season's finales have him stopping some of the most feared creatures of the universe, but in both cases, he needed help from others and some kind of AllYourPowersCombined. Plus he didn't technically defeat them, more like stopped them from getting what they wanted.
371*** This goes further in season 3, as he still didn't defeat Forever Knight (or at least, in a way where Forever Knight wasn't pulling the strings) and only managed to restrain him before Kevin kept him from capturing Ben and Gwen inside the timestream.
372* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom: WesternAnimation/TheUltimateEnemy'': [[FutureMeScaresMe Dark Danny]] was shown to be [[InvincibleVillain a juggernaut that seemed unstoppable]], with Future Valerie, Danny's enemies, and even an army of ghost fighters unable to stand against him. He was like this to such a degree that [[TheWatcher the Observants]] believed that [[MurderIsTheBestSolution killing Danny]] was the only way to [[RetGone keep him from coming into existence]]. However, through the use of some Fenton weapons and his [[EleventhHourSuperpower newly]] acquired [[SuperScream Ghostly Wail]], Danny was able to at least weaken his evil self enough to trap him in the Fenton Thermos.
373* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': The events of the first season are kicked off after an Exorcist angel, who are known at this point to be [[NighInvulnerability virtually untouchable]] by the denizens of Hell, is found dead after the latest [[ThePurge Extermination]]. The who, why and how are slowly uncovered as [[AttackOnOneIsAnAttackOnAll the repercussions of such a feat]] threaten everything Charlie is working for.
374* Warhak, the villain from the GrandFinale of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', claimed to be 'the most fierce warrior in the galaxy', indicating that he had conquered hundreds of planets with little resistance. He even managed to knock out both Kim and ''Shego'' with a single punch. In the end, both he and his battlemate Warmonga[[note]]who herself had proven tough enough to take on both Kim and Shego (while the former was wearing her battlesuit), and was defeated by [[SnipeHunt trickery rather than combat]] in her previous appearance[[/note]] were destroyed by [[Characters/KimPossibleRonStoppable Ron Stoppable]] when he called upon his Mystical Monkey Power.
375* In Season 3 of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', the four active members of the Red Lotus are described as undefeatable, with no single person having a chance of defeating any of them individually, much less the four of them together. However, Tenzin actually comes close to proving this wrong in his one-on-one battle with their leader Zaheer, as he seems to have the upper hand thanks to his years of experience and mastery bending air outmatching Zaheer's skilled but inexperienced style, but Zaheer's reinforcements show up before the battle is over. In the finale, [[spoiler:Mako]] actually does manage to defeat one of them, [[spoiler:Ming-Hua]], in single combat, through [[spoiler:using his lightning to electrocute her, taking advantage of the fact that she was submersed in the water she used for her own bending]].
376* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E35BigSulkyTheFunnyFaceCompetition The Funny Face Competition]]," [[spoiler:Tooey pulls out a win against Aunt Merna, the funny face champion of legend.]]
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380* Tiger Woods was 14–0 in golf's four major championships when he held the lead (by himself or with others) after 54 of 72 regulation holes... but that came to a stunning end when he lost the 2009 PGA Championship with a two stroke 54 hole lead to unheralded Y.E. Yang. And then three months later Tiger crashed into a fire hydrant outside his home in Florida, and the rest has been history.
381* Creator/MikeTyson was the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion who was mowing down everyone who came into his path, including previously unbeaten champions like Michael Spinks... in 91 seconds. James "Buster" Douglas was supposed to be just another speed bump to the champ (in fact, the February 1990 fight was held in Tokyo because no American venue would have it). No one told Douglas, though, who proceeded to knock out Tyson in the 10th round and become one of the unlikeliest heavyweight champions in boxing history.
382** Another famed boxing upset is the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rumble_in_the_Jungle Rumble in the Jungle]] between UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Foreman George Foreman]]. Ali was considered over the hill, while the younger, unstoppable champion Foreman came into the bout with a record of ''40 wins, 0 losses''. [[note]]Moreover, some of those wins were [[CurbStompBattle routs]] of boxers who'd beaten Ali before...[[/note]] Big George himself later recalled that he had no worries... until he went down in the 8th round, worn out from several minutes of [[VictoryByEndurance steady]] [[DeathOfAThousandCuts chipping]] from Ali. Not only was this his first defeat, it was the first time Foreman had ever [[NotSoInvincibleAfterAll been knocked down]].
383* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_on_Ice Miracle on Ice]], where the USA ice hockey team of the 1980 Winter Olympics manage to defeat a Soviet team that was nigh-unbeatable in the world scene for more than a decade. For bonus points, the USA team was made up of collegiate ice hockey players and had been crushed by the Soviets in an earlier exhibition game 10 to 3. "Do you believe in miracles? YES!!"
384* The "Miracle of Berne" (4 July 1954) in which the West German team came back from trailing 0-2 against the "Magical Magyars" to win [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup the FIFA World Cup]] by 3 goals to 2. This ended an undefeated run by the Hungarian [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football (soccer)]] team lasting four years and 32 matches, during which they won the Olympic gold medal in 1952, the 1953 European Cup of National Teams (precursor of the UEFA European Championship), became the first continental European team to defeat England in Wembley Stadium (6-3) and defeated West Germany 8-3 in the opening round of the 1954 World Cup.
385* [[UsefulNotes/{{Tennis}} Tennis]] star UsefulNotes/RafaelNadal entered the 2009 French Open as the World No. 1 and 4-time defending champion who had never been beaten on French clay ever since his debut at the 2005 French Open, not even by the legendary UsefulNotes/RogerFederer, and had just set a record streak of 31 wins at the French Open. His fourth-round opponent, Robin Söderling, was all set up to become yet another one of his conquests as the 23rd seed who had never even reached the quarterfinals of a major tournament before and had been steamrolled by Nadal in all of their previous matches. Söderling apparently hadn't read the script, however, as he proceeded to turn in the game of his life and defeat Nadal in one of the biggest upsets in tennis history.
386** And it happened to Nadal ''again'' at Wimbledon 2014. Back at number 1 in the world and the current French Open and US Open Champion and runner-up at the Australian Open, he played Nick Kyrgios, a 19 year old Australian ranked 145th in the world, in the fourth round. Nadal was defeated in four sets.
387* In the 2007-08 UsefulNotes/SuperBowl XLII match between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants the Patriots had an undefeated regular and playoff season. They had the best offense and defense ever assembled in NFL history, or so the many sports commentators kept saying. Superstar quarterback Tom Brady completed 50 touchdowns throughout the season, running up the score and completely dominating most defenses he faced, and wide receiver Randy Moss went from washed up back to completely unstoppable. The whole country believed they'd be the second team since the 1972 Miami Dolphins to have a a perfect NFL season, complete with a Super Bowl victory. At the same time, the New York Giants had had an up and down season, even being narrowly defeated by the Patriots in the last game of the season. There were times when the fans demanded that the managers fire coach Tom Coughlin and replace quarterback Eli Manning, whom many football fans regarded as not being as talented as his older brother Creator/PeytonManning. However they fought and clawed their way to the playoffs and the Super Bowl game. During the game, millions who watched were left in shock as not only did the Giants stop the Patriots dominating offense, but they were able to only hold them to 14 points, winning the game. Eli finally escaped from his brother's shadow by matching him with a Super Bowl win and MVP title, and Coughlin had his coaching contract extended. And just to show the win wasn't a fluke, they beat the Patriots again in Super Bowl XLVI at the end of the 2011-12 season, and Eli Manning surpassed his brother with two Super Bowl wins and MVP titles (until Peyton won his second ring at Super Bowl 50 at the end of the 2015-16 season).
388* When chess grandmaster José Capablanca was defeated by fellow grandmaster Richard Réti in the 1924 grandmaster tournament in New York, it was his first loss under tournament conditions in ''eight years''.
389** Capablanca's loss in the World Championship match to Alexander Alekhine was also an example, as he was considered so dominant that no one expected him to lose.
390** Vladimir Kramnik defeating Garry Kasparov in the year 2000 was a similar situation.
391** Correspondence Grandmaster Arno Nickel managed to win a match against Hydra, the strongest chess computer of the time (this was a computer significantly more advanced and powerful than Deep Blue).
392* In a way, the Miami Heat vs the San Antonio Spurs in 2013. Up until that point, the Spurs never lost in the NBA Finals; they never even ''trailed'' in a Finals series. They were up 1-0, 2-1, 3-2, and were literally 28 seconds away from winning their fifth championship... and then the Heat improbably forced overtime in Game 6, took that game by the slimmest of margins, and proceeded to defeat the Spurs in Game 7, becoming the only team to have beaten the Spurs in the Finals. This is especially poignant since the Spurs proceeded to defeat the Heat in the Finals in 2014.
393* Rulon Gardner winning the gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in overtime, against 3 time defending gold medalist Aleksandr Karelin at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Until that victory, Karelin had been undefeated for ''13 years'' (out of a 18-year-long career), the last 6 years during which he '''didn't give up a single point to his opponents''', and had never lost a match in international competetion, period. Gardener by contrast was a skilled but relatively unknown wrestler whose previous experience was primarily on the high school and collegeate level.
394* Happened again with UsefulNotes/LeBronJames, who was the star of the 2013 Miami Heat team, when he went back to the Cleveland Cavaliers and reached the finals in the 2015-16 season. This time he took on the Golden State Warriors in the finals after losing to them the previous year during the 2014-15 season. The Warriors seemed like the new superstar team in the West Coast, after the Spurs and the Lakers, to win multiple back to back titles and become a dynasty. The team's roster was stacked with great starter and bench players, with a superstar point guard in UsefulNotes/StephenCurry, whose ball handling and shooting skills seemed inhuman. Everything seemed to good as planned with the Warriors taking a dominating 2-0 lead. Everyone was predicting a NBA finals sweep, until [=LeBron=] James and his point guard Kyrie Irving played some of the greatest basketball in NBA history, especially Irving who, while good, wasn't seen at the time as an elite player. They would be the first team in NBA history to turn around a 1-3 disadvantage during the finals, finally winning the title [=LeBron=] promised the city of Cleveland since he turned pro as a teenager.
395* Serena Williams went into the 2015 US Open having won the last four tennis majors and being the overwhelming favorite to complete a calendar-year Grand Slam (i.e. winning all four tennis majors in a single year). Everything seemed to align for her in the semifinals with her opponent being 43th-ranked Roberta Vinci who had a 0-4 record against her and Flavia Pennetta taking out 2nd-seeded Simona Halep in the other semifinal...then Vinci ''won'' in one of the biggest sports upsets of all time.
396* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'''s victory in the Favorite Cartoon category during the 2008 Kids' Choice Awards, making it the only time since 2003 that a cartoon other than ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' walked home with the award.
397* Since its launch in 2004, ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has been the undisputed king of the {{MMORPG}} genre, with so many competitors hailing themselves as '[=WoW=]-killers' popping up only to be crushed under ''[=WoW=]'''s heels and quickly forgotten. Things started to change around 2019 with the launch of the "Shadowbringers" expansion of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', an MMO that, ironically, launched in a broken state and was so panned that it threatened to possibly end the [[RunningGag lawsuit-filingly popular]] ''Final Fantasy'' franchise until it was scrapped, rebuilt, and relaunched under the subtitle of ''A Realm Reborn''. Since then, ''FFXIV'' has managed to keep up with ''[=WoW=]'' and prove to be a serious rival and contender to ''[=WoW's=]'' throne. The turning point came in 2021, where a combination of factors -- the eminent release of the "Endwalker" expansion, growing resentment from the playerbase of ''[=WoW=]'' over the game's increasingly panned gameplay and story changes, several prominent ''[=WoW=]'' players jumping ship for ''FFXIV'', a class-action lawsuit that cast developer Activision-Blizzard in a less-than-flattering light, and a [[https://www.windowscentral.com/report-world-warcraft-development-effectively-halted-due-activision-blizzard-lawsuit subsequent halt to WoW's development]] -- led to ''[=WoW's=]'' playerbase hemorrhaging while ''FFXIV'' saw an explosive growth to its own playerbase, such that the game's servers struggled to keep up.
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