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Another day, another unfufilling battle for Saitama.

It's a general rule in any fighting-based anime that if the protagonist already knows how to fight by the beginning of the series then the battle against the first villain will be a complete Curb-Stomp Battle just to demonstrate their abilities.

For those and other examples:


Anime and Manga with their own examples:


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  • Accel World:
    • The morning after installing Brain Burst, Haru makes the mistake of going outside his apartment with his Neurolinker connected to the global net. He then ends up being challenged by Ash Roller, and since he doesn't know how to fight, he ends up being beaten rather badly offscreen.
    • At the start of the second story arc, Haru ends up fighting Scarlet Rain, the second Red King and one of a handful of individuals who reached Level 9 out of 10. The most he accomplishes is forcing her to dodge one of his attacks.
  • Generally, in the first two seasons of Akazukin Chacha, the Monster of the Week might be tough and able to give Chacha, Shiine, and Riiya trouble — but once the three transform Chacha into her alter ego, the Magical Princess, all it takes is one attack for the monster to be destroyed. There were only a few occasions where the monster gave Magical Princess a proper fight, and they occurred more frequently in Season 2.
  • Assassination Classroom:
    • Akira Takaoka, elite soldier and special forces instructor, versus Nagisa Shiota, a 15-year-old kid with barely three months' worth of assassination training. Nagisa wins in under ten seconds because he treats it as an assassination, not a fight. He simply walks up to Takaoka, completely at ease until he's at point blank range and the only one prepared to actually attack.
    • In the final arc, Class 3-E goes up against a highly skilled team of mercenaries. They easily trounce everyone except the leader due to a combination of a Home Field Advantage, Karasuma's covert feedback, and training experience with Koro-sensei. As for their leader, he was overwhelmed with hit-and-run tactics designed to distract him from psyching himself up until he gets a Nagisa/Karma clap-and-kick takedown.
  • The Asterisk War: In an anime-only example,note  episode 8 has Queenvale's 35th ranked fighter Violet Weinberg challenge Saya to a duel when Saya takes her to task for bullying Kirin. Saya is unranked (she doesn't care about the ranking system so she doesn't participate in ranking matches), but on the same level of fighting skill as Ayato and Julis, and blasts Weinberg across the room on the word "go".
  • Happens often in Attack on Titan, and usually it's the Titans who are the ones handing it out. Well, they are Flesh Eating Giants with incredible Healing Factor and can only be killed by getting the back of the necks cut, while humans have only cannons, stone walls and a few admittedly very badass soldiers with Titan-killing swords. Most emphasized in their first fight, where every single member of Eren's squad save Armin is killed and eaten by the Titans, including Eren himself (well, sort of) and they don't even manage to scratch one. It's only by Episode 6 that Titans start being taken down.
    • Titan Eren knocked out the Titan about to attack Mikasa, then repeatedly stomped on the Titan's head while it was lying on the metaphorical curb.
    • Levi proved why he is the World's Strongest Man by wrecking the Female Titan/Annie when highly experienced soldiers died fighting against the latter. And also earlier, he is shown effortlessly killing several Titans with an air of boredom.
    • Levi does it again by absolutely brutally decimating the Beast Titan/Zeke Yeager, who'd just killed most of the Survey Corps by throwing rocks at them. To elaborate, Zeke started the fight as Smug Snake, and ended the fight without his arms, right leg, and eyes. It was only due to the Cart Titan/Pieck's interference that he survived.
  • Baki the Grappler has this every time Yujiro fights. As such, it's hardly surprising when he does it. More interesting examples follow...
    • Baki utterly thrashes Yanagi and Sikorsky at the same time with a boost from his desire to protect Kozue. Midway through, he actually gets mad at them for losing so easily. "It's not yet time to give the gift of defeat! I WILL BEAT YOU 'TILL YOU CAN'T GET UP!"
    • Shunsei got a nice one from Baki too: He throws one punch, which Baki dodges, countering with a punch to the side of the head that gives him a concussion, followed by an uppercut to the chin and a roundhouse kick to knock him out.
    • The grudge match between Oliva and Yoh Kaioh: Yoh asks Oliva to hit him as hard as he can. Oliva obliges by crushing his body like an empty beer can.
  • Bakugan has Komba Vs Shun. It is one of the few battles in the first season where the winner doesn't lose a single Bakugan.
  • The first battle in Banana no Nana is between a girl with the power to manipulate water, and one with the power to manipulate bananas. Naturally, the battle isn't even close. The banana manipulator utterly thrashes the water manipulator. She tries coming back by making a hostage of a girl who has super-strong legs that allow her to make amazing jumps... but forgot that strong legs are good for more than just jumping.
  • Berserk:
    • Early in the Golden Age, Guts's battle with Bazuso the Gray Knight, a man who looks to be eight feet tall and is claimed to have killed thirty men. Needless to say, Bazuso doesn't last a minute.
    • After the Hundred-Man Slaying in that same arc (where Guts managed to wipe out a company of mercenaries almost singlehandedly while injured), pretty much any encounter involving Guts and unenhanced humans is likely to be this—even characters who'd be considered Badass Normal or Charles Atlas Superpower-level in most other scenarios tend to need very favorable circumstances just to hold out against him. Against unnamed Mooks? Those fights tend to start off with him swinging a BFS through the torsos of at least three fully-armored men, and degrade into a slaughter from there.
    • The Eclipse, which pits the badly depleted Band of the Hawk versus a metric asston of Apostles. BUUUURP.
    • Most battles involving the New Band of the Hawk under the resurrected Griffith are curbstomps, with Griffith's demonically-powered supersoldiers cutting through enemy lines like wheat and routinely managing to rout the opposing Kushan while outnumbered ten to one or more. It's heavily suggested that the battles are set up specifically to give the impression that Griffith is a Messianic Archetype, despite him being the opposite. Of particular note is Griffith's battle with Emperor Ganishka. Ganishka attempts to enter his terrifying One-Winged Angel form as a living storm cloud... and then Griffith simply summons a gale to blow it away, leaving Ganishka sitting in his throne, utterly terrified at how outclassed he is.
    • During the boat arc, Roderick decides to show his talents to the rest of the group when they're being tailed by pirates, turning his lone ship to face them head-on. One chapter and some masterful naval maneuvering later, the pirates are down from three ships to a single badly damaged one in full retreat, while Roderick's ship gets away without a single casualty.
  • The Big O. The three vehicles forming the RX-3 just appeared for the first time, they had an awfully long combining sequence leading to the real formation of the giant robot, the leader of its pilots just defied Roger Smith and created a huge blade out of its shoulder-blades, the robot takes a combat pose... and gets obliterated in 2 seconds by Big O. And it was hilarious.
  • Black Clover:
    • During the magic knight exams, Asta delivers one to his opponent Sekke with one swing of his sword after the latter said not to hold back.
    • Yuno defeats Salim in one page after Salim gave a quick speech that he would win because Yuno is a street rat.
    • Mars, the diamond mage working with Lotus, inflicts this on Yuno and his teammates. Even after Yuno stops holding back, he's much worse for the wear, while Mars isn't even scratched.
    • Rhya and Meleoleona fight, and the former is absolutely pathetic against the latter, even with his sundry magics. His being on the losing side doesn't last long, though, once Patry revives the elves. Rhya can now cast many magics at once, and to make matters worse, the elf in Rill's body comes to the scene.
  • Black Lagoon: Hotel Moscow versus anyone.
    • Revy and Dutch versus White Aryan Socialist Union's ship crew. These neo-Nazis don't get even a chance to shoot a single bullet.
    • Roberta versus Shenhua, Sawyer, and Lotton. The trio are lucky they got away with their lives considering Roberta's state.
  • Blade of the Immortal offers nice example of this trope when Otono-Tachibana Makie encounters Manji for the second time. Let's just say it didn't go exactly well for him.
  • The So Bad, It's Good Blazblue anime, Blazblue Alter Memory has a few examples:
    • Jin's first battle with Ragna doesn't go well at all. He's metaphorically and literally stomped into the ground and left to lie in agony.
    • Then, as if things couldn't possibly get worse for him, Bang of all people defeats him with a single blow. Although to be fair, he was still recovering from the injuries he received in his battle with Ragna.
    • Noel and Makoto vs. Hazama. With their combined efforts, the two girls manage to land a single ineffectual blow on him, while he dances around, taunting them and throwing the occasional sucker punch. And then when he gets fed up toying with them, he powers up his Ouroboros and utterly thrashes them both with almost no effort.
    • Along the same vein, it's heavily implied that the earlier offscreen battle between Hazama and Tager was this.
  • Many fights in Bleach. Seriously, the rare fights that aren't this are How Much More Can He Take?.
    • The very first fight in the series, between Ichigo and some thugs disrespecting a memorial site, was quite literally this — Ichigo soundly thrashing the lot of them and stomping on them repeatedly.
    • The first match between Ichigo and Grimmjow was extremely one-sided; the latter owned the former with little to no effort and didn't get hurt at all. Though Grimmjow did feel to need to block Ichigo's Getsuga Tensho.
      • The second fight is just as one-sided: Ichigo's Hollowfication allows to throw Grimmjow around like a ragdoll, but Ichigo returns to normal before dealing the final blow, and Grimmjow returns the favour. However, Shinji saves Ichigo, and massacres Grimmjow, who's only saved from certain death by Ulquiorra.
      • The third fight averts this trope, with Grimmjow and Ichigo being equally matched up until Ichigo slowly took the advantage and won.
    • In Hueco Mundo, Ishida and Renji struggle against Szayelaporro, then Mayuri shows up as part of a Big Damn Heroes brigade and trashes Szayelaporro with Batman-level planning. The battle between them was ultimately decided by who was more nightmarishly prepared. The two practically took turns releasing horrors from their bag of tricks until Szayelaporro ran out.
    • Sui-Feng allowed herself to be Willfully Weak against Ggio just to test his abilities. When she decided she'd seen enough, she appeared to one-shot him. She then explains that she actually two-shotted him, but her movements were so fast all he could feel was a single strike.
    • Charlotte had thrown Yumichika around like a ragdoll because his strength and speed were so great. Then Yumichika revealed he had been Willfully Weak because he didn't want his allies to notice what he's capable of: instantly one-shotting Charlotte to death, as it turned out.
    • Ichigo's fight with Ulquiorra (both the first and second) resulted in Ulquiorra calmly No Selling his most powerful attacks before beating the snot out of him. The first fight ended with Ulquiorra stabbing him through the chest. In the second fight, Ulquiorra uses both of his One-Winged Angel forms and then blows a hole through Ichigo with a Cero. Unfortunately for Ulquiorra, Ichigo's Superpowered Evil Side takes over and returns the favor with interest, dishing a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Ulquiorra and fatally wounding him by blowing a hole through his chest with a Cero.
    • During Ichigo's fight with Nnoitra, whom he struggled against to begin with, Nnoitra gets bored and tags out with his Fraccion, Tesla...who immediately goes into his Ressurecion form and delivers a brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Ichigo. In the anime, you can hear the bones in his arm break. Tesla is then killed in a single blow by Kenpachi.
    • Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck frequently dished these to Nnoitra when she was still an Espada member, only sparing him due to pitying him and deeming him Not Worth Killing. Even though Nnoitra is much stronger by the time they meet again, Nelliel has the clear advantage over Nnoitra for the duration of the fight, and loses only due to reverting to her child form when she was about to finish him off.
    • In Chapter 390, Aizen fights Hitsugaya, Komamura, Rose, and Love at the same time. He curbstomps them. After that, he fights against Sui Feng, Hitsugaya, Shunsui, and Shinji and was seemingly killed by Hitsugaya — until he reveals that he substituted himself with someone else, meaning the captains all attacked the wrong person. In Chapter 392, Sui-Feng, Shunsui, Hitsugaya, and Shinji are curbed in a page.
    • After gaining the ability to use the Final Getsuga Tenshō, Ichigo utterly annihilated Aizen.
    • Yamamoto's fights were this.
      • After Ayon easily defeats five lieutenants, it gets casually destroyed by Yamamoto. Yamamoto then proceeds to one hit Emilou Apacci, Franceska Mila Rose and Cyan Sung-Sun, sparing their lives solely through choice.
      • Even though Wonderweiss sealed Yamamoto's Zanpakuto, Yamamoto simply proceeds to obliterate him with his bare fists.
      • Yamamoto gets his revenge on Driscoll Berci, the Sternritter who killed Chōjirō Sasakibe, by instantly incinerating him.
      • Later, Yamamoto then proceeds to incinerate three other Sternritter with extreme ease. Note that all Sternritters are about as powerful as captains, if not more powerful. One of the Sternritter, Äs Nödt, also stole Byakuya's Bankai and curb-stomped Byakuya with it. But obviously they were no match for Old Man Genocide.
      • Yamamoto also gutted the decoy leader of the Vandenreich with ease. However, the true leader of the Vandenreich, Yhwach, strolls in after the decoy's death, steals Yamamoto's Bankai, and then proceeds to kill him with one hit. After killing Yamamoto, he nukes the corpse just to be sure.
    • Renji versus Jackie Tristan. She'd just gained a power up from part of Ichigo's Fullbring and immediately utilized the rules of her own Fullbring to bring herself to her full power. Renji instantly takes her out with a single blow to the stomach from his Zanpakuto's hilt.
    • The "battle" between Kenpachi and Giriko was over before it began. Kenpachi killed Giriko with his very first blow.
    • As part of the declaration of the Thousand Year Blood War, 116 shinigami were killed in 182 seconds (one of them being Yamamoto's Number Two, Sasakibe). The 12th division's report of the massacre concludes that the evidence currently suggests they were killed by a single individual. When the full invasion occurs, sixteen Sternritters take out just under 3,000 shinigami in about 12 minutes, including several captains and lieutenants. They only take five casualties of their own. Two of the captains that are defeated are Byakuya and Kenpachi, both of whom are curbstomped: Byakuya is shredded to pieces by his own stolen bankai and Kenpachi is one-shotted off-screen by a Sternritter he thought was the Quincy leader.
      • In Chapter 512, a Sternritter called Shaz Domino was killing the Shinigami Research and Development Institute people when Ichigo finally arrived in Soul Society. Shaz Domino was defeated before he even managed to tell Ichigo his power.
      • In Chapter 524, Unohana catches Zaraki's blade with one hand, flicks it aside, and stabs him through the neck all without breaking a sweat.
      • In Chapter 559, Ikkaku, Yumichika, and Shuhei were also curb-stomped off screen by the lucha libre Sternritter "S", Mask De Masculine. Kensei and Rose both put Mask on the receiving end with their respective Bankais, only to have the favor returned brutally. It gets even better when Renji appears with both a new Bankai and smug attitude. Naturally, Mask is completely obliterated in a single attack.
      • Ichigo returns from the Royal Palace after reforging Zangetsu and going through more training. The first thing he does is save Kenpachi and take on the female Sternritters 4-on-1; they don't even make him sweat.
      • The resurrected Charlotte gets on both ends of this in just two chapters. In Chapter 591, he nigh-effortlessly throws Zombie Bambietta into a building before obliterating her with a Cero. In the very next chapter, he, along with Ikkaku and Yumichika are all defeated in one-strike battles courtesy of Zombie Hitsugaya.
      • PePe learns the hard way that, without The Love, he's pretty much useless. Zombie Kensei shows him this by curb-stomping a brainwashed Hisagi before turning PePe into his personal punching bag and sending him flying head first into a building.
  • In Brave10, a lot of the eponymous heroes get their asses thoroughly kicked throughout the series:
    • Almost every fight Saizo has with Hanzo ends up with Hanzo trouncing him until new teammates arrive.
    • After the first curbstomping from Hanzo, Saizo gets really depressed and moody, which leads to his teammate Sasuke curbstomping him to make a point about how self-pity just makes you weaker
    • Susanoo does this to them all in the sequel. The Braves just aren't a match for a Physical God.
  • Canaan vs Alphard in Canaan. In their first fight, Alphard decidedly beats Canaan. At the end, Alphard could have shot and killed Canaan but instead, Alphard shoots the wall around Canaan, letting her escape.
  • Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran: Every fight Ran is in. Meow too, but she doesn't get as many fights.
  • A Certain Magical Index:
    • Touma vs Kanzaki. She's the local magician hot chick with a sword that has divine powers. Only, she completely stomps him through the use of protective wires to keep him from nullifying any of her powers. Which she never uses. And later there's a peaceful moment followed by another quick fight where she completely dominates in hand to hand combat as well. Good thing she's friendly (kinda) because honestly, he'd never stand a chance if she really wanted him dead: as a Saint, she's considered the magical equivalent of a nuclear weapon.
    • Later on in the series, Kanzaki herself gets curb stomped by the Knight Leader, who defeats her without even drawing his sword. In fairness, he himself was currently undergoing Super-Empowering.
    • Awaki, meet Accelerator.
    • When Acqua first appears, he curb stomps Touma and Itsuwa... then the entire Amakusa force... and then Kanzaki (the best Kanzaki can do is force him to fight seriously, which he never does with the first two).
    • The fight (if it can even be called that) between Accelerator and Aiwass definitely qualifies. Accelerator gets slaughtered completely by Aiwass' passive defenses!
    • Accelerator gets one of his own when he utterly annihilates Kakine. A second time after Kakine brutally attacked Yomikawa (who just saved him from a bullet to the brain). Too Dumb to Live in full effect.
    • Pretty much every fight involving Fiamma is him effortlessly beating the crap out of his opponents, to the point he's legitimately left befuddled when he fights Touma and can't just insta-one-shot him like he normally does with his fights. And then after Touma finally defeats him, Aleister shows up and does the same thing to Fiamma.
    • Any fight against Othinus is pretty much a curb-stomp by nature, although which way the stomping goes is random. Othinus has abilities that are effectively omnipotence, but they only actually work 50% of the time. Othinus is described as someone who "has an equal chance of defeating the strongest opponent, or losing against the weakest opponent". It's why Othinus doesn't tend to get involved in direct combat too often.
    • Silvia vs Touma and Brunhild Eiktobel vs Othinus in New Testament Volume 10 is essentially this as both saints utterly thrash their respective opponents. Othinus was completely powerless at this point while Touma was beaten so badly that he was referred to by the narration as a "red mass". It took Ollerus suddenly intervening, knocking the two saints into each other, and sacrificing both his arms to do so in order to prevent the worst from happening.
    • Fiamma of the Right vs the High Priest in New Testament Volume 13 is an even worse example with the former's trump card against the latter failing due to the nature of his Magic God abilities and the latter thrashing and knocking away the former in one blow after that.
  • Chainsaw Man: The first encounter with the Darkness Devil does not go well for anyone. He instantly takes their arms, and any attempt to attack him is brushed off. Even Makima, later revealed to be the Control Devil, only held him off long enough to get away.
    • Later on, when Kishibe launches an assault on Makima, she orders the true Chainsaw Man to come out and help her. In response, five members of Kishibe's team sacrifice themselves to summon the Hell Devil. Chainsaw Man instantly takes it out in a Single-Stroke Battle.
  • Change 123: Sora Uzuki spends weeks trying to provoke Mokoto's most powerful alternate personality into emerging. When she does, she ends up weaponless and with a broken arm within seconds, then spends the next chapter fleeing for her life.
  • In Chivalry of a Failed Knight, Ikki is on the receiving end of one by Kirihara during their battle. However, after Stella gives him some encouragement, Ikki manages to figure out the latter's weaknesses, and exploits them to dish the Curb Stomp instead.
  • In Claymore any battle in which Priscilla participate post-awakening is this even if her opponents are multiple Abyssal Ones
    • In the anime you also can see a episode in which a gang robbers a remote village coat in the mountains, and that kills most or all residents. The female warrior Teresa says the robbers that they are worse than youma, and kill them all without one of them she can only hurt.
  • In Code:Breaker. After Takatsu Aoba is revealed as the Revenger, she attacks Ogami and effortlessly defeats him without even using her special power.
    • Though after the Re-Code arc, expect one every chapter from a new character until one of the main characters discover an 11th-Hour Superpower.
  • Code Geass:
    • Lelouch vi Britannia's first battle after obtaining the power of Geass counts as this, coordinating with a local resistance group to hijack a bunch of Sutherland Knightmare Frames and catch Clovis' army unawares, using his knowledge of chess to direct the rebels into ambushing the Britannians. Then the tables are turned on Lelouch when the Lancelot, the first 7th Generation Knightmare piloted by Suzaku Kururugi, is unleashed and becomes a One-Man Army, laying waste to the rebels. Lelouch, however, still evades the Lancelot and puts himself in the perfect position to interrogate and assassinate Clovis.
    • R2 has the battle in Episode 47 when Suzaku and his souped-up Lancelot Albion takes on the elite Knights of the Round and an army of Britannian soldiers. Dorothea Ernst is sniped out of the sky in seconds, which is followed up by Suzaku blowing the enemy army to kingdom come with the Albion's energy feather barrage. He then mercilessly shoots Monica Krushevsky in the face, disables Gino Weinberg and his Tristan with a Hurricane Kick, and then kills Bismarck Waldstein — the Knight of One, greatly alluded to be the best warrior in Britannia — about a minute later. Some cheered for Suzaku, but a lot of people expected a less one-sided match with the Knights of the Round due to how much his opponents had been hyped up, and were not happy. Especially due to how most of the Rounds were never characterized or even showcased with their Knightmares before Suzaku killed them all.
    • Kallen Kozuki pulls the same kind of trick a few episodes earlier (Episode 43 to be precise), stealing back the Guren S.E.I.T.E.N. during the Second Battle of Tokyo and carving a swath through the Britannian Army. However, unlike the example above, the same people were not nearly as annoyed. This is because her main victims were Luciano Bradley, a Blood Knight psychopath who basically lived on the other side of the Moral Event Horizon, and his Amazon Brigade of Elite Mooks who didn't really pose that much a threat. Oh, and she was partially responsible for killing David Darlton, one of Andreas Darlton's racist adopted sons, by knocking him into Nagisa Chiba and her Akatsuki Zikisan.
  • Ed's father does this to both Spike and Jet in Cowboy Bebop. He disarms them by throwing an egg, completely ignores one of Spike's kicks to his knee, blocks his other attacks, then lays him out with one palm strike. The only fight in the entire series where Spike is completely outclassed (even Mad Pierrot was more even), and comes totally out of nowhere.
  • In Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, the main protagonist David upgrades his cyberware with a full-body mechanized combat chassis that allows him to effortlessly make short work of dozens of heavily-trained corporate military forces and even MaxTac, the city's elite police force trained explicitly to deal with cyberpsychos, which David is rapidly becoming due to the effect of his implants on his brain. While David's battle against these forces is a curb stomp in itself, the real stomping comes when David goes up against infamous Night City legend and "full-borg" Adam Smasher, who proceeds to effortlessly dismantle David's chassis and David's body itself before finally finishing him off.

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  • Darker than Black: Louis flings Hei into the air with his ability to manipulate gravity. Hei comes right back with his Grappling-Hook Pistol, then strangles him with a wire, smashes his already broken fingers, and electrocutes him to death.
    • The episode immediately after that had the fight that began with one of the most recursively-subverted Diving Saves in all of fiction. Thinking he's won, the guy who'd just emptied his gun into Hei's back looks up when he hears a voice. Unfortunately for him, the voice is Mao, pointing out that that Badass Longcoat of his? It's bulletproof. Cue complete and utter knife, choke wire, and electricity-induced pwnage.
      Alen: I can't believe Louie got himself killed by this guy (Hei). I thought he would put up more of a fight.
      Mao: [popping up from nowhere] He will; and when he does, you might want to keep in mind: Hei doesn't wear that coat as a fashion statement. [Alen whirls around] It's bulletproof.
    • Hei does this all the time. There's a reason he's called "The Black Shinigami." One of the worst (best?) was when he went up against a bunch of perfectly normal, non-clued-in Yakuza who made the rather fatal mistake of thinking a Doll was just another type of smuggled good. He took out half the gang without even using his powers and electrocuted one through a car. Although the stompingness of this was significantly lowered when their much more competent boss managed to sneak around the car in such a way as to point a gun point-blank at his head.
    • And those poor, poor bastards who thought they could take November 11's money without giving him his goods. He froze one's arm off, stabbed another through the eye with a shard of ice, and, after getting some information out of the last one, turned him into a rather-more-fatal-than-usual sort of Human Popsicle.
  • In Delicious in Dungeon, Team Thorden's very brief fight with The Lunatic Magician consists of them getting completely overwhelmed almost immediately and getting thrown into a deathtrap with little effort from their opponent. While Marcille managed to hit back (much to the Magician's own surprise) the party was still hopelessly outmatched.
  • In D.Gray-Man, Allen was recovering from a very near-death experience when Tyki had destroyed his arm and has a Teaz eat a hole in his heart. After finding out that he had somehow survived, Tyki sent a Level 3 Akuma against him while he was helpless. Allen gets kicked around and almost dissolved by the thing, but then he finally manages to get his vaporized Innocence to re-form. And now it's way more badass. The Akuma suddenly finds itself faced with Crown Clown, in all its white, fluffy Holy Hand Grenade glory, and Allen stomps back hard with a One-Hit Kill.
    • A perhaps even more epic one occurs when a Level 4 Akuma attacks the HQ and curbstomps almost the entire Order. In the process of doing so, however, it messes up Cross Marian's clothes. Bad move...
  • Digimon does this repeatedly. For instance, once in Digimon Tamers Takato and Guilmon (a Rookie that has not managed to digivolve to Champion level yet) encounter Devidramon, a Digimon inadvertently released from the field holding it by Impmon. The result of this is Devidramon flying around the city in full view of the populace and Guilmon getting his ass handed to him until he's about to be killed, after which Takato manages to get him to Digivolve into Growlmon. In the fight that follows, Devidramon is destroyed, but Growlmon has no way to de-digivolve.
    • Also in Digimon Tamers: Wargrowlmon, Rapidmon, Kyuubimon, Guardromon, and Leomon vs Beelzemon. Beelzemon's the one who does the stomping. Poor Leomon...
    • Perhaps the most obvious use of this occurs in Digimon Adventure — Enter the Dark Masters. The four Dark Masters appear and take turns curb-stomping the entire team, including the Megas. It was an entire episode devoted to a series of curbstompings, acting as a sort of Wake-Up Call Boss series.
    • The second movie, Our War Game, features this at the climax. WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon were devastated by around a million Diaboromon, and somehow Tai and Yamato manage to enter the Internet to help their partners. The power of... love(?) allows the two Digimon to DNA Digivolve into Omnimon for the very first time, and it's the Diaboromon (* all* of them) who didn't stand a chance.
    • Episode 4 of Digimon Adventure, Birdramon vs Meramon: Meramon uses fire attack. Birdramon ignores. Birdramon uses one fire attack against Meramon. End of the fight.
    • This happens a lot in Digimon Fusion. One major example is in Episode 19. Bagura commander Kongoumon unleashes a massive army of GranKuwagamon on Forest Zone. Note: GranKuwagamon would be Mega-level Digimon in a normal season. How does this end? Taiki DigiXrosses the Starmonz with Beelzebumon, who takes out the entire army with one cannon blast that splits into a meteor shower.
    • Also whenever Skullgreymon shows up this usually ensues.
    • When Merukimon first shows up in Digimon Data Squad, he's mega/ultimate level, while the protagonists' partners have only achieved champion/adult, two whole levels below. It goes about as well as you might expect: the heroes can't lay a scratch on Merukimon and he depowers them with single attacks.
    • Nearly every episode in Digimon Frontier following Cherubimon's defeat is just the heroes getting curbstomped in new and exciting ways.
  • Dungeon Friends Forever:
    • Van can power his way through the 100 floors of Ryuuka's dungeon in no time at all. In fact, Mino-san notes it's very easy to know when it's Van coming because the announcer that alerts the dungeon to intruders informs everyone that a floor has been breached one after the other in rapid succession. The Board of Directors has basically given up trying to actually stop Van, only trying to because it's literally their job and setting goals like "hold him for 10 minutes."
    • In chapter 9, Van curb stops the World's Strongest Man, Golde. He's able to do a Bare-Handed Blade Block with two fingers of the hand he's holding his sword with to effortlessly stop his opponent's own attack then floors him with one punch.
  • Durarara!!:
    • Practically any fight that Shizuo Heiwajima ends up in that isn't against Izaya Orihara. Likewise, it's unlikely you'll be any challenge for Izaya unless you're Shizuo or Simon Brezhnev.
    • Vorona has little issue dealing with Celty. But this was mostly Celty being caught by surprise. When she recovered and pursued, the assailant promptly realized Celty was a "monster" and promptly wanted nothing to do with her.
  • Fairy Tail:
    • After a huge lead-up, the final battle of Fairy Tail vs. Phantom Lord ends with Makarov coming back from his injuries, exchanging two blows with Jose before using Fairy Law to beat him and his entire army at once (except for Aria, the Phantom Lord mage who drained Makarov of his magic in the first place who just gets an additional Offhand Backhand).
    • Before that, we have Erza curb-stomping Aria, the most powerful of Phantom Lord's Element Four.
    • Also, when Laxus forces everyone to fight one another, Fried attempts to kill Elfman. Mirajane turns into a demon and utterly destroys him, only returning to her normal self when her she's literally half an inch from taking his life.
    • In the Nirvana arc, the Oración Seis blow up the alliance team's airship and beat all of them to the ground before kidnapping Wendy.
    • During the S-Class Exam, the first stage involves the examinees and their chosen partners taking one of eight paths, which will either pit them against an S-Class wizard, another group, or in one case, get a bye.
      • Juvia and Lisanna face Erza. Since Erza isn't holding back and Juvia isn't particularly motivated to pass the exam (she'd rather be Gray's partner than an examinee), the two are easily defeated.
      • Mest and Wendy face Gray and Loke. Mest goes down rather quickly, and Gray and Loke scare Wendy into submitting with some pickled plums. Considering Mest is The Mole and wanted to investigate Sirius Island for the Council, he obviously threw the fight.
      • Natsu (along with Happy, who can't fight), faces Gildarts, who's considered the strongest mage in Fairy Tale. Gildarts spends most of the fight toying with Natsu, who can't get a good hit in, and when Gildarts unleashes his Battle Aura, Natsu is cowed into surrendering. This turns out to be a Secret Test of Character by Gilarts, who wants to see if Natsu knows when he's outmatched, so Natsu passes.
    • Makarov ends up on the receiving end of this trope when he faces Master Hades of Grimoire Heart. Makarov is unable to land a single good hit against him and gets Impaled with Extreme Prejudice for his troubles.
    • At the end of the Sirius Island arc, the exam ends up being canceled due to the Grimoire Heart attack, but Makarov offers to make Natsu an S-Class wizard if he can defeat him. Natsu accepts, and the very next panel shows Makarov punching Natsu against a tree, defeating him.
    • Acnologia manages to effortlessly shrug off the combined efforts of all the Fairy Tail members on Sirius Island- a group that includes the master, the S-Class wizards and S-Class hopefuls, meaning that they're the best and brightest of the guild. He then destroys the island, and the Fairy Tail wizards only survive due to Fairy Sphere.
    • Kagura from Mermaid Heel does this to Yukino of Sabertooth, managing to evade Yukino's summons and take her down with one stroke of her sheathed sword.
    • Laxus obliterated Raven Tail's strongest members all by himself. Not only that, but also got them disqualified from the Grand Magic Games, when their cheating was revealed.
    • In another Grand Magic Games event, Erza struck down 100 monsters all by herself.
    • The Natsu and Gajeel vs. Sting and Rogue match. Even though both Sting and Rogue activated Dragon Force, even their combined strength couldn't do a thing against Natsu, who deliberately disposed off Gajeel earlier, and can't even use Dragon Force on his own.
    • Natsu's and Gray's fights with Erza have a reputation for being this, though the friendly nature of their fights does have a share in it.
    • And after unlocking her Second Origin power and re-equiping into Nagakami Armor, Erza epicly curbstomped Minerva into submission. Minerva even begged for mercy before getting flattened.
    • The first round of Natsu vs. Future Rogue. Natsu starts hitting Future Rogue incredibly hard, but Future Rogue is completely unfazed, despite recognizing that Natsu was powerful. Future Rogue then starts thrashing Natsu around, enraging Natsu to the point of Natsu activating his Super Mode. The tables seem to turn at Natsu's favor, but Future Rogue casually enters his own Super Mode and heavily wounds Natsu with a single spell, defeating him. He would probably have killed him if Ultear didn't appear at the last moment.
    • God Serena proves his former title as the Number One Wizard Saint in Ishgar (meaning he was considered the greatest wizard on the entire continent) wasn't just for show by effortlessly defeating his former compatriots, the other three Gods of Ishgar, and Jura(a fellow Wizard Saint) off-panel. He's not even scratched.
    • Afterwards, he finally meets the Dragon King Acnologia and even went on a spiel on how he obtained all 8 of his different Dragon Slaying techniques and that he [[spoiler:defected to the Alvarez Empire just to search for and fight him... only to have his right abdomen ripped through by a single punch from the Dragon King before he could even finish talking, showing just how truly powerful Acnologia really is.
  • Though Farming Life In Another World is mostly slow paced and focused on gradually developing an agricultural village in a fantasy world, said village is still situated in the Forest of Death with obscenely powerful monsters, with the even more monstrously overpowered protagonist, Machio Hiraku. Thanks to both his blessings from a god, he has a body that never gets tired, injured, or sick, and the extremely powerful All-Purpose Farming Equipment, that can threaten and easily defeat even the most powerful and dangerous creatures like monstrous bears, man-eating fish, and dragons. Most potential aggressors to village quickly lose in humiliating defeats or outright concede there is no way they are ever going to win militarily against Hiraku and his overpowered villagers.
  • In Fate/Zero, Rider's battle using Ionian Hetairoi, summoning 10,000 soldiers to kill all 20 Assassins was more of a massacre than a battle:
    "This was no longer a battle. It was a massacre. The results of using a mill to grind a sesame seed would yield more response. Wherever the Ionian Hetairoi rode, there was not a trace of Assassins remaining. Only a faint, faint smell of blood and some dust that was swept away remained in the air."
    • In a similar vein, any battle involving Gilgamesh giving a modicum of effort devolved into this.
  • Kenshiro vs. Shin in Fist of the North Star. Actually, Kenshiro vs. just about any hyped up villain during the first half of the manga not named Raoh or Souther.
    • This was actually a more noticeable issue in the anime than in the original manga. In the manga, Shin was simply a textbook example of a Token Motivational Nemesis, being killed off at the end of the first story arc after serving his role to fill out Kenshiro's back-story. The producers of the anime decided to expand Shin's role by making him the main antagonist for the early episodes prior to the introduction of the other Hokuto brothers. As a result, the actual battle comes off as a bit anti-climatic compared to the amount of build-up preceding it.
    • The worst one may be Kenshiro vs. Jackal. Jackal was a Combat Pragmatist who fought by throwing dynamite at him, and then tricked the Devil Reborn, a gigantic serial killer who appeared to be immortal (and in the pre-war government had tried to execute him dozens of times and didn't even scratch him before locking him in a cell he couldn't escape from). Kenshiro killed both.
    • Kenshiro is actually on the receiving end of one in season 2 during his first fight with Kaioh.
    • Raoh vs Rei. Raoh beats him in one hit...with one finger.
  • Food Wars!: During the Promotional Exam Arc, in order to expel The Rebels, Azami makes their test to be a battle against the Elite Ten; the entire group, outside Yukihira (who wins against Akira), Erina (who took the normal exam), Takumi and Megumi (who Rindou spared by asking then to "make something yummy"), everyone else failed and it was clearly very brutal.
  • The fight in Chapter 94 of Fullmetal Alchemist between Roy Mustang, looking for the killer of his friend Maes Hughes, and the homunculus Envy, who was said killer. It's 10-15 pages of Mustang unleashing a No Holds Barred Burndown on the killer, while occasionally letting Hawkeye have a few moments of Badass Gunslinging. Envy's eyes had to regenerate several times during the fight. And, once Mustang finally had enough of punishing Envy, he just blasted the killer over and over with heavy fire until Envy's Healing Factor gave out.
    • Before that, Mustang sees the homunculus Envy go One-Winged Angel and turn into a gigantic monster. Mustang still clobbers him easily, since all Envy did was give Mustang a bigger target. An onlooker even notes:
      "See those flames? That homunculus is going all kinds of down."
    • Slightly before that, Ed, Scar and several other characters face the Mannequin Soldiers, practically immortal beings given a Healing Factor by the Philosopher's Stone. While Ed and the others had struggled to hold them back, much less defeat them, Mustang shows up and incinerates all of the Mannequin Soldiers in one fell swoop.
    • The soldiers from Briggs vs. any other army. Especially Drachma; they show up at the end of a volume with thousands upon thousands of troops and masses of artillery at the ready. It looks like it's setting up for an all out war in the next volume. Said volume opens up with the entire army wiped out without causing any real damage to Briggs. If anything, Brotherhood was even worse for Drachma, as they didn't even manage to survive until the opening credits of the episode.
    • The first King Bradley vs. Greed fight in the manga is another one. Bradley's sword skills are so great he's able to attack Greed before he can harden his body or regenerate.
    • Hawkeye effortlessly curb-stomps Barry the Chopper after her dog Black Hayate detects his presence while he's stalking her, and not even his hollow Animated Armor body scares her, being familiar with Alphonse. This causes Barry to fall in love with Hawkeye. Not that Barry was helping his case by outright telling her that he's "a terrible serial killer feared by all".
    • Ed vs. Mustang: Ed runs away for most of the battle, and although he manages to disable Mustang's spark-creating glove (key to his fire-based alchemy), Mustang reveals that he wears such gloves on both hands and defeats Ed almost instantly.
    • Dr. Knox utterly owns Mei and Lan Fan when they ignore his orders for strict bed rest and attempt to go all out war on each other in his house. Admittedly, they're both injured (especially Lan Fan, who'd lost an arm), but it was a pudgy alcoholic coroner with a smoking problem versus two bonafide trained fighters.
    • Alex Louis Armstrong vs. Olivier Mira Armstrong. Alex got his ass kicked eight ways from Sunday.
    • Lan Fan & Greed/Ling VS Gluttony is one constant beating that Gluttony receives from both participants. Gluttony receives this a lot.
    • Alex Louis Armstrong has some trouble in his fight with Sloth, until Sig Curtis shows up. The two of them then toss Sloth onto a spike, causing his Healing Factor to give out.
    • When the Briggs soldiers holding the line against Central troops run out of ammunition, all seems lost. But then the second Greed/Ling, having defeated Bradley, singlehandedly takes on and defeats all the advancing troops with practically no effort.
    • Also, Father vs. Everyone, before he lost his control on "God". During the fight, Ed's metal arm is destroyed, so Al sacrifices himself and gives Ed his real arm back. Know what happens next? Edward proceeds to totally and utterly annihilate Father, which is made even more impressive by the fact that most of the curbstomping here was done by Ed's punches.
    • In Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), we have the final battle of Envy vs. Ed. Envy contemptuously schools Ed in hand-to-hand combat, lets Ed take the upper hand just so he can run a Shapeshifter Guilt Trip while making it overtly clear Ed isn't doing much more than bruise him, uses that as an excuse to show just why he hates the Elrics so much. Then, while Ed is paralysed in shock, Envy impales him.
    • Practically every fight with the Homunculi in Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) results in this. The only way to defeat them is by using a body part or personal belonging of whoever they were transmuted from.
    • Pretty much every fight involving Izumi Curtis is this. Doesn't matter who she's fighting against, be it some random mooks who kidnapped Al or some gigantic Homunculus who even General Alex Armstrong and Major General Olivier Armstrong had trouble with, you can guarantee that her enemy will go down in minutes, if not seconds.
  • The final fight in Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid. Gates' supposed abilities became an Informed Ability given how easily Sousuke worked him and his entire team over. Bear in mind that it was none other than Gauron who, in stating that Gates led a team of lambda-equipped mecha that were intended to hunt down renegades, implied that Gates was an excellent pilot.

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  • In Gamaran there are plenty of these, usually when a named character takes on the lower members of the opposing schools. In details:
    • Gama versus the Hyuga brothers.
    • Shinnojo and Zenmaru vs the axe-users Agon and Hakuryu.
    • Shinnojo against Misaku Nikaido.
    • Zenmaru is on the receiving end while fighting Sasuke Sakakibara, but quickly turns the tide as soon as he shows us how well he can handle the Sadanaga sword.
    • Iori Sengoku regularly inflicts these at anyone who face him. Gama? Single-Stroke Battle. Ukyo of the Souen Ryu? An offpanel Cruel and Unusual Death. Ichiou Jinno, the eldest of the Myojin Ryu (one of the strongest schools of Unabara)? Two punches and it's all over.
  • GaoGaiGar's fight against EI-14. By the time the actual fight starts, it turns into an eighty second demonstration of why you never bring a Real Robot knife to a Super Robot fight.
    • Also GaoFighGar's fight with Gimlet Emperor in the first episode of FINAL. Literally everything Gimlet tries to do fails in spectacular fashion, most notably his "Colossal Combustible", which was supposed to...well, actually, its function is never revealed, as the attack is interrupted by the mech being utterly demolished by a Broken Phantom.
  • Gate: Medieval European Fantasy army vs. Modern JSDF. This goes about as well as you can expect.
  • The final battle in Getter Robo Anthology has the Getter Emperor literally curb-stomp a god (well, using its fist)... face first into a galaxy. It ends with that one punch.
  • Complete with an actual stomping into a curb, in one episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex the Major decoys a guy in Powered Armor with two handguns while running away. It blows her arm away then literally starts stomping her head into the pavement. Fortunately, her titanium skull simply causes the ground to crack without causing any damage to her brain and The Cavalry showed up before he could apply enough leverage.
  • This is how the first fight of the titular hero from Goblin Slayer begins. He enters a cave in which the goblins have recently killed a whole group of adventurers. Then he kills each goblin one by one without getting hurt himself. Justified because he wears armor all over his body and has a lot of experience fighting goblins.
  • In Guardian Fairy Michel, as soon as the fairy's light is found, it only takes minimal effort from Michel and Kim to turn the fairy back to normal. This is averted with Biam, whose fairy light is camouflaged.
  • If the Dark Precure shows up to face the heroes in Heart Catch Pretty Cure, expect them to be on their backs and de-henshined. Before Cure Moonlight returned, Blossom and Marine kept getting beat silly and when Sunshine appeared, they could only hold her off long enough to bail the series' MacGuffin out! When Moonlight does return, she pays her back in kind.
    • The said can be said for Big Bad Dune. When he fully appears, he wipes the floor with everyone that's transformed. They return the favor at the end.
  • The Nazi vampire assault on Hellsing manor goes this way once the vampires get into close combat, although it is justified by vampires being that much faster and overall better than the normal humans and one weak vampire defending. The Nazi vampires then get the tables turned on them when Seras drinks Pip's blood, awakens more of her power and proceeds to mop the floor with them without much more trouble.
    • Any fight in which Alucard is involved either starts up as this right off the bat (sometimes after he offers the victims a Hope Spot by letting them shoot him up first), or once the next level of his powers is unlocked. Even after Alucard is seemingly killed, releasing his last level causes him to come back to (un)life and effortlessly curbstomp the Big Bad.
  • Hungary from Hetalia: Axis Powers does this to the entire Prussian army at one point.
  • As Hunter × Hunter is a really unforgiving world, if you don't have strength, you are fair game to those stronger than you, no matter how skilled you are. Some noteworthy examples:
    • Killua vs Jones.
    • Killua vs the ENTIRE 289th Hunter Exam candidates. In the FIRST stage of the exam. Killua is the only one who passes.
    • Hisoka vs Kastro.
    • Gon vs Hisoka.
    • Biscuit vs Killua.
    • Gon and Killua vs Genthru (Round 1).
    • The Phantom Troupe vs The Mafia.
    • Kurapika vs Uvogin (Kurapika was stomped by Uvogin in round 1, and Kurapika returns the favor in round 2.)
    • Pitou vs Kite.
    • Morel vs Cheetu. Also, Zeno and Silva vs Cheetu.
    • Menthuthuyoupi vs Meleoron, Killua, Knuckle and Shoot.
    • Meruem vs Netero.
    • Adult Gon vs Pitou.
    • Illumi and Hisoka vs the Zoldyck butlers.
    • Hisoka vs Chrollo. This time, Hisoka didn't win.
  • Ino-Head Gargoyle: The Blue Rose mooks don't stand a chance against Akutsu and Nakajo.
  • In Inuyasha one sees in Gatenmaru-Arc, the moth-demon Gatenmaru who captured Inuyasha while inflicting pain until he loses control of himself and frees himself. He kills Gatenmaru with only one blow, and kills also almost all of human bandits, without one of them can touch him.
  • Ais Wallenstein from Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? killed a Minotaur who was chasing Bell Cranell with just one blow. On another occasion she saves Bell again from a group of orcs, who kill them one after the other without letting them even hit them.
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
    • Most fights involving Dio Brando end up as these for the opponent. In Phantom Blood, he defeats Zeppeli with relative ease and kills Dire in a single hit, with the only person who ever proves to be a threat to him being Jonathan. And in Stardust Crusaders, DIO kills Kakyoin with a single hit (though it's Kakyoin's Last Breath Bullet that ends up turning the tide of the fight) and quickly defeats both Joseph and Polnareff, and while he himself admitted that both of them did come dangerously close to killing him, they did so when he was distracted. The only person able to actually fight him is Jotaro, and even then, after drinking Joseph's blood, DIO has Jotaro at his mercy until Jotaro activates Star Platinum: The World.
    • Phantom Blood:
      • Jonathan would give this to any enemy that wasn't Dio, Bruford, or Tarkus. Special mentions go to his fights against Adams (who Jonathan defeats with a single kick after receiving a power-up) and Wang Chen (who was killed in one hit while Jonathan was dying).
      • On the other hand, Tarkus delivers an absolutely brutal one to Jonathan, with Zeppeli having to sacrifice himself in order to turn the tide.
      • Four of Dio's minions, Jones, Bonham, Page, and Plant, are all immediately killed as soon as they're introduced, courtesy of a Ripple infused chandelier dropped on them by Straizo.
    • Battle Tendency: Joseph's fight against the brass knuckles-wielding gangster serves as an Establishing Character Moment, showcasing Joseph's Awesomeness by Analysis. He effortlessly reads every move the thug tries to make, and easily parries his punch with a hat rack, breaking his hand and putting him out of commission.
    • Stardust Crusaders:
      • Minor villain Arabia Fats at first manages to corner the Crusaders with the sheer power of his Stand, The Sun, but once they figure out his location, Jotaro defeats him with a single thrown rock. This is Lampshaded by Joseph, who points out that they've never been able to defeat an enemy this fast, to the point that they never even learned his name.
      • N'Doul takes Kakyoin and Avdol out of the battle quite easily, even leaving Kakyoin injured so badly that he's put in the hospital for a large amount of the Part afterwards.
      • Near the climax of the Part, Avdol and Polnareff psyche themselves up before heading into DIO's mansion, carefully and silently testing for traps and ambushes as they go. The moment they sense an enemy is near, Iggy leaps out around the corner and takes down their opponent in a single blow. The narration sums it up like so:
        "This man is Kenny G. His Stand is a Stand of illusions. He was beaten without a fight."
      • For the vast majority of Polnareff and Iggy's fight against Vanilla Ice, they had an incredibly hard time. After Iggy's death however, Polnareff completely overwhelms Vanilla Ice with little effort before lightly shoving him into the sunlight, killing him.
    • Diamond is Unbreakable:
      • To show how powerful Yoshikage Kira's Stand, Killer Queen, is, he defeats and murders Shigechi within mere minutes, despite the latter having given Josuke and Okuyasu trouble earlier.
      • While Koichi managed to hold his ground against Kira's Sheer Heart Attack while protecting Jotaro, Kira easily beats him down when he gets to their position.
      • Soon afterwards, Jotaro regains consciousness and dishes one out to Kira, despite being grievously injured.
    • Golden Wind:
      • Subverted with Carne. Mista quickly guns him down as he charges at them, before he gets a chance to show his Stand. Turns out his death was the key to unleash his Nigh Invulnerable Stand, Notorious B.I.G.
      • Diavolo delivers several of these throughout the Part, as the "time erasure" ability of his Stand, King Crimson, simply proves too powerful for anyone to combat. Only for the final battle to end with him receiving an absolutely brutal one courtesy of Giorno's Gold Experience Requiem.
    • Stone Ocean: After his Stand evolves into Made In Heaven and begins to reset the universe, Enrico Pucci slaughters Anasui, Ermes, Jotaro and Jolyne in rapid succession.
    • Steel Ball Run:
      • Fritz von Stroheim attempts to kill Johnny and Gyro, but is quickly defeated by Gyro.
      • Ringo Roadagain quickly defeats Gaucho, Hot Pants, and Johnny thanks to the ability of his Stand, Mandom, with Gyro being the only person to stand a chance against him.
    • JoJolion: Hato inflicts a Curb-Stomp Battle to Tamaki Damo after she catches him from and delivers a rapid-kick attack with her Combat Stilettos to pierce all over his body.
    • The JoJoLands: Jodio's narration in the prologue describes that their attempted heist at the villa goes horribly wrong. Sure enough, Rohan catches the team in the act, easily dispatches Paco and Usagi, and uses Heaven's Door to identify everyone in the heist as well as their boss.
  • Jujutsu Kaisen:
    • Satoru Gojo spends the entire fight with Jogo mocking and belittling the Disaster Curse while nonchalantly blocking his attacks and tossing him around. Jogo proves to be such a non-challenging opponent, in fact, that Gojo goes out of his way to bring Yuji along so that the latter can learn from watching them fight. When an enraged Jogo expands his Domain in order to kill Gojo, the latter's own Domain overwhelms Jogo's in an instant.
    • Ryomen Sukuna is pretty much always on the giving end of the curb-stomping. If he doesn't kill an opponent in an instant, it's because he's enjoying himself by toying with them (the list of people capable of fighting him on even ground can probably be counted on one hand).
    • Maki easily trounces Miwa during the Goodwill Event, to the point that she simply ends the fight by stealing her sword and walking away.
    • During the Shibuya Incident, Nanami becomes so pissed with Haruta that he spends a good minute giving him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown at walking speed while Haruta is powerless to even scratch him.
    • After Toji is accidentally resurrected and he proceeds to go on a rampage, he walks into Dagon's Domain while he's fighting Megumi, Maki, Naobito and Nanami at the same time. The first thing he does is steal Playful Cloud from Maki, after which he quickly brutalizes the Disaster Curse.
    • Maki kills her father in a single attack once her Heavenly Restriction goes into full effect following Mai's death. She then proceeds to wipe out the rest of her clan. By herself.
  • One happens early in Kagerou-Nostalgia when warrior monk Shiranui tries to fight Big Bad Gessho Kuki. The fight lasts about ten seconds before Shiranui is all but burned to a crisp, and that was with all of his defensive wards in place. He recovered, but he won't be trying that again.
  • Occurs in Kanokon whenever the Chivalrous Pervert manages to possess her beloved. Cue fireball.
  • Katanagatari's final episode features 11 of these, in rapid succession, honestly the 12th battle might count as one a Curb Stomp Battle, since every hit Emonzaemon landed on Shichika was allowed by Shichika just so that he could get in close enough to finish him off.
  • This happens enough in Kengan Ashura that Japanese fans of the manga have their own term for it: Hassading. This is named after the character Hassad, an apparently strong rival for the main character and an instant fan favorite, who was abruptly curb stomped a few chapters after his first appearance.
  • Nui Harime of Kill la Kill loves doing this. The first time she fights someone wearing a Goku uniform, she pinpoints one of its critical Life Fiber threads and tugs it loose, completely destroying the uniform and defeating the poor sap with only that action.
  • Kimba the White Lion: Kimba takes on a group of rhinos by jumping and grabbing on to the leader's head and blinds him by covering the leader's eyes with his feet. The leader of the rhinos tries to get Kimba off his head by shaking his head and charging straight ahead only to slam into the other rhinos. The leader eventually collapses and Kimba wins the fight without a scratch.
  • As proof that Tropes Are Not Bad: Ramenman from Kinnikuman. The biggest Ensemble Dark Horse in the original series, Ramenman had the prestigious fame of defeating a very powerful opponent in thirty-seconds in the Throne arc. To put it in context, Kinnikuman's team is down to its last two members of its team, whereas Kinnikuman Zebra has only lost one member of his five-man team. Ramenman shows up and demolishes his opponent after a brief struggle, partly to show that the heroes can win. He goes on to defeat Zebra's next subordinate before succumbing to his injuries, leaving both teams with two men left.
    • Another fine example from Ramenman is his battle with Brocken, Jr. Brocken, set on revenge for his father Brockeman, controls the fight from the beginning and brutally pummels Ramenman up until the moment Brocken tries to use Ramenman's own Camel Clutch against him. At that moment, Ramenman simply asks "Is that all?" and completely turns the fight around, winning handily.
    • The match between Super Phoenix's and Bigbody's teams went this way too: Mammothman takes down all of Bigbody's teammates single-handed, defeating the first two in less than a second, ripping the third's body off his head, and fighting the fourth to a draw only because Super Phoenix wanted to beat Bigbody personally...which he did. It went the same way as the rest of the match.

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  • The Silvana against the Goliath in Last Exile. After the Goliath attempts a surprise attack before the duel begins, the Silvana emerges from the smoke without a scratch and proceeds to demolish them with a test fire.
  • Konata in Lucky Star curbstomping every opponent she faces ... in any video game, even a quiz bee.
  • The final fight of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's against the Book of Darkness' defense system consists of all nine of the series' major characters (And Zafira!) using all of their most powerful attacks, and disrupting any response from the enemy.
    • The first fight between the heroes and the Wolkenritter in A's is very one-sided. It pretty much consists of the Wolkenritter easily outmaneuvering and overpowering the protagonists and generally kicking them around like soccer balls. Signum and Vita have the advantage of the Cartridge System, which gives their Devices and spells power boosts.
      • In The Movie 2nd A's, the Wolkenritter curb-stomp them even faster as they don't give them any chance to help each other. Not only that, Nanoha & Co. have a bigger lost than in the original A's series.
    • The Shamal and Zafira vs. Otto battle in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS was a Curb-Stomp Battle with Otto only managing one ultimately futile attempt to escape. This was in itself a rematch for an earlier Curb-Stomp Battle where Otto and Deed send both of them to the hospital.
    • When Nanoha closes in on Dieci's position in the Saint Cradle, it looks as though Dieci will be able to put up a fight... until Nanoha nullifies her attack and knocks her down in a single shot. And to add insult to injury, they were inside a powerful Anti-Magic field that weakened Nanoha but had no effect on Dieci.
    • Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid gives us "Thunder Emperor" Victoria Dahlgrün vs. Chantez Arpinion. Initially it looked like the young Saint Church representative had the upper hand, engaging Victoria with a barrage of shadow clones. Yet, Victoria was only barely damaged. She then decided playtime to be over and effortlessly defeated Chantez in two strikes.
    • Every battle with Sieglinde counts as a Curb-Stomp Battle. Even against Einhart.
    • In Chapter 13 of Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha FORCE, Curren of Hückebein defeats Erio and Vita fairly quickly, even when they have their AEC weapons.
  • In Maiden Rose, following firing anti-tank munitions at a passenger train Taki proceeds to enter one of the cars and wipe the floor with Berkut, showing just how personally he is taking the unfolding events.
  • MÄR. War games, Round 4: Dorothy and her teeny knife vs Avrute and his gigantic, clawed gauntlet...poor bastard never stood a chance.
  • March Comes in Like a Lion applies this trope in a battle of wits (i.e. a game of Shōgi). In the match between Rei and Shimada, the latter almost immediately guides the former to his loss in the game before he even realizes it. This scenario is specifically invoked at Nikaido's request in a flashback for Shimada to "knock [Rei's] brains out."
  • The Mazinkaiser OVA practically uses this as bookends for Great Mazinger. Tetsuya and his machine is beaten three times in two episodes before he goes and leaves the rest to Kouji. When he comes back in the finale, it's one of his signature Big Damn Heroes moments and, sadly offscreen, utterly demolishes Dr. Hell's monsters without a scratch.
  • There have been several cases of this in Medaka Box:
    • When 6 doubles of Medaka Kurokami's suitors were introduced, Najimi Ajimu charged at them, destroying them instantly with use of 600 of her skills.
    • Iihiko Shishime manages to kill Najimi Ajimu, who possesses 12,858,051,967,633,865 skills at the time with only a rubber band.
  • Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid:
    • Tohru and her friends play a game of dodge ball against some people who were bullying Kanna's friend Saikawa in Chapter 21. Kobayashi's narration even points out how overkill it was to have 4 super powered dragons take on a group of ordinary, untrained humans.
    • Shouta wins a Wizard Duel against William in about five seconds in Chapter 66. Just to add insult to injury, neither of the spells he cast were offensive in nature.
  • In the original Mobile Suit Gundam the first battles between Char and Amuro comes out like this. While Char's mobile suit is an old Zaku II that is grossly inferior to Amuro's titular robot, Char pretty much owned Amuro, and the only thing preventing Char from destroying the Gundam three times faster than a blink was the fact he underestimated its armor and brought only a machine gun to the battle before Amuro learned to dodge.
    • Later, a Zeon Commander spots the White Base leaving Side 6 and decides to ambush them with the brand-spanking new Rick Doms. At this point, Amuro's Newtype abilities are in full-swing as, as he and the Gundam head out, he begins picking them off one by one, actually counting down how many he's shot down. The commander is horrified - 12 brand new Rick Doms and three ships destroyed in 3 minutes.
    • The One Year War zig-zagged this. Very early on, Zeon basically wiped the floor with the EFSF mainly because the Federation was caught off-guard and hadn't anticipated the impact of mobile suits. Towards the end of the conflict, it's the Federation that's increasingly in a position to pull these off, as they've got a lot more to throw at the enemy.
    • The final battle between Amuro Ray and Char Aznable comes down to one of these in Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, with Amuro, who has other things to worry about, tearing Char to pieces in a matter of minutes. And "minutes" doesn't even begin to describe how quickly Amuro takes care of every other mobile suit that gets in his way.
  • The end result of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny is a final battle where the good guys win a completely flawless victory where none of their three main Humongous Mecha took a scratch. Western fans weren't too happy with this, since Gundam finales are traditionally messy affairs. But it was also a Justified case: morale among the Big Bad's forces was starting to crumble because he'd just been revealed as a Well-Intentioned Extremist. When the actual battle began, everything fell apart; The Calvary (led by vets of the previous war) switched sides as soon as they arrived; more followed as mutinies started breaking out on ships; and both his Dragon and Top Ace suffered nervous breakdowns midway through the battle. The final blow was a self-inflicted one — he fired a super weapon through his own ships in an attempt to destroy the protagonists. It didn't work.
    • This also happened in several earlier battles with Kira taking on both sides at once and easily defeating them all. Shinn, Kira's Anti-Villain/intended protagonist rival also engages in one of these whenever he battles a non-Gundam enemy, and one could argue that his, Rey, and Luna's battle with the Destroys at Heaven's Base is another example.
  • The first season of Mobile Suit Gundam 00 is a fascinating deconstruction of this trope, primarily as a subversion to Gundam's general use of Ace/experimental mobile suits that dominate cannon fodder and the Universal Century's general refusal to showcase military tactics in its storytelling (Western fans believe it to be a clapback at the ending arc of SEED Destiny, this has been refuted by 00's creative staff as them continuing on from what the SEED series started with command officers and pilots thinking smarter to win battles). Initially, the Gundams dominate their opponents through sheer technological superiority. What makes this interesting is how the series explores the ways in which the various world powers arrayed against the Gundams try to compensate for this problem strategically instead of trying to match them with brute force. This progresses to the point where the various military forces of the world successfully drive the Gundams into a corner, even though they are still technologically outmatched (it helps that they have numbers though). And finally, thanks to a traitor from Celestial Being, the technology gap is closed, which results in the Gundams struggling against new mook machines.
    • An episode of the Second Season played this extremely straight with Louise Halevy getting revenge on Nena Trinity, again through sheer technological superiority (Louise's huge new mobile suit vs. the same Throne Nena had been using for four years = lol, were you expecting a fight?). This is in contrast to the second season opening with Setsuna still operating a heavily-damaged Gundam Exia, and despite that holding his own against the then-standard infantry mobile suits.
    • A more traditional version occurs in the final episode, pitting Hiling Care against "Doublelujah" (Allelujah and Hallelujah working together). Long story short, at NO point in the battle does Hiling and her Garazzo pose even a significant threat, as Doublelujah jets around the battlefield with his Gundam Arios, casually lopping off her machine's limbs and tearing away ejection systems like this is just another day at the office. The only solid blow Hiling lands is right before she dies, because Doublelujah RAMS her with Arios and cuts her Garazzo in half. She manages to stab Arios with the Garazzo's Beam Claws, and that only does superficial damage. Of course, Ribbons, being the ass he is, immediately takes Arios out in the span of three seconds with two GN Fangs.
      • It should be noted in the previous example, the Arios was already severely damaged having fought its previous battle and had lost limbs before tearing Hiling apart.
    • In the movie, this is actually subverted, in the sense that the ELS have numbers, while Earth and Celestial Being has the technological advantage. The fact that the first battle against the ELS cost Earth a Mobile Armor with 154 GN Fangs does not make anything better. In the end, though, Zabanya can easily take out a large portion of the ELS quickly, until they start changing tactics after having assimilated GN Drive technology. Harute in Marute Mode also does a fair deal of killing, considering that it is a Mobile Suit designed for Hallelujah to use (not Allelujah) The fact that both personalities are combined as well as having Marie or Soma present in the cockpit does not make things better for the ELS... Then the SoulBraves show up and help kicking ass. And finally, 00 Qan[T] (Double-O Quanta) launches and uses its Quantum Sword, the only attack it ever actually uses, and even then, it is used as a high-tech nut-cracker, after which 00 Qan[T] is used to end the Curb Stomp Battle, by being used as a giant high-tech mobile phone.
      • Note that despite all the ELS ass getting kicked all over the place by the heroes, they were still curb-stomping Earth's forces. Their numbers are so overwhelming that by the end of the fight, over 70% of Earth's military has been wiped out or assimilated.
  • In Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, a Silver Bullet — a modified Doven Wolf from Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ — faces off against Full Frontal's massive Neo Zeong. It proves that just because you have a Gundam head, you're not going to come out on top as the Neo Zeong swats away all attempts to harm it while it easily cuts and blasts the suit into just a torso. The only thing saving the poor schmoe is the Unicorn's arrival.
    • Before this, there was the Battle of Torrington. The Zeon Remnants easily blind-sided the unprepared Federation Forces, but the arrival of the Byarlant Custom signaled the turn around with the machine easily trouncing anyone it fought, the only damage it got was a slightly-melted shoulder guard from where a Marasai's beam saber was pressed against it as it was being cleaved in half.
  • In the second manga adaptation of Mobile Fighter G Gundam, we get to see the battle between the American-based Gundam Maxter and the Iraq-based Scud Gundam, which, in the anime, was just shown with the Scud Gundam getting its head punched off — Despite its tons of heavy ordnance, Maxter pulls an Unflinching Walk all the way up to the guy as its launching its weaponry and, when he gets up close, delivers a crushing right hook to take him out.
  • My Hero Academia:
    • Todoroki is prone to these: during the Heroes vs Villains Arc he beats Ojiro and Hagakure by freezing the entire building they're in, including freezing their feet to the floor, then just walks in, takes the bomb, and leaves. During the USJ Arc, he not only single-handedly defeats several of the villains, but chastises them for having been beaten so easily by a kid and asks them not to die of frostbite because he doesn't want that on his record. Finally, he does it to Sero during the sports festival, freezing him in a giant pillar that juts out of the arena, but he actually apologizes for that one.
    • Tokoyami does this twice, once in the sports festival against Yaoyorozu and again in the Training Trip against Moonfish.
    • When Mirio Togata is first introduced, he challenges the whole of Class 1-A (save Bakugo and Todoroki) to a fight. He then systematically OHKO's every single one of them in the space of about a minute, without taking a single blow. Midoriya is the only one who even comes close to hitting him. And Mirio does this naked.
    • Midoriya speedily trounces a heavily augmented Overhaul and Rikiya Katsukame thanks to Eri's Quirk temporarily offsetting the injuries caused by One For All's full power. There’s also a time when he surprises the rest of the class with how quickly he curbstomps a mook before anyone can get to him to provide backup.
  • In My-HiME, there are a few:
    • Mai, Natsuki and Mikoto vs. the cake-eating Orphan.
    • Miyu vs. Akane, largely by virtue of surprise attack.
    • Mikoto, Yukariko and Shiho vs. Akira. Akira is trapped in an illusion and unable to escape, resulting in her Child getting taken out in a surprise attack by Shiho's Child.
    • Shizuru vs. Yukino, whose Child has virtually no offensive abilities.
    • Both of Shizuru's fights against Nao. Nao briefly gains the upper hand in the second fight when she wraps Kiyohime in webs, but Shizuru reverses the situation just as quickly by cutting off Julia's legs and freeing Natsuki.
    • The entire cast vs. the Obsidian Lord. Once the Hime Star is destroyed, Kagutsuchi destroys the Obsidian Lord and Miroku in one attack.
    • In the manga, Akane encounters the Three Scale Sisters, who are holding Kazuya hostage, on her way to try to free Mikoto. As soon as she gets close enough to Kazuya, she summons her Child, and defeats all three with a single tornado.
    • Even the student council election can be considered one. Haruka got twelve votes while Shizuru got over eight hundred.
    • Really, Shizuru seems to excel at these. Her HiME incarnation also defeated and slaughtered District One, taking out all the Mooks and the leadership, seemingly effortlessly. And in her My-Otome incarnation, Shizuru Viola, she makes her Dynamic Entry by slicing a Slave into tiny bits.
  • The Mysterious Cities of Gold: In the second season, Pedro and Sancho finally put their cowardice aside and stand up to Mendoza. Unfortunately, Zares kicks their asses in less than a second.
  • Naruto:
    • Early in Naruto the teenage protagonists were less super-powered but still capable: Rock Lee kicks the crap out of the two main characters in his first appearance, and Tenten is beaten by Temari so effortlessly that the manga doesn't even bother showing it. When the anime does show it, you see that it was just Temari using her wind abilities to render all of Tenten's projectiles useless and knock her out with a single attack.
    • Sasuke ends up on the receiving end of a curbstomp by his older brother Itachi (who a week or two ago stomped Kurenai, Kakashi, and Asuma).
    • Sasuke and his entire team get another from Killer B. Killer B didn't just beat Sasuke, he basically killed Sasuke twice.
    • Pain/Nagato more-or-less stomped Konoha into the ground, and the only person able to stand up against him was the main character.
    • Sasuke assaults the Kage Summit and gets thoroughly trounced by the five Kage present, surviving thanks to a Deus ex machina from Tobi.
    • The anime makes the battle between Minato and A resemble a Curbstomp Battle.
    • Minato versus Obito amounts to Obito spamming Kamui in an attempt to win and Minato completely wrecking him regardless, especially once Minato tags him with a Hiraishin seal, allowing him to instantly teleport to Obito and hit him before he can use Kamui.
    • The Second Mizukage vs Fourth Division. Even after telling them how to defeat him, they can't figure out his technique. He even gripes "...guess...I'm too strong."
    • Madara Uchiha, being casually superior to...almost everyone and everything in the story, demonstrates his superiority by taking on all five of the current Kages (heretofore unstoppable themselves) with contemptuous ease. He doesn't even bother killing them. He knocks them around and then buggers off to find Naruto. All this happens after he decimated an entire division of the Shinobi Alliance army by dropping two enormous meteors on them.
    • Kakashi and Gai were about to be nuked off the face of the earth by five Tailed Beasts when Naruto, who just got Kurama's trust, powers up to Kurama Mode and then Tailed Beast Mode, bats their attacks away like flies and kicks the asses of all five like it's child's play, even pile-driving one. Then, in the resulting Beam-O-War, he effortlessly overpowers their Tailed Beast Balls with his own and frees them from Tobi's control simultaneously.
    • Madara Uchiha ends up on the receiving end of these, despite being the Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, by Guy, Naruto, and Sasuke respectively. Guy in the Eighth Gate completely overpowers him, turning him into a ragdoll with Evening Elephant and nearly kills him with Night Guy (which turns Guy's aura into a dragon!). After Naruto and Sasuke meet with Hagoromo, the Sage of Six Paths, both gain the power to completely obliterate him one-on-one. Naruto does so by kicking one of his Truth-Seeking Orbs away, and then injured him more along with cutting the God Tree in half with Sage Art: Lava Style: Rasenshuriken. Madara manages to catch up to them after he absorbed the God Tree and even become stronger than them after regaining his second Rinnegan, so he can uses his Limbo Clones and multiple created meteors to buy him some time and toy with them in order to awaken the Rinne-Sharingan and activate the Infinite Tsukuyomi, but before they can really get down to business, he is promptly betrayed by Black Zetsu and replaced by the more powerful Kaguya.
    • In Boruto: Naruto the Movie, Momoshiki Otsutsuki, managed to effortlessly defeat Killer Bee in order to capture him, and after absorbing his subordinate Kinshiki, he managed to easily take out four of the five Kages before being matched and overwhelmed by Naruto and Sasuke.
  • Ku:Nel Sanders utterly trashing Kotaro during Negima! Magister Negi Magi's Tournament Arc. Especially shocking as Kotaro was The Rival, and there was a good amount of buildup to a rematch with Negi in the final. Then Sanders appears of of nowhere and beats the crap out of him the 2nd round. Of course, Sanders does turn out to be rather important...
    • Fight between Negi and Ariadne Knights lead by Emily in the recent chapters. They are supposed to be quite good fighters but just can't land a hit on Negi who doesn't even have to use his Magia Erebea. And Negi is going out of his way to avoid hurting them.
    • Fake (Shiori) Asuna getting utterly curbstomped by a single demon, after her sword failed to work.
    • ANY time that Eva appears. The best example probably being the fight with Setsuna (even if Setsuna won at the end, it wasn't by being in any way a better fighter).
    • Generally speaking there are two levels of fighters in Negima. Those at the level of Ala Rubra (Nagi, Rakan, Ku:Nel, Takahata, Godel, Evangeline, Fate and Negi), and those that aren't. When someone at the level of Ala Rubra fights those that aren't, it goes badly for the latter.
      • And in the Chapter 306. Even an Ala Rubra level fighter, Dynamis, was totally Curb stomped by Demon Negi.
    • Then there's Ku Fei, who, as the captain of the Chinese Martial Arts Club, gets challenged on the way to school every day in what always ends as a Curb Stomp Battle of her opponents.
    • In Chapter 315, Negi lays one of these down on Quartum, who really had it coming after slicing one of Negi's students in half. Fortunately, it was one of the few students who could survive something like that.
    • And when Evangeline goes all out, she curb stomps all of Cosmo Entelechia except the Lifemaker with A SINGLE SPELL!
    • Magic world arc final brings it to another level with Lifemaker stomping Rakan, Eva and the rest of Ala Rubra (those still alive and present that is) in span of three pages, only to be one-shotted by Negi and Asuna Combination Attack next chapter.
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion:
    • Pissing Unit 01 off tends to lead to a combination of this and No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
    • In End of Evangelion, Asuka was stomping brutally on the MP-Evas, winning a nine to one battle easily and spectacularly. Then her Eva's ran out of power and the MP-Evas regenerated... and they stomped on her.
    • Whenever the Angels show up, it's usually a Curb-Stomp Battle between them and the UN forces until the Evas do their thing.
    • Played for Laughs in the first battle against Israfel, which resulted in Units 01 and 02 being Hammered into the Ground.
    • The biggest Curb-Stomp Battle the Angels dish out though has to be Zeruel, who gets farther than any Angel does up to that point and all by direct combat until Tabris but unlike him he never infiltrated NERV. He not only penetrates into Central Dogma, he outright ''obliterates'' the pyramid there.
  • Nurse Angel Ririka SOS has an example Played for Laughs in episode eight. Bishonen of the week Zaida is gloating to Ririka about how he'll kill her, how she can't use her powers because she hates her father (or so he thinks), and Ririka simply transforms and vaporizes him with a single Angel Aid Bomb Beam.

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  • Setsu from Oddman 11 is told early on to watch out for Numbers 7 and 11 in her quest to defeat all the Oddmen. Indeed, despite her attempts to defeat them being mostly non-violent, when she challenges Number 7 to a table tennis match, she simply throws her paddle into Setsu's face and beats the living crap out of her, and Number 11 bites Setsu's head off as soon as she realizes who she is, with only Setsu's Healing Factor saving her life.
  • Ojamajo Doremi:
    • Anytime the girls fight Oyajide using their Royal Patraine. Their uniforms No-Sell even his best spells and leave him all but helpless to stop them from taking Hana back whenever he kidnaps her.
    • The FLAT4 deal this to the Ojamajos during Sharp episode 46. Not only do they No-Sell their attacks, but they also seal the girls within magical bubbles because they know good and well that their uniforms would shrug any direct attack from them. Even when Doremi broke free, it was still four vs. one and Doremi only had so many Royal Magical Seeds...
    • Anyone who dares challenges the Previous Witch Queen. She is established to have the most powerful magic of any Witch within the last 1000 years and proves it by effortlessly shredding the Royal Patraine uniforms despite their resistance to magic!
    • She deals this again when the Ojamajos go inside the Cursed Forest again. If it hadn't been for the Queen arriving and everyone convincing her to let go of her hate, she would have completely disposed of the Ojamajos and Hana despite their best efforts to fight back.
  • One Outs: Close to every pitching Tokuchi does is this. And it's not like his pitches themselves are overpowered, it's just that he's so ridiculously good at mindgames that he ends up curbstomping everyone anyway.
  • One-Punch Man: The premise of the entire show. Any fight Saitama participates in is one of these practically by definition. In a world where Kaiju run rampant and the most powerful heroes in the setting can call down meteors, he's never taken any significant damage, his strikes always wreck something or someone horribly, and even when he doesn't pull a One-Hit Kill right off the bat it only means he's holding back more than usual, be it because he wants to spare the enemy in question or because he wants to pretend the fight's on his level, even if the fight in question is against an alien overlord who can destroy the planet at full power.
  • Otome Youkai Zakuro starts up with seven characters (four of whom are military men) losing against a spider monster. Title character Zakuro then wakes up, unseals her power, delivers her usual pre-asskicking speech and kills the spider monster in no less than 15 seconds.
  • Outlaw Star:
    • The first battle with Hanmyo and her cat co-pilots ends with the Outlaw Star having to retreat. However, after Jim forms a plan, they completely obliterate her in less than a minute in the second fight.
    • Shimi singlehandedly defeats Jim, Aisha, Suzuka, and Gene.
  • Overlord (2012) can only be described as "Curbstomping: The Series". On one side, you have the titular Overlord Momonga/Ainz, an incredibly powerful lich who was initially a level 100 MMORPG character, as well as his horde of devoted minions and followers, many of whom are barely any weaker than he is. On the other side, you have the residents of the New World... where the equivalent of a level 30 is considered a being of legendary power. Take a guess as to how most fights tend to go.
    • Ainz's introduction to the new world goes like this: he pops up in a village where an army of knights is slaughtering the population. He makes one knight's heart explode, fries another with a mid-tier lightning spell, and summons a Death Knight which proceeds to effortlessly tear the rest to pieces. He then proceeds to take on an elite group of casters, who had previously managed to overwhelm the strongest warrior in Re-Estize (who is plenty badass himself). The ensuing "fight" has him casually annihilate a whole army of angels with one spell and sucking what was described as "the highest of angels" into a black hole while casually shrugging off everything they tried to throw at him.
  • Break does this to Cheshire in PandoraHearts.
  • Gotou from Parasyte breaks into the headquarters of a group of yakuza. There he kills each and every one of the criminals, one after the other, who cannot do anything against him (although he is slightly injured three times).
  • In Popcorn Avatar, Kurando's battle against one of the Asura late on in the series lands him in the hospital.
  • Popotan: Keith's fight against Daichi, Mai and Mea, which he wins after a few seconds. His second fight with Mea takes a little longer, but he manages to subdue her (groin damage notwithstanding).
  • Psyren usually had close, well-coordinated fights, but a few fell into this category.
    • Dholaki and Shiner get the jump on the main cast, and the results are bloody. Oboro is near-fatally injured and has to convert himself into a Tavoo to survive, Hiryuu is shot into the stratosphere, Ageha gets his leg blown off, and Kabuto is injured enough to be considered legally dead though he gets better.
      • This was all to show how awesome the Future Elmore Kids were, since they pull a Big Damn Heroes moment and deliver their own curb stomping. Only Shiner makes it out alive. Dholaki was killed in two hits.
    • Junas vs Everyone in the Root Invasion arc. He takes out Ageha and Shao, both of whom are Anti-Magic users and winners of the Superpower Lottery in a few hits.
    • Whenever someone uses Nova, the results are bloody. Ageha, Amamiya, and Asuka all annihilate everything when they first use Nova.
    • The final battle against the Big Bad of the series is a joke. Ageha activates his Nova, and teams up with Miroku. They then destroy Quat Nevas in a single attack. Considering that Ageha had just seen it destroy the world though, it may have been a justified No Kill like Overkill.
    • Kabuto's fight with Ash was also very one-sided. Kabuto hits him once with an open palm strike and backs away, albeit having just dodged a killing blow. Ash asks him what he just did and Kabuto tells him that all of the Menace he created (read: all the recent damage he inflicted on people) was returned to him in full. Ash simply explodes. All that is left of him is ashes.
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica, as a Deconstruction, loves these.
    • Walpurgis Night vs. Homura Twice!
    • Homura vs. Charlotte
    • Sayaka vs. Kirsten; the witch is focused on torturing Madoka when Sayaka shows up, and doesn't get a chance to fight back as Sayaka smashes it to bits.
    • Kyouko vs. Sayaka, which drags on for a while, but Sayaka never makes much progress, and Kyouko nearly kills her when she stops eating snacks during the battle.
    • Homura vs. Sayaka, an easily-missed "fight" because Homura immediately teleports behind Sakaya and knocks her out in one blow.
    • Madoka and Mami vs. Izabel
    • Homura vs. Roberta
    • Madoka vs. Walpurgis Night, twice!
    • And finally, Madoka in Goddess form vs. Kriemhild Gretchen a.k.a. Madoka in witch form (and yes, this results in some wacky hijinks).
    • The battle with Charlotte subverts and inverts the trope twice in a row. First, Mami seems to destroy Charlotte easily, but then a giant snake leaps out of Charlotte's "corpse" and devours Mami before she can react. Then Homura gives it a go; she immediately gets eaten... and reappears unharmed. Several times. And then the bombs she planted everywhere, including inside Charlotte, vaporize the helpless witch.

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  • In Reborn! (2004), Hibari Kyouya is this trope personified. He either curb stomps or fight even with all his opponents. Most notably he has curb stomped Tsuna, Gokudera, and Yamamoto on many occasions, Gola Mosca in the fastest curb stomp battle ever, TYL! Hibari curb stomped Gamma in the Future arc, who had just mopped the floor with Gokudera and Yamamoto and Real Funeral Wreath Daisy with a set of handcuffs.
    • To elaborate more on that second fight, each of the duels against the Varia are preceded by a lot of talk about how unstoppably powerful the Varia are, and Tsuna predictably recoiling in horror and fear each time. Gola Mosca is hyped the most out of all of them. The battlefield is then described as being far worse than a war zone, set off by barbed wire and surrounded by automatic turrets as well as being full of land mines. Gola Mosca flies and thus doesn't care about the mines, while Hibari is forced to watch out for them. He still crushes his opponent in the space of two panels.
    • And let's not forget the part where Tsuna curb-stomps Byakuran to the point of completely incinerating him after Yuni's Heroic Sacrifice. That's right. Present Tsuna actually killed Byakuran!
  • When the Invid invade Earth in Robotech: The New Generation, the narrator describes the fight as "Within a matter of minutes, the Invid turned the already devastated planed into a wasteland. The Armies of the Southern Cross, weary from constant battles against the Robotech Masters, are no match for the inspired battle-hungry Invid". Justified because, as explained by the narrator, Earth's Army of the Southern Cross had just fought a devastating war against the Robotech Masters and had had no time to rebuild, with large part of their equipment being old tanks they had brought out of mothball.
    • Later we see the Mars Division of the Robotech Expeditionary Force trying to reclaim Earth. Thanks to sheer numbers and kamikaze attacks, the Invid annihilate Mars Division in less than five minutes. The only survivors are a single fighter and a group of dropships... Who got away by entering atmosphere so fast they crashed (the only survivor ends up being the fighter pilot).
    • The above-mentioned events also occur in the original Genesis Climber MOSPEADA, except it's "Inbit" instead of "Invid".
  • Rosario + Vampire:
    • Pretty much every fight Inner Moka gets into, especially in the first "season". The fights basically all follow the same formula: weak Outer Moka gets dominated by the Monster of the Week, Tsukune removes Moka's rosario, Inner Moka curbstomps Monster of the Week. Although as the series goes on, she and Ghoul Tsukune have to struggle more and more as the opponents they face are much more skilled than the random students and corrupt teachers they fight in the earlier chapters. In one case in the later chapters, Inner Moka actually had to fight an enemy who's clearly stronger than she is, her older sister, Kahlua.
    • In the anime, the narrator says this line at one point: "This week's fight took a surprisingly long 80 seconds."
  • Saito Hajime from Rurouni Kenshin is actually referred to as a character executioner by his creator. By the end of the manga, he's stomped on Sanosuke, Usui, Yatsume (otherwise known as that guy who looks like Venom), and one of the Four Stars in four moves or less in every case. The only people he hasn't been able to crush are Kenshin and Shishio (who actually turned it around on him).
  • Sailor Moon:
    • During the Stars Arc of the manga, the Sailor Senshi face a new enemy, and after four arcs of seeing them grow more powerful, Sailor Moon's friends and her boyfriend, are all easily killed off in a single hit by either the leader or the minions of the Shadow Galactica.
    • In the manga, this is the fate of almost every villain who's not the Big Bad; they simply show up, do a little speech, attack the Guardians and are quickly vaporized...sometimes in the very chapter they debuted in!
  • Happens often in Saint Seiya. Especially if you're a gold saint facing lesser saints... or one of the main protagonists. Doubly so if your name is Phoenix Ikki. Your opponents may as well set themselves on fire and jump off the highest cliff in advance.
  • Samurai Deeper Kyo has this happen in half the battles. They work really well.
  • Samurai High School: Part of the story revolves around Tsukiko wanting to become the Samurai Shogun. Near the end of the series, the current Samurai Shogun Habama takes three of the best students of the samurai school down in a single panel, including Tsukiko, who at that point was one of the strongest characters in the series. However, she gets up after that, and continues to fight, until Kamiyama intervenes.
  • The Seven Deadly Sins:
    • Meliodas fought against the first villain to appear, Twigo, who was proven to be very strong, but was nothing to Meliodas as he defeated him with one swing of his blade and it was broken.
    • Ban fought against Jude, who is the one who took him to prison, and punished him. Ban revealed that he let him caught him because he was bored and killed him with ease.
    • King easily overpowered Guila, who was giving all the other Deadly Sins a hard time, because he still has his Sacred Treasure. He doesn't even moves — just waving his hand around, while Guila struggles to fend of his flying transforming spear.
    • Hauser fought against Taizo, who was just a normal human, but with great strength. Hauser still overpowered him without using much of his ability.
    • Once again, King easily overpowered Guila and Jericho, who defeated Meliodas and Ban due to not having their Sacred Treasures.
    • King against Helbram was very tough for King, as Helbram easily overpowered King despite having his Sacred Treasure. It was then revealed King was not using his true power for unknown reasons, which led to Helbram winning.
    • When Meliodas entered dark mode, he easily defeated Jericho and Guila without even using a Sacred Treasure.
    • Once Diane got her Sacred Treasure back, she easily defeated Helbram, who was powered by twenty Holy Knights and given a little power from Hendrickson.
    • Meliodas easily killed the Armor Giant, which gave a lot of trouble to the Dawn Roar and the Deadly Sins - one of them still has their Sacred Treasure-.
    • As Meliodas, Gowther, and Ban rushed toward Liones, a group of Holy Knights shot out several attacks. Meliodas just used Full Counter, defeating them with their own attacks.
    • Diane's fight against Dreyfus, as he was able to overpower her and easily defeat her with just one shot of his blade. He is not just known as the Great Holy Knight for nothing.
    • Escanor's fight against Galan and Melascula. It especially doesn't end well for the former.
  • Shaman King:
    • Happens several times when the lead Yoh Asakura obtains a new power. There is a time in which Yoh notes that if stomps on his enemies it could affect them psychologically so he spends most of the battle faking weakness to anger his enemies so that they will use all their power to attack him.
    • The real offender is his ancestor/brother Hao Asakura. An abnormally high Furyoku Level and a Kami-class spirit? This guy IS Curb-Stomp Battle incarnate.
  • Soul Eater:
    • The first time Black*Star challenges Kid, he and Soul are on the receiving end of one of these. Most later attempts are slightly less one-sided.
    • This is how the unsealed Asura introduces himself, shrugging most of Black*Star and Kid's attacks and tossing them like ragdolls. Only Lord Death could match him in battle, and he could have been resealed had he not known of Death's rooted Soul Wavelength and casually stepped asside.
    • When Maka and Spirit attack Crona (who was able to absorb Asura, they seemingly knock hir out in two hits. Unfortunately, this show of strength (they're immune to Crona's disruption of ordinary soul resonance) unnerves Crona enough to allow Asura to regain control from within Crona's body.
  • Squid Girl gives us any and every fight against Chizuru Aizawa. If she opens her eyes, your best chance for survival is to surrender and apologize quickly for whatever you did to piss her off. Failing that, she will defeat any foe who threatens her family or damages her business, and leave them piss scared of her in the future.
  • ST☆R: Strike it Rich: Deconstructed. Hina easily defeats her first opponents, knocking them out in a single blow. This is a problem for Valkirya since it is not good for gambling, which is their main source of revenue.
  • Submarine 707 R: Only Youhei Hayami is able to defeat Admiral Red. Hayami is the Curb Stomp Cushion that can balance the USR’s frequent Curb-Stomp Battle victories against the PKN.
  • Summer Time Rendering: Haine's guardian, Shide, is a towering humanoid shadow monster that cannot be killed by conventional means, so most encounters with this walking nightmare end with his opposition on the verge of death or turned into a corpse within a matter of seconds.
    • Poor Hizuru receives the brunt of Shide's beatdowns in almost every loop where she dies. The summer festival? He reflects her gunshot back at her, leaving her unable to stand. Hiruko cave? He fatally wounds her with a well aimed pistol shot after a brief shootout. Koba Mart Round 2? Guess who's there, ready to chuck her out the window and smash her head into the pavement. Torajima Beach? She puts up a good fight this time, but thanks to an ill placed time loop Shide gets a do-over and easily emerges victorious.
    • Shinpei, a regular human with no noteworthy combat abilities, usually cuts straight to "curb stomped" status the moment Shide enters the scene. But during the gymnasium showdown, he and Shadow Ushio finally dish out a one-sided victory against Shide and Haine by using a carefully coordinated gas explosion, some clever shadow maneuvers from Shadow Ushio, and a bulletproof vest Shinpei slapped together ahead of time for good measure.
  • Super Atragon: Every time the enemy fights anything but the battleship Ra.
  • Sword Art Online
    • In LN 2, Kirito vs orange guild Titan's Hand. He doesn't even bother to attack them, because he regenerates health faster than they can harm him.
    • Also in Volume 2, Asuna against a group of thugs from the Army.
    • Kirito versus Sugou after the latter has been stripped of GM powers. Combined with Eye Scream and Tranquil Fury.
    • Kirito easily defeats his first opponent in the Bullet of Bullets tournament qualifier round in Episode 5 of Season 2. Unfortunately this also draws the attention of Death Gun, who then asks him if he's the real deal after witnessing the fight, and seeing a "Kirito" using a sword to win the battle.
    • Any fight with Gabriel Miller/Subtilizer is bound to end in his favor. Case in point, in the first BoB tournament, he won bringing only a knife and a handgun with him, whilst in the fourth, he won bringing nothing with him. The only people who were able to stand up to him were Bercouli and Kirito.
  • Tales of Wedding Rings:
    • In chapter 32, Granart decides to pass the time by challenging Amber, a relatively new arrival to the team, to a sparring match. Their fight starts and ends with Granart getting Punched Across the Room. When Amber admits that she was holding back, an indignant Granart demands that she take the fight seriously and tries to attack her again—at which point Amber demonstrates the power of her Chest Blaster, gouging a long, deep trench into the stone floor just inches from where Granart was standing. Granart, rattled by this display of power, backs down.
    • Granart doles out two of these in quick succession in chapter 12. She takes on one of her suitors in a swordfight, effortlessly blocking his first attack before smashing him to the floor. Then she lunges at an unprepared Satou, and while Satou barely manages to dodge her opening slash, she knocks the wind out of him by ramming the pommel of her sword into his gut before he can do anything else.
  • Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann:
    • Simon's "fight" against Viral in Teppelin. With the Quirky Miniboss Squad gone, Viral has been updated to Dragon status with a new Multi-Armed and Dangerous mecha and an immortal body, but that doesn't stop The Worf Effect from still affecting him. More funny than annoying (Simon holds him off one-handed while barely even trying or even paying attention), but it still qualifies.
    • And as seen above, a literal curb stomping battle takes place when the Gurren Lagann is under heavy fire. It robotechs through a few blasts before getting hit by one, which only serves to light it on fire, and then it's sent right for Viral's mech, which proceeds to get all the force a burning giant robot MAN ON FIRE BLAZING CHARIOT KICKING you can get. Viral literally slides through the deck for a good third of it after the kick.
    • Post-Timeskip is pretty much this. First, Gurren Lagann vs. thousands of Mugann: Gurren Lagann wins by curbstomping reality and creating several large drills all over its frame. Later, Gurren Lagann vs. more Mugann in space: GL wins by being badass enough and killing them all by shouting a battle cry. Finally, Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann vs the Ashtanga. A short recap: It cuts a large space fortress Mugann throwing planets at CGL in half with a pair of sunglasses, shoots every point in space and time at the same time, uses the sunglasses as a boomerang and takes one drill on its shoulder and puts on top of the other drill and holds the double-drill on its hand and drills through more giant things. It also takes no damage from enemy fire other then the probablity alteration missiles, and is said to have the power of a galaxy in its engine.
  • Tentai Senshi Sunred:
    • Sunred against anyone. He is a Comically Invincible Hero and way beyond the power level of any Florsheim monster that challenges him. The only time Florsheim was able to meaningfully challenge him it was revealed to be a dream of a dramatic Final Battle Vamp was having.
    • Sunred eventually gets challenged by the Devil Eye Army, an Evil Organization from another city looking for a new Arch-Enemy after killing their last two ones. Sunred tells them he's already got Florsheim for an Arch-Enemy, leading to Devil Eye Army tracking down Vamp and try to kill him on the open streat... Only for Armour Tiger to effortlessly trash the upstarts while still in his tracksuit. As Sunred reveals, Florsheim are actually a very powerful Evil Organization, Sunred is just insanely powerful even by Sentai standards.
  • The Legend of Zelda (Akira Himekawa): Link using the Fierce Deity' Mask against Majora. Majora only hits him once with its Combat Tentacles (apparently trying to also electrocute him), which Link shrugs off and tosses the thing against a wall and kills it with one swing. Sorta a given seeing as the mask in the game allows the player to end the boss fight in seconds.
  • In Tiger & Bunny, Jake versus Sky High, Wild Bison and Wild Tiger. Especially Wild Bison who apparently only had time to charge before the show suddenly cuts to his Crucified Hero Shot with a comment that they went down faster than Sky High.
  • From Toriko:
    • Toriko vs President Ichiryu. Ichiryu blocks most of his attacks, save for his signature move, which hits him directly into the gut, but only manages to push him a couple of steps back. The fight ends with him blocking Toriko's strongest move with a finger, and then Ichiryu says that he will teach him to skip along the surface of the water, like he does... and proceeds to hit him in the face so hard that he flies back, bouncing off the surface of the water, like a skipping stone.
    • When Toriko and Komatsu arrive at Shokurin Temple, assistant master Shuu challenges Toriko to a duel. Toriko is clearly stronger and most of his attacks can take out Shuu... too bad he can't land a single hit on him. When Toriko says that he can't defeat him just by dodging, Shuu proceeds to cut his undershirt to pieces and shave stubble off his face faster than Toriko can react. In the end, Shuu wears him out and forces him to surrender, without hitting him once.
    • Toriko's fight with a golem. The recently powered-up Toriko cuts his arm to pieces by slightly waving his hand, and then punches him so hard that he flies about a mile back and crashes through a mountain, and ends explodes in mid-air.
    • Livebearer attempts to fight one of the Nitros in the Cooking Festival Arc. He attacks the Nitro head with a knife, but the Nitro breaks the knife and he gets cut in half by one swipe of the Nitro's claws.
    • The fight between Toriko and Horse King Heracles. Heracles cuts off third of his body and creates a town-sized crater near him just by snorting. Luckily, Toriko happened to have cure water that can regenerate wounds and a second inner demon, much stronger than the first one. Said demon is able to put up a fight... until the Horse King decides to stop fooling around and inhales all air in the area, creating a vacuum.
    • At the end of the AIR arc, several members from NEO show up, planning to kill everyone and take AIR. When Toriko, still enraged after Teppei tore out Komatsu's heart steps forward, Boneless mockingly asks if he is planning to take on all of them by himself and Kairu says that he was planning to take out everyone in Toriko's group by himself. Toriko kills both of them in seconds, without even giving them chance to attack, and then proceeds to do the same with Shigematsu (and only this time he actually had to use his signature move). Out of all four, only Teppei managed to put up a fight.
    • Monkey king Bambina in his first battle with the Four Kings tears apart everyone but Sunny in a blink of an eye. Literally — Sunny blinked for 0.1 seconds and when he opened his eyes, he was the only one standing. Luckily, the others were just Poison Dolls created by Coco who had the foresight to want to gauge the thing's strength, but still... wow. Then it turns out that Bambina was just tried to play with them and accidentally tore them apart. And he did it in his sealed form which is significantly weaker than his full-power one.
    • Acacia's pieces died that way — most of them came across one of the Eight Kings and been blown to bits, squashed, pummeled into non-existence, aged into dust, disintegrated or simply eaten. A lucky one came across Jiro and got punched into space. Keep in mind all of them posed a threat of planetary extinction.
    • Jiro vs the Blue Nitros. At first they were wondering how he can survive their attacks. He completely takes off his seals — after that each Nitro gets defeated with a single attack.
    • In his second fight with Joie, Midora spends most of the fight telling how much he loved his adoptive mother, while Joie attacks him with everything he has, leaving only minor wounds on him. After Midora finishes his monologue, he proceeds to say farewell and disintegrates his opponent.
    • After Neo reaches his full power, he manages to curb-stomp most of the Eight Kings. After he eats the attacks of all Eight Kings at once, he emerges from the smoke with half of Bambina's body in his hand, eating all energy beams that Bambina keeps launching on him; takes out Heracles with a single attack, bites off half of Emperor Crow's body and foils Mother Snake's attempt to eat him by drinking all his digestive juices in one gulp. Now dried-up Mother Snake decides to dive into Whale King's stomach (which has gravity of a black hole and leads directly into the underworld), after which Dragon King charges all his energy into a single attack powerful enough to kill Whale King and close the portal, forever trapping Neo in the other dimension. However, before he manages to do it, Neo breaks out of Mother Snake's stomach, uses his energy attacks to propel himself back at a faster-than-light speed, escaping the gravity of the black hole and blowing up Whale King's mouth in the process; flies directly into Dragon King's attack and swallows it without suffering any visible damage.
    • After the Wolf king managed to briefly incapacitate Acacia, all the Eight Kings, Sunny, Coco, Zebra and PAIR simultaneously launch their strongest attacks at him. He eats said attacks. Several minutes after which can be best described as a "massacre" — he manages to defeat three of the Eight kings (including Moon, who is stated to be strongest one) and three of the Four Heavenly kings (save for the main character) in the span of a single page.
    • And then, after all that one-sided carnage, Neo and Acacia themselves suddenly end up on the receiving end. Toriko's third Appetite Demon emerges and pretty much One Hit Kills them with a finger. According to said demon, his level of power means he can't stay out for more than an instant. *Gulp*
  • In the Touhou Project manga Oriental Sacred Place, the Fairies of Light get the idea to try to invoke Defeat Means Friendship, reasoning that if they fight Reimu, she'll end up becoming friends with them just like she has with a bunch of other Youkai. It does work... but not before Reimu curb stomps all three of them at once.
  • In Trinity Blood, almost any time the words "Nano-machine, Crusnik 02" are spoken.

    U-Z 
  • Undead Unluck: Shen calls Victor as "Victhor", as in the god of thunder, Thor, when the two meet face to face. Victor corrects him, telling him he is indeed a human before beating him to a pulp.
  • In the first Urusei Yatsura movie, the Oni fleet tries to give battle to the forces of Planet Elle. Elle's people are shown already to be incredibly technologically powerful, and later we even see that they have a mega-structure around their system like a Type II Civilization. The Oni are far outclassed and probably would have been slaughtered even worse than what they got if an Elle spy (shown to have chameleon like powers albeit not enough to fool the Oni crew) hadn't kidnapped Ataru off the main ship.
  • Vinland Saga:
    • The first battle, with the Vikings against Franks, was one-sided to say the least. By the time their Frank allies had breached the walls the Vikings had slaughtered nearly all of the town's defenders, and the fight was so quick it left enough time for Askeladd to abscond with the loot. While there probably were more casualties offscreen, the only Viking casualty shown or mentioned was one man who was killed at the start of the battle by a crossbow shot.
    • Thors' one battle shown in the manga pits him, bare-handed, against a whole longship's worth of armed veteran mercenaries. He pummels the whole ship into submission without killing any of them or ever being in real danger.
    • All of Thorfinn's attempts at 'duels to the death' against Askeladd are shown to clearly favour Askeladd, but their last 'duel', when Askeladd has had enough of indulging him, isn't even much of a 'duel', more 'Thorfinn being manhandled like a rag-doll'.
    • The Battle for Ketil's Farm in the second arc pits three hundred farmers and freemen of Ketil's farm, including his handful of Outlaw "guests" who provide security for the farm (and who are the only ones aside from Thorgil with combat experience), against thirty of King Canute's housecarls and seventy Jomsvikings. The battle is terrifyingly one-sided, resolved in minutes and leaves over a hundred and twenty dead on Ketil’s side, with plenty more injured, permanently maimed, or dying from the wounds they suffered. It's mentioned that by contrast Canute's forces suffered only eight dead, and that's more than they expected going in. One of Ketil’s “guests” notices at one point that the Jomsvikings are so confident and in control that they’re essentially playing games in the midst of combat, as they laugh, do tricks, and pick their shots against the hopelessly outclassed farmers.
  • Van vs. The Dragonslayers in The Vision of Escaflowne The curb-stomping starts out cathartic (Van had a long list of transgressions for which he wanted them to answer) and ends up terrifying. The only thing that saved Dilandau was when the spirits of his fallen compatriots came back to try to take Van with them into the afterlife.
  • Wangan Midnight has one of these, albeit in the form of a race. Akio (when still driving the Z31) meets the Blackbird (Porsche 964) driven by Tatsuya Shima during a cruise in the Wangan Highway. He attempts to race it, but a stock Z31 is no good against a souped-up Porsche, and quickly gets his tailpipe handed to him. This is what (indirectly) lead to Akio acquiring the Devil Z.
  • World Trigger:
    • Due to his below average trion and lack of combat experience, Osamu almost always loses in a matter of seconds whenever he finds himself in a 1 vs. 1 duel with an A-ranked agent. During the Border Enlistment Arc, he nets 24 swift defeats from Kazama and 10 immediate losses from Midorikawa after two separate sparring matches on the same day.
    • In Tamakoma-2's first team B-rank battle, Kuga and Chika are matched against two opposing squads from the lowest B-rank bracket. The rookie squads are no match for Kuga's combat experience and Chika's massive trion count, so the two of them win the battle almost immediately and without taking a single scratch of damage.
  • Happened in Yaiba with demon Onimaru against Yaiba, then Yaiba vs the revived Batguy and also Gekko with the Devil King Sword against Yaiba. When Yaiba put his hands on the Supreme King Sword during the fight against Jewel, the "one side" of the battle quickly turns to his favor.
  • In Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches, curb-stomp battles happen every time someone tries to fight Asuka, as Tamaki and Yamada among others can attest (though Yamada did get in a Curb Stomp Cushion in his first fight with Asuka when he grabbed her from behind and put her under the charm power). Other examples of curb-stompers are Tsubaki beating up Yamada and Miyamura, and most of the times Yamada fights street thugs (at least individually, since he'll often be exhausted after fighting big numbers).
  • In Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon, this perfectly describes the fight between Jakotsumaru and Moroha/Beniyasha.
    • In a non-lethal variant, Towa defeats the criminals who are holding her family hostage in this way.
    • Kirinmaru vs the girls has him utterly defeating them in seconds. Even Moroha using Beniyasha form means nothing in this fight. He is, after all, an extremely powerful and skilled Daiyokai who equals Inu No Taisho with centuries of experience.
  • You Are Umasou has Heart beating the stuffing out of the Big Jaws without using his teeth himself. This includes headbutting, Muay Thai knee strikes, and judo shoulder throws. He very literally sends one Big Jaw flying with a Launcher Move and air combos him before spiking him back down with an overhead axe kick. He handily thrashes a total of four other Big Jaws his size without taking a scratch.
  • Hiei curbstomps many of his opponents in YuYu Hakusho, defeating them very quickly and taking few injuries in the process, notably with Seiryu, Makintaro, and Hagiri. In some cases, however, like Zeru and Bui, he does so at considerable personal cost, but even then, they hardly put up more than token resistance.
    • Also happens both ways in a critical tournament match featuring Kuwabara. The Power of Love turns the Curb-Stomp Battle around 180 degrees.
    • Can't forget Yusuke, can we? Probably the most fist-pumpingly satisfying one is Yusuke vs. Bakken during the Dark Tournament. After Bakken just finished delivering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to an unconscious Kurama, it's Yusuke's turn. Other than a token resistance involving weaponized sweat, Yusuke pretty much destroys Bakken unopposed, and reduces him to begging for mercy before the fight's over.
    • Kurama also had one against the Elder Toguro. He has complete body manipulation, regeneration, can read minds. The fight lasted half an episode, But was technically over the first minute when Kurama planted a seed in Gourmet's head.
    • After Yusuke was resurrected and went into Demon World to fight Sensui his ancestor, Raizen, possessed him, turning him into his Mazoku form and delivering what could be considered the most brutal and epic beatdown in the entire series. It starts with a bare-knuckled punch to the skull. Raizen never pauses between attacks or gives Sensui even the slightest opportunity to fight back; he just delivers blow after blow until his opponent is completely beaten, then hits him with a mega-powered Spirit Gun for good measure.
    • In the beginning last arc of the story, Yusuke, pissed off at his demonic ancestor, Raizen for interrupting his fight with Sensui, decides to try and fight him. Raizen shows just how he became king of 1/3 of Makai by nearly killing Yusuke without even moving. Said character happens to be dying from centuries of starvation. Seems like asskicking runs in the family.
    • In the preliminaries for the final tournament, the roughly four dozen other contestants in Yusuke's bracket decide to take him down first, as he's clearly the greatest threat. Yusuke almost immediately sends them all flying out of the ring, disqualifying them and advancing to the next round.
    • Another fight during the Makai Unification Tournament basically consisted of Yomi nullifying every single offensive attempt by his son Shura, then beating the piss out of his own son and threatening to kill him if he doesn't stand down.
    • The end of the tournament isn't any better. After everyone is finished beating the crap out of each other, they are forced to continue the tournament without having time to recover. With the remaining two Demon kings severely weakened (Yomi physically and Mukuro mentally), Saizou, Enki, Kokou, and Kujō, former friends of the Toshin, the third king, easily blow through the rest of the competition (which included each other). In the end, Kokou, Enki's wife, beats Yomi; Enki beats Mukuro; Kujō beats Kokou; Saizou beats Kujō; and, finally, Enki beats Saizou in the finals for a total upset win. All of this is basically just told to Yusuke as exposition since he was knocked unconscious during his fight with Yomi.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh!:
    • Seto Kaiba usually wins his duels like this unless his opponent is either Yugi, Jounouchi (who can't beat him, but can put up a good fight), the current season's Big Bad, or one of his Dragons. This was especially true during the Battle City arc when Kaiba had the Egyptian God Card, Obelisk the Tormentor, whose special ability is pratically designed to curb-stomp the opponent.
    • Also when Kaiba and Dark Yugi team up in Battle City and thrash any Ghoul (Rare Hunter in the dub) who stand in their way. It's effectively a duelist's worst nightmare when this pair put aside their differences and form a tag team; occasionally, a Duelist beat Yugi, and occasionally, a Duelist beat Kaiba, but nobody ever beat both of them at once
    • The effect is lessened in DM, when Atem usually employs a come from behind victory, but even these are usually supported by long term strategy. The effect is in full force in the Toei anime, when gamers who take him on usually take the rope and hang themselves (figuratively speaking) in short order. This also happens in the manga the first time the Pharaoh summons the gods against Bakura in the Millennium World arc.
    • Atem's victory over Rare Hunter (Seeker in the dub) was the only duel where he doesn't lose any Life Points, the reason being that Rare Hunter uses an Exodia deck, and Atem counters his strategy twice without problems.
    • Malik and Yami Bakura's duel against Yami Malik (in the manga) lasts six turns, barely three chapters, including a lengthy explanation of exactly how Yami Malik's Ra card is going to squash them with its One-Turn Kill special ability and five pages of it doing so. Yami Bakura had already lost most of his life points before he got One-Turn Killed, summoned a monster which got destroyed so he could activate a trap which got negated, and then activated just one combo which only served to speed things up for Yami Malik. Yami Malik lost no life points until he chose to pay the maximum amount to activate Ra's ability so he could unnecessarily overkill Yami Bakura.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL:
    • Yuma was able to defeat Shark the first time, when Shark was brainwashed by Number 17. However, since then, almost every time that Yuma duels Shark, when Shark is in control of his actions, it tends to be one-sided, and in Shark's favor.
    • Yuma's first duel with Kaito was pretty one-sided too. The only reason Yuma survived was because Kaito had to abort the duel due an emergency involving his brother. Yuma lost his second duel with Kaito (where there were no real stakes on it). but it was a far more even fight.

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