Curb Stomp Battle / Fan Works

Times when a Curb-Stomp Battle occurs in Fan Works.

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Crossover

• BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant:
  • After Ragna starts using his Semblance in his fight against Pyrrha, the battle quickly goes his way and forces her to admit defeat.
  • Calling Adam's "fight" against Terumi/Hazama in Chapter 54 a fight would imply that he actually stood a chance. The only hit he manages to land is impaling Terumi via surprise attack, and even then Terumi spends most of his time not even acknowledging the wound.
  • Penny's at first on the receiving end of this when she fights Mercury with unarmed combat in Chapter 66, easily being overwhelmed by her opponent's greater skill. However, once she learns that Mercury was the one who killed Tukson, she summons her blades and fights to kill, turning the tables completely in her favor as Mercury quickly learns how outmatched he is.
• The Touhou Project/The Familiar of Zero crossover Border of the Void is not afraid to show that Gensokyans are extremely powerful.
  • Special mention goes to chapter 32. One one side, there is a large army of elves. On the other side are Louise and Agnes, who have learned Gensokyan magic, and seven native Gensokyans. It's so one-sided, you almost want to feel sorry for the elves.
• The Boys: Real Justice: In the fic, we sees the DC universe make contact with The Boys (2019) reality. Whether it's Vought's heroes or the Boys, both sides show they don't hold a candle to the DC universe's villains.
  • At one point A-Train tries to confront the Rogues of Central City while they're robbing the other Earth's Hollywood, but Captain Cold stops him with one blast of his cold gun, making it clear to A-Train that Flash would have found them ages before A-Train did.
  • Later on, Stormfront attempts to confront Two-Face as he is stealing samples of Compound V, but since Two-Face brought Solomon Grundy as backup, Grundy beats Stormfront easily, Stormfront only survives the fight because Two-Face's final coin-toss came up in her favor.
  • In Chapter 16, Butcher tries to fight Deathstroke, thinking that if someone with no powers like Batman can take him, so can he. Slade says that he isn't Batman before brutally beating Butcher, leaving him with a swollen face, a broken nose, a dislocated arm, and a bleeding mouth. If it weren't for the GCPD's arrival, he would've killed him.
  • The fight between the reformed Seven and the Legion of Doom can hardly be called a battle; Bizarro overpowers Homelander, while Queen Maeve and Stormfront are rapidly incapacitated before doing anything by Cheetah and Giganta, respectively; Clayface's body efficiently traps black Noir. And upon seeing how badly the battle is going, both A-Train and The Deep try to flee, only to be quickly stopped and mauled by Dr. Polaris and Black Manta.
• Comic Book SNAFU
  • Black Rose Dragon takes down Phantom Rider and Lancer in seconds.
  • Orphan easily handles Baron Zemo.
• Child of the Storm has a number of these:
  • The Winter Soldier vs Everyone. Seriously, everyone. No one in his weight class is a match for him, and a lot out of it aren't either - carrying multiple broken ribs, he stalemates Wolverine in a knife-fight.
  • HYDRA's Destroyer (piloted by Zemo) vs the Aged Up Kids. One Destroyer knock-off vs a group including a mentally-adolescent-physically-adult Wonder Woman, more ruthless version of The Flash, a Super-Soldier, an Asgardian, and another character who's at least a Physical God. Zemo nearly kills them all in 10 seconds, and the rest of the fight doesn't go much better - even when they eventually win, it's still a Pyrrhic Victory.
  • Baron Zemo vs T'Chaka and T'Challa. Zemo kills the former (who's still a Black Panther in his own right), and the rematch with the latter is more even, though Zemo's still easily winning.
  • Doctor Strange vs Gravemoss. Strange stalemates him while giving a Rousing Speech to someone else via Astral Projection, before returning his focus and curbstomping his ass.
  • The Phoenix vs Chthon. The Phoenix wins. Twice.
  • Bucky/the Winter Soldier vs Sabretooth. Sabretooth barely lasts two minutes once Bucky lets the Soldier out.
  • Maddie vs Harry (Round 1).
  • Yelena Belvoa vs Natasha, in Natasha's favour. The second time, it's so brutally one-sided the narrative doesn't even bother showing the fight.
  • Harry vs 'the Beast' a.k.a. Dudley. Twice. The second time, he's a powerful vampire, has just fed off an Asgardian, and it still doesn't help.
  • Magneto vs the Winter Guard (minus the Red Son). It's made clear that the only reason any of them are even alive is because he chose to let some of them survive - and that was Cruel Mercy.
  • Maddie with Mjolnir vs the Red Room.
  • Dracula vs Voldemort, and Harry, twice.
• The Conversion Bureau: Worlds Where It Wouldn't Work is chock full of these, to the point where it is practically the premise. Highlights include:
  • Adam West Batman casually defeating Xlestia, with Bat Deduction and unbelievable amounts of Crazy Preparedness.
  • Equestria vs. the uninhabited Gas Giant Planet Neptune.
  • The Mane Six are also on the receiving end of one, courtesy of Kakashi, who easily dispatches all of them at once.
  • The Mane Six and Sonic and friends, vs. Eggman's Mooks. Those poor robots.
  • In a more tragic example, Equestria was apparently the victim of one, against the SCP Foundation.
• Children of an Elder God: Asuka against Amaliel in chapter 4. The Sea Monster sliced her mecha's hand off. She bludgeoned it and tore it to pieces.
• Demon In Fodlan:
  • Even though it was a practice fight and Byleth asks him to go easy on her students, Goetia utterly wipes the floor off the Blue Lions, who are famed for their combat abilities, Dimitri included.
  • The minute Goetia enters the battle against Lord Lonato, it can hardly be called a battle anymore. Lonato and his army stood no chance against an enraged Goetia, who proceeds to annihilate Lonato's army with a single spell, saving the Lord for last so he can kill him with his own hands.
• The Devil Fruit Hero:
  • Shoto suffers this twofold. First at the hands of Izuku and Mineta during Combat Training and again by Ben during the Sports Festival.
  • Monoma is subjected to this during the Sports Festival courtesy of Ben, on top of being given a scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
  • Wolfram's goons are utterly trounced by the combined might of 1-A and 1-B when they attempt their I-Island heist, with Wolfram himself getting knocked out by All Might after he tries escaping with the Quirk Amplification Headset's schematics.
  • Class 1-A and 1-B utterly obliterate the competition during the Provisional License exam thanks to their intensive training and experience from dealing with the League of Villains.
• Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls:
  • The heroes fare badly against Fleur Des Lis. Until Sunset gets her Shikai, then it becomes a much more even fight.
  • The heroes fare even worse against Grogar and later Captain Platinum. This convinces them that they need to step up their training if they want to start dealing with the big threats.
  • Moondancer and Meadowbrook, both seated officers with released Shikai versus Starlight Glimmer. It isn't even a contest with Meadowbrook being rendered unconscious and in critical condition and Moondancer potentially fatally injured while their opponent is practically unharmed. The only reason they survive is because Starlight put them in medical pods afterwards, and even then Meadowbrook lost his Zanpakuto and Moondancer lost her powers.
  • Gilda versus the Quincy cadets is barely a contest, with only Twilight tapping into her magic giving her an edge. When Twilight is forced to disengage to deal with her assassin, the rest of them do decently against her, but when she returns with Cinch in tow Gilda reveals she was holding back immensely since she wanted to fight Twilight and proceeds to decimate the cadets, slicing off Indigo Zap's legs, badly injuring Sour Sweet, almost killing Lemon Zest, and murdering Hacksaw before Twilight is able to turn the tables thanks to giving into more of Midnight's power.
  • Once Fluttershy completes her Fullbring, the end of the "fight" with Gilda can hardly be called such with how utterly she dominates her.
  • Grogar admits that in a straight fight Celestia would certainly deal this to him, which is why he doesn't play fair. Even with the deck stacked in his favor via separating her from her Zanpakuto, using his copy of Adagio's siren gem to siphon power from all his slain Hollow experiments, and releasing his Resurreccion, however, he still expresses some level of impressiveness she can still fight on a roughly even level.
• In Chapter 23 of Flashpoint 2: Advent Solaris, a cybernetically revived Doomsday is destroyed beyond recognition by Shadow in a fight that based on the song We're All to Blame playing, only lasted roughly 30 Seconds in-fic.
• Happens a few times in Leviathan (Thuktun Flishithy). Godzilla curb-stomps Sachiel, and Shinji curb-stomps Shamshel, though fights start becoming more even later on.
• Fate of the Clans: Servants are more powerful than even Kings, them and the five sorcerers considered the strongest living beings (Servants are technically dead), so a human, including the Clansmen of each Clan, would receive a severe ass-kicking if they fought a Servant, shown when Okada, his Class and Caster considered the weakest Servant on a physical level, one-sidedly slaughters all of JUNGLE's U-rank players. Being a Gold Clansman did boost his parameters, but the result would've been the same. If a Servant makes a fatal mistake in battle, they can be defeated by a human if the opponent can get through their Nigh-Invulnerability. However, it generally takes a Servant to kill a Servant.
  • It isn't that Kings are too physically weak compared to Servants. In fact, Kings are theorized to be stronger than Servant Assassin. But Cú Chulainn wasn't merely giving Trash Talk when he said "You may be a King, but you're just a mere human!" Kings are human, unlike Servants, and thus aren't able to tank as many attacks. So it's a matter of the difference in physiology than raw attack power, along with other factors.
• In Fractured (SovereignGFC), the Trans-Galactic Republic vs. Reapers. It doesn’t end the way people hoped, since the people who would have united facing the Reapers just get to sip drinks instead—leaving old grievances intact. An alliance of humans destroys the batarian navy relatively easily as well. Even the super-ship Revenant ends up on the other end of this after running low on energy reserves, then getting surprised by a massive assault fleet with spoofed IFFs (so while enemies shoot, Revenant can't respond).
  • Escalated in Origins, where a Force-sensitive Siren smacks down virtually everyone, before the Flood arrive and completely take over the galaxy despite the best efforts of the heroes.
• In Imaginary Seas, Percy's battle with Caenis is this to the point that he initially sums it up as "So anyway, I kicked her ass." When he decides to go into detail about their fight, he has the upper hand the entire time and can't even be scratched by her due to his invulnerability. He then simply prays her invincibility away before burying her in the dirt. The only reason why he doesn't kill her outright is the arrival of Wodime and the threat of Artemis nuking the island from orbit.
• Last Child of Krypton: Shinji's early battles against the Angels tended to be very one-sided. He pushed around and punched Sachiel as much as he wanted while Sachiel was unable to retaliate. Then Sachiel self-detonated... which doesn't harm Shinji at all.
• Lighting the Path sees Kara Thrace (Battlestar Galactica (2003)) become a Green Lantern after her apparent 'death' ("Maelstrom") and return to the Fleet during the Cylon ambush in the nebula ("Crossroads- Part 2"). With Kara’s Lantern ring at full charge and the Corps' lifted restrictions on killing, Kara single-handedly destroys one of the Basestars and several Cylon Raiders, simultaneously saving a few of the fleet’s own Vipers from the counter-attack before the Basestars have to retreat.
• Fairy May Cry:
  • As is usual with Dante, most fights he's in usually end with his opponent being beaten to a pulp. Natsu, Gajeel and Erza learn this firsthand after Dante joins Fairy Tail.
  • Both Dante and Fairy Tail are on the receiving end of this from Vergil. In his debut arc he dishes them out like candy, especially when he breaks out his Devil Trigger whenever it looks like somebody gives him something resembling real trouble. By the end of said arc, the only ones capable of matching im are Dante in his own Devil Trigger, and Natsu in Dragon Force working together. Later appearances show that he's as strong as ever, with fights ending in his favor.
  • Out of concern for Lisanna, Mirajane challenges her to a fight to prove herself. The fights is completely in favor of the more powerful Mira, who takes everything Lisanna throws at her while casually dodging attacks, and laying her out with one punch. Lisanna later gets a Curb Stomp Cushion in the fight when she uses her Dragon Soul for the first time in the story.
  • Erza vs Credo in Chapter 11 of Devil's Retribution is completely in Credo's favor, as he easily breaks Erza's armor and weapons one by one in his Caduto form. Despite this, Erza is still able to pull out a win with one good strike to Credo's chest.
• Metal Gear: Green:
  • Akatani against all of Class 1A in a class assignment. Akatani, being a Cold Sniper successfully kills off the robot VIP and picks off the entire class easily with anesthetic bullets due to them believing he's a 'direct attack' person.
  • When Bakugou confronts Akatani with the intent to beat him senseless as retaliation for losing in the battle trial, Akatani effortlessly defeats him, zip-ties him in a way where he can't use his Quirk on Akatani or his restraints, and is left humiliated even further when Akatani snarks he hadn't gotten out of those restraints yet, causing most of Class 1A to laugh.
• My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator: Commonly dished out by the Slayer.
  • In Chapter 8, the Slayer pulls off a mad dash with sixteen heroes, nine of which in the top ten, trying to stop him before he reaches I-Island. It ends with multiple heroes injured and five of them hospitalized. What's more, the Author stated in its notes that it was him trying not to kill anyone.
  • The Steel Sabers get to be on an extremely one-sided battle against him. At one point, two Sabers commandeer construction mechs to smash the Slayer into paste... only to be dismantled and killed so easily that the Slayer was actually disappointed with how easily he dispatched them.
    Narriation: Well, that was pathetically easy. The Hell Guards were way tougher than these cheap knockoffs.
  • Specs, Swordkill, Nobu and Daigo are quickly and brutally dispatched by the Slayer.
  • When Endeavor tries his luck again in Chapter 20, it ends with him destroying the I-Island vault and getting the shit pulverized out of him with laughable ease. When the rest of the heroes try their luck next chapter, including the top heroes he just rescued from being turned into Saber trophies, it goes far worse, ending with all of them beaten up enough to require one week in the hospital.
• The Night Unfurls: EVERY encounter against the Good Hunter is bound to end in moments and be extremely one-sided in his favour. While there are some "lucky" ones that fare a bit better than the other quarry (i.e., they don't get wrecked in one hit, or they could withstand several of his blows), the winner is still very obvious.
• In No Gods, Only Guns, this happens frequently, which only makes sense, as both source materials are more or less about one-man armies kicking the crap out of legions of mooks and giant monsters. Particular examples include Salvador stopping the entire invasion of Mindoir by himself, Zer0 destroying Fist's bandit army singlehandedly, Roland taking out an entire force of Eclipse/Maliwan assassins, and Lilith against... well, Lilith versus anyone.
• On the Run mostly manages to subvert these despite Clark Kent (Smallville) joining Dom Toretto's team (The Fast and the Furious), as Clark's enemies thus become associated with the Torettos' enemies to stop him dealing with them straight away. However, Arturo Braga is not so fortunate; once Clark knows what he needs to know about the man's operation, ultimately Braga’s attempt at a distraction with his various drivers is ended when Clark takes every last driver out of their cars at superspeed in moments.
• Pain Throughout Remnant has Team RWBY challenge Pain's Asura Path right after the latter took down an Atlesian Paladin with a single tackle and throwing said Paladin at a Bullhead.
  • Took a turn for the worse when Pain brutalized Ruby, snapped her crescent Rose in two, and burnt her cape into cinders. This was enough to send her into a sobbing mess.
• The Buffyverse-meets-X-Men premise of Heroes and Villains puts our heroine in a version of Sunnydale High where everyone has superpowers. Even so, Buffy's blend of strength, speed, agility, and enhanced fighting ability allows her to achieve several very one-sided victories over her fellow students.
• Invoked but basically defied in Harry Potter and the Ice Princess during the battle in the Chamber of Secrets, as even Elsa’s considerable ice powers have trouble doing damage to Tom Riddle’s shade due to him not having a solid body that she can actually wound.
• In Spider-Ninja, three muggers find themselves interrupted during a would-be robbery by a fourteen-year-old girl. Said girl is Petra Parker, who not only has web-shooters and spider powers but is a trained ninja. She takes them all out with minimal effort. This is true of most of her fights, especially when she fights alongside her brothers.
• In Resurgence Series, once Peter is told how to fight vampires, he manages to literally take Laurent apart with his own abilities, and managed to knock Laurent back with a couple of punches even before he knew what he was up against, although he needs help when dealing with larger numbers of vampires.
• In "Checkmate", even the Grand High Witch is no match for a dimensionally-displaced Ron Weasley, as his magic is far more diverse than the witches of this world.
• Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: Asuka's fights against human enemies used to be this due to her being super-strong and virtually invulnerable. Special mention goes to the leader of a terrorist group who kidnapped Shinji; suffice it say, it did not end well for him.
• In chapter 32 of The Wizard in the Shadows, Ginny flips out spectacularly at the Battle of the Black Gate. Channeling the power of what is hinted to be at least one of the Valar (and it being sustained by Gandalf and someone else), she obliterates the physical form of three Nazgûl and at least half of Mordor's army with three flaming tornadoes. Admittedly, Harry had just been killed, so she had a fair amount of Unstoppable Rage going.
• In The Odyssey, due to an insane spree of luck during his battle with the former Immaculate Monk Beman, Ulyssian manages to leave not only victorious, but uninjured. Beman, on the other hand, left with a gash running across his chest and missing an arm.
  • Played straight once again later in the story, but with Ulyssian on the receiving end. After going to great lengths to sabotage and weaken his opponent Jael, he still loses quite handily to him, to the point that he would have died in the first few seconds had Jael not shown restraint.
• In Blue Moon, when new Slayer Bella Swan finds herself surrounded by three 'regular' vampires after staking one of them, Edward tears off the heads of all three before Bella or her new acquaintances Willow and Xander realise Edward’s even moved.
• In White Devil of the Moon, Nanoha is able to kill Jadeite with a single Divine Buster attack. When Tuxedo Kamen and the Inner Senshi attack Fate and Arf on two occasions to prevent her from keeping them away from Nanoha, she is able to defeat them easily, although she suspects that things would have gone differently if they had been at their full potential.
  • An omake had Vivio defeat the Nanohaesque version of Chibiusa in ten seconds.
  • Beryl vs. Miyuki. Despite what you might think, given that Beryl's a powerful being and Miyuki is a human, Miyuki does the curb stomping. She is a Takamachi, after all. Beryl wins by sheer luck.
  • Beryl vs. Hayate. Hayate learns the hard way why you don't bring a cannon to a gunfight.
  • Lunar Heart powered Nanoha vs. Metallia. Nanoha wins by firing a Moonlight Breaker at Metallia from inside.
• A Hero has Dalek Sec going up against a witch. It ends with the witch being vaporized via Maximum Extermination.
  • Earlier, we have Dalek Sec being utterly destroyed by Kriemhild Gretchen. Thankfully, Sec gets better.
  • There's also his battle with Kyoko. The one on the receiving end was the Puella Magi, and he would've killed her were it not for Madoka.
• My Little Avengers: The first fight between the Avengers and the Dark Avengers ended completely in the latter group's favor. This is because Loki specifically chose them not just because their powers match and exceed those of the Avengers, but knew the Avengers well enough to hit their Berserk Buttons to throw them off balance. The Avengers Opponent Switch during the Final Battle in order to counter this and end up returning the favor.
• Operation Forging Steel: is a Command and Conquer Generals/RWBY fanfic that pits Modern American forces (that later adds in NATO forces, primarily Brisitsh SAS, as well) under a General Kirkman against the White Fang and Cinder's faction. During the Battle at Mount Glen, Or Operation White Death, the Americans capture, wound, or kill over 1900 White Fang members, at the cost of 6 American lives and a few dozen wounded.
  • American tanks outperform anything that Remnant could build. One Armerican Paladin tank takes a full salvo from an Atlasian Paladin Mech's guns. Said Salvo does nothing. The American tank crew responds with one-shoting the mech with a SABOT round. Another American tank actually destroys two Atlas Paladins with one shot.
• In Dungeon Keeper Ami by Pusakuronu, Mercury invades the Avatar Islands — a blasted wasteland of dead rock and populated by thousands, if not millions of undead and ghosts. Her initial attack is mildly successful. But Zarekos' counter attack has her on the ropes. At that same time, Mercury discovers that Arachne, a rival Keeper with a grudge, has deployed a force of several thousand giant spiders, and Keeper Morrigan landed troops on Ami's beachhead, denying her access. What does she do? She pits the mindless undead against the spider army, allowing both to kill the other off. She then follows this up with a brutal Blitzkreig that utterly smashes Morrigan in the fiercest, most one-sided fight in the series.
  • What makes this such a Moment of Awesome is that three Keepers (Arachne, Alphel, and Nero) all stage a simultaneous attack on her dungeon almost directly after this, after weakening her forces and forcing them to fight on a battelfield of their choice. It's close, but she still prevails.
• Thousand Shinji: 35 Special Forces agents under SEELE versus four Rubric Marines. No contest. Justified as Warhammer 40,000 tech is just that much more advanced than modern tech.
• In Buffy's Friday the 13th, Jason hands one to Angel, stabbing through his shoulder and arm, and ending with him impaling Angel on the wall with his machete.
• Christian Humber Reloaded has this when the main character fights virtually anyone, to the point at which the exceptions (such as him losing for most of the fight with Chridion) are less common than the straight examples, although some of this is due to a lack of description apart from the killing blows. In what appears to be the final battle, he manages to defeat Chaos Blade in three moves, then destroys the hordes of Chaos and much of the US army before killing the corrupted President without any indications of being injured or having any difficulty.
• Golden-Eyed Pixie Series: A Twilight-Heroes crossover. Elle inflicts one on Jamie. It turns out that a vampire is not a match for electrical attacks. And then's there the fact that she gets doused in oil and blown up.
• A Shadow of the Titans: The Jade vs Kitty (Jade wins) and Raven vs Georgia (Raven wins) fights in the Tournament of Villainesses.
  • Gadjo versus anyone unlucky enough to piss him off always ends with a victory for him.
• The Minbari were curbstomped from the get-go from The Federation and Klingon Empire when they chose to fire on a Human Alliance ship in A Thin Veneer.
• Justice League of Equestria:
  • Mare of Steel:
    • Rainbow Dash's fight against Flim and Flam's Humongous Mecha early on in the first arc; the robot doesn't even ruffle her mane.
    • Rainbow is on the receiving end of one delivered by General Zod later on, before she is crippled by a Kryptonite necklace and tossed into a ravine.
  • The Princess of Themyscira:
    • Diana's first fight with the Alicorn Amulet-empowered Ares — she gets some hits in, but is ultimately beaten unconscious and has to be carried to safety by Soarin'.
    • After donning the Helm of Nabu, Twilight dishes one of these out to Ares' demonic army during the Final Battle.
• In Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, Norio Eguchi, granted the power of Kamen Rider Den-O: Wing Form, tries to go up against a resurrected Gentaro Kisaragi. Unfortunately for Norio, he gets knocked down easily and nearly had his head cleaved off by a chainsaw had it not been for Sieg getting him out in time. Later on, Shun, given the power of Kamen Rider Den-O: Rod Form, goes off against Ryusei Sakuta and is also defeated...and then killed off.
• In the Doctor Who/Teen Titans crossover "Equilibrium", the Titans easily defeat the Slitheen that have come to their Earth.
• Sick of Malfoy's bullying, Harry Potter-Tano challenges Draco Malfoy and three Slytherins of Malfoy's choice to a duel. To make things fair (and possibly to piss Malfoy off), Harry prohibits himself from using magic. He defeats the Slytherins simply by reflecting their spells back at them using his Lightsaber, then finishing them off with Lightsaber strikes.
• During one fight in Fate/Stay Night: Ultimate Master, Ben as Ultimate Humungosaur takes down Archer in one throw after the latter pushes Ben's Berserk Button about harming civilians, after the two were more or less equal before. Then, to save Shirou from being killed by Berserker, Ben turns into Way Big and ends the battle in one punch.
  • Also, when Saber and Ben's Servant Avenger try to use their Noble Phantasms against each other, Gilgamesh shows up and interrupts the fight by unleashing Ea on both of them. He makes them bite the dust without even having to reveal himself.
• Hilariously standardized in The Infinite Loops. Not only is every character stuck in a time loop which grants them advance knowledge of their enemy's moves, they're also growing in power and have more and more things stored in their Hammerspace between loops. Defeating the bad guys becomes more of a game than a challenge.
• A fight between Iron Patriot and The Dark Avengers and The Avengers in Because I'm Not Popular I'll Try To Out With A hero ends with Iron Patriot winning with ease.
• In Opening Dangerous Gates, the demons from the Book of Zeref tend to deliver these to the Fairy Tail characters, but the Bleach characters tend to deliver these to the demons.
• In Child of Rao Book II, Cordelia aka Heat Sink fights Heat Wave at one point. Given that the former absorbs heat and the latter uses flamethrowers, the fight is so one-sided that even without Cordelia attacking, Heat Wave is sitting on the curb crying by the time the police show up.
• Monsters In Paradise:
  • Yukari Yakumo, deprived of her boundary manipulation, versus a gang of delinquents and their Pokémon. She wasn't even aware that she was being attacked for trespassing in their territory, or at all. Not that it mattered, really; none of the Pokémon left the area on their own power.
  • Croagunk plus Cirno equals Half-Conscious Poisoned Ice Fairy.
• Mortal Kombat vs. The Owl House: In Chapter 12 Shang Tsung manages to kill a bunch of people including a large amount of the emperor's coven, beat Kano in a few minutes of fighting him and even Shao Kahn and Belos can barely stand up to him due to all the power he has from his soul-stealing.
• In The (Questionable) Burdens of Leadership of a Troll Emperor Naruto's general Setsuna crushes Karasuba in a spar after the latter is Brought Down to Normal. Even beforehand, Setsuna proved to be a dangerous opponent due to having centuries of combat experience and training.
• Coreline: The first fight of the story, Rise of the Extraordinary Avengers (Coreline), features a spar that pits "Captain America" Mari Illustrious Makinami vs three of the Champions. A lone Crazy-Prepared Super-Soldier with some Supernatural Martial Arts training against a Kryptonian ("Superman Gamma" Shinji Ikari), a DC-verse Martian ("Martian Manhunter" Hikari Horaki) and a Sub-Mariner-style human/mutant Atlantean hybrid (Nadia La Arwall). The poor slobs never even stood a chance...
• The Sword of the Stars/Mass Effect crossover Shepherd Of The Stars features a few.
  • Prior to the start of the main plot, the Batarians pushed the Actual Pacifist Liir into invoking a year-long example of Beware the Nice Ones so brutal it almost rendered the Batarians extinct.
  • The 'Sleeping Giant' simulation SolForce created to see how a war with the Council would go is explicitly this in the Most Likely and Worst Cases. Even the Best Case doesn't go well for them.
  • When the Peacekeeper Enforcer shows up, almost every fight against it goes this way. Even when outnumbered over a hundred to one, it barely takes more than cosmetic damage. It takes a huge Council fleet and an 175 gigaton kinetic kill vehicle to finally bring it down.
• Luna Trolls Freddy Krueger sees Luna try to stop Freddy's reign of terror on Earth. What happens? Luna is way out of Freddy's league (what with Luna being a goddess while he's simply a demon) and reverses all his attempts to kill people in nightmares before he can even start the nightmares, robbing him of his power source. Freddy is so powerless against her he ultimately chooses to pull a Heel–Face Turn just to finally get her off his back.
• Cycles Upon Cycles: Mass Effect vs. StarCraft. The battle between the Citadel and the Terrans and Protoss. The Citadel's forces stand absolutely no chance. Ditto for the Batarians who are on the receiving end of one courtesy of the zerg.
• Sudden Contact: The First Contact between the protoss and turians ended very badly for the latter after the turians thought the protoss were attacking them.
• The Star Trek: The Next Generation/Firefly crossover Lost in the Woods puts the Enterprise in a position where their options are to destroy the Reavers- who the crew have determined were innocent victims driven incurably insane by a flawed scientific experiment- or uphold the Prime Directive and let the Reavers destroy a crucial planet in the solar system. With the Enterprise alone against the entire Reaver fleet of fifty-plus ships, the battle is over in seconds with the Enterprise having taken no damage and the Reavers destroyed in just a few shots (mainly because taking out the bigger ships destroyed the smaller ones around them as collateral damage).
• In the backstory of The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds, documented in the side story Day of the Broken Fang, this was the case when Cobra got the bright idea to attack the Decepticons. The 'Cons were barely scratched, but pissed off enough at the arrogance that they retaliated totally and completely, wiping the entire organization out of existence. The only survivors were those lucky enough to not be in any of their bases at the time, or smart enough to flee when they realized what was about to happen.
• Dante's Night at Freddy's. Everyone's favourite badass half-demon demon slayer from Devil May Cry ends up having to work a stint at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza to pay off an arcade machine he trashed in frustration. The haunted murderous animatronics think they know exactly what they're getting into and will just kill Dante like every other night watchman who's come to work there. Oh boy, they couldn't be more wrong.
• A World of Bloody Evolution: Yang Xiao Long is dropped into the horrific future of Warhammer 40,000. Thanks to her Super-Strength, Healing Factor and Battle Aura, she's pretty much a killing machine; Chaos cultists get pulverised in short order, and even Traitor Marines have to struggle mightily just to put up a fight. And Weiss is even deadlier. Yang does sometimes end up on the receiving end of this trope, though: a Rubric Marine beat her badly.
• While in the Warhammer universe in Per-Verse, Xander manages to utterly destroy a goblin army that outnumbers his own forces by five to one by having his Hedge Mages blow powdered quicklime over the goblins before summoning a rain storm^note Quicklime acts similar (though nastier) to pepper spray but when exposed to water it rapidly heats up to as much as 300°C (about 572°F). Word of God states the battle was going to be more drawn out and bloody before he realized he'd put quicklime in the town's mine.
• In Shattered Skies: The Morning Lights, the entire Dimensional Navy of the Time-Space Administrative Bureau goes up against Viluy and the resurrected Will of the Book of Darkness, Unisoned with Hayate. Viluy's Nanomachines disable the whole fleet in minutes, and they're all summarily wiped out by the Will without being able to fire a single shot.
• Infinity Crisis:
  • Used in a sense when the Arrowverse cast arrive at the Avengers facility, as Barry and Wally neatly disarm the Avengers and Kara lets Natasha fail to shoot her to prove to the Avengers that if they were working for Thanos they could easily have just swooped in to kill them all.
  • Thanos can hold his own against Supergirl and Captain Marvel, but the equation changes when Superman joins the other two, as the trio remove the Gauntlet from Thanos's hand.
  • What happens to the forces invading New York when Thanos' "snap" is undone. A couple thousand aliens, elves, frost giants and HYDRA soldiers against the combined might of the Avengers, the Justice League, Team Arrow, Team Flash, the Legends, the Defenders, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Supergirl, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Black Lightning and their various allies? "Slaughter" is more like it.
  • Played with in Powers and Marvels; the Mandarin can hold his own against the Power Rangers, but the author justifies this as the Mandarin in canon has been shown to hold his own against the Avengers and acknowledges that the Rangers would be holding back as they wouldn't think of one man as a threat.
  • On the other hand, once Doctor Strange takes an hour to study his books, he finds a spell that allows him to banish Zedd, Rita, Goldar and Rito back to their reality and unable to return to his one.
• Infinity Train: Boiling Point:
  • Chapter 3 features Boscha fighting against the Apex, and the odds are stacked so much against the latter it's not even funny; here are a bunch of scavengers against a Nigh-Invulnerable Ax-Crazy Pyromaniac. They never stood a chance.
  • Two chapters later, Boscha fights King Lartsa, who, as an intangible being, doesn't have a body for Boscha to hurt. So no matter how hard she tries, Boscha can't beat him.
• The Red Dragon's Saber:
  • Artoria Pendragon vs Freed Sellzen. She blocks a sword strike and a bullet, then knocks him through a wall with one kick.
  • Artoria vs Raynare's group. They are unable to land a single blow on her. The only reason why the fight lasts longer than a minute was because Artoria promised Rias Gremory not to kill them to prevent the risk of starting a war.
• Transposition F: Upon arriving on Remnant, Gohan is transported right in the middle of Team RNJR's fight against the Nuckelavee and proceeds to eliminate the Grimm with barely an effort.
• A Peaceful Afterlife:
  • Several, but most spectacular is Charlie reaching her Rage Breaking Point and single-highhandedly eviscerating God Given's army of Exorcist constructs and smashing the ever-loving shit out of him.
  • Kira also gets one in on God Given when the latter foolishly challenged him to a one-on-one fight. Kira even throws in a mocking 'WRRRYYYYY' as insult to injury.
• Code Prime: Happens in Chapter 5, when the Autobots and Zero free Suzaku from Britannia. To add insult to injury, the Autobots win without even killing a single Purist.
  • Cornelia suffers this throughout R1, as she's defeated by Optimus in Chapter 8, only managing to get one scratch on the Autobot leader. In Chapter 33, she suffers an even worse defeat at the hands of Megatron, who's even more brutal than Optimus.
  • The Decepticons decimate the Britannian Empire in Chapter 34 of R1, obliterating the capital city of Pendragon. When R2 starts up, they completely destroy the entire Empire, taking over all their areas and destroying their forces with little effort. Of note is Devastator and Bruticus, who manage to destroy the Britannian Navy and kill two Knights of the Round.
  • Grimlock completely decimates Shockwave's forces when he makes his debut in The Fires of Rage, wrecking them all in his T-Rex mode. Not even Rolo, Castor, and Pollux were able to survive the rampage.
  • The Predacon/Predaking delivers these frequently once he's brought into the story. His first battle sees him wipe out all the Constructicons. Even as Devastator they are no match for him. And his first fight with the Autobots and the Black Knights sees him demolish the Hercules and even put Grimlock himself on the ropes, only getting pushed back once the other Dinobots enter the fray themselves.
• Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron
  • As in Legendary Defender, the Red Paladin is no match for Emperor Zarkon, and that still holds here, even when Suzaku is backing Kallen up.
  • The Paladins, in turn, get one in their favor during Chapter 23, Zero's Return, as Cornelia's forces have nothing on the Lions.
    • Special mention goes to how Lelouch defeats Cornelia - he completely dominates the fight, and while he spares her, Zenobia utterly demolishes her Gloucester.
    • When Voltron is finally formed, he demolishes Cornelia's ground forces with only a few energy blasts. He then obliterates her aerial ones with a single slash of his sword, forcing her to retreat lest she loses what few men she still has left at that point.
• The Bridge (MLP): Starlight Glimmer, an exceptionally talented sorceress and was bolstered by wrath fueled dark magic, was way out of her league when attacking the transformed Godzilla Junior. While having no magical knowledge, he carried over plenty of his innate durability, strength, and firepower. And he just got possessed by the Nightmare entity to become a wrathful Shin Godzilla expy.
• The J-WITCH Series:
  • When Daolon Wong first summons the Shadowkhan into his service, Prince Phobos orders his guards to attack the magical ninjas to see what they're capable of. The Shadowkhan utterly beat the guards in mere seconds.
  • During Phobos and Uncle's first fight, Phobos is unable to land a single hit on the old wizard who in turn gives the prince a humiliating defeat.
  • In "Ghosts and Shadows", Jade discovers that she can actually hurt Tarakudo with her shadow magic, so the fresh Guardian of Shadows proceeds to deliver the Oni King a brutal beatdown which she finishes by sending him and the rest of the bad guys rolling down the mountain.
• Point Me at the Skyrim: Victoria and Sevitus are surrounded by a group of Bandits who begin to taunt and threaten them, treating her as though she was a simple Mage. Victoria Dallon is a superhero who's fought giant Kaiju several times, so she literally wipes the floor with the poor Bandits when they don't take her warning seriously.
• Abyssal Plain: After they accidentally take over a farm, Breakthrough and the Undersiders are confronted by a seemingly endless army of Others surrounding them on all sides. The Others are boogeymen used to attacking terrified victims and each other. Breakthrough and the Undersiders are experienced teams of Superheroes and Villains who've fought endless armies and giant monsters for most of their careers with exotic powers. By the end of the fight, the surviving Others are left fighting amongst themselves while the Heroes and Villains get away with only a few injuries.
• Gospel of the Lost Gods: Cuff, Grace, Romp, and Wanton are forced to flee Kings Landing, but are surrounded by a small army of knights and guards. Despite it being a fighting retreat, the heroes wreak absolute havoc and crush every normal opponent in their way.
• Notably averted in XCOM: RWBY Within, which has a disclaimer at the top of Chapter 1 warning people that Team RWBY will be unable to access their supernatural abilities (but still have their training and experience) while trapped in a parallel universe, because otherwise this trope would be played so straight it would become boring. Then they get their powers back around the halfway point, but by that time the Elders have acquired Grimm so the playing field stays pretty level.
• The part-time dragon Bahija in Zero Context: Taking Out the Trash was subject to one by Callista at some point in her past, starting with multiple lightspeed strikes and ending with a low-powered shot from a planet-busting Kill Sat that left her embedded in the bottom of a lake.
• In Sora's Adventure in Rogueport Remake, this occurs to Sora when he goes up against Bea during the Glitz Pit Elite Four battles. Thanks to her having studied his attacks, Bea's able to dodge, counter or outright shrug off everything Sora tries including Ars Arcanum, Valor Form and even Simba. In addition, even though team members can show up to aid their teammates in battle, Bea has her Machamp block off the door to prevent this (and get Vivian into a headlock) so she can see how Sora fights by himself. Sora ultimately gains something of an upper hand using Aeroga, Aeroga Punch, Thundaga and Air Stepping, but the sheer amount of damage he took has him stumbling and falling onto Bea. Bea then smirks and willingly falls off the ring and when Grubba wonders what now (due to a tie), Bea tells Grubba to let Team Sky continue.
• Leviathan's first fight in Manehattan's Lone Guardian against a group of thieves serves as this. They get some good strikes in while she's at subpar functionality, but they are unable to do any meaningful damage to her before she incapacitates them all at once.
• Once Upon a Time / Marvel Cinematic Universe fanfic Swapping Genres: One part of the story mentions that when Emma attempts to take on Black Widow while drunk, she barely gets a punch in before Black Widow easily knocks her out cold.
• A Red Rose in the Blue Wind:
  • In "Dark Jaunedice", Shadow challenges Jaune to a fight to get the latter to realize how badly he needs help. It's the untrained Jaune of Volume 1 against a hedgehog who's fought robot armies, an alien invasion and repeatedly punched a god in the face. Shadow wins without even trying.
  • Rouge inflicts this on Neo of all people, with the colourful assassin growing increasingly enraged by the fact that she is unable to land so much as a single hit, and her opponents hearing rendering her Semblance useless. Rouge even taunts her over lacking experience compared to the spy who hangs out with the Ultimate Lifeform and a robot of mass destruction.
  • Team Dark display little to moderate difficulty taking down Torchwick in the Egg Centaur, with Rouge even insulting him over his lackluster piloting skills.
  • Knuckles challenges Yang to a weapons-free sparing match, to display to her how her over-reliance on her Semblance and lack of proper technique and strategy is holding her back. He even gives himself a handicap where if she can land a single solid hit against him without him blocking, catching, or parrying it she wins. Knuckles easily wins, avoiding all Yang's attacks while landing devastating blows of his own, with Yang constantly letting her anger get the best of her throughout the fight, and her last desperate Semblance-charged punch fails when Knuckles catches it without even flinching.
• In Catch Your Breath's crossover spin-off Shell Game, there are several battles that go decidedly one direction when they didn't in canon, mostly because Kei is a very big fish in an average-sized pond:
  • In Kirishima's Sports Festival match against Tetsutetsu, he ekes out a victory in his Mirror Match. In Shell Game, he has the bad luck to be in the same bracket as Kei, a hydrokinetic jinchuriki. Though she gives him a couple of chances to show off his Quirk and his hand-to-hand skills, she punts him out of the arena with little trouble. Kei's match with Bakugo goes about the same, but with more hostility because both fighters have ticked each other off in the past.
  • The Stain confrontation, rather than Midoriya, Todoroki, and Iida fighting the villain in a desperate three-on-one battle that they might've fatally lost, becomes this when Stain is fought twice. The first time, he goes up against Obito Uchiha and Kakashi Hatake right as he's about to take out Ingenium, and is tasered into submission without trouble. In the second match, Kei confronts him alongside Todoroki, and it turns out Making a Splash powers combine really well with Todoroki's ice by just nixing Stain's maneuverability and leaving him neatly subdued for the police.
  • Rather than fighting All For One in a one-on-one slugging match, All Might is joined by Minato Namikaze and Keisuke Gekko, and the latter two make sure that All For One is killed in the confrontation with as little collateral damage as possible.
• Freedom's Ring: Naturally, when titans, creatures that even the most protected ones like the Armored Titan were already established to be vulnerable to Industrial-era weapons, pitted against the combined forces of 21st century US military and Survey Corps, this trope would be the final outcome. Later on, it was Marley and the rest of World Union forces who got their collective rears handed back to them in silver platter in their harebrained once and for all attempt to subjugate Paradis by force.
• Suicidal Overconfidence: The Kingpin wastes no time beating Bitsy Brandenham into a bloody pulp with little to no effort.
• Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse:
  • The Kamikaze Pirates, being that they consist of Ranma Saotome, Ryoga Hibiki, Shampoo, Ukyo Kuonji and Kodachi Kuno (oh, and also Nabiki Tendo), pretty much run roughshod over the East Blue's Marines and indigenous pirate crews. Whilst they are warned of their Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond status, they have a similarly easy time in the earliest parts of Paradise... making it all the more poignant when they stop having such an easy time.
  • When Ranma goes to rob the birthday part of Baron Arashi Sukumvit, a newly appointed Navy Commodore, he expects an easy victory. Then it turns out that the Sukumvits are a family of hunters who took to hunting Zoan Devil Fruit-using pirates after hunting animals grew boring. Baron Sukumvit hands Ranma his ass on a silver platter, with Ranma pushing himself to his limit just to delay his inevitable defeat. He only survives by sucker-punching the Commodore when his back is turned and ordering a Tactical Withdrawal whilst he's stunned. Even after a solid month of rigorous training, Ranma is only just on the Commodore's level when they hold a rematch.
  • When Shiki the Golden Lion interrupts Ranma's rematch with Commodore Sukumvit, he defeats the man with a single contemptuous kick. Ranma's assessment of his relative prowess to Shiki's can be summed up as "do not make him angry, and if we do? RUN!"
  • After getting her Vampire Zoan Devil Fruit, Nabiki Tendo starts gloating that she's now invincible. Cue an annoyed Shampoo kicking her ass, despite only having the Rabbit-Rabbit Zoan, to beat it into her head that being Unskilled, but Strong is useless in an environment teeming with Strong and Skilled opponents.

Arrowverse

• To Hell and Back (Arrowverse) offers a good number of them:
  • Part IV of the prologue describes a two month-long one that the three leads give to the entire organization of H.I.V.E., which they dismantle base by base. Of particular note is Damien Darhk's death, in which he manages to stop one of Oliver's arrows with his magic and begins to gloat — only for Barry to speed over and stab him in the throat with one of his knives.
  • Many of the metas that Barry originally faced in Season 1, as well as Vartox, receive these from Barry and Kara, assuming they aren't just killed or knocked unconscious outright.
  • Chapter 19 features two of these Kara completely destroys the 8 members of the Kord Industries attack team which includes 2 Kryptonians without any effort; while Oliver forces Malcolm to flee without getting hit.
  • Even after being having his speed dampened, Barry manages to take out an entire S.W.A.T. team with little difficulty.
  • Oliver almost beats Thawne one-on-one when Thawne has his speed dampened, and manages to knock him out after he is distracted by Firestorm.
  • After both running out of arrows, Oliver manages to incapacitate Malcolm in 12 moves, with Malcolm only getting one hit in.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

• Atonement has Jet's group ambushing Iroh, Zuko, Mai and Ursa, but only Jet offers more than token resistance before Zuko, Iroh and Mai (who have already defeated his companions) gang up on him, with Mai kicking him in the balls from behind.
  The sad 'fight' that followed was too humiliating for descriptions. Therefore the curtain of silence is lowered.

Bleach

• Vow of the King:
  • Ichigo's fights against Shunsui can both be described as the older man merely humoring him. The second fight sees Shunsui nearly kill him with a Finger Poke of Doom.
  • Sado versus Jidanbo is just as one-sided against the giant as it was when he fought Ichigo in canon.
  • Ichigo versus four lieutenants at Nemu's execution. He defeats all of them in the time it takes Momo to knock out a fifth with a kido.

The DCU

• It happens in Hellsister Trilogy when thousands of Darkseid's Para-Demons invade New Genesis and they are utterly crushed by Superman, Supergirl and a third Kryptonian.
  She hurled herself into the strange skies of New Genesis, both her arms stretched out perpendicular to her body, and screamed in rage. The group of Para-Demons she was headed for didn't have time to run for it. They barely had time to see she was there.
  Her powerful, blue-clad, Kryptonian arms acted like twin plows, knocking the winged beasts out of the air. They fell like shot birds, hailing down on the landscape. The New Genesis troops had a chance to gape at the blue streak that was mowing down the enemy.
  Superman had smashed his great hands together in an impact that almost deafened the New Gods who hovered too near to him. The shockwave from the crash buffeted a flying legion of Para-Demons. That was all the time Superman needed to separate them physically from the New Genesis flight troops they were attacking, and to tap them into dreamland.
• Superman of 2499: The Great Confrontation: Kath and Sybilla have a Cat Fight, and Kath loses. Badly. Kath's friend Lorile takes exception to see her brother's girlfriend injured and bruised and squashes Sybilla like a bug when Sy stupidly picks a fight with her.
• In Peggy Sue fanfic New Beginnings (Smallville), many of the early meteor freaks faced by Clark in the original timeline are of little real threat to him now that he has his future experience.
• With This Ring: The general result of unpowered humans going up against Orange Lantern.
  • Orange Lantern is also at the receiving end of one, thanks to Klarion. He ends up with two chunks of raw Chaos Magic lodged in his chest and gut, which are shredding and melting his body, all the while triggering his pain receptors. Even worse, thanks to having no resistance to magic due to his lack of a soul, instead of ending after a few seconds, the spell just continues on endlessly. It takes most of his ring's power to keep him alive, and the efforts of three different magic users to fix him. The rest of the Team fares better, with the worst being M'gann, who suffers a few broken bones.
    "Not dead quite yet, M'gann."
  • OL actually breaks the infamous training simulation with the help of Ophidian, and simply starts assimilating all the alien ships. He gets up to seventy motherships under his control before J'onn manages to snap M'gann out of it.
  • Poison Ivy vs. Swamp Thing. Given that one is the champion of all plant life on earth and the other is an Eco-Terrorist with delusions of grandeur... it doesn't end well for her.

Digimon

• In the Tamers Forever Series, the sovereigns end up on the receiving end of a swift beatdown at the hands of ChaosGallantmon.
  • And during the final chapter of Silent Sorrow, Daemon gets the everloving crap beaten out of him by Gallantmon Crimson Mode.
• In Digimon Adventure: Episode 1: The Destined Jedi T.K.'s fight against Piedmon is utterly one-sided. After he gets his power boost he tells Kari to stay put while he goes charging back into Piedmon's fortress much to the Dark Master's jargon. Then T.K. proceeds to mop the floor with him. It doesn't matter what Piedmon tries he can't even touch the little guy. T.K. blocks every swing of Piedmon's lightsaber while making hits of his own. Piedmon tries to throw various things at him only for T.K. to throw them back at him. He has an Oh, Crap! moment when he realizes that T.K. is very different from the others. When T.K. pushes the fight back outside Kari wisely stays out of it. Not wanting to be turned into a human shield by a desperate Piedmon. His final words are a Why Won't You Die?. T.K. responds that he is fighting for something he believes in before finishing Piedmon off. It should be noted that although at no point is T.K. fighting with anger, he was not merciful in his brutality.

Dragon Age

• Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns:
  • The Sloth Demon's strongest form, like a werewolf, gets its rear handed to it, thoroughly, by dwarven commonner warden Faren Brosca, in single combat, even though it had been thrashing everyone else up to that point, including the protagonist. This is because the DC had made contact with it directly the moment it morphed and gained an understanding of how his Fade realm worked, then instinctively began to ignore all imposed limitations much like Sloth was doing. Flash Step battle ensues.
  • In the same tale, Uldred is killed instantly because the main cast doesn't wait for him to transform into the Pride Demon form.

Dragon Ball

• In The Warrior's DaughterBulla knew she could defeat Frieza's forces, but she thought they might pose a threat. They did not.
  "And to think I thought you'd be a challenge," Bulla said disappointingly.
• Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
  • It condenses the Garlic Jr. Saga into one episode. This is due to Garlic Jr. running into Mr. Popo right out of the gate.
  • Goku vs. Nappa can be included, even though the entirety of the battle occurs offscreen.

The Familiar of Zero

• Zero no Tsukaima: Saito the Onmyoji has the duel between Karin de Vallière and Vicount Wardes. While the latter is far from a wimp, the Duchess is a widely-feared war hero with enormous magical talent and great expertise with the sword. On top of that, she wants to avenge her daughter's mistreatment (which he's responsible for), so he never stood a chance.

Final Fantasy

• In The Tainted Grimoire, this has happened and probably will happen again.
  • Early in the story, there were several people who went up against Cid and Ensei, that were defeated in just one hit.
  • At the climax of the St. Galleria arc, after Ensei was able to give Judgemaster Cid proof of Vaticus' crimes, Judgemaster Cid sent his personal guard to assist The Heretics in battle against the Archbishop Guard. The back-up easily defeated those that went up against them. Many who saw them were in awe.
  • When Veis and Villi were introduced, Veis defeated the leader of a group of would-be thieves easily.
• In Memento Vivere, the battle with the Chocobo Eater turns into one of these.
• A Flower's Touch: After it knocks around Zack and Aerith, Angeal beats the monster in Madgar's sewers with hardly a sweat.

Fire Emblem

• In The Savior King, the Master Tactician and the Queen of Liberation, Byleth and the Golden Deer completely dismantle and humiliate Acheron and his army. Some of the enemy soldiers flee immediately upon seeing the notorious Ashen Demon, preferring to drown themselves in the Airmid River rather than face her. Acheron himself doesn't even get to fire a spell off before Claude stabs him in the hand, and he promptly surrenders when Claude and Hilda mock him for not realizing their connections to two of the lords of the Leicester Alliance.

Firefly

• Forward has this happening at the end of the "Mosaic" story arc, when River, Jayne, and Mal take on and obliterate Ott's crew. Complete with Team Fortress 2 references.
  • Later on in "Second Interlude," Echo beats Jubal Early unconscious in the span of a single second.
  • In "Hunt," there's a cringe-worthy one where Kaylee fights a Hand of Blue. Kaylee is in a power loader. Needless to say, it ends fast and messy. For the Hand, that is.

Girls und Panzer

• In Boys do Tankary?, this is defied when the protagonists go up against St. Gloriana (which, in canon, ended with Miho just barely losing, after taking out all but one of her opponent's tanks). The male main characters could have won almost effortlessly, but hold back to see what Miho and the others can do, and ensure that they don't rely on the boys too much. Miho sees through the boys' claim of having mechanical problems and is less than happy with them.

Godzilla

• Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): MaNi/Elder Brother's battle against Monster X in their final form ends up being this, with MaNi being the one getting stomped.

Harry Potter

• Rebuilt: Luna vs. Fenrir. Luna wins.
• The Rigel Black Chronicles:
  • Harry is attacked by a mugger, but rescued by Lionel Hurst — who is the Rogue, unofficial king of the Lower Alleys, and won the title by besting all challengers in free-duelling. The attacker doesn't literally bite curb, but is promptly knocked to the ground, tries to pull a knife, and gets his wrist broken. Leo isn't even breathing hard afterwards.
  • Harry's mind is later invaded by Voldemort, and the attacker discovers that she has unnaturally well-developed defences, courtesy of the Dominion Jewel, which is trapped in her head and offered to protect her in exchange for more freedom.
    The enemy came boldly—foolishly. He tore through the snowstorm, leaving scars on the girl's mindscape that would take time and magic to heal.
    Dom met him at the foot of the mountain with a forbidding scowl. "No vacancy, mate."
    The curiously constructed bit of magic paused, looked him over, and sneered. "I won't be fooled twice by that puppet."
    The fragile ego encased in magic attempted to move past him, and Dom pulled the mindscape out from under him.
    "Agh!" The enemy construct slammed into a wall and reared back, finding itself suddenly in a crumbling tomb. It took a step back and—
    Fell off the top of the mountain. Before it could re-orient itself, it slammed into the side of a pyramid and—
    Bam, into one of the tunnels beneath the mountain and—
    Splash, into the Nile. It came up wet and spluttering and found itself buried to the neck in the burning sand.

Haruhi Suzumiya

• Kyon, Yuki, and Tsuruya in Kyon: Big Damn Hero pull this off against two dozen Yakuza, with the first two doing practically all the fighting.

Hetalia: Axis Powers

• Germany and Japan gave the homophobe this in Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità. They had been itching to give him one after he had badly beaten Italy. What caused the last thread to snap was when the homophobe tried to rape Italy.

Homestuck

• Hivefled: Gamzee spent two months imprisoned, tortured, starved, raped repeatedly, drugged into incoherency, and bled almost to the point of death, and still managed to deliver a curbstomping to both Equius and Eridan at the same time. Later on, Lereal attempts to lead the 250 Child Soldiers of the sufferist cult into battle with the empire, with predictably disastrous results.

How to Train Your Dragon

• A Thing of Vikings: Curb Stomps are a recurring feature of what happens when unprepared medieval-era conventional forces go up against dragon-riders, and even those ones that are prepared tend to take heavy losses. This is also what tends to happens to anyone who goes up against Hiccup and backs him into a corner.
  • However, it's subverted when the Pechenegs attack Bianjing, the capital of China, expecting another easy victory. Instead, one woman manages to get the people handling the fireworks to fire them at the dragon riders. The fireworks succeed in killing several dragons and riders, forcing all of the remaining ones to flee.

Invader Zim

• Knows if You've Been Naughty: Upon bursting into her house to punish her for her naughty behavior, Krampus quickly destroys Gaz's security dolls after No Selling their attacks, and easily overpowers her to start inflicting punishment.

Jackie Chan Adventures

• Ages of Shadow: In Chapter 5, Maximus Domino confronts Jade/Yade Khan, and effortlessly manages to restrain and injure her. Except she was just messing with him. She heals herself, breaks free, shrugs off his further attacks, and then blows his head off.
• Queen of All Oni: The fight against the sages in their shrine is entirely in their favor; Brothers Dark and Gray hold the advantage against the Shadow Hand and the J-Team the whole time, while Brother Light doesn't even seem to exert himself while continually tossing Jade and Hak Foo out of the inner shrine.
  • When Ikazuki temporarily usurped control of the Shadow Hand from Jade, it was greatly aided by his samurai wiping the floor with her ninja.
  • The Hero vs Mother fight lasts all of thirty seconds and ends in Hero's favor (which is quite impressive, given that Hero's hands were manacled at the time).
  • Uncle and Jade's first Wizard Duel outside the Section 13 Vault. She has the advantage for about two seconds before he overpowers her.
  • When Left and Right assault Lung's fortress in order to save Jade from him, they completely cut through his defenses — terracotta Mooks? Mow them down. Hybrid Monster guardian? Take a chainsaw to it. Gateway completely impervious to magic attack? Dynamite. While Left is freeing Jade, Right continues after Lung, who proves to be a rather Squishy Wizard and is killed rather quickly.
  • Right vs Viper in chapter 12. She gets in a few hits, but he's simply stronger and more skilled than her.
  • When Kuro takes control of Finn's body during the same fight, he quickly overpowers the heroes and is only stopped by El Toro taking him by surprise.
  • Flashbacks show that Tarakudo easily defeated the Oni Elders, barely wasting any effort in the matter, due to their advanced age and weakness.
• Shadows Awakening: The first fight with Daolon Wong's new dark chi warriors has the J-Team hit with a serious case of The Worf Effect, forcing them to retreat for their lives.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

• In Jonathan Joestar, The First JoJo, The team's first encounter with Heaven Ascension Dio goes like this, until Jonathan steps in.

Kill la Kill

• In A Minor Miscalculation, Ryuko arrives at Honnouji Academy with as much power as she had by the halfway point of the anime, making her battles with Takaharu Fukuroda and an unprepared Satsuki virtually effortless.

Kingdom Hearts

• In Invader, the third story in The Reluctant Father Universe, the Figure/Sora does this to Organization XIII.

The Legend of Zelda

• In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Link's battle with Bongo Bongo goes by very quickly because of Link's skill development as well as his array of holy weapons, which were massively effective against the demon.

The Lord of the Rings

• legolas by laura: "Gandalf is have a fun time trying to distory the dark lord."

The Loud House

• In The Loud House: Revamped whenever the heroes usually outnumber the villains ten-to-one in the battles, expect any of this to happen. Most battles are over in a single combined attack, often with the villain not even attacking. When villains do get to attack, it's common for all their attacks to get dodged, blocked or absorbed.

Lyrical Nanoha

• Game Theory has a very one-sided fight between Zest and Quint against Nanoha and Fate. How one-sided? Nanoha has to resort to Starlight Breaker as a distraction just so that she and Fate can get away.
• In MSLN Test Dummies, Hayate underestimates what Zed, who is a Captain Ersatz of the Terminator, can do and tries to take him on up close rather than call for backup. The results are predictable.

My-HiME

• In Perfection Is Overrated, Shizuru vs. Hitomi ends fairly quickly, with the new arrival launching a sneak attack on and destroying her opponent's Child. It doesn't help that the defeated combatant had posed a threat to Natsuki's well-being, and was largely unused to opponents who could actually fight back on equal terms.
  • As Shizune has the ability to reduce the effectiveness of people's powers and completely depower a single person, she's at a considerable advantage against the Himes, as well as her fellow SUEs in "A Common Enemy Without A Common Cause". On the other hand, her powers provide no protection against mundane weapons, enabling Natsuki to kill her with a handgun in the main story, and two police officers to do the same in "A Common Enemy Without A Common Cause".

Marvel Universe

• A Crooked Man: Being an omnipotent being, Johann merely waves a hand in defeating (or humiliating) anyone that try to take him down.
  • The Thunderbolts has the Venom symbiote sent into the sun, Swordsman loses few of his fingers and gets arrested in an Israeli prison, Moonstone gets scorched by Radioactive Man's redirected nuclear blast and falls in a pile of garbage.
  • Johann's "battle" with the Mighty Avengers ended not so differently with the Thunderbolts. Carol Danvers is sent into the Negative Zone. The Sentry is depowered. Ares gets the brunt of the humiliation in which he loses his ax and gets tied up with a pink bow and dropped in front of Hercules.
• Ultimate Sleepwalker'': Sleepwalker ends up fighting a Hulk being driven nearly insane with rage tearing through New York City. Nothing Sleepwalker does even fazes the Hulk, whether it's impaling him with a large barbed spear or electrocuting the Hulk by connecting him to the New York power grid. The Hulk rapidly heals from all of Sleepwalker's attacks, and while he doesn't manage to hit Sleepwalker too often, the blows he does land are quite literally the most brutal attacks he's ever felt. It's only because Sleepwalker noticed that the Hulk's anger was being increased by his Demonic Possession and tried to use his warp vision to free the Hulk from it that he managed to survive.
• Origin Story features a Kryptonian teenager who is thrown into the Marvel Universe just as the Civil War is cranking up. Naturally, the government decides she's a threat because she just wants to be left alone, and continually attacks her. Pretty much every time Alex Harris gets into a fight, its counts as a Curb-Stomp Battle simply because she's a Kryptonian and the Marvel Universe really doesn't have much in the way of people powerful enough to handle a Kryptonian outside of Galactus and his Heralds. Even Sentry, Ares, and Ragnarok get their asses handed to them on a plate.
  • The fight with Typhoid Mary is the closest Alex comes to being beaten, and that's because Mary is a telepath able to manipulate her target's perceptions. Mary is actually winning against Alex when she's suddenly cold-cocked from behind by Louise, who beats Typhoid Mary down from behind with a bottle of sparkling grape juice.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

• Z To A opens with Peter Parker and Wanda Maximoff being sent back from 2025 to the Battle of Leipzig Airport, where the two of them single-handedly defeat the other ten Avengers, through such advantages as Wanda's additional years of training and Peter's knowledge of the deactivation codes for the Iron Man and War Machine armors. Later, Wanda accompanies Peter when he goes to confront Adrian Toomes the day before the planned arms deal on the Statten Island Ferry, and takes out all of Toomes' men while Peter is talking with Toomes before the older man even knows she's there.

Mass Effect

• In Fanfic/{{Uplifted}}, after the death of Galas'Yoad in the first book, Dieter Hertzer and crew of Sigrid use the goggles he'd modified for night vision to devastating effect against an Allied convoy moving through the desert at night.
• In Mass Effect: Murphy's Law, after Cerberus fails to destroy Orbital Defense Platform Cairo with their opening salvo above Reach, the Cairo and the rest of the Orbital Defense Flotilla proceed to wipe the floor with them.

Mega Man

• In Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race, Bass tends to deliver these to his opponents.
  • In episode 11, chapter 7, the Mad Grinder delivers one to the Robo-Commandos and US Army, killing everyone except Mega Man.

Miraculous Ladybug

• The Substitute Ladybug apparently delivers these every time she fights, taking akumas and sentimonsters down in under five minutes. What isn't publicly obvious is that Marinette is watching from a safe distance with the Snake Miraculous; the five-minute fight is the result of repeated retries until it's perfect.
  Alya: I think that one really rattled Hawkmoth, because everyone that was nearby swore that Mayura got hit by Sting right away and the superheroes just dodged all of the akuma's beams, no problem. And actually- did you know Max analyzed the footage with Markov, and he says that the chances of that happening, especially with a completely new team member in the mix, were, like, single digits. So it's insane that they managed it.

Mobile Suit Gundam

• A Feddie Story features the first encounter between the main character's tank battalion and Zeon's mobile suits; entrenched into a strong defensive position, only five of the forty-eight tanks in the battalion survive. Only one tank actually manages to kill a Zaku.
  • This is reversed during the Battle of Saint Paul, when the Zakus are lured into a city that's crawling with Federation infantry. A whole fire team of six mobile suits is knocked out in seconds when it stumbles into an ambush by a Federation infantry company with rockets and anti-tank missiles, and the Zeon commander withdraws because any attempt to push further into town will probably get the whole battalion killed in series of ambushes.

My Hero Academia

• The Gunslinger Hero: Flintlock:
  • Most of Izumi’s Battle Trials against the teams of students.
  • She and Aizawa were on the receiving end of one thanks to the Nomu at the USJ.
• Hero Class Civil Warfare is basically one very long three-day curbstomp of the exercise's Hero Team due to the Villain Team's Crazy-Prepared leader, Izuku, the Hero Team's poor planning in general, and Bakugou's extremely predictable refusal to deviate from his tendency for direct confrontation. During the entire three day war game, there's only the briefest window where it appears the Hero Team have the advantage, and that is turned around on them so fast they're losing even harder than before after it. By the end, the Hero Team is not only one of the few Hero Teams to have lost the exercise in UA's entire history, but of those, they are the Hero Team to have lost the hardest. With few "surviving" members, no successful Villain captures, and against the first Villain Team to complete all fifteen game objectives, no other Hero Team in the history of the exercise was as thoroughly defeated as them.
• Juxtapose: During the Sports Festival:
  • Katsuki vs. Momo ends up going this way - with Katsuki on the losing end. Thanks to Momo borrowing the knowledge of some of Hatsume Mei's inventions via Kensei and Megumi, she has all the manoeuvrability to stay out of Katsuki's reach, and uses a cloud of aluminium dust to turn Bakugou's explosions back on him with more force than he can take.
  • Then Momo is on the receiving end from Kendou Itsuka - troubled by her victory over Bakugou, she is in such a bad headspace that Kendou eliminates her in the next round.
• Rise of the Last Villain: The League of Villains (or rather, Izuku and Himiko) versus the Shie Hassaikai. Izuku and Himiko wipe out the entire base and escape with Eri.
• All-Might's battle against the Nomu in Shall We Make a Deal? is hilariously one-sided due to Izuku empowering him as much as possible beforehand. All-Might notes that rather than running on fumes, he felt stronger than he had in over twenty years.
• Izuku invokes this in My Iron Giant during his match in the sports festival, deciding that All Might would take the villain down as quickly as possible, so he should too.
• In Jade Lightning, when the League of Villains separates Class 1-A, Izuku winds up in the water-section just like in-canon. The difference here is that he has electricity-powers and knocks them all unconscious instantly by zapping them in the water.
• All For One, of all people, ends up on the receiving end of one in Deku? I think he's some pro...: after Izuku accidentally turns the League of Villains against him, they proceed to take him by surprise and destroy both his life support and his extra oxygen tank, ultimately killing him.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

• A Brief History of Equestria: When the corrupt Unicorn court tried to perform a coup on the royal family, Star-Swirl the Bearded came to the rescue, and single-handedly wiped the floor with every noble involved.
  • Before the Lake Trot Crisis, the Kingdom of Unicorns held roughly a third of said lake's shoreline. Afterwards, they held only three percent.
  • Also during the Crisis, Lady Cripps the Pink led the forces of the Hyracotherium Republic to victory over the Celestine Junta. The Junta's forces were devastated, while the Republic lost exactly one soldier... who died from choking on a sandwich.
  • When the Founders were all in the cave during the Winter War, Platinum and Puddinghead tried to kill Hurricane, only for him to knock them both out with a single buck each.
• The Immortal Game: General Esteem vs anypony that isn't Rarity, Twilight's mother, or Twilight herself.
  • Nihilus vs Luna, round one. Though it should be noted that the latter was exhausted and drained at the time.
  • God-mode Twilight vs. anyone who isn't Titan himself (and that includes his Puppet avatars).
  • The second Battle of Ponyville is very clearly in Terra's favor, even when all the Mane Six and Luna are working together to try and bring her down. Then they reignite the neutralized Elements of Harmony and even the playing ground.
• Turing Test, the robot pony in The Iron Horse: Everything's Better With Robots!, avoids violence at all costs until she's absolutely forced to. When she does, the previously undefeatable villain gets his flank handed to him effortlessly.
• Equestria: A History Revealed: The Battle of Canterlot was set up to be one by Princess Luna as a Defensive Feint Trap, assaulting Celestia's tired forces with her own Nightmare battalion three times in number. But she didn't consider the difference that an empowered alicorn princess could make in the battle, and Celestia manages to pull off a very narrow victory.
• Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons:
  • By chapter 42, Blackjack has gone berserk twice: The first time in Miramare Air Station, where she only awakens after the carnage she wreaked unarmed was over. The second time, her brutality made an allied Highlander visibly afraid and her remaining enemies attempted to flee after her first two kills. They didn't make it.
  • Later, she fights Legate Vitiosis, who manages to completely No-Sell everything Team Blackjack can throw at him, up to and including cutting his head off with a starmetal sword. The only reason the story doesn't end right then and there is because he decides Blackjack isn't a Worthy Opponent.
• In Jericho (MLP), there's one particular fight scene so quick that it's literally blink-and-you'll-miss-it. The main character, Jericho, is reading a billboard when a stallion comes up from behind him, they exchange words, and the guy catches Jericho completely off-guard with a punch. But the actual fight?
  I gave the guy a side-neck chop as I pivoted and let him fall past me.
• Some battles in Ace Combat: Equestria Chronicles may qualify. Since they usually involve the Mirage squadron, their enemies have a hard time winning against them.
  • However, in chapter 11 of Ace Combat: The Equestrian War, Rainbow Dash is brutally curbstomped by Gilda. While being immobilized.
• Inner Demons: Queen!Twilight Sparkle versus Luna. The Princess only gets one attack in, which Twilight reflects back at her, before immobilizing her. And then she uses a Mind Control spell on her, ending the fight.
  • Applejack's first encounter with Queen!Twilight's magically constructed Mooks was over very quickly. Unfortunately, she lost.
  • When Applejack and Rarity are breaking out of the castle, they absolutely mow down all of the soldiers in their way. At least until they're confronted by the brainwashed Princess Luna.
• Getting Back on Your Hooves: The Diamond Dogs try to sabotage Trixie's charity concert and are confronted by Rarity. Having been given ear plugs by Checker Monarch to protect themselves from Rarity's whining, the Dogs figure they can take her... only for Rarity to reveal that she knows kung-fu (or the Equestrian equivalent). She then proceeds to kick. Their. Asses.
• Chronicles of Harmony's End: Array wastes most of his energy on an unsuccessful Beam Spam and Kamehame Hadoken combo, which Discord casually evades before snaring and restraining him with a whip. Fight over.
• Rainbooms and Royalty: When Twilight fights Blackened Armor (the brainwashed Shining Armor), she stops holding back her power, as she'd been doing her whole life, and completely wipes the floor with him, purifying him in the process.
• In Guide To Recent Equestrian History:
  • The Battle of the Republic: Discord manged to defeat over one million republic troops.
  • The First Battle of Las Pegasus: The Third Army of Equestria is stomped so thoroughly that only fifteen of the ten thousand ponies survived.
• The Ponies of Olympus series:
  • The thugs who harass Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo in Storm Alley don't last very long.
  • Pretty much every fight Rarity's in. She barely even breaks a sweat.
    • Subverted with Ran Biao, who actually proves a match for Rarity, though she still loses.
  • She seems to have picked this up from Lao Wu — the first match we see him in lasts all of a minute.
• The Stars Will Aid Their Escape:
  • Herald manages to defeat the Princesses quite easily when they're weakened by the eclipse. Shortly after, he's attacked by all the Element Bearers (and Spike) at once, and swats them all away with one hoof. The tables are turned when he's thrown into the void with the Princesses. Not only are they no longer weakened, they're free to use their maximum power against him without having to hold back. While he gets his own attacks in, he's shown sustaining way more punishment and damage than they are and is ultimately forced to flee. It doesn't do his sanity any favors.
  • Of course, then Twilight recovers from the insanity he inflicted on her and together, the Bearers return the favor when banishing him back where he came from.
• In the RealityCheck's Nyxverse fanfic Tirek Gets A Righteous Beatdown: Tirek versus Spike. An armored, Godzilla-sized Spike with an epic mad-on. The outcome is pretty accurately described by the title.
• In the Pony POV Series, the Dragon-Hooviet War ended in one of these when Queen Tiamat entered the fray. Even by dragon standards she's huge, and after laying waste to the southern half of the Hooviet Empire, (willingly) stopped just short of completely destroying their capital.
  • There's also the Dark World!Mane Cast vs. Discord's army of Mooks. It's so one sided Rarity and Applejack manage to have Casual Danger Dialogue while kicking flank. Special note goes to the Shadow-Beast-Of-The-Third-Unresolved (which was probably the most normal thing there) and the giant-cyborg-spider-vampire, neither of which even get to attack before getting taken out by Pinkie Pie pulling an Offhand Backhand with her party cannon and Apple Pie using a Logic Bomb, respectively.
  • Shortly before that, we have Proto-Nightmare Twilight vs Angry Pie. The battle is extremely one sided and by the end, Twilight, after being brought back to her senses, is left wondering how many times over she would've killed Angry Pie if she weren't immortal and Angry is left near catatonic.
  • In Melody's 7 Dreams/Nightmares chapter, Rancor, while visiting the past, gets out of hand and Mortis, who's watching her at the time, has to step in. He easily disables her by paralyzing her with acupuncture in a couple seconds.
    • In the second half, Melody's daughter, Sweet Music, steps up to defend a unicorn named Spell Circle from three colts who are bullying him. Despite being a blank flank filly, she beats the crap out of all three and sends them running home with a warning that if she catches them doing it again, she'll tell everypony in town they got beat up by a girl.
  • Back in Dark World, the first fight between the Elements of Harmony and Nightmare Paradox's Psycho Ranger Co-Dragons ends with all the heroes but Twilight One-Hit KO'ed, and the chapter ends on a cliffhanger.
    • Later on, Twilight summons the G1, G2, G3, and G4 (Pre-Discord) mane casts to the present and reignites the Princesses' Elements to return the favor.
  • One happens in the backstory of the series. A mortal pegasus uses the Concept Killing Spear to permanently kill the son of Celestia's sister, the Love Goddess Venus. Venus descends to the mortal plane in an Unstoppable Rage and confronts said Pegasus, who prepares to try and kill her with it. Venus blows a heart-shaped hole through her chest before she can even attack.
  • Shining Armor's first fight with General-Admiral Makarov. Shining gets one hit; the rest of the fight consists of Makarov delivering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Shining. Makarov probably would've beat him to death if Thunderchild hadn't performed a Big Damn Heroes moment to save his flank.
    • Ironically, during the Final Battle between the two, Makarov ends up on the receiving end when Shining summons the Wolf. Makarov is able to hit it once... and that's it. Afterward, it No Sells all his attacks, ripping out all of his stolen Lights of Existence, eventually wiping him from existence.
• The war games exercise in Diaries of a Madman ends up with the Night Guard winning against the Day Guard in a near-flawless victory after Navarone teaches them guerrilla warfare, to devastating effect.
• In many Deconstruction Fics of The Conversion Bureau such as The Conversion Bureau: Not Alone and The Conversion Bureau: Cold War, humanity wipes the floor with the Royal Guard thanks to the huge gap in technology between the two sides.
  • Subverted in The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum and the Continuity Reboot Spectrum. Humanity still has the upper hand in terms of war technology, and it's clear that without the barrier, the war would have been laughably easy rather than the three year struggle it has been.
  • In The Negotiations-verse, the war between humanity and the ponies was largely at a stalemate, with the barrier being the only real advantage the ponies had. Once humanity developed the Anti-Magic Thalmann Generators and started putting them to use, destroying the barrier and even successfully killing Luna, the ponies got their butts handed to them on a silver platter from that point on and it takes less than a year for humanity to decisively win the war. In the prequel story, Warfare, the protagonist, Halberd, describes the Invasion of Equestria as such. To say the defense forces got utterly plowed flat would be an understatement. Despite the ponies doing everything they could to prepare themselves to the point of making their own firearms to compete with the humans' weapons, the flying forces get mulched by anti-air weapons, the Navy doesn't even get a shot off before it's set on fire by submarines, and in less than twenty minutes, the survivors are ordered to retreat. The humans didn't even land troops until the second day.
• My Little Metro: Expected in-universe when Lockbox challenges Steel Crescent to single combat for the freedom of Sidewinder. Averted when Lockbox actually wins, to the shock of nearly everypony present.
• In The Dark Side of the Mirror Verse, a story taking place in Reflections Equestria while saving Rainbow Crash, Mirror!Starlight Glimmer ends up fighting against bully who refuses to back down. Not only does the guy get his flank kicked without laying a finger on her, Starlight takes time to tell him why his lack of discipline is getting in the way of his martial arts Special Talent.
• In How Trixie (Somehow) Saved Hearth's Warming:
  • Trixie's first encounter with the Rat King ends with her turned into a puppet and captured quickly. Her second encounter with him goes much better ending with his Disney Villain Death, but she's fully aware that he's a much better straight up fighter than her and this would be the result of her trying to fight him head on. So she doesn't.
  • The fight with Leidr is this for much of it. As strong as Trixie and Vixen are Leidr is a Windigo (though not as strong as the original trio) and a mutant sapient one at that (meaning that unlike normal Windigos, he's actually learned to cast spells). To make matters worse when they finally manage to deal some damage to him he goes One-Winged Angel by performing a Fusion Dance with his two nonsapient pack mates. However, this is reversed once Trixie remembers how the original trio were defeated and manages to invoke the Power of Friendship with her friends, at which point it's Leidr who's completely overpowered and has most of his power destroyed.
• In Midnight Star, Midnight does this to Twilight's Luna AND Discord in a 2-vs.-1 fight. Considering she had beaten Nightmare Moon and Discord in her previous world, it's not surprising.
  • Midnight Star and Twilight do this to each other. At first, once Midnight tries to take over Twilight's body, Twilight is hard-pressed to last out against Midnight, and once under her hoof she can't do anything to stop her. Even when Twilight manages to separate from her body as pure magic aether, she still can't quite keep up with Midnight's raw power and chaos magic. However, once Twilight fully embraces Harmony and her latent magic power, she turns around and counters everything Midnight can throw at her.
• In the My Little Pony fan video Elements of Cringe, Flame Majesty is able to one-shot three Alicorn Princesses in a row, after becoming one himself.
• The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: Sharp Point’s gang is on the receiving end of one when the Questioning Order gets involved in their fight. While not shown, it is implied to have been very brutal.
• In The Meaning of Harmony Princess Celestia delivers one of these to the Windigos in the frozen wastes, when she arrives to rescue Sunset and the others from the blizzard.
• In Below Average, Starlight Glimmer's army is on the receiving end when facing Princess Luna and the royal guards. While Starlight's forces do outnumber their enemies, they're all completely average at fighting (read: no skill at all) while wearing "average" armor and fighting trained soldiers wearing exceptional armor, many of whom have combat related Cutie Marks. In the very first clash, most of Starlight's army has their weapons break immediately. Even when she starts to get something of an upper hand by stealing the soldiers' Cutie Marks, several guards are either not ponies (so no Cutie Marks to steal) or are wearing magic blockers.
• A Diplomatic Visit: Chapter 11 of the third story, Diplomacy Through Schooling. The Lady of Magic Vs. Tirek, full stop. Tirek ends up losing an arm and his mind, and is re-imprisoned in Tartarus… and now has cancer to boot, but can't die from it because of the extra effects the Lady of Magic added.

Naruto

• Any fight involving a Corporation Agent in Akatsuki Kitten: Phoenix Corporation Overhaul. The interesting part? The readers actually still like them. The author does nothing to hide how well-versed she is in tropes, especially Sue tropes, and knows exactly how close the Agents come and why. Then again, the Agents refer to themselves as being minions, employees, or even just servants of the author.
• Dreaming of Sunshine: Naruto's fight with Neji in the Chunin exams. Neji never even touches the real Naruto.
  • And then by the Sound Four against Ibiki.
  • Shikako vs. Netsui. ends with the former winning without ever touching the latter.
• In Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox, the fight between Shikamaru and Aoi during the Uchiha Zaibatsu Invitational Tournament results in this. Aoi badmouthed Ino repeatedly, so Shikamaru shut him up with one punch.
• In Nareto: The Scret of Shiobi, Emeraldia frequently gets into these. Interestingly enough, when she defeats Gaara with a single water attack, the narration tries to pass it off as a long fight.
• In Naruto Mysterious Power, there are a few minor fights like this, but the battle between Naruto, his harem, and Future Sakura definitely count; Future Sakura pretty much overpowers them quite brutally.
• Naruto's first fight with Jiraiya in The Sealed Kunai predictably ends with Jiraiya easily kicking Naruto's ass.
• There are almost as many fights in A Teacher's Glory that play this straight as avert it, and they are all awesome.
  • Using teamwork, Team 7 and Hinata run circles around Jiraiya.
  • The Sand loses the invasion so badly, it becomes known in-universe as The Breaking of Suna, and Leaf's counter-attack leaves Orochimaru without minions or bases and running for his life.
  • Hinata being beaten by Neji in thirty seconds instead of ten minutes wouldn't usually be awesome, except that she fought back so hard that Neji collapses after being declared the victor.
• In Team 8, the Naruto vs. Sasuke fight in the Chunin Exams results in this due to Sasuke pushing Naruto's Berserk Button. Oops.
• True Potential:
  • Ino loses her fight against Dosu during the Chūnin Exams preliminaries pretty quickly. Both Naruto and Kurotsuchi are quite shocked at how fast the fight was over.
  • During the Konoha Invasion, Hiruzen has to face the Sound Four in their full-power Cursed forms. It's so one-sided as to be a Foregone Conclusion, with Tayuya only surviving due to Hiruzen suspecting her lineage.

Nasuverse

• Fate/Black Dawn: Shirou wins his first duel against a prospective knight in three breaths, without magic, and without killing his opponent. Then Arturia offers him a friendly duel. By the end of it, Shirou has barely managed to survive despite going all-out while Arturia was clearly just toying with him.
• For Want Of A Relic: Butterfly Effect: The first proper fight of the Fifth War quickly turns into this, with Saber intercepting and countering Assassin's Noble Phantasm in one strike. Izou's ability to reproduce techniques is less effective, using only one katana to mimic Diarmuid's twin swords.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

• A Crown of Stars:
  • Chapter 55. Asuka's Red Whirlwind against a dozen of armored vehicles and some infantry units. No contest.
  • Several chapters later the Avalon forces engaged the Jinnai’s fleet. The UN army could not even put a scratch on them.
• Advice and Trust: After Shinji and Asuka's full graduation to Battle Couple some of their battles have been quite... one-sided. When they fought Leliel, the battle was over as soon as they went berserker. Shinji shattered its shadow into pieces, and Asuka ripped its body from within.
• The Child of Love: Asuka against the Angel that appeared in chapter 3. The giant alien was crushing her fellow pilots when she came along, pushed it away with a hand, and helped Shinji and Rei to kill it with a single attack.
• Doing It Right This Time: Rei against Sachiel in the first chapter. She kicked its groin, shattered one of its kneecaps, slammed its face against a building, suplexed it and finally disembowelled it.
• HERZ: Any battle involving an Eva –especially Unit 01- is one-sided and is over very, very quickly.
• Once More With Feeling (Crazy-88): Shinji and Asuka against Israfel. In this timeline, they manage to fight coordinately from the start, and they stomp all over it without need of a rematch.
• The One I Love Is...: Shinji against the MP-Evas in the Final Battle. Asuka was butchering them when they suddenly gained the upper hand and tore her robot into pieces. Then Shinji arrived, saw what they had done, and went completely berserker. He utterly massacred them.

One Piece

• Many of the Peggy Sue fics use this for most of the protagonist's battles, such as Once Again, Luffy's Renewed Adventure, Second Wind, and New Game Plus.
• In Our Mrs. Monkey, Luffy and Nami have gotten married. So when Absalom kidnaps Nami during Thriller Bark? Curbstomp ensues.
  Nami: Why is there a hole in the... everything?
  Luffy: Well, first I hit him in gear second, but then he turned invisible and I couldn't see him. But I knew he was in the room, so I used gear third to hit it.
  Nami: Hit what?
  Luffy: The room.
• This Bites!:
  • The Bellamy Pirates' assault on Cricket's home ends like this. All it takes is Soundbite's Gastro-Phony and Gastro-Blast techniques, and the whole crew is out with Cross or Luffy hardly having to lift a finger.
  • Thanks to Cross's foreknowledge and cunning, Soundbite's listening, Lassoo's trick ammo and the rest of the crew's defensive reflexes, Satori is sent flying without even laying a hand (or ball) on the crew.
  • Jabra slammed on Luffy's Berserk Button as hard as he could in hopes of getting the fight of his life. The resulting Death Glare makes him fully aware that it was a fatal mistake, and what follows isn't so much a fight as a massacre.
• Crossed Lines: As every member of the original crew is New World level at a minimum, they don't so much fight enemies as casually smack them aside.

Pokémon

• Ash in Challenger utterly destroys the top ten students at Pokémon Academy due to being Taught by Experience while his opponents only know theory and most barely train their Pokémon at all.
  • Almost any time Ash faces off against a Team Rocket Admin, he's on the receiving end. His first fight against one ends almost the moment it begins when his opponent's Crobat attacks him directly. A later fight has Ash fleeing for his life from a Hydreigon after Team Rocket decides to stop messing around and actually kill him.
• In Common Sense, Ash, from his run-ins with Team Rocket, dedicates much more time to training than in canon, lest the Terrible Trio actually succeed in their plans. By the time his most important battles swing around, he manages to win them handily, since he's used to Team Rocket's Combat Pragmatist tactics.
  • There's a glaring example in Chapter 20: Misty tries to challenge Ash to a Water Pokémon battle, but he calls it quits when he sees that, first, she's using the same strategies he used in their Gym battle against him after having called it "cheating", and second, that she won't give him any respect even if he wins. After she pushes his buttons one too many times, he proceeds to defeat her entire team, all at once with only one Pokémon, by taking advantage of her over-reliance on battling in or near the water.
• Two notable ones in The (Edit) War for Ash’s Freedom to not be Betrayed:
  • The first one happens when Ash is confronted by a trio of jerkass hipsters who mock him for never winning a league and proceed to battle him with "OU tier" Pokémon. Ash proceeds to wipe them all out with Unfezant, because OU tier or not, he has experience battling multiple Leagues and they don't.
  • The second comes when Darkern Edgier tries to kill Pikachu with a hoard of Gyarados; naturally, Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors refuses to be ignored for the sake of angst, and Pikachu easily wipes the Water/Flying-types out with an Electric move. Another attempt with a hoard of Rock and Ground-types is similarly prevented, as Ash has all his Pokémon with him and merely commands the Water and Grass-types to open fire.
• Legendarily Popular contains several, but Ash winning the Rain Badge is a notable example. He doesn't just beat the Gym, he uses a tiny Groudon to desiccate it, drying out the pool and preventing any water-type attacks from working. The Gym Leader remarks afterward that "normally we don't mean you have to defeat the very concept of the Water type itself."
• Contrary to what might seem with the Peggy Sue premise, in Pokémon Reset Bloodlines these don't take place very often between Ash and other opponents, mostly because, while Ash's Pokémon have their memories, they don't regain their physical abilities and thus need to retrain. Most of his victories this way are against weaker opponents like the Samurai, and the Sensational Sisters.
  • On the other hand, the battle between Erika and Morana is this...in Erika's favor, since despite having Type advantage, the much more experienced leader beats her without taking any hits.
  • Falkner tries to battle and catch Ho-Oh. End result? The legendary swats his strongest Pokémon like a fly, and leaves Falkner unconscious for 4 days.
  • The battle between Blaine and Raymond also becomes this when Blaine's Growlithe defeats his entire team, single-handedly.
  • And what happens when a bunch of green-horn Team Rocket grunts go against Elite Four member Lorelei and her boyfriend Frey? Mega Evolution, that's what.
• In Play it Again, Ash, Samurai challenges Ash's Pidgeot with his Metapod. After a couple tackles fail to do anything at all, Pidgeot just holds Metapod down and asks it to stop, saying it's embarrassing both of them.
• Pokémon: The Lost Child:
  • Prinplup and Grovyle's battle with Plusle and Minun goes very badly for them, to say the least. They get very quickly overwhelmed by their helping hand-boosted electric moves, with Prinplup getting knocked out in one hit and Grovyle only taking one hit before forfeiting.
  • When Empoleon goes to take on Hippowdon, he loses very badly due to being weak to his ground moves after his evolution and needs to get bailed out by the newly evolved Sceptile.
  • In Chapter 17, Cacturne is overwhelmed by having to deal with three opponents at once and is defeated very easily.

Ragnarok Online

• In Warriors of the World: Soldiers of Fortune, Baphomet proceeds to thoroughly stomp Valkron despite the knight getting in a few hits, true to his nature as an ancient demon and one of the Boss Beasts of Midgard. It probably didn't help matters that the knight had to fight against some mind control in the process.

RWBY

• Ruby and Nora has many cases, though the most infamous is RWY’s complete and total annihilation of ARN.
• From Four Deadly Secrets:
  • Most of India and Ruby's duel is just Ruby practicing her defensive stance. When she stops playing around the battle's over in one blow.
  • When Ruby drops into the White Fang's ambush on Weiss, the White Fang literally come out in pieces.
  • The Jaws Of Menagerie mooks who attack Ruby, Miltia, Venus and India don't put up much of a fight.
• From Good Bellas:
  • In "The Mancunian Candidate", Blake inflicts a messy one on the mafiosi who betrayed and murdered her father, with a little help from Ruby.
• White Sheep (RWBY):
  • Adam Taurus vs. Kevin the Grimm dragon. It's less a fight and more Adam frantically running away with his strongest blows barely scratching Kevin. After Adam loses his weapon and tries to take a hostage, Kevin crunches Adam in a single bite. The most difficult part of the battle is that Ruby has to order Kevin to spit out Weiss, who was standing next to Adam.
  • Any time Jaune has gone all out, nobody has stood a chance against him. Adam came closest, and might have been able to defeat him, but Jaune was just stalling for Kevin to arrive.
  • Vernal taunts Jaune by telling him he's "no one important." Cue offscreen beatdown of Raven's "best student."
  • All of Salem's faction, the Atlas army, and the White Fang are completely incapable of even mildly inconveniencing the God of Darkness. With a heroic effort, they manage to cut off his leg... which he ignores, standing on one leg until he gets bored and regenerates it.
• Children of Remnant:
  • Marcus' attempt to assassinate Jaune ends in less time than it takes him to pull out his weapon; as soon as Blake sees what he's doing, she teleports to him and kills him instantly.
  • Pyrrha versus the entire Beacon population. It's a brutally humiliating battle, even when Silver Eyes come into play, and Pyrrha only gets stronger as the battle continues. The only reason it wasn't even worse is because, even in the depths of her grief and rage, she was trying not to kill anyone. When she cuts off Yang's arm, Yang is able to talk her down before she passes out.

The Saga of Tanya the Evil

• A Young Woman's Political Record features several courtesy of Germania:
  • The Battle of Duisbusch. Thanks to the newly developed concept of stealth casting, the occupying army didn't even know Tanya was there until about a minute before she opened fire, taking out all the 32nd's senior officers and over 90% of their mages in the opening salvo. While most of the rank and file troops survived the attack, the surprise so shattered their morale that they surrendered in place the next morning.
  • During the Francois invasion of Northern Ildoa, an aerial mage recon force decides to probe the Germanian defenses at Carthinia and they die to a man without doing anything meaningful.
  • In the first ever battle of Germania's new navy, one carrier and fourteen destroyers go up against a carrier, five battleships, ten cruisers and twenty two destroyers; a six to one tonnage disadvantage. Through a combined force doctrine between Air Force guided bombs, aerial mages, dive bombers and torpedo runs, all of the Francois ships save a single destroyer are sunk or taken, with the only confirmed Germanian casualties being three dive bombers and a fighter. The surviving ship defects to Albion to avoid having to return to the war.
  • The entire second World War ends up one for Francois, with Tanya riding a tank down the streets of Parisee just two weeks after the war starts.

Sherlock Holmes

• Mortality plays with this. Holmes gets brutally captured after he kills two criminals.

A Song of Ice and Fire

• Chasing Dragons:
  • The battle of Pentos pitted under equipped sellswords, Pentoshi nobles and mutinous slave soldiers against a force of armoured knights and Ironborn reavers that outnumbered them at least two to one. The outcome was never in doubt.
  • The Battle of Narrow Run between Khal Zirquo's 11,000 strong Dothraki khalasar and Ned Stark's Myrish army made up of knights, Westerosi longbowmen and most importantly, the highly disciplined and trained Iron Legion. The Myrish lost twelve knights and 278 legionaries killed with twice as many wounded. The Dothraki? Six thousand dead with another thousand too wounded to fight. Amongst the dead were all of Khal Zirquo's sons, bloodriders, most of his Kos and Khal Zirquo himself. With hundreds deserting in shame after the battle, Khal Zirquo's khalasar was not just defeated, it ceased to exist.
  • The battle of Tickclose Field rivals Culloden for the sad massacre that Stannis inflicts on the Reach's minor nobility. Despite being outnumbered at least three to one, the Reachmen charge home believing their cause was just; away from their infantry and archers. Most of them are cut down by Stannis's crossbowmen and spearmen, with their infantry giving up and running for the hills.
  • Pretty much all of Balon's Rebellion is this; not only are the Greyjoys outmatched in both numbers and material, but Balon's ace in the whole, the reason he believed his rebellion could succeed in the first place was because he thought he had a spy on the King's council; his brother Euron. He never realized that Euron had deliberately been feeding him bad intel and inducing Balon into committing his forces into disastrous battles.
  • Khal Drogo's horde vs the Confederation of the Darkwash, which ends with the Dothraki wiping out every village in the region.
• The King Nobody Wanted:
  • The remnant of the Driftmark Fleet does not do well against the new Stag Fleet. Janos Slynt actually stops watching, considering it a decided match.
  • In Chapter 78, Glarius goads a band of Dothraki warriors into attacking him; when they do so, he takes them down so brutally and efficiently that the other characters can't even follow along. One moment, the Dothraki are thundering down on him with weapons drawn; then there's a blur of motion, and Glarius is standing among a pile of corpses and without so much as a scratch on his person.
• The Merchant Prince Of Pentos has the Braavosi navy deliver an epic one on the Pentoshi navy. Out of eighty ships, the Pentoshi lose more than sixty. The Braavosi? They "win" twenty-five vessels (they captured them). It's a very strong defeat when you're crushed and your opponent get stronger.
• Purple Days:
  • In chapters 46 and 47, King Joffrey Baratheon goes off to meet Renly's Storm-and-Reach host of a hundred thousand men with only about five thousand of his own Royal Guard, Crownlander knights and lowborn raiders. Rather than confront them directly, Joffrey uses textbook Fabian strategy that turns Renly's greater numbers into his greatest weakness, with supply and morale loss so great that even Lord Randyll Tarly can't do anything to restore discipline. The end result is that Renly's court very quickly dissolves into own civil war, not helped by Renly's ill-thought ideas, which fomented jealousy and anger between the various lords and knights, with Joffrey and his men taken aback at how quickly the enemy army disintegrated. Moving in, he slays the entirety of the Rainbow Guard single-handedly and the remainder of Renly's faction, who still outnumbers Joffrey's forces by several orders of magnitude, either turn coat, surrender or flee.
  • In a previous cycle of the ongoing "Groundhog Day" Loop, Joffrey leads a Crownlander force to head off the Riverlanders gathering at the start of the War of the Five Kings and utterly smashes the gathering Darry forces, with him killing a few knights and lords in single combat. When he gets to the Northern host, he plows right through everyone and defeats Theon and Robb in quick succession, despite the latter having a Valyrian steel advantage in Ice. Unfortunately, he dies later of his wounds.

Sonic the Hedgehog

• Chapter 5 of The Egg Team ends with a very angry Metal Sonic brutally attacking all three members of the trio one after the other after failing to finish them off earlier, leaving them all lying on the ground with serious injuries. The only thing that prevents him from actually finishing the job is Sonic showing up and distracting him long enough for the trio to be taken back to the base.
• Episode 64 of Sonic X: Dark Chaos: Lord Maledict himself appears to challenge Sonic and take the Chaos Emeralds. When Sonic and his friends refuse, Maledict promptly stomps Super Sonic, Super Shadow, and Super Eric into the floor at the same time. He also obliterates the Tryphon station and the entire Metarex fleet with a single attack.
  • In Episode 73, Tsali kills Tails and is about to kill Cosmo. Then Tails turns into Shroud Tails, regenerates himself, sucks out all of Tsali's Dark Chaos Energy reserves, and throws Tsali into space through a window.
• A New Life Era:
  • In the Hacker's childhood, he won his battle with the bully with the bully not standing a chance.
  • Years later, history repeats with the Hacker's son, not once, but twice.

Spyro the Dragon

• Chapter 16 of The Portal: Blizzard gets absolutely demolished by Zobek and then infected by his power when he gets stabbed by Zobek's tail.

Star Trek Online

• In The Headhunt, Eleya derides the USS Enterprise-A, which was stolen from the breaker yards by The Mafia over a century earlier, as a "hundred-twenty-five-year-old museum piece with some newer tech bolted on", right before her own Galaxy-class USS Bajor, launched in 2409, casually catches up to it when it's going flat-out and blasts it out of warp in about three seconds. Enforced in that the author's note said it was a Take That! to the Vocal Minority wanting a T5 retrofit of the Constitution-class in STO.
  "See that? That's what's supposed to happen when you send a 23rd century ship up against a 25th century ship. Kiss my pretty Bajoran backside, T5 Connie crowd."
• Justified in "Aen'rhien Vailiuri". The Kazon were never exactly a threat even forty years ago against the USS Voyager (it always took multiple Kazon ships to pose a credible threat), and Voyager was just a medium cruiser stuck on its own with no support. Now factor in that Morgan's ship is a D'deridex-class battlecruiser with modern armament and a cloaking device. T'Khnialmnae, the tactical officer, says the Kazons' weapons are about as good as what the Romulans were using a century ago and the shields aren't much better.
• "The Road Not Taken": Eleya versus a Klingon warrior who's threatening to kill the Ferengi bartender Hadron. She tries to arrest him for assault, then adds "resisting arrest" and "assaulting a law officer" after tripping him and putting him in a hammerlock when he charges her.
• Shortest War Ever: A Federation spaceship finds a world roughly comparable to 1960s Earth, complete with a Cuban Missile Crisis analogue - one that actually goes hot while the ship's commander is in the middle of requesting permission to interfere in any nuclear wars if the worst-case scenario takes place in spite of the Alien Non-Interference Clause. Over the course of half an hour the ship and its crew destroy nearly the entire nuclear arsenal of both sides, with only six people lost from the Federation ship (and sixty million of the natives on a planet of seven billion - considering that nearly the entire nuclear arsenal of both sides had apparently been or was in the process of being launched, The End of the World as We Know It was not impossible if the ship hadn't interfered).

Star Wars Legends

• In the The Thrawn Trilogy AU TIE Fighter: Turning Point Rukh's assassination attempt on Thrawn is foiled, and the battle of Bilbringi turns into this for the Empire.
• In Darth Vader: Hero of Naboo, Vader mops the floor with everyone he's come across thus far. To wit:
  • He mows the Trade Federation battle droids down like grass.
  • He bests Maul without even needing to draw his lightsaber.
  • When making a staged attack on the Jedi Temple, he is an unstoppable juggernaut.
• Tarkin's Fist: Many of the story's detractors conclude that the Empire is overpowered. Initial battles in the Empire-Earth War, such as the Battle of Los Angeles and the Battle of Shanghai, are Imperial victories that see high Earth casualties and comparatively low Imperial ones. While the Imperials do inflict extraordinary casualties on Earth's national forces, Earth characters do readily adapt and improvise in their war with the Empire. The Empire is presented as having superior technology thousands of years in advance of anything the Earth possesses. But the Earth displays superior strategic planning and a level of ability to withstand and endure the worst the Empire can throw at them. So the trope is initially played straight, and then gradually subverted as the war drags on.

Star Wars Rebels

• In Ezra Lost, we have Darth Vader vs. Kanan Jarrus. Yeah. It goes about as well for Kanan as you think it does.
  • Then we have the Vidian vs. the Battle Star.
    • And near the end, Kanan vs. the Inquisitor. Inky is back after the season 1 finale and he is renewing his victory streak against Kanan, no doubt about it.

Steven Universe

• In The Story of Black Pearl, the titular character, Black Pearl, effortlessly wipes the floor with a gem rebel force; shattering over half and poofing the remaining ones.
• In Faded Blue, Blue Pearl is outclassed by Garnet in both strength and combat skill, but she does take the Fusion by surprise at one point by... hitting her with a fish.

Supernatural

• Early in Down to Agincourt, Castiel takes Dean down casually and with no apparent effort in order to make a point. There's no actual beating up, but it's quite clear that's because Castiel doesn't feel the need to, rather than because he couldn't do it.

Super Smash Bros.

• In Smash Mansion: Runaways, while the Smashers are visiting the world of Fire Emblem: Awakening, a dark mage with an army of Risen assaults the characters, planning to get vengeance on the Shepherds for killing Grima. Naturally, she turns out to be woefully outclassed; not only does Samus destroy her army singlehandedly, her most powerful spell turns out to be Flux, one of the weakest ones in the game. Tharja ends up rotting her body to nothing out of disgust over how weak she is.

Touhou Project

• Imperfect Metamorphosis pits a limitedly-powered-up-Marisa (was also supplied with twelve of Yukari's absolutely insanely over the top Spellcards), Mima, Yuyuko, Youmu, Utsuho, Satori, Orin, Flandre, Remilia, Sakuya, and Yukari against Yuuka and Elly, who Yuuka brought in to even things up a bit after Yukari cheated and brought in 11 people to a supposedly one-on-one duel. Yuuka laughingly curbstomps the Scarlet Devil and Underground forces using one quater of her power (possibly permakilling Satori and Flandre, or trapping them in a Fate Worse than Death), and then brings three quaters of her power to bear against Yukari and gets a draw where both sides are too damaged to continue, with Yukari in worse shape. The only battle she 'lost' was against Marisa, Mima, Yuyuko, and Youmu, and even then she was only using 1/4 of her power, and she had 'Team Halloween' down to the ropes during the later part of the fight. Yuuka curbstomped most of the upper tier of the Touhou-verse at once without ever bringing her full power to bear.

Turning Red

• In Turning Red: Secrets of the Panda, after Xia sees the horrible things Jason has done, and witnesses Jason shooting Mei in the gut, she completely snaps. This leads to her beating the ever-living hell out of Jason, while in her red panda form.

Warhammer 40,000

• In Tales of the Emperasque, practically every fight the Emperor gets into ends this way, by the virtue of him being now seventeen-feet tall monster and psyker powerhouse. On the other hand, Word of God is that if he tried to attack any Chaos God on his own, he'd be on the receiving end of this trope.

Whateley Universe

• In Hard Being Pure, the fight between Snatch and Rust is completely one sided in Rust's favour, with him easily cutting through Snatch's robots with his laser while Snatch's bot are stuck with inefficient weapons like a railgun and jackhammer.

Worm

• Atonement: Every battle where Ruin decides to cut loose in ends with a word or two from her and a dead opponent. This includes Horde of the Slaughterhouse Nine.
• Taylor Hebert delivers one to the Slaughterhouse Nine in Chosen. Kind of the only possible outcome, considering Taylor's power is the ability to control all twenty-one Endbringers!

Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

• In Dueling Unlimited, we have a few duels that are completely one-sided. The first is when Santa Claus shows up to take on a villainous mercenary. The next four take place when Anti-Heroes/Anti-Villains Bat, Boa, Raven, and Dove pull off their Big Damn Heroes moment and curbstomp enemy forces. All these duels double as Funny Moments.

Unsorted

• Yognapped's main antagonist Sben wipes the floor with Duncan when the latter tries to hold him off. It's strongly implied that Duncan gets killed.
  • In the third installment, every fight with the resurrected Sben plays out like this, due to him hosting the spirits and power of both Herobrine and Rana. Even Notch bails out when he steps onto the scene.
• Tiberium Wars has this happen pretty much anytime infantry go up against a Commando. At one point there's a drawn-out fight between a GDI soldier and a Nod Commando that only exists because the Commando was quite clearly toying with the soldier.
  • Later on, this happens when the Nod army runs headlong into the Mammoth Tanks of the GDI 2nd Heavy Armored. Specifically, the one thousand Mammoth Tanks of the GDI 2nd Heavy Armored.
• Fated.htm Fated has a different version of the climactic battle at the end of "Innocence". The Scoobies ambush Spike and the Judge at the factory. Buffy's blowing away the Judge with her BLOODY ROCKET LAUNCHER is followed by the Scoobies barraging the vampires with crossbows. Spike and the wounded Drusilla beat a hasty retreat through the sewers, leaving Spike's minions to get massacred.
• Sins of a Colonial Empire has one: 30 Colonial ships from BSG 2003, including 6 Battlestars Vs. 1 GDI ship. The GDI ship, which incidentally is mentioned as one of the most powerful ships in the galaxy, wins, suffering only 17% damage to their shields, even after being hit with 6 nukes!
• Several examples in With Strings Attached:
  • In New Zork, the “Hitler Youth” ambush Paul and Ringo in the “alley” next to the Dakota Building. About ten seconds later, one guy has been slammed into the wall across the street, one guy has a garbage can crimped around him, one guy is upside-down in a garbage can, and one guy is hanging upside-down on a fence. Shortly thereafter, the fifth guy, after a brief moment of glory, recognizes just how outmatched he is and goes to help his friends.
  • The final battle in the warehouse.
  • When Ringo beats the huge warrior Mung in three seconds.
  "I think I win. Can I please go to sleep now?"
  • Ringo's Moment of Awesome with the Brothers of Death (and it was kind of a double Curb-Stomp Battle, since he also humiliated Jeft by effortlessly neutralizing some of the toughest baddies he'd ever developed).
    • Really, it's a Good Thing that the four are not interested in combat.
    • Especially Ringo, a key player in every Curb-Stomp Battle in the book.
• Plenty of examples in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World:
  • John single-handedly neutralizes six guys when he rusts away their armor and weapons.
  • John and Ringo overpower four ninjas so efficiently that the entire scene is offscreen.
  • Similarly, John, Ringo, and Paul easily, if crabbily, handle a variety of attackers in the pubs and in their hotel room. (George doesn't participate, being too drunk.)
  • Paul singlehandedly wipes out every robot in the cliff dwelling.
  • Paul quite easily takes down one of the Animals' more potent members, while simultaneously Ringo takes another nasty one completely out of the battle.
• Most of the fights in Kaiju War Chronicles are fairly even, but some of them end up being this. Most of them involve Bagan during the "Bagan Trilogy" (Bagan vs Monster X, Bagan vs. Everyone, and Bagan vs Everyone: Fallout). First he utterly destroys Monster X with ease and the title of the other two isn't lying, it literally takes basically the entire roster just to stand a ghost of a chance against him.
• In the Megacrossover Massacre: Fall of the Nosferatu, The fights between Diva fromm Blood+ and Damon (Vampire Diaries) Vampire Hunter D vs Alucard (Castlevania) and Hellsing's Alucard vs Simon Bellmont (Catlevania) are this trope.
• The second battle of Markab in The Dilgar War sees the Dilgar First Strike Fleet, Second Strike Fleet and First Line Fleet receiving one by the Earth Expeditionary Force. Justified by the extreme toughness and short range firepower of Earthforce warships when compared to the faster but less tough Dilgar ones, the Dilgar being used to fight opponents with faster ships and less skill than Earthforce, Earthforce having brought an insane number of nuclear weapons and admiral Hamato having an intelligence operative telling him what orders Jha'dur gave to her forces, allowing him to place his dreadnoughts for maximum effect and launch all of his nukes at the one moment when the Dilgar were concentrated enough to be annihilable in one shot and with their point defense weapons away from where the missiles were coming from.
  • The ground battle on Tiree is even worse. The Dilgar have eight regular divisions, one Stormtrooper division (basically thugs in uniform) and one Guard division, with comparable infantry and artillery equipment and no dedicated tank, only infantry fighting vehicles with good firepower. EarthForce shows up with overwhelming numbers, aircraft and orbital support that obliterates most of the Dilgar artillery before the troops even land, even without that EarthForce is artillery heavy, and human infantry equipment has better body armour with superior communication abilities. It's not pretty.
• In XSGCOM, most of the Tau'ri - Goa'uld battles end up like this after the X-COM soldiers join the Stargate program.
• It's perhaps easier to list the fights that The Prayer Warriors have that do not fall into this, but the one that stands out more than any is the battle against Hades. Hades is said to be Satan's "most elite servant", is able to revive all the other "false" Greek gods, and makes a Badass Boast about being stronger than God and Jesus and being undefeatable. The Prayer Warriors fall to their knees in prayer and he is immediately defeated.
• This is a requirement for the duel against Guiche in any The Familiar of Zero fanfic, but it's up to the author to decide which side is the receiving end.
• The SI of With This Ring has been on the delivering and receiving end of these. On the delivering end, against most opponents, who are incapable of even touching him. On the receiving end, against Klarion, who decided that torturing him would be more fun then just outright killing him.
• In Black Princess Ascendant, Jen is asked to come at Flitwick with everything she has so he can gauge her current fighting ability. The fight lasts fifteen seconds with Jen on the defensive most of the time. Flitwick is impressed she lasted so long given how much he was holding back.
• Ares and Aphrodite are on the receiving end of one in Broken Bow, with Artemis in Mama Bear mode delivering it.
• Happens early on in the Inheritance Cycle fanfic Phoenix-fire. Mercury is defending with a force of around 30.000. The attacker has around 250.000, including over 150 dragons. The battle starts out with a little ranged skirmish, before Mercury lures the dragons into attacking head on, spreads out his lines and begins to harass the enemies with artillery fire. With the attacking leader occupied with the dragons, the rest of the army charges...right into a trap. The ground explodes beneath the attackers' feat, also bringing down the dragons above them, and Mercury's cavalry quickly charges into the stunned reserve forces, while the rest of the army encircles the surviors of the explosion. Conclusion: a few thousand survivors from the 250.000 strong attacking force, and a mostly intact defending force. Even Mercury's own government feels queasy with the death toll afterwards. He doesn't.
• A literal example occurs in The Pride of Sunnydale when a furious Xander storms out of the Bronze, throws a random vampire to the ground, and stomps on his head hard enough to dust him.
• Davion & Davion (Deceased) sports several merciless beatdowns, particularly when the Federated Suns starts using carrier warfare and battle armour against unsuspecting foes - although the Davion Guards' crushing of the Otomo would also count.
• Persona: The Sougawa Files: Rina Oshiro has a conversation with Yuudai Honda that doesn't go so well, ending in the two fighting. It's not even close - Yuudai effortlessly tosses her around with his newfound Shadow powers, culminating in him entering her mind and striking her hard enough there that she's left unable to summon her Personas for a bit. He claims she got some good hits on him, but... she really didn't.
• This trope happened not once, but twice, in The Frozen Heart's Star of all things.
  • The first time this happened was in Chapter 4 of the fanfic, where Kirby, who was also Killed Offscreen the first time here, gets absolutely obliterated by the main antagonist of this story, the strange ice creature, and it puts a Deadly Gaze on him, causing his heart to freeze in the process.
  • Later on, in Chapter 11, that same antagonist, along with multiple windigos, begin attacking Dream Land, and some of the residents here... with only some survivors that were taken to some safe place, and this time, not even Kirby is left alive to deal with this!

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