Curb Stomp Battle / Western Animation

Curb Stomp Battles in Western Animation.

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• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • The first six minutes of "The Earth King." It's basically nothing but Aang, Appa, Sokka, Katara, and Toph vs. pretty much the entire Earth Kingdom army around the Earth King's palace, and not only are these four humans + one flying bison pounding the Earth Kingdom's soldiers into the ground, they're doing it while barely slowing down and apologizing the whole way, or least Katara and Sokka. By this point, it's clear that Aang and Toph have had enough.
  • The end of "The Siege of the North". Avatar Aang + pissed off La vs. the entire Fire Nation invasion force. It ends badly. For the invasion force.
  • Any of the Order of the White Lotus vs anyone else.
    • All of the Order Of The White Lotus vs the Fire Nation Army. And the Fire Nation was powered up by Sozin's Comet at the time! Granted, a couple of the White Lotus members were also powered up by the comet, but since they were already incredibly strong in the first place, it just turns into even more of a curbstomp.
  • Bumi vs. the entire Fire Nation force occupying his city. When Aang attempts to rescue him, Bumi chooses to stay behind and wait for an ideal moment. An eclipse appears later and renders the soldiers powerless, but it was still several hundred to one. The Fire Nation ran away!
  • In the very episode that she's introduced, the blind and 12-year old Toph beats the ever-loving crap out of six professional earthbending fighters. Xin Fu was only able to hold his own against her slightly longer.
  • In their first on-screen battle, Azula defeats Zuko very easily. Then Iroh shows up, and he beats Azula even faster than she beat Zuko. Well...after defeating about a dozen elite firebending soldiers first.
  • Iroh also had one against Zhao and a group of soldiers. Zhao wisely ran after watching the retired general one shot his men.
  • At the climax of "Zuko Alone", the titular Zuko has a high-noon Western-style showdown with a pack of corrupt Earth Kingdom soldiers. With only his twin sword skills, he singlehandedly wipes the floor with the reserves. Though their leader gives him a bit of trouble, as soon as he busts out the firebending it's over, though the rest of the village doesn't react well to seeing who he truly is.
  • Hahn's attempt at ambushing Zhao in the North Pole siege. Not only does Zhao simply side-step and send Hahn falling to an uncertain fate, he resumes a conversation he was having with Iroh as if the fight never even happened.
  • Aang's final battle with Ozai. Aang uses all four elements and the Avatar state to beat the EVER-LOVING SHIT out of the Fire Lord, before chi-bending him to strip him of his fire-bending.
  • In Sequel Series The Legend of Korra episode "Welcome to Republic City" Seventeen-year-old Country Mouse Korra travels to Republic City and bears witness to three members of the bender crime gang, the Triple Threat Triads extorting money from a Muggle shopkeeper, one a waterbender, one an earthbender, one a firebender. Korra picks a fight, since she's mastered all three arts, and beats them easily. The fight ends with the fleeing gangsters and their roadster tossed through a shop front.
    • Tenzin, Korra's Mentor in Airbending and the world's only Airbending master at present, plus Aang's son, gets ambushed by Chi Blockers. He then shows just what a true Airbending master can do by beating the stuffing out of them in seconds. Even when his arms and legs get tied, he simply whips up a freaking tornado as a Finishing Move!
    • There is a good reason why fights that involve Amon tend to end with the other party cowering on the floor. Highlights include beating an electricity-shooting crime boss at an equalist rally, decimating Korra, who for some reason thought Amon was obligated to stick to a one-on-one duel, and successfully orchestrating a terrorist attack on an arena under guard by the metalbending police force (plus Tenzin).
    • Zaheer brutally beats down almost everyone he faces off against, from White Lotus guards to Dai Li agents. Although the likes of Kya and Tonraq give him an actual fight, he still ends up winning. A handcuffed Korra stood no chance.
    • Tenzin vs Zaheer. Tenzin quickly gains the upper hand and wipes the floor over him due to being a much better Airbender. The arrival of the rest of his gang made Tenzin receive the curb-stomp instead however.
    • Zaheer was trying not to get curb-stomped. The only reason he wasn't was because Korra was finally beginning to succumb to the massive amount of mercury poison that was killing her.
    • Suyin vs a weakened Lin; The younger sister casually deflects all of the older sister's attacks and within a minute, Lin is knocked away with Suyin not even breaking a sweat.
    • Toph's sparring match with Korra in Season 4 is mostly a minute of Toph smashing Korra into the mud and berating her for being the worst Avatar she's had to work with.
    • Like Amon, Kuvira has shown an acute talent for stomping anyone who fights her into the dirt, including a gang of 20+ bandits, Korra herself (who was not back to full fighting capacity, but still), her mentor Suyin, though Suyin did put up a decent fight, and the entire United Republic army once her Humongous Mecha is up and running. The closest she's come to losing was when Korra entered the Avatar State in their fight, and she still won due to Korra's Enemy Without interfering.
    • Not to be outdone though Korra manages to get her own back at Kuvira in their rematch at the series Grand Finale. While Kuvira still holds her own fairly well during the fight, it's pretty clear that Korra is beating her by a clear margin, dodging virtually all of her attacks and managing to strike back with her own, all without going into the Avatar State. Keep in mind they're both in a room full of metal and Kuvira is still on the defensive throughout the majority of the fight. This is best demonstrated after the Colossus is destroyed Kuvira manages to (briefly) get away from Korra by throwing a rock at her face but is shown limping and holding her side, meanwhile Korra seems perfectly fine and unaffected by the rock more surprised then anything.
• Beavis And Butthead: Anytime the boys try to fight someone other than each other, it usually doesn't end well. Especially if it involves Todd or Mr. Buzzcut.
  • Mr. Candy vs. Mr. Buzzcut pits a limp wristed candy salesman who could barely hold his own in a fight with hippie teacher Mr. Van Driessen against a former US Marine who fought in the Vietnam War. No points for guessing who won this "fight".
• Ben 10:
  • The Ultimate Alien episode "Video Games" opens on Ben doling one out to Ssserpent. He turns into Four Arms and blocks Ssserpent's attacks before effortlessly sandwiching the poor sap between two cars.
  • In the Omniverse episode "The Vengers", Ben gets attacked by the eponymous rival superhero team. He turns into Brainstorm and proceeds to use Awesomeness by Analysis in order to take them down one by one. In a battle against a Batman Parody, an Iron Man Expy, a Robot Girl, and an evil Child Prodigy, Ben doesn't receive a single scratch.
• Entirely serious and intentional example: The Boondocks spends an entire episode leading up to a fight between Granddad and Stinkmeaner, an old man that was able to kick Grandpa's behind despite being blind. Right before the fight starts, Huey realizes that Stinkmeaner didn't have superhuman sense and fighting ability, he just got lucky when Granddad accidentally nudged Stickmeaner's cane with his foot. Granddad throws the first punch, time stops for a minute for Huey to suggest everyone go read a book, the punch gets Stinkmeaner directly in the face, knocks him down, and he's dead seconds after hitting the ground.
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Two such battles happen in the two-part episode "Summit to Save Earth".
  • During their initial fight, Gaia easily withstands all of Zarm's attacks and counters them with massive doses of his Kryptonite Factor (pure elements of nature). She's actually about to win, when he decides to cheat by targetting the Planeteers rather than her, thus distracting her and turning the tables.
  • The final battle starts with Gaia holding Zarm off with little effort, until the Planeteers manage to call Captain Planet. Once summoned, he finishes the job in minutes.
• Celebrity Deathmatch:
  • One episode pitted Bigfoot against the Loch Ness Monster. Everyone present was expecting the longest, most epic bout in Celebrity Deathmatch history. Nessie won in six seconds.
  • In Gandhi vs. Genghis Khan, Gandhi destroys Genghis Khan before Genghis even attempts to attack.
  • Subverted with David Spade vs. Steven Seagal, in which Spade spends most of the match shivering and getting pummeled, and in the whole battle he only gets in one hit... the winning one.
    • A similar thing happens in Steve Irwin vs. Medusa where Steve doesn't even try to fight until he rips Medusa's head off.
    • Another subversion is the Eric and Julia Roberts vs. The Osmonds match. The actors get no offense in... but then, Donny says "ass", Marie snaps, and the Osmonds angrily kill each other. Eric and Julia are battered and horrified, but alive.
  • Buster Keaton gets a pretty one-sided victory over Charlie Chaplin as well.
  • Andre Agassi vs. Tiger Woods. Tiger never gets any offense in.
  • Cameron Diaz vs. Meryl Streep was intended to be staged with Streep as the loser, but Streep takes her role too seriously and wipes the floor with Diaz.
  • Richard Simmons vs. Billy Blanks. Simmons only gets one hit, which does no damage.
• Code Lyoko :
  • Almost every fight against someone Xanafied (or a spectre for that matter) on Earth.
  • Almost every fight against XANA-William. He is so brutal and OP he devirtualized the Lyoko-Warriors more times than they devirtualized him.
  • The Tarantula's first appearence. It wiped the floor with the Lyoko-warriors.
  • XANA-Aelita vs Ulrich in episode 90. XANA-Aelita had the upper hand during the whole fight, and was close to devirtualizing Ulrich when the supercomputer was rebooted.
  • The Megatank in Code Earth. It whooped Odd and Yumi's butts and Ulrich could only block its laser and gaining time before being devirtualized.
  • in "Triple Trouble", the Megatank devirtualized Yumi before she could even attack it.
  • The Kolossus has this effect on everyone, starting from its first appearance.
• Courage the Cowardly Dog: The titular duel in "Courage VS Mecha-Courage", in which Mecha-Courage uses literally every weapon-related thing that it is capable of producing to beat Courage incredibly-nearly to death while the only thing that Courage is able to do in order to defend himself, let alone fight back, is mindlessly tank Mecha-Courage's hits until said machine's battery power runs out from how many of its attacks Courage has survived.
• Darkwing Duck: The pilot episode "Darkly Dawns the Duck" has two examples:
  • After Darkwing crashes through the ceiling of Launchpad's hangar, the pilot (believing that he's an intruder) beats him up in seconds.
  • Taurus Bulba easily smushes Darkwing during their first combat.
• DC Showcase: Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam had title bad guy Black Adam defeat Superman in single combat, then fight both Superman and Captain Marvel at the same time, and only lose once they started getting their teamwork down. Then Adam forces a Sadistic Choice on Captain Marvel, between Cap's life or the life of a hostage Adam had. Naturally, being perhaps the biggest nice guy boyscout superhero around, Cap chose the life of the hostage over his own and surrendered, transforming back into Billy Batson. Then Adam tried to kill both Billy and the hostage at the same time, but was prevented from doing so by Superman. Billy was not amused. One magic word later and the beatdown Captain Marvel laid into Adam was as profoundly satisfying as it was one sided.
• DrawnTogether: In "Mexican't Buy Me Love", the arena fights between Ling Ling and fight roosters are so one-sided that Ling Ling eventually calls it quits, since it goes against his codex of honor.
• Nearly any instance the Urpneys go against the heroes (or even just hero) in The Dreamstone ends rather badly for them. Even the one time Zordrak went against the Wuts he was pathetically outsmarted. Oddly reversed a couple of times (in "Albert's Ailment" the Urpneys quickly restrain the Noops when they attack them for stealing the stone, while in "The Spidermobile" they pretty much outpower the entire Land Of Dreams with their mech).
• In the DuckTales (1987) episode "Where No Duck Has Gone Before", the actor who plays Major Courage tries to punch out the alien overlord, still convinced the entire adventure has been an episode. He gets a couple of strikes, to no effect, and then the alien smacks him against the wall. This finally makes him realize what's happening, and he races for the ship and takes off without the others.
• In Ed, Edd n Eddy, after 10 years of being told that Eddy's Brother is the strongest and most badass living thing that could ever possibly exist, in the movie we finally meet this glorious creature, and his demise is brought on NOT through an epic battle but by a door being unscrewed. By Ed. In like a minute. Justified according to Word of God. He said that Eddy's brother has always dealt abuse while never having any on him. So while Eddy built the endurance to take huge amounts of punishment, an unremarkable (by cartoon standards anyway) action of unscrewing a door hinge leading to said door slamming onto him due to Eddy holding on for dear life.
  • Eddy's duel with Rolf in "Dueling Eds" is essentially Rolf walloping Eddy with a fish while Eddy feebly tries to apologize and back out. Even when Rolf expresses frustration that Eddy won't fight back and tells him to hit him, Eddy can't even complete the swing of his fish before Rolf effortlessly whacks him off the log. In all, the duel lasts just 45 seconds.
  • In "Tight End Ed", it's clear from the moment the Lemon Brook Lumpers take the field that the Peach Creek Cobblers, consisting of all the boys from the Cul-de-sac save Jimmy, don't have a snowball's chance in Hell. Not only do the Cobblers lose 62-0, they end up heavily beaten and battered, with only Ed making it out in one piece by being made the team mascot. Eddy, as usual, gets the worst of it; not only do his attempts to steal Ed's glory with a mascot costume of his own fall flat, the Lumpers stuff his face with lemons and take him back with them to Lemon Brook.
• Exo Squad, whenever there are significant numbers of Neo Warriors, victory tends to lean in their favor against the Exoframes used by Exofleet due to their durability and regeneration. Hell, right after the Australian Resistance curbstomps the occupying Neo Sapien forces in Australia, they are in turn curbstomped by the Neo Warrior Counter Attack. Then there is the Third Battle for Venus where General Shiva, under Phaeton's Orders, tries to invade Venus or destroy the Resolute II again. Despite destroying several frigates, the Neo Sapien Fleet is completely overwhelmed, Shiva dies, the Flagship is destroyed, and several carriers, battleships, and carriers are destroyed by Marsh's flanking maneuver. What's left-which isn't much, limps back to Earth, leaving the way open for invasion.
• On Family Guy Meg goes to prison for a few months and comes back a hardened badass who beats the living crap out of Peter and gives him an actual curb-stomp (or "stairstomp" in this case).
  • Stewie gives Brian two vicious beatings over a debt, the second one culminating in Stewie shooting Brian in both knees and setting him on fire, which Brian brings up as a means of calling BS on them being even.
  • In "Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air", Peter, Cleveland and Quagmire gang up on Joe to try and re-cripple him. It's two fat guys and a scrawny womanizer against a buff, athletic cop with martial arts training. Needless to say, Joe doesn't get hit once. Too bad that his athletic skills are useless against guns when Bonnie shoots him.
  • In "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q.", Quagmire urges his sister's abusive boyfriend to challenge him mano y mano. By the end of the fight, the bloodied up Quagmire was only able to lay on a single punch. Luckily for Quagmire, Jeff's strength doesn't help him against motor vehicles.
  • "Fighting Irish" has Peter go up against Liam FUCKING Neeson. Guess who wins.
• Many of Freakazoid!'s fights were resolved this way, for laughs. One episode entitled "Relax-O-Vision" highlights this repeatedly.
• Futurama: "Hello and welcome to a remarkable championship bout. Destructor, a robotic armoured tank, whose very use at battle has been ruled a war crime, versus Gender Bender, who wears a pink tutu."
  George Foreman: This might be the most one-sided fight, since I fought an 80-foot tall mechanical Joe Frazier. Now, my memory's not what it used to be, but I'm pretty sure the entire Earth was destroyed.
• In the Gargoyles episode Ill Met by Moonlight, Oberon goes up against Goliath, Angela, and Gabriel all at once - and hands their asses to them. To add insult to injury, he was only using a fraction of his full power. Had he not been vulnerable to iron, they probably would not have survived the battle.
• In the "Fight Fighters" episode of Gravity Falls, Dipper really didn't stand a chance against Rumble, and only got a single and ineffective hit in the entire fight.
  • Rumble himself was in the receiving end in "Soos and the Real Girl" where he got fried by Giffany.
  • "Weirdmageddon Part 1" features Bill Cipher easily slaying Time Baby and some time officers in a single hit.
• I ♡ Arlo: When Arlo confronts the Bog Lady in the Season 1 finale, his fight against her did not end well for him, as she snatches him up in her roots right before he could free Edmée from her thorn cage, before straight-up brainwashing him into never leaving her.
• Il Était Une Fois... Space has two:
  • in the penultimate episode the Humanoid forces, sporting ships that can destroy planets combining themselves, mop up the floor with the fleet of Cassiopeia that includes the Nautilus-class heavy cruisers, before in the series being considered the most powerful warship class known.
  • the last episode has the Omega Confederation assembling the largest fleet that has ever existed against the Humanoids in what seems to be to follow this trope, since it's stated it's nothing against them. Averted for them but not for the Humanoids, however, since the energy beings met by Psi somehow send their ships to an unstable star that goes supernova and implodes destroying them.
• In Invincible (2021), whatever fight that Omni-Man gets involved in will end in his favor.
  • His fight with the Guardians of the Globe starts out okay, but once he crushes Red Rush's head, the others fall like flies. War Woman and Immortal are the only ones who stand a measure of a chance against him and he still hands them their asses.
  • Once Omni-Man gets involved in the Flaxan invasion, he makes them regret deciding to try and conquer Earth by completely ravaging their planet.
  • Mark had no chance against his father. Every attack he tries is ineffective, while in return, Omni-Man effortlessly turns Mark into a bloody pulp and beats him into an inch of his life. The only reason Omni-Man didn't finish the job and kill his son right then and there is because Mark quietly insisting that he still loves his father while fading out of consciousness triggered a My God, What Have I Done? realization.
  • Invincible and the new Guardians of the Globe stand absolutely no chance against Battle Beast, who utterly trashes them with little effort and barely takes a scratch from their strongest attacks. They only survive because he's a Challenge Seeker who deems them Not Worth Killing.
• Jackie Chan Adventures: In the season 1 finale "Day Of The Dragon", when the newly-revived Shendu refuses to give the Dark Hand the treasure of Qin Shi Huang because technically, Jackie's dark side got him the talismans, Valmont orders Tohru to fight the big demon dragon. It goes as well as you'd expect, with Shendu using his telekinesis and super-strength to effortlessly throw Tohru out of the skyscraper. Though fortunately, Tohru survives the fall with just some broken bones.
• Justice League: Aquaman and Wonder Woman have a duel on Easter Island. The fight is totally awesome and shows how badass the king of the sea is. He barely wins. Then he pushes his luck and tries to go after Superman... Supes gives a depressed sigh and throws just one punch. Cut to Superman dragging Aquaman's unconscious body away, with a recovered Wonder Woman right behind them.
  • The later fight between Green Arrow and Wildcat is brutally one-sided. That was Arrow's plan, though. To show Wildcat how brutal he had become and hope he stopped.
  • General Eiling absolutely destroyed Stargirl, S.T.R.I.P.E., Vigilante, and Shining Knight after his transformation in Unlimited. Shining Knight refused to go down, though.
  • Amazo in "The Return". "I have evolved far beyond what I was when we last met. You do not want to challenge me." He pretty much decimates the entire Justice League, casually. And even moved the planet, the planet Oa to another dimension because he didn't feel like going around it.
  • In "Grudge Match," Black Canary, Vixen, Huntress, and Hawkgirl go up against a mind-controlled Wonder Woman. The four of them get some licks in, but for the most part Wonder Woman tosses them around like ragdolls.
• Kaeloo:
  • In Episode 100, Kaeloo, having undergone Sanity Slippage while playing a VR game where she knows how to control everything, prepares to attack her friends; Quack Quack defeats her with just one punch.
  • In another episode, Quack Quack undergoes Demonic Possession and gets superpowers as a result. Mr. Cat goes up against him and defeats him using just a mallet.
• In the Grand Finale of Kim Possible Mystical Monkey Power Ron manages to Curb Stomp the extremely powerful Scary Dogmatic Aliens.
• The Legend of Vox Machina: At the start of the series, a group of heros band together to stop a terrifying monster... and they all get eviscerated in a few seconds.
  Narrator: Well. That was... something.
  • When Vox Machina fights the monster (revealed to be a blue dragon) for the first time, they also nearly meet the same fate, only surviving by pretending to be dead under a fallen avalanche of rocks. When they encounter the dragon in his lair, they start making the same mistakes until they start learning to work as a team.
• My Little Pony:
  • My Little Pony 'n Friends:
    • The Flutter Ponies have a knack for this. In My Little Pony: The Movie (1986), they defeat the immensely powerful Smooze with only a minor degree of difficulty, and later on in the series when they are called upon to put Arabus the cloud monster in his place they have even less trouble, even managing to have enough time in-betweeen effortlessly dodging his lightning bolts to sing to him about his imminent defeat.
    • In "The Return of Tambelon", Grogar gets multiple opportunities to show off his power and threat level. In Part 2, in their first escape attempt, the heroes handle his Mooks with a fair amount of ease. Then Grogar steps in, after which it's not even a fight — he defeats them in seconds, trapping them with his capture beams before they can even react and stopping the escape dead in the water. In Part 3, he again proves much too strong for the heroes to defeat directly, and even when they manage to lure him from his forces and ambush him he routs them in seconds and captures a few of his would-be captors.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
    • In Part 2 of the series premiere "Friendship is Magic", the Mane Six defeat Nightmare Moon with just a single beam of rainbow generated by the Elements of Harmony.
    • In "Boast Busters", Trixie shows off her magic when she first arrives in Ponyville. Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Rarity try to teach her a lesson but she easily overpowers all three of them.
    • In "Sleepless in Ponyville", the "fight" between the Headless Horse and Princess Luna is very one-sided.
    • In "A Canterlot Wedding – Part 2", the showdown between Princess Celestia and Queen Chrysalis starts with a Beam-O-War that immediately turns against Celestia, knocking her cold and leaving Chrysalis the undisputed winner.
    • In "Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2", Twilight and Tirek's first fight is evenly matched, but once the Mane Six get their hooves on the Rainbow Power, a few beams of magic is all it takes to shrivel and seal up Tirek once and for all and get Celestia, Luna, and Cadance back from Tartarus.
    • In "The Mean 6", the mane ponies' evil doppelgangers are instantly no match for the Tree of Harmony, as it quickly recognizes them as fake and drains the life right out of them in a matter of seconds.
    • In the Grand Finale, Twilight magages to defeat Tirek, Chrysalis and Cozy Glow with just a single rainbow beam, channeled from her with aid from her friends, the Pillars, and the Young Six.
• In the finale of season 1 of The Owl House, Luz challenges Emperor Belos to a battle, demanding the freedom of her mentor. The ensuing battle is less a fight and more a scramble for Luz to survive, as she uses every weapon in her arsenal to fend of Belos' strikes, while the most effort Belos puts into it is to lift his finger to throw Luz across the room as his opening move. Luz does manage to pull of one good strike though, chipping of a piece of Belos' mask as he gloats, but he then immediately makes it clear that he's been toying with her. Either she hands over the MacGuffin, or he takes it by force. Luz decides to Take a Third Option and destroys the portal key instead.
  Belos: Okay. I'll play.
• The Powerpuff Girls: In "Meet the Beat-Alls" after Mojo, Him, Princess and Fuzzy form a Legion of Doom and start committing crimes everywhere, whenever the girls show up to stop them they would easily defeat them by zapping them with three lasers followed by crushing them with a rock (although they come out completely undamaged moments later), eventually causing them to abandon their crime-fighting completely. The moment Mojo leaves the group however, the tables are turned.
• Robot Chicken: "World's most one-sided fist fights: Caught on tape!". There's also the sketch "The Rescue", in which the titular Robot Chicken tears through a castle worth of people with ease to save his wife. The only ones out of about thirty opponents who gave him a fight were Bitch Pudding and the Mad Scientist.
• Samurai Jack:
  • The titular character does this rather well in the episode "The Princess And The Bounty Hunters" After spending almost the entire episode telling how they would individually take down Jack, the said princess advises they join forces to bring him down. After laying out a seemingly perfect trap, they all hide under the snow. They all spring on Jack as he walks by... and he takes them ALL down in less time than a drop a water from a melting icicle can hit the ground.
  • Another example would be in Season 4 Episode 3, "Samurai vs. Samurai". A loud and obnoxious bully of a man simply called "Da Samurai" comes into a tavern where Jack is staying, and when he learns who Jack is, challenges him to a fight. Now, Da Samurai did show that he had some measure of fighting ability, so he wasn't all talk...only mostly, especially compared to Jack, who subdued the poser without taking a single hit, using only a freshly cut staff of bamboo. And then he singlehandedly decimated an army of robot assassins with the same bamboo.
  • This happens to Jack in Jack and the Traveling Creatures. When he comes to the time portal he sought, Jack faces its Guardian, a foe that is faster, Made of Iron, has had "eons" to hone skills with pretty much any weapon imaginable, and has a Hammerspace arsenal full of said weapons. At first it seems Jack has a chance, until he wrecks the guy's suit and it becomes clear he was Just Toying With Him. Cue the beating to end all beatings, leaving Jack unconscious and helpless; he only survives because the Guardian spared him at the portal's command.
  • This also happens in the episode "Jack in Egypt". The Minions of Set ambush Jack out of nowhere and almost kill him in just a few seconds. Their agility, fighting prowess, immunity to Jack's sword and phenomenal teamwork make it clear that Jack has no chance of ever defeating them through any normal means. Their fighting style is so vicious it crosses the line into a No Holds Barred Beatdown at times.
  • Episode 2 of Season 5 has the new and improved Beetle Drone show up to fight Jack. He dispatches it simply by throwing a spear at it.
  • It happens to him later in the same episode: he runs into the Daughters of Aku, and thanks to the element of surprise, Jack actually gets the tar beaten out of him. They destroy all his equipment, stab him in the side, and he only barely escapes with his life. The only thing he managed to accomplish is killing one of them with a lucky slash to the throat after a hard won battle, and he's left traumatised afterwards. Then in the next episode, he recovers and gets payback - two of them are killed before they have any idea what's going on, one gets shanked on her own sword, and the others get thrown over a cliff. Only one (Ashi) survives.
  • After Ashi's Heel–Face Turn, she protects Jack while he meditates. To call her fight against a legion of orcs a Curb-Stomp Battle would imply that the orcs had some chance of winning. Her Training from Hell has left her a One-Woman Army.
  • The Final Battle with Aku is the 50 years more powerful and experienced Jack vs Past!Aku directly after their first fight. Aku doesn't stand a chance, and Jack doesn't give him one. He immediately lays into Aku and doesn't let up until he is destroyed.
• The only real dramatic tension in Hanna-Barbera's Shazzan comes from seeing if the two kids can summon Shazzan in time to deal with the threat of the week. The moment they do, it's over for the bad guys. Throughout the series, Shazzan proves again and again that he is the most powerful magical being in the setting. Even when his opponents are ostensibly in the same class as him (such as a powerful demon and a fellow genie), Shazzan is completely unthreatened. Shazzan not only beats his enemies every time, he does it easily and with the same big smile on his face.
  • The best curbstomp in that series has to be when Shazzan dispatches a wizard who controls a powerful fire demon and the demon itself, telling the fire demon to 'go back to the dimension where it came from and take its master with it'. Now, what dimension DO Fire Demons come from? On the flipside, the genie actually once chastises the kids for summoning him to beat a local street magician just to show he could.
• South Park
  • In "Stanley's Cup", The South Park Peewee Hockey team ends up playing the Detroit Red Wings. The Red Wings don't go easy on them, so this goes as well as you'd expect a bunch of kids vs. a team of professional athletes to go.
  • "Going Native" starts with Cartman reporting an offscreen curb stomp; Butters snapped and beat the hell out of the diabetic Scott Malkinson.
• Spider-Man vs the Sinister Six in The Spectacular Spider-Man. Peter Parker in the Black Suit while sound asleep utterly decimates the ENTIRE Sinister Six.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • Sandy has one with SpongeBob and Patrick while sleepwalking in "Survival of the Idiots", and beats them both up in an instant.
  • The battle between the I.J.L.S.A. and E.V.I.L. in "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V" is entirely one-sided as it ends with the heroes defeating themselves.
  • Fuzzy Acorns' fight with SpongeBob in "The Way of the Sponge" becomes this when he gets easily defeated by him due to his fry cook duties, without SpongeBob even knowing Fuzzy was fighting him (nor being aware of the fight to begin with).
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Star delivers one to Toffee after he's successfully defeated Ludo, Moon, and the Magic High Commission. She does this by going Super Mode and literally nuking Toffee into melted slag with her wand. The bastard didn't stand a chance.
• Star Wars:
  • Star Wars: Clone Wars:
    • Grievous spends most of his time stomping Jedi, but his fight with Mace Windu lasted two seconds — in the first Windu used the Force, in the next Grievous was lying on the floor. This was heavily implied in an earlier scene, where Dooku told Grievous that to defeat Jedi, he needed "fear, surprise, and intimidation" - Grievous spends most of his fights either creeping unseen like a slasher villain or hammering his opponent while never relenting, making them too frazzled to focus on him and fight back to their fullest. Windu is the first case in the series where a Jedi gets the drop on him, and consequently he's focused enough to just reach out and crush Grievous's chest.
    • Mace Windu has one such battle when he goes to Dantooine, and his entire army is slaughtered by a CIS superweapon. His response? To single-handedly take down the enemy battle droids and the superweapon. And then, he drinks some water a little boy gave him and leapt off a mountain into the distance.
  • Star Wars: The Clone Wars has a few:
    • "Ambush" is about Yoda utterly owning an entire droid army, then to add insult to injury, he forces Ventress to retreat with two casual gestures of his hand.
      King Katuunko: A single Jedi isn't worth a hundred battle droids. More like a thousand.
    • "Duel of the Droids": Ahsoka vs. Grievous. While she did put up a good fight and manage to escape, the scene showed how far apart their abilities were at the time.
    • "Monster": Ventress vs. the Nightbrothers. Savage was the only to come near to matching her. Then, a transformed Savage executes a Jedi Master, a Padawan, and their clone squadron without breaking a sweat.
    • "Overlords": Anakin curbstomped the Daughter and the Son simultaneously when they threatened to kill Obi-Wan and Ahsoka. Those are the guys representing the Light and Dark Sides of the Force respectively.
    • "The General": Nothing the clones have on them can so much as stagger the Umbaran juggernauts, and the tanks' powerful weapons take a terrible toll among them.
    • "The Lawless": Darth Sidious vs. Darth Maul and Savage Opress. The episode itself heavily implies that Sidious could have killed Maul and Savage at the outset if he wanted to (he has them pinned against a wall helpless before blades are even drawn and then releases them with a laugh), but found a fight against them amusing.
  • Star Wars Rebels:
    • "The Siege of Lothal": Darth Vader versus Phoenix Squadron. The only reason any of the rebels survive is due to Hera's flying skills and Ahsoka's attempt to mind-probe him. In the same episode, Vader almost casually humiliates Kanan and Ezra, and would've killed them both if they hadn't run away.
    • "Twin Suns": The rematch between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Maul is over in two seconds and three moves: Maul slashes at Obi-Wan twice, and he blocks, and then slashes through Maul's lightsaber and his chest in one stroke. Seems there are downsides to wandering the desert for months unsuccessfully seeking your quarry.
• Steven Universe:
  • "The Answer" has Rose Quartz defuse a fusion of three Rubies in one single blow before Pearl poofs two of them.
  • There's a point in "Together Alone" (not to be confused with the much earlier episode "Alone Together") where the entire team plus a pair of sympathetic Homeworld Gems pull a Go Through Me moment against Yellow Diamond when the Diamonds threaten Steven and Connie. So... she goes through them. Time elapsed: five seconds.
• As a general rule of thumb, due to Superman being one of the most powerful superheroes, whenever one of his A-list villains show up, they have a tendency of stomping other superheroes and scoff at anything less than the Man of Steel, and usually they could only be defeated by Hoist by His Own Petard or Superman's timely intervention. And while the opposite is less common, it has still happened; back in Superman: The Animated Series, during a moment Superman had to disguise himself as Batman, he ended up engaging Bane with a new, stronger Venom formula... and after seeing just what Bane can do, decides to cut a little looser and completely wrecks him.
• On an episode of Super Powers, when a visiting Mxyzptlk sees the JL race out to stop some ordinary bank robbers, he lampshades the overkill of this curbstomp.
• The first battle between the Shredder and the Turtles in the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. Four against one, and the Turtles still get their shells handed to them. It was only due to luck and a momentary distraction by Shredder's own henchmen that the Turtles were able to escape with their lives.
  • Splinter vs. Leatherhead. Splinter wins.
    • Splinter then goes on to own the Rat King with only two fingers.
• The few times Beast Boy from Teen Titans (2003) is any use at all in combat, he has demonstrated a remarkable ability to curbstomp things — including utterly disassembling one of Slade's Sladebots (rather than his faceless Mecha-Mook horde) and landing on Evil Starfire... in hippo form. Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, anyone? Hey, don't mock the hippo. They kill more people a year than any other animal near its size.
  • Beast Boy is also able to curbstomp Slade himself when Terra is on the line.
  • Red X, in his first appearance in the series as his own character, effectively curb stomps the Teen Titans the first time he fights them. All of them. At the same time. With the exception of Robin, they don't fare much better against him for the rest of the episode.
    • He does it again in "Revved Up" when he takes on nine supervillains in their tricked-out, weaponized vehicles and destroys every single one of those vehicles. In forty seconds. In style. And not with his own motorcycle, either. That was destroyed, so he jumps from vehicle to vehicle instead while they're moving at speeds in excess of 100 mph and takes them out that way.
  • Go ahead. Piss off Raven. Then, while you're in the psych ward, probably in a full body cast, ask Dr. Light how it worked out for him.
  • In the episode "Final Exam", HIVE students Mammoth, Jinx and Gizmo make their entrance by Curb-Stomping the Titans twice, firstly in a fight in the street, then in Titans Tower itself, taking it over. The Titans then return the favour, taking back the Tower in the process.
  • In the season 2 finale "Aftershocks — Part 1", the Titans try to get Terra to stop working for Slade, but she refuses. After she defeats them, in the next episode "Aftershocks — Part 2", the Titans decide that Terra is Beyond Redemption, and that they’re done trying to talk to her. When the Titans next encounter Terra, the effortlessly wipe the floor with her, revealing how much they were holding back, forcing Terra to retreat to Slade.
• ThunderCats (1985): In "Hair of the Dog" the Ancient Spirits of Evil apparently decide to have a bit of fun at their servant Mumm-ra's expense. After Snarf recites the transformitive incantation in their presence, they turn Snarf into Snarf-ra, the ever living! Snarf-ra heads back to the cat's lair where he quickly hands Mumm-ra his mummified ass.
• Thunder Cats 2011:
  • In "Omens Part Two" Thundera's Cats are laid siege to by Lizards. The Cats have bows and arrows and a bit of sorcery. The Lizards have laser rifles, Sticky Bombs and Walking Tanks that shoot missiles. The Cats lose their kingdom in one night. They have a Hope Spot thanks to their Clerics and the Sword of Omens, but the appearance of The Dreaded ancient evil Mumm-Ra takes care of both.
  • In "Song of the Petalars" the Thundertank takes down four Walking Tanks without taking one hit, prompting a full-scare retreat of what remains of the Lizard Army.
• Transformers:
  • Beast Wars has the epic moment where Megatron and Rattrap dramatically gear up for a fight with each other, complete with close up shots of their narrowing eyes and intense music, they charge at each other both clearly ready for an epic battle in their new Transmetal forms... and Rattrap proceeds to comically trip Megatron causing him to go flying headfirst into a rock.
    • Considering Megatron has every advantage from a physical standpoint, the only way to beat him is trickery, which Rattrap's got plenty of.
    • Silverbolt in the episode Crossing The Rubicon delivers one to Tarantulas after getting his Berserk Button smashed with a sledgehammer.
  • In Transformers: Cybertron Starscream once tried to fight a newly resurrected Primus. For the uninformed, Starscream is a fairly powerful Decepticon who transforms into a jet while Primus is a god who transforms into a planet.
    Optimus Prime: This should be good.
    Starscream: Whoa, big guns... SLAAAAG!
    • It looked like it might go somewhere when Starscream suddenly grows huge by the power of the MacGuffin, but Primus turns some moons into maces and effortlessly slams Starscream into an asteroid.
    • And during the earlier Jungle Planet arc, Optimus Prime's Mid-Season Upgrade, Savage Claw Mode, turned many a fight into the more standard example, though villains eventually got upgrades as well and evened the score.
    • Also, there can be no forgetting Megatron vs. Metroplex. Metroplex literally stomps on Megatron, effortlessly dodges an attack on his legs, and then brings his giant axe down on Megatron's ugly head so hard that Megatron ends up in the bottom of a small crater in the floor.
    • The next floor, that is. He was pounded straight through the floor they were standing on and left a small crater in the floor below.
    • Worse than that still. Megs got knocked through two floors, leaving a crater in the third one down.
    • And then the following episode, Megatron evolves into Galvatron and returns the gesture by handily snatching Metroplex's axe and beating him unconscious with it. His Unstoppable Rage also takes out almost every other Autobot beforehand.
  • Another Cybertron example, this time with Starscream on the giving end. He once used Villainous Valor to defeat all twelve Autobots, including Optimus Prime in full battle mode, to gain possession of the Omega Lock and Cyber Keys.
  • In Transformers: Animated, Megatron's first act upon restoring his body was handing all five main Autobots their tailpipes without breaking a sweat. His second was frying Starscream for damaging him in the first place. The Autobots only survived because they ran away while Megs was cleaning house.
    • The Autobot's first encounter with Blitzwing and Lugnut was going well until Bumblebee suggested Megatron was dead. Lugnut proceeded to level all five of them (and Blitzwing) with one punch. Granted, it's the P.O.K.E, but it's still impressive.
    • Then there's the famous "Starscream Death Montage", which is a montage of Megatron repeatedly and easily killing Starscream, who is immortal due to the spark fragment in his forehead.
  • The Transformers: Prime Season 1 finale gives us the confrontation between Airachnid and Soundwave. Airachnid tries to usurp power for herself, only for Soundwave to stand up to her. The resulting fight is totally one-sided and ends with Soundwave's foot on Airachnid's head. Said stomp was the only time Soundwave actually moved his feet during the fight.
    • Optimus Prime's epic battle with Megatron in Prime contains one for each combatant. At first, Optimus unleashes an Unstoppable Tranquil Fury and proceeds to beat the tar out of Megs, beating him down so badly Megatron's armor is ground away in several places and he's left nearly helpless on the ground, unable to comprehend his impending death. However, Megatron gets a Villainous Second Wind from the Dark Energon nearby.
    • Soundwave proves himself to be the master of this as the series goes on. In fact, there's only one fight with him that doesn't end like this.
  • Much earlier han the above examples, The Transformers has examples justified by to the nature of the show as the debut of Bruticus, that mops the floor with the also combiner Devastator -that was previously considered as more than a match for the Autobots-.
  • Also from G1, whenever the Dinobots showed up in an episode it meant that later the Decepticons would end up receiving a brutal defeat at their hands.
• The battle between OSI and the original SPHINX organization of The Venture Bros. lore: SPHINX is simultaneously annihilated and humiliated by an army of Village People impersonators, who appear to have suffered no casualties. In fact, the concept of the Curb-Stomp Battle is parodied by how some of OSI's attacks clearly reference well-known war atrocities. It also dovetails with the fact that the OSI is a rather obvious Expy of G.I. Joe - the idea seems to be "if GI Joe actually killed COBRA instead of letting them get away after every weekly defeat," best punctuated by a sequence where they do the old "bad guy ejects just before his plane goes down" routine before he's instead shot. By the time of the series, there's only a handful of SPHINX operatives remaining, and they're all in hiding.
  • Also, just about any fight involving Brock Samson. One notable instance is at the beginning of ¡Viva los Muertos!, in which a large number of The Monarch's henchmen charge into battle at the Venture compound. Less than ten seconds after they run into a building, from the first-person point-of-view of one of the henchmen, we're shown that everyone is fleeing the scene and Brock is effortlessly destroying anyone not fast enough to get away, including the POV character, who gets his head turned completely around.
  • One of these is how the Equally Matched Aggression system came into being. A criminal calling himself Turnbuckle tried to abduct a young Rusty Venture. Action Man came out, gave him a warning, and then pistol-whipped him into the ground before putting a bullet in his skull. Thus a system used to rank supervillains to avoid putting them in one-sided fights was created.
• Winx Club:
  • Enchantix Bloom had one with the Trix while Enchantix Stella had one against Chimera.
  • After Tecna seemingly dies upon falling into the Omega Portal, the Winx decide to avenge her by going against Valtor at Cloud Tower. It does not end well for any of them.
  • In the Season 4 premiere, despite graduating and becoming fully-fledged fairy guardians, the Winx's Enchantix was not enough to fight the even more powerful Wizards of the Black Circle, and they get wiped out in almost an instant. That is when Faragonda comes in to reveal the Winx need to go beyond Enchantix and only the Believix level will combat the Wizards' power.
• The way Scarlet Witch completely and utterly annihilates the X-Men in the X-Men: Evolution episode "The HeX factor" surely qualifies. Apocalypse nonchalantly wiping out Magneto by waving his hand also counts.
• Clayface in "Downtime" of Young Justice (2010) did this to the team off-screen. Seconds later, he was given one himself once Batman arrived on the scene.
  • When Superboy is first released in the pilot, he (under the control of Cadmus genomes) takes out Kid Flash in a single punch, and after being slightly annoyed by Robin's taser does the same to him. Aqualad is the only one who actually manages to fight him evenly for awhile, although eventually Superboy takes him out too.

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