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  • Here's Batman vs. Candle Jack. Batman Wins.
  • Noriko Null from Beyond the Impossible does it so often she earns the title Slayer of Gods, killing Demeter is considered completely unprecedented in its universe: not only she’s the first mortal to kill a goddess, she does it with a Mind Rape machine.
  • In Carmilla the Series Season 1, Laura kills the Dean, apparently a thousands-of-years-old vampire by dropping a rock on her head. It doesn't stick, because the Dean is actually a god.
  • In the Crinoverse, this happens a lot. The final Chicago Avengers adventure had the heroes facing off with Omega, a being who destroys entire universes. First his armor is blown off, and then he's punched so hard he explodes.
  • In the "Dark Dungeons: The Movie!", Debbie ends up summoning Cthulhu by playing too much D&D and in the end she defeats him through the power of prayer.
  • In Darwin's Soldiers the Funny Animal Wrench Wench Sharon, fought Death with a shotgun and an improvised flamethrower. And won.
  • DEATH BATTLE!
    • In one of the most triumphant examples of Badass Normal ever, Guts from Berserk destroys THE single most powerful entity in the Soul Series, Night Terror. And then he also takes out Inferno and smashes Soul Edge to win the fight.
    • Also, Kirby, who is 8 inches tall and utterly adorable, absolutely destroys Majin Buu, the most powerful and terrifying villain in the Dragon Ball universe, by blasting him into the sun. Beware the Nice Ones indeed.
    • Zero manages to destroy Metal Overlord, the very same being who in an earlier episode of the series, managed to destroy Wily and Eggman's entire armies and then the entire world, and whom Super Sonic needed help to defeat in canon.
  • Dreamscape: Keela instantly kills the Master of the Dammed by simply shattering his scythe in the flashback in "Tale of the Unworld".
  • In 'The Camping Webisode' of DSBT InsaniT, Alex makes a mention to Killer Monster of all the powerful beings he and the others defeated in the past, not fazed by Killer Monster's threat.
    Alex: We have taken out mismatched freaks of nature created by ancient serpents, mad scientists with powerfull monsters under their command, and demons who can take over the planet! You don't think we can kill some fire-breathing beast?!
  • Epic Meal Time: Did they just eat Cthulhu? (Meat Cthulhu, that is.)
  • "Epic Wub Time" has Vinyl soundly defeating Discord with one shot of her Wub-powered "Bass Cannon".
  • In The Gamer's Alliance, the heroes of the Grand Alliance work together and defeat Nergal, the God of War, in combat.
  • How to Hero mentions a superhero whose day job is being a ballboy throwing a baseball at Cthulhu.
  • Lumpy Touch follows up his Gorefield Horrorscopes series with a tier-ranking system on what loot you would get from killing your Western Zodiac sign Eldritch Abomination assigned specifically to haunt and try to murder you or worse. Including a shot of Lumpy's Author Avatar killing the Cancer Gorefield with More Dakka and then making soup out of it.
  • In the second season finale of Marble Hornets, Jay is sleeping inn his hotel room when he hears Jessica scream from the adjoining room. He jumps up to help her, but then stops and turns around. The Operator has materialized into his room behind him. Jay pauses for a minute, as if considering whether to run away or not, but then just takes the path of greatest awesomeness and tackles the Operator out a window.
  • This video has Rainbow Dash punch out Slenderman to protect Fluttershy.
  • Narwhals stop Cthulhu eating ye
  • In The Nostalgia Critic special "You're a Rotten, Dirty Bastard", the Critic does this to Roger the angel three times. When he first finds Roger in his home, he punches him in the face thinking he's a Jehovah's Witness. The next time Roger comes up to him, he punches him in the groin so hard it temporarily paralyzes him. Finally, at the end, when Roger turns evil and attacks him, the Critic kills him by shooting him in the face.
  • Various episodes of ONA Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! have Mahiro Yasaka stab Nyaruko's hand with an elder sign (read "mundane fork"). Of cause it's parody, but consider that she's Nyarlathotep...
  • The Onion gives us NASA Completes 52-Year Mission to Find, Kill God.
  • Jappleack's plan to defeat the Titan of Honesty, an Evil God who can travel through multiple planes of existence and devoured the other five Titans? Eat him. She succeeds.
    Twilight: You're talking about a centuries-old inter-dimensional leviathan the size of a planet who devours entire planes of existence. Jappleack, what are you thinking? You can't eat Appelox!
    • In the Grand Finale, Rainbow Dash, after coming Back from the Dead and causing reality to reset with a Sonic Rainboom, ends up defeating Discord. Possibly justified since she used the Sword of the Holy Titans summoned by Twilight, which Twilight Prime considered about the only spell that may have been effective against Discord's father Appelox if they could've found someone to wield it.
  • In the famed creepypasta Russian Sleep Experiment, the best defense against the physical embodiment of mankind's daytime fears is found to be a TT-33 pistol.
  • In The Salvation War, this trope is definitely in play. In Armageddon?, the human race kills off Satan and in Pantheocide Yahweh, the entity behind the Abrahamic deity is next on their list. Powerful as heck and incredibly long-lived (functionally immortal against old age? Maybe), but not invulnerable...
    • As it happens, Yahweh was punched out by the Archangel Michael, but the human race did manage to punch out Uriel, the Angel of Death though.
  • The SCP Foundation is devoted to containing and studying Cthulhu-grade anomalies that threaten or endanger human sanity, existence, and reality as we know it merely by existing.
    • There are at least two subversions: SCP-343, who is literally omnipotent and only contained voluntarily, and SCP-2317, whose containment procedure is all just a farce and whom the Foundation has utterly given up on stopping.
      • The latter was contained legitimately back in its day, by a mere 10,000 soldiers in 1894 BCE. Their only technology? Chains made from the bones of another abomination of the same species, whom they must've already killed. In a forum discussion regarding the SCP, Dr Clef puts forth a hypothetical scenario in which, when the abomination finally does break free, it is almost immediately killed by direct fire from a 105mm howitzer battery. To say that the O5's feel a bit silly is an understatement.
    • And when they actually have to kill one of these uber-creatures? At least in the case of a Reality Warper, a little distraction and a good Sniper Rifle tend to work wonders. They have to know you're there to defend themselves from you, after all.
    • Special mention to the case of SCP-1983 and the awesomeness of D-14134. Basically, 1983 was a house filled with The Heartless, an elite team sent in to investigate was slaughtered to a man so they sent a disposable Boxed Crook with a camera in to scout it. The tether snapped and D-14134 was lost. Several hours later the house vanished suddenly in a flash, leaving only the dessicated remains of the team and an informal report written by one of the agents. It is believed that D-14134 somehow found the report and weapons, and then like Torque, fought his way through the house to the creatures' nest and destroyed it.
    • SCP-4100 chronologies how, in the distant future, the entire population of Earth fled the planet to escape an extinction-causing Eldritch Abomination known as the "Destroyer", but not before attaching Faster Than Light engines to the planet and plowing the entire Earth into the Destroyer at faster-than-light speeds.
    • SCP-3999: An insane Reality Warper which happens to be the author of the story proclaims itself God and warps the entire universe around tormenting Foundation researcher James Talloran. How does Talloran react to the realization that a nigh-omnipotent being is destroying reality and rebuilding it around torturing him? He figures out that everything 3999 does is centred around him because it can't exist without him and commits suicide, erasing 3999 from existence.
    • According to the TwistedGears-Kaktus proposal for SCP-001, the Church of the Broken God finally revived Mekhane... and he immediately started devouring everything in his path. Eventually, the Foundation and the GOC were able to kill Mekhane, creating the Gulf of Mexico in the process.
    • SCP-2950 initially appears to just be an exceptionally comfy chair that affects people's minds slightly so it's hard to get them to get up. Then you read the classified addendum and find out that it's actually an entity that becomes what the majority of people think it is. It managed to trick the Foundation into thinking it was a Cthulhu-level threat so it became one. However, the Serpent's Hand knew of the creature's true nature and warned the Foundation. This lead to an arrangement involving all Foundation and Hand members except O5-6 and an unnamed Hand member having their memories wiped and being told that SCP-2950 was an exceptionally comfy chair, trapping it in that form forever.
    • The War On All Fronts canon starts off with the Crocosquid, which is a god-like figure in some timelines, being killed with a nuke by the GOC.
      • When the Crocosquid returns to life in the "Anastasis" timeline and brings an army of its own kind with it, the Foundation ups the ante by creating a Pacific Rim-esque giant robot that fights them to the death. In various battles, Dr. Kaori, with help from the Serpent, kills several of the monsters. The Crocosquid itself manages to beat both of them, only for Dr. Kaori to initiate the failsafe and unleash a colossal blast of solar energy that incinerates it.
    • When We Came Home is the story of how the Scarlet King was defeated, slain and cast back into the Great Abyss during the final battle.
    • SCP-001 "The Black Moon" is a more proactive Entropy, a force which constantly wipes out random pieces of the universe until there is nothing left. The Foundation Administrator is the last in a line of people working to find a way to defeat it, and they do find a way, though it's hardly ideal. The Administrator does it by creating a Conceptual Space, a sort of idea-room where everything exists solely as information, which visually resembles a bar. Since it only partially exist, Entropy will come for it last, and once it does, it will attempt to enter through the "path of least resistance". Specifically, the Administrator leaves a tiny place in the concept where the black moon can exist, shaped like a human. He then proceeds to beat the ever-loving crap out of Entropy itself, before killing it by hitting it in the head with an ash tray. And just to top it of, since the universe is officially wiped out, he then presses a button he had prepared for just this occasion, declaring "Let there be Light".
  • In the Steve Poling short story ''Southern Fried Cthulhu,'' Cthulhu makes the fatal mistake of invading a southern redneck town. After driving half the townsfolk insane, a handful of those lucky enough to have been shielded from his mind-control rays kill him with tinfoil hats, Molotov cocktails, shotguns, and a batch of thermite — then slice him up and fry him. Then they get a hunting license to go after more...
  • About 8 minutes into this dramatic reading of a fanfic on TGWTG, Robin Hood kills Cthulhu. With a bigger arrow. In the eyehole. To be fair, the guy who wrote this fanfic was the demons.
  • One of the stories from Ursula Vernon's "House of Red Fireflies" series mentions a madam at the titular brothel who'd once killed a god with a broken beer bottle.
  • Warning! Readers Advisory!: Averted! The Bard's not dumb enough to try it.
  • In the Whateley Universe, Sara Waite fights The Kellith in dreamspace with a knife. And wins. Even if Sara Waite is The Kellith, or one is part of the other, or they're a duality, or something.
    • It actually makes sense in context: the 'Kellith' in the dream represents the magical brainwashing her supposed high priest was trying to inflict on her. Of course, that technically makes it not quite an example of this trope — but then the Whateleyverse also has Tennyo, who apparently eats Eldritch Abominations, demons, and the like. (The jury's still out on whether she counts as one herself.)
  • In Worm, Taylor manages to essentially bully a nigh omnipotent world destroying alien to death. By targeting Scion's psychological weakpoints, she drives him past the Despair Event Horizon, and he allows himself to be killed.


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