History NoHoldsBarredBeatdown / AnimeAndManga

*** Jotaro completely annihilates Steely Dan after being put through all kinds of torture while he held his grandfather hostage. For ''three full pages'' (translated to over '''''twenty seconds''''' in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzuXrCTop2Q the anime]]).

** Ichigo is delivered a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown by Grimmjow and Tesla (though in the latter case, [[spoiler:he was half dead after defeating the former anyway.]]
** And before that Yammy gives him a beating after his HeroicBSOD kicked in.
** Then later on, [[BigBad Aizen]] delivers one to [[spoiler: [[TheStarscream Gin.]] Admittedly Gin had just stabbed him, but after Aizen came back again, he proceeded to slash him across the chest, rip his arm off, stab him through the chest, and finally throw him through a building.]]
** [[GiantMook Ayon]] cements [[strike: himself]] ''itself'' as the only thing in the Manga almost as terrifying as Barragan by delivering several almost impossibly brutal versions of the OneHitKO. It tears out half of Rangiku's torso before she can blink. It crushes Momo's ribcage with a single punch. It attempts to crush and ''eat'' Hisagi when he attempts to take it on, and blows Iba away with a ''backwards glance'' during his attempt at BigDamnHeroes. [[spoiler: And that's all nothing compared to the utterly savage beating it gave to Quilge Opie -- in his ''[[OneWingedAngel Vollstandig,]]'' a power-up absolutely ''no other Quincy'' had to rely on at the that point in the manga's last arc.]]

** Ulquiorra slowly escalated this during his final fight with Ichigo; [[spoiler: before he kills him after advancing to his second release, Ulquiorra's pretty much beating Ichigo into the roof of Las Noches with all his might.]]

** Anytime Ichigo's Hollow surfaces, such as the fight with Byakuya, later Grimjow and then finally against Ulquiorra. In each of these examples Ichigo was being given a no holds beat down until he was on the verge of death [[spoiler: or in one case actually dead]] at which point his hollow took charge and started to even things out.

** Even more recently, Hinata takes on Pain to protect a helpless Naruto, ''finally'', [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove sincerely confessing her love for Naruto]] before charging the most powerful Ninja in the world [[NervesOfSteel without a trace of fear]]. Pain proceeds to sidestep her attack, crush her into the ground with gravity, and seemingly stab her to death in front of Naruto.

** Mikazuki Augus from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' is already notorious for ''frequently'' delivering this trope to his enemies, but the fight against [[spoiler: Carta Issue]] takes the cake. In his RoaringRampageOfRevenge for his fallen allies, [[spoiler: he slammed her bodyguards and [[KilledMidSentence stomped them when the later wanted to negotiate for a duel]], pursued Carta without bothering her chatter and her name, dismembered her mecha, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath flinged her dismembered mecha across the snowy field]], [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill broke her sword and snapped her hand apart]], even when Mika's final blow was interrupted by Gaelio and Orga, the flinging had already claimed Carta's life.]]
** In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamAge'', [[spoiler:Kio delivers a beating to Zanald, right after [[KickTheDog killing Deen]]]]. Flit beats up [[spoiler:Desil after he kills Yurin]], and Asem beats up [[spoiler:Desil (again), after he kills mentor Woolf.]] Both also count as CurbStompBattle - especially the latter, as in the span of roughly a minute and a half, [[spoiler: Asem systematically severs every one of Desil's mech's limbs, then slices it in half, and then SHOOTS THE TWO HALVES.]] A generation later, Asem does the same thing with [[spoiler:Zeheart despite a two-generation tech advantage in the latter's favor and the fact that in most every previous engagement between the two, Zeheart won]]. The actual fight in that case lasted under a minute, and about half of that time was devoted to dialog. Extra props to Asem in particular because unlike Flit or Kio, he is a BadassNormal, and his opponents in both cases had psychic powers.

** Aizawa is brutally beaten during the villain attack on the Unforseen Simulation Joint. Present Mic is '''not''' happy when he sees his friend’s mangled body and lets the villains have it with full GaleForceSound.

* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has one from [[spoiler:''Present Mic'']] of all people. Upon finding the person responsible for many of the bad things that happened to his friends, [[spoiler:including the death of his best friend Shirakumo 15 years ago that sent his other best friend Aizawa spiraling into depression]], he does not hesitate to nearly cave in [[spoiler:Dr. Ujiko's]] face with his bare hands.

* In ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', Louise inflicts these on Saito so brutally and so frequently that by all rights, he shouldn't be alive and fully functioning. Most of the methods she uses to "discipline" the poor guy fully qualify as [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]], and they leave him paralyzed sometimes. [[{{Brainwashed}} Not that Saito is able]] [[MindRape to hold it against her for long.]]

** And not forgetting(as much as would like to) ''Anime/TransformersEnergon'', wherein Megatron revives as Galvatron and proceeds to brutally kick the scrap out of Scorponok, brand him with the Decepticon sigil, then use his body as a shield before proceeding to rampage out and thrash our brash young hero-Bot (off-screen, but still). Then there's his MindRape of Starscream...

** In Episode 22 of the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist 2003 anime adaptation]], Envy totally humiliates Edward and Lust and Gluttony take Alphonse hostage. The only reason the Elrics got out of that one was because they were saved by Scar, who actually did much the same thing to Ed in an earlier episode. And then of course, there's the final battle with the Homunculi, in which [[spoiler:Envy sadistically kills Edward after revealing that he is actually Edward's half-brother.]]

** Any time a character shows of their new training or powers such as: Goku's one shotting of Nappa, Vegeta's use of a fake moon to turn into an Ozaruu and literally crush the life out of Goku, Zarbon's use of transformation, Vegeta demonstrating Saiyan zenkai to Zarbon, The Ginyu's vs. Vegeta Krillin and Gohan, Goku vs. the Ginyu's Frieza in each new form to someone else, Goku once he achieves Super Saiyan... The rest of the series continues in much the same manner...

** Just as harsh: Hercule/Mr. Satan's daughter Videl is savagely beaten to the point of crying by her superpowered opponent Spopovich in the Tenkaichi Budokai tournament. He takes this almost literally as the last move he used was standing on and attempting to crush her skull against the tournament floor. During the first half of the fight Videl gave him a pretty far going beatdown, as she didn't know the true extent of the power Gohan had trained her to, but was just trying to win. She and the audience even thought she accidentally killed him at one point, but it turned out for this guy having your neck suddenly wrenched around 75 degrees by a roundhouse was far less than fatal.

** Also, earlier in ''Manga/DragonBall'', Piccolo Daimao, even taking his robe off for some SeriousBusiness, pummeled the young Son Goku. Even momentarily stopping his heart beating.
** Before then ''Goku'' deliverers one of the most vicious beatdowns to Tambourine for murdering Krillin. He almost beat the monster to death before vaporizing him.

** Vegeta's fight with Kid Buu when Goku needed one minute to charge enough energy to defeat him. Fat Buu also gets the bubbler beating out of him by Kid Buu and was nearly killed by brute force.

*** Hannyabal, his direct assistant suffers a [[TearJerker truly sad]], yet [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]] beat down from Luffy, as he is obviously outmatched; yet is constantly willing himself to get back up, especially after being hit by the same attack that knocked Lucci, yes that Lucci out cold, because of his unwavering belief of protecting the people of the world from criminals.
** Subverted when Luffy faces a Logia Devil Fruit user he actually has an ''advantage'' over, and proceeds to kick his ass. When God Eneru recovered, he was too terrified of Luffy and didn't actually want to fight him anymore. His solution was to trick him by grafting a giant golden orb on Luffy's arm. When Luffy returned he gave one final move that completely defeated Eneru.

** A rare hero version occurs when Chopper activates [[OneWingedAngel Monster Chopper]]. The previously one-sided fight with Kumadori suddenly becomes a smackdown so brutal, you actually feel sorry for the villain who had previously just beat the ''hero'' within an inch of his life.
** Bellamy beat up Montblanc Cricket and the Monkey Brothers, Luffy heads back to Mock Town and hands him a ''extremely satisfying'' [[OneHitKill one-hit KO]].
** Marine Admiral Akainu for most of the Marineford arc was the living embodiment of this trope. Most notably [[spoiler: his brief one encounter with Ace]]
*** And then [[WorldsStrongestMan Whitebeard]] notices, Akainu gets a magnificent one himself.

* In ''Manga/RaveMaster'' Haru beats Lucia using a demon sword, and even almost kills him before Elie snaps him back into his senses. Then Lucia beats Haru and almost kills ''him'' before Shuda intervenes and gets killed instead [[spoiler: except [[UnexplainedRecovery he recovers]]]]. The fight this sparks is significantly less one sided.

** The first proper fight between Saito and Kenshin eventually turns into this after Kenshin is stabbed, and when Saito ends up using his belt and coat to try and strangle Kenshin after losing his sword he then resorts to his ''fists''. A wuss, Saito is not, and Kenshin's forced to awaken his SuperpoweredEvilSide just to survive while Kaoru watches helplessly. Luckily, they're stopped JustInTime before they actually manage to kill each other. Later, the fight with Enishi goes a lot like this, but once again they're stopped by Kaoru.
** Saito hands out another beatdown later in the series, this time to Sanosuke, to prove that he couldn't hack it in the coming battle in Kyoto. For the extra kick in the teeth, he trashes him [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame at unarmed combat]]. Further more, he does it while avoiding Sano's shoulder injury, a weakness he would normally take advantage of.
** This trope is inverted during the first Kenshin/Enishi fight. After Enishi says he's to kill Kaoru, Kenshin goes into an UnstoppableRage and ''beats the crap out him'', putting away all the fancy techniques that Enishi easily defeated earlier.

** Frieza's legendary beatdown of Vegeta, right after Frieza achieved his fourth and final transformation. In the uncut version (read: the one you won't see on Creator/CartoonNetwork), it's quite possibly one of the most savage beatings bestowed in all of anime. Frieza literally pummels Vegeta until Vegeta can barely move from the pain and injury, tears of humiliation and agony dripping from his eyes. And just when Goku arrives and it looks like it'll be a BigDamnHeroes moment, Frieza finishes the fight by blasting Vegeta through the heart, killing him. While most of the cast is quick to admit Vegeta can't keep his mouth shut, Goku is heavily enraged by KickTheDog-methods of one-sided fights. In fact, apart from Super Saiyans, all of Freeza's fights reached a point where he'll get fed up, power up, and utterly destroy his opponent without even trying: Nail, Krillin, Gohan, Piccolo, Vegeta and even Goku were almost killed in direct confrontations this way.

*** Any fight with Buu in any of his forms if you're name isn't Goku or Vegeto. First he one shots Dabura, Gohan, and then curb stomps the lord of lords. Then when Vegeta stops him from eating the lord of lords he traps Vegeta in a piece of his own stomach and then beats him half to death. He also stomps on Gotenks until Goten and Trunks train in the hyper-bolic time chamber for 4 months and even then they can only just harm him and then go toe to toe by going Super Saiyan 3. Once Gohan returns the situation the keeps reversing depending on which form Buu is in and who's fighting him.

*** Gohan going [=SS=]2 had him deliver one to Cell, only using a Ki attack at one point in the fight and mostly pummeling him. Turning [=SS=]2 gave Gohan a sadistic streak rivaling Frieza and had him let Cell hit him once just to show how outmatched Cell was, and as the fight went on it became clear Gohan was just dragging the fight out to torture him, which eventually backfired.
*** And, at the late Buu saga, he doesn't need to be mad to have access to his full power. And demolish Super Buu with mere punches and kicks.

** During the Oracion Seis arc [[BigBad Brain]] [[spoiler: reverts to his [[SuperpoweredEvilSide other personality Zero]] ]] and proceeds to utterly defeat [[TheHero Natsu]], [[AnIcePerson Gray]] and Lucy. And ''then'' keeps trashing them around for the lulz again and again.
** Then later [[spoiler:[[HeroKiller Hades]]]] who proceeds to do this to [[spoiler:Makarov]] then [[TheHero Natsu]], [[AnIcePerson Gray]], ''[[TheBigGuy Erza]]'', [[PluckyGirl Lucy]], and [[TagalongKid Wendy]].
** Before that two heroic variant have Elfman and [[spoiler:Mirajane]] on two different occasions when one was watching the other get tortured and the result an EPIC beatdown.
** The Iron Dragon Slayer, Gajeel after [[PhlebotinumMuncher eating some iron]], delivers a beating to Natsu. Natsu can't even stand by the end, [[spoiler: [[HeroicSecondWind at least until]] [[NowItsMyTurn he got some]] [[MadeOfExplodium fire to eat]]…]] He also does to Lucy in the anime.

** [[spoiler:Roy Mustang confronts Envy and learns that Envy killed Hughes. Cue the CurbStompBattle, with Mustang repeatedly mutilating and incinerating Envy in the worst way imaginable, Ed and Hawkeye are barely able to talk Roy down from literally crushing Envy's [[ThisWasHisTrueForm True Form]] like a worm under his boot… Whereupon Ed instead [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath Talks The Monster To Death]]]].
** And of course there is [[spoiler:King Bradley Vs Greed]]. Lets just say that [[spoiler:Greed died at least 16 TIMES]] without even coming close to being in the position to retaliate.
--> [[spoiler:Bradley]]: So [[spoiler:Greed]] old boy.....How many times would you like to die?"

** In Episode 22 of the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist 2003 anime adaptation]], Envy totally humiliates Edward and Lust and Gluttony take Alphonse hostage. The only reason the Elrics got out of that one was because they were saved by Scar, who actually did much the same thing to Ed in an earlier episode. And then of course, there's the final battle with the homunculi, in which [[spoiler:Envy sadistically kills Edward after revealing that he is actually Edward's half-brother.]].

** Ed's beating of Shou Tucker. In order to keep his job, [[spoiler: [[MoralEventHorizon Tucker uses alchemy on his adorable daughter Nina and fuses her with the family dog, making her into a chimera]]]]. When Ed sees what happened, he begins pummeling Tucker, and completely loses it when Tucker [[NotSoDifferentRemark tries to compare this to Ed and Al's own use of Human Transmutation. Al stops Ed, telling him that if he doesn't stop, Tucker will die (Al then tells Tucker that if he doesn't shut up, ''he'll'' start killing him).

** Ed's beating of Shou Tucker. In order to keep his job, [[spoiler: [[MoralEventHorizon Tucker uses alchemy on his adorable daughter Nina and fuses her with the family dog, making her into a chimera]]]]. When Ed sees what happened, he begins pummeling Tucker, and completely loses it when Tucker makes NotSoDifferentRemark. Al stops Ed, telling him that if he doesn't stop, Tucker will die (Al then tells Tucker that if he doesn't shut up, ''he'll'' start killing him).