History AdaptationalBadass / AnimatedFilms

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* Despite the AdaptationalAngstUpgrade Cloud Strife is much stronger in ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'' than he was in the original ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII FFVII]]'' being able to defeat the Remnants of Sephiroth, Bahamut SIN and Sephiroth himself [[OneManArmy solo]]. In the original game, it took ''all'' of TheTeam just to beat Sephiroth who was an immortal PhysicalGod at that point.
* [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Toothless]] of ''Literature/HowToTrainYourDragon'' went from a tiny green dragon which could fit on [[ABoyAndHisX Hiccup's]] shoulder in the book series to a Night Fury, decribed as "the unholy offspring of lightning and death itself", and the dragon every viking fears most -- rather, the ''only'' dragon vikings fear in [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon the film adaptation]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' thanks large part to being [[RecycledInSpace Sci-Fi update]] to ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' does this to several characters from the original novel.

** Jim Hawkins was a traditional KidHero in the book, being [[GuileHero guile]] and sneaky to survive, he only kills Israel Hands in self defense and avoids swashbuckling in general. In ''Treasure Planet'' Jim is a LeParkour, SkySurfing badass who's handy with a RayGun who kicks Scoop (a spider alien pirate) into outer space and achieves more minutes than his literary counterpart could in multiple chapters.
** Long John Silver was at best a HandicappedBadass in the book who relied on his men in battle, and was used his wits more than his sword or flintlock. In ''Treasure Planet'' Silver is a {{Cyborg}} who has all manner tools and gadgets in his robotic arm and can turn his prosthetic leg into a laser cannon, he also retains his guile from the book.
** Mr Arrow was a useless drunk in the original book who was hardly mourned when he died. In ''Treasure Planet'' Arrow (reimagined as an alien rock monster) is a quite competent officer who is highly respected and his death is treated as a tragedy. This characterization of Arrow is akin to other adaptations e.g ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'' where Arrow is competent, heroic and is SparedByAdaptation.

* Despite the AdaptationalAngstUpgrade Cloud Strife is much stronger in ''Anime/FinalFantasyAdventChildren'' than he was in the original ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII FFVII]]'' being able to defeat the Remnants of Sephiroth, Bahamut SIN and Sephiroth himself [[OneManArmy solo]]. In the original game, it took ''all'' of TheTeam just to beat Sephiroth who was an immortal PhysicalGod at that point.

* Esmeralda from ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' changed from TheIngenue in the original story to an ActionGirl in the [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Disney animated version]]. Claude Frollo also counts because in the original book he wasn't a combatant. Quasimodo is much [[SuperStrength stronger]] as well, being able to rip stone pillars down.
* [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Toothless]] of ''Literature/HowToTrainYourDragon'' went from a tiny green dragon which could fit on [[ABoyAndHisX Hiccup's]] shoulder in the book series to a Night Fury, decribed as "the unholy offspring of lightning and death itself", and the dragon every viking fears most -- rather, the ''only'' dragon vikings fear in [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon the film adaptation]].

* [[ActionGirl Rapunzel]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', in the [[Literature/{{Rapunzel}} original tale]] all she did was lift people up with her [[RapunzelHair super long hair]], [[BabiesEverAfter and get pregnant with twins later]]. In the Disney version she kicks ass with [[FryingPanOfDoom a frying pan]] and can [[BuildingSwing swing around]] and lasso things with her hair. And that’s not even getting into [[SuperMode how badass Rapunzel becomes]] in her [[WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries show]].
** Technically, you could say ''everyone'' in ''Tangled,'' since the original story doesn't really have any sort of "action." [[BigBad Gothel]] is a sort of weird example--she becomes more badass by becoming ''less'' powerful, going from a witch in the fairy tale to a knife-wielding badass (she knows a spell to retain her youth and is also implied to be able to fly -- which is seen in only one scene-- but otherwise she never uses magic in the whole film).
* Speaking of witches, the Sea Witch from Hans Christian Anderson's ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid'' was just a plot device to teach the titular mermaid a cautionary lesson. In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' the Sea Witch aka Ursula is a badass [[AdaptationalVillainy evil]] octopus lady who took down King Triton and nearly conquered the entire sea... before she got impaled.
** For that matter, The Little Mermaid herself gets this as well. In Anderson's original story the Mermaid ([[NamedByTheAdaptation named Ariel]] in the Disney movie) was a much more demure character, while she does save the prince from drowning like the animated movie she spends the rest of the story a BrokenBird as her prince doesn't love her and she commits suicide and turns into sea foam. In the 1989 movie Ariel saving the prince (Eric) from the shipwreck is expanded into a big action scene and later in the movie, she saves him ''[[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend again]]'' from the Sea Witch by pulling Ursula's hair making her kill her own henchmen in the process which is way more badass than anything the original mermaid did. There's also the prince himself, who's useless and heartless in Anderson's book while in the Disney movie he's heroic, actually loves the little mermaid and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kills]] the Sea Witch in her OneWingedAngel form.

* In the original book of ''Literature/SleepingBeauty'', there was a minor villain known as The Evil Fairy. When the book was [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty adapted into a film]], that minor baddie was morphed into Maleficent, one of the most badass Disney villains to date.
** The Prince (named Philip in the film) doesn't do much in the original story besides kiss (and in the older versions of the story [[DudeShesLikeInAComa bone]]) an unconscious princess. In the film Philip is easily one of the most [[WarriorPrince badass]] Disney princes period, as he fights and kills Maleficent with a CoolSword and shield, albeit he gets some help from the three good fairies.

* Despite the AdaptationalAngstUpgrade Cloud Strife is much stronger in ''Anime/AdventChildren'' than he was in the original ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII FFVII]]'' being able to defeat the Remnants of Sephiroth, Bahamut SIN and Sephiroth himself [[OneManArmy solo]]. In the original game, it took ''all'' of TheTeam just to beat Sephiroth who was an immortal PhysicalGod at that point.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' gives basically everyone this treatment. Aladdin goes from being a lazy kid who's ''maybe'' a little clever to a GuileHero with LeParkour abilities to rival [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreed Altair]] and in the FinalBattle fights a ScaledUp Jafar armed only with a scimitar. The Princess goes from being a beautiful, but otherwise flat, LoveInterest to a RebelliousPrincess who impresses Aladdin by being smart and fun, as well as pretty. Then there's Jafar himself, who is a CompositeCharacter of an evil sorcerer and an ObstructiveBureaucrat vizier who ''wasn't'' the BigBad. He now ''is'' the BigBad who uses every bit of both magical and political power he has. (The Genie is an exception. He [[AdaptationalHeroism is a kinder, more individualized character]] who is ''not'' more powerful then his story counterpart; the Genie from the story could have easily done the same things ''and'' never mentioned the three rules the one in the movie did.)
* ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' thanks large part to being [[RecycledInSpace Sci-Fi update]] to ''Literature/TreasureIsland'' does this to several characters from the original novel.
** Jim Hawkins was a traditional KidHero in the book, being [[GuileHero guile]] and sneaky to survive, he only kills Israel Hands in self defense and avoids swashbuckling in general. In ''Treasure Planet'' Jim is a LeParkour, SkySurfing badass who's handy with a RayGun who kicks Scoop (a spider alien pirate) into outer space and achieves more minutes than his literary counterpart could in multiple chapters.
** Long John Silver was at best a HandicappedBadass in the book who relied on his men in battle, and was used his wits more than his sword or flintlock. In ''Treasure Planet'' Silver is a {{Cyborg}} who has all manner tools and gadgets in his robotic arm and can turn his prosthetic leg into a laser cannon, he also retains his guile from the book.
** Mr Arrow was a useless drunk in the original book who was hardly mourned when he died. In ''Treasure Planet'' Arrow (reimagined as an alien rock monster) is a quite competent officer who is highly respected and his death is treated as a tragedy. This characterization of Arrow is akin to other adaptations e.g ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'' where Arrow is competent, heroic and is SparedByAdaptation.

* ''WesternAnimation/JLAAdventuresTrappedInTime'' sees Dawnstar get some impressive light powers to fill out her comic's powerset, which was limited to tracking and flight. Then the Time Trapper, who was always a major powerhouse, gets treated like a Lovecraftian horror here. It's a Shout-Out to the Paul Levitz/Keith Giffen Legion run where he was in his Entropy Personified incarnation.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' does this to Batman wearing the [[PoweredArmour Exo-Suit]] in the FinalBattle against ComicBook/{{Superman}}. In the comic Batman [[CombatPragmatist focused on using every tool he had]] to weaken and injure Supes as much as possible before resorting to his powered Batsuit and only got one punch in before Superman overpowered him, [[spoiler: and he was forced to exploit the KryptoniteFactor with Green Arrow's help]]. In the animated version, Batman makes [[https://youtu.be/Wp4huHUUFgw?t=69 effective use]] of the Exo-Suit matching Supes blow for blow with enhanced strength, actually making him break out the [[EyeBeams Heat Vision]], unlike the comic where it's implied Clark was going easy on him.
* In ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'', the Joker's circus troupe [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere fled at the mere sight of the Batmobile pulling up]]. In [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheKillingJoke the animated version]], they actually put up a fight before Batman first confronts the Joker.
* Bekka in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueGodsAndMonsters''. In the mainstream DC universe, she is a HotScientist with [[TheEmpath emotion controlling powers]] that rarely, if ever, fought. In this movie, she is this universe's own Franchise/WonderWoman and just as capable as Diana of Themyscira. While seemingly lacking her original powers, she makes up for it with her impressive martial skills, superhuman strength, flight and a CoolSword that can cut through nearly everything.
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanRedSon'':
** The Green Lantern Corps, in the [[ComicBook/SupermanRedSon comic]] they’re basically a RedShirtArmy as their constructs and are easily destroyed by Russian Superman, who steamrolls them. In the animated film on the other hand, they collectively overpower Supes and even trap him in a unbreakable green cube ''which they shrink''. They only lose when Wonder Woman [[NiceJobBreakingItHero steps in to free Superman]].
** Speaking of which in the same scene Wonder Woman is able to [[PunchCatch catch Superman’s punch]] implying she’s stronger than him. Whereas in the comic Diana got curb stomped same as the Lanterns when she tried to stop him, though admittedly she was explicitly weakened due to breaking her own lasso.
** Superior Man aka Bizzaro (created by Lex Luthor) actually puts up a real against Superman in a extended battle before suffering a SuperPowerMeltdown. Though this version removes the HeroicSacrifice he performed in the comics.
** [[spoiler: Lex in the FinalBattle of the comic, helps Superman beat Brainiac by tinkering from the sidelines. In the animated version Lex gets into PoweredArmor and actually fights Brainiac alongside Supes]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatLegendsScorpionsRevenge'' gives this treatment to Scorpion himself (not too surprising given he's in the title). Yes, Scorpion is obviously no pushover in the games being a burning ninja skeleton and all, but he's not unbeatable having frequently gotten [[TheWorfEffect his undead ass kicked]] by the likes of Raiden, Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade, Kung Lao, Jade and his nemesis Sub-Zero. In the animated film, before he even gets {{Hellfire}} he [[UnstoppableRage rampages]] against the Lin Kuei who massacred his clan and only loses when Sub-Zero shows up. Even after dying and going to Netherrealm, Scorpion breaks free of his chains, kills his torturer Moloch and goes on ''another'' rampage [[OneManArmy against thousands of demons]] and even pushes Quan-Chi around. When Scorpion does get his iconic abilities, he breezes his way through the Mortal Kombat tournament racking up a bigger body count than Liu, Sonya and Johnny combined. After killing Sub-Zero [[spoiler: and learning it was actually Quan-Chi who killed his family, Scorpion steps in to help Liu Kang by killing Goro himself. If that wasn't enough, he then overpowers [[BigBad Shang Tsung]] and gets his revenge by killing Quan-Chi]]. [[SpotlightStealingSquad Unfortunately]], this does kinda take the victory away from the Earthrelam heroes barring the SequelHook.

* In ''Animation/RedShoesAndTheSevenDwarfs '', the Magic Mirror can control trees and use them to attack. He also serves as the final serious threat of the movie.

** Waller labels Bronze Tiger as [[WorldsStrongestWarrior best martial artist on the planet]], which if true, would put him far above his comics version, who is undeniably near the top, but doesn't quite reach the heights of ComicBook/BlackCanary, [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Cassandra Cain]], or his former ally ComicBook/LadyShiva.

* Despite the AdaptationalAngstUpgrade Cloud Strife is much stronger in ''Anime/AdventChildren'' than he was in the original [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII FFVII]] being able to defeat the Remnants of Sephiroth, Bahamut SIN and Sephiroth himself [[OneManArmy solo]]. In the original game, it took ''all'' of TheTeam just to beat Sephiroth who was an immortal PhysicalGod at that point.

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* Esmeralda from ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' changed from TheIngenue in the original story to an ActionGirl in the [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Disney animated version]]. Claude Frollo also counts because in the original book he wasn't a combatant. Quasimodo is also much [[SuperStrength stronger]] than he was in the original being able to rip stone pillars down.

* Leon S. Kennedy in the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' CG movies ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration Degeneration]]'', ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDamnation Damnation]]'' and ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilVendetta Vendetta]] '' '''[[UpToEleven big time]]'''. True, Leon is very skilled and competent in the games but the CG movies essentially [[TookALevelInBadass turn him]] into the superhuman love child of Franchise/JohnWick and Lara Croft, Leon can take on entire countries [[ZombieApocalypse filled]] with zombies and Lickers [[OneManArmy all by himself]], fight and [[MadeOfIron tank blows]] from two [[TheBrute Tyrants]] + [[MonstrousHumanoid two Mutated antagonists]]... '''and win'''. Leon even [[SpotlightStealingSquad shows up]] Chris Redfield who is the main character of the franchise.

** ComicBook/SpiderGwen, while by no means a weakling, isn't very strong or particularly competent in the comics (especially compared to other Spider-Women). She gets all her moves from watching kung-fu movies, [[UnskilledButStrong relies upon her superpowers to get by in a fight]], and struggles against fully combat-trained opponents. One BigBad even admonishes Gwen for not knowing ''how to throw a punch''. Spider-Verse Gwen, however, is a different story, being a very skilled and graceful fighter, which makes sense given it's shown [[DanceBattler she does ballet]]. This Gwen Stacy even takes down Scorpion and saves adult Peter Parker from Doc Ock, feats that comic Gwen would struggle to replicate.

* ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatLegendsScorpionsRevenge'' gives this treatment to Scorpion himself (not too surprising given he's in the title). Yes, Scorpion is obviously no pushover in the games being a burning ninja skeleton and all, but he's not unbeatable having frequently gotten [[TheWorfEffect his undead ass kicked]] by the likes of Raiden, Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade, Kung Lao, Jade and his nemesis Sub-Zero. In the animated film, before he even gets {{Hellfire}} he [[UnstoppableRage rampages]] against the Lin Kuei who massacred his clan and only loses when Sub-Zero shows up. Even after dying and going to Netherrealm, Scorpion breaks free of his chains, kills his torturer Moloch and goes on ''another'' rampage [[OneManArmy against thousands of demons]] and even pushes Quan-Chi around. When Scorpion does get his iconic abilities, he breezes his way through the Mortal Kombat tournament racking up a bigger body count than Liu, Sonya and Jonny combined. After killing Sub-Zero [[spoiler: and learning it was actually Quan-Chi who killed his family, Scorpion steps in to help Liu Kang by killing Goro himself. If that wasn't enough, he then overpowers [[BigBad Shang Tsung]] and gets his revenge by killing Quan-Chi]]. [[SpotlightStealingSquad Unfortunately]], this does kinda take the victory away from the Earthrelam heroes barring the SequelHook.

** For that matter, The Little Mermaid herself gets this as well. In Anderson's original story the Mermaid ([[NamedByTheAdaptation named Ariel]] in the Disney movie) was a much more demure character, while she does save the prince from drowning like the animated movie she spends the rest of a story a BrokenBird as her prince doesn't love her and she commits suicide and turns into sea foam. In the 1989 movie Ariel saving the prince (Eric) from the shipwreck is expanded into a big action scene and later in the movie, she saves him ''[[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend again]]'' from the Sea Witch by pulling Ursula's hair making her kill her own henchmen in the process which is way more badass than anything the original mermaid did. There's also the prince himself, who's useless and heartless in Anderson's book while in the Disney movie he's heroic, actually loves the little mermaid and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kills]] the Sea Witch in her OneWingedAngel form.

** The Green Lanterns Corps, in the [[ComicBook/SupermanRedSon comic]] they’re basically a RedShirtArmy as their constructs and are easily destroyed by Russian Superman, who steamrolls them. In the animated film on the other hand, they collectively overpower Supes and even trap him in a unbreakable green cube ''which they shrink''. They only lose when Wonder Woman [[NiceJobBreakingItHero steps in to free Superman]].

* In ''Animation/RedShoesAndTheSevenDwarfs'', the Magic Mirror can control trees and use them to attack. He also serves as the final serious threat of the movie.

** Jim Hawkins was a traditional KidHero in the book, being [[GuileHero guile]] and sneaky to survive, he only kills Israel Hands in self defense and avoids swashbucking in general. In ''Treasure Planet'' Jim is a LeParkour, SkySurfing badass who's handy with a RayGun who kicks Scoop (a spider alien pirate) into outer space and achieves more minutes than his literary counterpart could in multiple chapters.

* The titular Beast from ''Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast'' wasn't the hairy LightningBruiser that he is presented as in the [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Disney version]]. In the animated version, Beast fights off a wolf pack and curb-stomps Gaston, the best hunter in the land. In the book, the Beast was taken down by one angry mob led by Beauty's PapaWolf father.

** Mr Arrow was a useless drunk in the original book who was hardly mourned when he died. In ''Treasure Planet'' Arrow (reimaged as alien rock monster) is a quite competent officer who is highly respected and his death is treated as a tragedy. This characterization of Arrow is akin to other adaptations e.g ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'' where Arrow is competent, heroic and is SparedByAdaptation.

* Leon S. Kennedy in the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' CG movies ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDegeneration Degeneration]]'', ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilDamnation Damnation]]'' and ''[[Anime/ResidentEvilVendetta Vendetta]] '' '''[[UpToEleven big time]]'''. True, Leon is very skilled and competent in the games but the CG movies essentially [[TookALevelInBadass turn him]] into the superhuman love child of Franchise/JohnWick and Lara Croft, Leon can take on entire countries [[ZombieApocalypse filled]] with zombies and Lickers [[OneManArmy all by himself]], fight and [[MadeOfIron tank blows]] from two [[TheBrute Tyrants]] + [[MonstrousHumanoid two Mutated antagonists]]... '''and win'''. Leon even [[SpotlightStealingSquad shows up]] Chris Redfield whose the main character of the franchise.

* ''Literature/PussInBoots'' in the original tale was a GuileHero and pragmatist, in ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' and his [[WesternAnimation/PussInBoots solo movie]] he's [[Creator/AntonioBanderas literally]] the cat version of Zorro being a MasterSwordsmen and adventurer.

** [[ComicBook/SpiderGwen Spider-Gwen]], while by no means a weakling, isn't very strong or particularly competent in the comics (especially compared to other Spider-women). She gets all her moves from watching kung-fu movies, [[StrongButUnskilled relies upon her superpowers to get by in a fight]], and struggles against fully combat-trained opponents. One BigBad even admonishes Gwen for not knowing ''how to throw a punch''. Spider-Verse Gwen, however, is a different story, being a very skilled and graceful fighter, which makes sense given it's shown [[DanceBattler she does ballet]]. This Gwen Stacy even takes down Scorpion and saves adult Peter Parker from Doc Ock, feats that comic Gwen would struggle to replicate.

** Aunt May is a frail old lady in the comics. In the Spider-Verse she beats up ''[[TheBrute fricking Tombstone]] with a baseball bat''.

* ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatLegendsScorpionsRevenge'' gives this treatment to Scorpion himself (not too surprising given he's in the title). Yes, Scorpion is obviously no pushover in the games being a burning ninja skeleton and all, but he's not unbeatable having frequently gotten [[TheWorfEffect his undead ass kicked]] by the likes of Raiden, Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade, Kung Lao, Jade and his nemesis Sub-Zero. In the animated film, before he even gets {{Hellfire}} he [[UnstoppableRage rampages]] against the Lin Kuei who massacred his clan and only loses when Sub-Zero shows up. Even after dying and going to Netherrealm, Scorpion breaks free of his chains, kills his torturer Moloch and goes on ''another'' rampage [[OneManArmy against thousand of demons]] and even pushes Quan-Chi around. When Scorpion does get his iconic abilities, he breezes his way through the Mortal Kombat tournament racking up a bigger body count than Liu, Sonya and Jonny combined. After killing Sub-Zero [[spoiler: and learning it was actually Quan-Chi who killed his family, Scorpion steps in to help Liu Kang by killing Goro himself. If that wasn't enough, he then overpowers [[BigBad Shang Tsung]] and gets his revenge by killing Quan-Chi]]. [[SpotlightStealingSquad Unfortunately]], this does kinda take the victory away from the Earthrelam heroes barring the SequelHook.

* ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatLegendsScorpionsRevenge'' gives this treatment to Scorpion himself (not too surprising given he's in the title). Yes, Scorpion is obviously no pushover in the games being a burning ninja skeleton and all, but he's not unbeatable having frequently gotten [[TheWorfEffect his undead ass kicked]] by the likes of Raiden, Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, Sony Blade, Kung Lao, Jade and his nemesis Sub-Zero. In the animated film, before he even gets {{Hellfire}} he [[UnstoppableRage rampages]] against the Lin Kuei who massacred his clan and only loses when Sub-Zero shows up. Even after dying and going to Netherrealm, Scorpion breaks free of his chains, kills his torturer Moloch and goes on ''another'' rampage [[OneManArmy against thousand of demons]] and even pushes Quan-Chi around. When Scorpion does get his iconic abilities, he breezes his way through the Mortal Kombat tournament racking up a bigger body count than Liu, Sonya and Jonny combined. After killing Sub-Zero [[spoiler: and learning it was actually Quan-Chi who killed his family, Scorpion steps in to help Liu Kang by killing Goro himself. If that wasn't enough, he then overpowers [[BigBad Shang Tsung]] and gets his revenge by killing Quan-Chi]]. [[SpotlightStealingSquad Unfortunately]], this does kinda take the victory away from the Earthrelam heroes barring the SequelHook.

* Despite the AdaptationalAngstUpgrade Cloud Strife is much stronger in ''Anime/AdventChildren'' than he was in original [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII FFVII]] being able to defeat the Remnants of Sephiroth, Bahamut SIN and Sephiroth himself [[OneManArmy solo]]. In the original game, it took ''all'' of TheTeam just to beat Sephiroth who was an immortal PhysicalGod at that point.

* In ''Red Shoes and the seven dwarves'', the Magic Mirror can control trees and use them to attack. He also serves as the final serious threat of the movie.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' does this to Batman wearing the [[PoweredArmour Exo-Suit]] in the FinalBattle against ComicBook/{{Superman}}. In the comic Batman [[CombatPragmatist focused on using every tool he had]] to weaken and injure Supes as much as possible before resorting to his powered Batsuit and only got one punch in before Superman overpowered him, [[spoiler: and he was forced to exploit the KryptoniteFactor with Green Arrow's help]]. In the animated version, Batman makes [[https://youtu.be/Wp4huHUUFgw?t=69 effective use]] of Exo-Suit matching Supes blow for blow and actually forcing him to use [[EyeBeams Heat Vision]], unlike the comic where it's implied Clark was going easy on him.