History ConservationOfNinjutsu / AnimeAndManga

* ''GetterRobo Armageddon''. On one end, an entire army of GetterRoboG, the second of the Getter Robo line. On the other, a singular classic Getter Robo, piloted by Ryouma Nagare. Ryouma owns them easily.

* ''RosarioToVampire'' gives a nice example when [[BashBrothers Gin and Haiji]] take down an entire branch of [[AntiHumanAlliance by themselves]].

* In ''{{Berserk}}'', Apostles were a major threat early in the series, with Guts needing to fight with everything he had to kill one, and Guts probably would have died fighting the Count if the Count's daughter hadn't conveniently burst into the room for Guts to use as a hostage. Now that all the Apostles in the world are serving Griffith, they've been demoted to [[EliteMook Elite Mooks]]. Justified, since Guts has the [[DeadlyUpgrade Berserker's Armor]], which makes him much stronger and brings out his SuperpoweredEvilSide.

** Anyone in ''{{Dragonball}}'' who possessed the ability to duplicate themselves usually followed a similar rule, because the person using the technique actually does divide his power up evenly amongst his clones. So a fighter with a power level of 2400 becomes two fighters with power levels of 1200 or three fighters with power levels of 800 and so on. The creator of the Division technique actually gets criticized by his rival for creating a move with such a debilitating flaw.
*** But subverted by Metal Cooler in one of the movies. After one copy is defeated, hundreds more show up... each of whom are just as strong as the original.

** Averted during [[spoiler: Madara's fight with the Bijuu, in which despite his strength and prowess, gets handily owned by the teamwork of the tailed beasts albeit he has no eyes]].

* Watch an episode of ''SailorMoon'' and you'll have the basic formula: Sailor Senshi weaken monster, Sailor Moon finishes it off. Now watch one of the movies, where there can be dozens to hundreds of monsters at once, and EVERYONE will be able to pick them off with an attack or two.

* Played straight a few times in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' but the best example is probably [[spoiler:the captain/vizards vs [[VillainSue Aizen]]. They attack en masse and he curb stomps them easily.]] There's also an early example with the match between Uryu and Ichigo. Just an episode or so prior, Ichigo definitely had the advantage against hollows but it was still a struggle to win. When the contest is running, he and Uryu are taking them down easily when fighting multiple opponents at the same time. They only really function to slow Ichigo down in these numbers.
** Yoruichi does this when fighting Soi Fon's ninja squad.
*** Neither of these is an example of this trope as the result of those fights is justified by in-universe combat mechanics. In each case, the winner of the fight won by having ridiculous amounts of power to begin with instead of his/her opponents suffering from narrative power cap required by this trope.

*** The movies in general are better about this. Sansho, Ginger, and Nicky manage to take down Piccolo with a CombinedEnergyBlast, despite being individually weaker than him, Bido, Zangya, and Bujin are able to take down the powerful Super Saiyan Gohan with teamwork, and in the above Metal Cooler example, Goku and Vegeta managed to defeat the original Metal Cooler by combining their energies. Generic {{mook}}s also manage to take down Gohan and Krillin in the Lord Slug and Metal Cooler movies, again by ganging up on them, despite sustaining heavy losses.

* Akane of RanmaHalf vs [[AllMenArePerverts half the guys]] in the school. Multiple times in multiple episodes, and presumably tens of times offscreen. [[SarcasmMode Sounds like a fair fight...]] {{Justified|Trope}} in that she practices martial arts extensively, whereas most of her opponents train fighting as a hobby if at all. However, some few of her opponents are judoists and a very noticeable sumo wrestler...

* ''{{Naruto}}'' takes this trope to new heights. Not only do minions and other extras actively exhibit the trope, but Naruto himself possesses the ability to make a good 1000+ clones of himself. To that point, if he creates 1-5, they're usually the key to his victory, but almost any time he goes over 10 or so (which turns out to be his most common [[IdiotHero strategy]]), they turn into cannon fodder, as their main weakness is that they usually go poof with just one hit.

** During the fight of Sakura and Chiyo vs. Sasori, Sasori summons about a hundred puppets at once, most of them where taken apart easily by Sakura and Chiyo's Ten Puppet of Collection Chikamatsu. Though later in the fight, the ten puppets quickly lose advantage as Chiyo pointed out that Sasori controlled his puppets better as their numbers dwindled.
** Played straight with the fight of [[spoiler:[[BiggerBad Madara Uchia]] versus [[RedshirtArmy Gaaras Division]] of the Shinobi-Alliance]], where the former [[CurbStompBattle curbstomps]] the later with Taijutsu only. This, however is only happening in the Anime, which takes his physical combat-abilities UpToEleven. [[spoiler:His [[FunctionalMagic Ninjutsu]] and [[MagicalEye Sharingan]] are handy, too.]]

*** [[PureAwesomeness By STARING at them]]. Although it is kind of justified as this is an ability that you have to be born with and only a really small portion of the people in the world have it and is one of the most powerful abilities in the world. Also they were all {{Redshirt}}s by this point in the story.

** Conversely, in ''Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo'', Shou and Gai are overwhelmed in the Neo Getter Robo when dozens of prototype Getters piloted by members of the Dinosaur Empire attack them. In this case, though, it's not a matter of Conservation of Ninjutsu, but the fact that, despite being prototypes, the dozens of Getters were using Getter Energy, thus are much stronger than the plasma energy-using Neo Getter.

** Actually averted against the boss of Grimoire Heart, but to be fair he was in a giant mecha at the time.

** Like so many other times in this franchise, however, this is almost immediately subverted after the count is made [[spoiler:as the Alucard quickly summoned ''millions'' of familiars to completely overwhelm the other two forces with a very literal tidal wave of fresh troops.]]

* FairyTail, to the point that you can predict the outcome of any given battle. Every time the heroes team up against their enemies, they're going to lose, but when they fight those same enemies by themselves later, even 1v2 or more, they win.

** It is sort of averted [[spoiler:after the time skip when almost everyone dies]] but even then, they seem to be powerful against many of the same type of enemy, of which only one gave them trouble mere minutes before.

** Also happens in ''PrettyCureAllStars DX 3''. Two of the teams of Cures (the leader group of Cures Black, Bloom, Dream, Peach, Blossom and Melody and the bright colored group of Shiny Luminous, Milky Rose, and Cures Rouge, Lemonade, Pine, Passion, Sunshine and Moonlight) deal with groups of Monsters of the Week with ease, but the remaining team (soft colored group comprised of Cures White, Egret, Aqua, Mint, Berry, Marine and Rhythm) are put through the ringer with only a small group of monsters.