History Main / NoHoldsBarredBeatdown

Put away the magic, energy blasts, and witty banter. BeautyIsNeverTarnished, MadeOfIron, ToonPhysics, and HollywoodHealing, if they were present in the story before, are all temporarily turned off. This is the scene where a someone pummels, punches, kicks, beats, and/or batters another person to a limp, bruised, bloody pulp. Note that as far as {{Fight Scene}}s go, this is quite one-sided. That [[HeroicSecondWind Second Wind]] you're waiting for? Keep waiting. It doesn't end that way.

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* The title character of ''Animation/KuangKuang'' is very frequently on the receiving end of these from one or more of his teachers, bleeding all over the floor as they stamp on his head.
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[[folder: Fairy Tales]]
* In "Literature/TheBlueMountains", the hero must suffer a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown for three nights to free the heroine.
* Also in ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/threeprincesseswhiteland.html The Three Princesses of Whiteland]]''.
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* In the ''TabletopGame/HongKongActionTheatre'' supplement ''To Live and Die in HK'', one of the Signature Moves that a character can have is "Heroic Comeback." In addition to being used for HeroicSecondWind moments during climactic fights, it can also be used after the character has been on the receiving end of one of these in an earlier scene, with the + 5 bonus to hit the guy who kicked his ass for the rest of the movie being used for some much deserved payback.
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* In the final battle between Suzaku and Kallen's [[AMechByAnyOtherName Knightmare frames]] in Season 2 of ''Anime/CodeGeass'', since they're both fairly evenly matched now, nor do they have to withdraw due to other circumstances as in earlier battles, fight pretty brutally. Both of their Knightmare's get heavily damaged, to the point where the only thing really left of their mechs afterward is an arm or leg (although Suzaku "loses" by having his blow up). It's an example of a mecha HowMuchMoreCanHeTake.
* ''Manga/DragonBall Z'':
** 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.
** Just as harsh: Hercule/Mr. Satan's daughter Videl is savagely beaten to the point of crying by her superpowered (male) 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. Of course, considering he barely registers any damage later in the fight, it's likely he ''let'' her beat the crap outta him for shits and giggles.
** Also, earlier in ''Manga/DragonBall'', Piccolo Daimao, even taking his robe off for some SeriousBusiness, handed one of these to the young Son Goku. Even momentarily stopping his heart beating.
** Raditz's first fight with Goku, which ended with him ''stomping on Goku's chest''.
** Vegeta's fight with Kid Buu when Goku needed one minute to charge enough energy to defeat him.
** Gohan:
*** Any time he lets his anger loose, he will be handing one of these to ''somebody.'' Unfortunately, he usually can't maintain his pissed-off state long enough (most people in DBZ would require a week-long beatdown to actually lose a fight). But man oh man, as long as he stays mad he will ''ruin your day.''
*** Gohan going [=SS=]2 had him deliver one to Cell, only using a Ki attack at one point in the fight and mostly pummelling 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 Buu with mere punches and kicks.
** Cell:
*** When he first encounters the androids, he beats 17 down to the point where he can no longer even move, only able to watch in horror as Cell prepares to absorb him.
*** To say nothing of Cell's utter decimation of Piccolo immediately prior.
*** Common in the movies, with Goku getting one from Turlus after the latter ate of the fruit from the Tree of Might, which had a notably brutal KickTheDog moment when Goku could barely stand and Turles pummelled him with repeated Ki blasts. More famously, any fight involving Broly has him do this before his beaten by a DeusExMachina.
* In ''Manga/{{Monster}}'', a couple of thugs decide to mug [[CoolOldGuy Dr. Reichwein.]] [[LetsGetDangerous Big]] [[Awesome/{{Monster}} mistake]].
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** Johnathan Joestar's beatdown of Dio Brando in the first part, wherein he beats Dio ''so'' badly that Dio actually starts to cry. Considering how much crap Dio had put Johnathan through from literally the moment the two met, this was really cathartic.
** Most main characters get at least one of these throughout the course of their part of the series, though not usually against the main villain. Jotaro completely annihilating Steely Dan after being put through all kinds of torture while he held his grandfather hostage comes to mind. The guy gets beaten up for ''three full pages'', mind you.
** Which is topped by Giorno giving one the biggest beatdowns in the manga to Cioccolatta for about 5 pages straight, ending it by punching him into a garbage truck.
** On the villain side, there is Vanilla Ice subjecting [[spoiler: Iggy]] to one in rage for being forced to destroy an effigy of his master Dio. [[spoiler: Iggy is actually killed as a result of the beatdown]]
* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', the end of the battle between Yami and Insector/Weevil on the top of the train qualifies as a hero-on-villain version of this trope. Despite already having won by the game rules, Yami just keeps on pulling his kill spell effect on a defenseless Weevil.
** And he would have probably continued until Weevil fell unconscious from the pain had Anzu not intervened
* In episode 4 of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'', Ladd Russo shows just how much of a {{Badass}} antagonist he is by mercilessly beating up a member of the Lemures with his bare fists, taunting him all the while. [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown He continues beating the man's bloody face even long after it's apparent that his victim is dead]], then just laughs it off. The episode itself is appropriately titled "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Ladd Russo Enjoys Talking a Lot and Killing a Lot]]."
* ''Manga/TenjhoTenge'':
** At the beginning, Nagi Souichirou picks a fight with Takayanagi Masataka, biting off far more than he can chew when Masataka blocks his cheap shot with a ''chopstick'', then proceeds to [[KamehameHadoken Kamehameha]] the punk across the room. Masataka decides to play the role of villain for a bit and swiftly proceeds to rearrange Souichirou's face with an unending flurry of kicks. Masataka eventually falls victim to another cheapshot from Souichirou, which, most unfortunately for our main protagonist, prompts Masataka to descend into a berserker rage, massacring Souichirou in one of the most brutal beatdowns in the series. The "fight" ends with Masataka intentionally missing his final wall-shattering punch (floor-shattering in the manga) as Souichirou passes out. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TCEY7GK8Sc here.]]
** Also in Tenjho, when Aya faces off against Shiro (the staff guy) during the bowling alley fight. After Shiro inadvertently awakens her Dragon Eyes, Aya proceeds to beat the poor guy within an inch of his life, with his own weapon, laughing all the while. (Granted, she did feel pretty bad afterwards.)
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** 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 pummelling Tucker, and completely loses it when Tucker claims they are NotSoDifferent. 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).
** [[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?"
** During the final battle, [[spoiler: just after Al sacrifices his soul to get Ed's arm restored, [[BigBrotherInstinct Ed]] proceeds to brutally beat the remaining Philosopher's Stones out of [=Truth!Father=] ''one punch at a time'' with his bare hands]].
** 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.]].
* In ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', Guilmon, Renamon, and Impmon all end up on the receiving end of one. Of particular note is Impmon's, which was horribly brutal and can be summed up as a two-foot-tall cat-thing getting thrown through buildings and stomped on by a bipedal horse three stories high. The [[CurbStompBattle "fight"]] was so uneven that [[NightmareFuel Guilmon and Terriermon were paralyzed by horror]], [[NauseaFuel Takato and Henry looked like they were going to be sick just watching it]], [[IceQueen Rika]] actually ''begged'' Renamon to help him, and eventually [[ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself Renamon]] decided to jump in, albeit at the last second to respect Impmon's [[LeaveHimToMe wishes]].
* ''Manga/VinlandSaga'':
** Thorkell, a BloodKnight extraordinaire and major antagonist for part way through continually lays a beat down on the protagonist every time they meet in combat, often with his bare hands, though he loses an eye and a pair of fingers at the same time.
** Askeladd's no stranger to this as well, as the latest 'duel' between him and Thorfinn was arguably the most humiliating bare-handed asskicking the latter's gotten to date in the series. In this case, however, it was mostly Thorfinn's fault, having challenged Askeladd while he still had a broken arm, and having failed to learn anything about finding new moves and keeping a cool head from their previous duels.
* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'':
** 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.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** A rule of thumb is that this will happen to some degree whenever Luffy deals with a [[SuperpowerLottery Logia]] Devil Fruit user, or one of the [[BigBad Seven Warlords of the Sea]]. The most obvious examples are Crocodile (who delivers it in a classic style after revealing that Luffy can't hurt him at all), and Aokiji (who does it, all at once, to the best of the heroes, taking TheWorfEffect to its logical extreme).
** Magellan managed to invoke this (despite being a Paramecia) in every fight he took place in during the Impel Down arc. Luffy's strength meant nothing when Magellan only had to touch him once with his poison for a fatality, and he was unable to land a hit in turn without covering his hands in the poison. It was possibly the closest Luffy has come to dying to date.
*** Hannyabal, his direct assistant suffers a [[TearJerker truly sad]], yet [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] beat down from Luffy, as he is obviously outmatched; yet is constantly is 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.
** In an odd neutral-on-hero example, when Zoro challenges Mihawk, supposedly the world's best swordsman, to a battle, Mihawk proceeds to effortlessly block everything Zoro does [[WithThisHerring with a tiny dagger]]. He proceeds to stab Zoro in the chest and, when Zoro refuses to surrender, he agrees to use his {{BFS}}, with which he shatters two of Zoro's swords and almost kills him. He only lets him live because he wants to see if Zoro really can surpass him.
** 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]]
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** 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, one 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 Allon]] 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.
** [[BadassGrandpa Yamamato]] delivers one to a special hollow that was created to stop his InfinityPlusOneSword. The hollow rendered his sword useless, but Yammato simply killed it with a set bare-handed attacks.
** 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.]]
** As Nodt does this to Byakuya after stealing his bankai and paralyzing him with his 'Fear' power.
*** It's the most brutal one so far: [[spoiler: As uses Byakuya's bankai to tear him almost to pieces, ultimately [[CruelAndUnusualDeath leaving his half-flayed body]] ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath glued to the wall with his own blood]]''.]]
* ''Anime/NinjaScroll'': Himuro Gemma delivers a beating of this type to Jubei. Not even [[spoiler:getting his arm cut off]] stops him. [[spoiler:Getting his skull bashed in]] does, temporarily.
* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'':
** Yusuke Urameshi provides one of these to the main arc villain, Sensui after [[spoiler:he is [[SuperpoweredEvilSide taken control of by his ancestor, Raizen]].]] Sensui is thrown and beaten around like a ragdoll before he is finished off by the hero. [[spoiler: [[BatmanGambit Which was]] [[DeathSeeker what he wanted]] [[VictoriousLoser in the first place.]]]]
** Another beatdown occurs earlier in the series during the Tournament Arc. Yusuke and his opponent realize that they're running out of strength, so they decide to keep trading blows between one another until one of them finally collapses. Yusuke comes out winning, being the {{Determinator}} he is at times.
** Then there was Bakken, who both gave ''and'' received one. First, he decided to play around with Kurama, who had just survived two ''brutal'' fights in a row and was essentially asleep on his feet. Since Kurama was still standing in the ring, his opponent claimed this meant he was volunteering to fight. Bakken slammed Kurama's body around like a rag doll for several minutes before they finally called the match over. He was only convinced to stop the carnage by the threat of Yusuke shooting him in the back: rules or no rules. Whereupon Yusuke himself takes up the fight... and despite Bakken's mist ability promptly dealt him back for every blow given to Kurama earlier: only with Yusuke's much-stronger fists. Adding insult to Bakken is the fact that Yusuke also took every blow he threw at him and shrugged it off before beating him to a pulp when he was begging for mercy.
** Younger Toguro's fight with Yusuke in the final match was very evenly matched...[[OneWingedAngel until]] [[NightmareFuel he]] goes 100%. [[spoiler: it took a supposedly HeroicSacrifice from [[TheLancer Kuwabara]] to make the hero be a real threat to the [[BloodKnight demon]] because it was WAY TOO ONE SIDED, to the point that Yusuke was being beat around like a rag doll.]]
** And then there is Genkai Vs The Beautiful Suzuka. Genkai pounds him so hard indents of her fist are left all over his body, and his face has been bruised and to the point it's unrecognizable. Made particularly funny in that she viciously beats him senseless while shouting loudly about how his vanity and weakness keep him from becoming a real fighter...only to instantly stop with a quiet "that's enough" once he's thoroughly pounded.
** Kuwabara receives two of these during the Dark Tournament arc. The first is during a three vs. three fight and the good guys have just learned that their opponents are BrainwashedAndCrazy. Kuwabara, subscribing to the HonorBeforeReason school of thought, refuses to attack them any more and the three gang up on him. It ends about as poorly as you'd expect. The second example is in his very next fight, before he's had a chance to recover. Due to several counts of trickery, Hiei and the Masked Fighter were disqualified before the match could begin, leaving Kurama and Yusuke as the only fighters with most of their bones intact to face five opponents in a row. Fatigue claims Kurama halfway through the third guy, and Yusuke is disqualified on a technicality before his match with the final one. Kuwabara is yelling in pain while climbing ''into'' the ring, but he agrees to fight for his team because he's the only one left. As it turns out, his opponent's power involves [[ElementalArmor covering himself in rock]] and slamming himself into an enemy. Kuwabara's already broken body takes several of these attacks before [[LoveInterests Yukina]] shows up and ThePowerOfLove [[DeusExMachina gives him a second wind and renews his energy]] [[Awesome/YuYuHakusho so that he can send the guy flying with one shot]].
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Neji]] beating down [[FanOfUnderdog Hinata]] in such a manner, practically killing her when [[{{Determinator}} she doesn't give up]].
** [[spoiler: Even more recently, Hinata takes on Pain to protect a helpless Naruto, ''finally'' confessing her love for Naruto before charging the most powerful Ninja in the world 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.]]
*** While the manga version of the above doesn't count, being a OneHitKill, the [[AdaptationExpansion anime version]] plays it brutally straight as [[spoiler: Hinata repeatedly takes ''brutal'' blows from Pain's Shinra Tensei that leave her eventually unable to stand, yet she doesn't give up even when she's reduced to ''crawling on her hands and knees!'']]
** After [[spoiler:seeing Hinata get stabbed]], Naruto inverts this [[UpToEleven beyond anything ever seen in the anime]]. [[spoiler:Naruto, suffering from the loss of his master, his village and his first teacher, loses all hope and resorts to the [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Nine-tails]] to bring down Pain. In the anime, Kyuubi Naruto, already in the 4-tailed state, mercilessly beats him on the [[MegatonPunch Megaton-scale]], yet Pain is unscathed. Angered even further, he transforms into a never-before-seen 6-tailed form and attacks him with far more power than before. Ironically, he doesn't attack Pain in his ''[[OhCrap 8-tailed state]]'', considering he was trying to break out of a moonlike mass that Pain trapped him in.]]
** Really most of the arc was Pain doing this to [[spoiler:all of Konoha. Naruto was the only one who can really do any significant damage to him in a [[PyrrhicVictory non-Pyrrhic way]] (Kakashi, Choji, and Choza vs. Deva path is the only one that could even be considered a "[[CurbstompBattle battle]]"), and he only arrives halfway through. And still got his ass kicked in the end. And the only reason he lasted as long as he did was because Pain was holding back because he was trying to capture, not kill Naruto.]]
** And the first was Naruto first tapping into his SuperpoweredEvilSide for the first time and owning Haku.
** In chapter 608, there is [[spoiler: Obito doing this to Kakashi. First Kakashi takes a giant shuriken to the knee, then he's sent to another dimension, he comes back, is kneed in the chin, stabbed in the shoulder, punched, and finally takes a double cross-swipe of shuriken to the chest. All of this in a single chapter. And guess what? [[MadeOfIron He's still standing!]] ]]
* Lordgenome, in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. Unique in the fact that he delivers one, bare handed, ''to a mecha''. Not just that, he climbed out of his own mecha as it was in the middle of being destroyed by the hero and ''messes him up'' barehanded. And because obviously this wasn't spectacular enough, the second movie takes this trope to UpToEleven during the FinalBattle, [[spoiler:during which the Anti-Spiral King finally snaps and proceeds to beat the living hell out of our heroes while furiously ranting about the sacrifices made by his race and [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech how the good guys are nothing but a group of reckless fools whose actions will doom the universe]], culminating in the brutal dismemberment of The Show's Namesake Mecha.]]Seriously, the [[spoiler:squiggly man]] was pissed. [[spoiler: After which they get back up and give him a beatdown in return.]]
* Played with in ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'' when Brocken Jr. faced off with Ramenman. Brocken delivered one of these to Ramenman for a time until deciding to use the Camel Clutch, the move Ramenman had killed his father Brockenman with. At that moment, Ramenman asks if Brocken is all out of moves and proceeds to break free and beat ''Brocken'' down.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'':
** A fight between Lucy and Nana, wherein Lucy, already having won, proceeds to ''slowly rip Nana's limbs off, one by one.'' Made even worse by Nana desperately repeating that it doesn't hurt.
** Any fight involving Lucy turns into this, though in the anime [[AlwaysABiggerFish she actually ends up receiving one from Mariko]]. In case outside of her, there was a {{Ba|dassNormal}}ndo delivering one to the [[DirtyCoward Unknown Man]], knocking out several of his teeth, amongst other things.
* The already extremely violent samurai series ''Manga/{{Shigurui}}'' shows several examples of Samurai throwing away their swords and ''[[{{Gorn}} beating people to death in the most brutal fashion possible]]'', sometimes against ''multiple armed opponents!''.
* In ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', Tasuki receives one of these from BrainwashedAndCrazy Tamahome. They're more or less evenly matched when the fight begins, but [[LoveMakesYouDumb Miaka]] can't bear the idea that her beloved Tamahome might be hurt or killed, and begs Tasuki not to use his [[PaperFanOfDoom weapon]]. He obeys, challenging Tamahome to be a man and fight him bare-handed instead. Tamahome [[TalkToTheFist promptly responds]] by hitting him in the face with ''his'' weapon... which knocks Tasuki down, where Tamahome proceeds to grind his face into the ground and issue one of the most prolonged, violent beatings in the series. Eventually, even [[BigBad Nakago]] arrives to pile on.
* Possibly one of the greatest examples in all of anime occurs in ''Anime/{{Karas}}: The Revelation.'' The hero [[BadassNormal Otoha]] has been stripped of his powers, but it's revealed that, possibly due to a genetic disease ([[spoiler: he's incredibly bishonen for being the product of incest)]]), he's incapable of feeling pain. He readily cuts open his own hand with his sword without so much as wincing, and he more than once takes bullet wounds in fights and carries on with barely a hesitation. Even with this knowledge however, the audience cringes during his fight with a bull demon in a subway station: without his powers as Karas, Otoha is massively outclassed, and although he briefly holds his own, he's eventually impaled on a spike the width of a car tire and hurled the length of a city block... ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome and he still gets back up.]]'' To elaborate. [[spoiler: He survives a WaveMotionGun attack. There's a moment where it really looks like he's going to summon up some supernatural power, one brief moment of hope, but it doesn't last. His Karas sword SHATTERS, he's got shards of glass or metal in HIS EYES, minus one arm. And he still TRIES to keep fighting. Which basically results in him collapsing forward, lamenting his weakness. And then, he became a Karas again, and delivered a curbstomp of his own to what was, in all likelihood, the weakest monster of the series.]]
* "Karas: The Prophecy", being part 1 of the previous entry, opens with quite possibly the most epic battle of the entire series. Between Eko, the former Karas, and his replacement. Eko, being hundreds of years old and only recently replaced, delivers a fairly one-sided beating to the Karas who preceded Otoha. With CrowningMusicOfAwesome in the background. And transformations from samurai / ninja to something resembling fighter jet combat. Basically, whenever Eko enters the fray, a beatdown is about to commence. To the degree where its DISAPPOINTING that he ScaledUp into a giant asian-style mecha-dragon looking thing. As giant monstrosities never seem to put up as good a fight as a human BigBad, and do not lend themselves to epic kung fu battle. Which was what made Eko such a wonderful villain. He knows that AuthorityEqualsAsskicking and he's not afraid to do it. Which makes sense, considering he spent centuries as a monster-fighter in Japan...
* One episode of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' has the protagonist undercover as a waiter in a {{Yakuza}} run restaurant. He is attacked by a disgruntled patron who in the process causes a lot of damage to the restaurant. The next scene shows the protagonist befriending a young gangster while the customer is being savagely beaten in the background. Much more to the point is the fact that ''the first time'' we see Our Hero, he does this to someone. The guy was pretty much helpless, since he had the [[SuperpowerLottery incredibly sucky]] remuneration of [[{{Fingore}} breaking his own fingers]]. Hei beat the everloving crap out of him, including knifing and kicking his freshly-injured hand [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique to get him to talk]]. He finished by [[ShockAndAwe zapping the guy to death]]. Why yes, Hei ''is'' an AntiHero. Why do you ask?
* The second episode of ''LightNovel/KinosJourney'' features a Neutral-on-Villain version of this as Kino is [[ExtendedDisarming told to drop her weapons in a pile]]... [[spoiler: and then quickly ''annihilates'' the three slavers with one of her remaining weapons. As TheStoic, she doesn't show the typical rage these fights often develop, but it's messy, violent, and very, very brutal.]]
* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'':
** Shion (disguised as Mion) delivers one of these to Satoko, she ruthlessly beats the little girl in the middle of the class room while berating her for crying and taking up all her brother's time. She was about to kill her, saying that a cracked skull would shut her up, when Rika threw herself in front of Satoko saying she would also have to GoThroughMe and Rena joined her. Shion was about to also take them out, and then she was PunchedAcrossTheRoom by Satoshi... the boy she was doing it for. It should be noted that while this event was only shown in one chapter, since it is part of the back story (taking place a year before the main story) it is assumed to happen in every world.
** In the third episode of the {{OVA}}, Satoko gets another beatdown, this time from [[BreakTheCutie Rika]] armed with a chair. First with a chair thrown hard to the face followed by four or five ''solid'' blows delivered at full force stopped only by Rika's mercy. However in this instance, Satoko was practically asking for it.
** In the sound novel Rika hits her with the chair, then ''hits her''. It's not as violent or traumatizing as the anime, but still effective.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has HeroicResolve turn every fight Negi participates in into one of these at some point, since its a theme of his character to have such difficulties due to inexperience. Interestingly, the most intense of these came at the hands of another good guy during the end of the tournament arc. [[spoiler: Negi [[HeroicResolve got back up]], and [[IAmNotLeftHanded pulled out his new upgrade]]...and still can't win.]]
* In ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'', this happens to Ganta during the majority of his battles. The only thing that keeps saving him is that, in the end, when everything looks hopeless and he's about to give up, he ''always'' gets a surge of energy and determination that makes him stand up again.
* In ''Manga/RaveMaster'' Haru does one of these on Lucia using a demon sword, and even almost kills him before Elie snaps him back into his senses. Then Lucia pulls one of these on 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.
* ''Manga/FairyTail'':
** 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. Borders with NightmareFuel.
** Then later [[spoiler:[[HeroKiller Hades]]]] who proceeds to do this to [[spoiler:Makarov]] then [[TheHero Natsu]], [[AnIcePerson Gray]], ''[[TheBigGuy Erza]]'', [[TheChick 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 one of these 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.
** In chapter 291, one of the members of Sabretooth, [[spoiler: Minerva]] delivers a horrific one to [[spoiler: Lucy]].
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** [[CombiningMecha Liokaiser]], in his first appearance in ''Anime/TransformersVictory'', effortlessly beat the coolant out of Star Saber; even the {{theme music|Powerup}} couldn't save him, and only the arrival of [[BigDamnHeroes God Ginrai]] let him walk away with his life.
** 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...
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'':
** Episodes 2, 18 and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rj7_FzzTxo 19]] each. In short: if Unit-01 goes berserk on you, ''you will die''. [[NightmareFuel Horribly and messily.]]
** ''End of Evangelion'' has a rare two-way NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, with both sides delivering it to one another. Asuka absolutely [[CurbStompBattle wipes the floor]] with the entire JSSDF army, beginning by [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome lobbing a battleship into the heavy artillery]] and then literally stomping the gunships. Even the MP Evas don't slow her down; she destroys all of them in less than the 3 mins of power she has left. And then it gets turned around in a [[NightmareFuel horrifying]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath and]] [[NauseaFuel disgusting]] way. [[spoiler: Turns out the MP Evas are effectively immortal. So they regen when she has run out of power, [[EyeScream shove a spear through her eye]], and then eat her alive. Then lob about 6 more spears, one of which splits HER ARM in half into her body.]] Even those people who hate Asuka would probably wince and agree that was the worst death of the series.
** Rebuild 2.22 has this in an awesome way, that wouldn't fit in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', but fits surprisingly well here. In short, Badass Shinji curb-stomps Zeruel using Angel-like abilities. To elaborate a bit, Zeruel first beats up EVA-02 in its The Beast Mode, where it's a lot stronger, because its limiters are released. Then EVA-00 comes with an [[SlapOnTheWristNuke N2 Mine]] and suicides against Zeruel, only to be burnt to a crisp while Zeruel is unharmed. Zeruel then proceeds to eat EVA-00 in one bite, leaving only its feet. Shinji then shows up in EVA-01 just when Zeruel is only a few minutes from fusing with Lilith, saving everyone at NERV HQ, and launches himself and Zeruel up using one of the high-speed elevators. Zeruel then rips the left arm of EVA-01, and throws it away, after which the EVA's internal power source runs dry... Only to suddenly be fueled by Shinji's Badass! He even creates a new left arm out of nothing but his AT-Field, and uses what can only be described as a RocketPunch, after which his EVA sprouts wings and initiates Third Impact, just because Shinji wanted to save Ayanami. All while "Tsubasa wo Kudasai" is playing in the background. Yes, a Japanese children's song is playing while Shinji accidentally initiates Third Impact. And somehow, it all fits perfectly within the scene...
* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'':
** In the Suruga Monkey arc, features [[spoiler:Suruga with her Rainy Devil beating the living crap out of Koyomi, breaking his wrist, taking some teeth out, and other unpleasant things. The top of the cake? She rips his abdomen open, takes his intestines out and slings him around the room by his intestines until they rip, sending him to a violent crash against the wall. And she's not finished (Koyomi would have suffered a horrible death if it weren't for Senjougahara, who appears in the midst of it and saves the situation).]]
** And again in Nisemonogatari he gets his ass kicked again by [[spoiler:Yodzuru, which includes him being kicked though ceiling and later smashed into the ground.]]
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** "Great Bowls of Fire" episode. Dragonite Meets [[Manga/{{Berserk}} Zodd the Immortal]] in a truly terrifying and sickening battle.
** Alas, poor Seviper. After it bit Jessie's hair, [[BerserkButton it never stood a chance]].
** There's also the episode "Electric Shock Showdown", where Pikachu got badly beaten by Lt. Surge's Raichu. It got even in the rematch after using Raichu's size against it. In DPP it battled a Raichu and ''almost died''. It even '''''Hyper-Beamed it in the face'''''.
** Then there's the episode "Tie One On" that has a rare ''mutual'' one of these, when Ash's Bulbasaur and another trainer's Meganium beat the crap out of one another, with the [[CombatBreakdown fight eventually breaking down into]] a Vine Whip slug-off that ends with both Pokémon collapsing after a double Solar Beam. It actually was [[ItsPersonal personal]], due to a fight earlier in the episode, but the fight between them both apparently makes up for it, as before Bulbasaur and Meganium collapse, they smile at each other.
** In "'Primeape Goes Bananas", Charmander is the victim of one of these until it learns Rage, and even then it still takes quite a few punches.
** "Odd Pokémon Out": Ash's newly evolved Sceptile is on the receiving end of one from Seviper and Cacnea. He couldn't even fight back because he lost the will to use any of his attacks.
** Pikachu vs. Entei in ''Anime/{{Pokemon 3}}''. For one thing, he's a [[OlympusMons Legendary]]; and another, Entei's ''a lot stronger'' than an ordinary Entei (which is already saying something). You can actually see Pikachu beat up and bruised (but refusing to accept defeat) in mere seconds.
** In "A Poached Ego", Jessie, James and Meowth take on a Tyranitar with their bare hands (or claws in Meowth's case) in an attempt to buy [[spoiler:Arbok, Weezing and their protectees]] time to escape. They lose very badly [[{{Determinator}} but still refuse to give up.]]
* [[spoiler:Mitsumi]] from ''Manga/PokemonDiamondAndPearlAdventure'' gives one to Hareta and his Pokemon after [[spoiler:being forced by Cyrus to fight him to save her Eevee]]. Even though Hareta is a notoriously good fighter he still gets his butt handed to him and beaten up pretty good (''both'' him and his Pokemon this time); the only thing really stopping [[spoiler:Mitsumi]] is her soft side.
* One ''Anime/MonsterRancher'' episode had Mocchi get the ever-loving CRAP beaten out of him by an opponent during a TournamentArc. He wins, but collapses as soon as he's declared the winner. The beating itself was actually cut from the American version, for obvious reasons.
* A minor example in ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'': After [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Chrono]] had already been previously torn up in a fight (enough that he's ''missing an eye and an arm''), Joshua finds out that his sister made a DealWithTheDevil that will lead to her dying at a young age. His reaction is to start beating Chrono with [[BerserkerTears tears streaming down his face]], screaming that Chrono is a monster. Chrono doesn't even ''attempt'' to fight back, because he [[IAmAMonster agrees]] [[ItsAllMyFault completely]]. Joshua stops short of causing any serious damage, so the scene serves to be less of an example of a vicious villain and more an example of two characters having two very different and very extreme reactions to grief. [[TearJerker Cue sobbing.]]
* Villain on scumbag example in ''Anime/SpeedGrapher''. [[AntiVillain Suitengu]] has a PetTheDog moment where he accepts a girl's play money to pay off part of her father's debt to him (from attending a shady club). The father thinks that Suitengu generally accepts the play money as legal tender, and [[WhatAnIdiot tries to sell a load of it to him]]. When Suitengu tells him that the circumstances were different before, the father takes it that Suitengu is a pedophile and offers to sell his daughter to him. Since Suitengu's earlier mercy was because the daughter reminded him of his DeadLittleSister, he savagely beats up the guy and then kills him, [[PunctuatedPounding revealing his true intentions with each blow]].
* Applied by the thug in chapter 2 of ''Manga/SoutenKouro'', to Cao Cao. Who is ten. Cao Cao does get even, though.
* Seen in ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'', of all things, during the 'Final Judgment'. Sakura is pitted against Yue, who is actually [[spoiler: Yukito, the one she loves]]. Yue starts things off by backhanding Sakura a dozen yards or so, and spends a good three minutes beating her into the ground, before crushing her in her own card, and telling her as she loses consciousness that her price for failure is the entire cast will lose their feelings for the ones they love. Although not as violent as other examples on this page, it's still tough listening to Sakura yelp as Yue slams her into the ground over and over.
* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' has a weird example, in that it's a land's NATURAL FEATURES doing this when Toriko attempts to enter the Gourmet World. He is subsequently mauled by everything from the wind, to the gravity and even the ''droplets''.
* ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'' has the show's BigBad mark his descent into a VillainousBreakdown by shooting up mecha-samurai Kikuchiyo. When he runs out of ammo, he then proceeds to viciously beat him with the butt of the gun while screaming about how he hates everyone and everything and how he's going to crush everything under his heel.
* Manga/{{Yaiba}}'s battle against Soshi Okita during the last arc is this: the latter is unbelievably powerful, so skilled that can utterly destroy Yaiba just by counterattacking, and when he eventually attack his swordstabs are too fast to being seen. And despite unleashing his best [[SwordBeam attack]] on the KidSamurai, the latter keeps coming. That battle was so one-sided and brutal that Soshi even beg Yaiba to stop fighting back, since he didn't want to kill him.
* In one of the ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' movies, both Ran ''and'' Conan get brutally beaten up by [[spoiler: Irish from the Black Organization.]]
* This is used in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' to show just how badly [[spoiler:Sayaka]] is being {{br|eakTheCutie}}oken. She attacks a witch while laughing manically, blood streaming down her face.
* In ''Anime/DaiMahouTouge'' Punie-chan does this to [[spoiler:Elise von Barbaroque after she fails to assassinate her]].
* In ''Anime/GaoGaiGar FINAL'', [[ScreamingWarrior Gai]] delivers one of these to Palparepa. And it is both brutal and awesome.
* Jake Martinez delivers one of these to Kotetsu in ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' once Kotetsu (accidentally) manages to hit him. Even ratings-chasing director Agnes is appalled and stops the live broadcast. Off-screen Jake also did similar to Sky Kigh, Rock Bison and - presumably, given how badly he was injured when found - Origami Cyclone.
* ''Manga/InuYasha'': After having once [[BadassBoast boasted]] early in the manga that he had never been cornered into a desperate situation, [[HandicappedBadass Sesshoumaru's]] words finally catch up with him towards the end of the manga when [[spoiler: [[BigBad Naraku]] finally decides to send the Dark Will of the [[UltimateEvil Shikon no Tama]] itself after him. He gets his single arm nearly ripped off, he has to be [[BadassInDistress saved by his brother]], his [[CanisMajor true form]] is negated by being bound in tentacles and eventually he's [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbed through the chest twice]]. [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat Once through the heart]]. He CameBackStrong.]]
* In ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha,'' Precia Testarossa makes her debut in Episode 7, where she [[WhipItGood severely whips her "daughter" to the point where she could barely get up]]. This was brought on when she failed to collect all of the Jewels.
** Nanoha gets badly injured by Vita in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' up till the point where Fate and Yuuno intervene.
** Subaru hands one of these out to Cinque when she enters an UnstoppableRage brought on by [[spoiler:the Numbers abducting Ginga]] in episode 17 of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS''.
** In episode 24 of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS'', Fate delivers one to [[BigBad Jail]] [[MadScientist Scaglietti]] in a CMOA.
** And finally, in episode 25, Nanoha delievers one to Quattro.
* Satellizer from ''Manga/{{Freezing}}'' dishes these out and receives them from her many fights in this series. Due to their super HealingFactor, and quite a bit of blood gets spilled, limbs get severed, and bones get broken quite often from these fights.
* In ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' Tetsuo delivers one of these to a Clown gangmember for a) beating up him and Kaori, and b) trying to burn Kaneda's bike. Though comparatively short, it's quite brutal; when Kaneda actually tries to intervene, the once-shy Tetsuo actually snarls that he wants to see the gangmember's head split open. And this is ''before'' he develops psychic powers.
* An unusual circumstance in ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': In the Heavens Arena, where people fight for sport, one of Killua's opponents was Zetsu, a little boy with beginner-level hand-to-hand combat and little else. What Killua thought would be a CurbStompBattle went on far longer than it should have, because no matter how many times Killua punched Zetsu and knocked him down, Zetsu kept getting up. This kept going until Zetsu's martial arts master, who was sitting nearby watching, had to yell at him to stop. (Killua had already pulled off a TKO early on, and by this point, Killua was feeling guilty about beating up a little boy.) It turns out that Zetsu had been using his nen, or life force, as a barrier against the punch and to cushion himself when knocked down, [[StoneWall but didn't know how to do much else]].
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'' does this twice. The first time, Char and Amuro spot each other in Sweetwater Colony and Amuro tackles Char and the two start brawling. It isn't until Gyunei Guss arrives in the Hobby Hizack that Char's able to escape. The second time, the two men meet when Axis is falling. Once they're out of weapons, the gloves come off and they start slugging each other silly, to the point where Amuro's winning strike ends up launching the suit's ejection pod!
* ''Manga/TokyoESP'' does this when the [[IntangibleMan Rinka]] is beaten until her heart stopped and she was BroughtDownToNormal to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem show what happens to heroes ]].
* In ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamAGE Mobile Suit Gundam AGE]]'', [[spoiler:Kio delivers this to Zanald, right after [[KickTheDog killing Deen]]]].
* Quite a few occur in KarateShoukoushiKohinataMinoru, usually courtesy of Mutou.

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* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** Superman seldom gets a chance to, [[WorldOfCardboardSpeech thanks to it being a world of cardboard]], but he's allowed himself to unleash his full fury on opponents like {{Darkseid}}, Mongul ('''[[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/burn.jpg Burn]].'''), Cyborg Superman, {{Lobo}}, Comicbook/IncredibleHulk, and TheMightyThor.
** He ''does'' deliver one to the [[CaptainErsatz not-]][[Comicbook/TheAuthority Authority]] in ''What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, And The American Way?'' [[spoiler: and he was ''still'' holding back.]]
** Thor gives as good as he gets when it comes to Superman, and both beat the stuffing out of each other once, implying that they are about even.
* In the ''[[ComicBook/SupermanBatman Superman/Batman]]'' storyline, ''Supergirl'', {{Darkseid}} gives this to Franchise/{{Batman}} [[spoiler:when he threatens to blow up all of Apokolips]]. Batman even needed a Mother Box to be fully healed from that experience.
* ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' is full of these:
** Mark (the titular Invincible) does this to supervillain Angstrom Levy and overestimates his durability, accidentally beating him to death.
** Nolan almost killed him when the latter wouldn't go along with his world domination plans.
** Sadly, the one implied by the cover of issue 50, Mark beating Cecil to death, doesn't happen.
** Oliver, however, does just fine at beating the Mauler Twins to death.
** Taken UpToEleven in the Conquest "arc," which is actually four full issues of almost nothing besides Conquest smashing Mark into more and more bloody pulp. It ends with a CrowningMomentOfAwesome in which Mark, having lost the function of his arms and legs from the savage battle, manages to headbutt Conquest, caving his opponent's skull in.
* [[Comicbook/TheDarkKnightReturns "Something tells me to stop with the leg. I don't listen to it."]]
* Happens just about to every friggin' character, good or bad in ''TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain''.
* In ''BoosterGold'', Rip Hunter, in an attempt to teach Booster that [[YouCantFightFate history can not be changed]], sends Booster back to try to stop SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker [[TheKillingJoke from crippling]] [[Comicbook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Gordon]]. Booster receives a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown at the Joker's hands -- repeatedly, as in a display of HeroicResolve, Booster insists on going back repeatedly to try to stop him.
* ''SecretSix'': Deadshot delivers multiple beatdowns of this sort to a gang of [[ThoseWackyNazis white supremacist thugs]]. The first one results in one of the thugs [[EyeScream getting his eye put out]], while subsequent beatdowns occur over one night when the thugs decide to go after him for revenge. The beatdowns just keep getting more and more humiliating until Deadshot's date finally offs them.
* Pretty much every fight involving Superboy-Prime is this, though his first fight with Connor (regular {{Superboy}}) stands out in that he not only beats Connor to within an inch of his life, but he literally {{kick|TheDog}}s {{Krypto|TheSuperDog}} halfway across Smallville. The [[JusticeSocietyOfAmerica JSA]], Comicbook/TeenTitans, and the Comicbook/DoomPatrol arrive shortly after that. Does this change anything? Nope. Prime ''[[CurbStompBattle wipes the floor with them]]''; he kills Pantha, Baby Wildebeest, and Bushido, and rips Risk's arm off. He was in the process of beating the snot out of Beast Boy when a bunch of Flashes arrived and managed to seal him in the Speed Force for a good deal of time (It didn't hold, obviously). The other one that stands out is the one against the Superman of Earth-Two. Prime beats him to death with his bare hands even though both are depowered. [[NightmareFuel We get to see every single minute of this]].
* ''{{Daredevil}}''
** In their first meeting, Kingpin beats Daredevil and then slams a vault door on his head after Daredevil experiences a moment of PunchPunchPunchUhOh...
** In the "[[DaredevilBornAgain Born Again]]" arc the corrupt cop, about to confess to framing Matt Murdock/Daredevil, is subjected to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown by one of the Kingpin's minions.
* ''Comicbook/NewAvengers #35.'':
** If [[WouldntHitAGirl male-on-female]] beatdowns are rare, they do happen. Tigra was beaten and shot by TheHood. She eventually got even but still, hard to look at.
** Another male on female example is the first time SheHulk fought RedHulk.
* ''Comicbook/{{Robin}}'':
** In "ComicBook/{{A Death in the Family}}," this happens to Jason Todd's Robin at the hands of the Joker in the third chapter, as Jason is beaten within an inch of his life with a crowbar. Batman later pays him in full in the ''Comicbook/{{Knightfall}}'' saga, roaring Jason's name the whole time.
** And speaking of ''Knightfall'', Bane finishing off an exhausted Batman by beating him to a pulp and then breaking his back. Bane later gets the crap beaten out of him by Azrael.
** Batman delivers a brutal beatdown to the Joker in chapter 7 of ''Hush''. Comicbook/HarleyQuinn and Comicbook/{{Catwoman}} both try to stop him, but fail. It's accompanied by an InternalMonologue listing some of Joker's [[MoralEventHorizon more heinous crimes]], [[KickTheSonOfABitch so it's hard to feel sorry for him]], but the same InternalMonologue makes it clear that Batman has every intention of killing Joker, and ''nobody'' is capable of stopping him. At least, until Gordon talks him out of it. It's probably the closest he's ever come to finishing The Joker off once and for all.
** In ''The Last Laugh'' Nightwing beats the shit out of the Joker, both for Jason and and under the mistaken belief that Tim is dead too. He actually beats the Joker ''to death''. Though, [[IGotBetter he gets better]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', The Joker finally presses Batman's BerserkButton, and Batman attacks him with a fury that leaves no illusion to his intent.
* ''Comicbook/{{Bone}}'' has a male and female example when Thorn ''and'' Fone Bone get the tar beaten out of them before they're thrown into jail. Really hard to witness, especially when she discovers her bruises, black eyes, and a missing tooth. Then Fone smiles apologetically to reveal ''his'' missing tooth. Both are drawn like that for the rest of [[ComicBookTime that day]].
** And each is missing a tooth from that point til after the big climactic battle.
* ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'':
** The Comedian receiving one that ends with him being flung out of the window to his death. Then, near the end of the comic, [[spoiler:Ozymandias beats down on Rorschach and Nite Owl as he explains his motives.]]
** Hollis Mason, a former vigilante pushing 70 years old, is killed this way by a group of thugs. The movie manages to make this scene even harder to watch by [[HopeSpot letting him get a few punches in]].
* ''Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}}'' ''lives'' for this trope.
** Every now and then a new villain shows up or an old one with a vendetta and Spidey gets the crap beaten out of him. A lot of the time his MyNameIsInigoMontoya moment is very far away. If not for outside interference, he would've bitten the dust against Morlun, for instance.
** In "Spider-Man: The Other" [[spoiler:he does bite the dust against Morlun.]]
** Spidey gives these out like candy if you push him far enough - say, if you're [[spoiler:the Kingpin, and happen to have caused Aunt May's almost-fatal gunshot wound.]] Usually, he's sorry after, but after that one, he just kinda smiled.
** After [[Comicbook/TheNightGwenStacyDied The Green Goblin kills Gwen Stacy]], Spidey hunts him down and beats him within an inch of his life. Hell, if Spidey hadn't decided against it, Norman Osborn would've died that day. Though, Norman's glider did the job for him.
* After a long globetrotting journey to burn out his own mind, [[Comicbook/IronMan Tony Stark]] finally faces off against NormanOsborn. The "battle" is completely one-sided in Osborn's favor since Tony is all but brain dead and in an outdated suit at that point. The beating is savage enough to render Tony comatose, which of course was AllAccordingToPlan. The beatdown was also broadcast on live television, winning Stark public sympathy and [[SlaveToPR casting Osborn in a very negative light]].
* In the original ''Comicbook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}}'' comic series (Leonardo #1), the Foot manages one on Leonardo while he's out training solo. After a lengthy chase, he's cornered and numbers overwhelm him, though most of the actual beatdown takes place out of frame. By the time he's thrown through April's apartment window, Leo is only able to choke out that the Shredder has returned. For the next full issue (#10) he's unable to participate in the ensuing Foot vs. Turtles battle, and the next (#11) is dedicated solely to our heroes' recovery from the incident.
* In ''Comicbook/ThePunisher MAX'' storyline "Mother Russia", NickFury takes off his belt and ''whips'' [[spoiler: the general who came up with the whole "Fake terrorists crashing a passenger jet full of innocent people as a distraction" plan]]. Over and over and ''over'' again. The guy is a bloody whimpering mess after Fury's through with him.
* This is approximately one-half (or slightly more) of the standard MO of ''TheBoys''. The first half is usually some combination of surveillance, investigations, a little blackmail, messing with government agencies, etcetera, but sooner or later someone, somewhere, will be handed the kind of beating that, no matter how much the target might deserve it, is still likely to leave the reader feeling slightly queasy.
* In an issue of ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' dealing with the [[ComicBook/TheKreeSkrullWar Skrull-Kree war]], TheVision displays a NotSoStoic reaction against an opponent after the ScarletWitch is injured. An ally warns the Vision that he doesn't know what he's doing, and might beat the opponent to death. The Vision replies that he has a computer mind and knows precisely what's he's doing. "I '''am''' beating him to death."
* In one of the later ''Comicbook/UltimateSpiderMan'' story arcs, Norman Osborn fights off SHIELD agents while trying again to coerce Peter into helping him. When the conflict reaches its climax, a fight breaks out between Osborn in mutated form, a ship full of SHIELD agents, Spider-Man, and Harry Osborn in mutated form. When Harry tries to beat his father into submission, Norman goes [[BerserkButton insane with rage]] and [[spoiler:smashes him to the floor, striking him in the face until he accidentally kills him. This shocks everyone into halting the fight, and a moment later Osborn [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone shifts back into human form and requests that someone kill him]]]].
* This occurs in the GarthEnnis ''Punisher'' comic ''Streets of Laredo'' when a thug insults his [[BigBad boss']] son. Rachel, the leader of a gunrunning outfit, has an openly gay son whom [[MamaBear she adores]]. When one of her men calls him a "stinking queer" and proceeds to tell her that someone ought to put him down like an animal, she challenges the man, who is easily twice her size, to a fight. He has a Bowie knife and she has brass knuckles. He doesn't even scratch her and she completely wrecks him before delivering the final blow.
* ''{{Preacher}}'': Jesse does this to [[spoiler: Jesus deSade]], a child pornographer.
* ''Comicbook/{{Nextwave}}'':
** In #4, the DirtyCop running the Samuroid Seed gets one of these, courtesy of Aaron Stack and Tabitha Smith. Notably, neither of them ''know'' he's dirty [[SociopathicHero and simply beat the hell out of him for being a cop]]. PlayedForLaughs.
** In ''Nextwave'' #6, Aaron gets one of these from Monica Rambeau, Elsa Bloodstone, and Tabitha for wearing a woman's bra and refusing to take it off. PlayedForLaughs.
** Finally, in ''Nextwave'' #8, The Captain delivers one (offscreen) to Dread Rorkannu, which included doing something unpleasant to him with a toilet brush. We never get to know what (thankfully). Unsurprisingly, this too is PlayedForLaughs.
* [[GodOfEvil Anathos]] does this to [[ComicBook/LesLegendaires the Legendaries]] right after [[spoiler:reincarnating in Danael]]: as soon as he appears, he impales [[MagicalGirl Jadina]] on his sword, slashes [[TheLancer Gryf]] everywhere on his body, burns [[ActionGirl Shimy's]] eyes, and cut [[TheBigGuy Razzia's]] arm off. All of this in ''two pages''. While the comic had got quite dark at this point, this was so far the most violent scene in the whole series.
* A strange one happens off-screen in issue 46 of ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}''. To convince Will to give up the Heart of Kandrakar, [[spoiler: Phobos in [[GrandTheftMe Endarno's body]]]] mind-raped her. Will looked like she would give up... And whatever she did him, it [[spoiler: reversed the body swap]] and left [[spoiler: Phobos]] unable to walk and ''utterly terrified of Will''. It's probable she would have tortured him to death if it wasn't for the need to [[spoiler: send Phobos back in his body and recall Endarno into his own]], and when the following issue gives her the chance the first thing she does is ''calling dibs on the killing shot'' ([[spoiler: Phobos]] was lucky: due the situation, Will opted to make it quick and [[KilledOffForReal disintegrated him]]).

[[folder:Eastern Animation]]
* The title character of ''Animation/KuangKuang'' is very frequently on the receiving end of these from one or more of his teachers, bleeding all over the floor as they stamp on his head.

[[folder: Fairy Tales]]
* In "Literature/TheBlueMountains", the hero must suffer a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown for three nights to free the heroine.
* Also in ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/asbjornsenmoe/threeprincesseswhiteland.html The Three Princesses of Whiteland]]''.
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[[folder: Fan Works]]
* In ''Fanfic/CodeGeassMaoOfTheDeliverance'', Mao, frustrated by losing C.C. in a terrorist attack, brutally mutilates a corpse with the handle of a pistol (he already used up all the bullets!) while shouting random obscenities until he is physically exhausted.
* In ''Fanfic/SoullessShell'', Arnold gets one at the hands of Leif's [[OneWingedAngel demon form]].
* ''FanFic/ADarkKnightOverSinCity'' has Killer Croc and Marv exchanging them with one another. Croc starts off by beating him to a pulp before throwing him out a window. Once Marv survives and does a little prep work he comes back, runs over Croc with a car, smashes him over the head with a fire extinguisher, blinds him with the contents, and then gets ready to send a bullet through his head at point-blank range. [[spoiler: Luckily for Croc, Batman stops Marv before killing him.]]
* ''Anime/YuGiOh'' fanfic Fanfic/{{Skin}} has a few of these, most of them during the [[spoiler: Virtual World]] arc thanks to the sudden use of WhoWantsToLiveForever. Even worse for the one exception to the temporary rule, [[spoiler: a battle between Yami Malik and Ryuzaki using the Millennium Rod against a duel disk in 'sword combat']]; while the 'bad guy' lost in a way, the 'winner' wound up comatose for a month to contrast the single hour of sleep it took for the other to recover.
* In ''FanFic/AceCombatTheEquestrianWar'', this is what happened to Firefly when she was younger. Later, in chapter 11, Rainbow Dash is a victim of this trope, courtesy of [[spoiler: Gilda]]. Then, in chapter 17, Fluttershy also suffers one brutal beating from [[TheBrute Night Raven]], even though she ultimately [[HeroicSecondWind wins]].
* After [[ThePrankster Socr]][[{{Jerkass}} ates]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext dumps several turkeys out on the streets]] in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'', ''Calvin'' tears him a new one quite badly. Hobbes thinks he deserved it.
* In the ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/NotQuiteAsPlanned'', Ichigo delivers an epic and well deserved one to Grand Fisher, laughing and smiling like Canon Ichigo's inner Hollow the entire time.
* LoomingDarkness mixes it with HeroicSacrifice:[[spoiler: Sora ends up handing over his heart to Vanitas to pummel without any resistance.]]
* In ''Fanfic/TheWizardInTheShadows'', the Witch King tries to distract Harry by poisoning [[spoiler: Ginny]]. It backfired. The ensuing beatdown vaporized a Mumak that got caught by a stray [[ShockAndAwe lightning bolt]]. While the Witch King does get up afterwards, he's so weakened that [[BadassGrandpa Theoden]] has him on the ropes.
** Emrys delivers one to Wormtongue, and very nearly kills him. This is a malnourished 15/16 year old boy against a full grown, well fed man. Wormtongue has his face smashed in and Emrys is in the process of carefully drowning him when he gets called off.
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[[folder:Film]]
* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' features several of them, including the guards beating up an emotionally overwhelmed inmate who complained that he was not supposed to be there, ([[spoiler: said guard then left the inmate to die in the infirmary]]) and The Sisters routinely beating up Andy, and the guards beating up Bogs ([[KickTheSonOfABitch one of The Sisters]]) so severely he ended up crippled for life. [[FridgeHorror And that's just counting the ones shown on-screen.]] Red has a way of understating this in his monotone voiceover narration, which perhaps drives home the horror even more; this kind of thing is a commonplace occurrence:
-->'''Red:''' ''[after the guards retaliate]'' Two things never happened again after that. The Sisters never laid a finger on Andy again. And Boggs never walked again.
* ''Film/AClockworkOrange'': What Alex and his droogs do to the drunken homeless guy at the beginning of the film. After his treatment, Alex receives one from a group of bums as well as his former droogs.
* ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'': When Hopper sics his rabid grasshopper of a {{Mon}} on Flik.
* The first ''Film/{{Spider-Man|Trilogy}}'' movie. The moment when the hero's at his lowest is the ideal time for a CrowningMomentOfAwesome, but come on! Poor Pete's had half his mask [[strike: torn]] grenaded off, a severely cut lip, a gash on his side, a black eye, on and on and on. When Spidey does his HeroicSecondWind, he delivers a beatdown to Goblin in return.
* ''Film/{{Spider-Man|Trilogy}} 3'' has our hero getting a double beatdown from Venom and the Sandman. The way the fight was going, Spider-Man would've definitely been done for [[spoiler:if not for Harry Osborn making a BigDamnHeroes moment to save him]].
* Wallace, one of Angel Eyes's men, beats the living shit out of Tuco at the Union prison camp in ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''.
* In ''Film/KillBill'', The Bride receives a hell of a beating at the hands of her former partners in the incident that kicks off her RoaringRampageOfRevenge, though it's only shown in brief moments in flashback.
* Creator/JackieChan ends up on the receiving end of this in the movie ''Mr. Nice Guy''. He does end up getting his payback through the employment of a very large vehicle (at that time in Chan's movies, in lieu of having a final climactic showdown, Chan would just get in a very large vehicle and drive a hole through the bad guy's base.)
* Jackie Chan's character from ''Film/RumbleInTheBronx'' gets a beatdown. A street gang corners him in a dead-end alley and proceeds to bombard him with glass bottles. Let's just say this scene was "bloody" and leave it at that.
* Also in ''Film/DrunkenMaster'', where his character Freddie Hung suffers a not only vicious but humiliating beat-down. He runs away from his master's painstaking (and slightly ridiculous) training, and stops to dry his clothes in an open hut. The owner of the hut--a notorious assassin named Thunderleg, as luck would have it--arrives, and beats Freddie up, ridicules his father, and otherwise utterly humiliates him, forcing him, in the end, to beg for mercy and run away.
* In ''Thunderbolt'', after Jackie Chan's character Foh puts a dangerous criminal in jail, Cougar gets out of jail and comes looking for him. Then Cougar, who'd previously murdered a man by dragging him behind a race car, took a construction crane and used it to wreck Foh's home and try to kill him, his father, and his sisters. The epic - and extremely bloody - beat-down ended with Cougar using the crane to pick up a metal storage shed that Foh was in - and flung him around inside like a pinball.
* Jackie Chan gets to dish out a few of his own during the climax of ''Police Story'', even giving a ShoutOut to Creator/BruceLee's famous "shaking fist" pose after whaling on the BigBad's abs.
* Creator/StephenChow in ''Film/GodOfCookery'' gets brutally beaten by the Eighteen Brassmen of Shaolin and dragged away in a trail of his own blood as a RunningGag. The humor comes from a mix of just how vicious the beating is combined with it happening ''repeatedly'' at unexpected moments.
* Also happens in Chow's ''KungFuHustle'', when the Beast gets ''really'' pissed over being brained by Chow.
* In the 2009 Film/StarTrek movie, Kirk gets one of these from Spock after he intentionally pisses him off by insinuating that he never loved his mother.
* ''Film/{{Cliffhanger}}'':
** One of the few Creator/SylvesterStallone films in which ''he'' gets beaten to a helpless pulp. To be fair, his opponent, [[ScaryBlackMan Kynette]] is a martial-arts master.
** Later on, his best friend is savagely beaten at gunpoint by Irish-psychopath Delmar, in a stomach-turning parody of a soccer game.
** Which his buddy puts the kibosh on when he gets hold of Delmar's shotgun. ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome "Season's over, ASSHOLE!!"]]''
* ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'': Ratigan does this to Basil following his VillainousBreakdown. He's ''really'' trying to kill him. It adds to the [[NightmareFuel visceral horror]] in that Ratigan is [[FamilyUnfriendlyViolence using claws, and actually drawing blood!]]
* Tyler Durden to the {{narrator}} near the end of ''Film/FightClub'', as well as the {{narrator}} to Angel Face earlier in the film.
--->"I wanted to destroy something beautiful."
* Lex Luthor does this to ''Superman'' with the help of a kryptonite shiv in ''Film/SupermanReturns''.
* BruceWillis movies (''SinCity'', ''Film/LastManStanding'', ''Film/PulpFiction'', etc.) usually feature one scene where a bad guy or group of them works him over badly like this so that he can get back up and deliver some serious payback.
* ''Film/LastManStanding'''s beatdown of John Smith after the bad guys corner him without his guns in the bath in particular is inspired by the above beatdown of the Man With No Name in ''Fistful of Dollars''. Which was itself taken from the beating received by ToshiroMifune's Man With No Name in ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}''.
* In ''SinCity'', Hartigan beats Junior's head in until "all [he's] doing is pounding wet chunks of bone into the floorboards."
* Agent Smith does this to Morpheus in ''Film/TheMatrix'' prior to capturing him.
* Shing had the living crap beaten out of Mark Gor at one point in ''Film/ABetterTomorrow''.
* Johnny Weng beat the living crap out of Ah Jong's best friend Sidney in ''Film/TheKiller'' in a scene that was very much a TearJerker.
* And in the game ''Stranglehold'', Mr. Wong has his men beat the crap out of Tequila in a flashback after having intimidated Billie, Wong's daughter and the woman Tequila loved, into breaking up with him in a double-duty KickTheDog moment.
* ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'':
** In ''Film/HalloweenH20TwentyYearsLater'', the villain endures a thoroughly over-the-top gauntlet of smackdown, culminating in [[spoiler:being pinned between a large truck and a solid surface... and, when addressed, he looks up!]]
** Also done in ''Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers'' where Loomis tranqs Michael, drops a chain net on him, and beats him up with a two-by-four.
** And again in ''Film/HalloweenTheCurseOfMichaelMyers'', where Tommy beats the living crap out of Michael with a pipe.
* In ''Film/BlueVelvet'', the main character Jeffrey gets almost beaten to death by AxCrazy sociopath Frank Booth.
* JodieFoster's vigilante-creating catalyst in ''TheBraveOne''.
* This happens to Sefton, a World War II POW in ''{{Stalag 17}}''. The people who beat him were his fellow prisoners, who suspected him of collaborating with the Germans. (This action spurs Sefton towards finding the ''real'' collaborator, whom he glumly notes, probably "beat him the hardest.")
* ''Film/AChristmasStory'': Ralphie snaps and beats the hell out of local bully, Scut Farkas, while [[ClusterFBomb unleashing a string of profanities.]]
* Liberally used by the Japanese in ''IpMan''. The film doesn't bother hiding its nationalism.
** Two specific examples: Master Liu tries taking on three Japanese pugilists, only to find that ConservationOfNinjutsu is not in play, and ends up getting kicked around. Later on, Ip Man's fight against General Miura culminates in the latter getting pinned to a pole and getting beat down. An arguable LampshadeHanging of the CurbStompBattle[=/=]NoHoldsBarredBeatdown occurs when scenes of Ip's practice on a dummy are interposed with the thrashing.
** The sequel has [[spoiler: the Twister's horrible pummeling to death of Master Hung.]] When Ip pays him back, though regrettably not in full, no one objects.
* At the end of Creator/QuentinTarantino's ''[[Film/{{Grindhouse}} Death Proof]]'' wherein [[spoiler:the wounded Stuntman Mike is beaten to a bloody pulp by the three women he was trying to kill]].
* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' expanded the Comedian's two page fight into a four minute borderline {{Gorn}} beatdown. Not only did the Comedian fail to land a ''single hit'' but it was set to Nat King Cole's rendition of "[[SoundtrackDissonance Unforgettable]]."
* At the climax of ''Film/EventHorizon'', the possessed Dr. Weir proceeds to beat Captain Miller to a pulp with his bare hands, finishing with a kick that snaps Miller's spine against a wall.
* ''{{Irreversible}}'', which has a backwards plot, starts with one of the characters using a fire extinguisher to bash someone's head in.
* ''LayerCake'':
** Morty delivers one to his former accomplice whose incompetence resulted in his being imprisoned for a decade for a crime he didn't commit. It's filmed from the victim's point of view!
** The protagonist gets a brief but very efficient one from Gene before he has a chance to tell him that [[spoiler: the reason he killed Jimmy was because Jimmy was a police informer who was planning on screwing them both over]]. For a little extra NightmareFuel, consider that the thing in the freezer that Gene was banging XXXX's face on was probably [[spoiler: the Duke's frozen corpse.]]
* ''GangsterNumberOne'' has a scene where the VillainProtagonist brutally beats someone to death, and the scene is filmed from the victim's perspective.
* In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', Luke Skywalker nearly falls into TheDarkSide by delivering one to Darth Vader, using his lightsaber like a baseball bat and chopping off his hand. Minutes later he receives one from Emperor Palpatine using ''[[PsychoElectro Force]] [[AgonyBeam Lightning]]''.
* Jesus Christ himself takes one of these in ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist''. For pretty much the entire movie until he gets crucified, which isn't really a beatdown because it's worse.
* ''TheConstantGardener'' sees Justin Quayle beaten to a pulp by two hired thugs in his hotel room -- deliberately muffled by a [[SoundtrackDissonance children's sing-along]] playing on the TV.
* Officer Alex Murphy was on the verge of apprehending some miscreants in the first ''Franchise/RoboCop'' movie, when he was ambushed and shot. His bullet-proof vest withstood the impact of the bullet, and so [[NoKillLikeOverkill the villains laid into him with bullets and shotgun blasts in a two-minute torture session; they blew off his hand and eventually the back of his head]]. What remained of him was turned into Robocop. To rub things in further, Robocop himself is subjected to a similar bout of prolonged gunfire later in the film, and is almost killed, but this time at the hands of his former colleagues in the police force.
* For the scene in ''TheDeparted'' where Billy Costigan beats up the two Italian guys in the store.
* ''Film/ShortCircuit 2'', when Johnny 5 gets beaten to a robotic pulp. Understandable that no one put this one up yet as it was the cause of much [[NightmareFuel childhood scarring]] for those subjected to the movie as children.
* ''{{United 93}}'''s climactic end begins with a ZergRush of passengers surging forward towards the cockpit. The first terrorist to go down is pretty thoroughly {{Curb Stomp|Battle}}ed and beaten to death with a fire extinguisher.
* Happened to Raphael in the first ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' movie, when a mob of Foot clan members take him down and then beat him into a coma. He only survives because the other Turtles are able to get him out of there and nurse him back to health (and this takes a ''long'' time). Several of the Foot Clan also wind up on the receiving end of this when the Turtles escape in the fight that ensues soon after said beatdown (the biggest fight in the movie thus far) and Tatsu proceeds to take out his rage on them for their failure. One of the Foot, a guy named Shinsho, is beaten into much the same state as Raph was for trying to stop him.
* In the ''{{Franchise/Stargate|Verse}}'' film ''Film/TheArkOfTruth'', Mitchell gets one of these from [[spoiler: the Replicator Merrick]]. Intercut with scenes of [[spoiler: the Priors torturing Vala and Daniel]] and of [[spoiler: Teal'c trying to get to Celestius with a hole in his back]] to up the violence level.
* Near the end of the film ''The Ninth Configuration'', Stacy Keach's character is having the stuffing beat out of him by a motorcycle gang. This is the moment that he remembers that [[spoiler:he is not an army psychologist, but a deranged marine known as Killer Kane. Kane gets up and proceeds to deliver an epic, murderous unarmed beatdown to all the biker scum present]].
* In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', while we know he won't ever actually ''kill'' Batman, the Joker makes clear in their final confrontation he's also not going to hold back until Batman is down for good ([[NothingUpMySleeve or so he thinks]]). The growls from the Joker while he [[SpamAttack attacks Batman with a crow bar]] are chilling.
** In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Bane beats the hell out of Batman in their first encounter. At the end of the film, Batman repays the favor.
* Although we don't see much of it, the main character in ''Film/TwentyOne'' gets caught counting cards by Morpheus and suffers a pretty convincing beating while tied to a chair. He also hints that he'll "put a hammer to the side of his face, then kill him", as honest as a sinner on trial, if he ever gets catches him again.
* The baseball bat scene from ''Film/InglouriousBasterds''.
* Buch from ''Film/PulpFiction'' kills an opponent in an off-screen boxing match.
* In ''Film/OnceWereWarriors'', the character Jake Heke is the toughest guy in the neighborhood and has [[HairTriggerTemper serious rage issues]]. He delivers a number of beatings to people who piss him off.
* ''PanicRoom'' features a pretty gruesome beatdown, and leaves the guy almost completely incapable of walking, moving or speaking. It actually becomes quite funny later on, though, as he's tasked with so much stuff to do, when he probably couldn't even take a crap if he tried.
* Arnie takes one of these in ''Franchise/{{Predator}}''.
* In ''Film/{{Saw}} 2'', Jigsaw, with cancerous brain trauma, takes a hard earned beating from Donnie Wahlberg.
* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Eddie Valiant during the final battle suffers several beatings from Judge Doom [[spoiler: who, being a toon endowed with inhuman strength, tosses him around like a rag doll]].
* In ''Film/TheWarriors'', the first 10 minutes of the film shows a guy getting ''elbowed'' to death.
* NicolasCage gives a self-traumatizing beating to one of the men responsible for creating the snuff film in ''Film/EightMM,'' PistolWhipping the bastard to death.
* ''Film/{{Cherrybomb}}'': During the film's crescendo, Crilly beats Malachy to a bloody pulp. Luke then leaps to Malachy's defence [[spoiler: and beats Crilly over the head with a metal bar, ultimately killing him]].
* The SpaceOpera version of this happens in ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'', when Khan springs a completely one-side ambush on the ''Enterprise'', and blasts her so badly over several minutes that Kirk has to ''surrender'' in order to get a chance at his heroic comeback.
* ''Film/UniversalSoldier: Regeneration''; The main villain played by U.F.C. Champion Andre "The Pitbull" Arlovski pulls this out IN SPADES. Rapid-fire punches? Check. Rapid-fire punches TO THE FACE? Check. Rapid-fire punches to the face that may be complemented with a protract-able blade from the lower arm upwards? Check.
* In ''[[Disney/TheLionKing The Lion King 2]]'', during [[spoiler:Zira's first attack on Simba]], several lions leap on him, maul him, knock him down a cliff, and then follow after him and maul him further. [[spoiler:He survives, but he ends up collapsing from exhaustion after barely escaping.]]
* ''Film/TheKillerInsideMe'': Lou gives one of these to both Joyce and Amy in graphic, prolonged, horrific scenes. And they both die. [[spoiler:Except not really, because Joyce is revealed to be [[FakingTheDead alive at the end]], although disfigured--and then he [[KilledOffForReal immediately kills her for real.]]]]
* ''[[Film/ThePunisher Punisher: Warzone]]'':
** Frank Castle does this to [[spoiler:[[BigBad Jigsaw]]]] after the latter kills [[spoiler:his sidekick, Micro]]. Justified because he had only one bullet left which he spent on [[spoiler:[[TheDragon Loonie Bin Jim]]]]. It involves him beating the guy with a bottle, kicking him while he's down and, finally, [[RasputinianDeath impaling him with a steel pipe and burning him]].
** Castle's fight against [[spoiler:[[FragileSpeedster Loonie Bin Jim]]]], which happened right before this scene, is practically two of this tropes put next to each other: First, Castle gets kicked in a DynamicEntry, then his enemy proceeds to kick him, bite him and dodge all of his punches, while telling him crazy things about kidney failure. Understandably, Castle is rather pissed after getting [[GroinAttack repeatedly kicked in the groin]], so he throws [[spoiler:Jim]] against a wall with enough force to nearly crash it, before beating him further up. [[spoiler:Jim]] only manages to escape by [[AHandfulForAnEye throwing shards of glass in Frank's eyes]].
* In one of the final scenes in ''Film/{{Casino}}'', Nicky Santoro (JoePesci) and his brother Dominick set up a meeting in a cornfield after things have calmed down with the Mafia. Unfortunately, the bosses are still upset about the role Nicky played in the collapse of their Vegas operation; so, Nicky and Dom are met by a gang of thugs who proceed to beat Dominick to a bloody pulp while making Nicky watch, and toss him into a freshly-dug grave. They then proceed to do the same thing (and worse - at one point, it looks like they cave Nicky's skull in) before tossing him into the same grave ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill and burying them alive]]''.
* ''Film/{{Brick}}'' reaches its climax with the forces of Tug and the Pin shooting it out (and with the cops, when they arrive), and Tug violating the truce that they'd met under by savagely beating the Pin to death with his bare hands. [[GoryDiscretionShot All that is actually seen]] is Tug's fist flying in the dark, and Pin's screams and pleas for help. The Pin is frail and physically disabled in some way, and Tug is a heavily muscled bruiser, making this a horribly one-sided fight.
* [[Film/DeathRace Jensen Aimes]] has found the man who killed his wife. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Not so good for the man.]]
* This happened between Col. Vidal and the hunter's son in ''Film/PansLabyrinth'', in one of the most {{squick}}-tastic GrievousBottleyHarm examples in modern film.
* ''Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla'':
** Franchise/{{Godzilla}} ends up ''receiving'' one, which features long scenes of Mechagodzilla just throwing everything it has at Godzilla and King Caesar. Rather terrifying, even considering the dated special effects.
** Mechagodzilla delivers one to Anguirus at the start of the film as well, firmly establishing himself as a total bastard. [[Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah Destoroyah]], one of the most hated villains in Godzilla's RoguesGallery, delivers one to Godzilla Junior, earning himself the ire of everyone who watched the film.
* ''Film/{{Kick-Ass}}'':
** Dave and Big Daddy are on the receiving end of one in the film's DarkestHour; this example also crosses over into ColdBloodedTorture as they were both tied up and helpless.
** The fight between Hit Girl and Frank might also count after Hit Girl is knocked nearly unconscious and Frank [[WouldHitAGirl continues to punch her]] (an 11-year old, no less) in the face savagely two more times.
* In ''Film/{{Nocturna}}'', the [[spoiler:[[TheBigGuy Cat Shepherd]]'s]] confrontation with the [[LivingShadow Shadow]]. It flings him around like a rag doll, all while the [[spoiler: Cat Shepherd is [[YouShallNotPass barring the way to Tim and the North Star]], urging and shouting encouragement to Tim to get over his fear]]. The Shadow is only stopped when Murray and Tobermory manage to run by and distract it with Murray's light, whereupon the [[spoiler:Cat Shepherd proceeds to [[DisneyDeath (seemingly) die]]]].
* ''Film/{{Drive}}''. RyanGosling. [[spoiler: The elevator.]]
* ''100 Feet'' contains a fatal beatdown of the protagonist's {{Love Interest|s}} by her husband's ghost. Towards the end, the ghost's face becomes visible because it's been headbutting the guy so hard that it's gotten drenched in his blood.
* In ''[[Film/HarryPotter Deathly Hallows]]'', Voldemort vs. Harry after they both lose their wands.
* In the final fight scene of ''Film/MissionImpossible III'', Owen Davian delivers one to Ethan Hunt. Then moments later, Ethan delivers one back to Davian.
** The final fight scene in ''Ghost Protocol'' between Ethan and Hendricks also qualifies.
* Occurs in ''Film/TheExpendables 2'' in the final fight between Barney Ross and Jean Vilain.
* At the end of the ChuckNorris movie ''The Delta Force'', Scott [=McCoy=] delivers one to the BigBad.
* In ''The Kingdom'', ActionGirl Janet Mayes' final fight with the GiantMook at the end of the movie definitely qualifies. Basically most of the fight has Mayes being slammed around the room by the GiantMook, and Mayes retaliates by biting the GiantMook's ear off, then shooting his leg, then stabbing him several times in the groin and the chest before finishing him off by stabbing him in the head. Ouch.
* In one point in ''Film/{{Alien}} Resurrection'', [[spoiler: Purvis delivers one to Dr. Wren, before killing him with a chestburster.]]
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Voldemort lays a savage one on Harry in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''.
* Harry forgets about magic and simply bum-rushes Sirius Black in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban Prisoner of Azkaban]]''--and it works! Without Lupin's intervention, Harry would likely have killed Sirius.
* ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'':
** In DanAbnett's novel ''First & Only'', Jantine Patricians attack some Ghosts with this, including KickThemWhileTheyAreDown; they kill three and render a fourth Ghost critical, and a fifth Ghost escapes only because they take him alive.
** In ''Ghostmaker'', when Gilbear walks the picket and disapproves of how he finds two Ghosts, he inflicts a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, including KickThemWhileTheyAreDown. Fortunately, Corbec interrupts.
** In ''The Armour of Contempt'', a [[WretchedHive gambling den]] sets out to beat Merrt to death in one of these.
* About halfway through Literature/ThePendragonAdventure, in ''The Rivers of Zadaa'', Saint Dane amuses himself by taking the form of a GiantMook among the local military and effortlessly knocking Bobby around. [[FromBadToWorse This isn't it.]] Bobby, strapped for any physical response, gets under Saint Dane's skin with an impromptu HannibalLecture about how this is only a diversion from all the times he has failed, and how, in the end, he is destined to lose. In response to this, Saint Dane loses his cool the first time in the series, goes ''completely berserk'', and beats Bobby within an inch of his life. Just to drive home how bad it is, Bobby spends a great portion of the book recovering from said Beatdown. His doctor and Loor specifically point out that normally it would take months for him to recover, and he'd never get full functionality from his body again, but beats the odds and somehow recovers fully. At first the only thing he could move without extreme pain was his [[MundaneMadeAwesome toes.]]
* In GrahamMcNeill's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Literature/{{Ultramarines}}'' novel ''The Killing Ground'', in their third ordeal, Leodegarius defeats Uriel and Pasanius, knocking Pasanius unconscious and leaving Uriel unable to rise. Uriel, angry that this man, who should have fought beside them, is going to kill them, tells him to GetItOverWith. [[spoiler:Whereupon Leodegarius tells him that the ordeal is to ''lose'', because the only way they could have defeated him [[SecretTestOfCharacter was the use of warp-based powers]]. Failure has shown that [[IncorruptiblePurePureness they don't have them]] -- and they are promptly hauled away from medical treatment that restores them to fitness within hours.]]
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
** In ''Turn Coat'', book 11, [[spoiler:Wizard Listens-To-Wind delivers one of these to a Skinwalker, which is a nigh immortal, semidivine shapeshifter that feeds on magic. He does so in a Shapeshifting duel, eventually making the Skinwalker turn into a minor EldritchAbomination and fly away screaming.]]
** [[spoiler:The only person we know of who was able to kill one was Morgan, who did so by leading it on a chase that ended in Nevada, where he went into the Nevernever and stranded the Skinwalker there. The Skinwalker was then hit by a Nuclear bomb test.]]
** Harry Dresden himself is not a stranger to being on the receiving end of these. During ''Grave Peril'', where he experiences that being captured by [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Red Court]] Vampires isn't fun.
* ''Literature/EndersGame'' has the eponymous hero deliver two of these, both to boys bigger and stronger than he. Ender doesn't pick either fight, but neither of his opponents is prepared for Ender's thorough {{Combat Pragmatis|t}}m, and he really, ''really'' doesn't like bullies. [[spoiler: They both end up dead.]]
* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'':
** In the original, it may not happen to a hero, but it's jarring enough. So far, we've only seen normal battles in a siege, and most of the plans have been sort of comic-book level: climbing over the walls via a tree, tunneling under, etc. Then Cluny finds out he's been betrayed by the fox "healer" he keeps around, and simply has his henchmen beat her and her son, stab them to death and dump the corpses in a ditch. Her son survives, unfortunately.
** Another one happens to a vermin {{Mook|s}} in ''Rakkety Tam'', who is sent to scout out Redwall. He runs into a Long Patrol hare that's famous at boxing, and confidently thinks he can kill the "big rabbit". The hare in question beats the ever-loving snot out of him, partly as revenge for ten other hares that were killed and ''eaten'' by the mook's boss, and second for [[InsistentTerminology calling him a rabbit]]. This also happens to heroes, from time to time.
* [[BigBad Gabriel's]] brutal beatdown of the captured Lymond in ''Pawn in Frankincense'', the fourth novel in Dorothy Dunnett's ''Lymond Chronicles''.
* A common theme in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' ''Comicbook/XWingSeries''. Since it's kinda a war, shooting an enemy in the back while pretending to be one of their allies is a lot more acceptable than in other settings, but things like enhanced Ewoks wanting to slaughter unarmed scientists for torturing them is frowned upon. The ''Starfighters of Adumar'' book takes this to its logical conclusion; Turr Phennir's compliance with highly formalized and regulated but fatal beatdowns is monstrous, while Janson's beatdown of a man he disarmed to save a woman's life is a glorious CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
* The ''[[Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo 1635: The Canon Law]]'' features the character of Quevedo. He is massive pain in the ass who orchestrates a number of plots to sack Rome and murder the pope. He eventually confronts Ruy Sanchez, the man who trained him long ago and is currently trying to save the pope. Ruy merely takes advantage of a flaw in Quevado's fighting style that he (Ruy) never bothered to fix and stabs him in the throat.
* ''Sisterhood'' series by Creator/FernMichaels: Let's just say that there's a lot of beatdowns.
* Onyesonwu delivers one to Aro in ''Literature/WhoFearsDeath'' when he refuses to train her for the third time.
* ''TheBriefWondrousLifeOfOscarWao'':
** Hypatía Belicia Cabral, the mother of Oscar, is viciously beaten in her younger years for having an affair with the husband of Trujillo's sister. After working her over with fists, the dictator's thugs used nightsticks.
** Thirty years later, Oscar gets an equally brutal beating from two other police thugs for trying to pursue a relationship with a prostitute that a captain was in love with. He also survives, barely.
* [[VillainProtagonist Heathcliff]] does this to [[TheResenter Hindley]] midway through ''Literature/WutheringHeights'', shortly after [[spoiler: Catherine's death]].
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' seemed to get this a lot the first time she fought a Big Bad:
** Buffy's and Glory's first fight; Buffy only got away because Glory was careless about the architecture.
** Buffy and her first fight with a turokhan.
** Faith whaling on Buffy in "Who Are You?"
** Caleb whaling on the entire Scooby gang and potential slayers in "Dirty Girls".
** Faith on some random vampire after he mentioned Kakastios' name, another vampire who brutally killed her watcher in front of her.
** Oz after Veruca has (quite literally) hit his BerserkButton, which is Willow.
** Buffy herself dishes one of these out to Spike in season 6, when she apparently ''really'' needs to blow off steam. Spike just lies back and takes it, and the bruises last for a couple episodes after.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** The last duel between a captured Worf and the Jem'Hadar commander running the prison camp. Worf's refusal to quit even in the face of such a relentless example of this trope garners him rather a lot of respect in the commander's eyes: "I cannot defeat this Klingon. I can only kill him, and that no longer holds my interest."
** This happens after Worf (and Martok, though we never see him fight the Jem'Hadar on screen) are badly injured and exhausted after days of fighting the Jem'Hardar as part of a Dominion training exercise. Most of the previous fights--at least the ones we see--end with Worf killing his Jem'Hardar opponent with his bare hands.
** Colonel Kira has handed out a few no holds barred beatdowns over the course of the series. One notable example includes ''Way of the Warrior Part 2'', in which Klingons have boarded the station. One of the Klingons who beamed into ops stabbed Kira in the kidney. Kira pulls the dagger out of her back and then beats the crap out of the guy who put it there.
** Sisko gives them out often enough that SFDebris theorizes that he solves all his problems by punching them.
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' has a Federation fleet attempting to stop a Borg cube from reaching Earth. Barely breaking stride, the cube [[CurbStompBattle destroys 39 Federation starships]].
* An example that led many people to guess he was the BigBad for season 1 of ''Series/VeronicaMars'' was when [[spoiler:Aaron Echolls]] beat the hell out of his daughter's abusive boyfriend. To the soundtrack's strains of "That's Amore." It was awesome, and yet hard to watch.
* ''Series/TwentyFour'': Jack Bauer. Every time a villain gets his hands on Jack, you know it's not gonna be pretty.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'':
** The episode "Objects in Space" is one long, drawn-out version of this, where Jubal Early proceeds to systematically beat up everyone on the ship who even ''tries'' to stop him (or looks like they ''might'' possibly try to stop him at some indeterminate time in the future). [[spoiler: Fortunately, River and Mal manage to [[BatmanGambit outsmart him.]]]]
** Also happens in "Jaynestown," to Simon at the hands of Jayne's old partner.
** The final fight (if you can call it that) between Jayne and said partner is also pretty one-sided and wince-inducing.
** In "Shindig", there is a swordfight variant of this as Mal takes on Atherton Wing, and proceeds to nearly be cut to ribbons by his superior swordplay. He comes out the other end in pretty bad shape.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'':
** Season 4, Keamy, tracks Ben down to The Orchid's underground level and starts searching for him, uttering a villainous monologue as he does so, but then he makes a mistake by talking about how he, just a few episodes ago, [[spoiler:murdered Ben's daughter in cold blood right in front of him]]. Ben, who is hiding away, hears every single word of what Keamy says, and, after Keamy converses with Locke, he gets his payback- Ben leaps out of a locker, viciously beats Keamy to the floor with a nightstick, and stabs Keamy twice in the ''throat'' with his own knife, all the while yelling in a feral rage, [[spoiler:''"You killed my daughter!"'']] Keamy got what was coming to him.
** Ben is typically the victim of these no holds barred beatdowns. Particularly vicious ones were by Sayid in Season 2, Jack in Season 3's finale, almost had one from Sawyer in S4 and an especially brutal and bloody one in S5 from Desmond no less. Who previously never lashed out in such a violent manner, but there ya go. Never mess with the Scotsman. Even nice guy History teacher alternate universe Ben got one, once again from Desmond. Though in a school parking lot this time.
** Sawyer got his fair share from Pickett in Season 3. And Locke beat 7 shades of shit out of Mikhail in one of his many [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments of Awesome]].
** And then there's Jack and Sawyer beating the absolute living crap out of each other in the Season 5 finale.
** And ''then'' there's the Smoke Monster's [[spoiler: Temple rampage]] in season six.
* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
** They sometimes have one of these near the beginning of the series when the BigBad or TheDragon deigns to pound the Rangers flat in person, before ultimately deciding that they are NotWorthKilling. This editor remembers Rio from ''Gekiranger'' and Wolzard from ''Magiranger'' pulling at least one of these each.
** The MonsterOfTheWeek will occasionally end up on the receiving end of one of these.
** ''Series/{{Mighty Morphin|PowerRangers}}''' Season 1, where Goldar, Scorpina, and the Green Ranger work together to take down the Megazord.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
** In the penultimate episode, Marcus Hamilton beats the everloving crap out of Drogan and Illyria. It was the only time that Illyria had ever been injured on the show.
** The Beast also beats the crap out of Faith in Season 4.
** The Beast also punishes Angel and his pals when they face him on top of a building. [[spoiler: This fight ends with Angel being stabbed through the neck and thrown off of a very tall building.]]
* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', Sheridan gets one of these in "The Face of the Enemy" after [[spoiler: [[ManchurianAgent Garibaldi]] sells him out to the Clarke regime.]] The sequence, one of the most elaborately shot in the series, is powerful and disturbing in the way it contrasts Sheridan's messianic, larger than life image with the objective hopelessness of his situation, using multiple {{Hope Spot}}s and Sheridan's refusal to give in. ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist'' goes to the same well. Marcus's fight with Neroon in "Gray 17 is Missing" also comes close to this trope, though Marcus does get a few good hits in before being pounded into the deck.
** An earlier episode has Londo arranging for [[spoiler: Lord Refa]] to meet his end this way at the hands of angry Narns. Ironically, [[spoiler: his primary motivation was something that Refa [[MisBlamed hadn't even done]]]]. Don't worry. [[spoiler:Refa]] had done more than enough to earn his fate.
*** An element of perverse comedy is added to the scene because [[spoiler:Refa's death is accompanied by a ''gospel song'' about Judgment Day called "The Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place"]]
* In ''RescueMe,'' Tommy delivers one of these (with several people [[UnstoppableRage trying]] to hold him back) to [[spoiler:his brother Johnny]] when he discovers the latter [[spoiler:has been sleeping with his wife.]] At one point he puts his head through a ''car window.''
* In the 100th episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'', [[TheStoic Aaron Hotchner]] goes toe-to-toe with The Reaper. We've already seen the Reaper clean Hotch's clock in "Nameless, Faceless", but it's different this time: [[spoiler: Foyet has just killed Hotch's wife, Haley, and made it clear that if Hotch doesn't stop him, he'll kill Hotch's six-year-old son Jack next. Hotch empties his clip into Foyet, then, when it's revealed that Foyet was wearing full-body armor, throws him through a table and beats him to death with his bare hands. It takes Morgan to finally pull Hotch off.]] A hell of a way to invoke NotSoStoic.
** Previously, an unsub whose daughter had been killed while he was in prison kidnaps father/daughter pairs, then forces the fathers to beat other kidnapped men to death or watch their daughters be murdered. Ordered to finish off an already-stunned opponent, one father has no choice but to keep slugging his helpless foe, [[ApologeticAttacker pleading "I'm sorry"]] with every blow.
* In ''Series/TheWire'', Michael asks Chris Partlow to kill his stepfather, Devar. Normally Chris carries out hits in a dispassionate manner, killing with a headshot. However, it's implied that Devar has sexually abused Michael, and upon hearing Devar admit to [[PrisonRape raping other inmates in prison]] (or at least, that's what Chris takes from it), Chris beats him to a bloody pulp, spitting on the corpse afterwards.
** Most fans assumed because of this that Chris was also abused as a child. (This was later confirmed through WordOfGod)
* On ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Castiel delivered one of these to [[spoiler: Dean Winchester]], when Castiel caught him attempting to [[spoiler: surrender, which the angel considered a betrayal.]]
** In 4x16, when Alastair unexpectedly freed himself from the devils-trap. And having been tortured by Dean for a few hours, he was quite pissed to put it mildly.
** In the season 5 finale, Dean puts himself on the receiving end of such a beatdown when he refuses to leave his brother [[spoiler:while Lucifer is possessing Sam. Lucifer takes his annoyance at the interruption of his fight with Michael out on Dean]]. It's... pretty ugly. And [[TearJerker heartbreaking]], because Dean just lets him do it and keeps saying [[spoiler:"Sammy? It's OK, I'm here. I won't leave you."]]
** In 6x13, [[spoiler: a soulless-Sam]] gives one to a cop who's grown suspicious of his cover.
* In ''Series/TrueBlood'' the semi-heroic Sam Merlotte gives a brutal beating to Crystal's meth-dealing daddy. In his own bar, in front of his regular customers. Who are, inevitably, horrified.
* John Foster uses one of these to [[spoiler: beat Freddie to death with a baseball bat]] in season 4 of ''Series/{{Skins}}''. WordOfGod says Cook gives one right back as season 4 ends.
* In Episode 35 of ''KamenRiderKuuga'', Go-Jaraji-Da, a particularly nasty Grongi with the ability to cause encephalitis in his victims, [[BewareTheNiceOnes pushes the kind and good-natured Yuusuke Godai too far]] with his sadistic actions. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids Cue Yuusuke ramming Go-Jaraji-Da's head into the pavement. Repeatedly.]]
* There are at least two examples of this in the first season of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', and there aren't even any zombies around when they happen.
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'':
** Lana fully intended to (and almost succeeded in) beat Chloe to death in "Delete". [[spoiler:[[TwoWordsObviousTrope Mind control]].]]
** Season 10, episode 10: Earth-2 Lionel Luthor, delivers a brutal one to Clark, turning on a Green K light, and then trying to beat him to death with a belt.
* In Season 5, Episode 9 of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' when Dexter beats Barry while telling Barry where he is punching Barry, and why it hurts so much.
* In ''{{Deadwood}}'', Charlie Utter hands out a very brutal beating to the much larger and more intimidating Woolcott, with much kicking while down. Charlie ''has'' just found out that Woolcott had murdered three people the day before; the beating was more than warranted.
* The first episode of ''Series/TheShadowLine'' has Jay Wratten brutally beating one of Bob Harris's men in a lift for insulting him, as part of him EstablishingCharacterMoment.
* [[LifeOnMars Gene]] [[AshesToAshes Hunt]] has a special way of police investigation that usually ends in this trope. One of the most terrifying encounters is in ''AshesToAshes'' series 2 episode 3, where [[AnimalWrongsGroup activist]] Adrian Mansfield is defiantly taking Gene on verbally with some astute observations about political violence while receiving a pummeling in the gents' loos.
* [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Elliot Stabler]] has been known to hand these out occasionally, especially when the case involves [[BerserkButton child abuse]]. Notable instances include ''Confession'' in which we see the aftermath of Elliot's rampage after a pedophile posts a picture of Stabler's underage daughter on his website, and ''Ripped'', in which Stabler beats a former partner unconscious in a courthouse bathroom after witnessing the man abuse his son.
** ''Ripped'' establishes that the man had been taking steroids for an extended period of time prior to Stabler's beatdown.
** It's worth noting that after Stabler beats the pedophile, Olivia supports her partner but is disturbed by his actions. Fin, who had been angry with Stabler for a few episodes, forgives him after witnessing this, marveling at his restraint. He explains to Olivia that had it been ''his'' child, he would have actually killed the pedophile. Seriously, ''don't'' mess with kids around the SVU crew.
** When you consider all of the horrific sex abuse cases these men and women have worked on over the years, it's not hard to see why the SVU crew has a hard time holding back with some of the more irredeemable perps.
* When Arthur catches Lancelot kissing Guinevere on ''Series/{{Merlin}}'' he completely loses it. There's no blood or serious injury, but the audience is left in no doubt that the two would have killed each other had Merlin and Guinevere not intervened.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Zebrahead's "Karma Flavored Whiskey". Woo, if you don't know it, just listen. It's the perfect example of this.
** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKS8-oSLnvo
* Music/{{Disturbed}}'s "This Moment" initially appears to be the one singing taking it. [[PayEvilUntoEvil Then]] [[YouWillNotEvadeMe things change.]]
** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NXt4e5ydac
* [[Music/{{Gorillaz}} Murdoc]] pulls a few of these on 2D through the ages, most prominently in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnq3nm6ZtNc recent iTunes session interviews]]. Not only does Murdoc fight with, and beat the living crap out of 2D, but he also [[spoiler: ''drugs him into submission.'']] [[NightmareFuel All on tape.]]
* Meshuggah's "Perpetual Black Second" is about the perpetrator of such a beatdown reflect upon and regretting one.
* The band Throwdown have the implications of this in each of their songs, especially "We Will Rise"
** In fact it was used in a real Anime amv about the neglected Manga/FlameOfRecca where Recca is being beaten within in an inch of his life by Kukai. Unfortunately it has been pulled off of youtube.
* Jim Croce seems to have specialized in songs about these during TheSeventies. Specifically, 'Bad, Bad Leroy Brown' and 'You Don't Mess Around With Jim.'
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[[folder: Professional Wrestling]]
* This is a common practice in ProfessionalWrestling, especially in high-profile Heel Vs Face matches. Of course, the HeroicSecondWind moment ''is'' coming... however, sometimes it might take a SquashMatch or two for that moment to come.
** After Wrestling/{{Kane}} unmasked he turned on his former tag team partner Wrestling/RobVanDam. Inevitably when this thing happens between wrestlers, they get put in matches, in this case several, and Rob did nothing but get thrown, slammed, punched, choked, and stepped on. The only match in their series Rob actually won was a steel cage match, where you need to escape to win. When Kane tossed the helpless Rob through the cage, the referee counted it as Rob escaping.
** Another inverted example had a cage match between Wrestling/VinceMcMahon and StoneColdSteveAustin. Austin beat Vince so bad and so bloody the match had to be stopped and [=McMahon=] had to be wheeled out on a stretcher, but then Austin jumped on the stretcher to continue punishing his boss.
** General example: Any match involving one of the members of [[DGenerationX DX]] eventually devolved into this.
** Specific example: Shortly after StoneColdSteveAustin's infamous 'accident', [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] was in a match with The Big Bossman. Bossman pulled his usual Heel tactics, which resulted in the Rock snapping and beating him, the ref, several MORE refs, and the '''paramedics''' into states that greatly resembled comas with anything and everything he had on hand. Leaving him standing in the center of the ring, staring about wildly with a pile of destroyed humanity all around him. The point was to cast suspicion on The Rock for Austin's accident, you see.
* During the kayfabe (pre-mid 1990s) era, when most wrestling TV programs pitted top and mid-level talent against jobbers, a promoter would sometimes push a villain as an unstoppable Monster Heel by having him continue beating jobber wrestlers (and sometimes anyone else) well after they could have scored a victory. The idea was always to demonstrate the heel's power -- and often, devastating impact of his offensive arsenal -- and (the main goal) rally the fans to call upon the promotion's top babyface to demand a match with the heel and give him his comeuppance.
* Though the referees stopped her before it went too far, at SurvivorSeries 2004, Wrestling/{{Lita}} was well on her way to unleashing one of these on Wrestling/TrishStratus, having already smashed her face into a chair, the ring steps, beaten her with the chair, pummeled her in the face, and was choking her by the time several refs were finally able to pull her off. Even at that, she still managed to get away from them and go back for more.
* Wrestling/MickFoley has given and received many of these in the course of his career.
* As has Wrestling/TheUndertaker.
* TheNexus are infamous for giving these.
** Notable, as it's an ''[[PowerStable entire group]]'' of eight people delivering these to an unfortunate victim. To say it's like watching a pack of wolves devouring their prey is, quite frankly, an understatement.
* Wrestling/TheBigShow gave one to Ricardo Rodriguez to the point that ''Wrestling/{{Kane}}'' had to stop him. He later gives one to Wrestling/MarkHenry, [[CreateYourOwnVillain who doesn't take it lightly]].
** However Big Show [[DontMakeMeDestroyYou did try to warn Henry.]]
** And since then Henry has been doing this to everyone who crosses him.
*** Then Big Show came back and promptly returned the favor.
* Wrestling/CMPunk did this to Wrestling/JeffHardy after his heel turn. After defending the World Heavyweight champion against Wrestling/JohnMorrison on ''WWESmackDown'' towards the end of July 2009, Punk came to "congratulate" him, only to set him up for an ambush and utterly destroyed Hardy. This started a feud that ended in Jeff being ''[[{{Kayfabe}} forced]]" [[LoserLeavesTown out of the]] Wrestling/{{WWE}}.
* Wrestling/RandyOrton
* The Two Man Power Trip (Wrestling/TripleH and Stone Cold) delivered an absolutely hellacious beating to the Hardy Boys and Lita. It's pretty uncomfortable to watch, especially as they humiliate and [[WouldHitAGirl destroy Lita]] with a chair... not that they needed the chair.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TPtM5nvNtc]]
* Upon his return in 2011, Wrestling/{{Kane}} has been dishing these out to Wrestling/JohnCena, as well as his pal Wrestling/ZackRyder.
** He gave a lot of these over the course of his career.
* Wrestling/BrockLesnar, especially his match with Cena at Extreme Rules 2012.
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[[folder: Tabletop Games]]
* In the ''TabletopGame/HongKongActionTheatre'' supplement ''To Live and Die in HK'', one of the Signature Moves that a character can have is "Heroic Comeback." In addition to being used for HeroicSecondWind moments during climactic fights, it can also be used after the character has been on the receiving end of one of these in an earlier scene, with the + 5 bonus to hit the guy who kicked his ass for the rest of the movie being used for some much deserved payback.
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[[folder: Video Games]]
* Jaron Namir delivers one to Adam Jensen at the beginning of ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution''. The beat-down is so bad, it forces Adam to become augmented in order to survive.
* Volgin to Snake in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater''.
** Honestly, between that, [[spoiler:all the stuff The Boss did to him, the torture scene, and so on, the whole mission could feel like one. Hence his near-death experience.]]
** Used again at the end of Act 3 of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' between [[spoiler:Snake and Liquid Ocelot, though Ocelot]] [[JustBetweenYouAndMe does do a lot of bragging about his evil plan while doing so]].
** Also in the cutscene just before the final boss fight, when Ocelot straddles Snake and starts pummeling him until he needs another stimulant injection.
* Captain Price delivers one to Khaled Al-Asad in ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 1''. If you look around during the beating, the other hardened SAS officers -- who've fought their way through hundreds of enemies to capture Al-Asad -- keep having to look away.
** This is less this trope, and more JackBauerInterrogationTechnique.
** And [[spoiler:General Shepherd to Captain Price]] at the end of ''Modern Warfare 2''. He'll actually kill him if you can't stop the fight in time.
** At the end of ''Modern Warfare 3'', [[spoiler: Price delivers one to Makarov]] culminating in his death. It's immensely satisfying.
* [[spoiler:Jack to Andrew Ryan]] in ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}''. [[spoiler:Andrew uses a posthypnotic command word to compel Jack to beat him to death with a golf club, to demonstrate that Jack has no free will.]] It might also be a form of [[spoiler:SuicideByCop]], however.
* [[EvilVersusEvil Alexia does this to Wesker]] in the original version of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica''. In the UpdatedRerelease, Wesker managed to get a couple of punches in. Later on, Wesker does this to Chris as well.
* Happens in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'' in your [[RecurringBoss first fight]] against Balio and Sunder. It's framed as a playable HopelessBossFight, adding a personal touch to the brutality.
* In ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts: Covenant'', when [[spoiler:Yuri, the Godslayer, who has [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu beaten reality destroying demons to death with his fists]], confronts the [[TheManBehindTheMan man behind the big conspiracy of the second half of the game]]; [[TheManBehindTheCurtain a fat, old, dying Japanese politician]]. He promptly flies into an UnstoppableRage, and beats the crap out of the man. Then he kicks his grandson flying when he tries to defend his grandpa, and starts beating the old man again when he tries to beg for his grandson's life. He snaps out of it eventually, but the old guy spends the rest of his short life in a hospital.]]
* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' has a [[EvilVersusEvil villain-on-villain]] version in the battle between the rival {{Eldritch Abomination}}s Ulyaoth and Chattur'gha. While each of the gods' battles have a pretty clear winner, there is at least a fight. Ulyaoth on the other hand, takes its enemy to ''pieces'' through use of teleportation portals, so Chattur'gha starts the fight by getting blasted with its own fireball, and ends by trying to crawl away on what remains of its limbs before being chopped in half by another portal.
* Every battle in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' ends in one of these if the loser doesn't get cut in half and sent flying across the screen or lose his internal organs to a crossbow bolt. The only other end is a creature getting knocked out and methodically dismantled by his opponent.
** In early [=DF2010=] releases, there were a few... bugs... with the new damage system not being able to effectively decide death conditions. Since combat will only end when one party is dead, the ensuing NoHoldsBarredBeatdown could easily continue for more than a season, resulting in ''[[http://i.imgur.com/0Gmdj.png every single bone and organ]]'' in the victim's body being damaged until the combat system finally got around to calling them dead.
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar II'' -- After his battle with the Colossus, [[spoiler:Kratos can barely muster [[YouCanBarelyStand the strength it takes to walk]], and Zeus seizes the opportunity to toss him around before impaling him with his own godhood.]] [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption And there is nothing you can do to stop him.]]
** [[spoiler:[[ScrewDestiny ...yet.]]]]
** ''God of War III'' features this from a first person view. The first is from Poseidon's view as Kratos slams him around. The second is from Kratos' view [[spoiler:as he beats Zeus to death with his own hands. [[SerialEscalation And continues.]]]]
** As you're doing this, blood splatters on the screen. You can continue indefinitely as the screen becomes covered in blood. The only way to continue with the game is to [[spoiler:stop killing Zeus]].
*** Y'know what? Pretty much ''all'' of the boss fights in ''God of War'' qualify.
* In ''[[VideoGame/GearsOfWar Gears of War 2]]'', when an enemy soldier is in a downed state, you have the option to put your weapons away and punch the living snot out of them until they stop breathing in a satisfying scripted animation. Granted, they're already heavily wounded, and it only takes three punches to kill them.
** In ''Gears 3'' you're able to repeatedly tap Y to prolong the beatdown. For the COG, you repeatedly punch the enemy while they are down, like in Gears 2, but you can hold it for about 10 seconds, and it culminates with you punching their head into meat chunks. As a Locust, on the other hand, you [[GrievousHarmWithABody rip off their arm and beat them to death with it]] for about 10 seconds.
* This is what happens to your character in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' if a Hunter pounces on you. And [[NeverSplitTheParty only another survivor can save you from certain death]].
** Also what happens if a Tank incapacitates a survivor and decides to keep punching.
* Pretty much what happens whenever you activate God Hand in ''GodHand''. You're invincible and your attacks are unblockable, faster, and stronger.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', you the player (and 9 or 24 of your friends depending on the setting) team up with an NPC to deliver one to [[spoiler:[[BigBad The Lich King]] during his boss fight. It does help that said boss can't fight back because Tirion [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome broke free of Arthas's Ice Block, ran up behind Arthas, jumped into the air, and shattered]] [[CoolSword Frostmourne]], releasing all the souls imprisoned inside it including the one of Arthas's father, King Terenas, who proceeds to resurrect the entire raid]]. All of this is pure Fanservice to the players.
** Just imagine Yogg Saron calls out FinishHim!
* Before his FaceHeelTurn into the series BigBad, Sigma of ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' was on the receiving end of one of these. A powerful Maverick was reported to be on the rampage and Sigma decided to deal with the threat by himself so that no one else would be endangered. Even though Sigma was easily the most powerful Reploid model at the time, the Maverick readily tore his sword-arm off and gouged one of his eyes out ''before'' beating him to a pulp. Sigma only won because of a "moment of weakness". Said event was actually ''what'' caused Sigma's FaceHeelTurn. And the Maverick? [[spoiler:He became the hero known by the name ''Zero''.]]
* One of the [[ImAHumanitarian Consume]] animations from ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' is a very literal example of this trope. Mercer simply throws his luckless victim to the ground and beats the crap out of them until all that's left is a pile of easily consumed meat. Thankfully, all you see is the shower of bloodspray from the beating. The other Consumes aren't quite as literal, but are ''much'' worse since you actually get to see every gory detail. On a slightly less bloody note, it's possible to beat down a ''tank'' with the Hammerfist power. Mercer in general doesn't hold anything back when he fights.
* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Half-Life2}} Half-Life 2: Episode 2]]'', Dog does this to a Strider by jumping onto its head, punching it incessantly as it stumbles around, and finally tearing open its armored exoskeleton and ''pulling its brain out''.
** Dog also delivers another at the end, after [[spoiler:Eli gets killed by an Advisor. Granted, the Advisors get away, but one of them's pretty badly wounded.]]
** The backstory of ''Half-Life 2'' had a huge example on a planetary scale: the Seven Hour War between the nations of Earth and the Combine. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It lasted seven hours and]]...well, we lost.
* Just about every sync kill in ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' does this. Generally involves a unit pounding on its adversary several (dozen) times with a blade of some sort, then pulling out a ranged weapon and blowing it away. The Space Marines enjoy bringing an enemy to their knees and kicking them in the face with a giant armored boot, Commissars pull out a laspistol and do it execution-style, Dark Eldar Mandrakes ''just keep on stabbing''. The variations are many.
* This happens to Kreia in flashback in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 2''. Despite the violence in the rest of the game, this scene is the most visceral, consisting mainly of a large man beating the hell out of a defenseless old lady.
** What makes it even more brutal is that she doesn't start a defenseless old woman. [[spoiler:He literally ''beats the Force out of a Sith lord,'']] until it ''is'' just a matter of beating the hell out of an old woman.
* In ''VideoGame/TheGodfather'', this is generally what ensues when you render someone helpless by grabbing them. The sequel builds on this with Pummels and Executions.
* In an example that makes up for its lack of gritty gore by sheer shock value, near the end of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', Ganondorf at one point just starts pummeling Link, showing every single reeling effect it has on the young child. Considering the light-hearted tone and graphical style of the game, it comes as a surprise.
** The whole scene is pretty dark compared to the sunny, colorful artstyle of the game. It works incredibly well for it.
* Although the flashiness masks the brutality somewhat, this is pretty much what happens in all combo videos.
* ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'' ends with [=LeChuck=] literally [[MegatonPunch punching Guybrush from one end of Melee Island to the other]] as Guybrush tries to come up with a way to beat him. This happens again in the final episode of ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland'', with Guybrush getting pummeled around [=LeChuck=]'s ship.
** The second game features a variation: instead of beating on Guybrush, [=LeChuck=] instead [[spoiler:repeatedly stabs a voodoo doll of our hero]].
* Taokaka from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' has the "I'mma Beat The Crap Outta You!" Distortion Drive, which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
** And then there are the Astral Heats. Ragna, Taokaka, Hakumen, Litchi, and Valkenhayn's are all long combos that leave their victims extremely dead.
* In ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper'', you can ''slap'' your creatures (or captured enemies) to death.
* Any WideOpenSandbox Rockstar game will let you do this.
* You can do this to enemies in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', since hand-to-hand attacks damage fatigue as well as health, and having zero fatigue causes enemies to fall over, after which you can gradually beat them to death while they're down. It [[AwesomeButImpractical takes a lot longer than just killing them normally though.]] But since the game is full of monsters, killing them this way is very satisfying.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', there is a mechanic where enemies and allies may fall over after certain attacks. If every enemy is on the ground, the player is prompted to trigger an "All out attack," with the party members beating up on the damaged and off-guard enemies.
** It returns in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' and in both versions it only works when both the Protagonist and at least one other party member are on the field and aren't incapacitated. If you finish off the enemy party with it, it ends in a giant skull-shaped mushroom cloud.
* Johnny Gat of ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' delivers one in the game's sequel. After Shogo, the so-called leader of the Ronin, shows up at [[spoiler:Aisha's funeral]] demanding a fight, the player character chases him down and drags him to a very pissed off Gat. Gat then delivers a smackdown on the punk, breaking his leg and [[spoiler:punching his head through a tombstone.]] He then buries him alive. The lesson here? Do not screw with Johnny Gat.
* Virgo delivers this to the Phoenix in the middle of stage 7 in ''RefleX''.
* A direct allusion to this trope by Maya Schroedinger (''VideoGame/WildArms3''), who says this to Virginia after saving her and her party from Asgard (who '''did''' OHKO them): "I, Maya Schroedinger, will crush you to the ground, no holds barred. Just remember that."
* In the prequel to ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', ''Duodecim'', this is pretty much [[spoiler:Feral Chaos]]'s [[LimitBreak EX Burst]]. Most everyone else gets a flashy standard attack for theirs... but [[spoiler:Chaos]] is given twenty seconds to beat the crap out of the opponent before delivering the final blow.
** How about a video? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2eUFFEd5zQ RAAAAAAUUUURGGGH]]
* Shao Kahn has one of these at the beginning of ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' against Raiden. [[spoiler:The fight is mirrored at the end, before the final battle.]]
** ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3]]'''s home editions introduced Brutalities, which were specific 11-hit sequences of punches and kicks.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'', Samus delivers one to Mother Brain during the mother of all MamaBear moments at the end of ''Super Metroid''. After what Mother Brain did, she completely deserved it.
* In ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'', the Colossi normally [[YouGetKnockedDownYouGetBackUpAgain wait to attack]] if Wander has been knocked over and is lying on the ground. On Hard mode? No such luck. This can be particularly painful when fighting [[UnstoppableRage incredibly aggressive]] Colossi such as Celosia or Dirge, who also happen to have massively powerful charging attacks.
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' the first time we are made aware of [[spoiler: Lambda's presence]] is when Richard is attacked by a soldier, appearing to have been killed. However, Richard [[NightmareFuel eerily rises up from the ground]] and proceeds to mercilessly cut the man down. The rest of the party can only look on in horror before Asbel eventually makes him stop.
* In the "House of Horrors" quest in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'', Molag Bal has you beat a helpless captive priest of his rival Boethiah to death with a rusty mace. Then Molag Bal resurrects him so you can beat him to death ''again'' to force the priest to renounce Boethiah and give his soul to Molag Bal. The beatdown empowers the rusty old weapon and it becomes the legendary Mace of Molag Bal.
* [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct ULTRAAAAAAAAA COMBOOOOOOOOOO!]]
* After defeating VideoGame/{{Diablo}} for the final time, your objective changes to "Destroy Diablo". What that essentially means is that you get one minute of unloading whatever attacks you desire on his dying body.
* In the Stage 2 boss battle of ''TimeCrisis 4'', Captain Rush receives this from Jack Mathers.
* Happens right at the end of ''VideoGame/FurFighters''. Just after the player has defeated Viggo, he comes back. Rather than using clever gadgets, schemes or 100's of disposable mooks; he's decided to take matters into his own hands.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Prequel}}'' is, 90% of the time, hilarious takes on the Elder Scrolls world. Another 9% is watching the main character, Katia, fail rather spectacularly at everything she tries. The last 1% was a dream she had, wherein a monstrous king/spider/dragon appears, impales her best friend through the chest, then hunts her through her own dreamscape as she desperately drags herself away. When she finally rises to face him, he ''[[http://prequeladventure.com/2011/06/532/ pins her abdomen to the wall.]]''
* Siegfried from ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' has a bad habit of inflicting these on others when he loses his temper. Dominic's been on the receiving end of such a beating ''twice''. Now that [[spoiler:he's become a demon]], Siegfried has eschewed physical beatings in favor of MindRape and [[spoiler:DemonicPossession]].
* From ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', [[StringyHairedGhostGirl Aradia]] attacks [[KillerGameMaster Vriska]] at the end of ''[[AnimationBump [S]: Make Her Pay]]'' and delivers the most merciless beating we've seen in the comic so far, leaving Vriska unconscious on the ground and covered in her own blood. In all fairness, [[spoiler:Vriska murdered her previously, so it's not entirely unjustified.]]
** Also, when Jake meets the young Troll Empress (alias "sea Hitler"), he fails to hear his friend telling him that she's an alternate timeline version of her, not to mention already dead. He decides to [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct kill her before she grows up]], pounces on her and attempts to punch[[hottip:*:either he forgot he had guns, or they didn't "follow" him to that DreamLand]] her to death. He doesn't stop until another character [[TapOnTheHead knocks him out]].
* BigBad Xykon from ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' absolutely ''loves'' dishing these out when he's not busy [[ColdbloodedTorture torturing people]]. When Roy attempted to take him on alone, Xykon simply blasted him with a Meteor Swarm ''right in the face'' [[spoiler: which led to Roy's death]]. In the {{Prequel}} ''StartOfDarkness'', he defeated [[spoiler:Eugene's master]] by [[ISurrenderSuckers pretending to surrender]], followed by ''beating the old man to death with his own award statuette''.
** And in these [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0652.html two]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0653.html strips]], Xykon utterly thrashes [[spoiler:Spliced V]]. It starts with [[spoiler:trap glyphs]], Energy Drain, [[spoiler:''Maximized'' Energy Drain]], ''another'' Meteor Swarm, and ''Superb'' Dispelling. Xykon finally ends it by [[spoiler:hitting V with a ''chunk of the wall'']] hard enough to [[spoiler:cause V to lose his/her grip on the spliced souls]]. Then, he ''stops holding back,'' ending with him [[spoiler:shoving his hands down V and O-Chul's throats, ready to Meteor Swarm their heads apart.]]
** And don't forget the climactic fight of ''Start of Darkness''.
** Thog delivers one to Roy in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0796.html #796]].
* In ''[[http://www.shapequest.net Shape Quest]]'', Tonya (who is not a villain) [[spoiler:finished off Lance in the Scarlet City tournament without him giving her too much of a scratch.]]
* In the end of chapter one (and only) of ''JesusChrist: In the name of the gun'' the [[{{Badass}} title character]] took two pages to liquefy (sic) [[spoiler:Hitler's (who happens to be a werewolf)]] skull. With a cross-shaped gravestone. [[http://www.badkarmaproductions.com/jc/?p=215 Starting here]].
* Imperial Lieutenant Janek "Tank" Sunber, one of Luke Skywalker's childhood friends, has just helped capture a rebel base when he walks into an interrogation room to find two junior officers beating the hell out of a rebel prisoner. He immediately tells them off, only to hear the prisoner taunt him with Luke's destruction of the Death Star -- [[BerserkButton with Luke's "betrayal"]] of the Empire and Tank. The other officers grin as Tank joins in the beating -- then suddenly their grins are replaced by frowns, then looks of shock as they pull him off of the man to stop him from killing him with his bare hands.
* Webcomic/{{Achewood}} has the Great Outdoor Fight arc... which ends with a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of the event venue itself. (The term "full service beating" is used as well.)
* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob:'' [[ChaoticNeutral Galatea]] delivers one to [[BigBad Riboflavin,]] [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20101102.html here.]] Her motivation is that Riboflavin ''had'' been delivering a similar beat-down to ''Bob,'' before she stepped in. Well, Golly had always said that, unlike her sister, she understands how her claws work.
* ''Webcomic/{{Kagerou}}'': [[spoiler:Kano]], [[UnstoppableRage in a rage]], performs one of these on Red [[spoiler:after his AttemptedRape of Fuuka]].
* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Tarvek [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110117 delivers one of these]] to Zola:
--> '''Zola:''' All right... I give up...
--> '''Tarvek:''' Oh, Nononono, you do '''not''' "give up"! '''YOU ''DIE!'''''
* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', the {{Grammar Nazi}}s [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2642 give Slick one for failure to use the subjunctive.]]
* ''Webcomic/BittersweetCandyBowl'' has [[http://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c12/p25.html this page]].
-->'''Daisy:''' Umm, guys... I think you're going to kill him...
-->'''Mike and Lucy:''' '''''NO WE'RE NOT!'''''
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* ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' has the fight between Rick Holeman and Laeil Burbank in V3, which devolves from a gunfight into a straight up beatdown when both their guns fail, Laeil slips and falls to the ground, and Rick then proceeds to beat her to a bloody pulp. She manages to turn the tables, though, once she grabs hold of her sword.
* In ''WebAnimation/SuperMarioBrosZ'', as a general rule, when [[BigBad Mecha Sonic]] appears, ''someone'' is about to get their ass kicked in this fashion. The most notable example is probably when Yoshi gets the tar beaten out of him in the third episode.
** Psht, forget Yoshi! At least he survived! Sure, the Axem Rangers were kind of a dick troupe, but Mecha Sonic not only wiped the floor with them, but also ''murdered each one, each time more brutally than the one before'', giving us images of him doing things like crushing Axem Green's skull in his hand and disintegrating Axem Red with a KamehameHadoken -- after first laying into him with Akuma's signature Shun Goku Satsu attack, no less!
*** After that fight, Mecha Sonic proceeds to wipe the floor with the ''heroes'', and finally creates a massive fireball to destroy Yoshi's Island.
**** [[MoralEventHorizon And when he]] ''[[EstablishingCharacterMoment murdered everyone on Mobius!]]''
* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd hands one of these to ''Bugs Bunny'' of all people.
** Two years later though, Bugs gets his own back, ''and then some.''
* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue Revelation'': Episode ten in its entirety (nearly 8 minutes). Also counts as a CurbStompBattle as the Reds [[AndZoidberg and Tucker]] were trying to fight her.
** Unusually for the trope though, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke9wtbzGjCI this particular beatdown was hilarious.]]
*** Particular mention goes out to Grif, who undergoes no less than ''seven'' {{Groin Attack}}s in one fight scene. Honestly, you could argue the entire fight was pretty much a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown directly aimed at Grif's balls.
* ''{{Mercs}}'': In "Hijack", [[ActionGirl Varisa]] comes upon hacker Tess. Cracking her knuckles, Varisa steps in for the beatdown. She proceeds to be smacked around by Tess.
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic went all out on ''Film/TheNeverendingStory III'' disc after being tortured by the movie for twenty minutes.
* In the RoosterTeeth LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', episode 8, Gavin ends up trolling Geoff one too many times, leading to Geoff ''beating him in real life''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' had this inflicted onto Courage in the Villain Ball (No, not ''that'' VillainBall) episode. Basically, all of the major antagonists team up and play a dodgeball match with Courage, Courage being the only one not throwing the ball.
** There's also the Mecha Courage ep where he's pitted against Dai Lung's robot dog in the Roman Colosseum. The match is largely one sided, and during one particularly painful instance, the robot doesn't even give Courage the chance to finish saying his 'the things I do for love!' catchphrase.
* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': Vlad does this to Danny ''[[EstablishingCharacterMoment in his very first appearance]]'' in "Bitter Reunions." He doesn't stop until Danny loses consciousness and powers down, revealing his SecretIdentity.
** Danny ends up on the receiving end of an even more vicious beatdown in [[TheMovie "The Ultimate Enemy"]] at the hands of none other than his [[FutureMeScaresMe evil future self]]. Fortunately, this paves the way for Danny's HeroicSecondWind.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Slade almost kills Robin this way in the episode "Haunted." But you know what the worst part was? [[YourMindMakesItReal It was all in Robin's head]]. Which means that all the damage ''HE DID TO HIMSELF.''
** You had a strong male-on-female version as well in season four, when Slade kicked the crap out of Raven, mindraped her, all the while musing on how "it's always the quiet ones".
** In TheMovie, Robin brutally attacks [[spoiler: and supposedly murders Saico-Tek]].
** Fortunately, Raven gets back at Slade with her own (rather epic) NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in the episode "The Prophecy." After beating the crap out of the other Titans and then realizing he can't hurt Raven without disobeying orders from Trigon, Slade tries to escape by sinking into the floor... only for Raven to ''[[Awesome/TeenTitans telekinetically reach into the ground, pull Slade back up, and beat the living stuffing out of him.]]'' Even the other Titans are scared.
* Frequently in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', especially in later seasons. In JLU's second season finale, Superman's fight against his robotic double briefly turns into him delivering one ''to himself''.
-->'''Superman''': I'm NOT like you! I'm NOTHING like you!
** Creator/BruceTimm justified the show's tendency for fist fights between the characters by saying that getting up close and personal is what would likely happen when you put a bunch of people who hate each other into a room together.
** GreenArrow ''intentionally'' provokes Wildcat into doing this to him in a JLU episode to try and get him out of caged fighting. The end result is [[spoiler:Green Arrow being beaten to death, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone shocking Wildcat]] and causing him to quit voluntarily.]] Except [[spoiler:Green Arrow used a stunner off of one of his arrows to put himself into metabolic stasis, giving the appearance of death, to [[BatmanGambit give Wildcat a taste of what killing someone felt like.]]]] [[Awesome/JusticeLeague Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Green Arrow right there.
** Superman delivered two of them in the two-parter ''Twilight (of the Gods)''. The first is when {{Darkseid}} arrives on the Watchtower, and the rest of the League has to physically hold back Superman to let Darkseid say why he was there. Later, at the end of the second part, Superman and Darkseid face off, and Superman was actually keeping his promise of not stopping until Darkseid was "a greasy smear" on his fist.
*** {{Darkseid}} returns this in the finale to ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' giving a relentless beating to Superman for over half of the episode, until Superman realizes that Darkseid is the one being he can use his full power on and proceeds to do so after [[TropeNamer naming]] the WorldOfCardboardSpeech and delivering a MegatonPunch. It still doesn't stop Darkseid though.
** Metallo gives one of these to Superman in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' episode "The Batman-Superman Story Part 1", and would have killed him with his Kryptonite heart until Batman got a hold of it. Superman then effortlessly kicks his ass.
** TheQuestion gets one of these at the hands of SelfDemonstrating/LexLuthor, of all people, while attempting to avert a bad future in the ''Unlimited'' episode "Question Authority".
** Delivered to Franchise/WonderWoman by Mongul in the adaptation of "ComicBook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything". Though Mongul is somewhat justified in doing it, [[{{Determinator}} given that Wonder Woman refused to stay down.]] But even she was too weak to even really fight anymore, he was still whaling on her.
** In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', specifically the flashback, Batman gives Joker a severe beating, enough to actually make Joker bleed at the mouth, grab him, throw him out of the room, and then grab him and slam him against one of the block pile's faces and utter in a very chilling voice "I'll break you in two...!", all after the Joker showed Batman a "family memories" video documenting the three weeks of {{electr|icTorture}}ocution and serum based torture to make Robin [[MindRape go insane]] to the extent where ''[[TheHyena his entire speech was composed of nothing else but]] [[LaughingMad insane laughter]]'', reveal everything he knows about Batman (including his SecretIdentity), and then giving him a makeover to make Robin resemble a crude imitation of the Joker called Joker Jr. In fact, because of this, he almost ended up breaking his [[ThouShaltNotKill one rule]] by killing The Joker as a result.
** It's fair to say that Batman is the king of this trope.
*** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' is rife with them. Flashbacks show Robin beating mooks to the point that even Batman is alarmed. In the same film, Batman gives an epic one to [[spoiler: Jason Todd]], who just finished giving one to SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker with a crowbar.
*** At the start of the same film there's a brutal one from Joker to Jason Todd with him pummeling him to bloody pulp with a crowbar [[spoiler: (his beating to Joker later in the film was meant to mirror this)]] to the point where he can barely move and then leaves him to get killed by a bomb. Batman attempts a rescue, but arrives too late.
* The first thing Megatron does after getting his body back in the first-season finale of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated''? Take down Optimus, Prowl, ''and'' Bulkhead. The second thing he does is take [[TheStarscream Starscream]] down with one strike of the [=AllSpark=] key''.
** And let's [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome not forget his]] [[spoiler:[[TheStarscream Starscream]] [[AmusingInjuries Death]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Montage]]]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'': Optimus Prime gives one to Megatron in ''One Shall Fall''. Optimus knocks Megatron off a cliff, then jumps after him and grinds his wheels into the Decepticon leader's face, blinding him. After that, Optimus proceeded to beat the crap out of Megatron and nearly killed him too.
** A couple of Vehicons decided [[KickTheDog to have some fun]] beating up [[spoiler: an amnesic Optimus/Orion who begins to doubt and protest against Megatron's plans. This [[NiceJobFixingItVillain backfires on the Vehicons]] as the beatdown causes Optimus/Orion to unconsciously activate his arm cannons (which he didn't know he had) to defend himself.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}''s [[BigBad Vilgax]] dishes these out like there's no tomorrow, examples include ''every freaking time'' he fights Ben, with the best being the time he destroyed Mount Rushmore '''with Ben's face.'''
** Ben himself deals out a fierce beatdown to Aggregor in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' after said villain killed the Andromedan aliens to gain their powers. Ben (as ''Humongosaur'', no less) goes absolutely berserk, and it takes Gwen's intervention to stop Ben from outright killing him. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, it turns out that Aggregor's new form is NighInvulnerable, so Ben couldn't have harmed him much anyway.]]
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Stan receives the beating of his life from childhood bully Stelio Kontos.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. Three Words: "Where's my money?"
** In "Road to Rupert", after Meg had enough of being humiliated by Peter and his friends, she stops the car she's driving them in and immediately gets rear-ended. When confronted by the hostile driver of the vehicle behind her, she proceeds to beat the living hell out of the guy.
** In "Dial Meg for Murder", Meg comes out of jail as a hardened psychopath and gets revenge on her abusive family and classmates. In it, she beats the crap out of Peter twice and beats up the popular kids with a pillowcase full of unopened sodas.
** In "Quagmire's Dad", Quagmire administers a brutal beat-down to Brian after he finds out that Brian had sex with his father.
** Quagmire himself gets a pretty brutal one from his sister's abusive boyfriend in "The Story Of Brenda Q.". It's one of the most [[NightmareFuel terrifying moments in the show's history!]]
** In "The Tan Aquatic", Chris is being bullied by Kevin, another boy. In a rare moment of responsibility, Peter attempts to discuss the situation with Kevin; only to be verbally abused by the 13 year old. Peter snaps and gives Kevin a pretty brutal beatdown. Also a bit unusual for Peter, he understands that he's in serious trouble:
-->'''Brian''': Is something wrong?
-->'''Peter''': No, No. Everything's cool right now. Might be some problems later, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
-->(Later)
-->'''Peter''': I'm going to prison, aren't I?
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''. Three Words: "Big, meaty, CLAWS!"
** In the same episode, when Spongebob suggests to do some kicking, Patrick kicks Sandy hard on the butt. Sandy gets very angry and chases him outside with a trombone (Cue ScreamDiscretionShot.)
** In "The Fry Cook Games", Spongebob and Patrick's friendship is shattered once again when Mr. Krabs and Plankton turn them into aggressive sociopaths bent on killing each other. In the final event: Bun Wrestling, they both engage in a vicious, violent, heavy brawl... until they both realize how their actions are affecting their friendship, and that friendship is more important than wanting to win very badly, much to Krabs' and Plankton's dismay.
* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|2003}}'', the [[EliteMooks Foot Elite]] deliver one of these to Leonardo at the climax of "The Shredder Strikes Back", leaving him near death. Another occurs in "Exodus, pt. 2", where a souped-up Shredder (with some assistance from Karai) delivers one of these to the four turtles, leaving injuries that took several episodes to heal.
** Just to get the point across, the Turtles are so badly beaten that the only way they can "win" is to set the ship they're on to self-destruct and [[TakingYouWithMe take the Shredder out with them]]. Fortunately, the Utroms show up in time to [[BigDamnHeroes save them]].
** In the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012 series]], the first time time the turtles face off against the Shredder, he ''serverely'' beats the tar out of them. Highlights include: throwing Raphael into a sign, ''electrocuting him'', and Michelangelo being crushed underneath the sign wreckage. The only reason the turtles escape alive is because the Shredder gets distracted [[spoiler:by Bradford and Xever mutating into Dogpound and Fishface]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': Any fight involving Brock Samson.
* Wendy does this to Cartman in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. She was pretty pissed, he regretted it.
** He does [[WouldHitAGirl get a couple of good hits in at the start]] -- however, Cartman's so out of shape he was getting out of breath after about ten seconds. His performance went downhill from there.
* The ending of TheMovie of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' has [[spoiler:[[MoralEventHorizon Eddy's brother mercilessly beating up Eddy]]]]
** [[KarmaHoudini Sarah and Kevin]] dish these out frequently, usually to the Eds.
** Jimmy dished one to Edd in the episode "A Fistful Of Ed."
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': Pretty much all of the episode "The Boys Are Back in Town." The girls really get it bad in this one.
** There was also Bubbles [[FriendToAllLivingThings (of all people)]] snapping and literally tearing through the monsters when she decides to go [[BewareTheNiceOnes 'hard core!']] Granted, they were holograms.
** [[BerserkButton MEAT HAIR.]]
** In one example, our trio of heroes strike a deal with baddie Mojo Jojo, but when he betrays them, they beat him to a pulp. They only realise how far they've gone when they notice a tear fall from one of his swollen eyes.
* In the season 1 episode of ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'' "Granddad's Fight", Robert Freeman is so full of hate and rage for Mr. Stinkmeaner for wrecking his stuff, hurting his knee, and making him a laughing stock of the entire town, that before Mr. Stinkmeaner can land a single hit on him, Freeman proceeds to beat the tar out of him, landing blow after blow until the final punch knocks him to the ground. After the fight is over, they discover that Stinkmeaner died from the beating and Robert feels bad about it.
** Huey delivers one to Riley when he finds out that his associates are going to try to kidnap Oprah and he's going to accompany them.
** In season 2 episode "Attack of the Killer Kung Fu Wolf Bitch" Granddad's Date Luna says at dinner she was a master of ancient style of asskicking. Huey doesn't believe her saying that there are no masters left of this ancient art. He asks for a demonstration and Luna proceeds to beat the daylights out of Huey. After the fight, Huey walks back to the bathroom where Riley and Granddad were hiding from Luna cause she's crazy and drops to the floor and passes out.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', Skipper doles one out to King Julien in "Out of the Groove" ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny through dance.]]''
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode "Welcome To The Jungle", Brain delivers one to his arch enemy Snowball when he tries to sacrifice Pinky.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR''. Name any episode. Chances are Coop has beat the living daylights out of someone in it.
* One WesternAnimation/{{classic Disney short|s}}, "The Art Of Self Defense", has WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} receiving one of these for pretty much the whole short, from various exercise equipment and ''his own shadow.''
* In episode 13 of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfCalamityJane'' a mascara-sporting villain beats Calamity Jane to within an inch of her life. She spends most of the episode trying to recover from the vicious attack.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' the normally kind and child like Toki has a really bad day, when they attend a concert a fan won't stop screaming in his ear eventually he has had enough and viciously beats him to death in a fit of rage, everyone is shocked and terrified by this including Murderface who planned to beat him for blocking the porn sites on his computer.
* The ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' parody of ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'': "It's Tuesday, Wimpy! Where's me money?"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'': In the second episode, "Traction", Bane gives Batman one of these to the extent that Alfred has to carry him back to the Batcave.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', CaptainAmerica delivers a particularly epic one to [[spoiler:the Skrull that had impersonated him and marred his image by manipulating and betraying the other Avengers and proclaiming to the world that they should surrender to the Skrulls]]. Needless to say, it's ''very'' satisfying.
** Earlier, we have Giant Man pounding the living daylights out of Abomination just as the villain was about to squish Wasp.
* Cat and (sometimes) dog usually receive this from the Greasers in CatDog.
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* Once, [[DisproportionateRetribution in response to supposed myspace trash talk]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpAZoH9vvB0 eight teenage girls, now known as "the vicious 8" organized a brutal beating against another teenage girl.]]
* Also, a group of police officers famously beat up [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King Rodney King]] in this manner.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Woodard Isaac Woodard]] got [[EyeScream blinded]] in this fashion; [[SchmuckBait No Holds Barred Eye Scream]], anyone?
* When MuammarGaddafi was cornered in a sewer pipe by Libyan rebels, when they got him out they proceeded to beat the living daylights out of him.
* Many gangs have withstanding one of these as an initiation.
* Pedophiles and other child abusers are guaranteed to get this in prison unless they go straight to protective custody.
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* [[spoiler:Jack to Andrew Ryan]] in ''VideoGame/BioShock''. [[spoiler:Andrew uses a posthypnotic command word to compel Jack to beat him to death with a golf club, to demonstrate that Jack has no free will.]] It might also be a form of [[spoiler:SuicideByCop]], however.

** In "A Death in the Family," this happens to Jason Todd's Robin at the hands of the Joker in the third chapter, as Jason is beaten within an inch of his life with a crowbar. Batman later pays him in full in the ''Comicbook/{{Knightfall}}'' saga, roaring Jason's name the whole time.

** In the ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 2012 series]]'', the first time time the turtles face off against the Shredder, he ''serverely'' beats the tar out of them. Highlights include: throwing Raphael into a sign, ''electrocuting him'', and Michelangelo being crushed underneath the sign wreckage. The only reason the turtles escape alive is because the Shredder gets distracted [[spoiler:by Bradford and Xever mutating into Dogpound and Fishface]].

* In an issue of ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' dealing with the Skrull-Kree war, TheVision displays a NotSoStoic reaction against an opponent after the ScarletWitch is injured. An ally warns the Vision that he doesn't know what he's doing, and might beat the opponent to death. The Vision replies that he has a computer mind and knows precisely what's he's doing. "I '''am''' beating him to death."

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** In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', Bane beats the hell out of Batman in their first encounter.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue Revelation'': Episode ten in its entirety (nearly 8 minutes).

** Sarah and Kevin dish these out frequently, usually to the Eds.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue Revelation'': Episode ten in its entirety.

* The ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' parody of ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'': "It's Tuesday, Wimpy! WesternAnimation/RobotChicken Where's me money?"

* [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} "It's Tuesday, Wimpy!]] ''[[WesternAnimation/RobotChicken Where's me money?]]''

** As Nodt does this to Byakuya after stealing his bankai and paralyzing him with his 'Fear' power.

* In ''[[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/009.htm The Blue Mountains]]'', the hero must suffer a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown for three nights to free the heroine.