History OneManArmy / LiveActionTV

*** The Doctor is particularly noteworthy for ending the Time War by [[spoiler:initiating an event which destroyed the entire Time Lord race, and almost all of the Daleks (the Dalek fleet alone comprising ''10 million'' ships)]].

** And let's not forget River Song herself, who has apparently committed so many atrocities, she made a Dalek beg for mercy just by asking it to look up her name, [[spoiler: although the fact that history records her as ''killing'' the Doctor might have had something to do with it (even if its only because the Doctor faked his death)]]. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon "Day of the Moon"]], [[spoiler:she proves herself pretty adept at killing a room full of Silence with a small weapon kept in her purse]]. What's more, it probably says something about the Doctor that this seems to turn him on a little bit. And God help anyone who gets in their way!

* Jack Bauer from ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]''. Bauer is a One Man Armed Forces and Intelligence Service. Plus a grandpa.
** Finally lampshaded in Season 6. Jack (alone) storms the terrorist stronghold and kills all the terrorists, and then ''hangs'' the Big Bad. When his backup arrives moments later, his partner just looks at the carnage and says "Damn, Jack."

* The ''{{Series/Merlin|2008}}'' series finale featured Merlin going up against the entire Saxon army at Camlann, in addition to a HighPriestess and a dragon. [[spoiler:He wins, [[CurbStompBattle hands down]].]] There is a ''reason'' he's known as TheArchmage.

* Played for laughs in ''Series/RedDwarf'' in the episode "Stoke Me a Clipper", [[spoiler:Ace Rimmer single-handedly wins a two-front skirmish in World War 2. He drops a Luftwaffe plane and kills its crew, wrestles an alligator, picks off a squad of soldiers with nothing but a pistol on his way down and ultimately leaves only one soldier standing. Oh, and he still finds time to surf on the gator and rescue a princess. Even the last soldier has to remark, "what a guy".]]
* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', ''Progeny'', when [[TheSmartGirl Chloe]] finds a dodgy [=LuthorCorp=] facility...
-->'''Chloe''': I was gonna go check it out, but I thought it would be more wise for me to come get [[Franchise/{{Superman}} my army of one]].

* Michonne from ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' is absolutely lethal with any weapon she's given. In Season 4, she wipes out a small herd of walkers solo with just her katana, and she's shown at numerous points to be perfectly capable of disabling or killing several humans without a single injury to herself. And even more badass? It's revealed in Season 5 that she's self-taught, having acquired [[MasterSwordsman her signature katana]] after the start of the apocalypse and learning its use via the "School of Hard Knocks" method.

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'': Any experienced channeler not bound by Aes Sedai oaths against non-channelers. Logain demonstrates that in the flashback introducing him. He storms a fortress and throws guards around just to talk to the king and win him on his side.

* In ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'' Richard Harrow walks into a brothel occupied by gangsters while carrying a sniper rifle, shotgun and two pistols. He opens fire as soon as he steps through the door and he keeps firing until there is no one left alive on the main floor. He then proceeds upstairs where he kills more gangsters. He kills a dozen men on screen and more off screen. Throughout this he seems to almost never miss. Most of his shots are [[BoomHeadShot head shots]] or center-of-mass shotgun blasts. If we count all the shots he fired, he could have killed up to twenty men without taking a single wound himself.

* ''TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': PlayedWith. Arondir took half of Adar's army by tearing down the watchtower of Ostirith on the horde of Orcs with a single shot. On the other hand, he struggled against a single giant orc on a hand-to-hand combat, and needed Bronwyn's intervention, otherwise he would have been killed.

** Frank Castle, AKA The Punisher, is one as well. He takes out entire gangs on his own, in single encounters. In fact, he was initially mistaken for an entire military assault squad; he killed everyone so quickly and brutally that everyone assumed the damage was done by a team, and there were no survivors to say otherwise. Even when captured by the Kitchen Irish and tortured for hours, he still manages to kill a few members before being saved by Daredevil. When is sent to prison, where he has no weapons whatsoever, he takes on ten other inmates sent to kill him, and still kills nearly all of them, knocking out the rest. At the end of it all, he is covered in the blood of his victims. This is taken even further in his [[Series/ThePunisher2017 own series]], where in one flashback he takes on at least THIRTY Mujahideen soldiers, first with his [[CoolGuns/AssaultRifles Heckler & Koch HK416]], then his side-arm, then an enemy's AKS-74U then his K-Bar, and finally finished things off with GoodOldFisticuffs and a rock. He even got shot twice and that didn't slow him down.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Barristan Selmy takes on fifteen Sons of the Harpy and singlehandedly kills all except one of them before succumbing to his wounds.
** During "Battle of the Bastards", Jon charges by himself against the Bolton cavalry and racks up an impressive body count during the fight. Not even Barristan Selmy in his last stand against the Sons of the Harpy was able to take down as many of his enemies as Jon did. (Though Jon fought on a giant battlefield of thousands and those he killed weren't always focused on him, making it not as impressive.)
** Stannis personally cuts through a score of Lannister soldiers during the Battle of the Blackwater, and later managed to cut his way through a Bolton army.

-->'''Chloe''': I was gonna go check it out, but I thought it would be more wise for me to come get [[{{Superman}} my army of one]].

** Frank Castle, AKA The Punisher, is one as well. He takes out entire gangs on his own, in single encounters. In fact, he was initially mistaken for an entire military assault squad; he killed everyone so quickly and brutally that everyone assumed the damage was done by a team, and there were no survivors to say otherwise. Even when captured by the Kitchen Irish and tortured for hours, he still manages to kill a few members before being saved by Daredevil. When is sent to prison, where he has no weapons whatsoever, he takes on ten other inmates sent to kill him, and still kills nearly all of them, knocking out the rest. At the end of it all, he is covered in the blood of his victims. This is [[UpToEleven taken even further]] in his [[Series/ThePunisher2017 own series]], where in one flashback he takes on at least THIRTY Mujahideen soldiers, first with his [[CoolGuns/AssaultRifles Heckler & Koch HK416]], then his side-arm, then an enemy's AKS-74U then his K-Bar, and finally finished things off with GoodOldFisticuffs and a rock. He even got shot twice and that didn't slow him down.

** Carol is a PragmaticHero MagnificentBitch who took an [[UpToEleven immense]] [[TookALevelInBadass level in badass]] between the second and third season. To date, she's managed to successfully [[ImAHumanitarian infiltrate Terminus]], [[BigDamnHeroes rescue her friends,]] [[StuffBlowingUp blow it up,]] [[MadeOfIron survive being hit by a car]], [[WolfInSheepsClothing lull enemies into a false sense of security,]] slaughter the [[BullyingADragon majority of wolves invading Alexandria,]] and kill a significant number of Saviours (a feat nobody else has managed to accomplish except for Daryl). All this from a woman who used to be an ExtremeDoormat, StayInTheKitchen punching bag for her [[DomesticAbuse abusive husband.]]

* ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'': Raelle is this starting from the beginning of the second season and becomes this thanks to the seed of the mycelium within her that has given her further highly destructive abilities, which lead Alder to describe Raelle literally both as a bomb and their most precious secret weapon.

** Frank Castle, AKA The Punisher, is one as well. He takes out entire gangs on his own, in single encounters. In fact, he was initially mistaken for an entire military assault squad; he killed everyone so quickly and brutally that everyone assumed the damage was done by a team, and there were no survivors to say otherwise. Even when captured by the Kitchen Irish and tortured for hours, he still manages to kill a few members before being saved by Daredevil. When is sent to prison, where he has no weapons whatsoever, he takes on ten other inmates sent to kill him, and still kills nearly all of them, knocking out the rest. At the end of it all, he is covered in the blood of his victims. This is [[UpToEleven taken even further]] in his [[Series/ThePunisher2017 own series]], where in one flashback he takes on at least THIRTY Mujahideen soldiers, first with his [[CoolGuns/AssaultRifles Heckler & Koch HK416]], then his side-arm, then an enemy's AKS-74U then his [[KnifeNut K-Bar]], and finally finished things off with GoodOldFisticuffs and a rock. He even got shot twice and that didn't slow him down.

* Guillermo de la Cruz from ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'' is rather effective at [[VampireHunter killing vampires]] and he's the sole human regular character. Being a Van Helsing probably helps there.

* Michonne from the ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' is absolutely lethal with any weapon she's given. In Season 4, she wipes out a small herd of walkers solo with just her katana, and she's shown at numerous points to be perfectly capable of disabling or killing several humans without a single injury to herself. And even more badass? It's revealed in Season 5 that she's self-taught, having acquired [[MasterSwordsman her signature katana]] after the start of the apocalypse and learning its use via the "School of Hard Knocks" method.

%%* Pick a ''Franchise/KamenRider'', ''ANY'' Kamen Rider.

* ''Series/StargateSG1'': The four original members of SG-1 are [[OneManArmy one man armies]] by themselves; as a team, they're more like a weapon of galactic destruction. Consider: in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' Teal'c and Ronon Dex (another OneManArmy) teamed up and slaughtered at least four platoons of Wraith by themselves. Colonel Carter [[ApocalypseHow blew up a sun]] and wiped out a whole Goa'uld fleet by herself. Daniel Jackson single-handedly froze the entire Replicator army ''with his MIND''. And General O'Neill... where do we begin...

* Any main starship from ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is a [[OneManArmy One Starship Armada]]. Consider the following examples.
** The original ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Enterprise]]'' destroyed a machine that pulverized whole solar systems.
*** Technically it was the ''Constellation'', however the ''Enterprise'' '''did''' destroy a single-celled organism that literally ''sucked'' whole solar systems dry!
** The crew of the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Enterprise-D]]'' destroyed the Borg cube that wasted a whole armada at Wolf-359 by themselves and defeated the Crystalline entity that destroyed a planet.
*** In this encounter, ''Enterprise'' was unable to defeat the Borg cube in combat, but prevailed by exploiting a weakness in the Borg's HiveMind.
*** In the first encounter with The Borg, however, the ''Enterprise'' made the Borg think twice when her main phasers dealt extensive damage to the Borg cube. About twenty percent of the cube--which itself qualifies as a one ship army--was visibly obliterated with just a few short volleys from ''Enterprise''.
** The ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Defiant]]''. Though it was intentionally designed as a warship.
*** A FanNickname for the ''Defiant'' is the ''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast USS Ben Sisko's Mother Fucking Pimp Hand]]''.
-->'''Sisko (as interpreted by WebSite/SFDebris)''': I should have taught my baby to do more than kill.
** Subverted by the ''Valiant'', another ''Defiant''-class ship, from the episode of the same name. While it managed to take out some Dominion fighters with ease, things don't go as well when it tries to take on a much bigger, much more heavily armed battleship on it's own. [[spoiler: The battle ends with the ship destroyed and all, but three of it's crew killed.]] Being crewed by a bunch of inexperienced, overstressed cadets certainly didn't help.
** ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' had to have beaten or destroyed at least 100 enemy ships while lost in the Delta Quadrant, [[VillainDecay including a fair number of Borg ships]].
** The ''Enterprise'' [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise NX-01]], among other things, took out the entire Sphere-Builder network.
--->''WeComeInPeaceShootToKill.''
*** ''Enterprise'' routinely had its ass handed to it in early episodes, though.
** The first appearance of Species 8472 firmly establishes them as an entire species of one-man armies. Three Borg cubes (any one capable of blasting its way through any two major fleets in the Alpha Quadrant) spot ''one'' Species 8472 bioship coming out of fluidic space, start their 'Resistance Is Futile' speech...and the bioship [[ShutUpHannibal shreds all three cubes before they can finish their first sentence]].
** Pretty much every Starship made by the Federation is a One Ship Armada, a rule of thumb is each ship has three times the shielding, armor and firepower of any other star nation's ship of equal size and class. What really impressive is [[GoodIsNotSoft none of these are design to]] [[BewareOfTheNiceOnes ''be'' for combat]] (minus the Defiant).

* Dean Winchester in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. His brother Sam may be the smarter one, capable of tracking down monsters more easily and finding a way to kill them, but Dean walked into a large nest of vampires and slaughtered pretty much the lot of them on his own. This was after he survived an entire year of virtually non-stop combat in what was described as "monster heaven." When he bears [[TheCorruption the Mark of Cain]], he ends up on the winning side of many [[CurbStompBattle Curb Stomp Battles]], [[spoiler: but it's [[{{Deconstruction}}} deconstructed as the Mark of Cain had turned him into that season's VillainProtagonist]].

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