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Curb-Stomp Battle in this series.
  • Annihilation has Drax vs. Thanos, which lasted one panel - enough time for Drax to rip his opponent's heart's out and for Thanos to find it interesting.
  • Avengers Academy has an example that's Played for Laughs; during the flag football issue, Hawkeye and Iceman use their respective abilities to take out all the flags on both teams. Kitty promptly benches them, and when the other teachers start getting benched for rule infractions (usually of the physical assault kind), they brag about how they at least got benched for "being awesome".
  • Cyclops:
    • In Ultimate X-Men, Wolverine leaves Cyclops to die in the Savage Land so he can move in on Scott's girlfriend, Jean Grey. When Cyclops survives and makes it back, he's just a touch irritated, and Wolverine is squaring off for an epic fight... which takes all of one panel, as Cyclops opens up full-force with his Eye Beams and leaves Wolverine in a flattened, smoking heap.
    • The thing about Scott Summers is that, given the nature of his powers, a fight with him where he knows the fight is happening should logically come down to two questions: 1) Does he have line-of-sight on your location? 2) Are you and whatever you are using for cover vulnerable to his optic beam? Because if both conditions hold true, the fight should basically consist of you going down. The nature of Scott's power is such that if he can see you, he's already hit you. So if you can't resist his optic beam your only plausible options are "surrender", 'hide behind something he can/will not blast through to get at you", or "strike by surprise from behind" or some such tactic.
    • There was a Danger Room battle between Scott and a depowered Ororo in which Ororo manages to dodge optic blasts and otherwise win the battle. Her key move was stealing Cyclops' visor, rendering him unable to continue fighting without endangering her and all the X-Men watching.
    • During Joss Whedon's run on X-Men, which among other things made Cyclops even more badass, Scott utterly wrecked a Sentinel with one blast from his eyebeams. A Sentinel is a Humongous Mecha that is specifically built to kill mutants and normally would give an entire team of X-Men a hard time. This time, Scott stopped holding back — the Sentinel never had a chance.
    • However, on occasion a villain will use their brains when fighting Cyclops, and use armor made out of ruby quartz (Cameron Hodge for example). Considering that Cyclops' powers don't work on ruby quartz, this turns it into a curbstomp battle for the villain.
  • In Exiles, they spend two or three pages building up a fight between Mimic and an alternate universe double of Captain America. The fight is for the Skrull Gladiator Championship, which is the Skrull equivalent of the Super Bowl. The actual fight lasts for two panels, with Mimic, a Swiss Army Knife of mutant powers, unleashing the optic blasts that he borrowed from Cyclops, which he'd been keeping in reserve. Mimic then flips the crowd the bird, and walks out of the arena.
  • The entirety of the Fantastic Four portion of the Acts of Vengeance storyline had a lot of C and D-list villains attacking them randomly, thanks to a device Doctor Doom (who else?) made that induced them to attack the FF. It only mildly irritated them when the device followed them to a Congressional committee meeting due to the interruptions it caused and the poor quality of villains it drew.
  • Scott Lang (Ant-Man II) gives an absolutely brutal one to Doctor Doom in FF as revenge for killing his daughter while giving an equally brutal "The Reason You Suck"Speech
  • Galactus:
    • After years of being subjected to The Worf Effect, Galactus comes roaring right back in the Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand, dropping various Ultimate Universe threats that gave the heroes of that universe trouble with incredible ease. How bad is it? Gah Lak Tus, his Ultimate counterpart, instantly surrenders and joins him.
    • Naturally exaggerated for teh lulz in "Marvel What The": Galactus vs. The Atom!
      Galactus: [bored swat] Who?
    • Galactus vs Bone-claw Wolverine: The planet eater didn't even notice the midget scraping away at him without any effect.
  • An utterly hilarious example in The Incredible Hercules: The villain drops a Grendel-style monster on the battlefield, with the assumption that Thor and Hercules are too exhausted to fight it. He's right, but he didn't take into account Zeus, who promptly proves that while he may be bite-sized and missing the majority of his memory, he's still the king of the Greek-Roman pantheon. By flattening the monster with one shot of lightning.
    • Chaos War was full of those - Chaos King killing Nightmare, Impossible Man, Lucifer, Ares, Pluto, Zeus, and Hera with no effort, Zeus curb stomping Thor and Galactus and Chaos King curb stomping every single pantheon on Earth. The epilogue in The Incredible Hulk featured Zeus giving Hulk one of the biggest beatdowns of his life.
  • In issue 4 of The Infinity Gauntlet, a massive group of Marvel heroes (including Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, Firelord, etc.) arrives to fight the supremely empowered Thanos, who makes the odd decision to only use the "Power" Gem during the fight thus giving the heroes a slight chance. He then proceeds to kill everybody (but they get better). In #5, he then takes down the entire Marvel Cosmic contingent.
  • In Inhumans vs. X-Men, the mutants invade New Attlian so they can stop the Inhumans and find a way to stop the Terrigen Mists from killing them. The Inhumans are taken completely off-guard and are easily beaten.
  • Iron Fist (1975): Iron Fist vs. Khumbala Bey, round 3. The previous time, Bey had ambushed Danny and had Angar the Screamer backing him up. This time, no luck. This time, it's just an old, so-so fighter gone to seed against a living weapon. What follows is a whole page of Danny kicking and punching the crap out of Bey. And all without using the Iron Fist itself.
  • Iron Man has had his share of Curb Stomp Battles, on both sides:
    • In one 1980s Marvel comic, Iron Man is facing off against the X-Men. One of the mutants uses psychic powers to knock out Tony Stark. Go team... then the Iron Man armor's onboard A.I. kicks in and proceeds to trash the entire X-Men team. That's right, they get beat up by a suit of armor with a sleeping guy inside. Ouch.
    • The Silver Centurion armor had an edge in both technology and pilot experience compared to the Iron Monger, but Obadiah Stane had remote support, as well as hostages, to keep things even, and his own suit was a brute. When Tony freed the hostages and destroyed the remote support, however, Stane had no chance.
    • Tony's Stealth suit was good enough against regular, unarmored mooks, despite lacking any offensive weapons. Against the Crimson Dynamo and the Titanium Man, not so much (even with limited repulsors). Let's just say Tony was extremely lucky to survive that battle.
    • Iron Man was totally overwhelmed by Firepower, whose pilot, Jack Taggert, had been training extensively for the sole purpose of killing Iron Man. Firepower appears to succeed, and in the next issue Tony is willing to leave Iron Man "dead"... until Firepower starts attacking Stark's business interests. Taking the lessons from his last match, the "new" Iron Man curb-stomps Firepower. Most readers will probably assume that Taggert soils himself in the process.
  • Judgment Day (Marvel Comics): Uranos, Thanos's grandfather, is sent by Druig to take care of the Mutants on Mars, almost all of whom are supposedly Omega Level Mutants. He's given an hour, which Druig thinks is enough time to prevent his grand-uncle from causing trouble. The total fight time lasts twenty minutes. Uranos spends the remaining forty getting artistic with the remains of his victims.
  • Killraven: The second Martian invasion, or the One Day War. The Martians return for another go at Earth and completely mop the floor with them. Mankind's efforts to fight back, such as using nukes or bioweapons, only end up making things easier.
  • Magneto:
    • His first two battles with the "new" X-Men (the 1975 team) were long enough to be interesting, but with two of the X-Men helpless against him (Colossus and Wolverine are both very metallic), they still get thoroughly stomped. They carefully plan their third battle; they have the upper hand when the game is called on account of volcano, but it's still a close one.
    • It's surprising that this doesn't happen more often, but in 1993 Wolverine was attacking Magneto, so Magneto just said "Fuck it." and tore all the adamantium from Wolverine's skeleton. Wolverine survived thanks to his Healing Factor, but it was brutal.
    • In X-Men Red (2022), Magneto fights a formal duel against the omega level Arakki mutant Tarn the Uncaring. Tarn’s psychic powers allow genetic manipulation of his foes - he can cancel their powers, warp their flesh and kill them with a thought. Magneto's metal helmet blocks psychic abilities. In both directions. He uses his powers from a distance to hold it over Tarn's head, then reshapes it to kill Tarn.
  • Nate Grey, Cable's Age of Apocalypse counterpart, was prone to handing these out, since despite being Unskilled, but Strong, he was creative and was estimated at the age of 17 to be on par with the Dark Phoenix. Notable examples include...
    • AoA!Sinister, who Nate ultimately laminated to the floor after Sinister murdered his foster father, Forge.
    • Holocaust, Apocalypse's son, who fancied himself as Nate's Arch-Enemy. Nate felt differently, and swatted him out the way with a contemptuous remark about the prelude being over and now being more interested in the main event, before going after Apocalypse. The second round didn't end well for Holocaust either.
    • AoA!Apocalypse, who Nate was created by Sinister to kill, and who Nate kicked seven shades of crap out of, before leaving him on a platter for Magneto to rip in half.
    • Cable, who mostly kept up with Nate by cunning, experience, dodging his attacks and a sucker punch or two.
    • Exodus, albeit weakened and reduced to psionic vampirism by a brutal fight with Holocaust on Avalon, attracted by Nate and Cable's fight. Exodus had the upper hand... then Nate sensed his connection to Apocalypse. One bout of Unstoppable Rage later, Exodus was at the bottom of a very large crevasse.
    • Excalibur (not including Rachel Grey, it has to be said), twice. Peter Wisdom's ribs were never quite the same. Hilariously, Nate was actually defeated by a firm scolding from Moira MacTaggert.
    • Jean Grey, when she tried to interfere with Nate's little argument with Maddie Pryor, getting flattened by Nate in one shot.
      • Nate was also on the receiving end from Maddie.
    • Later, on his return during Dark Reign, he fried the Dark Beast and comfortably took on both the Dark X-Men and Dark Avengers, giving a polite running commentary on why their various powers wouldn't work, with only Ares causing him anything like a problem - and by the looks of things, he actually threw that fight.
    • Once he got his powers back in Uncanny X-Men (2018), he handed these out like sweets, effortlessly flattening entire teams of X-Men (including one featuring Jean Grey, Psylocke, and Storm), and crushing Legion in psychic combat in about five seconds.
  • Marvel Universe: The End has Thanos, being empowered by Heart of the Universe, facing every single being in the Marvel Universe, killing them all, then taking down the Abstracts and Living Tribunal.
  • New Warriors: In a later issue where he visits his hometown, Speedball runs into all of the crooks he fought in his original series at once - and inflicts an effortless curb stomp on them. He then muses that he can't believe those guys ever gave him a hard time, though admits learning better use of his powers probably helped.
  • Done twice in issue #10 of Nextwave. First, the villain Forbush Man uses his mental powers to effortlessly incapacitate the team in illusionary realities... only to find that Tabitha No Sells his attack because she has no mind to exploit. She then detonates his head, freeing her teammates.
  • Nova (2007):
    • In issue #2, Rich's old nemesis Diamondhead tries attacking him in public. Rich has been through a few things since the last time they fought, so Diamondhead soon winds up being dumped at a nearby police station in paper bags. (He regrows.)
    • Richard Rider and a handful of Nova Corps deputies versus the Serpent Society. Full time of the fight between the Novas arriving and the last Society member going down; less than four seconds.
  • The Punisher. Just a few examples out of many:
    • Frank actually specializes in handing these out, particularly in the MAX stories written by Garth Ennis, where Frank carefully plans his missions to be these because he knows he's pretty much always going to be outnumbered. Therefore he relies on surprise, people reacting without thinking, and bringing the biggest guns he can carry. In one story, he kills an aging and invalid mob boss during a party, then evacs out the back while everyone is stunned from the gun shot. He's mentally counting down how long it will take for the shock to wear off, tempers to flare, guns to be drawn, and people to start pursuing him. At the exact moment he thinks "here they come", a horde of goodfellas burst out the door after him. Only to find out they're in the kill zone for the M-60 firing nest he'd carefully set up and positioned beforehand.
    • In one story arc, he's on a covert mission to Russia for Nick Fury (long story) and eventually comes across a martial artist half his size who curb-stomps him. But when the same guy then threatens the life of a little girl Frank swore to protect, Frank gets up off the floor and curb-stomps him, to the point where he has to force himself to stop because he's frightening the girl. Frank was able to get his second wind because the girl reminded him for a brief moment of his long-deceased daughter.
    • Also, in the tale of how Frank infiltrated Riker's Island Prison to kill the Mafia criminals responsible for the murder of his family, he takes a truncheon to one of them and repeatedly bashes him in the head over and over and over. It's not pretty.
    • One of the all-time scariest curb-stomps in terms of sheer brutality happened when Frank went after a human trafficking ring. One of the masterminds of the operation was a woman. Frank confronts her in a skyscraper office, and repeatedly tosses her against the window again and again until the window comes loose and she falls dozens of stories to the street below. Keep in mind that this woman was directly responsible for the brutal physical and sexual degradation of numerous young women, including one whose baby daughter was used as leverage against her good behavior, breaking them by dint of Might Makes Right. She had it coming.
    • Her partners didn't fare better as Frank had one drugged and waking up with his guts tied to a tree before knowing the Punisher was after him and the other is knocked after Frank pushes his Berserk Button, then he sets him on fire.
    • Frank ends up on the receiving end of one of these in the Joss Whedon written arc of Runaways. He's about to kill the kids for working with the Kingpin only for Molly and her Super-Strength to give him the single most painful nutshot of all time. Frank's role for the rest of the arc when he appears is to hold his ground, trying desperately not to pass out, hilariously.
    • Takes another one at the hands of Daken in Dark Reign, this time fatally. For all his expertise in explosives, firearms, and CQB techniques, Frank is still a baseline human, and Daken has his father's Healing Factor and was bred to be a weapon. Interestingly, there's a quite a bit of fighting, but nothing Frank does works, and just results in Daken mocking him harder. Once the fight devolves into Daken's blades versus Frank's Kabar, it's a matter of seconds until he's hacked to pieces and tipped into an alley like garbage.
  • Red Hulk, feeling cocky after defeating the Silver Surfer and stealing the Power Cosmic from him, decides he's able to stand face-to-face with Galactus, Devourer of Worlds. Galactus quickly shows Red Hulk why that was a terrible, terrible idea.
  • Secret Wars (1984)' opening issues had The Beyonder deliver one of these to Galactus and Doom.
    • The newly resurrected Ultron begins wrecking shit, until he tries to attack Galactus. Three panels of Ultron futilely attacking Galactus, and one panel of Galactus destroying him.
    • Nigh-omnipotent Molecule Man in full control of his powers vs. Bulldozer and Doctor Octopus on separate occasions. Guess who wins.
    • She-Hulk delivered one to the Enchantress, putting her in a coma with few hits. Good thing there were healing machines nearby.
    • Hulk vs Wrecking Crew minus Wrecker. The Jade Giant finished them.
    • Thor quickly taught an arrogant and overconfident Titania that she's nowhere near his weight class when she tries to fight him. Thor did it with the Asgardian version of "when Hell freezes over."
      Titania: Everyone will be talking about me! Titania! The woman who killed Thor!
      Thor: Mayhap, woman. When icicles doth grace Surter's fiery realm.
      • He then punched her so hard she was knocked out of sight over the horizon.
  • Mr. X vs. Quicksilver in the Siege finale. Mr. X (a Wolverine villain) discovers that his particular schtick - reading his opponent's mind so that he knows exactly what move said opponent is about to make - is completely useless against someone who can move at the speed of sound. He knows what Quicksilver is about to do - namely break every bone in his body with a chunk of metal debris - but he can't possibly react fast enough to prevent it.
    • Even better - Mr. X was wielding Odin's Spear, which has been said to be as powerful as Thor's hammer or even more. And he still lost.
    • Mr. X actually gave one to Wolverine the first time they fought.
    • Wolverine returns it several times in later fights via berserker rage.
    • Ares vs. Sentry in the same event with Sentry ripping Ares in half.
  • In Silver Surfer vol. 8 #11, Dawn is in a rush to return to Earth because her sister is having a baby, but they keep getting stopped by Warrior Zero, who challenges the Surfer to a duel to prove he is the superior warrior. First, the Surfer tries to ignore him. Then he pretends to have been defeated. Finally, he's had enough and punches Warrior Zero. Once. The shockwave from that punch takes up a whole splash page, and Zero immediately surrenders.
  • Spider-Man:
    • Spider-Man vs. Kingpin near the end of the Back in Black arc, and the Kingpin has no-one to blame but himself. He dared Spider-Man to fight him after having his aunt shot just to prove to everyone he is still in charge. The angry hero beat him within an inch of his life in front of the whole prison population, utterly humiliating him. And Spidey wasn't even trying.
    • In fact, if Spider-Man's history has proven anything, when he stops making jokes and gets genuinely angry, that's a very good sign this sort of battle is going to happen, and the villain is going to be on the receiving end.
    • A good sign of that is back in the early '80s. Black Cat, trying to reform, gets stuck in the middle of a gang war between Dr. Octopus and The Owl. Doc Ock beats her within an inch of her life, barely giving Spidey a chance to save her. Enraged, Spidey races to confront Ock and beats him senseless. His attack is so brutal that, when the enraged web-slinger is done, Doc Ock has developed a fear of spiders and Spider-Man, one that would last for a few years.
    • Speaking of Spider-Man, when he has to face off against the X-Men in Secret Wars (1984), he curb-stomps the entire roster that has come after him, which includes one of maybe three fights between Spidey and Wolverine that are portrayed accurately (here's a hint: Spidey can ignore Wolverine). Wolverine himself states after the fight that Spidey makes the X-Men look like amateurs.
      • Also from Secret Wars. To wit, Titania, the new villainess of the comic, has just come out of inflicting a nightmarish group beatdown on She-Hulk that very nearly killed her and is buzzing to go out to find the other superheroes. She bumps into Spider-Man, who is alone, much smaller and weaker than her... but what is not immediately obvious to Titania is that he has a huge advantage in speed, agility, reflexes, and fighting experience, and more, he's in absolutely no mood to play around with her after what she did. Titania never landed a single hit on Spidey and was eventually reduced to panicked pleading for him to stop before being defenestrated through a concrete wall. For years afterwards, Titania had a crippling phobia of him. To add insult to injury, not a single one of her villainous teammates were the least bit surprised that Spider-Man thoroughly kicked her ass.
    • Another Spider-Man example (one of the more absurd ones): he goes up against one of Galactus' former Heralds, Firelord, and it seems that Firelord has the upper hand, because Spidey has self-doubts about his skills. Once Spider-Man gets pissed, Firelord is taken out in less than five panels. Of course, it was after Firelord had just hurt a child and Spidey pretty much went berserk. And quite frankly, every time a villain hurts a child in Spider-Man's presence, Spidey will utterly devastate him, the only exception being Lizard, who had evolved and developed new powers, which stopped Spider-Man from trashing him.
    • A Silver Age example. During the Scorpion's debut he proceeds to hand Spider-Man his ass twice in the same issue, drawing upon superior physical strength and his lethal tail. Spider-Man wises up by round 3 and manages to take Gargan out through tactics other than brute force.
    • Spider-Man: Spider's Shadow:
      • When the Kingpin sends Shocker and Scorpion after Spider-Man, the web-slinger brutally and effortlessly defeats them by suffocating Scorpion with his symbiote's biomass before turning his attention to Shocker and killing him as well.
      • The Sinister Six coordinate a battle plan in an attempt to kill Spider-Man, only for it to backfire spectacularly, with the wall-crawler slaughtering Mysterio, Rhino, and Electro and seriously wounding Eddie Brock. Only Kraven and a Spider-Slayer wielding Jameson are left in the fight and barely manage to get the symbiote off of Spider-Man by forcing him into a burning barn.
    • Spider-Man got into another two in Brand New Day, during "The Gauntlet" arc, first being on the receiving end, when Mr. Negative threw him several streets away with one punch, and then delivering, once he found out the Kravinoffs had killed his clone Kaine to resurrect Kraven The Hunter - he goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge and the people that almost killed him suddenly go down like flies.
      • During the same arc, Spider-Man has to save Juggernaut, who has found himself at the receiving end of one of these, with the new Captain Universe delivering.
      • And there is also Rhino vs. New Rhino, which has a large buildup culminating with old Rhino breaking the new one in a matter of seconds, and then killing him.
    • In Ultimate Spider-Man Kraven the Hunter makes this big show of how he's going to hunt Spider-man, and after multiple issues gets the chance while he's fighting Doctor Octopus. Spidey dodges him for about a page, then slams him to the pavement.
  • Squirrel Girl is a champion at this trope. Her most famous victories occurred off-panel, but in the Deadpool/GLI Summer Spectacular, we see her give Deadpool the beating of his life in the space of a single page.
  • The Thanos Imperative has Nova and the Guardians of the Galaxy with Thanos single-handely defeating the Avengers and Defenders' evil counterparts respectively.
  • Thor's "fight" with Iron Man post-Civil War (2006). Elapsed storytelling space: four pages. Elapsed time: 1m 15s. And note that it only lasted so long because Thor took the time to explain what he'd do if the government didn't leave him alone.
    • Thor's entire side of the fight consisted of two blows from Mjölnir and a large lightning bolt. Thor even explains that one reason he stomped Stark so badly is that in Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, there is no need for him to hold back.
    • And the whole fight is summed up with one quote from Thor: "Give your orders and ultimatums to those who choose to obey, or are too cowardly to fight. NOT TO ME. Or learn again the difference between a god of thunder and a mortal man in a metal suit!"
  • In Thunderbolts, Bullseye was on the receiving end of an absolutely epic one of these when he recklessly tried to kill American Eagle, a super-powered Native American who really wasn't in a good mood at the time. After pointing out to Bullseye that there's a big difference between going after unpowered normal types like Daredevil and someone like him, who both has super strength and doesn't hold back when using it, and has no problem fighting dirty either, American Eagle proceeds to beat the complete and total shit out of Bullseye. It's a miracle he survived. Bullseye has since given American Eagle a very wide berth.
  • Ultimate Marvel:
    • One of the most satisfying examples occurs in The Ultimates. Hank Pym is sitting at a bar, nursing a drink after having brutally beaten his wife, Janet Pym. Door opens; in walks Captain America. Cap sits down, listens to Hank explain himself, and then pounds the snot out of Hank. Hank grows to 100 ft. tall. Then the real curb-stomp battle begins. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Awesome for Ultimate Steve Rogers; the man was born for that particular moment.
      • Even better, Cap demands that Hank enlarge so Cap can cut loose on him.
      • The wife-beating itself had started off as an argument that dissolved into mutual combat which quickly became one of these, and that was before Hank called the ants.
    • All-New Ultimates: The New Ultimates' first formal outing as a team was not a pleasant experience. Jessica was poisoned, Cloak was injured, and Bombshell was so scared that she might have died that her powers started acting wonky and she quit the team afterwards.
  • When Venom first broke out of prison following his first defeat, he headed for Spider-Man's apartment, not knowing he and Mary Jane had been evicted. Dropping in for a visit was the Black Cat, also looking to meet up with Peter. However, when the two meet, Venom demands to know where Spidey is, and when Black Cat doesn't give him an answer, he's quick to attack. Despite dropping a chandelier on top of him, Venom wipes the floor with Black Cat, tearing up the apartment and leaving her with a broken nose... and the revelation that Peter's married.
  • Weapon X (2002): Sabretooth lets his ego get the better of him and challenges Sunfire to a duel. Sunfire just hits Sabretooth with a full plasma blast and instantly burns off all his skin to an extent that would have killed anyone else.
  • Wolverine vs. the Mafia in one storyline. A bunch of ordinary guys with guns vs. a mutant with a Healing Factor, about a century of combat experience, and adamantium claws and skeleton? The entire story is pretty much a Curb-Stomp Battle.
  • World War Hulk: X-Men is basically the Hulk handing one of these out to every X-Men team over the course of three issues. Until he runs into a fully powered Juggernaut, the most they can do is slow him down, and even then not for very long. Unfortunately, the Hulk was madder than he'd ever been before, which made him strong enough to stop the unstoppable Juggernaut. The only thing that finally stopped him? Mercury giving him a What the Hell, Hero? about all of the mutant children slaughtered in the aftermath of Decimation and Hulk realizing Xavier had already suffered enough.
    • The "Hulk vs." battles in the main title fit the description as well — a brief moment where it looks like someone might actually take Hulk out, followed immediately by an asskicking. Only the Sentry, and in a What If?, Thor gave him anything close to a run for his money (the Sentry ultimately went nuts and lost control, while Thor and Hulk were evenly matched until a kid popped up and pointed out that their fight was putting a lot of people in danger).
  • X-23 has had her share. Among the most notable:
    • When her mother turns her loose against the Facility, she could have killed Zander Rice in seconds. She didn't. She put up her claws and proceeded to beat him to death for ten minutes as payback for the brutal treatment she endured at his hands. And there wasn't a thing he could do about it; he was completely at her mercy.
    • X vs. Stryker's Purifiers when they assault the Xavier School in New X-Men. The adults (including Emma, Cannonball, and the Sentinel ONE squadron) are rendered completely ineffective. Of the kids, only Dust is able to put up more than a token defense, but even she is overwhelmed. Then Laura arrives on the scene, and tears the Purifiers to shreds.
    • She trades them with Lady Deathstrike during X-Men: Messiah Complex. X-Force encounters a battle between the Reavers and Cable while the latter is attempting to defend baby Hope. Laura, extremely pissed off over Deathstrike nearly killing Hellion, engages her in a fight which at first appears to go terribly against her. Deathstrike tears her apart and Laura is barely able to land a hit... until Deathstrike opens herself up for a surgical strike to her cybernetics. Exactly as Laura planned. It takes X seconds to finish her off.
    • Laura is on the receiving end almost every time she encounters Kimura. Not because Kimura is a better fighter, or even all that powerful. Simply because she's physically indestructible, and nothing Laura can do can even scratch her skin. So when they do fight it out, Kimura puts her down with prejudice.
      • She was also subject to a savage one from Blob, of all people, in All-New X-Men. In this case, Laura had been increasingly reckless in her actions, and made the mistake of charging in blindly in a direct attack. While the end result is masked by a Gory Discretion Shot, her head has clearly been pounded into paste to the point that Angel throws up when she starts to heal again.

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