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  • Jafar in Aladdin, when Scaled Up to his giant cobra form. Just like a real cobra, he is REALLY fast and his huge size makes him very powerful. While he's not invulnerable, he does take a sword wound that would kill or cripple a human with no more than a momentary cry of pain.
  • The titular man turned monster from Beauty and the Beast, he noticeably moves very fast at some points despite his size, Beast can also take on an entire wolf pack and kick acclaimed hunter Gatson's ass.
  • While a Tanager from humans perspective is a cute songbird from the perspective of the bugs from A Bug's Life its a giant monster that nobody even thinks of fighting, just distracting, that can outrun them from a standing position.
  • Max the Butler from Cats Don't Dance can walk through walls and punch through roofs and despite being the size of a house can somehow perform a Stealth Hi/Bye after taking orders from his boss Darla and easily keep up Danny (who’s a small nimble cat) as seen their fight in the climax.
  • Gru from Despicable Me has great reaction speed, an impressively quick dash, is fairly skilled in hand-to-hand combat, possesses several inventions with great destructive power like his Freeze Ray, and is remarkably good at getting back up after taking serious abuse, as per Iron Butt Monkey standards
  • Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children:
    • Cloud has exceptional reflexes and speed, including the ability to keep up with and fight flashstepping opponents such as Loz and blocking gunfire from Yazoo while riding (and jumping on and off of) speeding motorcycles. He also has the strength to carrying a large man like Barret with one hand while easily leaping multiple stories in height. As for hitting power, Cloud has quite an array of Implausible Fencing Powers, combined with the strength to slice apart huge chunks of rubble and smack down a giant monster out of the sky. Additionally, Cloud has the durability to withstand a head-on energy blast from Bahamut Sin, survive being smashed through buildings and getting impaled in the chest by Sephiroth, followed by getting shot through the chest again with a magic-enhanced gunshot by Yazoo. And he needs every bit of that strength, speed, and durability to barely keep up with Sephiroth.
    • Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo are basically Sephiroth-lites, having Sephiroth's extraordinary speed, strength, and durability to a slightly lesser degree. Loz is strong enough to stop a speeding motorcycle by digging his "Dual Hound" weapon into the ground, then throwing that motorcycle at Cloud using just lower body strength, but he can also speed between locations so rapidly that he has virtual teleportation.
  • Hercules. Justified since he is a Physical God Brought Down to Badass.
  • How to Train Your Dragon has the Night Fury, Toothless, easily the fastest dragon in flight, and with one of the most powerful fire blasts. Also, despite being comparatively small, he easily survives hitting the ground any time he gets shot down or loses control of his flight.
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney): Quasimodo is strong enough to move a stone slab twice his size, hoists an armoured man with one arm, shatters iron chains and solid stone pillars, and shakes the very building to its foundations during his Unstoppable Rage in the end. But for such a stocky and barrel-chested man, he's remarkably fast and agile too, climbing and vaulting across the spires of the Notre Dame with ease; he can even do this while holding Esmerelda and Djali over his shoulder, it doesn't encumber him at all.
  • The Incredibles:
  • Tai Lung from Kung Fu Panda. Dear God, Tai Lung. Just watch his jaw-dropping escape from prison or his fight against the Furious Five for a demonstration.
  • True to her species, Gloria the hippo of Madagascar is capable of running great speeds despite her bulk. It's carried over to the video games, where jalapeños can be used to boost her speed.
  • Moana:
    • Tamatoa is a fifty-foot crustacean who dances around his lair at speeds more appropriate for a creature approximately a 50th of his size. He hits like a body-building dinosaur and is unfazed by hits from Maui in their battle.
    • Maui himself is strong enough to lasso the sun and pull up islands with his hook, can get knocked around by monsters several times his size and run on lava, and is surprisingly quick for his size.
  • Mulan:
    • Chien-Po may look like a Big Guy Mighty Glacier, (and he shows himself to be just as strong as he looks,) but he's as agile as a monkey.
    • Considering that Shan Yu is able to trade blows with him during the climax, and towers over the rest of his army while still being exceptionally agile; and walks way from an avalanche, he more than qualifies.
  • Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: Shortly after the Incident In Del Mar (a.k.a. Death #8) Puss encounters a Wolf in a bar late at night who makes clear his intent to kill him (*yawn*), eclipses him in size/power (Been There, Done That), trivially matches his legendary speed/skillnote  (Oh, Crap!), and swiftly forces Puss to flee for his last life.
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse:
    • Miles Morales, Peter B. Parker, Gwen Stacy, Peni Parker (in her Mini-Mecha), Noir Peter Paker and Peter Porker can all swing at great speeds, hit with enough strength to send huge foes flying through walls and shrug off blows from the heavy hitters of the Rogues Gallery.
    • While there's plenty of villain examples e.g Prowler, Scorpion and Olivia Octavius, Kingpin is the crowning example. Just try to imagine Gru on steroids, despite being Top-Heavy Guy Kingpin moves swiftly, lifts cars and can survive multiple explosions.
  • Tarzan just like in Edgar Rice Burroughs‘ books is easily superhuman. Given he can swing/surf fast enough to clear entire jungles in minutes, jump ridiculously far, tank getting slashed in the chest by a freaking Leopard and can physically overpower a Silverback Gorilla which is certainly impossible for any normal human.
  • In Turning Red, in her red panda form, Mei performs incredible feats of speed and strength such as leaping all the way to her home from atop a building blocks away (but not sticking the landing) and being able to lift her three friends together with little effort. When she learns to swap between normal and panda form on the fly, she gains even more momentum from the pink dust clouds propelling her forward.
  • The title character of Wreck-It Ralph is fairly fast, able to wreck things so quickly that his fists act like a pair of jackhammers and take a fair amount of punishment. Also, King Candy's Cy-Bug form has enough power to smack down Ralph of all people, has tough chitinous plating, and is shown to be remarkably fast.


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