No Holds Barred Beatdown / Anime & Manga

No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in Anime & Manga.

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• In AKIRA, Tetsuo beats the crap out of 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.
• As a manga on Mixed Martial Arts, All Rounder Meguru has a few ground-and-pounds, though we're only shown them in passing due the manga's protagonist and other focus characters being amateurs and striking on the ground being banned for their matches... And then, at the finals of the All Japan Amateur Shooto Championship, Aya blocks Maki from behind and starts punching her repeatedly on the face, the single most brutal technique allowed in amateur matches. Even Aya's trainer was slightly disturbed by her willingness to do it...
• Nagisa briefly suffers this in his fight with Takaoka in Assassination Classroom. However, not only does it not put Nagisa down, it gives Nagisa the chance to knock out Takaoka with a stun gun. The fight between Nagisa and Karma also counts, since both fighters are not holding back.
• Eren's second fight with Annie in Attack on Titan devolves into a brutal beating after Annie dismembers Eren's arm and leg. Eren then becomes so beside himself with rage that he gives the appearance of being on fire while attempting to tear her limb from limb. As she's running, it's the first time we see Annie visibly panic. Earlier, to convince a tribunal that he can control Eren and his titan form, Captain Levi brutally kicks the shit out of the manacled Eren. It's non-fatal, and it doesn't inflict permanent damage (possibly due to Eren's healing factor), but it continues for a long time, and is vicious enough to shock everyone watching it out of their various states of panic, and get Levi's proposition their full attention.
• In Episode 4 of 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. 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 "Ladd Russo Enjoys Talking a Lot and Killing a Lot."
• Bakemonogatari:
  • In the Suruga Monkey arc, features 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 Yodzuru, which includes him being kicked though ceiling and later smashed into the ground.
    • That's the least of it, at one point she shoves her hand into his chest and crushes his heart. It explodes like a balloon.
• Daisuke of Bitter Virgin delivers a beatdown to a would be rapist of Hinako, very nearly beating the man to death with a plank of wood and would have if Hinako hadn't stopped him.
• Bleach:
  • Anytime Ichigo's Inner Hollow surfaces, such as the fight with Byakuya, later Grimmjow and then finally against Ulquiorra. In each of these examples Ichigo was being given a beatdown until he was on the verge of death (or in one case actually dead) at which point his Hollow takes charge and starts to even things out.
  • Yammy gives Ichigo a beating after he struggles to control his Inner Hollow.
  • Ichigo is delivered a beatdown by Grimmjow and Tesla (though in the latter case, he was half dead after defeating the former anyway).
  • Ulquiorra slowly escalated this during his final fight with Ichigo; 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.
  • Ayon cements himself itself as the only thing in the manga almost as terrifying as Barragan by delivering several almost impossibly brutal versions of the One-Hit KO. 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 Big Damn Heroes. And that's all nothing compared to the utterly savage beating it gives to Quilge Opie — in his Vollstandig, a power-up absolutely no other Quincy had to rely on at the that point in the manga's last arc.
  • Yamamoto delivers one to Wonderweiss Margela, a special Arrancar literally made to render his Zanpakuto completely useless- as Aizen had foolishly believed that Ryujin Jakka, known as a Infinity +1 Sword, was all Yamamoto brought to a battle. He is proven wrong in a spectacular manner, as Yamamoto simply beats the crap out of a released Wonderweiss with his bare hands.
  • Then later on, Aizen delivers one to 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.
  • As Nodt delivers the most brutal one of the story when he does it to Byakuya. He steals Byakuya's bankai, paralyses him with his 'Fear' power and then uses the stolen bankai to rip Byakuya's body to shreds, leaving his half-flayed body glued to a wall with his own blood. This is particularly notable because Byakuya's bankai has always been capable of doing this to every opponent it fights against, but Byakuya has never used it so viciously.
  • Mask De Masculine gives one to Renji in their rematch, sending the latter crashing through several buildings. It barely fazes Renji.
• Seen in Cardcaptor Sakura, of all things, during the 'Final Judgment'. Sakura is pitted against Yue, who is actually 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.
• In one of the Case Closed movies, both Ran and Conan get brutally beaten up by Irish from the Black Organization.
• Chainsaw Man: Near the end of Part 1, while both sides have an impressive showing, Makima delivers an utter No-Holds-Barred Beatdown by tearing Denji in half.
• A minor example in Chrono Crusade: After 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 Deal with the Devil that will lead to her dying at a young age. His reaction is to start beating Chrono with tears streaming down his face, screaming that Chrono is a monster. Chrono doesn't even attempt to fight back, because he agrees 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. Cue sobbing.
• In the final battle between Suzaku and Kallen's Knightmare frames in Season 2 of Code Geass, 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 How Much More Can He Take?.
• In the Daimos anime, Kazuya beats up Chief Miwa towards the end of the anime. In this case, the fans did not hold it against Kazuya (and in fact, mostly cheered him on) because Miwa deserved every single punch he got. When the anime's storyline gets involved in a Super Robot Wars installment, expect Kazuya to follow up every time and even forcing his fellow pilots to back down and let him do this.
• One episode of Darker than Black 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 gives a beating to someone. The guy was pretty much helpless, since he had the incredibly sucky remuneration of breaking his own fingers. Hei beat the everloving crap out of him, including knifing and kicking his freshly-injured hand to get him to talk. He finished by zapping the guy to death. Why yes, Hei is an Anti-Hero. Why do you ask?
• Munakata gets the drop on Naegi in Episode 10 of Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School's Future Arc.
• In Deadman Wonderland, Ganta receives beatdowns 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 Digimon Tamers, 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 "fight" was so uneven that Guilmon and Terriermon were paralyzed by horror, Takato and Henry looked like they were going to be sick just watching it, Rika actually begged Renamon to help him, and eventually Renamon decided to jump in, albeit at the last second to respect Impmon's wishes.
• Dragon Ball Z:
  • Any time a character shows of their new training or powers, such as: Goku's one shotting of Nappa, Vegeta's use of a fake moon to turn into an Ozaruu and literally crush the life out of Goku, Zarbon's use of transformation, Vegeta demonstrating Saiyan zenkai to Zarbon, The Ginyu Force vs. Vegeta, Krillin and Gohan, Goku vs. the Ginyu Force, Frieza in each new form to someone else, Goku once he achieves Super Saiyan... The rest of the series continues in much the same manner...
  • Frieza's legendary beatdown of Vegeta, right after Frieza achieved his fourth and final transformation. In the uncut anime version (read: the one you won't see on Cartoon Network), 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 Big Damn Heroes 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 Kick the Dog-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.
    • Much later, in the Universe Survival Arc of Dragon Ball Super Frieza delivers a beatdown to Jimizu the yardat. It's quite brutal, but nowhere as disturbing as Vegeta's. This is mostly because, in the tournament, killing is forbidden, so Frieza has to restrain himself a little. That, however, doesn't prevent him to beat up his opponents to near-death.
  • Just as harsh: Hercule/Mr. Satan's daughter Videl is savagely beaten to the point of crying by her superpowered 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 that having your neck suddenly wrenched around 75 degrees by a roundhouse was far less than fatal.
    • Vegeta notes that had Spopovitch killed her, he'd have been disqualified, which would have messed up the plans of stealing energy from Gohan or Goku for Majin Buu. Though he was certainly enjoying his part of the fight.
  • Also, earlier in Dragon Ball, Piccolo Daimao, even taking his robe off for some Serious Business, pummeled the young Son Goku, even momentarily stopping his heart beating.
  • Before then, Goku deliverers one of the most vicious beatdowns to Tambourine for murdering Krillin. He almost beat the monster to death before vaporizing him.
  • 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. Fat Buu also gets the bubbler beat out of him by Kid Buu and was nearly killed by brute force.
    • Any fight with Buu in any of his forms if your name isn't Goku or Vegeto. First, he one shots Dabura, Gohan, and then curb stomps the lord of lords. Then, when Vegeta stops him from eating the Lord of Lords, he traps Vegeta in a piece of his own stomach and then beats him half to death. He also stomps on Gotenks until Goten and Trunks train in the hyper-bolic time chamber for 4 months, and even then they can only just harm him and then go toe-to-toe by going Super Saiyan 3. Once Gohan returns, the situation keeps reversing depending on which form Buu is in and who's fighting him.
  • Gohan:
    • Any time he lets his anger loose, he will be handing out ass-kickings 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 SS2 had him deliver one to Cell, only using a Ki attack at one point in the fight and mostly pummeling him. Turning SS2 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 Super 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.
    • After reaching Perfect Form and outside Final Flash, Cell decimates Vegeta in a way Frieza would be proud of.
  • Common in the movies, with Goku getting one from Turles after the latter ate of the fruit from The Tree of Might, which had a notably brutal Kick the Dog 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 Deus ex Machina. Dragon Ball Super: Broly even takes this up to eleven as Broly ends up pummeling Frieza — in his Golden Super Mode, no less — for a whole hour!
• Elfen Lied:
  • 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 she actually ends up receiving one from Mariko. In case outside of her, there was a Bando delivering one to the Unknown Man, knocking out several of his teeth, amongst other things.
• Fairy Tail:
  • During the Oracion Seis arc, Brain reverts to his other personality Zero and proceeds to utterly defeat Natsu, Gray and Lucy, and then keeps trashing them around for the lulz again and again.
  • Then later, Hades proceeds to do this to Makarov, and then Natsu, Gray, Erza, Lucy, and Wendy.
  • Before that, two heroic variants have Elfman and Mirajane on two different occasions when one was watching the other get tortured and the result is an EPIC beatdown.
  • The Iron Dragon Slayer, Gajeel after eating some iron, delivers a beating to Natsu. Natsu can't even stand by the end, at least until he got some fire to eat… He also does this to Lucy in the anime.
  • In Chapter 291, one of the members of Sabretooth, Minerva delivers a horrific one to Lucy.
  • In Chapter 381, Seilah delivers one to Mirajane, just before Mirajane takes over Seilah's Macro, uses it to subdue Seilah, and orders Elfman to rescue her and Lisanna.
• In The Familiar of Zero, Louise inflicts these on Saito so brutally and so frequently that by all rights, he shouldn't be alive and fully functioning. Most of the methods she uses to "discipline" the poor guy fully qualify as torture, and they leave him paralyzed sometimes. Not that Saito is able to hold it against her for long.
• Flame of Recca: Has this with Recca vs Kukai, while the manga is a shortened version of this, the anime however takes this up to eleven. For a short while, Recca is pummeling Kukai till he releases his Superpowered Evil Side, resulting in the absolutely one-sided battle in the series till Recca somehow manages to bring forth the third dragon in the fight.
• Satellizer from Freezing dishes these out and receives them from her many fights in this series. Due to their super Healing Factor, and quite a bit of blood gets spilled, limbs get severed, and bones get broken quite often from these fights.
• Fullmetal Alchemist:
  • Ed's beating of Shou Tucker. In order to keep his job, 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 pummeling Tucker, and completely loses it when Tucker tries to compare this to Ed and Al's own use of Human Transmutation. 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).
  • Roy Mustang confronts Envy and learns that Envy killed Hughes. Cue the Curb-Stomp Battle, 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 True Form like a worm under his boot… Whereupon Ed instead Talks The Monster To Death.
  • And of course there is King Bradley Vs Greed. Let's just say that Greed died at least 16 TIMES without even coming close to being in the position to retaliate.
    Bradley: So Greed old boy.....How many times would you like to die?"
  • During the final battle, just after Al sacrifices his soul to get Ed's arm restored, 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 Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), 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 Envy sadistically kills Edward after revealing that he is actually Edward's half-brother.
• In Fushigi Yuugi, Tasuki is thrashed by Brainwashed and Crazy Tamahome. They're more or less evenly matched when the fight begins, but Miaka can't bear the idea that her beloved Tamahome might be hurt or killed, and begs Tasuki not to use his weapon. He obeys, challenging Tamahome to be a man and fight him bare-handed instead. Tamahome 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 Nakago arrives to pile on.
• In Gamaran one-sided battles are usually extremely quick, but there are at least two examples of "beatdown":
  • Zenmaru Ichinose vs Sasuke Sasakibara: After getting nearly beheaded by the latter, Zenmaru decides to show up what his BFS can do: in the following battle Sasuke is costantly pushed back, gets slashed across the chest and face, lose a whole ear and the chunck of meat around it and his best attack is bitchslapped away before the conclusion.
  • Jinsuke Kurogane vs Kouma Todo: for his trouble and in spite of his best, nearly-impossible to dodge secret technique, Kouma is cut across the torso, his left arm is severed and is sliced six times in a row across the chest, turning his upper body in a pile of flesh, organs and bones.
• The last episode of the original GaoGaiGar features a brutal beating as Guy rips apart Zonuda until he extracts its core. In GaoGaiGar FINAL, Gai delivers a beatdown to Palparepa. Not surprising, though, as Palparepa's defeat reuses a lot of scenes from Zonuda's defeat
• Gundam:
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack: 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. Later on, the two men meet when Axis is falling, and 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!
  • Mobile Suit Gundam SEED has the frightening final duel between Athrun and Kira. Athrun's angry at Kira because Nicol died trying to attack the Strike^note Depending on the version, Kira either acted in self-defense or the Blitz unintentionally ran into the Sword Strike's weapon. However, when Athrun kills Tolle when he tries to protect Kira, the gloves come off and Kira tries to kill his best friend in grief. Athrun nearly vaporized his friend before his Gundam ran out of power, so he settled for self-destruction. Kira still survived, but barely.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam 00 has Louise Halevy laying an utter beatdown on Nena Trinity. Having been given the chance by Ribbons Allmark to avenge her parents, she easily manhandles Nena's Throne Drei with her Regnant Mobile Armor, tearing the Drei to pieces and leaving it a limbless wreck. Even without a means to fight back, Nena angrily yells at Louise that she refuses to die this way, which REALLY makes Louise mad since Nena never gave Louise's parents the chance to plead for their lives when she killed them... and it results in a gruesome conclusion for Nena. Don't worry, Nena completely deserved it.
  • In Mobile Suit Gundam Age, Kio Asuno delivers a beating to Zanald, right after killing Deen. His grandfather, Flit, beats up Desil Galette after he kills Yurin L'Ciel, and Asemu (Kio's father, Flit's son) beats up Desil (again), after he kills mentor Woolf. Both also count as Curb-Stomp Battle — especially the latter, as in the span of roughly a minute and a half, Asemu systematically severs every one of the Khronos' limbs. Then he slices it in half, and then SHOOTS THE TWO HALVES to finish Desil off for good. A generation later, Asemu does the same thing with Zeheart despite a two-generation tech advantage in the latter's favor and the fact that in most every previous engagement between the two, Zeheart won. The actual fight in that case lasted under a minute, and about half of that time was devoted to dialog. Extra props to Asem in particular because unlike Flit or Kio, he is a Badass Normal, and his opponents in both cases had psychic powers.
  • Mikazuki Augus from Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans is already notorious for frequently delivering this trope to his enemies with his Gundam Barbatos, but the fight against Carta Issue takes the cake. In his Roaring Rampage of Revenge for his fallen allies, he slammed her bodyguards and stomped them when the later wanted to negotiate for a duel, pursued Carta without bothering with her chatter and her name, dismembered her Graze Ritter, flinged the dismembered mecha across the snowy field, and broke her sword and snapped her hand apart. Even though Mika's final blow was interrupted by Gaelio and Orga, the flinging around inside her machine had already claimed Carta's life.
  • Gundam Build Fighters featured a handful of pretty awesome fights too, where both toys got badly damaged. In Episode 15, we have Sei and Reiji fighting Ricardo Fellini, and the result is that both Gunpla are left more devastated than seen before in that show. Later, in episode 24, we have Sei and Reiji against a mind-controlled Meijin Kawaguchi, who controls a very modified Exia, the Amazing Exia Dark Matter. Four shots from Exia's rifle is enough to charge the Star Build Strike's RG-System, though it doesn't stop Exia from making a mess of SBS. And that's before activating Trans-AM.
  • Gundam Build Fighters Try has Sekai's Build Burning Gundam, a Gunpla built by Sei Iori, going up against Shimon and his Straight-Build Destiny Gundam, something his Delicate and Sickly little brother built for him. The fighters tear their Gunpla to pieces in the ensuing fight, with Sekai barely eking out the win. And this is only episode seven.
• Higurashi: When They Cry:
  • Shion (disguised as Mion) delivers a brutal beating to Satoko in the middle of the classroom 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 Go Through Me and Rena joined her. Shion was about to also take them out, and then she was Punched Across the Room 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 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.
• An unusual circumstance in Hunter × Hunter: In the Heavens Arena, where people fight for sport, one of Killua's opponents was Zushi, a little boy with beginner-level hand-to-hand combat and little else. What Killua thought would be a Curb-Stomp Battle went on far longer than it should have, because no matter how many times Killua punched Zushi and knocked him down, Zushi kept getting up. This kept going until Zushi'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 Zushi had been using his nen, or life force, as a barrier against the punch and to cushion himself when knocked down, but didn't know how to do much else.
• At the end of Chapter 13 of Interspecies Reviewers, Meidri (the main waitress at the pub where the main characters usually meet) delivers one of these to said main characters after she learns that they had "fun" with sex golems modeled after her, with her beating Stunk, Zel, Kanchal and Crim senseless.
• Inuyasha: Sesshoumaru gets his ass handed to him towards the end of the story when Naraku finally decides to send Magatsuhi, the Dark Will of the Shikon no Tama itself, after him. He gets impaled several times, his single arm nearly ripped off, he has to be saved by his brother, his true form is negated by being bound in tentacles and eventually he's stabbed through the chest twice, and not only that, but Magatsuhi's poison is actually burning Sesshoumaru pretty badly.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Most main characters give multiple beatings throughout the course of their Story Arc of the series.
  • Jonathan Joestar's beatdown of Dio Brando in Phantom Blood, wherein he beats Dio so badly that Dio actually starts to cry. Considering how much crap Dio had put Jonathan through from literally the moment the two met, this was really cathartic.
  • Stardust Crusaders:
    • Jotaro completely annihilates Steely Dan after being put through all kinds of torture while he held his grandfather hostage. For three full pages (translated to over twenty seconds in the anime).
    • Usually when Polnareff finishes someone off, he really overdoes it. He was particularly restrained when he finished off Vanilla Ice only because he managed to survive all his attacks. It takes a lot of hits to make the enemy look like a victim of a car crash, especially if his only weapon is a rapier.
    • This occurs once again when Iggy tricks Vanilla Ice into attacking a decoy DIO, enraging him so much that he begins to relentlessly and continually kick Iggy into the wall, rather than quickly kill him with his Stand, Cream. This ends up leading to Iggy's death, going on for approximately a full minute in the anime adaptation.
  • In Diamond is Unbreakable, Rohan Kishibe's ability required his victim to look at specific pictures. Since Josuke was fighting him with his eyes closed, Rohan insults his hair, using the most vicious insults seen up to that point, in an attempt to enrage him and making him open his eyes. It Goes Horribly Right, as Josuke is so blinded by rage, he completely ignores the picture and beats Rohan so badly he ends up in a hospital.
  • Golden Wind:
    • Giorno gives the biggest beatdown in the manga to Cioccolata that lasts for 7 pages straight (now translated to over thirty seconds in the anime), ending it by punching him into a garbage truck. It's cranked up even more when his Stand gains its Requiem form, giving it infinite stats. The scene is quite possibly the Trope Codifier, being the first non-stop beatdown in a manga to last for 7 pages.
    • Giorno's Gold Experience Requiem then delivers this to Diavolo himself, once it evolves. After watching all the evil Diavolo pulled to stay ahead of his 'enemies', killing Abbacchio, Narancia, and Bucciarati, alongside attempting to murder Trish, it's immensely cathartic.
    • Most Stands that have a B or higher rank in Destructive Power use this. King Crimson, who has an A rank in Destructive Power, uses megaton punches instead. Purple Haze, despite having an A ranking, plays this trope straight, but that's only because it has to spread as much of its virus as possible.
  • Stone Ocean: In the last fight, after Emporio obtains Weather Report's Stand, he uses to not only damage Pucci's body by filling it with oxygen, he finishes Pucci off by delivering Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs onto his head until it's completely crushed.
• Jujutsu Kaisen:
  • Yuji and Nanami team up to deliver a vicious beatdown on Mahito, who is forced to use Domain Expansion to turn things around.
  • Yuji and Todo beat up Hanami while Todo uses Boogie Woogie to repeatedly switch their positions, throwing Hanami off as he tries to defend himself.
  • Ogami uses her grandson as a medium to reincarnate Toji Fushiguro, who mercilessly beats up Takuma before throwing him off the building.
  • Yuji and Megumi spend an entire fight unable to damage Awasaka even though they've hit him multiple times. Then Megumi figures out how his Cursed Technique works, after which they start beating him up once Megumi creates an opening.
  • Nanami punches Haruta with enough strength to shatter concrete while trying to interrogate him, only to eventually give up and punch him across the street.
• Possibly one of the greatest examples in all of anime occurs in Karas: The Revelation. The hero Otoha has been stripped of his powers, but it's revealed that, possibly due to a genetic disease (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... and he still gets back up. To elaborate. He survives a Wave-Motion Gun 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 Awesome Music 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 it's DISAPPOINTING that he Scaled Up into a giant asian-style mecha-dragon looking thing. As giant monstrosities never seem to put up as good a fight as a human Big Bad, and do not lend themselves to epic kung fu battle. Which was what made Eko such a wonderful villain. He knows that Rank Scales with Asskicking and he's not afraid to do it. Which makes sense, considering he spent centuries as a monster-fighter in Japan...
• Quite a few occur in Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru, usually courtesy of Mutou.
• In Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, the exceedingly nice guy Apachai tends to inflict utter pain on people due having serious trouble holding back. And then there's his secret technique, "The Punch You Don't Let Good Children See", that is when he decides his opponent is particularly vile and so he inflicts one on purpose.
• Kill la Kill: Three words — MEN! DO! KOTE!
  • For more context behind that: in her first battle against Elite Four member Uzu Sanageyama, Ryuko wins by blinding him, crippling his sight-based Hyper-Awareness. For their rematch, Uzu has his eyes sewn shut, which allows him to gain a new form of Hyper-Awareness that cannot be negated. He proceeds to completely pound Ryuko into the ground while calling out the above words with each strike, and only his uniform overheating and shutting down saves her from death.
  • Later on, when it's revealed that Satsuki was actually rebelling against Ragyo the entire time, the later eventaully breaks free from the impalement that the former put her through, and breaks Satsuki's sword WITH HER BARE HANDS, then starts to beat her own daughter to a pulp.
• Played with in Kinnikuman when Brocken Jr. faced off with Ramenman. Brocken delivered a beating 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.
  • Played straight in the chapter "Crazed Robin Mask": Robin Mask, humiliated and bleeding after a lucky shot from Kinnikuman, promptly goes berserk and pummels his opponent into the ground.
• The second episode of Kino's Journey features a Neutral-on-Villain version of this as Kino is told to drop her weapons in a pile... and then quickly annihilates the three slavers with one of her remaining weapons. As The Stoic, she doesn't show the typical rage these fights often develop, but it's messy, violent, and very, very brutal.
• In Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, Knuckle Joe happens to be a huge fan of doing this to Kirby in his first two appearances. In "Here Comes the Son", he was led to believe that Kirby killed his dad and attacks him in his rage, putting his life in jeopardy as poor Kirby makes no attempt to even fight back. After Meta Knight arrives just in time to save him and reveals that he's the real killer of Joe's father and did it through a Mercy Kill and Joe angrily curses his dad for "being weak", Kirby's friends point out that the beatdown he gave Kirby led to him giving in to his own monstrous ways, which Joe rejects at first. In "Monster Management", he delivers another one to Kirby while also tag-teaming his attacks with Masher's own and this time Meta Knight is unable to help due to Masher having smacked him real good, leaving Sword Knight and Blade Knight to have to tend to him while Tiff and Tuff are watching in horror with tears in the former's eyes as she's pleading for the beatdown to stop. Luckily, Kirby's strength is restored when Joe tells him to suck up his attack at the last moment.
• In the second Mad Bull 34 OVA "The Manhattan Project" in order to buy time for Sleepy to arrive to save him and Perine, Daizaburo agrees to fight Enrico's thugs in hand to hand combat because he is unarmed, he tries his best but the four thugs beat the living shit out of him, by the time Sleepy arrives he’s been beaten so badly he can barely move, most of his teeth have been knocked out, his face is swollen, he has several broken bones, and is bleeding internally, he nearly dies from his wounds.
• In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Precia Testarossa makes her debut in Episode 7, where she 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 Jewel Seeds. To no one's surprise, Precia establishes herself as one of the Nanoha series's most horrific villains.
  • Nanoha gets badly injured by Vita in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's up till the point where Fate and Yuuno intervene.
  • Subaru hands a thrashing out to Cinque when she enters an Unstoppable Rage brought on by the Numbers abducting her older sister Ginga in episode 17 of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS.
  • In Episode 24 of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, Fate delivers one to Jail Scaglietti during their final fight.
  • ViVid Strike! shows the most utterly brutal one in Nanoha history in episode 4: 3 of Rinne's classmates had been bullying her, destroying her grandfather's keepsake and preventing her from being able to get home to him before he died. She did not respond with magical attacks in the tradition of the Nanoha universe: her retribution was physical, brutal, and horrifyingly bloody.
• In Magical Witch Punie-chan Punie-chan beats up Elise von Barbaroque after she fails to assassinate her.
• Maken-ki!: Prior to Chapter 57, Takeru had always refrained from killing. That changed after Himegami sacrificed herself to save him from what would've been a fatal attack. Takeru became so enraged that he beat Gouken Yamato to death, despite Leo's attempts to pull him off of him, since it wasn't what Himegami would've wanted. Plus, Gouken was possessed by Takeru Yamato, who would simply move on to a new body. By the time Takeru was done, Gouken was no longer recognizable and had literally been beaten into a crater by the force of his punches.
• Maria no Danzai: By default Tsuyoshi Kinugawa never holds back when he beats someone up, no matter who it is. And because he has a Hair-Trigger Temper, it's very easy to become his latest victim.
• Medaka Box: Iihiko lays several rather brutal beatings on the cast towards the end of the manga. They're made worse by the fact that the injuries he inflicts never heal.
• In Monster, a couple of thugs decide to mug Dr. Reichwein. Big mistake.
• One Monster Rancher episode had Mocchi get the ever-loving CRAP beaten out of him by an opponent during a Tournament Arc. 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.
• My Hero Academia:
  • Aizawa is brutally beaten during the villain attack on the Unforseen Simulation Joint. The nomu doesnt just beat him, he repeatedly slams his head into the ground. Both arms get broken as well. The face pounding was possibly justified if the Nomu was smart enough to know that Aizawa is powerless without his vision-based quirk and ability to make eye contact with a foe. The anime doesn’t hold back showing his blood-covered face. Present Mic is not happy when he sees his friend’s mangled body and lets the villains have it with full Gale-Force Sound.
  • There’s one from Present Mic of all people. Upon finding the person responsible for many of the bad things that happened to his friends, including the death of his best friend Shirakumo 15 years ago that sent his other best friend Aizawa spiraling into depression, he does not hesitate to nearly cave in Dr. Ujiko's face with his bare hands.
• Naruto:
  • Neji beating down his cousin Hinata in the Chunin Exams preliminaries, nearly killing her when she doesn't give up.
  • Hinata takes on Pain to protect a helpless Naruto, finally, sincerely 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 One-Hit Kill, the anime version plays it brutally straight as 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 being Forced to Watch Hinata get stabbed, Naruto inverts this beyond anything ever seen before, especially in the anime. Naruto, who was already suffering from the loss of Jiraiya, Kakashi, and his entire village before he had to watch Hinata get stabbed, loses all hope and resorts to the Nine-Tails to bring down Pain. In the anime, Kyuubi-Naruto, already in the 4-tailed state, mercilessly beats him on the 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, throwing blasts and chakra arms en masse. Pain manages to contain him, even when Naruto enters his 8-tailed form, but Naruto is no longer above releasing the seal to unleash the Nine-Tails in order to obliterate Pain.
  • Really, most of that arc was Pain doing this to all of Konoha. Naruto was the only one who can really do any significant damage to him in a non-Pyrrhic way (Kakashi, Choji, and Choza vs. Deva path is the only one that could even be considered a "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 Superpowered Evil Side for the first time and owning Haku.
  • Chapter 605 has Obito completely dominating the Hidden Mist ninja after watching Rin die. They could not touch him, literally and figuratively.
  • In Chapter 608, there is 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? He's still standing!
  • The series' Final Battle between Naruto and Sasuke becomes perhaps the most brutal fist fight in the entire series after the two are completely exhausted of their chakra, culminating in a horrifying finish of the two losing their hands in a blast.
• Negima! Magister Negi Magi has Heroic Resolve turn every fight Negi participates in into a brutal beatdown 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. Negi got back up, and pulled out his new upgrade...and still can't win.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion:
  • Episodes 2, 18 and 19 each. In short: if Unit-01 goes berserk on you, you will die. Horribly and messily.
  • End of Evangelion has a rare two-way No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, with both sides delivering it to one another. Asuka absolutely wipes the floor with the entire JSSDF army, beginning by 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 horrifying and disgusting way. Turns out the MP Evas are effectively immortal. So they regen when she has run out of power, 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.
• Ninja Scroll: Himuro Gemma delivers a beating of this type to Jubei. Not even getting his arm cut off stops him. Getting his skull bashed in does, temporarily.
• One Piece:
  • A rule of thumb is that an epic beating will happen to some degree whenever Luffy deals with a Logia Devil Fruit user, or one of the Shichibukai. 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 The Worf Effect 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 truly sad, yet awesome beat down from Luffy, as he is obviously outmatched; yet is constantly 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 with it that completely defeated Eneru.
    • He also delivered a spectacular one to Hody Jones, who, despite his exceptional Determinator abilities, was still doomed to continually get his ass beat. For that matter, Caesar Clown also received one the second time around; while he may have won through simple Combat Pragmatism the first time around, there's not much that you can do when faced with an enraged Luffy. Also, they both really had it coming.
  • 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 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 heroic version occurs when Chopper activates his Monster Point. 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, over which Luffy heads back to Mock Town and hands him a extremely satisfying one-hit KO.
  • Marine Admiral Akainu for most of the Marineford arc was the living embodiment of this trope. Most notably his brief one encounter with Ace.
    • And then once Whitebeard notices, Akainu gets a magnificent one himself.
• Pokémon: The Series:
  • Alas, poor Seviper. After it bit Jessie's hair, 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 beatdown, when Ash's Bulbasaur and another trainer's Meganium beat the crap out of one another, with the fight eventually breaking down into a Vine Whip slug-off that ends with both Pokémon collapsing after a double Solar Beam. It actually was 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 a beatdown 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 Pokémon 3. For one thing, he's a 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 Arbok, Weezing and their protectees time to escape. They lose very badly but still refuse to give up.
• Mitsumi from Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! crushes Hareta and his Pokemon after 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 Mitsumi is her soft side.
• In the climax of Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector, Azusawa subjects Arata to a thrashing after getting rejected by Sibyl. Luckily, Arata is able to shoot him with the Non-Lethal Paralyzer mode before his Crime Coefficient got above 300.
• This is used in Puella Magi Madoka Magica to show just how badly Sayaka is being broken. She attacks a witch while laughing manically, blood streaming down her face.
• In Rave Master, Haru beats Lucia using Sacrifar, the demonic form of the Ten Commandments, and even almost kills him before Elie snaps him back into his senses. Then Lucia beats Haru and almost kills him before Shuda intervenes and gets killed instead ( except he recovers). The fight this sparks is significantly less one sided.
• Rurouni Kenshin:
  • 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 Superpowered Evil Side just to survive while Kaoru watches helplessly. Luckily, they're stopped Just in Time 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 at unarmed combat. Furthermore, 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 vs. Enishi fight. After Enishi says he's to kill Kaoru, Kenshin goes into an Unstoppable Rage and beats the crap out him, putting away all the fancy techniques that Enishi easily defeated earlier.
• Samurai 7 has the show's Big Bad mark his descent into a Villainous Breakdown 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.
• Satou Kashi no Dangan wa Uchinukenai has Kanajima beating the hell out of Umino (who he had a crush on) after she accused him of killing the school rabbits. She doesn't put up a fight as she's used to being beaten. Kanajima gets suspended and thrown off the baseball team, and the event noticeably changes him.
• The already extremely violent samurai series Shigurui shows several examples of Samurai throwing away their swords and beating people to death in the most brutal fashion possible, sometimes against multiple armed opponents!.
• In Shy, the titular heroine goes through a brutal beating during her training match against fellow hero Stardust. The latter believes that Shy is to good-hearted to be a hero and that this will cost her her life in the future, so he tries to make her give up on being a hero by beating her to a bloody pulp.
• In the season 1 finale of Sonic X, the E-99 Eggsterminator is going insane due to being empowered by the six Chaos Emeralds and is wasting no time beating poor Sonic to death. This beatdown horrifies Chris into crying both fearfully and tearfully for the beatdown to stop, and even Dr. Eggman is horrified by this sight and can't stand the thought of his greatly-respected Arch-Enemy dying, so much that he tries to get his robot to stop. Unfortunately for them both, to their horror, the Eggsterminator finishes the beatdown by delivering one final drop-kick to ensure Sonic's demise.
• Applied by the thug in Chapter 2 of Souten Kouro, to Cao Cao. Who is ten. Cao Cao does get even, though.
• Villain on scumbag example in Speed Grapher. Suitengu has a Pet the Dog 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 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 dead sister, he savagely beats up the guy and then kills him, revealing his true intentions with each blow.
• Lordgenome, in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. 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 up to eleven during the Final Battle, 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 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 squiggly man was pissed. After which they get back up and give him a beatdown in return.
• Tenjho Tenge:
  • 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 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 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.)
• Jake Martinez delivers a pummeling to Kotetsu in Tiger & Bunny 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.
• In Tiger Mask, Tiger's Cave wrestlers are infamous for handing these out with absolutely no mercy (in fact, the first thing the eponimous protagonist, Tiger's Cave best pupil before rebelling, does in the story is to beat the crap out of a foe until he's completely fainted, and he went easy on him). That said, there are some that make the others seem kids' play (with one instance of Tiger Mask delivering one that scared and creeped out a fellow Tiger Mask pupil and it wasn't the one who knew he was next), culminating with the anime only match in which Tiger Mask and Tiger's Cave supreme leader literally tried to beat each other to death (at least until Tiger the Great ripped off Tiger Mask's mask. Then Tiger the Great was completely unable to defend himself, and Tiger Mask didn't try to beat him to death, he did).
• Tokyo ESP has the Rinka being beaten until her heart stops and she's Brought Down to Normal to show what happens to heroes.
• There have been a few beatdowns in Tomorrow's Joe, but the most brutal is the "Chom-Chom", a combo with whom Asian-Pacific champion Kim Yong-bi puts his opponent on the ropes, starts brutally hitting him in the head until he starts falling, and then uppercuts him back up and continues until the referee realizes what's happening and makes Kim back off. Up until Joe everyone who went through this had to be carried off with a stretcher, and two outright died. Joe himself didn't get though it unscathed, as it's likely where his punch drunk syndrome started.
• 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.
• Transformers:
  • Liokaiser, in his first appearance in Transformers Victory, effortlessly beat the coolant out of Star Saber; even the theme music couldn't save him, and only the arrival of God Ginrai let him walk away with his life.
  • And not forgetting (as much as would like to) Transformers: Energon, 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 Mind Rape of Starscream...
• The formerly, by CLAMP standards, very sweet and light-hearted Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- really gets Darker and Edgier when Syaoran fights the vampire Kamui who tries taking all his blood by piercing his neck. Syaoran's response? Overpower him, then forget about Kamui and beat up one of friends to rip his eye out, absorb its magic and burn the entire area.
• Vinland Saga:
  • Thorkell, a Blood Knight 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.
• In Who's Left Behind? Kayoko's Diary, the titular Kayoko is bullied by three young boys, forcing her to wade through a puddle and get her dress wet, she starts to cry and this alerts her immediate older Kisaburo to her situation. He promptly comes at the bullies with a stick and chases them away. It is implied that Kisaburo caught the slowest of the three boys and beat him to a point that the boy ends up with a broken left arm and his remaining limbs and his head in plaster.
• 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 attack on the Kid Samurai, 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 Yu-Gi-Oh!, the end of the battle between Yami and Insector Haga/Weevil Underwood 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 Berserker Soul's effect on a defenseless Haga. And he would have probably continued until Haga fell unconscious from the pain had Anzu not intervened. It also spawned one of the series' memes. Say it with me, now:
  Yami: "DRAW! MONSTER CARD!" (About seven times, give or take- and Haga ran out of LP on the second attack.)
• YuYu Hakusho:
  • Yusuke Urameshi provides Sensui, the main arc villain, with a thrashing after he is taken control of by his ancestor, Raizen. Sensui is thrown and beaten around like a ragdoll before he is finished off by the hero. Which was what he wanted 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 after using the explosion from his Spirit Gun to blow away Bakken's mist, promptly deals 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...until he goes 100%. it took a supposedly Heroic Sacrifice from Kuwabara to make the hero be a real threat to the 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 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 Brainwashed and Crazy. Kuwabara, subscribing to the Honor Before Reason school of thought, refuses to attack them anymore 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 covering himself in rock and slamming himself into an enemy. Kuwabara's already broken body takes several of these attacks before Yukina shows up and The Power of Love gives him a second wind and renews his energy so that he can send the guy flying with one shot.
  • Yusuke vs. Doctor Kamiya has got to be one of the most one-sided beatdowns in the whole series. Yusuke pummels the absolute FUCK out of him, culminating in him blowing his arm off with a Spirit Gun.

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