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  • In Ace Combat: The Equestrian War, a foreign pegasus ace, Mobius is a fighting force equal to an entire squadron and he's capable of fighting and often defeating multiple enemies alone.
  • All For Luz:
  • In Child of the Storm, all of the Avengers qualify, but the real stand out is one of their enemies: The Winter Soldier, a Hero Killer, Super-Soldier and master assassin who, among many, many other things, is said to have mowed through two squadrons of Europe's finest Aurors in Warsaw in 1973 and in chapter 60, took on Steve, Natasha and Clint at once and could quite easily have killed all three of them (though in fairness, he was able to ambush them). In chapter 70, he mows through the Ministry and a good couple of dozen wizards and Aurors, the SHIELD Helicarrier, including standing off Steve, Clint and Natasha, before going through the Secret Service like they're made of butter and taking Wolverine in a straight fight (though, granted, the latter involved judicious use of a rocket launcher). Sure, he ended up pretty battered after that, but the guy is a force of nature.
    • By chapter 70, Harry is this trope. Unfortunately, there are other people out there who are better at it...
      • He steps up his game in chapter 75.
    • Most of the X-Men, Daken, Zemo, Rhodey, Havok, Namor, Jean-Paul and Diana all qualify (though the latter two are teenagers who are getting there).
    • Wanda Maximoff, (who's a Person of Mass Destruction herself), name-drops this trope in regard to Jared "The Hellhound" Kincaid.
    • Asgardians quite literally evolved to be this trope-you kind of have to be, in a World of Badass.
  • Children of an Elder God: Shinji, Asuka, Rei and their teammates killed the Outer Gods and Great Old Ones and stole their powers. Any of those kids was able to destroy whole armies, kill eldritch abominations and level cities.
  • Coreline has several examples of this:
  • While Ryuko was already this after the end of Kill la Kill, she becomes this even further in Don't Lose Your Heart, racking up a Heartless body-count well within the thousands.
  • Doors to the Unknown: Valigan Talaire is an incredibly powerful psionicist. If he wanted to go all-out, he could easily defeat most capes on Earth Bet in a matter of seconds. As he demonstrates the few times he actually bothers to fight anyone, it ends with most of The Empire 88 capes dead.
  • Dungeon Keeper Ami successfully fights her way through the entire dwarven city of Salthalls to reach its leader. For bonus points, she deliberately stays with nonlethal attacks the whole time.
  • Fate of the Clans:
    • Cú Chulainn was literally one when he was alive. He pretty much single-handedly fought in and even won a war since the country of Ulster was rendered unable to fight until most of it was over because of a curse.
    • Tamamo theorizes that even every Servant working together can't take down Cú Chulainn (Prototype Lancer) Alter.
  • In Fractured (SovereignGFC), a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands crossover and its sequel, this is all over the place.
    • On a ship level, you have the Star Dreadnaught Revenant that can take on a hundred Reapers without batting an eye (though the consequence of such literal power is absolutely massive energy consumption). Compared to Citadel ships, any Trans-Galactic Republic ship from cruiser on up is a One-Ship Fleet. It's discussed how a wielder of such a ship could become an N.G.O. Superpower just from possession of that vessel. Ultimatum also qualifies in Origins being of the same class as Revenant. Exaggerated in that Ultimatum has a superlaser.
    • Given the source material, it's unsurprising that Samantha Shepard and her squad meet this qualification.
    • Ditto Vault Hunters like Maya, Axton, Gaige, or Brick. That a Badass Crew consisting of an "army of one-person armies" can't beat back the threat underscores how dangerous it is.
    • The Master Chief, once he has his armor repair problems sorted, resumes this role. When you're fighting the Flood, it's helpful to have someone around who's already faced it.
  • This trope is expected in The Good Hunter, since the protagonist is a Hunter of Monsters from Bloodborne who does this on an hourly basis back in Yharnam. It shouldn't be any more surprising to see him carving through dozens of beasts wearing the skin of human or monster that dare to stand in his way to freedom.
  • I'm Nobody: This trope is namedropped a few times in regards to the Nobodies, but especially after Laxaeus single-handedly does as much damage to the Citadel as the entire Geth army as a mere side effect of his fight against Roxas, Xion, and Axel.
  • In In the Shadow of Gods, Master Chief fights his way through dozens of mooks while trying to find Cortana, regarding them as a mere distraction. Shepard is also no slouch.
  • Many characters in The Infinite Loops grow into this, mostly due to having time loopers with dozens of powers at their disposable, several overpowered weapons, and all the time they need to master it.
  • In the J-WITCH Series, the Monkey King is able to hold his own against the Guardians, Caleb, Jackie, Jade and Uncle at the same time.
  • Last Child of Krypton: Shinji and Asuka, which is easily understandable and explainable, since in this crossover story he is Superman and she is Wonder Woman (or Supergirl in the reboot). They do not even need a Humongous Mecha to punch out enormous alien monsters.
  • The Night Unfurls: The Good Hunter made his name by slaughtering numerous orc bands all by himself, including high value targets that would be a pain to anyone who is not the Good Hunter. Deconstructed as the process of becoming one messes up his psyche, and he has to cope with the trauma by turning numb from the constant killing. Besides, the original version reveals that he cannot be everywhere at once, so he, a One-Man Army, fights with an army to achieve victory more effectively.
  • Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: Asuka is a highly-trained Humongous Mecha Ace Pilot... and Supergirl. If she is riding her giant robot there is no conventional man-made weapon capable to hit her or stop her and she can trash whole armies easily without having even one scratch. If she is not riding her giant robot, she is the most powerful and most dangerous human being in the planet. Not even nukes would damage her.
  • Thousand Shinji: As they defeat enemies, Shinji, Asuka and Rei use the energies of the dimensional Warp to change themselves and evolve their bodies. At the half-point of the story they are powerful enough (Shinji is a sorcerer with elemental powers, Asuka is a berserker Super-Soldier, Rei is able to command plagues, and the three of them have psychich powers) to destroy the human race on their own. When Asuka fights the Seele invasion, she easily tears the invading force apart, and the MP-Evas are the only thing in the planet that can stop her. And even then she destroys nine of them.
  • Trade Winds: Desmond Miles, as befitting most Assassins. As a sailor, he repels most boarding attempts by himself with nothing more than his fists, his hidden blade, and a pilfered French sword, and can clear a deck on his own. Most of his comrades become afraid of him and avoid him, saying that he "fights like a demon" and insisting that he must have made a pact with the devil, or is himself the devil.
  • Celestia does this during a battle in Wandering Moon. Justification: royally pissed off sun goddess. She did bring her own army. And tells them to hang back several minutes due to Unfriendly Fire Kills Everything.
  • In The Wizard in the Shadows, certainly in the later part of the story, Harry is one of these. At Helm's Deep he casually harness a thunderstorm, and deals out massive amounts of Shock and Awe. This is after he set up a deadly barrier that obliterated anything that came through it. Around the entire fortress. And holds it. For two hours.
    • Harry and Ginny with the Sword of Gryffindor. Harry vaporises a Mûmak. As a side effect. And that was the weakest attack. Ginny creates three tornadoes. Of fire. Destroying the physical forms of three Nazgûl and tens of thousands of orcs, wargs, trolls and easterlings.
  • Wolves That Walk Alone: While Noble Six is already well-known for being a Hyper-Lethal Vector category of Spartan like the Master Chief is known for in the Halo-verse, it gets amped-up to ludicrous levels since, due to somehow survivng beyond his canon Last Stand and being transported to Remnant with a different armor set, he eventually ends up becoming a literal Outside-Context Problem against scum-related foes that reminds him of the Insurrectionists he was originally known for effectively erasing by the literal hundreds as well as other unsavory groups/individuals. He even ends up giving freakin' Raven Branwen of all people PTSD-laced flashbacks of her first run-in with him and barely escaped with her life due to her using her portal semblance. Think beings like the Maidens, chosen individuals known for being able to control the weather of the season they're gifted with as well as powers related to their respective season are impossible for him to fight against...? Think again.
  • A World of Bloody Evolution: Thanks to her Battle Aura protecting her in melee and letting her No-Sell bolter shells, Yang Xiao Long is a killing machine, able to slaughter dozens of Chaos Cultists and Ork Boyz with ease. Even the otherwise obscenely badass Traitor Marines are in serious trouble if they meet her on the battlefield. This is also ignoring the fact that she doesn't use her psyker abilities due to lack of training. Weiss Schnee, who has both Aura and her psychic powers, is even deadlier.

Amphibia

  • Trade Us for the World deconstructs this through General Yunan. While entirely capable of holding her own, she has an entire unit of soldiers assigned to her, whom she largely neglects, ordering them to stand guard round the perimeter of areas while she cleans them out. Many have grown frustrated by this, complaining to Sasha that they haven't seen real action in years — making them vulnerable to Sasha's manipulations, along with making things tricky when Yunan actually needs backup.

The Black Cauldron

Bleach

  • In Uninvited Guests, Hitsugaya, after having fit of insanity, charges into the entire forces of Hueco Mundo and manages to traumatizes everyone, although he got caught and imprisoned. Played for Laughs, like everything happens in that fic.

Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars

  • Commandos on both sides in Tiberium Wars, due to a combination of training, technology, high explosives, and heavy armor (GDI) or cloaking (Nod). Unconventional tactical approaches also help; i.e. the Nod commando kills a Guardian APC crew and then sets the vehicle's remote gun turret to fire automatically to force some reinforcing troops into cover, where she kills them in seconds from a flanking position. The GDI commando, meanwhile, clears out an entire room of Nod soldiers by using an optical cable to locate them through an air vent connecting their room to the elevator shaft he's climbing down, calculating firing angles through said air vent, and then sniping the Nod troops from the elevator shaft with his rail carbine through the vent's thin metal walls.

The DCU

  • Hellsister Trilogy:
    • At the beginning of the second story arc, Superman, Supergirl and a third Kryptonian engage and stomp down hundreds of Darkseid's Parademons.
      She hurled herself into the strange skies of New Genesis, both her arms stretched out perpendicular to her body, and screamed in rage. The group of Para-Demons she was headed for didn't have time to run for it. They barely had time to see she was there.
      Her powerful, blue-clad, Kryptonian arms acted like twin plows, knocking the winged beasts out of the air. They fell like shot birds, hailing down on the landscape. The New Genesis troops had a chance to gape at the blue streak that was mowing down the enemy.
      Superman had smashed his great hands together in an impact that almost deafened the New Gods who hovered too near to him. The shockwave from the crash buffeted a flying legion of Para-Demons. That was all the time Superman needed to separate them physically from the New Genesis flight troops they were attacking, and to tap them into dreamland.
    • Among the many heroes and villains capable of mowing down armies single-handedly, Berserker -a half Kryptonian, half Zeroxian sorcerer who has been raised by Darkseid- stands out:
      From one, a moving image sprang forth. A rapidly-moving figure, tearing through the machinery and soldiers of a well-equipped army. Just one man against a horde, and within minutes, that man had won.
  • In Kara of Rokyn, both the titular character and her enemies from the Phantom Zone are capable of tearing down an army single-handedly.
  • In A Force of Four, the three Kryptonian rogues set Paradise Island on fire and crush every military force thrown against them.
  • Here There Be Monsters has two Shazam!'s villains, Mister Atom and Red Crusher. The Canadian Army cannot even slow them down as they march through North America.
    The announcer spoke of a large rocket from space which had landed in northern Canada, too quickly for interception, and broken apart to disgorge two huge figures. One of them was a giant robot. The other was a titanic man in a Communist army uniform.
    The Canadian army had sent out a detachment to intercept them, and the twosome had gone through the tanks, weapons, and men faster than a combine through a wheatfield. They continued on their way, and towns were being evacuated before them.

Dragon Age

  • In Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns, Alim Surana, the elven mage, takes the crown. Granted, he needs a boatload of fresh blood (like, say, from all the fresh dead in Ostagar, humans and darkspawn alike) or a huge load of lyrium to let loose (read: hold off the whole darkspawn horde by himself for a while), but he manages to take out most enemies in every other situation as well.

Final Fantasy

  • In the Final Fantasy VII fanfic Cissnei's Path, Zack Fair was firmly established as this. Heidegger literally threw half of their army against him (as he did in Crisis Core) and Zack killed all but the three that finally got him before the Turks showed up. This loss compounded with Sephiroth's later massacre has left Shinra comparatively crippled.

Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire

  • Prince Joffrey Baratheon evolves into this in Purple Days. In the last "Groundhog Day" Loop he participated in, he personally destroyed the entire Rainbow Guard, seven of the deadliest knights in Westeros, by himself. One of them while unarmed, after having to shake off a bunch of foot soldiers vainly trying to pin him down. Loras Tyrell, in particular, was slain with Joff's helmet's ornamental antlers. After that, in the last battle of that life, when Daenerys attacked King's Landing, he and his knights slew Rhaegal. Concussed, wounded and exhausted, he's pitted against Drogon in a mockery of trial by combat, and he reminds the beast what dirt tastes like. A hysterical Daenerys is forced to call Viserion and keep tossing warriors at Joff before he can manage to kill the last dragon.

Godzilla

  • Abraxas (Hrodvitnon):
    • San and Vivienne prove to be this when they're up against Alan Jonah's mercenaries. Even in their crippled first hybrid form which suffers Power Incontinence, they're easily capable of inflicting a Mook Horror Show on Jonah's men.
    • Ghidorah proves to me a One-Man Army even comparative to the other Titans. Even when it's in an incomplete state whilst regenerating, Ghidorah was able to put up quite a fight against eight Titans (including Godzilla) who were unified in a desire to see Ghidorah killed.

Gorillas

  • Col. Flix from Q-Basic Gorillas can take out dozens of Ice Chimps all by himself all at once, whereas two or three Ice Chimps at once is an awful lot for the other Gorillas to handle.

Invader Zim

  • Zim the Warlord: Irken Reversion: Due to a combination of his Invader training and the vastly increased strength of his Reverted state, Zim is virtually unstoppable in a fight. This is best shown when he rushes in to save Professor Membrane from some kidnappers, flipping a van in the process and wiping the floor with the dozen or so armed assailants who come at him.

Kung Fu Panda

  • In the Kung Fu Panda story Making the Cut, Jo fights off the entirety of Master Keen Lee's 52 kung fu students though with much effort and injury. The author later said that the scene was inspired by the Crazy 88 fight scene from the movie Kill Bill.

Naruto

Neon Genesis Evangelion

  • A Crown of Stars: Shinji and Asuka. Three years before the first chapter Asuka had taken on an army and nine Evangelions, and almost won. One month before the start of the story Shinji and Asuka took on an entire army and two Evas with nothing but a half-functioning Mass-Production giant robot that couldn’t produce an AT-Field. Ching praises Asuka for her battle against the nine MP-Evas and declares that if she had a better mecha Asuka would be capable to tear through ninety. During the second half of the story Shinji and Asuka frequently take on whole batallions and a fleet riding a single mecha.
  • Advice and Trust: While Asuka is trying to cheer Shinji up, she reminds him that they are possibly the most dangerous people on the planet and they could take on anything and anyone.
  • Once More With Feeling (Crazy-88):
    • Fed up with an admiral slighting the Evangelions, Shinji points out that in his first engagement he went up against a monster that obliterated a Tank Battallion and three dozens of aircraft and shrugged nukes off... and he took out that enemy in sixty-three seconds.
    • Nonetheles, Shinji readily believes that Asuka is more badass than him.
  • The Second Try: Before the Final Battle Shinji was reluctant to fight soldiers and Asuka reassured him, saying he only needed protecting her power cable, since that army was not a trouble to them.
  • In Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide, the main characters are Humongous Mecha pilots. Any of them is capable of mowing an army down. And the new Angels are as destructive as their predecessors from canon.

Real-Person Fic

  • An Informed Attribute of the Hunter in With Strings Attached; he likes to brag about how he hacked his way through armies, and the Actual Pacifist four are VERY glad they didn't have to witness any of it—until they get a taste of it after the Hunter slaughters half a pack of Poison Wolves. Later, when the five of them battle endless hordes of undead on the Plains of Death, he proves himself an extremely competent fighter but does exhaust himself eventually.

RWBY

  • Children of Remnant: Pyrrha, the Eagle, also known as the Sword of the Grimm, is Jaune's General and the World's Best Warrior. Not only is she personally immensely powerful with the weapons in her hands, but she can summon a Storm of Blades, controlling hundreds of weapons with perfect precision over a wide area, allowing her to duel a hundred people at once. And that's in addition to her personal combat prowess and strange black fire magic. Fighting her is described as like fighting a full army with a powerful champion and artillery support. Not to mention that she can control Grimm, meaning if she ever got really serious she'd also have a literal army. At one point she curb-stomps the entire Beacon population, all while still trying not to kill anyone, and is only convinced to stop when she sees how much she's hurt her friend Yang.
  • Through Her Eyes: Hunters, even just teenaged students, are all leagues above average citizens thanks to the effects of Aura. Lampshaded when a White Fang leader laments that there are only six dozen men on his side, against three teenage Hunters.
    "Three Hunters?"
    "Yeah, young ones too."
    "There's only six dozen of us! What are we gonna do against three Hunters?"
    "They're young, the hell can they do?"
    "Young, old, doesn't matter you idiot, they have personal shields, twice our strength, and have super powers!
    • Ruby, when she loses control.

Super Mario Bros.

  • Many examples of this in Fallen Kingdom.
    • About twenty of these characters are locked away in Stoneshell Prison, most of them being Mario’s former partners from the first two Paper Mario games, as well as Donkey Kong and his family. They were said by Yoshi to each be worth 100 imperial soldiers, and it’s implied the only thing keeping them in the compound is lack of hope. When Cobal informs them of the rebellion, they easily clear through the hundreds of men and escape.
    • Higher up on the scale are the Koopalings, Bowser’s children. They are grown adults by this point and have the Royalty Superpower of Bowser as well as magical prowess. They are typically the strongest beings in the sector they rule, which is impressive considering each sector consists of multiple kingdoms. The only rebellion members able to take one on singlehandedly are Luigi and Koops, and the latter can only do so because of enchantments from one of the Koopalings. Just the eight Koopalings and Kammy were able to defeat Skallz Fortiscule, while about twice that number of Stoneshell Prison escapees, who are each this trope, were helpless against him.
    • The Mario Bros, true to their games, are also this trope. They were each considered worth 500 normal soldiers, and Luigi can take on Koopalings on his own. With Mario’s fivefold power boost, he became basically invincible to imperial troops, destroying entire city blocks in his battle with Bowser, who had been enhanced by a dark potion.
    • The board members of Seven Stars, the N.G.O. Superpower that had been manipulating events for half a century, are also this trope. The weakest of them could take on Cobal, Strike, Prince Peasley, and K. Rool, all at the same time, and only losing by a surprise Combination Attack. Keep in mind those guys are comparable to Stoneshell Prison inmates. Even Giovanni, who is mostly known for being the Gadgeteer Genius, can get a Koopaling on the ropes. To say nothing of Skallz Fortiscule, who is a one man army of one man armies! Their leader, Antonio, literally fought the entire world’s united armies and very nearly won.
Star Wars
  • In Rise Of The Red Eclipse, Centurion Chris-Z9571 is a ten foot tall walking mass of armor, muscle, and hidden weaponry with a stealth factor capable of taking on enemy shock troops with ease, jumping out of gunships and landing without a scratch (in which he usually creates a small crater where he lands), taking on small armies by himself (and occasionally with his own personal squad of marines), and taking on some of the hardest hitting villains of the series in hand-to-hand combat, usually either hurting them enough to retreat or beating them to the point that they have to be evacuated.

Warhammer 40,000

  • Attelus Kaltos of Secret War was a skilled apprentice-assassin in his own right at the start. But has gotten even more Badass as the the story progressed. Able to fight on even ground with enemies with twice his experience and win despite being badly injured and exhausted (more due to his rampart cheating, but still) also able to fight and defeat many a Mook group singled handed.

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