#2: Jan 31st 2020 at 9:01:21 PM
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Hi! long time reader of TV Tropes, first time poster. I spent the last...well more time than I should trying to find this trope but can't. But I am sure it must exist.
The trope is when a person or group of people take on a single enemy and it takes all they have to bring it down. But later on the inevitably find a whole group of these enemies and say something along the lines of "It took everything we have to just beat one of these things, how can we fight a whole army of them?" and then of course they proceed to take down said enemies far more easily than they did the first one.
An example of this trope that always stuck in my head since a kid was X-men the animated series episode 1 and 2 "night of the sentinels." Where the first sentinel they encounter in the mall takes a beating from gambit, storm, jubilee and even rogue and keeps marching. Managing to take out 3 of the said mutants and capturing jubilee. Eventually cyclops take the sentinel out.
In the next episode they have to fight a whole factory of sentinels and rogue makes the statement "how can we fight a whole group of these things." which they then proceed to do with...well ease.
You see this all the time in action movies and cartoons. Surely there is a trope page for it. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
thanks for any help.