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I doubt that qualifies. Certainly it establishes credibility, but there's no defeating going on here by your description. So I'd say probably not an example.
Cool, I'd like to get a at least one more person's opinion, though, just in case.
Jumping the gun here would make me the edit war instigator.
Unless we have definitive knowledge of what the writers intended (we usually don't) the best thing we can do is guess. This is purely a matter of opinion, but in mine it isn't an example.
Having just now read that page.... Nope, definitely NOT an example.
Okay, seems like it's okay to remove it now, so will do.
Edited by FuzzyBarbarian
Though belatedly, I want to voice my agreement that removing the example was the correct decision.
On X-Men Recurring Characters and X-Men: Brotherhood of Mutants, there's an instance cited as one where Kwannon kills Joseph, who is basically Magneto, to establish that she's a badass.
The trope states that someone defeats someone else in a fight to establish credibility.
Except... Joseph had just been taken down by one punch from the Juggernaut, was barely standing, and Kwannon just beheaded him when nobody knew she was there. So she didn't defeat Joseph so much as... steal a kill. Is it really The Worf Effect when the person didn't even participate in the fight and basically killed a helpless character? I think it was more just a dramatic reveal because nobody figured they'd use the character again.
This is the scene being referred to: https://comicnewbies.com/2019/04/20/kwannon-kills-magnetos-clone/amp/