Curb Stomp Battle/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

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** In the Hueco Mundo arc, Ishida and Renji struggle against Szayel, and then Mayuri shows up as part of a [[Big Damn Heroes]] brigade and trashes Szayel with [[Crazy Prepared|Batman-level planning]].

** The Fake Karakura arc has half of the fraccion fights turning into this. Several of them go up against captains. It never ends well.

** Ichigo's fight with Ulquiorra (both the first and second) resulted in Ulquiorra [[The Stoic|calmly]] [[No ~~Sell~~|No Selling]] his most powerful attacks before beating the snot out of him. The first fight ended with Ulquiorra stabbing him through the chest. In the second fight, Ulquiorra uses both of his [[One-Winged Angel]] forms and then blows a hole through Ichigo with a Cero. Unfortunately for Ulquiorra, Ichigo's [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] takes over and returns the favour with interest.

** Ichigo's fight with Ulquiorra (both the first and second) resulted in Ulquiorra [[The Stoic|calmly]] [[Won't Work On Me|No Selling]] his most powerful attacks before beating the snot out of him. The first fight ended with Ulquiorra stabbing him through the chest. In the second fight, Ulquiorra uses both of his [[One-Winged Angel]] forms and then blows a hole through Ichigo with a Cero. Unfortunately for Ulquiorra, Ichigo's [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] takes over and returns the favour with interest.

** Every fight between Aizen and '''ANYONE'''. The only person in the entire series that Aizen couldn't casually cubstomp was [[Old Master|Yamamoto]](even after depriving him of the use of his zanpakto), but Aizen took him out with strategy rather than brute force. Even his last battle against Ichigo is a curb-storm battle, except Ichigo is the one doing the curb-storming.

** In fact, the very first fight in the series, between Ichigo and some thugs disrespecting a memorial site, was quite literally this - Ichigo soundly thrashing the lot of them and stomping on them repeatedly.

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** Kumadori was ultimately unable to even slow {{spoiler|Monster Point Chopper}} down.

** Anything involving Chief Warden Magellan of [[The Alcatraz|Impel Down]]. Fighting Luffy? Matter of minutes. Facing the thousand strong army of criminals? The army runs away. The series' [[Big Bad]] and his crew? Matter of seconds. It should be mentioned that his power is generating vast amounts of poison, which [[Heroic Resolve]] does little to help against.

** Luffy pulls another against {{spoiler|Coby}} during Marineford. It looks like his [[Training ~~From~~ Hell]] would pay off, and he'd be able to a least ''slow down'' Luffy's [[Foe-Tossing Charge]]. He does [[Flash Step|Soru]] and gets a Gum Gum Bullet to the face before he's even finished moving. Luffy gave him no acknowledgment beyond saying his name.

** Luffy pulls another against {{spoiler|Coby}} during Marineford. It looks like his [[Training from Hell]] would pay off, and he'd be able to a least ''slow down'' Luffy's [[Foe-Tossing Charge]]. He does [[Flash Step|Soru]] and gets a Gum Gum Bullet to the face before he's even finished moving. Luffy gave him no acknowledgment beyond saying his name.

** Luffy vs {{spoiler|"Hero" Garp}}, finished off in one blow. {{spoiler|Though it's obvious Garp threw the fight.}}

** Luffy's first fight against Crocodile, Crocodile just stood still for three minutes letting Luffy punch him, and after those three minutes were up, impaled him. Of course, this was Luffy's first fight with a Logia power that make the user near invincible {{spoiler|unless they know Haki, which was about three hundred chapters away at the time}}. Once he found the trick to beating Croc his 2nd and especially 3rd fight turned into this with Croc on the receiving end.

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* In ''[[Code Breaker]]''. After {{spoiler|Takatsu Aoba}} is revealed as the Revenger, {{spoiler|she}} attacks Ogami and effortlessly defeats him without even using {{spoiler|her}} special power.

** Though after the Re-Code arc, expect one every chapter from a new character until one of the main characters discover an [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]].

* The final fight of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As]]'' against the [[Artifact of Doom|Book of Darkness]]' defence system consists of all nine of the series' major characters (And Zafira!) using all of their most powerful attacks, and disrupting any response from the enemy.

* The final fight of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's]]'' against the [[Artifact of Doom|Book of Darkness]]' defence system consists of all nine of the series' major characters (And Zafira!) using all of their most powerful attacks, and disrupting any response from the enemy.

** The Shamal and Zafira vs. Otto battle in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Striker S]]'' was a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] with Otto only managing one ultimately futile attempt to escape. This was in itself a rematch for an earlier [[Curb Stomp Battle]] where Otto and Deed send both of them to the hospital.

** When Nanoha closes in on Dieci's position in the Saint Cradle, it looks as though Dieci will be able to put up a fight... until Nanoha nullifies her attack and knocks her down in a single shot.

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* ''[[Digimon]]'' does this repeatedly. For instance, once in ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' Takato and Guilmon (a Rookie that has not managed to digivolve to Champion level yet) encounter Devidramon, a Digimon inadvertently released from the field holding it by Impmon. The result of this is Devidramon flying around the city in full view of the populace and Guilmon getting his ass handed to him until he's about to be killed, after which Takato manages to get him to Digivolve into Growlmon. In the fight that follows, Devidramon is destroyed, but Growlmon has no way to de-digivolve.

** Also in ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'': Wargrowlmon, Rapidmon, Taomon, and Leomon vs Beelzemon. Beelzemon's the one who does the stomping. {{spoiler|[[Hero-Killer|Poor Leomon]].}}

** Perhaps the most obvious use of this occurs in ''[[Digimon Adventure]] - Enter the Dark Masters''. The four Dark Masters appear and take turns curb-stomping the entire team, including the Megas. It was an entire episode devoted to a series of curbstompings, acting as a sort of [[Wake Up Call Boss]] series.

** Perhaps the most obvious use of this occurs in ''[[Digimon Adventure]] - Enter the Dark Masters''. The four Dark Masters appear and take turns curb-stomping the entire team, including the Megas. It was an entire episode devoted to a series of curbstompings, acting as a sort of [["Wake-Up Call" Boss]] series.

** The second movie, ''Our War Game'', features this at the climax. WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon were devastated by around a ''million'' Diaboromon, and somehow Tai and Yamato manage to enter the Internet to help their partners. [[The Power of Love|The power of...love(?)]] allows the two Digimon to DNA Digivolve into Omnimon for the very first time, and, [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|it's the Diaboromon (* all* of them) who didn't stand a chance.]]

** Episode 4 of ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', Birdramon vs Meramon: Meramon uses fire attack. Birdramon ignores. Birdramon uses one fire attack against Meramon. End of the fight.

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* Break does this to {{spoiler|Cheshire}} in ''[[Pandora Hearts]]''.

* ''[[Tenjho Tenge]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TCEY7GK8Sc as shown here.]

* Ed's father does this to both Spike and Jet in ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''. He disarms them by throwing an [[Improbable Weapon User|egg]], [[No ~~Sell~~|completely ignores]] one of spike's kicks to his knee, blocks his other attacks, then [[Punched Across the Room|lays him out with one palm strike.]] The only fight in the entire series where Spike is ''completely'' outclassed (even Mad Pierrot was more even), and comes totally out of nowhere.

* Ed's father does this to both Spike and Jet in ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''. He disarms them by throwing an [[Improbable Weapon User|egg]], [[Won't Work On Me|completely ignores]] one of spike's kicks to his knee, blocks his other attacks, then [[Punched Across the Room|lays him out with one palm strike.]] The only fight in the entire series where Spike is ''completely'' outclassed (even Mad Pierrot was more even), and comes totally out of nowhere.

* ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl Adventure]]'' has several, the most notable being Mitsumi's beatdown of Hareta after she was forced to rejoin Team Galactic.

* Funniest example would be [[Akazukin Chacha|Shiine vs Umibozou the sea giant]].

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** And finally, {{spoiler|Madoka in Goddess form vs. Kriemhild Gretchen a.k.a. Madoka in witch form}} (and yes, this results in [[Temporal Paradox|some]] [[Divide by Zero|wacky]] [[Ret-Gone|hijinks]]).

* ''[[Super Atragon]]'': Every time the enemy fights anything but the battleship ''Ra''.

* In [[~~Mai~~-HiME]], there are a few:

* In [[My-HiME]], there are a few:

** Mai, Natsuki and Mikoto vs. the cake-eating Orphan.

** Miyu vs. Akane, largely by virtue of surprise attack.

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* If the Dark Precure shows up to face the heroes in ''[[Heartcatch Precure]]'', expect them to be on their backs and de-henshined. Before Cure Moonlight returned, Blossom and Marine kept getting beat silly and when Sunshine appeared, they could only hold her off long enough to bail the series' [[MacGuffin]] out! When Moonlight does return, she pays her back in kind.

** The said can be said for [[Big Bad]] Dune. When he fully appears, he wipes the floor with everyone that's transformed. They return the favor at the end.

* The ''Silvana'' against the ''Goliath'' in ''[[Last Exile]]''. After the ''Goliath'' attempts a surprise attack before the duel begins, the ''Silvana'' [[No ~~Sell~~|emerges from the smoke without a scratch]] and proceeds to demolish them with a test fire.

* The ''Silvana'' against the ''Goliath'' in ''[[Last Exile]]''. After the ''Goliath'' attempts a surprise attack before the duel begins, the ''Silvana'' [[Won't Work On Me|emerges from the smoke without a scratch]] and proceeds to demolish them with a test fire.

* In ''[[Gamaran]]'' there are plenty of these, usually when a named character takes on the lower members of the opposing schools. In details:

** Gama versus the Hyuga brothers.