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** Dosu vs Gaara shortly afterwards.
** Lest we forget Tsunade vs. Naruto, in which a drunk old lady that hadn't fought in twenty years defeats him with a single ''finger''. Tsunade and Orochimaru have shades of this too, with his only successful hits being voluntary, her one shotting a boss summon, and then punching him out and causing him to flee.
** {{spoiler|Killer Bee vs. Taka}} is an odd example of the true [[Buffy
** {{spoiler|Minato Namikaze vs Tobi}}. We can see why {{spoiler|Tobi had to lure [[Papa Wolf|Minato]] away from [[Mama Bear|Kushina]] because when they fought one-on-one, Minato figured out Tobi's technique, beat him in speed, smashed a Rasengan in his back ON TOP OF implanting the Hirashin seal into his body. Finally, Minato stabbed Tobi, and he was forced to retreat after Minato broke his control over Kurama. It's not that Tobi is weak, though; he actually pulled this trope on two of Danzo's top Root operatives. It's just that Minato's ridiculously strong.}}
*** {{spoiler|And for those who think Tobi got hit with the [[Idiot Ball]], think for a moment about what Minato just did to the Kurama's Bijudama. Fighting in-close and relying on Minato's not knowing the mechanism of his Space-Time Jutsu was really one of the few feasible game plans for Tobi.}}
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** Itachi delivers one to Orochimaru during both of their encounters. When they first met, the [[Child Soldier|13 year old]] Itachi trapped Orochimaru in a genjutsu and promptly amputated his arms. On their second encounter, Itachi seals him in an eternal genjutsu without even allowing the guy to finish his [[Evil Gloating]].
** Itachi Uchiha loves this trope. He has also curbstomped Deidara, and Naruto [http://www.mangareader.net/93-264-14/naruto/chapter-259.html not once],[http://www.mangareader.net/93-371-7/naruto/chapter-366.html but '''Twice'''] using merely [[Master of Illusion|genjutsu]]!
** Long before any of the above was shown, we have Rock Lee versus Naruto, then Sasuke. Note that this was right after the Land Of Waves arc, before the Chunin Exam started properly. Rock Lee shows up to interupt Team 7, challenging Sasuke to fight. Naruto charges headfirst at Lee, and gets hurled into the wall behind him, unconscious for his trouble. Next, Lee manages to kick Sasuke clear across the room before Sasuke gets the idea to turn on his as-of-yet imperfect [[Game Breaker|Sharingan.]] Sakura on the sidelines shares a little [[Hope Spot]] that the Sharingan will make the fight an easy win for Sasuke... before [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Lee kicks Sasuke in the jaw so hard he's sent flying into the air,]] [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|before explaining that his physical training has let him exceed Sasuke's natural-born genius completely.]] It takes Might Guy showing up to keep Lee from using his [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]] as a finisher.
** More recent [[Curb Stomp Battle|Curbstomp Battles]] include:
*** Sasuke {{spoiler|assaulting the Kage summit and being ''thoroughly'' annihilated by the gathered Kages, surviving only thanks to a timely [[Deus Ex Machina]](what else is new), followed swiftly by Madara showing up to bail him out.}}
*** Naruto vs. Kyuubi, Round 2, [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|though it is not the way you think]].
*** Kisame vs Might Guy's second battle. {{spoiler|Afternoon Tiger, bitches.}}
*** Mifune vs Hanzo. Mifune, the leader of the samurai proves that just because the samurai are [[Nominal Importance|Nameless]] [[Faceless Mooks]] who exist solely to [[The Worf Effect|Worf]] to whatever deadly ninja happens to come along doesn't mean they too can't kick ass and take names if they remove their masks and reveal their names.
** From the latest flashback {{spoiler|Minato vs A. He uses his Hiraishin no Jutsu to [[Flash Step]] out of the way of A's top speed, gets behind him and is about to stab him in the back. If Bee wasn't there, A'd have been two-paneled. Note, this is the same A who cut Hachibi's horn and later curbstomped Sasuke in their battle.}}
** Sasuke vs Danzo. The only reason this fight didn't end in first five seconds is because Danzo had a jutsu which allowed him to respawn after getting killed. The fight ends the minute the jutsu runs out. Danzo is not on the winning side.
** Naruto's official entry into the War. {{spoiler|[[One
** Edo Nagato vs. Naruto and Killer Bee. First he tanks a hit from V2 Killer Bee's lariat attack without ANY injury and instantly absorbs his chakra, reverting him to his peak form. Then he instantly captures Naruto before Naruto can even react. Then Nagato instantly counters Bee's attack and captures him.
*** Then comes Itachi, frees Bee and Naruto, figures a counter to Nagato's strongest jutsu and promptly seals him with Totsuka sword.
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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
** 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.
** The "battle" between Kenpachi and {{spoiler|Giriko Kutsuzawa}}. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAvL-qDsJ_M See it for yourself].
** At the beginning of the final arc, 116 shinigami were killed in 182 seconds {{spoiler|(one of them being Yamamoto's [[Number Two]], Sasakibe)}}. The 12th division's report of the massacre concludes that the evidence currently suggests they were killed by a ''single individual''.
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' has Simon's "fight" against Viral in Teppelin. With the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] gone, Viral has been updated to [[The Dragon|Dragon]] status with a new [[Multi
** And as seen above, a literal curb stomping battle takes place when the Gurren Lagann is under heavy fire. It robotechs through a few blasts before getting hit by one, which only serves to light it on fire, and then it's sent right for Viral's mech, which proceeds to get all the force a burning giant robot [[Incendiary Exponent|MAN ON FIRE]] [[Calling Your Attacks|BLAZING CHARIOT KICKING]] you can get. Viral literally slides through the deck for a good third of it after the kick.
*** Post-Timeskip is pretty much this. First, Gurren Lagann vs. thousands of Mugann: Gurren Lagann wins by curbstomping reality and creating several large drills all over its frame. Later, Gurren Lagann vs. more Mugann in space: GL wins by being badass enough and killing them all by shouting a battle cry. Finally, Chouginga Gurren Lagann... Need I say more? "The spirits of our friends are etched into this machine's frame. Unmatched in Heaven and Earth. One machine, equal to the Gods. Chouginga Gurren Lagann! I'll show you...the power...of HUMANKIND!" pretty much sums up the battle it fights. A short recap: It cuts a large space fortress Mugann throwing planets at CGL in half with a pair of sunglasses, shoots every point in space and time at the same time, uses the sunglasses as a boomerang and takes one drill on its shoulder and puts on top of the other drill and holds the double-drill on its hand and drills through more giant things.
* The final fight in the second season of ''[[Full Metal Panic]]''. Gates' supposed abilities became an [[Informed Ability]] given how easily Sousuke worked him ''and'' his entire team over. {{spoiler|Bear in mind that it was none other than [[Arch Enemy|Gauron]] who, in stating that Gates led a team of lambda-equipped mecha that were intended to hunt down renegades, implied that Gates was an excellent pilot.}}
* The end result of ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'' is the final battle where the good guys win a completely flawless victory where none of their three main [[Humongous Mecha]] took a scratch. This also happened in several earlier battles with Kira taking on both sides at once and easily defeating them all. Shinn, Kira's [[Anti
* The first season of ''[[Gundam 00]]'' is a fascinating deconstruction of this trope. Possibly constructed in response to the above occurrence in ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]''. Initially, the Gundams totally dominate their opponents through [[Bigger Stick|sheer technological superiority]]. What makes this interesting is how the series explores the ways in which the various world powers arrayed against the Gundams try to compensate for this problem. This progresses to the point where the various military forces of the world successfully drive the Gundams into a corner, even though they are still technologically outmatched (it helps that [[Zerg Rush|they have numbers]] though). And finally, {{spoiler|thanks to a traitor from Celestial Being, the technology gap is closed}}, which results in the Gundams struggling against Mooks.
** A recent episode of the Second Season played this extremely straight with {{spoiler|1=Louise Halevy getting revenge on Nena Trinity, again through [[Bigger Stick|sheer technological superiority]] ([[Bigger Stick|Louise's huge new mobile suit]] vs. [[So Last Season|the same Throne Nena had been using for four years]] = lol, were you expecting a ''fight''?).}}
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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
** 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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** ANY time that Eva appears. The best example probably being the fight with Setsuna (even if Setsuna won at the end, it wasn't by being in any way a better fighter).
** Generally speaking there are two levels of fighters in Negima. Those at the level of Ala Rubra ({{spoiler|Nagi, Rakan, Ku:Nel, Takahata, Godel, Evangeline, Fate and Negi}}), and those that aren't. When someone at the level of Ala Rubra fights those that aren't, it goes badly for the latter.
*** And in the chapter 306 ({{spoiler|Even an Ala Rubra level fighter, Dynamis, was totally Curb stomped by [[Super
** Then there's Ku Fei, who, as the captain of the Chinese Martial Arts Club, gets challenged on the way to school every day in what always ends as a Curb Stomp Battle of her opponents.
** In Chapter 315, {{spoiler|[[Tranquil Fury|Negi]] lays one of these down on [[Ax Crazy|Quartum,]] who really had it coming after slicing one of [[Papa Wolf|Negi's]] students in half. Fortunately, it was one of the few students [[Robot Girl|who could survive something like that.]]}}
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** To elaborate more on that second fight, each of the duels against the Varia are preceded by a lot of talk about how unstoppably powerful the Varia are, and Tsuna predictably recoiling in horror and fear each time. Gola Mosca is hyped the most out of all of them. The battlefield is then described as being far worse than a war zone, set off by barbed wire and surrounded by ''automatic turrets'' as well as being ''full of land mines''. Gola Mosca flies and thus doesn't care about the mines, while Hibari is forced to watch out for them. He still crushes his opponent in the space of two panels.
** And let's not forget the part where Tsuna {{spoiler|curb-stomps Byakuran to the point of completely incinerating him}} after Uni's {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}. That's right. {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Present Tsuna actually killed Byakuran!]]}}
* ''[[Jo
** In Part 3, Abdul and Polnareff psyche themselves up before heading into Dio's mansion, carefully and silently testing for traps and ambushes as they go. The moment they sense an enemy is near, Iggy leaps out around the corner and takes down their opponent in a single blow. The text box sums it up like so:
{{quote| ''"Name: Kenny G. Stand Power: Illusions. Beaten without a fight."''}}
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** Brutally Subverted with Carine in Part 5. Mista quickly guns him down as he charges at them, before he gets a chance to show his stand. {{spoiler|Turns out his death was the key to unleash the [[Nigh Invulnerability|Nigh Invulnerable]] Notorious B.I.G}}
* ''[[Black Lagoon]]'': [[Badass Army|Hotel]] [[The Mafiya|Moscow]] versus ''anyone''.
** {{spoiler|[[One
* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'': After a huge lead-up, the final battle of Fairy Tail vs. Phantom ends with {{spoiler|Makarov coming back from [[Deus Exit Machina|his injuries]], exchanging two blows with Jose before using Fairy Law to beat him and his entire army at once (except the Phantom wind mage who drained Makarov of his magic in the first place who just gets an additional [[Offhand Backhand]])}}.
** {{spoiler|Said wind mage was just Curb stomped by Erza.}}
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** {{spoiler|Gildartz curb-stomps Natsu just by flaring his [[Battle Aura]].}}
** {{spoiler|Makarov ends up on the receiving end of this trope when he faces Master Hades of Grimoire Heart. Makarov is unable to land a single good hit against him and gets [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice]] for his troubles.}}
* In ''[[D Gray Man]]'', Allen was recovering from a ''very'' near-death experience when {{spoiler|Tyki had [[Wrecked Weapon|destroyed his arm]] and has a Teaz eat a hole in his heart.}} After finding out that he had somehow survived, {{spoiler|Tyki}} sent a Level 3 Akuma against him while he was helpless. Allen gets kicked around and almost ''dissolved'' by the thing, but then {{spoiler|he finally manages to get his vaporized Innocence to re-form. And now it's way more badass.}} The Akuma suddenly finds itself faced with {{spoiler|Crown Clown, in all its white, fluffy [[Holy Hand Grenade]] glory}}, and Allen stomps back ''hard'' with a [[One
** A perhaps even more epic one occurs when {{spoiler|a Level 4 Akuma attacks the HQ and curbstomps almost the entire Order}}. In the process of doing so, however, it messes up [[Badass|Cross Marian]]'s clothes. Bad move...
* Touma vs Kanzaki in ''[[To Aru Majutsu no Index]]''. She's the local magician hot chick with a sword that has divine powers. Only, she completely stomps him through the use of protective wires to keep her from nullifying any of her powers. Which she ''never uses''. And later there's a peaceful moment followed by another quick fight where she completely dominates in hand to hand combat as well. Good thing she's friendly ([[Sugar and Ice Personality|kinda]]) because honestly, he'd never stand a chance if she really wanted him dead: as a Saint, [[Informed Ability|she's considered the magical equivalent of a nuclear weapon]].
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* Funniest example would be [[Akazukin Chacha|Shiine vs Umibozou the sea giant]].
* ''[[MAR]]''. War games, Round 4: Dorothy and her teeny knife vs Avrute and his gigantic, clawed gauntlet...poor bastard never stood a chance.
* In ''[[Hyakujitsu no Bara]]'', following [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|firing anti-tank munitions at a passenger train]] Taki proceeds to enter one of the cars and wipe the floor with Berkut, showing just how [[
* ''[[Baki the Grappler]]'' has this every time [[Nigh Invulnerable|Yujiro]] fights. As such, [[Villain Sue|it's hardly surprising when he does it.]] More interesting examples follow...
** Baki utterly thrashes Yanagi and Sikorsky at the same time with a boost from [[The Power of Love|his desire to protect Kozue.]] Midway through, he actually gets mad at them for losing so easily. "It's not yet time to give the gift of defeat! [[No Holds Barred Beatdown|I WILL BEAT YOU 'TILL YOU CAN'T GET UP!]]"
** Shunsei got a nice one from Baki too: He throws one punch, which Baki dodges, countering with a punch to the side of the head that gives him a concussion, followed by an uppercut to the chin and a roundhouse kick to knock him out.
** The grudge match between Oliva and Yoh Kaioh: Yoh asks Oliva to hit him as hard as he can. Oliva obliges by ''[[Squick|crushing his body like an empty beer can.]]''
* ''[[Otome Youkai Zakuro]]'' starts up with seven characters (four of whom are military men) losing against a spider monster. Title character Zakuro then wakes up, unseals her power, delivers her usual [[Pre
* [[Katanagatari]]'s final episode features 11 of these, ''in rapid succession'', honestly the 12th battle might count as one a Curb Stomp Battle, {{spoiler|since every hit Emonzaimon landed on Shichika was allowed by Shichika just so that he could get in close enough to finish him off.}}
** [[Beware the Nice Ones|Also never mess with Nanami]], don't believe me, just ask the three [[Fan Nickname|Maniwani]] who tried, oh that's right, you can't ask them; '''[[Oh Crap|they died.]]'''
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** Dholaki and Shiner get the jump on the main cast, and the results are bloody. Oboro is near-fatally injured {{spoiler|and has to convert himself into a Tavoo to survive}}, Hiryuu is shot into the stratosphere, Ageha gets his leg blown off, and Kabuto is injured enough to be considered legally dead {{spoiler|though he gets better}}.
*** This was all to show how awesome {{spoiler|the Future Elmore Kids}} were, since they pull a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment and deliver their own curb stomping. {{spoiler|Only Shiner makes it out alive. Dholaki was killed in two hits.}}
** Junas vs Everyone in the Root Invasion arc. He takes out Ageha and Shao, both of whom are [[Anti
** Whenever someone uses Nova, the results are bloody. {{spoiler|Ageha, Amamiya, and Asuka}} all annihilate everything when they first use Nova.
** The final battle against the [[Big Bad]] of the series is a joke. {{spoiler|Ageha activates his Nova, and teams up with Miroku. They then destroy Quat Nevas in a single attack. Considering that Ageha had just seen it destroy the world though, it may have been a justified [[No Kill Like Overkill]]}}.
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