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[[caption-width-right:324:No cookies for guessing who will win.<ref>[[Conservation of Ninjutsu]] [[Averted Trope|does not apply here]].</ref>
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* In ''[[Fate
{{quote| {{spoiler|"This was no longer a battle. It was a massacre. The results of using a mill to grind a sesame seed would yield more response. Wherever the Ionian Hetairoi rode, there was not a trace of Assassins remaining. Only a faint, faint smell of blood and some dust that was swept away remained in the air." }}}}
* In ''[[
** In [[
** Whenever the Angels show up it's usually a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] between them and the UN forces, until the [[Big Damn Heroes|Evas]] do their thing.
** Several of the Angel battles also start out as these, arguably: Sachiel, Ramiel, Leliel, and [[Mind Rape|unfortunately Arael]].
** The biggest [[Curb Stomp Battle]] the Angels dish out though has to be Zeruel, who gets farther than any Angel does up to that point {{spoiler|until Tabris}}. {{spoiler|He not only penetrates into Central Dogma, he outright [[Breath Weapon|''obliterates'' the pyramid there]]}}.
* In ''[[Pokémon (
** Earlier, Paul got beaten twice, first by Cynthia 4-0 (full six-on-six battle; Paul folded after his strongest Pokémon bought it) and then by {{spoiler|Brandon}}, without being able to take down even one of their Pokémon.
** Ash's first round in the Indigo League was a total washout in Ash's favor using Krabby (who evolved into Kingler midfight) alone. This was also Krabby's first direct fight under Ash's command.
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** Ash's battle against [[The Juggernaut|Tobias]], which was another 6-2 loss for Ash. In all fairness, he was facing a [[Olympus Mons|Darkrai and Latios]], and he was the only one to actually K.O. both of them. Everyone else failed to beat even one.
** [[Harmless Villain|Team Rocket]] obviously fall victim to this a lot, especially if Meowth is involved. Perhaps most notable is his first attempted official faceoff against Pikachu in ''Who Gets To Keep Togepi'', the battle is opened with an epic staredown between the two along with an emotional soliloquy from Meowth how he will fight with all his strength to earn ownership of Togepi, before Pikachu pokes him almost mockingly with the tip of his tail and thundershocks him into a smoking wreck. One hit KO.
** In [[Pokémon: Arceus and
*** Well it is [[Physical God|Arc]][[Crystal Dragon Jesus|eus.]]
** In ''[[Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions]]'', Zoroark, during a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] trying to get her beloved son back, happens to find Goon, [[The Dragon]] and one of the men behind her son's kidnapping, fighting Dawn and Brock (who are being seriously overwhelmed). {{spoiler|His two Scizor charge her and promptly get KO'd with one Night Slash each and then Goon and all his Ninjask are wiped out with a single attack.}} To be fair, he was up against an [[Action Mom]] in full [[Mama Bear]] mode.
** ASH actually dished one out in an early Johto episode as he faced then-new trainer Casey's fledgling team of Pidgey, Rattata, and Chikorita with CHARIZARD. Splat.
** The battle with Burgh got two-- one for each trainer. On one hand, Burgh beat {{spoiler|Tepig with ''Dwebble'', ([[Gameplay and Story Segregation|mostly by spamming protect]])}} about three minutes into the battle... but on the other hand, once {{spoiler|Pikachu}} got free of stringshot, {{spoiler|Leavanny, Burgh's best pokemon (in the games, at least),}} didn't stand a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|ghost]] of a chance, despite the fact that nobody had a type advantage. <ref> Considering what level Pikachu ''must'' be at, most battles it's included in should go like this... [[Restart At Level One|Alas]]...</ref>
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** Vegeta also gets plenty of these, notably his fights against Guldo, Frieza's best [[Elite Mooks]], Android # 19, Cell (which is botched once he allows Cell to reach "perfect" form), and Pui Pui. ''Especially'' Pui Pui. That last one was in ten times Earth's gravity.
** While they weren't beaten by him per se, Tien and Chaiotzu both sacrificed their lives against Nappa, giving the greatest amount of energy they had in their lives so far. Neither could they so much as ''cause any visible damage'' to him.
* ''[[
** The episode immediately after that had the fight that began with one of the most [[Zig
{{quote| '''Alen''': 'I can't believe Louie got himself killed by this guy (Hei). I thought he would put up more of a fight."<br />
'''Mao'''(poping up from nowhere): "He will; and when he does, you might want to keep in mind: Hei dosen't wear that coat as a fashion statment." (Alen whirls around) "It's bulletproof." }}
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** 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-Man Army|He pwns an entire platoon of]] White Zetsus with a bunch of brand new [[Sphere of Power|Rasengan Variations]] and [[Attack of the
** 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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* 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-Villain]]/intended protagonist rival also engages in one of these whenever he battles a non-Gundam enemy, and one could argue that his, Rey, and Luna's battle with the Destroys at Heaven's Base is another example.
* The first season of ''[[Mobile Suit 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''?).}}
** A more traditional version occurs in the final episode, pairing {{spoiler|Healing Care against [[Fan Nickname|Doublelujah]], Allelujah and Hallelujah working together. Long story short, at NO point in the battle does Healing Care pose even a significant threat, as Doublelujah jets around the battlefield, casually lopping off limbs and tearing away ejection systems like this is just another day at the office. The only solid blow Healing lands is right before she dies, because Doublelujah [[Ramming Always Works|RAMS]] her with Arios and [[Half the Man He Used To Be|cuts her in half]]. She manages to stab Arios and do superficial damage. Of course, Ribbons, being the ass he is, immediately takes Arios out in the span of three seconds with two Fangs.}}
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* The Nazi vampire assault on ''[[Hellsing]]'' manor goes this way once the vampires get into close combat, although it [[Justified Trope|is justified]] by vampires being that much [[Super Speed|faster]] and overall better than the normal humans and one weak vampire defending. The Nazis vampires then get the tables turned on them when {{spoiler|Seras drinks Pip's blood, awakens more of her power and proceeds to mop the floor with them without much more trouble.}}
** Any fight in which Alucard is involved either starts up as this right off the bat (sometimes after he offers the victims a [[Hope Spot]] by letting them shoot him up first), or once the next level of his powers is unlocked. Even after {{spoiler|Alucard is seemingly killed, releasing his last level causes him to come back to (un)life and effortlessly curbstomp the [[Big Bad]]}}.
* From ''[[
** The definitive example is Luffy vs Bellamy, a match so one-sided that it's like watching a fight between a lion and a deer. Luffy initially refused to fight Bellamy, out of a desire not to cause trouble. Then Bellamy learned of Luffy's bounty, and assumed it was fake like an idiot. ''Then'' [[Berserk Button|he stole from Luffy's friends]]. Luffy one-shotted his sorry ass.
*** With a single, ''unstretched'' punch, we might add; Bellamy showed off his Devil Fruit powers throughout the whole "fight", but he never found out that Luffy even ''had'' a Devil Fruit power.
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** 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 Shamal and Zafira vs. Otto battle in ''[[
** 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.
** In chapter 13 of ''[[Magical Chronicle Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'', {{spoiler|Curren of Huckebein defeats Erio and Vita fairly quickly, even when they ''have'' their AEC weapons}}.
* ''[[Code Geass]]'', apparently taking a lesson from the battles in the middle of ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'', has the battle where two of the elite Knights of the Round {{spoiler|are killed in seconds by Suzaku and his souped-up Lancelot, followed by him disabling a third and then killing the supposedly best fighter Britannia had to offer about a minute later}}. A lot of people were not happy.
** Kallen pulls the same kind of trick {{spoiler|after stealing back the Guren S.E.I.T.E.N. during the Second Battle of Tokyo}}. For [[Double Standard|one reason or another]], though, the same people were not nearly as annoyed (possibly because her main victim was {{spoiler|a [[Blood Knight]] psychopath who basically lived on the other side of the [[Moral Event Horizon]]}}).
* ''[[
** Also GaoFighGar's fight with Gimlet Emperuer in the first episode of ''FINAL''. Literally ''everything'' Gimlet tries to do fails in ''spectacular'' fashion, most notably his "Colossal Combustible", which was supposed to...well, actually, its function is never revealed, as the attack is interrupted by the mech being '''''utterly demolished''''' by a [[Rocket Punch|Broken Phantom]].
* The first battle in ''[[Vinland Saga]]'', with the Vikings against Franks, was one-sided to say the least. By the time their Frank allies had breached the walls all of the defenders had been slaughtered, the fight was so quick it left enough time for Askeladd to abscond with the loot. The only Viking casualty was one man, killed at the start of the battle, from a crossbow.
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** Another fine example from Ramenman is his battle with Brocken, Jr. Brocken, set on revenge for his father Brockeman, controls the fight from the beginning and brutally pummels Ramenman up until the moment Brocken tries to use Ramenman's own Camel Clutch against him. At that moment, Ramenman simply asks "Is that all?" and completely turns the fight around, winning handily.
** The match between Super Phoenix's and Bigbody's teams went this way too: Mammothman takes down all of Bigbody's teammates single-handed, defeating the first two in ''less than a second,'' ripping the third's body off his head, and fighting the fourth to a draw only because Super Phoenix wanted to beat Bigbody personally...which he did. It went the same way as the rest of the match.
* Occurs in ''[[
* Hiei curbstomps many of his opponents in ''[[
** Also happens both ways in a critical tournament match featuring Kuwabara. {{spoiler|[[The Power of Love]] turns the [[Curb Stomp Battle]] around 180 degrees. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|And it's AWESOME.]]}}
** Can't forget Yusuke, can we? Probably the most fist-pumpingly satisfying one is [[The Hero|Yusuke]] vs. [[Smug Snake|Bakken]] during the Dark Tournament. After Bakken just finished delivering a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] to {{spoiler|an unconscious Kurama}}, it's Yusuke's turn. Other than a token resistance involving ''[[It Makes Sense in Context|weaponized sweat]]'', Yusuke pretty much destroys Bakken unopposed, and reduces him to begging for mercy before the fight's over.
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** Alex vs Olivier in the manga. {{spoiler|Alex got his ass kicked eight ways from Sunday.}}
** In the first anime, we have the final battle of {{spoiler|Envy vs. Ed. Envy [[Dance Battler|contemptuously schools Ed in hand-to-hand combat]], lets Ed take the upper hand just so he can run a [[Shapeshifter Guilt Trip]] while making it overtly clear Ed isn't doing much more than bruise him, uses that as an excuse to show just [[Cain and Abel|why he hates the Elrics so much]]. [[Hero-Killer|Then, while Ed is paralysed in shock, Envy impales him]].}}
* Complete with an actual stomping into a curb, in one episode of ''[[Ghost in
* [[The Big O
* Kenshiro vs. Shin in ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''. Actually, Kenshiro vs. just about any hyped up villain during the first half of the manga not named Raoh or Souther.
** This was actually a more noticeable issue in the anime than in the original manga. In the manga, Shin was simply a textbook example of a [[Token Motivational Nemesis]], being killed off at the end of the first story arc after serving his role to fill out Kenshiro's back-story. The producers of the anime decided to expand Shin's role by making him the [[Big Bad|main antagonist]] for the early episodes prior to the introduction of the other Hokuto brothers. As a result, the actual battle comes off as a bit anti-climatic compared to the amount of build-up preceding it.
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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 Jo's Bizarre Adventure
** 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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** Also, when Laxus forces everyone to fight one another, Fried attempts to kill Elfman. {{spoiler|Mira turns into a demon and utterly destroys him, only returning to her normal self when her she's literally half an inch from taking ''his'' life.}} And in the Nirvan Arc when the Oracion Seis blow up the team's ship and beat all of them to the ground before kidnapping Wendy.
** {{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
* In ''[[D
** 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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** The fight (if it can even be called that) between Accelerator and Aiwass definitely qualifies. Accelerator gets slaughtered completely by Aiwass' ''passive defenses!''
** Pretty much every fight involving Fiamma is him effortlessly beating the crap out of his opponents. {{spoiler|And then after Touma finally defeats him, Aleister shows up and does the same thing to Fiamma.}}
* ''[[
** 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 ''[[
** 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, [[
** Episode 4 of ''[[
** This happens a lot in ''[[
** Also whenever Skullgreymon shows up this usually ensues.
* ''[[Change 123]]'': {{spoiler|Sora Uzuki spends weeks trying to provoke Mokoto's most powerful [[Split Personality|alternate personality]] into emerging. When she does she ends up weaponless and with a broken arm within seconds, then spends the next chapter fleeing for her life}}.
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** [[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.]]'''
* Happened in [[Yaiba]] with demon Onimaru against Yaiba, then Yaiba vs the revived Batguy and also Gekko with the [[Evil Weapon|Devil King Sword]] against Yaiba. {{spoiler|When Yaiba put his hands on the Supreme King Sword during the fight against Jewel, the "one side" of the battle quickly turns to his favor.}}
* In ''[[
* In the original [[Mobile Suit Gundam]] the first battles between Char and Amuro comes out like this. While Char's [[Humongous Mecha|mobile suit]] is an old Zaku II that is grossly inferior to Amuro's titular robot, Char pretty much owned Amuro, and the only thing preventing Char from destroying the Gundam three times faster than a blink was the fact he underestimated its armor and brought only a machine gun to the battle before Amuro learned to dodge.
* ''[[
** Walpurgis Night vs. Homura {{spoiler|Twice!}}
** Homura vs. Charlotte
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** Homura vs. Roberta
** {{spoiler|Madoka vs. Walpurgis Night, twice!}}
** 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
* ''[[Super Atragon]]'': Every time the enemy fights anything but the battleship ''Ra''.
* In [[Mai
** Mai, Natsuki and Mikoto vs. the cake-eating Orphan.
** Miyu vs. Akane, largely by virtue of surprise attack.
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** The entire cast vs. the Obsidian Lord.
** In the manga, Akane encounters the Three Scale Sisters, who are holding Kazuya hostage, on her way to fight the Obsidian Lord. As soon as she gets close enough to Kazuya, she summons her Child, and defeats all three with a single tornado.
* ''[[
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'': Seto Kaiba usually wins his duels like this unless his opponent is either Yugi or the current season's [[Big Bad]]. This was especially true during the Battle City arc when Kaiba had the Egyptian God Card, Obelisk the Tormentor, whose special ability is pratically designed to curb-stomp the opponent.
* [[Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran]]: Every fight Ran is in. Meow too, but she doesn't get as many fights.
* [[Psyren]] usually had close, well-coordinated fights, but a few fell into this category.
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** Shinnojo and Zenmaru vs the axe-users Agon and Hakuryu.
** Shinnojo against Misaku Nikaido.
** Zenmaru is on the receiving end {{spoiler|while fighting [[Ax Crazy|Sasuke]] [[Blade
** Iori Sengoku regularly inflicts these at anyone who face him. Gama? [[Single-Stroke Battle]]. Ukyo of the Souen Ryu? An offpanel [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]. {{spoiler|Ichiou Jinno, the eldest of the Myojin Ryu (one of the strongest schools of Unabara)? ''Two punches'' and it's all over.}}
* ''[[
* [[Submarine 707 R]]: Only Youhei Hayami is able to defeat Admiral Red. Hayami is the [[Curb Stomp Cushion]] that can balance the USR’s frequent [[Curb Stomp Battle]] victories against the PKN.
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