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** Shrike may have billed himself as 'one of the best assassins in the world', but it was pretty obvious that at League of Assassins meetings, he was the one they made get up and go outside to pay the pizza guy.

* Cassandra Cain ([[Batgirl]] III) had a number of battles like this, at least before her epic derailment. One of the best would likely be when Spoiler convinced her to spar together. The result was a full page [[Curb Stomp Battle]] that left Stephanie bruised up and vomiting on the ground.

** {{spoiler|Willy Pete vs ten (about half) of the Superhomies, Willy kills them all in a blast of fire so powerful it was like hitting them with a ''nuke''}}.

* A villainous variant appears in ''[[Watchmen]]'' when {{spoiler|Ozymandias effortlessly beats down Rorschach and Nite Owl}} at the same time.

*** That's not quite a [[Curb Stomp Battle]]. More of a [[Kick the Dog]] moment because the Imperials were attacking a ''lightly defended supply convoy'' and treat it like it's a great victory. Granted, the Rebels had trouble getting supplies afterwards, but still, it's hardly a glorious victory.

** Let's not forget when Mara Jade had a run in with one of the Emperor's elite guards, who she promptly smacked down ''with one punch'' (because she's just that awesome). We're also [[Fridge Logic|expected to believe]] that with that punch she ruptured his spleen, bruised his liver, broke his ribs, and fractured his skull... ''all at the same time''! There's just something utterly ridiculous about that. To Mara's credit, she ''did'' [[Lampshading|berate him]] for being so easily defeated.

* The fight between Bane and [[Batman]] in ''[[Knightfall]]'' is definitely this, ending with Bane snapping Batman's spine.

** Justified in that Bane was fighting a [[Batman]] who was already seriously wounded and completely exhausted from continuously fighting for several days with very little sleep... and had arranged for all of this to happen to Batman by staging the mass breakout of pretty much every inmate in Arkham, and then waiting until Bruce had finished fighting them all one at a time before introducing himself.

** And there is also Rhino vs New Rhino, which has a large buildup culminating with {{spoiler|Old Rhino breaking new one in matter of seconds, and then killing him.}}

* An utterly hilarious example in ''[[The Incredible Hercules]]'': The villain drops a Grendel-style monster on the battlefield, with the assumption that Thor and Hercules are too exhausted to fight it. He's right, but he didn't take into account ''Zeus'', who promptly proves that while he may be bite-sized and missing the majority of his memory, he's still the fucking king of the Greco-Roman pantheon. By ''flattening'' the monster with one shot of lightning.

* ''[[Ultimate X-Men]]'': Wolverine [[Murder the Hypotenuse|leaves Cyclops to die in the Savage Land so he can move in on Scott's girlfriend, Jean Grey]]. When Cyclops survives and makes it back, he's just a ''touch'' irritated, and Wolverine is squaring off for an epic fight... which takes all of one panel, as Cyclops opens up full-force with his [[Eye Beam|Eye Beams]] and leaves Wolverine in a flattened, smoking heap.

** The thing about Scott Summers is that, given the nature of his powers, a fight with him where he knows the fight is happening should logically come down to one question: are you vulnerable to his optic beam? Because if you are, the fight should basically consist of you going down. The nature of Scott's power is such that if he can see you, ''he's already hit you''. So if you can't resist his optic beam, your only plausible options are 'surrender' or 'strike by surprise from behind' or some such tactic.