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*** 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.
* In ''[[Exiles]]'', they spend two or three pages building up a fight between Mimic and an [[Evil Twin|alternate universe double]] of [[Captain America (comics)]]. The fight is for the Skrull Gladiator Championship, which is the Skrull equivalent of the Superbowl. The actual fight lasts for two panels, with Mimic, [[Combo-Platter Powers|a Swiss Army Knife of mutant powers]], unleashing the optic blasts that he borrowed from Cyclops. Mimic then flips the crowd the bird, and walks out of the arena.
* 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.
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* [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]] vs Kingpin near the end of the ''Back in Black'' arc. For all of his talk, Wilson was entirely over his head in this fight, but in all fairness, it ''was'' a [[Badass Normal]] vs an enraged Spider-Man.
* Speaking of Spider-Man, when he had to face off against the X-Men in ''[[Secret Wars]]'', he curb-stomped the entire roster that had come after him, which included one of maybe three fights between Spidey and Wolverine that was portrayed accurately (here's a hint: Spidey can ignore Wolverine). Wolverine ''himself'' stated after the fight that Spidey made the X-Men look like amateurs.
** Also from Secret Wars, the newly empowered villainess Titania decided to make the same mistake many, many new supervillains have made over the years and pick a fight with Spidey on their first day on the job. Despite being much, much stronger than him, he wipes the floor with her, tossing her out of the building and causing her to go in to the kind of temper tantrum only a bully of her magnitude could pull off having been brought down several pegs. She had already picked another fight with She-Hulk which didn't go well for her either until she got help, she probably thought that next to her, Spidey was an easy target. She thought wrong.
* Another Spider-Man example: he goes up against one of Galactus' former Heralds, Firelord, and it seems that Firelord has the upper hand, because Spidey has self doubts about his skills. Once Spider-Man gets pissed, Firelord is taken out in less than five panels (never mind the fact that even former Heralds of Galactus can casually solo 99% of Marvel, Spider-Man included. Spidey's the star, so he gets to beat the unbeatable foe).
** Of course, it was after Firelord has just hurt a child and Spidey pretty much went berserk. And quite frankly, every time villain hurts a child in Spider-Man's presence, Spidey will utterly devastate him, the only exception being {{spoiler|Lizard, who had evolved and developed new powers, which stopped Spider-Man from trashing him}}.
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* ''[[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.
*** There was an Danger Room battle between Scott and a ''depowered'' Ororo in which Ororo manages to dodge optic blasts and otherwise win the battle.
**** Justified: depowered Ororo was sort of a badass normal, and Scott's mind wasn't focused on the duel (that's the reason why Ororo challenged him in the first place: he had been distracted by personal matters for quite some time, to the point she accused him of not being an effective leader anymore). Ororo knew she couldn't try any frontal attack, so she waited until she could ambush Scott, then incapacitated him.
** During [[Joss Whedon|Joss Whedon's]] run on X-Men, which among other things made Cyclops even more badass, Scott utterly wrecked a ''Sentinel'' with one blast from his eyebeams. A Sentinel is a [[Humongous Mecha]] that is specifically built to kill mutants and normally would give an entire team of X-Men a hard time. This time, Scott stopped holding back -- the Sentinel never had a chance.
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* The [[Final Battle]] with {{spoiler|The Four}} in ''[[Planetary]]'' goes like this. Primarily because of {{spoiler|[[Chekhov's Gunman|Jim Wilder]] and [[Chekhov's Gun|his Shiftship.]] }}
* One of the most satisfying examples occurs in ''[[The Ultimates]]''. Hank Pym is sitting at a bar, nursing a drink after having brutally beaten his wife, Janet Pym. Door opens; in walks Captain America. Cap sits down, listens to Hank explain himself, and then pounds the snot out of Hank. Hank grows to 100 ft. tall. Then the real curb-stomp battle begins. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Awesome for Ultimate Steve Rogers; the man was born for that particular moment.
** Even better, Cap demands that Hank enlarge so Cap can cut loose on him.
* ''[[The Authority]]'s'' previously invincible Apollo was subjected to an unexpected curb-stomping at the hands of two members of The Americas (who were a satirical stand-in for the Avengers), Thor and Captain America parodies. The comic contains several panels which allude to man-rape and sodomy, although the authors state that these scenes were deliberately made ambiguous.
** Apollo gets his revenge two issues later, when he rips apart entire army of marvel-powerups parodies, including those two that got him earlier. Manwhile Jack and Doctor curbstomps other villaionous versions of Marvel superheroes, with former making city of Paris eat his opponents alive and Doctor turning his opponents bones into cologne.
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* Mr. X vs Quicksilver in the ''[[Dark Reign (comics)|Siege]]'' finale. Mr. X (a [[Wolverine]] villain) discovers that his particular schtick - reading his opponent's mind so that he knows exactly what move said opponent is about to make - is completely useless against someone who can move at the speed of sound. He knows what Quicksilver is about to do - namely break every bone in his body with a chunk of metal debris - but he can't possibly react fast enough to prevent it.
** Even better - Mr. X was wielding Odin's Spear, which has been said to be as powerful as Thor's Mjolnir or even more. And he still lost.
** Mr. X actually gave one to Wolverine the first time they fought.
** Ares vs Sentry in the same event with Sentry [[Gorn|ripping Ares in half]].
* [[Scott Pilgrim]]'s fights with evil Ex 2 and 3 turned into this, with Scott being entirely outmatched for the both fights. {{spoiler|Lucas Lee (2) was destroyed doing a highly impossible skateboard stunt, and Todd Ingram (3) couldn't be defeated till he lost the rights to his Vegan powers.}}
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