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** Also, Dr. Manhattan's involvement in [[The Vietnam War]]. There aren't many stranger ways to die than having your atoms estranged from each other by a blue giant in a speedo. Several of the Vietcong ended up wanting to surrender to him ''personally''.
* [[Captain Atom]]'s thrashing of [[The Authority|Midnighter]] in ''[[Captain Atom]]: Armageddon'' was one of the most enjoyable [[Curb Stomp Battle|beatdowns]] in comic book history.
* In an early volume of ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'', Cassidy, who we had just learned was a super-strong vampire, fought against the [[Implacable Man|Saint of Killers]], an invulnerable immortal capable of murdering dozens of police officers. We had no idea how the two of them compared, but it became pretty clear when Cassidy punched the Saint and his hand broke.
** Hell, ANY battle involving The Saint of Killers. The man is a walking curb-stomp machine. Later in the series, he {{spoiler|destroys an entire unit of TANKS. Even later, he personally kills damn near every Grail soldier, to the point that said soldiers had to climb over the mountain of bodies just to see him. The Saint eventually curb-stomps GOD HIMSELF at the series' conclusion.}}
** The fight at the end between Cassidy and {{spoiler|Jesse}} seems like it's going to be one of these, Cassidy is a super-strong vampire who's taken being machine gunned and shot through the head without losing consciousness and {{spoiler|Jesse's}} just a guy with a good right hook. {{spoiler|It is. Jesse totally ''demolishes'' Cassidy.}}
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** The Silver Centurion armor had an edge in both technology and pilot experience compared to the Iron Monger, but [[The Chessmaster|Obadiah Stane]] had remote support, as well as hostages, to keep things even, and his own suit was a brute. When Tony freed the hostages and destroyed the remote support, however, Stane had no chance.
** Tony's Stealth suit was good enough against regular, unarmored mooks, despite lacking any offensive weapons. Against the Crimson Dynamo and the Titanium Man, not so much (even with limited repulsors). Let's just say Tony was extremely lucky to survive that battle.
** Iron Man was totally overwhelmed by Firepower, whose pilot, Jack Taggert, had been training extensively for the sole purpose of killing Iron Man. Firepower [[Nuke
* [[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.
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** Later, in issue #22, [[Psycho for Hire]] Seth (the Six Billion Dollar Bastard) curbstomps the entire team. He takes down Apollo with one blast, doesn't give Midnighter a chance to land a single blow, beats the Doctor between panels, takes Swift out before she can even enter the room, steals the Engineer's nanomachines after harmlessly deflecting her bullets, then teleports to Jack Hawksmoor and seemingly swallows him. This would have taken less than the five pages it did if he hadn't taken time to give exposition and make taunts.
* A non-violent variation occurs when Superman and [[The Flash]] face off in a genuine test of speed. Turns out the Flash likes to hold back when they race for charity in order to keep things entertaining for the folks at home. When it comes right down to it, he leaves poor Supes in the dust...
** It's a Retcon. Those races were between the [[Silver Age]] versions of those two characters back when Superman really could keep up with the Flash (life just wasn't fair for the rest of the JLA back then). There had been one official [[Post
** [[The Flash]] versus Quicksilver is basically a joke ever since Wally got his full powers back in the early nineties. In their first fight, Wally was owning Pietro until he had to stop to save some kids and Pietro jumped him. But Pietro had a moment of conscience, giving Wally more than enough time to drop him.
** A bit more balanced in their encounters in ''[[JLA-Avengers]]''. The Speed Force (Wally's power source) doesn't exist in the Marvel universe so the winner of the match depends on which universe they're fighting in even after Wally starts packing a Speed Force battery for his trips to the Marvel U.
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