Curb Stomp Battle/Fan Works

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  • In Dungeon Keeper Ami by Pusakuronu, Mercury invades the Avatar Islands - a blasted wasteland of dead rock and populated by thousands, if not Millions of undead and ghosts. Her initial attack is mildly successful. But Zarekos' counter attack has her on the ropes. At that same time Mercury discovers that Arachne, a rival Keeper with a grudge has deployed a force of several thousand giant spiders, and Keeper Morrigan who lands troops on Ami's beachhead, denying her access. What dose she do? She pits the mindless undead against the spider army, allowing both to kill the other off. She then follows this up with a brutal Blitzkreig that utterly smashes Morrigan in the fiercest, most one-sided fight in the series.
    • What makes this such a Crowning Moment of Awesome is that three Keepers (Arachne, Alphel, and Nero) all stage a simultaneous attack on her dungeon almost directly after this, after weakening her forces and forcing them to fight on a battlefield of their choice. It's close, but she still prevails.
  • From Thousand Shinji, we have 35 Special Forces agents under SEELE versus four Rubric Marines. No contest. Justified as WH 40k tech is just that much more advanced than modern tech. Quite a number of the fights fall this way too in The Open Door, largely thanks to New!Chaos's Bigger Stick.
    • Seeing how Space Marines are One Man Armies with the Rubric Marines even more powerful since they're Animated Armor with force fields and fire bullets made out of hell which can tear normal Power Armour like tissue paper, it would take 600 Special Forces at least and even that with very heavy looses, so was this really a surprise?
  • The fight between Unit-01 and Ramiel in the ninth chapter of ARSENAL qualifies as this.
    • In fact, every major battle that Shinji has fought with the exception of Chapters Eight and Ten qualify.
  • One of the biggest faults of crossing over two series with combatant protagonists is if the author turns every fight into a curb-stomp battle for the fandom they like better, even when it makes no sense, for example, for Edward Elric to be taking down 50+ Death Eaters at once.
  • Tiberium Wars has this happen pretty much anytime infantry go up against a Commando. At one point there's a drawn-out fight between a GDI soldier and a Nod Commando that only exists because the Commando was quite clearly toying with the soldier.
    • Later on, this happens when the Nod army runs headlong into the Mammoth Tanks of the GDI 2nd Heavy Armored. Specifically, the one thousand Mammoth Tanks of the GDI 2nd Heavy Armored.
  • The Firefly fic Forward has this happening at the end of the "Mosaic" story arc, when River, Jayne, and Mal take on and obliterate Ott's crew. Complete with Team Fortress 2 references.
    • Later on in "Second Interlude," Echo beats Jubal Early unconscious in the span of a single second.
    • In "Hunt," there's a cringe-worthy one where Kaylee fights a Hand of Blue. Kaylee is in a power loader. Needless to say, it ends fast and messy. For the Hand, that is.
  • Fated has a different version of the climactic battle at the end of "Innocence". The Scoobies ambush Spike and the Judge at the factory. Buffy's blowing away the Judge with her BLOODY ROCKET LAUNCHER is followed by the Scoobies barraging the vampires with crossbows. Spike and the wounded Drusilla beat a hasty retreat through the sewers, leaving Spike's minions to get massacred.
  • Sins of a Colonial Empire has one: 30 Colonial ships from BSG 2003, including 6 Battlestars Vs. 1 GDI ship. the GDI ship, which incidentally is mentioned as one of the most powerful ships in the galaxy wins, suffering only 17% damage to their shields, even after being hit with 6 nukes!
  • In the Naruto fanfic Team 8, the Naruto vs. Sasuke fight in the Chunin Exams results in this due to Sasuke pushing Naruto's Berserk Button. Oops.
  • Pretty much every battle in Eva Possibilities and Fusion Pandemonium is one of these. Bardiel, who absorbed Saiyan DNA through brief physical contact with Goten, is the first of the Angels to be the giver of a curb-stomping, effortlessly beating down even Gotenks and SS 3 Goku... and then Goku & Vegeta fuse, and Gogeta effortlessly whomps Bardiel.
  • In Buffy's Friday the 13th, Jason hands one to Angel, stabbing through his shoulder and arm, and ending with him impaling Angel on the wall with his machete.
  • Kyon, Yuki, and Tsuruya in Kyon: Big Damn Hero pull this off against two dozen Yakuza, with the first two doing practically all the fighting.
  • In Dueling Unlimited we have a few duels that are completely one sided. The first is when Santa Claus shows up to take on a villainous mercenary. The next four take place when Anti-Heroes/Anti-Villains Bat, Boa, Raven, and Dove pull off their Big Damn Heroes moment and curbstomp enemy forces. All these duels double as Crowning Moments Of Funny.
  • In MSLN Test Dummies Hayate decides for whatever reason to try and take on Zead, who is a Captain Ersatz of the Terminator, in close combat. It almost costs her her life.
  • Christian Humber Reloaded has this when the main character fights virtually anyone, to the point at which the exceptions (such as him losing for most of the fight with Chridion) are less common than the straight examples, although some of this is due to a lack of description apart from the killing blows. In what appears to be the final battle, he manages to defeat Chaos Blade in three moves, then destroys the hordes of Chaos and much of the US army before killing the corrupted President without any indications of being injured or having any difficulty.
  • In White Devil of the Moon, Nanoha is able to kill Jadeite with a single Divine Buster attack. When Tuxedo Kamen and the Inner Senshi attack Fate and Arf on two occasions to prevent her from keeping them away from Nanoha, she is able to defeat them easily, although she suspects that things would have gone differently if they had been at their full potential.
  • In Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns, the Sloth Demon's strongest form, like a werewolf, gets its rear handed to it, thoroughly, by dwarven commoner warden Faren Brosca, in single combat, even though it had been thrashing everyone else up to that point, including the protagonist. This is because the DC had made contact with it directly the moment it morphed and gained an understanding of how his Fade realm worked, then instinctively began to ignore all imposed limitation much like Sloth was doing. Flash Step battle ensues.
    • In the same tale, Uldred is killed instantly because the main cast doesn't wait for him to transform into the Pride Demon form.
  • Virtually every battle from Naruto Veangance Revelaitons involving Ronan is this. Especially notable is the beginning of Chapter 4, in which Ronan severely injures Orochimaru in the first sentence and forces him to retreat in the second, despite only just having started the fight at the end of the previous chapter.
  • In the Tamers Forever Series Chaosgallantmon delivers one of these to the soveriegns.
    • Daemon is given one from Crimson Mode
  • Several examples in With Strings Attached:
    • In New Zork, the “Hitler Youth” ambush Paul and Ringo in the “alley” next to the Dakota Building. About ten seconds later, one guy has been slammed into the wall across the street, one guy has a garbage can crimped around him, one guy is upside-down in a garbage can, and one guy is hanging upside-down on a fence. Shortly thereafter, the fifth guy, after a brief moment of glory, recognizes just how outmatched he is and goes to help his friends.
    • The final battle in the warehouse.
    • When Ringo beats the huge warrior Mung in three seconds.

"I think I win. Can I please go to sleep now?"

  • A Hero has Dalek Sec going up against a witch. It ends with the witch being vaporized via Maximum Extermination.
    • Earlier, we have Dalek Sec being utterly destroyed by Kriemhild Gretchen Thankfully, Sec gets better.
  • Imperfect Metamorphosis pits a limitedly-powered-up-Marisa (was also supplied with twelve of Yukari's absolutely insanely over the top Spellcards), Mima, Yuyuko, Youmu, Utsuho, Satori, Orin, Flandre, Remilia, Sakuya and Yukari against Yuuka and Elly, who Yuuka brought in to even things up a bit after Yukari cheated and brought in 11 people to a supposedly one-on-one duel. Yuuka laughingly curbstomps the Scarlet Devil and Underground forces using one quater of her power (possibly permakilling Satori and Flandre, or trapping them in a Fate Worse Than Death), and then brings three quaters of her power to bear against Yukari and gets a draw where both sides are too damaged to continue, with Yukari in worse shape. The only battle she 'lost' was against Marisa, Mima, Yuyuko and Youmu, and even then she was only usin 1/4 of her power, and she had 'Team Halloween' down to the ropes during the later part of the fight. Yuuka curbstomped most of the upper tier of the Touhou-verse at once without ever bringing her full power to bear.
  • Most of the fights in Kaiju War Chronicles are fairly even, but some of them end up being this. Most of them involve Bagan during the "Bagan Trilogy" (Bagan vs Monster X, Bagan vs. Everyone, and Bagan vs Everyone: Fallout). First he utterly destroys Monster X with ease and the title of the other two isn't lying, it literally takes basically the entire roster just to stand a ghost of a chance against him.
  • Sleepwalker ends up fighting a Hulk being driven nearly insane with rage tearing through New York City. Nothing Sleepwalker does even fazes the Hulk, whether it's impaling him with a large barbed spear or electrocuting the Hulk by connecting him to the New York power grid. The Hulk rapidly heals from all of Sleepwalker's attacks, and while he doesn't manage to hit Sleepwalker too often, the blows he does land are quite literally the most brutal attacks he's ever felt. It's only because Sleepwalker noticed that the Hulk's anger was being increased by his Demonic Possession and tried to use his warp vision to free the Hulk from it that he managed to survive.
  • Queen of All Oni: The fight against the sages in their shrine is entirely in their favor; Brothers Dark and Gray hold the advantage against the Shadow Hand and the J-Team the whole time, while Brother Light doesn't even seem to exert himself while continually tossing Jade and Hak Foo out of the inner shrine.
    • When Ikazuki temporarily usurped control of the Shadow Hand from Jade, it was greatly aided by his samurai wiping the floor with her ninja.
    • The Hero vs Mother fight lasts all of thirty seconds and ends in Hero's favor (which is quite impressive, given that Hero's hands were manacled at the time).
    • Uncle and Jade's first Wizard Duel outside the Section 13 Vault. She has the advantage for about two seconds before he overpowers her.
    • When Left and Right assault Lung's fortress in order to save Jade from him, they completely cut through his defenses -- terracotta Mooks? Mow them down. Hybrid Monster guardian? Take a chainsaw to it. Gateway completely impervious to magic attack? Dynamite. While Left is freeing Jade, Right continues after Lung, who proves to be a rather Squishy Wizard and is killed rather quickly.
  • In the Mega Crossover fancomic Roommates we got the Jareth vs. Erlkönig and the (partially off screen) Cast vs. Zombies fight. (Poor Zombies... and Jareth)
  • In The Tainted Grimoire, this has happened and probably will happen again.
    • Early in the story, there were several people who went up against Cid and Ensei, that were defeated in just one hit.
    • At the climax of the St. Galleria arc, after Ensei was able to give Judgemaster Cid proof of Vaticus' crimes, Judgemaster Cid sent his personal guard to assist The Heretics defeat the Archbishop Guard. The back-up easily defeated those that went up against them. Many who saw them were in awe.
    • When Veis and Villi were introduced, Veis defeated the leader of a group of would-be thieves easily.
  • In the Megacrossover Massacre: Fall of the Nosferatu, The fights between Diva fromm Blood+ and Damon (Vampire Diaries) Vampire Hunter D vs Alucard (Castlevania) and Hellsing's Alucard vs Simon Bellmont (Catlevania) are this trope.
  • Ponies Make War: General Esteem vs anypony that isn't Rarity, Twilight's mother, or Twilight herself.
    • Nihilus vs Luna, round one. Though it should be noted that the latter was exhausted and drained at the time.
    • God-mode Twilight vs anyone who isn't Titan himself (and that includes his Puppet avatars).
    • The second Battle of Ponyville is very clearly in Terra's favor, even when all the Mane Six and Luna are working together to try and bring her down. Then they reignite the neutralized Elements of Harmony and even the playing ground.
  • Fallout Equestria Project Horizons:
    • By chapter 42 Blackjack has gone berserk twice: The first time in Miramare Air Station where she only awakens after the carnage she wreaked unarmed was over. The second time her brutality made an allied Highlander visibly afraid and her remaining enemies attempted to flee after her first two kills. They didn't make it.
  • Some battles in Ace Combat: The Equestrian War may qualify. Since they usually involve the Mirage squadron, griffins have a hard time winning against them.
  • In chapter 32 of The Wizard in the Shadows Ginny flips out spectacularly at the Battle of the Black Gate. Channelling the power of what is hinted to be at least one of the Valar (and it being sustained by Gandalf and someone else), she obliterates the physical form of three Nazgul and at least half of Mordor's army with three flaming tornadoes. Admittedly, Harry had just been killed, so she had a fair amount of Unstoppable Rage going.
  • Inner Demons: Queen!Twilight Sparkle versus Luna. The Princess only gets one attack in, which Twilight reflects back at her, before immobilizing her. And then she uses a Mind Control spell on her, ending the fight.
    • Applejack's first encounter with Queen!Twilight's magically constructed Mooks was over very quickly. Unfortunately, she lost.
    • When Applejack and Rarity are breaking out of the castle, they absolutely mow down all of the soldiers in their way. At least until they're confronted by the brainwashed Princess Luna.
  • From the incomplete Sailor Moon Expanded side story Zeon Genesis Bogosity, Titanite/Sailor Polaris smashing Matariel, the ninth Angel with a giant Hyperspace Mallet. For Bonus Points, she does it while Teleport Spamming to keep it from targeting her, while chanting:

"Brightness beyond dawn,
Turquoise beyond blood that flows,
Servant of the Eternal City,
In Serenity's name,
I pledge myself to the light.
All the evil that threatens earth will be punished
By the power of the Senshi.
MALLET SLAVE!

One hit, and it's flattened.
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