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* Happens several times in the ''[[Axis of Time]]'' trilogy. It's to be expected however, considering that the basis for the trilogy involves mismatching World War II technology against a military force from 2021...

* In ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' series, [[Muggles]] generally don't stand much of a chance against [[Witch Species|channelers]], who just have too damn many awesome [[Functional Magic|powers]], but the Asha'man in particular ''really'' rub this in, as they undergo [[Training From Hell]] for the express purpose of becoming [[Person of Mass Destruction|living weapons]]. When ''they'' show up, people tend to [[Your Head Asplode|explode]]. Messily. For their first battle, they teleport into the middle of an enemy camp and proceed to turn the surrounding army of elite desert warriors into chunks of gore while ''they'' chill behind their force fields.

** Justified with the first three counter-terrorist missions. Once the [[Badass Crew]] gets into action, they take down all the Tangos without losing a man - but before beginning the operation, we are shown how they need to gather information and plan out the execution. The men also train over and over ad nauseum in preparation for taking a mission. Using flashbangs to disorientate the targets before going in doesn't hurt.

** Also, the last 300 pages of The Bear and The Dragon are almost 100% Americans blowing up whole Chinese armies in scene after scene, battle after battle. Well, occasionally they let the Russians have some fun too. Other than a brief subplot with a nuclear missile, the outcome is never even close to contested.

* {{spoiler|Kelsier}}'s final battle against {{spoiler|the Lord Ruler}} in ''[[Mistborn|The Final Empire]]'' is pretty much this. It's immediately after one of the single most awesome fight scenes in the book, wherein {{spoiler|Kell kills an Inquisitor}}, making it all the more shocking when {{spoiler|the Lord Ruler basically just ''rips his face off''}} without breaking stride.

** One of these is deliberately engineered by Vin in the final book. She {{spoiler|takes on ''thirteen'' Steel Inquisitors at once to try to put herself in enough danger to trigger an [[Eleventh Hour Superpower]]. Turns out she got the mechanism wrong, but it worked out anyway- halfway through, the fight turns from the Inquisitors breaking every bone in Vin's body to [[Person of Mass Destruction|Vin smashing a castle on top of them]].}}

* World War III from the Keepers series (or pretty much every battle from WWIII in this series). The Germany-based Apex Empire takes over the world in a year. The Allies were completely outwitted (even for the decade prior to the short war, which was when Germany created its new empire) throughout. For starters, the entire population of the Allies had to be evacuated to North America just so they wouldn't be slaughtered (militarily) right from the outset. Even before the war became global, Germania (Germany plus Austria and the Czech Republic), along with Israel, essentially conquered the Middle East in three days (one of which was spent utterly defeating the combined invasion force of the Middle East against Israel), while killing almost no enemy combatants. The Apex Empire eventually deploys a superweapon that can only be described as an animalistic, small-mountain sized moving fortress/SHOOPDAWHOOP canon/Dakka worship doomsday weapon. To put things into perspective: the Allies, right before the war, designed a moving fortress that was supposed to be huge, like a superweapon. Well, each of the legs of the Juggernaught (the Apex's superweapon) is the size of the Allies' moving-fortress. And it had dozens of legs. Essentially the Real Life version of Flawless Victory, in the form of a WORLD WAR.

* Every battle or war between the [[Villain Sue|Draka]] and ''anyone'' else is [[The Bad Guy Wins|one of these]], with the Draka's victims [[Made a Slave|enslaved]] afterwards. It doesn't hurt that the Draka military equipment is [[Schizo Tech|two or three generations ahead]] of everyone else, and that the [[The Draka|Draka]] train in martial arts from the [[The Spartan Way|age of five]].

* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' {{spoiler|Griff and the Golden Company}} against the defenders of Griffon's Reach.

{{quote| {{spoiler|Griff}} expected to lose a hundred men, perhaps more. They lost four.}}

** The anti-climactic Satan's Other Light army vs. God battle in ''Kingdom Come'' was over in an instant. All that preparation and God just smokes Satan's army into ashes in seconds.

* In ''[[Wearing the Cape]]'', Hope/Astra nearly loses in her first hero/villain fight, against {{spoiler|Brick, a superstrong gang-banger supervillain}}--partly due to inexperience, but also due to {{spoiler|being handicapped by an intruding second supervillain}}. Later she gets a rematch and the fight is so one-sided {{spoiler|Brick}} doesn't land a single hit, as a dramatic way of showing how much she's progressed.