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** In ''[[Mega Man 3]]'', the Holograph Mega Men - and the second form of the ''final boss'' - can be [[One-Hit Kill|one hit killed]] with the Top Spin ([[Lethal Joke Item|yes, the very Top Spin that is considered one of the worst Mega Man weapons in history]]). Given the fact that the real Holograph Mega Man always starts on the top platform, the fight can be completed in around 3 seconds.
** Obtaining the [[Street Fighter|Hadouken or Shoryuken]] bonus attacks in ''[[Mega Man X]]'' and ''X2'' provides 1-hit kills to almost every boss fight in the game. Also easily doable with the [[Game Breaker|Ultimate Armor]] in following games.
* This seems to happen alot to poor ol' Ragna in [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]] against Hazama / Terumi. Every single time he goes against him in the story, he almost always ends up sliced up and on the ground. Even when Ragna activates his Azure Grimoire / is in Unlimited mode which is pretty much [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'s idea of [[A God I Am|God mode]], Hazama can still win effortlessly against him according to the story. Even if you play the Arcade mode as Ragna and beat Hazama at the end, perfect him, AND Astral Finish him, the following cutscene just has him 'thanking' you for the "warm up". The worst part? [[Oh Crap|Hazama himself has an Unlimited mode, made even stronger with his Nox Nyctores, Ouroboros.]]
** The Score Attack mode in [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]] can be seen as kind of a mode where the AI get's revenge on YOU for beating up their Very Easy, Easy, and Normal difficulty selves. In Score Attack, all the characters you fight have a difficulty setting higher than what Very Hard mode is. The AI has insane reflexes, [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|can pull off combos no human can do, and will literally read your button inputs and will do a move of their own to counter you.]] Put simply: If you're still playing on Normal / Hard difficulty, you WILL be Curbstomped by the AI. [[No Kill Like Overkill|Not to mention that the last 4 characters you have to face are Unlimited versions of Hakumen, Hazama, Ragna, and Rachel.]] Or in case of Extend, [[It Got Worse|'''all of your opponents''' are Unlimited characters.]]
* In ''[[BioShock (series)]]'', {{spoiler|Andrew Ryan initiates sort of a forced, suicidal Curbstomp Battle by uttering that fun little hypnotic phrase...}}
** {{spoiler|With a golf club, for heaven's sake.}}
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** Haseo could only look on in horror as Tri-Edge charged his attack. Moments later, Tri-Edge unleashed Data Drain, destroying Haseo and reducing him from level 133 to level 1.
* The tutorial boss in ''[[Demon's Souls]]'' is designed to kill you in one hit. If an experienced player manages to beat him against all odds, a huge dragon (one of the final bosses) will punch him to death in a cutscene.
* Lucien, during the While Guthix Sleeps quest in ''[[RunescapeRuneScape]]''. When you last saw him, he was a hooded stranger asking you to steal an artifact for him, and you had the option of doing so or, after meeting the guardians of said artifact, killing him, and he is extremely weak (level 14, in contrast, most players on that quest would be at least 60+). You learn in While Guthix Sleeps {{spoiler|that he has apparently become a lot more powerful, and so assemble a group eight of the world's greatest fighters, a few of which you have gotten to know in previous quests. When Lucien spots you sneaking around in disguise, he attacks you, and the eight teleport in to fight him and save you. Only two survive, and barely escape alive.}}
** {{spoiler|Not to mention those two only survived because they didn't directly attack Lucien. They just stood behind and fought some of his troops.}}
** {{spoiler|Lucien of all people comes on the receiving end in Rituals of the Mahjarrat when the [[Bigger Bad|Dragonkin]] enter the scene.}}
** All player characters in ''[[RunescapeRuneScape]]'' have the potential to do this, they basically have unlimited potential and can end up over a hundred times stronger than the average citizen.
** Dragon claws can do this to players and npcs alike, hitting 4 times, quickly, and quite hard.
* The [[Three Amigos]] of ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'' are on the receiving end of a hopeless curb-stomp battle against the {{spoiler|1=[[Big Bad]] Xehanort and [[The Dragon]] Vanitas [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehgwv0CwQuA in their cinematic final battle]}}, in one of the most sad moments of the game.
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