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** {{spoiler|With a golf club, for heaven's sake.}}
*** First time players might find themselves on the receiving end of one when trying to fight a big daddy early on in the game with conventional tactics. The opposite is true when one learns to set up a line of several electrical tripwires and enrage the big daddy [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0N1hzIvr5A&feature=player_detailpage#t=35s which charges through them] and suffers a curb stomp battle without even a shot fired from the player.
* The final battle of ''[[Super Metroid]]'' sees Samus failing miserably against an overpowered Mother Brain, who has gone [[One-Winged Angel]], until {{spoiler|the now-grown Metroid hatchling that got kidnapped by Ridley at the very start of the game [[Androcles' Lion|saves her life]] in a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] that grants Samus the [[Eleventh
** A similar thing happens in ''[[Metroid Fusion]]'', where Samus is curbstomped by an Omega Metroid due to her lack of an Ice Beam, but the SA-X "sacrifices" itself to save her and she regains the Ice Beam as a result.
** Toward the end of ''Metroid Zero Mission'', Samus is stripped of her [[Powered Armor]] and has to flee from Space Pirates that can knock off a full tank with every hit. Then she gets a [[Look What I Can Do Now!|new suit]] and it's the Pirates who get the curbstomping.
* After a [[Hopeless Boss Fight]], Ryu awakens a new dragon form, goes berserk and vaporizes the boss in 2 rounds at the end of ''[[Breath of Fire IV (Video Game)|Breath of Fire IV]]'s'' second act.
* In ''[[Heavenly Sword]]'' after Nariko {{spoiler|ascends to godhood}} a battle ensues in which she {{spoiler|eradicates an entire army without being touched. A close examination reveals that she even evaporates people via proximity, without attacking at all.}}
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** Played around with in [http://www.accursedfarms.com/Video.php?Video_ID=5 this Civil Protection movie.]
** Four vortigaunts vs. approximately one million antlions. The antlions lose. Badly.
** [[Badass Bookworm|Gordon Freeman]], theoretical physicist, vs. a dimension-spanning army of slavemasters. Those bastards already had no chance... and then his gravity gun [[Eleventh
* {{spoiler|Kuzuki}} Vs Saber in ''[[Fate Stay Night]]'' is a crushing defeat for Saber, who has NO idea what is going on while being effortlessly pummeled and having her neck ripped apart before being slammed into a wall at about 120 miles an hour. To be fair, nobody had the slightest idea that {{spoiler|a high school teacher would have such amazing fighting prowess. And he knows perfectly well it wouldn't work a second time.}} A little later in the route, [[The Worf Effect|Berserker]] is utterly crushed by Gilgamesh, though it's noted that if he HAD managed to close the gap between them, he would have won instantly. He almost does manage to do it {{spoiler|except Gilgamesh cheats and has Enkidu, chains for snaring divine opponents such as Berserker and Lancer and even Rider (both Medusa ''and'' [[Fate Zero|Iskander]])}}.
* In ''[[Super Scribblenauts]]'', pitting {{spoiler|Death}} against virtually anyone causes their death with a single touch. This includes God. Also, creating {{spoiler|a Black Hole}} will destroy everything within seconds.
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** Some of the harder boss fights in Earthbound become pretty one sided if you use a multi-bottle rocket.
* The final showdown against [[Big Bad|Rodrigo]] [[Complete Monster|Borgia]] in ''[[Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed II]]'' is very much this, considering that Ezio has over 20 years of experience as an Assassin and Rodrigo is a fat old man. It's even more one-sided (and literal) when the two decide to bare-knuckle brawl, especially if Ezio bought the Metal Cestus.
* Cubia's first appearance in [[.hack|the original .hack// games]] is this. Kite manages to beat Skeith, who melts into a puddle of goo. Earthquakes start happening, weird, blue tree-like things start sprouting up in two lines heading directly for Kite, the goo begins bubbling furiously, and then there's a gigantic explosion. When the dust settles, Cubia's floating in the sky, completely dwarfing Kite. Kite can only numbly look on as Cubia [[Roar Before Beating|prepares a]] [[Sucking
* In [[.hack GU Games|.Hack//G.U.]] Haseo's first fight with Tri-Edge. Events in order:
** Haseo spots Tri-Edge. Using his twin-blades, Haseo unleashes a barrage of attacks while Tri-Edge, with no effort blocks all of them with ONE HAND
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* [[Inazuma Eleven]]: Teikoku match in the first game. Then Gemimi, Epsilon, and Genesis in ''2''. However, you are the one being stomped, not them. The story some time force you to be stomped even harder with 0-18 or so.
* ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'' can easily have this if you go to Lavos too early. Also, you're supposed to lose the first fight with the Golem. And the fight with Lavos in the Ocean Palace.
** Of course, if you are on a [[New Game
** ''[[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]]'' continues it when you're [[Fighting Your Friend|Fighting Your Friends]] as Lynx.
* In the FPS/RPG ''[[Strife]]'', most boss fights after The Programmer fall under this trope. {{spoiler|Until Spectres erupt from their bodies.}}
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