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But in the immortal words of [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Pearl Forrester]]: ORRRRRR.... IS IT?!
Fast forward a week and you've got the next episode. Wait, something's wrong here. Bob is predicting Evulz's moves to the inch, hitting him with every move in his own arsenal, and not even getting tired whilst doing so! By the end of the episode, Evulz is stone dead, and Bob hasn't a drop of blood on him except for Evulz's. He wipes off the sword, sheathes it, says something about his sister, and walks into the sunset. Evulz has just been subjected to a '''Curb Stomp Battle'''.
[[Tropes Are Tools|As with all tropes, this can be done well or done poorly]]. A hero doing an epic ass-kicking to an overconfident, [[Smug Snake]] of a villain can be both incredibly awesome and cathartic, and an intelligently done one-sided battle can leave you as breathless as one that's close. And really, having it always looking like the villain is winning before the hero makes a comeback makes most fights incredibly predictable and the villain's early lead increasingly meaningless. On the villain side, this is an excellent way to establish someone as a threat, to put just that much more tension to the plot.
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Sometimes, too, a battle logically ''should'' be a curbstomp, but isn't, and no real explanation is ever offered as to why the winner won. This can be, in its own way, just as dissatisfying as a curb stomp that makes no sense.
Compare [[Pendulum War]], which is where sides take turns to perform this trope upon each other. For the [[Professional Wrestling]] equivalent, see [[Squash Match]]. In video games, see [[Flawless Victory]]. [[Breather Boss]]es and [[Anticlimax Boss]]es are the types most likely to be on the receiving end of a '''Curb Stomp Battle'''. If this is done to the ''heroes'', on the other hand, it becomes a [[Hopeless Boss Fight]], often from a [[Hero-Killer]]. Compare [[
[[One-Hit Kill]] is a subtrope that's [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
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