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* The very soul and fiber of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' is woven with this sentiment. As one of the songs says: ''"Do the impossible, see the invisible! ROW ROW FIGHT DA POWAH!'' '''''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avRuZ4QLWek ROW ROW FIGHT DA POWAH!]"'''''
** The movie then '''takes the literal version of the trope and cranks it [[Up to Eleven]], with {{spoiler|Simon duking it out with the Anti-Spiral, after they had just battled in galaxy-sized mecha.}}
* The [[Enemy Without|berserked defense program of the Book of Darkness]] in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', a [[Humongous Mecha|gigantic bio-mechanical monstrosity]] that had destroyed countless worlds in the past and is considered to be impossible to kill due to its reincarnation cycle, which lets it reform itself somewhere else whenever it dies. It went up against Nanoha's massively overpowered party, consisting of a mage that had merged with the cleansed Book of Darkness, the four guardians the Book of Darkness created to defend itself, and five other mages that are able to match said guardians in battle. All of them were throwing around [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower
** Not quite. Even though they did defeat it, it was only temporarily and it took {{spoiler|Reinforce sealing herself away for all eternity}} to finally put an end to it.
** It should be mentioned that they only beat the actually really Cthulu-esque "Darkness of the Book of Darkness". When Nanoha and Fate fought against Reinforce they didn't stand the slightest chance. She's made to be a powerful being that can destroy entire worlds and she does ''not'' disappoint.
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*** Also in the final duel, Yugi manages to simultaneously increase the Silent Swordsman's power while decreasing Obelisk's power so that the two of them manage to destroy each other. Near the end of the duel, he seals away Monster Reborn, and then reveals that he did so when {{spoiler|Atem}} tries to resurrect Osiris, preventing the resurrection and enabling him to directly attack him and win the duel.
** In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|5D's]]'', [[Badass|Jack Atlas]] goes up against the Crimson Devil, Scar-Red Nova, the oldest [[Eldritch Abomination|Earthbound God]] that drove the Crimson Dragon to it's limit. During the battle, he acquires [[Incendiary Exponent|Burning Soul]], and {{spoiler|''robs the Crimson Devil of all of it's power'', using it to make his new ace monster}}.
* The {{spoiler|Obsidian Lord}} from ''[[
** Furthermore, in ''[[Mai-Otome]]'', {{spoiler|Arika manages to defeat Nina, who was at the time, powered up by the Harmonium and capable of destruction of apocalyptic proportions, with almost disappointing ease}}.
* In ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', Sailor Moon defeats the personification of Chaos itself as well as its four incarnations.
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* In ''[[Naruto]]'' this is done fairly frequently with regards to the Tailed Beasts. Every one of the them, despite being an immortal blob of concentrated energy has been defeated and bound into the body of a human by another mortal.
** This is even more impressive in the case of {{spoiler|Hashirama Senju who could control the demons themselves. He didn't just punch out Cthulhu; he made them roll over and play dead.}}
*** {{spoiler|To better aid her husband, Naruto's <s> great aunt</s> distant relative? Mito Uzumaki sealed the Kyubi inside herself, becoming the first Jinchuuriki in over a thousand years since the Rikudou Sennin.}}
** When faced with the One Tailed Tanuki, Naruto nearly perfectly recreated this trope when he decked Gaara across the face only for Gaara to just get pissed at him. Instead, Naruto had to go for a [[Use Your Head|Did You Just Head-Butt Cthulhu]] moment. That one worked.
*** Naruto does it again {{spoiler|when he confronts the Kyuubi, first, he uses Sage Mode to gain enough strength to actually hurl the frickin beast like a rag doll and then smash it to the ground [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|followed by smashing said beast's torso with a Wind Release: Rasenshuriken.]]}}
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* This is the signature move of Takashi Natsume from ''[[Natsume Yuujinchou]]''. He can deliver a punch that lays out youkai many times larger than him, much to their surprise. It's implied that it's not just physical force -- he inherited very strong spirtual power from his [[Identical Grandson|Identical Grandmother]] Reiko Natsume (who delivered most of her beatdowns via baseball bat.)
* At the end of ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion|Rebuild of]] [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Evangelion 2.0]]'', {{spoiler|Shinji and Unit 01 have started Third Impact and are spoken of as things beyond any ever seen. Then Kaworu stops that by dropping a lance on Unit 01 from above.}} Whether this counts as [[Always a Bigger Fish]]... will have to wait for the other two films.
* The main plot of ''Edens Bowy'' revolves around god hunters, humans who have the power to slay gods, and thus protect humanity from divine enslavement.
* [[Saint Seiya]] enjoys and employs some very literal god-killing, it being the plot is basically 'oh crap, a Holy War, go kill Hades for me (Athena)'. So they do, killing Hypnos and Thanatos along the way-and in the movies they beat up Artemis and Apollo. Also seen in [[Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas]], where at one point it's four Gods against Capricorn El Cid. {{spoiler|with some help from [[The Hero]] and a good old [[Heroic Sacrifice]], he wins.}}
** To say nothing about Cancer Manigoldo, who pretty much spends the entirety of the fight against Thanatos hanging on for dear-life as he gets curbstomped further and further into the ground, only to claw back from the brink every time and eventually destroy the God's body.
** The grand champ of this all now is {{spoiler|Gemini Aspros}}, who managed to kill a ''Titan'' with powers comparable to Chronos single-handedly.
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** {{spoiler|Before that, everyone of the protagonists do this in the final battle to get him to uses up his stone. For awhile it doesn't seem like nothing affecting Father as he just stands in one spot using his powers to deflect the attacks. And then something changes and he's actually forced to ''block'' an attack with his arm. This doesn't go unnoticed by the heroes, cue orders to hit him harder with Father getting knocked around from all sides.}}
* This, along with [[The Power of Love]], is the cornerstone of [[Kurohime]].
* In ''[[
** [[Superpower Lottery|The super-powered villain Accelerator]] eventually gets his name added to the list of superpowered beings Touma has punched in the face.
** Touma's first fight involved him punching out Innocentius, a powerful fire demon composed of 3000-degree flames. From here, he had nowhere to go but up.
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* ''[[My Balls]]'' takes the [[Refuge in Audacity]] route, as usual: did you just defeat {{spoiler|Beelzebub}} with [[It Makes Sense in Context|armpit sex]]?
* ''[[Baka Test]]'': {{spoiler|Yoshii}} defeats {{spoiler|Ironman, a foe long thought to be unbeatable}}.
* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'': {{spoiler|Team Natsu}} defeats {{spoiler|[[
** {{spoiler|In the [[Time Skip]], Natsu actually manages to go toe to toe with Sabertooth's leader Jinema, whose guild is considered the strongest of the land after seven years.}}
* ''[[High School DxD]]'': {{spoiler|Ise}} is the first of the Occult Research Club to outright defeat {{spoiler|[[One-Man Army|Lo]][[Norse Mythology|ki]]}}.
* In ''[[Fate/Zero]]'', Saber [[Sword Beam|Excaliblasts]] Cthulhu. As in the ''actual'' [[Cthulhu Mythos|Cthulhu]], summoned by her enemy Caster.
* ''[[Pokémon]]''; as of 2021, Ash's Pokémon have defeated six Legendaries — Noland's Articuno, Brandon's Regice, Tobias's Darkrai and Latios, Gladion's Silvally and Tapu Koko.
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