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Obviously, the breaking point on this can be a bit subjective.
When one side is getting all the damage and you still are wondering (slightly nauseated) how much more he can take, the trope is [[No
See also [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours]] and [[Rasputinian Death]].
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** The fact that everyone in the series has [[From a Single Cell]] regeneration and are [[Nigh Invulnerable]] to boot makes it difficult, but there is a rule of thumb- has Alucard done something so far beyond badass it comes out the other side and ends up being silly yet? He's probably losing. But he'll win in the end.
** Except for his final battle, which is so far beyond weaksauce it comes out the other side and ends up being deeply compelling.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has normally made sure to emphasize the character's mortality during combat (such as things like sharpened stone spears being fatal like they should be). Then the match between Negi & Kotaro against Kagetaro & Rakan came about and threw all that out the window. {{spoiler|The match started with Raken being pummled by [[Full
** The fight is now over. {{spoiler|Both parties ended up running out of magic before they took down the other guy, so they ended up engaging in [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]. At that point, they both fainted from exhaustion.}}
* In ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', {{spoiler|Revy and Roberta}} end up settling their differences in a fistfight that ends up being a very good example of this trope. The end result is draw by [[Cross Counter]] (although {{spoiler|Roberta}} isn't knocked out, which technically makes her the winner).
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** Taken to the extreme in the [[Grand Finale]], where the fight between Superman and Darkseid goes on for far too long, and is mostly Darkseid smacking the crap out of Superman, with several blows that look like they ''should'' be devastating - one looks like it'd break Superman's back! - but don't noticeably affect his ability to fight in any way. What makes this even crazier is that it seems like ''Batman'' - yes, ''Batman'' - tries to mix it up with Darkseid, and because of this trope, it seems like his jump-kick is about as effective as Superman. And after enduring this horrific, brutal abuse from a stronger-than-ever Darkseid for the ''entire episode'', Superman gets up, shrugs it off, comes up with the [[World of Cardboard Speech]] and a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]...but the comeback doesn't even last as long as it took him to ''get through'' the speech, when he's interrupted by a device that ''puts him in as much pain as is physically possible'', and ''that'' ends the fight.
** On the other hand, decently averted in the episode "Flash Point", in a brawl between [[Captain Atom]] and Superman - the two of them (particularly the Captain) visibly take damage and slow down as the fight goes on.
** On a similar note: [[Superman Doomsday]]. The titular characters go at it in Metropolis, [[No
* How ''[[Family Guy]]'''s Peter vs. Giant Chicken fights tend to go, although they accumulate at least cosmetic injuries over the course of the fight. It helps that they're all [[Rule of Funny|played for laughs]] and pretty much happening for no reason anyway.
* ''[[Transformers]]'' often faces this problem and ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' especially: the Predacons (most commonly [[The Chew Toy|Waspinator]]) are frequently blown into pieces, and often survive without even going into the "safety lock" emergency state, yet {{spoiler|Dinobot}} died while largely intact. The shows offers the (surprisingly consistent) justification that it doesn't matter how much they're torn apart, as long as their [[Our Souls Are Different|Spark]] has energon supplied to it they can be put back together. Thus {{spoiler|Dinobot}} died not from injuries, but because he kept fighting long after his system told him to shut-down.
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== Real Life ==
* Matthew Saad Muhammad, a Hall of Fame boxer, was the walking, breathing example of this trope. Nearly all of his significant fights resulted in him taking massive amounts of punishment while never going down, then proceeding to turn the fight around shortly after and recuperating from the damage to win, usually in the most spectacular fashion possible. His nickname was Miracle Matthew for a reason.
** Another boxing example: Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward beat the everloving bejesus out of each other, both sustaining incredible amounts of punishment. They ended up fighting [[Wasn't That Fun?|three times]], producing much of the same excitement. (A writer for the ''Boston Globe'' described all three fights as "like a Popeye cartoon, only more eventful.")
* According to [[That Other Wiki]], the [
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