No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Difference between revisions

 

== Comic Books ==

** He ''does'' deliver one to the [[Captain Ersatz|not-]][[The Authority|Authority]] in ''What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, And The American Way?'' {{spoiler|and he was ''still'' holding back.}}

** Thor gives as good as he gets when it comes to Superman, and both beat the stuffing out of each other once, implying that they are about even.

* Near the end of the film ''The Ninth Configuration'', Stacy Keach's character is having the stuffing beat out of him by a motorcycle gang. This is the moment that he remembers that {{spoiler|he is not an army psychologist, but a deranged marine known as Killer Kane. Kane gets up and proceeds to deliver an epic, murderous unarmed beatdown to all the biker scum present. Makes one guy scream like a little girl. He grabs a biker chick's hair and rams her head against a wall, breaking her neck. Ouch}}.

* In ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'', while we know he won't ever actually ''kill'' Batman, the Joker makes clear in their final confrontation he's also not going to hold back until Batman is down for good ([[Nothing Up My Sleeve|or so he thinks]]). The growls from the Joker while he [[Spam Attack|beats the crap out of Batman with a crow bar]] are chilling.

* The baseball bat scene from ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]''.

** Buch from ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' kills an opponent in an off-screen boxing match.

* ''[[Drive (film)|Drive]]. [[Ryan Gosling]]. {{spoiler|The elevator.}}

* ''100 Feet'' contains a fatal beatdown of the protagonist's [[Love Interest]] by her husband's ghost. Towards the end, the ghost's face becomes visible because it's been headbutting the guy so hard that it's gotten drenched in his blood.

 

 

== Literature ==

** The trio disarm Snape so hard that he flies several feet and loses consciousness.

* In [[Dan Abnett]]'s ''[[Gaunt's Ghosts|Gaunts Ghosts]]'' novel ''First & Only'', Jantine Patricians attack some Ghosts with this, including [[Kick Them While They Are Down]]; they kill three and render a fourth Ghost critical, and a fifth Ghost escapes only because they take him alive.

 

 

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' seemed to get this a lot the first time she fought a Big Bad:

** Buffy's and Glory's first fight; Buffy only got away because Glory was careless about the architecture.

** Faith whaling on Buffy in "Who Are You?"

** Caleb whaling on the entire Scooby gang and potential slayers in "Dirty Girls".

** And since then [[Mark Henry]] has been doing this to everyone who crosses him.

*** Then Big Show came promptly returned the favor.

* [[Randy Orton]]

* The Two Man Power Trip ([[Triple H]] and Stone Cold) delivered an absolutely hellacious beating to the Hardy Boys and Lita. It's pretty uncomfortable to watch, especially as they humiliate and [[Would Hit a Girl|destroy Lita]] with a chair...not that they needed the chair.