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* The newest Starship ''Enterprise'' from the 2009 ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' takes the concept of One Starship Armada to ridiculous extremes. Nero's ship the ''Narada'' wrecks an entire squadron of Klingons, a Starfleet armada, and finds spare time to <s>blow up</s> implode a planet. Guess which starship defeats it all by itself?? Seriously, it's as if any ship with the name ''Enterprise'' is made of badassinum alloy.
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*** Really this trope belongs to the Narada if anything. See above.
**** In the words of Will Riker, Luck looks out for fools, children, and ships named Enterprise.
* The Bride from ''[[Kill Bill]]'' [
** Of course, [[Non-Indicative Name|there isn't 88 of them]]. They thought the name [[Rule of Cool|sounded cool]]. Careful watching and counting brings the actual count to around 82.
** [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]] played a part here, but she still managed to take them out without serious injury until the [[Cute but Psycho]] girl showed up.
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* Frederick Zoller from ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'' killed around 300 soldiers with the aid of a good vantage point to pick them off with.
* River Tam in ''[[Serenity]]''. Also a classic example of [[Waif Fu]].
* While he often has friends or an army on his side, [[The Lord of the Rings|Aragorn]] certainly kills enough Orcs in battle to qualify, and was very much this trope for part of the battle of Amon Hen in the first film.
** Aragorn has killed 60 enemies on-screen, but this also includes some [[Elite Mooks]], and he certainly killed much more enemies during off-screen fighting scenes. Just remember the many [[The War Sequence|war sequences]]. Gimli and Legolas aren't so bad either, as both claim to have killed each like 40 Uruks during the battle at Helms Deep.
** [[Crowning Moment of Funny|That still only counts as one!]]
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* Evelyn Salt, from the film ''[[Salt]]''. A one-woman special forces unit, she is able to single-handedly take out squads of specially-trained security agents and other operatives hot on her tail, [[MacGyvering|improvise]] a cannon of sorts from a fire extinguisher, cleaning chemicals and the leg of a table, jump off bridges and land on the roofs of trucks unscathed, and fashion darts from freshly-milked spider venom - amongst other things.
* In ''[[Mulan]]'', the titular character singlehandedly defeats a majority of the Hun army and then, upon discovering that a few still survived, got their leader killed. With '''''fireworks'''''. As [[The Nostalgia Chick]] put it, Mulan is "the only [[Disney Princess]] with a body count. In the thousands."
* In [[Zack Snyder]]'s [[Sucker Punch]] the One Woman Army is Baby Doll in the first "Dance" sequence in which she beats up a group of Samurai with guns. [[
* Each of [[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]] is one of these, but special mention goes to [[The Hulk]], who is all but explicitly called one when Tony Stark and Loki are facing off.
{{quote|'''Loki''': I have an ''army.''
'''Stark''': We have a Hulk. }}
* In ''[[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick-Ass]]'', Hit-Girl combines this with [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]] ''and'' [[Knight Templar]], slaughtering a small army of crooks ''by herself''.
* [[The Paladin|Xenk]] from from ''[[Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves]]''. In one notable scene he beats up a squad of [[The Dreaded|Thayan]] assassins by himself, prompting Holga to remark that she's "glad he's on our side". Probably fortunate that [[Hero of Another Story| this is not his story]] and that Xenk has to part ways with them after a short time, as [[Helping Would Be Killstealing| there'd be very little]] for the main cast to do if he went with them.
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