One-Man Army/Western Animation

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Examples of One-Man Army in Western Animation include:

  • Star Wars: Clone Wars has varying degrees of this trope. Durge is shown (and explicitly stated in other EU material) to be a one-man arsenal, but "only" kills a few dozen soldiers. General Grievous is similarly able to cut through clones and Jedi with his usual psychopathic zeal, but his body count is relatively low. Anakin and Obi-Wan are better examples, a "body count" of droids well in the thousands, but they have their limits and still rely heavily on the armies they command. Mace and Yoda, however, wipe out hundreds of droids without their lightsabers and tear apart entire legions with little help from their soldiers.

King Katuunko: You were right, Count Dooku. One Jedi is not worth a hundred battle droids... more like a thousand.

  • Iroh of Avatar: The Last Airbender. They say so. In as many words. Really. And consider that this was during the Eclipse, when he would have had no ability to firebend.
    • There's a reason he's called the Dragon of the West. It's Badass.
    • Any accomplished Avatar is one as well.
    • Can't forget Bumi either, who liberated the city of Omashu by himself.
      • While he was locked inside of what was essentially a metal coffin...with his face.
    • According to the Word of God, the reason Piandao is so revered as a sword master is because of what happened when he decided he was tired of the military and became a recluse. They sent a hundred soldiers. He sent them all back.
      • And he can't (or won't) firebend, either.
    • Then we've got Ty Lee, the butt-kicking, Genki Dark Action Girl, who takes out an entire group of elite earthbenders by herself in "The Drill".
    • Whole Team Avatar is this to some degree. In the episode "Earth King" group of kids in age from 12 to 15 year old, just blasted to Palace through legion of elite earthbenders.
    • The Order Of The White Lotus is basically composed of these. The previously mentioned Iroh, Bumi, and Piandao are all members. There's a reason their battle with a Fire Nation army that was super charged by Sozin's Comet was a Curb Stomp Battle.
      • The fact that one of their own was supercharged as well doesn't hurt.
  • Megas XLR. First episode: On one side, Coop and a nameless sidekick mecha. On the other, a large army of alien mooks and their commander.

Kiva: Look at them all. These odds are awful.
Coop: You're right, it is kind of unfair. * knocks sidekick out* Now it's fair.

  • In Invader Zim, it's shown that apparently a single competent Irken Invader is capable of conquering a planet by themselves. Helps that they do have some impressive technology at their disposal. The main character has even better technology that he's engineered himself, but being a Chaotic Stupid Genius Ditz has no way to use them effectively (though he's still pretty dangerous at times).
  • The title character of Samurai Jack, with only a couple prepared traps, single-handedly destroyed hundreds (if not thousands) of Kill Bots in the third episode.
    • Not only that, but the last few Kill Bots actually took a step backwards trying to running away. Jack said "No, there is no escape." and ruined them.
    • Once, he managed to beat a moderately large army of robots with literally no effort at all.
  • Maggie Simpson, despite being a baby, can take out a group of mobsters with a rifle.
  • Brock Samson, the Swedish Murder Machine himself.
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