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* [[The Incredible Hulk]] has been this for years and years, but it became most apparent in [[World War Hulk]] where he easily defeats people he has no business defeating, most notably [[Doctor Strange]].
** Doc Strange was particularly horrible because his defeat relied on Strange's choosing to use magic more dangerous to himself than to the Hulk, and to fight the Hulk hand-to-hand. Let's look at that again: [[Idiot Ball|Doctor Strange CHOSE. To fight the HULK. In HAND-TO-HAND.]] As opposed to, oh, just waving his arms and sending the Hulk to have a time-out in another dimension, ''like he's done at least once before''. Aside from Strange, Hulk beating everyone else he beats in [[World War Hulk]] was at least individually justifiable in each case, although it was still pushing the limits a lot to have the Hulk do them ''all in the same week''. You'd think a project of that size is something even the Hulk would need to space out a little.
*** Well, the Black Bolt case was a tad iffy (Hulk punching Black Bolt out, I can believe. Hulk taking a direct point-blank hit from Black Bolt's mega-scream, which hits harder than a nuclear warhead, and not even feeling it? Much less believable.), but that was later retconned to have been a Skrull impersonator and not the real Black Bolt.
** There seem to be two competing ideas about how the Hulk should be used; one sticks closer to his original conception as "the strongest one there is" with a few exceptions. The other sees him as a perfect candidate for [[The Worf Effect]] and not much else.
* Batman has become a walking [[Deus Ex Machina]] in comic books and "versus debates" thanks to the words [[Crazy Prepared|"with prep time"]]. Given enough prep time, [[Memetic Badass|he is speculated to be able to defeat]]: [[Superman]], [[Fantastic Four|Galactus]], [[Darkseid]], [[The Sandman|Death]], Taxes, Tofu, and Jelly Beans. The sheer amount of times he's handed Superman alone a smackdown would qualify him here even if nothing else would.
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