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** ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]' and ''[[The Batman]]'' both had The Bat fight all of his villains one after the other. Deadly threats from previous episodes were reduced to petty [[Mook|Mooks]], [[Elite Mook|Elite Mooks]] at best.
*** In fact, the last level of the video game (which was based on the animated series) is a boss rush, called 'The Gauntlet'.
** Justified in Grant Morrison's ''[[Arkham Asylum a Serious House on Serious Earth|Arkham Asylum: A Serious House Onon Serious Earth]]''. Batman faces all of his opponents in the titular Asylum, as part of a twisted game of hide and seek. They don't all just fall on him at once because they've spread out to look for him. Many of the confrontations are also purely psychological. Of course, then there's the wheelchair-bound Doctor Destiny- Him, Batman just kicks down the stairs.
* [[Alan Moore]]'s [[Superman]] story, "[[Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?]]?" is one part parody, one part [[Deconstruction]], and one part [[Lampshade Hanging]].
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' did this for an entire arc in the fifth and final season, culminating in an ultimate battle royale with every single hero facing off against every single villain ever to appear over the course of the series (yet surprisingly successfully).
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