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** Rose Potter from ''[[The Girl Who Lived]]'' is this. Who cares about all the truths about love, family, friendship, and sacrifice learned over five years of suffering, when "Harry" now has magical druidess powers that make him ten times more powerful than Voldemort could ever be? Critics have noted that Rose has to be handed an [[Idiot Ball]] not to [[Curb Stomp Battle|just finish off the bad guys outright]].

* An amazing subversion comes in the plot of a ''[[Touhou Project]]'' doujin Koamakyou by [http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Tohonifun Tohonifun]. The protagonist for the games is shown fighting through the bosses of one of the games brutally; violently impaling the first to the ground, angrily mocking the second's attempts to fight, simply ignoring the third, and fighting the fourth and fifth at the same time. {{spoiler|At the end of the battle with the fourth and fifth, the fifth stabs her in the back, ignoring the rules of the games... and the protagonist turns around completely unharmed. Turns out, she's pissed off because she completely personifies this trope: as the lead of the series, she can't lose. Ever. In anything. In a world where the best way to pass time is the joy of fighting, and you can never conceivably lose a battle...}}

* This is to be expected in most ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' crossovers, being that most of the inhabitants of that universe [[Badass Army|are]] [[Eldritch Abomination|as]] [[Psychic Powers|they]] [[Grey and Gray Morality|are]]. One exemplar of this is ''[[God of Death]]'' which puts a [[Space Marine]] on [[World of Warcraft|Azeroth]], [[Curb Stomp Battle|with predictable results]]. Few fanfics can handle this well enough so that it won't be one-sided, like ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3678670/1/Chains_of_the_Kindred Chains of the Kindred]'' which crosses W40k with ''[[Halo]]''.

* The ''[[Firefly]]'' fanfic ''[[Forward]]'' deliberately [[Averted Trope|averts this]] with River. The author has stated that he dislikes fanfics that turn River into a solve-everything "easy button" who casually defeats most enemies, and instead portrays River as a [[Fragile Speedster]] and [[Glass Cannon]] who has managed to get badly beaten when taking on overwhelming odds. One fight actually ended with River getting shot, her back wrenched, and a leg broken.