Curb Stomp Battle/Literature: Difference between revisions

{{quote|"Oh, they'll be a huge improvement over the old ships. Unfortunately I'm coming to suspect that that means it will take one of Cayleb's galleons three broadsides to sink them instead of just one."}}

** Any time Merlin gets into a swordfight, a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] results.

** ''A Mighty Fortress'', the fourth book, has the Church finally recovering from their past failures and getting ready to launch the Navy of God. Despite some successful misdirection, the Charisian leadership find out about this, and manage to get a force in place to intercept. The Navy of God had nearly 140 ships (though not all of them were fully armed yet), the Charisian force had about a fourth of that. Thanks to the Charisians attacking in the black of night and making the first ever use of signal rockets and exploding shells, ''Seven'' of the Navy of God's ships return to safe harbor. The rest are either destroyed or captured. The Charisian cost is higher than the first time around, but was still an overwhelming victory.

* Both Wizarding Wars in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' went mostly this way with the bad guys delivering. It is implied that in the second one they didn't suffer even a single man dead or captive. {{spoiler|Until the [[Final Battle]], where the good wizards kicked the ass of the Death Eaters.}}

* In the last [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]] book, ''The Last Olympian'', there is the fight between the Minotaur, fully armoured and leading a legion of demigods and monsters, vs Percy Jackson. {{spoiler|Percy wins. Oh, not just against the Minotaur, but against the ''whole legion'', due to him having the Curse of Achilles}}.

* In ''[[Sienkiewicz Trilogy]]'' Michał Wołodyjowski is this trope. In first two books he is just a minor character, which doesn't stop him from almost killing main antagonist of the first, subverting [[I Am Not Left-Handed]] in the process, and utterly humilating main character of the second, all without breaking a sweat.

 

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