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{{quote|'''Lt. Boomer''': Colonel, Blue Squadron reporting for duty, sir.
'''Col. Tigh''': Lieutenant, obviously you can't even stand.
'''Lt. Boomer''': A Viper is flown from the ''seated'' position, sir."|''[[Battlestar Galactica
As a rule, much of fiction ends with the villain being defeated by the hero. This should be dramatic, but if the true villain isn't [[The Man Behind the Curtain|that physically powerful]], then this is going to be a rather short fight.
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* [[Superman]] gets to do this a lot, including fighting weakened by a red sun and having just come out of a coma, or just having been stabbed with Kryptonite.
** Done with somewhat different implications in the [[Superman: The Animated Series|animated series]] finale "Legacy," where a depowered Superman lets out his anger on Lex Luthor, shattering the latter's jaw in one punch.
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* In the ''[[Firefly]]'' fanfic ''[[Forward]]'' story "Business," River and Jayne are in this state when they fight the {{spoiler|Hands of Blue}} at the climax. This is because they had been {{spoiler|captured and tortured by Niska}} previously, and had only just escaped that. In this case, Jayne actually proves to be the better fighter, if only because, being larger, stronger, and tougher, {{spoiler|he was able to withstand the torture better than the much physically weaker River, who was reduced to a gibbering wreck following the ordeal and was so battered that she needed Jayne to carry her on his back.}} River is only able to fight because Jayne injects her with a syringe of synthetic adrenaline.
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