Hopeless Boss Fight: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[One Piece]]'' the Luffy vs. Magellan fight during the "Impel Down" storyline, the Luffy vs. Magellan fight is one of these, the point being driven home when {{spoiler|Luffy actually ''loses'' the fight}}.

** Heck, the point is ''really'' driven home when {{spoiler|Luffy tries again later on in the arc, this time with quite a bit of backup, but can still do little more than slow Magellan down; he can't even do ''that'' once Magellan ''really'' goes all-out.}}

** Luffy also loses to {{spoiler|Aokiji}} much earlier in the series.{{context|What makes it hopeless?}}

** Also, inAt the very beginning of the series, is Zoro's fight against Hawk-Eyes Mihawk, which makes it clear that, at this point in the story, Zoro's just a big fish in a small pond, not even ''remotely'' close to being able to take on the world's ''real'' heavy hitters.

** Also theThe Straw Hats, immediately after struggling to defeat a Pacifista, are faced with another one,: Sentoumaru and Marine Admiral Kizaru. Even when Rayleigh arrives to help fight Kizaru, Luffy even orders the crew to run away, declaring that that "Right now... we can't defeat them!". {{spoiler|It doesn't do any good; the real Kuma arrives, scatters the Straw Hats across the world, and the Straw Hats suffer complete defeat}}.

* This trope is parodied in the ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' side story "Haruhi Theatre Act 1". Haruhi and the Brigade are trapped in an RPG, and when Haruhi meets a sage who warns her that she can't defeat the dragon without the power to do so, she doesn't listen and drags the Brigade over to fight it. Naturally she gets creamed and regenerates next to the sage, who smugly tells her off. She doesn't listen ''again'' and continually goes back and dies. When she finally listens to him, he demands some stuff from her as he's only giving them out if she gets quest items...but she just threatens him.

* ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]'', has Japan Youth VS Hamburg SV (featuring [[Final Boss|Karl Heinz Schneider]] and half of his Germany team plus Wakabayashi),. Japan gets beat down badly, and Hyuga can only score one goal because Wakabayashi lets him.