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* In ''[[Fate Zero (Literature)|Fate Zero]]'', Rider's battle using {{spoiler|[[Mental World|Ionion Hetairoi]]}} (current image) was more of a massacre than a battle:

{{quote| {{spoiler|"This was no longer a battle. It was a massacre. The results of using a mill to grind a sesame seed would yield more response. Wherever the Ionian Hetairoi rode, there was not a trace of Assassins remaining. Only a faint, faint smell of blood and some dust that was swept away remained in the air." }}}}

** Whenever the Angels show up it's usually a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] between them and the UN forces, until the [[Big Damn Heroes|Evas]] do their thing.

** Several of the Angel battles also start out as these, arguably: Sachiel, Ramiel, Leliel, and [[Mind Rape|unfortunately Arael]].

* Frieza's second appearance in ''[[Dragonball Z]]''. After surviving [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Namek's destruction]] and having been put together again as a cyborg, he arrives to Earth with his equally badass father, and the good guys are trembling before his might. What happens next? A Super Saiyan from [[Kid From the Future|the future]] appears and obliterates them both.

** Said [[Kid From the Future]] eventually ends up returning to his own time, where he proceeds to kill Androids 17 and 18 and Cell in one episode without breaking a sweat.

** Vegito (the fused form of Goku and Vegeta) versus Buu after having absorbed a powered-up Gohan, Piccolo, Trunks and Goten definitely counts. A fight between the two most powerful characters in the entire Dragonball canon...and the former makes the latter look like a total pansy.

*** Vegeta to Android 19: "Let me ask you: does a machine like yourself ever experience fear?"

*** Taken to ludicrous degrees in GT's Baby arc - where Kid Goku (untransformed and at a third his normal size and strength) takes down Gohan and Goten (both at SSJ, possessed by Baby and actively trying to kill him) without breaking a sweat.

*** The Super 17 Saga was even WORSE. It featured nearly every villian the characters had ever faced and ALL OF THEM were killed in ''one hit''. A similar thing happened in the 12th movie (although Frieza is the only one who is shown getting killed, again in one hit). Seems every [[Villain Forgot to Level Grind]].

** Second Mizukage vs Fourth Division. {{spoiler|Even after telling them how to defeat him, they can't figure out his technique. He even gripes "...guess...I'm too strong."}}

** After Naruto finally earned {{spoiler|Kuarama's thrust, and they agreed to fight together, they overpowered five other Bijuus so easily it's ridiculous. As a start Naruto [[Flash Step|Flash Stepped]] all of their Bijuu Damas away from Kakashi and Guy. And that's before he actually transformed! Not to mention it's still unclear, if Kurama is on full power.}}

** The first match between Ichigo and Grimmjow was extremely one-sided; the latter owned the former with little to no effort and didn't get hurt at all. (Though Grimmjow did feel to need to block Ichigo's Getsuga Tensho.)

** In the Hueco Mundo arc, Ishida and Renji struggle against Szayel, and then Mayuri shows up as part of a [[Big Damn Heroes]] brigade and trashes Szayel with [[Crazy Prepared|Batman-level planning]].

*** And the silly thing is, if that wasn't the case, he would've easily beat her too, as he outmatched her in speed and strength.

* In ''[[Code Breaker]]''. After {{spoiler|Takatsu Aoba}} is revealed as the Revenger, {{spoiler|she}} attacks Ogami and effortlessly defeats him without even using {{spoiler|her}} special power.

* The final fight of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As]]'' against the [[Artifact of Doom|Book of Darkness]]' defence system consists of all nine of the series' major characters (And Zafira!) using all of their most powerful attacks, and disrupting any response from the enemy.

** The Shamal and Zafira vs. Otto battle in ''[[Striker S (Anime)|Striker S]]'' was a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] with Otto only managing one ultimately futile attempt to escape. This was in itself a rematch for an earlier [[Curb Stomp Battle]] where Otto and Deed send both of them to the hospital.

* Hiei curbstomps many of his opponents in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', defeating them very quickly and taking few injuries in the process, notably with Seiryu, Makintaro, and Hagiri. In some cases, however, like Zeru and Bui, he does so at considerable personal cost, but even then, they hardly put up more than token resistance.

** Also happens both ways in a critical tournament match featuring Kuwabara. {{spoiler|[[The Power of Love]] turns the [[Curb Stomp Battle]] around 180 degrees. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|And it's AWESOME.]]}}

** Kurama also had one against the Elder Toguro. He has complete body manipulation, regeneration, can read minds. The fight lasted half an episode, {{spoiler|But was technically over the first minute when Kurama planted a seed in Gourmet's head}}.

** In the beginning last arc of the story, Yusuke, pissed off at {{spoiler|his demonic ancestor, Raizen}} for interrupting his fight with Sensui, decides to try and fight him. {{spoiler|Raizen}} shows just how he became {{spoiler|king of 1/3 of Makai}} by nearly killing Yusuke ''without even moving.'' Said character happens to be ''dying from centuries of starvation.'' Seems like asskicking {{spoiler|runs in the family}}.

** In the preliminaries for the final tournament, the roughly four dozen other contestants in Yusuke's bracket decide to take him down first, as he's clearly the greatest threat. Yusuke almost immediately [[Megaton Punch|sends them all flying]] out of the ring, disqualifying them and advancing to the next round.

* Pretty much every fight Inner Moka gets into in ''[[Rosario to Vampire]]'', especially in the first "season". The fights basically all follow the same formula: weak Outer Moka gets dominated by the [[Monster of the Week]], Tsukune removes Moka's rosario, Outer Moka curbstomps [[Monster of the Week]]. Although as the series goes on, she {{spoiler|and Ghoul Tsukune}} have to struggle more and more as the opponents they face are much more skilled than the random students and corrupt teachers they fight in the earlier chapters. In one recent case, Inner Moka actually had to fight an enemy who's clearly ''stronger'' than she is, {{spoiler|her older sister, Kahlua}}.

** In the anime, the narrator says this line at one point: [[Lampshade Hanging|"This week's fight took a surprisingly long 80 seconds."]]

** Magic world arc final brings it to another level with [[Big Bad|Lifemaker]] stomping Rakan, Eva and the rest of Ala Rubra (those still alive and present that is) ''in span of three pages'', only to be one-shotted by Negi and Asuna [[Combination Attack]] next chapter.

* The final battle in ''[[Getter Robo]] Anthology'' has the [[Humongous Mecha|Getter Emperor]] ''literally'' curb-stomp a god (well, using its fist)... ''face first into a galaxy.'' It ends with that one punch.

** {{spoiler|Mustang: "I can't believe you made yourself a BIGGER target}}."

** An onlooker even notes: "See {{spoiler|those flames? That homunculus}} is going all kinds of down."

*** But especially Drachma. They show up at the end of a volume with thousands upon thousands of troops and masses of artillery at the ready. It looks like it's setting up for an all out war in the next volume. Instead, the next volume opens up with the entire army wiped out without causing any real damage to Briggs. If anything, the Brotherhood anime was even worse for Drachma, as they didn't even manage to survive until the opening credits of the episode.

** The {{spoiler|first}} King Bradley VS Greed fight in the manga is another one. Just standing up to the man gets you a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

** In an example from the manga that doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]], Dr. Knox utterly ''owns'' Mei and Lan Fan when they ignore his orders for strict bed rest and attempt to go all out war on each other in his house. Admittedly, they're both injured, but it was a pudgy alcoholic coroner with a smoking problem versus two bonafide trained fighters.

** {{spoiler|Lan Fan & Greed/Ling VS Gluttony is one constant beating that Gluttony receives from both participants. Gluttony receives this a lot.}}

** Also in the manga, {{spoiler|Father VS everyone before he lost his control on "God".}}

** Alex vs Olivier in the manga. {{spoiler|Alex got his ass kicked eight ways from Sunday.}}

* Complete with an actual stomping into a curb, in one episode of ''[[Ghost in The Shell Stand Alone Complex]]'' the Major decoys a guy in [[Powered Armor]] with two handguns while running away. It blows her arm away then literally starts stomping her head into the pavement. Fortunately, her titanium skull [[Made of Iron|simply causes the ground to crack]] without causing any damage to her brain and [[The Cavalry]] showed up before he could apply enough leverage.

* [[The Big O (Anime)|The three vehicles forming the RX-3]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIbYfPbGc0Y just appeared for the first time], they had an awfully long combining sequence leading to the real formation of the giant robot, the leader of its pilots just defied Roger Smith and created a huge blade out of its shoulder-blades, the robot takes a combat pose... [[Anticlimax|and gets obliterated in 2 seconds by Big O]]. ''[[Rule of Funny|And it was hilarious]].''

{{quote| ''"Name: Kenny G. Stand Power: Illusions. Beaten without a fight."''}}

** At least he got off easy. Steely Dan got a nasty head wound and a broken arm. And then Jotaro casually punched him about 2000 times.

** Brutally Subverted with Carine in Part 5. Mista quickly guns him down as he charges at them, before he gets a chance to show his stand. {{spoiler|Turns out his death was the key to unleash the [[Nigh Invulnerability|Nigh Invulnerable]] Notorious B.I.G}}

* ''[[Black Lagoon]]'': [[Badass Army|Hotel]] [[The Mafiya|Moscow]] versus ''anyone''.

** Pretty much every fight involving Fiamma is him effortlessly beating the crap out of his opponents. {{spoiler|And then after Touma finally defeats him, Aleister shows up and does the same thing to Fiamma.}}

* ''[[Digimon (Franchise)|Digimon]]'' does this repeatedly. For instance, once in ''[[Digimon Tamers (Anime)|Digimon Tamers]]'' Takato and Guilmon (a Rookie that has not managed to digivolve to Champion level yet) encounter Devidramon, a Digimon inadvertently released from the field holding it by Impmon. The result of this is Devidramon flying around the city in full view of the populace and Guilmon getting his ass handed to him until he's about to be killed, after which Takato manages to get him to Digivolve into Growlmon. In the fight that follows, Devidramon is destroyed, but Growlmon has no way to de-digivolve.

** Perhaps the most obvious use of this occurs in ''[[Digimon Adventure (Anime)|Digimon Adventure]] - Enter the Dark Masters''. The four Dark Masters appear and take turns curb-stomping the entire team, including the Megas. It was an entire episode devoted to a series of curbstompings, acting as a sort of [[Wake Up Call Boss]] series.

** The second movie, ''Our War Game'', features this at the climax. WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon were devastated by around a ''million'' Diaboromon, and somehow Tai and Yamato manage to enter the Internet to help their partners. [[The Power of Love|The power of...love(?)]] allows the two Digimon to DNA Digivolve into Omnimon for the very first time, and, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|it's the Diaboromon (* all* of them) who didn't stand a chance.]]

* In ''[[Hyakujitsu no Bara]]'', following [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|firing anti-tank munitions at a passenger train]] Taki proceeds to enter one of the cars and wipe the floor with Berkut, showing just how [[It's Personal|personally]] he is taking the unfolding events.

* ''[[Baki the Grappler]]'' has this every time [[Nigh Invulnerable|Yujiro]] fights. As such, [[Villain Sue|it's hardly surprising when he does it.]] More interesting examples follow...

** Shunsei got a nice one from Baki too: He throws one punch, which Baki dodges, countering with a punch to the side of the head that gives him a concussion, followed by an uppercut to the chin and a roundhouse kick to knock him out.

** The grudge match between Oliva and Yoh Kaioh: Yoh asks Oliva to hit him as hard as he can. Oliva obliges by ''[[Squick|crushing his body like an empty beer can.]]''

** Homura vs. Roberta

** {{spoiler|Madoka vs. Walpurgis Night, twice!}}

* ''[[Super Atragon]]'': Every time the enemy fights anything but the battleship ''Ra''.

* In [[Mai Hi ME]], there are a few:

** Shinnojo against Misaku Nikaido.

** Zenmaru is on the receiving end {{spoiler|while fighting [[Ax Crazy|Sasuke]] [[Blade On a Stick|Sakakibara]], but quickly turns the tide as soon as he shows us how well he can handle the Sadanaga sword.}}

* ''[[Popotan (Anime)|Popotan]]'': {{spoiler|Keith's fight against Daichi, Mai and Mea, which he wins after a few seconds. His second fight with Mea takes a little longer, but he manages to subdue her (groin damage notwithstanding)}}.

* [[Submarine 707 R]]: Only Youhei Hayami is able to defeat Admiral Red. Hayami is the [[Curb Stomp Cushion]] that can balance the USR’s frequent [[Curb Stomp Battle]] victories against the PKN.

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