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{{quote|''"He's the guy who's here to act tough so new characters can wreck him when they're introduced thus proving to the rest of us how amazing they are! Like Wolverine or Worf."''|'''Red Mage''', ''[[Eight Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]''}}

Want a quick way to show how dangerous one of your unknown characters is? Simple, make him win a fight or score points against a character that the audience already knows is tough. This establishes him as willing to fight and marks him as sufficiently dangerous.

[[Worf Had the Flu]] is sometimes used to [[Justified Trope|justify]] Worf's poor showing. A [[Worf Barrage]] is when an "ultimate" attack or technique is defeated this way instead of a character. If a new villain introduces himself by beating the previous villain, that's [[Make Way for Thethe New Villains]] (a [[Sub -Trope]]). When Worf gets beaten ''emotionally'' rather than physically, that's [[Break the Badass]].

Compare [[Badass in Distress]] and [[The WorldsWorld's Expert Onon Getting Killed]], both of which can overlap. Killing off a [[Red Shirt]] or two is a slightly different method for achieving a similar effect. If the character beats up a whole ''army'''s worth of Worfs, [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]] is probably at work. Contrast [[Fight Dracula]], in which a writer has a pre-established character (as opposed to a new one) demonstrate their awesomeness by fighting Dracula (but not necessarily winning).

Named for the tendency in ''[[Star Trek: the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek theThe Next Generation]]'' and ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine (TV)|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' for hostile creatures [httphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nqb-o1ub545LnwLn9vnKo to do that very thing to Worf.] No relation to [[Language Equals Thought|the Whorf effect]].

* [[Ace Pilot]] and Newtype Char Aznable in ''[[Zeta Gundam]]''. Despite having more experience and low level Newtype gifts, as well as piloting a [[Super Prototype]], he underperforms compared to Kamille, Amuro (who's rusty in comparison, yet still proves he's an [[Ace Pilot]]), Emma (after suffering from her own [[Worf Effect]] before getting the Gundam MK II as her primary machine, which [[Took a Level Inin Badass|takes her to a level of badass]]), Haman Kahn, Paptimus Scirocco, and Reccoa Londe.

* In ''[[Go LionGoLion|Beast King Golion]]'', every encounter the titular robot has with a robeast who is a physical threat to Golion is an example of this.

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'': Poor Mamoru. On top of being the show's designated [[JamesDude Bondage|Distressedin DudeDistress]], he also had the distinction of being a strange candidate for this trope because all he had going for him as Tuxedo Mask were his physical strength and agility, a cane, and roses that rarely had any magical properties. Needless to say, it wasn't terribly threatening when you saw the powerless guy in a suit get his butt kicked to try and show the bad guys were a real threat compared to...the main characters who all have super powers.

** Chad plowed through dozens of regular Shinigami, including a 3rd Seat, only to lose to Shunsui Kyoraku. His arm gets demolished by Yammy Llargo, he gets pummeled by Nnoitra Gilga and he loses to Yammy again, but off-screen.

** Komamura also suffers from this trope. Seriously, he's a captain and the only fight that he's won was against a Fracción arrancar. In the fight with Tousen, even though he did most of the fighting, he couldn't land a single lasting blow due to Tousen's instant regeneration ability. This means the only one who really did anything was Hisagi, who at first was KO'd early, but lands the killing blow. Worse, Komamura's bankai shares damage with him, so unless he can [[Single -Stroke Battle|win in one hit]], he's screwed. This means he's doomed to always fall victim to this trope unless his opponent is significantly weaker than him.

* Vegeta is doomed to this role for most of the ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]'' series. After his [[Heel Face Turn]], his place in the plot is "lose to Recoome, almost lose to Frieza, lose to Frieza's final form, get killed by Frieza, lose to Android 18, lose to Perfect Cell, almost lose to Cell Jr, lose to Buu, and get the crap kicked out of him by Buu while someone else wins the fight.

** Both Piccolo and Vegeta get this in almost every single movie they appear in.

* In ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga)|Cardcaptor Sakura]],'' Kerberos finally returns to his awesomely [[Badass]]-looking true form...and gets hammered every. Single. Time. Often, it's explained by having Kero's creator be the one to send the threat to test our heroes, but not always. It'd be nice to have Kerberos's true form prove non-useless ''once in a while.''

** Subverted in ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion (Film)|Rebuild of Evangelion]]'', where Asuka makes her entrance by ''[[One -Hit Kill|one shotting the new attacking Angel]]'', just to throw this out the window and show us ''why'' she's considered an [[Ace Pilot]] to begin with. She ''does'' require help defeating the 8th Angel (Sahaquiel in this one), but teamwork between the three pilots was kind of the point of that fight even the original. {{spoiler|And she ''can't'' be held accountable for being absent during the next two Angel battles.}} It remains to be seen how she will fare in the coming fights, but this ''is'' [[Deconstruction|Evangelion]] we're talking about here...

* Sanosuke Sagara from the ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' was the first enemy to pose any sort of threat to Kenshin. He was superhumanly strong, almost invulnerable physically and wielded a BFS that would have made Cloud pull a muscle. His skills were so impressive he was worthy of becoming a regular cast member. Unfortunately for Sanosuke he had to take second string to the title character. In a short time it became a running theme that before an enemy could be considered a match for the Batosai, they first had to curb stomp Sanosuke. By the end of the series the people Kenshin goes toe to toe with laugh in Sanosuke's face and for shear amusement smack him around in unarmed combat (which is supposed to be Sanosuke's specialty).

** This doesn't happen so much in the manga, where the only ones to brush Sanosuke aside are [["Wake -Up Call" Boss|Jin-E]], [[Big Bad|Shishio,]] and [[The Lancer|Saito,]] the last of which inspires him to undergo [[Training Fromfrom Hell]] to catch up. By the end, Kenshin notes that Sanosuke has become so strong that he doesn't have to keep an eye on him in battle.

* The AD Police in ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]''.* Despite having high-yield firearms, railguns, powered suits and combat helicopters, theythe AD Police often cannot stop rogue Boomers, although to be fair the cases depicted usually involve very out of the ordinary boomers going rogue. Their K11s did {{spoiler|stop a BU-12B Combat boomer (both getting destroyed in the process, sadly, although the second one was pure jinx on the AD Police side) in "Blow Up", though.}} Also, Leon {{spoiler|sniped Largo before he could pulverize the Knight Sabers in an orbital beam of death, too.}} As the designated Badass of the team, Priss also suffers from this to some extent.

** Luffy's older brother Ace is also hit with this. Though he is quite strong compared to Luffy in both [[Playing Withwith Fire|devil fruit]] and combat abilities, he's also used to show how much stronger certain characters are. In his backstory, Whitebeard easily defeated him {{spoiler|more than a hundred times}}, Jinbe tied with him in a match that nearly killed both of them. [[Big Bad|Blackbeard]] also takes him down after a relatively short fight, and Akainu burns and eventually {{spoiler|kills Ace}}.

* ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'' this applies some players, most heavily the heavyweight linemen -- consideringlinemen—considering how easily Gaou crushed Banba and the Pyramid Line (previously the standard for strength, tying with the Devil Bats' own center Kurita), Mr. Don (who can smack down ''Gaou'' with ease) should be strong enough to split an anvil by coughing at it!

* Any dragon that shows up in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' will inevitably be defeated by someone in an awesome manner. Albireo has a dragon acting as his guard dog, [[Ninja|Kaede]] took out a dragon ''while blindfolded'', Yue defeated a griffin dragon to prove she [[Took a Level Inin Badass]], and Jack Rakan is said to have [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v26/c238/7.html fought the Sacred Guardian Beast of the Empire, the Ancient Dragon Vrixis Nagasha on even footing.] It's one of the most powerful beings in existence, and it ''still'' worfed. It shows up again in chapter 281, and {{spoiler|gets its ass kicked. Stupid [[Reality Warper|reality warping]] [[Big Bad]].}}

* The ''[[Digimon (Franchise)|Digimon]]'' franchise as a whole has [[Our Angels Are Different|Seraphimon]]. As an Mega-level Digimon, the leader of the Three Great Angels and one of the rulers of the Digital World in the ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'' continuity, he is incredibly powerful, but you'd only really know this if you're into the [[Expanded Universe]]. Whenever Seraphimon shows up in [[Digimon Adventure 02|an]] [[Digimon Frontier|anime]] or [[Digimon V-Tamer 01 (Manga)|manga]], he is promptly defeated (and outright killed in ''Frontier''), demonstrating just how dangerous the new antagonist is. His debut appearance in the first of the ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' movies had him defeated by Cherubimon within ''thirty seconds'' of evolving, and that was with another Mega Magnadramon, assisting him!

** ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' also gave this same treatment to Angemon, Seraphimon's earlier Champion form. In the original ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' he was frequently shown to be nothing short of a [[Story -Breaker Power|game breaker]], killing two [[Big Bad|Big Bads]]s where everyone else failed repeatedly, contributing to the defeat of a third and earlier easily fighting said third to a standstill in tandem with [[Fur Against Fang|WereGarurumon]], and regularly successfully fighting Digimon above his own level - whenever Angemon appeared, the natural response was "yay, we've won". Then came ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'', where almost all of Angemon's appearances involved him getting the full force of the Worf Effect before [[Fusion Dance|Jogress-evolving into Shakkoumon]] (or HolyAngemon on two occasions, but that never lasted either) or sitting back and letting [[The Hero|XV-mon/Paildramon/Imperialdramon]] do the real work.

*** Combined with [[Running Gag]], Leomon always dies for this effect. In ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' it was to show Etemon is [[Not So Harmless]]. In ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', it was to show that Impmon has gone [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]. In ''[[Digimon Savers]]'', where it kind of happened twice, it was to show how monstrous Kurata was when he sent the Digital World on collision course and by inventing a method of permanently killing a Digimon with ease. On the other hand, Frontier's instances were not this trope while ''[[Digimon X Evolution (Anime)|Digimon X Evolution]]'' and ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'' it's pretty clear they were killing him for the sake of it.

* The Kazekoshi team in ''[[Saki (Mangamanga)|Saki]]'', which is ''the'' school to go to for [[Mahjong]] that boasts a massive lineup and a history of championships that was only broken last year by the Mahjong Demon called Koromo. They started the Finals with a massive lead over the opposition after Mihoko crushed everyone else in the first match without losing her gentle smile...then spent the rest of the finals bleeding away said lead as they proceeded to be every other school's punching bag, to the point where their representative in the last match spent most of her time there watching in horror as she gets stomped into the ground by everyone else. You know things are bad when their biggest moral victory during that period was that they managed to hold their lead ''[[Underdogs Always Win|against a complete beginner]]''.

* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'', Manjoume gets the Worf treatment quite a bit--hebit—he's lost to Daichi, Amnael, Saiou, and Amon. All four of them beat Manjoume in their first shown duels, and with the exception of Amon none of them had a particularly hard time doing it. He also tends to duel [[The Hero|Judai]] whenever Judai gets a new deck. His only wins before Season 2 were against Mooks, his brother (who isn't a duelist), and a [[Monster of the Week]]. He got more victories in Season 2 after his [[Face Heel Turn]], including against Daichi and Asuka, and he's the one who dueled and defeated the entire Obelisk Blue dorm. Still, said [[Face Heel Turn]] was caused by, you guessed it, the [[Big Bad]] defeating him in a duel. Season 4 finally gives him a significant victory on his own when he defeats [[The Ace|Edo]].

** In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' season 1, Kaiba gets Worfed by Pegasus.

* Despite being the heir-apparent to the Flame King Spitfire, ''[[Air Gear (Manga)|Air Gear]]'''s Kazu has been summarily manhandled by Aeon Clock, Sora, Nike, Nott-Dagr, and several nameless Gravity Children throughout the series.

* Ash's Charizard from the ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'' anime is regarded as one of, if not ''the'', strongest [[Mon]] amongst all the main characters' teams. So powerful, in fact, that he can [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|stand toe to toe against Legendary Pokémon, and]] ''[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|win]]''. However, he has also been a victim of this trope at least two times.

## [[Our Ghosts Are Different|Dusclops]] in the last Battle Frontier battle against Brandon. (Although for that one, Ash was planning on using Seismic Toss (A Fighting type move) to end it...but completely forgot that Dusclops is a Ghost-type)

** Ash's Torterra has fallen victim to this by losing every battle it's been in since it evolved to show just how powerful the other Pokémon is. This is mostly due to being moved aside in favor of [[EverythingsEverything's Better Withwith Monkeys|Infernape]].

** In ''[[Pokémon Special (Manga)|Pokémon Special]]'', unless it's against a wild Pokemon or someone generic, Red's Poli tends to get knocked out the moment it pops out of its Pokeball. Especially kind of sad seeing how it's his first Pokemon (which he had for years before getting any other) and logically should be the strongest. No wonder Red uses Saur and Pika more often.

** Brock's Vulpix is a similar offender. Its introductory episode has it unleash a ''very'' impressive Fire Spin to [[Curb Stomp Battle]] Team Rocket. It does it ''again'' a few episodes later, with an even ''shorter'' fight. Then it's made an example of by Jessie's new Lickitung, [[Pokémon: theThe First Movie (Anime)|locked in a hopeless fight with its identical clone]], used as an ineffectual delaying tactic against an illusory Teddiursa in ''[[Pokémon 3 (Anime)|Pokémon 3]]'', demonstrates Skarmory's superiority over its type disadvantage, before finally getting in one last [[Curb Stomp Battle]] against Team Rocket and subsequently [[Put Onon a Bus]].

* Kai Suwabara of ''[[Yakitate!! Japan]]'' only seems to win [[Cooking Duel|Cooking Duels]]s by default. Both times he went up against Azuma, he lost without even having his bread tasted.

* Used in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Mangamanga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' against Major Armstrong by his sister Major General Armstrong. Not only does she get him in tears by standing on his foot, she knocks him through a wall during the battle for the Armstrong Estate.

* In his first appearance in ''[[Durarara!!]]'' Kinnosuke talks how police gets that kind of treatment in all kinds of fictions dealing with supernatural – they usually ends laying in their own blood to show how dangerous enemy is. However, he doesn't really mind, as this shows that people still believe that cops are strong and powerful.

* J., the [[Phenotype Stereotype]] American Boxer in ''[[Sakigake Otokojuku (Manga)|Sakigake Otokojuku]]''

* Despite (or because of) his badass status, Mugen of ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'' is hit with this trope. He nearly lost to Oniwakamaru (though he was drugged before hand), lost to the monk Shoryuu once, was defeated and nearly killed by spear specialist Sara and {{spoiler|was unable to land a single blow on [[Big Bad]] Kariya}}

* Ranma, Ryouga, and Mousse of ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2½]]'' get hit with this in the Pantyhose Taro and Musk Dynasty arcs. In the first scenario, the aforementioned villain is looking for a specific visitor to the Jusenkyo cursed springs, and therefore ends up crossing paths with them and defeating them handily. Ryouga even goes as far as calling him a "demon" when warning Ranma about him. In the second one, [[Hyperspace Arsenal|Mousse]] is quickly dispatched by a warrior with a penchant for throwing knives; [[Super Strength|Ryouga]] is turned into scenery by another warrior with strength even greater than his. Then Ranma himself is defeated by those warriors' lord, a {{spoiler|[[Gender Bender]]}} [[Ki Attacks|ki master]].

* To an end, despite (or perhaps because of) his [[Badass|badasserybadass]]ery, a good half of the numerous, [[Wolverine Publicity|seemingly omnipresent cameos]] [[Wolverine]] makes in various issues involve him being beaten within an inch of his life and thrown through something. [[Good Thing You Can Heal|Fortunately]], his [[Healing Factor]] fixes him up in a split, allowing him to move to the next. They're being ''serious'' when the [[Badass]] in question ''[[Killed Off for Real|kills]]'' Wolverine, but given how much he's come back from, that will probably never happen.

** The most notable examples for Wolverine is Gambit. Short after he joined the team, he got a chance at fighting (and winning) against Wolverine in the Danger Room in order to show "how badass the new guy is".

** [[Flying Brick|Rogue]] often fills this role, ''especially'' in [[X-Men (Animationanimation)|the animated series]].

* Until his recent [[Sorting Algorithm of Deadness|death]] [[Captain America (comics)]] was another popular go-to guy to get the beat-down in a new or relaunched title; to a lesser extent the rest of his fellow Avengers, too.

* Whenever he's in the [[Justice League of America]], [[Ridiculously -Human Robots|Ridiculously Human Android]] [[Red Tornado]] is ''notorious'' for always getting demolished to show off a villain's power. The main reason for this is that the badguy can tear Red apart and the team can just repair him later.

* [[X-23]] and [[X-Men (Franchise)/Characters/Other Teams/Characters|Rockslide]] in ''[[New Mutants|New X-Men]]'' (and other appearances after the series end) they get stuck with this as they are the strongest and scariest team members...who are practically immortal. Rockslide has been blown up twice BEFORE his power became not dying to physical harm. And X-23 is [[Distaff Counterpart|just like Wolverine]].

* In ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]: Countdown'', the prequel comic to the [[Star Trek (Filmfilm)|2009 movie]], we see Worf again, 10 years after ''Nemesis'' and now a Klingon general. He gets ''impaled through the chest'' by Nero, but fortunately he was [[Only Mostly Dead]].

* In the latest ''[[Thunderbolts]]'' series, Headsman's tendency to get beaten up or otherwise neutralized even though he's the largest and most intimidating member of the team is, rather refreshingly, ''noticed by the rest of the team''. He's constantly razzed by teammates Paladin and [[Ant -Man]], employer [[Norman Osborn]] regards him only with barely repressed disdain...once he suggested he get on his flying disc to deal with an airborne threat, only to be shot down with "Please, I've never seen you on that thing for more than 30 seconds."

* General purpose [[Marvel Universe]] villains The Wrecking Crew now exist entirely for this purpose. They have an ounce of credibility from being old [[The Mighty Thor|Thor]] villains with incredible strength and mystically powered construction weapons, but adamantly yelling that you've fought Thor doesn't mean much when you can be taken down by low-power heroes like [[Spider-Woman (Comic Book)|Spider-Woman]]. [[Spider-Man]] once joked that everyone seems to beat them up sooner or later; subsequent encounters with the [[Runaways (Comic Book)|Runaways]] and [[The Punisher]] of all people have showed he's probably right.

** In ''[[Captain Atom|Captain Atom: Armageddon]]'', it isn't Midnighter who is used this way to show how utterly ''outclassed'' everyone in the Wildstorm universe is when compared to [[Captain Atom]], it's ''Apollo'', Wildstorm's [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] [[Expy]]. Midnighter doesn't even count as a threat to Atom, and is casually (and entertainingly) dismissed offhand.

** In the rebooted ''Stormwatch'', Apollo seems to have taken this role from Midnighter in a big way. In issue 7 he gets taken out twice, once at the beginning, then just as the issue is ending, as the bad guy they had (with difficulty) managed to capture escapes, taking Apollo with it. This is not new territory for him, however. In the Authority, he kind of has a habit of rushing into battle, and if he either has to expend all his stored energy and he passes out as a result, or is knocked across the room, you know the bad guy is tough.

* Nightcrawler of the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' and [[The Flash]] of the [[Justice League of America]] begin at least half of the team fights they're in by getting backhanded into unconsciousness (they do much better when fighting [[Conservation of Ninjutsu|solo]]). The reason for this is (1) due to their powers (teleportation and [[Super Speed]], respectively) they're usually the first one to reach the villain, (2) the sooner they get taken out, the less time the reader has to [[Fridge Logic|think about]] how each could kill almost anyone before their opponent even knew they were in a fight, and (3) it demonstrates that the villain has reflexes akin to precognition just to be able to lay a glove on them...in theory. You see it enough times, it starts to look like they just 'port/run right into villains' outstretched fists.

* In big DC events, [[The Spectre]] tends to stay out of the "mortal affairs" but when he does interfere, he tends to get taken out pretty quickly. Seeing as how if he ''could'' affect the [[Big Bad]], he could turn them to dust just by looking at them, it's kind of necessary.

* From [[Green Lantern (Comic Book)|Green Lantern]], Kyle Rayner has this going for him at times, both during stories written by [[Geoff Johns]]. During the [[Reset Button|Green Lantern Rebirth]] story, he spent most of having the tar beaten out of him by [[Sinestro]], until he's rescued by [[Green Arrow]] and later Hal Jordan. He does eventually land the finishing blow on Sinestro, but only while aiding Hal during their duel. In the ''[[Sinestro Corps War]]'' miniseries, Kyle has a chance to fight Sinestro again and prove himself, now with an enormous power boost courtesy of Ion, but his attacks just bounce and shatter harmlessly off Sinestro and he's easily curb-stomped and has the Ion entity ripped out of him. Both times he's used only to establish Sinestro as a major threat.

** It plays off a trait that allows Kyle his moments of awesomeness. Kyle is the first Green Lantern to know fear and thus the first to discover the true nature of Parallax (saving Jordan from damnation.) He's also the Lightbearer for having restored what a possessed Hal Jordan destroyed, so Jordan's image needed some rehabilitating.

* [[Superboy|Kon-El]], God damn it the poor kid gets the crap kicked out of him when he's not a main character in book, and at times even if he is.

* [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] villain Doomsday. Following his impressive feat of killing Superman, the poor thing has had nowhere to go but down. Now he's brought out whenever a new Kryptonian shows up to point out how two Supermen are better ([[Beware the Superman|or scarier]]) than one.

** They avoided this at first. In their first rematch, Superman's powers had increased and he was still out of his element needing help to win and facing near paralysis from fear (the story starts with Superman having nightmares about Doomsday, one of the very few times that he has actually been visibly scared of a villain for what they could do to ''him'' as opposed to what they could do to others), using a time travel device to chuck Doomsday to the end of time.

* A curious case is Magog, a [[Canon Immigrant]] from ''[[Kingdom Come]]''. He's ''supposed'' to be a meta with power on par with [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]], [[Green Lantern (Comic Book)|Alan Scott]], and [[Power Girl]]. In practice? He usually ends up either jobbing to whoever the villain of the day is or falling prey to someone with mind control. He's already been whammied by Gorilla Grodd, Miasma, and the Brain Trust - all in a ''single year''. Max Lord is currently aiming to make the fourth time the charm, too. Guy can't catch a break.

* [[Batman]] has been used this way at least twice. When [[Green Arrow]] and [[Green Lantern (Comic Book)|Green Lantern]] came back from the dead, they both established that they were the real deal in short order by socking the ''Goddamn Batman'' square in the jaw.

* [[The Juggernaut]] plays this role from time to time. The forgettable X-Men villain Post was introduced when he punched Jugs so hard he landed in the ''next state.'' In fact, one of Marvel's biggest storylines got started just because Scott Lobdell decided it would be cool to have Juggernaut mysteriously tossed through the sky, [[Almost -Dead Guy|able to speak just one word]]: "Onslaught". (Lobdell [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022233836/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/08/16/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-116/ hadn't even decided who Onslaught would be yet!])

* Years ago, Eric Larsen had the [[Spider -Man]] villain Dr. Octopus deliver the Hulk a severe smackdown during the "Revenge of the Sinister Six" storyarc. In the story, "Doc Ock" was given [[Applied Phlebotinum|extremely powerful adamantium limbs]] which made him far more dangerous. Hulk writer [[Peter David]] accused Larsen of a making a personal attack when he wrote that story and responded with a story written for the sole purpose of mocking Dr. Octopus. Larsen explained that it made sense to use the Hulk for the purpose of this very trope.

* Original-creation and [[Self-Insert Fic|self-insertion]] characters in ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2½]]'' fanfiction are obligated to prove their worth by making mush out of Kuno when they first meet him.

** Although Kuno is more of an [[Iron Butt Monkey]] rather than a Worf.

* Similar to the ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' examples below, ''[[Rise of the Galeforces (Fanfic)|Rise of the Galeforces]]'' applies this trope to the [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Turret Raptors,]] who are quickly defeated by even the youngest members of the main cast. Ditto for the local [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]]s, e.g. Dynacide.

* Epic from ''[[Disgaea: Jewel of the godsGods]]'' is an example. He's introduced by taking out an immortal, giant enemy that Laharl, Adell, and Mao couldn't beat. After that he get's dominated by Etna, a reaper, Baal's minions,Fried, Baal's right hand man, and Baal, mixing in some [[Butt Monkey]] status along the way.

* Deconstructed in the ''[[Pony POV Series (Fanfic)|Pony POV Series]]'' with {{spoiler|Spitfire. The repeated failures of the Wonderbolts to actually succeed in their heroic attempts begin to take their toll on her confedence and send her into a [[Heroic BSOD]]. Rainbow Dash snaps her out of it by reminding her that, even if the Wonderbolts can't do the ''actual'' heroics, they are still heroes because they ''inspire'' ponies who ''can''.}}

* Each of the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]]s in the ''[[Azula Trilogy (Fanfic)|Azula Trilogy]]'' prove themselves to be threats by being able to match or defeat one of the heroes -- Azunheroes—Azun defeats Zuko in ''Heart'', Wei Ming goes toe-to-toe with Azula in ''Path'', and Jian Chin defeats Aang in ''Soul'' (though the latter two were [[Demonic Possession|possessed]] by [[The Man Behind the Man|true]] [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Zhan Zheng}} at the time, so this trope more works for him than them).

* In ''[[Fanfic/The Troll War|The Troll War]]'' series, after Equius Zahhak resigns from the human starfleet and then explains his reason: "I have been...[[Aliens Steal Cable|reviewing your documentaries and the history of your spaceships]], John. And I will not be the 'Worf'." John Egbert convinces Equius to stay, not by telling him that ''Star Trek'' was fictional, but by promising he won't let the fleet "Worf" him.

* In ''[[Uninvited Guests (Fanfic)|Uninvited Guests]]'', this is ''[[Invoked Trope|invoked]]'' by Hitsugaya in order to beat Aizen's [[Plot Armor]]. Enter "[[Filler Villain|the Dark Lord Wolfington]]," who is [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|definitely not Komamura in a mask.]]

* ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]''

** Worf himself did not escape this trope when it came time for the cast of ''[[Star Trek: the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek theThe Next Generation]]'' to make it to the big screen. In ''[[Star Trek First Contact (Film)|Star Trek: First Contact]]'', his ship is damaged early on against a massive, time-traveling Borg Cube and he is forced to hang out on the Enterprise for the rest of the movie. But averted for most of the movie when he proceeds to wreck every Borg drone he encounters.

** Other Klingons suffer from this tendency, too. In ''[[Star Trek: the Motion Picture (Film)|Star Trek theThe Motion Picture]]'', the opening sequence is three Klingon ships, all looking quite badass...and all three get taken to pieces in about ten seconds by V'Ger.

* Just like his comic counterpart, [[Wolverine]] gets this treatment in the [[X-Men (Filmfilm)|X-Men movie series]]. [[Magneto]], Mystique, Sabertooth, Lady Deathstrike, and the Juggernaut all had their way with him throughout the series. Out of those listed, he only managed to kill Lady Deathstrike and that was through sheer luck of having a pump filled with liquid metal laying nearby. Otherwise, he was getting killed.

* The ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' movies gauged the danger-levels of their dinosaurs against the [[Tyrannosaurus Rex|T-Rex]] ([[Stock Dinosaurs|the most well-known dinosaur even before the movies came out]]) in order to let the audience know how tough they were. Muldoon is an example, who takes on a T-Rex early in the film and holds his own, but is then easily outsmarted and killed by the Velociraptors in order to establish them as more of a threat. The T-Rex is also killed by the Spinosaurus in a sequel.

* Gandalf in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' is a powerful wizard, respected and feared by all. It is thus a very big deal when he is terrified of the {{spoiler|Balrog in Moria}} and showcases the {{spoiler|Balrog's power and the tragedy of Gandalf's defeat}}. The Witch King's {{spoiler|defeat at the hands of Eowyn and Merry}} after facing off Gandalf earlier may also count. In a case of [[Tropes Are Not Bad]], these instances are very much justified in context and does not feel gratuitous.

* Obi-Wan Kenobi had his fare share of worf effects through the ''[[Star Wars]]'' series. Obi-Wan was killed the first time we got to see Darth Vader in action, was getting beaten by Darth Maul (alongside his mentor) until Maul picked up the [[Idiot Ball]], and was beaten by Count Dooku twice.

* ''[[Transformers (Filmfilm)|Transformers]]'' does this to Ironhide. Spec wise he's the strongest Autobot after Optimus. And he boasts about his powerful arm cannons. But outside of tie in material in the actual films his performances are less than stellar. In the first film he waves his cannons around the entire time but when he finally gets to fire them at Brawl he misses and winds up doing no damage to him at all while the medic Ratchet slices off his arm and knocks him over. Brawl is killed by Bumblebee while Hide opts to run around after Sam until Starscream shows up and blasts him, taking him out of the fight for the rest of the film. In the 2nd film he again doesn't really cause any actual damage with his trademark cannons, simply attempting to lead a scout team (which gets all wiped out but him) and running from an explosion. Which he doesn't manage, again getting knocked over and down for the count for the rest of the film. Finally in the last film he manages to show off his apparent Badassery by stepping in and singlehandedly killing two of the Dreads that Bumblebee and Sam had spent the last 5 minutes running in fear from. {{spoiler|Then Sentinel Prime kills him.}} And the two Dreads? He killed with a sidearm and his fists, not his cannons (which he doesn't even bother to use) giving the weapon specialist a kill count of 0 with his actual weapons.

** For Karen Traviss, the Jedi are hateful incompetent death-deserving people fit only to [[CreatorsCreator's Pet|puff up her Mandalorians]]; hence they either convert, sit quietly and accept really pathetic [[Hannibal Lecture|Hannibal Lectures]]s while being very impressed, or are curb-stomped. Every. Time. A connection to [[The Force]] which binds all things, shaves reaction times, oxygenates blood more efficiently, provides telekinetic abilities, enhances strength, and gives battle precognition sufficient to deflect blaster bolts into enemies with the narrow blade of a lightsaber is no match at all for the perfect people with their colorful beskar'gam armor!

** What's the best way to show how strong a villain in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]? Make him toss some Jedi around the room with his eyes closed and one hand behind his back. What's the best way to show how serious the situation is? Kill a few Jedi. In books, games, and comics, if a Jedi isn't a protagonist, he's fucked. ''Especially'' if he happens to meet [[Star Wars Legacy|Sith]], [[Knights of the Old Republic|Mandalorians]], [[Star Wars: Clone Wars|Grievous]], [[Star Wars: theThe Clone Wars|Cad Bane]], or [[New Jedi Order|lamely-designed aliens]].

** In ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'', they have their villain stab [[Dark Forces Saga|Kyle Katarn]] through the chest. Thankfully, this get's reversed, and Kyle's shown much more respect, in the ''[[FateoftheFate of the Jedi]]'' books.

* In the ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' novel ''The Return'', Worf is pwned by, of all people, {{spoiler|the risen Kirk}}, using a Klingon's best weapon. Consider who these novels are written by...supposedly.

* ''[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|Harry Potter]]'' has Mad-Eye Moody, master duelist who's put more Dark wizards in prison than any other Auror, has never won a serious fight in the text. True, his opponents are always either Voldemort's hardest core or Voldemort himself, but you'd think he'd save ''someone's'' butt given his street cred. {{spoiler|He is killed in the first few chapters of the seventh book, for the sole purpose of showing how ''serious business'' everything now is, embodying this trope.}} In one of [[Harry Potter (Filmfilm)|the movies]], we at least get to see him briefly knock over a [[Mooks|random Death Eater]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZWtt1oAPCM&t=1m50s using some sort of magic from his cane].

{{quote| '''Neville:''' Little old witch living alone, they probably thought hey didn't need to send anyone particularly powerful. Anyway, Dawlish is still in St. Mungo's and Gran's on the run.}}

* There are many examples in Steve Alten's ''[[Meg]]'' series where a [[Megalodon]] defeats equally large and dangerous predators (to the point of bordering on [[Villain Sue]]), but only the opening scene of the first novel qualifies (wherein Meg eats a [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]) because the marine reptiles are too obscure to the general public to be this trope.

* Possibly lampshaded in ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' novel, ''Daemon World''. When a group of Word Bearer Chaos Marines board his ship, {{spoiler|Arguelon Veq}}'s first target is Vrox, an Obliterator (which, for the uninitiated, is a mutated monstrosity twice the size of regular Chaos Space Marines and can spawn weapons and armor from his body). After he kills Vrox with relative ease, he even comments that he was the least threatening of the Chaos Marines on board.

** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Sourcery|Sourcery]]'', the Sourceror Coin upon entering the Great Hall of the Unseen University asks the wizards who is the most powerful of them, so that he can duel him. Skarmer Billias, an eight grade wizard, steps up, seeing the challenge as a joke. After displaying his most powerful spell, creating a miniature of Maligree's Wonderful Garden, Coin counters by making the garden life-size and bringing all the wizards with him into it. After this display he incinerates Billias with a single thought.

** Another Discworld example, in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Guards Guards|Guards! Guards!]]'' Carrot goes into the Mended Drum to break up one of their regular bar fights. The other Watchmen with him expect to see bits of him start flying out at any moment. Instead, Detritus (a troll, which on Discworld are made of solid rock) is the first to fly out. Unconscious. Softer targets follow. (It was previously established that Detritus was employed at the Drum as a Splatter. Like a bouncer, but trolls hit harder.)

* In ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'', [[Sixth Ranger Traitor|David]] subjects [[Standardized Leader|team leader]] Jake to this during their duel. Up until this point, Jake's tiger has been one of the most lethally efficient morphs the team has. Despite having a year of experience on the new Animorph, Jake still loses. Handily.

* ''[[Septimus Heap (Literature)|Septimus Heap]]'': Nicko Heap in ''Physik'' is mentioned to be strong enough to tackle virtually anybody, but when he tries to attack Queen Etheldredda, she just swats him out of the way.

** In one episode of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV)|Deep Space Nine]]'', Worf himself deliberately utilizes this trope by letting Martok defeat him in a duel so as to restore the crew's confidence in Martok. This scene echos the TNG episode ''A Matter of Honor'', in which Commander Riker, on detached duty to the Klingon warship ''Pagh'', intentionally provokes the ''Pagh's'' captain into backhanding him so the man could take back his command [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|with honor]]. The episode also proves that a [[Klingon Promotion]] isn't always fatal.

** Interestingly, Worf's predecessor as head of security, Tasha Yar, [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him|was killed by a monster purely as a demonstration of power]]. Seems Worf inherited it. She had it far worse that Worf ever did. He, at least, sometimes won fights. If she'd stuck around longer, this trope would have been called the Yar Effect.

** InAlso in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV)|Deep Space 9Nine]]'', the Jem'Hadar were first introduced in a season finale that culminated in the destruction of the ''Odyssey'', a Galaxy class starship and [[The Big Guy]] of Starfleet ships, sister to the ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation (TV)|USS Enterprise-D]]'' - also having a balding captain, interestingly enough - with the only Jem'Hadar ship lost in the engagement being the one that [[Ramming Always Works|intentionally rammed it]]. One of the writers later admitted that he had drawn this parallel between the two ships to showcase the Dominion as a credible threat. Later episodes would have the Federation come up with successful countermeasures, though there is a period in which the Dominion ships are looked at with some apprehension.

** Worf getting his butt kicked on the phaser range by ''Guinan.'' Though at least he had a couple good excuses-- heexcuses—he was distracted by his personal problems, number one, and number two--

{{quote| '''Guinan:''' Don't feel bad. I was doing this long before ''you'' were born.<br />

*:* This is averted in several ways however - Worf won Grand Champion standing in a Bat'leth competition, for instance. And then there was the time he was forced to fight Jem'Hadar in to the death combat every day. When he faced the eldest, baddest Jem'Hadar, despite being severely injured he kept getting up and the Jem'Hadar decided to quit because he couldn't beat him (he could [[Worthy Opponent|only kill him]]).

**::* It's not just averted, but full-on INVERTED during In Purgatory's Shadow/By Inferno's Light. The Jem'Hadar were already established as super-badasses, and Worf's successive victories against them in single combat reestablished Worf's ass-kicking credentials.

**::* Worf's tenure on [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV)|DS9]] is where Worf ''really'' earned his [[Badass]] title. Worf finally gained the ability to consistently win fights and developed a taste for killing Jem'Hadar with his bare hands--oftenhands—often relying on the [[Neck Snap]].

*:* Worf has the excuse of being [[Zerg Rush|Zerg Rushed]]ed in ''[[Star Trek Insurrection (Film)|Star Trek: Insurrection]]'' when the So'na crew retake the bridge. He gets in some really good hits, and one audibly cringeworthy arm break on one assailant before he gets overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of enemies rushing the bridge.

*:* Interestingly, in ''Enterprise's'' first encounter with The Borg, Picard orders Worf to stop a drone from interfering with the ship's systems, and Worf delegates the task to a subordinate...who the drone effortlessly throws across Engineering.

** This "[[Sixth Ranger]] Syndrome" can be seen in almost every season of ''[[Power Rangers]]'' -- the—the new, super powerful extra Ranger debuts, defeats the enemy in a few hits, and two episodes later is jobbing out to anything thrown his way.

*** It's more of a case of [[Can't Catch Up]]. Think about it, the villains get gradually more powerful over the course of the show, and the team gets upgrades to compensate for their ever more threatening foes. The main team, that is. Sixth Rangers generally aren't given [[Super Mode|Super Modes]]s or extra mecha to stay competitive. So they fall behind.

** Even this is experienced by you-know-who. Daggeron can take on a non-Ranger morphed form, previously seen only in flashbacks until one day he just starts using it in the present. ''It'' is quite powerful, so his Ranger suit serves the same purpose as the Megazord before last: morphed Daggeron gets Worf'd, oh noes, and then out of the flames bursts Ancient Mystic Daggeron! You start to wonder why he ever bothered with the [[Power Rangers RPM (TV)|spande...uh, tights]].

** Tommy also suffers this to the White Ranger in ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]].'' Despite having consistently beaten everything that came at him, including a [[Once Per Episode]] battle with one of the season's [[The Dragon|Dragons]], The White Ranger takes him out without breaking a sweat. Trent would go on to suffer this himself, being himself a [[Sixth Ranger]]. As the Green Ranger, Tommy got this a lot, losing his powers ''twice'', turning evil a second time, and constantly being under spells that [[What the Hell, Hero?|that made it impossible for him and Jason to work together]].

* Bobby Flay invokes this in his [[Food Network]] show ''[[Throwdown]]'', where he finds a chef, trains in their specialty, and then challenges them to a cook-off. Despite being an [[Iron Chef]], Flay loses most of the time; however, he's said that he ''wants'' to lose, since the whole point of the show is to give props to all the awesome chefs out there (he's trying to do something after a week of training that they've been doing for years). On ''[[Iron Chef America]]'', though, he plays to win. And he still does win throwdowns on occasion.

* ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' featured this to some extent with Illyria. After a few episodes of her beating the everloving snot out of everyone and being nigh indestructible (although she does get toned down a bit right before this incident), [[Implacable Man|Marcus Hamilton]] shows up and beats her to a bloody pulp, with as little effort as Neo put into defeating Smith at the end of ''[[The Matrix]]''.

* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Buffy gets her ass kicked by Glory several times. Also Buffy, for the first time, expresses doubt that she can beat an enemy.

** Also used in Season 5 to emphasize Willow's newfound magical strength. Glory effortlessly knocks Buffy, the resident badass, around week after week; until the finale only Willow manages to make her feel pain.

{{quote| '''Caleb''': So, you're the slayer. ''The'' slayer. The strongest, the fastest, the most aflame with that most precious invention of all mankind - the notion of goodness. The slayer must indeed be powerful. [Knocks Buffy out with one punch] So, what else you got?}}

** The first time Buffy tries to take down a Turok-Han, it beats her unconscious.

* Ka D'argo is the Worf of ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'', in this aspect as well. The Alien of the week usually manhandles him, and D'argo ends up choking up black, poisonous blood, leaving it up to Crichton or Aeryn to save his life. This appears to have been mitigated by the writers by late season 2, however, as D'argo seems to win EVERY''every'' fight with relative ease, even with multiple, credible non-mook opponents.

* Sayid, as the toughest of the crash survivors, suffers from this to some extent in ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'', and has been taken down by {{spoiler|Rousseau, Mikhail Bakunin and Keamy}}, the first two in their introductory episodes. He usually puts up a creditable fight, though.

* In the tradition of Worf and [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Proud Warrior Race Guys]]s everywhere, ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' has Ronon, who suffers the Worf Effect once every several episodes, but actually manages to be a legitimate [[Badass]] the rest of the time.

* Castiel in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''. Despite being an angel, he's usually the one getting his head kicked in.

* Used to rather shocking effect in ''[[Stargate SG-1 (TV)|Stargate SG-1]]''. The episode "Camelot" has the humans, Free Jaffa, and Asgard, the three most advanced races in the Milky Way, try to stop the Ori from invading through the Supergate. There are about sixteen ships there, later bolstered by reinforcements from the Lucian Alliance (procured by Teal'c by holding Netan at gunpoint). This ''still'' doesn't help, as while the Asgard ship is able to survive, a ha'tak can't survive even ''one'' hit from the Ori ship's main weapon, and a human 304 is only able to take two. Until "Unending" only ''one'' Ori ship had been destroyed, and that was by a clever trick. This gets better at the season finale when they get Asgard beam weaponry, but it still takes the [[Big Damn Movie]] for the war to finally be won.

* This becomes a plot point on ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]'' with regards to Sailor Venus. In the episode that she debuted, she was able to effortlessly defeat Zoisite with her standard attack. This made sense as she had the most experience as a Sailor Soldier compared to the other girls. Later on, though, as the rest of the girls awakened their full power, it became clear that Venus hadn't awakened hers yet since she was regularly getting overpowered by the standard Mooks. Sailor Mars even calls her out on it. Venus finally receives her [[Mid -Season Upgrade]] towards the end of the series, {{spoiler|but she died of a [[Soap Opera Disease|terminal illness]] the next episode.}}

* Several episodes of the BBC's [[Walking Withwith Dinosaurs|Walking With...]] series follow the same pattern. As an opening a bad-ass dinosaur/scorpion/shark is shown hunting down some poor critter only for the real star of the episode to suddenly appear and bite them in half.

** The first thing [[Journey to Thethe West|Sun Wukong]] does when released from his imprisonment is beat a tiger to death and fashion a kilt out of his skin.

* In [[Classical Mythology|Greek Mythology]], Ares is recognized as the god of war and embodiment of physical power, but tends to lose or get humiliated in nearly every story about him. He gets trapped and humiliated by Hephaestus when Ares and Aphrodite (Hephaestus' consort) are caught in an illicit love affair, fled from the monster Typhon, lost a boxing match to Apollo, wounded by the hero [[The Iliad (Literature)|Diomedes]] with the aid of Athena forcing him to flee the battle, defeated by Hercules twice and stripped of his armor in one instance, locked in a bronze jar by the Aloadae requiring Hermes to free him, and defeated in battle with [[Genius Bruiser|Athena]] by a rock to the head. Athena had a habit of humiliating him and Zeus generally said he was worthless. His humiliations are usually attributed to the Greeks preferring the more intellectual Athena and Ares being hated for embodying the chaotic and destructive nature of warfare. Oh, and Nike (Victory) usually sided against him.

* WWE has always had a "Big Man Who Loses" for new people to demonstrate their ability over. In the 80s, they used jobbers Dave Barbie and Rusty Brooks. In more recent years [[Wrestler/Kane (wrestling)|Kane]] has played this role. Sometimes Kane gets pushed and The Big Show or Mark Henry fills in for him.

* When [[Brock Lesnar]] debuted, within a week he was throwing the 350lb Rikishi around like a ragdoll. Within a month he was doing the same to the near-400lb [[Mark Henry]]. Within a year he was throwing the 500lb Big Show around with suplexes.

** Lesnar also got to Worf Effect ''for'' [[The Big Show]]. Show went from being the Big Man Who Loses to the man who broke Lesnar's -- the man who slaughtered ''[[Hulk Hogan]]'' -- winning—winning streak (with a little outside interference) overnight. That was partly because the tag line for the angle was "don't wake the sleeping giant" - a particularly unconvincing version of [[Worf Had the Flu]].

* In a very unusual setup, WCW had [[Goldberg]] and Meng Worf Effect for each other. Meng (Haku in WWF/E)would batter Goldberg all over the ring for roughly three quarters of the match, when Goldberg usually tossed opponents around effortlessly. Then at the point where Meng would usually apply the Tongan Death Grip and win the match, Goldberg would rally back, spear, jackhammer, pinfall. The two of them had surprisingly good chemistry in the ring together, and despite Goldberg winning every single battle between them, the fights were popular enough that Pizza Hut shot a commercial with Goldberg and Meng [[So Bad ItsIt's Good|putting aside their differences over a pizza]].

** Delivered an almighty Glam Slam to the Women's Champion [[Lay Cool|Michelle McCool]] and became the first person to pin her cleanly in over five months. To this day Michelle still hasn't beaten Beth cleanly.

* Used regularly in ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' fluff and books. Anytime an army or faction is shown in a [[Sourcebook|Codex]] or article not about them, you better believe they're getting their asses kicked by whoever it ''is'' featuring. This can lead to problems where long development cycles mean some factions will be [[Out of Focus]] for years, and have thus accumulated a long string of defeats, with no victories to counteract them.

** Played utterly straight with Daemon Lord M'kar, across multiple books. Every time he shows up (and he shows up a lot), it is solely to look menacing for about half a second before being carved into ribbons the badass special character of that particular codex. He makes [[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Team Rocket]] look dignified.

*** Averted in M'kar's more recent appearances, where he's generally treated as a terrifying threat.

* In the ''[[Ravenloft]]'' product line, a remarkable number of adventures require the [[Player Character|player characters]] to rescue Dr. Rudolph van Richten when he's kidnapped, mind-controlled, committed to an asylum, or otherwise incapacitated...so much so, it mars his reputation as a shrewd and competent monster-hunter, to have gotten himself captured so many times. Probably a side effect of his being the most prominent non-evil [[NPC]] in the game setting, whom writers can't resist using in their scenarios, yet must hamstring to ensure he won't outshine the players' characters. This actually gets explained in ''Van Richten's guide to the Vistani''. He's under a [[Gypsy Curse|Vistani curse]] that compels him to go into dangerous situations and fail horribly in ways that get all his friends killed, but allows him to survive.

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' has the Monarchs. Any time they appear on a card, it's them [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Prideful_Roar getting their asses] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Intercept kicked or about] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Inverse_Universe to get their] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Screen_of_Red asses kicked.] This may be something of a backlash against their former [[Game Breaker]] status.

** Contrast with the film ''[[Unforgiven (Film)|Unforgiven]]'' (to which the trope doesn't apply anyways because it is a one-time encounter) where the writer speculates that Munny took out his opponents in the final shoot out in order of their dangerousness. Munny says no, he's just been lucky that way.

* This is actively subverted in White Wolf's ''[[Werewolf: The Forsaken]]''. The Rahu Auspice are the designated tough guy in any pack. What inborn ability do they gain for being Rahu? The ability to tell at a glance whether or not they could take a given opponent in a fight.

** In ''[[Magic the Gathering]]'', aA variation occurs, because of the [[Metagame]]: If a card turns out to be a [[Game Breaker]], there will be instant answers to it next set, though (as per the rules) there are always answers to everything. Storyline-wise, Lin Sivvi was a [[Game Breaker]] in the Masques block; she died at the very beginning of the Invasion block.

* The [http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=3481&it=1 first book] in the ''Immortal Handbook'' series (an [[Up to Eleven]] modification of ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'') shows two monsters battling on the cover. If you look, you can see the ''Tarrasque'' cowering on the background.

* ''[[Halo 3]]'': As the only competent human still alive besides the player character, Sergeant Johnson falling victim to this trope was inevitable. A Pelican gets shot down? Johnson was on it. Enemies storm the base? Johnson gets pushed back and you have to finish the job for him. Need a third team leader for a crucial operation? The normal human takes the riskiest spot, while the [[Super Soldier]] and the [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] get targets that are not directly connected to the nearby enemy stronghold. It gets to the point where our [[Badass Normal]] becomes a [[DistressedDamsel Damselin Distress]] of sorts -- andsorts—and a rescue attempt is mounted by the person whom you'd expect to fill the role.

* Both in-game and out, [[The Big Guy|the Heavy]] in ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' is the biggest, toughest character in the game, able to soak up rockets like a sponge and kill multiple people in a second. ("He punched out all my blood!") Over the course of eight of the nine "Meet the Team" videos currently released, he has been gibbed three times, shot to death by a level one sentry, headshotted by the Sniper, and beaten unconscious in three hits by a baseball bat. He is killed more often than almost anyone else anyone else (he can't hold a candle to the BLU Soldier, though), and commonly by things he could easily tank.

** Also, before, the Ubercharge was one of the most tide-turning aspects of a game. You get a invulnerable, recket/boolet firing monster mowing everyone down. Now? You get someone immune to damage, but not the push-back effects of explosions or the Pyro. In fact, the Pyro is considered to be one of the most effective Uber-counters. Good Pyros can effectively render an Ubercharge useless.

*** This counter has been countered once again, with an alternate form of Ubercharge that, while leaving you vulnerable to [[One -Hit Kill|One Hit Kills]], makes you immune to the deadly knockback.

* You will know how dangerous Mr.Sandman is in [[Punch -Out!!]] as soon as you unlock the final fight.That is, by watching the 8-seconds clip that shows him effortlessly knocking the hell out of ''every other opponent you beat before him''.

* In ''[[Castlevania: Circle of the Moon]]'', the player fights with Adrammelech after it gains the upper hand against Hugh and knocks him out of the room.

* In ''[[Castlevania: Chronicles of Sorrow|Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow]]'', Dario proves easily able to defeat Julius as a way of showing how much more powerful he's become since the last time (Julius also got Worfed by {{spoiler|Soma himself}} in the previous game). Later on, {{spoiler|Dmitri}} defeats Arikado/{{spoiler|Alucard}}, albeit by using {{spoiler|Celia's sacrifice}} to cause him to lose control of his dark powers.

* ''[[Fate/stay Stay Nightnight]]''

*** His Gag in the [[Spin -Off]] [[Carnival Phantasm]] is essentially [[The Worf Effect]] taken [[Up to Eleven]] to [[Butt Monkey]] proportions.

* In ''[[Tekken (Video Game)|Tekken]]'', ever since returning [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]], Kazuya Mishima has been suffering this a lot. He's beaten down by Heihachi, and then Jin consecutively. And if the newer bio of ''Tekken 6'' is to be trusted again, someone beats him in the middle of the tournament (presumably Jin. AGAIN), opting him to leave the tournament to deal with the G Corporation. Then one of the leaked screenshots for Tekken 6's new Scenario Campaign had him being kicked in the ass by Heihachi. Was coming [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]] really worth it?

* ''[[Iji (Video Game)|Iji]]'' manages to do this on a ''species-wide'' scale. Granted, we only ''see'' the last major battle, but the backstory states that these wars have been going on for decades, so it still counts. Specifically, at the beginning of the game, the Tasen seem like a rather frightening, imposing warrior race, but once their ancient rivals appear on the scene they're absolute jokes.

* In ''[[Mega Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|Mega Man]] & Bass'', the first thing we see [[Big Bad|King]] do is chop [[Aloof Big Brother|Proto Man]] in half.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'' SOLDIER is heralded in the backstory as a group of unrelenting hardcases who can mow down countless enemies with ease. In-game, however, the lower class members of this group are less than impressive, just another batch of Mooks for the protagonists to stomp.

* Kyosuke and his [[Humongous Mecha|Alt]] [[Real Robot|Eisen]] get subjected to this throughout the middle of ''[[Super Robot Wars]] [[OG 2]]'' with each new villain nearly destroying the Alt, ending with Axel nearly killing him before Alt Eisen's [[Mid -Season Upgrade]] to the Alt Eisen Reise saves them from further [[The Worf Effect|Worfing]].

* If [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]] fights in the opening of a game, he's getting a Worfing. A particular example is at the start of ''[[Super Mario Galaxy (Video Game)|Super Mario Galaxy]]'', when he doesn't even get in striking range of Bowser before getting blasted by Kamek. This despite Magikoopas being fairly minor enemies in their previous appearances.

** And, to tie it to an above example, in ''[[Super Smash Bros (Video Game).|Brawl]]'', the first fight is a quick slobberknocker between Mario and Kirby. Then, the two of them hold off incoming waves of Primids and such. Then...Mario's promptly shot by a cannonball. Just...blam, the most iconic video game character of all time, blasted off like [[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Team Rocket]] to show that whoever the antagonist of the story is, they're ''serious''. This becomes the standard in any subsequent appearances Mario makes in any given cutscene...while [[Kirby]] and co. [[Author Appeal|proceed to]] [[Spot Light Spotlight-Stealing Squad|steal the spotlight]] whenever possible.

* ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]'' did this to the Normandy: what better way to establish the Collectors than have them blow your trusty ship in half.

* In ''[[Champions Online (Video Game)|Champions Online]]'', the eponymous [[Champions]] seem to take a beating even more than their tabletop counterparts: in fact, [[Powered Armor|Defender's]] status as [[Jobber|class punching bag]] has become a bit of an [[In -Joke]] among the playerbase, despite his status as [[The Cape (trope)|Millennium City's premier hero]]. Most recently, in the [[To Hell and Back|Demonflame]] arc, the Champions' resident mystic [[Hot Witch|Witchcraft]] gets her ass handed to her by a [[Giant Mook]] [[Tempting Fate|while taunting the villains about their inevitable defeat]].

* Even as the archrival, Eggman is like this in the newer [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] games. If he's set up to be the [[Big Bad]], just imagine how tough that [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|guy]] who [[Bait and Switch Boss|destroyed his Death Egg in one shot]] is going to be!

* ''[[Mortal Kombat 9 (Video Game)|Mortal Kombat 9]]'' does this a lot:

** If the Story Mode is any indication, Sub-Zero punked {{spoiler|'''Kratos''' ([[PSPlay Station 3]] version only)}} off-screen and put him on ice.

** {{spoiler|Sindel, having been empowered by Shang Tsung's soul/essence}}, attacks the heroes after {{spoiler|the automated Lin Kuei warriors fail to kill them}}. It quickly escalates into a [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown]] like no other. {{spoiler|Nightwolf, Kitana, Sonya, and Cage}} are the ''only'' immediate survivors; one of them dies of their wounds and another has to pull a [[Heroic Sacrifice]].

* Used in an incredibly shameless, utterly demeaning manner in ''[[Marvel Nemesis Rise of the Imperfects]]'', where [[Captain America (comics)]], [[The Punisher]], and '''[[The Hulk]]''' are all implied to have been [[Defeated/killed Off For Real|killed Off For Real]] by the current [[Alien Invaders]], with the first two not being shown (although the PSP version has Cap as a playable character), and the Hulk being knocked into a building, buried under the rubble, and transforming back into Bruce.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy XI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XI]]'', you can exploit this with the aggro system. White mages tend to draw the most aggro since healing draws more than anything. After healing comes the warrior's provoke ability.

* [[Demonic Spiders|A Deathclaw]] plays this in a ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' expansion. In an automated fight, it gets killed by a Tunneler, setting the strength of them to scale against the Deathclaw, [[Lightning Bruiser|an enemy you're likely familiar with]].

** The [[Elite Mook|NCR Rangers]] are built up throughout the game to be a crew of ultra-badasses that only the best of the best get to join. Right before the final boss fight, there's a scripted sequence where two of them charge Legate Lanius, only to be immediately cut to shreds. To be fair to those scripted Rangers, they were Patrol Rangers. While still badass, they aren't quite the badass Rangers everyone oohs and awes over. [[Averted Trope|The Veteran Rangers never have a Worf Effect moment in game.]] The Patrol Rangers get one of their outposts destroyed, one of their snipers assassinated and keep getting bad intel, supplies and reinforcements {{spoiler|from Chief Hanlon}}. Since most of the Patrol Rangers are young rangers who just got into the corps., this trope is ultimately [[Zig Zagged Trope|zig zagged]] because they vary so much.

* Cesare Borgia's first appearance in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'' has him beah, humiliate and kill {{spoiler|Mario Auditore}}, who was shown in ''[[Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed II]]'' and the opening of ''Brotherhood'' to be a capable leader and skilled ''[[Private Military Contractors|condottiero]]''.

* The Antivan Crows in ''[[Dragon Age]]'' are ([[Informed Ability|allegedly]]) the greatest assassins in Thedas. Yet, every time they go up against the Warden/[[Dragon Age II|Hawke]] they get soundly defeated, just to prove how tough s/he is.

* In ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising]]'', Thanatos, the boss of Chapter 7, is brought [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]] in Chapter 14 only to be curb-stomped by ''THAT'' chapter's boss, [[Shock and Awe|Phosphora.]]

* [[Hollywood Cyborg|Ziggy]] gets this treatment a lot in [[Xeno SagaXenosaga]]; the largest, most experienced and most physically intimidating of the main cast, he's nevertheless been thoroughly trounced in encounters with Margulis, Voyager and T-elos.

* As [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/09/18/episode-895-the-punching-bag/ this strip] explains, Black Mage of ''[[Eight 8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' functions as both the Worf and the [[Butt Monkey]]. Probably from how he almost always uses [[Kamehame Hadoken|one spell]], that while powerful, can only be used once a day.

* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic)|Sluggy Freelance]]'', Bun-Bun found himself used like this during "Dangerous Days Ahead". Getting his butt kicked by the monstrous CEO form of {{spoiler|clone!}}Aylee was a major plot point because in the past, Aylee was not strong enough to win a fight with him.

** Oasis sometimes falls victim to this, as while she is a deadly assassin, she also loses against {{spoiler|Clone!}}Aylee, and previously lost to [[Super -Powered Evil Side|demon-possessed Gwynn]].

* In one of the prequel books of ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', the Order is about to face a guard monster, only to have it hit Roy with a roll of 2. Upon realizing that it can nail the party member with the probable highest Armor Class with such a low roll, they flee.

* Sara and the other Time Monks from ''[[Errant Story]]''. The author directly invokes the trope in a [https://web.archive.org/web/20140902070257/http://www.errantstory.com/2009-04-29/4173 commentary comic].

* In ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'', [[Noble Bigot|Equius]], the strongest of the trolls, (he ''[[Testosterone Poisoning|punched the head off an ogre with his bare hands!]]'') is {{spoiler|easily strangled to death by [[Monster Clown|Gamzee]] as his first victim}}. This is arguably both a [[Played Straight|straight play]] and a subversion, since [[Word of God]] says {{spoiler|he could have easily broken the bowstring with his STRONG neck, but didn't because [[Fantastic Racism|Gamzee is a highblood]] and therefore had the right to kill him}}, [[Combat Sadomasochist|at least in Equius' mind]].

* Elliot from ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' suffers from this, even though the series isn't focused on combat. He built a reputation as a [[Bully Hunter]] and befriended two of the main characters through saving them from bullies and defeated the first antagonist of the strip. He then lost to {{spoiler|Grace's brother Hedge}}, and embarrassingly so having been knocked out after one blow.<ref>and the exhaustion from one involuntary transformation that may have been precipitated by that blow</ref>.

* In the ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYxu_MQSTTY David Blaine Street Magic]'' parody videos, David Blaine starts out as a [[Reality Warper]] who keeps playing tricks on two L.A. idiots. Then, in the fourth video, [[CreatorsCreator's Pet|Zaoza]] appears.

* Used in the ''[[Justice League (Animationanimation)|Justice League]]'' cartoon, with all the times [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] gets beaten up, particularly in the first season. The writers [[Lampshade Hanging|admitted to doing it]] when called on, and toned it down.

** In one DVD commentary, the creators described why this happened: They copied the frequency of Superman getting beaten up that they used before in ''[[Superman: theThe Animated Series (Animation)|Superman the Animated Series]]''. The creators said their mistake lay in following up these beatdowns with some other hero jumping in to rescue Supes--whereasSupes—whereas in his own series, Superman would get knocked down, get back on his feet, and beat up his assailant himself.

** Similarly, in the first season of ''[[Justice League (Animationanimation)|Justice League]]'', J'onn J'onnz seemed to be the love child of Worf and Deanna Troi. He only got to show off his telepathy when the writers wanted to show what utterly impressive mental abilities the Guest Villain of the Week had. Like Commander Troi, the erstwhile [[Martian Manhunter]] [[Gotta Get Your Head Together|spent much of his time dropping to his knees clutching his temples.]] When he finally [[Scaled Up|got to show off his shape-shifting abilities]] against [[Metamorpho (Comic Book)|Metamorpho]] (who, after his [[Heel Face Turn]], by contrast is allowed to use his ridiculously overpowered version of [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]] creatively), he got his ass handed to him ''again'', just to show that This Week's Guest Star Was Tougher. He got much cooler as time went on and the writers figured out ways to challenge him and allow him to use his powers without being unstoppable.

** In the [[Grand Finale]] of the ''[[Legion of Super -Heroes (AnimationTV series)|Legion of Super Heroes]]'', the Thanagarians, Hawkgirl's fellow [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Proud Warrior Race Guys]]s, take on Brainiac en masse. They get digitized in under ten seconds. That's after he brutally slaughtered the [[Big Bad]] of the whole season in a ''serious'' [[Darker and Edgier]] moment.

*** [[Superman (Comic Book)|Guess which Legionnaire]] was the first to take on and get beaten by the [[Not Himself]] Brainiac 5?

* In ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force (Animation)|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'', you can always rely on Kevin, the physically strongest member on the team, to take the most damage in battle.

* Happens to Prince Zuko on ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. He is the front row victim when Aang first taps into his [[Unstoppable Rage|Avatar State]], he's taken down by the deadly Yu Yan archers with one single hit, and during the season one finale, he struggles to a victory in combat with Katara, whose abilities had risen to master levels [[Second Hand Storytelling|offscreen]]. Later on that night, during their rematch under a full moon (which augments a Waterbender's power) Katara is able to abruptly neutralize Zuko's attack and KO him in a single stride. In the season two premiere, Zuko takes on his newly introduced sister, but is unable to land a single hit on her and has to be saved from certain death by his uncle.

{{quote| '''Bulkhead:''' He always shoots at me first!<br />

'''Blitzwing:''' Let's see how tough you are without your big bolt-brained bruiser!<br />

''(fires a blast that knocks Bulkhead over)''<br />

** [[The Worf Effect]] is applied in a layering effect in ''Animated''. There is a special tier of villains Bumblebee can take out by himself (the human villains, sad as that sounds), then a higher tier for the [[Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie|Robot Ninja]] Prowl and [[The Big Guy]] Bulkhead ([[The Brute|The Brutes]]s, [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]] and random Cons), then a tier that only Optimus has a chance against with the below serving as ''mere decoys''. Starscream and Megatron cement their status as a tier by themselves by Starscream [[First -Episode Resurrection|fatally wounding Optimus in the pilot]] and beating Optimus' superior with ''one shot''...and then Megatron beating Screamer with one shot. Despite this very clear hierarchy, [[Too Dumb to Live|Bumblebee has charged head first]] at Starscream and Megatron ''[[Genre Blind|by himself]]'' several times. They usually pick him up by the neck and fling him.

* Splinter from the 1980s ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987]]'' cartoon was portrayed as a master of ninjitsu, but he got himself captured on a regular basis and had to be rescued by the Turtles as often as April O'Neil herself.

* If the ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]'' are fighting as a group, expect this to happen to [[The Hero|Goliath]]. He usually recovers in time to get the final blow in on the [[Rogues Gallery|antagonist]], though.

* ''[[X-Men (Animationanimation)|X-Men the Animated Series]]'' had a rare 3x combo in "The Phoenix Saga Part 2" : First, Wolverine plays his typical role by getting easily taken out by the Juggernaut. Then Juggernaut is easily tossed away by Gladiator (with the "what chance do we have?" line delivered by Jubilee). Finally, Phoenix shows up and [[Curb Stomp Battle|Curb Stomps]] Gladiator.

*** IIRC, most plot lines in X-Men the Animated Series went thusly. A. Arrival of enemy of the week. B. Wolverine snarling, declaring intentions of harm upon enemy, and deploying claws. C. Wolverine is seen tumbling through the air in such a fashion that the viewer could believe there was some kind of Pan-Galactic Wolverine toss competition and every bad guy was trying to out do the previous.

* Magneto gets it from Apocalypse in ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]''. He uses his powers to seize control of and hurl army vehicles, weapon emplacements, and drags satellites down from orbit to throw at his opponent. Apocalypse [[NoWon't Work On SellMe|shrugs it off like it's nothing]] and (apparently) vaporizes Magneto before the X-Men's horrified eyes.

* And, to complete the trio, in ''[[Wolverine and Thethe X-Men]]'', a little mutant girl is released from a stasis box by Juggernaut. The first (apart from the manner of keeping her in stasis) way of demonstrating her powers? She flings said [[The Juggernaut|Unstoppable Juggernaut]] a few miles away, knocking him out cold.

* This was pretty typical in ''[[Transformers]]: [[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' on both factions. Typically, when a new character would show up they would whoop some serious ass and be portrayed as an unstoppable force. This is notable in "Feral Scream", where first Dinobot gets cloned and made into a new Transmetal II Predacon and schools everything, then in the same episode Cheetor gets an upgrade and takes out the new Dinobot. In the next episode Cheetor resumed his typical, post-upgrade role and Dinobot's status was lowered to a more typical enemy.

** Special mention must go to Rampage. As a rule, he's almost unbeatable in any episode, as long as he's important to that episode's plot. After Blackarachnea got her upgrade, she beats him without even using a GUN. TWICE. To put in perspective, every robot character in the show (except Transmutate) had some kind of gun, and rarely was there a fight where they didn't use it.

** Its even ''worse'' in ''[[Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness]]''. Even [[Wise Old Master|Shifu]] gets pwned to many times to count, leaving the arguably least skilled member-Po to fight the baddie all on his own. Taken to insane amounts against Dodai's Iron Claws of Doom V2, the Five and Shifu are taken out in less than a minute. Po ''stalemates'' him. Despite having less training. Despite being the least skilled member. They want to make Po awesome and all...but throw the Five a bone! Throw Shifu a bone! Shifu has ''yet'' to beat his evil counterparts in a one on one fight! While Po's been able to do that every episode.

* ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]''

** Raven tends to be on the receiving end of this. Despite that she's [[Green Lantern Ring|probably]] [[New Powers Asas the Plot Demands|the most]] [[Psychic Powers|powerful]] [[Functional Magic|member]], episodes which don't focus on her tend to feature her getting knocked out in one hit after she throws a few nearby objects at the [[Monster of the Week]]. Cyborg, since he's the biggest member of the group, also gets Worfed a lot. However, Raven's a bit of a [[Squishy Wizard]] (she's got some martial arts moves, but is physically the weakest of the team, since Beast Boy doesn't fight in his true form) and her powers can be a bit...finicky, to say the least. Taking her down is less a question of overpowering her, and more about exploiting her weaknesses. Plus, she doesn't actually actually use her telekinesis directly on people. Something about demonic heritage and the possibility of that leading her to sliding into evil.

** Cyborg is supposed to be the tank of the team yet seems to always get knocked around on the show. Although he can take a hit we seldom see him dish them.

* In ''[[Superman: theThe Animated Series]]'', Mercy Graves was usually presented as the [[Badass Normal]] [[The Dragon|dragon]] for [[Lex Luthor]]. She spent [[The Movie|"World's Finest"]] getting knocked around, mostly by [[Designated Girl Fight|Harley Quinn]], and ended up [[Bound and Gagged]] and strapped to one of Lex's robot as a [[Human Shield]] against [[The Fettered|Superman]]. She gets the last laugh, though; Harley goes to the slammer, and Mercy just has to heal.

* ''[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' is a children's show about, well, friendship being magic, so obviously physical force never accomplishes anything. As a result the frontline fighters (Applejack and Rainbow Dash) are ''always'' getting their butts kicked. Twilight also gets worfed in Stare Master, which is a little fairer since she's evidently overpowered compared to the others and has defeated (often single handedly) most of the show's villains.

** Twilight actually gets worfed pretty often on the show, due to a borderline [[Story -Breaker Power]]. In ''The Stare Master'' she encounters a creature that presumably [[Evil Eye|took her out]] [[Taken for Granite|too quickly]] for her to have time to use magic on it. In ''The Return of Harmony'' her supposedly "failsafe" spell fails, probably because she attempted to fix the changes provoked by a [[Mad God]]. She also has many, many occasions on which she conveniently forgets to use spells we already know she has (that teleport of hers would have been convenient against the hydra!) or uses spells that go catastrophically awry, like in ''Swarm Of The Century''.

** This ends up happening to {{spoiler|'''PRINCESS CELESTIA''' of all beings, when she ends up getting defeated by Queen Crystalis because of the vast amount of power the latter had absorbed from Shining Armor. Though to be fair, even as powerful as Chrysalis had become, she was visibly straining to overpower Celestia and was shocked herself that she'd managed to do it, which does show she's still pretty dang strong.}}

** Bodyguard Brock Sampson also manages to run over every opponent he faces (except for an ambush of mooks on a few occassions) but Molotov Cocktease proves her power by sparring with him successfully.

* In the ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' segment "The GoodFeathers" Pesto was the toughest fighter; they knew that their opponent was a threat if he took down Pesto which happened often.

* Done in ''[[Kim Possible]]'' where [[Alien Invader]] Warmonga easily took on both Shego and Kim, the latter of which was wearing her [[Story -Breaker Power]] battlesuit. Only a miracle allowed them to survive. Then in the [[Grand Finale]], Warmonga returned with the more powerful Warhak who was able to knock both females out with a single punch. It was then reversed to show just how awesome Ron was by taking both aliens down with his Mystical Monkey Power.

* In ''[[WITCH]]''{{'}}s second season, if you weren't the Guardians, the Regents or Caleb, you were going to get Worfed. Elyon, Kadma and the Oracle end up getting captured by Nerissa due to her wonderful skills in [[Xanatos Gambit]]-ing.

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