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* Seen in episode 4 of ''[[Katanagatari]]'' with the Maniwa Insect Squad and Nanami. [[Mugging the Monster|Sort of.]] [[Mook Horror Show|It was quite scary.]]

* Almost certainly intentional, at the end of the first season of ''[[Code Geass]]'', Lelouch finally gets the upper hand over the arrogant, racist Cornelia... in the most douchy way possible, and inspires her and her men to put up a valiant defence against overwhelming odds that ends up making her look like the hero. Cornelia might qualify as this before as her greatest virtue is her valour, but this is the first time she's truly outmatched.

* It's possible to overlook the fact that [[Green Thumb|Shi]][[Musical Assassin|rabe]] is actually the bad guy for her fight in [[Mahou Sensei Negima]] considering {{spoiler|A. she has [[Broken Bird|a legitimate reason for her behavior]] B. was outnumbered six to one C. [[Anti-Villain|has good intentions]] and D. showed some awesome [[Plucky Girl]] and [[Undying Loyalty]] credentials since ~~hse~~ was fighting for the guy [[I Owe You My Life|whom she owes her life to]]. The fact that this resulted in Asuna being put back on the ritual altar without any means of getting her back off of it only hits you a moment later.}}

* It's possible to overlook the fact that [[Green Thumb|Shi]][[Musical Assassin|rabe]] is actually the bad guy for her fight in [[Mahou Sensei Negima]] considering {{spoiler|A. she has [[Broken Bird|a legitimate reason for her behavior]] B. was outnumbered six to one C. [[Anti-Villain|has good intentions]] and D. showed some awesome [[Plucky Girl]] and [[Undying Loyalty]] credentials since she was fighting for the guy [[I Owe You My Life|to whom she owes her life]]. The fact that this resulted in Asuna being put back on the ritual altar without any means of getting her back off of it only hits you a moment later.}}

** There's also Fate's first fight with [[Showy Invincible Hero|Jack Rakan]]. Going into the fight, Jack is clearly show to be much stronger than Fate, but Fate keeps fighting despite clearly losing, and actually managed to hurt him, which is ~~defiantly~~ impressive outside of flashbacks to the war and Negi absorbing ~~one~~ the energy from one of his attacks, everything thrown at Jack is treated as [[No Sell]].

** There's also Fate's first fight with [[Showy Invincible Hero|Jack Rakan]]. Going into the fight, Jack is clearly show to be much stronger than Fate, but Fate keeps fighting despite clearly losing, and actually managed to hurt him, which is definitely impressive -- outside of flashbacks to the war and Negi absorbing the energy from one of his attacks, everything thrown at Jack is treated as [[No Sell]].

* [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Viral]]. [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|Constantly.]]

* [[Uchuu Senkan Yamato]] has some, starting from Domel, who, after his master plan to destroy the ''Yamato'' backfires at the last moment, try to stop it and the doom it brings for Gamilas by blowing up himself with the ship, to Deslar, who, in spite of being the [[Big Bad]] of the first series and [[The Dragon]] in the second, is an extremely brave character (and, in spite of inferior technology, much more effective against the ''Yamato'' than the generals of the White Comet Empire) who later pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]]. Later the third season gives us one combined with [[Rooting for the Empire]]: we are first introduced to the Bolar Federation as one of their fleets try and fails to fight a Galman fleet (shown crewed by Gamilas people, usually the villains), and, later, one of their officers, Ram, is shown as a sympathetic character who dies in battle after apologizing for unwillingly involving Earth in the war between Bolar and Galman. Only later we find out that the Bolar are space Nazis, and then that the Galman soldiers that attacked the ''Yamato'' are [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremists]] working for the post-[[Heel Face Turn]] Deslar.

* In ''[[One Piece]]'': Hannibal versus Luffy in the Impel Down Arc. Hannibal knew he was outmatched by Luffy but [[Determinator|never gave up]] [[You Shall Not Pass|trying to prevent Luffy from escaping Impel Down]]. The touching [[World of Cardboard Speech]] he gave during the fight certainly helped too!

* Kunzite in the anime version ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. He's shown to be stronger than the main five Sailor Senshi, and is arguably stronger than Queen Beryl (unlike the manga which clearly showed her to stronger than him), but when Usagi gets the [[MacGuffin|Silver Crystal]], she clearly has Kunzite overpowered and he has no chance of beating her, but despite that show an amount of determination rivaling the series' heroes' when things are hopeless for them.

* Yami Bakura in the Memory World Arc of [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] isn't facing ''that'' bad a disadvantage in the RPG they were playing. He only has a handful of characters against Yami Yugi's entire army, all seven Millennium Items, and all three Egyptian Gods. Bakura's only advantages were a handful of [[It Only Works Once|one shot gamebreakers]] and knowledge of what was actually going on, but considering one mistake would have led to a quick defeat and it was [[Obviously Evil|well known he was evil at that point]], it was still a delicate operation until [[Big Bad|Zork]] was finally summoned.

* Yami Bakura in the Memory World Arc of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' isn't facing ''that'' bad a disadvantage in the RPG they were playing. He only has a handful of characters against Yami Yugi's entire army, all seven Millennium Items, and all three Egyptian Gods. Bakura's only advantages were a handful of [[It Only Works Once|one shot gamebreakers]] and knowledge of what was actually going on, but considering one mistake would have led to a quick defeat and it was [[Obviously Evil|well known he was evil at that point]], it was still a delicate operation until [[Big Bad|Zork]] was finally summoned.

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