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Errrr, what? Angelus fought Buffy to a standstill all over season 2 before finally losing a narrow one in the last act. Outside of that he mostly avoided Slayers, so we don't know.
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* Episode six of ''[[Dollhouse]]'' features this canonically on ''both sides'': when Ballard and Echo fight, on the surface it seems like it might be an even match that could go either way. Echo with her programming is probably the better technical fighter, but Ballard is very big, built like a brick house, and so tough he can take out four gun-wielding thugs with a plank ''after'' he's been shot—plus, he's a trained fighter, so all of ''his'' experience is real. However, he ''had'' been shot mere days ago, and was not looking to actually hurt Echo, as she's his best link to the case. Cue him fighting defensively and eventually getting worn down. On the flip side, Echo was also fighting in order to frame Ballard for shooting a cop, not to actually win, so while she wasn't fighting to win either, her goals were served by simply getting him to the right place at the right time and disappearing.
* Spike's attempted rape of [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] in "Seeing Red" only got as far as it did because a run-of-the-mill vampire had got a lucky shot in earlier (as she was staking him, no less). Both injuries carry over into Buffy's fight with a superpowered Warren - even with super-strength and near-invulnerability, he can tell she's off her game.
▲** In another instance, Hamilton stomping over Illyria happened only after she had been massively depowered, and it's probably telling that Hamilton didn't go anywhere near her until this had happened, and in fact when Wesley was studying her gave him a hint that led him to discover how to drain her powers. He even goes into an exaggerated [[Smug Snake]] routine to Illyria's face as he ponders why she can't beat him to a pulp.
* In ''[[Dai Sentai Goggle Five]]'', only going as far as episode 8, Goggle Blue gets [[A Day in the Limelight]] episode...where he got horribly owned solo by the [[Monster of the Week]] because they managed to wound his leg while protecting a woman. Skip ahead several episodes later and then, he's shown to be as good as he gets when he's on a solo fight. [[Papa Wolf|Especially when kids are involved.]]
* An inversion takes place in ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]'', where the Heavenly Saint Lunagel is defeated in battle by Wolzard partly because she went on her own, but mostly because he'd spent the past four episodes doing nothing but powering up.
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