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- Played amazingly well in Red vs. Blue season "Revelation" (it was choreographed and animated by Monty Oum what do you expect),the reds are cowering as something is battering down a door, door is thrown out off the hooks, and a certain female character says "Okay. So who's first?" What follows is 7 minutes of pure awesome.
- Pretty much every fight that certain female character is involved in is bound to be this.
- The Screamsheet's Fights section has a few of these. Most notable is "The Biggest Damned Fight Ever," which features Bruce Campbell stomping almost everyone who had appeared in that section prior.
- In the pilot episode of Cause of Death, the nameless protagonist lays into the much larger man.
- http://sheezyart.com/art/view/1330655/ Describes the deal of a curbstomp pretty well.
- Despite the initial scare (literal Legions of Hell invading earth? Game over man, game over!), demons from The Salvation War are total pushovers and massacred with barely the most token of resistance...that is, until Satan is forced to rely on Belial and his ragtag band of pariahs for outside-the-box retaliation. The angels, on the other hand... well, one of them manages to destroy a Russian jet by yelling at it.
- The war against the demons was actually nicknamed the "Curb-Stomp War" in-universe.
- To be fair, the army revealed that if the war with Hell went on a little longer, humans would have faced some big troubles. Oh, not from the demons, the humans were running out of ammo.
- This would have more long-term consequences, since at least in Western countries it led to pity and even sympathy for demons that affected human relations with them post-war (and, it seems, influenced human harshness against the angels in return).
- Just to give you an idea of how badly the demons were destroyed, in the first battle the demons were fielding around 440,000 troops, and were facing several thousands of humans. Humans suffered only 600 casualties. Only 300 demons lived.
- The war against the demons was actually nicknamed the "Curb-Stomp War" in-universe.
- The That Guy With The Glasses 1st anniversary video included a few of these. Most notably The Nostalgia Critic, despite effortlessly dispatching anybody else he runs into and having fought a pretty close battle with The Angry Video Game Nerd previously, seems to get beat up pretty badly whenever he runs into the Nerd in the battle. This includes taking multiple attacks to the crotch. Even so, the battle technically ends in a tie and the Critic does gain the upper hand on a few occasions. Also, nearly every character is introduced by literally appearing out of nowhere and knocking the previous character to the ground. Nearly all of Angry Joe's scenes consist of him screaming and doing crazy karate gestures before being knocked out by another character seconds later. And Ma-Titakes a particularly large amount of punishment from just about everybody.
- Just after Linkara manages to defeat Mechakara, he winds up on the receiving end of one at the hands of Lord Vyce.
- "The Turks or the Geek" in the Whateley Universe. Team Kimba finally figures out who bushwhacked and stomped their least battle-worthy members a month or so earlier. They challenge said team (the Young Turks) to an arena match in front of them whole school, with only the four team members considered the least threatening. Team Kimba uses their abilities to learn how the Young Turks plan to game the fight: extreme curb stomping ensues.
- In one episode of Strong Bad E-Mails, Strong Bad decides to find out what would happen if he were to poke Pom-Pom with a pin while he's on fire. To make things more interesting, Strong Bad blindfolds himself. He didn't see what happened, but he's sure that Pom-Pom exploded in a big fiery ball that was visible from space, and that in no way did Strong Bad get the ever-loving crap beaten out of him.
- Mecha Sonic in Super Mario Bros Z practically specializes in this, having technically only been defeated once (thanks to a conveniently-produced Super Star), but the two instances that specifically qualify as this trope would be the No Holds Barred Beatdowns of Yoshi, then later the Axem Rangers and the Koopa Bros. (Yoshi at least got better. The others didn't.)
- This has happened (for both sides) in Comic Fury Werewolf, but is most prominent in Game 8 for the town (3 wolf lynches in 3 days), and Game 10 for the Werewolves.
- Though it mostly happened off-camera, the fight between Evan and Slendy in Everyman HYBRID seemed to be this. Evan swung a baseball bat at Slendy, who blocked it with something like telekinesis and seemed to wreak internal damage on Evan. Surprisingly realistic Blood From the Mouth ensued.
- This Troper's Stopmotion videos. Well, Three out of four, anyway.
- The CD-I Super Guns Fight second major battle ends badly for the good team. Iron Knuckle successfully lures the good team into a canyon which is full of mines. Ganon activates the mines and the majority of the team are wiped out, including their leader Fari. The few that do survive the mines are quickly gunned down by the evil team's forces. The Orange Yoshi is left asking the good team to report to him only to realize what had happened to them, moments before he is decapitated by Militron.
- In the Global Guardians PBEM Universe, the Blades (a trio of superhuman assassins) were hired to take out the members of the titular team. Understatement to say that the Blades were out of their league...]]
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- In Touhou a Glimmer of An Outside World, Yukari and Yuyuko both attacked a panicked, seemingly sleep-deprived Reimu to get her to calm down. Reimu, rather unsurprisingly, lost.
- The Screw Attack Death Battle between Rainbow Dash of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic and Starscream from Transformers Generation 1 has Rainbow Dash pulling one of these on Starscream, to the point that the battle was the most one sided battle they've ever done by far.[1] The fact that this trope was used at all is unique for the series as usually the battles are shown to be as close as possible, even if the winner needs to receive a nerf or the loser a buff to even things out a little.
- The best part is that this is completely justified by their given stats and abilities taken from each of their respective series.
- Another case was in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles one, where the Leonardo attacks Michelangelo and kills him in seconds. It was noted in the aftermath that Leonardo went after Michelangelo because he was the easiest target.
- In the Final Battle of Suburban Knights, Malachite curbstomps everyone except Ma-Ti with little effort once he gets his gauntlet back.
- Menelaos is shamefully curbstomped by Daichi in Greek Ninja when he tries to attack him.
- In the Yogscast and Total Biscuit's cooperative Let's Play of Magicka, their battle with Khan in part 6 ends up being literally 10 seconds long, whilst the rest of the level involved them screwing around and getting screwed over by ARSE mines.
- From the AlternateHistory.com timeline called In this country, it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, the Great War in this timeline (basically their version of WW1, but from 1897-1901) has plenty of these:
- On the side of the Grande Entente (led by France who is way more powerful and populous than IOTL), the Entente delivers some nasty ones such as:
- In Western Europe, while the fight of France vs Saxony and Hungary-Austria is anything but this, this is played straight when the French invade Northern Italy before the Francophobic government can join the European Union in what is known as Operation Ceasar, overrunning the unprepared Italian army while conquering almost all of Northern Italy in a month or so (they even keep Northern Italy as part of their territory after the war, except a few bits that Hungary-Austria takes).
- Up north, England and Ireland work together to utterly smash Scotland's armies (after Scotland's invasion of England only manages to get a bit of land), and split Scotland after the war. This is followed up by Ireland easily defeating the Danish forces in Iceland, while England launches an amphibious invasion of Norway without too much difficulty.
- However, this is the opposite when Denmark and Norway face off with England and France for a final showdown. All 3 fleet admirals (French, English, and Danish) are killed and their flagships destroyed, the battle devolves into chaos, and the losses are immense, and in Antony444's own words:
- "Four French and three English battleships were sunk, with three more so damaged they would be scrapped once they were towed to the closest harbour. Of the ten battlecruisers which fought, half did not survive and the losses in cruisers and destroyers were horrifying. In two days, the Royal French and English navies had lost more warships than in the Great War and the previous decade. But this was a battle they had won, though at a pyrrhic cost. The Danish-Norwegian fleet had been broken. Ten battleships out of eleven, all the battlecruisers, twenty cruisers, twenty-three light cruisers and over sixty destroyers...the core of King Christian’s Navy was now sleeping forever under the waves and the number of men who would never come home caused a full week of mourning to be declared for both nations."
- This battle caused so many losses for Denmark and Norway that they surrendered exactly a week later.
- In Eastern Europe, it originally is this for the European Union on the Russian front, as Poland and Finland start out with the upper hand and advance 150 kilometers into Russian territory. However, the tide begins to turn as Russian reinforcements pull in (leading to heavy lossses on both sides, although the Russians can replace their losses better), and by the last year of the war, the Russians are delivering a lot of Curb-Stomp Battles to the Polish, taking about 2/5 of the nation's land by the war's end. Finland was curb-stomped even earlier due to a large Russian offensive, not helped by Sweden suddenly attacking them from the other side. On the other hand, Transylvania (an incompetent Russian puppet) gets demolished by Serbia who takes about 4/5 of their land and are only prevented from taking more due to logistics issues.
- In the Middle East, France easily defeats the Persian army in Arabia despite Persia sending 4 divisions against France's 1. Not to mention, Oman loses a naval battle against France with 3 times France's losses, and France easily takes Aden and keeps it after the war. However, the real issue Persia has is Russia, who smashes through their territory despite Russia sending its lowest quality troops who have supply issues, which says something about how awful Persia's army was.
- In East Asia, Wu China does inflict this on the Empire of Chosen in Korea and is initially somewhat on the delivering end of this when its attacks against Chuan China are successful. However, Chuan China's counterattack wrecks the Wu army and retakes everything taken by Wu soldiers since the start of the war, and then inflicts more and more curb-stomp battles after that. In fact, they are one of only 2 Central Alliance members to come out technically victorious, as they took vast amounts of land in Western China and some in the East from the Wu forces (as well as a fifth of Annam [Vietnam]). In Japan, the Satsuma Shogunate does this for most of the war against the Tokugawa Shogunate, due to a less corrupt and far more popular government, better equipment (not to mention more of it), a larger population (26 million vs 15 million), and a better economy.
- On the Indian Front, France delivers this to Omani India and Mysore (though Mysore at least holds out longer and has modern weaponry on par with France), and while the Sikh Empire initially fights France to a standstill, the civil unrest that occurs later across the Sikh Empire (due to people tired of the war and ethnic tensions exploding against the Sikh minority in charge) leads to France ragdolling what remains of the Sikh armies. The Ghurka Empire does subvert this and holds its own, but eventually decides that France will win and signs a peace, losing no land and being forced to pay no reparations. They even annex part of the Sikh Empire after the Sikh Empire collapses into civil war. Bengal (France's surprisingly competent and powerful ally) wipes the floor with Burma and completely annexes it by the end of the war.
- The Batavian Kingdom (basically Dutch-controlled Indonesia) is badly defeated by both France and the Central Alliance. France supports a Dutch queen who seizes Malaysia from them, along with the Sultanate of Aceh which retakes all of Sumatra with French support, while the nations of Brunei and Carolina (both of whom are against France) take all of Borneo and New Guinea respectively.
- In America, France somehow does this to four different nations: New Spain, Louisiana, California, and Carolina. They are generous to California and Carolina, only taking a small bit of land from the latter (though this is due to them hating the slavery nation of Florida) and none from the former, but they force a large amount of money from New Spain and annex all of Louisiana, the latter of whom they hated.
- After the Great War is over, there are still a few examples of this, as (surprise, surprise), many countries had not been satisfied by the Great War.
- When Spain foils a Portuguese plot to install a "friendly" leader known as the Duke of Cadiz, the war is initially very one-sided in Spain's favor, due to them having a far larger population, a far larger economy and industry, and a far larger and more battle-hardened army. However, English intervention on the Portuguese side turns the tide, and England manages to quickly beat the Spanish back in what can be considered a curb-stomp in England's favor.
- In the Republic of Vietnam (who got their clock cleaned by Southern China during the Great War, leading to Southern China taking a fifth of their territory including the capital), the unrest caused by the defeat as well as the political infighting over the nation's capital (since Hanoi is now part of China) leads to a collectivist uprising in Laos. However, with some foreign aid (not to mention the rebels' lack of any radios or decent weaponry), the Vietnamese army easily and brutally defeats the revolt.
- Speaking of Southern China, when Northern China (with a new leader but a ruined economy, a lousy army, and a disunited nation) decides to aggravate their far richer, more united, and more populous southern neighbor, the result is the South winning in a lopsided set of battles, conquering it in less than a year.
- In North America, the Carolinian-Floridan War sees this multiple times in the former's favor. First, it seems like Florida is delivering one when they sneak attack the Carolinian fleet...only for an armada of submarines to arrive and wipe out nearly all Floridan ships, making it a naval Curb-Stomp for Carolina. On the land front, the Floridan offensive, Operation Alligator, initially stomps the Carolinian land forces, only for 2/3 of the entire Floridan army to be wiped out by a Carolinian counter offensive. Needless to say, Florida gets beaten in a matter of months.
- Florida did manage to get a small Curb-Stomp victory, however, when their last battleship destroys an entire Granadan fleet after catching them by surprise. It is such a humiliation for the United Provinces of New Granada that the government leaders have to step down due to the protests at home.
- On the side of the Grande Entente (led by France who is way more powerful and populous than IOTL), the Entente delivers some nasty ones such as:
- ↑ Starscream only manages to even connect with an attack once, via a cheap shot with the Null Ray. Given that she's not mechanical, this does little more than annoy her. He also manages an annoyed swat which accomplishes even less, but it's questionable whether that one even qualifies as an attack.