History AlwaysSomeoneBetter / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/TheFlash2014'':
** In the first mid-season finale, Barry finally meets and confronts the Reverse-Flash, his mother's killer. Everything had been building up to this epic fight... which has Barry being on the end of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown by the man in the yellow suit, who is clearly much faster than him. Barry even admits he's no longer the fastest man in the world, and Firestorm has to save his ass from being beaten to death by the other speedster. Season 2 introduces Zoom, a crazed speedster from a parallel world, who delivers an even more brutal beatdown during his first fight with Barry, leaving the latter unable to walk for a few days. Season 3 brings Savitar, a self-described "god of speed", whose mastery of the Speed Force is unparalleled. Savitar even states that neither the Reverse-Flash nor Zoom were Barry's real enemies. It's always been him. Barry is slowly averting this, however, with increases in speed, skill and experience. The reason for many losses is that he is still growing as a hero.
** On the hero side, Wally turns out to be faster than Barry ''on his first day''. His progress is also much faster than Barry's. Once Barry realizes that, he starts training Wally to be even faster in order to [[spoiler:be fast enough to save Iris from Savitar in the near future]]. Wally has greater speed, but Barry has learned many tricks and has plenty of experience. He's also no longer as brash as the more youthful Wally.
** There's also Grodd, a metagorilla with PsychicPowers and advanced intelligence, not to mention inhuman strength. Barry can't do much about him, and even his patented supersonic punch is easily intercepted by Grodd. Then Grodd is sent to Gorilla City on Earth-2, a place chock-full of metagorillas just like Grodd. Now Grodd is forced to bow down to Solovar, the ruler of Gorilla City. When we are shown a fight between Grodd and Solovar in the next episode, the latter utterly [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] the former, and only Barry's interference stops Solovar from finishing off his opponent.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** ''Series/AgentsOfShield'': J.T. Jones experiences this when he goes up against Robbie Reyes. Jones is an Inhuman codenamed "Hellfire" (he made it up himself) who can superheat anything he touches. Robbie is the Ghost Rider, a supernatural being who can imbue anything he touches with ''actual'' Hellfire, besides being superhumanly strong and tough. The only thing Jones accomplishes is involuntarily loaning his chain to Robbie.
** ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'': Bruce Banner prepares an outline to teach Jennifer Walters how to be a Hulk, which was meant to take the same fifteen years it took him to get a handle on his powers. He then learns in sequence that Jen; has a HealingFactor he doesn't, doesn't have to deal with a SplitPersonality at all, already has incredible balance and control over her strength, and can switch to and from Hulk form pretty much at will. He begrudgingly lets her go back to her life as a lawyer in just a few months.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': Clark Kent often meets people who can outdo him in a particular skill.
** "Witness": Three thugs who doped themselves up on kryptonite were stronger than him. After getting his ass kicked by them repeatedly, he finally [[ForgotAboutHisPowers remembers he has other powers besides strength]] and uses them to defeat them.
** "Run": Bart Allen, the future Flash, can run much faster than him.
** "Aqua": Arthur Curry, the future Aquaman, can swim much faster than him.

* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': This is the main reason for Will and Carlton's rivalry. Despite the fact that Carlton has better grades, several alumni, lives in a mansion and is wealthy, he just can't keep up with Will when it comes to people skills, sports and dating women. An example of this is in the episode "The Alma Matter". Will, despite not wanting to go to Princeton, impresses the interviewer with his wise cracks and street smarts. Jealous, Carlton emulates Will, but all this does is make the interviewer believe he is clinically insane. After begging and bribing doesn't work, he ends up threatening the interviewer, resulting in him getting suspended.

* * ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': In [[Recap/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAirS6E16IBowlBuster "I, Bowl Buster"]], Carlton thinks this of his brother, who is going to study at Yule, and it causes him many an insecurity about his own potential and worth.