History Main / FinishingStomp

* Wrestling/FinnBalor (or, if you prefer, Wrestling/FergalDevitt) uses a diving double foot stomp off the top rope that has been dubbed the CoupDeGrace. [[DeathFromAbove The height he gets is insane]].

* In ''Tabletopgame/BattleTech'', kicking/stomping an downed enemy [[HumongousMecha BattleMech]] is one of the most effective ways to finish them off before they can get back up - especially because the kick has a [[SnipingTheCockpit chance to crush the cockpit]]. If a pilot bails out from a doomed mech, the enemy mech can chase the fleshy human down and crush them. In the ''Franchise/BattleTechExpandedUniverse'', [[spoiler: General Winston]] is killed when her [[CyberCyclops Cyclops]]'s cockpit is crushed by a Thor.

* ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine'': [[FinishingMove Finishing Moves]] are the only way to regain lost health in this game, and several of them include this. Given how brutal and {{Gorn}} filled this game is, this is actually one of the ''least'' brutal ways to kill enemies.

** In addition, if you let a husk get too close in single or multiplayer, you have to do a QuickTimeEvent to free yourself from it. Your character then lifts the husk by the neck, throws it to the ground, and crushes its head with his or her boot.

* In the ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBrothers Bowser]]'' ''vs.'' ''[[WebAnimation/SuperMarioBrosZ Mecha Sonic]]'' episode of WebAnimation/OneMinuteMelee, this is how the victor finishes off their opponent, [[KilledOffForReal flat out killing them in the process.]][[labelnote:Click/tap here to find out who won]]Bowser is the victor.[[/labelnote]]

* Wrestling/SethRollins, before adopting the Pedigree from Triple H and later a ripcord knee, used a running stomp to the back of the head/neck area he called "Peace of Mind/Blackout/Curbstomp". It's since been banned by the WWE as too dangerous.

* ''PowerRangers Fighting Edition'' has this, though obviously it only applies to characters who stomp; the Ninja Megazord, for example, throws a fireball instead.

->''"Bite the curb, nigger!"''
-->-- '''Derek Vinyard''', about to literally {{curb stomp|Battle}} someone, ''Film/AmericanHistoryX''

-->-- '''Derek Vinyard''', about to literally {{curb stomp|battle}} someone, ''Film/AmericanHistoryX''

* The opening fight ([[CurbStompBattle if you can call it such]]) of ''Film/MortalKombat'', between Liu Kang's brother Chan and BigBad Shang Tsung, ends with Shang Tsung, in true KickTheDog fashion, planting a vicious one of these into Chan's back.

* In the ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBrothers Bowser]]'' ''vs.'' ''[[WebAnimation/SuperMarioBrosZ Mecha Sonic]]'' episode of WebAnimation/OneMinuteMelee, this is how the victor of finishes off their opponent, [[KilledOffForReal flat out killing them in the process.]][[labelnote:Click/tap here to find out who won]]Bowser is the victor.[[/labelnote]]

* In ''Film/AmericanHistoryX''. Derek Vineyard's murderous ''finis'' to a scuffle with two would-be car thieves, involving Derek forcing one of them to bite the curb and then stomping down hard on his head with horrifying and fatal results.

* The ''GearsOfWar'' series has crushing a downed enemy's head with your boot as one of the options to finish them off.

* Wrestling/FinnBalor uses a diving foot stomp off the top rope that has been dubbed the CoupDeGrace. [[DeathFromAbove The height he gets is insane]].

* Wrestling/SethRollins, before adopting the Pedigree from Triple H, used a running stomp to the back of the head/neck area he called "peace of mind/Blackout/curbstomp".

* ''Film/KungFuHustle'': when Sing stomps on the soccer ball and destroys it. This is actually directed at ''himself'', as he was played by the director, Stephen Chow, who's other famous film was ''ShaolinSoccer''.

* [[Wrestling/PrinceDevitt Finn Bálor]] signature move is a literal Main/FinishingStomp, in which he leaps from the top turnbuckle feet-first onto an opponent's chest (a ''very'' difficult move to perform safely and without caving in the recipient's chest). Just to align it even ''more'' perfectly with another associated trope, it's even called the ''Main/CoupDeGrace''

* One of Isaac Clarke's signature moves in ''Franchise/DeadSpace''. Quite cathartic and effective against weakened enemies. When the developers noticed a tendency for playtesters to use this as a panic button or as a way to make really, really sure that there isn't something NotQuiteDead at the bottom of the the pile of ten necromorphs that just ambushed you[[note]]which happens now and then, because it's dead space and the goal is to make you scream like a little girl[[/note]], they ran with it: when the stomp is used repeatedly in rapid succession, Isaac launches into full blown boot-drenching ExtremeMeleeRevenge, complete with context sensitive SanitySlippage, {{Freak Out}}s, or [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge enraged screaming]] depending on Issac's current status and situation. Truely one of the best uses of the line "WhyWontYouDie" in recent gaming history.

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatVsDCUniverse'' gives this to SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, not as a Fatality, but for additional effect whenever he finishes off an enemy and doesn't perform a Fatality. Also overlaps with GroinAttack.

* This is how Luffy defeats Arlong in ''OnePiece'', although he stretches his leg up though through the ceiling first before stomping him through the floor and several other floors straight down.

* In the 1956 ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' article on the fictional sport of [[BlackComedyAnimalAbuse Dog Kicking]], the climax of the Kick is the ''la Stompa'', the Hour of Truth for the Brave Dogs. The ''Schlobbero'' leaps into the air and lands on the Brave Dog in the ''la Stompa Natural'' (in which the feet impact the dog) or ''la Stompa Ayudado'' (in which the hips impact the dog). It does cost honor points, however, for a ''Schlobbero'' to execute a ''la Stompa'' on a sitting Dog, and if a ''Schlobbero'' fails to execute one within the time limit of four hours he himself is subjected to one.

* In the 1956 ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' article on the fictional sport of [[KickTheDog Dog Kicking]], the climax of the Kick is the ''la Stompa'', the Hour of Truth for the Brave Dogs. The ''Schlobbero'' leaps into the air and lands on the Brave Dog in the ''la Stompa Natural'' (in which the feet impact the dog) or ''la Stompa Ayudado'' (in which the hips impact the dog). It does cost honor points, however, for a ''Schlobbero'' to execute a ''la Stompa'' on a sitting Dog, and if a ''Schlobbero'' fails to execute one within the time limit of four hours he himself is subjected to one.

* Both times someone has attempted this in ''{{Spacetrawler}}'', the would-be stomper gets attacked by someone else before they can actually kill their intended victim.

** The Rogue Titan kills a Titan in this fashion, by repeatedly stepping on what used to be the latter's head.

* [[Wrestling/PrinceDevitt Finn Bálor]] signature move is a literal Main/FinishingStomp, in which he leaps from the top turnbuckle feet-first onto an opponent's chest (a ''very'' difficult move to perform safely and without caving in the recipient's chest). Just to align it even ''more'' perfectly with another associated trope, it's even called the ''[[Main/CoupDeGrace]]''

* Wrestling/SethRollins uses a running stomp to the back of the head/neck area he calls "peace of mind/Blackout/curbstomp".

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