History Main / JustOneMan

->If an advisor says to me "My liege, he is but one man. What can one man possibly do?", I will reply "This," and kill the advisor.

In fiction ConservationOfNinjutsu is powerful beyond compare. One ninja, or frankly any humanoid, will have no problem taking out an entire army. Unfortunately for the army's leader, they're not GenreSavvy. Of course the only thing they can think, and thus shout, when seeing the carnage laid out is, "It's just one man!" or, "What can one man do?"

* Near the end of the Invasion of Konoha arc in the {{Naruto}} anime, around 20 Sand Ninjas surround Hiashi Hyuga and remark that he's just one man. Hiashi then defeats them all with a very large Rotation jutsu.
* In {{Code Geass}}, the Lancelot knightmare frame and its pilot Suzaku goes under this trope multiple times.

* GrantMorrison's ''[[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]''. The White Martians have captured the entire League ... [[Awesome/JusticeLeague almost]].

-->[[TheJoker One man]] or the entire mob? [[TemptingFate He can wait.]]

* Batman (who should have learned from all the people who underestimated him) gives this line in TheDarkKnight:

-->(Close up of the captive Superman. Smiling.)

* [[AnticlimaxBoss Nicole Horne]] describes MaxPayne this way: "What do you mean, 'he's unstoppable'? You are superior to him in every way that counts. You are better trained, better equipped, and you outnumber him at least twenty-to-one. Do. Your. Job."

* Commander Lockhart says this about Alcatraz in ''{{Crysis}} 2''.

* When Desmond claims this about himself in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed2'', Lucy replies with: "Sometimes that's all you need."

* Becomes ArcWords in ModernWarfare 3. Price and Makarov repeat endlessly against each other.

** Breen is commenting not only on Gordon Freeman being a OneManArmy, but also on him being a BadassNormal, "not an agent provocateur or highly trained assassin".

-->'''Protex''': Tronix! Fluxus! What's ''happening'' there? Zenturian! He's ''only one man!''
-->'''Superman''':The most ... uh ... dangerous man on Earth.

* When Desmond claims this about himself in ''AssassinsCreed2'', Lucy replies with: "Sometimes that's all you need."

* In Code Geass, the Lancelot knightmare frame and its pilot Suzaku goes under this trope multiple times.

* Noted in one of the more recent episodes of [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p70 Dr. McNinja]]

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* [[AnticlimaxBoss Nicole Horne]] describes [[MaxPayne]] this way: "What do you mean, 'he's unstoppable'? You are superior to him in every way that counts. You are better trained, better equipped, and you outnumber him at least twenty-to-one. Do. Your. Job."

In fiction ConservationOfNinjutsu is powerful beyond compare. One ninja, or frankly any humanoid, will have no problem taking out an entire army. Unfortunately for the army's leader, they're not GenreSavvy. Of course the only thing they can think, and thus shout, when seeing the carnage laid out is, "It's just one man!" or, "What can one man do?"

All in all this tends to be a StockPhrase used whenever a OneManArmy appears, or when the battle becomes OneRiotOneRanger. However this applies to any time a character asks what one person can do, whether it be against his army of Mooks or just his own superior strength. See also WeDoTheImpossible.

* GrantMorrison's ''[[JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]''. The White Martians have captured the entire League ... almost.

* Near the end of the Invasion of Konoha arc in the {{Naruto anime}}, around 20 Sand Ninjas surround Hiashi Hyuga and remark that he's just one man. Hiashi then defeats them all with a very large Rotation jutsu.

--> Captain Harrison Love: After all, it's only one man...
--> Don Rafael: It isn't just one man, damn it. It's Zorro!

--> The Joker: Come on boys! He's just one man! One man dressed like a lunatic and armed to the teeth.

--> Breen: The man you have consistently failed to slow, let alone capture, is by all standards simply that--an ordinary man. How can you have failed to apprehend him?

--> General: There are only three archers, yet they decimated my whole army. You are just one man. Do the math.

--> Breen: The man you have consistently failed to slow, let alone capture, is by all standards simply that--an ordinary man. How can you have failed to apprehend him?

-->-- Number 46 on the EvilOverlordList.

All in all this tends to be a StockPhrase used whenever a OneManArmy appears, or when the battle becomes OneRiotOneRanger. However this applies to any time a character asks what one person can do, whether it be against his army of Mooks or just his own superior strength.