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** His later appearances in ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'' are arguably some of the worst worfings around: he's been overwhelmed by replicating Spider-Tracers, knocked out by ComicBook/SquirrelGirl's squirrels and even had his powers stolen by the Super-Adaptoid, arguably another example of a Juggernaut.

* Blackfire might have qualified for this Trope in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode "Betrothed"; she boasted to her sister that the Jewel of Charta she had obtained amplified her natural Tameranian abilities to the point where she was practically unbeatable. Of course, this EvilGloating was her downfall, because Starfire quickly realized that the Jewel itself was far more fragile than Blackfire was; she managed to grab it and crush it, and as a result, defeat Blackfire.

* Today's NBA seems to be dominated by lean players such as Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis or UsefulNotes/GiannisAntetokounmpo. It was not always the case however, and the best example of a juggernaut in the league has to be Shaquille O'Neal in his youth, who was simply too powerful for anyone to stop him. Or more accurately to ''legally'' stop him, as most defenders' only chance not to get pushed away or dunked on was to foul him and hope for his legendary clumsiness with free throws to kick in. Not that it always worked, as he was commonly able to score despite having an opponent grabbing his arm. Boards were ''reinforced'' because of him as he was known to break them while dunking.

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* In ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'' OmnicidalManiac [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Jagganoth]] is named after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagannath Hindu deity the trope is named for]]. True to his name, Jagganoth is almost completely unstoppable: On top of his super-strength, magecraft, millennia of combat skills and being a nine-foot tall monstrosity whose footprints melt rock, he has CompleteImmortality and {{No Sell}}s anything that is conceptually able to cause him harm. According to WordOfGod he's as strong as the other six surviving Demiurges combined. [[spoiler:When he finally makes his move in ''Breaker of Infinities'', Jagganoth is able to check five of the other six Demiurges as a warm-up until Aspected Chaos joins the battle... At which point he reveals he has a OneWingedAngel form and goes on the actual offensive, killing Mammon and Mottom and putting the rest out of commission. He's only stopped (temporarily) by Solomon David sacrificing himself to trap Jagganoth in a black hole.]]

* In ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'' OmnicidalManiac [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Jagganoth]] is named after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagannath Hindu deity the trope is named for]]. True to his name, Jagganoth is almost completely unstoppable: On top of his super-strength, magecraft, millennia of combat skills and being a nine-foot tall monstrosity whose footprints melt rock, he has CompleteImmortality and NoSells anything that is conceptually able to cause him harm. According to WordOfGod he's as strong as the other six surviving Demiurges combined. [[spoiler:When he finally makes his move in ''Breaker of Infinities'', Jagganoth is able to check five of the other six Demiurges as a warm-up until Aspected Chaos joins the battle... At which point he reveals he has a OneWingedAngel form and goes on the actual offensive, killing Mammon and Mottom and putting the rest out of commission. He's only stopped (temporarily) by Solomon David sacrificing himself to trap Jagganoth in a black hole.]]

* In ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'' OmnicidalManiac [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Jagganoth]] is named after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagannath Hindu deity the trope is named for]]. True to his name, Jagganoth has been hyped up to be the most dangerous of the Seven: He apparently has CompleteImmortality and is completely unstoppable, and according to WordOfGod he's as strong as the other six surviving Demiurges combined. The plot appears to be counting down to him making his move and beginning his purge of TheMultiverse.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E42RaidersOfTheLostHarp Raiders of the Lost Harp]]", the [[ALoadOfBull Minotaur]] [[MacGuffinGuardian guardian]] of the eponymous [[LieDetector lie detecting]] harp [[LivingStatue came to life]] after Scrooge removed it from its box and followed it all the way to Duckburg by walking along the bottom of the ocean to retrieve it. Point blank range from two torpedoes didn't so much as scratch it, military helicopters were ineffective, and even Scrooge's giant bubble gum trap couldn't hold it long. To save Duckberg, Scrooge was forced to give the Minotaur back the harp.

Note: While the ''X-Men'' villain the Juggernaut certainly fits this Trope, much more detailed information can be found about him [[ComicBook/{{Juggernaut}} on this page here]].

Note: While the ''X-Men'' villain the Juggernaut certainly fits this Trope, much more detailed information can be found about him [[Characters/MarvelComicsJuggernaut on this page here]].

* The original [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggernaut Juggernauts]], of course. Hindu temple cars that reputedly tended to crush devotees in their path by accident, though first accounts mistook these accidents for human sacrifices.
** The word is derived from the Hindu Deity Jagannath, an Avatar Form of Vishnu.

* The Juggernaut has appeared in various animated Franchise/MarvelUniverse series, which have treated him with varying levels of respect. The 90's ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' is perhaps the most respectful; Juggernaut [[TheWorfEffect gets thrown into the sea by Gladiator]] one time, but is otherwise treated as truly unstoppable. The early 2000s ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' similarly treats Juggernaut as one of the most dangerous beings the X-men can face. In ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'', though, Juggy has been severely [[TheWorfEffect worfed]] and is frequently knocked out and thrown around to show how strong the ''real'' villain of the week is.

Note: While the ''X-Men'' villain the Juggernaut certainly fits this Trope, much more detailed information can be found about him [[ComicBook/JuggernautMarvelComics on this page here]].

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* The gigantic [[PlanetEater Beast Planet]] in ''WesternAnimation/ShadowRaiders''. A pitch-black, indestructible metallic sphere that sleeps within stars while its Mooks find new prey. Then, it moves ever forward, intent on devouring a fresh new Planet, teeming with life. Rig your entire planet into a gun, the mere firing of which [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu kills everyone on it?]] [[SenselessSacrifice Not even a scratch.]] Use the awe-striking WaveMotionGun you built out of a Moon? Kiss [[TheWorfBarrage that Moon bye-bye]]. RammingAlwaysWorks? They tried [[SenselessSacrifice ramming an entire planet into it]]. Rig another planet to self-destruct inside it like a TimeBomb? [[BigEater Didn't even burp from the indigestion]]. Rig yet another planet so it [[{{Teleportation}} teleports it to the other side of the galaxy]]? [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Congratulations, you just doomed another innocent, inhabited planet who didn't even see it coming]], with the added bonus that the Beast [[PowerCopying might just have assimilated that teleporter tech it just ate]]. And the Beast is ''[[ImplacableMan STILL. COMING. FOR. YOU]]''. It ''will'' get you. Not today. Maybe not tomorrow. Eventually, it will.

** In the NFL, the New England Patriots under head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady absolutely embody this trope. Since 2001, they've won their division, the AFC East, in all but two years[[note]]2002 and 2008, as the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins took the division title thanks to tiebreakers, respectively[[/note]], they've made 13 AFC Championship Game appearances, advanced to 9 Super Bowls and won 6 of them, tying the Pittsburgh Steelers for most Super Bowl titles, and in 2007, they finished the first perfect regular season under the 16-game schedule before losing to the underdog New York Giants, denying them the first wholly perfect season since the 1972 Dolphins.
* When it comes to rugby, no player ever approached the physical dominance of the great Jonah Lomu. Where many famous wingers such as Shane Williams are known for their quick feet and their ability to avoid defenders, Lomu was able to run ''over'' them. It is not hyperbole, as one of his most famous tries during the 1995 World Cup had him literally [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0NLC3uk5xs going through English fullback Mike Catt]]. Despite being 1,96m (6'5) tall and weighing 120 kgs (265 lbs), he still managed to run the 100m in less than 11 seconds. He was so powerful that some opponents were known to freeze in terror instead of trying (and often, failing) to tackle him.
* Today's NBA seems to be dominated by lean players such as Kevin Durant, Anthony Davis or Giannis Antetokounmpo. It was not always the case however, and the best example of a juggernaut in the league has to be Shaquille O'Neal in his youth, who was simply too powerful for anyone to stop him. Or more accurately to ''legally'' stop him, as most defenders' only chance not to get pushed away or dunked on was to foul him and hope for his legendary clumsiness with free throws to kick in. Not that it always worked, as he was commonly able to score despite having an opponent grabbing his arm. Boards were ''reinforced'' because of him as he was known to break them while dunking.
** Before Shaquille O'Neal, there was Wilt Chamberlain. Take everything that was said about Shaq, turn it up to eleven and you have Chamberlain.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Hazel is an unstoppable mix of SuperToughness and sheer willpower who is one of the strongest non-magical beings in the entire world of Remnant. Combine that with his Semblance to block out pain and you get a man who refuses to stay down no matter what the heroes throw at him. An entire flurry of strikes from Ozpin? Nope. A head-on blow from a Semblance empowered Nora? Minor annoyance. Getting impaled by an enormous stinger from Weiss' Queen Lancer summon? Still not enough. By the end of the battle at Haven, both Nora and Qrow voice their astonishment at how he's still going strong despite all the punishment he's taken.

Note: While the ''X-Men'' villain the Juggernaut certainly fits this Trope, much more detailed information can be found about him [[Characters/XMenBrotherhoodOfMutants on this page here]].

** They also pitted it against 096, above. 27 hours of fighting later, 682 was still walking even with '''85%''' of itself completely gone, and 096 preferred to try and claw out its own face rather than keep trying to kill the thing. [[UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject 682 wasn't keen on continuing the fight either]].

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* In the music video for Music/{{Rammstein}}'s Benzin, they drive a colossal fire truck that's so big the band sits five abreast in the cab. It knocks down trees on both sides of the road and plows straight through a speeding freight train without flinching, leaving a trail of destruction that would make a tornado proud.

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* ''{{Literature/Worm}}'':

* Vilgax, from ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}''. Oddly enough, it takes a while for VillainDecay to set in, which it finally does in the MadeForTVMovie... and even after that he can't be stopped permanently, just flung into the depths of space with fingers crossed. At the end of season two, he was [[SealedEvilInACan in the Null Void]], and how he managed to get back from AnotherDimension was never addressed. A TimeTravel episode at the start of season three showed him dead and ''in pieces'', but he was quickly [[BackFromTheDead revived]].

** The hippopotamus kills a lot of people every year who didn't get out of the way.

* Arabian folklore tells of a snake called [[
https://abookofcreatures.com/2019/04/08/zoureg the Zoureg]]. Despite it being only a foot long, nothing can stop it once it gets moving -- trees, rocks, animals, it slices through them all like a hot knife through butter. The only way to kill one is to decapitate it in its sleep.

* Arabian folklore tells of a snake called [
https://abookofcreatures.com/2019/04/08/zoureg the Zoureg]. Despite it being only a foot long, nothing can stop it once it gets moving -- trees, rocks, animals, it slices through them all like a hot knife through butter. The only way to kill one is to decapitate it in its sleep.
* [https://abookofcreatures.com/2019/05/10/onniont The Onniont] from Huron folklore is a massive serpent covered in nearly impenetrable armor. When it travels, it's able to smash through anything in its path, even mountains.
* [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Camahueto The Camahueto], from Chilote folklore, appears to be a massive, somewhat deranged cross between a sea elephant and a bull with a single unicorn-like horn. Once it emerges from the mountains during a storm, it will tear down hills, gouge rivers and canyons into the earth and generally massively rearrange geography on its path to the sea, with nothing being able to stand in its way. Most can only hope to steer it slightly away from towns, and the only thing that can stop its rampage is for a skilled witch or warlock to lasso it with seaweed and cut off its horn, which will immediately tame the beast and calm it down. It's also in their best interest, since the horn is a very valuable ingredient for various bits of witchcraft.

** The ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'' episode "Rock of Rages'' has the cast trying to figure out how to stop an unstoppable KabbalicGolem. A helicopter falling on it after being clipped by a jeep it threw does nothing. An army assembled carrying anti-tank weaponry, flamethrowers and tanks stands in its way? It blows through all of them with no difficulty. The only confirmed way to destroy it is to use the stone that brought it to life.

Compare SuperPersistentPredator, and the PerfectPlayAI, who usually applies only in gameplay terms. For those who manage to defeat a Juggernaut, it's DefeatingTheUndefeatable.

* In the music video for Music/{{Rammstein}}'s Benzin, they drive a colossal fire truck that's so big the band sits five abreast in the cab. It knocks down trees on both sides of the road and plows straight through a speeding freight train without flinching, leaving a trail of destruction that would do a tornado proud.

* Arabian folklore tells of a snake called the Zoureg. Despite it being only a foot long, nothing can stop it once it gets moving -- trees, rocks, animals, it slices through them all like a hot knife through butter. The only way to kill one is to decapitate it in its sleep.
* The Onniont from Huron folklore is a massive serpent covered in nearly impenetrable armor. When it travels, it's able to smash through anything in its path, even mountains.
* The Camahueto, from Chilote folklore, appears to be a massive, somewhat deranged cross between a sea elephant and a bull with a single unicorn-like horn. Once it emerges from the mountains during a storm, it will tear down hills, gouge rivers and canyons into the earth and generally massively rearrange geography on its path to the sea, with nothing being able to stand in its way. Most can only hope to steer it slightly away from towns, and the only thing that can stop its rampage is for a skilled witch or warlock to lasso it with seaweed and cut off its horn, which will immediately tame the beast and calm it down. It's also in their best interest, since the horn is a very valuable ingredient for various bits of witchcraft.

** Also, [[spoiler:Golem!Crystal]]. She's an unstoppable force of rage and hatred that relentlessly pursues Bandanna and Haley through Tinkertown, can one-shot gnomes, and becomes even stronger and faster when accidentally powered up with a lightning gun. She smashes through a wall ''twice'': once when she chases Haley and Bandana into the masterwork weaponry shop, and again when she confronts [[spoiler:Bozzok and Grubwiggler]], the former of whom she kills by ''punching through his ribs'' and swinging his dead body around. Haley, Bandanna, and [[PunnyName the Department of Gnomeland Security]] eventually kill her by dropping her into a pit of lava.

** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-682 SCP-682]] is so unstoppable that the wiki has an ''[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/experiment-log-t-98816-oc108-682 entire page]] dedicated to failed attempts to kill the thing''. It was once thrown into the sun (noncanon story, but still), which only caused it to [[InfernalRetaliation fly back to Earth from space and attack the Foundation again while ON FIRE]]. One story showing an alternate universe suggested that it would take an entire planetwide army of unstoppable monsters like him to take him down for good.

** And again, see the bit about VillainDecay. This is his how badass he can be and ''still fall short'' of some of his finest hours.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "Raider of the Lost Harp", the [[ALoadOfBull Minotaur]] [[MacGuffinGuardian guardian]] of the eponymous [[LieDetector lie detecting]] harp [[LivingStatue came to life]] after Scrooge removed it from its box and followed it all the way to Duckberg by walking along the bottom of the ocean to retrieve it. Point blank range from two torpedoes didn't so much as scratch it, military helicopters were ineffective, and even Scrooge's giant bubble gum trap couldn't hold it long. To save Duckberg, Scrooge was forced to give the Minotaur back the harp.

** The ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'' episode "Rock of Rages" has the cast trying to figure out how to stop an unstoppable KabbalicGolem. A helicopter falls on it when it throws jeep does nothing. An army assembled carrying anti-tank weaponry, flamethrowers and tanks stands in its way? It blows through all of them with no difficulty. The only confirmed way to destroy it is to use the stone that brought it to life.

** Yono in the episode "Oh No! Yono!". ("What part of "Yono the Destroyer" confuses you?!"). He swatted Kim and Yori away with ease, and turned Kim, Sensei and Rufus [[TakenForGranite into stone]], destroying everything in the process. Left because couldn't hit Hana, who kept dancing all over the place. Ron unfortunately was held at bay by monkey ninjas.

* The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was nicknamed ''Juggernaut'' by their pilots. The plane looked very clumsy and ungainly at first sight, and the pilots thought ''they'' were being sacrificed to fly suicide missions in those planes. When the [[LightningBruiser true nature of the plane]] became apparent, the name stuck -- only now it was the Germans and Japanese who were to face the juggernaut when they went up against the P-47. The name was then shortened affectionately to ''Jug'', as the fuselage shape resembled a milk jug. P-47 had [[MoreDakka eight 0.50 cal machine guns]], excellent bomb carrying capacity and [[MadeOfIron good pilot and fuel tank protection and its radial engine was both reliable and durable against enemy fire]]. The later models (P-47M and P-47N) could also carry ten HVAR rockets. Oh, and did we tell you it had a two-stage supercharger (both turbocharger and mechanical supercharger), it was one of the fastest WWII propeller-driven aircraft, and could outmaneuvre almost all its opponents at high altitudes?
** The next US Thunderbolt, the Fairchild-Republic [[CoolPlane A-10 Thunderbolt II]], is quite similar. [[BoringButPractical Extremely slow]], [[TheAestheticsOfTechnology extremely ugly]], and [[FlyingBrick completely indestructible]] (the thing has flown missing an entire wing and an entire engine), and is capable of raining down [[GatlingGood 30mm depleted uranium rounds,]] [[DeathFromAbove smart bombs, dumb bombs, cluster bombs, guided missiles, and rocket pods on any ground target]]. Like its WWII-era granddady, it has an unrelated, commonly-used nickname ("Warthog") that reflects its appearance and its unstoppability (seriously guys: if you ever find yourself in the path of an actual warthog or other wild pig, get out of its way as fast as you can).

* A Macedonian phalanx was a sixteen-thousand-or-so men with light armour and shields and incredibly long pikes. It just kept marching until it trampled everyone in its way. At least until they met AncientRome. The phalanx would have trampled even the Romans, had the Romans tried frontal assault. Too bad that the Romans weren't stupid enough to charge a phalanx from the front: their standard tactics were to either slow it down with a smaller phalanx while most of their army defeated what units covered its vulnerable flanks and attacked there until it lost cohesion, or, when the enemy commander was stupid enough to not cover those vulnerable flanks, to lure it on rough terrain, wait for it to charge and lose cohesion and then [[DeathFromAbove attack with a crapload of javelins]] to break it down, at which point the Romans would simply march in close formation. Both tactics ended with DeathByIrony: the former caused the phalanx to be trampled by the Roman phalanx supposed to hold it down, and the latter ended with the broken up phalanx trampled by the Romans advancing in compact formations.

** Something of the sort happened at Arras in 1940, when a detachment of British Matilda II tanks rolled right over German anti-tank guns and Panzer [=II=]s, slowly but quite unstoppably until Rommel finally managed to get some 88s (meant to be there as anti-aircraft guns) and heavier artillery in position to shell them. Rommel supposedly thought there had been hundred of tanks in the attack -- the actual number of these were 74, and of these, only 16 were equipped with anything bigger than a machine-gun.
*** The Matilda II was slow, had suspension trouble, was difficult to maintain and had unimpressive armament (40 mm). However, early in the war it's thick armour and some redundancy (two engines) made it very hard to take out in the first half of the war for the Germans and throughout the war for the Japanese. It was the only tank which was in front-line service from the beginning of the war to the very end. It gained the nickname ''Queen of the Desert'' in Africa as it completely outclassed any Axis tanks, and ''Queen of the Jungle'' at Pacific, as no Japanese tank was match to it. The only ways to destroy it were anti-tank mines.

* In UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars, France was so ludicrously powerful compared to its neighbours that it basically bulled apart continent-wide coalitions on five separate occasions. It took twenty years of no-holds-barred total war, being starved by the Royal Navy, and a disastrous campaign in Russia to finally bring her down.