History Main / WrestlerOfBeasts

* ''Film/Beast2022''. Subverted nn the climax. Nate runs out of shots and decides to lure the lion away from his daughters, eventually getting tackled and brought down. His punches and kicks do nothing but annoy it, and it's mostly down to luck and the lion's [[WorfHadTheFlu previous injuries]] that he survives long enough [[spoiler:for the lead males of another pride to arrive and attack the intruder, letting him crawl away]].

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** [[Characters/MarvelComicsDoctorDoom Doctor Doom]] once fought and killed a lion while unarmed and naked (as pictured above).

** Characters/DoctorDoom once fought and killed a lion while unarmed and naked (as pictured above).

* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': Moxxie is mocked during the "Harvest Moon Festival" for being helpless without firearms. He tries killing a demonic pig for dinner without his rifle, but fails to pierce its thick hide with his knife, pissing off the monster which proceeds to throw him around like a rag doll. He's then forced to watch as Striker attempts the feat, easily subduing the beast and hacking it to pieces in seconds.
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': In "The Emerald Forest", Ren encounters a giant, [[{{Ouroboros}} two-headed snake]] Grimm called the King Taijitu. After it disarms him, he fights it with his bare hands, snapping off one of its fangs and jamming it into its eye before obliterating one of its heads with a palm strike.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal}}'': Spear, the Neanderthal protagonist of the series, lives in a primordial world full of {{Prehistoric Monster}}s, and often ends up facing them in melee combat. He manages to slay beasts far larger than himself due to [[TheDeterminator sheer persistence]] and [[GeniusBruiser innovative use of tools and the environment]].

** Kuma is a bear who was trained in martial arts by Heihachi Mishima, who adopted him as a pet and later made him his bodyguard. Kuma was defeated in the first King of Iron Fist Tournament by Paul Phoenix. His son Kuma II became a rival for Paul.

* Subverted in ''Film/Beast2022''. In the climax, Nate runs out of shots and runs off to lure the lion away from his daughters, eventually getting tackled and brought down. His punches and kicks do nothing but annoy it, and it's mostly down to luck and the lion's [[WorfHadTheFlu previous injuries]] that he survives long enough [[spoiler:for the lead males of another pride to arrive and attack the intruder, letting him crawl away]].

* In ''Film/{{RRR}}'', Komaram Bheem is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] setting a trap for a wolf with himself as bait, getting a tiger instead, and then wrestling it until he can hit it with a sedative. It's probably the only being in the film that outmatches [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Bheem]] in terms of physical strength.

* UsefulNotes/SteveIrwin was well known for wrestling crocodiles.

** ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': [[GreatWhiteHunter Kraven the Hunter]] disdains using guns and bows, instead preferring to take down animals with his bare hands. He claims that his punch once felled a rhino.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', the gladiators of the Ul'dahn bloodsands face trained and wild beasts as often as each other to the cheers of onlookers at the Coliseum. The Halitali (Hard) dungeon consists of facing a gauntlet of beasts and monsters before taking on Ul'dah's finest gladiators.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series features several boss fights with powerful beasts:
** ''VideoGame/Yakuza2'' has Kiryu Kazuma battling two tigers as a DualBoss -- and ''winning'' -- to rescue Haruka from Sengoku in the battle that made him a MemeticBadass.
** In ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'', Saejima fends off a killer bear while on the run with nothing but his fists, and has multiple encounters with it again in the substories.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'': Arthur Maxon, Leader of the Brotherhood of Steel, is rumored to have killed a [[BioweaponBeast Deathclaw]] when he was 13, singlehandedly and armed only with a combat knife.