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- It's Thinking: B.D. Joe at the end of the Crazy Taxi ad.B.D. Joe: I made some serious game that day!
[Everyone grabs him and starts attacking him as the camera quickly zooms out]
Eastern Animation
- The title character of Kuang Kuang is very frequently on the receiving end of these from one or more of his teachers, bleeding all over the floor as they stamp on his head.
- In the Simple Samosa episode "Sumo Momo", Samosa takes on the wrestler Sumo Momo. Sumo Momo manages to defeat Samosa in various ways throughout their wrestling match, but Samosa does not outmatch Sumo Momo's strength until his tip cracks from the damage he's taken. Cue him whopping the living heck out of Sumo Momo over it.
Fairy Tales
- In "The Blue Mountains", the hero must suffer a beatdown for three nights to free the heroine.
Pinball
- The Sopranos has The Shakedown, which features two enforcers repeatedly kicking a victim on the ground.
Roleplay
- Dino Attack RPG:
- In one of the RPG's more brutal moments, Rex beat a Mutant Lizard to death with a metal pipe. While PeabodySam did not go into much detail regarding the lizard's death, picturing the event itself can be unsettling.
- A more traditional example occurred early in At War's End in the form of Rotor and Garry beating the crap out of Jenny. Tom attempted to get revenge on Garry, except the latter being ex-military, he was able to fight back.
- Colonel beat the crap of Commander Vinyaya outside of the Pharaoh's Forbidden Ruins.
- Ghost decided to viciously beat Minerva in hopes of knocking her unconscious so he could take her to Ahua.
- As an Extreme Mêlée Revenge, Rex let loose bottled-up anger from Kotua and Rotor upon French Fries in a particularly brutal Curb-Stomp Battle.
- We Are All Pokémon Trainers:
- Tagg nearly does this to two Cipher Peons in Almia before the police pull him off them.
- Fool ends up beating a poacher to death this way during the OI arc.
- Psyche in her backstory ended up getting mauled by Scrafty so badly that she was rendered mute, deaf in one ear, and was forced to wear a leg brace.
- Diane ends up beating Vedfolnir (A cyborg Staraptor) to a virtual pulp with a Close Combat.
- In their final confrontation in the Orre arc, Odin beats Chrome so hard with his Powered Armor that his armor plating actually cracks.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! East Academy: Haine vs Marcus and Sylvestre calling it a Curbstomp Battle is putting it nicely.
Tabletop Games
- In the Hong Kong Action Theatre supplement To Live and Die in HK, one of the Signature Moves that a character can have is "Heroic Comeback." In addition to being used for Heroic Second Wind moments during climactic fights, it can also be used after the character has been on the receiving end of one of these in an earlier scene, with the + 5 bonus to hit the guy who kicked his ass for the rest of the movie being used for some much-deserved payback.
Theatre
- In City of Angels, two thugs called Big Six and Sonny break into Stone's place and, to the tune of Jimmy Powers' song "Ya Gotta Look Out for Yourself," tell him with their fists to drop the Mallory case. After picking his crumpled form off the floor, Stone indeed does try to back out, but an offer of a $10,000 bonus convinces him to stay on the case.
- In Hadestown, when Orpheus drops in uninvited to save Eurydice, Hades shows him what happens to trespassers and has his workers beat him until he can barely stand.
Toys
- In BIONICLE, Icarax attempts to do this to Teridax. Mutran, another member of their Brotherhood, recounts that Teridax "allowed Icarax to pound him for hours on end, until the rebel's energies were almost exhausted. Then Teridax exerted the smallest amount of his will and turned the Manas against Icarax. Once he was surrounded, Teridax used every power at his command to defeat... no, demolish... no, perhaps 'humiliate' would be a better word... Icarax." Teridax then follows this up with a "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
