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Please make this reasonable! I don't want this to be a bunch of high powerscaling godmoding ocs talking about how they punched the creator of the universe in the face or are the universe creator themself like a greek legend about how cool being muscular is. I will allow something like that if it's like they didn't kill that character or if it was at the end of a long journey or personal struggle and emphasizes a character's development. Like for example, Jooters here:

Jooters here has won a fight against a god, the Star Creator. However, it was a battle without any actual fighting.
In the beginning of his story, he was a shy boy who was scared to death of everyone because he didn't fit in due to his sheltered upbringing and autism. However, over the course of his journey of life and through the continent of Landor with his friends, he gained confidence ability to stand up for himself. Near the end of one of his major arcs, one of the masters of the magical academy he attends uses a ritual to summon the god of magic and creator of the cosmos, the Star Creator, a giant eldritch god made of stars and magical energy. Jooters is trapped into a dimension inside his own mind, slowly draining away at his life force and having his brain slowly crystalize. He knows he can't win, but he is tired of being pushed around after all this time. He longed to be the fearless hero his father was, not going down even in the face of certain loss, and so he grabbed his staff and tried to retaliate. The Star Creator was intrigued by this and admired him, and so left him be and went back to the cosmos. Jooters almost died from this, but made it through.

The strongest foe he's actually defeated, however, was Pyratus the flame. Father Pyratus used the power of the Amulet of Gods to grant him immense power that took the most powerful warriors in all four kingdoms to beat. After facing an intense bombardment from the armies of the kingdoms, he ended up in a crumbled building where there was only Jooters. Jooters faced the wounded Pyratus 1x1, finally getting the revenge for his father's death that he wanted to gain since the beginning of the series and further showcasing his growth in strength and confidence.

It's quite terrible, really. The other day, a particularly rotten undead came into my shop to buy a ring, but he was oh so boring. I had to fight off the most terrible manner of foe for us felines: sleep.

Lizbeth never fought, never did any harm to anyone, but there is one, and only one enemy she ever struggled with, she’s ever beaten, namely herself.
This doe has been for a long time a slave, abused and beaten up, violated and stigmatized. She holds a lot of scars from that period, outside and inside, she’ll never be a real hind, a mother.
But she’s still there, alive and kicking, wealthy and facing the world. She got out of this submissive state, having lost all self esteem and found the power not only to survive (through psychic cope mechanisms) but to get over it. She’s her own superhero and even can forgive all her tormentors.
She has found the most important thing existing, the biggest magical power that can erase anything, peace!

Hinata exhaled slowly, leaning back as he considered the question.

“The strongest person I ever fought?” He let the words roll off his tongue, mulling them over. His mind didn’t go to the yakuza figures he had beaten, the assassins sent to kill him, or even the monsters that once ruled the underground. No, the answer was simpler.

"Karin."

A small smirk played at his lips as he said her name. He could still feel the impact of her strikes, the raw determination behind them. She didn’t hold back, and neither did he. That fight was a test, a reckoning. “I’ve fought stronger men, sure. Bigger, faster, more brutal. But none of them challenged me the way she did. Karin didn’t fight me because she wanted to prove she was better—she fought me because she wanted to stand beside me. And that… that was something I wasn’t ready for.”

He ran a hand through his hair, eyes momentarily distant.

“When we stepped into that arena, I thought I’d have to hold back. Thought that maybe, I’d need to go easy on her. But she shut that idea down real fast. She came at me like a storm. She was fast with her movements and strikes. It was her will.”

Hinata could still feel the way her high kick had forced him into a block, how her punches tested his reflexes, how her sheer spirit refused to let him overpower her. It was the first time in years that he had questioned himself in a fight—not because he thought he would lose, but because he felt something deeper than the battle itself.

“She made me hesitate," he admitted, chuckling under his breath. "Not because I was afraid of her—no, I’ve never been afraid of her… Maybe once before, but that’s a story for another time. But because she made me realize something. Everyone else who’s fought me only saw the monster, the legend, the outcast yakuza. But Karin. She saw me. She fought me not as an opponent, but as my equal. And when I hit her with everything I had… she took it.”

His fingers clenched instinctively, recalling the final clash, how their last blows landed at the same time. They had both gone down. He remembered reaching for her, pulling her close in the aftermath. She was bruised, exhausted—but she had never looked more beautiful.

“That fight changed something,” he murmured. “Not just between us, but in me. She showed me that I wasn’t alone. That I didn’t have to be. She reminded me that I wasn’t just fighting for myself anymore.”

His smirk softened, his eyes carrying that memory. “So yeah… Karin’s the strongest person I’ve ever fought, because she’s the only one who’s ever beaten me in the one way that mattered.”

This seems trickier to answer than it should be, mostly in terms of thinking of something that qualifies in the first place. A lot of the games I've had have focused on characters navigating circumstances, featured "foes" that are organizations rather than individuals, had otherwise undefeatable enemies that just need to be survived, have gone unfinished, or I've been the foe to defeat in some way - or a mix of these things. And then for foes that aren't something like a BBEG, it can be hard to actually remember them.

One I can think of that I think sort of qualifies was a monster from one of my more recent RPs, even though I had almost exclusive narrative control of it. It was created mostly with influences from lore about the wendigo, the wechuge, and the Scandinavian ice troll, and when discussing it, I took to referring to it as "Ol' Lipless." It was a very powerful, greedy, hungry creature of entropy and death. It moved faster than the eye could track; had possibly a better sense of smell than any dog; was physically significantly stronger than the character who could easily punch holes through walls; was actually quite clever; had a wail that inspired terror; could heal/regenerate super fast even from insta-kill injuries; and devoured everything, body and spirit. It also had a very nasty temper; and it relied heavily on scent and sound due to having poor vision, including being pretty much blind to anything not moving.

Btw, quick warning: I'll try to keep light on details, but things got pretty gruesome.

The game was with Sahara and her character Kellie. It first appeared while the character I was actually playing in that game, Jackson (who usually takes a more villainous role) was out of commission; Kellie actually thought he was dead following a pretty dramatic incident between them, but he was actually slowly recovering in her (they're, uh, both water beings). Kellie noticed something weird with some extra senses they'd ended up with thanks to Jackson, went to check it out, aaaaand found Ol' Lipless getting ready to hibernate through the warmer seasons. Since Lipless was pretty sleepy and smelled Old-and-Powerful-Thing on Kellie (t'was Jackson!), and could also tell that Kellie wasn't a flesh-and-blood creature, instead of just attacking and eating them, it offered a deal - Kellie could pass through its territory if they brought it some tasty people to eat. That's not an issue for Kellie, a man-eating kelpie, so they did so because Lipless be scary - only to find out Lipless tricked them into a cycle of bringing it food. But, again, since Lipless wanted some dang sleep, it told Kellie they didn't have to bring the next meal until fall/autumn when it started getting cold again.

Kellie left, stressing over the deal, and also needing to find a place for their own summer hibernation. They had also been starting to get hints that Jackson wasn't actually dead (it'd been about a year or so since his "death" by then), but they kept dismissing it as painful memories and maybe going kinda crazy. They'd previously been developing a very toxic relationship in which Jackson was very controlling in various ways, and Kellie had actually been in a position to fall for it all pretty easily; when he finally recovered enough and regained a body of his own after Kellie's hibernation, though, he was acting very different for a number of reasons. To oversimplify, Kellie had inadvertently "fixed" him in various ways, had gained the ability to command & control him, and his life now depended on them. They proceeded to have more messy and dramatic adventures, with things between them steadily developing into a somewhat healthier relationship, and they even decided they were married and Jackson started making a baby for Kellie because reasons (that alone is its own whole explanation of weird things). The adventures included passing through a hostile-but-mostly-empty fae realm where time moved differently and ending up in a distant land for a bit.

Anyway, they were on their way back to more familiar places, and things were going pretty decently as they neared the coast... when they heard a distant, freaky howl that made them both remember that Lipless existed, and they're pretty sure Kellie's overdue on their deal (in fact, they find out they're a couple years overdue). Kellie's scared because Lipless had already shown it could easily beat and kill them, and they're also technically pregnant at that point. Jackson's scared because he's still significantly weaker than before he'd "died," and the closest thing he knows to what little he'd been able to sense about Lipless the first time is an ice troll, and thems is scary stuff and really hard to kill (he later determines that it might have been an ice troll at some point, but if so, it's since warped enough to be something different). Lipless had finally picked up their scent on the wind, and was angry enough to coming running across most of an entire continent and then keep running through the water along the sea floor.

Knowing they can't outrun it, Jackson's initial plan is to impersonate Kellie and distract it while actual Kellie escapes, and hope that maybe he'll be able to come back again through them; if Kellie dies, he's also dead anyway. Kellie can't stand losing him again though, especially with neither of them actually knowing if he'd have any chance of coming back again, so they hide but don't actually leave. I forget some of the details from all that chaos, but there was a moment where, to protect Kellie and keep Lipless focused on him, Jackson ended up smashing his beloved violin (that's basically like his best friend and child to him and has been for ages) against the creature, which left him in shock for a moment when he realized what he'd just done. Lipless also somehow ended up headless (and heavily wounded in other ways, I think) at some point... but that just meant that when the creature managed to get a hold of Jackson to try to eat him, Jackson had to do all he could to avoid getting sucked into a gaping neck hole into what seemed to be some sort of bottomless pit.

While Jackson tried to avoid being devoured, Kellie ran off to find something to light the gas from a grill that Jackson had started up. They found a flare. There was no way to get Jackson away from the beast and the explosion zone fast enough though, so Kellie threw the flair, and Jackson decided to try diving into the throat for any kind of cover. Big boom happens. Jackson's nowhere to be seen. Lipless is heavily injured. Kellie makes sure Lipless' heart gets cooked, and Lipless' remains just kinda... melt. But hey! There's Jackson! Or, well... half of Jackson, the part that had managed to dive into Lipless before the explosion; his bottom half was caught in the explosion. Luckily, Jackson doesn't need silly organs or such and just has a weird body overall, so he's able to survive and slowly start recovering again. He just had to be stuck presenting himself as a very moody little kid for awhile, while he rebuilds the rest of his body and processing everything that happened.

Did you cry over Wilson in Cast Away? The violin thing was kinda like that but even harder to cope with.

Anyway... technically, my character didn't beat the foe, but he totally helped.