Yes. Any fictional character can potentially beat or be beat by any other fictional character, it would just require willingness on an individuals part to do so. Now, we can get a bit technical and say that for some people, what is canon and official is more legitimate and valid and so as far as fictional characters who are owned by real life entities/businesses and so on, you might not be able to have a random fan fiction writer have a certain specific fictional character beaten, but that just limits an occurrence to those authorized to write such stories or give substance to such ideas. This applies as much to other conceptual fictional ideas, such as omnipotence.
They are ideas given substance and the why and how can depend and differ, and since this isn't always necessarily a science (creating writing) ideas and execution of ideas can contradict, conflict and coexist at the same time. There can be inconsistency. Its really more likely that the writer (Jim Valentino) of Protege was applying the term "TOAA" vastly different than how people see that "character" now days. TOAA is as much a meta idea in modern days as it is a fictional character, which is why we see that character so rarely and why Living Tribunal is usually referred to more in actual stories (as opposed to comic book message boards)
Also remember there is a very important different between the word and concept of could and the word and concept of would or should. Unless you place closed specific conditions on the question, it leaves the question extremely open ended. Additionally the concept and idea of ever makes it even more open. In 540 years time after World War III and IV Marvel might be owned by Neo China's WWE NWO faction and their head writer could be a cyborg clone of Michael Jackson who decides that the TOAA character should be actually defeated by Pop Eye. Ever is a long time. Wording wise might be more advantageous to ask whether its probable for TOAA to ever be beaten in a comic book.
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