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== [[Anime]] ==
* Most fights that isn't a straight up [[Curb Stomp Battle]] in later episodes of [[DragonballDragon Ball]] Z are a match of 'who has the most transformations'. Every time a character turns into a new form, they hold the [[Advantage Ball]] untill their opponent does likewise.
** In this case, being changed into a piece of candy counts as turning into a new form... at least if you're Vegito.
* This follows naturally in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', where, thanks to Spiral Energy, confidence ''is'' combat ability. Except for wild cards like the Mugann, the Ball is in the court of whoever is delivering a [[Badass Boast]] at the moment.
* [[Bleach]] plays with this a lot. In most fights, the ball even gets tossed between combatants at times. Very often strategic use of the Advantage Ball (by the author) results in wins or losses the fandom did not expect.
* ''[[Naruto]]'' has a bunch of advantages when he has to fight [[Person of Mass Destruction|Pain]], including [[Mons|a bunch of strong toads to fight alongside him]], a new [[Super Mode]], the [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Ninetails]], information on Pain's abilities, and Pain's temporary loss of his [[Gravity Master]] powers.
** His earlier fight against Sasuke followed the [[DragonballDragon Ball]] Z approach of passing the [[Advantage Ball]] for a few rounds by unlocking increasingly more power.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* The Ball is carefully minded throughout ''[[A Knight's Tale]]''. At the beginning, William and Adhemar are evenly matched, and the latter wins by his greater experience. In the final, decisive joust, Adhemar holds the Ball at first due both to the efforts of his herald and copious amounts of cheating, but after [[Geoffrey Chaucer (Creator)|Geoffrey Chaucer]] gives an impassioned speech, the audience changes sides and William wins ''without even his armour''.
* This is well demonstrated by the [[Flynning]] in ''[[The Princess Bride]]'', where the advantage is determined solely by who [[I Am Not Left-Handed|most recently switched hands]].
* The film of ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|The Lord of the Rings]]''. In addition to [[Hollywood Tactics|many other lapses in tactical realism]], advantage in battle seems to be principally a matter of who makes the most [[Big Entrance|badass entrance]], regardless of such matters as numbers and equipment.
* Throughout ''[[The Matrix]]'', agents are pretty much unstoppable, due both to their superior programming and the [[The Dreaded|terror the other side has for them]]. But after Neo's awakening as The One, he can dispatch them with ease (and his team can at least hold their ground). An entirely justified in-universe example.
 
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