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When a fight lasts a long time, often a ''very'' long time, things can get a bit...[[Improvised Weapon|different]]. Elaborate sword duels can turn into [[Bar Brawl|bar brawls]]. A gunfight becomes a fistfight. [[Improvised Weapon
A common comedy variation is for a brawl between two grown men to devolve into [[Wimp Fight|a childish slap fight]]. When played for drama, use of this trope can evoke feelings of desperation and/or savagery as arsenals get depleted, weapons broken, and yet the combatants only tear into each other even harder with their bare hands.
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Kind of the [[Inverted Trope|opposite]] of the videogame trope of [[With This Herring|starting off with a weak weapon]] [[Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness|and picking up more and more dangerous ones as you progress]].
[[Destructo-Nookie]] is one possible outcome. Contrast [[Interesting Situation Duel]] - a fight that is as complicated as '''Combat Breakdown''' is simple.
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* Likewise for ''[[Blue Submarine No. 6]]:'' {{spoiler|Mayumi and Hayami having just killed Zorndijk, and the Blue Fleet having already destroyed his entire empire, his son Verg goes out in murderous rage against Hayami and they both end up in a ''very'' brutal fight.}}
** Not really a fight ''per se''. Hiyami is just letting Verg beat the crap out of him because Zorndyke said that humanity needed to learn to talk out its problems. It was more like a voluntary [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]], with Hiyami as the beaten and Verg as the beater.
* In the ''[[Desert Punk (manga)|Desert Punk]]'' anime, the titular hero and his rival, both [[Gadgeteer Genius
* The [[Final Battle]] between Suzaku and Kallen in ''[[Code Geass]]'' starts with both of their [[Humongous Mecha|Knightmare Frames]] flying with energy wings and armed with powerful beam weapons. In the process of the fight, they lose the wings, wear each other's weapons down one by one, and eventually end up slugging it out with punches and kicks in a sequence that many fans declared the best fight of the entire series (and certainly the best one since the [[Lensman Arms Race]] took effect early in the second season, leading to battles decided by technological prowess rather than strategy).
* The [[Final Battle]] of ''[[S-Cry-ed]]'' starts out as a fight between alter-powers and then gradually breaks down to a simple slug fest.
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* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' Yusuke's battle with Chu ends with a stand-up slugging match with each of them having a knife at their heel to keep them from moving away.
* Terry's rematch with Krauser in the second ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' OAV ends this way after the two of them have exhausted each other with their ultimate attacks.
* Most fights in ''[[Blade of the Immortal]]'' are bloody, messy and... rather clumsy looking affairs. [[Clean Cut
* One of the most brutal fights of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' had Ash's Bulbasaur and an opposing trainer's Meganium start off the fight with Razor Leafs, Body Slams, and Vine Whips that also included a lot of moving. As the fight dragged on, it eventually got to the point where neither one of the combatants was even ''trying'' to dodge attacks, causing them to just be in a Vine Whip slug-fest that ended with a cross-counter that knocked both to the ground. The fight didn't end there, however, but stopped almost immediately after with a double Solar Beam.
** The clones vs. originals in ''[[Pokémon: The First Movie|Pokémon the First Movie]]''. It's especially notable with the two Pikachu, as the clone starts crying while it keeps slapping Ash's Pikachu, who is just standing there sadly.
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* Several of the Terminator duels in ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' start out with both combatants shooting at each other. Considering that [[Made of Iron|doesn't work too often]] against Terminators, the battles rapidly devolve into environmentally-destructive fisticuffs.
* ''[[The Monkees]]'' episode "Fairy Tale" climaxed with a battle between [[Farm Boy|Peter]] [[Idiot Hero|Tork]] and [[Black Knight|Knight]] [[Evil Chancellor|Harold]]. They fought with swords and somehow lost them, they continued fighting with daggers, and then Harold said, "You know, I'm really a non-violent sort." Peter replied, "That's very refreshing," and they put away their daggers and arm-wrestled.
* The final battle between ''[[Kamen Rider Kuuga]]'' and [[Big Bad|N-Daguba-Zeba]] progresses thusly: Kuuga [[Super Mode|Ultimate Form]] vs. Daguba, brutally assaulting each other until they shatter each other's [[Transformation Trinket
* When Master Ping recounts his epic battle with the greatest Luchadore in history during the second episode of ''[[The Middleman]]'', their combat starts with martial arts fisticuffs but eventually branches into [[Bi Plane]] dogfights, machine gun duels, and swordplay before his opponent finally dies of a heart attack during a Rock'em Sock'em Robots game.
* In ''[[Firefly]]'' Mal starts fighting Atherton Wing in a swordfight. As he's never touched a sword before, this goes poorly. But when things get down to the punching, he has a definite advantage.
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