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* [[Hayao Miyazaki]]'s ''[[Porco Rosso]]'', several times during the same fight, no less. {{spoiler|The dogfight starts out with machineguns, then devolves into using handguns, then throwing various tools, debries, and pieces of garbage at each other, and finally degenerates completely into a fist fight on the ground with both just brutally gut punching each other in succession with neither of them making an effort to block.}} To say it looked silly would be an understatement.

* 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.}}

* In the ''[[Desert Punk (Manga)|Desert Punk]]'' anime, the titular hero and his rival, both [[Gadgeteer Genius|Gadgeteer Geniuses]] have a duel that lasts an entire day- but it results in truly [[Epic Fail]] as they abandon their usual tactics and have a [[Blast Out]] with shotguns, the handguns, followed by running out of ammo and throwing rocks at each other. Eventually, they run out of loose rocks, and flip rubber bands at each other. The watching townspeople get bored and go home, and eventually [[Cross Counter|they punch each other out]].

* 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 big fight scene in ''[[The Matrix]] Reloaded'' starts as a weapon brawl, and eventually traverses car chase into a fist v. sword fight on the back of a speeding semi, and ends with a game of chicken...

** Burly Brawl for that matter starts out as a typical one-against-many fight scene and gradually turns into a Looney Tunes short on crack.

* The Roman Polanski film version of ''Macbeth'' has the final fight between Macbeth and Macduff turn into a protracted anything-goes match including punches, kicks, and Macduff swinging at Macbeth with a piece of firewood when he's been disarmed.

* The fight between ''[[Mr. and Mrs Smith]]'' starts with guns, then progresses to everything in the entire house being used as a weapon, from the dishes to the couch. And ends in [[Destructo-Nookie]].

 

== Literature ==

* In Max Barry's ''Machine Man'', the final fight between {{spoiler|[[Man in The Machine]] Dr. Charles Neumann and crazed [[Cyborg]] Carl}} sees them deal a *great* deal of damage to each other before {{spoiler|Neumann blasts Carl to smithereens with his [[BFG]] [[Arm Cannon]]}}.

 

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