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** And then there's Money in the Bank, a [[Gimmick Matches|Gimmick Match]] whose winner can claim a title shot any time within the next year. It usually gets cashed in right after the current champ has gotten thoroughly beat up by someone else.

* An episode of ''[[Seinfeld (TV)|Seinfeld]]'' has Jerry and George ask Elaine which of the two would win in a fight. Elaine says George, on the basis that he would fight dirty. George happily admits it, and Jerry happily accepts it. This is confirmed in a later episode where the three of them fight, and George does win.

* Starbuck in the re-imagined ''[[~~Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|~~Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'', particularly during the episode Scar, wherein Viper pilots are confronted with a deadly, newly-motivated enemy sortie, who utilises all sorts of tricks and decoys.

* Starbuck in the re-imagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'', particularly during the episode Scar, wherein Viper pilots are confronted with a deadly, newly-motivated enemy sortie, who utilises all sorts of tricks and decoys.

{{quote| '''Starbuck:''' 'This isn't dueling pistols at dawn, this is war. You never wanna fight fair. You wanna sneak up behind your enemy, and club 'em over the head. You see, Scar understands that. And so do I. So, that's why I'm gonna kill him.'}}

** Of course, the most pragmatic thing Starbuck ends up doing in that fight is {{spoiler|swallowing her pride and luring Scar into an ambush so that someone else can take the kill and get the glory}}.

** Colonel Tigh took this trope to a much wider field during the occupation of New Caprica. Suicide bombers, random violence -- "I'm on the side of the demons."

* ''[[~~Twenty Four~~ (TV)|24]]'' Jack Bauer especially but also many of his opponents. He'll use sneak attacks and break bones, kick in kneecaps, and shoot to incapacitate or coerce. His fighting style is brutal with little or no flourish.

* ''[[24 (TV)|24]]'' Jack Bauer especially but also many of his opponents. He'll use sneak attacks and break bones, kick in kneecaps, and shoot to incapacitate or coerce. His fighting style is brutal with little or no flourish.

** This gets taken to utterly pants-shitting levels at times. Early in Day 6 whilst tied to a chair and being tortured, he waits until the mook has his back turned, and removes the cuff on his EKG from his arm, causing it to flatline. He plays dead while the mook comes over to check on him and then [[I'm a Humanitarian|TAKES A CHOMP]] [[Crazy Awesome|OUT OF]] [[Crosses the Line Twice|THE DUDE'S]] [[Precision F-Strike|FUCKING]] [[Refuge in Audacity|NECK.]]

* A producer's write-up on ''[[The Avengers (TV)|The Avengers]]''' John Steed, to guide writers of episodes, specifically stated that "he fights like a cad and uses every dirty trick in the book..."