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{{trope}}
{{quote|"''Our world is a battleground into which only those who can bake truly good bread can enter.''"|'''Kai Suwabara''', ''[[
This time, instead of [[Good Old Fisticuffs|fists]], [[Sword Fight|swords]] or [[Wizard Duel|overpowered fireballs]], the combatants can find themselves squaring off through an impromptu contest in some sufficiently quirky task over a perceived slight to one's honor or that of a love interest. While [[Duels Decide Everything]], in [[Anime]] ''anything'' can be a
▲This time, instead of [[Good Old Fisticuffs|fists]], [[Sword Fight|swords]] or [[Wizard Duel|overpowered fireballs]], the combatants can find themselves squaring off through an impromptu contest in some sufficiently quirky task over a perceived slight to one's honor or that of a love interest. While [[Duels Decide Everything]], in [[Anime]] ''anything'' can be a duel -- and in [[Comedy Series]], it usually is. Especially when [[Kid Samurai]] and [[Heir to The Dojo]] characters with touchy senses of honor are involved. Alternatively, the [[Alpha Bitch]] could provoke a less excitable character into such a contest.
[[I Thought It Meant|Just to be clear,]] [[Tropes Are Flexible|does not have to actually involve cooking]], it just has to be that silly.
Essentially, this is the [[Evasive Fight Thread Episode]] made silly with plenty of silly [[Trash Talk]]. In shows where the
When it actually involves cooking, the female combatants of an [[Unwanted Harem]] will view it as the ultimate battle for the guy of their dreams. After all "the way to a man's heart is [[Through His Stomach]]." [[Hilarity Ensues]] as one or more of the girls are often [[Lethal Chef
And of course, as anybody who regularly watches [[Food Network]] can tell you, there are also the shows that are literally nothing more than straight-up cooking duels between two people. And ''of course'' they [[Iron Chef|originate]] from Japan. And, oddly enough, many of the above-described subtropes still apply (less the harem tendencies).
This can be hilarious when combined with [[Chess
Compare [[Chef of Iron]].
{{examples|Examples}}▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[
{{quote|
* ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'' has one in Sweets Zone.
**
* ''[[Kujibiki Unbalance]]'' is set at a [[High School]] where the student body is set up in an enormous [[Tournament Arc]] of
* The "[[Yamato Nadeshiko]] Cup" from ''[[Tenshi
* ''[[
* Manga example: Jan Akiyama, from ''[[Iron Wok Jan]]'', deliberately attempts to make everything around him into a
* The game of tag that opens ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]''.
* Ginta vs. Tsutomu at tennis in ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'' (the loser had to shave his head).
* ''Bistro Recipe'', which was [[Macekre
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''
** And in the first seven manga volumes, a much crueler Yami Yugi would make these up on the spot to challenge anyone who pissed him off/hurt his friends with. They were typically much darker and dangerous than other examples of this trope (example: challenging a crooked shopkeeper to a contest of "draw the coins out of the sneaker with a deadly scorpion inside it").
* ''[[Hikaru no Go]]'' likewise milks the traditional Japanese board game of go for all the drama they can get. In fairness, some people in [[Real Life]] make their living playing the game.
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** Ditto for ''[[Kaiji]]''.
* ''[[The Legend of Koizumi]]'' is a series in which world leaders battle over the fate of the world... '''WITH MAHJONG'''.
* Sanji in the ''[[
** However, he did duel an enemy cook in the manga. Only, it was a real fight.
*** In one such duel, he manages to win, despite using only the ingredient scraps remaining from his opponent's recipes.
* The infamous cabbage scene in ''[[Yoake Mae Yori
* Spoofed in ''[[The Slayers]]'', where the main characters must dress up in animal costumes and pass several ridiculous tests in order to reach the top of an enchanted tower, one of which is an actual cooking battle in which the [[Our Demons Are Different|mazoku]] Xelloss (who elects to flamboyantly clothe himself for the occasion in a frilly cap and apron) creates such a deliberately noxious
** The other challenges fall in this category. The next one was an Octopus and a game of rock paper scissors...where the octopus did them all at once. The third was a game of tag, where you had to grab someone by the butt, and the opponent was a snake. That one was funny.
** In ''NEXT'' Lina and Martina had a game of magic tennis for the prize. At least the game moved them to a truce and Xelloss got some [[Emotion Eater|tasty]] mayhem...
* In ''[[Clannad (
* Sasami entered a
* ''[[Prince of Tennis]]'' has no
* ''[[Naruto]]'' had a literal
* In ''[[
* ''[[Galaxy Fraulein Yuna]]'' takes this to even sillier extremes: the opening scene is a ''literal'' cooking duel between giant mecha! The protagonist wins by cooking eggs by the heat of atmospheric re-entry.
* ''[[Real Bout High School]]'', an anime series about a school where all of the student clubs are dedicated to ''fighting with lethal weapons'', features a
* An
* ''[[Kannagi]]'', from which the image above is taken, has a cooking contest between Nagi, Tsugumi, and Zange.
* Some of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''{{'}}s first volume takes this approach to a dodgeball game.
** Later on, the "Kiss Negi" competition treats a pillow fight this way, complete with a commentator.
* Throughout the manga ''[[Oishinbo]]'' there are a number of
* Constantly shows up in ''[[Kitchen Princess]]'', both officially (that is, an actual cooking competition) and unofficially (pitting Najika against a professional chef to prove her spot in the special class, among others)
* In one episode of ''[[Seven of Seven|Shichinin no Nana]]'', Nanacchi and [[Terrible Trio|Hayashiba, Kogarashi, and Morinuma]] turn a make-up home ec class into one of these, with the loser being the winner's slave for a week.
* In ''[[Yumeiro Patissiere]]'', Ichigo and "The Heiress," Koshiro Miya, have a pudding baking competition to decide who gets to enter the Cake Grand Prix with the Sweets Princes. {{spoiler|Ichigo, of course, wins, specifically by making a pudding with fewer "cavities" and intentionally making the caramel topping bitter because she noticed earlier in the episode that the judge liked bitter foods.}}
** This trope ultimately becomes an important plot point (albeit not at first).
* ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' has an ''epic'' singing contest between Lunar and Sun. Their rival fan clubs turn the school into a war zone.
* ''[[Shina Dark]]'' manages to make a
* ''[[
* ''[[
* An episode of ''[[Pokémon (
* An episode of ''[[Koihime Musou]]'' had an ''eating'' contest. And one of the participants was a professional eating competitor.
** Another had a three-part duel which included intellect competition (designed for monkeys) and cosplay competition.
* In ''[[Princess Tutu]]'', nearly everything is decided by ballet ([[Captain Obvious|I bet you couldn't tell from the title]]). Many of the dances actually ''don't'' fall under this trope since they aren't duels, instead focusing on characters revealing their true feelings through dance. But there's several that ''do'', including any sword fight in the series (which usually mixes ballet moves with sword fighting), and the first season's finale where the titular [[Magical Girl]] and her [[Dark Magical Girl]] rival end up dancing to determine who gains control of the Prince.
* ''[[Koe
* Most of the battles in ''[[
* An ''[[Iron Chef]]''-esque version of one happens on one episode of ''[[The Idolmaster (
* ''[[Otome wa Boku
* So prevalent in ''[[Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma|Shokugeki no Souma]]'' that it granted the anime the localized title of ''[[Excited Series Title|Food Wars!]]''
== Comic Books ==
* In one ''[[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]]'' story, Chef Pierre - as in, the Rich family's chef - challenges an arrogant chef to one of them after the latter insults his cooking; Pierre wins
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* One important plot element in the ''[[Apprentice Adept]]'' series by [[Piers Anthony]] is the main character contending to win the prize in a competition known simply as "The Game" or "The Tourney." The contestants could end up in any potentially competitive contest; it could be something as conventionally sportsmanlike as running a marathon, or something as seemingly undramatic as blowing soap bubbles. A [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade is hung]] over any situation that calls for it, pointing out that the rules of the game involve an element of luck that can lead to unusual results. In at least one case (a "friendly," rather than part of the Tourney) it was an actual
* In [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s Mad Amos short story ''Witchen Woes'', Mad Amos has a literal
* In [[Patricia C. Wrede]]'s short story ''Utensile Strength'', the characters hold a bake-off to determine the rightful wielder of the Frying Pan of Doom.
** The best part about that was when the {{spoiler|princess who hit her uncle over the head with it, turning him into a poached egg, is found to be the rightful wielder}} the big, manly fighters/knights/barbarians insist on finishing the duel because they were "really looking forward to it." The one man's chocolate cake made with a helmet and baked in a shield is actually delineated in his own words in the back of the collection, parenthetically translated for modern-style cooking of course.
* In the ''[[
== [[Live
* Numerous [[Game Show
** ''[[Iron Chef]]'' (which is technically the [[Trope Codifier]]) and its [[Cultural Translation|Americanized]] [[Spin
** ''[[
** Food Network runs or has run several other
** ''[[
** ''Ready Steady Cook'' (''Ready.. Set... Cook!'' in the USA) - Debuted in Britain in 1994, USA in 1995,
** And ''[[Chopped]]'' which takes the secret ingredient concept from ''[[Iron Chef]]'' and multiplies it.
*** The ''[[
* Numerous reality shows, like ''America's Next Top Model'', would also fit this trope.
* ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' had several of these, frequently between the boys as a group and the girls as a group.
* The second season finale of ''Chef!'' was about a multi-participant cookery contest. Gareth cooked for England!
* An episode of ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' featured an [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|amazing]] dance-battle-turned-''[[Dance Dance Revolution]]'' game between Stephen Colbert and his archnemesis, Korean pop singer Rain.
* Tendo Souji was not only the title character and [[The Ace]] of ''[[Kamen Rider Kabuto]]'', but also a genius chef. Naturally, this meant that any feud he had with another character would inevitably come down to a cooking duel. A short two-episode arc called "The Dark Kitchen" took this premise to its logical, yet highly absurd conclusion.
** Then there's that make-up duel between Kazama Daisuke and a rival make-up artist. It's hilarious. Daisuke {{spoiler|barely}} won by doing the impossible: {{spoiler|eyeliners on his opponent.
*** Also note this was a ''[[Single
** Also, in [[Real Life]], ''[[Kamen Rider Black]]'' star Tetsuo Kurata is a master steak chef, beating ''[[Kamen Rider Blade]]'' star Takayuki Tsubaki [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hfumi9_Pkc in an episode of a cookoff show.]
** ''[[Kamen Rider W]]'' did this in their [[
* Another Toku example, Tama-chan and Chukaen's cook-off in ''[[Tomica Hero Rescue Fire]]'' Episode 10.
* The ''[[
* [[The Odd Couple]] episode ''They Use Horseradish, Don't They?'' had Oscar helping Felix in a cooking contest when Felix's back went out due to the stress of the competition.
* More on the silly side and less on the dramatic, the various contests on ''[[Top Gear]]'' could qualify. Jeremy, James, and Richard will take part in competitions involving cars that often involve some odd regulations, such as "You are given £2000 to spend on a car and insurance as if you are 17 and buying your first. You are then to drive to X location while asserting why your car is better, spend the remainder of your money on modding your car to make it cooler, drive up to "your parent's house" at night without waking them, and impress some teenage girls with a handbrake turn. Whoever has the most points at the end wins."
** To say nothing of the time presenter James May appeared on Gordon Ramsay's ''The F Word'', engaged Ramsay in an actual cooking duel, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|and won]].
*** He drank what appeared to be an entire bottle of wine, to boot.
* The show [[Future Food]] has a competition in every episode.
* On ''[[
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* [[Monkey Ninja Pirate Monkey]], using the [[Prose Descriptive Quality]] system by [[Atomic Sock Monkey]] can take almost anything into a duel, and even uses a cooking contest as an example.
* The ''[[
* Feuds between samurai in ''[[Legend of the Five Rings]]'' are typically solved with whatever skill the parcipants are trained in - swords for bushi, magic for shugenja and so forth. However, as samurai are expected to have knowledge in the courtly arts, the challenger may suggest more or less whatever he or she likes. Thus one can settle a feud through a flower-arranging battle. This does tend to cost the challenger some face, though, as onlookers think less of their martial abilities.
* In ''RISUS'', anything can be a "fight", explicitly so, as long as it's [[Rule of Cool|entertaining]] or [[Rule of Funny|funny]].
* [[Dungeons
* [[
== [[Theatre]] ==
* [[Older Than Radio]]: In [[Gilbert and Sullivan|Gilbert & Sullivan]]'s ''The Grand Duke'', there is a "statutory duel", whereby the winner is determined by playing a children's card game.
* ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Playstation game ''[[Suikoden II]]'' included a minigame with cooking duels between your army chef Hai Yo and various wandering chefs, including the two army chefs from the first ''[[Suikoden]]'' game. Complete with the twirling of weapons, the leaps of agility, and the bursts of energy from some of the opponents.
** [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
* You can play a Cooking Duel minigame in ''[[
** Including a battle with ''slime'' as the secret ingredient.
* In ''[[
** ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' also gets one of these, putting the party member of your choice up against [[Lethal Chef|Flynn]] to earn cooking titles for your party members.
* A character with a high enough Wisdom in [[Neverwinter Nights]] Tales of Arterra can bypass one test by telling the one-handed evil spirit who has been instructed to prove his is better than you that you are better at clapping your hands than he is.
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** Before Nippon Ichi hit it big with games like Disgaea, they made a whole game based on literal cooking duels called Cooking Fighter.
* ''Cooking Mama'' allows one to duel in head-to-head mode on the NDS.
* [[Parappa the Rapper]] kind of revolves around this. In each level, the titular rapper resolves a problem by rapping against a "master"
** Speaking of Parappa, a Japanese commercial had him competing with ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' by playing this trope straight. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhu3DCQPYVk It's delightfully amusing.]
* In ''[[Breath of Fire]] II'', [[Bratty Half
* One of the scenarios in [[Elite Beat Agents]] is Chinese Chef Lau Pai Pai going up against French Chef Jean Pulori in an Iron Chef ... Cheff... [[Buffy
** In fact, all of the multiplayer scenarios in [[Ouendan]] and EBA could count as this trope, as well as a few singleplayer levels in both Ouendan games.
* The cooking themed game, ''Order Up!''
* Then there's the [[Monkey Island]] series. No, not [[You Fight Like a Cow|those duels]]. This is about the {{spoiler|Banjo Duel}}. The kicker? {{spoiler|You have to cheat to win.}}
* Many of the text-based mini-quests in ''[[Space Rangers]]'' can be seen as this. They're not always one-on-one duels (usually it's a four-way contest), but when a planetary government asks you to win a pizza-baking contest on some far away planet...
* Both [[
* Mario Party, anyone? Where to start: Don't look in the same direction as the opponent, blow a balloon between opponents' cars, walk on a ball and bump into the other to throw them away from the platform, shake a soda, and so on.
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* [[Triangle and Robert]] features "cuisine magic", so literal cooking duels are actually a regular feature of the strip.
* [[Collar 6]]: A spanking contest.
* ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' in [http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0400.html this] strip, which features a Force Arm-wresting challenge (which does not involve any actual arm-wrestling). And of course, [[The Rant]] links to TV Tropes' version of this page.
* ''[[Nectar of the Gods]]'' is a prime example of this during its [[Tournament Arc]]. As the whole tournament is a bunch of Cocktail Battles between two bartenders at a time, for a large prize along with huge amounts of recognition.
* The webcomic ''[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/great.html Great]'' has the main character's quest to create [[Arc Words|the greatest ramen ever]].
== [[Web Original]] ==
* In the online ''[[The Muppets| Muppisode]]'' episode [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grp5-bvMo7U "Føødê Fïtê"] the Swedish Chef competes against [[Gordon Ramsay]] and actually wins! (Via technicality, of course.) At the end Ramsay gets involved in an [[Volleying Insults| Insult Duel]] with [[Statler and Waldorf]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In an [[Anvilicious]] episode of the 70's ''[[Fat Albert and
* ''[[Pucca]]'' has cooking duel death courses, restaurant fights, and otherwise a whole new level of passion for the culinary arts.
* ''[[
** The difference between the patties was that Spongebob cared for his patty (literally, tucking it into a lettuce bed and everything) and Poseidon used his magical god-of-the-sea merman powers to whip up a thousand patties as quickly as possible. So it's more like a cooking aesop where love = good food, processed meats produced cheaply in large quantity = icky food, even if they look the same.
*** I shall never eat fast food again.
** The episode "Fry Cook Games" has Spongebob and Patrick compete in fry-cooking themed athletic events like ice-cream high-diving and bun wrestling.
* ''[[
* An episode of the ''[[
** Yet another ''[[
* In ''[[Futurama]]'', Bender is an aspiring chef. Unfortunately as a robot he has no taste buds and is appalling. But once he entered into a chef duel with the famous Elzar, and won by using a magical ingredient. It was ordinary tap water... {{spoiler|laced with nothing more than a few tablespoons of LSD.}}
* ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' had Courage facing off with a demon that possessed Muriel...with thumb war.
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* In the comic strip ''Lucky Luke: Calamity Jane'' from 1967, Jane gets involved in a baking contest with the equally unqualified matron of the establishment, the unlucky witnesses have to eat the results at gunpoint.
* This makes up much of the plot of the second [[Strawberry Shortcake]] special ("...in Big Apple City").
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[South Park]]'' has had dance-offs, whore-offs, virtual Yahtzee, and the "Hell's Kitchen Nightmares Iron Top Chef Cafeteria Throwdown Ultimate Cookoff Challenge," among other crap (literally).
* ''[[Home Movies]]'' - Brendon and Jason play an attorney and his romantic rival who first square off with plastic swords, which break, so naturally...
{{quote|
'''Jason:''' You mean a battle of wits?
'''Brendon:''' Close...we fight with ''jazz!''
'''Jason:''' Bring it ''on'', daddy-o! }}
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' parodies this mercilessly in the Hell's Angels episode; when Homer challenges the leader of the bikers to a motorcycle duel, they literally pick up their motorcycles and have a swordfight, complete with copious [[Flynning]] and dueling up and down stairs.
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[[Category:Dueling Tropes]]
[[Category:Food Tropes]]
[[Category:Combat Tropes]]
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[[Category:Cooking Duel]]
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