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Commonplace in westerns, naturally, with the [[Quick Draw]] shoot out [[Showdown At High Noon]] as the duel type. [[Jidai Geki]] or ''chanbara'' movies also tend to end this way, with two samurai engaging in a [[Single-Stroke Battle]] over a matter of honor, and the outcome of this is usually the death of one or both of the samurai involved.
May overlap with [[Fight Clubbing]], where the duel is, arguably, for fun. At least the spectator's fun. Compare [[Ten Paces and Turn]]. Often enforced in [[Gladiator Games]]. If the combatants aren't given a choice in the matter, it's an [[Involuntary Battle to the Death]].
There are lesser variations, and greater ones beyond simply "to the death."
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* In ''[[The Astounding Wolf Man]]'' Wolf-Man has two very climactic Duels To The Death.
* In ''[[Lucifer (comics)|Lucifer]]'', Christopher Rudd gets into a duel in hell and manages to manipulate his demonic opponent into fighting him in human form. After the demon boasts that he is still stronger and faster than Christopher; Christopher shows him it is about [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|SO much more than just speed and strength.]]
* In the first appearance of the Morlocks in [[X-Men]] comics, Callisto's battle with Storm was supposed to be this. (Callisto even threw Storm a dagger so they could do it right.) Storm ultimately won, Callisto surviving due to quick action by the Morlock's Healer, but this meant Storm was able to seize leadership of the Morlocks from her. Technically, that is; she would rarely enforce this, but it did end the crisis.
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* In one episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Homer goes around slapping people with his glove and challenging them to a duel. Nobody accepts the challenge, so Homer keeps doing it just for the hell of it. Soon enough, someone (a [[Southern Gentleman]], natch) accepts, so Homer skips town with the family, [[Lead In|thus starting the main story.]] After that runs its course and the Simpsons return, Homer asks why they ever left in the first place. [[Brick Joke|Sure enough, the man is still there, waiting to duel.]]
* The entire premise of ''[[A Gentlemans Duel]].'' Two gentlemen come courting the same lady at the same time, naturally something is going to go down. With [[Humongous Mecha|giant]] [[Steampunk|steam-powered]] [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|kung-fu robots]]. Of course.
* Storm's duel with Calisto was adapted and [[Bowdlerised]] for the ''[[X-Men]]'' cartoon; they used energy batons instead of knives.
* In the ''[[Star Trek: Lower Decks]]'' episode "Something Borrowed, Something Green", Tendi, Mariner, and T'Lyn go to a tough-looking nightclub for information, and Tendi is challenged by an informant named Madam G to a cross between this and a [[Drinking Contest]]. (Orion bars tend to be tough places.) It works as follows, each combatant places her off-hand on a table and a scorpion-like critter with a lethal stinger is placed on the center. Each combatant has a mechanism that can shield her hand from the scorpion, which can only be used after she takes a drink and keeps it down; failing to do so disables that mechanism and activates a second one that secures the losers' hand to the table with a metal clamp. Tendi wins, but uses an empty glass to cage the scorpion before it strikes G — not out of any desire to grant mercy, but because they still need the info she has.
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