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[[File:Interesting_Situation_Duel_2747Interesting Situation Duel 2747.jpg|link=Tangled (2010 film)|frame|A man with frying pan versus a horse with shortsword. [[Blatant Lies|Perfectly normal.]]]]

{{quote|''"You should know that this is the strangest thing I've ever done!"''|'''Flynn Rider''', ''[[Tangled]]'', describing the picture to the right}}

The opponent's unusual strengths, weaknesses, or abilities can also make a fight special. May involve [[Dangerous Terrain]]. May involve odd or [[Improvised Weapon|Improvised Weapons]]s on one or both sides.

Subtropes of the [['''Interesting Situation Duel]]''' include:

* In ''[[Ranma ½]]'', the Water Citadel is a hollowed-out mountain filled with high-pressure water, which bursts freely from strategically-placed traps such as logs, boulders, and so on. The primary antagonist of the arc, [[Embarrassing First Name|Pantyhose]] [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|Taro]] uses Akane as bait to lure Ranma and the others to this mountain. Once there, not only do they have to battle their enemy, but also stay dry as much as possible--forpossible—for Ranma's Jusenkyo-cursed team, a random splash would turn them into [[Baleful Polymorph|weaker, or helpless, forms]], but it would turn Taro himself into [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|a gigantic, massively powerful minotaur chimera]].

** Jusenkyo itself is an unusual battlefield. A "training ground" consisting of hundreds of deep springs, with long stalks of bamboo jutting out for martial artists to stand on... and one false move would send one plunging down into a haunted pond, cursed to become whatever creature first drowned there. Yet <s>despite</s> [[Training Fromfrom Hell|because of]] this, Ranma and Genma train here in a flashback.

** Done again in ''[[Die Another Day]]''. Only this time, the plane flies through a [[Frickin' Laser Beams|solar-powered laser beam]] and starts to fall apart. And speaking of laser beams, there was another [[Interesting Situation Duel]] earlier against [[The Dragon]]; Bond and Mr. Kil fight to the death inside a room full of out-of-control laser beams and must dodge the deadly beams while they're in the middle of trying to kill each other.

* In ''[[Tangled]]'', Flynn--withFlynn—with a frying pan--duelspan—duels a horse who has a sword.

* The Taiwanese [[Cop Show]] ''[[Black and& White TW(TV series)|Black And White]]'' has a weaponless fight in a moving tram where both opponents (and all the passengers) are high. The scenes alternate between normal and the twisted, wobbly perspective of the fighters.

* [[Dungeons and& Dragons]] 3.5 edition recommends this to make the game more interesting. A duel in yet another 30-foot-square stone room? Boring. A duel on a rock arch over a river of lava? [[Rule of Cool|''Now'' you're talking!]]

[[Legally Dead|In fact, a legal ghoest]]. }}

* In Ernst von Salomon's FRAGEBOGEN, he relates an incident from his service in Oberschlesien with a student freikorps, full of characters who thought they were still back in Heidelberg or wherever. One of these introduced himself as a "stud.math". "Yes, you look like one." A moment later, another university type comes to announce that his friend was greatly insulted, and would the Herr name his weapon? So Ernst, an artillerist who did not know one end of a sword from the other, chose heavy[[No mineKill throwers.Like (Apparently something almost, but not quite, unlike aOverkill|heavy mortar]].) Amid consternation, a special court of honor convened, and ruled that all Affairs must be postponed for the duration. Of course, afterward, they could not get hold of two heavy mine throwersmortars.

* According to [https://web.archive.org/web/20140107225246/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/duel.html this] ''Smithsonian'' article, which informs us that "[i]n 1808, two Frenchmen fought in balloons over Paris," and "thirty-five years later, two others tried to settle their differences by skulling each other with billiard balls." Incidentally, during the balloon duel, the winner killed his opponent by shooting the canopy, causing the loser's balloon to crash fatally.

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