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{{trope}}
[[File:Interesting 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 (2010 film)|Tangled]]'', describing the picture to the right}}
This is a fight that is made interesting by a special location and/or unusual circumstances. Both parties try to use these to their advantage and it looks cool too, so it's a visual and tactical plus for the [[Spectacle]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto]]'' Akizuki and Kanna fight also by night, in a labyrinth of slightly translucent paper walls, that is illuminated by candelabras. Akizuki has a sword and Kanna has guns.
* 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—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]].
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** Fighting in the water ''while being attacked by killer whales'' (or sharks, 'cause that's also happened).
** Fighting on an aircraft carrier while it's being attacked by a badass stealth plane/exploding from the inside out, Death Star style.
*In ''[[Vatta's War|Marque and Reprisal]]'' Ky Vatta and Osman Vatta (a renegade from the Vatta [[The Clan|family]]) have a hand-to-hand zero-gravity fight on hull of a spaceship. Goes double as an informal [[Combat by Champion]] as they were two of the most important representatives of their respective sides, the other members of their crews could not intervene, and it was a [[It's Personal|grudge fight]] as well as war.
== Live-Action TV ==
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== Real Life ==
* 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 [[No Kill Like Overkill|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 mortars.
* 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.
* [http://www.cracked.com/article_19709_the-5-most-insane-duels-ever-fought.html This Cracked.com article] describes both the balloon and billiard balls incidents, as well as a naked duel and several other strange duels.
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