Interesting Situation Duel: Difference between revisions

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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]].

 

* [[Battle Amongst the Flames]]

* [[Cable Car Action Sequence]]

* [[Chase Fight]]

* The arenas for the ring battles in ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' were set up special for the fight: slowly flooding for the rain battle, Hot lamps and cables for the sun battle, etc.

* ''[[One Piece]]'' had a few both canon an filler. Enies Lobby arc had Luffy fighting Lucci as the whole island was getting bombed to kindom come. Thriller Bark final battle was fought with a time limit of the sun about to come up and vaporize those who didn't have a shadow. (Long story). The 4th movie had Luffy fighting the antagonist on a sinking ship with a cyclone bearing down on them. And the 6th movie was all over this with all sorts of bizzare challenges for the Straw Hats.

* [[Bleach]] has these quite frequently. A notable example is Ichigo's internal world, which is a skyscraper turned sideways. It's generally the location of his battles with his [[Enemy Within]].

 

* The final duel in ''[[Star Wars]] [[Revenge of the Sith]]'' between Obi-Wan Kenobi and <s> Anakin Skywalker</s> Darth Vader ranges from a factory to a module that collapses from lava. And on moving hover pads floating just over the lava. And next to the lava. [[Death World|The planet they are on, Mustafar,]] [[Lethal Lava Land|is ''full'' of the stuff.]] To say nothing about the [[Convection, Schmonvection|(lack of) intense heat.]] But hey, they're [[A Wizard Did It|Jedi]].

** Said duel is probably a [[Call Forward]] to the lightsaber duel in ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' in Cloud City. Notably, both of them have scenes that take place on a narrow catwalk above a rather perilous drop, and in both of them the loser gets at least one of his limbs amputated.

* In ''[[Inception]]'', if a dreamer experiences G-forces in the real world, they experience altered gravity in the dream. So the van flipping over on the upper dream level translates to Arthur fighting thugs on the walls and ceiling of a corridor.

* ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'' has a bunch of these, but the best is the fight that takes place on top of a bamboo forest - i.e. standing on giant, flexible stems of bamboo.

** In the original book, Inigo trained heavily for these to ensure he was [[Crazy Prepared]] for the duel with the man who killed his father.

* ''The Adventures of Quentin Durward'' had the eponymous hero and the villain battle it out in a church tower. Not so interesting? They were swinging from and travelling up and down on the ropes used to ring the bells. The dramatic soundtrack even cuts off right at this fight in order to let the bells be heard better.

* In ''Legend of the [[Drunken Master]]'', there's a fight in a steel mill, but more to the spirit of this trope is a battle in the beginning where a good chunk of it takes place under a house (or something), with lots of narrow wooden pillars that help and hinder both fighters.

* ''[[Gangs of New York]]'' has Bill the Butcher and Amsterdam Vallon fighting their climactic duel while New York is being bombarded by cannon fire during the New York Draft Riots of 1863. The final stretch of their fight takes place in the midst of the intense dust the cannon fire has kicked up, visibility reduced to a handful of metres.

* The fight in the gear room in ''[[Hellboy II]]''.

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* In ''[[Army of Darkness]]'', Ash fights Deadites in a pit of thigh-deep filthy water surrounded by [[Spikes of Doom]] as the walls are closing in.

* The climax of ''[[Equilibrium]]'' features a gun duel. It's awesome by virtue of the range being ''two feet''; the combatants fire at each other with pistols while simultaneously trying to hit the other's gun away.

* The climactic, several dimension spanning [[Sword Fight]] in ''[[Waxwork II Lost in Time]]''.

 

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain'' features a duel which takes place: while sledding down a mountain during an avalanche, upside-down inside a construction scaffold, and while hanging from the remaints of an inevitably-demolished rope bridge.

 

* During the climactic fight between Drizzt and Artemis Entreri inside of Cryshal-Tirith in ''[[Forgotten Realms|The Silent Blade]]'', Jarlaxle uses his power over Crenishinibon to create a room filled with staircases, platforms, and obstacles specifically so that the fight would be more interesting to watch, since strategy and cunning would be more likely to come into play.

* [[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!]]

 

== Theater ==

* The action/fighting arcade game ''The Outfoxies''. Stages include a moving train, a boat on a stormy ocean and a plane in mid-flight. Two other stages (an aquarium and a skyscraper) are relatively normal... until bombs start going off, altering your surroundings.

* [[Bayonetta]] has a lot of this. Standouts include two fights on pieces of buildings plummeting to the ground, multiple fights taking place inside explosions, a fight on the ocean involving you surfing on a piece of a downed aircraft (and, near the end, a whirlpool), and a battle with [[The Rival]] that jumps from the top of a building to the ''side'' of a building to ''on a fucking MISSILE''.

* The second and third ''[[Uncharted]]'' games feature fights against [[Giant Mook|GiantMooks]] and bosses in all kinds of interesting situations. Like, say, on the roof of a speeding train (and later, a speeding truck) as it climbs the Himalayas. Or in the corridors of a hijacked cruise ship while it flips, floods and sinks. Or on the cargo ramp of a plane while it flies over the Rub'al Kahli Desert. Or inside that same plane while it's being torn apart by sudden depressurisation and random explosions. Or on a stone bridge in an ancient city that's slowly being consumed by a giant vortex of quicksand.

* ''[[Deadly Premonition]]'' has {{spoiler|Thomas, who at this point is thought to be the killer but is really just a minion}}, stand on a gear in a clock tower, and get into a gunfight with {{spoiler|Emily}}, while using a hook as a means of fighting her. Did we mention {{spoiler|Thomas is wearing a dress while shouting derogatory insults}}?

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* In ''[[Juathuur]]'', Soveshei and {{spoiler|Rowasu}} duel on top of a tower, because fighting is forbidden ''[[Loophole Abuse|inside]]'' the building.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

== Real Life ==