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Contrast [[The Rest Shall Pass]] which is the heroic version of this trope. If the hero and villain are on speaking terms, this can manifest itself as [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]].

 

 

More formally, you have [[Combat by Champion]].

 

* Uttered by ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' in the episode "Day of Sagittarius". Involves [[Leeroy Jenkins]], by the way.

* Raid and Nike in ''[[Mahoujin Guru Guru]]'' insist on this in episode 44. Raid because he thinks beating Nike will win Kukuri to his side. Nike because Raid did it.

** Used again in ''Revenge of the Sith'' by General Grievous, also against Obi-Wan, although he wasn't so successful. Again, Grievous was the only person who had even a prayer of taking Obi-Wan down in single combat, but even he was outclassed. It still doesn't quite make sense for everyone else to just sit and watch instead of at least trying to help.

*** It just never occurred to him that a Jedi would use any weapon besides a lightsaber.

* Twice in the first ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' film: Cage and Goro, and Shang Tsung and Liu Kang (arguably necessary to avoid screwing up the bigger plan on a technicality).

** John McClane is on the roof, and Karl is going after him, so he tells the other henchmen, "No one kills him but me."

** Hans disarms John, and one of his henchmen is about to shoot John, when Hans says, "Nein! He's mine!"

** Unlike most versions of this trope, the mooks see no reason to endanger themselves. While they won't kill Harry, Voldemort didn't say anything about putting into a permanent coma by feeding him to a dementor.

** It's stated several times in the series that Voldy's minions have begun to doubt him, because he lost his power trying to kill a baby, and the fact that every time he fights Harry, he comes off second-best. Facing Harry and winning would prove that to be a fluke.

*** Of course, the whole point of the villains' [[Xanatos Roulette]] in that book was to {{spoiler|use Harry's blood to resurrect Voldemort, who tried to kill Harry himself immediately afterward. It's fairly safe to assume that he didn't think he could possibly fail in this, so there would have been no need for such instructions at that time.}} Barty Jr. must have assumed (somewhat reasonably) that once the plan was carried out, Harry was fair game.

**** It doesn't hurt that Crouch was ''mind-bogglingly insane'' and in the middle of a demented [[Motive Rant]] at the time.

* Occurs in ''[[Macbeth]]'', during the climactic scene. MacDuff orders his men to leave Macbeth alone so that he may be the one to get revenge on Macbeth for having his family murdered.

** But utterly inverted in the last of the ''[[Word Bearers]]'' trilogy, ''Dark Creed'', where one of the noble [[Space Marine]] Captains challenges the invading Word Bearer Dark Apostle to an honourable duel. The book notes the Captain's surprise when the Apostle refuses and [[No-Nonsense Nemesis|simply has his men gun him down on the spot]].

* In the [[Belgariad]] when [[The Caligula|Taur Urgas]], King of the Murgos faces off against his long hated foe, Cho-Hag of the Algars, he says that Cho-Hag is his and tells his troops to get out of the way. Cho-Hag takes him up on the challenge, and kills him easily. Although we never really see him before the last fight, it's mentioned that he's [[Villain Decay|completely lost his mind]] by this point, to the degree that he can't even fight properly anymore. Cho-Hag expresses regret that their battle couldn't have come when he was still competent.

== Live Action TV ==

* Subverted in ''[[Firefly]]''. Captain Malcolm Reynolds and the unstoppable henchman are grappling over a perilous pit of doom. The crew arrives, lead by second-in-command Zoe, takes a look, readies their weapons.

''(they open fire, and bad guys go down in a hail of bullets)'' }}

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Suikoden V]]'' has a bit of fun with this: by the time you get a chance to face [[Complete Monster|Childerich]], several of your allies have personal reasons to take him down. If you bring all of them along, once you catch up with Childrich they all declare this, then get into an argument over which of them should be the one to take him on.

* Rare heroic example: during the campaign of ''[[Age of Mythology]]'', just before the mission to storm Kemsyt's fortress, Amanra tells her soldiers "If Kemsyt is there, no one is to touch him but me."

* In ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'', the Goomba King, the main boss of the prologue, says this verbatim.

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