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Rock-paper-scissors is a game that is known throughout the world. Extremely simple, but elegant, there are three choices a player can make, and each beats another and loses to the third. If two choose the same, they tie. It's also a tie if there are more than three people who each lose and win at the same time.

* In the original ''[[Dragon Ball]]'', "Jan Ken" is a fighting move—Rock is a punch, Paper is a chop, and Scissors is a Three-Stooges-style eye poke. Also you have to [[Calling Your Attacks|call out which one you're using]] whenever you attack with it, which leads to a scene where Goku "cheats" somewhat by saying Paper but doing the Rock move instead.

** During the King Piccolo arc, Goku and Yajirobe Rock-Paper-Scissors for the right to fight King Piccolo's minion Cymbal. Cymbal was not amused.

* A ''[[Babylon 5]]'' comic book features a futuristic rock-paper-scissors called "Laser, Mirror, Starweb", where laser (a single finger extended) cuts starweb (a hand with all fingers spread out), starweb covers mirror (a hand with all fingers together), and mirror reflects laser.

* In ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'', Robin and Speedy decide who gets to finish off a villain this way.

* In Hawaii, there used to be an entire game show dedicated to RPS. It didn't last long, however.

* On ''[[The Amazing Race]]'', racers will sometimes do this to determine which of them is going to do a Roadblock if they're fairly evenly matched physically and it's still early going, so they're not worried yet about hitting up against the individual-racer Roadblock limit.