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* Piers Anthony's ''Virtual Mode'' had something like this in the beginning.
* [[The Outsiders]]:
{{quote| "What happened to Shepard?" I asked, remembering Tim Shepard's kid brother. Curly, who was a tough, cool, hard-as-nails Tim in miniature, and I had once played chicken by holding our cigarette ends against each other's fingers. We had stood there, clenching our teeth and grimacing, with sweat pouring down our faces and the smell of burning flesh making us sick, each refusing to holler, until Tim happened to stroll by. When he saw that we were really burning holes in each other he cracked our heads together, swearing to kill us both if we ever pulled a stunt like that again. I still have the scar on my forefinger. Curly was an average downtown hood, tough and not real bright, but I liked him. He could take anything. }}
* The Trial of the Long Knives in [[Inheritance Cycle|Brisingr]], which is fought by making cuts on one's own arms. First one who lacks the nerve to make another cut loses.
 
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