Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Kill Bill]]'' has The Bride calling out O-Ren Ishii, the first of the Deadly Vipers, at the House of Blue Leaves using her [[Catch Phrase]]. In Japanese.

* In ''[[Scaramouche (film)|Scaramouche]]'', when the National Assembly's noble delegates are reducing the numbers of the common delegates by challenging them to duels and killing them, Moreau is challenged several times by persistent nobles who want to improve his horrendously ugly face (an example of [[Hollywood Homely]] too) by slapping him with a glove.

** It was parodied less than a minute prior, when the sheriff slaps Robin in the face with his glove and throws it down as a challenge. Robin responds by taking a metal gauntlet and smashing the Sheriff in the face while saying "I accept" ([[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] did it first).

* Spoofed at the end of ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]''. When Cogsworth and Lumiere are returned to their human forms, they squabble over who told whom so, and Lumiere slaps Cogsworth across the face with a glove.

* [[Ciaphas Cain]] '''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM''' challenges another Commissar to a duel over an insult to Colonel Kasteen. The other Commissar chooses to apologize instead after watching Cain fight a [[Space Marine|Chaos Space Marine]] in hand to hand combat.

* In Michael Crichton's novel "Timeline", there is a segment 33 hours, 12 minutes, and 51 seconds into the plot where Sir Guy literally throws down a gauntlet of mail to challenge Chris, the witless woobie made of steel, to a duel, mostly because Chris seems like someone fun to stab in the gut with a gigantic spear made of wood. Being witless, Chris doesn't get it and picks the gauntlet up, so accepting a challenge to a duel given by a gigantic man capable of swinging a very large sword effortlessly.

{{quote|"But it is enough that I challenge the trial by combat: there lies my gage."

She took her embroidered glove from her hand, and flung it down before the Grand Master with an air of mingled simplicity and dignity which excited universal surprise and admiration.}}

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