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** [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]: ''By Inferno's Light''. Worf has spent the last several days fighting Jem'Hadar in death matches. When he finally faces the biggest and most badass of them, his refusal to quit makes the Jem'Hadar back down.
{{quote|'''Ikat'ika:''' I yield. I cannot defeat this Klingon. All I can do is kill him. And that no longer holds my interest.}}
** In ''Deep Space Nine'''s [[Series Finale]], Quark explicitly invoked this with Odo, who was leaving, unlikely to ever return. To Quark's face, Odo sneered at the thought ... but a minute or so later he admitted to Kira that he '''would''' miss "even Quark."
* Of the three men who pursue [[The A-Team]] over the course of the first four seasons, only Colonel Decker actually seems to view the team (particularly Hannibal) in this way. He has a definite grudging respect for them. Hannibal, in turn, actually seems to admire Decker's relentlessness.
* This is sort-of played with on ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' with the segment "Formidable Opponent", where Stephen debates ''himself'', with the footage flipped and the background color changed (from red to blue, naturally).
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* Parodied in [http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2004-08-01/ this] ''Dilbert'' strip.
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