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* [[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.
* Rebecca in ''[[Ivanhoe]]'', accused of witchcraft, demanded a trial by combat. (Brian de Bois-Guilbert secretly advised her to do so; he intended to be her champion.)
{{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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