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Everyone likes a Sword Fight, and for good reason. It's flashy! It's suspenseful! It's badass! It allows the hero to prove himself not just some guy designated to defeat the villain, but who can clash with him one-on-one and come out on top (or at least hold their own). Problem is, not all stories take place in locales where a sword would be considered an appropriate weapon to have along, regardless of what the hero might prefer. This might be simply because the story takes place in The Future, where no one uses swords anymore (even Laser Blades). It might also be because the character is some manner of soldier, mercenary, scruffy rogue, or other manner of archetype who is thematically forbidden from using such extravagant weapons. Enter the knife—simple and useful enough that humans will certainly be carrying it around no matter where or when they are, yet dangerous and shiny and sharp enough that they can serve as a substitute for the Sword Fight in a pinch. Knives also have the advantage that you don't have to necessarily be a knife fighter to carry one around, meaning that any character is a candidate for pulling one out. All the drama with none of the camp! Because knives are so small in comparison to swords (meaning that typical sword-fighting tropes can't really be used effectively with them), they tend to go a bit different from sword fights. While they can involve a lot of dodging and parrying in a sort of knife-based Flynning, most tend to be short and brutal. With knife fights, the emphasis is usually on the grit factor, with characters grunting and actively trying to go for the killing blow with every attack. Your typical Hollywood knife fight will always devolve into one character trying to stab another, with the other character grabbing the attacker's hands and trying to push them away. Unlike your typical sword fight, you can expect to see a lot of blood during a knife fight. Common variations involve the fighters being tied to each other by the wrists (cuts down on bicycling) and both fighters being blindfolded (one participant will turn out to be a skilled blindfighter.) |
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Adventure Time: In "Wizards Only Fools", Finn, Jake, and Princess Bubblegum get arrested for sneaking into Wizard City and sent to prison. Abracadaniel, who was accused of harboring non-wizards and locked up alongside them, tries to salvage his wizard cred by challenging Bubblegum to a knife fight in the prison cafeteria. | |
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Storm's battle with Callisto for leadership of the Morlocks in X-Men comics. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise Captain Archer is forced to duel the Andorian commander Shran in the "wrists bound together" version of this trope during the fourth season. He wins by cutting off one of Shran's antenna, which incapacitates him. Combined with blatant fanservice in the Mirror Universe episode when a scantily-clad Hoshi and T'Pol go at each other with daggers while exchanging snarky comments about each others sex life. |
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Ship Breaker concludes with a Knife Fight between Nailer and his Archnemesis Dad, Richard. It ends when Nailer traps his dad between the gears in the ship's engine and kills him. | |
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Umineko: When They Cry has a magical knife fight. | |
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The Simpsons showed us the simple joys of a monkey knife fight. | |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Harvey Logan tries to give himself a Klingon Promotion by challenging the gang leader Butch Cassidy to a knife fight to the death. The Non-Action Guy Butch is not enthusiastic and inquires about the rules. As Logan guffaws, "There's no rules in a knife fight!" Butch delivers a Groin Attack and promptly knocks Logan out. | |
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The Hunted (2003) features Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro demonstrating Sayoc Kali, a blade-focused variation of traditional Filipino martial arts. In the climax, the two face off using makeshift knives. | |
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The Magnum, P.I. episode "Lest We Forget", in which Magnum helps reunite a couple that had been separated for decades. He was a World War II flier and she was a prostitute and they met on a beach and fell in love and planned to elope but were interrupted by the attack on Pearl Harbor. In any case, it shows one Flashback seen in which the flier comes to the Place of Employment to pick up his girlfriend. The local muscleman draws a knife on him where upon a sympathetic customer throws a knife to the flier and the two of them have a Duel to the Death. | |
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The Star Trek: Discovery episode "Despite Yourself" (also a Mirror Universe episode) gives us a knife fight between Prime Burnham and Mirror Conner. In a turbolift! | |
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In one of the episodes of the new Hawaii Five-0. The fight involves one of the main characters and his Broken Pedestal partner on the beach at night. | |
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In the Highlander episode "Brothers in Arms", Charlie DiSalvo and villain-of-the-week Andrew Cord engage in a nasty knife fight. Charlie's good, but Cord is better — and Immortal besides. | |
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The Bride and Vernita Green in Kill Bill Vol. 1 are in the middle of one of these when the bus comes and little Nikki arrives. They discuss continuing it at a baseball field. But in a subversion, Vernita tries for a bushwhack by pulling a gun and the Bride kills her on the spot (in front of her daughter who just walked back into the room). | |
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In Commando, between Matrix and Bennett at the end of the movie. Minutes later both of them lost their knives, engaging in a fistfight instead. | |
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Assassination Classroom: The climax of the Assassination Island arc is a knife fight between Nagisa and Takaoka. The civil war arc also ends in a knife fight (with those anti-sensei "harmless" knives) between Nagisa and Karma. Of course, partway through the fight both of them lose their knives and it devolves into brawling. |
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In Ghost Story from The Dresden Files Daniel Carpenter gets into a knife fight with a street sorcerer named Aristedes, whose magic gives him Super-Speed. He loses, but manages to cut him and then Butters beats him with a lead pipe before he can kill Daniel, hospitalizing him and ending his control over the others. | |
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On Supernatural demons and angels can only be killed using special weapons, most of which are short blades. In later seasons most characters obtain an Angelic Blade, a slender silver dagger that is the standard weapon used by angels. Any fight between two angels is usually a fairly short knife fight since angels are not very sophisticated knife fighters, and the weapon is built for stabbing rather than slicing. | |
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In the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal, Dolores de Gutierrez is Principal Teacher of Circus Skills at the Fool's Guild. note After a long battle with ultra-conservatives, in this AU the Fools have bowed to the inevitable and started - slowly and reluctantly - admitting women and girls One of those circus skills is knife-throwing. Dolores is from the Discworld's version of South America where knife-fighting is part of the culture. Her throwing knives can be, from a specialised and professional point of view, thrown very badly and carelessly indeed. And she knows how to use them in close combat, too. | |
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James Bond In Icebreaker, Bond goes to visit one of his many girlfriends and finds two thugs waiting for him instead. The other is quickly dealt with, but the bigger one with a knife must be fought with another blade. After stopping the Big Bad's Evil Plan in Death Is Forever, Bond is attacked in London by a knife-wielding cohort of his, and all he has is a knife of his own to defend himself. |
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Total Drama: Beth and Courtney are sent to the kitchen in "Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen" and left with a multitude of knives. Both girls think they are supposed to engage in a knife fight. Beth reasons out loud that she's willing to give it a try solely because Courtney is her opponent. Not one to take insults lightly, Courtney retorts that Beth shouldn't pick fights she can't win. Finally, Chef returns to explain that the knives are to prepare dinner. | |
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Snow Crash gives us a fight between Raven, who uses glass knives with molecule-thin cutting edges, and Uncle Enzo, who has a straight razor. | |
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In World of Warcraft, Martek the Exiled challenged Deathwing to a Knife Fight, or at least that's his story in "The Day Deathwing Came". | |
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Wolverine: The bloodiest knife fight in comic history takes place in the story arc "Get Mystique", in the Desert in Afghanistan, between a stark naked Mystique, armed only with a Marine Corps Bowie, and Wolverine, equipped with six retractable adamantium blades and a healing factor; it ends as Logan screams and impales Raven right through the chest. She produces a pistol from god-knows-where and shoots him through the middle of the face. Logan recovers first and walks away, leaving behind Raven's gun, with one bullet "...and I'm sure you'll know what that's for..." Raven screams after him: "This isn't over! Come back and finish me! I'll see you in hell Logan!" Don't worry; Raven (a) gets better, and (b) makes good on her threat to "see Logan in hell". | |
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The Fishhawk chooses knives as the weapons for a duel against Solomon Kane, figuring that he can better use his trickery and strength than if they fought with swords or pistols. | |
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Under Siege. The final has Casey Ryback fighting the Big Bad William Strannix, and utterly annhilating him. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Raiden engages Vamp in a one-on-one knife fight atop Metal Gear Rex on Shadow Moses Island. Too bad the player doesn't get to see any of it because they're trying to kill an oncoming rush of Gekkos at the same time in split-screen. | |
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In Murders in the Rue Morgue, Dr. Mirakle's carriage runs into two men knife fighting over a prostitue. After the two kill each other, he kidnaps the woman for his experiments. | |
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Thor: Ragnarok: Between Loki and Valkyrie. She wins and captures him. | |
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In Skulduggery Pleasant there are fights between Tanith Low, who has a BFS, and Billy-Ray Sanguine, who carries a straight razor. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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In The Iron Teeth Geralhd gets into a knife fight with another bandit named Dafur. He loses but survives as Dafur is killed when Herad intervenes. | |
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Major Zod vs Clark in the Smallville Season 9 finale. It should be noted that the knife is made of Blue Kryptonite which renders both of them human and vulnerable to being stabbed, while preventing the Kryptonian-attuned The Book of Rao from teleporting them both to another dimension. And that oh yeah, it takes place in the rain with The Matrix-style Slow-Mo being employed. The result? Clark lets Zod stab him and then jumps off the building, which results in the Book of Rao teleporting the now-Kryptonian Major away. One of the show's most epic moments. | |
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In the third episode of Stargate SG-1, Carter got in a fight with the Mongoloid leader. He had a larger curved sword and was trained to fight people his own size. Carter had a combat knife and was trained to fight people bigger than she was. Carter won. | |
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Quite a few throughout the Dune novels; forcefield technology repells bullets, but slow things like knives and swords get through fine. | |
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In Avatar, a giant mech is handily equipped with a proportionate Bowie knife to engage in a knife fight with the hero. | |
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The Eden of Grisaia: At the finale of the novel protagonist Yuuji has a knife fight against his own evil clone. | |
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Jürgen, the main villain of The Traitor's Emblem, arranges a private ultimate confrontation with the main character Paul (who is also his half-brother) where they fight with knives to the death. | |
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The Garden of Sinners has a quite awesome one in the seventh movie between Ryougi and Shirazumi Lio. Take a look. | |
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Veronica and tribesman characters get into these a lot in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. In "The Knife", Veronica gets into one with Sir William Gull and Robert Anderson, but Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs and she kicks their asses because they are mere killers of the helpless and not trained fighters. | |
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The Wheel of Time: Knife duels were a popular pastime for a while in the First Age. With knives coated with slow poison. Most of the time, both duelists ended up dead. Knife fights are very common among men in the streets of Ebou Dari, such that many men bear the scars of past duels. Knives are so ingrained in their fanatically matriarchal culture that wives carry knives to discipline their husbands. |
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Red Sparrow features an astonishingly brutal knife-fight as Dominika rescues Nate from torture at the hands of Matorin. The resulting messy, nasty, bloody fight ends with Dominika desperately stumbling to find a phone and call for help. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: "The Omega Glory" has a variation; a single knife is placed between the two combatants who have to fight each other to reach it. | |
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A defining moment in Rebel Without a Cause. | |
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West Side Story (1961) features a very dancy knife fight between champions in the Sharks and the Jets. There's a lot of emphasis on light glinting on the knife blades. | |
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The Rise and Fall of the Sky Valley Cult features knife and machete fights galore, being set in a Savage South of Hollywood Voodoo and tribal warfare. | |
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Jonah Hex and el Papagayo have a brutal knife fight to the death in the graphic novel No Way Back. Hex eventually wins by means of Lodged-Blade Recycling. | |
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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation features an excellent one at the end of the film between Ilsa Faust and The Bone Doctor | |
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AMV Hell 4 took this trope to its logical extreme by setting the Resident Evil 4 example to Lemon Demon's 'Knife Fight'. | |
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Parodied on the Dilbert animated series, with the office equivalent: tied at the wrist with a necktie, and fighting with marker pens. | |
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The Legend of Tian-ding have your titular character wielding his trusty knife as a default weapon, and the third boss, Kaguya, fights with a tanto at close range (alternating between her blade and Parasol of Pain). The subsequent battle's difficulty depends on the amount of upgrades you obtained for your blade by this point. | |
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The Man from Nowhere has one around the film's climax. | |
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The Raid 2: Berandal has a spectacular fist fight turn into an equally spectacular knife fight as the assassin grows more desperate. Watch it here. | |
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The Long Riders had one between two Bowie knives, and at the lady's request no less. Notable for having the fighters "tied" together by a chew rather than their wrists. | |
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In Saving Private Ryan, there's one really (in)famous one in the final big battle sequence between tough Jewish GI Mellish and an SS soldier. It ends with the German overpowering Mellish and very slowly sinking the blade into his chest down to the handle, whispering to Mellish to stop struggling and to accept his fate as he convulses and winces until his life leaves him. | |
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The 2011 adaptation of Coriolanus has a Setting Update, so instead of going at each other with swords, Coriolanus and Aufidius put down their rifles to duel each other with combat knives. Things are less gentlemanly in the final scene, when a group of Aufidius’s men attack and kill Coriolanus en masse. | |
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The Chronicles of Riddick: Riddick gets into these a lot. | |
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Gunslinger Girl features two between cyborg Triela and the Badass Normal assassin Pinocchio. | |
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Lemon Demon: The trope namer! | |
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Child of the Storm has the Winter Soldier get in a few of these, including with Wolverine himself. Natasha gets in one of these with Yelena Belova in chapter 10 of the sequel, Ghosts of the Past as part of a more general brawl. Yelena loses the fight, her knife, and a thumb, along with a large chunk of her remaining sanity. |
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Eastern Promises is also well known for its psychologically disturbing knife fight in the climax. | |
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Averted in "Crocodile" Dundee in the classic "That's a knife" scene. The switchblade-toting mugger is not interested in tangling with a guy who carries a Bowie knife around with him. | |
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In Baccano!, Firo has to duel Maiza before he can be accepted into the Martillo family (technically a duel, with a martial on hand who states if either of them go for the neck or torso he'll shoot them). Firo wins by slashing Maiza's arm, but of course, it heals. | |
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In Night in the Woods, Mae and her friend Gregg have playful knife fights for... fun, only nicking each others' hands instead of going full-on dangerous. | |
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex features an unusual one — between Pazu and someone with a body identical to his own, complete with mannerisms. | |
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Into the Night has a struggle of knives between David Bowie and Carl Perkins. | |
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Shiki Tohno has several in Tsukihime and the spin-off Melty Blood. His opponent is usually his Enemy Within, Nanaya. | |
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The primary weapons in Dune and Dune: Part Two are half-way between knife and machete (the ban on firearms from the novel isn't spelled out but seemingly in effect), and those trained in the ways of the Bene Gesserit (such as Lady Jessica and her son Paul Atreides) have a clear edge in duels. It's also Truer to the Text compared to the 1984 film, which replaces blades with sonic weaponry. Both films end with the knife duel between Paul Atreides/Muad'Dib and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen. | |
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Force 10 from Navarone: In the climax Weaver gets into a knife fight with the Chetnik leader, who even mocks "blackie" for bleeding red. Weaver ultimately wins but is gravely injured. | |
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In One King's Way Shef and his crew witness a 'Rogaland style' duel, where the men tie their left wrists together and knife fight on a bullhide. Later, Shef fights the King of Sweden this way, atop the Kingdom Rock. | |
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Later in IT, Mike has to fight off a switchblade-wielding Henry Bowers with a decorative letter opener. | |
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In Squid Game's ninth episode, the final game of the tournament quickly devolves into a knife fight. Gi-hun and Sang-woo both kept the steak knife from the previous night's dinner, which they use to brutal effect. | |
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In Icebreaker, Bond goes to visit one of his many girlfriends and finds two thugs waiting for him instead. The other is quickly dealt with, but the bigger one with a knife must be fought with another blade. | |
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These tend to be the result when Nav encounters assassins in Diaries of a Madman. | |
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In the Strong Bad Email personal favorites, Strong Bad claims that one of his favorite emails was the one where Coach Z and Pom-Pom had a knife fight on the stone bridge. | |
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One episode of Drawn Together briefly featured a knife fight between look-a-likes of The Smurfs. | |
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Jormungand has a fight between Milde Dual Wielding machetes and Valmet armed with a single knife. They're not really trying to kill each other, though. | |
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West Side Story: Tony’s attempts to stop the agreed rumble turn it from a fist fight into one of these between Riff and Bernardo. Worse still, his actions lead to Bernardo accidentally stabbing Riff- and Tony, in a rage, then stabs Bernardo, too. | |
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Dragonriders of Pern: Most Pernese men carry "belt knives," which seem to be akin to hunting knives. These are primarily tools, but they are also the standard weapon for fighting duels of honor. In Dragonflight, F'lar and Lord Fax engage in a duel to the death using their belt knives. Although F'lar has a lot of practice dueling experience, he does not have nearly as much practical killing experience as his opponent. In Dragonquest, F'lar is forced to take on the Oldtimer Weyrleader T'ron when T'ron tries to prevent the dragonriders from responding to an out-of-sequence Threadfall. In The White Dragon, The Oldtimer T'kul arranges things so that he can attack F'lar with a double advantage: he's Ax-Crazy after his dragon's death, and he's using a skinning knife as his weapon, which is longer and heavier than a belt knife. Also in The White Dragon, Jaxom is about to challenge Toric of Southern Hold for insulting both him and his hold when F'lar and Lessa appear and force Toric to take it back. It's a fortunate turn of events for Jaxom, since the other man is taller, older, heavier, and more experienced in fighting. In the middle Harperhall novel, Dragonsinger, there's a suggestion that even some girls wear belt knives and will challenge over a serious insult: Pona accuses Menolly of being a thief, and Menolly puts one hand on her knife as she demands Pona retract the accusation. |
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Psycho-Pass has a short but intense one in its final episode between Kougami and Makishima with a clip-point folding knife and a straight razor. In Psycho-Pass Providence, Kougami gets into another knife fight with Peacebreaker operative Kai in Dejima. | |
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Occurs several times in Star Trek: The Next Generation thanks to the Klingon tradition of carrying bladed weapons, specifically "Sins of the Father" when assassins attack Worf and later Picard, and "Redemption" when one of Gowron's officers challenges him for leadership. | |
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