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Trial by Combat

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Trial by Combat	comment	Traditionally, this is one of the three basic legal ways of resolving a conflict or disagreement between two individuals or legal entities, the other two being Trial by Ordeal and Trial by Arbitration (the only one recognised by modern governments, and for which we have plenty of coverage). The idea behind it is very simple, which is probably why it's been used by numerous cultures throughout history (but mainly Germanic ones): someone is accused of a crime, or two parties are descending into conflict over a matter of opinion or policy. In order to resolve this issue with the minimum of bloodshed, an individual is chosen to represent each side, and they fight. Winner takes all. This works, supposedly, because Right Makes Might. Whichever side is in the right will win a fight, either because Good Hurts Evil, or because of some kind of divine intervention. This practice was Fair for Its Day, as the divinely sanctioned agreement that the matter was settled definitively no matter the outcome was a good way of preventing generations of blood feuds. Naturally, this idea is passÃ© now, and so the trope is associated with medieval and fantasy settings. Note that there is no need for either the accused or the accuser to fight for themselves. Just as often, they will choose a champion to fight on their behalf, which is arguably good, because otherwise bullies could handily go around accusing pipsqueaks of crimes against them and beating them up for the recompense. On the other hand, this system gives a major advantage to the rich (or those most willing to spend money on the trial) because these champions often fight for payment, rather than justice, and whoever can hire the best fighter will usually win. This also says a lot about characterization of those who partake in the death match since an accused protagonist generally doesn't allow others to risk death on his/her behalf, but would rather fight his/her own battles. Alternatively, a heroic character may vouch his/her own life in defense of the accused, especially if said accused is unable to fend for him/herself. On the other hand, many antagonists are all too selfishly willing to avoid severe injuries or death from combat by having a more physically inclined minion to fight on their behalf. Note also that these fights don't necessarily have to end in death, though they often do, especially if the accused is suspected of a capital crime. If the trial takes place between representatives of opposing armies, you have a case of Combat by Champion. Victory by First Blood can sometimes settle such a trial, but if the fight is over an insult, it's going to be a Duel to the Death, with all of the Throwing Down the Gauntlet, etc. Be aware of the difference between this and Duel to the Death. Although they are similar and in many cases overlap, the trial is always sanctioned by the pervading culture whereas a duel is sometimes illicit. Also, the way of engaging a trial is different. Whereas a duel can be arranged entirely between the conflicting parties, a trial must be instigated at the behest of some authority figure (who will preside over the fight like a referee and may him/herself serve as champion, especially if he/she is of a Proud Warrior Race), and there have to be witnesses to verify how things went down. Examples
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Trial by Combat / int_168c4727	comment	Guild Wars 2: If you're playing as a human noble, in an early Personal Story mission you find proof that another noble is working with bandits. When you bring him to trial, he immediately invokes the "most ancient tenets of Krytan law" to make it trial by combat instead of a normal trial. It was a set-up — the noble in question was told to do that by Minister Cauducus, because if he won he'd be ruled innocent and if he lost no one would find out he was working on behalf of Cauducus.
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Trial by Combat / int_1785d9d5	comment	Used in one Brother Cadfael story to get rid of a murderer (and rival in love) against whom there was no real evidence.
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Trial by Combat / int_19df8aa2	comment	Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning plays with this in the Teeth of Naros DLC. In the Kollossae debating forum, called the Lykeios, self-titled philosophers, experts on matters of morality, society, and theology, frequently debate with each other by stating their argument and then fighting a duel to see who's right. They do this because they believe that the gods will grant strength to the righteous, which makes for some interesting dialogue if you enter the ring with an argument like "Power and Morality are unrelated." Also, their battle commentary is ridiculous.
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Trial by Combat / int_1aacbbc9	comment	Dragon Age The dwarves have Provings, duels held in the dwarven city of Orzammar for a variety of purposes, this trope among them. According to dwarven religion, the spirits of their ancestors will give their strength to whoever has the right of their cause, meaning that whoever wins by definition has the favor of the ancestors, and is therefore correct. Provings are thus often used to resolve disputes of honor or even criminal trials; when the player takes part in one, one of the fighters is mentioned to have fought a Proving to prove his innocence, successfully acquitting himself in this fashion. Due to the sacred nature of Provings, fixing them or otherwise interfering with their course is considered a grave offense, usually met with exile or death. This is how the Landsmeet is ultimately resolved in Dragon Age: Origins. Regardless of how well you've curried favor with the nobility, you will still need to fight Loghain in a duel to decide who will lead Ferelden against the Blight. Any one of your companions can fight in your stead if you don't want to do it (except Dog), though choosing Alistair will prevent you from being able to recruit Loghain, since Alistair will just Finish Him! immediately. In addition, having Alistair kill Loghain will remove the option of marrying him to Anora, since Anora isn't likely to marry her father's killer. In Dragon Age II, this is a possibility when facing the boss of the second act, depending on Hawke's choices. Accepting the offer results in a one-on-one trial by combat between Hawke and the boss, while rejecting it has Hawke fight with their party against the boss and an army of minions. However, the boss only allows this option because they genuinely respect Hawke's talent. Hawke can choose to fight the Arishok in one-on-one combat to make the Qunari leave Kirkwall (and, if she's still there, free Isabella from enslavement). It's also implied that the Arishok wanted a way out of this whole mess while following the Qun, and dying in combat to Hawke was the only thing he could think of. Regardless of which option is taken, Hawke earns the title "Champion of Kirkwall" once the battle is over.
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Trial by Combat / int_1bb34bf8	comment	Occurs in The Song of Roland, when Thierry fights Pinabel to prove the guilt of Ganelon.
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Trial by Combat / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: The Shi'ar have one such rule. When the challenge is given, it legally cannot be refused. At the end of The Dark Phoenix Saga, Professor X tries this to stop the Shi'ar trying to kill Jean. Lilandra reluctantly accepts, but in private the Kree and Skrull Empires only sign off on allowing this if the X-Men don't win. The fight ends up causing Jean's Phoenix powers, which had been sealed up just before the Shi'ar grabbed the X-Men, to flare up anyway, and so Jean commits a Heroic Sacrifice.
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Trial by Combat / int_1da65e88	comment	Occurs in The Knights of the Cross when Danusia gets kidnapped by The Teutonic Knights, her father Jurand knows the exact culprits but won't accuse them, since she is being held hostage. When the order's emissary arrives, he feels insulted that anyone would accuse the knights when the victim's father doesn't and challenges anyone who would "slander" his brothers in arms to a Duel to the Death. Obviously, Zbyszko takes the challenge.
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Trial by Combat / int_22147342	comment	In season 3 of Arrow, Oliver takes the place of Thea as Sara's killer when confronted by the League of Assassins and takes a trial by combat against Ra's Al Ghul himself. Oliver doesn't last very long, but since it's Ra's Al Ghul, there's probably some sort of magical life-giving pit that could bring him back to life...
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Trial by Combat / int_231df7d2	comment	In the V (1983) episode "Trial By Combat", Diana and Lydia fight one to decide whether Lydia is guilty of killing Charles.
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Trial by Combat / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington engages in 3 duels in the eponymous series. The first two were Curb Stomp Battles, in which she only got wounded because her Dirty Coward of an opponent cheated. The third was specifically this trope, against the traitorous Steadholder Burdette. He didn't even get a chance to make a move before she took his head off. Interestingly, Manticoran law recognizes duels as a substitute for a civil trial. Therefore, the first duel technically counts as this for libel and battery.
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Trial by Combat / int_24b673e7	comment	In Earth's Alien History, the bill of rights in the Terran Treaty Organization charter recognizes the right of accused criminals to have this in place of trial by jury, if it's a legally ordained practice in their home member-state.
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Trial by Combat / int_28a11000	comment	Horizon Forbidden West: In the backstory, Fashav, a Carja soldier trying to stop the worst of his people's atrocities, ended up captured by the Tenakth. He heard them speak of a ceremony called the "kolrut," which he assumed was some primitive trial by combat. He demanded the right to the kolrut, fought machines in the arena, won... at which point he discovered that the kolrut was actually the entry test for the elite peacekeepers of the tribe, serving directly under the chief. By all accounts, everyone took this surprisingly well, and by the time of the game Fashav is one of the most respected Marshals.
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Trial by Combat / int_343830b9	comment	The Night Unfurls: Chapter 8 of the original version has Claudia demanding Kyril this, after Celestine and Olga read Kyril's journal out of curiosity. Kyril curb-stomps her. There's also Hugh VS Michelle Pantielle at the end of Chapter 11 of the original. Naturally, Hugh ends the fight with one strike. Chapter 12 of the remastered version has this featuring Alicia and Maia against Kyril, due to him killing Vault, Eostia's greatest champion. The two get trounced.
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Trial by Combat / int_349a63d5	comment	Time Stop Hero: Death row prisoners have to fight in a gladiator arena. If they beat their opponent, they are freed.
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Trial by Combat / int_34a9c9d0	comment	In Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a Star Wars Legends novel, a tribe of cave-dwelling native Mimbanites, the Coway, capture Luke, Leia, and their companions. Halla tries to convince the Coway that they are not with the Empire, and Luke has to fight a Coway champion to prove they're telling the truth.
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Trial by Combat / int_34cddc35	comment	Occurs (unsurprisingly) in the 1964 film version of Prince Valiant.
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Trial by Combat / int_36b8cefc	comment	1066 and All That discusses this (along with "the Ideal form of trial") in the context of Henry II's legal reforms:
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Trial by Combat / int_3ac51861	comment	In one episode of Cadfael, Cadfael and Hugh Beringer don't need to bring charges against the man who killed the Victim of the Week because they met in combat (and the killer was unarmed, no less) to fight a duel, since the dead man was a bully who was betrothed to the killer's long-lost daughter. Perfectly sound and legal on the medieval Welsh border.
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Trial by Combat / int_3b11106f	comment	Flash Gordon (1980). When Vultan decides to turn Prince Barin over to Ming, Barin demands a trial by combat under Article 17 of Ming's law. Instead of choosing to fight Vultan, Barin chooses Flash as his opponent.
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Trial by Combat / int_3bd86318	comment	My Father's Son: On his way through The Reach to reach his main army, Rhaegar is stopped at Highgarden by Jon Fossoway to try and curry favor with King Aerys. Since there's no easy way out for him being accused by The Septon, The Maester, and Fossoway, Rhaegar invokes Trial by Seven as a way to get out of this mess cleanly. Even promising no blood spilled in the process. The lady of Highgarden, glad to support Rhaegar in secret, gives it blessing and Rhaegar wins.
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Trial by Combat / int_3e6efd69	comment	The El Cid examples above are adapted from the 1390 epic poem Mocedades de Rodrigo ("Youth of Rodrigo"), which is not historically accurate.
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Trial by Combat / int_3f35c69c	comment	This gets brought up multiple times in the Deverry novels, but only actually happens once. Such trials are generally discouraged, and if it's obvious that one party is a clearly superior fighter than the other (as happens in the one trial by combat to actually happen on page), the weaker party is permitted to seek a champion to stand on his behalf to prevent the trial from being judicially sanctioned murder.
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Trial by Combat / int_40b716af	comment	In Assassin's Creed, King Richard declares Trial by Boss Battle when AltaÃ¯r accuses Robert de Sable of leading a massive conspiracy. At the end, Richard believes that God wanted AltaÃ¯r to win, and he must have been telling the truth; AltaÃ¯r takes the skeptical approach and tries to convince the king that he was just the superior fighter.
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Trial by Combat / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: Changes: Harry and Susan are forced to fight one of these when they are pursued into the Erlking's halls by vampires, and the Erlking doesn't know who is right. Besides, he likes a good show. Harry later takes on Duchess Arianna, a severely badass vampire (one level down from and aspiring to be the Lords of the Outer Night, Physical Gods to a being. However by now Harry has taken several levels in Badass wields Soulfire gifted by the Archangel Uriel and is the Winter Knight. At the end Harry turns Arianna into a crater on the floor. White Night: At the end, when Harry and Ramirez challenge Vitto Malvora and Madrigal Raith to a duel. There is heavy application of sarcasm from the White King of all people when Madrigal and Lady Cesarina Malvora try to duck the challenge.
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Trial by Combat / int_43a5cc6b	comment	An Empire of Ice and Fire: After Tywin is captured by the Stark-Targaryen forces and put on trial for all his crimes, he demands a trial by combat, with the Mountain as his champion. Jon and Daenerys counter by choosing Tyene Sand as their champion, as a reward for her loyalty and the Realpolitik of giving the new ruler of Dorne a chance to avenge her family. It's close, but Tyene ultimately wins, with Tywin being executed immediately afterwards.
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Trial by Combat / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV: Ishgard is a firm believe in Might Makes Right, and anyone accused of crime or heresy under Ishgardian law may demand a trial by combat in an attempt to prove their innocence. The trial pits the accused (or, if the accused is a non-combatant, a champion of their choosing) against an equal number of petitioners, before an audience of witnesses. Three such trials are plot points in the Heavensward expansion. During the Main Scenario, Alphinaud and Tataru are accused of consorting with heretics by one of the knights of the titular Heavens' Ward, widely considered the twelve greatest warriors in Ishgard. And he names one of his brothers-in-arms as his second. Alphinaud, having some skill in arcanima, has to fight for himself, but Tataru is a non-combatant, and so names the Warrior of Light as her champion. The first quest of the Dark Knight job questline starts off because someone outside the Tribunal was one of the witnesses for a trial shortly before the Warrior's arrival. He tells the player of the man in dark armour with a BFS who he just saw get defeated, and reluctantly tells you where they'll be dumping the body. The events that follow when you go to inspect said body lead to the unlocking of the job, and are a giant pile of spoilers beyond that. The last quest of the Dark Knight job questline involves the player, their job tutor Sidurgu, and his ward Rielle being forced into a trial by combat by Ystride de Caulignot, for Rielle's crime of being born to a heretic who entered into a relationship with Ystride and sired Rielle for the purposes of bringing down Ishgard from within. It turns into the Ishgardian justice version of Just You and Me and My GUARDS! when she holds the "trial" in the middle of the Coerthas Western Highlands with no witnesses in sight for malms and sics an entire contingent of knights on the three.
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Trial by Combat / int_4a3a41cc	comment	In The Blasted Lands Series, the kingdom of Fellein has a long tradition of solving legal matters through combat, despite Desh Krohan's efforts to get the practice abolished. This is where Andover Lashk gets his revenge on the guards who destroyed his hands. The Emperor finally gets around to banning the practice after his idiot nephew insults Drask Silver Hand, who demands satisfaction.
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Trial by Combat / int_5283bd72	comment	In Protector of the Small, it's mentioned that some people treat jousting as this, and several conservatives challenge Kel to prove that women shouldn't be knights. When she wins, they still don't respect her and claim that it changes nothing. Cleon doubts that the gods actually pay attention to minor jousts, and there's nothing in narrative to suggest otherwise.
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Trial by Combat / int_553051f	comment	Green Lantern features a variant in an early 80s issue. Hal Jordan returns to Earth to reclaim his title as Green Lantern, but Guy Gardner has taken up the mantle in the meantime and isn't eager to give it up. Initially the two battle with their rings to determine who is most worthy, but after the Justice League of America interrupt their fight over the huge amount of property damage they're inflicting, they agree to a fist fight in the streets. Doubles as a Shout-Out when Hal pulls a Rope a Dope to defeat Guy, citing Ali's example
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Trial by Combat / int_58f5f234	comment	In the first story chapter of For Honor, Holden Cross of the Blackstone Legion is invading the stronghold of a traitor named Hervis Daubeny. After breaching the gate and killing a few soldiers who attacked him, Cross calls for the soldiers to stop and challenges Daubeny to trial by combat so no one else need suffer. Daubeny refuses to fight Cross, so he offers for Daubeny to fight his second. Daubeny names the player character's Warden as his second, turning the battle into Combat by Champion.
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Trial by Combat / int_5bd0554b	comment	The orc tradition of Warcraft features a form of trial by combat known as the "Mak'gora", a sacred one-on-one duel. Mak'gora was adopted by all races of the Horde as well, the Tauren Carne Bloodhoof challenged the orc Garosh Hellscream to Mak'gora for leadership of the Horde. There are several rules regarding the Mak'gora. Each fighter must have a witness, each fighter can only use one weapon, and battles are to the death.
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Trial by Combat / int_5bfa9c98	comment	Warframe: "Operation: Rathuum" is about one of these. A group of Grineer defectors have been captured, and stand trial in "Rathuum" ("Trial by Combat" in the Grineer Conlang). But the match is so rigged in the favor of the executioners that Rathuum is more of a fancy execution instead of a proper trial. Luckily for the accused, the leader of the Steel Meridian syndicate (herself a particularly powerful Grineer deserter) has found a loophole which allows for the Tenno to participate in place of the deserters. In spite of the fights being rigged, the Tenno, being the Space Ninjas that they are, win anyway. Being a Sore Loser, the Grineer officer and judge declares a mistrial, accusing the Tenno of cheating, requiring the deserters be freed the old fashioned way by acquiring the coordinates of their prison and letting a syndicate loose on the guards.
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Trial by Combat / int_5c66fff9	comment	In Neverwinter Nights 2, you have to sit through a mostly pointless trial by judge. Pointless because whichever way the judge rules, the losing party will invoke the right of Trial by Combat to give you a Boss Battle. Although there are advantages to winning (you're legally exonerated for the crime for which you were framed), and losing (you basically admit that you did it). People react appropriately.
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Trial by Combat / int_5e134f05	comment	Kid Colt (2009): Kid Colt takes on Big Bull Banyon, the outlaw Bloodeye's champion, in unarmed trial by combat to save the Bounty Hunter Sherman Wilks from Bloodeye's band of scavengers. Despite having one arm in a sling, he manages to leave Banyon in a great deal of pain.
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Trial by Combat / int_5eee9172	comment	The Crowner John Mysteries: This is an option available to the nobility in the period when the books are set. In Crowner's Quest, John uses this to obtain Justice by Other Legal Means by acting as champion to a 13 year old boy whose father had been murdered.
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Trial by Combat / int_5fb05bd4	comment	In The Basalt City Chronicles, the Empire of Smilodons has a hand-to-hand version of this as a civil, rather than criminal, trial. Only in extreme cases are the fights declared to be to the death, and almost always as a means of getting powerful nobles (who would be otherwise forced into a death match) to stop the feuds between their factions (if you win, your faction wins, but you yourself are exiled).
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Trial by Combat / int_61063c85	comment	The Last Duel adapts the Eric Jager book of the same name about the last legally sanctioned judical duel in France in 1386. More details in the Real Life folder below.
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Trial by Combat / int_629cd094	comment	This is how the Landsmeet is ultimately resolved in Dragon Age: Origins. Regardless of how well you've curried favor with the nobility, you will still need to fight Loghain in a duel to decide who will lead Ferelden against the Blight. Any one of your companions can fight in your stead if you don't want to do it (except Dog), though choosing Alistair will prevent you from being able to recruit Loghain, since Alistair will just Finish Him! immediately. In addition, having Alistair kill Loghain will remove the option of marrying him to Anora, since Anora isn't likely to marry her father's killer.
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Trial by Combat / int_630755ab	comment	Codex Alera: There are at least two forms of this: the Marat have a different form of trial for each clan; the Gargant clan go by this method, calling it "Trial By Strength." Then there's the practice of juris macto among the Aleran people, which is a ritualized and legally binding form of Duel to the Death and covered on that page. Headman Doroga has a few things to say about the "ritual" part. It is worth noting that the phrase juris macto gets thrown around a lot, but is only actually invoked twice in six books. Just mentioning it usually hits the pugnacious like a bucket of cold water.
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Trial by Combat / int_63935537	comment	The climax of Ivanhoe culminates in trial-by-combat. Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe fights on behalf of Rebecca, the daughter of Isaac of York, who has been accused of witchcraft solely on the basis of her being Jewish, as thanks for her helping him when he was wounded. Wilfred's victory is seen as a sign from God that Rebecca is innocent.
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Trial by Combat / int_644c5fec	comment	The Autobots and Decepticons in Things We Don't Tell Humans are both pretty okay with this version of resolving a conflict, especially if honor is at stake, or if someone doubts if a character is adult enough for a responsibility. It leads to some pretty epic throw downs.
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Trial by Combat / int_64791462	comment	In A Feast for Crows, trial by combat supposedly figures into Cersei's plan to have Margaery Tyrell accused of adultery and forced to be championed by an incompetent member of the Kingsguard, which has rather backfired.
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Trial by Combat / int_6c12433c	comment	White Night: At the end, when Harry and Ramirez challenge Vitto Malvora and Madrigal Raith to a duel. There is heavy application of sarcasm from the White King of all people when Madrigal and Lady Cesarina Malvora try to duck the challenge.
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Trial by Combat / int_6c5a9849	comment	In Shadow of the Conqueror, knowing that he can't beat Daylen with his 11th-Hour Superpower, Ahrek instead challenges him to this: a Sword Fight under the judgment of the Light, with no magic involved. Daylen, being a Death Seeker who only stays alive because he believes it's the Light's will, is happy to accept.
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Trial by Combat / int_6db4c31d	comment	Aliens in the Family: When the Elders want to take Bobut, Doug has to defeat one of them in a sword fight to keep custody. Snizzy questions the wisdom of this, but is ignored.
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Trial by Combat / int_6e471035	comment	Robb Returns: After his affair with Cersei is exposed, Jaime demands one of these to defend himself. This backfires on him rather badly, as his opponent ends up being Robert, who has spent most of the story getting himself back into fighting shape.
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Trial by Combat / int_73d7930f	comment	While there are Klingon lawyers, trial by combat is a means of resolving legal disputes for the Klingons. For example, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The House of Quark", Quark has the evidence to show that a Klingon used dishonorable financial manipulations to undermine a rival house, but even with his proof, he's forced into a Trial by Combat over the accusation. Quark throws his weapon down in the fight. When the rival moves to strike Quark down, it shows that the rival truly is dishonorable.
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Trial by Combat / int_77275215	comment	In Lohengrin, this is what kicks off the action. Elsa of Brabant is accused of murdering her brother Gottfried and the one doing the accusation is her Evil Uncle Telramund, who goes to King Henry the Fowler to get her executed; however, the King decides to invoke this as an alternative. The one who replies to this call is the titular Lohengrin, the Swan Knight, who defeats Telramund in combat and gets Elsa released.
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Trial by Combat / int_79ab0b3c	comment	Comes up a couple times in the Tortall Universe, as it features knight protagonists. Unusually for the series, the gods are very real in the setting, but whether or not they help is another matter. In the first series Song of the Lioness, Duke Roger demands one of these to prove his innocence against Alanna's accusations. He immediately starts cheating using magic, but Alanna is able to counter it with a magical stone she received from the Goddess, and wins. Although sadly enough, he doesn't stay dead. In Protector of the Small, it's mentioned that some people treat jousting as this, and several conservatives challenge Kel to prove that women shouldn't be knights. When she wins, they still don't respect her and claim that it changes nothing. Cleon doubts that the gods actually pay attention to minor jousts, and there's nothing in narrative to suggest otherwise.
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Trial by Combat / int_7c537173	comment	Destiny 2: The Rite of Proving is an ancient Cabal tradition of trial by combat, which had fallen out of use by the present due to the previous Emperor's distaste for it. Instead of banning it outright, which would have led to backlash, Calus introduced the role of "imperial arbiter" who would decide the outcome in case of a draw. This was a reasonable-sounding decision, and Calus used it to screw with the Rite of Proving by slowly making the Rite arbiter's authority more and more disruptive to duels until they were combatants in their own right, empowered to force the outcomes Calus wanted, and before long nobody was interested in settling disputes by combat any more. The Rite of Proving was one of the traditions the succeeding Empress Caiatl revived, minus any frills or arbiters, strengthening her power base by appealing to a core of Cabal conservatives and populists.
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Trial by Combat / int_7cf5a07	comment	In The Flash (2014), Gypsy attempts to arrest HR, but Cisco offers to be his champion in a trial by combat. Cisco wins, so she allows HR to go free.
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Trial by Combat / int_7f8a38b6	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Zechs Merquise is court martialed by OZ for disobeying orders and rebuilding the Wing Gundam. The sentence is death, but his friend Treize manages to propose this as an alternate sentence. Zechs is pitted against countless Alliance soldiers, all fighting to win OZ's favor; if Zechs wins he's allowed to go free. Since this is only about one-fifth of the way through the series, of course he wins.
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Trial by Combat / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Star Trek: The Original Series: In "Arena", Kirk has to face an alien captain in order to determine which spaceship will be destroyed by Sufficiently Advanced Aliens who don't like how less advanced races bring their disputes into their territory. In the end, Kirk "wins" the fight, but by showing mercy to the Gorn who had been prepared to kill him, and by showing a willingness to settle the misunderstanding that had caused the conflict in the first place, Kirk convinces the aliens to spare both their ships. Actually killing the Gorn, it's implied, would have doomed Kirk's own ship. In "The Omega Glory", Kirk fights Captain Tracey to prove to the Yangs that he (and not Tracey) is trying to help them (the Yangs believe that Good is stronger than Evil). While there are Klingon lawyers, trial by combat is a means of resolving legal disputes for the Klingons. For example, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The House of Quark", Quark has the evidence to show that a Klingon used dishonorable financial manipulations to undermine a rival house, but even with his proof, he's forced into a Trial by Combat over the accusation. Quark throws his weapon down in the fight. When the rival moves to strike Quark down, it shows that the rival truly is dishonorable.
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Trial by Combat / int_847f5422	comment	In the Child Ballad Sir Aldingar, the queen demands this as her right, to defend herself against Malicious Slander
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Trial by Combat / int_8a5b4e3a	comment	In Gems of War, the authorities in Whitehelm won't give Sapphira a proper trial (for whatever it is she's even accused of â€” they were slow in saying), and she insists on trial by combat instead. The authorities undermine even this by insisting that it be in daylight (and she's a vampire).
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Trial by Combat / int_8dba7131	comment	In the first series Song of the Lioness, Duke Roger demands one of these to prove his innocence against Alanna's accusations. He immediately starts cheating using magic, but Alanna is able to counter it with a magical stone she received from the Goddess, and wins. Although sadly enough, he doesn't stay dead.
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Trial by Combat / int_8fd3db0b	comment	Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "Temporal Edict", the away team accidentally offends the Gelrakian officials and is imprisoned. Under Gelrakian law, the accused must fight the Gelrakian champion. If Commander Jack Ransom wins, he and his away team will be freed. If he loses, he'll die in the arena and the away team will be crushed to death by the adjudication geode.
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Trial by Combat / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech: The Clans base their entire culture around this, with seven official Trials (all settled by combat) that dictate Clan life: The Trial of Position note fighting for a position against other candidates, required for anyone (trueborn, freeborn or non-Clanners) to enter the Warrior Caste and occasionally for promotions if your superior deems it necessary, the Trial of Bloodrightnote a Rite-of-Passage Name Change earning a Trueborn Warrior the right to use their ancestors' surname, required to enter the Clan Council and vote on decisions, the Trial of Refusalnote an appeal of any decision not already settled by Trial, with victory against the odds by which you lost the decision nullifying it, the Trial of Grievance note an all-purpose Duel to the Death or Victory by First Blood between equals who have failed to settle their problems by all other means available, the Trial of Possession note a formalized, low-scale war over another Clan's possessions, usually through a batchall, the Trial of Absorptionnote the loser's clan gets assimilated into the winner's; only happened thrice so far and the Trial of Annihilation.note A death penalty. The target is marked for death by Clan society at a whole and forced to defend themselves in unrestricted warfare until they're killed, following which they're rendered an Un-person and their Bloodline (if any) is Reaved; usually used on individuals or units who dishonour the Clans but three Clans (The Not-Named, Smoke Jaguar and later Steel Viper) were Annihilated as well. Duels are fought "unagumented" or "augmented", with the former meaning "fists or melee weapons only" and the latter involving BattleMech, Power Armor or aircraft duels. The Clans instituted such a system in order to militarily resolve conflicts (being a Proud Warrior Race, military resolution was seen as an inevitable outcome) using a minimum of forces without it spilling over into full-blown civil war. It should be noted that act of choosing a champion is largely reserved for political bodies (example, a Grand Council. Mech Warrior Aidan Pryde had to fight four to one odds with his fellow witnesses when he challenged a Coucil decision). The act of an individual trying to name a champion can be interpreted as an admittance of weakness if not by the rival fighter, but by a political rival in the same Clan. More than one Clan leader has been called out for hiding behind rank and brutally killed in a Circle of Equals. The Clans also have the the tradition of batchall, or battle challenge, which is a ritualized part of a battle (usually a Trial of Possession). The aggressor will challenge their opponent and state how many troops and weapons they will be bringing, and the defender will be allowed to answer with how many troops they will bring and state the battlefield. This then becomes something of a negotiation between the two to state how many units they'll bring to the battle (with the goal being to reduce the numbers as low as reasonably possible while still being able to win), and once the decision has been made, the two meet for their ritualized battle. When the Clans invaded the Inner Sphere, the Great Houses' militaries ruthlessly exploited this to fight in "dishonorable" battles since survival was at stake and they couldn't beat the Clans individually. One of the biggest examples of a trial by combat was the Battle of Tukayyid, in which ComStar wagered Earth itself in a massive ritual battle with the Clans on the titular planet. Seven Clans would attempt to invade the planet and capture specific objectives, and if the Clans won they would gain Earth, while if ComStar won, the Clans would agree to a fifteen year cease-fire. Several of the Clans who participated fell into the trap of Honor Before Reason or were otherwise outmaneuvered by ComStar and defeated, with only Clan Wolf being effective enough to achieve both objectives, while Clan Jade Falcon and Clan Ghost Bear both achieved a draw (the Bears actually succeeded in completing one objective before being forced to retreat, while the Falcons failed to complete either objective but did so much damage before they were repulsed that ComStar counted it as an effective completion anyway). Thus, the Clans withdrew and the Inner Sphere gained a badly-needed period to recover and re-arm.
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Trial by Combat / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Whitecloaks in The Wheel of Time use this as a way of settling disputes when there is no evidence, though it has fallen out of practice by the time of the books. However, the lawful-minded Galad uses the tradition to challenge the Commander for the suspected murder of his mother, killing him and winning command of the order as a side-bonus.
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Trial by Combat / int_95903c73	comment	A Young Girl's Game of Thrones: Myrcella challenges the Stormlords to a Trial of Seven to "prove" to them that Joffrey is the rightful king and that Stannis is a usurper, counting on its religious significance to both ensure they will accept and that they will turn to her cause if she wins. She even joins in the trial herself, proclaiming that the Seven would see her victorious because she is right. Her gamble pays off and she becomes the Paramount Lady of the Stormlands.
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Trial by Combat / int_992414bf	comment	In the 12th century text Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, Lancelot comes to Guinevere at night and has to move the iron bars over her window in order to get in. He injures his finger in the process and proceeds to bleed on her sheets as they have sex. The next morning their host's son Meleagant sees the blood. He puts 2 and 2 together and comes up with 11, alleging that Kay (an injured man who bleed on his own sheets last night) was in the queen's bed. Guinevere swears up and down that she just had a nosebleed and Kay was not in her bed, then calls Lancelot to serve as their champion and defend her and Kay's honor. Before the duel, holy relics are brought forth and the combatants swear upon the relics to give power and legitimacy to the fight.
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Trial by Combat / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series: In "Arena", Kirk has to face an alien captain in order to determine which spaceship will be destroyed by Sufficiently Advanced Aliens who don't like how less advanced races bring their disputes into their territory. In the end, Kirk "wins" the fight, but by showing mercy to the Gorn who had been prepared to kill him, and by showing a willingness to settle the misunderstanding that had caused the conflict in the first place, Kirk convinces the aliens to spare both their ships. Actually killing the Gorn, it's implied, would have doomed Kirk's own ship. In "The Omega Glory", Kirk fights Captain Tracey to prove to the Yangs that he (and not Tracey) is trying to help them (the Yangs believe that Good is stronger than Evil).
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Trial by Combat / int_9d34190a	comment	In The Elder Scrolls, this is how dragons handle any debate or disagreement. Because dragons are ferocious and prideful creatures with an innate desire to rule and dominate, and their language and voices are literal reality-warping magic, they do not have any distinction between debate and combat, and might literally makes right.
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Trial by Combat / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: This is a legal way to solve a dispute in Westeros. Any person can request a trial by combat, and knights specifically cannot be denied one if they ask. The accuser and accused can ask for someone else to volunteer as well, if they are not fighters. An accused or accusing woman will automatically be volunteered by a man. The trial ends only if one of either parties yields or dies. There is also a rare variation known as trial of seven, which is an ancient Andal tradition that is connected to the Faith of the Seven. This happens if a person is accused by multiple people. In this case, the accused and six companions fight seven men chosen by the accuser, with the latter normally being among them. In A Game of Thrones, after being brought to the Eyrie, Tyrion Lannister is accused of the murder of Jon Arryn. Bronn volunteers to fight for Tyrion against Lysa Arryn's champion, Ser Vardis. Bronn wins. In A Storm of Swords, Tyrion is accused of killing his nephew Joffrey. Oberyn Martell volunteers to fight for him against Cersei's champion, Gregor Clegane. Clegane wins, but he is poisoned by Oberyn's spear and dies a horrible, slow death. Nevertheless, when Tyrion escapes, he has to flee Westeros, since he has been branded guilty. In A Feast for Crows, trial by combat supposedly figures into Cersei's plan to have Margaery Tyrell accused of adultery and forced to be championed by an incompetent member of the Kingsguard, which has rather backfired. Viciously subverted by Rickard Stark's death. After his son Brandon was accused of treason by Aerys II Targaryen, Rickard demanded a trial by combat, which Aerys acceded. When he arrived at the arena, Rickard was instead captured and suspended from a rafter atop burning hot fire, to be cooked to death inside the armor he was wearing. Reason? Aerys said that fire is his champion. The first two stories of Tales of Dunk and Egg end in a trial by combat. In one case, Dunk was accused by multiple people and ended up demanding the trial of seven variety. He absolutely destroyed his accuser Aerion Targaryen by beating the stuffing out of him. Fire & Blood provides two examples King Maegor (the Cruel) went through one with the Faith Militant. He won, but injuries he sustained kept him down for a month. The first thing he did on getting back up was torch the Faith's sept with his dragon while a lot of people were inside. During the Dance of the Dragons, Criston Cole tried asking for one of these when surrounded by enemy troops and outnumbered, presumably banking on his superior fighting skills. He's immediately refused and turned into a human pincushion, specifically because his enemies want to deny him a dignified death.
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Trial by Combat / int_9fc6d946	comment	Fire & Blood provides two examples King Maegor (the Cruel) went through one with the Faith Militant. He won, but injuries he sustained kept him down for a month. The first thing he did on getting back up was torch the Faith's sept with his dragon while a lot of people were inside. During the Dance of the Dragons, Criston Cole tried asking for one of these when surrounded by enemy troops and outnumbered, presumably banking on his superior fighting skills. He's immediately refused and turned into a human pincushion, specifically because his enemies want to deny him a dignified death.
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Trial by Combat / int_9ff1dc28	comment	Several regions in King of the Castle have traditions of trial by combat. The Grandees of the South are firm believers in the virtues of allowing accused criminals to "demonstrate" their innocence in arena fights, and several potential story events revolve around a randomly chosen Grandee demanding their right to trial by combat after they are implicated in a crime. The King can refuse, risking a spike in Defiance, or accept and nominate a champion to face the accused (or even do so themself). In years gone by, the official justice system for the Barons of the March was the jousting arena, and if jousting comes back into fashion in the March thanks to royal patronage, they may ask to revive this system as a replacement for the courts.
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Trial by Combat / int_ab0ad056	comment	This is an old clan law that comes up in Wolf Brother when Torak is accused of stealing prey.
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Trial by Combat / int_afaa1b42	comment	In A Storm of Swords, Tyrion is accused of killing his nephew Joffrey. Oberyn Martell volunteers to fight for him against Cersei's champion, Gregor Clegane. Clegane wins, but he is poisoned by Oberyn's spear and dies a horrible, slow death. Nevertheless, when Tyrion escapes, he has to flee Westeros, since he has been branded guilty.
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Trial by Combat / int_b29c63f7	comment	In Excalibur, and some of the source materials it's based on, Queen Guenevere is accused of adultery against King Arthur with Lancelot. All of the knights had been afraid to level this accusation because her champion was Lancelot himself, whom no other knight can defeat.
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Trial by Combat / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Bronn against Ser Vardis over Tyrion's supposed murder of Jon Arryn, ending in Tyrion's favor. Sandor Clegane against Beric Dondarrian over Sandor's murder of Mycah the butcher's boy. In spite of the fact Sandor is guilty, and the fact Beric wields a Flaming Sword while Sandor is terrified of fire, Sandor wins and is released. The show faithfully recreates the novel's trial of Oberyn Martell against Gregor Clegane over Tyrion's supposed murder of Joffrey. Although Tyrion is innocent, his champion Oberyn loses, so he's sentenced to death. Instead, he escapes. Subverted with Cersei and the Faith Militant. They have Tommen abolish the practice so Robert Strong, unbeatable fighter that he is, won't be an option for her to escape her crimes. It doesn't work out when Cersei blows up half of King's Landing.
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Trial by Combat / int_b3e81703	comment	The baseline arc of Arthur, King of Time and Space has this, as seen when Mark is accused of treason and mentioned at the start of the False Guenevere story. One of many points where Arthur would really like to get some legal reforms done.
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Trial by Combat / int_b9d8a75d	comment	In El Cid, Rodrigo DÃaz de Vivar fights (and wins) two trials by combat: one to determine if the Castle of Calahorra belongs to the king of Castile or Aragon, and another to defend his honor when Jimena's father accusses him of being soft on Muslims.
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Trial by Combat / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: One method used by the Inquisition to determine whether a person is guilty is to pit them against a Grey Knight (a Magic Knight chapter of Space Marines). If the Knight wins, then clearly the God-Emperor struck down the infidel. If he somehow wins, he clearly used daemonic magics to do so and is killed (even if he didn't, there's the fact that he just killed a beyond-rare Super-Soldier). Traditionally, disputes on Craftworld Saim-Hann are resolved through matches of ritualized combat. This is typically done to the first blood or some other agreed-upon defeat condition, but facilities occur from time to time. Other Craftworlders find this practice barbaric, but Saim-Hann's people in turn don't understand why someone should wast their time with lengthy debates.
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Trial by Combat / int_be677f0e	comment	In A Game of Thrones, after being brought to the Eyrie, Tyrion Lannister is accused of the murder of Jon Arryn. Bronn volunteers to fight for Tyrion against Lysa Arryn's champion, Ser Vardis. Bronn wins.
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Trial by Combat / int_c0f8022c	comment	In the Hercules: The Animated Series episode "Hercules And The Prometheus Affair", Hercules defies the gods and frees Prometheus from his imprisonment. After some consideration, the gods agree that Prometheus can keep his freedom if he can defeat the eagle that eats his liver in battle. Hades refers to the trial as a "Trial By Fire" and empowers the eagle with a flaming body and wings. Prometheus almost loses, but Hercules interferes and helps defeat the eagle. Although upset, the gods allow Prometheus to go free.
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Trial by Combat / int_c19c6efa	comment	Notch, creator of Minecraft, challenged Bethesda to a 3 vs 3 game of Quake III: Arena to settle a legal dispute (referencing the above mentioned A Song of Ice and Fire series). Sadly, Bethesda chose to ignore this challenge.
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Trial by Combat / int_c3b1fe07	comment	In Lost Girl, the Fae often settle things this way. The first episode has Bo forced into a two-step trial: first, she had to fight a hulking behemoth to the death; second, she had to overcome a creature's mental attack.
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Trial by Combat / int_c51b8d7a	comment	Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne has the Mantra Army court. You have to face down three judges to exonerate yourself from suspicion of being a Nihilo spy. First one is an Orthrus, then a Yaksini. Last judge to defeat is Thor.
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Trial by Combat / int_cbdfd7d4	comment	Planet of Adventure. In "The Dirdir", when Adam Reith and his friends have been captured by Dirdirman and presented to their Dirdir masters as prey for Hunting the Most Dangerous Game, he invokes the right of arbitration—challenging the charges against him, and then challenges the arbitrator when the verdict goes against him, so by Dirdir law they have to fight it out. Fortunately the Dirdir believe in killing with tooth and claws, and so the Dirdirman try to emulate their masters by doing likewise, but Rieth is better at hand-to-hand combat than they are.
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Trial by Combat / int_cf32411f	comment	In Dubious Company, The Grand Wacinator demands the pirates choose a crew member to duel against Lieutenant Leeroy. Victory proves their innocence in Future High Priestess Sal's kidnapping. Given this is the church of the Random Number God, it is a card duel.
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Trial by Combat / int_cf840e53	comment	The first two stories of Tales of Dunk and Egg end in a trial by combat. In one case, Dunk was accused by multiple people and ended up demanding the trial of seven variety. He absolutely destroyed his accuser Aerion Targaryen by beating the stuffing out of him.
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Trial by Combat / int_d44d0539	comment	In Updraft, it's legally permissible to challenge the Singers, who are responsible for interpreting and enforcing law, in single combat. This can be done both by ordinary citizens and by Singers who disagree with their leaders' decisions. Combat takes the form of airborne duels using the hang-gliders-like wings commonly used for transport.
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Trial by Combat / int_d6423831	comment	Chessmen of Mars: Captives in the city of Manator must play a life-sized version of Jetan, with each taking of a piece being a duel to the death. Captives, criminals and slaves can win their freedom by winning enough games.
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Trial by Combat / int_d803ecde	comment	Tetramands (Four Arm's species) are revealed to abide to this method in episode "Universe vs. Tennyson" of Ben 10: Omniverse. It's literally called "Tetramand Trial of Combat"
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Trial by Combat / int_df07d96e	comment	Lois & Clark: Lord Kal-El became the ruler of New Krypton to prevent Lord Nor from doing so. Lord Nor charged Kal-El with treason and a Kangaroo Court held under Kryptonian Law sentenced him to death. A few minutes later, Nor drops the Villain Ball hard enough to swing the main prosecutor to Kal-El's side. Said prosecutor was only all too happy when it was pointed out to him that the defendant wasn't informed, he had the right to invoke this trope — this means that Kal-El is Off on a Technicality.
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Trial by Combat / int_e081af79	comment	The very first story arc of The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! has Bob agreeing to take Ahem's place in a trial by combat against a giant monster.
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Trial by Combat / int_e144ba19	comment	In Dragon Age II, this is a possibility when facing the boss of the second act, depending on Hawke's choices. Accepting the offer results in a one-on-one trial by combat between Hawke and the boss, while rejecting it has Hawke fight with their party against the boss and an army of minions. However, the boss only allows this option because they genuinely respect Hawke's talent. Hawke can choose to fight the Arishok in one-on-one combat to make the Qunari leave Kirkwall (and, if she's still there, free Isabella from enslavement). It's also implied that the Arishok wanted a way out of this whole mess while following the Qun, and dying in combat to Hawke was the only thing he could think of. Regardless of which option is taken, Hawke earns the title "Champion of Kirkwall" once the battle is over.
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Trial by Combat / int_e4a1416	comment	Changes: Harry and Susan are forced to fight one of these when they are pursued into the Erlking's halls by vampires, and the Erlking doesn't know who is right. Besides, he likes a good show. Harry later takes on Duchess Arianna, a severely badass vampire (one level down from and aspiring to be the Lords of the Outer Night, Physical Gods to a being. However by now Harry has taken several levels in Badass wields Soulfire gifted by the Archangel Uriel and is the Winter Knight. At the end Harry turns Arianna into a crater on the floor.
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Trial by Combat / int_eb46e06a	comment	Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome: The titular Duel to the Death is part of the official law of Auntie Entity's Bartertown, invoked when Max challenges MasterBlaster. The Post Apocalyptic world has become part of the ritual's pragmatic mythology:
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Trial by Combat / int_ecb51a9b	comment	The War Gods: Early in The War God's Own, Sir Vaijon is egged into publicly insulting Bahzell, who invokes this trope. (Given that TomanÄ�k is the god of both war and justice, it makes sense that his Order would have established procedures for judicial combat.) Bahzell delivers a carefully non-fatal curb-stomping to Vaijon. TomanÄ�k then shows up himself to make sure the rest of the chapter is going to behave themselves without making Bahzell fight any more judicial duels over his Champion status.
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Trial by Combat / int_eed321b1	comment	Ars Magica: The Order of Hermes accepts a formal, nonlethal Wizard Duel as a legally binding way to resolve formal and informal disputes, with some limits. It's rationalized as minimizing both outright bloodshed and magi interfering in each other's affairs — though it's no coincidence that the Founder who formalized duelling in Hermetic Law was a power-hungry master duellist himself.
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Trial by Combat / int_eee7448f	comment	Dora Wilk Series: In the climax of Winner Takes It All, Dora undergoes one when she's (falsely, but that's unprovable) accused. She fights against her accuser, Archangel Raphael, and actually wins, only Raphael decids to stab her in the back when she's leaving the ring. She gets better, though.
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Trial by Combat / int_ef57d399	comment	The Mountain and the Wolf: The Wolf first shows up to take Oberyn's place as Tyrion's champion, curbstomping Gregor Clegane in the process. The Norscans themselves use holmgang, first seen when the Wolf gives Euron a chance to fight for his life (the Wolf's crew having already cut through most of Euron's, who aren't that eager to die for him), on a platform between their ships. After two Ironborn (Akkarulf and a captain named Gorion) get into an argument over which should lead the Iron Fleet (now loyal to the Wolf), the Wolf declares they'll solve it by (you guessed it) holmgang. However, Akkarulf yields command but demands an apology from Gorion for his insults, and agrees to holmgang when Gorion refuses. The Wolf is left looking clearly unhappy that Gorion withdraws his comments, and looks no happier when Akkarulf explains he thought it was better to spare Gorion and wait for him to screw up than kill him then and there. The Ironborn are murderous raiders, but Chaos Norscans they are not (yet).
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Trial by Combat / int_f10a65b	comment	Legends of Tomorrow has the team infiltrate Nanda Parbat. Unfortunately, Sara, suffering from a temporal psychosis of sorts, gives them up to the assassins. Ra's Al Ghul sentences them to death. However, Rip, familiar with the League's rules, challenges Ra's to this trope. He miscalculates, unaware that Ra's can choose someone else to fight for him. Ra's chooses Sara, so Rip chooses Kendra. Fortunately, just before Sara can deliver the killing blow, she remembers Kendra and the team. Then the fortress is attacked by Chronos, and Ra's tells the Legends to clean up their own mess. After that, he tells Sara she's free to go. Sara tells him that he's going to have a second daughter at some point in the future and that, in 2012, he should send her to an island in North China Sea, creating a Stable Time Loop.
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Trial by Combat / int_f163bd9f	comment	In ElfQuest, this is the first part of The Trial of Hand, Head and Heart which Rayek challenges Cutter to. The trial of Hand combines dexterity and strength and the outcome is intentionally non-lethal for both participants.
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Trial by Combat / int_fa53eab4	comment	The Duel Ordained by the Goddess in Even Though I'm a Former Noble and Single Mother is a traditional method that nations can use to settle disputes between each other. One such duel is used to settle the issue of whether Shirley's daughters should be taken to the Empire. Shirley wins easily, despite her opponent being the Empire's strongest knight and despite attempts to hinder her using hidden traps.
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Darwin's Game (Manga) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Time Stop Brave (Manga) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Time Stop Hero (Manga) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
A Dragon of the North (Roleplay) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Midlands RP (Roleplay) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Aliens in the Family / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Cadfael / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Spellbinder / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Star Trek: The Original Series / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
The 100 / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
The Order / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Ironsworn (Tabletop Game) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Rifts (Tabletop Game) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Lohengrin (Theatre) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Richard II (Theatre) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Westeros: An American Musical (Theatre) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Assassin's Creed (Video Game) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Bastion (Video Game) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
God of War RagnarÃ¶k (Video Game) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Guild Wars 2 (Video Game) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
King of the Castle (Video Game) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (Video Game) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code (Video Game) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
MechWarrior (Video Game) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Penny's Big Breakaway (Video Game) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Rise of the Argonauts (Video Game) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne (Video Game) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
The New World (Video Game) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Xenoblade Chronicles X (Video Game) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante (Video Game) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Portal (Visual Novel) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Minecraft SOS (Web Video) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
SMPLive (Web Video) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
The Unexpectables (Web Video) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Eureka Seven: Paradox Makers (Webcomic) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Amphibia / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Chimes at Midnight / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Aeon Legion: Labyrinth / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
trialbycombat	sameAs	Trial by Combat
Richard Wagner (Music) / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat

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