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Evening_Dragon posted...

Related, I like when the "fair fight"/proper rules guy realizes that's stupid and learns to fight pragmatically. This was done very well in the final fight of s-CRY-ed. Ryuho talks shit about a low class opponent throwing dirt in the first episode, but ends up doing it to that very same opponent in the last. It's a unique way to show respect. Respect and rage.

I think my first experience with the trope was an old Dragonlance prequel where Raistlin and Caramon are employed in a mercenary company. This is half-remembered at best, but iirc the merc company boss was a dwarf or other race of diminutive stature, and at the climax of the story the villain leader challenges him to a one-on-one duel - the merc boss accepts, instantly clubs the villain in the kneecap, and lets his men hack him to pieces.