History Main / HeroicRematch

** Almiral Kizaru, when he was first introduced in the Sabaody Achipelago arc, he [[CurbStompBattle wiped the floor]] with all the Straw Hat Pirates, handing them their first real defeat and making Luffy [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness order his crew to retreat for the first time in the story]]. More than 500 chapters later he would again face off against Luffy in the Egghead Island arc, with the latter remarking that they're 100x stronger now. True to form, Kizaru gets his ass handed back to him ''twice'' by Luffy, with the battle turning him into no more than a nuisance and a distraction to the latter.

** Almiral Kizaru, when he was first introduced in the Sabaody Achipelago arc, he [[CurbStompBattle wiped the floor]] with all the Straw Hat Pirates, handing them their first real defeat and making Luffy [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness order his crew to retreat for the first time in the story]]. More than 500 chapters later he would again face off against Luffy in the Egghead Island arc, with the latter remarking that they're 100x stronger now.

* In ''Film/BlackPanther2018'', T'Challa is challenged for the throne of Wakanda by his cousin, Eric "Killmonger" Stevens. The fight is to '''Death or Yield'''. At the end, Killmonger throws T'Challa off the cliffside where they were fighting, but T'Challa survives the fall and is nursed to health in the Mountain Tribe's domain. Later, he returns to challenge Killmonger, since he "never yielded the fight and is obviously not dead."

* Happens twice in the ''Franchise/{{Rocky}}'' series. In the [[Film/{{Rocky}} first film]], Rocky goes the distance but loses to Apollo Creed, leading to a rematch in the [[Film/RockyII sequel]] that Rocky wins. In ''Film/RockyIII'', Rocky's newfound cockiness leads to newcomer Clubber Lang beating him; the rest of the movie consists of Rocky getting his head back into the game to win the rematch, with Apollo as his trainer. At the end, Apollo and Rocky face off for one last, friendly fight to see who's really the best. [[spoiler: ''Film/{{Creed}}'' reveals that Apollo won.]]

** Anakin gets his arm cut off by Count Dooku in the climax of ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' before decapitating him in the opening of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.

** After being systematically demolished and having his hand cut off by Darth Vader before [[LukeIAmYourFather learning that Vader is his father]] in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', Luke Skywalker gets his rematch and defeats the dark lord in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', although its downplayed in that Luke doesn't actually want to fight Vader, and his real victory comes in convincing his opponent to make a HeelFaceTurn.
** Similarly, Anakin gets his arm cut off by Count Dooku in the climax of ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' before defeating him in the opening of ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.

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** Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez has a similar pattern. The first is a CurbStompBattle, with Grimmjow literally pummeling Ichigo in the face as the highlight; Ichigo's inner Hollow tries to intervene and Tosen stops Grimmjow from continuing after Ichigo [[CurbStompCushion barely manages to scratch him.]] The second has Ichigo gain the upper hand due to his new SuperMode, but when its time limit is reached, Grimmjow proceeds to mop the floor with Ichigo until Shinji saves him just in time and Ulquiorra drags Grimmjow back to Hueco Mundo. Their final fight ends with Ichigo battling Grimmjow in an evenly-matched back and forth duel before the latter finally falls (although Ichigo is so worn out that he can't handle [[CombatPragmatist his next opponent]] that well).

If there are more than one rematch with the same opponent, said opponent overlaps with RecurringBoss.

** Almiral Kizaru, when he was first introduced in the Sabaody Achipelago arc, wiped the floor with all the Straw Hat Pirates, handing them their first real defeat and making Luffy [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness order his crew to retreat for the first time in the story]]. More than 500 chapters later he would again face off against Luffy in the Egghead Island arc, with the latter remarking that they're 100x stronger now.

** Almiral Kizaru, when he was first introduced in the Sabaody Achipelago arc he wiped the floor with all the Straw Hat Pirates, handing them their first real defeat, and making Luffy for the first time in the story to order his crew to retreat. More than 500 chapters later he would again face off against Luffy in the Egghead Island arc, with the latter remarking that they're 100x stronger now.

* Gambling example, in ''Film/{{Solo}}'', Han challenges Lando to a game of sabacc making him stake the latter's ship, the Millennium Falcon; He loses due to Lando cheating by drawing an extra card up from his sleeve. Near the end of the movie Han challenges Lando again, and this time he wins "fair and square" by spotting Lando's hidden card and pickpocketing it from him before he can draw it, thus winning his ship.

* Gambling example, in ''Film/{{Solo}}'', Han challenges Lando to a game of sabacc making him stake the latter's ship, the Millennium Falcon; He loses due to Lando cheating by drawing an extra card up from his sleeve. Near the end of the movie Han challenges Lando again, and this time he wins "fair and square" by spotting his hidden card and pickpocketing it from him before Lando can draw it, thus winning his ship.

* ''Manga/SoulHunter'': after being painfully defeated by the Four Demon Generals and having the flesh of all his joints gouged out, Kou Tenka force his master to patch him up and returns to the battlefield an hour later with a new Paopei, challenging his enemy to a rematch which he manages to win. It's a nod to the original source, ''Literature/FengshenYanyi''.

** Shortly after making landfall on [[{{Wutai}} Wano]], Luffy directly challenges Kaido and is defeated [[spoiler:[[SingleStrokeBattle in one hit]]. Kaido is apparently not as wise as Doflamingo though, because not only does he let Luffy live, he has Luffy thrown into the same dungeon cell as Eustass Kid, the previous person to challenge Kaido in this way and Luffy's equal in combat and {{Hot Blooded}}ness. They do fight again one on one but Luffy runs out of steam mid-battle and falls off Onigashima into the ocean. He's saved by Law's crew and get back up to the island to continue the fight. He is defeated again due to being distracted by an agent of [=CP0=] during a crucial moment of the battle, but when all seems lost he then awakens his Devil Fruit power and unlocks Gear 5, which he uses to defeat Kaido for good.]]

* Maka and Soul get to fight Crona second time in ''Manga/SoulEater''. Maka disobeyed Stein's orders specifically to get this revenge match.

%%* Common in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', especially with the homunculi, due to the fact that they aren't allowed to kill “sacrifices.” Subverted in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' when [[spoiler:Ed ''loses'' against Envy, though Ed was fighting with one hand tied behind his back since he was avoiding the use of alchemy near Al]].

%%* After suffering a painful and miserable defeat [[spoiler: in the original timeline]], Iwatobi gets to finally meet his sworn enemy the female Hybrid Human again [[spoiler:through time travel]] and unleash his [[spoiler: 30 years worth of rage]] on her upon their encounter. Iwatobi kicked her ass upon his rematch.

* In ''Film/BlackPanther'', T'Challa is challenged for the throne of Wakanda by his cousin, Eric "Killmonger" Stevens. The fight is to '''Death or Yield'''. At the end, Killmonger throws T'Challa off the cliffside where they were fighting, but T'Challa survives the fall and is nursed to health in the Mountain Tribe's domain. Later, he returns to challenge Killmonger, since he "never yielded the fight and is obviously not dead."

** After being systematically demolished and having his hand cut off by Darth Vader before [[LukeIAmYourFather learning that Vader is his father]] in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack, Luke Skywalker gets his rematch and defeats the dark lord in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', although its downplayed in that Luke doesn't actually want to fight Vader, and his real victory comes in convincing his opponent to make a HeelFaceTurn.

** Luke vs. Darth Vader in ''[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Episode VI]]''.
** Anakin vs. Count Dooku in ''[[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Episode III]]''.

* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'', a mid-game boss fight against [[spoiler:Odin]] in Tsukiji Konganji ends horribly when [[spoiler:he uses a combination of Concentrate ([[ChargedAttack next magic attack's damage has a 250% damage multiplier]]), Will of Thunder (causes his Thunder attacks to [[ArmorPiercingAttack pierce resistances]] until the end of the turn), and Thunder Reign (his SignatureMove, a Thunder spell that targets all opponents for massive damage), leading to your party's capture]]. At the start of the two "neutral" routes, [[spoiler:he guards the Cosmic Egg entrance and the party challenges him again and defeats him this time, which also happens to complete Gaston's CharacterDevelopment arc as [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt he obtains Odin's Gungnir for himself]].]]

* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'', a mid-game boss fight against [[spoiler:Odin]] in Tsukiji Konganji ends horribly when [[spoiler:he uses a combination of Concentrate ([[ChargedAttack next magic attack's damage has a 250% damage multiplier]]), Will of Thunder (causes his Thunder attacks to [[ArmorPiercingAttack pierce resistances]] until the end of the turn) and Thunder Reign (his SignatureMove, a Thunder spell that targets all opponents for massive damage), leading to your party's capture]]. At the start of the two "neutral" routes, [[spoiler:he guards the Cosmic Egg entrance and the party challenges him again and defeats him this time, which also happens to complete Gaston's CharacterDevelopment arc as [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt he obtains Odin's Gungnir for himself]].]]

* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'', a mid-game boss fight against [[spoiler:Odin in Tsukiji Konganji]] ends horribly when [[spoiler:he uses a combination of Concentrate ([[ChargedAttack next magic attack's damage has a 250% damage multiplier]]), Will of Thunder (causes his Thunder attacks to [[ArmorPiercingAttack pierce resistances]] until the end of the turn) and Thunder Reign (his SignatureMove, a Thunder spell that targets all opponents for massive damage), leading to your party's capture]]. At the start of the two "neutral" routes, [[spoiler:he guards the Cosmic Egg entrance and the party challenges him again and defeats him this time, which also happens to complete Gaston's CharacterDevelopment arc as [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt he obtains Odin's Gungnir for himself]].]]

* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'', a mid-game boss fight against [[spoiler:Odin in Tsukiji Konganji]] ends horribly when [[spoiler:he uses a combination of Concentrate ([[ChargedAttack next magic attack's damage has a 250% damage multiplier]]), Will of Thunder (causes his Thunder attacks to [[ArmorPiercingAttack pierce resistances]] until the end of the turn) and Thunder Reign (his SignatureMove, a Thunder spell that targets all opponents for massive damage), leading to your party's capture]]. At the start of the two "neutral" routes, [[spoiler:he guards the Cosmic Egg entrance and the party challenges him again and defeats him this time, which also happens to complete Gaston's CharacterDevelopment arc as he obtains Odin's Gungnir for himself.]]