History Main / TenPacesAndTurn

* [[http://www.comicvine.com/zorros-lady-rawhide-other-peoples-blood-1/4000-168977/ The cover of this comic]] shows [[{{Zorro}} Lady Rawhide]] about to throw down with her [[ArchEnemy hated enemy]] Scarlet Fever. ([[CoversAlwaysLie This didn't actually happen in the comic]]; Scarlet Fever tended to fight ''dirty''.)

* Subverted in ''Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid'' where Billy gets in a duel and when they start counting, he simply turns, draws his gun and waits. [[RashEquilibrium When his opponent doesn't wait till ten before turning]], Billy calmly shoots him.

* The ship's captain played by Gregory Peck and one of the braggarts who frequently [[TheSoCalledCoward calls him a coward]] end up in one of these near the climax of ''TheBigCountry''. Guess which one honours the terms of the deal and which one cravenly tries to shoot early. Hint: it's ''not'' [[TheSoCalledCoward the one played by Gregory Peck]].

* Played straight in an episode of ''{{CSI}}''... except one of the duelists thought it was a joke, and the one that had set the whole thing up was taking his hobby (American Civil War recreation) a little too seriously.

* In the Australian historical comedy ''Bligh'', DirtyCoward John [=McArthur=] is rehearsing for his upcoming duel with Governor Bligh, and does the turn early and shoot trick, then rapidly counts off the rest of the paces. The duel becomes moot when Bligh bans private ownership of firearms, leaving them to fight it out via the legal system. HilarityEnsues.

* Played with in the ''{{Futurama}}'' movie ''Beast with a Billion Backs''. Bender, having challenged Calculon to a duel, takes about three of the ten steps then turns and fires his raygun. Of course, since these are incredibly advanced weapons, the shot takes off Calculons arm, cuts a line through a lake, pierces through a skyscraper, and destroys the headquarters of the very club they were dueling over.

** Magnificently subverted twofold in "Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk". Bugs suggests to the giant a ten-paces battle, thinking that with the giant's long strides, he'll be out of his hair...until he sees the giant coming at him from the other way having walked ''around the entire globe'' on those 10 steps and stopping [[OhCrap right in front of him]] on pace number ten.

* One of the Creator/ChuckJones ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' shorts had this taken to increasingly ludicrous levels. Starting with a pistol, then going to swords, it escalated until they were dueling with ''cannons.''

* In the Loguetown arc of ''OnePiece'', there's an episode in the anime where Usopp gets into one with a bounty hunter named Daddy Masterson. [[note]]The same plot was at one point planned to be used in the manga, but was dropped due to not having enough time before reaching the Grand Line in chapter 100.[[/note]]

* The second ''Clue'' mini-mystery novel, ''The'' Secret ''Secret Passage'' features a duel between Colonel Mustard and Mr. Green in the ballroom which they attempt to open this way with as large steps as possible-so naturally, they both crash into the walls.

* Played for laughs in a skit on ''Series/Laugh-In''. Dan Rowan and another man each take a pistol from a case being held by a woman (presumably she's the one they're dueling over). They each take three paces, turn and fire - at the woman, killing her. The two men then walk off-screen together, arm in arm.

** Another showed a mortally-wounded duelist laying on the ground muttering "I could have sworn.. you said.. ''eleven'' steps.."

** Then there was the time Bugs delayed the count ("...nine, nine and a half, nine and three-quarters, nine and seven-eights...") just to make sure Sam was in the right spot at the right time to get run over by a bus. ("Yep, right on time.")

* In ''The Saragossa Manuscript'', one of the more memorable characters is a habitual duellist who does so with the greatest of style.

* A ''[[TheFarSide Far Side]]'' cartoon mocks the trope, with the person counting off the steps saying, "Oh, the heck with it! Just turn around and shoot!"

* ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' featured this between Bond and Scaramanga, with Nick Nack shouting out the twenty paces... only for it to turn out that Scaramanga bolted somewhere down the line, turning the thing into a hunt through his lair. Bond wastes a bullet (one out of six in his gun) shooting at nothing.

* Magnificently subverted twofold in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk". Bugs suggests to the giant a ten-paces battle, thinking that with the giant's long strides, he'll be out of his hair...until he sees the giant coming at him from the other way having walked ''around the entire globe'' on those 10 steps and stopping [[OhCrap right in front of him]] on pace number ten.

* The Creator/AchievementHunter team did this for one of their episodes of "Vs." using Nerf guns. Unfortunately both were hilariously inaccurate and consistently failed to hit one another even after they cut the number of steps in half. Gavin Free finally won it with a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]] after multiple tries.

* During the Old West chapter of ''LiveALive'', Sunset and his rival Mad Dog step out for a five-pace duel early on. They turn, take five steps, turn again... and both shoot hidden members of the Crazy Bunch gang. They then put their rivalry on hold for the much more pressing issue of an impending gang attack.

* One of the ChuckJones ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' shorts had this taken to increasingly ludicrous levels. Starting with a pistol, then going to swords, it escalated until they were dueling with ''cannons.''

* WoodyAllen's ''Film/LoveAndDeath'' featured Woody in a duel. Ten paces, turn, and laugh.

* [[http://www.comicvine.com/zorros-lady-rawhide-other-peoples-blood-1/4000-168977/ The cover of this comic]] shows [[{{Zorro}} Lady Rawhide]] about to throw down with her [[ArchEnemy hated enemy]] Scarlet Fever. [[CoversAlwaysLie This didn't actually happen in the comic]]; Scarlet Fever tended to fight ''dirty''.)

* WoodyAllen's ''LoveAndDeath'' featured Woody in a duel. Ten paces, turn, and laugh.

* The AchievementHunter team did this for one of their episodes of "Vs." using Nerf guns. Unfortunately both were hilariously inaccurate and consistently failed to hit one another even after they cut the number of steps in half. Gavin Free finally won it with a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]] after multiple tries.

* One occurs in the ''{{Castle}}'' episode "Punked".

* Pierre and Dolokhov's duel in ''WarAndPeace'' goes swimmingly. Someone gets shot, everyone goes home more emotionally mature.

** ElleryQueen's ''There Was an Old Woman'' had the bullets replaced with blanks, and then a killer re-replaced with live ammo.
** EdwardDHoch's "An Early Morning Madness" is similar.

* Bow Street Runner MatthewHawkwood gets into an illegal duel in the novel ''Ratcatcher'' by James [=McGee=]. His opponent failed to release quite how deadly Hawkwood was with a pistol. After his opponent's bullet grazes his chest, Hawkwood spares his life by deliberately shooting to cripple his gun arm.
* Dusty Fog fights a traditional pistol duel (albeit using Colt revolvers rather than duelling pistols) in ''A Matter of Honour'' by JTEdson. His opponent cheats by having a fully loaded revolver (Dusty's has only one loaded chamber) and firing before the full ten count. Dusty still beats him.

* Though, under the Irish Code Duello of 1777, either version was allowed and did in fact take place, with the walk-to-your-mark-and-fire version done by the ones who really didn't want to kill the other - it gave both opponents a chance to think it over, and often resulted in the practice of "deloping" - firing to miss, in order to declare satisfaction and end the duel before you drew your ''opponent's'' blood. Bystanders and seconds often were the losers here.

* In the Loguetown arc of ''OnePiece'', there's an episode in the anime where Usopp gets into one with a bounty hunter named Daddy Masterson. [[hottip:* :The same plot was at one point planned to be used in the manga, but was dropped due to not having enough time before reaching the Grand Line in chapter 100.]]

* Both types of duel feature in Kubrick's ''BarryLyndon.'' There's also a twist in the "stand at your mark" version: the duellists ''take it in turns'' to fire, based on a coin toss. There's a memorable scene where one duellist, having missed his shot, throws up in terror realizing that his opponent now has the ''legal right to shoot him in cold blood.''[[hottip:*:Actually more of an "illegal right": duels were technically against the law, but prosecutions were rare and convictions unheard of; whereas a man who ran away from a duel would be ostracized by the whole of high society.]]