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'''Jason:''' Touch�.

A character graciously concedes a point while trying to save face. This is usually accomplished by saying words such as "Touché" (a term in fencing that acknowledges an opponent landing a hit), "point taken", "I stand corrected" (both when losing an argument) or "Well played".

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'''Jason:''' Touché.

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'''Finrod:''' [touché]

'''Maleficent''': "Touché."

'''Gaarra:''' Touché.

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--> '''Wilbur''':...Touché.

'''Phoebus:''' Touché!

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* Gaea’s grudgingly impressed by Percy's gamble to force her to choose him over Phineas in ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus''.

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* On ''Series/{{Sisters}},'' an escalating mess between Teddy and Alex ends with: "Touché, sister dear, you've drawn blood, care to finish me off?"
* Something of a running gag in ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' is that Deeks will says "Touché" to acknowledge Kensi has a point, and Kensi will say it too (regardless of the meaning), because [[InherentlyFunnyWord she just likes the word]].

* In the first season of ''Series/TheNakedTruth'', Nora gets her Camilla's job back by tricking the owner of The Comet. He said earlier "Who said life was fair?", and after she tricked him, [[IronicEcho she said the same thing]]. He said "Touché", although did give her a crappy assignment as payback.

* In one episode of ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'', [[BumblingDad Walter]] gets a laughably bad haircut. When one of Drake's slacker friends mocks him for it, Walter counters by mocking his hair too. Drake's friend remarks "Touché" and begins to walk away, when Walter yells:

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-->"Touché."\\
"Threeché!"

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* In ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'' Silas constantly gets attempts on his life from [[TheStarscream his second-in-command]]. Not only does Silas expect this, he already undoes most of what the second-in-command was going to do when it's revealed. The usurper takes it rather gracefully, all things considered, shaking hands with Silas and complimenting him on his foresight. Of course, Silas still kills him, but at least they were polite about it.

'''AR:''' Touché. Or should I say douché?\\

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'''Bob:''' Touché, Gladys. Touché.

---> '''Vader''': ...Touché!

---> '''Taco-Man''': ...Touché!

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'''Homer:''' Ah, touché. ''(starts the truck)''

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-->'''Maleficent''': "You've heard? What exactly have you heard, ''Princess'', that compelled you to invite me to dinner?"
-->'''Aurora''': "Well, I've heard that you don't like to be uninvited."
-->'''Maleficent''': "Touché."

There can be any manner of stakes and the form of defeat can vary from losing a minor argument to being OutGambitted in a war.

* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', this is Fuhrer Bradley's response when he's outmaneuvered by Lan Fan. In an earlier fight, he had stabbed her in the arm, and she's bleeding heavily enough to leave a trail of blood from it. When Bradley follows this trail to track her down, he finds [[spoiler:her arm, completely cut off and tied to a dog]]. "That was well-played, girl."

* In ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemistBrotherhood'', this is Fuhrer Bradley's response when he's outmaneuvered by Lan Fan. In an earlier fight, he had stabbed her in the arm, and she's bleeding heavily enough to leave a trail of blood from it. When Bradley follows this trail to track her down, he finds [[spoiler:her arm, completely cut off and tied to a dog]]. "That was well-played, girl."

* An episode of ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' has Gabe and PJ finding an old letter in Mrs. Dabney's possessions indicating that there is a treasure buried in her backyard. After going to great lengths to dig up said treasure, [[spoiler: it turns out that the letter was fake, there is no treasure, and Mrs. Dabney had duped the boys into digging a hole for her so she could install a new hot tub.]] Gabe concedes her victory with this trope:
-->'''Gabe:''' Well played, Mrs. Dabney. You are a worthy adversary.

* In ''LetsPlay/TacoMan'' episode "McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure", this conversation happen.

---> '''Donald McRonald''': Well you put videos on a channel that steals your money.

-->'''Ezra:''' Yeah, but it'll have come from Thrawn's office.\\

'''Dirk:''' You shouldn't say the former, and you should definitely, never, under any circumstance, say the latter.

--> '''Phoebus:''' You fight almost as well as a man!
--> '''Esmeralda:''' Funny, [[TakeThat I was going to say the same thing about]] ''[[TakeThat you]]''!
--> '''Phoebus:''' [[TemptingFate That's hitting a little below the belt, don't you think?]]
--> '''Esmeralda:''' No. ''This'' is! ''[attempts a GroinAttack]''
--> '''Phoebus:''' Touché!

* Uttered verbatim by Clark Kent in ''[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS2E16To18WorldsFinest The Batman/Superman Movie]]'' (aka the "World's Finest" multi-parter in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries]]) when he finds a Bat-tracker on his cape after he'd earlier discovered Batman is Bruce Wayne using XRayVision.

--> '''Phoebus:''' Touch&eacture;!

* The Judge in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney: Trials And Tribulations'', after Phoenix uses his own words against his overruling.

* In ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'', when Mr. Moseby admits at a baseball game that he spent his childhood learning ballet rather than sports, he gets heckled by some other guys sitting nearby. Moseby responds "Mock me if you will, but I was the only boy amongst twelve pretty girls. Mamma didn't raise no fool." The hecklers then shrug in a way that says "Fair point."