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* AccidentalInnuendo: Right after snogging Servalan, Avon tells Cally on his CommLink that [[SomethingElseAlsoRises he's coming up]].
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-->'''Announcer:''' Space, the final frontier...
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* INeedAFreakingDrink: Right after Vila and Orac says the crew needs a break, he's piled with drinks.
* LiquorIsQuicker: Vila tries this with Dayna.
* LiquorIsQuicker: Vila tries this with Dayna.
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* ShoutOut: [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Space, the final frontier.]]
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* MundaneUtility: Orac gripes about being used to relay viscasts of the duel, but they find a more effective use -- hacking into the battle computer to find out where Tarrant is going to be dueling ahead of time.
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* MundaneUtility: Orac gripes about being used to relay viscasts [[WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture viscasts]] of the duel, but they find a more effective use -- for it hacking into the battle computer to find out where Tarrant is going to be dueling ahead of time.
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* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: Vila is saying that Orac should be an empty space.
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* SeriesContinuityError: In "Powerplay", Del had no trouble stabbing someone InTheBack, though this occasion may be due to a desire to live up the his older brother.
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* JustAMachine: Avon can't understand why Del doesn't just shoot the android InTheBack.
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* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught
-->'''Avon:''' I assume you have no scruples about cheating and lying.
-->'''Avon:''' I assume you have no scruples about cheating and lying.
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* DissonantSerenity: Max when Deeta points a gun at him while they're are linked.
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* LittleNo: Vila when Deeta gets shot.
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* MilkingTheGiantCow: With crane shot.
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** The announcer.
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* MoodWhiplash
** The announcer.
** The JumpCut to Deeta's SlowMotion death.
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* SpareTheVillain: At least they have a good excuse this time. Killing Servalan will trigger a war.
* {{Telepathy}}: Cally to send a message to Del Tarrant.
* {{Telepathy}}: Cally to send a message to Del Tarrant.
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* CallBackCallBack: To the death of Dayna's father in "Aftermath".
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* ExpectingSomeoneTaller
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* RailingKill: Stuntman Stuart Fell lives up to his last name again.
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* WeNeedADistraction: A woman on the starliner Deeta is traveling on feigns a stumble so her colleague can shoot him InTheBack. Deeta isn't fooled.
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-->'''Max:''' He's a professional killer! He's a professional killer. That's not exactly the way a normal person would...
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-->'''Max:''' He's a professional killer! He's a professional killer. That's not exactly the way a normal person would...
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* WarForFunAndProfitWarForFunAndProfit: Avon notes that a certain arms manufacturer with connections to the Zandor government is likely involved in the scheme to start a war.
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* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: Dayna fires a warning shot into the medical console that is currently examining Vinni.
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* TomatoInTheMirror: Vinni doesn't know he's an android, so has no reason to refuse the medical checkup.
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* DisintegratorRay: Del Tarrant uses a RayGun that Dayna invented to obliterate Vinni, destroying the evidence that he was an android.
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* DisintegratorRay: Del Tarrant uses a RayGun that Dayna invented to [[NoKillLikeOverkill obliterate Vinni, Vinni]], destroying the evidence that he was an android.android and so averting war.
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* DisintegratorRay: Del Tarrant uses a RayGun that Dayna invented to obliterate Vinni, destroying the evidence that he was an android.
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* EvilPlan: The First Champion for Zandor is actually an android. As Neutral Arbiter, Servalan insists on a medical checkup after Zandor's victory so the deception will be exposed. This will lead an outbreak of real war between Zandor and Teal, and [[DivideAndConquer once both sides have been weakened]] the Federation will enter to 'restore order'.
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* EvilPlan: The First Champion for Zandor is actually an android. As Neutral Arbiter, Servalan insists can insist on a medical checkup after Zandor's victory so the deception will be exposed. This will lead an outbreak of real war between Zandor and Teal, and [[DivideAndConquer once both sides have been weakened]] the Federation will enter to 'restore order'.
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* EvilPlan: The First Champion for Zandor is actually an android. As Neutral Arbiter, Servalan insists on a medical checkup after Zandor's victory so the deception will be exposed. This will lead an outbreak of real war between Zandor and Teal, and [[DivideAndConquer once both sides have been weakened]] the Federation will enter to 'restore order'.
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Avon tells Dayna not to kill Servalan, as she'd be executed for violating the TruceZone.
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* ChromeChampion: The Champions wear silver SpaceClothes.
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* ShouldersOfDoom: Avon has huge shoulder pads on his leather jacket.
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* SayingTooMuch
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* RobotsAreJustBetter: Deeta is the better gunfighter -- he could have killed Vinni if he didn't have scruples about shooting a man InTheBack. But when they face off for the QuickDraw Vinni lets Deeta draw first, then instantly draws his gun and kills him.
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* DiesWideShut: Subverted; Dayna puts her sonic lance to Servalan's head and tells her to close her eyes...so she can know exactly how her father felt when she killed him (by blinding him first).
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* QuickDraw: Deeta shows his skills in the BatmanColdOpen when he outdraws two assassins. During their duel in the Combat Zone, Vinni calls out that [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen they should stop running around trying to shoot each other and face off]] for a QuickDraw. Deeta agrees even though he's just snuck up behind Vinni and could kill him easily.
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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou
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** Vila quips that Servalan's idea of fair play "is to shoot a blind man in the back." Then realises that's exactly what she did to Dayna's father.
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** Vila quips that Servalan's idea of fair play "is is never to shoot a blind man in the back." back. Then realises that's exactly what she did to Dayna's father.father.
-->'''Vila:''' Wonderful. And for my next trick, I shall swallow my other foot. I completely forgot about your father.
-->'''Dayna:''' [[ButForMeItWasTuesday I expect Servalan has, too.]]
-->'''Vila:''' Wonderful. And for my next trick, I shall swallow my other foot. I completely forgot about your father.
-->'''Dayna:''' [[ButForMeItWasTuesday I expect Servalan has, too.]]
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* ForcefulKiss: Not that Servalan seems to mind.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Servalan of all people is the Neutral Arbiter.
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* BusmansHoliday: The crew of the Liberator decide they need a break. Of course, the place they go to just happens to have Servalan running her own scheme.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Cally is the only one turned off by the idea.
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* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The Seven's idea of a holiday is to [[GladiatorGames watch two men attempt to kill one another]]. Cally is the only one turned off by the idea.
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* ItsPersonal: Dayna re Servalan.
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* ItsPersonal: Dayna re Servalan. Del re Deeta.
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** The Vandor Confederacy attempt to assasinate Deeta before he gets to the combat grounds, making the attempt the moment war is declared so it's legal.
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** The Vandor Confederacy attempt to assasinate assassinate Deeta before he gets to the combat grounds, making the attempt the moment war is declared so it's legal.
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* PropRecyclingPropRecycling: The Del/Vinni combat takes place on a recreation of a starliner's observation deck, just like the one in the opening scene.
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->''"So that's the ultimate excitement. Murder without guilt, death without loss."''
-->-- '''Del Tarrant'''
The United Planets of Teal and the Vandor Confederacy wage ritual war in a CombatByChampion. When Tarrant's twin brother is killed during the latest combat game, he decides to take on the killer.
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!!This episode has the following tropes:
* AbandonedWarehouse: The Deeta/Vinni combat takes place in the derelict Wembley Exhibition Halls. Fortunately they didn't [[Series/TheProfessionals run into CI5]] while they were there.
* ActingForTwo
* AnachronismStew / RevolversAreBetter
* ABirthdayNotABreak
* BlatantLies
-->'''Servalan:''' Scrupulous fairness is one of my small, personal obsessions.
* CombatByChampion / DuelToTheDeath
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Cally is the only one turned off by the idea.
* ExactWords: Avon is going to see a sick friend, and they don't come sicker than Servalan!
* FoeRomanceSubtext
-->'''Avon:''' Oh, no, not "naturally," Madam President. You do not NATURALLY answer a question from an enemy who has no NATURAL right to ask it.
-->'''Servalan:''' But I don't think of YOU as an enemy, Avon. I think of YOU as a future friend.
-->'''Avon:''' [puts his arm about Servalan and pulls her against him] Your plan had better be fireproof, Servalan, or I'll see you burn with it. [snog passionately]
* FuturisticSuperhighway: Max and Deeta travel in a high-speed sub-surface shuttle.
* HatesBeingTouched: After Max shakes Avon's hand, the latter looks at his own palm in distaste.
* InTheBack: Neither Tarrant brother is willing to shoot Vinni from behind.
* ItsPersonal: Dayna re Servalan.
* LoopholeAbuse
** The Vandor Confederacy attempt to assasinate Deeta before he gets to the combat grounds, making the attempt the moment war is declared so it's legal.
** Dayna puts a gun to Servalan's head and makes her sweat. An assault on an Arbiter is a violation of the rules, but as she has a Blood Feud and didn't actually kill her (violating the TruceZone) she's just banned from the planet.
** Orac states that as the medical checkup didn't take place, Teal has the right to declare the duel invalid and insist it be fought again with new Champions. With the medical checkup done prior, this time.
* MundaneUtility: Orac gripes about being used to relay viscasts of the duel, but they find a more effective use -- hacking into the battle computer to find out where Tarrant is going to be dueling ahead of time.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot:
** Vila quips that Servalan's idea of fair play "is to shoot a blind man in the back." Then realises that's exactly what she did to Dayna's father.
** And this from a member of the Teal Diplomatic Corp.
-->'''Max:''' He's a professional killer! He's a professional killer. That's not exactly the way a normal person would...
-->'''Dieter:''' Have you ever thought you might be in the wrong business, Max?
* PropRecycling
* SayingTooMuch
* SmugSmiler: Servalan
* SmugSnake: Vinni
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: The announcer vs. the producer.
* TruceZone
* UncannyValley: ProfessionalKiller Deeta and BloodKnight Dayna both realise something is off about Vinni.
* WarForFunAndProfit
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: As Del Tarrant killed Vinni, that means he's the new First Champion of the United Planets of Teal.
-->'''Avon/Tarrant:''' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Bring us up, Cally!]] ''(Cut to credits)''
-->-- '''Del Tarrant'''
The United Planets of Teal and the Vandor Confederacy wage ritual war in a CombatByChampion. When Tarrant's twin brother is killed during the latest combat game, he decides to take on the killer.
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!!This episode has the following tropes:
* AbandonedWarehouse: The Deeta/Vinni combat takes place in the derelict Wembley Exhibition Halls. Fortunately they didn't [[Series/TheProfessionals run into CI5]] while they were there.
* ActingForTwo
* AnachronismStew / RevolversAreBetter
* ABirthdayNotABreak
* BlatantLies
-->'''Servalan:''' Scrupulous fairness is one of my small, personal obsessions.
* CombatByChampion / DuelToTheDeath
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Cally is the only one turned off by the idea.
* ExactWords: Avon is going to see a sick friend, and they don't come sicker than Servalan!
* FoeRomanceSubtext
-->'''Avon:''' Oh, no, not "naturally," Madam President. You do not NATURALLY answer a question from an enemy who has no NATURAL right to ask it.
-->'''Servalan:''' But I don't think of YOU as an enemy, Avon. I think of YOU as a future friend.
-->'''Avon:''' [puts his arm about Servalan and pulls her against him] Your plan had better be fireproof, Servalan, or I'll see you burn with it. [snog passionately]
* FuturisticSuperhighway: Max and Deeta travel in a high-speed sub-surface shuttle.
* HatesBeingTouched: After Max shakes Avon's hand, the latter looks at his own palm in distaste.
* InTheBack: Neither Tarrant brother is willing to shoot Vinni from behind.
* ItsPersonal: Dayna re Servalan.
* LoopholeAbuse
** The Vandor Confederacy attempt to assasinate Deeta before he gets to the combat grounds, making the attempt the moment war is declared so it's legal.
** Dayna puts a gun to Servalan's head and makes her sweat. An assault on an Arbiter is a violation of the rules, but as she has a Blood Feud and didn't actually kill her (violating the TruceZone) she's just banned from the planet.
** Orac states that as the medical checkup didn't take place, Teal has the right to declare the duel invalid and insist it be fought again with new Champions. With the medical checkup done prior, this time.
* MundaneUtility: Orac gripes about being used to relay viscasts of the duel, but they find a more effective use -- hacking into the battle computer to find out where Tarrant is going to be dueling ahead of time.
* OpenMouthInsertFoot:
** Vila quips that Servalan's idea of fair play "is to shoot a blind man in the back." Then realises that's exactly what she did to Dayna's father.
** And this from a member of the Teal Diplomatic Corp.
-->'''Max:''' He's a professional killer! He's a professional killer. That's not exactly the way a normal person would...
-->'''Dieter:''' Have you ever thought you might be in the wrong business, Max?
* PropRecycling
* SayingTooMuch
* SmugSmiler: Servalan
* SmugSnake: Vinni
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: The announcer vs. the producer.
* TruceZone
* UncannyValley: ProfessionalKiller Deeta and BloodKnight Dayna both realise something is off about Vinni.
* WarForFunAndProfit
* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: As Del Tarrant killed Vinni, that means he's the new First Champion of the United Planets of Teal.
-->'''Avon/Tarrant:''' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Bring us up, Cally!]] ''(Cut to credits)''
