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"Kane is going to kick Triple H's ass, but by god, he's going to do it while abiding to the rules of tag team wrestling! Look at him grip that tag rope tightly! With rage!"

"Good! Now we can fight as warriors! Hand to hand! It is the basis of all combat! Only a fool trusts his life to a weapon!"
Cyborg Ninja, Metal Gear Solid

"All he has to do is give the order and Valentinian is a pincushion. You couldn't even see his body"
Belisarius shook his head, "No Rajput would obey that order and Damodara knows it."

Bart: Okay, Lamarr, go for your gun!
Hedley Lamarr: Wait, wait — I'm unarmed.
Bart: Okay, we'll settle this like men — with our fists. [Throws his gun away]
Hedley Lamarr: Wait, I just remembered; I am armed. [Produces a gun]

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

"Bloody Marquise of Fantailler!"
—Last words of many a misguided 'gentleman' of the Disc.

"Stuff the bloody Marquise of Fantailler!"
—Opening words of many, many 'ungentlemanly' characters of the Disc (usually while watching aforementioned gentlemen).

Enough expository banter! Now, we fight like men! And ladies! And ladies who dress like men! For Gilgamesh... IT IS MORPHING TIME!
Gilgamesh, Final Fantasy V

Optimus Primal: (after Dinobot pulls him up from nearly falling into a chasm during their duel.) What are you doing? You'd won!
Dinobot: You slipped. To defeat you in such a manner would be lacking in honor. I would not have earned the right to lead. I prefer to beat my opponents the old-fashioned way. Brutally!

Referee: You are here on a matter of honor. I am here to see that you settle it honorably. There will be no back-stabbing, you will not throw your blades, nor will you use weapons other than those agreed. If quarter should be asked-
Rob Roy: No quarter will be asked.
Cunningham: Or given.
Rob Roy, just before the climactic Sword Fight

Yon-Rogg: I'm so proud of you. You've come a long way since I found you that day by the lake. But can you turn off your emotions long enough to take me on? Or will they get the better of you, as always? I told you, you'll be ready the day you could knock me down as yourself. This is that moment! This is that moment, Vers! Turn off the light show, and prove, prove to me, you can beat me without —
[Vers/Carol Danvers simply shoots him far away with a photon blast, and walks towards him]
Carol: I have nothing to prove to you.

"No weapons! No tricks! Just you and me! Byron Williams! The heavyweight champion of the world!"
Byron Williams, Mars Attacks!

"McPherson. Stop striking the enemy in the groin with your grenades. It's uncivilized."
— The quote under "Throwing Weapons", Battletech: A Time of War

"It's my understanding that you, Duke, are a formidable swordsman. What say we end this shite as gentlemen? After all, manners maketh man."
Shepherd, The King's Man

"Kamen Rider Fourze! Let's settle this man-to-man!"
Gentaro Kisaragi, Kamen Rider Fourze

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