History Main / TheWhyWaitCombatant

->'''Quarles''': I'm gonna kill you, Raylan. Maybe not tonight, maybe not tomorrow, but one day you'll be walking down the street and I'm going to put a bullet in the back of your skull and you'll drop.
->'''Raylan''': ''[firing his gun]'' Why wait?

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-->'''Maverick:''' Who wants to play poker? (others at the table raise their hands) Who wants to see some guy get killed? (hands go down). C'mon, let's play poker.

* ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'': Kirk is relying on this response from Khan. The Enterprise is heading into the Mutara Nebula, where none of the Reliant's tactical advantages will matter. Kirk needs Khan to follow him because if he breaks off, they have a starship and can go anywhere they want with a Doomsday Weapon on board. So, he goads Khan with a taunt. Khan swallows the bait, hook, line, and sinker:

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* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': When Redcloak [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0149.html learns]] that he can become Supreme Leader of the hobgoblins by [[KlingonPromotion vanquishing the incumbent]], he hits the hobgoblin he mistakes for the Supreme Leader with a [[TouchofDeath Slay Living]] spell [[KilledMidSentence mid-sentence]]. (The actual Supreme Leader decides not to push his luck.)

* In ''Film/ThePatriot'', Colonel Tavington responds with these exact words when Benjamin Martin tells him that he will kill him before [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution the war]] is over.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': When the computer club president challenges the SOS Brigade to a duel, no sooner does the "d" word leave his lips than Haruhi, without waiting for an explanation, does a flying kick to his head. She justifies it by saying that a duel is a duel from the moment the word is mentioned.
* ''LightNovel/{{Konosuba}}'' has knight errant Mitsurugi Kyouya encounter Aqua being carted through town in a cage, and immediately presumes she needs rescuing. Mitsurugi challenges Satou Kazuma to a duel, with Aqua as the "prize." Presented with a "can't lose" situation (if Kazuma wins, he gains experience points; if he loses, he forfeits TheLoad Aqua), Kazuma leaps at the opportunity, taking two quick swings at Mitsurugi, making him backpedal. Kazuma then uses his Steal ability, which nets him his opponent's cursed sword. Kazuma simply bonks his stunned opponent with the flat side of the sword, and the duel is won.

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': The Golden Pair arc. Ranma and Akane are already scheduled for a duel with Mikado and Azusa. However, when Mikado steals a kiss from girl-type Ranma (helpless on the ice in her skates, not knowing how to skate at the time), Ranma runs to the restroom, transforms back to himself, and tells Mikado he's not waiting for the duel. He charges Mikado on the ice. The end result? Ranma gets knocked out the whirling spiral the two were in, but gets to his feet. Mikado? He'd been beaten unconscious where he stood.

* ''Fanfic/InterNos'': An officer denied promotion for belligerent behavior challenges Natsuki to a duel. He informs her that he'll take her on anytime, and anywhere. She asks him three times if he's sure, to make certain that he really means it. When he confirms he does? She replies, "Then, now." and lobs a steel dart [[EyeScream into his left eye]]. Then her second dart nicks a vital artery. She informs him the duel is over, and to go see the medic. He doesn't listen, and as a result, expires.

* Inverted in ''Film/{{Maverick}}''. Maverick is at a card game, and one of his opponents suggests he should get a do-over because he wasn't ready. The young man in question reveals that he is a renowned gunfighter, and Maverick agrees to the do-over, causing some at the table to accuse him of cowardice. He rises from his seat, prompting the gunfighter to rise as well, to which Maverick tells him to hold on, that he's merely expounding on his point, and that he doesn't see what's so good about bravery. He's a gambler, and would like to be an old gambler. The kid is a gunfighter, and a good one. What chance would Maverick have? "Zero." he states, while drawing his gun faster than the eye can follow. He then says he's there to play poker.

* ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'': Kirk is relying on this response from Khan. The Enterprise is heading into the Mutara Nebula, where none of the Reliant's tactical advantages will matter. Kirk needs Khan to follow him, because if he breaks off, they have a starship and can go anywhere they want with a Doomsday Weapon on board. So, he goads Khan with a taunt. Khan swallows the bait, hook, line, and sinker:

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* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': "Hundred Dollar Baby"; Sweet Dee and Frank are harassed in a boxing gym by Frank's old rival Bobby Thunderson and his daughter. When Dee doesn?t show up for a fight with the daughter, Frank challenges Bobby, who begins laying out a laundry list of rules... until Frank throws a hook punch and knocks him out mid sentence.

* ''Series/{{Oz}}'': Vasquez taunts Alvarez with the fact that his attempt to serve as a rat in the Latinos will get him sent to solitary, and promises to kill him should he ever get out. Alvarez promptly tells him to BringIt, and stabs him to death.

* ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'': As their argument escalates, Philip angrily suggests to George that he'll "see you on the duelling ground, unless you want to go outside and go now." George tells him to "piss off" and let him watch the show.

->'''Raylan''' (firing his gun): Why wait?

--> '''Maverick:''' Who wants to play poker? (others at the table raise their hands) Who wants to see some guy get killed? (hands go down). C'mon, let's play poker.

* ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'': Kirk is relying on this response from Khan. The Enterprise is heading into the Mutara Nebula, where none of the Reliant's tactical advantages will matter. Kirk NEEDS Khan to follow him, because if he breaks off, they have a starship and can go anywhere they want with a Doomsday Weapon on board. So, he goads Khan with a taunt. Khan swallows the bait, hook, line, and sinker:
--> '''Khan:''' Full Impulse Power.

-->'''Judge:''' The duel will be tomorrow morning at Kaytree Pond.
-->'''Mal:''' Well, why wait? Where's that guard? He collected a whole mess of pistols.
-->'''Judge:''' If you require it, any gentleman here can give you the use of a sword.
-->'''Mal:''' Use of a sw--what?

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': In the Sith Inquisitor's storyline, eventually the Inquisitor will be challenged by Darth Thanaton to a Kaggath: an UpToEleven duel where Sith lords pit their entire power bases against each other in a battle to the death. While in the game the player must slowly whittle down Darth Thanaton's power base by killing or turning his allies, a datapad entry makes mention of one occasion where a powerful Sith Lord declared a Kaggath... only for his [[NoNonsenseNemesis intended]] [[CombatPragmatist target]] to behead him before he'd even finished.

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