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->'''Dooku:''' Master Yoda.\\
'''Yoda:''' Count Dooku.\\
'''Dooku:''' You have interfered with our affairs for the last time. (''hurls various debris at Yoda, who catches and throws it aside'')\\
'''Yoda:''' Powerful you have become, Dooku. TheDarkSide, I sense in you.\\
'''Dooku:''' [[BadassBoast I've become more powerful than any Jedi. Even you!]] (''shoots Force Lightning at Yoda, [[NoSell who deflects it all]]'')\\
'''Yoda:''' Much to learn, you still have.\\
'''Dooku:''' It is obvious that this contest cannot be decided by our knowledge of The Force... (''ignites lightsaber'') But by our skills with a [[LaserBlade lightsaber]].\\
'''Yoda:''' (''draws his own lightsaber and fights Dooku to a stalemate'') Fought well, you have...[[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil my old padawan]].\\
'''Dooku:''' This is just the ''beginning!''
-->--''Franchise/StarWars: Episode II - Film/AttackOfTheClones''
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-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: High Elves Army Book (4th Edition)''

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-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: High Elves Army Book (4th Edition)''Edition)''

->Inevitably, such plots and counterplots can lead to rivalry or even outright conflict between different [[CourtMage Crypteks]] and conclaves. This, in turn, can lead to duels of [[MagicFromTechnology technosorcery]] that inevitably result in the losing Cryptek suffering [[CruelAndUnusualDeath a most unpleasant if scientifically impressive fate]] - such as being transmuted into liquid adamantium, moved a nanosecond out of phase with the rest of the universe or being transformed into a speck of dwarf-star matter and hurled across the galaxy.
-->-- ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Codex - Necrons (5th ed)''
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-->--''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''

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-->--''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''-->--''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''

->At the very heart of the battle, [[TheArchmage Teclis]] wrestled with the dark sorcery of the [[SorcerousOverlord Witch King]]. Naggaroth's dark master had perfected his evil arts over long millennia and for the first time, Teclis met a foe that was his match. Awesome magical energies were focussed and brought to bear. Lightning streaked the darkening sky. Terrible clouds, capable of stripping men to the bone, were turned aside by magical winds. Daemons howled and gibbered as they surged through the carnage. Teclis strode into the sky to better observe the battle. From the blasted hilltop, the Witch King matched him spell for spell.
-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: High Elves Army Book (4th Edition)''
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-->--''Nightwise''

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-->--''Nightwise''-->--''Nightwise''

->'''Harry Potter:''' ''[[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands Expelliarmus!]]''\\
'''Voldemort:''' ''[[DeathRay Avada Kedavra!]]''
-->--''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''
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->[[BigBad He]] tried to cook my bones; [[BlueCollarMage I]] absorbed the heat and turned it into five hundred pounds of impaling invisible force moving at roughly eighty-five miles an hour straight into him. He dispersed it into a fragmentation rain, spraying both of us, cutting like a storm of nails and razor blades. The sacrifice play gave him the time he needed to follow up with a spear of devouring light. My partial lack of a soul actually gave me an upper hand in weathering it, which surprised the old bastard. I sent lightning into his spine, crisping his nervous system. He retorted by causing my lower intestines to rupture and boil. He knocked aside my defensive spell and gave me a concussion, which was supposed to shatter my skull. The push left him open, however, and I managed to counterstrike more out of reflex than any tactics. I made his blood boil like he was in a vacuum. He countered and punched, and I countered it and punched.

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->[[BigBad He]] tried to [[PlayingWithFire cook my bones; [[BlueCollarMage bones]]; [[BlueCollarWarlock I]] absorbed the heat and turned it into five hundred pounds of impaling invisible force moving at roughly eighty-five miles an hour straight into him. He dispersed it into a fragmentation rain, spraying both of us, cutting like a storm of nails and razor blades. The sacrifice play gave him the time he needed to follow up with a spear of devouring light. [[TheSoulless My partial lack of a soul soul]] [[NoSell actually gave me an upper hand in weathering it, it]], which surprised the old bastard. I [[ShockAndAwe sent lightning into his spine, spine]], crisping his nervous system. He retorted by causing my lower intestines to rupture and boil. He knocked aside my defensive spell and gave me a concussion, which was supposed to shatter my skull. The push left him open, however, and I managed to counterstrike more out of reflex than any tactics. I [[BloodyMurder made his blood boil like he was in a vacuum.vacuum]]. He countered and punched, and I countered it and punched.
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-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Book Of Shadows''

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-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Book Of Shadows''Shadows''

->[[BigBad He]] tried to cook my bones; [[BlueCollarMage I]] absorbed the heat and turned it into five hundred pounds of impaling invisible force moving at roughly eighty-five miles an hour straight into him. He dispersed it into a fragmentation rain, spraying both of us, cutting like a storm of nails and razor blades. The sacrifice play gave him the time he needed to follow up with a spear of devouring light. My partial lack of a soul actually gave me an upper hand in weathering it, which surprised the old bastard. I sent lightning into his spine, crisping his nervous system. He retorted by causing my lower intestines to rupture and boil. He knocked aside my defensive spell and gave me a concussion, which was supposed to shatter my skull. The push left him open, however, and I managed to counterstrike more out of reflex than any tactics. I made his blood boil like he was in a vacuum. He countered and punched, and I countered it and punched.
->A war of magic, a duel between wizards, isn't exactly like you see in the movies or read about in books. Sure, there are spells of harm and defense cast, but at some point, sometimes sooner, [[CombatBreakdown technique fails you, training fails you]], and you are left with heart and spirit, blood and balls. As with boxers in the twelfth round, it all comes down to the will and the ego, and trust me, wizards have plenty of both.
-->--''Nightwise''
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->Back in the days before even the Mythic Paradigm was in place, [[TheArchmage the Pure Ones]] dueled through storms and rain, wind and sun. They boiled up great lava flows from the earth and summoned down huge mountains from the sky. [[PersonOfMassDestruction Their conflicts formed oceans, raised glaciers, birthed islands, and, some say, started an ice age]]. Who would blame the [[{{Muggles}} Sleepers]] for their thinking these warring Pure Ones were gods? Many times, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero whole tribes were wiped out by the battles of these "gods."]]
-> In the early Mythic Age, I know there were many kinds of magickal contests: the [[ShapeshifterShowdown shapechanging duel]][[note]]some fought in their new forms, some didn't[[/note]], the [[MindOverMatter contests of Will]][[note]] where a great bell was hung between two adepts and the first to cause the thing to ring won[[/note]], the [[DieOrFly contests of Fate]][[note]]where two mages would leap off a cliff, each holding an eagle's egg - the winner would be the one who landed alive with the egg intact[[/note]], and the [[MasterOfOneMagic Duel Arcane]][[note]]where a single Sphere was the focus, and the mage who could demonstrate a greater facility and understanding of a particular area of magic was considered the winner[[/note]]. It was not until the [[SarcasmMode grand and glorious]] [[HermeticMagic Order of Hermes]] turned its thoughts to dueling that we were given a means of true testing! That's right, boy. What I'm talking about is Certamen. Evolved from an ancient contest put to members of the old Cult of Mercury, Certamen was a true testting of the full measure of a mage without possible harm to Sleepers nearby or the mages themselves. Now we can settle our conflicts on the field of honor, just like in the old days, without dragging the locals into it.
-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - Book Of Shadows''
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The prison opening, the chain that snaps.\\''

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The prison opening, the chain that snaps.\\''
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On sand of pearls in Elvenland.\\''

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On sand of pearls in Elvenland.\\''
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Thunder rumbles, the fires burn--\\''

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Thunder rumbles, the fires burn--\\''
burn--''
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-->-- Hotep and Huy, ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''

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-->-- Hotep and Huy, ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''

->''He chanted a song of wizardry\\
Of piercing, opening, of treachery\\
Revealing, uncovering, betraying.\\
Then sudden Felagund there swaying\\
Sang in answer song of staying,\\
Of resisting, battling against power,\\
Of secrets kept, strength like a tower,\\
Of trust unbroken, freedom, escape;\\
Of changing and of shifting shape,\\
Of snares eluded, broken traps,\\
The prison opening, the chain that snaps.\\''

->''Backwards and forwards swayed their song,\\
Reeling and foundering as ever more strong\\
The chanting swelled, Felagund fought\\
And all the magic and might he brought\\
Of Elvenesse into his words.\\
Softly in the gloom they heard the birds\\
Singing afar in Nargothrond,\\
The sighing of the Sea beyond,\\
Beyond the Western world on sand,\\
On sand of pearls in Elvenland.\\''

->''Then the gloom gathered; darkness growing\\
In Valinor the red blood flowing,\\
Beside the sea where the Noldor slew\\
The Foamriders and stealing drew\\
Their white ships with white sails\\
From lamplit havens. The wind wails\\
The wolf howls. The ravens flee.\\
The ice mutters in the mouths of the sea.\\
The captives sad in Angband mourn.\\
Thunder rumbles, the fires burn--\\''

->''And Finrod fell before the throne.''

-->-- An excerpt from ''The Lay of Leithian'', ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''
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-->-- Hotep and Huy, ''ThePrinceOfEgypt''

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-->-- Hotep and Huy, ''ThePrinceOfEgypt''''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''
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Every spell and gesture\\

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Every spell and gesture\\[[MagicalGesture gesture]]\\



Pick up your silly twig, boy\\

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Pick up [[MagicStaff your silly twig, twig]], boy\\
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Tells you who's the best! You're

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Tells you who's the best! You'reYou're\\
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->''You're playing with the big boys now\\
Playing with the big boys now\\
Every spell and gesture\\
Tells you who's the best! You're
Playing with the big boys, now!\\
You're playing with the big boys now!\\
You're playing with the big boys now!\\
Stop this foolish mission\\
Watch a ''true'' magician\\
Give an exhibition how!\\
Pick up your silly twig, boy\\
You're playing with the big boys '''now!''' ''
-->-- Hotep and Huy, ''ThePrinceOfEgypt''

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