God I hate the trope in stories, especially Anime/Manga where boys declare they're going to have a duel and the winner gets the girl. Like ... For fucks sake, there is no universe in which I'm going to suddenly decide I want to be with the person who just beat the crap out of/killed the person I love. And I am going to seriously reconsider my love for a person if their sense of HONOR demands they fight/kill someone for pretty much any reason other than protecting someone else from imminent and severe injury or death. Otherwise, we just tell the assholes to fuck off, walk away, and cuddle in peace. They can call us cowards and die mad, I don't give a shit.
@JessTheUnstill As a preadolescent I was really into Arthurian romance.
Recently I was reading some cheesy TTRPG scenario that was explicitly the Knights of the Roundtable in mechs, and they're going on about the looming tragedy implied by the love triangle of Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot, and I'm thinking, seriously, there's an obvious solution if the three of you just talked it out like adults.