Riddick initially struggles just to survive, an elemental fight that has a nice metaphoric resonance for the series.
Desperation and pressure, those evil twins, gnawed away at Novak Djokovic's spirit to lift the emotional Serb to his second Wimbledon triumph on a warm Sunday afternoon, a strangely mellow setting for such an elemental fight with the people's champion, Roger Federer.
The heroic child (always a boy, unlike Hushpuppy) is a staple of Mr. Spielberg's universe, and so is the kind of elemental battle that Hushpuppy must fight.
Four years later, he was immense in the War on the Shore, sharing a 2 and 1 victory with Ballesteros over Azinger and Chip Beck that was at times almost as elemental as a fist fight.
You spend much of the game summoning various kinds of elementals and demons to fight the other side, including kraken, juggernauts, wraiths, and gorgons.
From Errol Flynn's swashbucklers through George Lucas's light-saber duels, mass entertainment probably still has no better frame for the elemental mano-a-mano conflict than a sword fight.
The publisher of Superman and Batman, right, has produced more than 40 million copies of comic books starring the Bionicles, the Lego heroes who fight evil with elemental powers.
The great allure of the superhero, of course, is that he has the tools necessary not only to fight the more elemental forms of evil, but also to pre-empt them: to sweep down, cape flying, whenever ordinary law enforcement fails to anticipate or reckon with a threat.
Pokémon Go does include the familiar elemental resistance system, but all the fights I've been in so far haven't benefited from it.
In Black and White, you'll receive an elemental monkey in the Dreamyard which will make the fight for your first badge much easier.
To ensure lots of variety, players first choose an elemental class for their new hero, and then a battle class, which dictates how they'll fight – with magic, braun or weaponry.
