- 2 Guns: The climactic shootout is between the two heroes and the entire Big Bad Ensemble, who spend as much time shooting each other.
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy:
- Parodied when a brawl between rival news broadcast teams escalates to ridiculous levels as all the other stations in San Diego show up one by one.
- This is parodied further in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, where Burgundy and his friends tangle against their cable network rivals, the BBC, sportscasters, apologetic Canadian newscasters, the crews of music, entertainment and history networks, Stonewall Jackson, a Minotaur and retired news anchor/werewolf Mack Tannen.
- Parodied in The Blues Brothers, where the Chicago Police and the Illinois Nazis hate each other as much as they hate Jake and Elwood.
- The original Dawn of the Dead has a climactic three-way fight between Peter, the zombies, and the bikers invading the mall.
- The Dark Knight:
- During the climax, Batman has to take on the Joker, along with his goons and dogs, while simultaneously incapacitating S.W.A.T. officers who have been fooled by a Disguised Hostage Gambit. Saying the S.W.A.T. officers don't cause much of a problem would be an understatement, however.
- Earlier in the film, the Joker sets one of these up between three goons, forcing them into working for him, but claiming that only one spot is open and holding "try-outs". He leaves a broken pool cue in front of them and leaves, telling them to "Make it fast."
- District 9 has one around the climax. Wikus and his Mini-Mecha versus the MNU Mercenaries versus the Nigerian Gangsters.
- A very short but awesome fight happens between Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, and Jackie Chan in Dragons Forever.
- The wuxia Duel For Gold climaxes its first act with an extensive sword duel between the thieving Yu sisters, Security chief Master Teng, and legendary bandit Teng.
- Freaks of Nature features a town where humans, zombies, and vampires leave at peace with each other until aliens arrive. Immediately, humans and vampires accuse the other of bringing the aliens to get rid of them and zombies riot because they haven't received their brains yet. This results in a town-wide fight between all three populations, who are then all attacked by the aliens.
- Godfathers of Hong Kong climaxes with two opposing triad factions slicing and dicing each other into bits, while the Hong Kong riot police tries to break up the battle by beating the snot out of everyone present.
- The famous climax of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is a Mexican Standoff between the three eponymous leads, well-known enough that almost half of it is in the theatrical trailer, although it stops short of showing the outcome. Although a picture of the scene would make a good trope-picture, it turns out to have a minor subversion since The Good had unloaded The Ugly's revolver, so he knew there was only one threat on the field. But since the viewers and the other two combatants didn't know, the delightful tension before the battle was still there.
- The film adaptation of Hitman. Agent 47 and three other assassins are at an impasse. However, rather than the usual resolution, they drop their guns, pull out swords, and deal with each other in that manner instead. Of course, it's not entirely clear why the other assassins go at each other since they're on the same side. Presumably, the guy who takes out 47 gets the bounty on his head.
- Killer Elite. The hitman protagonist Danny is tied to a chair by his antagonist, ex-SAS man Logan for interrogation and killing. A third party then enters and takes Danny prisoner, binding his hands behind his back. This leads to a three-way fight involving two bound badasses trying to kill their captor and each other at the same time.
- The final battle in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has the Romans and Greeks fighting the Siege of Syracuse when Voller's neo-Nazis show up through the time fissure, and a panicking Klaber begins attacking both sides indiscriminately. Which promptly motivates the Greek and the Romans to take opportunistic turns shooting the Neo-Nazis down in retaliation.
- The final shootout in Lethal Weapon 4 is between the LAPD, The Triads and the Tongs, and the Chinese military.
- Marvel Cinematic Universe:
- This is how four of the five team members meet in Guardians of the Galaxy. Quill has stolen an item of immense value and has a bounty on his head; Gamora wants the item and Rocket and Groot want the bounty. Gamora and Quill get into a battle in the middle of a busy street, with mildly interested onlookers watching. Just as she's about to deal the killing blow, Rocket and Groot come out of the woodworks and the fight becomes one of these, with Quill trying to escape and the others trying to take each other out of commission without losing Quill in the process. Then they all get arrested.
- The finale of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 features this, with the Guardians battling the main villain Ego before being interrupted by the Sovereigns and having to fight them as well.
- A brief example in Avengers: Age of Ultron with the Avengers (minus Hulk) vs. Ultron, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver vs. Klaw's gang.
- Ant-Man and the Wasp: The climax involves three factions entangled in an extended Chase Scene, battling each other for possession of the miniaturized Pym Lab and the technology inside it: The heroes, Sonny Burch and his men, and Ghost. The FBI also gets involved outside of the chase, trying to arrest Hank and Hope and bust Scott for breaking house arrest.
- Eternals: Kro's attack in the final battle leads to this: Ikaris is fighting to stop the other Eternals from their plan, Kro wants to kill them all to avenge his fellow Deviants, and the Eternals fight Kro in both self-defense and to stop him from absorbing Ikaris' powers.
- The Matrix:
- In The Matrix Reloaded, Morpheus and Trinity vs. the Merovingian's twin wraiths vs. two Agents, during the highway chase involving the Keymaker. One of the twins even helps Morpheus aim at an Agent when he interrupts their own Gun Struggle.
- In The Matrix Revolutions, it is the humans vs. the Machines vs. Smith and his clones. By the end of the movie, Smith is a sufficient threat to unite the other two against him, leading to a ceasefire.
- Millionaires' Express is a 1986 Hong Kong movie that appears to juggle a complex set of storylines... until the final 25 minutes or so, when the movie erupted into an all-out anarchic brawl spanning an entire town and involving some of the biggest names in Hong Kong movie ass-kicking at the time: Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Hwang Jang Lee, Cynthia Rothrock, Yukari Oshima, Corey Yuen, Dick Wei, Richard Norton, Lam Ching-ying, and Yasuaki Kurata among them.
- Mission: Impossible – Fallout: The battle at the London safehouse splits into a conflict with at least five sides. Ethan and his team are trying to capture Solomon Lane and Walker non-lethally, Lane is just trying to escape, Ilsa is trying to kill Lane, Walker and his men are trying to kill everyone else, and Erica Sloane wants her men to capture everyone for questioning.
- Money Talks: The climax features a shootout at a baseball stadium with four factions: the two heroes and a couple of Gangbanger friends of Franklin, the Inspector Javert cops, the French thieves and their mercenaries, and several Mafia goons who Franklin offered a cut of the diamonds in exchange for muscle, but who are planning to betray and kill him.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: All of the movies have some point or another where this sort of thing happens. It's almost always Pirates vs. other Pirates vs. navy soldiers from Britain or Spain. Or all of them against Jack Sparrow, because he's just so likable.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: The crew of the Black Pearl vs. James Norrington and the British vs. Will Turner and Sparrow. Until Sparrow starts betraying everyone, and it seems to all almost work out in the end. Turner betrays Norrington to make sure it does.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: Will Turner vs. Jack Sparrow vs. James Norrington, with Elizabeth standing disgusted on the sidelines. Notably, does not feature two of the sides joining temporarily. Unless you count Will and Norrington both attacking Jack and ducking out of each other's way, but that doesn't last long. There are also Davy Jones' crews who have come to recover the title chest while the three is busy fighting, and it's up to Elizabeth to team up with Pintel and Ragetti to keep it out of their hands.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End:
- At the beginning we have: Barbossa's pirates vs. British Redcoats vs. Sao Feng's pirates, but the two illegal factions quickly postpone their differences for a later date.
- Later on, after Davy Jones breaks free of Lord Beckett, this leads to the Jack's Black Pearl crew vs. Davy Jones' Flying Dutchman crew, and Beckett's British Navy forces.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Blackbeard's crew vs. Barbossa's crew vs. the Spanish for control of the Fountain of Youth, with Jack caught in the middle once again.
- Star Wars: From Rogue One, during the ambush of a kyber crystals convoy in Jedha City, Saw Guererra's partisans attack Imperial soldiers. Jyn and Cassian gets caught in the crossfire; they mostly fight stormtroopers to get out of the danger zone, but at one point Cassian shoots a partisan that is about to throw a grenade in Jyn's direction, and the explosion kills several others. Unsurprisingly, when the duo is caught by them at a later time, the partisans aren't happy with him.
- Swordsman: The East Is Red ends with a lengthy naval battle between the film's constantly-feuding parties: the Portuegese conquistadores, Japanese Man-O-War, and the Ming Navy. With Asia the Invincible the Anti-Hero protagonist manipulating the three behind the scenes.
- The Hong Kong heist film Three Against the World concerns three parties constantly trying to outsmart each other to gain possession of a priceless Quran. So basically, Mêlée à Trois the movie.
- The climax of the martial arts movie Vengeance ends with the protagonist, the corrupt military general and his lieutenants, and the triads slashing each other to deaths. With NO survivors by the end of the fight.
- The climax of The Warrior's Way ends with a fierce battle between Yang and the townspeople, the Colonel's army, and the Sad Flutes.
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