At bottom, the agreement is about postponing any ultimate showdown until the president is called on to nominate a Supreme Court justice.

Melee, created the "ultimate showdown" between a spartan (Halo) and Samus Aran in Haloid, a portmanteau of their respective franchises.

Other signs come to him as he and Maya take a journey full of strange occurrences, self-discovery and an ultimate showdown.

It all leads up to the ultimate showdown.

For all their intensity and electricity, those times only served as a tease for the ultimate showdown.

In the end, if things came to an ultimate showdown, Hubert still was his, to do with as he must, even unto death.

You'll have to push yourself to the limit to survive the ultimate showdown in strategic warfare.

The Lord Protector travels to the heart of a magical evil and sets the stage for the ultimate showdown between good and evil.

There were other motifs, too, most famously perhaps the minimalist "High Noon" poster billing the election as the ultimate showdown between the government and the people.

Winners chosen by the audience (via applause-o-meter, naturally) advanced to an intermediate round, where two contestants emerged as finalists headed toward the ultimate showdown.