For those who need to refresh their TV Tropes knowledge..  
                      The Magnificent Bastard is most known for being crazy-prepared and seemingly planning everything ahead to the point of pretty much always succeeding or having a failure be part of the plan. So to have a Vamp type character beat a Bastard by a simple shove is close to dishonorable. 
                  In Lord Asriel's defense, he did sort-of-almost-not-exactly think it might happen and then might've pulled an unplanned Xanatos.   |