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Sometimes someone is just too good at something. There is no way you can beat them at it. Or they have humiliated you once too often in their field of expertise. You decide to fix it so they can never beat you ever again. Crippling the Competition is when someone, usually a villain, injures their rival to get the advantage. A Sub-Trope of Career-Ending Injury, Crippling the Competition is always a deliberate act done with malice and forethought. Can overlap with Game-Breaking Injury if it occurs during the final showdown. Sometimes the opponent to the crippled competition isn't actually the one who did the deed and said opponent may not even have desired it. In these cases, the person responsible for crippling the competition generally is either a misguided fan trying to help, or a third party that stands to gain from a certain outcome of the match. When applied to superpowered beings, this trope may lead to them being Brought Down to Normal. Often overlaps with Fingore. Frequently leads to Throwing Off the Disability. A Sub-Trope of Removing the Rival. It's commonly the purpose of Unnecessary Roughness unless the roughness has no purpose and is just For the Evulz. Different from Make an Example of Them, where in some cases the victim's punishment might deliberately target their ability to perform, but the motivation is not the fear of competition. For example, this trope would be a bunch of mobsters might break the legs of a championship marathon runner so the guy they're betting on will win, whereas, with Make an Example of Them, the mobsters break the marathon runner's legs because he failed to pay his gambling debts. Note that in real life this can backfire, especially in team sports, where a player getting taken out can encourage their teammates to step up their game. Some coaches even tell their players to "punish them on the scoreboard" rather than physically retaliating. Not to be confused with Blasting It Out of Their Hands. If the person being crippled attempts to compete or fight anyway, this may lead to You Can Barely Stand. And if the person tries to compete despite the attempted crippling, you can always Attack the Injury during the competition to make sure it pays off. |
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In an issue of Hawkman, Green Arrow stops the villainous archer the Spider by shooting out the Spider's eye, destroying his ability to aim unless he manages to switch handedness. | |
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In The Climax, Dr. Hohner initially hypnotises Angela so she will never sing again so that her voice can never outshine that of his beloved Marcellina. When the hypnosis fails, he tries to cut her tongue out. | |
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Ranma ½: Kodachi Kun� tries doing this to Ranma before their big match. However, Akane thwarts each effort. Ry�ga also tries to beat up Ranma before the match, but the fight lasts the entire night without a winner. | |
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Bleach: During the fight between Uryu Ishida and the Soul Reaper Jirobo Ikkanzaka, Uryu fires an arrow into Jirobo in such a way as to prevent him from using spiritual pressure and thus making it impossible to continue as a Soul Reaper. Uryu does the same thing to the arrancar Cirucci Sanderwicci, firing an arrow into her chest to seal off her power. |
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In the Angel episode "Supersymmetry" Fred is ecstatic to publish her paper on superstring theory. Even better is that she's being overseen by Oliver Seidel, her old college professor who she's praised for helping her out. During her presentation, a portal opens and nearly pulls Fred in. Fred realizes that not only is Seidel responsible but he's also the one who opened the portal that caused Fred to spend five years in the demon dimension of Pylea. Worse is Fred going through the records to see that almost every year, one or two very promising students have vanished without a trace and realizes to her horror that Seidel is getting rid of anyone who's smarter than him for fear they'll end up taking his job. Needless to say, her reaction is a grand combination of Broken Pedestal and Murder Is the Best Solution. | |
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Magic: The Gathering has hundreds of cards that reduce another card (or even player's) effectiveness without defeating them outright. For the most part, cards with the "Aura" subtype that aren't meant to be played on one's own cards do this. This is also thematically common on the same cards, perhaps best exemplified by the flavor text of Forced Worship, a card that makes a creature unable to attack: | |
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In an episode of Bones the Victim of the Week had done this to himself shortly before he was killed: he slammed his right hand with a desk drawer to break it, in order to remove the temptation of going to a music school to study piano. | |
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In an episode of Coach the Orlando Breakers are in Buffalo to play the Bills when Luther accepts a dinner of Buffalo Wings from a bar/restaurant called "Buffalo Billy's." The entire team comes down with food poisoning and Coach Fox has to draft anyone he can find to fill the uniforms. Afterward, Luther goes back to "Billy's" and asks the owner if it was intentional. The owner says no, but isn't too convincing about it. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Team Homer", Mr. Burns forces his way onto Homer's bowling team (for which he was tricked into writing a $500 check), the team is disgusted at the old man's complete ineptitude but cannot simply kick him off. Moe hatches a plan to bash in his knee with a lead pipe so he can't play. Unfortunately, he does so when Burns is already indisposed and his whack on the knee has the exact opposite effect: the injured Burns is able to play again. | |
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In D2: The Mighty Ducks, Wolf "The Dentist" Stanson whacks Gordon Bombay's bad leg, keeping Bombay from winning a game of three bar against him. | |
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In Gunsmith Cats, Rally has a habit of shooting the hands (specifically the trigger fingers) of opposing gunmen. Some have come back looking for revenge because of their crippled hands. | |
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Combat Kelly and his Deadly Dozen: When Kelly refuses to throw his fight against the Nazi champion in #3, the Nazis rough him up and break his ribs, giving their boxer an easy target to aim for during the bout. | |
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Inverted in Golden Sun, where instead of using Psynergy to preemptively defeat Colosso competitors, you use it to give Isaac an unfair advantage by using non-combat abilities to make the obstacle course section easier (such as moving a log to form a bridge, creating a vine ladder, blocking a conveyor belt mechanism, etc.). | |
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In episode 3 of Rimba Racer Tag is whacked on the head with a wrench and spends a couple of days in the hospital but recovers in time for the next race, where he discovers that his car was sabotaged as well. | |
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Mr. Washington does this to the anti-heroine Alex in Momentum. Realising just how badass this particular Action Girl is, Washington stabs her in the leg to prevent her from running or fighting effectively. The wound leaves Alex physically crippled to the extent she's left with a limp. Washington's mistake is underestimating Alex's mental capacity - and since she's The Chessmaster extraordinaire that proves to be fatal. | |
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In Daredevil (2003), Bullseye's hands are injured in the climactic battle with Daredevil, and he says, "You took away my hands! Show mercy!" | |
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In Happy Gilmore, Shooter's psychotic and devoted fan hits Happy with a car during the final showdown. The injury doesn't prevent him from competing, but it does eliminate his incredible long shot, forcing Happy to rely more on the skills he's been developing for his short game. | |
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In Drop Zone, Moncrief's skydiving team sabotages the parachute rig of rival team leader Jess Crossman so that Moncrief's team can win the competition to qualify for the big exhibition jump. Moncrief also wants to neutralize Pete Nessip, the undercover US marshal who has joined Crossman's team. | |
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Starship Troopers is not a Western, but the same philosophy is shown in the film: | |
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In Shining Song Starnova, Mariya mentions that trainee Idol Singers would sabotage their rivals by sticking thumbtacks in their shoes during her time with Quasar. A major incident of this takes place in Nemu’s route, where an increasingly paranoid and jealous Nemu topples a heavy metal shelf onto Starnova’s newest recruit Kaori, breaking the poor girl’s ankle and ending her career. | |
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In A Fistful of Dollars, the bad guys stomp on Joe's hands while beating him. | |
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In an issue of The Winter Soldier, a bad guy arranges for a ballerina to suffer a leg injury in a car accident so that Black Widow can take her place as an understudy. | |
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In The Electric Tale of Pikachu, this plotline is retained with one difference: Dario spooks said Ponyta and knocks Lara off of it himself. | |
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In Carole & Tuesday, while preparing backstage for the Mars Brightest semi-final, Tuesday is sent a package that turns out to contain liquid nitrogen, freeze-burning her hands and preventing her from playing her guitar. Angela suspects her assistant sent the package in an attempt at this trope and fires her. Subverted when the culprit (who wasn't Angela's assistant) turns out to have sent the package for reasons entirely unrelated to the competition. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "Mr. Denton on Doomsday", the title character Al Denton, a washed-up Retired Gunfighter faces off against a young wannabe named Pete Grant in a duel, both using a potion granting quick draw abilities. Both men manage to inflict hand injuries preventing each other from ever using guns again. Denton sees this as a blessing, as it will prevent either from engaging in any more reckless duels. | |
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Coroner Creek: In an attempt to drive Chris out of town, Ernie has his thugs hold Chris while he beats him into unconsciousness, he lays Chris's gun hand on a log and stomps on it, breaking it. | |
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Ice Revolution: The slashed thigh that nearly ended Saaya's career is implied to have resulted from a skating rivalry gone bad similar to the Real Life Harding/Kerrigan affair. Subverted when we meet the so-called perpetrator and learn that it truly was an accident and she's still haunted by guilt. | |
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In the American Dad! episode "Next of Pin", Stan shivs Steve in the ankle to prevent him from winning a bowling competition, as Stan was worried that if Steve won it would drive them further apart. | |
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent: In "Delicate", a ballerina is suffering the lingering effects of an injury she sustained from a shard of broken glass in her shoe. It eventually turns out that the glass was put there deliberately by another girl in the class who was obsessed with the dancer's rival. (The rival herself had no idea about any of this until after it happened and was horrified when she found out, though not to the point where she actually did anything about it.) | |
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In the backstory of Neuromancer, the main character was a hacker who was caught stealing and punished by being given a treatment that destroyed his ability to interface with the matrix. | |
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In the Batman Beyond episode Black Out, Derek Powers hires Inque to sabotage competitor Foxteca, by oozing herself into computers and machines to damage them. | |
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In Robyn Hood, Cal King cuts out Robyn's left eye to destroy her ability as an archer. | |
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In Ratcatcher, Hawkwood gets in a Ten Paces and Turn duel with a young bravo. After his opponent misses, Hawkwood deliberately aims and shoots to cripple his gun arm and prevent him from fighting any further duels. | |
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A self-inflicted example in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance; late in the game, it's revealed that Ike's father Greil had crippled his own arm so that he could never use his sword again—as atonement for slaughtering a great number of people (including his beloved wife Elena) while under the influence of a certain pendant (which only said wife could hold without succumbing to its influence). | |
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Kung Fu Hustle: the Harpist manages to cut the palms of Donut, whose specialty is with staffs. | |
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In the finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang uses Spiritbending to rob Firelord Ozai of his firebending ability, taking away the threat he poses to the world without breaking Aang's Thou Shalt Not Kill policy. | |
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The Tonya Harding case is parodied in an episode of Seinfeld. Jerry is dating Bette Midler's understudy in a stage production of Rochelle, Rochelle. When George and Jerry accidentally injure Midler in a celebrity softball game, forcing Jerry's girlfriend into the role, New Yorkers accuse Jerry of injuring her intentionally. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_7884ec15 | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
| Crippling the Competition / int_793274f3 | comment |
In Cuanta Vida, this turns out to be the modus operandi of the Big Bad, Rojo. The fighters at 2Fort are replaced whenever one is killed, so he decides that the only way to win the Forever War is to disable the enemy non-lethally... but permanently. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_793274f3 | |
| Crippling the Competition / int_7a8eea7e | type |
Crippling the Competition | |
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The Scholomance: The competition for Valedictorian is so fierce that back in the old days, candidates were willing to resort to murder to take out their rivals. The school remedied this by having the rankings only posted at the end of the first semester of a class's senior year so that way none of those in the running would know who was at the front of the pack until it was too late to matter. However, while that stopped most of the killing, it didn't prevent candidates from regularly sabotaging each others' work. These days, the best way to make it Valedictorian is to make sure no one knows you're going for it. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_7a8eea7e | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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Throughout the Fallout series, you can use target shots to aim at enemy body parts. Shooting the eyes or head lowers their accuracy, shooting the arms may prevent them from using certain weapons, and shooting the legs lowers movement speed. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_7f5bc680 | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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In Django, bandits ride over Django's hands with horses in retaliation for stealing gold from them. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_7f78f355 | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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During The Piano Teacher, Erika is enraged at the sight of Walter flirting with one of her students that she goes so far as to fill the pockets of the girl's jacket with glass while it's in the cloakroom. The moment the poor student habitually jams her hands in her pockets, she's promptly cut to ribbons, preventing her from playing at an upcoming concert and giving Anna a chance to substitute. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_82ba86b0 | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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In the Little Einsteins episode "The Great Sky Race Rematch", Big Jet destroys Rocket's flight button to prevent him from beating him again. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_8313c252 | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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Murdoch Mysteries: In "Hot Wheels of Thunder", prior to the roller races, an assault on Miss Palmer ends her skating career. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_892aa56a | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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On 30 Rock, Jenna (a narcissist of the highest order) becomes convinced her co-star is going to try to take her out to take on her part and so begins "preemptive actions" that border on criminal assault. That Jenna is A)not even the lead role and B) playing the woman's mother never enters her mind. Liz's reaction indicates this is a common thing as Jenna seems to believe anyone is out to "steal my spotlight" even when she's cast as a nameless extra. |
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Crippling the Competition / int_89bf8ce | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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Subverted in a Law & Order episode based on the Tonya-Nancy saga. When a tennis player's wrist is broken, suspicion falls on her rival. It turns out that the girls were actually friends and arranged the attack because she wanted to quit but knew that her Sports Dad wouldn't let her otherwise. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_8dfbdff2 | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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In the Kim Possible episode "Showdown at the Crooked D", Dr. Drakken envies the intelligence of the world's leading scientists, so he invents Silly Hats for them to wear that make them act like doofuses. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_90a3a7f4 | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
| Crippling the Competition / int_914a6cf5 | comment |
Red Sparrow: In the opening of the film, Dominika, a prima ballerina for the Bolshoi, suffers a Career-Ending Injury when her danseur flubs a move. Her uncle, an SVR officer, informs her that the danseur did it on purpose because he was sleeping with Dominika's understudy. Dominika promptly goes back over to the Bolshoi and beats the crap out of them both with her cane, impressing Uncle Vanya enough that he recruits her to be an SVR operative. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_914a6cf5 | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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In Gladiator, Commodus restrains and stabs Maximus just prior to their final, climactic arena duel in order to gain the upper hand during the fight. It still isn't enough to hinder him. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_97bb943d | |
| Crippling the Competition / int_98c55b59 | type |
Crippling the Competition | |
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A self-inflicted example from Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura: William Thorndop, formerly the world's greatest marksman, has taken a vow of non-violence, and cut off his own trigger fingers to make sure he can never hold a firearm again. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_98c55b59 | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: Priscilla Rich (Cheetah) enters a race held on Paradise Island in disguise, when she realizes Mala is catching up to her she messes with an obstacle to trip Mala as she passes by. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_996edf24 | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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The first-two of Chan Jaoming's mission in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars involve this. His first mission tasks Huang to find a champion racer's car and sabotage it so that his (incredibly flashy) car can get an advantage in an upcoming race. In the following mission, Huang has to ram the other opposing racers so that Chan can win the 1st place as, despite the champion racer's demise (thanks to the aforementioned sabotage earlier), he is too sloshed to even race properly. Huang paraphrases this best during the respective mission's replay description. |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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In an episode of Cow and Chicken, the Red Guy injures Chicken's ice skating partner Earl, a direct Shout-Out to the Harding-Kerrigan fiasco. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_9a152d5d | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
| Crippling the Competition / int_9d47a2a2 | comment |
A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones: Jamie Lannister, one of the top swordsmen in the Seven Kingdoms has his hand cut off by Vargo Hoat. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_9d47a2a2 | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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In The Dark Knight Returns, it's strongly implied that Superman amputated Green Arrow's arm to force his former ally to abandon his vigilante activities. Subverted in that GA can still shoot his bow using his teeth to draw the string and gets a bionic arm in the sequel. | |
| Crippling the Competition / int_9dbc31cb | featureApplicability |
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Crippling the Competition / int_9dbc31cb | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
| Crippling the Competition / int_9f22267f | comment |
In a Thorgal comic, Thorgal and his friends, excellent bowmen taking part in an archery competition, are jumped by a group of thugs led by their competitor, who says that there's no need to kill them... just break their wrists. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_9f22267f | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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Futurama: Bender drugs a bunch of racehorses (and a jockey who caught him) so the only one he hasn't drugged will win and net him a big payoff. It's also used against Bender in an episode where he's entered a tap-dancing competition and his opponent busts up one of his kneecaps. |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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No Name on the Bullet: At the end of the film, Luke breaks Gant's shoulder with a thrown hammer; leaving him unable to draw a gun. Although Luke offers to treat the injury, Gant just rides off, saying "A lot of men want to kill John Gant. It took a healer with a hammer to make it easy for them." | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_a2b7c5ee | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
| Crippling the Competition / int_a5fe3567 | comment |
In Jonah Hex #11 (original series), a gambler Jonah caught cheating hires thugs to ambush Jonah and breaks his hands with a sledgehammer. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_a5fe3567 | |
| Crippling the Competition / int_a8729c90 | type |
Crippling the Competition | |
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The Fairly OddParents! has the episode "Miss Dimmsdale." Vicky sabotages the other contestants by injuring them so she can sashay her way to victory, claim her $10000 and mayor-for-a-day prizes, and enslave every single child in the city, including Timmy. She would have claimed them had it not for Mr. Turner's interference and Dark Horse Victory. Of course, Vicky receives a well-deserved beating from the unfairly eliminated contestants. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_a8729c90 | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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In "The Grateful Beasts", Ferko's brothers think he's too good-looking and everyone takes a fancy to him; they will get on better without him. So they break his legs and put his eyes out before abandoning him. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_a8b8d74e | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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In The Rose of Versailles, Oscar shoots a guy's gun hand in a duel, as this is the only way she can punish him for shooting a peasant boy in cold blood. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_a9d9d1f1 | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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In Jade Empire, an early sidequest requires you to heal an injured fellow student so she can take part in a competition against you. The Open Palm choice is to get her a medicine that actually heals her, but if you prefer the Closed Fist, you can give her an ointment that only removes the pain, resulting in her starting the fight with much less health and ending up crippled for life. For extra adherence to the Closed Fist ideology (one of the few cases when it's actually used correctly), you can reveal to her what you did afterward, and tell her that relying on you made her weak - she should have dealt with her problem on her own. | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
| Crippling the Competition / int_b5a087d7 | comment |
On Robot Chicken Sinestro (accidentally) cuts off both of Green Lantern's hands. Green Lantern counters by finding someplace else to wear his ring. | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
| Crippling the Competition / int_b70a2d3b | comment |
During a basketball game in Safe Havens the opposing team's coach instructed one of his players to injure Dave on the knee that had already been injured to take him out. Unfortunately for them, Dave (who for some context wore a visor and headphones at this point of his life) had recorded the whole conversation. Once he and Samantha exposed it, both player and coach got kicked out of the sport, with the coach having to pay damages to Dave as well. The injury didn't keep Dave out too long, but it contributed to the weakening of his ligaments, leading to the end of his NBA dreams when they finally snapped (while he scored the NCAA championship-winning point for Havens U, no less). He would eventually make a career in Europe (with a much less stressful schedule than the NBA would have required). | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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Leverage: In "The Studio Job", an unscrupulous record producer breaks both hands of a songwriter who used to work for him so the man can never play an instrument again. | |
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Crippling the Competition / int_b712435c | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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In Flesh and Bone someone involved with the American Ballet Company tries to do this to Claire by putting broken glass in her pointe shoes. Word of God says it was the company's artistic director Paul. Ironically, not to harm her, but to get the best performance possible. Fortunately, they have underestimated her new-found drive to overcome her series-long Trauma Conga Line. | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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Just prior to the final battle of The Magicians, the Beast tips the odds a little further in his favour by biting off Penny's hands before the fighting starts. As spells are dependent on complex gestures, this leaves the Physical Kids' most experienced battle-magician out of the fight - a fact that the Beast openly gloats about. | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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In The Hustler (1961), "Fast Eddie" Felson has his thumbs broken by a pool shark who doesn't like being hustled. | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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In Blade Runner, Roy Batty breaks Deckard's fingers to hamper his ability to use his gun. Deckard starts using his other hand instead. | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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In the pro wrestling story, A Ring of Their Own, The Beautiful People attack Taylor Wilde in the locker room, making her unable to wrestle in the finals of the FWF Tag Team Title Tournament, making them the winners by default. | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Flight to the Finish", Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon emotionally cripple Scootaloo so that they can win a contest to carry the flag at the Equestrian Games instead of the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Notably, their insults are more biting and hurtful, something they acknowledged because their usual throwing of the "blank flank" slur wasn't working anymore. | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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The Dorkly Originals short "Who's Faster: Superman or The Flash?" has Superman and The Flash getting ready for a foot race, until Supes shoots Flash in his leg, worried that his "faster than a speeding bullet" powers would get outpaced by Flash's light-speed. | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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In King of Beggars, Chiu breaks So's legs, preventing him from ever using martial arts again. | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
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At the end of El Mariachi, the main antagonist shoots the mariachi's hand, preventing him from playing guitar. | |
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Crippling the Competition | |
| Crippling the Competition / int_cb6abea3 | comment |
In Yu-Gi-Oh!, before reaching Pegasus's island. Insector Haga/Weevil Underwood throws Yugi's Exodia cards off the ship to sabotage his chances of winning. He also does this to Jonouchi/Joey in the Battle City arc, sneaking a Parasite Paracide card into his deck. The latter becomes an inversion, as Jonouchi/Joey defeats Haga/Weevil's Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth, his strongest monster, by attacking it with that Parasite Paracide after using his dice cards. | |
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In Yojimbo, Sanjuro is beaten senseless for rescuing the family that Ushitora's gang was holding hostage. | |
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In The Longest Yard, the warden of the prison orders a former football player named Crewe who has set up a "convicts vs. guards" game to give the guards a 21-point advantage or he will frame him for involvement in a murder. Essentially having no choice, Crewe agrees provided the warden will have the guards not injure the prisoners. The warden agrees, then double-crosses Crewe by later telling the head of the guards once they have a 21-point advantage to "inflict as much physical punishment on the prisoners as humanly possible." | |
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Beverly Hills, 90210. Incensed when Brenda gets the lead in the school play, her rival first starts rumors that she used the Casting Couch to get the part, then suggests to her boyfriend that he physically harm her so that she'll have to give it up. | |
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The Harder They Fall (1956): When one of Toro's opponents balks at Throwing the Fight and looks like he's going to beat Toro, his coach puts a chemical in his towel that disables him and allows Toro to win. | |
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Major: Happens a few times in flashbacks, with players who intentionally injure their rivals in practice matches to get the title spots. Protagonist Goro Shigeno finds himself on the receiving end when Egashira orders his players to intentionally injure him during the Kaido vs. Seishuu match, as revenge for Goro not accepting to be Kaido's star like he wanted. While Kaido wins the match, Egashira is recorded gloating about it and gets fired for it. | |
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The Karate Kid gives one of the most famous examples when the evil instructor orders a student to intentionally injure Daniel's leg in the semi-finals match. This means the guy will be disqualified for an illegal hit, but injury prevents Daniel from facing the instructor's prize pupil in the actual Final Round, guaranteeing victory. The plan only fails because Mr. Miyagi has Healing Hands and Daniel has learned the iconic Crane Stance, which lets him keep his weight off the injured leg when the injury is aggravated in the finals. Notably, both Cobra Kai students are appalled at Kreese's order even if they go along with it. | |
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, during Chapter 3 (the Boxing Episode of the game), at one point someone sends you a poisoned cake just before you start a fight. If you fall for the Schmuck Bait, you're forced to fight the next battle alone, without any of your partners. (Ignore it, and a different fighter is crippled by the poisoned cake instead.) It turns out to be the work of the champion, Rawk Hawk, in response to a perceived slight against him by your character. | |
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In Run At The Cup, Landsman deliberately crashes into Vi during the RHL Finals, nearly inflicting a Career-Ending Injury on her. Played with as Landsman's real motivation was to make Caitlyn suffer, although taking out one of the Sumprats' star players was certainly a bonus.. | |
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A Knight's Tale: First discussed, then played with, then played straight: Following this, Adhemar plays with the trope by striking at Will politically, exposing him as a false-knight so he can't compete. When that doesn't work (because Will actually gets knighted), Adhemar resorts to straight-up cheating by using actual pointed lances disguised as the tournament-legal blunted ones. The stabbing injury he inflicts on Will with one forces him to shed his armor and risk death to continue competing. |
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In Ping Pong: The Animation, Coach Koizumi shares a tale with Smile: In his youth, he ended up playing the finale of a tournament, which would have made his career, against his best friend. Said best friend had a hurt knee and Koizumi knew he could probably win if he intentionally kept playing towards that knee with the intent of overburdening it, but chose not to and therefore lost. In the climax of the anime Smile and Pedro are put against each other in the Big Game's finale, but Pedro hurt his knee in the quarter-finals. The last thing we see before the match is Smile telling Koizumi "I can do it". Cut to the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue and we learn he didn't. | |
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In Shoot 'Em Up, Hertz tortures Smith by breaking his trigger fingers and then threatens to cut his eyes out. This ends very badly for Hertz. | |
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Captain Tsubasa has some players who invoke this trope as much as possible in the soccer fields, with Makoto Souda as the most infamous example. It doesn't end well - for them. | |
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In All for the Game, Kevin's broken hand, expected to be a Career-Ending Injury, wasn't really from a skiing accident. It was actually Riko's fault. | |
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Early in Rurouni Kenshin, Kenshin encounters a thug posing as Kenshin's old assassin persona and creating a lot of trouble. When he defeats the guy, Kenshin smashes his fingers with the hilt of his sword so that the thug will never be able to use a sword again. Also, early in his days of being a Technical Pacifist, Kenshin chopped off an opponent's arm instead of killing him. The opponent thought this was a deliberate Cruel Mercy (as opposed to killing him honorably), and comes back for revenge with an Arm Cannon. | |
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In the backstory of Assassin of Gor, a chess player was blinded by a powerful man whom he had beaten in a game. But he is still able to play because he can visualize the board. | |
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One of the 1632 novels had a violinist who had had his left hand crippled by a jealous rival. | |
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Lands of Arran: In the Gladiator Games where the winner is declared Runelord, Rom has Redwin stabbed in the belly not long before the games, nearly killing him but still heavily crippling him too because he fears Redwin. | |
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In The Quick and the Dead, Ratsy breaks Cort's right hand before his gunfight with Herod, forcing him to fight with his left hand.note In a small twist, Herod did not order Ratsy to do this and gets PISSED when he finds out, declaring that Ratsy has ruined the gunfighting competition and then shooting him dead. | |
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Pokémon: The Original Series: The episode "The Flame Pokèmon-Athon" depicts such a scenario; to increase his chances of winning an upcoming Pokémon race, a man named Dario hires Team Rocket to do this to his rival Lara Laramie, which they do by spooking her Ponyta, causing it to throw her off and break her arm. Ash is left to win the race in her stead, with Ponyta evolving into Rapidash in the process. In The Electric Tale of Pikachu, this plotline is retained with one difference: Dario spooks said Ponyta and knocks Lara off of it himself. |
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Wanted: Dead or Alive: In "The Bounty", a ruthless bounty hunter, feared for the speed of his shooting, is pursued by a band of Apache seeking for an old man he had killed. Rather than killing him, they cut off his right thumb, removing his ability to cock a hammer one-handed and thus destroying his speed as a gunslinger. | |
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Cold Case: In "Disco Inferno", Sonya promised sexual favors to Paul if he disabled Benny long enough so she can win the disco dancing contest. Paul instead kills Benny and burns down the disco to cover up the crime, which kills 22 other people. In "Wilkommen", Nora tries to get Clinton to disable Dennis so she could be the one who will be noticed by the big time celebrity agent who will be in the audience. Clinton refuses, but Lyle overhears the plan and goes through with it so he can replace Dennis. He instead kills Dennis. |
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