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A Dark Horse Victory involves a third competitor winning in a competition with two major rivals. In many cases: It involves a show's two perennial rivals. It happens because the two rivals were only focused on beating each other, which caused them to forgot that there were others competing as well. It might actually be the work of a judge with veto power, and the result leads the rivals to put their rivalry into some sort of perspective—or it prompts the designated good guy to be all, "Hey, at least the other guy didn't win." Everybody else but the Dark Horse (or just the two main rivals) stopped to cheat, making this person the winner by default. What seems to be the Dark Horse's weakness turns out to be an advantage. The Dark Horse is a relative of the judge. A common manifestation of this trope involves the protagonist of the story as the judge in a contest, forced to choose between two people, each of whom is extremely important to him (say, a love interest and a best friend or relative). He will often attempt to dodge the difficult decision by Taking a Third Option and ignoring both choices in favor of someone totally different (who may or may not actually deserve the honor). Often, though not always, the third competitor who wins the award is a throwaway character completely out of the blue — who the audience may not have even known was in the competition until the end or, in fact, may have never seen before (or since) — or even an Inanimate Competitor. And even if they were seen, their performance may have been obviously inferior to either of the rivals, even after you factor in their rivalry. As a Dark Horse Victory requires a third competitor, an upset in a strictly two-potential-winner competition would fall under Assumed Win. Obviously, this is Truth in Television. Sub-Trope to Non-Protagonist Resolver. Compare Slow and Steady Wins the Race. |
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In Midori Days, Ayase and Lucy vie to win the school's female marathon event in order to impress Seiji. When Midori decided that she wants to take part too, the three crash and fall, allowing Nao to breeze past them and take the win. | |
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Years before, StarCraft managed to upset some heavy competition (Halo, Kingdom Hearts, Wind Waker) in a game contest. The legacy was tarnished when StarCraft had some vote-stuffers in the eventual defeat to Super Smash Bros. Melee, but it's still fondly remembered by the contests board. | |
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Youth & Consequences: Grace Ho wins the Student Council President, despite only becoming a candidate very late in the election and basically being an unknown in school, thanks to Lovable Alpha Bitch Farrah's support. | |
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Two examples related to The Smurfs: In the 1980s cartoon show special "The Smurfic Games", Hefty, Handy, and Clumsy are in a three-way tie when competing in the games, and so the final game, the Smurfathlon, is to determine who will be the winner. Hefty and Handy both end up ahead of Clumsy, but because Handy was swept off the track by an avalanche created by Gargamel reciting an incantation to activate the Artifact of Doom and Hefty goes to dig his friend out, Clumsy passes by the both of them and ends up as the winner, which nobody expected. Neither Hefty nor Handy had a problem with Clumsy winning since they both came to learn that winning isn't as important as friendship. In The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow, Gutsy accidentally causes Brainy to be captured by Gargamel by scaring him away from a secret patch of smurfberries in Smurfy Hollow and ends up as the winner of the Smurfberry Hunt, but after Gutsy began to feel guilty for what he did to Brainy, he makes it up to Brainy by offering him the medal. However, neither Brainy nor Gutsy are willing to accept it, and so as they argue over who should get the medal, it slips out of their hands and lands around Lazy's neck, thus declaring him as the official winner. |
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This is the backstory to AI War: Fleet Command. Two human factions waged a massive war for centuries, but then the combat AI turned and beat them both. | |
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At one point during Might and Magic VII, your actions as Lords of Harmondale lead to another war over Harmondale between Tularea and Erathia. There are two variations for how a victory is achieved (bloody war or negotiated compromise following skirmishes), but at first it might seem as if those are the only two contenders. Take the right actions, however, and a third victor is possible: You. If you get the Gryphonheart Trumpet and give it to the Arbiter, Harmondale becomes an independent buffer kingdom. | |
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In The World Ends with You, the mission for Week 2 Day 2 requires the players of the Reaper's Game to win a Tin Pin Slammer tournament. Neku turns out to be something of a natural, but is totally outclassed by Shooter, who destroys him in the semifinal. However, because Joshua tampered with his pins, Shooter ends up losing the tournament to Sota, another player, who Neku and Joshua hadn't even met yet. | |
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Ranma ½: A filler episode features a go-kart race between many of the recurring cast, but Nabiki and Kasumi won by driving conservatively while the other racers got into one of their typical fights and finally blew themselves off the road (literally). Another episode has Ranma-chan, Akane, Ukyo, Kodachi, Shampoo and Tsubasa enter a beauty contest organized by Nabiki for various reasons. The winner? Kasumi, who was acting as the assistant and not actually taking part in the contest. |
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DEATH BATTLE! Prior to season ten, the show ran a poll that allowed fans to vote for one 3D episode and one sprite episode to appear in the next season. While the 3D animation winner, Alex Mercer vs. Cole MacGrath, was regarded by many as a fairly obvious pick, having been requested for many years, the sprite winner, Bill Cipher vs. Discord, was something not many predicted, considering it was up against highly requested or anticipated fights such as Captain America vs. Kamen Rider Ichigo, Kyle Rayner vs. Simon the Digger and Finn and Jake vs. Mordecai and Rigby and the crew having stated that they didn't want to use any more My Little Pony characters. This would happen again during the poll for season 11 during the first round. Everyone had assumed that Anne Boonchuy vs Luz Noceda would advance to the semifinals due to the popularity of both the match up and both shows overall, only for the winner to instead wind up being Monokuma vs Koro-sensei, which, among other things, consists of two series that are not as well known to the general public and, again, had to compete with Luz vs Anne's overwhelming popularity. |
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Ironically, the show became so notorious for this that when Ash actually did win the Alolan League in Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon, it arguably counted as a dark-horse victory in its own right, since most fans were expecting him to just fizzle out again. | |
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In Survivor: Fan Characters, this happened in Seasons 5 and 9. Season 5: The final 3 is Gatemaster, Miranda, and Marius. Gatemaster hadn't done much intentional strategy, but he had somehow managed to control almost the entire season anyway and was extremely likable (if weird) too. Miranda was more overtly strategic and had managed to take the leadership position in her tribe without getting a single vote cast against her. Marius, on the other hand, had angered almost all of his tribemates and gone out of his way to piss off at least two of the jurors. However, Gatemaster and Miranda ended up splitting the votes enough for Marius to eke out a win with votes from the tribemates he had remained friendly to and explained his strategy to. Season 9: Virtually everyone expected Sanza to be the winner to such an extent that they didn't even entertain the possibility that someone else could win, barring maybe his alliance member Kathy. That little robot guy named Cherman who spectacularly fails every single challenge and is a target at every single tribal council he's been to for being so weak and useless? Nah, he doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of winning, as dorky as he is. Then Sanza is eliminated in 5th place, and Cherman makes good use of his recorder against the villain to win in a landslide. SWSU, you magnificent troll. Season 12: Kim was in complete control of the game after Enter's ouster...until she was eliminated in 4th place. The winner? Lola Bunny. Yes, THAT Lola Bunny. |
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The Nintendo Switch was released halfway through the PS4 and Xbox One's generation, and came immediately after the Wii U became Nintendo's biggest failure in the console space. While the hybrid nature of the console had gathered a lot of intrigue, there was still a lot of skepticism that Nintendo would be able to stick the landing come release, especially when its only major launch title was The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Then it released, and it quickly outsold both the Wii U and the GameCube by the end of the year, while Breath of the Wild had an attach rate of over 100% during the first few months of the Switch's lifespan. By the time 2024 came around, the Switch had become the third-bestselling console of all time and had handily beat out the PS4 and the Xbox One in terms of console sales. | |
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Greek, "The Popular Vote": It's Frannie vs. Casey for the Zeta Beta presidency, and they go positively Rovian on each other (though Casey takes the high road near the end). When the votes are counted, the winner is...Ashleigh, Casey's best friend. | |
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One book in The Baby-Sitters Club series had the various sitters and charges competing against each other to win a pageant. The prize went to a girl none of them knew, but who had been in pageants before and knew exactly what to do to win, in contrast to the charges, who were relying on their special talents. Although Myriah Perkins, the only BSC charge who had a realistic shot, did come in runner-up. Given that the second-place prize was a shopping spree at a toy store, while the winner got a savings bond and entry into another pageant, Myriah makes it clear she's perfectly happy with the outcome. |
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The Curse of the Blue Figurine: Discussed during an ongoing competition in the sequel The Hand of the Necromancer. Professor Childermass is a die-hard fan of the Boston Red Sox, and has a burning hatred of the New York Yankees. At the end of the book, during a game between the two, Professor Childermass surprises everyone by congratulating one of the Yankees on a good play... but then loudly points out that the Yankees are still six and a half games behind the Cleveland Indians, earning chuckles out of his friends and the other Red Sox fans nearby. | |
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Angela Anaconda, Angela, Nanette and several other kids entered a bicycle race. The only kid who made it to the finish line was Josephine, who didn't crash into any other racer. Angela's best friend tried to comfort her with the fact Nanette also hasn't won. Angela said that it'd usually be enough consolation but she needed the money prize. | |
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The 1992 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program. For the first time, The Simpsons had a worthy opponent in Ren & Stimpy. The award went to the CBS special A Claymation Easter. In DVD commentaries made a decade later, staffers from both shows were still angry about the decision, and basically said "if we didn't win, the other show should have!" averting the "at least they didn't win" variant. | |
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For the podcast Mouse Madness, which did a March Madness-inspired poll for the Disney Animated Canon, the winning film was...the ninth-seeded The Emperor's New Groove. Not only that, but it defeated three #1 seeds (Beauty and the Beast, Fantasia, and The Lion King) to win. | |
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In Kevin & Kell, Frank Mangle challenged the Herd Thinners C.E.O. R.L. for control of Herd Thinners. By the rules, the last man standing would be the C.E.O. That turned out to be Kell Dewclaw, who had only intervened to keep R.L. and Frank from killing each other. | |
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In an episode of Eureka, this happens when voting for town mayor. The competition is between Lucas (Zoe's boyfriend), Vincent (Town cafe owner), and a new character who's a weatherman. Guess who wins. contestant #4, Henry (who didn't even know he was running. | |
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Most people expected Inside Out to win "Favorite Animated Movie" and Selena Gomez in Hotel Transylvania 2 to take home "Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie" in 2016. Instead, the reverse happened (with Amy Poehler taking home the voice acting award). | |
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In non-baby Looney Tunes, the classic Bugs Bunny short "Ballot Box Bunny" has Bugs and Yosemite Sam as rivals in a small town's mayoral election. Both are beaten out by a literal "dark horse", who becomes "Our New Mare". | |
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Dennis the Menace: In "The Backyard Band", Dennis, Gina, Tommy, and Jay form their own band and are entered in a talent show against Timmy, the son of a snobby entrepreneur who insults them. Mr. Wilson helps Dennis' band to practice and by the time of the talent show, the results are greatly improved, while Timmy performs a very off-key rendition of "O My Darling", which annoys everyone in the audience, except for his father. When the talent show ends, the judge gives the first place trophy to his twin nephews. Dennis' band gets the second place trophy, though, and give it to Mr. Wilson to thank him for being such a great coach. | |
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Naruto: The Chunin Selection Exam reunites the protagonists and many genins from every ninja village to be promoted to a higher rank. It was canceled during the third trial when Suna and Oto suddenly assault Konoha. In the end, nobody reaches Chunin except Shikamaru, who gave up during the third trial thinking he had no chance of winning over his adversary, Temari; he'd outmaneuvered her and caught her in his Shadow Jutsu, but was nearly out of chakra and had no clear way to finish her off. Two ninja note that they thought it was a wise decision compared with Naruto (the main character) and Neji (considered the strongest Genin in the village) fighting until they were almost exhausted. The omake Ramen Eating Contest leaves Naruto in third place, despite his being a Big Eater and ramen being his Trademark Favorite Food. Yamato, who doesn't like oily foods such as ramen, out-eats Narutonote who ate 30 bowls by one bowl, and Hinata wins after eating 46 bowls. |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run is about a cross-country horse race, with the two main characters being Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli. The winner ends up being Pocoloco, a minor character who had no stake in the main overarching plot. Justified as his insane luck is emphasized at numerous points in the plot. | |
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Played with in the Talent Show episode of The Weekenders. Lor isn't competing against anyone in particular (thanks to Tish inexplicably not even qualifying for the competition), other than her own lack-of-confidence (and inability to remember that the lyrics to "Home on the Range" are NOT "where the deer and the cantaloupe play"). She gives a good performance, but loses to Bluke's "Incredible Flying Hams" act, which consists of him throwing ham in the air and running away, terrified. This trope frequently crops up whenever the main characters are in direct competition with each other to provide An Aesop about the strength of friendship. The regular Darkhorse(s) who benefit are typically Bluke and/or Frances. |
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Played for laughs and zig-zagged in 8-Bit Theater, when Fighter competes in a Drownball tournament, where the goal is to drown.note Where does the ball come in? Fighter is a favorite to win, as he competes wearing heavy plate armor. Despite this, he fails to drown, thus making his performance the worst of all the competitors. However, since that makes him the only surviving participant, he's made the winner of the tournament by default. | |
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Teacher's Pet: In the first episode, "Muttamorphosis", Scott Leadready and Leonard Helperman both lose to the gross kid in class named Ian for class president. Actually, it's the usual ending for the requisite election episode on just about any show. | |
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The Community episode "Intro to Political Science" focuses on an election for student body president. Most of the plot is dominated by the conflict between two frontrunners: Annie, who has a strong and meaningful strategy and focuses on the issues, and Jeff, who, in an attempt to mock the whole process, runs a deliberately style-over-substance campaign that never once discusses his actual plans. Towards the end of the episode, both of them (along with a number of other candidates) drop out, leaving only minor characters Magnitude and Leonard, whose campaigns consist of the words "Pop-pop!" and blowing a raspberry, respectively. Ultimately, the election ends with the student body having cast eleven votes, of which seven were for a write-in candidate: South Park. As in, the TV show. The Dean grumpily implies that this has happened before, and it's why he abolished student government in the first place. | |
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Tenchi in Tokyo: the Third-Option Love Interest got the first ever animated kiss or declaration of love from Tenchi. | |
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This trope formed the basis of a Doonesbury storyline in the 1970s. A congressional race is going on between Ginny Slade, Lacey Davenport, and a corrupt incumbent. Ginny has the support of most of the cast, as well as a song written about her by rock star Jimmy Thudpucker. However, people are torn between her and Lacey, leaving the incumbent with the full support of his party and coming out ahead. In the end Ginny realizes that Lacey is really the more qualified candidate and withdraws from the race to support her rather than let the incumbent take the race. Lacey wins and serves in congress for many years in the strip. | |
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Ōkami-san has a beauty contest in which Otohime and Mimi are competing. Mimi places dead last with 0 votes and Otohime gets only 1 vote, while a character who won't be important until later wins. This was all Exactly As Planned by the other members of the Otogi Bank. Otohime's one vote was from Urashima, the guy Otohime and Mimi were fighting over in the first place, to remind her what's really important. The character who actually won was a ringer thrown in by Otogi Bank. |
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Dragon Ball: In the Buu Saga in Dragon Ball Z, the contestants in the World Martial Arts Tournament included all of the Z-Fighters, the Supreme Kai and Kibito, and two humans powered up by Babidi's magic. The eventual winner? Mr. Satan. Android 18 could have beaten him, but throws the match in exchange for double the prize money. The Universal Survival Saga of Dragon Ball Super ends not with Goku or Freeza being the last man standing but Android No. 17, since the former two sacrificed themselves to knock off Jiren and secure the win for Universe 7. Honestly, the main cast were as shocked as the real life audience was. |
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The Harry Potter vs. The Twilight Saga vs. The Hunger Games battle of 2012 was the most highly anticipated battle in the history of the Favorite Book category. But who expected Diary of a Wimpy Kid to walk out with the Blimp? And that's not even counting its victories in other years over young-adult heavyweights. | |
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Though it still happened in the Gamespot contest with the victory of Gordon Freeman, and later again in the Greatest Sidekick contest where Launchpad McQuack triumphed over Albert Einstein in the final vote. | |
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It became a semi-running joke in both Tenchi Muyo! and Tenchi Universe to have Ayeka and Ryoko (and sometimes the other girls) competing fiercely to tend to a wounded Tenchi, only to be beaten to the punch by Sasami when they weren't looking. | |
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We Bare Bears: In "The Money Man", Chloe and Saanvi Patel are competing against each other in a science contest with Chloe's invention that turns thoughts into visual images vs. Saanvi's Amaze Navi that can help find lost things and help with mazes to win a scholarship from Dr. Bean, an eccentric, Absent-Minded Professor. Chloe and Saanvi reluctantly decide to team up and combine their inventions into one to find Dr. Bean when he wanders off, only for the professor to choose "a basketball with a personality", which is nothing more than a jock drawing a smiley face on a basketball with a magic marker. As Chloe and Saanvi are wondering what to do next with their creation, the government comes and takes the invention away for their own. | |
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During the final rounds of the Autumn Festival Arc of Food Wars!, everyone was so engrossed with the rivalry between Hayama and Kurokiba, and the fact that Souma is also in the finals was barely acknowledged. However, the trope ended up being subverted as, after the judges remarked that all 3 dishes were equally good, they declare Hayama as the victor. Still though, the fact that he did get into the finals despite his background puts Soma on the map as a cook not to be taken lightly by the rest of the school. | |
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In the Scrubs episode "My Life In Four Cameras", each of the main characters is trying to win a talent competition to save a popular cafeteria worker's job... the cafeteria worker himself wins the contest. Except it turns out the whole episode was J.D. fantasising about Scrubs being like a happy-go-lucky sitcom where Status Quo Is God. The cafeteria worker loses his job in real life. | |
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The SMG4 episode "MARIO'S CHALLENGE" features over 100 different characters competing to get to the top of the tower where Mario is, all to win what's in his box. There's a lot of suspense as to who will make it to the top and win the titular challenge, with focus being given to Luigi, Bowser and especially Meggy. The last shot of the final floor has the three, amongst a few others, racing to the elevator... only for the victor to be revealed as Shroomy, a character who had never been seen before. Even Mario is taken aback and confused about the result. | |
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On Selfie, the company holds a mud obstacle course. Henry and Freddy, who previously trained for the course together, end up stopping to fight due to their conflicting interactions with Eliza. This allows Charmonique to pull ahead and win. | |
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Similarly to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms example above, the Sima clan (considered their own faction of Jin as of 7) in Dynasty Warriors are the eventual winner of the warring between the three kingdoms, though they do so under the banner of Wei. | |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, "Hiccy Burp", sees Bloo and another imaginary friend named Blake Superior have a showdown with hiccups and burps (and yes, it's every bit as disgusting as it sounds) in a pageant. After some armpit noise making friend wins, The Tag shows him hiccuping while expressing how glad he is that Blake lost. | |
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Escape Room (2019): The Game Master admits that Ben, the only person to get through all the rooms in the traditional way, thus making him the "winner", was given the lowest odds of survival. | |
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In The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow, Gutsy accidentally causes Brainy to be captured by Gargamel by scaring him away from a secret patch of smurfberries in Smurfy Hollow and ends up as the winner of the Smurfberry Hunt, but after Gutsy began to feel guilty for what he did to Brainy, he makes it up to Brainy by offering him the medal. However, neither Brainy nor Gutsy are willing to accept it, and so as they argue over who should get the medal, it slips out of their hands and lands around Lazy's neck, thus declaring him as the official winner. | |
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High School Musical 3 has a supposed battle between Troy and Sharpay for a Juilliard scholarship (although Troy's application was submitted behind his back). The actual scholarship goes to Ryan and Kelsi. | |
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Ghosts (US): The episode "Viking Funeral" has Alberta and Isaac run against each other for the title of "Ghost Representative". Isaac tries to win by enlisting the votes of the plague ghosts, only for them to vote for one of their own, leading to "Creepy Dirk" becoming the winner instead. | |
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Given its themes, Riverdale being nominated for, let alone winning, "Favorite TV Drama" in 2019, would probably have counted as an example if not for Stranger Things' winning the year before. | |
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Happens in The Fairly Oddparents when Mr. Turner wins the Miss. Dimmsdale pageant. Timmy is weirded out, but is relieved that Vicky did not win. | |
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One episode of King of the Hill involved Peggy, Nancy and Minh all running for the same seat on the school board, in hopes of restoring the after school programs that had been cut for budgetary reasons. They spend so much time undercutting each other that the seat is won by a ((The Fundamentalist fundamental]] moral guardian who plans on cutting the after school program anyway, along with geometry, biology and all "offensive" encyclopedias. | |
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In a 1973 Sesame Street News Flash sketch, Kermit is reporting on the race between the hare and the tortoise. When the starting bell sounds, the tortoise plods away, while the hare, true to the story, relaxes by the starting line, telling Kermit he'll sprint to the finish after giving the tortoise a head start, the better to make the race interesting. Kermit heads to the finish line to cover the end of the race... and, in so doing, crosses the line before either of the runners and is declared the winner. | |
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In Super Dimension Fortress Macross, the Miss Macross contest appears to be in the bag for famous actress Jamis Merin, with Roy Focker going as far as suggesting that the whole contest was just a publicity stunt for her (or else she'd have been a judge rather than a contestant). Indeed, the novelization of Robotech explicitly portrays it as such. However, Minmay ends up winning, likely due to the fact that the audience is full of soldiers who frequent her restaurant. | |
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The ball pit challenge in Kittisaurus features the cats competing over who can cross the ball pit obstacle course first, with each course being harder than the last due to an additional obstacle (silver string for the second, water trays for the third). You would expect Lulu, Lala or Dodo to win, given they are the most active and the biggest eaters. The winner is Chuchu and she won against all three of those cats because they were either too distracted or too hesitant. | |
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In The Great Circus Mystery episode, Pat and Dan find out that the SNES and Sega Genesis versions of the game have equal advantages over the other, with the SNES version having better graphics, the Genesis version having a better presentation, and each version having an exclusive level. They get a call from Mike to help them settle their dispute. Mike cites the Game Boy Advance version as being the best one, having all of the elements of the SNES and Genesis versions, as well as a save feature in place of the passwords, an improved character select screen, a language select, and an improved ending. | |
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Total Drama Island (2023): The second season's final episodes hyped up an epic Caleb vs Julia finale. The one who wins ends up being Wayne, who was also in the finale but got ignored by the other two in favor of each other, and managed to come back from an early last place and reach the finish line first. | |
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This happens on Brooklyn Nine-Nine in "Halloween III". Jake and Holt are competing with each other in the heist after Jake won the first year and Holt the second. In the end, however, they're both duped by Amy. This happens again the next year, when the three of them are outwitted by Gina. | |
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A strange example occurs in Final Fantasy VII. When Sephiroth goes mad and it turns out Cloud had been taking on Zack's persona. The fights went like this: Tifa vs. Sephiroth, Zack vs. Sephiroth, and a random mook (not even a Class-Three SOLDIER) vs. Sephiroth. The winner of the first two is Sephiroth. The winner of the third fight? The random mook, who turns out to be Cloud. | |
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Small Wonder, "Little Miss Shopping Mall": Vicki and Harriet (perennial rivals again!) both lose to Ellen Sue Beasley, whose parents own the shopping mall and are judging the contest. And it's a Crack Defeat too, since Beasley was clearly outclassed by Vicki. | |
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In its spinoff series, DBX, the battle between Daffy Duck and Donald Duck ends this way in the default ending: after shooting Donald dead with his own shotgun, Daffy is unceremoniously shot by a Zapper-wielding Bugs Bunny. | |
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In Rising Stars, Randy Fisk decides to run for President of the United States as the logical next step of his efforts to make the world a better place. His first two campaigns fail utterly, as he runs as an Independent, but then, on his third try, one of the frontrunners is caught up in a major sex scandal one week before Election Day... which only comes to light because the other frontrunner commits a felony by spying on him. When Election Day comes around, the public finds themselves choosing between an adulterer, a felon, and a superhero. Randy wins easily. | |
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One episode of The Andy Griffith Show had Andy acting as judge for a beauty pageant. Everyone starts trying to do him favors so their daughters or themselves can win. When come time to decide a winner, Andy picks...an elderly old woman who was working on the pageant as she was the only one who wasn't badgering him about it. | |
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Fifth Harmony winning the 2016 award for "Favorite Music Group" was a huge moment not only for fans of the band, but because they won over the seemingly unbeatable One Direction, who have never lost a Kids' Choice Awards nomination beforehand. Granted the latter were on hiatus at the time, and they likely would have won had they still been active. | |
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In the Welcome Back, Kotter 2-part story "Vinnie in Love", the Sweathogs are competing in a talent show as "3 Do's and a Don't". In the midst of rehearsals, Barbarino falls in love with a girl from another school and starts neglecting the others, which leads to their group being dropped from the competition. After talking it over, they get a second chance, only for the other acts to lose to someone who does bird calls. | |
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Ready Jet Go!: In "Asteroid Belt Space Race", Eggplant and Zerk, Zucchini and Moonbeam, and Jet, Sean, Sydney, Celery, Sunspot and Face 9000 compete in a race around the asteroid belt. Eggplant and Zerk end up winning the race because of their anti-gravity fluxinators. | |
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In the Sonic Boom episode, "My Fair Sticksy", both Sticks and Dr. Eggman get nominated for an Awardy Award, which ends up going to Leroy the Turtle. | |
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The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants has the second season finale end this way. Over the course of two episodes, George, Harold, and Melvin have been competing in an obstacle course that will give the winner the highest grade of the year and a scholarship to Eliteanati Academy. At the end, the three have reached a temporary truce and are ready to end the game...only for Erica to come in and snag the win at the last second. | |
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In the Disney Channel Original Movie Camp Rock, Peggy, the girl that Rich Bitch / Alpha Bitch Tess has been belittling the entire movie, wins the "Final Jam" competition over Tess and main protagonist Mitchie (though Mitchie did get the guy in the end). | |
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Remember WENN has an episode where Jeff and Scott competed for the "Golden Lobe" award. | |
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Going into the Game Awards 2021, people were either expecting Deathloop or Resident Evil Village to walk away with the Game of the Year Award, the former being a hit with critics and being made by previous nominees Arkane Studios, while the latter was one of the biggest games of 2021 and considered to be even better than its predecessor (not to mention that Resident Evil 2 was a nominee two years prior). Instead, the coveted prize went to It Takes Two, a co-op title developed by Hazelight Studios and published under the EA Originals label, usually done for smaller-scale independent games. | |
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DuckTales (2017): Scrooge's major plot in season 2 involves a bet made with Glomgold; whoever has more money at the end of the year gets the loser's company. The winner of the bet is Louie, who manages to trick Glomgold into handing the resources of both companies (as well as those of the villains Glomgold recruited) over to him. Ultimately, Status Quo Is God; Louie gives Scrooge back his company in the next episode, and Glomgold gets his own company back later on. | |
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Mark Rylance's numerous Best Supporting Actor wins for his role as Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies certainly weren't out of nowhere (he had taken BAFTA and several critics prizes and was nominated at every single major precursor ahead of the Oscars), but it was generally considered a shock when he managed to emerge victorious over Christian Bale (The Big Short), Tom Hardy (The Revenant), Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight), and perceived favorite Sylvester Stallone (Creed). | |
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For many years, The Godfather occupied the #1 spot on IMDB's "Top Rated Films" list. In 2008, The Dark Knight dethroned The Godfather from that position, leading to a "war" between the two fandoms trying to secure the spot for their favorite film by downvoting the other. Hilariously, this ended up making way for The Shawshank Redemption to take the #1 spot instead. | |
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In Fallout: New Vegas, three factions are fighting over Hoover Dam and the city of New Vegas: Caesar's Legion, an army of raping slavers, Mr.House, a brilliant former businessman with his own robot army, and the New California Republic, a strong, rich, democratic republic from the west. The main plot of the game is deciding who wins by helping them take bases, screwing up their enemies intelligence, annihilating minor factions who are allied against them, etc. However, instead of helping any of the above, you can assassinate Mr.House and take control of his robot army. You can then use that robot army to defeat both the New California Republic and the Legion at Hoover Dam (after optionally dealing with the various raider groups and Legion bases around the Mojave) and take control of Vegas for yourself. It's not statistically the best ending (it ends with at least two "bad" ending slides and several neutral ones, as opposed to the NCR ending where all "good" endings are possible for everyone). Depending on the player's actions, the downloadable content Dead Money can feature a significantly darker version of this trope. Throughout the questline, you've been trying to help the insane former Elder of the Brotherhood of Steel, Elijah, break into a massive pre-war casino which for some reason had numerous technological wonders like matter replicators and invincible laser shooting holograms in it, and an army of Ghost people guarding it. It's also surrounded by a huge red toxic cloud only called "the Cloud". When you finally get into the section of the Casino he was looking for (the one that lets him control the holograms and the flow of the cloud), he tries to pull You Have Out Lived Your Usefulness on you, and tries to kill you. However, you can convince him through a very specific set of dialogue that We Can Rule Together, resulting in a Non-Standard Game Over. Then, a little cutscene will play explaining how Elijah and the Courier unleashed the Cloud and the holograms upon the Mojave, which killed everything in their path. No living thing set foot in the Mojave for years after due to rumors of ghosts immune to gunfire and a red cloud that brought death in its wake. All that remained was Elijah and the Courier, waiting in the Sierra Madre for the world to begin again. |
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Two years after Draven, another case of rallying deciding a contest was Undertale winning a Best Game Ever contest. There was some backlash and trolling, but thankfully less than with Draven. | |
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1-X: Bakugo was highly favored to win the Sports Festival due to being The Ace of Class 1-Y and placing highest on the Entrance Exam, Present Mic outright stating a special betting site has him as the one to win. Pony beats him in the first round of the finals instead, leaving everyone, including Midnight and Present Mic, stunned beyond belief, the latter even struggling to find words at what just happened. | |
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In an episode of Lizzie McGuire, the main character and Claire go against each other in a school election. The winner ended up being the third candidate Tudgeman, who only won because he ate worms in exchange for votes (which he even acknowledges in his acceptance speech). | |
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During the Sports Day Festival mini-arc i My Monster Secret, Mikan, Shiho, Rin, Akane and Akari all competed ferociously (read: cheated and bent the hell outta the rules) to win the title of the MVP. At the end, the one who won is Youko, who simply wanted to have fun. | |
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Zondag Met Lubach: In a segment lampooning how first-time buyers are being driven out of the real estate market by large investors, both foreign and domestic, there's a sketch showing an open house sale with many prospective buyers showing up. Then it turns out the house was already bought up by Pino. | |
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Noah Centineo and Joey King in the movie acting categories of 2019 for their starring roles in two teen-oriented Netflix comedies. In doing so, they beat out several actors who starred in big budget blockbusters like Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War. | |
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The pilot episode of Fate/Grand Carnival features Nero hosting a mock-Olympics, with one of its competitions being a 100-yard dash. Atalante and Achilles hype themselves up to compete with each other, with several other racers being shown just as the race begins - only for the track to be crossed in a single step by the enormous Kingprotea, who until then had only made one appearance in the background when the contestants were being introduced. | |
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In PS238, the students are supposed to vote between USA Patriot Act and American Eagle, two annoying, politically-supported heroes, for "Official Protector of Student Liberty and Guardian of Constitutional Values." Nobody likes either of them, so they all write in Tyler's name instead, figuring that it would be a good consolation prize to someone without superpowers. At first, the official candidates seem like they're going to be Graceful Losers (because they "support democracy", after all), but they later try to get Tyler disqualified on a technicality. | |
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Inspector Gadget: In "Race to the Finish", both Dr. Claw and Gadget are disqualified (the former for cheating and leaving the grounds, the latter for being on police duty), resulting in the #17 car taking first place. | |
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Every Which Way But Lose, in the fourth season of American Dad!: both Francine and "Carlotta Monterey" (Hayley) are beaten by "Emmy Lou Sugarbean" (Roger) in the baking competition at Langley County Fair. | |
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American Dad! | hasFeature |
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In Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs, during the Magical Water Gun contest, Yaya and Shion, who were ignored by everyone else, win after all the other girls eliminate themselves. | |
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When The Nostalgia Critic did an Old vs. New debate about Cinderella and Cinderella (2015), the tallies ended up being a draw, so everyone decided that the best Cinderella movie is Ever After. | |
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Chapter 17 of Monster Musume has Miia challenge Meroune to a swimming race. While the mermaid is the obvious favorite, Miia does an excellent job of keeping up with her. However, it turns out that the heated pool isn't quite warm enough for the cold-blooded Miia and chlorine really does a number on Mero. So the winner is; Cerea, who was ignored for the entire race. For bonus points, she's a centaur, making her a literal dark horse. | |
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Molly of Denali: In "Brand New Flag", Molly holds a town-wide contest to design a flag for the Trading Post. Overwhelmed with all the entries, she laters finds a flag design that she thinks is perfect, even though it has no name. It wins the contest. It turns out that Suki made it. | |
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In the 2007 Hairspray musical film, rivals Amber von Tussle and Tracy Turnblad are battling it out for the Miss Teenage Hairspray title (which Tracy wins in both the original film and the stage musical) when Link gets a spur-of-the-moment idea to ask Little Inez to dance (she was supposed to dance on the next Negro Day, and was devastated when it was cancelled) and she ends up winning in a last-minute surge of votes. Amber isn't happy, but Tracy is thrilled by this turn of events even though she doesn't get the title because not only does she see Inez as a Worthy Opponent, but it makes her the first non-white regular on the Corny Collins show. | |
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Dark Horse Defeat in Shortpacked!: Galasso warns everyone that someone will be laid off at the end of the holiday season. Ethan desperately tries to make sure it is the new guy they all hate, Faz, who goes, or at least not himself. At the end of the arc, Galasso announces that the employee to be fired... is a girl who has not once appeared on camera, spoken a line of dialogue or been named or referred to until this point, with vicious lampshading. This leads into Robin getting mad at the cop-out and trying to increase the comic's drama. This character, "Sydney Yus," does return later as part of the forces Faz has assembled to lead his coup against Galasso. This is also a gigantic parody of Tonight, Someone Dies. |
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When The Cinema Snob started doing Patreon polls on which film he should review next, the first case, a tie-in for Independence Day: Resurgence ended up like this — even The Snob expected a porn parody of Independence Day to win, but votes instead flocked to a 1983 melodrama also called Independence Day (because patrons expected it to be terrible like other romances reviewed by him). Thus started a Running Gag of featuring equally forgotten melodramas against the exploitation films and cheesy horror movies the Snob typically reviewed, starting with Windy City, which after a few polls beat out a slew of sci-fi titles that were meant to tie into Alien: Covenant. | |
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In Peter Pan & the Pirates, the Lost Boys and the pirates compete in a race. Through most of the episode, the main focus is on either the competition between Peter and Captain Hook, or the twins, who have been fighting for the entire episode. In the end, Michael, who had been tailing dead last on a tricycle for the entire race wins, partly thanks to the twins who decide to bury their differences and fix up his tricycle after it crashes. | |
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An episode of Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat involving a writing contest entered by, among others, Sagwa and the daughter of a magistrate the Foolish Magistrate has a recurring prank war with, ultimately concludes with this trope. After the officials spend the entire episode messing up the contest, both Sagwa and the girl lose to an old guy...who had won the contest 48 years in a row prior to this one. | |
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During the Game Awards 2023, people were expecting a clean sweep for Baldur's Gate III or for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to be its biggest competition, but Alan Wake II ended up being the second-most awarded game of the night, winning Best Narrative, Best Game Direction, and Best Art Direction. While Baldur's Gate III would end up taking home Game of the Year honors, the fact this game came in as a close second place was a pleasant surprise for the Alan Wake fanbase. | |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: In one episode, the school has a day where students and their parents compete together in sports events. Naturally, the focus of the episode is Jimmy vs. Cindy, both of whom cheat. However, at the end it turns out that every family was cheating except for Carl and his equally unathletic father, so they win by default. In "Jimmy for President", Jimmy, Libby, Sheen, and Funny Foreigner exchange student Bolbi run for class president. After the former three try to pressure Carl into picking them to vote for, they end up getting disqualified for bribery, blackmail, and flying a blimp over school grounds without a permit, leaving Bolbi to win by default. |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean chronicles the battle between Jolyne Cujoh and Enrico Pucci. The winner? Emporio Alniño, a minor ally of Jolyne's who turns out to be the Sole Survivor of Jolyne's party after Pucci uses Made In Heaven to accelerate time and reset the universe. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run is about a cross-country horse race, with the two main characters being Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli. The winner ends up being Pocoloco, a minor character who had no stake in the main overarching plot. Justified as his insane luck is emphasized at numerous points in the plot. |
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The Best Multiplayer Game and Best Shooter categories at the 2015 was primarily filled with games from big western publishers known for their work on teen and adult-oriented multiplayer and shooter spaces, namely Halo 5: Guardians, Destiny: The Taken King, Call of Duty: Black Ops III, and Star Wars Battlefront (2015) (only in the shooter space for the latter title). So who ended up being the winner for both categories? None other than Nintendo's new IP Splatoon, a colorful third-person multiplayer shooter based around squid kids who used ink as ammo, was oriented to audiences of all ages, and was released as an exclusive for the floundering Wii U, which was by that point a known failure in the console space for Nintendo. Yet against all odds, Splatoon ended up taking home those two awards that night. | |
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The Victors Project: Frequently, whenever a tribute with a low score ends up winning the Games. This mainly happens with female tributes (with Johanna, Circe, and Cotton being the cited examples), but "the dark horse to end all other dark horses" is the male tribute Abram, who scored only a three during training. Even he seemed to be astonished at his own victory, and he's still not entirely sure how he did it years after he won. | |
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In 2011, EA Sports and ESPN hosted a tournament to see which NFL player would grace the Madden NFL 2012 cover. The best player from each team was chosen for the bracket, and the fans voted each round. Such big names as Aaron Rodgers, Adrian Peterson, Hines Ward, and Drew Brees fell by the wayside. In the finals, the controversial Michael Vick made the finals, but he lost to... Peyton Hillis of the Cleveland Browns. Making him only the second Madden cover boy from a team that didn't make the playoffs the previous year. (The first? Vince Young, who had just won Rookie of the Year the previous year.) To be fair, many fans admitted to voting for the player they didn't like, so that their guy didn't fall under the Madden Curse. | |
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Gilligan's Island: On 'President Gilligan', Mr. Howell challenges the Skipper for leadership of the castaways, so they hold an election. The final tally is Skipper — 2, Mr. Howell — 2... Gilligan -- 3. On "Beauty is as Beauty Does", the women of the island decide to have a beauty contest, with the men as judges. The Skipper supports Ginger, the Professor supports Mary-Ann, and Mr. Howell supports his wife, leaving Gilligan throwing the deciding vote. Gilligan declares that all three women are ineligible to win the contest, since they're not native to the island, and gives the prize to a monkey. |
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A contest for the best RWBY character on the show's sub-Reddit was in 2018 won by a pilot that only appeared in two episodes but caused a good impression and became a meme in the community under the nickname "Pilot Boi". The topic talking about the results even mentions how it was a joke that went too far and they'll disregard some of his victories (as he beat two of the four main characters and the Cool Uncle that won the previous two editions!). By the following year, everyone had grown out of the joke and Pilot Boi crashed and burned in round 1. | |
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The Avatar: The Last Airbender crack chibi-short ‘School Time Shipping’ ends this way. Basically the entire young male cast (minus Sokka) are trying to convince Katara to go to the school dance with them. Aang, Jet, Haru and Zuko all try their hardest — but Katara admits she’s already going with someone else. The Blue Spirit! Zuko says “I didn’t see that comingâ€� which is fitting, since the Blue Spirit is his alter ego! | |
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In the Dragalia Lost event "The Hunt For Harmony", Luca takes part in the Vernal Banquet's Egg Hunt in hopes of winning the right to allow sylvan festivities to be celebrated by all, but he ends up having fierce competition in the form of Laranoa and Sylas. He also meets a younger sylvan named Fleur, who isn't as good at the egg hunt as the other three due to dedicating her skills to painting more than hunting. In the end though, Fleur wins the contest thanks to the other three deciding her reason for competing having more value than theirs and thus give her all their eggs and a quick ride back to the village on a dragon. | |
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The Life and Times of Juniper Lee: In "Citizen June", June runs for class president against incumbent Melissa O'Malley. When June's hero duties prevent her from being able to give a speech, her friend Ophelia manages to save the occasion by giving a speech about how horrible Melissa is. This wins over so many people that Ophelia ends up winning the election for class president via write-in votes, despite not running. She, along with everyone else, is shocked by this. | |
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In the Arthur episode "DW Swims With The Fishes" Emily wins the swimming race because DW stopped to help James after his swim fin got caught on the pool rope. In "Show Off" a dachshund wins the dog show after Killer and Sebastian the poodle both got disqualified (the former being distracted with a wind up mouse toy, the latter with roast beef and he ends up attacking a judge for it). |
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Prior to season ten, the show ran a poll that allowed fans to vote for one 3D episode and one sprite episode to appear in the next season. While the 3D animation winner, Alex Mercer vs. Cole MacGrath, was regarded by many as a fairly obvious pick, having been requested for many years, the sprite winner, Bill Cipher vs. Discord, was something not many predicted, considering it was up against highly requested or anticipated fights such as Captain America vs. Kamen Rider Ichigo, Kyle Rayner vs. Simon the Digger and Finn and Jake vs. Mordecai and Rigby and the crew having stated that they didn't want to use any more My Little Pony characters. | |
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Rocket Power: One episode focuses on a sandcastle contest, where Sam, a Teen Genius rival, and various other entrants make elaborate and difficult sand sculptures. In the end, the award goes to recurring character Mackenzie Benders, a bratty kid whose entry is about what you'd expect from anyone her age. Ray, one of the judges, notes that they had to give it to her—she was the only one who made an actual sandcastle. | |
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CatDog, "Climb Every CatDog": Cat is determined to beat his rival Mindy Wonderful at climbing Mt. Nearburg so that it will be renamed after him. Cat manages to beat Mindy, but it turns out that Dunglap was waiting at the top for him to give him his gear he forgot at the store. Dog takes it in stride, but Cat doesn't and breaks down crying. | |
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Wipeout (2008) constantly won "Favorite Reality TV Show", beating out several much more iconic shows like American Idol, America's Got Talent, and The Voice. Its luck run out in 2015, when Dance Moms won, and that was its last nomination as it had concluded the year beforehand. | |
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Amazon's Facebook page ran a March Movie Madness round Robin poll in 2014, which included films such as Pulp Fiction, The Godfather, Indiana Jones, and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy among its entrants. The eventual winner? Dredd. | |
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In an episode of Seinfeld, George has a chance to score a terrific apartment, but learns that the tenant board wants to give it to an Andrea Doria survivor instead. George works laboriously to prove that his life has contained more suffering and hardship than that of the shipwreck survivor. He succeeds, as his tales of the mishaps he endured in previous episodes leave the tenant board in tears. In the end, however, Elaine's boyfriend gets the apartment by giving the super a fifty dollar bribe. | |
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Ruby Pair: In "My Fair Tenn", first place for the beauty pageant that the chapter is built around ultimately goes to GIR, who isn't even a contestant, because Beauticiatron finds him cute, and she's the one running the pageant. | |
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In Monster Chronicles In spite of his Butt-Monkey status and frequently being placed to the side in canon, Tyler ends up winning Total Drama World Tour and the prize money that came with it due to a last second loophole. | |
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Season 3 of For All Mankind features a three-way race to Mars between NASA, the Soviet Union, and the private company Helios. Along the way, the Soviet ship is damaged and most of their crew are rescued by NASA, leading to a joint NASA-Soviet mission which manages to land on Mars before Helios. Except...at the end of the season, it's revealed that they were beaten by North Korea of all places. | |
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Of all the characters that Nintendo could get the rights to, few expected that the titular protagonist of Bayonetta would be the one to get the most votes — or that Nintendo would happily bring the infamously M rated maelstrom of innuendo, violence, and camp into the very E10+ rated Super Smash Bros. (There were, of course, necessary adjustments.) | |
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In Gunnerkrigg Court Andrew is named the Court's medium instead of Annie by the Headmaster's decision. Everyone was so certain who it would be that they start congratulating the assumed winner, who with false modesty expresses surprise, before they realize who was chosen. | |
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The Simpsons: Mr. Burns holds a competition to see who can improve the power plant, with the winner gaining a hundred dollar bill. Lenny tries setting up Christmas lights, which cause epileptic fits in everyone. Carl hands out hamsters, until they drink some runoff, grow to giant size and, naturally, become super-aggressive. In the end, Smithers gives the bill to Homer, who was asleep through all of this, simply because he did the least damage to the plant. | |
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In The Red Green Show episode "The Folk Art Convention" from Season 15, the "Adventures" segment features an ATV race between Bill, Winston, and Dalton. Dalton is essentially driving a riding mower, while Bill and Winston have faster, more powerful vehicles. However, they drive recklessly and ultimately run out of fuel just short of the finish line, handing victory to Dalton. | |
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The "Blood on the Sand" arc of Ennui GO! centers on Izzy hosting a series of all-ages competitions, with the winning team getting a single wish granted by her. Captain Orca and his crew compete to see if they can get Izzy to tell them where Key Manati's fish girl population is, and much of the focus is on them and Izzy's friends competing; however, the winners end up being Izzy's nephew Max and his friends, who were largely ignored (both by the narrative and the other competitors). | |
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Bromwell High did this when the school had a contest for the students to do presentations on social tolerance. In spite of all her efforts, including a multi-cultural interview show and parachut stunts, Natella doesn't win. And Keisha, in spite of throwing a gypsy boxing match, doesn't win either. The prize is awarded to the giner-haired Kylie, who didn't compete at all. | |
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In Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, the climactic race has hero Ricky Bobby and the antagonist Jean Girard competing so fiercely with each other that they ultimately get themselves disqualified. The winner of the race ends up being Ricky's best friend and perennial runner-up Cal Naughton, Jr. — much to Ricky's pleasure, and he finally treats his old friend like an equal. | |
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Time Magazine's lists can cover this in spades! For example, how many people expected "You" to win the Person of the Year in 2006? Or for Frozen's representation on the 2014 Time 100 to be songwriters Robert and Kristen Lopez over Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, the movie's directors, or Idina Menzel, the public face of the film? Or for TV actresses to be represented on their "Most Influential Teenagers" list by Mad Men's Kiernan Shipka over Game of Thrones's Maisie Williams despite the latter being much more widely known? | |
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Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: In "Spirit Week", Ned competes against Martin Querly for Spirit King, so he can be Susie's date, and eventually end up tied. In the end, neither of them wins, as instead the election goes to Loomer (who kept getting zeroes), for the sake of unintentionally saving the Spirit Stick. | |
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Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online: The second Squad Jam tournament is largely a fight of LLENN against Pito, with both of them killing anyone on their way to their final confrontation. After a suitably dramatic final battle, LLENN finally kills Pito... and then is shot by Team S-T, who had been hiding in a corner of the map for the entire tournament and been completely forgotten about. The people watching the tournament complain loudly. The winners of the fourth Squad Jam end up being Team ZEMAL, a group of hotheaded and none-too-bright machine gun wielders. The climactic battle in the mall ends with LLENN and Fire, The Hero and the leader of the alliance of teams, respectively, as the only two left alive, and LLENN ends up getting taken out by the zombies that spawn if people stay still too long, while Fire resigns. This results in ZEMAL being the last group standing. |
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The Office (US): Michael, Jim, and Karen are all competing for a job at corporate, which goes to Ryan, who had been interviewing for the job in secret. This fact was not revealed until the tag at the end of the episode. | |
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This caused the site to hold a quick small character battle directly after L-Block won by pitting it against other similar video game objects and it lost to the ? Block. | |
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In Yes, Minister, the only reason Jim Hacker makes it to party leader and then Prime Minister is that he is up against two far stronger candidates, who end up cancelling each other out because they are strong enough to have acquired many enemies (not to mention both have major potential scandals that make them rather unsuitable). Nobody can be bothered to hate Hacker very much as he is widely seen as mediocre and ineffectual. note This is apparently exactly how the grey and obscure John Major made it to party leader and PM after the fall of Thatcher. Nobody could be bothered to despise him as the last thing he aroused were strong feelings in any direction. | |
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Any sports management game (Football Manager and the like) will let you pull off this trope by taking charge of an unfancied team and leading them to glory, but the computer will sometimes pull this off itself, with competitions being won by the most unlikely or obscure of teams. The Internet is rife with tales of international minnows winning the World Cup, or lower-league sides winning cup tournaments. | |
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Rune Soldier Louie has a filler episode where Louie and his mentor/rival Genie compete to see who can finish a race first. They spend so much time fighting that another rival's horse finishes first (A White one, to confuse things). | |
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In the Murdoch Mysteries horse-racing episode "Cool Million", the consensus of the fraternity is that, with the favourite murdered, Emmett Carmichael's horse is going to win, although many, including Inspector Brakenreid, think that Miss Hart's decision to enter her horse, Cool Million, changes things. Cool Million wins by a nose but is disqualified because Miss Hart was riding him herself. Carmichael's horse is also disqualified once he's exposed as the murderer. So the Disqualification-Induced Victory goes to the horse that came a distant third ... which Murdoch had bet on because he calculated that while it was less likely to win than the other two, the overall risk/return was more favourable. | |
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On Welcome Freshmen, Erin Kelly is disgusted with the fact that a super-slick politician-in-training will likely become class president, with only disgusting slob Billy Cushman providing competition. She enters the race, but is immediately hit with so much negative campaigning that she eventually has no choice but to go negative in response. They both end up so damaged that Cushman wins. | |
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Godzilla Minus One was a surprise winner for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. The film had a relatively minuscule budget under $15 million and a tiny 35-person VFX team, compared to the mega-budgets and giant effects teams behind the other nominees, The Creator (2023), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning and Napoleon (2023). Academy voters were reportedly impressed by presentations given by the film’s VFX team showcasing the homespun and creative ways they pulled off the film’s effects. | |
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In the first section of The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School, a team from Drearcliff competes in an annual interschool scavenger hunt. It's widely regarded as a grudge match between Drearcliff and rival school Draycott's, whose team trounced them by underhanded means the previous year; the other teams aren't considered much threat — especially St Cuthbert's, a school of Upper Class Twits whose team always blows off the competition and goes on a pub crawl instead. After several chapters of close-fought contest between the Drearcliff and Draycott's teams, the contest goes in a resounding victory to St Cuthbert's, with Drearcliff coming a distant second one point ahead of Draycott's. | |
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Steve McQueen's classic movie Le Mans features a double dose of this. McQueen crashes his original car halfway through the race and is out. Then he takes over his teammate's car, and still finishes second to an almost unnoticed third Porsche. The German villain finishes third. McQueen famously flicks a playful 'V' sign to the German guy after the finish. | |
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In Tyranny, the player character is an official who travels the lands of the final conquest of an evil overlord Kyros and executes justice in his authority. The conflict is based around two armies that participated in the conquest who now compete for the govenorship of the conqured province, while also clashing with the remenants of the conquered realms acting as rebels against the overlord's authority. In all endings the player himself comes out on top, suprising everyone, including the overlord himself. This is usually done by siding with one of the three factions throught the game and then siezing direct controll of the faction, ultimatly bowing to or defying the overlord using the power he aquires during the events of the game. The most radical example of this trope is the so called „anarchist“ victory. In this ending, the player doesn't side with any faction, but instead sizes the entirety of the game area by himself, destroys all other factions and proceeds to attack the Overlord's lands. | |
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The Grand Prix racing episode in Kirby: Right Back at Ya!. Instead of Kirby, Tiff and Tuff, or King Dedede winning the race, it was the Mayor who won who caught up being several laps behind. | |
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In the Glee episode "Prom Queen", it's prom. The election of Prom King and Queen is of course Serious Business, and especially the Prom Queen candidates treat it like a matter of life and death. None of them win. Instead, Kurt is elected Prom Queen in a homophobic prank that apparently the whole school except his friends in glee club took part in. | |
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Played with in M*A*S*H. Father Mulcahy turned out to have some gambling skills, and he used it to anticipate a game of bridge, by betting on Potter's and Winchester's partners, not the guys themselves. Fortunately, he used the winnings for charitable work. | |
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Pocoyo: Sleepy Bird manages to win a race that was only supposed be between Pocoyo and Elly. Granted, the two managed to break their own vehicles and were so busy combining their broken parts that she slowly passed by them unnoticed. | |
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RuPaul's Drag Race. By and large, the queens who win each season are also the ones who have the most main challenge wins. In season 9, RuPaul flipped the script, and the finale of the seasons became a sudden-death lip sync mini-tournament for the crown. This put the top four contestants by season's end on level ground, with often surprising results. For example, at the end of season 9, walking art-school project Sasha Velour, despite a consistently high track record, became the first contestant to win the crown without the most challenge wins. In fact, she had two, against Shea Couleé's four, and Trinity Taylor's three. And Sasha's two wins were team wins with Shea, at that. Being Always Second Best during her season made her surprise win that much more of a shock. And then there's season 11 and Yvie Oddly. She often placed high, only spent one time in the bottom two (a famous lipsync with Brooke Lynn Hytes that was so good, they were both allowed to stay), but she only scored one challenge win — a team win with Scarlet Envy during an acting challenge. Yvie Oddly still got a lot of attention based on her monstrous style of drag, and extreme flexibility while performing (brought on by Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome). This allowed her to hang in there until the finale, where she became the first person to win the crown off of one challenge win. |
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After an episode-long simmering rivalry in "Chain of Command," Lightning Lad challenges Cosmic Boy (who has been absent the entire series until just now) for leadership of the Legion of Super Heroes (2006), it's a quick-cut to the tallied votes, and Bouncing Boy wins instead, as the other plot of the episode was him learning to be a better more assertive Mission Control. | |
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Not Another Teen Movie: During prom, the camera (and viewer expectations) focus on the protagonist and the Rich Bitch cheerleader. When the Prom Queen is finally announced, it's a tie between two conjoined-at-the-head twins. | |
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The Best Man (1964) is about two candidates locked in an ugly battle at their party's presidential nominating convention. The more principled one gets ahold of what in 1964 would be a devastating smear: his rival may be a homosexual. But he's the more principled one. So instead of dropping the bomb, he quits the race and throws his support behind a lightly-regarded also-ran candidate, who winds up winning the nomination. | |
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Kim Possible:"Hidden Talent": Bonnie and Kim (perennial rivals, of course) compete at a talent show, Bonnie performing ballet and Kim singing. Ron becomes a "last minute entry" just to stall for time so that Kim wouldn't be disqualified as a no-show (having been stuck in an elaborate death trap by Drakken). To get as much time as possible, he improvises a long series of different actsIncludingVaudeville dancing, ventroliquism with Rufus as the dummy, miming, playing Star-Spangled Banner with his fingers on rims of cups (Rufus raising a flag included), consuming a packet of hot sauce to breath fire and ended with breaking several concrete blocks with his head.. Ron ends up winning, in Barkin's words "Proving that quantity is indeed better than quality." Kim isn't upset and is happy, rubbing Ron's victory in Bonnie's face. | |
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Recess: The A.V. Kid is leaving and uses a series of practical tests to find a successor. TJ and Vince are vying for the position. Initially fiercely competitive, they chose to set aside their differences during the final stage when their equipment malfunctions. They fix each other's projectors just before time runs out and are both successful. A.V. Kid commends them on their teamwork before handing the position to an obviously incompetent third candidate (who we've never seen before or ever see after, yet TJ and Vince apparently know him well), tangled up in the film, for his "independence" (Being a solitary job, the candidate had to prove that they could work without resorting to outside help). This trope was averted in a later episode when Gretchen and Vince are running against each other for class president. Gretchen wins by one vote, which turns out to be cast by Vince after realizing that Gretchen actually had some good ideas and could make a difference, whereas he was treating it basically as a popularity contest. |
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This also happens in The Wheel of Time, when Egwene, a mere Accepted, is raised Amyrlin because the two main contestants fear the other might win. To most, she was supposed to be a puppet or a sacrificial lamb, but she turned out to be just as manipulative and stubborn as the rest of them and by the time they realized this she was already in power. | |
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The Masked Singer In Season 6, while Bull and Banana Split were favored from day one (the former was even declared by judge Robin Thicke to be finale bound as early as his first performance), it was ultimately Queen of Hearts who won the competition. She even called herself this. It is downplayed however, as Queen of Hearts was still a fairly popular and talented performer. Season 7 contained an arguably bigger example. The final 3 consisted of Prince, who proved himself able to handle various different styles of music without compromising any talent, Ringmaster, who was the favorite to win due to her powerful voice and talent of pulling off very difficult songs and Firefly, who ended up in a Duel (meaning she was in the bottom two in one round) and wasn't the favorite of her group. Going into the finale, many assumed Firefly would wash out in the first-round while Prince and Ringmaster would compete for the Golden Mask, yet in the end, it was Firefly who ultimately beat out Ringmaster in the final round to win the trophy. |
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The Dinosaurs episode, "And the Winner Is..." revolves around the dinosaur equivalent of a Presidential election, with Earl running as an everyman candidate against Corrupt Corporate Executive B.P. Richfield. The winner is Edward R. Hero, the political correspondent who anchored the election coverage, by a landslide write-in vote. | |
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The Shrek 2 bonus short "Far Far Away Idol" has multiple endings depending on who the viewer chooses as the winner. If you select anyone other than Donkey, Puss, or Shrek and Fiona as the winner, Simon Cowell will reject the result, declare himself the winner, and start singing My Way. | |
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In the Batman: Wayne Family Adventures issue Assassin, the Bat kids are playing paintball assassin. At the end, right when it looks like Orphan is going to win for the second year in a row, Bluebird shows up and takes her out, winning the game. | |
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All Grown Up!, "Rats Race": Tommy vs. Angelica (despite being cousins, they, too, are perennial rivals) in a go-kart race... but the winner is Harold. | |
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Bonnie Raitt winning the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 2023 with "Just Like That" was a surprise to many, including Raitt herself, as the veteran blues rocker, while having a long and influential career, hadn't seen the Hot 100 in over a decade, and had several of the biggest names in pop music — including names like Taylor Swift, Lizzo, Beyoncé, Adele and Harry Styles — as the other contenders for the award. | |
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In The Spectacular Spider-Man, gorgeous Mary Jane gets set up with Peter for his school's Fall Formal. Peter is, unsurprisingly, called off on superhero business, but M.J. sticks around and winds up being elected Homecoming Queen, even though she doesn't attend that school. | |
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Professional Wrestling does this with Triple Threat matches when one of the three wrestlers in the match has not been involved in a running feud between the other two, or is otherwise pushed into the match with an intentional lack of build-up. A recent example: Randy Orton, a textbook heel and then-WWE Champion, went into WrestleMania 24 defending his belt against John Cena and Triple H in a Triple Threat match. Triple Threats as championship matches are notorious for hamming up the defender losing a belt unfairly or without being 'properly' beaten, because one of the non-champions can win the belt by pinning the other non-champion. WWE even did a phone-poll for fan speculation on who would win the match, with Orton receiving an underwhelming five percent of the vote. Guess who won the match? | |
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In Strip Search, the fourth round of eliminations pitted Nick Trujillo against Mackenzie Schubert. The winner was Lexxy Douglass, whose comic in Elimination #3 had been so absolutely good that the judges couldn't bear to destroy it. | |
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In Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen, after the final battle, the Lord has united the continent, both holding control of the kingdom of Zenobia and The Empire of Zeteginea. In most of the endings, either Tristan, the heir to the throne of Zenobia, takes the throne, or he abdicates it in favor of the Lord, but in one ending, Rauny, the first female Paladin and the heir to the Zeteginean Empire, takes the throne in her own name, marrying the Lord to support her claim. This is the only ending where Rauny takes the throne, and she's not otherwise a candidate. | |
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The Universal Survival Saga of Dragon Ball Super ends not with Goku or Freeza being the last man standing but Android No. 17, since the former two sacrificed themselves to knock off Jiren and secure the win for Universe 7. Honestly, the main cast were as shocked as the real life audience was. | |
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Daria: Played Straight and averted when the Fashion Club are competing for a modeling contract along with a pudgy, redheaded background character. Oddly enough, she's not the Dark Horse—the contract winds up going to Kevin, one of the boys whom the modeling agency had asked to pose with the competing girls. In "Arts 'n' Crass," the school has an art contest about student life. Most of the episode focuses on Daria and Jane's submission (a well-done but deliberately shocking take on eating disorders) and how they want to rescind it from the contest after Ms. Li alters it without their approval. At the very end we find out that Brittany's entry (which looks like it might have been done by a five-year-old) actually won, to Daria and Jane's amusement. |
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Used twice in The 7D, both times with Hildy Gloom and Snazzy Shazam. In "Sleepytime," Hildy and Snazzy are in the running for Best Sleeping Spell, but the presenter gives the award to himself for putting most of the audience to sleep with his "spellbinding" performance. In "Hildyrella", the winner of the Ultimate Supreme Sorceress Pageant is not any of the finalists, but Hildy's fairy godmother. |
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Archie Comics did this a few times: One issue had Archie as one of the judges of a swimsuit competition. Both Betty and Veronica manipulate him into promising them his support in the contest. Moose also intimidates him into supporting his girlfriend, Midge. In the end a fourth girl wins. Betty, Veronica and Moose are all about to pound Archie, but he defuses the situation by showing them his clipboard, proving that he did his best to help them by giving them all an "A" grade. His skin seems saved until the girl who won comes by to thank him for tipping the scale in her favor with a grade of "A+ ". The story ends with Archie running for his life. Another Archie story involves a track meet between several schools. Riverdale finishes second in every single event while two rival schools alternate beating them out for first. In the end, however, Riverdale, thanks to all its second place finishes, wins the meet on total points. Another story is sort of a combination of the above two. Every judge in a beauty contest votes for Ethel for second place because no judge wants to give points to someone who might beat his choice for winner (i.e. his own girlfriend), so she gets the most points overall. The judges' girlfriends are not happy. Because they don't want to choose between Reggie and Archie for a school election, Betty and Veronica try to throw Jughead in for the sake of a darkhorse. He does win, but refuses to accept the title because he didn't want to run in the first place. |
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Season one of Dawson's Creek has this with a beauty contest in which Joey and the Alpha Bitch compete. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, the Night's Watch election is won by someone who wasn't even running in the first round of voting (Jon Snow) because two major contenders give their support to him to prevent Smug Snake Janos Slynt from winning. Fire & Blood: Due to the occasional misfortunes in Westeros history, often an unlikely person ends up being the one left standing. For example, Daella Targaryen was the least capable of all King Jaehaerys I's children (a Nervous Wreck suffering from severe learning disabilities), but it's through her children the family line continued. A few generations later, Daella's great-great grandson Viserys would become king, mainly because his four older brothers all died (three of them before he'd even hit puberty), and his last brother's sons died without issue. |
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The Brady Bunch: Greg, a judge for the cheerleading tryouts, picks a third girl instead of either Marcia or his girlfriend. Marcia is very understanding and concedes that Greg made the right decision, but the girlfriend dumps him, leading Greg to conclude that she was only dating him so she could win the competition. | |
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Few names conjure as much fear in Battlebots as Tombstone. A sturdy force of destruction who came into the revival's 1st season on Discovery as both reigning champ, #1 seed and 4-0. On the opposite end was Bombshell. Who had been tossed around all season, lost every match and only managed to squeak into the tourney in a desperado tournament. Suffice to say fans, drivers and even the announcers were shocked when Bombshell took out Tombstone's weapon chain. Leaving the champ with no weapon, and sending Bombshell onward. | |
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Fire & Blood: Due to the occasional misfortunes in Westeros history, often an unlikely person ends up being the one left standing. For example, Daella Targaryen was the least capable of all King Jaehaerys I's children (a Nervous Wreck suffering from severe learning disabilities), but it's through her children the family line continued. A few generations later, Daella's great-great grandson Viserys would become king, mainly because his four older brothers all died (three of them before he'd even hit puberty), and his last brother's sons died without issue. | |
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Futurama: Zoidberg rigs the Oscars to ensure this will happen twice in a two-minute span: first by listing Calculon among the nominees, and then by announcing the winner, "instead of any of those guys," is his uncle. | |
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The Weird Al Show: Weird Al and perennial rival Uncle Bobby both lose the TV Host of the Year competition to senile, ukelele-playing puppet man Fred Huggins, another kids show host, which provides the Aesop for the story. | |
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The Democratic Primary in Season 6 of The West Wing was this. In-universe, the race was widely assumed to be a straight contest between the current Vice-President Bob Russell and former Vice-President John Hoynes, but the nomination eventually went to the little-known Congressman Matthew Santos. Given some of his comments President Bartlett himself was one prior to the start of the series. |
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qxlkbh: La Croix wins the election for Mayor of Citygradville in 133: election results, thanks to weird circumstances which nobody expected due to them previously having just 0.06% of the vote. note In the voting system that exists in Citygradville, people rank the 3 candidates in order, with first getting 4 points, second getting 3 and third getting 1 point. Although almost nobody voted for LC first, the Fourth Wall supporters put LC ahead of Crossley, and vice versa for Crossley's supporters, ensuring that LC got the most points as they were everyone's middle choice. This trope is called out by name in 134: dark horse victory and LC plays a game called Dark Horse III. | |
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Touhou Project's annual popularity polls always had main character Reimu Hakurei in first place for a decade. Then in 2015, she was dethroned by not-quite Breakout Character Koishi Komeiji, which shocked just about everyone. Fanartists, of course, reacted accordingly. | |
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From The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: | |
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Smile concerns a beauty pageant, and while a number of the contestants are given a spotlight in the story, the actual winner is a character who wasn't featured at all. In fact, the girl given the most screentime doesn't even place. | |
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On The Fairly OddParents! Timmy Turner invokes this trope, sending Cosmo (or rather, his disembodied head) into a race with two villains, figuring they would cheat each other but ignore him. | |
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Console Wars: In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters episode, April O'Neil is on a dating game show with two bachelors; Shredder and Casey Jones. At the end of the episode, it is revealed that there was a third bachelor whom Shredder and Casey didn't know about because they were too busy trying to figure out which version of the TMNT Tournament Fighters game was better. The third bachelor is revealed to be Raphael, who made a real connection with April. In The Great Circus Mystery episode, Pat and Dan find out that the SNES and Sega Genesis versions of the game have equal advantages over the other, with the SNES version having better graphics, the Genesis version having a better presentation, and each version having an exclusive level. They get a call from Mike to help them settle their dispute. Mike cites the Game Boy Advance version as being the best one, having all of the elements of the SNES and Genesis versions, as well as a save feature in place of the passwords, an improved character select screen, a language select, and an improved ending. |
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Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls's Emmy win for Outstanding Competition Program in 2022 was a surprise, as the odds at the time largely favored RuPaul's Drag Race to win again, followed by The Amazing Race and Top Chef. | |
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Manabu Nakanishi's New Japan Pro-Wrestling 1999 G1 Climax win over the legendary Keiji Mutoh. Later, when he won the IWGP Heavyweight title in a bout wit the much younger Hiroshi Tanahashi. | |
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Episode 8 of Leonardo is about a painting contest organised by the Duke of Florence. It's presented as all about Leo and his rival Michelangelo. The winner is Leo's friend Tomaso. | |
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This is essentially how the protagonists' school advances to Nationals in Saki. The audience was expecting a titanic clash between Kazekoshi and Ryuumonbuchi, but a bunch of nobodiesnote Okay, not really— Nodoka has been in the competitive scene for a while, while Saki is... Teru's sister. snatch the ticket. | |
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A major plot in Stardust involves the princes trying to outdo each other at doing each other in to become king. The new king is the son of their sister, who had disappeared about eighteen years before. | |
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Fazbear and Friends (ZAMination): In the Hide and Seek game, Among Us manages to survive the game because it was camouflaged among the colored blocks on a shelf. | |
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In the Ever Decreasing Circles episode "Snooker", the ever competitive Martin is delighted to discover that his usually highly capable neighbour Paul is hopeless at snooker, and he eliminates him easily in the first round of the local pub snooker tournament. However, usual light comic relief character Howard's anger at being seen as a loser boils over after an incident at work, and he wipes the table with Martin in the final. | |
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In Disney's A.N.T. Farm, this trope is inverted in a way. Chyna and Olive were competing to try and lose the election. They were both hoping for the other one to win, because winning meant having to be shot out of a cannon. In a twist ending, Chyna's brother Cameron wins the election and is happy about it because he never wins anything. | |
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The heroines of Oreshura enter an "expressing your love" contest as a thinly-veiled culmination of their competition for Eita's affection. They all make uniquely dramatic and sappy performances, but they all lose to a random little girl who talked about how much she loved her dad. | |
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Though Haganai ends with Kodaka shooting down everyone in his Unwanted Harem, it's Yukimura, not Sena or Yozora, who gets to date him for a bit. | |
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Tenchi Universe has an episode where the girls enter a swimsuit competition, naturally with emphasis on the rivalry between Ayeka and Ryoko. Nagi wins with a last minute entry. It became a semi-running joke in both Tenchi Muyo! and Tenchi Universe to have Ayeka and Ryoko (and sometimes the other girls) competing fiercely to tend to a wounded Tenchi, only to be beaten to the punch by Sasami when they weren't looking. Played for laughs in the original OVA Tenchi Muyo series. In one episode, Ayeka and Ryoko are strongly competing to gain Tenchi's affections. It continues throughout the day and during the night when both girls try to sneak into Tenchi's room to make out with him. In the end, Sasami (who also has a crush on Tenchi, but is better at hiding it) is able to gain entry just by knocking on his door and asking to come in. Once Ayeka and Ryoko realize this, they try to rush into the room, only to fall into a trap which teleports them to the lake outside of the house. And then Mihoshi shows up. Tenchi in Tokyo: the Third-Option Love Interest got the first ever animated kiss or declaration of love from Tenchi. |
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In Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown, Charlie and friends don't win the big river rafting race that forms the plot of the movie... but neither do the three bullies and their mean cat. The upset winner in this case is Snoopy's little yellow bird friend Woodstock. What's more, until right before the finish Snoopy was racing with Woodstock in a makeshift tire raft when the cat pops it with his claw. Woodstock crosses the finish line in a little handmade twig raft (made on the spot), which means technically, none of the FOUR groupsnote for much of the movie the boys and girls competed in separate groups competing against each other for the entire race ultimately won. | |
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During the pre-tournament draw for determining preliminary groups for hololive's 2022 New Year's Mario Kart 8 tournament, as soon as it became known that Group B would have both of the previous two years' champions Aqua and Suisei in it every other talent started praying they wouldn't get drawn into that group. It only got more formidable once other strong players Towa and Pekora were also drawn into it, becoming termed a "Group of Death" as only the top three finishers in each eleven-person group advanced to the final and most fans thought there was little chance for anyone else in Group B to get through. When the day came, the top three finishers included Suisei, Towa...and Gura, who just beat out Pekora on the final race with a timely red shell at the final turn of the final lap and finished ahead of her by one point in the standings. Gura's performance was especially notable as her earlier races in the past year or so showed she wasn't that good, but had put in a lot of practice between then and the New Year's tournament. Gura ended up finishing fourth overall. | |
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Game of Thrones: In the end, the ultimate victor of the Game and ruler of the Seven Kingdoms proves to be Bran Stark, who is the Three-Eyed Raven now, never really took part in the politics or wars, and is one of the small few people who never wanted the throne. Indeed, this is actually part of the reason why he’s chosen; most of the remaining Houses and factions are more or less neutral on him which, combined with the fact that he’s carrying the wisdom of entire generations of kings in his mind, makes him a fairly safe, non-divisive choice for Westeros’ first elected monarch. For bonus points, he Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing, as another part of the reason he’s chosen is because almost all of the other viable candidates are either dead or in no state to rule. | |
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Exam: After staying, for the majority of the movie, out of the spotlight and being one of the most sensitive ones, Blonde is the one who wins, figuring out what's the question and having her paper completely fine. | |
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While Stranger Things is a very popular television series, few people expected it to be nominated at a kids' award ceremony, let alone win, due to it being a dark TV-14 rated show. But alas, that's what happened in 2018 for both the show itself and Millie Bobby Brown, Even more surprising was the fact that Brown actually showed up, since people assumed an actress who specializes in serious adult fare wouldn't be bothered to attend a kids' show. She gave a speech honoring the survivors of the Parkland school shooting (their March for Our Lives protest took place earlier that day), and while she got a lot of praise for doing so, quite a few people say Nick rigged the award in her favor to let her make the speech, since it was evident it was pre-planned and they have already announced beforehand they would honor the movement. | |
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A filler episode of Fairy Tail shows one of the guild's many traditions, an annual 24-hour race among all active members. Jet is expected to win handily with his Super-Speed, as he has in previous years, so the primary competition is among Natsu, Erza, Gray, and Gajeel for second place; meanwhile, Makarov has introduced a new rule against the use of flight magic, apparently ruining Happy's chances. Jet is so confident that he takes a nap in the middle of the race; while he's still able to return to the front of the pack when he wakes up, the second-place pack is able to catch up just enough to grab onto him, dragging them all down into a tangled pile right in front of the finish line; they're so distracted that they forget to stand up and cross the finish line until everyone else has already beaten them to it. While Erza managed to sneak out of the pile and across the finish line with the rest of the guild, the remaining four ended up tying for last place. Meanwhile, first place went to Happy, who'd managed to avoid all of the sabotage efforts that the guild members had been throwing at each other, since nobody saw him as a threat. | |
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In an episode of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch, the Mermaid Princesses and Dark Lovers face off in a beauty contest, each side vaguely suspecting the other's identities. They all get beaten out by some random girl named Caren... who turns up again soon after, revealed to be not so random after all. | |
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A decent handful from the Eurovision Song Contest: One of the first major examples was Spain's Massiel beating out the United Kingdom's Cliff Richard in 1968. His song, "Congratulations," was co-written by the same songwriting duo who had written Sandie Shaw's victorious "Puppet on a String" the year before, had already become a smash hit on the British charts, and he himself was considered the biggest pop star in Britain at the time.note To put it into perspective: in the grand scheme of Eurovision contestants' chart success, Richard comes second only to ABBA and right ahead of Céline Dion. And that's virtually all in the UK! Newspaper headlines even asked, "Who will come second to 'Congratulations'?". The song has since become a contest evergreen, but Spain and the UK leveled the score the following year when both countries made up half of a four-way tie for first place (the other two being the Netherlands and France). Sweden's Herreys brothers and "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" in 1984. The big favorites that year were Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, but lackluster live performances led to Luxembourg finishing tenth and Germany and the Netherlands missing the top ten entirely. Theretofore-perennial underdogs Norway in 1985. While they were never out of contention, Germany's Wind were expected to sweep the board with their anthemic "Für alle". Instead, Germany's early lead got scuppered by a few nonplussed countries (including, surprisingly enough, Austria and Switzerland), while Norway scored consistently well through the whole voting sequence. 1994 saw host country Ireland as a distant third-favorite on their second year in a row of hosting, with the United Kingdom's Frances Ruffelle and Germany's MeKaDo the big favorites with their more Eurovision-friendly pop songs. The song was performed by a male duo (a grouping that had never sealed a victory before) and was drawn relatively early on in the show, which seemed to indicate a bad outcome. Instead, the quiet and introspective "Rock and Roll Kids" walked away with the biggest victory ever seen at the contest up to that point, with 226 points in the bag (sixty points clear of runner-up Poland), allowing Ireland to complete Eurovision's first and to date only three-peat. 2000-2003 was pretty much the era of Dark Horse Victories. The first two were unconventional male duos (Denmark's Olsen Brothers were two veteran musicians in their mid-50s, and the following year saw a duet between 50-year-old Aruban Dave Benton and 21-year-old Estonian Tanel Padar) and the other two were lightweight pop songs with flashy stage performances (Latvia's Marie N with her gender-bending costume-changing extravaganza and Turkey's Sertab Erener and her squadron of bellydancers). The first two utterly crushed the competition and the latter two were neck-and-neck with their more favored rivals (Malta in 2002 and Russia and Belgium in 2003) until the bitter end. Two narrowly-averted examples in 2018 and 2019 by virtue of the jury vote. 2018 saw the two contenders, Israel's Netta and Cyprus' Eleni Foureira, both lose to Austria's Cesar Sampson and his soulful "Nobody but You" in the jury vote (Israel took third, Cyprus fifth). They also both finished behind perennial favorite Sweden's Benjamin Ingrosso and "Dance You Off," a low-key number with music video-like staging. The situation changed dramatically when the televote scores were announced: Austria came thirteenth and Sweden only came twenty-third, paving the way for Israel to win and Cyprus to finish as runner-up. Then, in 2019, heavy favorite Duncan Laurence from the Netherlands and strong contender Mahmood from Italy took a backseat in the jury vote to Sweden's John Lundvik (not out of the question, given his song's more positive reception compared to "Dance You Off" and the juries' general affinity for Swedish entries)...and North Macedonia's Tamara Todevska, whose country hadn't qualified for seven years and wound up winning the jury votenotebut only when the jury vote was corrected after the show had already aired; before the correction Sweden was the initial victor, with the Netherlands in third and Italy fourth. On the televote side, the Netherlands' second place allowed them to win and Italy's third brought them up to second. The surprise was Norway's Keiino, a fan-favorite that had tanked in the jury vote, won the televote handily. It was only the second time that neither the jury nor televote winner won the overall contest (that being Ukraine in 2016, whom both parties placed second), but the margin by which their respective winners differed was much larger. |
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In Tiny Toon Adventures, Babs Bunny and Plucky Duck competed for who could end up in the greater number of photographs in the school yearbook. It turned out they both tied, but 'The Kid in the Orange Hat' was in the background of every picture either of them was in, winning easily. And that Kid turned out to be Buster Bunny in disguise trying to teach them a lesson; instead, they both proceed to rain violence down upon him. | |
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Who can forget the night SpongeBob went down? In 2008, Avatar: The Last Airbender gave Nick's own cash cow its first and only loss.note Granted, ATLA was also a Nick series... | |
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Dark Horse Victories are common enough in wrestling that WWE has begun successfully swerving the audience by letting the odds-on favorites win handily. The most visible example is WWE's recent years-long campaign to re-establish the #30 spot in the Royal Rumble as the odds-on favorite (since drawing #30 out of 30 had previously been, statistically, the worst chance to win the match) by having a streak of victories from the final entrants; meanwhile, Wade Barrett was built as such a foregone conclusion to win the first season of WWE's NXT show that his victory was a surprise. | |
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Little Lunch: In "The Beep Test", Debra Jo—who is the one who hates the beep test the most—is the last one standing after Tamara sprains her ankle, Atticus makes himself sic, Melanie cramps her foot by attempting to force it into a too small cast, and Rory (who decides to run wearing an eyepatch) collides with Battie and takes them both out. | |
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The Book of Pooh: In a "Win Who Won Situation", Rabbit and Tigger compete in a race to see who's the fastest animal in the Hundred Acre Wood when neither of them can agree on who won the previous race (as each one had different recollections on what happened). By the time they get to the finish line, they find that Eeyore beat them there to tell them that they should have waited for him to say Go before they ran off. | |
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Played for laughs in El Goonish Shive, with the card game tournament. The comic had been following several main characters as they play their matches... only for the winner to be Some Guy, a random background character who doesn't even have a name. | |
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SpongeBob's domination of the KCAs was so huge that nobody expected The Sponge Bob Movie Sponge Out Of Water to lose its category in 2015. But then, once the show won its umpteenth prize and no announcement was made about the movie, its loss was all but confirmed. Alas, Big Hero 6 won. | |
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The Worst Year of My Life, Again: After Troy wins the cross-country race and gets his photo on the trophy next to Nicola, Alex attempts to use the 'loop year' to ensure that he wins instead. However, his messing with the time line cause neither himself nor Troy to win: with the victor being the one boy too slow to have been redirected by the detour Alex caused the rest of the runners to run into. | |
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Dana Cardinal from Welcome to Night Vale wins the mayoral election, beating out the Faceless Old Woman and Hiram McDaniels, despite not having run for the position in the first place. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End has a variant in-universe example: All of the pirates vote for themselves to become their leader—except for Jack (expecting this to happen), who votes for Elizabeth. | |
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At the 2015 Video Game Awards, the nominees for "Best Shooter" category were Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Star Wars Battlefront, Halo 5: Guardians, and Destiny: The Taken King, all of which were very much hyped by their developers, had enormous budgets, were sequels to well-established franchises, had Hollywood-level marketing campaigns, and created by teams with years upon years of experience in shooters. Oh, and there was also some new IP about cartoon-ish anthropomorphic squids created by a company with little experience making shooters and was released on a console that barely anyone even owned. Splatoon took the victory. | |
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Growing Pains: In "Michaelgate", a class election between Mike and the Big Jerk on Campus gets both candidates (and the vice-President of Mike’s rival) disqualified for cheating. This causes Boner (the perpetually dumb sidekick who won a coin toss to be Mike’s Vice-President) to be the only eligible person on either ticket left to win the election. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Played with this trope during the Running of the Leaves in "Fall-Weather Friends". After a lot of trickery in an attempt to get ahead of each other, Applejack and Rainbow Dash finished at the same time in last place. Then after they got over that shock, resident Squishy Wizard Twilight Sparkle walked up to them to reveal that she won... fifth place, a result that pleased her since it was her first race (she's read a lot about running and knew how to pace herself while most of the others ran themselves ragged.). The actual winner of the race was an unnamed pony. The winners of the eponymous competition in "The Sisterhooves Social" are Berryshine/Berry Punch and an unnamed filly (nicknamed "Piña Colada"), with Rarity and Sweetie Belle coming in second. In "Sparkle's Seven" the crown of the Sibling Supreme is a reward given in a Sibling Rivalry contest between Twilight Sparkle and Shining Armor ever since they were young. Shining Armor challenged Twilight to one last contest to determine who keeps the crown and the title permanently. If she can find a way to get past all the defenses to the castle and steal the crown then she wins, but if she gets caught then he wins. The winner ends up being Spike, who always wanted to be considered part of their rivalry himself but felt ignored by them. He managed to steal the crown himself by manipulating events from the beginning and getting help from Luna behind the scenes, basically teaching their older siblings a lesson about listening to them. |
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In Candy for Your Thoughts?, Ezekiel winds up the winner of Total Drama World Tour due to a technicality. | |
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Boardwalk Empire had Nucky go to the 1920 National Republican Convention in Chicago as par to the New Jersey delegation. He quickly realizes that the two front runners will deadlock and quickly makes a deal with Warren G. Harding's campaign manager to throw the New Jersey votes to Harding if the vote goes past the third ballot. Harding then wins the nomination on the tenth ballot and Nucky not only gets the support of the future President but also thwarts Senator Edge (who double crossed Nucky on a road fund bill) from becoming Vice President. | |
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In Choice of Magics, Saint Twimsby is a kind-hearted healer and animal lover, but apolitical and frankly a bit simple-minded. If he becomes Hierophant after the death of the previous one, it's because the voting system allows electors three vetoes each, and he's the only one nobody bothers to waste a veto on. | |
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Baby Looney Tunes: Bugs and Lola are racing Daffy in a toy car race, with Sylvester and Taz seeming only to make up the numbers (those two have to pool together their parts to put together an entry, even)... until Daffy's car bumps Bugs and Lola's car off the course, leaving the other car (Sylvester and Taz's) the only one to finish and win. | |
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Survival of the Fittest's version 3 endgame (Spoilered for massive spoilers) ultimately subverts this. In this case, there are four competitors: J. R. Rizollo, Trish McCarrol, Lenny Priestly, and Louise "Lulu" Altaire. Lulu is obviously the odd one out here, only killing 2 people, both only out of revenge, not to mention she is massively outpowered by everyone else. Ultimately, she makes it to endgame, and puts up a brutal fight against one of the biggest killers in the game so far, J. R., going so far as to even cutting off several of his fingers. Unfortunately, he takes advantage of one of her flaring disadvantages, her glasses which she can't see without. This allows him to kill her, and he wins v3, subverting the expected trope (Trish and Lenny had both killed each other by this point). | |
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Detention, "The Man with the Golden Brain": The smartest kids in detention (twin sisters, to boot) were disqualified from a Spelling Bee as one of them has butted into the other's turn. | |
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By the time the Grand Finale of Neon Genesis Evangelion has begun, the series has been revealed to be a battle between an Ancient Conspiracy called SEELE and its less evil offshoot, NERV. Both want to initiate the apocalypse because they believe humanity cannot survive otherwise. However, due primarily to the head of NERV's cruel treatment of his son, Shinji Ikari, and a startling number of Shinji's friends dying in horrible ways, Shinji himself ends up being the one to initiate Third Impact. And then, essentially, everybody dies. Hey, whoever said that a Darkhorse Victory was always funny or happy? | |
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This was the protagonists' first true victory in Dubious Company. Izor sends the Imperial Guard to quash a rebelling town. The Guard puts down the rebellion in an overly nonsensical manner. The pirates later come in and take the Guard prisoner and sack the town. Given that the Imperial Guard has always curb-stomped the pirates before, this was a bit of a surprise. | |
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Dream 9: Super Collaboration Special!!: Mr. Satan ends up winning the fighting portion of the contest as Goku, Luffy and Toriko wind up destroying the ring and knocking themselves out of bounds, while Mr. Satan just barely winds up starting on the only patch of the ring still intact. | |
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Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle has Princess Syalis taking part in a Beauty Contest, with Hades, Poseidon, Demon Cleric, and Siberian joining while Disguised in Drag in a last-ditch effort to prevent the Princess from walking away with the grand prize, a powerful magical item (all the other entrants were zombies, making Syalis' victory a Foregone Conclusion if someone else didn't join). The eventual winner? Harpy, who nobody realized was even competing until she was announced as the winner. | |
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The "Final 3" on The Amazing Race tends to come down to two teams racing for the million dollars, while the third team has no chance at all of winning. The First major and the most negative example happen in the first All-Stars in 2007. Most was expecting fan favorites Dustin & Kandice To win because of their dominance in the second half of the race. Charla & Mirna was also a decent team in their own right, was good with Airports and won back to back legs. Eric & Danielle bickered all season, avoided elimination multiple times and was dismissed as fodder. Because of a Luck-Based Final Roadblock, Eric was able to leave before Dustin & Kandice and pull out the win. In Season 16, those two teams were expected to be Fan Favorites Jet & Cord and Scrappies Brent & Caite, with brothers Dan & Jordan just along for the ride. The fanbase was legitimately shocked when Dan & Jordan ran a perfect final leg to pull out the victory. Season 21 featured this Final Three: Jaymes & James, who had run a strongly consistent race throughout, Trey and Lexi, who had a couple of victories and were likely the strongest team remaining, and Josh and Brent, who had never won a single leg and in fact faced elimination at least three times. While not a perfect run, Josh and Brent caught a couple of lucky breaks, claimed a victory in the last task and ended up winning the $1 million dollars. Season 25 had four teams remaining. Adam & Bethany, a fairly strong team and the Fan Favorites to win. Misti & Jim was the most dominant team of the final four. The bumbling Brooke & Robbie managed to win the penultimate leg. Leaving Amy & Maya, who was Out of Focus for the first half of the season, nonathletic, didn't win any prior legs and would have left if not The Reveal that four teams was racing in the final leg. The All-female team managed to get a lead on the others and Quickly finish the Final Exam Finale first to barely beat out Misti & Jim for the win. The very first season of the Asia version had in the finals Sandy & Francesca, who were very athletic; Andrew & Syeon, who were not as athletic but still a strong and smart team; and Zabrina & Joe Jer, one of the least athletic teams, who had never finished first and whose performance had declined during the second half of the season. In the final leg, Zabrina & Joe Jer suddenly came from behind, overtook the other two teams and pulled off the win, also becoming the first all-female team to win in the franchise as a whole. |
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The Golden Girls, episode "The Flu," sees Blanche, Dorothy and Rose fighting over which of the three of them will win the Volunteer of the Year award. Naturally, Sophia wins. | |
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The scoring system on QI is so legendarily incomprehensible that it's nearly impossible to tell who is in the lead at any given time (even Stephen Fry, the host, often seems surprised when reading the scores at the end). However, what really makes this trope is the several occasions in which the studio audience won the show, due to having answered at least one question correctly while the panelists were all in negative scores. | |
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In Surf's Up protagonist Cody is up against Jerk Jock Tank in the finals, with Chicken Joe on the side basically oblivious to the fact that he's even in the contest. Tank's constant efforts to take down Cody result in Joe winning, much to his surprise. | |
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Rocket & Groot: In part 4, Rocket enters a space race. Before the race begins, Rocket empties out the ship of anything that could slow him down. This includes Groot, who he tricks into an escape pod. Throughout the race Rocket is neck-and-neck with Blackjack O'hare. When the two get close to the finish line, Groot's escape pod smashes them both and crosses, making Groot the winner. | |
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This happens in Pokémon: The Series every time Ash enters a regional championship after getting his eight Badges to qualify: When he goes over to the venue, the show will establish at least one rival to Ash, sometimes several. Ash always loses, his rival usually loses, and the winner of the championship will either be a minor rival Ash encountered for an episode or even just a portion of one, or some extra who was never onscreen or mentioned up until that point. Johto's Silver Conference takes this to the logical extreme: Ash loses in the quarterfinals to his rival Harrison. Harrison goes on to lose in the semi-finals to an unknown opponent. The winner is some random person named Jon Dickson, who is shown being given the big trophy and holding it up next to the other extras who placed 2nd and 3rd, and none of the three are ever shown or mentioned ever again. Ironically, the show became so notorious for this that when Ash actually did win the Alolan League in Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon, it arguably counted as a dark-horse victory in its own right, since most fans were expecting him to just fizzle out again. |
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In a less popular note, 6 years after L-Block, Draven from League of Legends won the Character Battle IX, including defeats over Link, Snake and Samus due to Reddit rallies. GameFAQs users immediately raised hell, as it was it was basically a Hostile Show Takeover by a Zerg Rush (voting had decayed from regular 100,000 votes to 50-60k in good days... numbers Draven regularly got by himself starting in round 2) who wanted to push to victory their memetic character — while L-Block has a general appeal, Draven was Fan Myopia at its finest. Reddit trolls, fishy happenings, and indications that the LoL forums offered prizes if Draven won the contest didn't help the least. | |
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No list could be complete without the biggest WTF? winners of Survivor: Vecepia, Amber, Chris, Danni, Parvati, Natalie W. and Fabio. | |
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In Chapter 9 of Dating a Team Magma Grunt the titular grunt and a grunt from Team Aqua both enter into a Pokémon Contest to compete for Brendan's affection. Tobias note That guy from the Anime who had a Darkrai won. | |
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Most people who were paying attention to the voting running up to the 1991 World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction expected it to go to either Thomas Ligotti's "The Last Feast of Harlequin" or Elizabeth Massie's "Stephen." The winner was the 19th issue of The Sandman (1989), "A Midsummer Night's Dream", by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess. The fact that a comic book, and not one of the "serious pieces of literature", walked away with the award was so upsetting to the World Fantasy Convention's board of directors that they altered the rules so that no Comic Book would ever be nominated for the short fiction prize again, much less actually have the gall to be good enough to win the thing. | |
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Hell's Kitchen: Season 7 had the final four in Jay, who was considered the major favorite to win early on in the season, Benjamin, who while a scrappy, was consistent and could back up his words, Autumn, who had an underdog story going on and had seriously improved her attitude, and finally Holli, who while consistent, was Out of Focus thoughout the season. Many people were shocked once Holli won, over Jay in the finals no less. Perhaps a bigger example of this happened in Season 12. The three major front-runners were Jason, who was returning after failing to make it to the first service in Season 9 and showed great promise, Rochelle, who was very popular and consistent, and Joy, who while divisive, was still very good in service. No one expected Scott to end up as the winner, despite being nominated as much as Elise (although a good chunk of those nominations were the result of chefs like Ralph, Anton, and Joy throwing him under the bus). |
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The second season of Superior Donuts has Arthur run for president of the Business Owners' Association against Faws over the proposal to turn a local park into a parking lot. They have a debate with Sofia moderating. While they throw insults at each other, Sofia tries to keep the peace and even proposes a workable solution to the parking problem. When it dawns on the voters that she's the only one who's read the bylaws, they hold an impromptu vote then and there and elect her as the new president. | |
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Fantasy of Utter Ridiculousness: The draw of the main story was Megas vs. Suika. It's safe to say no one in-universe was expecting Marisa, who wasn't anywhere near the battleground. In the Extra Stage, Reimu, Marisa, Alice, Patchouli and Reisen engage in an authorized Mêlée à Trois in order to settle a massive argument between the five of them. Coop ends up the winner when, desiring to make them stop, he decides to "gift" them with Megas's Super Destructor Mode. |
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John Putnam Thatcher: In Accounting for Murder, the combination of his natural incompetence and the bad publicity from the murder of an auditor guarantee that The Alleged Boss won't hold onto his job for long. His nephew and a couple of ambitious division managers consider themselves potential successors for the company presidency and occasionally behave accordingly. In the end, the job goes to the company controller, who has spent the entire book offscreen, wisely making excuses to avoid going back to the main office amidst all of the drama and police investigations. | |
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In Udon Comics' Street Fighter, Karin tries to use a hot dog-eating contest to trick Sakura into fighting her with a full stomach. As the contest degenerates into an actual fight when Sakura's friends from Rival Schools step in, E. Honda ends the contest by choosing the winner to be Karin's butler Ishizaki, who happened to have eaten more than the both of them combined. | |
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In political satire The Dark Horse, the two factions at a party convention are deadlocked over who to nominate for governor. One faction throws the name of amiable idiot Zachary Hicks into the ring in a bid to fracture the other faction's support. The other faction winds up swinging to Hicks out of spite. Hicks is nominated for governor, and despite being dumb as a fencepost, is elected. | |
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Kamp Koral: In "Hill-Fu", Sandy is able to curb-stomp all the competitors in the karate tournament. Prior to the battle, SpongeBob learns Hill-Fu from Nobby so he can stand a chance. After a big battle, he and Sandy end up tying, and agree to share the badge... and then Nobby appears, karate-chops them both, and claims the badge for him and Narlene. | |
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In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters episode, April O'Neil is on a dating game show with two bachelors; Shredder and Casey Jones. At the end of the episode, it is revealed that there was a third bachelor whom Shredder and Casey didn't know about because they were too busy trying to figure out which version of the TMNT Tournament Fighters game was better. The third bachelor is revealed to be Raphael, who made a real connection with April. | |
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A more lethal variant than usual occurs in Warrior Cats. The whole first arc was focused on the rivalry between Firestar and Tigerstar. Then, when the final book of the arc, The Darkest Hour reached their final showdown, Tigerstar revealed that he had an ally named Scourge, who proceeded to kill both Firestar and Tigerstar. Fortunately, Firestar came back from the dead, or else Scourge would have ruled the whole forest. | |
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The victor of the Kengan Annihiliation Tournament in Kengan Ashura is Kuroki Gensai. He has no personal stake in the matches, is uninvolved in any of the larger conspiracies going on, has no tragic backstory, no flashy personality or audience popularity; he wins simply because he turns out to be the best fighter in the tournament. | |
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Jeopardy!: The current version's first-ever Tournament of Champions from 1985 pitted the first season's fifteen undefeated champions against each other. Among the participants were Paul Boymel who won $56,200 on his original run and Elise Beraru who set the show's first one-day record with $23,800 and became the first champion to retire undefeated. Jerry Frankel, a musician from Buffalo, New York, put together a meager $32,650 during his five-game streak and had the lowest score among wildcard qualifiers in the semifinals. Nevertheless, Jerry would come out victorious after curb-stomping his opponents in Double Jeopardy! of his semifinal match and finishing tough in the finals by becoming the only player to correctly respond to Final Jeopardy! of the deciding game. The 2014 Tournament of Champions finals included two celebrated contestants from the previous year: The controversial Arthur Chu, and Julia Collins, the winningest woman to ever play the game. The third player, Ben Ingram, had a solid but unspectacular 9-game win streak. It would be Ingram, however, who took the Champion title with a strong first-day performance. |
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In Total Drama Legacy, one challenge is a go-kart racing challenge. Throughout the race, arch-rivals Storm and Emilia are neck and neck throughout the whole go-kart race, even engaging in a Chase Fight. However, during the third lap, the two of them are too busy fighting each other to realize that Link has just sped ahead of both of them, and Link ends up winning the race. | |
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The winner of GameFAQs' Character Battle 6 in 2007 was not Link, who had won almost every contest he took part in, nor was it Cloud, who was the only to ever topple Link. It wasn't even someone like Mario, Sonic, Snake, or Master Chief. No, the winner of the contest on that year, who was able to topple every character to be thrown at it was... an L-Block. From Tetris. By tens of thousands of votes. By the time it reached the third round, the inherent hilarity of a Joke Entry becoming the most popular character ever was simply too strong to resist for the voters. This caused the site to hold a quick small character battle directly after L-Block won by pitting it against other similar video game objects and it lost to the ? Block. Years before, StarCraft managed to upset some heavy competition (Halo, Kingdom Hearts, Wind Waker) in a game contest. The legacy was tarnished when StarCraft had some vote-stuffers in the eventual defeat to Super Smash Bros. Melee, but it's still fondly remembered by the contests board. Very nearly happened in the Gamespot poll as well with Bub&Bob from Bubble Bobble, even spawning multitudes of fanwork for each victory accomplished. Though it still happened in the Gamespot contest with the victory of Gordon Freeman, and later again in the Greatest Sidekick contest where Launchpad McQuack triumphed over Albert Einstein in the final vote. In a less popular note, 6 years after L-Block, Draven from League of Legends won the Character Battle IX, including defeats over Link, Snake and Samus due to Reddit rallies. GameFAQs users immediately raised hell, as it was it was basically a Hostile Show Takeover by a Zerg Rush (voting had decayed from regular 100,000 votes to 50-60k in good days... numbers Draven regularly got by himself starting in round 2) who wanted to push to victory their memetic character — while L-Block has a general appeal, Draven was Fan Myopia at its finest. Reddit trolls, fishy happenings, and indications that the LoL forums offered prizes if Draven won the contest didn't help the least. Two years after Draven, another case of rallying deciding a contest was Undertale winning a Best Game Ever contest. There was some backlash and trolling, but thankfully less than with Draven. The Contest board also coined two explanations that fit many upsets: Sore Thumb Factor (people vote for the weird one that stands out) and Leech Fanbase Factor (if two\three entries share support, split vote will help a third wheel go through). |
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Red Dead Redemption 2 was expected to make a clean sweep at the Game Awards 2018, or at least win in all the major categories it had been nominated for, given that it was a critically-acclaimed title by Rockstar Games and their latest flagship game since Grand Theft Auto V five years prior, and that it had released only a month and a half prior to the Game Awards, meaning that it was still fresh in people's minds at the time. And while it did win in major categories like Best Performance, Best Score/Music, and Best Narrative, the Game of the Year and Best Direction awards ended up going to God of War, another acclaimed title from that year but a much earlier one than Red Dead Redemption 2. | |
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In Calvin & Hobbes: The Series, Elliot is elected class president at the end of "CALVIN FOR PRESIDENT!" | |
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In Grand Theft Auto IV and its DLCs, after bloody gang wars that were fought over it, the diamonds that has killed almost everyone who holds it was finally claimed in the end by a random hobo in Meadows Park who stumbled upon it by accident in a trash can. | |
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In the (written, but not released) Homestar Runner cartoon "Soap Box Doiby", Homestar and Pom Pom compete viciously for first place. Marzipan, who isn't even revealed to be taking place in the race until the last second, ends up winning. (Homestar's usual rival, Strong Bad, winds up getting last place, however.) | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Homecoming": Buffy and Cordelia are competing viciously for the title of Homecoming Queen and are then forced to work together to defeat some demons/villains on the night of Homecoming. They've put their differences behind them by the end of the night, and it's announced that there's a tie for Homecoming Queen!...between Holly and Michelle, two Spear Carriers whom you probably forget were also competing in this race. | |
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In the Arknights event Gavial: The Great Chief Returns, Gavial returns home to the Acajutla region just in time for the Great Chief's Ceremony, a trial by combat to decide who will be the leader of the tribes living there. While she easily won the last one before she left, many powerful challengers have cropped up in the time since then, including her old friend and admirer Tomimi, Wrench Wench Eunectes and her weapons of war, and Flint, a Pintsized Powerhouse from a tribe in the rainforest. Eunectes proceeds to decimate the competition with her Mini-Mecha, but Gavial destroys it once it gets out of control, claiming victory. However, since she'll be returning to Rhodes Island shortly after, she can't accept the position, and with every other notable contender deciding to come with her for their own reasons, the title of Great Chief ultimately goes to Inam, a merchant who never even entered the contest in the first place. | |
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In a way, Negima! Magister Negi Magi's harem ended this way. After many chapters about Nodoka and Yue having to deal with loving the same boy and everything about Asuna and Chachamaru, the one who ended winning Negi's heart in the end was Chisame, of all people. | |
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Hey Arnold!, "Grand Prix": Arnold, Sid, Stinky, and Eugene's go-kart (with Eugene behind the wheel) finishes second in a race. He's content with this, Sid and Stinky are mad they didn't win, while Arnold is glad that they at least beat Edmund and Wolfgang. | |
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A BFG's World Tour: DJ goes from being the Sole Survivor of his former team and being off his game due to his "curse" to being the official winner of World Tour. | |
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This would happen again during the poll for season 11 during the first round. Everyone had assumed that Anne Boonchuy vs Luz Noceda would advance to the semifinals due to the popularity of both the match up and both shows overall, only for the winner to instead wind up being Monokuma vs Koro-sensei, which, among other things, consists of two series that are not as well known to the general public and, again, had to compete with Luz vs Anne's overwhelming popularity. | |
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In the Buu Saga in Dragon Ball Z, the contestants in the World Martial Arts Tournament included all of the Z-Fighters, the Supreme Kai and Kibito, and two humans powered up by Babidi's magic. The eventual winner? Mr. Satan. Android 18 could have beaten him, but throws the match in exchange for double the prize money. | |
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The webcomic Girls with Slingshots did this in a blogging contest between two characters: [1] | |
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For pretty much the entire eighth season of American Idol, nearly everyone declared that the winner would be either Danny Gokey or Adam Lambert. In the end, Adam beat Danny, but both were beaten by Kris Allen. | |
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The Transformers (Marvel): In the wake of Optimus Prime's death, the Autobots are debating who should become leader. Then, Trypticon attacks, and taking command of the situation to keep him at bay until he's called home for being too wasteful is someone the "council" wasn't even considering: the Dinobot commander, Grimlock. They unanimously vote him in. They come to regret this very quickly. | |
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In the K-9 Dance Arc of Inubaka, rival stores Woofles and Wan Kaw each sends a representative to participate in a local tournament, hoping to achieve victory and increase their publicity. Suguri goes to represent Woofles, while Wan Kaw sends the incredibly talented dancer Yasmin. While Suguri and Yasmin manages to earn high points, the competition is eventually won by a blind girl. | |
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Very nearly happened in the Gamespot poll as well with Bub&Bob from Bubble Bobble, even spawning multitudes of fanwork for each victory accomplished. | |
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In the 1980s cartoon show special "The Smurfic Games", Hefty, Handy, and Clumsy are in a three-way tie when competing in the games, and so the final game, the Smurfathlon, is to determine who will be the winner. Hefty and Handy both end up ahead of Clumsy, but because Handy was swept off the track by an avalanche created by Gargamel reciting an incantation to activate the Artifact of Doom and Hefty goes to dig his friend out, Clumsy passes by the both of them and ends up as the winner, which nobody expected. Neither Hefty nor Handy had a problem with Clumsy winning since they both came to learn that winning isn't as important as friendship. | |
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In the Frasier episode "And the Whimper Is," Frasier fights for a Sea Bee award, but finds out that one of his three competitors is an esteemed talk show host, who is retiring and has never won the award. Frasier is momentarily thrilled to learn there is a tie, but of course, it is between the other two competitors. | |
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Interestingly, the ballot turned out to be more of a suggestion box than anything else by Ultimate's release, as characters with moderate-to-high levels of support — King K. Rool, Banjo & Kazooie, and veterans like Solid Snake — that were specifically supported in the context of it got considered and included. Bayonetta's initial victor status for the DLC roster of 4 mostly came out of practical and timing reasons (although the high level of support in Europe helped). Eventually, it was revealed that the winner of the ballot was Sora, but he wasn't included until the Grand Finale of Ultimate's DLC due to the Executive Meddling necessary to get Nintendo and Disney to come to an agreement. | |
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The ending of the YuYu Hakusho series is like this. The three demon factions competing for supremacy are Raizen's (led by Yusuke), Yomi's, and Mukuro's. Yusuke loses, but the fighting has weakened the others to the point where a relatively unknown demon (Enki, a former acquaintance of the deceased demon lord Raizen), uninterested in the factional fighting, wins. | |
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The Osomatsu-san episode "Iyami's Counterattack" features the entire cast racing for the title of protagonist of the series. By the episode's end, nearly all of the competitors have been killed, except for Iyami and Osomatsu, as well as Jyushimatsu who doesn't care about the race and took an extended detour early on that took him out of most of the action. In a major twist, the winner doesn't turn out to be Jyushimatsu, but Shounosuke Hijirisawa, who wasn't even shown competing up until the moment when he crosses the finish line. Hilariously, the very next episode actually does begin with him as the star, but proves to be so horrendously bad that it gets canceled and returned to the old format barely a minute into the first scene. | |
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When Hasbro asked the fans to pick five nominees for the Transformers Hall of Fame, most fans predicted the five choices would be Soundwave, Shockwave, Grimlock, Jazz, and Rodimus. However, Rodimus didn't make it in... But Dinobot did. Then, nobody expected Dinobot to topple the others especially Soundwave but in the end... A character from Beast Wars beat four of the most famous TFs from G1. | |
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Dexter's Laboratory: The Wacky Races nod episode had five of the racers jockeying for position to cross the finish line, only for the winner to be the police officer who had stopped the van of Mandark's hippie parents and took off out of control in it after activating a jet propulsion tank. | |
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In the Gravity Falls episode "The Stanchurian Candidate", when the mayor dies Stan competes for the position against Bud Gleeful (under orders from his son Gideon) and recurring character Tyler Cutebiker. While Stan ultimately wins, he's disqualified due to his extensive criminal record and the fact that he and Bud never actually bothered to turn in any of the necessary paperwork. The position goes to Tyler by default. | |
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The Super Smash Bros. character ballot had a few surprises after it was introduced. Of all the characters that Nintendo could get the rights to, few expected that the titular protagonist of Bayonetta would be the one to get the most votes — or that Nintendo would happily bring the infamously M rated maelstrom of innuendo, violence, and camp into the very E10+ rated Super Smash Bros. (There were, of course, necessary adjustments.) Interestingly, the ballot turned out to be more of a suggestion box than anything else by Ultimate's release, as characters with moderate-to-high levels of support — King K. Rool, Banjo & Kazooie, and veterans like Solid Snake — that were specifically supported in the context of it got considered and included. Bayonetta's initial victor status for the DLC roster of 4 mostly came out of practical and timing reasons (although the high level of support in Europe helped). Eventually, it was revealed that the winner of the ballot was Sora, but he wasn't included until the Grand Finale of Ultimate's DLC due to the Executive Meddling necessary to get Nintendo and Disney to come to an agreement. |
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In the Muppets Valentine Show, Kermit has to fight a giant rat for Miss Mousey's affection. And then she goes with another guy with the cool motorcycle. | |
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