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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction

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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction	comment	A common theme in fiction is the concept that getting the result you want is more satisfying when you actually earn it through your own actions, rather than having it simply handed to you in some way. The scenarios that result in this revelation can take a number of forms, though there's three that are most common: The character is in a position to force someone else to give them what they want, either through magical or mundane coercion or because the other character is their subordinate. The character finds themselves in an environment where it's literally impossible to fail for some reason. The character's rival or enemy is in a position of complete helplessness, and thus the character can effortlessly best their opponent in some way. But whatever the scenario, the character has the same revelation: It's just not satisfying to win unless the opposing force or obstacle has the chance to reject them, hurt them, or fight back. Alternatively, the character may go through the action anyway, only to realize afterwards how unsatisfying it was. Supertrope to Above the Influence Enemies Equals Greatness I Like Those Odds I Love You Because I Can't Control You Willfully Weak When someone else doesn't help the hero because if they did it would be too easy, it's a case of This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself or Helping Would Be Killstealing. Sister trope to Mind over Manners. When someone playing a Video Game thinks this, it becomes It's Easy, So It Sucks! and may lead to Self-Imposed Challenge. The person who feels the way is often someone who loves a challenge. Compare I Want My Beloved to Be Happy, Worthy Opponent, and Mook Chivalry, which can be motivations for this trope, or Lonely at the Top, No Guy Wants to Be Chased, and Victory Is Boring, which can be caused by this trope. Contrast Dude, She's Like in a Coma, And Now You Must Marry Me, Psychic-Assisted Suicide, and Kick Them While They Are Down, where in similar situations, the lack of opposition is favorable for the character. The Combat Pragmatist is very unlikely to have this mindset, and if anything, would prefer to avoid as much challenge as possible. Also contrast More than Mind Control, where you can have your cake and eat it too, by both controlling someone and getting their genuine submission. Converse to Misery Builds Character, which is about how problems can (sometimes) be good for you rather than a complete lack of problems being bad.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_13349140	comment	Similar to the Joker example above, Dr. Eggman in the Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) series wants to best the hedgehog in battle before killing him, which is why he chews out Dr. Starline when he finds out he nearly killed him with a simple bomb.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_1463a028	comment	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: In "Beast's Obsession", Olivia tries to invoke this by not fighting Lewis in hopes that he'll lose his interest in raping her if she doesn't put up a struggle. It works, but he comes up with something arguably worse to do instead.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_1c9a08e9	comment	In the Tyranny of Dragons module, Lennithon is an adult blue dragon that attacks the town of Greenest, which serves as the opening level. The dragon can be convinced to leave the town and stop causing any more chaos by convincing him that the assault on the town isn't worth his time. If the players don't do this, Lennithon will eventually leave anyway because fighting a bunch of peasants that just die without giving him any sort of resistance has gotten really old to him.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Kenpachi Zaraki considers his time wasted if his opponent can't put him in genuine danger. To this end, he deliberately handicaps himself by wearing bells on his hair so he can't surprise anyone, wearing a power-suppressing eyepatch, and swinging his sword around one-handed. Even with all this, he's still among the most powerful people in the Gotei 13. Later invoked by Zaraki during his fight against Gremmy Thoumeaux, who quickly comes to believe that he's right. Because Gremmy's power has always just immediately given him anything he envisions, he's never really felt true desire before. It's not until Zaraki proves himself too strong to simply imagine away that Gremmy realises what he's been missing, the new sensation of actually wanting to win turning him into a total Blood Knight.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_1cf9029e	comment	In the first DEATH BATTLE! bout between Goku and Superman, Goku destroys a piece of wayward kryptonite that was weakening Superman in the rubble of Lexcorp headquarters. To Goku, the idea of fighting Superman (or, indeed, anyone) at anything less than his best would be pointless. Superman is halfway through thanking him before Goku resumes the battle.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_1e3b270	comment	Morrigan Aensland, from the Darkstalkers series, is one of the most powerful characters in Capcom's entire pantheon of fighting game characters. Rather than exercise this power, however, she limits her strength just enough so she can be an even match for her opponents, so that her fights can be fun (which she has a biological drive to do: in the world of Darkstalkers, succubi like Morrigan can literally die of boredom).
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_1f76648	comment	In A Certain Magical Index, Thor eventually becomes Almighty Thor and uses his new abilities to completely curb-stomp everybody in his path. He says fighting opponents who can't win is boring and asks if anybody can give him a real challenge. Touma Kamijou obliges by weathering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from him, then tricking him into stepping in the path of a passing train.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_220a10b1	comment	In Pixieverse the Demon Queen regularly battles Blue Pixie and turns her into her trophy until she is forced to give her up. If someone else petrifies her and simply hands her over she will lose interest and wonders off.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: When Homer is revealed as the Stonecutters' Chosen One, they start bending over backward to keep him happy, which includes rigging games so that he always wins. When he goes bowling they count every roll as a strike (with Chief Wiggum even shooting the leftover pins with his revolver), and when they play poker the other Stonecutters show Homer their cards and invent new hands on the spot ("What you've got there is the Royal...um, Sampler!"). Homer starts getting bored and dissatisfied with this very quickly.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_2a139e05	comment	The Orville: In "Future Unknown" Kelly tells Lysella how one major reason people still pursue goals in their Post-Scarcity Economy is it's boring to just sit around and do nothing of value. Even becoming skilled at what would now be viewed as menial labor, like being a waiter, qualifies in their society as well rather than just more lofty things such as pursuing science or the arts.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_2a4c791e	comment	In Ah! My Goddess during the Queen Sayoko arc, Sayoko enters a demonic contract so she can finally defeat Belldandy. After compelling Belldandy to become her magically-bound slave Sayoko soon cancels the contract. As she explains to Mara, a victory relying on demonic magic meant nothing compared to personally crushing her rival.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_2a8943c0	comment	Miraculous Ladybug: In Miraculous World New York United Heroez, before Adrien learns he'll be allowed to go to New York with his classmates, Kagami suggests he uses the extra time to improve his fencing since defeating him is so easy she can't enjoy it.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_2ba1d958	comment	In The Matrix, Agent Smith believes this to be the reason behind the failure of the first iteration of the Matrix, which was designed as a perfect utopia. He rationalizes that humans define themselves through misery and suffering, and thus paradise was a dream they couldn't accept as reality. The actual reason is that, to accept the Matrix, humans need to believe they have a choice in the matter, even if they aren't really aware of it.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_30940081	comment	Michael in Grand Theft Auto V is, like the other two playable characters, a deconstruction of the usual Grand Theft Auto protagonist, in this case showing him after he's "won". He is living large in Witness Protection with a mountain of his ill-gotten gains, a beautiful wife, two kids, and a mansion in a rich neighborhood... and he is so utterly miserable that he gets back into a life of crime to alleviate the boredom of suburban life.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_30ddd99e	comment	This turns out to be Nakadai Mikoto's backstory in Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger. Due to being the host for half of the Big Bad, he picked up anything he tried with zero effort. After years of intolerable boredom, he found a Transformation Trinket and became a supervillain just because it seemed fun.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_318b09a0	comment	A lesson learned by Eragon in The Inheritance Cycle's second book, Eldest. He meets the elf smith who is responsible for forging every single one of the Dragon Riders' swords, RhunÃ¶n, and finds that, rather than use any magic to ply her craft, RhunÃ¶n does all of the work with her own bare hands. Upon being asked why, RhunÃ¶n is indignant that Eragon would suggest robbing herself of the pleasure of the task. It's a strange concept for a person used to having to work just to survive, but for Elves who can accomplish basically whatever they need with magic, the enjoyment of the task is more important than the goal. Eragon experiences this later when his improved magical abilities allow him to detect prey at great distances and kill it effortlessly without ever even alerting it, rather than indulge in tracking, chasing, and archery.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_3504b58e	comment	In Mortal Kombat 11, Kano's ending shows him initially using his new powers to get everything he wants. He soon realizes that this is boring, so he makes a new reality where he has to work to achieve his desires.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_353b7af3	comment	Star Trek: Discovery: In "Battle at the Binary Stars", the USS Shenzou stands her ground against a fleet of two dozen Klingon warships. The Klingons, rallied together by T'Kuvma to take on the Federation, complain that the single starship poses no challenge for them. Cue the arrival of ten Federation starships to back up Shenzou, and the Klingons are presented with the challenge they wanted. With better than two-to-one odds in their favor, of course.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_35e05f2a	comment	The Spirit of Creation in RWBY, Ambrosius, lives to push The Power of Creation as creatively as he can within the confines of the requests of those who call on him. Mundane requests, such as making Atlas float, bore and irritate him. Team RWBY's first request is so challenging, however, that he's thrilled by the sheer headache it causes him. He has to create a copy of Penny using her existing virus-infected robot parts, which will fall foul of his "one creation only" rule. The real Penny is therefore left as a soul without a complete body. As he is not allowed to destroy anything, Penny must continue to exist and her new physical form is more about what her soul can manifest than his own work, allowing it to survive the "only one creation" rule. He does warn the team that this request is extremely dangerous, as even Ambrosius has no idea what will actually result from the process.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_39418789	comment	This is the justification for continues in Comix Zone. The Big Bad is disappointed that you went down so easily and grants you another chance.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_3ddddb25	comment	In Season 2 of Xiaolin Showdown, Raimundo pulls a Faceâ€“Heel Turn and sides with Wuya, who gives him everything he's ever wanted — video games, riches, his own soccer team... but after a while, he stops having fun because he always wins and has no one to actually spend time with (Wuya tries to help by summoning an army of monstrous golems to play with him). The chance to actually be with people who love and challenge him is enough to bring him back to the good guys.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_3fbd173e	comment	Freefall: Sam Starfall tends to prefer the more challenging and spectacular option when there are two paths, at least for matters of significance (although he's not above mooching just on a day-to-day level). For example, Florence secures important things on the ship with child safety locks because a high-quality lock would draw his attention, and no lock at all would lead to him messing around with it because that's who he is, but he won't lower himself to something as far below his skills as a child safety lock.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_3fd5d95d	comment	Double subverted in The Batman Adventures issue "Mad Love"; Joker finds Harley has captured the Batman and is preparing to kill him in a perfectly planned death trap, and Joker absolutely furious because the only person allowed to kill Batman is him. He beats the crap out of Harley for daring to interfere, and lets Batman go because he had no part in the scheme. Then he changes his mind and decides to kill Batman while he's still tied up, just by shooting him with a gun, because why not?
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_42f417ec	comment	In Spartacus Varinia asks her current master why he doesn't just have his way with her. He tells her he wants her to give herself to him.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_43a79959	comment	Momoyo from Majikoi! Love Me Seriously! loves to fight, and as heir to the Kawakami Temple, she has no shortage of challengers willing to take her on. Unfortunately, her strength and skill are so great that she can beat most enemies with one attack, and even the best fighters in the world can barely get her to break a sweat before she beats them. This string of near-effortless victories has left Momoyo with a growing sense of boredom and frustration, and she tries to alleviate it in different ways depending on the route.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_43b1575d	comment	In Earthworm Jim, 3 of Bob the Killer Goldfish's cat minions had died and gone to Kitty Heaven ("Where the milk flows like waterfalls, and the mice are slow") long before encountering Jim. There's a Gilligan Cut where we see said cats bored out of their skulls because the mice are too easy to catch.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_444956d	comment	This trope is commonly the reason why Carmen Sandiego went into crime. She was originally an ACME detective (or a former spy, depending on how old the game is), and eventually became the absolute best the agency had ever seen. After a while, though, Carmen became too good at her job, and pulled a massive Faceâ€“Heel Turn by becoming a criminal, reasoning that it was a lot more fun to try to outwit her former employers rather than work for them.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_46823c49	comment	In Moriarty the Patriot, Sherlock turns down information on The Lord of Crime from Hope, saying it would be boring if someone simply gave him the answer. He did briefly regret not taking the chance to get answers when his investigation is stumped, although a chance encounter with Moriarty himself breaks him out of the dumps.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_483044b3	comment	In Gundam Build Fighters Try, Team Try Fighters gain a victory over Team Angelfish due to the fact that they pulled a Rage Quit and blew up their Gunpla rather than fight them at a disadvantage. While Yuuma accepts the victory as a victory, both Sekai and Fumina are upset that they lost out on a battle.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_49a88442	comment	Zenos in Final Fantasy XIV is an incredibly powerful Garlean viceroy who easily defeats anyone who tries to stand up to him. Because no one can be on equal footing to him, Zenos generally doesn't go out of his way to fight anyone unless they attack him since he finds no challenge in beating anyone weaker than him. He eventually gets bored with winning all the time and is in a slump until he meets the Warrior of Light. He effortlessly beats them as well, but notices how much of a fight they had put up compared to everyone else and encourages them to get stronger. In their final clash, Zenos is absolutely ecstatic with how powerful the Warrior of Light has become and is happy that he finally found someone that can push him to his limits.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_4f7a49d9	comment	And in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, we're reminded of this because all the tirin (civilians) have been taken to live elsewhereâ€”taking with them their knowledge of Sage magic, which the four desperately need, but which the skahs wizards never studied much because it made things too easy.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_526d4c5c	comment	Knights of the Old Republic: Canderous cites this as the reason he despises the Mandalorian mercenaries and bandits the party encounters. He considers them embarrassments to the armor and dishonorable thugs shaking down farmers and settlers, "taking scraps when they should be taking worlds!" It's also the reason he signs on with a boatload of Jedi and Republic sympathizers. Cracking heads for the local branch of the local crime syndicate is no fun at all — going up against Darth Malak and the massive Sith army in a stolen smuggler's boat? Yeah, that's more like it!
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_5320ab5e	comment	Columbo gets his kicks playing mind games with Smug Snakes and sweating them until they make a mistake. However, in "How to Dial a Murder" after catching a psychologist with a Complexity Addiction who was simply awful at covering his tracks, Columbo flat-out gives him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech for making so many stupid mistakes and says he was disappointed that he made it so easy.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): In "A Nice Place to Visit", an inveterate criminal named Rocky Valentine dies and goes to the afterlife: a pleasant place where he gets everything he wants and all his gambles always pay off. He enjoys it at first, but eventually becomes dissatisfied with how easy everything is and asks to be sent to The Other Place, saying he doesn't belong in Heaven. The reply he gets: "Whatever gave you the idea you were in Heaven, Mr. Valentine? This is the other place! Mwah-hahahaha!" In "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville", William J. Feathersmith has become extremely bored with his position of wealth and power as the thrill was in the acquisition rather than the possession. He makes a Deal with the Devil to be transported back in time to Cliffordville, Indiana in 1910 so that he can relive his glory days and use his knowledge of the future to become even wealthier.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_53bd0aaf	comment	The skahs (warriors) of Baravada are defined by this trope in With Strings Attached. They would not dream of fighting civilians, for example, because they would be too easy to defeat. And in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, we're reminded of this because all the tirin (civilians) have been taken to live elsewhereâ€”taking with them their knowledge of Sage magic, which the four desperately need, but which the skahs wizards never studied much because it made things too easy.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_54ebbc88	comment	In Marvel Versus DC, Wonder Woman discovers Thor's missing hammer, misplaced by his fight with Captain Marvel. Grabbing it, she ends up with Thor's power on top of her own. When Storm of the X-Men arrives for her fight with Wonder Woman, the latter muses that she could easily win with her new power... the considers it boring and unfair and discards the hammer and the power for a slightly more fair fight.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_559e9fc	comment	The robots in Westworld are programmed only to give minimal resistance to the human guests in the park, a fact which seriously bothers The Man in Black; if the robots can't fight back, then nothing that happens in the park actually matters, and he desperately wants them to matter. When the robots later revolt, he's therefore delighted, despite it endangering his life because at last there's risk and challenge involved.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_569093cc	comment	In "Woo-oo!," the first episode of DuckTales (2017), it's revealed that Scrooge McDuck has become a bitter recluse over the years, and though he's richer than ever, he's completely lost his passion for life, instead spending all of his times in board meetings (and even then, he usually does nothing more than rubber stamp whatever his financial advisors suggest) — he's even lost the ability to perform his trademark Money Bin dive. When Donald and his nephews come back into his life and inadvertently summon a monster that he had trapped in storage, Scrooge finds himself actually smiling for the first time in ages as he fights it, realizing that he's recovered the purpose he lost long ago (symbolized by his performing a perfect Money Bin dive once more).
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: On one occasion Xykon tells Roy to go away to level up a few times, and come back when he's tough enough to be a challenging opponent. Xykon is an epic-level Sorcerer lich and thus very few things can actually put up a fight against him. Granted, in the rare times he does face something that can threaten even him (as seen when he fights the ghost of Soon Kim), he becomes pretty uneasy, in large part because he's a Control Freak. Also inverted when Xykon and Team Evil are at Kraagor's Tomb. The tomb is built from magic stone, meaning the lich can't just phase through it. As such, he and his team have to fight the hordes of obscenely powerful monsters put in there. Xykon is actually pretty delighted at the prospect since they're strong enough to give him experience, something very rare at his level. In fact, if Redcloak wasn't there to heal his injuries, he probably would've even been defeated at least once.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_5e16d550	comment	In Black Clover, Rill draws inspiration from challenging fights. If a fight can't inspire him to push himself into painting more creative spells, he considers it a disappointment.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_60760b3f	comment	In Dragon ShortZ Episode 4 "Yamcha Strikes Out," Yamcha may be the weakest member of the Dragon Ball team heroes, but he's still one of the strongest people on the planet. When he tries his career in major league baseball, he hits his five hundredth consecutive home run because he has Super-Strength. Yamcha is also implied to use Super-Speed and flight to equally devastate the field when the opposing team is at bat. It's reached the point that any team Yamcha faces knows they'll lose, the fans aren't showing up because of how boring things are,note The only fans in the seats are his friend Krillin, Krillin's girlfriend, his oldest friend Puar, and Master Roshi, who are there because Yamcha gave them season tickets and Yamcha's own teammates loathe him for being so far behind him. Yamcha is fired by the manager and owner to allow them to have genuine competition again. On the plus side, he's paid 20 billion zeni if he agrees to a non-compete contract, plus he can still do advertisements for money.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_64a41059	comment	Superman II's villain, General Zod, describes exactly this early on and is shown bored as hell in the White House after taking over the world. He sounds sad and disappointed when he utters the line.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_6993e466	comment	Black Hat of Villainous was a God of Evil & Invincible Villain who conquered countless worlds in his heydey, but became a Retired Monster after getting bored of winning all the time. Now he spends his days helping evil prosper from the background by forming an Evil, Inc. to support lesser supervillains in their endeavors.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_6a4c8f1b	comment	One-Punch Man: This is Saitama's main problem. He's strong enough to beat anyone with just one punch, but that just means that facing off against giant monsters is about exciting as going shopping... or maybe even less interesting, depending on whether there's a sale going on at the time. Boros, the Dominator of the Universe also faced this, rampaging across planets simply to find someone who could prove a match to his incredible strength. He does find it in Saitama, and though it kills him he doesn't really mind even if he clued in at the end even Saitama's final attack wasn't even close to his full power.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_6a5f9866	comment	The Riddler may hate losing, but he doesn't like winning without a fight either. In Batman: Zero Year, he's actually glad when Batman turns out to be alive as almost everyone else had given up trying to defeat him.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons Enforced in 3rd and 4th Editions as a game mechanic. Enemies of a Challenge Rating more than a certain number below your party's level simply stop giving experience points; you've got to fight things that are closer to your level in power to get any further. In the Tyranny of Dragons module, Lennithon is an adult blue dragon that attacks the town of Greenest, which serves as the opening level. The dragon can be convinced to leave the town and stop causing any more chaos by convincing him that the assault on the town isn't worth his time. If the players don't do this, Lennithon will eventually leave anyway because fighting a bunch of peasants that just die without giving him any sort of resistance has gotten really old to him.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_70959613	comment	The Beast in Kung Fu Hustle is introduced locked up in a mental institution, but he could easily break out any time he wishes. He voluntarily stays there because there doesn't seem to be anyone left who can offer a challenge and put up a good fight against him.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: This is part of the explanation of linear time that Sisko provides to the Bajoran "Prophets" (who live "outside" of time) in "Emissary" — that it's discovering the unknown that makes humans strive forward. Not just to find answers to their questions, but for new questions to ask and that not knowing what the next moment or the next day might bring opens the door to new challenges and ideas. Chief O'Brien challenges Dr. Bashir to a game of racquetball in "Rivals". O'Brien is an amateur who plays for fun, while Bashir was captain of his team at Starfleet Medical Academy and won a championship. Bashir wipes the floor with O'Brien in the first match, but when he takes it easy on O'Brien in a rematch, the Chief furiously ends the game because he would rather lose badly than be handed a victory he didn't earn.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_7668653a	comment	In Mass Effect 2, Zaeed Massani gives this as his reason why he'd never take a security gig. He'd be good at it, sure, but it's too cozy for him.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_7988cb68	comment	A variant in Mass Effect: when the Reaper Sovereign approached the geth for an alliance, it offered the geth a Reaper body as a reward. A Reaper body would be capable of housing all the geth programs in a single structure, something that the geth would like very, very much, and have been working for hundreds of years on building themselves (they're nowhere close to completion). The geth (most of them, anyway), however, reject this offer, believing that they must "self-determinate", or build their own destiny, not rely on the aid of others.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: This trope sums up the Joker's relationship with Batman. The Clown Prince of Crime absolutely refuses to merely kill the Caped Crusader, explaining that he needs to best Batman with an extraordinary crime before he goes. In one comic, Batman, who's already exhausted from battling another villain, stumbles onto one of the Joker's simpler schemes and collapses without much of a fight. The Joker briefly contemplates killing him but eventually decides that it's too easy, and leaves the Dark Knight unconscious without harming the crimefighter. Double subverted in The Batman Adventures issue "Mad Love"; Joker finds Harley has captured the Batman and is preparing to kill him in a perfectly planned death trap, and Joker absolutely furious because the only person allowed to kill Batman is him. He beats the crap out of Harley for daring to interfere, and lets Batman go because he had no part in the scheme. Then he changes his mind and decides to kill Batman while he's still tied up, just by shooting him with a gun, because why not? The Riddler may hate losing, but he doesn't like winning without a fight either. In Batman: Zero Year, he's actually glad when Batman turns out to be alive as almost everyone else had given up trying to defeat him.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_7ceff43d	comment	Angela from Super Powereds felt this way about refusing the title of Captain Starlight. While she could have never gone to the trouble of earning it, she wouldn't have felt like she was actually making a choice in deciding that she didn't want to just mimic the fame of her grandfather. She also feels this way about winning Chad's affection, since most other male characters she can easily seduce.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_7d985ff1	comment	Epithet Erased: This is why Zora Salazar is part of the Muggle Power group Bliss Ocean despite being Inscribed: her Epithet, Sundial, is frankly overpowered, and she complains that it robs her of any sense of challenge. Not that it stops her from constantly abusing its power, though.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_7f624b67	comment	A running theme in the Sly Cooper games. Sly and his entire family have spent all of their lives robbing master criminals rather than ordinary people, as the latter poses absolutely no challenge at all. Sly sums up their attitude in the first game: "You rip off a master criminal, you know you're a master thief."
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_7f77ffd2	comment	The Sax Rohmer novel, The Golden Scorpion: The Yellow Peril villain Fo-Hi, who has spent years training himself to be The Spock in order to gain supernormal mental abilities, including limited mind control, falls in love with the Damsel in Distress. Only to find that the very strength of this new emotion is causing his mind control ability to force her to agree, despite his wanting her free acceptance of his love. Since he refuses to lie a false love would be hollow to him.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_83ad9328	comment	Likewise, the fan game Danganronpa Another has Utsuro, a child born with supernaturally good luck called Divine Fortune. His luck could cure the sick, grant wealth, and always ensured he was safe and got almost exactly whatever it was he desired. However, this meant he never had to work or to apply himself, and the people around him were always trying to exploit his power, including his own parents. He resorted to living on the streets, bored and detached from the world around him.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_843d1304	comment	In Anansi Boys, Spider can make people believe or do what he wants them to. In general, he just considers it a good way to have fun with people, but when he starts to get emotionally close to someone he feels a lot more conflicted about it.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_8ba4613a	comment	This is the gist of the Death Note fic Perfectly Hollow, in which the two TV Genius main characters never meet each other. Both go through life completely bored, never finding anything or anyone that could challenge them.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_8c22af8f	comment	In Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Frieza's minions suggest he use the Dragon Balls to wish for a body that cannot ever take damage, but he declines, saying it would make his battles too boring.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_8d62323c	comment	Danganronpa: Junko Enoshima, the Big Bad of the franchise, has been plagued with ennui and agonizing boredom her whole life due to her ability to predict almost every outcome to any situation, and became fixated on despair because its unpredictability and chaos is the only thing that makes her feel alive. To that end, she intentionally left clues for her enemies to use against her because she wanted a chance to experience the despair of having her plan ruined. In the anime, it's shown that she knew Makoto could be a wrench in her plan from the beginning and entertained the idea of killing him before deciding against it, explaining that the despair from a "dork like him" ruining her plan was too good to pass up. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair has Izuru Kamukura, a man who was granted every talent imaginable artificially implanted into him through extensive brain surgery. However, it came at the expense of his emotions, memories, and everything that made him human. With all of that power and no way to appreciate any of it, he became completely bored and detached from the world. Likewise, the fan game Danganronpa Another has Utsuro, a child born with supernaturally good luck called Divine Fortune. His luck could cure the sick, grant wealth, and always ensured he was safe and got almost exactly whatever it was he desired. However, this meant he never had to work or to apply himself, and the people around him were always trying to exploit his power, including his own parents. He resorted to living on the streets, bored and detached from the world around him.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_90ab7fe1	comment	This is a recurring theme on the show Recess, with the main characters often learning that victory without effort is meaningless. In "The Fuss Over Finster," Miss Finster gets a hairline fracture after slipping on some candy she confiscated and ends up on crutches. The Recess Gang is initially thrilled, and plan an elaborate heist to recover the sweets that she has been collecting over the months — only to see Muriel being outpaced and teased by even the slowest kids on the playground. They realize that without Miss Finster as a foe, all of their schemes and plans simply aren't any fun. T.J. calls her a "wounded lion" and arranges for a playground-wide truce of perfect behavior, with all of the kids getting along, following the rules, and literally singing "Kumbayah," to give Muriel a much-needed break while she recovers. She's grateful for the treatment, and both sides promise that once she's healed up, it will be "business as usual" between them — and they wouldn't have it any other way. One episode has the Recess Gang creating a fort on the playground. Lawson and his own gang steal it, and the heroes engage in all-out battle to recover it. Once they win, though, they decide it was a lot more fun trying to take the fort back than actually having it, and so offer Lawson the chance to keep on participating in a play-war.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_92844ddb	comment	In the Dinosaurs episode "Nuts to War", when the two-legged animals are unable to get pistachios, Fran asks Earl why he can't just have another nut snack. Earl dismisses the idea because they aren't shelled, providing no challenge in getting the nuts out of the shells.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_9291b6ba	comment	In Immortal Souls, Big Bad Draconis tells John that he can mind-control his Love Interest Allison into forgiving him for the wrong he did against her, and into saying she loves him. John considers it, but declines, saying he'd rather hope to someday hear it all from her and have her actually mean it.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia: Endeavor feels this way after All Might retires and he gains the number one hero rank, believing that he didn't really earn it since it was just given to him. This is also why Bakugo demands that Todoroki use both his fire and ice powers during the sports festival tournament (normally he only uses ice, due to a grudge against his fire-powered father). When Todoroki ends up using only his ice powers anyway and loses as a result, it ends up ruining the festival for Bakugo; instead of feeling proud that he impressed the whole nation with his skills, he walks away feeling insulted that (in his own mind) Todoroki didn't think he was worth using his full power on. Making matters worse, Todoroki did use both elements in the previous round's match with Midoriya, Bakugo's biggest rival, and likely would have lost if he hadn't; Bakugo can't stand that his rival got to take on a bigger challenge from the same opponent, and feels cheated out of any indirect competition with Midoriya.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_976efc02	comment	Enforced in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Secret Agent Super Dragon". TV's Frank has devised a VR device simulating a comedy routine. As he's caught up in and winning the adulation of the audience, Dr. Forrester walks in and sees Frank in action. He realizes Frank's winning too easily and changes the program so they react more realistically. Poor Frank doesn't realize this at all.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_97bb943d	comment	Gladiator: In one match, Maximus kills each of his opponents extremely quickly, leaving his audience totally silent, which makes him chastise them by saying "Are you not entertained?!" Proximo also criticizes Maximus for this, urging him to "win the crowd" when he fights.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_985ad25d	comment	In Dragon Ball Super, Professional Killer Hit will usually just one-shot whoever he's been paid to assassinate without fanfare. If the target proves challenging enough, however, he'll make some exceptions and let the fight go on longer, because he believes he cannot improve if he doesn't face the worst his opponent can offer.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_98c961e2	comment	Helluva Boss: Asmodeus cites this as the main reason why he is against the use of Love Potions. In order for Lust to be truly pleasurable, it must be earned rather than forced.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series: In the episode "The Squire of Gothos", Trelaine repeatedly complains that hunting Kirk is "too easy" to provide the fun he'd hoped for. The page quote comes from "This Side of Paradise", where the crew comes upon a seeming paradise planet with Kirk musing that humanity wasn't really meant for such a thing.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_9b530c26	comment	An old Archie Comics story has Jughead cleaning out an old pool table and waking up the spirit of a warlock who once made the mistake of beating his boss at a game centuries ago. The other warlock cursed the man to be stuck to the table until someone could beat him. Part of the curse is that the warlock can't lose on purpose, he has to be beaten fairly. And as he sardonically notes, he's gotten very good at pool over several hundred years. He and Jughead play a game where, thanks to unexpected distractions from Moose and Reggie, Jughead beats the guy fair and square. The grateful warlock is happy to finally be freed and as a reward, grants all his knowledge of pool to Jughead who, before long, is hustling his way to free meals around Riverdale.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_9d7ec380	comment	The Good Place has residents of both the Good Place and the Bad Place dealing with the boredom that comes with having to do what they do for eternity. It feels good to each set to do what they do, but apathy has begun to set in for many simply because there's either no idea to what end they're doing it, or never will be. This seems to be the problem with the Good Place for some residents once they make it there. With everything they want at their command, true fulfillment and purpose are both steadily dissolved over time until they're left in a mindless pleasurable haze. After all, they can get everything they could ever want, but they can never leave or find any challenge in any of it, since they're stuck there for eternity. The employees of the Bad Place don't have it much better. Yes, Evil Feels Good to the demons who run the Bad Place, but there's really no point to endlessly torturing humans besides inflicting pain for its own sake. Even though the demons might want to inflict pain and misery, such satisfaction has its limits when there's no end goal for it. The reformation to the point system at the end of the series means that it turns into a Karmic Reform Hell, which gives the demons humans to torture while also giving it a reason, which improves their moods about the whole thing quite a bit.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_9d957dd	comment	In The Perilous Gard, the main character is offered a love potion to give to her love interest by the fairy queen. She declines because she wants him to really love her.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Luffy would much rather quit being a pirate than have the location of the titular treasure handed to him on a silver platter because the reason why he became a pirate was to go on an amazing adventure — and there's no adventure in having everything handed to you. Dracule Mihawk, the world's greatest swordsman, has given up on anything challenging him after Shanks, an Emperor of the Sea, lost his arm. There's a reason why the One Piece community says he's suffering from success due to how utterly empty he seemingly feels due to being the best swordsman. When Zoro first challenges him, Mihawk uses a simple steak knife (due to thinking using his actual sword would be overkill) and still easily defeats him. It's only after Zoro shows the determination to defeat him or die trying that Mihawk begins to take interest in him, and spares his life in the hopes that Zoro can one day grow strong enough to challenge him. Kaido of the Four Emperors has been dubbed the "World's Strongest Creature", and that title is not for show. It is even said that, whether it's on land, sea or air, Kaido will always win in a one-on-one, which he usually does in a single blow. Similar to Mihawk, Kaido is hopelessly bored from the lack of challenges, and routinely attempts suicide to pass the time. On the extremely rare occasion that he meets someone capable of giving him a good fight, however, Kaido becomes practically ecstatic, and more than anything else loathes being robbed of a fair fight with a Worthy Opponent.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_9f1766e4	comment	The Brady Bunch: In one episode Bobby is all bent out of shape that he's the only one in the family without a trophy. He tries selling magazine subscriptions, since there's a trophy for the one who sells the most, and seems to be doing quite well. But Cindy accidentally comments that their parents put their friends up to buying most of the subscriptions, so Bobby cancels those orders, saying that a trophy won from that wouldn't be worth anything. In another episode where Jan thinks she's no good at anything, Greg has the great idea of everybody throwing games of skill for her to win: Greg throws a game of Ping Pong, Marcia & Cindy lose at Monopoly, and Peter & Bobby lose at darts. Cindy accidentally spills the beans to their parents though, and they convince the kids that winning that way doesn't help Jan. Greg apologizes to her on behalf of the group and of course they're Easily Forgiven.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_a0b6c698	comment	In Coming to America, Akeem is thoroughly unsatisfied with his life of luxury and his arranged wife who promises to cater to his every whim and sets off to live as a normal man to find a wife he respects.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_a0e389c8	comment	Darth Vader suffers from this during the events of Shadows of the Empire. Luke's flying during the Battle of Yavin and their duel on Cloud City gave him the best challenge he'd had in years. Suddenly, fighting against his lightsaber droids and blasting Rebels in his TIE Advanced x1 was too easy now and left him disgusted in how easy it was.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_a183d57f	comment	In the Futurama episode "Free Will Hunting", Bender is acquitted in court because, as a robot, all decisions are dictated by his programming and he is thus not responsible for his actions. This depresses Bender since it means he has no choice in how he acts and goes on a spiritual journey (which he hates doing). Futurama also parodied The Twilight Zone episode above.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_a4ccfbf7	comment	A late episode of VR Troopers involved Knighttime, a villain from an alternate universe Grimlord had worked with before, going rogue and hatching their own plan to conquer Earth (much to Grimlord's ire) by using a device called the Omegachron to cause all time on Earth to freeze. The VR Troopers become aware of this and set out to destroy the device; Ryan is assaulted by Grimlord when the latter arrives to figure out how the device works, but both he and Ryan find that the device's control panel zaps them in attempting to use it. Grimlord wants to take advantage of this somehow, but Ryan points out that conquering a world where time is always frozen wouldn't be very fun or satisfying. Though annoyed by Ryan being right, he and Ryan work together to destroy the device.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Fate/Grand Order: Scathach has no interest in actually dying, and likes the fact she doesn't age. However, she sometimes wishes she wasn't immortal because she's a Blood Knight, but her fights start to get boring because she is in no danger.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_a578ebb5	comment	The whole purpose of both The Most Dangerous Game's story as well as the trope in general. In the original short story, the villain is a big-game hunter who got bored with dumb animals and started hunting humans who could present more of a challenge. Then he finds another almost equally-bored big-game hunter who would be even more of a challenge than random sailors who don't know how to really fight back.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_a62ee4d2	comment	In Haikyuu!!, Hinata Shoyo tends to be at his most enthusiastic during matches when it's apparent to him just how challenging the opposing team (or particularly its star player) is, a trait his teammates occasionally find a bit unsettling. Unlike most examples, he's not a top-tier player in his own right, having had to essentially self-teach the basics of volleyball (leading to being totally dominated in his first-ever match) and needs improvement in several of the fundamentals, and even when he develops one spiking trick that is very powerful other teams either quickly adapt to it or are good enough to compensate. Hinata likes facing exceptional players because it's the best way to improve his game.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_b0b4e8ff	comment	Kang The Mad in his good ending in Jade Empire feels this way. Now that he realizes he's a God and immortal, the angry villagers that chase after him when he explodes something aren't thrilling or inspiring anymore. He solves the problem by arming the villagers with his own inventions that can hurt him.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_b28b3dd8	comment	Tenchi Universe has intergalactic bounty hunter Nagi, who has been relentlessly chasing down Ryoko. Near the end of the series when the cast were about to head out to fight Kagato, Ryoko, and Nagi encounter each other in the ship's hall. Ryoko had already been severely injured in the previous fight with Kagato and tells Nagi that if she wants to settle things between them, then they should fight now. Nagi simply taps Ryoko in her wound, causing her to scream out in pain. The bounty hunter walks off, saying that fighting Ryoko while in such an injured state would leave a bad taste in her mouth.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic lives for the thrill of adventure, and while he doesn't go out of his way to seek a conflict or hurt people, there is no doubt that he loves a good fight with anyone that can challenge him. He even states outright in Sonic and the Secret Rings and Sonic Generations that adventures are no fun if they're "too easy."
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_b4fe32c9	comment	In the Invader Zim and The Loud House fanfic Siblings of Doom!, Lincoln ends up beating Gaz repeatedly in video games. The latter becomes deeply obsessed with beating Lincoln, even following him to his house. Lincoln considers throwing a game, but Lynn points out that Gaz would hate pity even more than an earned victory.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_b53b86fa	comment	In The Princess Bride, Inigo uses this to justify swordfighting with his left hand despite, you know... Similarly, Fezzik refuses to throw a rock at the Man in Black because he thinks it "isn't very sportsmanlike". Instead, he tells the Man in Black, "We face each other as God intended. Sportsmanlike. No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone."
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_b6743e97	comment	In Alpha and Omega, Shinji describes to Rebuild-Asuka that he gave up the power of God after he fixed the world because it was so boring. He could do anything he wanted with ease, which removed the point of doing anything at all.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_b80e5912	comment	My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!: In the canon of Fortune Lover, this is the keynote of Prince Geordo's characterization. Being able to effortlessly succeed at anything he tries has left him incredibly bored with life, going through the motions and deriving most of his pleasures from sadism. Maria is supposed to break him out of this by providing a source of interest and novelty in his life. In the actual series, his engagement to Katarina has allowed him to avoid this, as her antics and eccentricities provide him with a constant stream of new experiences and her essential kindness has helped keep him from turning sadistic.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_c007e9c8	comment	Space: Above and Beyond: In "Sugar Dirt", the human forces launch an assault to seize a base previously taken by the Chigs. The attack goes off flawlessly, and the humans effortlessly occupy the base and begin settling in. Given that the Chigs typically put up a hellishly difficult fight for the humans at every turn, their failure to defend the base sets off red flags for the human leaders. It was a trap, and a devastating Chig counterattack, including additional forces pulled from another important Chig base, quickly overwhelms the human forces newly occupying the base.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_c24a2f2b	comment	SMPLive: Cooper has a special, higher hit price on Schlatt specifically because he finds Schlatt to be too easy (and thus unsatisfying) to kill.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_c34f83b2	comment	Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair has Izuru Kamukura, a man who was granted every talent imaginable artificially implanted into him through extensive brain surgery. However, it came at the expense of his emotions, memories, and everything that made him human. With all of that power and no way to appreciate any of it, he became completely bored and detached from the world.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_c48e021f	comment	The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: The greedy Henry uses his new nigh-psychic abilities to cheat at cards, only to be bummed because there's no thrill in it:
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_c6fd45	comment	Void Domain: Demons live alone in personal Pocket Dimensions where they have near-total control over reality. Many are happy to be summoned to Earth simply because it gives them something to do beyond indulging their own flights of fancy for aeons on end.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_c86d70b5	comment	A deleted scene from The Lost World: Jurassic Park has Roland Tembo bringing this trope up with Ajay. Tembo notes that he has become such an effective hunter that not only do his latest hunting expeditions wrap up too easily to be thrilling, but he has also started feeling bad for the relatively defenseless animals he is killing. This is what motivates Ajay to bring him along on the Isla Sorna expedition to hunt the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_ca08598f	comment	In Season 4 of The Wire, Avon Barksdale has been locked up for a while now, and Omar Little's reputation leads to him being able to terrify the guppies left behind easily. Case-in-point: his first appearance of the season has him going out in a teal bathrobe with no gun to get cereal from a corner store. Every dealer still runs from him, and a drug house drops a package his way just because they don't want any trouble. He quickly gets bored of this, and decides to set up a robbery of Marlo Stanfield, the kingpin who took Avon's crown. The resulting rivalry between them lasts the rest of the series.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_cb45dbdc	comment	In PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet, The Rival Nemona is one of the regional Champions and as a consequence has almost nobody capable of giving her a challenge in battle. Upon meeting the Player Character she realizes their potential and decides I Need You Stronger, spending the entirety of their adventure trying to mold them into a Champion like her while giving herself handicaps in their battles.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_cb6abea3	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! had Joey Wheeler in Battle City. He refused to duel against a no-name duelist because of his promise to Yugi that they'd have their post-Battle City duel so Joey can get his Red-Eyes Black Dragon back, choosing only to duel against strong duelists to prove that he's ready. In the English dub, this is changed to Joey wanting to uphold his reputation as the runner-up in Duelist Kingdom.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_cbad9b62	comment	In Legend of the Galactic Heroes, this is one of the primary reasons why Reinhard von Lohengramm wanted to battle with Yang Wen-li whenever the opportunity arose. Having climbed to the highest military rank by his early twenties (and later crowned himself emperor), all that is left for Reinhard is wanting a good challenge from one of the most brilliant tactical geniuses in the whole galaxy. The Battle of Vermilion is a prominent example: he is so disappointed that his victory was handed to him from outside the battlefield that he could not bring himself to thank Hildegard von Mariendorf, who engineered his victory, even though her plan had saved him from the brink of defeat and possible death.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_cd0c4234	comment	Villains Don't Date Heroes!: The lack of challenge is why Night Terror feels so bored at the beginning. She's now defeated all the heroes, who all run off at the sight of her, with the police putting up only a token effort to stop her too. Thus she's delighted when Fialux challenges her.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_d0c31ab	comment	Star Trek: Generations has the character-against-environment variant. In a matrix that's sort of a fantasy world, Captain Kirk is riding a horse as it jumps across a chasm, in a reconstruction of his old homestead. Then he realizes how futile it is jumping across the chasm as he did many times before since in the fantasy version there's no way he could be hurt if he fell in, removing all the thrill from it.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_d3cc40b5	comment	One omake in Embers in the Dusk describes Abaddon finally grinding through the defenses of Cadia after a thousand years, and extremely disappointed that by then, the soldiers are so ground down and exhausted they cannot even offer a proper Last Stand. He is so disappointed, in fact, that he gathers the survivors and offers them to buy their lives by giving him a proper fight that'll impress him in some way surpassing those of their ancestors. He even swears an unbreakable oath he'll follow his word. They do manage to match the older fights, but not surpass them... until during his final rampage, some teen manages to nick him with her sword. While it's a scratch he barely feels, it is still a feat no Badass Normal had ever managed, only supersoldiers and Xenos, so he is forced to follow his oath — the survivors are given a ship and a Navigator, and are sent to find as safe a place as they can in the galaxy.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_d54b59cc	comment	Demolition Man: A side effect of San Angelus' "utopian" society is that driven individuals like Lenina Huxley are left without anything to apply themselves to, even while serving as police officers. One of the reason's she's such a Fan of the Past is because it was a time people actually had things to strive against.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	Comes up a few times in PokÃ©mon: The Series as a lesson about having to put in effort instead of deciding a potential challenge isn't worth their time. In fact, part of the reason why Ash sticks with one team for a region instead of using his old, reliable reserves is to challenge himself and find new ways to win.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_e1af7332	comment	An episode of Quack Pack, "Dental Mental", has Huey accidentally get a mind control device surgically attached to his head, which he subsequently uses to win any contest, order anyone around, and eventually take over the world. However, he becomes unsatisfied once he is king of the world, knowing that no one truly respects him and he's being honored only because of the device on his head.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "I Was Made to Love You", Warren makes a robot girlfriend who looks and acts exactly like a real girl — except it agrees with him 100% and does nothing but tries to please him. Eventually he meets someone who challenges him, disagrees with, and requires him to actually try to make her happy. Suddenly his pleasure-bot holds no appeal, so he leaves her for the one that challenges him. Of course, being a spineless creep, he doesn't so much break up with his robot girlfriend or even shut her down, he just leaves her to run down her batteries.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_e3f9004b	comment	In Backwards Compatible, a short-lived webcomic about a group of video game reviewers, one of the characters winds up with the "PWNED", a magical artifact that curses its owner to be unbeatable at playing video games. He doesn't see the issue at first, but then he beats Dragon's Lair in a single try without dying once. At that point he realizes that he can't be an effective video game reviewer because he won't be able to tell whether a game is challenging or not anymore, and being able to beat games without having to actually do anything means that they're no longer fun. So he gets rid of the PWNED.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_e613a516	comment	Industrial Society and Its Future: Kaczynski claims industrial society disrupts what he's called the â€œpower processâ€�, which is goal, effort, attainment of goal, and autonomy roughly. He says that having basic needs secure leads to boredom, frustration, and decadence. Because one desires goals, even the most leisured group comes up with what he calls â€œsubstitute activitiesâ€� which fill the gap. This can be anything from fighting to science, in his view. He terms these as artificial goals since they don't relate to any need that's natural. In his view, they cause further problems however since he claims they don't leave people ultimately satisfied and are often also harmful on a far larger scale (e.g. science just for the sake of knowledge that can create technology that hurts people) and often impede the last part, autonomy, greatly.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_e75c6d45	comment	Invoked in Goblins: The heroes need to prove themselves in an adventure before they can receive the location of the goblins' camp. Forgath, a dwarven fighter, prays to his god (the DM) for a tougher challenge because he felt their last adventure was a cakewalk that offered them very little XP. The DM answers his prayer/taunt by creating a giant fiery pit with the words "FINE! CAKEWALK THIS!" etched in the stones on the outer ring.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_e9c7b01b	comment	In Dissidia Final Fantasy, the Onion Knight uses this trope in a bid to get Exdeath to allow him and Terra go unharmed, by recommending he go find someone stronger to fight than a woman and a child. Of course, this kind of psychological ploy isn't really something that Exdeath would care all that much about, but, as he's a centuries-old Eldritch Abomination that believes all things to be inexorably destined to return to the Void regardless, he allows them to pass unharmed (albeit with an ominous remark about their pursuit of Cosmos' crystals).
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_eb59224d	comment	LazyTown: In "The First Day of Summer," the kids, Meanswell, Bessie, and Sportacus all head to the beach for a day of fun in the sun. Robbie is initially thrilled that everyone is gone and revels in the peace and quiet...but before long, he realizes that without victims, it's just no fun to pull evil schemes. He even goes so far as to dress up as the townspeople and have full-blown conversations with himself to "foil" his own plans. When everyone returns at the end of the episode, Robbie is thrilled to see them and even leads the group in "Bing-Bang."
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_ec28245c	comment	Dragon Ball Z: One of Goku's defining traits is that he will always fight fair if he can, and will often hold back his full potential in order to make things more interesting if the stakes aren't too high. Given that by the end of the Z series and on into Super he is literally in the top 5 most powerful fighters in the universe, 99.9% of people in said universe wouldn't be able to touch him otherwise. Shown in his afterlife training when the Western Kai challenges him to show off his moves with ten tons of weight attached to each limb: The Saiyan race as a whole are Challenge Seekers who enjoy fighting strong people and testing their limits and skills against them. At the same time, however, they prefer to fight people who can give them a reasonable challenge before they get bored and decide to curb-stomp them; when faced with a superior opponent, they tend to completely lose their cool. Goku is unique in this because he wants to face opponents who actually have a chance of defeating him.note This is the reason why Goku tries to call off his fight with Frieza; Frieza's power was dropping rapidly and Goku could see where it was going and told Frieza to go away and prepare for a rematch. Frieza didn't take it well. Unlike his Bad Future counterpart, who relishes in mass murder and destruction, the present-day Android 17 enjoys himself much more when he's got an even fight on his hands as opposed to a Curb-Stomp Battle, even leaving his defeated opponents alive so they can come back stronger and fight him again in the latter case. He also only follows his programmed directive to seek and destroy Goku for the sake of something entertaining to do, which he makes clear by deliberately sacrificing efficiency for fun in this hunt. After becoming perfect, Cell quickly becomes bored after stomping Vegeta into the ground, and Trunks' Ultra Super Saiyan form proves to be too slow to give him a good challenge. So, he decides to create the Cell Games so Goku and his friends can become stronger to challenge him and test his perfect power. Never once does Cell consider that there's the possibility that any of the Z-Fighters could become strong enough to defeat him (having Vegeta's DNA might have something to do with it), only expecting them to be able to give him a good fight. This eventually leads Cell to push Gohan to his breaking point so he can unleash his hidden power after Goku declares Gohan to be the strongest fighter in the Cell Games. He gets his wish, all right, and promptly get his ass kicked, resulting in an incredible Villainous Breakdown. Majin Buu zig-zags this trope. As Fat Buu, he sees fighting (and killing) as playing, and fighting strong people is fun. As Super Buu, he enjoys a good fight but only if he knows he can win, even going so far as to cheat to regain the advantage. He also subverts this trope outright when he declines Piccolo's request to give Gotenks an extra day to get ready. As Kid Buu, he averts this trope entirely, as he isn't interested in fighting or having fun — all he wants is to destroy. In Dragon Ball Super, Professional Killer Hit will usually just one-shot whoever he's been paid to assassinate without fanfare. If the target proves challenging enough, however, he'll make some exceptions and let the fight go on longer, because he believes he cannot improve if he doesn't face the worst his opponent can offer. In Dragon Ball Super: Broly, Frieza's minions suggest he use the Dragon Balls to wish for a body that cannot ever take damage, but he declines, saying it would make his battles too boring.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_ecee4546	comment	In The Librarians, this is at least part of the reason why Ezekiel Jones is on the team. Before becoming a Librarian-in-Training, he was a world-class thief, and as Stone points out, with the resources the Library has given him, he could rob the world blind with barely any effort. Ezekiel replies by saying that that would be too easy, and he likes a challenge.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_ef57d399	comment	The Mountain and the Wolf: Littlefinger desperately offers to sell out the world to the Ruinous Powers via the Wolf (who to kill, where to attack, etc.). The Wolf doesn't take him up on it, explaining to Arya that it wouldn't be fun. Confirmed much later when the Wolf reappears at a crucial moment to ensure the Unsullied and the Seven Kingdoms will fight against him. As he explains to a subordinate, simply sallying forth to crush the Westeros armies in a single swoop would deprive the forces of Chaos of the opportunity to prove their valor in the eyes of the gods. Thus he deliberately fields smaller armies that cause immense slaughter but pulls them back before they can overrun the defenders.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_f01be35d	comment	In Assassins of Gor a young chess prodigy is forced by the ruler to play a game of chess against a foolish simpleton. The prodigy at first refuses, saying it would be an insult to the Game until he's threatened with death.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_f0c816fb	comment	Breaking Bad: Midway through the fifth season, Walt finally retires from the drug trade because he's made far more money than he could use in several lifetimes and eliminated everyone who could possibly threaten him or his family. With his family's financial future secured and nobody left to test his mettle against, Walt finds managing his drug empire has become as boring and monotonous as a normal business, leading to him washing his hands of it all. In a Be Careful What You Wish For moment, another challenge does quickly draw him back into his criminal double-life, when Hank finally discovers his kingpin alter ego.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_f168045c	comment	In Kakegurui, this is pretty much the central theme. Protagonist Yumeko Jabami is wholly obsessed with gambling; not winning or losing, not the prospect of winning lots of money, but the risk of potentially losing or winning everything, and having no absolute certainty of either. She despises those who even slightly interfere with perfectly balanced odds, though she considers cheating to just be another element that makes games of chance exciting. Because of this, Midari has the dubious honor of being the one person Yumeko unequivocally hates, since she always rigs her gambles to lose.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_f36a428d	comment	In Bridge of Birds, the wise man Li Kao, who has a slight flaw in his character, tells Number Ten Ox that he would actually have become a criminal like his parents if he hadn't found getting away with crimes to be so easy it was boring and that solving crimes was more of a challenge for him.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_f6fe1bfc	comment	This trope was a running theme on Sabrina the Teenage Witch. The witches and warlocks who inhabit the Other Realm have the power to bend reality to their will, getting almost everything they want with a few simple gestures or incantations; many of them also snub Helda, Zelda, and Sabrina for choosing to live in the mortal world and having to actually work to get things. But on at least two occasions, it's revealed that there's general dissatisfaction among magic users: Sabrina's Aunt Vesta lives in "the Pleasure Dome," a place full of perpetual enjoyments (a restaurant with desserts that make you thinner, a giant amusement park, a mall that never closes, etc.) At the end of the episode, Vesta remarks that the happiness she gets from living there is rather shallow...but then goes with it anyway, laughing that it still feels good. Sabrina's cousin Marigold and her two daughters are not only witches but also extremely wealthy and spoiled — to the point where the girls don't even dress themselves without using magic. When Marigold breaks the cardinal rule of witchdom by telling a mortal (a plumber who she's fallen for) about her and her daughters' powers, all three lose them. While the children are devastated, Marigold comments that she had magic for hundreds of years, but it never truly made her happy; living in the mortal world for a few days has.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_f74b5f80	comment	In the Babylon 5 episode "Soul Mates", during the middle of deciding which two of his three wives to divorce, Londo is laid low by a poisoning, and one of his wives has a blood type that can save him. Though she actually doesn't like him and wouldn't entirely mind seeing him die as she would be his widow, she donates her blood to save him anyway because she doesn't want to win her battles in such a one-sided way.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_fa85cc4f	comment	OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: Professor Venomous was once a widely feared supervillain, but at the behest of other high-level villains like Cosma, he mostly retired to profitable crimes or even legitimate business. He quickly became wildly wealthy, but found it boring and pointless because there was no challenge or action; heâ€™s just doing paperwork, making phone calls, and attending board meetings instead of actually being a supervillain. All he really wants to do is fight heroes and terrorize the world like any self-respecting Mad Scientist. This causes him to form an Odd Friendship with Lord Boxman because while Boxman is a bumbling idiot, he at least refuses to be a glorified executive and continues to battle heroes, lack of profits be damned.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_ff674297	comment	Something that Vergil has frustrations with in The Devil of Zero is that there are hardly any powerful warriors in Halkeginia near his level. He actually starts to miss Dante because of how unsatisfied he is with the challenges there.
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No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In Star Trek: The Next Generation In "The Neutral Zone", Ralph Offenhouse has this view regarding the 24th Century society (what little he knows of it) since he was a financier, a job the moneyless economy of the Federation has no use for. Picard tells him that the challenge is to "improve yourself" (what this means isn't explained). In the Expanded Universe, he goes on to become the Federation Ambassador to the Ferengi after adapting to life in the 24th Century. In "Elementary, Dear Data", as Data has read every Sherlock Holmes book, he is able to deduce the entire plot when he and Geordi play in the holodeck. So Geordi orders the computer to create a new mystery and plot worthy of challenging Data. The computer brings the Moriarty character to full sentience and awareness of his surroundings beyond the limits of his program. From inside the holodeck, he is able to devise a means of destroying the ship. It also crafts a separate Holmes-like mystery that isn't just an amalgamation of plots and tropes from the books. Data solves the latter but cannot overcome the former problem alone. In "The Outrageous Okona", Data attempts to understand humor using a holodeck simulation. When he realizes that the simulated audience laughs no matter how badly he bombs, he shuts down the program. In "A Fistful of Datas", Worf and his son Alexander are in a Western holodeck program. Playing sheriff, Worf easily defeats the outlaw Eli Hollander, but Alexander complains it's much too easy, so he resets the program to a higher difficulty level. As Worf likes a challenging fight, he approves the increased difficulty.
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Monica's Gang (Comic Book) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Rainbooms and Royalty / Fan Fic / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Total Drama Letterz / Fan Fic / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
A Second Chance (to do it better) (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
A Very Scary Thought (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Burning Coals (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Danny Phantom: Blackmailed (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Juxtapose (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Kaleidoscope (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Phantom vs Aliens: Hot Ectoplasma! (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Relic of the Future (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Sucked Into the Smash Universe (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The Beast of Beacon (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The Dark Lords of Nerima (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The Devil of Zero (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The Many Dates of Danny Fenton (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Traveler (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Unbreakable Red Silken Thread (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
What If Goku Landed at Capsule Corp? (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
What If Krillin Became a Saiyan? (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
What If Videl Was A Z-Fighter? (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
White Sheep (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
White Sheep (RWBY) (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Yugioh EQG (Fanfic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The Matrix / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Bedazzled (2000) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Coming to America / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Demolition Man / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Gladiator / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Groundhog Day / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Ilya Muromets / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Kung Fu Hustle / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Spartacus / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Star Trek: Generations / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Superman II / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The Man with the Golden Gun / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The Spy Who Loved Me / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Nasuverse (Franchise) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Achievement Hunter Grand Theft Auto Series (Lets Play) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Classic Gaming Grand Prix (Lets Play) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Alien: The Cold Forge / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Anansi Boys / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Blacktop / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Candide / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Elianto / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Golden Dragon Fantasy Gamebooks / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Legend of the Galactic Heroes / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Night Watch (Series) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Red Dwarf / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Super Powereds / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The Most Dangerous Game / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The Reincarnation of the Strongest Exorcist in Another World / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The Windup Girl / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Villains Don't Date Heroes! / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Baki the Grappler (Manga) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
ChounouryokushaSaikiKusuoNoSainan	seeAlso	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Dragon Ball Super (Manga) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Kakegurui (Manga) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Soara and The Monsters' House (Manga) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Strawberry Shake Sweet (Manga) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Despairwonderland 2 (Roleplay) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Impeachment / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
LazyTown / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Night Gallery / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Star Trek: The Original Series / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The Brady Bunch / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The Good Place / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The Invisible Man / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The Twilight Zone (2002) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Everyone Is John (Tabletop Game) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Inherit the Wind (Theatre) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Aliens vs. Predator: Extinction (Video Game) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Castlevania: Curse of Darkness (Video Game) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Comix Zone (Video Game) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Corruption Expanded (Video Game) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Halo Infinite (Video Game) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Immortal Souls (Video Game) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Mortal Kombat 11 (Video Game) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse (Web Animation) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Alpharad (Web Video) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Counter Monkey (Web Video) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games (Web Video) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Masako X - Dragon Ball What-If (Web Video) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Fate/Gamers Only (Webcomic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
One-Punch Man (Webcomic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Pixieverse (Webcomic) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Dilbert / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Dog City / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
God, the Devil and Bob / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Quack Pack / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Ralph Breaks the Internet / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Recess / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
Randy Orton (Wrestling) / int_5640e2c9	type	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction
nochallengeequalsnosatisfaction	sameAs	No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction

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