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You gotta face it: no matter how happy you are to be on that awards stand, first place is still better than second. But sometimes a person takes this a bit too far. When somebody starts acting like second place is for losers, it doesn't matter if you were in a race against everyone on earth and beat 7,999,999,998 people. All that matters is you didn't beat the one. Essentially it's being a Sore Loser, just, y'know, for those who only "lost" very slightly. Some real-life athletes feel this way quite deeply, coming so close and yet missing the mark. For example, one scientific study analyzed photographs of the facial expressions of many Olympians as they learned how they had placed. Gold of course was almost always ecstatic, and Bronze medalists were happy to have placed at all, but a Silver winner usually showed disappointment or dejection at coming in second best, unless it was their first time competing. This is especially true in tournament-style sports like basketball and hockey, where the bronze team had won their game, but the silver medalists lost the game for gold. And then the presentation ceremony takes place immediately after the last match, giving the runners-up no time to compose themselves and put on a sporting face. In a narrative sense, this can be used to give An Aesop about sportsmanship, or at can be used to squeeze some extra angst from a character, especially if the second-placing character was hoping to use the competition to impress a "Well Done, Son" Guy parent. Please note that many leagues (especially youth leagues) consider this attitude very bad sportsmanship. This trope is the prime reason Underdogs Never Lose. Note this trope is only about characters getting second place, or at least placing highly enough to get a medal/trophy/etc., and then focusing on the fact that they still didn't win first. It's NOT about: A genuinely mediocre-to-poor showing. When the character(s) entered the contest specifically to win the first-place prize, such as money to save their beloved school from closing, or there's some other consequence for not coming in first. When a video game requires you to win a competition to advance the story. A head-to-head match where there's only two competitors; whoever doesn't take first is definitionally the loser. When there really is no prize or recognition for second place. Compare Unsportsmanlike Gloating, The B Grade, Losing Is Worse Than Death. If it happens all the time, it can become a case of Always Second Best. See also Rejecting the Consolation Prize, which could be the end result. Contrast The Runner-Up Takes It All, Second Place Is for Winners. Compare and contrast Disqualification-Induced Victory. See also Medal of Dishonor and Damned by Faint Praise. Sub-Trope of Second Prize, when a character was expecting a different outcome in a competition. Not to be confused with Tough Act to Follow. |
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In A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown makes it to the National Spelling Bee Championship (having won the State one) and comes second, only for everyone to see him as a miserable failure. However, this is a rather bizarre conclusion considering that, while misspelling a relatively easy word like "beagle" is embarrassing (especially when his pet Snoopy is one), the fact remains that Charlie Brown beat almost everyone else in the entire country. Surely that should count for something? | |
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In the Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) version of Contest of Champions (1982), the Grandmaster taunts the Collector with "Second place means first loser!" | |
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The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Hothouse" features a school for genius that promotes this attitude. Harshly deconstructed, as it drives one student to kill her rival. | |
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The famed and historied America striker Antony "El Pitufo" De Avila ("Pitufo" meaning "Smurf" due to his small size) lost all those continental finals with America, plus another one while playing for Ecuador's Barcelona de Guayaquil, becoming the player who has lost the most Copa Libertadores finals with 5 to his name. | |
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In Tokyo Ghoul :Re, this trope is discussed almost to the letter. | |
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The Social Network has the race where the Winklevoss twins, as well as the rest of the Harvard rowing team, lose against the opposition and place 2nd. They are clearly displeased about it, and it becomes a Compliment Backfire when Prince Albert says repeatedly how he "never saw a race so close!" | |
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Parodied in The Addams Family, where Morticia's sister rejects the second-richest man in the world because "mother always said never to settle for second best. (Later she hooks up with someone who's rich and thinks he's Napoleon.) | |
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There was significant media controversy in Australia during the London Olympics centered around this attitude being incredibly prevalent towards the Australian swimming team, to the point where conflict around the long-standing tendency for this trope to be employed towards the team overshadowed the Olympics themselves for the first several days of competition, particularly Emily Seebohm all but bursting into tears in an interview after placing second in 100m backstroke because she thought she'd disappointed everyone, which many thought exposed just how much pressure the sporting culture places on athletes and how much backlash they really do have to fear if they take home anything other than gold. Todd Sampson summed it up on The Gruen Transfer: "We like to think we're a sport-mad nation. The truth is, we're a winning-mad nation." | |
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In Disney's Hercules, Phil's training song talks about wanting a more successful protege. "The kind who wins trophies, won't settle for low-phies, at least semi-pro-phies, but no! I get the greenhorn!" As he sings, Phil receives Amusing Injuries after polishing an old trophy a student won for 11th place. | |
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The Adventures of Willy Beamish actually averts this. The Tootsweet Frog Jump is considered a big deal where Horny must beat Turbofrog, but you can keep going in the game if you only make second place, as you still win enough money to enter the Nintari championship, plus the jet-ski you need to reach Humpford Manor. | |
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This also applies to anyone who doesn't place first in Crash Team Racing and its remake. ESPECIALLY Nitros Oxide and Isabella, though Megumi averts this by being a Graceful Loser about it, while Geary tends to zigzag between this trope and respectfully applauding the winner at the same time. It's however averted online where everyone on the podium will play their winning animations. | |
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Kaginado: This is parodied with Key's secondary heroines (the heroines that are usually billed directly under the main heroines), which are comprised of Nayuki, Kyou, Komari, Kotori and Yurippe. This is juxtaposed with the main heroines (Ayu, Nagisa, Riki, Kagari and Tenshi), as both groups hold a slumber party next to each other's rooms. The main heroines wear pajamas and are barefoot (except for Kagari because of her Limited Wardrobe), eat bakery sweets and drink juice, have (mostly) fun conversations and sit in a well-lit room. The secondary heroines wear tracksuits and socks, eat junk food and drink soft drinks, they cynically complain the entire time and sit in a dark room. The secondary heroines even form the "Loser Heroine Gang". | |
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Deconstructed in CSI: NY: "Kill Screen" involves the murder of a video game tournament leader who let the winner cheat to win big so the game would become more popular. Mac has a "Eureka!" Moment and says, "Second place is the first loser." That guy had the most to lose and immediately becomes the primary suspect. Mac is right, he's the killer. | |
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This is Archer's attitude in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, where he's is remembering humanity's first Warp 3 flight. Archer is upset to be passed over for the test flight. When a bartender points out that he'll probably fly the next one, Archer asks her if she knows what Buzz Aldrin said after stepping on the Moon. She doesn't. Archer says that no one does, because Neil Armstrong was first. His attitude changes later, though. In fact, he ends up captaining Starfleet's first Warp 5-capable ship. | |
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Referenced in "The Ballad of Sara Berry" in 35MM: A Musical Exhibition. When it becomes increasingly clear the title character will come in second to the Wheelchair Woobie in the Prom Queen election, she might still qualify for a place on the prom court - but her father's attitude contributes to her obsession with winning at all costs. | |
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The Simpsons: Mocked in "The Old Man and the C-Student", when the Olympics commissioner reaffirms the purpose of the Games: "giving out medals of beautiful gold, so-so silver, and shameful bronze." Also in "Lisa's Rival" when she considers her predicament: Inverted in "I'm Spelling As Fast As I Can". Lisa gets second place in the Spellympics and is hailed as a winner in Springfield—after all, second place makes her "the biggest winner this town's ever produced". Heck, because she lost honorably instead of taking a bribe to take a dive, they fashion a sign that says: "2 good 2 be #1." Parodied in "Deep Space Homer." One of the astronauts coming along on the mission is Buzz Aldrin, who insists that "second comes right after first," leading to awkward glances between the other characters. |
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Battlefield 3 includes an achievement called "First Loser" for having the second-highest point total in the match. Although this goes against a theme of the Battlefield series, which usually rewards teamwork and downplays individual skill. Also, get this achievement if you are the best player on the winning team but were bested by someone on the losers. | |
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Dicey Dungeons: Yolanda's nan told her that she's not satisfied that Yolanda's shop isn't No. 1, even if it's the only one in the dungeons. Yolanda feels the same way, aiming to ensure that all of her customers are as satisfied as possible with their purchases. | |
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Miraculous Ladybug: Kagami’s mother has this idea drilled into her daughter’s head, insisting that a Tsurugi has to be the best at what they do. Because of this, Kagami felt shame when she thought she had lost a fencing match, and even said in her family, “there are no second chances�. In "Guitar Villain", record producer Bob Roth demonstrates these views, telling Jagged Stone that he'll be dropped from the label if he remains at #2 on the charts. Jagged angrily points out to him that #2 on the charts is still good, and that any other record label would be more than eager to take him if he was dropped. It's an especially odd view for Bob, since his label does represent the new chart topper, Mr. XY. How can he expect to represent two #1's if they're directly competing with each other? |
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In Asteroid in Love, Because of her upbringing, Moe is extremely confident of her pastry-making skills among her peers. As a result, her moon-phase pancake getting the second place during the School Festival's booth food competition sends her to Heroic BSoD for a few days. | |
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Played with on The Weekenders. Tino got 3rd place in a horseshoes competition, during a weekend sports meet, which he was pretty proud of, considering he took up the sport that weekend. His friends didn't see what the big deal was, since he didn't win. Probably had to do with the fact that they all won their competitions. | |
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In RWBY, Qrow mentions that he heard about how Team RWBY nearly stopped the train, pointing out, though, they don't give medals for "almost". Ruby's reaction? "Yes, they do, and it's called 'silver'!" | |
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Double Homework: In her epilogue, Rachel wins the bronze medal in the Olympics. She’s down in the dumps, mainly because nobody will ever remember her for it, but the protagonist tells her that the silver medalist probably feels worse, since they were only one place away from the top spot. | |
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Dragon Ball: Goku got second place at the 21st and the 22nd Martial Arts Tournaments. He was specifically told by Master Roshi not to expect to win since he was still inexperienced. Goku didn't care and went for the win and was visibly upset that he lost. The second time, he lost to Tien after having the bad luck of running into a truck as he was falling and hitting the ground first (it's a long story). When Krillin tried to congratulate him Goku says, "A loss is a loss." In fact, Goku's loss in the 21st Tournament was to Master Roshi himself (in the guise of Jackie Chun), specifically because he wanted to teach Goku and Krillin not to go through this trope since there's Always Someone Better''. As demonstrated above, it didn't take, but years later Goku responds to the idea of stronger opponents with child-like enthusiasm. Vegeta's primary story arc throughout Dragon Ball Z is that he hates being Always Second Best to Goku in power; in his view, Goku is a lower-class Saiyan, born at the absolute bottom of the pecking order, and thus should be a nobody while he's the Saiyan prince and should be the strongest by default. It all reaches a head in the Buu Saga, where he sells his soul to Babidi for the sake of becoming stronger than Goku, and during the subsequent fight, he goes off on a furious rant about how Goku's very existence is an insult to his honor and how he's done being second to him. |
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In First Man, the Americans are determined to get to the moon because the Soviets have beaten them at every major space accomplishment so far. Ed White is stunned when he learns that they have just beaten him at being the first EVA. | |
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Uncle Grandpa has Priscilla Jones, who got second place in the science fair when she was a little girl because Uncle Grandpa accidentally chipped it, and instead of helping her fix it, took her on an adventure involving playing hackey-sack with Martians. Her reaction? She lost it and vowed to take Uncle Grandpa's job, taking on the alter ego "Aunt Grandma". | |
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On Dance Moms, Abby Lee Miller likes to remind the girls that "Second place is the first one to lose". | |
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In Assassination Classroom, the principal of the high school, Asano Sr, has this mentality despite preaching that "everyone has a chance to get better". However whenever E-Class starts pulling ahead, he goes to utterly ridiculous lengths just to smack them down. Hell, when his son even came in first on two separate occasions (during 1st semester finals and during a festival event), it's still not enough for him because it's not a complete victory due to E-Class coming close to beating him. When E-Class trounces A-Class in the second semester finals, he responds by trying to demolish the E-Class building. | |
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Power Rangers: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers has its famous Green With Evil storyline that introduced the very first Sixth Ranger. It begins with Jason facing Tommy, a new kid in town, in a martial arts contest which ultimately ends in a tie. As Jason returns to his friends, the first words that come out of his mouth are "I didn't win." Granted, he doesn't dwell on it anymore after this one moment, but it's still an odd thing for a character like Jason to be concerned about. In Power Rangers Ninja Steel, resident egotistical Jerk Jock Victor Vincent loses his title as the school's tennis champion in "Abrakadanger". Subverted in that it's his sidekick Monty who is dismayed that "You came in last", while Victor, though still annoyed at his loss (since winning would have earned him his fiftieth trophy), accepts the ribbon and reminds Monty that "It says second". |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion takes this trope to the logical extreme. Initially, when Shinji first surpasses Asuka's synch ratio, she's just pissed at him. Later, after being curbstomped three times in a row with Shinji always scoring the kill instead of her, she becomes extremely distraught, due to her past: she always prided herself on being the best so that she won't need any kind of help from anyone. By not being the best anymore and her rival consistently having a stellar performance, she's afraid of being put to the sidelines and as a result, her synch ratio is plummeting; seeing this, she also becomes afraid that if she drops low enough, she will be relieved of her duties which to her would be equal to being publicly humiliated in the worst way possible for a human. And the best part in all of this? She knows what's wrong but her pride doesn't let her admit it to herself. Oh, it gets even better. Right after her third defeat (technically second since she couldn't attack Leliel, much less harm it), she's sent into battle again, knowing that this is the last chance the NERV leadership is giving for her: if she screws up this time, it's game over. Not only does she not get a single shot off at Arael, she undergoes the Trope Namer for Mind Rape instead. And she gets saved by the person she hates the most. Next time she's sent up against Armisael, she can't even get her Eva to move anymore and is withdrawn; as an indirect result, Rei-II is killed by the Angel despite Shinji's intervention ("you didn't send him out for me... am I really that worthless?"). What do NERV does in this situation? Do they try to solve Asuka's psychological problems and cheer her up? Noooo, they send her into early retirement and fetch a replacement instead - who just so happens to be the final Angel. | |
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King of the Hill: Subverted when Hank doesn't win a shooting competition, and his dad won a bet he wouldn't. Then Bobby walks up and says, "Wow, Dad. Second place in a real competition." It's worth noting that Hank was established throughout the episode as being a really crummy shot to begin with, and was only worried about letting his own son down. Happens in a later episode where Bobby takes to growing roses and fails in a florist competition. He's disappointed and depressed about it but shocked when he sees Hank (who he actively hid his roses from in the beginning) planting his flowers in the garden. When Bobby asks why he'd do this even if he didn't win, Hank explains, "Well, the Cowboys don't win every game, but I still cheer them on year after year." |
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Friendly neighborhood witch Nanny Ogg in the Discworld series is perfectly aware of this— her best friend, Granny Weatherwax, is acknowledged as the best witch on the entire Disc. For Nanny's part, she prefers to come in second, because if you come in first, people are constantly trying to beat you and you're under pressure to keep coming in first. She likes coming second, because it's the runner-up that people pat on the back, and say "It was a good try," and buy drinks for. | |
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The first LEGO Racers back in 2000s did the same, where finishing second only unlocks the next championship event instead of the character and bricksets, and finishing second in an event usually concluded with the player character being angry of, well, finishing second. | |
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Pokémon Sword and Shield takes this literally in the Rotom Loto-ID. The fourth and third-place prizes are a PP Up and a PP Max, respectively—useful items and difficult to find anywhere else. First place, as usual, is the coveted Master Ball. Second place, though, is a Rare Candy. In older games, this would have been a decent reward, but the newly-added Max Raids bombard you with so many XP Candies that the classic Rare Candy is practically worthless, other than as a moderately uncommon collectible. | |
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers has its famous Green With Evil storyline that introduced the very first Sixth Ranger. It begins with Jason facing Tommy, a new kid in town, in a martial arts contest which ultimately ends in a tie. As Jason returns to his friends, the first words that come out of his mouth are "I didn't win." Granted, he doesn't dwell on it anymore after this one moment, but it's still an odd thing for a character like Jason to be concerned about. | |
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The Berenstain Bears: This is zigzagged in one of the chapter books. There's an auto show going on, and local tycoon Squire Grizzly has entered his four best cars (all extremely rare and well-maintained) in order to ensure that he wins all three trophies for first, second, and third. At the end of the book, Papa Bear's roadster (the last car made by a well-known car company before it went out of business) manages to win third. Papa is happy with winning third given how stiff the competition was, while the Squire is envious about not winning all three trophies for the best cars in the country. | |
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Tiger & Bunny has Keith Goodman/Sky High struggling with this after Barnaby Brooks Jr. takes his place as the highest-ranking superhero. However, being the Nice Guy to end all Nice Guys, he's not angry over no longer being the best so much as he's afraid that he can no longer live up to the expectations people have for him. | |
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Played with in Beyond the Lights. Ten-year-old Noni is proud to be named the first runner-up in a talent contest. Macy, on the other hand, is so disgusted that she forces her daughter to chuck her trophy. | |
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In ECW in 1998, this was Taz's attitude about how, with all his hard work and training, he was only the ECW World Television Champion, which he called "Second Place," instead of the ECW World Heavyweight Champion. This led to him creating his own title, the unofficial ECW FTW (Fuck the World) Heavyweight Title. | |
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Briefly referenced in Turning Red when Meilin's parents test her claim of getting her emotion-triggered transformations under control by showing her pictures of things that they know would upset her. A photo of her taking second place at a years-ago spelling bee forces her to retreat to her Happy Place lest she transform to her giant red panda form at the kitchen table. | |
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In Season of Miracles, Zack and his dad are both believers in this trope. When Zack says, "Third place feels like I... failed," his dad says, "Good! It's first place or nothing, son! That's the American way!" | |
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In the Red Dwarf novel Backwards, a scene in Rimmer's childhood shows him nearly winning a race before another boy trips him up, and we're told his father's favourite phrase is "Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing". But then we're shown Ace Rimmer in the same sports day, and he throws the race, because he realises another boy really needs to win it. While his mother stares in disbelief, he thinks "After all, losing is nothing." | |
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American Dad!: Stan believes that when it comes to sports, you either win or you're just a pathetic loser. The episode "Every Which Way But Lose" has Stan constantly belittling his son, Steve, for not coming in 1st place in any sport. When Steve teams up with Roger and beats Stan's team in a football game, Stan takes the loss so badly that he almost commits suicide, believing he would rather die than to live life with a loss on his record. Also played with in an episode where Stan goes with Francine to her high school reunion, happy that he's married to the homecoming queen. Francine points out that she only won by one vote, and the runner-up had gone on to be fat, unattractive, and miserable since (she left the prom to eat at a Dunkin Donuts). But when the ballot box is shown, two uncounted votes for the runner-up are discovered. Francine happily gives her tiara to her, while Stan is unhappy to learn that he didn't marry the homecoming queen after all. The mother of Steve's Japanese friend Toshi, and his on-off-again romantic interest Akiko believes in this trope wholeheartedly, being a Tiger Mom Education Mama who relentlessly pressures her daughter to study and work on countless competitions. When Steve beats Akiko in a spelling bee, Steve ends up forfeiting the win to her when he sees her mother openly berate her and promising to be even stricter from now on. Strangely, this ONLY applies to Akiko, as the mother is never seen doing much parenting with Toshi. |
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In Ash and Serena's Atomic Odyssey, Serena's rival in Pokémon Contests, Sayaka, states that "Runner-up is only a fancy way of saying loser". | |
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The Misfits from Jem were the number one band in America until Jem and the Holograms came along. Even then, they're just barely in second place. Despite this, they absolutely hate being second and are frequently trying to dethrone Jem's band (usually by violence or other improper means). When it comes to their lead singer Pizzazz, this is related to her Freudian Excuse. Her mother abandoned her and her father when she was young and her father was very distant and preferred to throw presents at her rather than spend time with her. She came to crave attention and uses her fans as a substitute for it. Pizzazz wants to be the number one band and won't take second place. In one episode The Misfits lost a contest with the Holograms where the objective was to sell more records, losing by one sale. Stormer even reminded her two friends that they had managed to sell a million albums (the equivalent of a platinum) but Pizzazz was still furious. | |
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Played with in The Wild One: one of Johnny's gang steals the second-place trophy from a local motorcycle race and gives it to him; Johnny complains, "Why didn't you steal first?" "It was too big." Johnny displays the trophy prominently on his bike. | |
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In Bakuman。 Mashiro and Takagi are crushed to learn that they got third place with "The World is All About Money And Intelligence," (losing to Eiji and someone else) even though it surpasses all their previous efforts since it means they will not be able to submit it for serialization. Otherwise, this trope is largely averted with a few exceptions (mainly Iwase), as when the main characters are starting out and want to get up past ninth place, Miura tells them that rather than try desperate tactics to go up, they should maintain their ranking, as anything above 10th place will not come up for cancellation. | |
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Batman Beyond: In "Hidden Agenda", after scoring second-highest on an exam, one character was told by his mother "that would make you the winning loser." Said boy then strikes a vendetta against the top scorer, who happens to be Batman's best friend. To point out how ridiculously high the standards of the guy's mom were, he got 2391 out of 2400. The only person above him got a perfect score. | |
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On The Big Leap, Tanya Lovewell taught her children that second place is for poor people, and we see in a flashback that she intentionally taunted them by going through an ice cream drive through and refusing to get them anything as punishment. | |
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In one mission in Elite Beat Agents, you are trying to get a runner with a cold back to health in order to win the big race. Depending on how well you do, he reacts with roughly equal enthusiasm to winning Gold or Silver but is very distraught to have only won 3rd, even if that is pretty good for someone who just got over a cold. | |
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In the Smallville episode "Hothead", football coach Walt Arnold has this mentality and cannot tolerate losing. When he gains Playing with Fire abilities, he demonstrates them to his team and threatens to kill them if they ever lose, until he gets stopped by Clark Kent. | |
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Played with on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Bashir was second in his class, and outwardly kicked himself for the simple blunder on the test that caused him to be such. However, he reveals shortly that's it's part of how he comes on to girls. Plus after the Retcon about his "enhancements," it may be that he deliberately made the mistake as to keep his cover. Even before the reveal, its lampshaded that a preganglionic fiber and a postganglionic nerve are nothing alike and a student of his caliber couldn't have mistaken them, suggesting some motive or psychology for throwing the test. |
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Archer mocks Ray for winning bronze in Olympic Slalom, saying that he lost, while Ray argues that third in the world is hardly the same as losing. Then, when Archer walks away, he starts crying, admitting it was a huge disappointment. | |
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Cars: Subverted in the first film, where Lightning McQueen doesn't get first place Because he stopped short of the finish line and reversed to help an injured King cross it for his final race, allowing Chick Hicks, who had caused King to be injured, to cross first. Despite this, McQueen is still offered the chance to be Dinoco's spokescar, because in the owner's own words, "There's more to racing than just winning". | |
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Precocious: Check out the trophy stand and alt-text in this comic — poor, poor Roddy. | |
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A Downfall parody video showing World of Warcraft guild SK Gaming reacting to their rival Nihilum getting the World First defeat of the Eredar Twins in Sunwell Plateau has Hitler/bds yelling "Shut up Mackelina you faggot! Second place is for fucking losers". | |
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In The Karate Kid Part II, Johnny Lawrence, the Cobra Kai bully from the first film, seemed to be okay with his 2nd place trophy, but Sensei Kreese wasn't. In fact, Kreese smashes the trophy and physically attacks his student so viciously that Mr. Miyagi has to step in and teach him some manners. | |
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A slogan which appears on various T-shirts, and may have been adapted for Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. | |
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In Star Trek: Balance of Power, an auction is selling off a well-known inventor's works to the highest bidder. The coveted lot is a Wave-Motion Gun, with the Federation, Klingon, Romulan, and Cardassian governments all bidding on it. The auctioneer invokes a rule that requires the second-highest bid to pay up as well, without getting anything in return. This works to drive up the price of the item. Picard (representing the Federation) and Worf (representing the Klingons) agree to pool their latinum into a single high bid to overcome the Cardassian bid, resulting in the Cardassian representative being forced to fork over a lot of latinum for nothing. But then the photon pulse cannon turns out to be a dud. Luckily, they come up with a way to screw over the Cardassians yet again by having a Ferengi "steal" the plans for the cannon and sell it to the same Cardassian representative. | |
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In one ad for a home version of Time Crisis, a trophy-shaped tombstone is shown and says, "Sorry loser, this ain't like a race. Here's your reward for second place." | |
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It's a theme in the second season of Sports Night. An athlete sets a new world record during a long jump competition; five minutes later, another athlete breaks this new record and wins the gold. Dan tells his therapist that no one will ever remember the first guy because he lost. | |
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Happens in Paradise Kiss. While the other members take it better, winning the second prize in the School Festival contest is the catalyst that sends George into a life crisis, believing he can't connect with the public (and thus achieve success as a fashion designer) without compromising his personal artistic vision. Yukari also takes it rather dramatically. Angst ensues, they break up. It's not the only reason, but it sure creates a lot of drama. | |
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On Glee, it's usually considered a failure if a show choir does not come in first place at Nationals. It doesn't matter how highly they did place, or that competition is not the focus of show choir; if they don't place at the very top, they might as well be at the bottom. Season One and Season Five at least justify this by stating that the school is only willing to fund them if they demonstrate enough success to encourage alumni donations to the school. | |
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An ad for NBC show Go On featured gymnast Shawn Johnson being brought to the support group and asked to talk about losing, having "lost" by getting three silver medals. Johnson herself is portrayed in the commercial as falling into this trope, insisting "I won" based only on her gold medal. | |
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At the end of Pokémon Red and Blue, Professor Oak gives Blue a speech on how disappointed he is in him, and how he needs to learn to treat Pokémon well like Red does, almost completely ignoring how Blue's methods got him past all the gyms and the Elite Four, and he'd still be Kanto's champion if Red hadn't shown up. Given that Blue is a complete asshole who lost to Red every time they met, there's definitely something wrong with both his technique and him as a person. | |
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Taken to the extreme in Peanuts whenever Charlie Brown comes second... You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown shows Charlie Brown coming in second in the spelling bee and the rest of the kids giving him hell for it. In A Boy Named Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown makes it to the National Spelling Bee Championship (having won the State one) and comes second, only for everyone to see him as a miserable failure. However, this is a rather bizarre conclusion considering that, while misspelling a relatively easy word like "beagle" is embarrassing (especially when his pet Snoopy is one), the fact remains that Charlie Brown beat almost everyone else in the entire country. Surely that should count for something? |
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Normally averted on RuPaul's Drag Race, where simply appearing on the show is enough to grant a Drag Queen superstar status in the gay community and nightclub circuit. However, Season 4 runner-up Chad Michaels did little to hide her disappointment at losing to Sharon Needles. When Chad reappeared on All Stars, she joked that Sharon was "borrowing" her crown and the other queens commented that she seemed to be still sore about losing. She would go on to win the All Stars season, but a conspiracy theory is that RuPaul only conceived of it in the first place as a Consolation Prize for Chad. Season 5 runner-up Alaska Thunderfuck had a very similar attitude about losing the crown to Jinkx Monsoon. When she went on to win All Stars 2, it was considered by fans to be just as much of a consolation prize as All Stars 1 was for Chad. Queens in later seasons have been much more gracious about their placement, for the most part (their fans on the other hand...). |
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In Power Rangers Ninja Steel, resident egotistical Jerk Jock Victor Vincent loses his title as the school's tennis champion in "Abrakadanger". Subverted in that it's his sidekick Monty who is dismayed that "You came in last", while Victor, though still annoyed at his loss (since winning would have earned him his fiftieth trophy), accepts the ribbon and reminds Monty that "It says second". | |
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Boy Meets World: Corey is excited to receive a coming-of-age birthday gift from his father, and is angry to learn that it's a necklace instead of the cool hunting knife his older brother got. He isn't pacified to learn that it's the second-place prize his father won for boxing (since there are only two men in the ring, second place for any given match is literally the loser). Eventually, his father explains that it wasn't for a single match; he won second place in a tournament and had to beat out several other men to get there, and Corey warms up to the gift. | |
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From Mario Kart: Double Dash!! until Mario Kart 7, it was absolutely necessary to win gold trophies in Grand Prix mode if one wanted to unlock new characters, karts, and cups (though since 7 forgoes pre-built karts for customizable karts, unlocking all but three parts comes down to collecting a certain amount of coins, a system that continues in Mario Kart 8). Mario Kart 8 averts this, though, as placing anywhere between 1st-3rd will unlock a random character, as well as unlocking cups and mirror mode (update 4.2, though, makes mirror mode a default engine class). | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Mrs. Reid holds this against Shania when the latter ranks 8th out of a 100 people for the Ouroburos test. She dismisses Shania's happiness towards the success by saying it's no better being dead last, then rubs it in that every Reid before her made the main team and that Titania could have done so easily if she were alive. | |
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The Racing Drones from Hot Wheels Accele Racers fall into this category due to them being made by the Accelerons as test drivers for the Racing Realms in order to test the Human drivers if they are worthy to inherit their knowledge. Gelorum broke away and took the entirety of the other Racing Drones with her on a crusade to beat the Racing Realms, claim the Accelechargers, and finally kill off the Accelerons. | |
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In R4: Ridge Racer Type 4, the first two races require a 3rd place finish or better, the next two require 2nd or better, and the final four require first-place finishes. In the races where you can qualify without getting first, doing so will result in some pretty upset comments from your crew. (Failing to qualify will just take you to a retry/quit screen with no commentary.) | |
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My Hero Academia: Endeavor is one of the greatest superheroes on Earth, beloved and feared in equal measure, but none of it is good enough for him because he's stuck in second place in official rankings to All Might. His obsession with getting out of second place leads to him being an absolutely horrible father and husband to his family, while also pushing himself past the breaking point, all in the name of glory. He gets his wish when All Might is forced into retirement after an especially grueling battle... and utterly hates it, knowing that he didn't properly earn first place and realizing that he was being a hero for all the wrong reasons (as well as how much everybody despises him because of it). | |
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Averted in Rush: James managed to fight his way to a high enough position to take the championship from Niki at the final race in Japan, but Niki (who suffered a massive crash that burned him alive midway through the season, and who later withdrew from the Japanese GP because he felt it was too dangerous) was just glad he was alive to try again next year and tells his wife Marlene he has no regrets about withdrawing from Japan. For what it's worth, Niki was defending champion, and would later get two more titles in real life. | |
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Touched on in Daria's Musical Episode, where Helen and Quinn have a Distant Duet about their similar drives to succeed in their chosen fields: | |
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Family Matters: Season 5's "Presumed Urkel" had a one-time antagonist by the name of Dexter Thornhill, who, over the years, was Steve Urkel's academic rival and always took second place in the science fair while Steve took first every year. Thornhill became so jealous of Steve over the years, he tried to get him expelled from Vanderbilt High School by framing him for blowing up the school science lab by tampering with his latest science project, a graffiti remover, by filling his beaker with explosive chemicals and turning up the Bunsen burner to the maximum point. Laura, who was still annoyed of Steve's constant calls for love at the time, agreed to defend him in Vanderbilt's student court, where she eventually outs Thornhill as the true culprit, upon which he himself is expelled and likely sent to juvie. | |
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The Top Gun line "No points for second best" is used in the Cheap Trick song "Mighty Wings." Which happens to be in the movie's soundtrack. | |
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An Archie Comics story in the 1970s had Reggie, Riverdale High's ace athlete, suffering a sprained ankle just before a decathlon competition against Central High. Archie is recruited to replace Reggie with the result of Archie coming in second and third, time after time, event after event. But this competition is judged on the points system. Dilton Doiley points out that Archie's constant second and third place finishes add up which gives Riverdale High the victory. Reggie—on crutches—is livid as Archie is hoisted on the shoulders of the school faculty in victory. | |
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First played straight, then gloriously subverted in Whip It. In Bliss' first game, the Lovable Loser Hurl Scouts celebrate with "We're Number Two!" after losing, but it's largely an ego defense against the fact that they haven't won a game in several years. In the championship game, the celebration is more true-to-form (and true-to-derby) in that the Hurl Scouts played themselves from Oh-for-three-years losers to second place in the entire league (of six teams). | |
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In an episode of Futurama, Bender enters Zoidberg in a pet show. When Zoidberg wins second place, Bender says the page quote — even though he cheated to get there. | |
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In Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, upon finishing a race, if your character takes 1st place, he or she (or it) will be happy and excited. Taking any other position, however, including 2nd, will have them look disappointed and depressed. Contrast this to the Mario Kart series, where characters are pleased as long as they didn't place in the bottom half of the positions. | |
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The Witch of Knightcharm: This viewpoint is expressed by Ceranna Babineaux, who ironically is the second-ranked student in her evil Wizarding School. Ceranna was allowed to select two handpicked rookies to join a new class of student witches, but all the rookies are required to attempt a dangerous and potentially lethal obstacle course, and her handpicked choices only come in third and eighth on their first run through the course. Even though forty of the fifty rookies didn't finish at all, and even though the first and second students are both extremely powerful in their own right, Ceranna is infuriated that her students did as 'badly' as they did. By contrast, a rookie named LaTasha explicitly rejects this trope and says that all she cares about is surviving the school's cruel tests. Beyond that, she couldn't care less if she comes in second or even last. |
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For the Musketeer in Darkest Dungeon, this is her greatest failure. During one fateful sharpshooting competition, as she was lining up her shot she suddenly catches a glimpse of an eldritch eye on her mark, causing her to miss the shot, putting her on second place. Her motivation on joining the Hamlet was to find what that eye was, and one of her Crimson Court trinket is the second place trophy, which in her comic she seems to have discarded. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball shows Gumball's mother Nicole grew up to believe this trope was "first place for losers" by her overbearing and controlling parents, (besides telling her that being female is no excuse for getting an "F" in ''gender''). She is shown to shut off her parents' comments, though. | |
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An episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog had Katz attempting revenge on Muriel because he always came in second to her in Nowhere's cooking contests. | |
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Reign of the Seven Spellblades: Played for Laughs when Vera Miligan loses the election for Student Council President in a surprise upset. She really wanted to be Kimberly's first pro-Inhumanable Alien Rights Student Council President, and is first shocked into silence, then drinks herself unconscious. Tim Linton appoints her as one of his councilors and even has the council take on most of the debts she ran up during the campaign, but she really wanted the top job. She's gotten over it by the start of the next school year, though. | |
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In Gattaca, this trope is the reason Jerome's in the wheelchair in the first place. He tried to kill himself by stepping out into traffic because he got second place in a high-level swimming competition. It's implied that he couldn't deal with not coming in first because of the movie's society maintaining that those with superior genes (like Jerome's) are supposed to be perfect. | |
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Dylan Chu's father in Akeelah and the Bee makes it clear that to him, getting 2nd for the 3rd time in this spelling bee will make him "2nd your whole life!" | |
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In Tales of Graces, this is what prompted Hubert to grow from whiny crybaby to freaking general badass. | |
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Saber Tooth's guild master in Fairy Tail believes this to the point that the guild model is effectively "To be the strongest". To drive the point home, he expels anyone who loses during the Grand Magic Games in the most humiliating way possible. | |
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Subverted in The Incredibles at the end, when Dash (who has Super-Speed and could win extremely easily) deliberately takes second place in a race to maintain the masquerade. Dash is more interested in the socialization than the actual race. | |
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According to Acts of Gord (an early 2000s website where a video game retailer posted stories of annoying or ignorant customers), he had a video game tournament for Tekken 2 where this was invoked: | |
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Famously subverted in Rocky, where the film wasn't about Rocky winning, but showing that he was able to go the distance in a boxing match against World Heavyweight Champion Apollo Creed despite what everyone believed. although the sequels tilt toward it. | |
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In Nouvelle Soma, despite coming in second place overall in the Autumn Election, is shown privately kicking himself over his loss, partly motivated by the fact that he was determined to become the best out of all the first years. He also notes that strictly speaking it was partly as much a matter of luck in who was paired up with who in the matches that allowed him to go this far; had he been against Akira (who was the winner of the Autumn Election) right from the start he probably would have been "merely" fifth place alongside all the others who lost their first matches. | |
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This is the primary motivation for Eddie Felson throughout The Hustler (1961) — it's not enough that he's already a great pool player, he must defeat Minnesota Fats and have Fats acknowledge him as the best. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: This is Rainbow Dash's general attitude, considering her cutie mark appeared when she was winning her first race. She does get better about losing in later episodes, but in early ones, if she doesn't get anything less than first place, expect her to mope about it. In "Wonderbolts Academy", Rainbow Dash meets a fellow pegasus who believes this even more than she does... leading to the episode casting her as the voice of reason by comparison. Outright subverted during the running of the leaves. Twilight is extremely proud of herself for coming in 5th place, which is highly respectable considering it's her first race ever. Even the competitive Applejack and Rainbow Dash don't berate her for it; they're too busy moping about tying... for dead last. Rarity was traumatized as a filly when the go-kart she designed for the Applewood Derby got second place for creative design, though the fact that she lost to Derpy's go-kart which looked like a bunch of planks nailed together probably didn't help. Years later as an adult mare the memory of her loss still drives her to bitter tears. |
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Ayaka, the protagonist of Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl, considers being second in the exams the ultimate dishonor and will work herself to death to repair this anomaly. Even when the n°1 is The Ace and almost had the maximum score minus 2 points. Yurine wishes nothing more than for Ayaka to best her though, and falls in love with her partly for this reason. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: This is Seto Kaiba's outlook on life. He lost his Duel Monsters Champion title to Yugi and he didn't manage to defeat Yugi in a fair duel in the Duelist Kingdom. He creates the Battle City tournament to gather all Egyptian God Cards and to defeat Yugi in his tournament. However, Kaiba loses to Yugi in the semi-finals, so after the end of the Battle City, Kaiba blows up Alcatraz and the whole island to. After Battle City, Kaiba loses his goal of becoming number one in favor of focusing on his Kaiba Land project, but defeating Yugi still remains a symbolic goal in his eye, proven by the way he blows his top in the DOMA Arc (anime only) when he finds out his rival has lost to Rafael. | |
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In Memoirs of a Master:, Oogway turned down Tai Lung as the Dragon Warrior, but he was planning to dub him Master of the Thousand Scrolls instead for his unprecedented feat mastering them. However, when Tai Lung began his rampage, it was obvious he would not have settled for that. | |
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Katamari Damacy: Royal Second Cousin Miki is stated to always try to at least make the top three but tends to end up around sixth place. Also featured in the story of We Love Katamari. As a child, The King of All Cosmos took second place in a boxing tournament - while walking home, his father pitches the silver trophy in the river to the King's dismay. Later, the King and his father get in a fight - when the King goes to apologize, he sees his father looking at the silver trophy, and realises that his father must have fished it out of the river. This may also explain the King's attitude towards the player if he turns in a small katamari. |
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Eduardo from Eddsworld takes this philosophy to heart, though it’s eventually revealed that it’s due to constant bullying as a kid due to coming in second place in an art contest. | |
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Notably averted on The Amazing Race, where second place teams rarely ever take it badly. Of course, there is the occasional racer like Boston Rob who accuses the producers of fixing the race against him. But then, considering what other reality show he finished second on... When Reality TV contestants go on a show after they get kicked off/voted out etc. (like doing an appearance on David Letterman or Today) they'll have all of the losing contestants...until the Grand Finale where the winner is announced. Then they'll only have the winner on, never mind the 2nd place (and possibly 3rd & 4th) who were established during the same show. |
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Thoroughly subverted in Surf's Up. Big Z humorously calls Cody a "loser" because he didn't come in first, and Chicken Joe is shocked he won — he was just having fun and it isn't clear he even knew he was in a contest. During the entire film, all of the interviewed characters say that loser is as loser does, regardless of whether they come in first or not — save Tank of course. | |
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In Pokémon: The Series, one league contender believes hard in this — Guzma in Sun and Moon (as Plumeria finds out seeing dozens of broken second place trophies and silver medals in his room), which may explain why he broke off from his apprenticeship with Hala and formed Team Skull. | |
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In one The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes, Brianna gets the second-most-important role of Wendy in a school production of Peter Pan, but isn't satisfied because she didn't get the title role. | |
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In Survivor, Russell Hantz won second place in Samoa, then third in Heroes vs. Villains. After Samoa, he acted like he was slapped in the face and practically murdered when he came in second out of twenty people, then third out of twenty people, all of which were former players and several of which were considered the best. however when he won the Sprint player of the year award, he immediately begun the typical Victory dance in Heroes vs. Villains. | |
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Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race: This is the motivation behind the Ice Dancers becoming the villains for the season. They've won first place in every ice dancing competition they've ever entered, except for the Olympics, where they came in second. The first few legs of the race, they always come second, never first, never lower, and it gradually drives Josee to madness. Even when they start winning, it's not enough to shake them out of that mentality. | |
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Averted in Fired Up!, in which a perpetually losing squad ends up nineteenth in a tournament, but the captain feels it's an accomplishment because it's ten places better than the previous year. | |
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Kaiba's Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds expy Jack Atlas gets hit with this hard in his duels with Yusei Fudo. When their first Riding Duel gets interrupted by the Crimson Dragon crashing the final play, Jack sees a video recording of their cards and is shocked to learn that Yusei would've won the duel, sending him into a funk until he gets the chance for a rematch in the Fortune Cup. This duel ends with Yusei winning; once Jack loses his champion status, his fanbase almost completely disappears. On the plus side, this teaches Jack a hard lesson about the fickle nature of fame and the need to stick with one's true friends. | |
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In the Harvest Moon (Story of Seasons) and Rune Factory series, winning a contest gets you high praise and affection from the other villagers. Don't win, even finishing in second, and everyone (even your spouse, if present) reacts with the same "You lost? You suck!" manner, whether it was second place or dead last, and lament your poor showing. | |
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In the Hey Arnold! episode "Grand Prix", Arnold's team takes second place behind the team of Helga and Phoebe. Eugene, who drove the second half of the race, is excited to have take second and finished in a kart that was falling apart, but teammate Stinky complains that they didn't win. | |
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Vegeta's primary story arc throughout Dragon Ball Z is that he hates being Always Second Best to Goku in power; in his view, Goku is a lower-class Saiyan, born at the absolute bottom of the pecking order, and thus should be a nobody while he's the Saiyan prince and should be the strongest by default. It all reaches a head in the Buu Saga, where he sells his soul to Babidi for the sake of becoming stronger than Goku, and during the subsequent fight, he goes off on a furious rant about how Goku's very existence is an insult to his honor and how he's done being second to him. | |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games: Crystal Prep has this mentality, with Cinch encouraging it to keep the school's spotless winning streak intact. After she realizes CHS has access to magic, she pressures Human Twilight into using the magic she collected to even the odds, which has disastrous consequences. | |
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Invoked in Eyeshield 21. It's made clear that many of the teams have players who are on their last chance to make it to the finals, and none of them are content with being 2nd. | |
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Miranda Frost in Die Another Day betrayed her country solely because she got a silver medal in the Olympics, and the villain of the movie offered to make it look like the gold winner cheated. | |
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