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"The tall poppy gets cut down" is an aphorism used in much of The Commonwealth of Nations to describe resentment of those whose accomplishments elevate them in prominence above their peers. Tall Poppy Syndrome is when a character or characters act to achieve parity with another character who is presented or perceived as "better" not by improving themselves but by bringing the other guy down to their level. This may be through insults, sabotage, or other means. Common in social ghettos and other places where institutionalized categorism (e.g., racism) results in aggressive and internalized categorism, with people of a certain category (e.g., race, ethnicity, class, caste, gender, sexual orientation, species, mutant, etc.) believing—even on a subconscious level—that they are inferior and should act in a certain way, and hence pull down and demean anyone who manages to (or even aspires to) act differently, rise to greatness, or escape the social ghetto. The term comes from a story about Tarquin, last king of ancient Rome. Tarquin's son Sextus had captured a city, and asked his father how he should rule the place. Rather than reply, Tarquin drew his sword and sliced the heads off the tallest poppies in his garden. Sextus took this to mean the most prominent men should be put to death, so he had the local leaders rounded up and executed. The idea, however, is even older: Herodotus describes Thrasybulus, the tyrant of Miletus, doing the same thing in a grain field as advice to Periander, who had just seized power in Corinth. Though the wording remained the same, over time the expression gradually evolved to mean it was bad to stand out in general, and not just because some power-hungry dictator might kill you. The idea became that one shouldn't think they're better than their peers just because they've accomplished something. In practice, this can run the gamut from being a reasonable warning against arrogance to being toxic and tearing down others' accomplishments out of resentment. This attitude is present to some degree in many of the world's cultures, to the extent it could be considered a generally human trait, and is particularly prevalent in collectivist and hierarchical societies. Specific cultural examples include the Japanese proverb Deru kugi wa utareru — "The nail that sticks out gets hammered down," which not only refers to success or ambition, but to anyone who fails to conform to uniform standards. This proverb was imported into English as a calque, sometimes with the additional adjective "the proud nail." There's the Scandinavian concept of Janteloven ("the Law of Jante"; see in Literature below) and the Dutch proverb boven het maaiveld uitsteken, "standing above the level at which the field is mowed." In Chinese, "The tall bird must be shot at." In Korean, "An angular stone is bound to be chiselled." A Russian proverb is, "Вот радоÑ�Ñ‚ÑŒ — у Ñ�оÑ�еда корова Ñ�дохла" (Vot radost' — u soseda korova sdokhla "What joy — the neighbor's cow has died"), although that is more akin to the phrase, "Misery loves company" — collective misery being prized more than individual happiness. Tall Poppy Syndrome is a major reason for someone to engage in Obfuscating Stupidity, Obfuscating Disability, or Deliberate Under-Performance. Compare Do Well, But Not Perfect, The Complainer Is Always Wrong, and Too Qualified to Apply. A common Freudian Excuse for The Un-Favourite. Contrast The Social Darwinist ("because I'm tall, I can do whatever I want to the short poppies"), Bullying a Dragon (where trying to cut a tall poppy will have dire consequences), and Beware the Superman (where a poppy getting too tall really does endanger others). You're Just Jealous is when somebody thinks this trope is in play, but their critic actually has a valid point. The Paragon actively tries to avoid this trope by bringing others up to their level, rather than letting themself get pushed down. Contrast also the aphorism "the squeaky wheel gets the grease". See also Ambition Is Evil; Enemy Mine; It's Popular, Now It Sucks!; and Enemies Equals Greatness (where having enemies is a status symbol of some kind). This is one of The Perils of Being the Best. Offended by an Inferior's Success is like this trope but with a character being resented by someone of higher rather than equal status. |
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Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger: The Empire of the Seven Stars can give near-eternal life, a near-endless supply of energy and resources, and a general end to poverty. But even if you give everyone "a magic box that provides anything you can think of", there will always be those who embrace dystopia with them at the top and the poppies at the bottom frequently snipped, or those who envy the relatively-prosperous past of their neighbors and would foolishly ruin themselves just to destroy their neighbors' boxes, homes, and lives. After the protagonist gave replication technology to a planet on the brink of the apocalypse, the Oligarchy 'freaked' and tried to regulate replicator technology with military force to prevent them from losing control of their hierarchy to the most artistic of peasants, despite the obvious utopian profits for everyone involved. Naturally, they got usurped by the resistance and their mass-produced replicator weapons. And unfortunately for everyone, the Sho'faxti, a religious terrorist nation plagued with famine and civil unrest, refused to use a single replicator to feed their starving nation in favor of churning out weapons and hacking devices to achieve the revenge on the rest of the 'prosperous' world, performing a Colony Drop which killed billions and caused the rest of the world to respond in kind before they could go even further. The lesson here is that an egalitarian utopia is impossible because the past is a record of how tall you grew before everyone could became equal, and thus constantly used as an excuse for everyone to get snipped (oligarchs getting less snipped than others, but still stupidly snipping themselves), but that also means you should try to let the past go and live better than you did before. | |
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On websites that show a user's karma score, such as Reddit, users with high karma often attract hatedoms just for having high karma. | |
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In RWBY, Ruby got chosen as the leader of Team RWBY. This greatly upsets Weiss, who in class next day tries to talk one of the teachers into making her the leader and demoting Ruby. Said teacher called out on her spoiled brat attitude and told her to be the best member a leader could ever have instead. She takes this lecture to heart and apologizes to Ruby later that night. | |
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Dennis from Double Homework tries to beat the protagonist at the dating game not by improving his own sex appeal, but by undercutting the protagonist’s. | |
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"The Trees" by Rush is this trope by way of Ayn Rand, although lyricist Neil Peart claims the song wasn't intended to have a political interpretation. | |
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Cracked's article "The Crazy Sociology Experiment Buried in a Russian Game Show" notes that, in the Russian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, contestants "quickly became wary of asking the audience anything, because they'd almost always give the wrong answer." The theory is that the Russian audiences were deliberately sabotaging the contestants, to prevent them from rising above their peers. | |
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It's also common in WWE for a wrestler who manages to get popular with the crowd when Vince McMahon doesn't want this to happen (either because he wants them to be a Heel or because he doesn't see them as main event material even though the audience clearly does) to get punished with humiliating angles and/or gimmick changes, or just forced to lose a lot in hopes that fans will stop cheering them. In rare instances a wrestler is just so popular that Vince has no choice but to give them the push that fans are demanding. But most of the time...just look what was done to Rusev and Lana. | |
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Carly Colon, who was nearly an overnight success in WWC, was hit by a case of this notable enough to get a newspaper article on the subject when he got a WWE developmental deal. Granted, that paper was The Sun and he's long since become popular again. | |
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If you're one of the "lesser" evils (i.e., fiends), so to speak, in Dungeons & Dragons, everybody above you keeps bullying you just for kicks (and everyone below you keeps trying to take your job). The top-level guys have no one looking down on them, at least not honestly (as archdevils and demon lords often don't think much of each other, but they're on more or less equal footing) but on the other hand, they're surrounded by legions of Starscreams... | |
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Weak Hero: Stephen is relentlessly excellent at anything that he puts his mind to. This causes a sense of resentment not only in his homeroom teacher- who doesn't like the busywork his pro-activism causes- but in his fellow students who mock him for acting like a saint. This leads to Stephen being bullied by his peers, which then culminates in him being thrown off the school roof and put in a coma indefinitely, which is the incident that broke the protagonist. Jeongmu's own lack of talent leads him to seek those who do have it just to destroy all of their hard work. If he can't climb to where others are, then he'll just drag them back down to his level. Gerard proving himself to be a superior fighter causes Jeongmu to become obsessed with ruining his life. |
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Straight from the Gospels, and thus Older Than Feudalism: No man is a prophet in his own land (on how Jesus Himself is panned in his own home village, Nazareth, when he tries to deliver His message). This trope is pretty much Word of God, for some. | |
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One of the reasons the Gunnerkrigg Court hates magic so much is because of petty jealousy. A few beings are gifted with supernatural talents others do not have, which most of the Court feels is unfair. One of the conditions to make it into the Court's inner ranks is to give up or stop using any etheric talents one may possess so as to avoid hurting the feelings of their other members. Their ultimate goal is to "free" humanity from the "tyranny of the ether". | |
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Another joke: A man sits in his room and complains about his bad life. Then, an angel appears and tells him: "God cares about you, so He decided you get one wish - but whatever you wish for, your neighbor will get twice of it!" The man thinks about it: "So if I wish for a house, he'll get two? If I wish for a million dollars, he'll get two?" The angel nods. Then the man states: "I want to be blind in one eye!" The angel leaves weeping. A more subtly spiteful joke has the protagonist use his only or third wish to donate a kidney. Other common variants include the man wishing to "be beaten half-dead", to have half his property be destroyed or to have a "mild heart attack". Similarly, this one from the Soviet Union: A man is visited by a genie, who offers to grant him a wish. The man responds that his neighbor has a cow, but he himself has no cow. The genie asks if the man wants a cow of his own too. The man says no, that he wants his neighbor's cow to die. |
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The Onion: "Friends Don't Understand How Man Not Depressed". | |
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On Taskmaster series 13, Ardal O'Hanlon will become overly and pedantically critical of the other contestants attempts at a task whenever he knows that he did poorly on it by comparison. He does it often enough that Alex actually calls him out on it on Episode 4, after he heavily criticizes Chris Ramsey and Sophie Duker's "stirring speeches for the Taskmaster". | |
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On an early episode of Game Grumps, Arin complained of Jon's ability to figure out how to play Nickelodeon's Guts videogame. Arin got legitimately mad at Jon for knowing how to play the gamenote timing button presses to throw a ball into a net while jumping while he himself couldn't get the timing down and demanded he be told how to play better so as for it to be fair, despite the fact they both went into the game with the same level of knowledge of how to play (i.e., none). | |
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This is one of the dangers in Diplomacy. Anyone who seems to be in a position of power has just painted a target on their back - and, paradoxically, reduced their own chance of winning; since an attack must be supported by another player to succeed, the person in the lead may find it hard to convince others to assist them, since that would just extend their lead. | |
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In The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, the Memetic Badass status of Chuck Norris backfires on him. After he effortlessly takes out both Indiana Jones and Batman, an entire armynote Specifically: Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White and Monty Python and the Holy Grail's Black Knight and Benito Mussolini and The Blue Meanie and Cowboy Curtis and Jambi the Genie, RoboCop, The Terminator, Captain Kirk, and Darth Vader, Lo-Pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger, Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan, Spock, The Rock, Doc Ock, and Hulk Hogan immediately gathers just to get him out of the way. | |
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One of the major themes of The Incredibles: This idea is discussed in regards to superheroes being forced to give up their crimefighting activities and live as normal people. Originally this was because of a series of lawsuits due to injuries and destruction the heroes caused and increasing public outrage and mistrust of supers in general; years later, this means Dash isn't allowed to participate in sports because he'd be too good with his Speedster powers (and too competitive to not use them), as well as potentially exposing him and his family as supers. The villain, Syndrome, wants to make all of his "superhero" inventions and weapons available to the public so that "when everyone's super, no one will be". Syndrome's philosophy is actually the antithesis of this trope — raising everyone else so the people who naturally excel are average. Not a bad idea in principle, but there are three major problems with his implementation: Syndrome is motivated by megalomania and revenge, and his fondness for dangerous weapons means that "making everyone super" could result in catastrophic destruction. He's murdered dozens of superheroes in the process of improving one of these weapons, the Omnidroid, so it will be powerful enough to kill Mr. Incredible; the focus of his revenge and - from what we're shown - one of the best superheroes in the world. He explicitly states that he's only going to hand out all of his advanced technology after he's "grown old and had [his] fun", meaning that he's going to be more special than everyone else until he decides to retire. Dash meanwhile is ultimately allowed to join the Track team, but is forced to limit himself to a "close second". The chance to do something and get a little glory without exposing his powers is more than enough for him, and he seems happy. |
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Atmosfear: In certain scenarios the player who is winning can end up banished, with the comment "Nobody likes a showoff!" | |
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Kendrick Lamar is heavily aware of this trope and frequently addresses it in his music. He became a critical darling among the Alternative/Conscious Hip Hop scene in large part due to his self-awareness of his place within music culture, as well as his ability to translate the views it allows for to make thoughtful dissections of larger cultural and political implications in his later art. From as early as 2015's To Pimp a Butterfly (his first major album after his Breakthrough Hit good kid, m.A.A.d city), The Perils of Being the Best were already starting to hit Kendrick, with TPAB and later albums frequently discussing his insecurities of being hailed as a champion of the artform and perhaps society at large, coming to terms with both the rising praise and the expectant backlash that comes with being a big artist. His 2022 album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, is effectively his confession that he's exhausted of being hailed as a savior representative of perfection and hope, and ultimately wants to just be the normal, flawed, but decent man that he is, transparently admitting that to be himself, he has to choose himself over his audiences. | |
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Homestar Runner: Marzipan's 'pre-school' in a Strong Bad Email about coloring that makes fun of this trope. Marzipan gives Homestar, Strong Mad, and Homsar crayons that don't actually color, "so that no one Life Blossom shines brighter than any other". | |
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Ars Magica: House Mercere is unique in Magical Society that most of its members aren't magi, but Muggles or people with lesser supernatural talents. Mercere magi are expected to put their House before themselves and are shamed if they seem to be flaunting their gifts — in some cases, even by casting a vote at Tribunal (as un-Gifted Mercere act as Team Switzerland) or by using too much magic in public. | |
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