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Taking a dive. Fixing the match. Intentionally losing a sporting event, usually for monetary gain. You coulda been a contender, but instead, your ass goes down in the fifth. A nice fun intersection between the world of professional sports and the world of organized crime. People who take a dive may be doing so entirely for the paycheck, but they also may be getting their arms twisted by The Mafia with threats of physical harm, either to themselves or to a loved one. In that case, it's not uncommon to see the athlete back out of the deal, thus making them some powerful enemies (and sometimes not escaping them). In Real Life, those who get caught doing this can suffer some serious repercussions, most notably during the Black Sox scandal of 1919. However, this is one trope that is Defied more often than it's played straight. Our hero decides that he's not going to be anyone's Unwitting Pawn anymore, that the Only in It for the Money is no longer worth the loss of dignity. This of course costs a lot of dangerous people a lot of money, which they're not likely to be very happy about. See also Fixing the Game and Deliberate Under-Performance. Many of these ploys qualify as a Failure Gambit, though rarely sympathetically. Sometimes when Sparing the Final Mook, a hero may tell the mook to do this as part of the act. Contrast Going Home Again, when the character makes it to the big leagues, genuinely flunks, and then returns home to reconnect with their roots. |
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In Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony, Luis is told to take a dive in an underground fight club in order to pay off a debt his mother owes. If you take this option, your mother berates you for being a loser even though you did it to protect her and the only reason she's in debt is that she borrows from a local thug and won't accept your money. | |
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Wonder Woman (1942): Josh Slicker tries to pay Rita to lose a race, and when she refuses he pays most of the other drivers to run into her causing a collision that would have killed multiple audience members had Wonder Woman not intervened. | |
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There was a scandal in the StarCraft: Brood War leagues in 2010 where a number of players, including the previously dominant Savior, were found to have deliberately lost matches for money. | |
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In the climax of the second book of The Witchlands the pirate queen Safi duels throws the fight in exchange for a future favour from Safi. | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), Honey the Cat agrees to throw the fight so that Sonic can win the Chaos Emerald they need to save the world. However, they both agree to give the audience a show and go at it. | |
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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Will does this against a high school rival in a basketball tournament as he has a son and needs the attention of an NBA scout more than Will does. Said rival calls Will out on it after the game and they decide to settle it for real in a private one-on-one match. Though the audience doesn't see the outcome. | |
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In many scenarios in the PokéStar Studios movies in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, getting the good ending or the Gainax Ending requires losing on purpose, which isn't easy, especially with the rental Pokémon you have to use before you can use one of yours. | |
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Epic (2013): Toad Gangster Bufo tries to have Nod fed to something (preferably a snake) when he wins a race that they had previously agreed he would lose but is prevented from doing so by Ronin, who needs Nod's help. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts II, Setzer bribes Roxas to throw the 'underdog vs. champion' match in Twilight Town's Struggle competition. Winning caused Setzer to hand over the Champion's Belt effect+10% to all elemental resistances; throwing the match (there is no way in hell you can lose unintentionally) earns Roxas a Medal effect+1 to attack as 'thanks'. The fact that Roxas earns the plot-important Struggle Trophy following either cutscene implies that the match is purely for bragging rights, and Setzer wants to keep the title. | |
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In The Replacements (2000), Nigel "The Leg" Gruff has racked up significant debts and is told if he doesn't shank the game-tying field goal against Dallas, some mobsters will take his pub. Falco prevents Gruff from making the kick by pulling the ball away. Nigel's leg is broken as a result, but he thanks Falco for saving his life. | |
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A very sympathetic example appears in The Hammer. Jerry and Robert end up facing each other in the final matchup at the national Olympic tryouts, with the younger, faster Robert far ahead on points but, as a point of pride and honor, refusing to simply keep evading Jerry and run out the clock. This backfires pretty badly when Jerry manages to land several good, hard blows and sets him up for the knockout, but Jerry suddenly has a change of heart and decides that the younger man deserves the chance to compete at the Olympics more than he does. He pulls back his punch within an inch of his opponent's face and hugs him until the bell, letting Robert take the win on points. | |
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Toyed with in Copper. Local rich boy Robert Morehouse sponsors a boxing match between 'Irish' Jake McGinnis and black man Jasper Longfield. If 'Irish' Jake loses, best-case scenario only Jasper will be lynched; worst-case scenario there will be a massive riot that causes hundreds of deaths. Morehouse was assured that Jasper would follow the trope, but Jasper was in NO mood to take a dive. Lucky for all involved, Morehouse had a plan B. He has the ref lay Jasper out when it looks like 'Irish' Jake may not answer the bell. None of the white people in attendance bat an eye at the extremely obvious cheating: they all had money riding on Jake. The black people watching outside are all pissed, but, Civil War era New York City being Civil War era New York City, no one cares what they think. | |
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The Simpsons: The episode "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can" has Lisa competing in the "Spellympics", until the host, George Plimpton, asks her to take a dive in order for her competitor to win, promising her a free scholarship to any college (and a free George Plimpton hot plate) if she does. When Lisa is about to do it, Homer arrives to cheer her on, and she confesses she was told to take a dive- only to accidentally misspell the word. | |
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The movie Kickboxer ends with Kurt's brother Eric being kidnapped by Freddy Li's men in order to blackmail Kurt into throwing the fight with Tong Po. To save his brother's life, Kurt is instructed to go the distance with Po before losing the match. Kurt takes a hell of a beating, but when his friends get together and rescue Eric, he gains the second wind necessary to finally take Po down. | |
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On Parks and Recreation Leslie ends up throwing a Disaster Preparedness Drill. Leslie's nemesis has arranged for the drill to occur on the same day as an important fundraiser Leslie is organizing. He then sabotages her efforts so the drill will drag on for the rest of the day. Desperate, Leslie sabotages her own plans and the drill ends early with the majority of the (simulated) population of the town dead from an outbreak of bird flu. | |
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On the Waterfront: He coulda been a contender! Instead of a bum! You shoulda been lookin' out for him, Charlie! | |
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Clash of the Elements: During the final confrontation of Movie 1, Tabuu deliberately does this, as they see no reason to break Alex's spirit. In the What-If version, this is Averted: Tabuu refuses to listen to Alex and ultimately kills him. | |
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Scarface: The World Is Yours. Talk to the bouncer at the club. You'll learn he's working off a debt. He didn't refuse to throw a fight, he just forgot which fight he was supposed to throw. Perils of taking blows to the head... | |
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Jessie: Zuri Ross does this in "All the Knight Moves" when she feels bad for her opponent during the chess tournament and decides to let him beat her so he can use the trip to Paris to make amends with his family. | |
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During the Chunnin Exams in Naruto, Gaara was threatened by Tsuba and Midori of Kusagakure to take a dive in his fight with Sasuke. He refused. And killed them. | |
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In a Bronze Age story Supergirl investigates the case of a football player who has been beaten up and threatened by a group of gamblers to throw several games. Fearing for his and his girlfriend's safety, he agrees to it. | |
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One episode of Magnum, P.I. had a professional competition surfer (who was also of Magnum's ex-girlfriends) paid to "take a dive. Literally". | |
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In Guilty Gear, a number of characters (Jam most notably) had to throw fights to get different routes in Story mode. This made getting Dizzy's third ending in XX an absolute chore since she had to defeat Boss I-No on one try (if she lost, she got a different ending). | |
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In another infamous WCW example, at Bash at the Beach 2000 Jeff Jarrett laid down for Hulk Hogan to be pinned for the world championship. This was not the planned ending and Hogan was visibly upset & left the building with the championship belt. Meanwhile, Vince Russo (who had orchestrated the events) nullified the match, fired Hogan on air, and Jarrett & Booker T had the "real" championship bout. | |
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Green Arrow did this in one episode of Justice League to snap Wildcat to his senses. | |
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In the Ancienverse, Clemont, Alian and Mairin intentionally lose their Triple Battle against Serena, Dawn and Astrid. | |
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An interesting example in Sgt. Bilko, Master Sgt. Bilko in an attempt to fix a boxing match convinces one of the boxers to take a dive. Unfortunately, the errand boy gave the money to the wrong boxer, resulting in this boxer deciding to take a dive as well. Care to guess what happens? | |
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In a storyline in the Tenchi Muyo! manga series, the assistant for a popular restaurant owner and chef requests Sasami that she throw her match against the man's son, telling her that the man's been pressuring him to win three "Ferrous Chef" matches (think Iron Chef) and that this would be his third and the kid could finally be free. However, Sasami ends up refusing, saying that she wouldn't feel right if she didn't give her all. Others attempt to stop her in the process, but she ends up coming out on top. However, the boy's impressed with Sasami's cheerfulness over cooking and is determined to try again, impressing his father. | |
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Toya flat-out refuses to take a dive during a four-way Go match in Hikaru no Go, even though he's up against a rich Assemblyman who absolutely hates to lose and will likely cut funding if he does. But he goes further than that: Toya ties all four games, just to hammer home the gap between them. As one might expect, he gets his ass chewed out by his superiors when they find out. | |
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In Rocko's Modern Life, Ed Bighead is recruited to play a round of golf with his boss and is told to lose, flat out. Ed agrees and plays poorly - with the help of cannon-launched pianos. Unfortunately, Heffer is working at the golf course, has no idea that Ed has to lose and takes it upon himself to get Ed to win. | |
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In the musical Chess, Russian grandmaster Anatoly Sergievsky hurts the USSR in a chess International Showdown by Proxy by defecting, and so spends the second act being pressured to make up for it by throwing the World Chess Championship and returning to Moscow. In the original London version of the plot, he chooses to win anyway in an act of defiance, while in the Broadway rewrite, he chooses the opposite. | |
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In King of the Hill, Luanne becomes a boxer and gets a huge winning streak, but she and Hank eventually find out all her opponents were people Buck Strickland hired to take a dive because he didn't want her pretty face messed up. Angry that he didn't believe in her, she challenges Freeda Foreman to a match. Luanne lost but proved she was a true fighter. | |
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Implied to be the case with Doughnut Jimmy in Discworld, who used to be a jockey who "made a lot of money not winning races". | |
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Scott's strategy for winning Total Drama: Revenge of the Island is to make his team lose every challenge, forcing them into elimination ceremonies. He then manages to persuade his teammates to vote someone else off the island, usually by spreading false rumors or framing his intended victim. He also prioritizes finding the immunity idol so this won't backfire on him. He stops this in All Stars for obvious reasons. | |
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In Gundam Build Fighters Try, two of Shimon's teammates confront Team Try Fighters, begging them to throw the fight so that Shimon can win the tournament for his sickly-but-recovering brother Mamoru. This shakes the team's resolve, but ultimately Sekai doesn't budge and he and Shimon go into a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to see who would go on. | |
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First Try Series: Sasuke accuses Naruto of deliberately throwing their sparring fights by holding back too much. This isn't actually the case, but he refuses to believe Naruto's protests to the contrary. | |
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Save Your Legs!: Mark deliberately throws the cricket match against the toymakers after being promised a position in the Indian league if he does so. | |
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In Pokémon Sword and Shield, the Galar League had a scandal of this nature in the past. The death of Mustard's first Pokémon hit him hard, and he fell into a funk accentuated by loss after loss. The Chairman of the day offered to give him a rigged match to get him back in the spirit, but given what kind of man Mustard is, the thought offended him so severely that he retired on the spot. | |
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In Hot Shots!, a guy at a boxing match comments that both fighters are working for the same manager. One of them goes down after a single punch - which rather obviously didn't connect. | |
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Van Helsing (2016): In a flashback, Julius was a boxer who reluctantly took a dive for some gangsters who bet on his opponent, all to raise money for his ailing mother. Unfortunately, when he demanded his payment, the gangsters stabbed him in the stomach and left him to die instead. The vampire Dimitri, who found the endurance he displayed in the match impressive, then showed up and saved him by turning him into a vampire. | |
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Jamal Wallace in Finding Forrester misses a pair of free throws at the end of a game on purpose because he's tired of the way he's being treated by the administrators of his school. | |
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An involuntary variant is part of Ken's backstory in Knight Hunters — he was a J-League goalie and was drugged without his knowledge to fix a game, then blamed for throwing it. His efforts at finding out who was responsible ultimately led him to join Weiss. | |
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Kamen Rider Build: In his backstory, Banjo's prize fighter career ended because he threw a fight to get money to pay for treatment for his girlfriend. | |
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Family Ties: Alex is thrilled at the chance to play chess against a Soviet chess prodigy until he learns that his rival plans to throw the game so he can be allowed to return to Russia and live a quiet life away from the glare of the spotlight. Not wanting to see his opponent disgrace himself, Alex ends up trying to play a worse game than his opponent. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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In Marvel Versus DC, Wolverine defeated Lobo in a fight off-panel. Given at the time Wolverine didn't have his adamantium skeleton and only had bone claws, and Lobo has Superman-level strength and an insane Healing Factor, this seemed highly unlikely. Later, Lobo commented that some bald guy (likely Professor Xavier) bribed him into throwing the fight. | |
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On an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show Rob is the boxing champion of a small unit of the Army when he is scheduled to fight a man who later (in-show) became the world middleweight champion. Laura, worried about him being injured, tells him to fall down as soon he is hit: | |
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Some matches have been thrown during the events of the Bakuten Shoot Beyblade trilogy. The first is done by Rei in his match against Takao during the Japanese Tournament. Rei participated expecting no actual challenge and, indeed, he breezed through the tournament up until the second round against Takao. Takao beat him there. And needing nothing more than knowing there's still challenges for him out there, Rei walked away from the third round. The second thrown match was done by Steve, who had orders to stretch his battle against Takao during the American Finals so the PPB could gather data on him. Steve lost that match — it wasn't necessarily supposed to happen, but it did as a consequence of him holding back and the PPB were fine with it because they wrongly expected they'd win the rest. And the third thrown match was Kai's doing when he went up against Daichi during the tag team round-robin in the third season. He shot Dranzer out of the stadium, giving the BBA Revolution one point by default. The reason? He had been expecting to go up against Takao, but the latter was put on the bench. | |
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This has come back to bite him in the ass during an episode of their Let's Play Grand Theft Auto series. During their "Cops 'n Crooks" games in Grand Theft Auto IV, Gavin ends up screwing up many of Team Lads' (comprised of himself, Michael Jones, and Ray Narvaez Jr) attempts to stop Team Gents (comprised of Jack Pattillo, Geoff Ramsey, and Ryan Haywood) that, at the beginning of their "Cannonball Run" episode, Michael (temporarily) threw Gavin out of Team Lads. | |
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In Sonic Heroes, Team Rose's story implies (much more strongly in the Japanese script) that Team Sonic threw the fight against them so he could get away from her. This makes sense, as otherwise they'd have willingly tried to throw Cream, a 6-year-old child, off a skyscraper, which would be very Out of Character. (Of course, it's it's not reflected in gameplay, where Team Sonic won't hold back in their boss fight) | |
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One of the assassination targets in Saints Row: The Third has you (The Boss) put a permanent dive to a Luchador at the behest of your client for outright defying this trope. | |
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In Turnabout Storm Ace Swift, a star flyer, forced many of his competitors to do this by blackmailing them in some form or another with the help of his assistant Sonata. However, when he tried to use it on Rainbow Dash, she just spit in his face and told him where to stick his offer. | |
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In There Will Be Brawl, mob boss Dedede casually tells Little Mac that he's going down in the third round. | |
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500 Questions: Implied with Ken Jennings who was a contestant to begin Season 2 (almost certainly to draw in ratings). Jennings lasted only four questions, and it's been suspected that he took a dive due to Richard Mason, who won at the end of Season 1, not being invited back. | |
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Chrysalis (RinoZ): When caught up in divided loyalties, with her father on one side and the Colony on the other, Morrelia deliberately berserks forward into the ant lines and gets captured, so that the Colony will have leverage to make her father back down (since she loves her father but doesn't think the Colony deserves to die). | |
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In GTO: The Early Years, Eikichi is worried Minamino will actually kill or permanently maim Ryuji, so he digs up some dirt (namely, that Minamino is a lolicon) and blackmails him into losing to Ryuji. | |
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Porridge has an inter-wing boxing competition in the prison. Fletcher tries to convince Gobber to take a dive in the fifth round for Harry Grout. Problem is he's already agreed to throw the match in the fourth for a rival gangster. So they have to get the other guy to take a dive. In the end, only Fletcher bets on a tie and wins when both fighters fall down simultaneously. | |
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In The Milky Way everyone gets the mistaken impression that wimpy milkman Burleigh Sullivan knocked out boxing champion Speed McFarland on a public sidewalk (It Makes Sense in Context). In fact, Burleigh didn't punch Speed and has no boxing talent, but Speed's weaselly manager Gabby Sloan comes up with the idea to make Burleigh into a fake contender by arranging a series of bouts with palookas who will take dives. Then Burleigh will fight Speed, who will get an easy victory. (Unsurprisingly, the plan goes wrong.) | |
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In Ultra Fast Pony, fixing boxing matches is just another illegal activity that the Apple family has their hooves all over. In "Mob Wars", Big Mac's opponent in the upcoming prize fight is scheduled to get knocked out in the fourth round, and no sooner. | |
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Snake Eyes: Footage shows that one guy faked a knockout. He was being blackmailed by a conspiracy so he could form a distraction while they assassinated the U.S. Secretary of Defense who was in the crowd at the time. | |
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This comes up twice in The Owl House episode "Escaping Expulsion": During the Cold Open, Amity is roped into helping her parents to demonstrate their new "Abomaton". Part of the demonstration involves showing off the Abomaton's combat abilities, Amity not even putting up a fight at all so it can look more impressive. This lasts until the Abomaton nearly steps on Amity's treasured Grom Night photo, driving Amity to rip the Abomaton apart in seconds. During the climax, Amity and Luz are facing off against the upgraded Abomaton 2.0 and are more or less at a stalemate with Amity slowly overtaking it. Amity takes the opportunity to force her mother into letting Luz, Willow, and Gus back into Hexside, threatening to win the fight and destroy the Abomaton in front of her mother's precious investors. Once Odalia agrees to the terms, they stop fighting and allow themselves to be "crushed" by the Abomaton's (hollow) hammer arm. |
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In BlazBlue, to get all the different endings for the characters in Story mode, you actually have to purposely throw important fights to trigger the different cutscenes and alternate endings. Winning every fight in a particular story usually only unlocks about 50% of the story possibilities for that character! | |
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In Breath of Fire III's Inevitable Tournament, one of your opponents (a magician who's about to face you in an arena where magic is sealed) tries to guilt trip your team into throwing the fight, so he can claim the prize money and get a cure for his deathly sick daughter. Sadly, since one of the player character's allies is being held hostage, your team is unable to oblige. Turns out it's a sham; his daughter wasn't really sick at all, of course. | |
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Welcome To Wonderland: P.T. asks Dill to intentionally lose his Frolf game against Geoffrey in "Beach Battle Blowout", since he's the son of one of the judges, and Geoffrey winning and having fun might increase the Wonderland's chances of winning the first round of judging. Dill gladly complies, stating that he's still a winner if he's still having fun. | |
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Cool Cool Toon: In Spica's chapter 6, after beating King in a flitz match, Iyamy tries to force Spica to have a rematch and lose, since if King loses even a single flitz, it will free the Flitz Ghost. | |
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In the Quantum Leap episode "The Right Hand of God", Sam leaps into a crooked boxer who is under pressure to throw a match if he loves his kneecaps, but must win instead to earn money for a group of nuns. In "All-Americans", Sam leaps into a high school football player who must stop his best friend from throwing the big game and losing both teens their chances at college scholarships. |
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Dragon's Dance: Downplayed; the exhibition match between Jiro and the Joto champion Akane is close-fought and ultimately ends in a draw. Afterwards, Jiro tells Lance that if she'd really wanted to, Akane could've won but that it's an unspoken rule that exhibition matches between Kanto and Joto have to end in draws. | |
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Parodied in The Ren & Stimpy Show episode "Mad Dog Hoek", in which a wrestling match is indeed fixed, and Ren & Stimpy's opponents do throw the fight... after mercilessly pummeling the duo to jelly. | |
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Love, Death & Robots. In "Sonnie's Edge", the title character remote-operates a bioengineered monster for gladiator fights. The promoter offers her half a million to throw the match, only to get rudely refused. He doesn't take it well and sends his assassin after her. The assassin kills Sonnie, only to discover too late that it's a remote body and the real Sonnie is inside the monster, her brain having been transplanted there by her crew after a vicious gang rape and beating. The reason she didn't throw the match is that she's literally fighting for her life every time she gets in the ring. | |
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What If Raditz Turned Good?: In Episode 6 of Dragon Ball R&R, Raditz intentionally loses a very public fight with Tien in order to draw more attention to the latter's dojo. | |
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CatDog has the titular duo becoming bull riding champions and are about to face the toughest bull in the rodeo. They are told they need to lose due to a phone survey saying that the bull is in favor of winning and are promised a large sum of money in return. They are prepared to do it, only to change their minds and win the rodeo. They are pelted with tomatoes and booed for their victory afterwards. | |
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The backstory for Max in Streets of Rage reveals that he was kicked out of the Wrestling Association for not taking a dive when he was told to purposely lose. | |
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CONSEQUENCES (Miraculous Ladybug): In SEXUAL HARASSMENT, Gabriel learns just how far Lila's entitled attitude towards his son goes when he catches her attempting to force herself upon Adrien. He subsequently exploits Lila's willingness to work with Hawkmoth by akumatizing her, then intentionally holds back his powers so that she gets trounced by Ladybug and Chat Noir. | |
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Pulp Fiction: Butch (Bruce Willis) is supposed to take a dive. He agrees to go down in the fifth round (as shown in the page quote), but then turns around and bets on himself, and winds up killing the other boxer during the fight. What follows is the weirdest fucking day of his life. It's even worse for Marcellus. | |
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General Hospital: Local mobster Sonny tries to bully Jagger into throwing an upcoming boxing match by threatening to harm Jagger's ex, Karen (who he knows Jagger is still in love with). Jagger initially takes the fall but realizes that doing so will let Sonny control his life. He jumps up, wins the fight, then punches out Sonny as well and runs off with Karen. | |
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A Touch of Frost. A soccer player is offered money to lose the game, which he refuses. However he then misses a crucial goal shot, so he figures he might as well take the money anyway by pretending I Meant to Do That. This turns out to be a mistake as he finds himself under pressure to throw more games. | |
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In L.A. Noire, one of the cases is a boxer who (like the Pulp Fiction example) bets on himself and refuses to throw a fight. | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, Tsukikage chooses not to play his last card that could have blocked Shinji's final attack after Renji ordered him to lose on purpose for his plan. | |
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Killer Instinct (2013): T.J. Combo approaches Ultratech for assistance in getting back into the spotlight in the boxing circuit. They agree, but after he makes the big time again, they call in their marker - they set up a match between him and their new Fulgore robot, and then order him to lose. Combo instead defeats the robot, at which point Ultratech exposes his deal with them, destroying his career. | |
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Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats: The Boxing Episode has Hector acting as Heathcliff's coach as he becomes a prize fighter. Eventually, they're set to go up against the champion, only for Hector to be informed that he needs to ensure Heathcliff loses. Knowing that Heathcliff would never agree, Hector tries sabotaging him during the fight, which only serves to rile him up until he finally confronts him over it: | |
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Done elegantly in Hogan's Heroes. Kinchloe has to throw the fight against Battlin' Bruno so the Germans can save face against the (true) accusation that a black American prisoner can outperform the Luftwaffe champion boxer. However, he also needs to make the fight last long enough for his comrade to sneak into Klink's office while everyone is watching the match and stay upright when Bruno has metal hidden in his gloves. Kinchloe does eventually throw the fight after knocking Bruno mostly unconscious. It's clear to everyone who the real winner is. | |
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Murdoch Mysteries: The Victim of the Week in "The Knockdown" was supposed to throw a prize fight in the 31st round. He decided to change the script (having placed a large bet on himself) and won in the 30th. He was murdered later that evening. | |
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Death in Paradise: In "The Perfect Murder", the Victim of the Week is killed when she attempts to expose a scheme to fix the outcome of a series of beach volleyball matches. | |
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The Monk episode "Mr. Monk Takes a Punch" has Monk investigating an attempted assassination on professional boxer Ray Regis. During one questioning with Regis and Regis's trainer Louie Flynn; Monk, Stottlemeyer, and Disher learn that Louie's daughter died of surgical complications a few years ago. But at the same time, Monk also discovers that Louie has an unconscious habit of tucking his crucifix in whenever he's lying. Monk eventually figures out that Regis and Louie had bet against themselves to raise money for these experimental surgeries, and believes one possible motive could be that someone figured out that Regis threw the fight and wanted to get payback. | |
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One episode of Taxi has boxer Tony being pressured to do this in a fight, but it turns out his opponent is also trying to lose, flopping after Tony barely taps him with his glove. | |
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On Power Rangers Ninja Steel, the Rangers are surprised monster Brax goes down after a single blow, begging for mercy. When he returns later, still wimpy, the Rangers are almost pitying him...at which point, Brax wipes the floor with them and too late the team realize Brax was faking his earlier weakness to lull them into an ambush. | |
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In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Fear of Victory", Scarecrow is drugging star athletes with fear chemicals so that they'd lose key games, allowing him to make money wagering on their opponents to fund his research. | |
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Star Wars Resistance: In "The Platform Classic", Yeager's estranged brother Marcus arrives at the Colossus to both compete in the titular race and try to mend relations with his brother. Marcus' mechanic is taken hostage by the Guavian Death Gang as collateral for a debt he owes them, making it imperative he win the race. However, Yeager, who is Always Someone Better for Marcus, is successfully goaded by his mechanics into entering the race, and due to a past tragedy, doesn't believe Marcus when he tries to explain what the problem is... until they're both in the home stretch of the race, whereupon he lets Marcus win at the last second. | |
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Ridge Racer 4 requires you to finish certain races in second or third to unlock certain cars. This can also make the game easier. | |
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In My Hero Academia, Tenya Iida and Mei Hatsume find themselves in a one-on-one fight during the Sports Festival. However, Mei ends up giving him special support gear to help give it his all, which Iida accepts graciously. What he doesn't realize is that the entire thing is just a ten-minute advertisement to get companies biting towards her gear. Once she's certain they've bitten and want more, she promptly throws the match. Iida is vastly upset at this. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: In the episode "The Wild World of Batwoman", while watching the short film "Cheating", there's a very brief quip where Tom Servo accuses Johnny of shaving points during football games. (This fits with the overall theme of Mike's and the bots' quipping that cheating is Serious Business, and therefore Johnny must be Pure Evil because he cheated.) | |
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In Dragon Ball Super, in the Champa arc, Goku eventually forfeits his match with Hit because he didn't think it was fair that the tournament's rules prevented Hit from fighting at his full potential. To repay his debt, Hit pretends that his next opponent, the uber-weak Monaka, was able to defeat him with a single punch. | |
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Snatch., Mickey is told to take the dive but refuses. Everyone thinks this is just him being deliberately contrary, but it turns out to be a thoroughly-planned revenge plot which includes placing a huge bet on himself. | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials & Tribulations, Furio Tigre frames Maggey Byrde for a murder he committed, then disguises himself as Phoenix Wright and "defends" her in court, losing on purpose to get her found guilty. | |
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Daredevil (2015): As in the source material, Matt Murdock's father "Battlin' Jack" agrees to take a dive in a fight against Carl "The Crusher" Creel, but changes his mind at the last moment and gets gunned down in an alleyway for it. The scene is a direct reference to the Pulp Fiction scene (as the mobsters who solicit the offer tell him to agree to go down in the fifth, and repeat that instruction). Unlike in the comic book (and like in Pulp Fiction), Jack bets on himself to win by knockout—and arranges for the money to be held safely for young Matt since he doesn't expect to survive this double-cross. | |
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Occasionally disgruntled wrestlers will go against the wishes of the booker and lose matches they were supposed to win. Back in 1985 David Sammartino (son of Bruno) was unhappy with how he was being used and decided "If they're going to treat me like a Jobber I'll act like one", letting actual jobber Ron Shaw beat him by submission in two minutes while not getting a shred of offense in. See for yourself, complete with a "Bullshit!" chant from the crowd and Gorilla Monsoon on commentary trying to pretend like it didn't happennote But not before trashing "Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada", and keep an eye out towards the end of the clip for Shaw spitting on Sammartino out of disgust for the lack of respect for Kayfabe. David, to the shock of absolutely no one, was blacklisted from the WWF the moment he got back to the locker room. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: In a Season 1 episode, Kaiser Ryo chooses not to activate his facedown card to save himself from a direct attack by Camula, since Camula arranged things so that if Ryo won, his little brother would lose his soul. In a Season 1 episode, the ancient pharaoh Abidos the Third had a reputation for being undefeated in duels, so the bad guys resurrect him and send him against the heroes. Judai gets the upper hand, and it is revealed that the reason why Abidos was undefeated was that everyone who faced him before lost on purpose because they were scared he would punish them if he lost. Abidos was mortified to learn this; he sincerely believed his victories had been a result of his own skill. In the first episode of Season 2, Edo Phoenix purposely loses to Judai after being told to by Saiou, using a makeshift deck made of forty cards from eight booster packs. Much later, after Edo has won once and lost once against Judai using his actual deck, Judai tells him the first time doesn't count, seeing as Edo let him win, which means they're even now. (Naturally, he's offering a "tiebreaker" later, but they never get around to it.) In a Season 2 episode, Kenzan and Sho have a duel to determine which of them is a more worthy friend to Judai. At the end, Kenzan is about to lose but can end the game in a draw if he uses his facedown card. He chooses not to play it after seeing Sho's devotion to Judai. Later in Season 2, Misawa loses to Manjyome on purpose, neglecting to use the Magic Cylinder Trap Card he set to win, as he feels the only way he can ever be important is by joining the Society Of Light. Still later in Season 2, when Manjyome breaks free of Saiou's brainwashing during his duel with Judai, he uses a card that gives Judai control of his White Knight Lord and then destroys it, even though he loses the duel via its effect; his reason for this is simply to destroy the symbol of what was controlling him, the Knight. Moving on to season 4, in episode 165, a sleazy TV producer named Mike tells Manjoume to throw his duel against Judai, as he believes good ratings are more important than an honorable duel. When Judai finds out, he calls Manjoume out on throwing away his pride and Manjoume realizes how low he's sunk. In episode 166, Mike orders Edo Phoenix to throw his duel against Manjoume, threatening to close down an orphanage if he doesn't. Fortunately, Judai exposes Mike's treachery and gets him arrested, allowing the two to finish the duel fairly. In the manga version of GX, Reggie MacKenzie neglects to activate her set Mirror Force card (or use her Swords of Revealing Light or even defend with her Seraphim Blaster) during her duel with Misawa during the tournament, which would have prevented his direct attack with Red Ogre which caused her to lose. (While it seems out-of-character for someone like Reggie to be nice to him, her reason is she simply thinks the tournament is a waste of time, so she bails on it.) |
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On Legacies, the Salvatore School has an annual flag football game with a school from Mystic Falls. Given the Salvatore student body is comprised of vampires, witches, and werewolves, they can easily wipe the floor with the humans. However, the headmasters order the kids to always lose so outsiders won't find anything suspicious about a bunch of inhumanly gifted athletic kids. Naturally, the Salvatore students hate having to hold back their true abilities and lose. The second season has the team delighted when the new headmaster tells them to go ahead and do whatever it takes to win. |
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A plot point in the sequel The Sting II. Hooker, the con man who is not a boxer gets into the ring with a professional, but as he plans to take a dive, it doesn't matter much. Until his partner figures the mark double-crossed them, and Hooker has to win the bout! He does, to his own surprise, but learns later that his partner had paid off the professional to take the dive. | |
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The Brady Bunch: In Season 5's "Try, Try Again", Jan's siblings let her win at Monopoly, darts, ping pong, and basketball — all to boost her confidence after a series of disappointments (e.g., being dismissed from dance class for continued poor performance). | |
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Pokémon: In many scenarios in the PokéStar Studios movies in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, getting the good ending or the Gainax Ending requires losing on purpose, which isn't easy, especially with the rental Pokémon you have to use before you can use one of yours. In Pokémon Sword and Shield, the Galar League had a scandal of this nature in the past. The death of Mustard's first Pokémon hit him hard, and he fell into a funk accentuated by loss after loss. The Chairman of the day offered to give him a rigged match to get him back in the spirit, but given what kind of man Mustard is, the thought offended him so severely that he retired on the spot. |
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One of the exhibition challenges in the Wii version of Punch-Out!! requires losing a fight to Glass Joe. The catch is, it has to be a loss by decision, not KO or TKO, and you have to make it look "convincing" for the crowd by knocking Joe down at least three times before the end of the match. That means you have to let Joe send you to the mat at least three times as well, and he has to have either one more KD or slightly more health than you do by the final bell. | |
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At least one season of The Challenge had examples of this. The challenge gameplay at the time consisted of a "Winning Team gets a prize, Losing Team has to eliminate someone" rule format. One team absolutely dominated the earliest challenges, sending multiple members of the other team home. Toward the end, the winning team realized it had been something of a Plague of Good Fortune: going into the grand prize Final Challenge (easily worth significantly more than any of the mini-challenges they had been winning,) they had a big, bloated, unweidly team in contrast to the smaller, sleeker and more streamlined "losing" team. Toward the end, they actually began to throw a few competitions to deliberately eliminate some of their weaker teammates. | |
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Futurama: In one episode, Bender tried to get Fry to take a dive against Zoidberg in a fight to the death. (Fry declined.) In another episode, Bender enters a robot pro wrestling league. While he's playing the role of a Face, he's happy enough to let his opponents take the dive for him. Then management recasts Bender as a Heel and orders him to start throwing fights. Bender refuses until management schedules his next match against a giant kill-bot, programmed to destroy Bender if he goes off-script. In another episode, a Muscle Beach Bum kicks down Fry's sand castle and hits on Leela. When Fry allows her to go with him, the man explains that he's a professional beach bully who steals men's girlfriends so that they can challenge him to a fight to win her back, which he deliberately loses so that the boyfriend looks like a hero, and then the boyfriend covertly slips him some money for his services. When Fry says Leela isn't his girlfriend and she expresses interest in dating him anyway, he says he's actually gay and leaves. |
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Juxtapose: Kensei and Megumi each throw their respective matches after forcing ties in order to give Izuku and Hitoshi better chances of reaching the top of the Sports Festival. Later on, it's revealed that Katsuki had intended to throw their match if they ever wound up facing Izuku himself. Kirishima's rather surprised to learn this, given Katsuki's general obsession with winning. |
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The Due South episode "The Blue Line" revolved around the question of whether one of the protagonist's childhood friends, now a famous hockey player, had taken money to throw a match. | |
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On Step by Step, Frank arm wrestles with his high school rival at their reunion. However, he's just learned from the man's date that the life he's presented to the class—beautiful wife, successful business—is a complete lie and that in fact, things are quite the opposite. Despite how much the Jerkass is taunting him, Frank throws the match, giving the man at least one thing in his life to feel good about. Wife Carol knows the truth. | |
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In the Wassamatta U arc of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Natasha tries to get Bullwinkle to throw a football game. | |
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The God of Destruction comes to Remnant: Mosura joins a fighting tournament in Mistral in the hopes of attracting Gojira's attention. When she gets to the final round against Pyrrha Nikos, she finally realizes Gojira is not in the audience and concludes that her participation was a waste of time. After exchanging a few blows with Pyrrha, she dejectedly walks off the stage on purpose to lose via Ring Out, much to everybody's shock. | |
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In City Lights, a gangster makes a deal to throw a boxing match to Charlie Chaplin's character and split the prize money. Unfortunately, he skips town at the last minute, and Chaplin has to fight the replacement for real. | |
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Akeelah and the Bee shows this in the third act. Akeelah catches her opponent, Dylan, being berated by his father to not lose due to the fact that he came in second twice in the National Spelling Bee and she resolves to throw the fight so he can finally get his win. However, Dylan catches on when the word she misspelled purposely is the same one she messed up on earlier and purposely misspells his word. He berates her for pulling such a stunt that they just resolve to do their best to see who comes out on top... which ends up being both of them. | |
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Before Booster Gold was a superhero, he was a college football player who was disgraced after he was caught betting on the other team and then losing on purpose. | |
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One episode of Touched by an Angel features a star NBA player throwing a game for betting money. Already known as a showboat, he figures he can take a lot of ridiculous shots during the game and it won't seem too out of character - but thanks to the angels, all of his improbable shots go through the hoop anyway and he has one of the best games of all-time. | |
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In The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Broken Ace Marcy Park, who reflects on how Victory Is Boring in her solo number "I Speak Six Languages", has a literal come-to-Jesus moment over the word "camouflage" (she has a vision of Jesus telling her he won't love her any less whether she wins or loses — he doesn't care much about spelling bees anyway) and purposely misspells the word so she can be free of the expectations of constant perfection. | |
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In Amazing Spider-Man #253, Ray Nesters is the star quarterback of an NFL team who is secretly taking payoffs to throw some games. He foolishly believes that this will end when he loses the final regular season game only to be informed that mob boss the Rose wants him to throw the playoffs as well. When he naturally refuses, the Rose has Ray's younger brother Tony kidnapped. When Ray goes on a rescue, Tony is heartbroken to realize the Rose has been telling the truth on his brother's actions. While Spider-Man is able to rescue them both, Ray knows the only way to get out from under the Rose's thumb is to confess the truth and accept his ruined career. | |
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In Sard Harker, Harker's first encounter with the villains is at a boxing match which they've fixed. | |
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Harley Quinn (2019): In "Bensonhurst", a flashback revealed that when Harley was a teen, her father asked her to throw a gymnastics competition because he bet against her to cover his debts to the mafia, and if he can't pay up, they'll take his fingers. She reluctantly took the dive but afterwards beat him up and never forgave him. | |
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Don King attempts this in Celebrity Deathmatch, having bet against himself. Unfortunately, you can't really throw a deathmatch...note Well, technically you can. You just can't get your money afterwards. | |
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The client in the Leverage season two episode "The Tap Out Job" is the father of an MMA fighter who was instructed to throw a fight by the gym manager, but refused and had his fighting career ended permanently. Later in the episode, the con is blown and Eliot agrees to be the one to take a dive to keep the mark from retaliating against the client. (Thanks to some Xanatos Speed Chess, the team manages to turn the situation back to their favor in the end.) | |
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Speaking of Austin, in May 1996 he faced off against Savio Vega in a "Caribbean strap match" (which is like a regular strap matchnote For those who don't follow wrestling, in a strap match the wrestlers are connected to each other at the wrist with a leather strap around 10 feet long, the goal of the match is to incapacitate the opponent long enough that you can touch all 4 corners of the ring, only one of the participants is from Puerto Rico) where if he lost his manager, Ted Dibiase, would have to leave the WWF. Austin would put in a very half-assed effort (in the sense that it was part of the story, not that he was being unprofessional), lost, and stated in a promo the next night that he threw the match to get rid of DiBiasenote Who was leaving for WCW, hence the stipulation, who Austin thought was holding him back. | |
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A Dearth of Choice: Those who accept a magical binding to stop them from harming the dungeon core will find that the fights are tailored to their level of strength; crowds of zombies and skeletons will hold back and allow novices to fight only what they can handle, bosses will keep their full abilities hidden. Those who refuse the binding will discover what the dungeon can really do. Tam and his team are able to reach the core while bound, but when they return with the intent to restrain it, they're slaughtered by the first floor boss. | |
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In SpacePOP, despite wanting to win, Juno forces herself to lose a reality show since it wasn't in her contract that she'd win, and if she did win Geela would take notice. | |
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This is one of the ways Kyoko from March Comes in Like a Lion attempts to tarnish Rei's professional shogi career: telling him sob stories about his opponents in order to manipulate him into losing on purpose. | |
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Hulk Hogan's character in Mr. Nanny has been blackballed from Professional Wrestling for refusing to throw a match. Yes, he refused to throw a pro wrestling match. Just roll with it. | |
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A lesser but related scam is point-shaving, which has been caught a few times over the years in college basketball. A player who knows the betting spread deliberately misses shots near the end of a game so that his team will win but not beat the spread. One of the more infamous cases of point-shaving involved the 1978-79 Boston College Eagles, who got mixed up with notorious mobsters Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke. When players started waffling on being involved, Hill told them that it was "hard to play basketball with broken hands". The NBA a few years back had a betting scandal along similar lines instigated by former referee Tim Donaghy, where he would call the games in such a way so that he looks fair with the calls but the scores are higher than they otherwise would be (i.e., 110-100 rather than 96-86). He would bet on the "over" of the over/under (you bet "over" if you think the sum of the two teams' scores will be greater than the given line, say 200.5, and under if you think the sum will be less) for the game prior to tip-off. |
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Subverted in an episode of Magic City. A big boxing match is coming up and the main characters get a tip that a mobster is betting against the current champion. They realize that the fight is fixed and bet big against that boxer. They realize too late that the tip was false and the match is fair. The mobster had his mooks spread the rumor around town so the odds shifted against the champion and the mobster bet his money on the champion. When the champion demolished the challenger the mobster won a fortune and everyone who acted on the tip was cleaned out. | |
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The plot of Safe (2012) is kicked off when Luke wins a boxing match he was supposed to throw. In a very rare twist on this trope, he had every intention of throwing it. He only hit his much weaker opponent once to make it look good and promptly knocked him out. | |
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The original CSI has had several of these. | |
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This is part of Daredevil's backstory: his father was killed when he refused to take a dive. The film and the Netflix show also use this variation. | |
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Eight Men Out: Based on the real-life 1919 Black Sox. | |
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Superman: Two Golden Age stories centered around this trope, though the players weren't the ones cheating. In one, a boxer was drugged by his manager so that he would lose the fight, and in the other, a college football coach was trying to rig the game in favor of the other team. In a Bronze Age story Supergirl investigates the case of a football player who has been beaten up and threatened by a group of gamblers to throw several games. Fearing for his and his girlfriend's safety, he agrees to it. |
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The first City Hunter story features a boxer by the name of Inagaki who intimidates his opponents into throwing fights against him, with the ultimate aim of becoming champion. He murdered Shunichi Ogino, his only obstacle to the title match, after his girlfriend Megumi Iwasaki nursed him back to health following a hit-and-run that Inagaki was also behind. He then threatened to murder the daughter of the champion Mita if he didn't throw the fight, but is stopped by Ryo Saeba, who was hired to take out Inagaki by Megumi, and who ultimately kills him with a solid gold bullet fired into his ear canal at the exact moment that Mita's final punch connected. | |
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Tales of Dunk and Egg: In "The Mystery Knight", a hedge knight deliberately loses an easy tourney victory against a lord who's still hungover. He trained the lord when he was a boy, and plans to flatter his skill so he can enter his service again. Instead the lord doesn't even remember him and refuses to employ such an apparently inept knight. In the same novel Ser Uthor Underleaf suggests that he does this all the time. He's an incredible jouster but never wins any tourneys because he bets on himself (with long odds) until he decides to lose (and then he bets on the other guy). If he actually won, he'd become more famous, and he'd never get those long odds again. This trope backfires on him as well when he finds himself up against a genuinely dangerous opponent in his last joust. Unaware that Ser Uthor was planning to lose, some other contestants decided to take him out of the running. |
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Subverted in S3E10 of In the Heat of the Night, "King's Ransom". Ex-boxer Conrad "King" Baylor told some friends a story: Mobsters approached him the night of a fight, and gave him $2,000 to throw his match. He took the money, then bet it on himself, intending to go out there and screw over the mobsters. Unfortunately, his opposition was a little better than he thought, and he wound up losing. The mobsters met him post-fight, and gave him another $3,000 "for making the knockout so real". | |
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The Longest Yard is a good example — the warden says he'll pin Caretaker's murder on Crewe if he doesn't give the game to the guards. Crewe goes along with it at first, but it doesn't take long for him to change his mind. This is also part of Crewe's backstory, where he threw a football game by "shaving points" since "he was in a bad way with some worse people." | |
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This became an issue in professional Dota 2 play in some regions, so much so that Valve Software began issuing lifetime bans from competitive play for anyone discovered engaging in match fixing. One of the first cases of this came about when someone named Alexei "Solo" Berezin betted 100$ against his own Rox.Kis team during a match against Z Rage in which his team was heavily favored to win note this was the last game of the series and the result wouldn't actually have mattered. Come the match itself, and Rox.Kis began making some really questionable plays, as though deliberately dicking around in order to let Z Rage win - which they did. Then the betting site sent a report of the match-fixing scandal to the organization and as a result, Solo received a one-year ban from his organisation, a three-year ban from his team (who eventually kicked him out entirely), and a lifetime ban from Starladder (reduced to one year after he apologised for the incident). Compared to later match-fixers, he got off pretty lightly. Another, even more controversial incident occurred when two members of Arrow Gaming, Kok Yi "ddz" Liong & Fua Hsien "Lance" Wan, bet really expensive items (Arcanas, Whaleclaw Hook, Golden Immortals, you name it) against their own team in their match against CSW, which again was a match that Arrow Gaming was heavily favored to win but would have no bearings on the standings. Come the match and the team - but particularly those two - made really questionable plays, such as intentionally pursuing against five heroes, and even teleporting right in front of them to feed even more. Once the match was over and Arrow Gaming had lost, controversy arose when organizers discovered the betting scandals, and only intensified when the team repeatedly tried to deny it and claim it was a fluke in spite of all the evidence, even arranging a fake chat to pin the blame on others. Eventually, Arrow Gaming had no choice but to apologize and yield; they were permanently banned from all Valve-sanctioned tournaments, and disbanded shortly afterwards. |
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In one episode of Police Squad!, the crook of the week blackmails a boxer into throwing a title bout. Drebin rescues the hostage before the round in which the boxer is to lose, inspiring him to win the fight. | |
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On rare occasions, a team may agree to tank a challenge for some reason - for instance, they may want to eliminate one of their own. For instance, in Survivor: Redemption Island, the Zapetera tribe included known troublemaker Russell Hantz. Knowing he would screw with them For the Evulz, they decided to throw an immunity challenge and eject him before that could happen. Zapetera didn't fare that well afterward - the opposing Ometepe tribe Curb-Stomped them, but it's hard to say whether the potential competition Russell would've given them would be worth the sabotage he'd inflict on his own tribe. | |
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The Harder They Fall (1956): The whole movie is based around this. Humphrey Bogart is a hype-man for a boxer who can't box, and he convinces people to take the mob money and not fight. | |
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Downplayed in The Rigel Black Chronicles. Harry makes a deal with Fleur Delacour, offering valuable information about an upcoming Task in exchange for a promise that if the outcome is a toss-up between them, Fleur will let her win, but otherwise Fleur doesn't have to hold back. Fleur makes good on it when they're both trapped by vines within sight of the Cup, casting a spell to cut Harry loose. | |
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South Park: In the episode "Damien", Jesus and Satan are scheduled to have a boxing match. Everyone in town is sure that Jesus will win and place bets on him until Satan appears and everyone sees how huge he is, so they all change their bets to Satan. Even Jesus doesn't think he can win and plans on forfeiting, until the boys tell him that there is one person in town who didn't change their bet and still believes in him, which restores his confidence. It turns out that the one person still betting on Jesus was Satan, who threw the fight (very unconvincingly) and walked off with everyone's money. In "The Losing Edge", the entire South Park Little League baseball team hates playing baseball and tries to throw all their games and get knocked out of the series so that they won't have to waste their entire summer playing. Unfortunately, every team they go up against also hates baseball, and are all better at throwing games. |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds: Rudger duels Yusei with their lives on the line. When Rudger realizes he may actually be in danger of losing, he flees but forces Yusei's friend Rally to take his place, with the same stakes. Not wanting to hurt Yusei, Rally loses on purpose. Rex Godwin throws the duel against his Dark Signer brother Rudger, despite having been able to win with three very powerful Trap Cards (Solemn Judgment, Divine Wrath, and Mirror Force) that he doesn't set. His reasons are that he wanted to be converted into the Dark Signers (the penalty for losing) to gain power and the ability to break the vicious cycle the conflict had caused. (In his mind, anyway.) In their first duel, Dark Glass intentionally protects his monster by allowing Yusei to attack him directly instead, losing as a result. He likely did it because he knew the villains were watching and did not want them to see all his cards and strategies. Minor example, Crow threw a duel with Leo (as in, his landlady's son, not Rua) to help the rather depressed guy regain confidence. Crow tried to throw his second duel with Jeagar, because he was feeling sorry for the guy, whose wife and son were watching. Unfortunately, Jeagar was also trying to throw the duel (he needed to lose to get his family into protective custody without simply surrendering like a coward) and lost first. Andore was shown repeatedly throwing duels in a flashback because he didn't want to hurt his opponents' feelings. Jean invites him to join his team after observing his true skills, finally giving him the motivation to win. In a later episode, it was revealed that Dragan lost his previous duel with Jack to get money for his injured father. He isn't happy about it, and when he finds out, neither is Jack. |
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In the Warrior Cats novel The Last Hope, the invincible warrior Lionblaze tries to Screw Destiny by losing a fight. It doesn't really work out. | |
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In The Color of Money, after Eddie beats Vincent in the 9-Ball Classic semifinals, he learns that Vincent threw the match because he had numerous bets riding on him to win. | |
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In the Let's Play Minecraft series, Gavin Free's shown to be a damn good Minecraft player, but he prefers to screw around from time to time, especially if he's working by his lonesome; he won't go that far when he's working with a team. Geoff Ramsey frustratingly mentions that if he took things seriously, he'd win many of the episodes easily, to which Gavin sarcastically replied "That'd make an interesting video."note To wit, Gavin's only won six episodes that involved the "Tower of Pimps", whereas Ray Narvaez Jr and Ryan, who usually do very well in many other video games have each won at least seven times. | |
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Malcolm Gedo from Hajime no Ippo makes it a habit to throw fights, but not without asking his opponents for a substantial fee, which the opponents understandably see as an insult. | |
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In the Future Cop episode "Fighting O'Haven," Haven is undercover as a boxer when he is told to "take a dive" in the third round. Being a Literal-Minded android, he instead does a backflip, landing on his back. | |
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This is pretty much half the point of PSP game The Con. If the odds are heavily stacked that your opponent is going to lose the next round against you, it may actually be more profitable to bet against yourself and let the guy kick your ass. The catch is that you actually have to look like you're trying to fight by doing minimal damage, or they get start to get wise to your... well, con. | |
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In Diabolik, former boxer Big Bolt once told the protagonist he was asked by the mob to throw a match so there would be more people willing to bet against him. Knowing it wouldn't impact his career and chances to win the world championship, Big Bolt accepted... But right as he let himself get knocked down to pretend he had lost he changed his mind, rose up, and dropped his opponent. It was his last fight, as ten mobsters were sent after him and the last one managed to wreck his leg before being punched out. | |
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Averted by Sammy Guevara during his AEW World Championship 4 way match with MJF, Darby Allin, and "Jungle Boy" Jack Perry at Double or Nothing 2023. MJF offered Guevara a large sum of money to just lay down, and with Guevara announcing via his placards during his entrance that he and fellow AEW wrestler Tay Melo were expecting their first child he could have definitely used the cash. Guevara seemed to take MJF up on the offer... and then immediately double-crossed MJF, nearly winning with a roll-up when MJF went for the cover (MJF would eventually retain his title by pinning Allin). | |
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One or two Three Stooges shorts have run on this idea. The boys would be managing an eager boxer and even have wagered in favour of him ... only for The Mob to 'suggest' that their fighter lose. | |
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Midsomer Murders: In "Last Man Out", a match-fixing ring is influencing the outcome of games in a semi-professional cricket tournament. The match fixers are initially suspected when two cricket captains are murdered, but the match fixing is a Red Herring and has nothing to do with the killings. | |
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In Diggstown, two brothers are paid by the protagonists to throw their fights with "Honey Roy" Palmer. Unfortunately, the younger brother is too obvious about it, even after Roy tells him to sell it. The Big Bad threatens the other brother and tells him that, if he loses, then his brother will be killed. Unaware, Roy initially assumes that the second brother is really good at selling the dive, but is then forced to knock him down. Tragically, the younger brother is found having seemingly hanged himself. No one is under any illusions that it was a suicide, but the sheriff is deep in the Big Bad's pocket. Before the bet, the Big Bad demonstrates the power he has in the town by ordering one of the sparring fighters to take a dive by standing up, straightening his tie, and turning his fist thumb down. At the end, the protagonist does the exact same gesture to get the Big Bad's surprise fighter (a prisoner he paid in advance) to take an obvious dive. | |
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Daredevil: See comic book entry, above. Fallon also brings this up in a Did You Actually Believe...? speech, in which he says Matt's aging father only won the previous fights because his opponents threw them, and now, it's his turn. | |
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In the Hey Arnold! episode "Spelling Bee", the spelling bee comes down to Arnold and Helga, and Helga's father Bob bribes Arnold to throw the competition so that Helga can win. Arnold refuses, and when Helga finds out about the bribe, she throws the next round instead, humiliating her father and stepping out of Olga's shadow. | |
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A second scandal erupted in 2015 when high-ranking StarCraft II players, including 2014 world champion Life, were found to have fixed matches. All gamers and coaches involved were banned from KeSPA (the Korea eSports Association) forever, and Life had his WCS championship voided. | |
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Dragon Ball Z: Inverted in the exhibition match between Mr. Satan and Trunks, where 'obviously' throwing the match is the most face-saving thing Mr. Satan could have done. Mr. Satan knows that Trunks is much stronger than him, and fighting would either lose him his reputation or his life. So he makes it look like he obviously threw the fight to make a child happy, even though Trunks would have legitimately won. Android 18 makes it to the final round of the World Martial Arts Tournament, clearly out-classing the "champion" Mr. Satan. Rather than beating him up and taking the title (which would draw unwanted attention and ruin his reputation if done in such a public venue), she decides to take a dive in exchange for double this tournament's prize money and a cut of all future prize money he ever earns. |
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In the manga version of GX, Reggie MacKenzie neglects to activate her set Mirror Force card (or use her Swords of Revealing Light or even defend with her Seraphim Blaster) during her duel with Misawa during the tournament, which would have prevented his direct attack with Red Ogre which caused her to lose. (While it seems out-of-character for someone like Reggie to be nice to him, her reason is she simply thinks the tournament is a waste of time, so she bails on it.) | |
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In Cyberpunk 2077, The Boxing Episode concludes with a match against a pro boxer that gives you a bigger payout if you lose. | |
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Many of the races are fixed in Speed Racer. When Speed tells the Corrupt Corporate Executive who's trying to get him to throw a race about the race that inspired him to become a race car driver, the exec informs him that the victory was staged, and the race was really about one of the competitors who didn't even finish, allowing the company that made his car to run a pump-and-dump scam. | |
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Fuzzboy Total Pokemon Series: In "Battle Blockade", the Mysterious Mesprit intentionally lose the challenge so that they can eliminate Greta. | |
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MacGyver (1985): In "Split Decision", Earl Dent agrees to throw his comeback so he can get enough money to regain custody of his daughter. When he changes his mind (at Mac's urging), the bookies kidnap his daughter to force him to go through with the fix. | |
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Books of the Raksura: In "The Tale of Indigo and Cloud", Indigo agrees to duel the rival queen Argent for Argent's neglected consort Cloud, but knows that it would become a pretext for war if either of them were hurt or killed. She goads Argent into accepting terms that free Cloud whether she wins or loses, then yields after the first exchange of blows, damaging her personal reputation but getting everything she wanted — including the regard of the newly-single Cloud. | |
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The Mission: Impossible two-part episode "The Contender" had Barney impersonate an up-and-coming pro boxer who had just returned from a tour of duty in Vietnam in order to take down a crooked promoter who routinely had his people throw fights. | |
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In 1636: The Devil's Opera, Hans Metzger is ordered to throw a fight for a $50,000 purse by his employer. He refuses on principle (and the fact that he could really use the money to support his crippled sister). After beating his opponent in a brutal match he nearly lost legitimately, his employer sent thugs after him to reclaim the prize money. They succeed in killing Hans, but not until after he'd killed or maimed all of his attackers. | |
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Kingdom Hearts: In Kingdom Hearts II, Setzer bribes Roxas to throw the 'underdog vs. champion' match in Twilight Town's Struggle competition. Winning caused Setzer to hand over the Champion's Belt effect+10% to all elemental resistances; throwing the match (there is no way in hell you can lose unintentionally) earns Roxas a Medal effect+1 to attack as 'thanks'. The fact that Roxas earns the plot-important Struggle Trophy following either cutscene implies that the match is purely for bragging rights, and Setzer wants to keep the title. A strange case in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. You battle Larxene on Floor 6 after she antagonizes you over Namine, and while it's clear she's playing down to you on purpose, she's still trying to win just barely. After you beat her, Axel calls her out on it and she tries to defend herself by saying that she was trying to do this. |
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In the Babylon 5 episode "TKO", boxer Walker Smith has a defied version of this in his backstory — he refused to take a dive in his upcoming bout against the champion, so the people in charge tampered with his drug test results, ruining his boxing career. | |
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In Pokémon Apokélypse, Ash is threatened into having Pikachu throw a fight. | |
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YuYu Hakusho: During the "Rescue Yukina" arc, the Toguro Brothers become Tarukane's bodyguards. When Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Botan attempt to rescue Yukina, Tarukane and his friends in the Black Black Club gamble on which side would win. It turns out the Toguro Brothers were secretly working for Sakyo, who bet on Yusuke's team, so after putting up a good fight, they pretend to lose, causing Tarukane to lose his fortune and his sanity. The Toguro Brothers then kill him. | |
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A strange case in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. You battle Larxene on Floor 6 after she antagonizes you over Namine, and while it's clear she's playing down to you on purpose, she's still trying to win just barely. After you beat her, Axel calls her out on it and she tries to defend herself by saying that she was trying to do this. | |
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In the second Black Blade novel, Lila is asked to throw the final round of the Tournament of Blades by her opponent's mother on the grounds that Deah will suffer if she ever loses, and Lila will only be able to kill Deah's father with Deah's help. She does so when she realizes that what she was told is true, and the gesture is not appreciated by the eventual champion. | |
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Used repeatedly in Megalo Box due to the nature of underground boxing: Junk Dog starts the first season as a professional jobber: Despite being skilled enough to compete professionally, his debt to the mafia means his job is to go down when Nanbu tells him to, no matter how much he hates it. Part of the show is set in motion when Junk Dog has had enough with being repeatedly told "One Last Job before he can box for real", goes into business on his own, and just lays out his opponent in the first round. This gets both of them in big problems with Fujimaki, the local crime boss, and forces Nanbu to enter Joe into Megalonia for the price money. In episode 9, Fujimaki reveals that he sponsored Joe in order to get him into a fixed match in Megalonia, and Nanbu was in on it all along. Joe is initially so disheartened he plays along, until a combination of Yuri and a regretful Nanbu makes him abandon the plan and box for real. Nanbu is forced to give up his other eye to settle the score with Fujimaki. In Nomad, Chief is another jobber, albeit a freelance one. He moves from town to town, sets up a script with the ring's owner beforehand, uses his charisma and impressive moves to encourage betting in the first rounds, goads his opponent into giving him a believable blow he can sell in round four or five, and gets paid for it. He then moves on to the next town before people get suspicious. Like Junk Dog, he is also a genuinely skilled boxer, although he never went pro like he claims to his audience. Fujimaki makes another appearance in Nomad. When Bonjiri ends up having the deed to his cafe stolen, Joe visits Fujimaki to square it up, and Fujimaki asks Joe to take a dive in his ring in return. Due to his Character Development, Joe swallows his pride and goes through with it. Finally, Fujimaki offers Sachi a lot of money for him to become a jobber in his ring, like Junk Dog was in Season 1. When Joe shows up to tell Sachi not to do it, Sachi gets angry and the two end up hashing out their differences in the ring. Joe (predictably) wins, at which point Fujimaki says he wasn't serious about the offer anyway; he made it because he wanted Sachi to get insulted, understand that he wasn't really boxing because that's what he wanted to, and should go back to what he's really good at, which is mechanics and engineering. |
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For bad teams in a given year, there is an existing incentive to tank in North American sports (especially if there is a really good player that will enter the league next season) since teams that perform poorly are generally awarded high draft picks (ask That Other Wiki for why this doesn't come up in European leagues). Accusations in hockey include the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1983-84 (to secure the first pick over the New Jersey Devils and get Mario Lemieux) and the Ottawa Senators in 1992-93 (for Alexandre Daigle). | |
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Mentioned on an episode of Cold Case as they investigate the murder of a high school player who had just won the state championship and was gunned down hours later. They watch video of him in the game, checking the scoreboard and when the team wins, everyone is celebrating but he looks crestfallen. The team speculates that he may have agreed to throw the game but at the last minute, couldn't do it and it got him killed. | |
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