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They haven't been everywhere or done everything or met everyone. No. They've just been in more places, done more things, and met more people than you. Whenever you make a statement, they'll be right on your tail with something they've done twice as much. Played for Laughs.
Sister Trope to The Munchausen and Always Someone Better. Misery Poker is this trope with the "anything" being "telling people how bad you've got it."
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In the Dark X-Men subplot of Dark Reign, during a fight between Osborn's X-Men and the real X-Men, Mimic sings the trope's name to Iceman. Iceman's response (accompanies beatdown): |
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This happens with one-upmanship contests between Apollo and Sweetpea Sue in "I Can Do It Better" on The Pajanimals. |
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The "Real Men, Real Roleplayers, Loonies and Munchkins" list has this as Munchkins' theme song. |
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Ranma ½: Ranma insists on invoking this. Even if the "anything" in question is femininity. Or ludicrous Martial Arts and Crafts. Hilarity Ensues. |
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One early story with Batgirl II and Spoiler had them comparing backgrounds. Spoiler said that her father was a two-bit knockoff of Riddler. Batgirl said that her father was a world-class assassin. Spoiler mentioned that her dad used to lock her in the closet for misbehaving. Batgirl replied that her father used to shoot her for misbehaving. Spoiler jokingly grouses over the fact that Batgirl is beating her in everything. Later stories reveal that Steph was able to beat Cass in one thing - she was able to get a serious boyfriend, while Cass at that point had been unable to have a relationship last longer than two issues. |
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Itachi is this to Sasuke in Naruto in the backstory, throughout part 1, and up until his death in part 2. In the backstory, Itachi started out as a Big Brother Mentor but shifted into an Aloof Big Brother when he became bogged down in responsibilities to the Village and their Clan. It was their father who really rubs this trope in Sasuke's face by consistently dismissing his notable accomplishments because they aren't as impressive as Itachi's were at his age. |
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In "So Much Faster Than You," a song from Franklin and the Adventures of the Noble Knights (which seems to be based more on the Franklin TV show than the original books), the characters of Fox and Rabbit have a friendly rivalry about which of them is the faster the two. |
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In The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, this is the defining trait of Bruno the ape in the episode "Monkey See, Monkey Do Better." |
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The Janitor from Scrubs. |
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Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better |
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The minor character Topper in Dilbert. |
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Scar Tissue: Asuka was jealous of Shinji because he always upstaged her, even though he did not even try to or want to, despite of her training during her whole life. Ironically, Shinji thinks Asuka is better than him at everything. |
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Danger Mouse: "Play It Again, Wufgang" had the villain Wufgang Bach stealing all the music in the world, including the episode's background music. DM and Penfold are kitted out with a tape player with assorted music which they use against Wufgang. The first piece they use is "Jingle Bells," which causes a mound of snow to fall on Wufgang. |
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Mazinger Z: Prof. Kabuto was this to Dr. Hell. Hell had ALWAYS felt upstaged by Yuuzo Kabuto since they were in the same college and his rival was more popular, a bigger genius and was loved by the woman Hell was in love with. When Mazinger-Z destroyed his first Mechanical Beasts, Hell had a break-down because he knew Kabuto had managed to create a Humongous Mecha that could beat anything he could build. |
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The Late Show, an Australian comedy show, had this type as one of the guests in their "Guide to Dinner Parties" sketch. |
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When Abismo Negro tried to revive Los Vipers in AAA, Mr. Niebla came in from CMLL, took over, had the rest of 'Vipers Revolucion' kick Abismo Negro out, and then introduced a new luchador called "Black Abyss", who used all of Abismo Negro's moves. |
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An episode of American Dad! has the Smith family go on a tropical vacation. Stan keeps getting annoyed at a Hispanic gardener who keeps one-upping him. Then again, the first time, Stan was being a jerk by trying to explain to a "native" what a camera phone was. Then the gardener pulls out an identical phone. |
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The One I Love Is: Rei was this to Asuka. In chapter 6 Asuka said Shinji she was terrified of losing him to Rei because Rei gets better grades, is a good cook, keeps her apartment spotless, is nearly so beautiful... whereas she barely can pass the tests because she can not read all kanji, is a slob... and in her mind, she is only good at piloting Eva and she is not even the best anymore. |
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An episode of Azumanga Daioh has Tomo trying to outdo Chiyo-chan in academics and Sakaki-san in athletics. She fails miserably. |
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The Noddy Shop: The episode "The Fish Story" has a song called "I Can Do Better Than You". |
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The Sixth Doctor and Mr. Merryweather have a song about this in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio adventure Doctor Who and the Pirates. |
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| | Big Finish Doctor Who (Audio Play) |
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The Four Yorkshiremen sketch, originally from At Last the 1948 Show and made famous by Monty Python. |
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| | At Last the 1948 Show |
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Ghosts of Evangelion: Shinji thinks Asuka is better than him at anything; ironically, Asuka believes that Shinji always beats her at the important things. |
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| | Ghosts of Evangelion (Fanfic) |
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During his feud with AJ Styles in NWA Wildside, Jeff G. Bailey recruited Jason Cross in the belief Cross could do everything Styles could better. The Seven-Year Rule went into effect and "Southern Stomper" Luke Hawx had apparently been in pursuit of AJ for fifteen years to show AJ the "proper" way to execute his own moves (including the ones AJ invented) |
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| | AJ Styles (Wrestling) |
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In Shokugeki no Soma, whatever recipe you've got lined up for your Cooking Duel against Subaru Mimasaka, he can make it better than you: his strategy is to study his opponent and copy the dish they're going to make, then add his own improvement to it to win the judges' votes. |
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Bugs Bunny issues this to Yosemite Sam in the booby-trapped piano scene from "Ballot Box Bunny." |
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The M*A*S*H episode "Major Topper" where Winchester plays this to Hawkeye and BJ, including providing a picture to prove he once had a date with Audrey Hepburn. |
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Your various rivals throughout the Pokémon series, particularly Blue in Pokémon Red and Blue. However, this may be closer to The Munchausen, since some of the things he says just don't add up ("I already caught 40 kinds, pal!"...shortly before a battle in which he uses only four Pokémon). |
| | Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better / int_8da0ea80 |
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| | Pokémon Red and Blue (Video Game) |
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In the Kim Possible episode "Number One", the eponymous hero was confronted with two persons with this attitude. At school, Alpha Bitch Bonnie challenged her for captainship of the cheersquad. And in the "action" part of the story, she met the "number one agent" of Global justice, who was constantly showing her up as well.
Both cases end up Subverted. Bonnie just about burns herself out outdoing Kim. So Kim gives up the position, mentioning that Bonnie will be expected to continue this level of work. Kim had the job back by the next episode. Meanwhile, the Global Justice agent is basically an arrogant kid with a lot of fancy gadgets and educations. Kim is clearly more competent. |
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In Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future, Mia Ageha's goal is to upstage Aira Harune, even going as far as to call herself "number one". |
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In The Flintstone Kids episode "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Betty", Betty started selling ice cream once her friends told her how much they liked her recipe and Dreamchip decided to one-up her out of spite. Dreamchip's machine impressed the customers at first but they eventually decided Betty's ice cream was better. |
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| | Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better / int_a3c8e4bf |
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In Axis Powers Hetalia America is always trying to one-up Russia during strips set during the Cold War. |
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The webcomic Great features two women trying to one-up the main character's crime-fighting career◊. |
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Joe Chin in Parappa The Rapper. |
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| | PaRappa the Rapper (Video Game) |
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The Popeye cartoon "Axe Me Another" has Popeye one-upping lumberjack boss Bluto at every turn ("I'll do anything that you do!") |
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Penelope from Saturday Night Live (played by Kristen Wiig) has two shticks instead of one, so... And she launched three tropes in the same time it took to make this one, so... |
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| | Saturday Night Live |
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At the climax of Infinite Crisis, Wonder Woman foe Doctor Psycho sings the trope naming song while approaching Martian Manhunter, claiming his Psychic Powers are superior. Seeing as how he just mind controlled and tamed Doomsday, it's not entirely a bluff. |
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| | InfiniteCrisis |
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Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better |
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In The Cadanceverse, Trixie and Twilight get into this, with poor Vinyl Scratch getting caught in the middle. |
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| | The Cadanceverse (Fanfic) |
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Shoe: |
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| | Shoe (Comic Strip) |
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Montel Vontavious Porter's "feud" with Matt Hardy while they were tag team partners on Smackdown basically revolved around them having contests to prove that, indeed, anything one could do the other could better. They ate pizza, they shot baskets, they got knocked around by Evander Holyfield... |
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| | Montel Vontavious Porter (Wrestling) |
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Pokémon originally had Gary Oak constantly upstaging the main character, Ash.
Gary was here, Ash is a loser.
Paul was here, everyone's a loser.
Trip was here, Ash is a foreign loser.
Red was here. 'Nuff said. |
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| | Pokemon |
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In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, The Great and Powerful Trixie is a traveling magician with this as her shtick. That she continues when she's off-stage. She's not all that good at it, though, with her "victories" over the ponies who try to outshow her consisting of humiliating said opponents rather than actually one-upping their feats successfully. By the end of the episode, her general incompetence in areas outside of cheap, flashy tricks and building up her own reputation is laid bare for all to see.
When she returns seeking vengeance on Twilight for "humiliating [her]" (despite being the one responsible for her own troubles), she challenges her to a magic duel that works in this fashion. Having a magical Amplifier Artifact gave her a serious leg up in doing so. |
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| | MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic |
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Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better |
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It's a running gag in Mythbusters about Jamie Hyneman. |
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| | MythBusters |
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Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better |
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Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: The initial reason Asuka becomes a superhero is so that she can upstage Wonder Girl in the headlines of the local tabloid. |
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| | Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton (Fanfic) |
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One villain in Yu-Gi-Oh! had a card that used this trope, it took the form of the strongest monster on the field, copying its attack and defense... +1. |
| | Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better / int_cb6abea3 |
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| | Yu-Gi-Oh! |
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Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better |
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Thomas Sanders and Jon Cozart did a version of this as a song pitting Vine against YouTube. |
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| | Thomas Sanders (Web Video) |
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Urusei Yatsura: Ryuunosuke is involuntarily this to Shutaro. Every time Shutaro brags about how many girls are in love with him and how many love letters he gets every day, Ryuunosuke shows she has gotten a lot more love letters, and Shutaro gets depressed. |
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| | Urusei Yatsura (Manga) |
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