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== Real Life ==
* How many sports rivalries are one sided? Chargers/Raiders, Michigan/Michigan State, Ohio State/Illinois, Oklahoma/Oklahoma State...
** With their recent{{when}} (and painful) fall from grace: The Dallas Cowboys to the New York Giants.
* "Wally Pipp Syndrome" is the fear that no matter how good you are at your job, someone better will take your place should you ever take a day off. Wally Pipp was a decent first baseman for the New York Yankees in the early 1920s, until he had to sit out a game with a bad migraine. His replacement - Lou Gehrig, who would play 2,130 consecutive games for the Yankees.
** This is also how Ben Roethlisberger got his start with the Pittsburgh Steelers; Tommy Maddox was injured, Ben took his place, cue 15-1 season and multiple Super Bowls over the next few years.
** Drew Bledsoe in 2001, after leading the Patriots to a Super Bowl, he gets hurt and replaced by some guy named Brady
* Like it says under video games above, play an online game long enough, and no matter how good you are, you'll eventually find someone who completely outclasses you.
* Musicians run into this problem all the time, especially at conservatories. Generally speaking, almost everyone who attends such a school (e.g., Juilliard) is the best in his or her own hometown. With everyone being so good, it's inevitable that someone is always going to be better. Sometimes, just walking into auditions and hearing the competition warm up is a very quick reminder of this trope.
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* This frequently occurs with any type of top-ranked school, such as an elite university. Given the ultra competitive nature of college admissions nowadays, just getting admitted usually means that the person is probably one of the best and most outstanding students in his or her particular school system. However, when exam times comes around, someone has to end up on the lower end of the grading curve. For many students, it can be very traumatizing because it's the very first time they've ever been out of the top 5-10% grade-wise.
** It's been suggested that schools like Harvard made changes to admit students without top grades who excelled in other ways to deal with that very problem. They needed someone to be at the bottom of the class who wouldn't mess up the quad by blowing their brains out.
* The real life examples could be greatly shortened by saying, "Any elite group." To experience this trope yourself, try earning your way into an elite military unit, becoming an actor who doesn't pay rent waiting tables, being a chef who doesn't flip the occasional burger, getting your garage band signed to a real label, or making it to the top of your company's chain of executives. Very few will ''not'' run into this trope.
* Another place this happens is prison. You may go in being the biggest and baddest guy in the neighborhood, but there is always someone on the inside that is bigger and badder than you.
* [[wikipedia:Edward Pellew|Sir Edward Pellew, Lord Exmouth]], was a [[Badass]] [[Brits With Battleships|Royal Navy Officer]] in the [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men|French Revolutionary Wars]]
{{quote|'''Admiral Villeneuver''': There is no shame in surrendering to the gallant Sir Edward Pellew
'''Israel Pellew''': (*pissed) I am his brother, Israel
'''Admiral Villneuve''': [[Oh Crap|What, are there two of them?]] ''[[Precision F-Strike|Merde]]''. }}
* Despite being just as outspoken as his brother, Peter Hitchens has never been quite on the same level of charm, wit and conversation as [[Christopher Hitchens]]. Which is perhaps one reason why he holds almost every single contrary opinion to his brother's.
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