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The comparable Real Life example is the [[Award Snub]].
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* Parodied in ''[[
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* Parodied in ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]''. Yukari is announcing the highest scoring person in the class and, despite being the second-lowest scoring person in the class with no chance whatsoever, Tomo stands up just before the announcement. Similarly, earlier, when Chiyo is about to be called forward during the grad ceremony to be recognized for having the highest grades in the school, Yomi has to, repeatedly and with her usual growing irritation, tell Tomo "It's not you!"
* ''[[Penguin Musume Heart]]'' has a reversal of this: Penguin gives a heartfelt speech about how Etorufu would make a better student council president then her, and then proceeds to accidentally vote for herself instead.
== Comic Books ==
== Comics ==▼
* There's a variant in the [[X Wing Series]] comics. Two Rebels compete with two Imperial special forces troopers; whoever gets past the monster and grabs the golden sphere wins for their side. An Imperial got killed, a Rebel gave up his lead to save the other Rebel, and the Imperial got the sphere. Then [[Shaggy Dog Story|a heat storm whipped up and killed them all]]. No, actually that was a virtual reality simulation, though they didn't know that going in. After they'd recovered, the Imperials congratulate the Rebels, smug in their victory. The judge says that maybe the Rebels won, since one saved the other, but when the Rebels are incredulous, he says no, the Imperials won, he was just impressed. It ends up moot anyway, since the Imperial trooper's commander stole the prize, a fugitive who knew something useful, and fled, [[Shaggy Dog Story|leaving those troopers behind to be sold into slavery]]. Luckily for them the Rebels were happy to facilitate a [[Heel Face Turn]].
== Film ==
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* ''[[Om Shanti Om]]'': During the parody Filmfare award ceremony, Abhishek Bachchan gets up from his seat fully expecting to win Best Actor... and then the presentors say Om's name. Oops.
* In ''[[Cars]]'': After the first race at the beginning of the movie:
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'''Lightning:''' A rookie has won the Piston Cup. *leaps through paper partition*
'''Announcer:''' We have a three-way tie!
'''Lightning:''' *shocked expression* }}
* In [[Zoolander]], Derek Zoolander has won Male Model of the Year three times in a row. When [[The Rival|newcomer rival]] Hansel ([[Running Gag|he's so hot right now]]) is announced as the winner, Derek doesn't notice and assumes he won, going up to the podium and giving an acceptance speech only to be corrected and humiliated in front of the crowd and viewers.
* The final moment of ''[[The Oscar (
* In the 2007 adaptation of ''Hairspray'', Amber and Tracy are the two most likely to win the title of Miss Teenage Hairspray. As the winner is announced, Amber steps forward with a smile to accept the award, only to find that she lost to {{spoiler|Little Inez.}}
== Literature ==
* At the end of ''[[Winnie
* In one of the ''[[Babysitters Club]]'' books, the members of the eponymous club each coach a regular babysitting charge to appear in a children's beauty contest. The rivalry between the girls is so intense that they can no longer babysit together, but all lose to a heavily made up child beauty queen with several other titles to her name.
** This also happens in the ''Little Sister'' [[Spin-Off]] starring Kristy's stepsister, Karen. Her gymnastics teacher is announcing who qualified for a special traveling team, and Karen stands up to greet the teacher and "accept" the invitation right before she reads the last name; one of her classmates grabbed her and yanked her back down before she could embarrass herself further.
* In ''A Week In December'', R. Tranter thinks he's won the Pizza Palace book award for his biography of an obscure writer, to the point of hearing his own name being read out. His agent has to pull him back to his seat after it turns out that the author of a children's book rather surprisingly won.
* In ''[[All of a Kind Family]] Uptown'', Sarah expects to win the History Prize being given for her graduating class, and her whole family expects it as well given how hard she's studied. Instead, she's crestfallen and humiliated when another girl is called as the winner.
* In ''New Moan'', a parody of Twilight, [[Punny Name|Heffa Lump]] (the book's version of Bella) assumes she's won an award at the end of the book and gets up to accept it. The principal of the school gives her one just to get her off the stage so they can get on with the real awards.
== Live
* ''[[
** At the same prom Buffy picked up the "class protector" award, Xander fully expected the [[Class Clown]] award. To his disgust, it went to a guy in a [[Tacky Tuxedo]] and balloon hat. "Anybody can be a prop class clown!"
* In one episode of ''[[Frasier]]'', the eponymous character has been nominated for an award for his radio show. Initially determined to win, he talks to another character who is due to retire later that year, and so will never again have an opportunity to win the award (having never won it before). Frasier realises that if he does win, he'll be racked with guilt for having prevented the other guy from winning, and so starts to hope that the other guy wins it instead. When it is announced that it is a tie, he is suddenly hopeful, thinking that they could share the award, but the tie turns out to actually be between two previously unseen characters.
** In another episode of ''Frasier'', restaurant critic Gil Chesterton has received his first award nomination in a category with two other nominees. Once again, the verdict is announced as a tie, leading Gil to fume that he will have to share his award... and, as in the earlier episode, the tie turns out to be between the other two nominees.
* When ''[[
* A queen of the high school reunion vote is held during an episode of ''[[Married...
* Ted Baxter did this in at least one of the "Teddy Awards" episodes of ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]''. Mary herself did it once as well, albeit at Rhoda's urging.
* On ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', Fozzie once was beaten to the title of "Best Comic Bear", by an unknown bear never ever seen before.
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* One episode of ''[[The Facts of Life]]'' played this twice...with the same election. The previous episode had Edna's Edibles holding an election among the girls and Mrs. Garrett. This is put on the back burner when Natalie's father dies. The results of the election are read and Blair starts to take a victory pose when it's announced that Jo actually won. However, Jo becomes overcome with the attention and turns it down, prompting Blair to state that if the winner cannot perform her duties, the title passes to the first runner up. Mrs. Garrett then reveals that she herself is the first runner up. (Blair asks how she did and is told [[You Don't Want to Know]].)
* In ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' S6:E14 (''Sisters of the Bride''), Rose is so certain that she will be the winner of this year's Volunteer Vanguard Award that she spends most of the banquet practicing her acceptance speech and shouts YES! when she hears her name called. Unfortunately, Sophia, who's making the announcement, is only calling on Rose to bring her some water. It turns out that the winner is Agnes Bradshaw, whom Rose expected to beat since Agnes had recently passed away. Rose proceeds to have a meltdown:
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* On an episode of ''[[Lizzie
* One episode of ''[[Pair of Kings]]'' featured Lanny stuffing a ballot box with his name so he'd win the King For a Day contest. Lanny was so sure he'd win that, as soon as the winner had been announced, he started giving an order before realizing someone else had been announced as the winner.
* ''[[Kickin It]]'': The Wasabi Warriors once entered a dance contest. When the winner of individual category was to be announced, an arrogant cheater was readying himself to accept it. Then one of the warriors was announced the winner.
* An clip on ''[[
* An ancient example: the book of Esther in the Bible. King Ahasuerus asks his evil advisor Haman, "What should be done for the man the king delights to honor?" Thinking he is the man the king is referring to, Haman suggests an elaborate parade. But the man in question turns out to be Mordecai, the hero of the book and Haman's nemesis. And what's more, Haman himself is put in charge of carrying it out.▼
** After that, Haman decides to carry out [[Disproportionate Retribution|genocide]] for all the Jews in the kingdom. ( {{spoiler|It doesn't happen.}})Nasty guy though, eh?▼
== Newspaper Comics ==
* In a ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' series, Calvin competes in his school's traffic-safety PSA contest. After creating a gory [[Scare'Em Straight]] poster, he spends most of the strips taking his victory for granted, culminating in a daydream about the newspaper articles written and statues built in his honor — rudely interrupted by Susie informing him that she won.
== Oral Tradition, Religion, Myths and Legends ==
▲* An ancient example: the book of Esther in [[the Bible]]. King Ahasuerus asks his evil advisor Haman, "What should be done for the man the king delights to honor?" Thinking he is the man the king is referring to, Haman suggests an elaborate parade. But the man in question turns out to be Mordecai, the hero of the book and Haman's nemesis. And what's more, Haman himself is put in charge of carrying it out.
▲** After that, Haman decides to carry out [[Disproportionate Retribution|genocide]] for all the Jews in the kingdom. (
== Professional Wrestling ==▼
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]: as they were announcing the new #1 contender for the WWE Championship, John Cena stood up, assuming he won (justified as he had by far won the fan poll), only for Kurt Angle to say "John... Bradshaw Layfield!"▼
** Another time a feud started between [[Hulk Hogan]] and Sid Justice because Hogan was named #1 contender for [[Ric Flair]]'s title, in a press conference where Justice stood up as the announcement was being made.▼
== Theater ==
* While not ''exactly'' a contest, there's a point in the DVD version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's ''[[Cats]]'' where Munkustrap gets ready to laud a particularly worthy cat through song, and Mistoffelees stands up with a flourish... only Munkustrap means Jennyanydots. Mistoffelees shrinks down again like a cat trying to pretend he wasn't after the mouse that got away, and some nearby cats bat at him a bit, grinning.
▲== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', when the time to assign the Court's official Medium came. ''Everyone'' just assumed that's Annie, including herself, other candidates and Jones, with the scene grinding to halt as it took some time to register what the Headmaster said. It turns out he had a different idea — after all, she became less than tractable lately. This decision backfired hilariously, then and there.
== Web
* In ''[[A Very Potter Musical]]'', Snape is about to read aloud the Gryffindor representative for the House Cup Tournament. When he sees the name, a sly smile crosses his face as he remarks how unusual it is that the representative is [[Harry Potter (
* For a [[Furcadia]] contest, creator Graphite made a dream called COLDFusion that turned Furcadia into a game of Atomica, which meant it didn't resemble [[Furcadia]] at all. He was absolutely sure he'd win first
▲== Wrestling ==
▲* [[WWE]]: as they were announcing the new #1 contender for the WWE Championship, John Cena stood up, assuming he won (justified as he had by far won the fan poll), only for Kurt Angle to say "John... Bradshaw Layfield!"
▲** Another time a feud started between [[Hulk Hogan]] and Sid Justice because Hogan was named #1 contender for [[Ric Flair]]'s title, in a press conference where Justice stood up as the announcement was being made.
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', "Caped Avenger": A publisher Jon is trying to impress, seeing Garfield and Odie playing, is inspired with an idea for a comic book that he hires Jon on the spot to write. Garfield immediately starts thinking about royalties and star
* The finale of ''[[Clone High]]'' involves Principal Scudworth bemoaning at being beaten by actor John Stamos for position of Prom King during their high school days, so he sets out to rig the contest of his own school to have a second chance. When the results are finally about to be announced, John Stamos arrives and the rigged automatic voting machine instantly changes the results to the ''[[Full House]]'' vet.
* ''[[Winx Club]]'', "Dark Sky": Bloom has come to Sky's millenium party, expecting to hear Sky announce her as his girlfiend (as he had promised in the previous episode). Bloom starts to walk up while he's making his speech, but then it ends with him introducing Diaspro instead of her. It turns out that Diaspro has secretly given Sky a potion [[Love Potion|to make him love her instead]].
* ''[[Family Guy]]'': The [[Celebrity Star]] (the local news anchor) who was supposed to play Anna in a community production of "King and I" has just quit. Peter's all "We don't need her, we had who we needed all along", and the person who'd originally been cast sees this as Peter giving her the job back and says "Thank you, I'll take the role"... but then it turns out that Peter is playing a robot named A.N.N.A. instead. (Personal note kicker: The contributor for this entry lives in Thailand, and the episode was shown there unedited.)
** Also, in the episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', where Joe becomes champion of the Special Olympics, and starts neglecting Peter, who helped him, Joe starts naming people who helped him, at an awards ceremony. Many times, Joe starts off by saying something that describes Peter, but ends up calling someone completely different.
* Nigel Uno suffers this indignity ''twice'' in the ''[[Codename
* And Nigel isn't even the all time "leader": In ''[[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie]]'', Mr Krabs announces that the new manager of the Krusty Krab 2 has ''"a name you all know, it starts with an S!"''. Spongebob assumes the best, but has to humiliate himself ''three times'' over microphone before realising that the new manager is actually Squidward.
* Played for laughs in ''[[The Simpsons (
** The B-plot of "Lisa's Substitute" has Bart running for class president, and declaring where his ''victory party'' will be held at the moment the polls are opened. Unfortunately, everyone's so busy celebrating that they forget to vote, leading to Martin Prince's moment of triumph with a parody of the "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline mentioned above.
** One more example: When Miss Krabbaple has been nominated for a teacher's award, she is saying how this couldn't be possible without the support of just one person. This is in front of a group of people outside the school, and Principal Skinner walks up to the podium to acknowledge this, smiling, but once Bart's name is announced, he keeps walking and grinning to avoid embarrassment.
** At the beginning of "Deep Space Homer", he's expecting the "Worker of the Week" award because every other worker already received
* This occurs in ''[[
* Played for laughs in ''[[Futurama]]'' when Leela wins an intergalactic beauty pageant despite having nothing to do with the pageant only to find that the announcer, Zapp Brannigan, simply yelled her name in surprise while he was trying to open the winning envelope. "What are you people, idiots?"
** Of course, in another episode, Zapp declared her the winner of a limbo contest she didn't enter, so, y'know...
* From ''[[Jem and The Holograms]]'', "Hollywood Jem: Part 2 - And The Winner Is..." has Kimber Benton assuming Jerrica "Jem" Benton is going to win an Oscar for ''Starbright'', but an older, more experienced actress that had given Jem a hard time in the press wins the
* Not a winner trope per se, but in one ''[[Kim Possible]]'' episode they were going to have an exchange student sent to Japan. Did the Japan fanboy who stood up get the place? No, it was [[This Loser Is You|Ron Stoppable]], who essentially got [[A Day in
** The eponymous [[Kim Possible]] had this happen to herself, after [[Alpha Bitch|Bonnie]] was implied to have rigged the homecoming Queen vote in her favour, or at least knew about it beforehand.
** Also during the Talent Show episode, Kim competed, and both she and Bonnie assumed they would win, when the prize went to Ron Stoppable, the judge citing quantity over quality.
* In the ''[[Recess]]'' episode 'Principal For A Day." When the faculty draws a sudents name out of a box to be principal for a day Randall stands up thinking he won (because he stuffed the box). The actual winner is TJ.
* Played for laughs on ''[[Arthur (
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** Another episode had Michelle Kwan come to present an Athlete of the Year award. Everyone assumed Francine would win, including herself. To their surprise, Jenna won instead. The shock of the announcement took a while to sink in for Francine, who stood up and thanked everyone anyway.
* On ''[[
* [[Bugs Bunny]] in the [[Looney Tunes|1943 cartoon]] ''What's Cookin', Doc?'' He's so sure he's going to win the Academy Award that he's already up on stage next to the host (whose shadow we see as he delivers his spiel), who, to Bugs' shock, announces the winner is James Cagney. Also, in the later cartoon ''This Is a Life?'', [[Daffy Duck]] thinks the weekly testimonial will be about him when it turns out to be about Bugs.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* An apocryphal Real Life story: After an 1883 chess tournament, a toast was proposed "to the best player in the world." Both Wilhelm Steinitz and Johannes Zukertort stood up to thank the toastmaster. In 1886, Steinitz defeated Zukertort to become the first World Champion.
* During the 1934 Academy Awards, both Frank Capra and Frank Lloyd were up for the award for Best Director (Capra for ''Lady for a Day'', Lloyd for ''Calvacade''). When the announcer said "Come up and get it, Frank", both Lloyd and Capra went up to accept the Oscar. Much to Capra's chagrin, ''Lloyd'' was the real winner. (''[[The Oscar (
* The 2006 Country Music Awards saw Faith Hill and Carrie Underwood both nominated for Female Vocalist of the Year. As the nominations were being announced, a camera was trained on all five finalists, including Hill and Underwood. Then, as Underwood was announced the winner, Hill smiled and raised her arms, then apparently screamed "What?" and stormed away. All of this was caught on live television just before the nominee camera shots were pulled away. Faith Hill and her management insisted the act was a joke, but left many unconvinced. Her career nosedived not long after.
* However, the king of all real life examples of this trope came from the 1948 presidential election, when the Chicago Tribune, forced to print earlier due to an ongoing strike against the Taft-Hartley act, used incomplete poll data to generate their headline: "[[Dewey Defeats Truman]]". [[Harry S. Truman]] famously posed with the incorrect newspaper, but we can assume that Thomas E. Dewey was not so enchanted.
** Funny how the lesson wasn't learned in 2000, where networks were prematurely calling the election for Bush and then Gore and then Bush again, and many newspapers had to scramble to reprint the front page headline.
** An earlier example from the 1916 election: Republican challenger Charles Evans Hughes went to bed believing that he had won the election, but late returns from California showed that [[Woodrow Wilson]] had carried the state, and thereby the [[American Political System|Electoral College]]. A reporter who called to ask Hughes for his reaction was told by a servant "The president-elect has retired and does not wish to be disturbed." The reporter [[Crowning Moment of Funny|replied]], "When the president-elect is available, please tell him that he is not the president-elect."
* This happened in the final round of the 1950 [[FIFA World Cup]] in Brazil:
** Following emphatic wins over Sweden and Spain in the final round robin group of four, red-hot favourites Brazil merely had to avoid losing their final match against second-placed Uruguay to win the World Cup. An impromptu carnival was held in Rio de Janeiro, with revellers holding signs already proclaiming Brazil the champions, and some 200,000 people packed into the Maracana Stadium to watch the match. FIFA president Jules Rimet prepared a Portuguese-language speech for the trophy presentation, the Brazilian Football Confederation struck 22 gold medals for the players (at the time, individual players did not receive winner's medals from FIFA), and a celebratory song called "Brazil the Victors" was written to be performed after the win.
** Then came the game itself... Friaca opened the scoring for Brazil just after half time, and the mostly Brazilian crowd went wild. Uruguay's Juan Alberto Schiaffino equalised twenty minutes later; the crowd spirit was dampened, but only temporarily as a draw still favoured Brazil. But then Alcides Ghiggia put Uruguay in front in the 79th minute, and the crowd went completely silent. Uruguay held on to win the match. Several Brazilian spectators either suffered heart attacks or jumped to their deaths from the top of the stadium, Rimet had to throw away his prepared speech and awkwardly hand over the trophy to Uruguayan captain Obdulio Varela with no ceremony, the winners' medals were melted down, and "Brazil the Victors" was never performed. The match is nicknamed the "Maracanazo", or "Maracanã Blow", in Latin America.<ref>
* Several years ago, both Susan Flannery (from ''The Bold & The Beautiful'' and Susan Lucci (from ''[[All My Children]]'') were nominated for the Best Actress Daytime Emmy. When the winner was announced, the presenters voices were garbled and the band began playing ''All My Children'''s theme. With numerous people pointing at her, Susan Lucci assumed she was the winner and began to walk on stage. Problem is, it was FLANNERY who had won. Luckily, Lucci was able to back off the stage before appearing on-camera. And even luckier, she had finally won her elusive Emmy several years prior, otherwise the incident would have been much more embarrassing for all involved.
* Arena Football, 2005 playoffs: Chicago trails Colorado by 3 on the final play of the game. Colorado intercepts Chicago's pass, and the confetti flies... but there's a penalty on the play on Colorado, so crew have to clean up the confetti before Chicago kicks in a game tying-field goal. Colorado [[Incredibly Lame Pun|cleans up]] in overtime with a touchdown. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZCckb2XYT8 Video.]
* ''Australia's Next Top Model'' had a related incident when they actually announced the wrong person as the winner, and she'd already done her acceptance speech when the host revealed that in fact, the other finalist had won.
* The 1986 World Series. Red Sox vs. Mets. Going into game six, the Red Sox lead three games to two. The Red Sox pulled ahead, 5-3, in the top of the tenth inning, and after quickly striking out the first two batters and getting two strikes against third batter Gary Carter, it looked like they had it in the bag: the scoreboard at Shea Stadium flashed, "Congratulations, Boston Red Sox, 1986 World Champions", and TV announcers were remarking that Red Sox pitcher Bruce Hurst was about to be named series MVP. And then, things took a turn. First, Carter singled. Next up, Kevin Mitchell, also singled. Next up, Ray Knight singled, Carter ran home and Mitchell moved to third. Pitcher Calvin Schiraldi was pulled off the mound and replaced with Bob Stanley. Next up, Mookie Wilson, hit a foul ball that let Knight move to second and Mitchell score, tying the game. Although all of this was bad for the Red Sox fans, what happened next is the event on which they pin all the blame: Wilson then hit a ground ball to first base, which went through first baseman Bill Buckner's legs. Knight scored, the Mets won 6-5, which tied the series 3-3, forced a Game 7 (which the Mets won), turned Buckner's name into a curse word among Red Sox fans, and gave fuel to the idea that the Red Sox had been cursed.
* Inverted in an Airdrie, Alberta, Canada high school. A student, convinced he would not win a cash award for attendance, declined to attend the draw and stayed in class instead. Then the teacher got a call over the school phone network, and sent the student down to the
* After [[Super Bowl]] LI (the first Super Bowl to go into overtime), [http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/nfl/boston-globe-patriots-lost-1.3969462 some ''Boston Globe'' editions in Florida said the Patriots lost the game]. The Patriots actually won over the Falcons, 34-28.
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