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The comparable Real Life example is the [[Award Snub]].

== Anime & Manga ==

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* At the end of ''[[Winnie the Pooh (Literature)|Winnie the Pooh]]'' by [[AA Milne (Creator)|AA Milne]], Christopher Robin throws a party to reward Pooh for his heroism during a recent flood. Due to the vagueness of his award speech (''"This party'' [...] ''is a party because of what someone did, and we all know who it was, and it's his party, because of what he did, and I've got a present for him and here it is."'') there is some confusion over who the guest of honour is, and Eeyore launches into an acceptance speech before things are straightened out. Something of an oddity, in that Eeyore is not normally the sort to assume that he's the winner; on the contrary, he's so [[The Eeyore|incorrigibly pessimistic]] that he figures he must be the guest of honour because otherwise he wouldn't have been invited at all.

* 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.

** 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.

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== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "Homecoming": Buffy and Cordelia spend the episode competing for the title of Homecoming Queen. At the Homecoming, it turns out there's a tie. Buffy and Cordelia immediately assume that it's the obvious heartwarming ending -- but instead, it's a double [[Dark Horse Victory]]. Subverted in the later episode "The Prom", when Buffy's fellow classmates recognize her heroism, though she had expected to be eternally subject to [[Dude Where's My Reward]].

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "Homecoming": Buffy and Cordelia spend the episode competing for the title of Homecoming Queen. At the Homecoming, it turns out there's a tie. Buffy and Cordelia immediately assume that it's the obvious heartwarming ending -- but instead, it's a double [[Dark Horse Victory]]. Subverted in the later episode "The Prom", when Buffy's fellow classmates recognize her heroism, though she had expected to be eternally subject to [[Dude, Where's My Reward?]].

** 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.

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== 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.

* 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.