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Compare [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin']], [[Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat]]. When a video game enforces this trope on the player, it's [[No Fair Cheating]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Subverted in ''[[Tower of God]]'', where the Hide And Seek test was actually about to teams competing in doing a task better than the other, without even coming in contact. Since the the test was only a point gathering test serving to qualify the best for the last test, people started going out of their way to beat their own teammates to the point of injuring them to incapacitate them. {{spoiler|While Koon lead to his team to sure victory but in the end helped Quant to make them lose anyway, just to help his friends on the opposing team, Parakewl and Mauchi tried to make everybody sacrifice themselves for them and even took hostages, while Ho tried to eliminate Baam and Androssi gathered her fellow Fishermen in one point and attacked them. The end result was that Mauchi failed while Parakewl passed, Androssi was the best Fisherman but Hong Chunhwa also managed to pass, Ho died and Koon succeeded.}} Success was not determined by the degree of rule-abiding, but by skill of bending the rules, strength and sheer luck.
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** Rush at [[John Cena]] with a steel chair or similar object, and he will duck under you and hit you with the Attitude Adjustment anyway.
** One time, Road Warrior Animal slapped on brass knuckles and tried to punch [[Chris Benoit]], but Chris caught his punch and locked him in the Crippler Crossface for victory.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* [[Truth in Television|How 'bout them Patriots?]]▼
* While we're talking football, how about The Denver Broncos, the San Francisco 49ers and the Pittsburgh Steelers cap avoidance?▼
** Don't forget the SEC in College Football. There's a reason why they're known as the "Surely Everyone's Cheating" conference, aka SEC. Every single program in the SEC has been on NCAA probation for cheating, and yet have won the last 3 1A FBS National Championships. Hell, you can include the other BCS conferences in this category.▼
*** Don't forget U$C.▼
*** And this is not new either - during the early '80s, the old Southwest Conference had rampant recruiting violations by every member ("if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying"), and Southern Methodist University got smacked with the [[wikipedia:Southern Methodist University football scandal|"death penalty"]] - sanctions so harsh the program has never recovered from them. Most of the old members are part of the Big 12 today.▼
* [http://www.cracked.com/article_16073_the-7-ballsiest-sports-cheats-ever.html The Seven Ballsiest Sports Cheats Ever].▼
** Subverted in [http://www.cracked.com/article_18753_the-6-most-creative-abuses-loopholes_p2.html this list's] number one loophole-abuser. Apparently there's a fine line between "cheating" and [[Awesome Yet Practical|"innovation"]].▼
* Averted with Tony Stewart in the final race of the 2011 NASCAR season, who basically paid off other drivers through so-called "favors" to let him pass them and win the title from Carl Edwards, who was leading the season going in.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[G Mod Idiot Box|Dr.Hax]] makes sure that Chuckle's cheating is rewarded with a CRT moniter to the head.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* In the "Fall Weather Friends" episode of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Applejack and Rainbow Dash get so competitive with each other, they attempt to cheat one another during a race. In the end, they both come in last. However, in this case, it's justified as they were cheating ''each other'' so much they didn't notice everyone else had gotten ahead of them.
* The "Monster Mashionals part 2" season 2 finale of "Monster High" has Nefara De Nile break out the De Nile family idols to cheat against younger sister Cleo and her Fear Squad. {{spoiler|This has her OWN team turn against Nefara, and to add insult to injury, video of Nefara cheating is shown on a jumbo-tron. In a final [[Laser-Guided Karma]] action, Nefara's stripped of her past awards as well.}}
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* [[Truth in Television|How 'bout them Patriots?]]
▲* While we're talking football, how about The Denver Broncos, the San Francisco 49ers and the Pittsburgh Steelers cap avoidance?
▲** Don't forget the SEC in College Football. There's a reason why they're known as the "Surely Everyone's Cheating" conference, aka SEC. Every single program in the SEC has been on NCAA probation for cheating, and yet have won the last 3 1A FBS National Championships. Hell, you can include the other BCS conferences in this category.
▲*** Don't forget U$C.
▲*** And this is not new either - during the early '80s, the old Southwest Conference had rampant recruiting violations by every member ("if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying"), and Southern Methodist University got smacked with the [[wikipedia:Southern Methodist University football scandal|"death penalty"]] - sanctions so harsh the program has never recovered from them. Most of the old members are part of the Big 12 today.
▲* [http://www.cracked.com/article_16073_the-7-ballsiest-sports-cheats-ever.html The Seven Ballsiest Sports Cheats Ever].
▲** Subverted in [http://www.cracked.com/article_18753_the-6-most-creative-abuses-loopholes_p2.html this list's] number one loophole-abuser. Apparently there's a fine line between "cheating" and [[Awesome Yet Practical|"innovation"]].
▲* Averted with Tony Stewart in the final race of the 2011 NASCAR season, who basically paid off other drivers through so-called "favors" to let him pass them and win the title from Carl Edwards, who was leading the season going in.
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