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* Black Star from ''[[Soul Eater]]''. Particularly if someone else is getting more [[Attention Whore|attention]] than he.
* Ranma of ''[[Ranma One Half]]'' has a bad case of this, including at least one battle where he must prove he has better feminine sex appeal. Often lampshaded by bystanders.
* Tomo from ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]'', though mainly in her first appearance. She's kind of terrible at everything she tries...
 
== Film ==
 
* In ''[[Charlie and Thethe Chocolate Factory (Filmfilm)|Charlie and The Chocolate Factory]]'', Violet Beauregard is updated from a gum-chewing lout to this.
 
== Live Action Television ==
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'''Chandler:''' Not fun anymore? }}
* Barney from ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' will often take an innocent remark as a challenge and respond with "Challenge accepted!". [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* In ''[[Wilfred (TV)|Wilfred]]'', the neighbor's boyfriend is shown to be uber-competitive. This was used in an episode where Ryan challenges the boyfriend to a game of table tennis, hoping that he could beat the boyfriend in front of the neighbor. However, the boyfriend ends up beating Ryan. All is well though, because the neighbor is turned off by the boyfriend's gloating.
* Zeke of ''[[Zeke and Luther]]'' is so competitive he'll even get into "Are not!" "Am too!" arguments just to win them through sheer refusal to quit.
* ''[[The Office]]'': Both Andy Bernard and Dwight Schrute from the U.S. version have this as one of their defining traits.
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== Western Animation ==
 
* ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'': A recurring plot line for many characters. Sandy and SpongeBob himself are perhaps the most notable examples.
* ''[[Recess]]'': Vince is extremely egotistical about winning any game he takes part in. The others become irritated by this and dare him to last a day without winning once, at which point he becomes drunk on ''losing at every game he plays''.
* ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'': Used to parody U2's Bono, having won a ridiculous number of achievements and becoming ridiculously protective of his "Biggest Crap Award" (to the point of cheating to reclaim it from Randy). The reason for this is revealed that Bono ''is'' [[It Makes Sense in Context|the original Biggest Crap]], constantly trying to be Number One in everything, but never managing to shake off he is actually a "Number Two".
{{quote| '''Stan:''' Dude, don't you have enough? I mean, you got tons of money, a jet, and the biggest rock band in the world, a hot wife, and, you've been knighted. I mean, at some point, can't you just kind of... fuck off?}}
* Rainbow Dash in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' is this trope, The Great And Powerful Trixie is [[Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better]].
** Applejack due to being a [[Stubborn Mule]] has her moments as well. [[Escalating War|And when her and]] [[Serious Business|Rainbow Dash compete...]]
* Stinkoman from ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' is this to a T: "...did somebody say -- challenge?"
* Stan Smith of ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' insists on winning at every sport and game he does, the first instance he lost, he attempted suicide.
* Parodied in the ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'' episode "Running Mates" after Peter becomes obsessed with beating Lois in an election for school board president.
{{quote| '''Brian:''' Peter, are you sure you wanna run against Lois. You know how competitive you get.<br />
'''Peter:''' [[I Resemble That Remark|Hey, I can be just as noncompetitive as anyone. In fact, I am the most noncompetitive, so I win!]]<br />
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