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== Anime
* Team Rocket <s>occasionally</s> almost always fell victim to this on ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' (they're [[Terrible Trio|Team Rocket]], after all). For instance, they planned to steal a (then) full set of four Eevee evolutions, each one individually extremely valuable. They get three of them and a huge lead, easily enough to escape—but Musashi/Jesse insists on going back for the fourth one, resulting in their capture. Usually it's because they'll try and steal Pikachu even if they already have a chance to get away with some rare/valuable Pokémon/object.
** James openly [[Averted Trope|averted this trope]] in one episode where he participated in an "orienteering race" in the episode Off the Unbeaten Path. Basically, he competed fairly with his Mime Jr. despite Jessie urging him to cheat like she was doing. In the end. James wins the contest and Jessie gets "blasted off."
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* {{spoiler|Danzo}} from ''[[Naruto]]'' tries to hypnotize Mifune so the Kages will elect him leader of their alliance. It doesn't work. Mifune then informs him that he was going to nominate him, but no longer intends to do so...
* A slightly different version of this trope applies during the Frieza Saga of [[Dragonball Z]]. [[Evil Overlord|Frieza]] would have won if he hadn't decided to kill Krillin, the act which sent Goku over the edge to become a [[Super Mode|Super Saiyan]].
== Comics ==▼
* One French comic named ''L'élève Ducobu'' follows [[F Minus Minus|an utterly lazy student]] who constantly attempts to steal and copy the answers of a [[Child Prodigy]] during exams. [[Failure Is the Only Option|It doesn't work out too well.]] When said Child Prodigy tells him that she would gladly actually pass her the answers to copy if he asked her politely, he (hesitantly) does so and she does give him the answers, only for him to immediately give them back to her dramatically, stating that he can't do it like this. He then immediately resumes his schemes.▼
== Films - Live-Action ==
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* In ''Monte Carlo or Bust'' this happens several times to Sir Cuthbert Ware-Armitage; in fact, after accidentally blowing up his own car, Perkins [[Lampshade Hanging|picks him up on this]].
* A [[Running Gag]] in the ''[[Austin Powers]]'' films is how Number Two's front companies are making tons of money legally, causing him lots of frustration when Dr. Evil doesn't care and still wants to take over the world, just because.
== Literature ==
* The Big Match at the end of ''[[
== Live-Action TV ==
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* This ended up being the undoing of the Korilla BBQ team on season two of Food Network's "The Great Food Truck Race." Fearing elimination they added $2700 of their own money to their cash box to make it look like they sold more than they actually did. They ended up getting caught and disqualified. Ironically enough the team actually made enough money legitimately to earn third place that week and wouldn't have been eliminated had they not resorted to cheating.
* ''[[The Adventures of Shirley Holmes]]'' had an episode where the leading candidate at the election for [[Student Council President]] was believed to have invoked the trope (he even pointed out he was ''leading'' when he was accused) but was actually framed. The heroine found out but was unable to expose and it became a case of [[The Bad Guy Wins]].
▲== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* One French comic named ''L'élève Ducobu'' follows [[F Minus Minus|an utterly lazy student]] who constantly attempts to steal and copy the answers of a [[Child Prodigy]] during exams. [[Failure Is the Only Option|It doesn't work out too well.]] When said Child Prodigy tells him that she would gladly actually pass her the answers to copy if he asked her politely, he (hesitantly) does so and she does give him the answers, only for him to immediately give them back to her dramatically, stating that he can't do it like this. He then immediately resumes his schemes.
* ''[[Dilbert]]'' has Marketing Department. [//dilbert.com/strip/2019-03-11]
{{quote|'''Dilbert''': Our new product is better than the competition in every way.
'''Pointy-Haired Boss''': Excellent. I'll get Marketing involved to tell a bunch of lies about all that.
'''Dilbert''': Why would they need to lie? }}
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* ''Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har'' once applied for a job as truckers and, to get it, they had to defeat the other applicant in a truck race. Their opponent invoked the trope, which allowed them to take the lead, then ''they'' invoked the trope, which allowed the opponent to regain the lead.
* In the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon "Tortoise Wins By A Hare," Bugs Bunny's attempt to win the race against the Tortoise by cheating backfires gruesomely.
* In ''[[The Owl House]]'' episode "Convention", Luz unwisely challenges Amnity to a [[Wizard Duel]], despite knowing next to nothing about actual magic. While Amnity could have defeated Luz easily, her mentor Lilith can't resist the opportunity to humiliate her sister's protege, and uses a power glyph on Amnity to make her stronger. When caught, her excuse is she knew Eda would cheat (and she was right) but with both Lilith and Eda cheating, both Luz and Amnity are disqualified. Which leads to a ''real'' Wizard Duel (and a lot of collateral damage) between Eda and Lilith.
== Real Life ==
* Watergate, quite famously, was [[Stealth Pun|Dick]] [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] attempting to rig an election he was guaranteed to win by an enormous landslide anyway, thus losing him the presidency when he had to resign. [[Harry S. Truman]] once said he was the kind of guy who'd lie even when he didn't need to [[For the Evulz|just to keep his hand in]].
* And then repeated in Iran, when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not need to rig the election (as alleged) to win ( though he might have needed it to put him over 50% and avoid a runoff), but he did anyway. As a result, hundreds of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Tehran and other cities, and Iran got the closest to a revolution it has been in 30 years.
* Exactly the same thing happened in Afghanistan, where polls before the election showed incumbent Karzai with a ''substantial'' lead (anywhere between 10-15%) over his strongest opponent, Abdullah Abdullah. And yet, he very poorly and very obviously stole an election he most likely would have had anyway. Really, he makes Ahmadinejad look like a straight shooter in this regard. Of course, he also had the incentive of winning outright and avoiding a runoff.
* Mob turncoat Henry Hill described how his boss, Paul Vario, had over a million dollars (in cash) in his house acquired through illegal means, and would then take his wife out to dinner with a stolen credit card (risking arrest, jail, and embarrassment). Other turncoats and undercovers have confirmed it's a cultural thing with the Mob; never use your own money unless you absolutely have to.
* Both [[Donald Trump]] and his legal team - headed by former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani - seem headed down this path, the ''dozens'' of lawsuits they have filed in their attempts to overturn the 2020 election doing little but show both incompetence and foolishness on their part. Events like the notorious Four Seasons press conference [https://www.npr.org/2020/11/11/933635970/from-obscure-to-sold-out-the-story-of-four-seasons-total-landscaping-in-just-4-d (done at the wrong Four Seasons)], his [https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/19/politics/giuliani-trump-legal-team-press-briefing-fact-check/index.html "fact-free" press conference] (where the conspiracy theories he cited included blaming Hugo Chavez)<ref>Chavez died in 2013, two years before Trump even announced his candidacy</ref>, and [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-election-fraud-lawsuit-michigan-minnesota-b1759424.html filing a lawsuit ''in the wrong state''] have clearly had the opposite of the intended effect.
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