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** 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."
** The entire Team averted this in an episode where one of their evil plots begins with hawking cheap merchandise at a Pokémon tournament. They make so much money doing this, they decide to call off the rest of the plan and go home winners. Of course, by the time they opened up an even bigger shop, the tournament was over and they were out of money. Back to a life of crime.
** There was also the Balloon Race episode where Team Rocket was actually winning the race fair and square before Jesse and James screwed them up by cheating over Meowth's vigorous objections.
* {{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]].
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== Literature ==
* The Big Match at the end of ''[[Discworld/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]''. Since most of Ankh-Morpork United are professional footballers, it's quite likely they could have beaten UU fair and square, but attempting to do so never even occurs to Andy Shank, whose fouling of opposition players ensures that {{spoiler|Trev Likely is on the field, and by judicious ''application'' of the rules becomes unstoppable}}.
== Live-Action TV ==
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* [[Kurt Angle]], definitely. It's acknowledged even in [[Kayfabe]] that he's the only professional wrestler in history to have won an Olympic gold medal [[Memetic Mutation|("with a broken freaking neck!")]] for actual wrestling, so theoretically (and barring some kind of miracle) he should [[Curb Stomp Battle|completely decimate]] every single person who squares off with him in the ring. And yet whenever he's a heel - and, oddly, sometimes [[What the Hell, Hero?|even when he's a face]] - he ''still'' cheats!
* It was [[Vince McMahon]]'s attempt to pull a [[Montreal Screwjob]] on [[CM Punk]] that resulted in Punk defeating Cena for the title and (temporarily) leaving the company with it. Oops.
* According to Mick Foley, this was apparently practically dogma back when he was working in the Memphis territory, according to a booker who told him "A heel has to cheat to get his heat".
* [[Jesse Ventura]]'s mantra: "Win if you can, lose if you must; but always cheat."
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* This is parodied in the episode of ''[[South Park]]'', "Asspen", where Stan gets trapped (metaphorically, not literally) in a crappy 1980s "win-the-race-to-save-the-old-rec-center" movie. In the final climactic race between Stan and the annoying jerk, the jerk takes a ridiculous amount of time sabotaging the course to keep Stan from winning. Of course, the jerk is an excellent skier, and Stan had only learned to ski the previous day. Stan goes so slowly than he just climbs over the barricades easily, and the jerk spends much time on his sabotage that he ends up losing.
* Jack Spicer in ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'' has done this a few times before.
* In ''[[COPS (animation)|COPS]]'', [[Classy Cat Burglar]] Nightshade enters a beauty contest to get at the "fabulous prizes" offered (and to rub it in the face of the C.O.P.S. that she hadn't done anything wrong). Naturally, she can't resist making off with the entire prize hoard. Equally naturally, once she's caught, she's informed that if she'd held off for five minutes, she would've won legitimately.
* In an episode of ''[[Johnny Test]]'', during a race, a pair of villains stop to cheat (or plan to) ''twice'' while they're already in the lead. One of the two tries to tell the other that they're already winning. The other one says that his plan is going to make sure they ''stay'' in the lead.
* Constantly employed by the Vanguard of Justice in the ''[[Heavy Gear]]'' CGI TV series.
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