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=== [[Advertising]] ===
* A commercial for Staples features the main character rattling off a series of office archetypes (the paranoid employee, the lazy employee, etc,) before turning to one employee and saying, "Joe, you continue not living up to your resume."
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===▼
* As much is said about Kamina of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', he actually <s>[[The Worf Effect|never]]</s> [[The Worf Effect|hardly ever won a fight on his own]], and [[The Worf Effect|only ever]] mostly succeed when [[Bash Brothers|fighting with]] Simon. Granted when they are fighting, Kamina appears to be doing most of the work. Also, he was able to get Simon to stop being such a wimp, basically get the whole story and rise of man thing started {{spoiler|and come back from the dead as a ghost or something to get everyone out of a [[Lotus Eater Machine]]}}, which makes him [[The Messiah|something else entirely]].▼
* Mai Valentine/Kujaku from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. Her duelist cred is often accused of being an [[Informed Ability]], but it's really this. She ''has'' displayed great skills at times, but never manages to deliver when it comes to the big duels. Of course, much of the blame for this is due to Plot Demanded Losses (of ''course'' Mai's not going to be able to beat [[The Hero]] or the [[Big Bad]], no matter what her skills are).▼
=== [[Film]] ===
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* Played with in ''By The Sword''. [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|Alex Villand]] believes his father was like this, because his father was a fencing champion who died after [[Let's Fight Like Gentlemen|a duel with a student of his that he had challenged]] because said student was having an affair with Villand Senior's wife. This leads the younger Villand to muse "He spent half his life winning fencing tournaments, but the only time in his life he was a fight that mattered he got himself killed". This fuels Villand's [[Combat Pragmatist|win at any cost, no matter how dirty your tactics]] approach to fencing and life. {{spoiler|Later that student, now out of prison for the killing Villand Sr, sets Villand Jr straight. Villand's father had given the student a live rapier while arming himself with only a [[Nerf Arm|practice sword]], and beat the student within an inch of his life with the practice sword. At the end, humiliated by his defeat, (in part because the student had been an [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]] too back in the day) the student had stabbed Villand Senior [[In the Back]] when senior was ready to show him mercy}}.
* One of the reasons why Shooter McGavin from ''[[Happy Gilmore]]'' was such A [[Jerkass]] was because he was never able to get the Golden Jacket.
▲=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
▲* As much is said about Kamina of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', he actually <s>[[The Worf Effect|never]]</s> [[The Worf Effect|hardly ever won a fight on his own]], and [[The Worf Effect|only ever]] mostly succeed when [[Bash Brothers|fighting with]] Simon. Granted when they are fighting, Kamina appears to be doing most of the work. Also, he was able to get Simon to stop being such a wimp, basically get the whole story and rise of man thing started {{spoiler|and come back from the dead as a ghost or something to get everyone out of a [[Lotus Eater Machine]]}}, which makes him [[The Messiah|something else entirely]].
▲* Mai Valentine/Kujaku from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. Her duelist cred is often accused of being an [[Informed Ability]], but it's really this. She ''has'' displayed great skills at times, but never manages to deliver when it comes to the big duels. Of course, much of the blame for this is due to Plot Demanded Losses (of ''course'' Mai's not going to be able to beat [[The Hero]] or the [[Big Bad]], no matter what her skills are).
=== [[Web Original]] ===
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