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'''Basic Trope''': A character reveals that another character who beat them somehow only won because they let them.
* '''Straight''': Alice is fighting [[The Dragon|Dracone]] and after a long, arduous battle, she wins. He later reveals that he let her win for reasons unknown.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice fights Dracone several hundred times, winning each time by the skin of her teeth. Dracone reveals that he was letting her win each time.
* '''Justified''': Dracone is looking for a successor and sees great poetential in Alice. By letting her win he [[You Kill It, You Bought It|he sets up a better a better dragon for his employer.]] However, if he she didn't meet his standards he would have killed her than and there. [[Xanatos Gambit|either outcome worked for him.]] 
* '''Inverted''': Alice gives up against Dracone.
** Alice gloats after beating Dracone, saying that defeating him was a such a breeze... When, in fact, she had a really hard time winning.
* '''Subverted''': After recalling the fight, Alice realizes that Dracone couldn't have let her win...he was fighting too hard.
* '''Double Subverted''': He was fighting hard to further his motives.
* '''Parodied''': Alice beat all kinds of pain into Dracone's sorry ass, and yet he still insists that she only won because he let her.
* '''Deconstructed''': The revelation that he let her win causes Alice to give up and stop fighting the bad guys.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice realizes that Dracone might have let her win, but she needs to keep fighting.
* '''Zig Zagged''': It's truly too difficult to tell whether he was letting her win or not.
* '''Averted''': Alice won fair and square.
* '''Enforced''': "We need to show that this villain is sinister! What better way than to tell [[The Hero]] that he let her win?"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Remember when you defeated me at Death's Gulch? I let you win that time!"
* '''Invoked''': Dracone, while fighting Alice and holding his own, realizes that his agenda would be better served if she won. So...he lets her win.
* '''Defied''': Alice, realizing that Dracone is about to let her win, forces him to keep fighting her.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
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[[I Let You Win|I let you go back to the main page]], you little fool!. [[Evil Laugh|Muahahahahahahaha!!!]]

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