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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
* Evangeline was the first villain in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. Nearly three hundred chapters later she's ''still'' the most powerful character to appear,
▲== Anime and Manga ==
** Strong evidence? The obsessiveness of her crush was the main reason he sealed her away at all: it was the only way to get her to ''leave him alone''.▼
▲* Evangeline was the first villain in [[Mahou Sensei Negima]]. Nearly three hundred chapters later she's ''still'' the most powerful character to appear, who even Jack Rakan could only just barely beat. Some are beginning to suspect that she is in fact more badass than the Thousand Master himself and are starting to look at her defeat and memories with great suspicion. There is strong evidence that she has a crush on the Thousand Master.
▲** Strong evidence? The obsessiveness of her crush was the main reason he sealed her away at all: it was the only way to get her to leave him alone.
* In ''[[One Piece]]'', [[Badass Grandpa|Garp]] let Luffy win so he could save Ace, since Garp is a marine and Ace a pirate and his {{spoiler|adopted}}grandson. His relation to Luffy was also a factor.
** Garp's superior, Fleet Admiral Sengoku, isn't fooled for a second. But Garp is the legendary hero of the Marines, so there'd be too much bad PR if he were punished.
* In ''[[Naruto]]'', this is stated to be the real reason why {{spoiler|Sasuke}} could win against {{spoiler|Itachi, who still completely dominated their fight and dropped dead right before he could finish the fight}}.
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' the Toguro Brothers faked their loss at the end of the [[Rescue Arc|"Rescue Yukina" arc]] for [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Sakyo]] and so they can challenge the heroes in a [[Tournament Arc]].
* In ''[[Yaiba]]'', during the [[Oda Nobunaga]] Tournament Arc, the [[Brilliant but Lazy]] [[Master Swordsman]] Soshi Okita manages to best Yaiba, but is so amazed by the latter's spirit and determination that decides to forfeit.
== Live Action Television ==▼
* Television example: In an episode of ''[[Farscape]]'', Rygel lets a villain win a chess-like game as part of a con.
* Skip does this to [[Angel]] in season 3. It had something to do with the Jasmine arc in season 4, in which Skip was Jasmine's ally and [[Nigh Invulnerable]], but is never fully explained.
* Employed in ''[[Rutland Weekend Television]]'', in which a prisoner who is going to be hanged tomorrow is playing chess against a guard, while another guard idly watches. The guard eventually says he's letting him win, to the prisoner's
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'''Watching Guard''': ...Well, you did.
'''Playing Guard''': ...Yeh, I did. Beautiful move.
'''Watching Guard''': Beat him in his last game'a chess...YouBastard. }}
== [[Oral Tradition]], Folklore, Myths and Legends ==
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▲* [[Greek Mythology|The myth of Hippomenes and Atalanta]] has this as [[Alternative Character Interpretation|one of its interpretations]], where Atalanta had evidently ''let'' Hippomenes beat her (With Aphrodite's help, of course.)
* Pretty much every boss fight in the first 75% of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''. Some are more obvious about it than others; Vulcan Raven practically tells you that he let you win after you defeat him the first time. This group is incredibly devoted to this trope, as the majority of them ''die'' simply to convince you that you're not doing the dirty work for them. And was that Hind really necessary?
** Other games in the series use this trope almost as much. ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 3: Snake Eater'' even applies this trope to the ''final boss'', kind of. {{spoiler|(The Boss WANTS you to win, but she wasn't going to LET you win.)}}
*** Used ''again'' in MGS4, when {{spoiler|Liquid at the end of the game fights Snake, it's pretty obvious that, having completed his agenda, he's just looking to go out with a bang. Which in this case means kicking Snake's ass a lot until Snake kills him.}}
* After you defeat [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] in ''[[Castlevania
* Near the beginning of the ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' X-Box remake, you fight Ryu's uncle {{spoiler|and [[The Man Behind the Man]]}} Murai to a standstill. He calls it training, but during the fight never hesitates to kill you if you let him.
* ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'' has the recurring boss and/or advisor, Jester, who claims he needs Dante alive but doesn't hold back. Given that Jester was only a boss in the "Special Edition", which was somewhat panned for its quality, it is difficult to say if this trope occurs intentionally or out of developer laziness. {{spoiler|He's actually Arkham.}}
* In ''[[Mega Man X]] 5'', the first boss fight is against Sigma in the form of a large floating head. After the player defeats him, a virus breaks through Earth, which was what he wanted. Zero clearly states "he lost to us on purpose!"
* ''[[Tales of Eternia]]'', about halfway through the game, the temporary party member Ras reveals that he's the incredibly powerful knight you've been hearing about, and attacks you to prevent you from escaping to Celestia. After you beat him to a pulp and get to the next town, your party realizes that he couldn't have been fighting you for real - he kept pulling his punches and not taking advantage of openings, leading them to conclude that he let them win.
* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'', this takes place {{spoiler|the first time you fight Kratos}}
** Inverted in ''Dawn of the New World'', where {{spoiler|In order to get the good ending, Emil has to let Lloyd and Marta win. Unfortunately, You're ''playing'' as Emil in that fight, so that means ''YOU'' have to throw the fight. Beating them gives you the Bad Ending}}.
* Used by the Black Knight in ''[[Fire Emblem
** Translation: During that climactic battle in ''Path of Radiance'', Ike reveals that his father crippled his sword arm, a fact that the Black Knight didn't know. As the Black Knight's true goals was to surpass his teacher, aka Ike's father, this revelation makes the Black Knight realize that his victory over Ike's father was hollow, as he never got to experience Greil's true ability. So he allows Ike to win in the hopes that later Ike would become as powerful and skilled as Greil, in short a substitute for Greil to test his skills against.
** Original: The Black Knight's warp powder malfunctioned, leaving Ike to fight his spirit, that was not only weaker then his true self, but returned to his body after defeat.
* The ''entire campaign'' of ''[[
** Almost: {{spoiler|it was entirely irrelevant to the Daemon who won, as either way there would lots of killing to power its release}}. After all, Khorne cares not from whom the blood flows, only that it does.
* The game ''[[Infamous (video game series)|
* ''[[Thunder Force|
* ''[[Warcraft
** The Lich King, now Arthas himself, continues to do this in ''World of Warcraft''. A good number of times players defeat his lieutenants and wipe out large numbers of his soldiers. In the final battle, Arthas reveals that it was all a plan to get them stronger, to let them become the champions of the world... {{spoiler|so that he could kill them all in one shot and raise them as undead. He would have succeeded, too, if the ghost of Arthas's father didn't revive everyone at the last moment.}}
* In ''[[Mega Man Zero]] 4'', [[The Dragon]] Kraft is apparently going along with the [[Big Bad]]'s evil schemes because he's descended into a "survival is everything" paradigm and thinks it's the only way to protect his and his ex's skin. After the first battle against Kraft, Zero asks him what's holding him back. Later, Kraft pulls a (sorta) [[Heel Face Turn]] into a [[Knight Templar]] and threatens to [[Kill Sat]] an entire city of civilians to get at the [[Big Bad]], and you have to go stop him. This time, he believes in what he's fighting for, so naturally, he's harder.
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** Vexen also holds back against Sora the first time in order to get data on him and create the Twilight Town card.
** In Reverse/Rebirth, Axel tells Zexion that even in the second fight, he decided to let Sora think that he'd finished him off.
* In ''[[Wild
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Baldur's Gate]] 2'', Kangaxx is a disembodied lich, whose body was torn apart, its bits hidden in tombs. If you reunite his body for him, he rewards you (or attempts to) with death. If he fails, he laughs madly, as he apparently needed to get his body back first, ''then'' have it destroyed, to be transformed into a demi-lich, which is much harder to kill and much more likely to ruin your day.
* The campaign mode for ''[[Naruto]]: Ultimate Ninja 3'' makes heavy use of this trope. In order for the story to advance, Naruto has to defeat most of the other Leaf ninja in single combat, including adult chunin and jonin who are canonically stronger and ''much'' more skilled than he is. However, since the competition is a friendly one and Naruto has more emotionally invested in it than they do, the battles with stronger ninja such as Shizune, Anko, and Kakashi tend to end with Naruto absolutely exhausted and the stronger ninja saying "Okay, that was pretty good, you obviously care more about this than I do, so here are my [[Plot Coupon
** At the end of the campaign, {{spoiler|Kakashi defeats Naruto, then forfeits the match, claiming Naruto won}}.
* Done without [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]] in the original ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', when {{spoiler|Garland lets himself be killed to become Chaos}}, and is actually not that hard of a boss.
** And in XIII: [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|Barthandelus]]!
** Likewise the [[Big Bad|Emperor]] in ''[[
* In many of the ''[[Pokémon]]'' games, certain trainers will claim they let you win. However, it usually seems like they're lying to save face, rather than that their defeat serves some kind of plan.
** [[Olympus Mons|Some of the Pokémon themselves]] can be caught simply because they allow you so. Especially {{spoiler|Reshiram or Zekrom}} in ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'', who {{spoiler|literally tell you}} to catch them.
* Used contstantly in many of the ''[[Touhou]]'' games, partially because most denizens of Gensokyo view fighting as a game and mostly to justify defeating some of the most absurdly powerful beings imaginable (manipulation of fate, manipulation of boundaries, killing anyone with a thought, control of ''nuclear fusion'' etcetera). Explicitly stated in ''Subterranean Animism'', in which the stage 3 boss Yuugi says she was just playing around, her sake [[Memetic Mutation|NOT EVEN DROP!]]
* Surprisingly used after beating the Penultimateboss of ''[[Bayonetta]]''.
* In ''[[Suikoden I]]'', {{spoiler|if Pahn wins his duel against Teo (which is ridiculously hard to do unless you've done some ''serious'' level grinding), he will wonder aloud if Teo went easy on him in the aftermath of the battle.}}
** And ''[[Suikoden II]]'' features an inversion in that it {{spoiler|requires you to let Jowy mortally wound you in an optional battle at the very end of the game to get the best ending. Luckily, you get better.}}
* ''[[Guilty Gear]]'': Mild example in the form of
* In ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', Mr. L claims that he was scouting the heroes, and he was a ridiculously strong boss (his attacks do more damage than anything else likely to hit you until you reach Count Bleck) for that particular part of the game. Considering Luigi's abilities in other games, he's probably telling the truth.
== Western Animation ==▼
▲== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Spoofed in ''[[South Park]]''. Satan challenged Jesus to fight for the fate of the world. It was a scam. Satan knew everyone would bet on him, given how strong he was compared to Jesus (this was before he turned [[Badass]] in "Red Sleigh Down"), so Satan bet on Jesus and threw the match, returning to hell with all the money.
** Man! That guy is a jerk!
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