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Because this often leads to the [[After-Action Patchup]] or even more serious medical care, this often can be the result of the [[Florence Nightingale Effect]]. It can also be used as a [[Subversion]] of [[Did Not Get the Girl]]: the [[Loser Protagonist]] thinks she's out of his league, but then she comes back to him. It may serve as the conclusion of an [[Everything but Thethe Girl]] show. The loser is frequently [[The Woobie]], especially when his love interest is intended as an audience identification character.

* Tommy Forester and Alum Bey get in a fight over Bridget Comfrey at the beginning of ''[[Stardust (Literaturenovel)|Stardust]]''. After Alun beats up Tommy, who is comforted by Bridget, the narration says, "Neither of them was quite certain who had won, who had lost."

* In ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (TV series)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'', Jeeves plans to get one of Bertie's friend Bingo together with the current object of his infatuation by having another young lady distract him at a crucial point during a foot race, on the basis that she's more likely to be attracted to the "gallant loser" than a man who won a race against a group of septuagenarians ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]). Of course, Bingo immediately falls for the other woman, Bingo's flightiness being greater than even [[The Jeeves|Jeeves]] predicted.

* In the ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'' episode "Happily Ever After", Phoebe's ex-husband Cole gets into an argument with her [[Girl of the Week|Boy of the Week]] Adam, which ends with Cole putting Adam in a painful-looking wrist lock and Adam and Phoebe walking off together.

{{quote| That woman, she gets uglier and she gets meaner every day.<br />

* [[Non-Action Guy|Allen]] from ''[[Xenosaga (Video Game)|Xenosaga]]'', who managed to look so pathetic while getting beaten that he ''not only'' got the girl, but {{spoiler|reversed the girl's [[Face Heel Turn]] and [[Spanner in Thethe Works|derailed the]] [[Big Bad]]'s [[Spanner in Thethe Works|plans]] in the process.}} Not many people can manage to have a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] while getting thrown around like a rag doll.

* In the ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' episode "Camp Refoogee", Steve wins a critical race against the opposing camp to rescue his girlfriend... who promptly starts making out with the guy who lost the race. Her explanation: "I'm sorry Steve... but I'm kind of a crazy chick." It should be noted that the loser was a murderous militant leader who destroyed the girl's village. And he's an adult, while the girl is Steve's age, i.e. about fourteen. "Crazy chick" indeed.

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