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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Kitchen Princess]]'', the director of the school Najika attends tells her to deliberately lose a competition between her and Seiya Mizuno (an up-and-coming young chef), promising to [[Saving the Orphanage|save the orphanage]] she grew up in from being torn down if she does.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'''s Battle City Finals, when {{spoiler|Odion posing as Marik}} duels Joey, he at one point is poised to win the duel, before {{spoiler|the real [[Big Bad|Marik]]}} orders him to use his (fake copy of) The Winged Dragon of Ra. {{spoiler|Odion}} reluctantly complies. This does not end well.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Daredevil|Matt Murdock]]'s father was told to lose. He initially complied, only for his pride or self-respect to get the better of him, eventually winning anyway, which caused him to be killed by the Mob shortly afterwards.
* In [[JLA-Avengers]], two [[Cosmic Entity|Cosmic Entities]] are gambling on whether the JLA or the Avengers can [[Gotta Catch Them All|collect a set]] of [[MacGuffin
** More specifically, he grabs the last MacGuffin and gives it to Batman, the orders the Avengers to stand down and let the League win.
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* ''[[The Color of Money]]'', where Fast Eddie Felson tells Vincent to "dump" in one of his road matches, so as to prep him for a rich guy easy mark. Vincent, being the hothead egotist that he is (played by [[Tom Cruise]]), wins the match and loses the mark.
* ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''. Vizzini orders Fezzik to kill The Man In Black with a boulder to the head while he's not looking; Fezzik, thinking it's unsportsmanlike, disobeys him and fights the Man In Black in a wrestling match instead.
* Happens in [[The Longest Yard]], when the Warden orders the head of the guards, who, while cruel, still believes in fair play, to play dirty. Specifically, he wants the guards' team to get a three touchdown lead and just kick the inmates' asses for the entire rest of the game.
** The other version of this trope occurs too. The Warden, whose team of guards is losing to Paul Crewe's team of prisoners, tells Crewe to blow the game, threatening to frame Crewe for the death of Caretaker, which would keep Crewe in prison forever, if Crewe does not comply. At first Crewe does throw the game, but when the guard team keeps piling it on more than Crewe wanted, he starts to play for real again and his team wins, and the captain tells Crewe that he'll testify for him against the Warden in the case of Caretaker's death.
* In the first ''[[The Bad News Bears]]'' movie, Buttermaker orders Rudy to lean in, get hit by the pitch, and "take one for the team". Rudy doesn't like it, but he does it.
* In the 2006 ''[[Speed Racer (film)|Speed Racer]]'' movie, the rival racer is a little ticked to find out that his sponsor installed an illegal hook on his vehicle. He ends up using it against Speed anyway. Indeed the whole plot of the movie revolves around the big corporations strictly controlling the finishing order of the races; Speed himself refuses to sign that kind of deal partway through the movie, instead choosing to stay indie and try to beat the system.
* Bruce Willis in ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' was told to lose and didn't, which is why he has to run for his life.
* Played with in ''[[Slumdog Millionaire]].'' The host of the show slips Jamal the answer to a question during a bathroom break after Jamal has used his fifty-fifty lifeline. Suspicious of the host's motives, Jamal chooses the other remaining answer, guessing that the host deliberately gave him the wrong answer. Turns out Jamal is right.
* The movie ''Diggstown'' has this in spades, on both the heroes's and villain's sides each trying to outdo, outbribe, and outcon the other in the protagonist's series of ten fights with amateur boxers. Two brothers are bribed by the protagonists to take a dive, but the first one does such a poor job that the second one is forced to try to win, or his brother will die. Another boxer is forced to leave the arena before stepping into the ring, tricking the protagonists into assuming that he forfeited. Two ringers are brought in to fight, sneaking through the loophole that, as inmates in the local prison, they are legally "residents" of the area. However, the final ringer has actually been bribed the protagonists to blatantly take a dive.
* This is basically the entire premise of the movie ''[[Quiz Show (film)|Quiz Show]]''.
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== Music ==
* [[No More Kings]], "[
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', Arnold is told to lose a spelling bee by Helga's father, in exchange for a check for the prize money. That's because Helga's dad had said that if she doesn't win the spelling bee, he'd have a huge sale at his store. When it comes down to the final round, Helga's dad gets nervous and tries to bribe Arnold. Helga catches him doing it, and proceeds to lose on purpose to humiliate her father.
* Subverted in ''[[King of the Hill]]'', Season 12, ''Suite Smells of Excess''. Hank was told to give misleading orders to a rival football team, the Nebraska Cornhuskers, so that his football team, Texas Longhorns, would win. Hank was reluctant at first, but then went on with it when he remembered that it was to help Texas. {{spoiler|The rival football team won anyways.}}
** He also did it because his son, Bobby, started liking football and he wanted him to continue liking football. Plus, he already broke a lot of laws (buying tickets from a scalper and taking over a retired Nebraska football player's VIP suite) trying to get Bobby to like football so he had nothing to lose.
* Seen in the ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' episode where Lisa is in a spelling bee. The organizer tells her to throw her word that could win her the bee (with the promise of a fully paid college education and a hot plate), because the governing body wants to use her [[Adorkable|adorably geeky]] rival in advertising. In a bout of defiance, she exposes the con, then proceeds to lose anyway.
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