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* '[[Red vs. Blue]]'' has the defeat of the Meta and dealing with Project Freelancer come at the price of {{spoiler|Alpha-Church and several other [[A Is]] being destroy in a EMP, Tex imprisoned in the capture unit that Epsilon-Church then joins her in (which is thrown into evidence and deemed useless) and Wash almost killed, then forced to masquerade as Church to avoid prison time. Oh, and Red Team lost Lopez}}.
* The [[Whateley Universe]] has the Halloween battle. What was originally intended as a cover so that the Goobers could kill Sara Waite turned into a full-on attack on Team Kimba, with many others getting caught in the cross-fire, and it ended badly for ''everyone''- while the Whateley crew won, they ended up with thousands of dollars of property damage, more than a few injured, a staff member dying and that triggering a rager attack by another staff member that turned him almost committing suicide because of the death of his girlfriend. It turned out worse for Englund, the instigator- almost everyone on the staff and more than a few students hated him even though they couldn't prove that he did it, the attack on Sara wasn't successful, and the staff member who went rager now wants to kill him with extreme prejudice. The Syndicate (the main evil attackers) lost hundreds of their soldiers, and the main general ended up nearly losing his boyfriend. In other words, nobody won and everybody lost.
* In ''[[SCP Foundation]]'', one of the most dangerous SCPs is [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-024 SCP-024], the Game Show of Death. As the name implies, this [[Deadly Game]] is produced (and presumably broadcast) by some extradimensional TV network, recruiting contestants from human civilians who are unlucky enough to wander into the building where it is housed (although to their credit, it does ''not'' force them) with promises of typical game show prizes (expensive cars, lavish vacations, that sort of thing) to the lucky winner who survives the lethal obstacle courses, and winners do indeed receive the prizes they were promised. However, the reason the Foundation first found out about this place was when one such winner turned herself in, badly injured, terrified, and nearly insane after witnessing the horrible, gory deaths of her friends - she didn't find the luxury trailer home she had won to be adequate compensation...
 
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